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Portrait Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Period: 1930s
Period: 1920s
Art Deco Flapper Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Original Vintage 1920's Ink and Watercolor Fashion Illustration by listed New England artist Harriette (Nutting) Cooper (1901 - 2002).
The illustration depicts a lovely young flappe...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
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.
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
"Lilian"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Disegno fronte retro figurativo toscano nudo femminile del XX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Disegno fronte retro matita su carta, 330 x 240 mm.
Su un lato, in verticale, è raffigurato un nudo femminile seduto in un ambiente domestico, colto nell'atto di voltarsi verso lo s...
Category
1930s Other Art Style Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Art Deco Fashion Illustration Ink Drawing by G. Ferro
Located in Atlanta, GA
Original Art Deco fashion drawing, ink, and wash on Vellum paper by French artist G. Ferro. The artwork features a stylish male model with a typical Art Deco overcoat. The piece is s...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Cubist Woman Study Black Pencil Drawing by Wouyart
Located in Atlanta, GA
This interesting seated woman pencil study is by French artist Wouyart (20th Century). This unique representation captures the model's expression through trace lines and shadows that...
Category
1930s Cubist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Carbon Pencil
French Art Deco Woman Singing Gouache Painting
Located in Atlanta, GA
A lovely gouache on cardboard painting featuring an Art Deco singer with a typical stylish outfit. The composition is very vibrant, using the contrast of black and white elements ag...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board, Cardboard
Portrait of a woman, 1929, red chalk on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Erich HERMES (1881-1971)
Portrait of a Woman, 1929
Sanguine on paper
Signed "E. Hermès" and dated "29" lower left
29.5 x 22.5 cm
original frame
Erich Hermès, a Geneva artist of Germ...
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Composition - Drawing by Alfredo Mezio - 1934
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a drawing in pen on paper, realized by Alfredo Mezio in 1934 for the magazine "Il Selvaggio", Year XI, p. 46.
The artwork is depicted skillfully through confident an...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Cafe Society: The Smoker, male portait Closerie des Lilas, Lost Generation Paris
By John Wentworth Russell
Located in Norwich, GB
A strong portrait, and a piece of history. It was confidently sketched in 1923, during the heyday of the "Lost Generation" in Paris, at the Closerie des Lilas - Ernest Hemingway's favourite haunt and home-from-home in the City. This historical café is where Hemingway first read The Great Gatsby with his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald and where he wrote most of The Sun Also Rises...
Category
1920s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Art Deco Girl with Car Mid-20th Century American Modernism Pin-Up Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco Girl with Car Mid-20th Century American Modernism Pin-Up Illustration
Arthur Rosenman Ross (1913 - 1981)
Deco Girl with Car, 1936
30 x 20 inches
Oil on Canvas Board
Signed Arthur ‘36 lower right
Provenance: Estate of the artist.
BIO
Arthur Rosenman Ross was a key figure in automotive design at General Motors during America's "Golden Age" of auto design, the 1930's through the 1950s.
He attended the Art Institute of Chicago from age 17, exhibiting a special interest for automotive renderings and the female figure.
In 1934, he changed his name from Rosenman to Ross, fearing his Jewish ancestry could prejudice his career prospects. At age 20, he turned down job offers from MGM Studios in Hollywood
and Duesenberg to work at General Motors alongside the Legendary Harley Earl in 1935.
He was hand picked by Mr. Earl and assigned to GM's War and Camouflage Division in 1937 through WW2.
It was during this pivotal period in which he executed some extraordinary military aircraft artworks, likely used between GM and America's military aeronautics companies in design preparation for WW2. General Motors played an important role in helping America's aircraft manufacturers preceding and during the war.
Just after the war in 1945, Mr. Ross was rewarded by GM, being made Chief Designer of Cadillac, then two years later becoming Chief at Oldsmobile until his retirement in 1959.
He was in large part responsible for some of GM's classic Cadillac designs such as the Cadillac Sixty Special, Fleetwood, LaSalle and GM's first concept car, the extraordinary Buick Y-Job.
Mr. Ross was an exceptionally charismatic and vivacious man who quite by chance, befriended His idol, Salvador Dali at GM in 1955.
They talked about art, cars and girls late into the evening, according to his son, Carter Ross.
He had a gift in rendering the erotic arts...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait pencil drawing of a Dutch young boy (1934)
By Willy Sluiter
Located in Oostende, BE
Willy Sluiter (Amersfoort, 1873 – The Hague 1949) was a Dutch painter, draftsman and graphic designer.
The boy's name was Claes Honig from Koog aan Zaan (Dutch village), as can be ...
Category
1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Head with Green Dress
Located in Provincetown, MA
Alfred H. Maurer emerged as an influential crucial figure in the art scene of late 19th-century America, gaining widespread recognition for his innovative Fauvist approach characterized by vibrant colors and expressive brushwork. Departing from his renowned portraits and genre paintings, he delved into Fauvist landscapes, still lifes, and depictions of anonymous individuals. His distinctive technique relied on saturated colors rather than precise lines or forms, allowing him to convey a profound psychological intensity through dynamic, flowing strokes.
As he matured as an artist, Maurer pioneered American...
Category
1920s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Church Bell - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Church Bell is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Head of a Young Girl - Kiki de Montparnasse
Located in Miami, FL
The beauty of the sitter can determine the value of the painting. A charming and lovely sitter is the subject of this work and the reason why the work is so special. This precious...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Painter - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Painter is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1938.
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Paper, Watercolor
The Portrait - Painting by Alberto Ziveri - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait is a painting realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1936.
Oil on cardboard
Hand-signed and dated
In good conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Oil, Paper
Cityscape - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Cityscape is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Horses - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Horses is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1926.
Ink, pencil and watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
In good conditions.
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Figures - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Teaching Drawing to Children - Drawing by Alexandre Lagrant - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Teaching Drawing to Children is a drawing artwork realized by Alexandre Lagrant in the early 20th Century.
Pencil and ink drawing on paper.
The state of preservation is good with s...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Green Tree - Painting by Alberto Ziveri - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
Green Tree is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1935.
Tempera on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Tempera, Paper
The Letter F - Drawing by Alexandre Lagrant - The Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Letter F is a drawing artwork realized by Alexandre Lagrant in the early 20th Century
Watercolor drawing on paper.
The state of preservation is good.
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
Akt mit Strümpfen
Located in Wien, 9
August Dressler is one of the painters of the New Objectivity. He is one of the lesser-known artists of the Weimar era, but he too, like his famous contemporaries Georg Grosz, John H...
Category
1920s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Portrait of a Woman by Orovida Pissarro - Portrait painting
Located in London, GB
Portrait of a Woman by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Egg tempera on silk laid down on stretched linen
47.6 x 37 cm (18 ³/₄ x 14 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated upper right, OROVIDA 1936
Provenance: Christie's London, 1985
Kunstgalerij De Vuyst, Belgium
Private collection, London
Private collection, London, by descent
Artist biography:
Orovida Camille Pissarro...
Category
1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Linen, Egg Tempera
Original French Art Deco Gouache Illustration Drawing by J. Hilly
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original Art Deco illustration hand-painted with ink and gouache on paper. The drawing features two elegant women with large windows and drapery in the background. This illustrati...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Herbert Johnson Harvey, The Whisper, Self-Portrait, Pastel
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century pastel by Herbert Johnson Harvey (1884-1928) depicts the artist dressed in traditional peasant clothing while surreptitiously whispering.
Harvey carried an a...
Category
1920s English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Art Deco Woman before a Mirror - Vogue Magazine Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Fabled Vogue Magazine Cover Artist Eduardo Garcia Benito depicts a perfectly posed long-neck flapper with her reflection in a mirror, Her extrav...
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Paper
Art Deco Woman before a Mirror - Vogue Magazine Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Fabled Vogue Magazine Cover Artist Eduardo Garcia Benito depicts a perfectly posed long-neck flapper with her reflection in a mirror, Her extrav...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Portrait of Juliana - British Art Deco pencil charcoal drawing of a woman
Located in London, GB
A fine large charcoal and pencil drawing by British listed artist James Stroudley. Executed in 1930, it is a stunning example of a 1930s Art Deco portrait. Very strong and bold, it d...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Color Pencil
Portrait of a Young Woman - 1930's Art Deco portrait drawing British artist
Located in London, GB
A fine large charcoal and pencil drawing by British listed artist James Stroudley. Executed in 1931, it is a stunning example of a 1930s Art Deco portrait. Very strong and bold, it d...
Category
1930s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Morceaux Choisis
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889-1963 )
" Morceaux Choisis " est un dessin à l'encre brune et légère estompe au crayon noir , exécuté en 1932 , il représente un profil de femme .
19 x 11 cm . si...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Street Costumes, Gay Nineties Fashion - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Street Costumes by Ruth Kreps.
Signed lower right.
Most likely for a book published in the 1930's about turn of the century women's fashion. "Costume Design of the Gay Nineties" T...
Category
1930s Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Ink
Tuscan Florentine Female Nude Portrait Drawing 20th century pencil paper
Located in Florence, IT
Pencil on paper 32.5 x 23.5 cm.
The subject is a double study of a female nude.
It's signed at the bottom right, "U. Capocchini".
Ugo Capocchini was an Italian artist. He won many ...
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1930s Other Art Style Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Industrial Working Man WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Working Man WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Man with a Tool
39 ¾ x 38 ¼ inches
Gouache...
Category
1930s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Portrait of a Boy - British Art Deco interior painting seated male female artist
By Anna Airy
Located in London, GB
This large stunning watercolour portrait was painted circa 1930 by noted British female artist Anna Airy. The portrait depicts a full length boy seated in a beautiful Art Deco interi...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Erotic Scene - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s
Ink on paper
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Alberto Zi...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Nude Man - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude Man is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s
Ink on paper.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Alberto Ziveri (Rome,1908 – 1990), the Italia...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
The Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1938.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Alberto Ziveri (Rome,1908 – 1...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Thoughtful woman
Located in PARIS, FR
Karl HUBBUCH (1891-1979)
Thoughtful young woman, circa 1920-30
Pen and ink, pink colored pencil on paper
Stamp of the Karl Hubbuch estate in the upper left corner
14,5 x 14 inch
German artist and figure of the New Objectivity, Karl Hubbuch was born in Karlsruhe in 1891. He received his first artistic training at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1908, where he became friends with Georg Scholz and Rudolf...
Category
1920s Dutch School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Pencil, Color Pencil
Old Jewish Shtetl Rabbi Charcoal Judaica Drawing World War II Era
Located in Surfside, FL
Maurycy Trębacz (1861 – 1941) was one of the most popular Jewish painters in Poland in the late 19th and early 20th century. Many of his paintings were lost in the Holocaust, but a r...
Category
1930s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
The Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Charcoal and watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good condition.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes m...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
Portrait of a Lady - British Roaring Twenties Art Deco female portrait red chalk
Located in London, GB
This is a very pretty sanguine chalk drawing on paper of a young woman dated 1923 by Count Mario Grixoni. Executed by one of the leading artists of the day it is a very striking and...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
The Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s.
Charcoal on paper
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Alberto ...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Reading Man - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Reading Man is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s
Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Lady - British Art Deco 30's drawing young woman good provenance
Located in London, GB
A fine and detailed Art Deco pencil, black, red and white chalk portrait of a young woman by Hubert Williams. The work dates to circa 1930 and is very skilful in its execution. A bea...
Category
1930s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Color Pencil
Postcard Depicting A Farmer With His Three-Pronged Pitchfork
Located in Stockholm, SE
Isaac Grünewald (1889-1946) Sweden
Postcard Depicting A Farmer With His Three-Pronged Pitchfork
watercolor on a postcard
dimensions: 14 cm x 9 cm (5.51 x 3.54 inches)
frame: 22.5 c...
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1938
Ink and Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good condition with slight foxing.
The artwork is represented through de...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Male Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Male Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1938.
Charcoal on paper.
Hand-signed on the lower and dated.
In good conditions
The artwork is represented through deft strok...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
L V Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950) Portrait of a young woman, 1928, oval pastel
Located in Paris, FR
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950)
Portrait of a young woman
Pastel on paper
38 x 28 cm (oval)
Framed under glass in a vintage framing : 45 x 35 cm
A label on the back "1928 Portrait de femme Etude au pastel de Guirand de Scévola" (see photographs please)
This pastel study is of course not signed, as the label on the back of the frame gives its attribution to Guirand de Scévola and, equally interestingly, the date 1928, but in fact the artist's style and execution are immediately recognisable without the need for a signature.
This type of woman with a bun is typical of the models the artist loved. Her mysterious air recalls his Symbolist period, and pastel is hisr preferred medium because it lends itself to all the characteristics typical of his art.
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola ( 1871 – 1950) was a French painter.
He was student of Fernand Cormon and Pierre Dupuis...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
The Reading Girl - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Reading Girl is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1939
Charcoal and watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good condition with slight foxing.
The artwork is represented ...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Charcoal
The Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good condition with slight foxing.
The artwork is represented through deft ...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Portrait of a Lady - Roaring twenties art female portrait chalk drawing
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful sanguine chalk drawing portrait of a young woman, by Count Mario Grixoni, dated 1922. Executed by one of the leading artists of the day, it is a very striking and...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
The Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s
Ink on paper
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Alberto Ziveri...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s.
Charcoal on paper
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Alberto ...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Nude - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s.
Charcoal on paper
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Alberto ...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
The Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Ink and Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions with foxing.
The artwork is represented through deft s...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Charcoal and Pastel on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes mast...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
