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Portrait Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Post-War
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

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

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

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

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Pencil

Figure of Man - Original Drawing by Léon François Comerre - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of Man is an Original pencil and Charcoal Drawing realized by Léon François Comerre (1850-1916). The artwork is in good condition include...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Charcoal

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

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

Materials

Pencil

The Roman Bath
Located in London, GB
'The Roman Bath', pencil on art paper (circa 1960s), School of Rome. Three broad-shouldered men make their way through the sultry corridors of the Hammam in...
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1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

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

Materials

Ink

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

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

Materials

Watercolor, 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

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

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

Materials

Watercolor, Charcoal

'Woman With Yellow Bird' Original Drawing Acrylic And Ink On Paper
Located in Carmel, CA
Inspired by the theatre world, Devie had retained her own unique drawing strokes. Her works reflect an approachable other-worldliness. She paints a story to be told and answered. Th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Acrylic, Handmade 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

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. Gross was a professor of printmaking and sculpture at both the Educational Alliance and the New School for Social Research in New York City, as well as at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the MoMA art school, the Art Student's League and the New Art School (which Gross ran briefly with Alexander Dobkin...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern 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

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

Kurhessisches Corps - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Kurhessisches Corps is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s. Good condition except for being aged. Hand-si...
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1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

Figures - Drawing - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Figures" is a drawing in ink on paper, realized by G. Riegler . The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Sheet dimension: 23.5 x 19.8 cm. Image Dimensions: 15 x 9.4 cm The artwork represents beautiful figures in one interior drawn in ink.
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20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

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

Portrait of the Young Thinker - Drawing by Albert Decaris - Mid-20th Century
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

Figure - Original Drawing by Alfred Grevin - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing realized by Alfred Grévin in the Late-19 Century. With the stamp of atelier "Grevin" on the lower right. In good conditions. Alfred Grévin (1827- 18...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

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

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Charcoal

Figures of Women - Original Drawing by Charles Dufresne - Early 20th
Located in Roma, IT
Figures of Women is an Original China Ink Drawing and Watercolour realized by Charles Dufresne (1876-1938). Good Condition on a yellowed paper, included a white cardboard passpartou...
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Fougasse: 'A Lift Home' original pen and ink cartoon drawing
Located in London, GB
To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller". Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird, 1887 - 1965) 'I'm very glad Jones offered me a li...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Pen

The Proposal - 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

Monna Lisa - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Monna Lisa is an original modern artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century. Watercolor drawing. Hand signed on the lower margin. Includes frame: 49 x 3 x 43
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

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

Country villa
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
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1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Sentiment - Original China Ink - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sentiment is an original drawing in china ink on paper by an Anonymous Artist of the XX century. Sheet dimension: 21 x 26 cm The state of preservation is good except for some stai...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

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

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Pen, Paper

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

Gentleman - Original Drawing in Pencil by Eugène Giraud - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Gentleman is an Original Drawing in pencil realized by Eugène Giraud in the Late 19th Century. Applied on a Cardboard, included a blue Passepartout: 41 x 33 cm Good conditions. Sta...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Cleaning Of the House - Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot-Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cleaning Of the House is an original Drawing on paper realized by the painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934). Drawing in pencil and watercolor. Hand-signed on the lower. Good...
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Chaim Gross Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbi Klezmer Music WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991) Watercolor with pencil painting Rabbi Klezmer music concert, flute player. Hand signed framed: 15 X 28.5, paper: 9.5 X 23 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. Gross was a professor of printmaking and sculpture at both the Educational Alliance and the New School for Social Research in New York City, as well as at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the MoMA art school, the Art Student's League and the New Art School (which Gross ran briefly with Alexander Dobkin...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Gentleman - Original Drawing in Pencil by Eugène Giraud - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Gentleman is an Original Drawing in pencil realized by Eugène Giraud in the Late 19th Century. Applied on a Cardboard, included a blue Passepartout: 41 x 33 cm. Stamped on the lowe...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Soldiers - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Soldiers 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 ...
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1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

Portraits - Original Drawing by Alfred Grevin - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portraits is an original drawing in Pencil and watercolor realized by Alfred Grévin in the Late-19 Century. Applied on a Passeprtout:36 x 26 cm. With the stamp of atelier "Grevin" ...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Portrait - Pencil Drawing by Tibor Gertler - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original pencil drawing realized by Tibor Gertler in 1960. Good conditions, mounted on a white cardboard passpartout (60x40 cm). Hand-signed by the artist on the low...
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1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Regiment Provisoire Croate Officier - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Regiment Provisoire Croate Officier 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 dep...
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1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

The Torture - Original Drawing by Gabriel Ferrier -19th
Located in Roma, IT
The Torture is an original Pastel drawing on paper realized by Gabriel Ferrier (1847-1914) in the 19th Century. Stamped on the lower on the rear.. Go...
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

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

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Pen, Pastel, Pencil

Portrait - Original Pencil Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by Anonymous French Artist of the late 19th Century. In very good conditions. Not signed. Image Dimensions:...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait 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. With another port...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Portrait - Original Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original Drawing on paper realized by painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934). Drawing in Pencil. Hand-signed. Good conditions. Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1...
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

The Kiss - Original Pencil Drawing by Alfred Grevin - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Kiss is an original drawing in Pencil realized by Alfred Grévin in the Late-19 Century. Applied on a Passeprtout: 50 x 32 cm. In good conditions. Alfred Grévin (1827- 1892),w...
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Late 19th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

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

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Pencil

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

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Paper, Pen

Pilgrim - Original Drawing in Pencil By Edouard Dufeu - 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
Pilgrim is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Edouard Dufeu in 1880s. Hand-signed on the lower. Included a white Passepartout: 37 x30 cm Good conditions and aged. ...
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1880s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Graveyard by Isaac Charles Goetz - Gouache on paper 39x53 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame slightly damaged on the sides, to be framed
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1950s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

Jacques Thevenet (1891-1989) Portrait of a man in the studio, signed Gouache
Located in Paris, FR
Jacques Thevenet (1891-1989) Portrait of a man in the studio Gouache on paper Signed lower right 64 x 49 cm Framed 77 x 62 cm, some damages to the frame as visible on the photographs Jacques Thévenet was born in Montquinon 17 October 1891, in the family’s ancestral home, built by his great grand-father, Auguste Hugues Claude Thévenet, lawyer from Château-Chinon. He had 3 sisters and lost his mother in 1895 when he was only four. His father Louis moved the family to Paris where he run a law practice. Young Jacques studied at the Lycée Carnot and later attended the École de droit of the Sorbonne University. Simultaneously, he attended the Académie Julian, with several painters such as Amédée de la Patellière, Jean Crotti...
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1960s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

"King of the Blues" - B.B. King Portrait in Watercolor and Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant portrait entitled "King of the Blues" by John Martin Socha (American, 1913-1983). Bold and angular, this piece depicts an African-American man wearing a crown. Given the date of the piece (1955), it is likely a reference to B. B. King, who began topping the Billboard charts in 1953. The portrait is slightly abstracted, with ornamentation that adds detail and depth. Signed and dated "Socha 1955" in the lower left corner. Presented in a wood frame with a linen mat. Frame size: 17.5"H x 14.75"W Image size: 9.5"H x 6.5"W John Martin Socha (American, 1913-1983) was a painter and teacher from St. Paul, Minnesota. As a teenager, Socha studied with Diego Rivera and attended the Minneapolis School of Art. He later worked as a WPA artist in the 1930s, and Rivera’s influence can be seen in his murals. Socha then served in the US Army from 1943-1946 before attending the University of Minnesota in 1947. Socha’s work has won many awards and is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Exhibited: Minnesota State Fair, 1938-40 (prize), 1941 (prize), 1942; Minneapolis Women's Club, 1938-42 (prize); Minneapolis IA, 1938-41, 1942 (prize), 1943-46; AIC, 1941-42; MMA, 1941-42; WMAA, 1942; NGA, 1940, 1942; Guatemala City, 1940; Mexico City, 1942; Walker Art Center, 1938, 1940, 1949 (prize); Davenport Municipal Art Gal., 1941; St Paul Art Gal., 1938-42; Denver Art Mus.; Univ. Wisconsin; Fed. Courts Bldg (solo), Hamline Univ. (solo), St. Catherine's Col. (solo), Public Library (solo), St. Paul Park H.S (solo), all in St. Paul; Guy Mayer Gal., NY (solo); Mankato State College, 1957 (solo). Member: Minnesota AA; Minnesota Art...
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1950s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink, Watercolor

Figure - Drawing in China ink By Norbert Meyre - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing in pencil, on creamy-colored paper realized by Norbert Meyre in the early 20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through deft strokes ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

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. T...
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1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Ink

Treno della Guardia. Ufficiale 1811 - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Treno della Guardia 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 stron...
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1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Ink

Portrait of Young Boy - Original Drawing in Pen By Edouard Dufeu - 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Young Boy is an original drawing in pen on paper realized by Edouard Dufeu in the 1880s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions and aged. The artwork is represente...
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1880s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Felt Pen

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