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Portrait Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Impressionist
1940's Fashion Illustration - The Two Elegant Brides
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The sketch is original, vintage and me...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Hasidic Boy, Judaica Portrait, Ink and Watercolor
Located in Surfside, FL
Mane-Katz (1894-1962) composes an ink and watercolor portrait of a Hasidic young lad. Signed upper right Mané-Katz, circa 1929. Mane-Katz was a Litvak painter born in Ukraine best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe. Emmanuel Mané-Katz (Hebrew:מאנה כץ), born Mane Leyzerovich Kats (1894–1962), was a Litvak painter born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe. Mane-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. During the First World War he returned to Russia, at first working and exhibiting in Petrograd; following the October revolution, he traveled back to Kremenchuk, where he taught art. In 1921, due to the ongoing fighting in his hometown during the civil war, he moved once again to Paris. There he became friends with Pablo Picasso and other important artists, and was affiliated with the art movement known as the School of Paris; together with other outstanding Jewish artists of that milieu, he is sometimes considered to be part of a group referred to specifically as the Jewish School of Paris. Includes painters Jankel Adler, Arbit Blatas, Marc Chagall, Jacques Chapiro, Michel Kikoine...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Portrait - Original Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original Drawing on paper realized by the painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934). Drawing in Pencil. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions except for aged ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

The Sketches and Portrait - Original Drawing by Norbert Meyre - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Sketches and Portraits is an original Drawing on paper realized by French painter Norbert Meyre in the mid-20 century. Drawing in pencil and pen. Good conditions. The artwork ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Pen

1940's Fashion Illustration - Three Elegant Women Walking Through The Park
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The sketch is original, vintage and me...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Portrait of a Woman Sitting in Profile
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper Image size: 10 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches (26.5 x 36 cm) Mounted A fine pencil drawing and a stunning example of a 1930s Art Deco portrait.
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1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Figure - original drawing on paper - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing in Tempera and watercolor realized by an anonymous artist in the mid-20th Century. Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Tempera, Watercolor

Valaisan with a glass of wine
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper Brown wooden frame with glass pane 35.5 x 29.5 x 1.5 cm
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon

"Untitled 11, " Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Untitled 11" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts an impasto portrait of a feminine face.
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2010s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Madonna and Child - Colored Chalk Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Madonna and Child is a beautiful colored chalk low relief realized in the 19th Century by Anonymous Artist. Frame included: 96x70 cm. Good condition except some minor cracks and lo...
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19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk, Paper

"Untitled 18, " Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Untitled 18" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts an impasto painting of a nude female model.
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2010s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Garde du Corps -Kur Brandenburg, 1700-Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Garde du Corps is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s. Good condition except for being aged. The artwork is depicted through strong lin...
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1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

Soldiers - Drawing By Jules Joseph de Montjoye - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Soldiers is an original modern artwork realized by Jules Joseph de Montjoye (1816-1871). Pencil and pen drawing. Includes frame: 19 x 25 cm
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper

Facial Expressions Seen at the Cinema - Drawing - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Facial Expressions Seen at the Cinema is an original China Ink Drawing realized by an artist in 1940s. Signature unreadable. Good condition on a white little paper.
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1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

English Antique Portrait Sketch of Female Nude Standing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Graphite Sketch of a Female Nude, Standing by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905) on off white artists paper, unframed measurements: sheet 14.75 x 10.5 inches provenance:...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Nude On The Train - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude On The Train is a charcoal Drawing on creamy colored paper realized in 1960 by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century. Hand-signed on the lower in pencil. Good condition on yell...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Portrait - Drawing attr. to Richard Burt-Ryley - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original drawing in china ink attributed to Richard Burt-Ryley and realized in the late 20th Century. Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes i...
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Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Legion Hanovrienne (French Army) - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Legion Hanovrienne is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s. Good condition except for being aged. The artwork is depicted through strong...
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1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

The Angels - Original China Ink and Watercolor by Madeleine Scellier - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
The Angels is an original drawing in watercolored china ink on ivory-colored paper realized by the French artist Madeleine Scellier (1928). Hand-signed in pencil on the lower margin...
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1950s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor, Paper

The Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait is a Drawing in China ink on ivory-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the 1975s. Hand-signed on the lower right. Good conditions with a burning sign on the lowe...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

The Arrest - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
The Arrest is a Drawing in black marker on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1948. Hand-signed on the lower left. Good conditions with minor folding on the lower mar...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Permanent Marker, Paper

Story of a Boy - Pen Drawing by Filiberto Scarpelli - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
The King of Sardinia is a modern artwork realized in 1925 by the Italian artist Filiberto Scarpelli (Naples, 1870 - Rome, 1933). Three drawings rea...
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1920s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper

Portrait of Giorgio Morandi - Oil paint by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Giorgio Morandi is an original oil on board realized by the painter Mino Maccari, depicting his friend the painter Giorgio Morandi.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Board, Oil

Nude of Woman - Original Drawing by Alexandre Bida - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an Original pencil and white lead Drawing realized by Alexandre Bida (1823-1895). The artwork in good condition on a clue paper, inclu...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

9e bis Hussards - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
9e bis Hussards is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s. Good condition except for being aged. Hand-signed. The artwork is depicted thr...
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1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

The Family
Located in London, GB
'The Family', gouache on fine art paper (1984), by Raymond Dèbieve. In a clear nod to Picasso's influence both stylistically and in terms of subject matter ...
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1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Paper

Portrait - Original Charcoal Drawing By Edouard Dufeu - Late-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an Original Charcoal Drawing realized by Edouard Dufeu (1836-1900). Good condition included a blue cardboard Passepartout (22x 16 cm). Hand-signed by the artist on the lower. Edouard Dufeu coming from a family originally from Egypt, Dufeu moved to Paris in 1860 and frequented the studio of Charles Gleyre...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

Woman in an Interior - Drawing by Claudin Felix - 1890
Located in Roma, IT
Woman in an Interior is a pencil drawing realized by Claudin Felix in 1890. Good condition on a brown paper included a white cardboard passpartout (25x16 cm). No signature.
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Early 1900s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Regiment Provisoire Croate - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Regiment Provisoire Croate is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s. Good condition except for being aged. The artwork is depicted thr...
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1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

"Untitled 16, " Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Untitled 16" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts an impasto painting of a nude female model.
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2010s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Vellum

Portrait of Sleeping Man - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Sleeping Man is an Original Drawing in pencil carbon on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower. ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pen, Paper

Figure of Woman - Original Drawing by Paul de Longpré - Late-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of Woman is an Original Ink and Watercolor drawing realized by Paul de Longpré (1855-1911). Good condition on a yellowed paper, included a whit...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

The Proposal - Original Drawing by Paul Renouard - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Original pencil drawing on paper, realized by Paul Renouard in the early 20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokse by mastery.
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Portrait of Man - Drawing By Edouard Dufeu - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Man is a Charcoal Drawing realized by Edouard-Jacques Dufeu. Hand signed in pencil on the lower right margin. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Edouard-Jacques Dufeu ...
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1880s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

The Two Clowns (Les Deux Clowns) by Antonio Gonzalez Collado
Located in Stockholm, SE
Artist: Antonio Gonzalez Collado The Two Clowns (Les Deux Clowns) mixed media on paper signed artist studio stamp on the back dimensions (motif) 15...
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Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media

Gallant and Ladies - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Gallant and Ladies is an original pen drawing realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century. Good condition on yellowed paper with an aged left margin. The artwork is represente...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pen

7e Hussards - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
7e Hussards is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s. Good condition except for being aged. Hand-signed. The artwork is depicted through strong lines in well-balanced conditions. Herbert Knotel was a german artist, son and pupil of the famous uniformologist and military historian Richard Knotel...
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1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

Portrait - Drawing By Edouard Dufeu - Late-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an Original Charcoal Drawing and Watercolour realized by Edouard Dufeu (1836-1900). Good condition included a green and cream colored cardbo...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Charcoal

Moses and Israel - Drawing by Albert Decaris - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Moses and Israel is an original china ink drawing realized by Albert Decaris in the Early 20th Century. In good conditions. The artwork is presented through deft engraving, the ex...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Set of Vogue Covers, Watercolor fashion drawings on archive paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Vogue, set of watercolors on archival paper by Manuel Santelices Individual dimensions: 12 in. H x 9 in. W Overall dimensions: 12 in. H x 45 in. W ...
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2010s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Le marbre amoureux - ink and tempera by Paul Conte - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Le marbre amoureux is an original artwork realized by the French artist Paul Conte . Mixed media on paper (china ink and tempera). Hand-signed and titled in china ink on the lower ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Tempera, Ink

Portrait of George Arliss in Conte Crayon on Cardstock 1934
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately portrait of George Arliss by Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980). Mr. Arliss is depicted wearing his signature monocle, looking directly at the viewer. Although this piece appears to be done rapidly, there is a clear confidence in Opffer's work - he was an accomplished portrait artist - and the resemblance to the subject is unmistakable. George Arliss (born Augustus George Andrews; 10 April 1868 – 5 February 1946) was an English actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award – which he won for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) – as well as the earliest-born actor to win the honour. He specialized in successful biopics, such as Disraeli, Voltaire (1933), and Cardinal Richelieu (1935), as well as light comedies, which included The Millionaire (1931) and A Successful Calamity (1932). Signed and dated "Ivan Opffer 1934" in the lower right. Titled "Mr. Arliss" in the lower left. Presented in a new off-white mat with foamcore backing. Mat size: 22"H x 16"W Art size: 17.5"H x 12"W Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980) was born in Nyborg, Denmark, on June 4, 1897, to a family of Danish scholars and journalists. His brother was Emil Opffer, a Danish merchant seaman and journalist who was known for his relationship with American writer Hart Crane. Ivan was raised in Mexico City and New York, where his anarchist father was the editor of a radical Danish-language newspaper. His involvement in painting and drawing began at an early age. At a summer workshop, he met and studied drawing with Winslow Homer, then went on to study at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York. When the US entered World War I, Opffer was one of the members of the American Army Camouflage Corps, headed by Homer Saint-Gaudens (whose mother was a relative of Winslow Homer), the son of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. As a camoufleur, Opffer served with other artists and architects, some of whom became well-known, including Barry Faulkner, Sherry Edmundson Fry, Kimon Nicolaides, Robert Lawson, Abraham Rattner, Kerr Eby, and others. It was this same unit, while still in training in at Camp American University in Washington DC, that launched a camp newspaper called The Camoufleur. Only three issues were published before the unit’s deployment to France in late 1917. In the October 31 issue, a satirical portrait by Opffer of Homer Saint-Gaudens (titled “Our Boss”) was published on page 5. After the war, Opffer returned to New York, where he became known for his caricatures of leading Modern writers, among them James Joyce, Edgar Lee Masters, Siegfried Sassoon, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Sandburg, G.K. Chesterton, and Thomas Mann. In the years between the wars, Opffer married Betty à Beckett Chomley, and settled in Paris, where he was a student at the Academie Julliard. He also lived in London and Copenhagen, where his drawings were frequently published in newspapers and magazines. With the outbreak of World War II, he and his family returned to New York and lived in Greenwich Village. Among his friends in that era were William Butler Yeats, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...
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1930s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Conté, Postcard, Illustration Board

Poor Family - Original Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Poor Family is an original Drawing on paper realized by painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934). Drawing in china ink. Hand-signed on the lower right. Good conditions. Pierre...
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

German Legion 1806 - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
German Legion is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s. Good condition except for being aged. The artwork is depicted through strong line...
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1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

Portrait - Drawing - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original charcoal drawing on paper, realized by an anonymous artist in the Mid-20th Century. Good conditions with some foxing. The artwork is represented through de...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Profile - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Profile is an Original Drawing in pencil carbon on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower. Good conditions....
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

The Lady - Drawing in pencil By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Lady is an original Drawing on paper realized by painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934). Drawing in pencil. Hand-Signed on the lower. Vey Good conditions. Pierre-Georges...
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Paper

Figure - Original Drawing by Alexandre Bida - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Alexandre Bida (1823-1895). Good conditions. No signature. F. Alexandre Bida (1813–1895) was a Frenc...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

9e bis Hussards - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
9e bis Hussards is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s. Good condition except for being aged. Hand-signed. The artwork is depicted thr...
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1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Spanish and Dutch Soldiers - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Soldiers is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s. Good condition except for being aged. The artwork is depicted through strong lines in well-balanced conditions. Herbert Knotel was a german artist, son and pupil of the famous uniformologist and military historian Richard Knotel...
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1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbis WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) Watercolor painting Rabbinical Talmudic Discussion Hand signed 17 x 29 framed, paper 10 x 22 Chaim Gross (March 17, 1904 – May 5, 1991) was an American modernist sculptor and educator. Gross was born to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa (now known as Mezhgorye, Ukraine), in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia (which was annexed into the Ukrainian USSR in 1939 and became part of newly independent Ukraine in 1991). When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest to join their older siblings Sarah and Pinkas. Gross applied to and was accepted by the art academy in Budapest and studied under the painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, Austria shortly before immigrating to the United States in 1921. Gross's studies continued in the United States at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League of New York, with Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky, at the same time as Moses Soyer and Peter Blume. In 1926 Gross began teaching at The Educational Alliance, and continued teaching there for the next 50 years. Louise Nevelson was among his students at the Alliance (in 1934), during the time she was transitioning from painting to sculpture. In the late 1920s and early 1930s he exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club. In 1929, Gross experimented with printmaking, and created an important group of 15 linocuts and lithographs of landscapes, New York City streets and parks, women in interiors, the circus, and vaudeville. The entire suite is now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gross returned to the medium of printmaking in the 1960s, and produced approximately 200 works in the medium over the next two decades. For more than sixty years Chaim Gross's art has expressed optimistic, affirming themes, Judaica, balancing acrobats, cyclists, trapeze artists and mothers and children convey joyfulness, modernism, exuberance, love, and intimacy. This aspect of his work remained consistent with his Jewish Hasidic heritage, which teaches that only in his childlike happiness is man nearest to God. In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. For a short time they represented Gross, as well as his friends Milton Avery, Moses Soyer, Ahron Ben-Shmuel and others. Gross was primarily a practitioner of the direct carving method, with the majority of his work being carved from wood. Other direct carvers in early 20th-century American art include William Zorach, Jose de Creeft, and Robert Laurent. Works by Chaim Gross can be found in major museums and private collections throughout the United States, with substantial holdings (27 sculptures) at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A key work from this era, now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is the 1932 birds-eye maple Acrobatic Performers, which is also only one and one quarter inch thick. In 1933 Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration), which Gross worked for later in the 1930s. Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures that were placed in schools and public colleges, made work for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the Exposition universelle de 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, with a purchase prize at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Artists for Victory" exhibition for his wood sculpture of famed circus performer Lillian Leitzel. In 1949 Gross sketched Chaim Weizmann, Israeli President, at several functions in New York City where Weizmann was speaking, Gross completed the bust in bronze later that year. Gross returned to Israel for three months in 1951 (the second of many trips there in the postwar years) to paint a series of 40 watercolors of life in various cities. This series was exhibited at the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) in 1953. He also did some important Hebrew medals. In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. At the end of the decade Gross was working primarily in bronze which allowed him to create open forms, large-scale works and of course, multiple casts. Gross's large-scale bronze The Family, donated to New York City in 1991 in honor of Mayor Ed Koch, and installed at the Bleecker Street Park at 11th street, is now a fixture of Greenwich Village. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African sculpture, formed since the late 1930s, was exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum in the show The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross. Gross was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1981. In 1984, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, with Jacob Lawrence and Lukas Foss. In the fall of 1991, Allen Ginsberg gave an important tribute to Gross at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is published in their Proceedings. In 1994, Forum Gallery, which now represents the Chaim Gross estate, held a memorial exhibition featuring a sixty-year survey of Gross's work.In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. For a short time they represented Gross, as well as his friends Milton Avery, Moses Soyer, Ahron Ben-Shmuel and others. Gross was primarily a practitioner of the direct carving method, with the majority of his work being carved from wood. Other direct carvers in early 20th-century American art include William Zorach, Jose de Creeft, and Robert Laurent. Works by Chaim Gross can be found in major museums and private collections throughout the United States, with substantial holdings (27 sculptures) at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A key work from this era, now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is the 1932 birds-eye maple Acrobatic Performers, which is also only one and one quarter inch thick. In 1933 Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration), which Gross worked for later in the 1930s. Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures that were placed in schools and public colleges, made work for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the Exposition universelle de 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, with a purchase prize at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Artists for Victory" exhibition for his wood sculpture of famed circus performer Lillian Leitzel. In 1949 Gross sketched Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel, at several functions in New York City where Weizmann was speaking, Gross completed the bust in bronze later that year. Gross returned to Israel for three months in 1951 (the second of many trips there in the postwar years) to paint a series of 40 watercolors of life in various cities. This series was exhibited at the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) in 1953. In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. At the end of the decade Gross was working primarily in bronze which allowed him to create open forms, large-scale works and of course, multiple casts. Gross's large-scale bronze The Family, donated to New York City in 1991 in honor of Mayor Ed Koch, and installed at the Bleecker Street Park at 11th street, is now a fixture of Greenwich Village. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African sculpture, formed since the late 1930s, was exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum in the show The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross. Gross was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1981. In 1984, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, with Jacob Lawrence and Lukas Foss. In the fall of 1991, Allen Ginsberg gave an important tribute to Gross at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is published in their Proceedings. In 1994, Forum Gallery, which now represents the Chaim Gross estate, held a memorial exhibition featuring a sixty-year survey of Gross's work. 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Located in Roma, IT
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

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Located in Denver, CO
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2010s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

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Located in Miami Beach, FL
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2010s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

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Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of the young thinker is an artwork, charcoal drawing on paper, realized by the French Artist Albert Decaris. It is not signed nor dated.. The artist represents a portrait...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

"Untitled 8, " Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
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2010s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

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Located in Roma, IT
Original pencil drawing on paper, realized by Paul Renouard in the early 20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokse by mastery.
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

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Located in Roma, IT
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

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