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Portrait Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Style: Expressionist
Style: Old Masters
Francis
Located in London, GB
artist: Anastasia Kurakina
original watercolour on paper
One of a kind
hand signed
2024
Collective exhibitions:
2023 London biennale, Chelsea, Old Town Hall;
2023 YICCA Inte...
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2010s Vienna Secession Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a painter
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL
Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon
PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER
1943
Watercolor on paper
68 x 53 cm.
Signed and dated: lower right ‘Quirijn van T...
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1940s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Track Star - Figurative Portrait of an African American Man in Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Track Star - Abstracted Portrait of an African American Man in Pastel on Paper
Bold and imaginative pastel drawing of a man in a track suit by an unknown artist (20th Century). An A...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
The Arab Butcher, a preparatory drawing by Gustave Guillaumet (1840 - 1887)
Located in PARIS, FR
This intensely expressive figure is a preparatory study for "Arab Market on the Tocria Plain", a painting exhibited at the 1865 Salon and now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lille.
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1860s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Chalk
Baldassarre Franceschini, Sleeping Cupid, Valentine's Day Gift
Located in Harkstead, GB
A beautiful 19th century copy by Giuseppe Rocchi of Baldassarre Franceschini's Sleeping Cupid, presented in a very attractive gilt frame with hand carved mouldings. A very peaceful i...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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...
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1920s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Mythological combat scene with Roman soldiers on horseback.
By Virgil Solis
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and brownish black ink on grayish-cream laid paper, 6 1/2 x 8 inches (165 x 175 mm), irregular hexagonal sheet with margins. Some archival repairs along the top sheet edge, scatt...
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16th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Laid Paper, Ink
Portrait of a Newlywed by Casper Casteleyn, an artist of the Dutch Golden Age
Located in PARIS, FR
This marvelous portrait on vellum is the work of a rare Dutch Golden Age artist, Casper Casteleyn, who has also drawn a closely related portrait now at the Fondation Custodia in Pari...
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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Vellum, Chalk
Costume drawings for ‘Ambassadeur de Siam’ and ‘La Sultana Reine’
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809)
‘Ambassadeur de Siam’ and ‘La Sultana Reine’
Both titled lower centre, the drawing of the ambassador inscribed with colours intended for the prints, e...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Fashion
Located in London, GB
original oil painting
Anastasia Kurakina
hand signed
Anastasia Kurakina's artworks are the Vatican Museums collection since 2017
She has exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, Pencil
Portrait of a Lady, Drawing Signed and Dated by Augustin de Saint-Aubin
Located in PARIS, FR
This drawing full of freshness presents us with the profile of an elegant lady, drawn by Augustin de Saint-Aubin on a beautiful summer day in 1776, during the early months of Louis X...
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1770s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, 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...
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1930s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
St. John the Baptist in the wilderness , Ecce Agnus Dei (Behold the Lamb of God)
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and sepia ink and wash on vellum, 8 7/8 x 10 1/2 inches (225 x 267 mm). In very good condition with some modern notations in pencil on the verso, minor cockling, and a 1-inch hor...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Vellum, Pencil
Erotic French painter - 19th century figure drawings - Nudes - Ink on paper
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (19th century) - Four erotic scenes.
17 x 24 cm without frames, 21.5 x 28.5 cm with frames.
Antique ink drawings on paper, in wood...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Abstract Expressionist Portrait of a Man in a Suit in Pastel on Paper Bay Area
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressionist Portrait of a Man in a Suit in Pastel on Paper
Moody portrait of a man with dark hair by an unknown artist (20th Century). The man is shown with an elongated face and ...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Female Nude Study Watercolor Drawing by Rotislaw Racoff
By Rotislaw Racoff
Located in Atlanta, GA
1940s nude study, watercolor, and ink on paper painting by Polish/Russian artist Rotislaw Racoff (1904 - 1982).
This is a fine study of a young woman, probably Asian, sitting back. T...
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1940s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Portrait of Young Girl Gouache Painting by Max Moreau
By Max Moreau
Located in Atlanta, GA
1950s portrait, gouache on paper painting by Belgian artist Max Moreau (1902 - 1992).
A finely detailed portrait of a lovely young girl looking like a good child from the period right after WWII. Moreau captures the sweet expression, soft features, and calm, well-mannered demeanor of that child. Hand-signed and dated on the bottom right corner.
The artist demonstrates incredible skill in detailing this portrait with gouache and watercolor. This skill has made his portraits so desirable for international collectors.
The painting still has its original elegant mahogany carved frame with glass protection.
Measurements:
With frame: 25.19 in wide (64 cm) x 30.32 in high (77 cm) x 2.38 in deep (6 cm).
Opening view: 19.69 in wide (50 cm) x 24.50 in high (62 cm).
Note: Max Leon Moreau (1902 - 1992)
Moreau is a highly acclaimed artist born in Belgium. He is best known for his loosely brushed street scenes of Paris, Granada, and North Africa and his revealing portraits of met characters during his foreign travels. Taught to paint by his father, the family moved to Paris, where he made copies of paintings at the Louvre Museum. Later Moreau and his family lived in Tunisia and Morocco before settling in Granada, Spain. Following his death in 1992, his home was converted into a museum dedicated to his life and work. His paintings are internationally collected and appear at auction in major international houses.
Max spent his last 30 years living in his Moorish-style house in Granada, which upon his death, was bequeathed to the City of Granada along with the contents of his studio and artwork.
The City of Granada has turned his home into a museum showcasing his paintings, studio, and private life.
The main building of the Casa Museo Max Moreau houses an exhibition space that takes us on a journey through his most common themes: portraits, still-life, and landscapes, represented through oil paintings, watercolors, and drawings on paper. There is also a series of models for theatre creations that illustrate his interest and relationship to the scenic arts (he was involved in many productions as an actor, playwright, musician, and set designer).
The building is an original from the region of Albayzín and is popularly known as Carmen. Does the name come from the Arabic word Karm which means vine, orchard, or garden.?The second building houses his studio, remained untouched: the easel next to the window, a piano with scores, and a collection of oriental objects...
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1950s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Memento mori - A study of a Skull
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
E. Rusch (late 19th century)
Memento mori - Study of a skull
Pencil drawing
Drawing Size - 11 x 18 in
Framed Size - 17 1/2 x 24 1/2 in
Memento mori is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity and Christianity, and appeared in funerary art and architecture from the medieval period...
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19th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Study of a Sleeping Girl in a Cap
By Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite on greenish gray wove paper. 15 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches (390 x 295 mm). Initialed "G. B." in pencil on the lower right recto. In generally good condition with some minor scattered surface soiling. Condition is consistent with age.
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This drawing is closely related to two known mid 18th century oils...
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Graphite
French School 18th Century, L'étonnement, form of expression, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century,
L'étonnement, Astonishment as a form of expression,
Titled on the lower right "L'étonnement N°9"
Black chalk on paper
43 x 29 cm
In good condition, a sta...
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1750s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Antique French Miniature Portrait of Lady Biographical details with painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Miniature Portrait
French School, late 18th/ early 19th century
framed: 5.5 x 5.5 inches
board: 2 x 2 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound c...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French School 18th Century, Le Mépris et la Haine, form of expression, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century,
Le Mépris et la Haine, Contempt and Hate as a form of expression,
Titled on the lower right "Le mépris et la haine N°7"
Black c...
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1750s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
French School 18th Century, Le Rire, Laughter as a form of expression, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century,
Le Rire, Laughter as a form of expression,
Titled on the lower right "Le rire N°12"
Black chalk on paper
43 x 29 cm
In quite good condition, stains vsibl...
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1750s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Carretto Siciliano (Sicilian Carriage) - Watercolor by M. De Vito - 1820 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolour on ivory colored and watermarked paper"J. Whatm Turkey M.", 1820 c.a.
Beautiful watercolour representing a typical Italian scene of ordinary life in XIX century: people...
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1820s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Ancient Persian Miniature - Original China Ink and Watercolour - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Persian Miniature is an original China Ink and Watercolour realized by an artist of 19th Century.
Good condition for a little brown ...
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19th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
English School early 19th century, Portrait of two children, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
English School early 19th century,
Portrait of two children,
Pencil and light heightenings of white and red gouache
29.5 x 23 cm
In quite good condition : the pape is yellowed by time and there foxings and stains visible (please refer to the photographs)
In a vintage frame (some minor damages) : 48.5 x 38 cm
This charming drawing of children is typical of English portraiture as it had its heyday shortly before with Reynolds and Gainsborough. The codes required, for example, that the female sitter...
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Early 1800s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Jean-Henri Cless (1774-1812) Portrait of a young woman, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Henri Cless (1774-1812)
Portrait of a young woman in a landscape
signed "Cless fec" for fecit on the lower left
Brown ink and brown ink wash on pencil
Size of the sheet : 31.5 x 22 cm
Size of the motive : 24.5 x 17 cm
very simply framed under glass without actual frame 32 x 22.5 cm
This pre...
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Early 1800s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Portrait of a Merchant
Located in London, GB
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Guercino
Italian 1591-1666
Portrait of a Merchant
Sanguine on laid paper
Image size: 12 ¾ x 16 inches (32 x 40....
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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
untitled
Located in Spetses, GR
Drips and layered acrylic paint on this portrait by George Alekou.
Alekou is creating a series of figurative artworks on paper, inspired by various real ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Portrait Miniature c1765 Letitia Preston Vallancey
Located in Holywell, GB
A fine sanguine chalk drawing on paper of Letitia aged about ten dating to around 1765. Unsigned, inscribed verso and presented in a 19th century mount and frame.
“When Letitia Pres...
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1760s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
French school circa 1840, Portrait of a Lady, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French school circa 1840
Portrait of a Lady
watercolor on Bristol paper
25.5 x 20 cm oval
in quite good condition : slightly yellowed by time, multiple little scratches, stains (see ...
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1840s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Study for Assumption of the Virgin
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite on hand made, fibrous wove paper, finished with gray wash. Unevenly trimmed sheet edges, non-archival tape remnants at all four corners, recto, well outside of image area. Horseshoe-shaped area of light discoloration that extends significantly into the figure's face, beneath the lips, and up over the rear of the head, dog-eared right lower corner with associated light discoloration at crease. DeMin and Belluno inscribed in graphite, verso.
A detailed study showing 'primo pensiero' for Giovanni DeMin's large scale fresco, Assumption of the Virgin...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Graphite
Study of a Franciscan Saint, probably San Diego de Alcalá
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Ivan E. Phillips, Montreal and New York, until 2023.
The brothers Bartolomé Carducho and Vicente Carducho, both born and trained in Florence, settled in Spain where they made their careers. Vicente worked on numerous commissions for both the church and the Spanish court...
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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Ink, Pen
Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
Pen and ink, ink wash and pencil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 38cm x 29cm (65cm x 55cm framed).
This penetrating and wonderfully executed self-portrait, is all the mor...
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1910s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil, Ink
Costume of an envoy of Venice, a drawing by Francesco Galimberti (1755 - 1803)
Located in PARIS, FR
We thank Mrs. Bożena Anna Kowalczyk who suggested the attribution to Francesco Galimberti based on a photograph of the artwork.
This engaging drawing, finely executed in black and red chalks, depicts a Venetian diplomat in his 'new clothes...
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1780s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Mercurio / Mercury
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely, early drawing of the Roman god Mercury.
Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, with a partial crown and shield watermark, 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches (184x 123 mm) (matrix). In go...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
The Racing Horses
By Pierre Gaillardot
Located in London, GB
'The Racing Horses', gouache on art paper (circa 1970s), by Pierre Gaillardot. France has produced some of the world’s greatest horses and riders, wi...
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1970s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Portraits of the Hon. Mary Shuttleworth and Anna Maria, 9th Baroness Forrester
Located in London, GB
THE HON. MARY SHUTTLEWORTH, NÉE COCKBURN (D. 1777)
and her sister
ANNA MARIA, 9TH BARONESS FORRESTER (D. 1808)
Pastel and gouache on paper laid on canvas, on their original backb...
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
CHILD - Alfonso Grassi Pastel on paper Portrait italian Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
CHILD - Pastel on paper cm.51x41 signed lower right by Alfonso Grassi, Italy.
Wooden frame with passeportout cm.94x73
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Late 20th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Costume di Craco - Watercolor by M. De Vito - 1820 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on ivory colored paper, 1820 c.a.
Hand-titled "Costume di Craco" with a caption "Provincia di Basilicata nel Regno di Napoli" in black ink on lower margin at the center. ...
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1820s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Power Couple romantic couple subject soft warm pastel color blue gray tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned archival paper signed and dated bottom left. Portrait of a couple with much history between them. Mounted on archival foam board for future framing options
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2010s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pastel
The Assumption of Mary Magdalene, Italian School, 16th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
Brownish ink and grayish ink wash with white heightening on handmade cream laid paper, 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (267 x 208 mm)(matrix). Scattered minor losses to top sheet edge (outside...
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16th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Fleeting Ghosts
Located in London, GB
Mixed media on foam board
Signed lower right
This work includes a certificate of authenticity.
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-refle...
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2010s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Regency portrait drawing of Lady Nugent
By John Downman
Located in London, GB
Collections:
With Ellis Smith, London;
Private collection, to 2015.
Literature:
G.C. Williamson, John Downman A.R.A., his Life and Works,
p. lviii no's. 2 and 3, p. xxxi.
Exhi...
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19th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Boissier, Portrait of a Young Man, 1802, Pastel signed and dated
By Boissier
Located in Paris, FR
Boissier (painter and portraitist active at the end of the 18th century)
Portrait of a young man
Signed and dated "Boissier f(ecit) 1802" on the lower right
Pastel on paper transfere...
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Early 1800s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
La Montera
Located in London, GB
'La Montera', gouache, watercolour and ink on art paper, by Pierre Ambrogiani (circa 1960s). The artist created many artworks with bullfighting as theme. In this case, a single torer...
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1960s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
'Medea', Jason's Enchantress, Greek Mythological Figural, Expressionist Woman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Peter Brandes' (Danish, born 1944) and dated 1964-1965. Titled, upper left, 'Medea' and bearing 2017 dedication in graphite, lower r...
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1960s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Moses Breaking the Tablet of the Law (after Parmigianino. 1503-1540)
By Daniel Ramée
Located in Storrs, CT
Moses Breaking the Tablet of the Law. (after Parmigianino. 1503-1540.) Pencil drawing mounted onto paper. 12 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches. Collector's seal verso: Gustav Grunwald, (Lugt 1155b)...
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19th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Member of the Military Band - Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Member of the military band is a beautiful pencil drawing on cream-colored paper, realized during the XIX century by an Italian Master.
Hand-signed on the right side of the artwork....
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19th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
CHILD - Alfonso Grassi Watercolor on paper Portrait italian Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
CHILD -Watercolorl on paper cm.51x41 signed lower left by Alfonso Grassi, Italy.
Wooden frame with passeportout cm.94x73
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Late 20th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
18th century pastel portrait of Lady Augusta Corbett and her son, Stuart
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Commissioned by Andrew Corbett, husband of the sitter;
The Venerable Stuart Corbett;
Sir Stuart Corbett;
By descent to 2002;
Sotheby’s, London 21 March 2002, lot.104;
Lowell Libson...
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Eighteenth-century Irish portrait of the Rev. Henry Dabzac
By Hugh Douglas Hamilton
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper, oval
9 x 7 ¼ inches; 230 x 185 mm
Inscribed on the verso:
‘The Revd Henry Dabzac D.D./ late Senior Fellow of/ Trinity College Dublin/ ever to be lamented by all that knew/ Him. Extensive learning, zeal, gently tempered/ by a spirit of charity & above all, a strong/ faith & a piety deservedly gained/ the character of a great and good man./ This exceptional man died 12th May 1790/ This picture was his give to Jane [Mary] Crofton, his sincerely [missing] sister.’
Collections:
Rev. Dr Henry Dabzac gift to his sister, Jane Crofton (d.1797);
Sir Hugh Crofton (1763-1834);
By descent to 1990;
Private collection, Dorset to 2020.
Literature:
Robert Staveley, Traces of Past and Present, Dublin, 1895, p.74;
Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800, online edition, no.J3751247
This characteristic pastel portrait by Hugh Douglas Hamilton was made early in his career; it depicts precisely the kind of education, well-connected Irish sitter who fuelled his success. The Reverend Henry Dabzac was from a distinguished Huguenot family, a celebrated academic historian, Dabzac received the Donegall lectureship in 1764 and from 1785 was Librarian and Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. According to his earliest biographer, Hamilton was the son of a peruke-maker based in Crow Street, Dublin. As Anne Hodge has pointed out, this places Hamilton’s father at the heart of the city: Crow street was a narrow thoroughfare formed part of the busy warren of streets bordered by the old Houses of Parliament and Trinity College at one end, and by Dublin Castle at the other. It is perhaps telling that in this early portrait, Hamilton shows Dabzac in a splendid powdered wig and his clerical bands. In 1754 Hamilton was apprenticed to James Mannin, a ‘pattern drawer’ who two years later was appointed master of the school of ornament at the Dublin Society’s drawing school, run by Robert West. Here Hamilton took the first prize in the 1755 competition, winning a premium of £1/16/. Hamilton developed a popular and profitable method of making pastel likenesses of sitters in a distinctive oval format. Hamilton developed a technique of using a sharpened pastel to hatch shaded areas of the features and, in the case of this portrait of Dabzac, the white powdered wig, which is drawn with particular care. In 1764 Hamilton moved to London where this small, oval pastels proved...
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Dearly Beloved #37
Located in London, GB
Mixed media on Fabriano
Signed lower right
This work includes a certificate of authenticity.
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflect...
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2010s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Grimace - China Ink and Watercolor Drawing - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Grimace is a beautiful brown and black China ink drawing and watercolor on wire rod paper, made by an anonymous artist of the late 18th century.
A precious old master's original dra...
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
18th century ink study for the Leveson-Gower Children
Located in London, GB
Collections: J. Goodfriend, USA.
Brown wash and pencil on laid paper
Framed dimensions: 13.25 x 11.75 inches
This powerful drawing was made at the time that Romney was painting the famous group portrait of the Gower Children now in Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal. Romney was a bold and incisive draughtsman who made numerous rich brown ink studies, principally for historical compositions; by contrast, comparatively few studies linked directly to his portraits survive. The existence of a group of studies for the Gower Children underscores its importance to Romney. The sitters were the five youngest of the eight children of Granville, 2nd Earl Gower who, at the time the portrait was commissioned, was President of the Council in Lord North’s government and one of the best-connected and most influential people in England. The present drawing which is a large scale treatment of the composition in its final form perfectly distils Romney’s conceit: the younger children dancing whilst their elder sister, in the guise of a Bacchante plays the tambourine. The bold and dramatic study underlines both the artistic confidence and classical grandeur Romney gained during his trip to Italy between 1773 and 1775.
The commission from Granville, 2nd Earl Gower to paint five of his children came shortly after Romney’s Continental tour. The initial idea, as represented by the present drawing, seems to have been to paint Lady Anne, the figure on the right of the composition playing the tambourine, who was the youngest of Gower’s first four children by his second wife Lady Louisa Egerton and who married the Rev. Edward Vernon Harcourt, later Archbishop of York, with three of her younger half-siblings by Gower’s third wife, Lady Susanna Stewart: at the left Lady Georgina, who became Countess of St Germans following her marriage to the Hon. William Eliot; at the right Lady Charlotte Sophia, later Duchess of Beaufort and in the centre Lady Susanna, later Countess of Harrowby. Romney added a fifth child to the finished portrait, Gower’s son: Lord Granville, later created Viscount Granville and Earl Granville. In Italy Romney had produced a large number of studies of classical antiquities and old master paintings.
The commission from Gower offered Romney the opportunity to explore a complex multi-figural group, putting into practice the kind of ambitious classical quotations that Reynolds was currently exploiting. In 1773 Reynolds had completed the remarkable group portrait of the Montgomery Sisters, now in the Tate Gallery, London, which showed them adorning a herm of the Roman god Hymen; the composition used a garland to link the three figures who were shown in classical costume dancing at the foot of a Roman sculpture. Scholars have long pointed to a similar sources for the two compositions: the works of Nicolas Poussin. Whilst the Montgomery Sisters is based, in part, on a Bacchanal now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, the Gower Children has always been associated with Poussin’s Dance to the Music of Time, now in the Wallace Collection, London. It seems more likely that Romney was looking to an antique source in the form of the Borghese Dancers, a Roman relief, then in Palazzo Borghese in Rome. Romney would have seen the relief of interlocking, dancing maidens and would also have known Guido Reni’s Aurora...
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
“A Balinese woman with offerings” (1936)
By Theo Meier
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Theo Meier (1908-1982)
“A Balinese woman with offerings”
Signed, dated '36 and annotated Mankok (the name of the sitter) lower left
Sanguine on paper, measures: 57 x 41.5 cm
In a handmade and hand painted frame with address: Max Kno¨ll, Herberggasse 4/1, Basel.
Provenance:
Private collection, Basel (acquired directly from the artist)
Private collection, London
Note:
Theo Meier was born in Basel, where he attended art school and became a successful portrait painter. However, after visiting an exhibition in Basel of Tahitian paintings by Paul Gaugin, he decided to follow in Gaugin’s footsteps and go to the South Pacific. To finance his voyage, he founded a club in which every member pledged a monthly sum in return of which they could choose one of Meier’s paintings upon his return.
In 1932, at the age of 24, he embarked on his voyage to the South Sea. In Tahiti, he certainly discovered the beauty of the colours of the tropical world but the simplicity of the inhabitants, he had seen in Gaugin’s paintings turned out to be more in the artist’s fantasy than in reality. He returned to Basel but in 1935 again was on his way to the South Sea. In 1936 he arrived in Bali, planning to stay there for two or three weeks, but thirty years later he was still there. In Bali “a delirium laid hold of me which even today has not subsided”, he was to write much later. The present drawing was made during his first “delirius” year in Bali. In Bali, he settled and found inspiration and friendship with other artists including Walter Spies...
Category
1930s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
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Located in Roma, IT
Costume of Napoli is an original Ink and Watercolour drawing on ivory-colored stuck on paper, 1830 c.a.
Signed. Image Dimensions: 24.5 x 15 cm.
The original title is written at the...
Category
1830s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Past. Present. Future. Imperfect
Located in London, GB
Mixed media on Fabriano
Signed lower right
This work includes a certificate of authenticity.
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflect...
Category
2010s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
