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Portrait Drawings and Watercolors For Sale
Style: Impressionist
Style: Photorealist
Young Elegant Lady In A Hat, Nocturne
By Henry Somm
Located in PARIS, FR
François Clément SOMMIER, known as Henry SOMM
Rouen 1844 - Paris 1907
Young Elegant woman in hat, nocturnal
Watercolor
Signed lower right
32 x 21 cm
50 x 40 cm framed
Very good cond...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Étude des paysans
Located in GLEN IRIS, AU
Albert Lebourg
Étude des paysans
pencil on paper, signed lower right, estate stamp on the reverse, 19 x 13.5cm
Provenance: Vente Maître Dumousset, Paris, May 1999: Pri...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Study of Job
By Lesser Ury
Located in New York, NY
Signed, dated, and titled, lower left: L Ury/ 1883/ Studie zum Hiob
Provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Berger, New York, until 2005; thence by descent.
Literature:
Illustrated in...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Board
Nebulous
Located in Buffalo, NY
Through drawings rendered in charcoal and ink, my recent work examines issues related to memory by exploring its limitations and aestheticizing the instability inherent in portraitur...
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2010s Photorealist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Angelic Ruth Cobb Watercolor, Signed
Located in Larchmont, NY
Ruth Cobb (American, 1914-2008)
Untitled, c. 20th century
Watercolor and mixed media on paper
Sight: 19 3/4 x 28 1/2 in.
Framed: 33 1/2 x 41 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.
Signed lower right
Born ...
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20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Modele au Chapeau or Child with a Large Hat
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed with the estate stamp initials lower right, Lugt 388a (see photo)
Provenance:
Richard Norton Gallery, Chicago (label verso)
Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago (label verso)
...
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1880s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Set of 6 Figure Illustrations Egyptian Classical Characters Listed American
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Set of x6 figures
original watercolour painting on artist paper
signed by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below
piece of paper is 14 x 10 inches
In good condition
provenance:...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Set of 9 Figure Illustrations Egyptian Classical Characters Listed American
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Set of x9 figures
original watercolour painting on artist paper
signed by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below
piece of paper is 14 x 10 inches
In good condition
provenance:...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Elegant Young Society Lady In Purple Stripey Top Exquisite Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elegant Lady
original watercolour painting on paper
by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below
piece of paper is 14 x 10 inches
In good condition, though with mi...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Crayon
Portrait of Elegant Young Society Lady In A Pink Blouse Exquisite Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elegant Lady
original watercolour painting on paper
by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below
piece of paper is 14 x 10 inches
I...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Crayon
Black Woman's Beauty, 10x8" watercolor
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Black Woman's Beauty by Lu Haskew
Watercolor Portrait
10x8" image size
20x18" framed (behind glass)
Shipping price includes the custom packing necessary for safe transport of fine art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Lu Haskew 1921-2009
"Life is good to me. Being able to go to my studio five days weekly and paint for several hours, living in a supportive community, having family and friends who encourage me--all have contributed to helping me become an artist. Being fortunate to study with some of the artists I admire has kept me painting from the garden, people and my favorite things. With the support of galleries, teaching and doing demos, how could I do anything else? My goal is to try to be the best I can be by always being a student, looking for new ideas and stretching my horizons."
Upon retirement from a 33-year teaching career, Lu rented a studio in Loveland and began concentrating on her oil and watercolor painting. Learning from artists she had followed and admired throughout the years her painting became a full time career that lasted 17-years. Beginning in 1992, she studied with renowned painters Richard Schmid, Clyde Aspevig, Joyce Pike...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Angel
Located in Boston, MA
From the estate of the artist.
Frederick Bosley was an Impressionist painter of the Boston School who most often depicted portraits, figures and still-lifes. The artist was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire in 1881. He studied at the Museum School in Boston from 1900-1906 with Edmund C. Tarbell (1862-1938) and Frank W. Benson (1862-1951), and then in Europe from 1906-1908. Bosley returned to Boston in 1909, obtaining a studio at the Fenway Studios from 1909-1918. He was to become a teacher in his own right, settling as Director at the Museum School from 1913-1931. His many awards include First prize in the 1920 Concord Art Academy Exhibition and a Gold Medal in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition, 1925. His work may be found in the collections of several institutions, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Farnsworth Museum, the National Academy of Design and the Concord Academy...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait Of A Young Woman Attributed To Frank Weston Benson
Located in New Orleans, LA
Attributed to Frank Weston Benson
American 1862-1951
Portrait of a Young Woman
Watercolor on paper
Signed “F.W. Benson 1912” (lower right)
This watercolor painting, entitled Port...
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20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
[Woman at a Table]
Located in Boston, MA
Frederick Bosley was an Impressionist painter of the Boston School who most often depicted portraits, figures and still-lifes. The artist was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire in 1881. He studied at the Museum School in Boston from 1900-1906 with Edmund C. Tarbell (1862-1938) and Frank W. Benson (1862-1951), and then in Europe from 1906-1908. Bosley returned to Boston in 1909, obtaining a studio at the Fenway Studios from 1909-1918. He was to become a teacher in his own right, settling as Director at the Museum School from 1913-1931. His many awards include First prize in the 1920 Concord Art Academy Exhibition and a Gold Medal in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition, 1925. His work may be found in the collections of several institutions, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Farnsworth Museum, the National Academy of Design and the Concord Academy...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
![[Woman at a Table]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_3973/a_139116321707237315466/CGL54384_40jpg_framed_master.jpg?width=240 "fred bosley")
Set of 9 Figure Illustrations Egyptian Classical Characters Listed American
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Set of x 9 figures
original watercolour painting on artist paper
signed by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below
piece of paper is 14 x 10 inches
In good condition
provenance...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Lute Player - Scottish Glasgow Boy artist Victorian exhibited portrait W/C
Located in London, GB
This stunning Victorian Impressionist portrait painting of a lute player is by noted Scottish Glasgow Boy artist James Paterson. Painted circa 1900 and exhibited at The Royal Scottis...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Self Portrait, Original Painting, Ink on Paper, Black and White
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Mkrtich Sarkisyan (Mcho)
Work: Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Ink on Paper
Year: 2023
Style: Abstract
Subject: Self Portrait,
Size: 12" x 9" x ...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
'Black Woman Sleeping on Subway', Syracuse, University of Northern Iowa, Urban
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'M. Kestor' for Mary Peterson Kestor (American, 1948-2021) and painted circa 1965.
Born in Iowa, Mary Kestor first studied at the University of Northern Iowa, whe...
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1960s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Pastel
Study of Lucie (Ralph) Belin seated in an interior
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study of Lucie (Ralph) Belin seated in an interior
Graphite on paper, 1915
Signed with the estate stamp, Lugt 909b, the stamp faded from blue to brown (see photo)
Provenance:
Neffe-D...
Category
1910s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
"COWBOY ON HORSE" WESTERN
Located in San Antonio, TX
Joe Rader Roberts
(1925 - 1982)
Lockhart/Houston Artist
Size: 12.5 x 10
Frame: 18.5 x 15.5
Medium: Marker
"Cowboy on Horse"
Joe Rader Roberts (1925-198...
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20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
French Impressionist Portrait Drawing, 'The Art Lesson'
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pencil study portrait drawing of a child painting at an easel by French artist Charles-Jean Agard. The work is signed bottom left and presented in a carved wood and gilt frame with mount under glass.
A very charming pencil study of a child sitting at an easel. Agard has beautifully captured the head and face in full, with the light and shade, the rest of the body and surroundings are in sketch form, the contrast between the two making for a very successful composition beautifully capturing the intensity of the sitter.
Charles Agard...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Handmade Paper
Portrait of a Man with White Hair and Mustache in Pastel on Artist's Board
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Man with White Hair and Mustache in Pastel on Cardstock
Portrait of a man by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). The man is looking directly at the viewer, with a neutral expression. He has white hair and a mustache, and is wearing a brown suit with a red tie.
Signed "Honora Berg" in the bottom right corner.
Stamp from Miller Fine Art on verso
Acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Initialed and numbered "HB 117" on verso
Unframed.
Board size: 20"H x 15"W
Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell — David Park's aunt — suggested a move to California in 1951 to study under Park. She exhibited at the 25th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961.
Provenance, Estate of Honora Berg - David Carlson Gallery, Larry Miller...
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1950s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Canvas, Cardboard
Artist's Self-Portrait in Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Artist's Self-Portrait in Pastel on Paper
Bright yellow and ochre make up this self-portrait in chalk pastels by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century).
Unsigned, but acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Mat size: 30"H x 24"W
Paper size: 24"H x 18"W
Presented in a new soft peachy cream mat with foam core backing.
Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century) is a San Francisco...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Sit woman pencil drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Casimiro Martinez Tarrassó (1900-1979) - Seated Woman - Pencil
Drawing measures 31x21 cm.
Frame measures 47x37 cm.
MARTINEZ TARRASSO, Casimiro – Barcelona 1900 - 1979
Casimiro Mart...
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1970s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of a 1920s Woman by Mystery American Artist
Located in Larchmont, NY
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Sight: 16 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.
Framed: 24 1/2 x 20 1/4 x 1 2/3 in.
Signed lower right
Inscribed verso
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
'Portrait of a Young Man' — 1960s American Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Philipp, 'Portrait of a Young Man', color pastel and wet brush, c. 1967. Signed in pencil, lower right. A fine, painterly drawing, on cream laid Michallet drawing paper. The artist's tack holes in the four sheet corners, in very good condition. Image size 19 x 11 1/2 inches (483 x 292 mm); sheet size 19 x 12 3/8 inches (483 x 314 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Provenance: Art Students League, from the artist’s personal portfolio.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Philipp (1895–1981) was a celebrated American Post-Impressionist painter known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits. Noted art critic Henry McBride named Philipp one of America's top six painters of his generation. Philipp was an instructor of painting at the Art Students League, New York, for 33 years. Philipp was Secretary of the National Academy of Design, a National Academician, and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London. His composition and painting style has been compared to the art of Edgar Degas and Pierre Auguste Renoir.
In 1940, Philipp was invited to Los Angeles by Hollywood producer Louis B. Mayer to paint portraits of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie stars. The same year, Walter Wanger, producer of ‘The Long Voyage Home’, directed by John Ford and based on plays by Eugene O'Neill, contracted with Reeves Lewenthal, head of the Associated American Artists gallery in Manhattan, to bring nine well-known artists to the set and paint scenes from the movie and portraits of the actors in character. The artists included Robert Philipp, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Ernest Fiene, George Schreiber, Luis...
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1940s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Lubin de Beauvais (1873-1917) L'Anse de Launay 1911, signed color drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Lubin de Beauvais (1873-1917)
L'anse de Launay, a woman at the beach, 1911
signed, dated and titled "Anse de Launay, Loguivy Ploubazlanec, Bretagne,...
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1910s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Color Pencil
English Graphite Portrait Sketch of Male Nude, Back View
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Graphite Sketch of a Male Nude, Back View
by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905)
on pale blue/grey artists paper, unframed
measurements: sheet 18.75 x 12 inches
provenance...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Glamorous Palm Beach Portrait with Sun Hat - Mid Century Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
The mid-century glamour portrait of an elegant, long-necked woman in silhouette with a straw sun hat. Signed and dated Grafstrom Palm Beach 1947 - Condition is good with some scatter...
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1940s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
"Untitled 17, " Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Untitled 17" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts an impasto painting of a nude female model.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait. 1961. Watercolor on paper, 29, 5x21 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1961. Watercolor on paper, 29,5x21 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her studies...
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1960s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
1940's Fashion Illustration - The Two Elegant Brides
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas.
The painting, executed in gouache and pencil.
The sketch is original, vintage and me...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Reflections. 1960s. Watercolor on paper, 17, 5x12, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Reflections. 1960s. Watercolor on paper, 17,5x12,5 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her ...
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1960s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Haystacks. 1960s. Two-sided. Paper, watercolor, 31x25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Haystacks. 1960s. Bilateral. Paper, watercolor, 31x25 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began h...
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1960s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Portrait. 1960s. Watercolor on paper, 29x25.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1960s. Watercolor on paper, 29x25.5 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her studi...
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1960s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait. 1960s. Watercolor on paper, 27, 5x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1960s. Watercolor on paper, 27,5x20 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her studi...
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1960s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait. 1960s. Watercolor on paper, 22x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1960s. Watercolor on paper, 22x20 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her studies...
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1960s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Winter landscape. 1962. Watercolor on paper, 28x37, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Winter landscape. 1962. Watercolor on paper, 28x37,5 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began he...
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1960s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait. 1963, watercolor on paper, 26x18 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1963, watercolor on paper, 26x18 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her studies a...
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1960s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1940's Fashion Illustration - Three Elegant Women Walking Through The Park
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas.
The painting, executed in gouache and pencil.
The sketch is original, vintage and me...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Youth. Bilateral. 1960s. Paper, watercolor, 34.5x25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Youth. Bilateral. 1960s. Paper, watercolor, 34.5x25 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her...
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1960s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a man with glasses. 1960s. Paper, watercolor, 35.5x24.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait of a man with glasses. 1960s. Paper, watercolor, 35.5x24.5 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947...
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1960s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Scarlet sunset. Bilateral. Paper, watercolor, 26.5x35 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Scarlet sunset. Bilateral. Paper, watercolor, 26.5x35 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began he...
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1960s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Woman in a Pink Vest - Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate drawing of a woman by Palo Alto artist Marilyn Thompson (American, 1927-2015). A woman wearing a pink vest and her hair pulled back sits looking to the viewer's right. She is rendered in loving detail, with smooth shading and glowing highlights. Of particular note are the details in her hair, jewelry, and folds of her skirt.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Acquired with a collection of her work.
Presented in a new white mat with foam-core backing.
Mat size: 26"H x 24"W
Paper size: 23.75"Hx 19.75"W
Marilyn Thompson (American, 1927-2015) was born in Santa Paula. California. She received an art degree from San Jose State in 1950, after which she worked for H. M. Gousha, for whom she drew many illustrations of missions and other California sites. From the mid-1970s on, she did freelance drawing and painting, with lots of commercial work (pamphlet illustrations, posters, custom birthday cards...
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1990s Photorealist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
"Untitled 10, " Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Untitled 10" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts an impasto portrait of a feminine face.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Untitled 11, " Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Untitled 11" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts an impasto portrait of a feminine face.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Young Lady in Profile
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Young Lady in Profile (Dorothy Gibson)
Graphite on paper, c. 1915
Signed lower right (see photo).
The sitter for this drawing, along with a huge number of Harrison Fisher’s works, is the model, turned actress, Miss Dorothy Winifred Gibson (1889-1946).
She was one of the lucky ones who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. There is an in depth biographical sketch available on Wiki.
"Dorothy Winifred Gibson (1889-1946) is arguably one of the most fascinating women of the twentieth century. Her story is more than deserving of its own film or TV show and yet, if it was to ever appear on the screen, it would be in serious danger of being criticised as ‘too unbelievable’ or ‘farfetched’. But believe me, readers, everything I am about to tell you about Dorothy Gibson is true...
Early Life
Dorothy Winifred Gibson (originally Dorothy Winifred Brown, before her father died when she was three years old and her mother remarried), was born in New Jersey on 17 May 1889. Between 1906 and 1911 (aged 17-22), she appeared on stage as a singer and dancer in a number of theatre and vaudeville productions, and in 1909 she began modelling for Harrison Fisher, a famous commercial artist. Dorothy soon became Fisher’s favourite muse, and her image was seen regularly on postcards, merchandising products and even on the covers of magazines like Cosmopolitan. During this time, Dorothy met and married a pharmacist named George Henry Battier Jr, but the couple soon separated and were divorced by 1913.
As early as 1911, Dorothy began appearing in movies, starting out as an extra but soon taking the leading roles in a series of films by Éclair Studios. Praised for her natural acting style and comedic flair, she was a huge hit – and arguably the first actress to be promoted as a star in her own right.
Surviving the sinking of the RMS Titanic
On 17 March 1912, after starring in a string of movies, Dorothy and her mother, Pauline, took a trip to Europe – but after a few weeks Dorothy was called back to America by the studio to start working on a new series of films. Dorothy and her mother were in Paris when they booked their tickets on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, and boarded at Cherbourg on 10th April.
On the night the ship sank, Dorothy had ‘spent a pleasant Sunday evening playing bridge with a couple of friendly New York bankers’ (her words, in an interview with the New York Dramatic Mirror). Despite the request of a steward for them to finish, they carried on with their game and it was not until about 11:40pm that Dorothy returned to the stateroom she shared with her mother. It was at that point that she felt ‘a long drawn, sickening crunch’ and, while not exactly alarmed, she decided nonetheless to investigate. Quickly noticing that the deck was ‘lopsided’, she rushed back to her room to fetch her mother, and the pair returned to the boat deck. Dorothy and her mother escaped from the ship on the first lifeboat launched (number 7), and given how quiet it was on the boat deck at the time, she asked her bridge partners to join them.
However, events took a turn for the worst when a hole was found in the bottom of the lifeboat, causing icy cold water to rush in and almost flood the boat. Luckily, though, Dorothy explained, ‘this was remedied by volunteer contributions from the lingerie of the women and the garments of men.’
It is hard for us now to imagine the terrors of that night – and the emotional damage it caused to those who survived. After the event, Dorothy told the Moving Picture World, ‘I will never forget the terrible cry that rang out from people who were thrown into the sea and others who were afraid for their loved ones.’ Unbelievably, though, Dorothy was to re-enact the experience a mere five days after it happened, when she starred in the first film about the disaster. It was a silent movie, called Saved From The Titanic, and was actually hugely successful and the first of many hit films about the sinking. In the movie, Dorothy even wore the same clothes she had been wearing when the ship sank – a white silk dress underneath a cardigan and polo coat.
Shortly after the release of Saved from the Titanic Dorothy gave up acting.
An affair to remember...
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1910s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
1940's French Fashion Illustration - The Stylish Lady With The Green Features
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas.
The painting, executed in gouache and pencil.
The s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
"Untitled 18, " Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Untitled 18" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts an impasto painting of a nude female model.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of George Arliss in Conte Crayon on Cardstock 1934
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately portrait of George Arliss by Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980). Mr. Arliss is depicted wearing his signature monocle, looking directly at the viewer. Although this piece appears to be done rapidly, there is a clear confidence in Opffer's work - he was an accomplished portrait artist - and the resemblance to the subject is unmistakable. George Arliss (born Augustus George Andrews; 10 April 1868 – 5 February 1946) was an English actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award – which he won for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) – as well as the earliest-born actor to win the honour. He specialized in successful biopics, such as Disraeli, Voltaire (1933), and Cardinal Richelieu (1935), as well as light comedies, which included The Millionaire (1931) and A Successful Calamity (1932).
Signed and dated "Ivan Opffer 1934" in the lower right.
Titled "Mr. Arliss" in the lower left.
Presented in a new off-white mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 22"H x 16"W
Art size: 17.5"H x 12"W
Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980) was born in Nyborg, Denmark, on June 4, 1897, to a family of Danish scholars and journalists. His brother was Emil Opffer, a Danish merchant seaman and journalist who was known for his relationship with American writer Hart Crane.
Ivan was raised in Mexico City and New York, where his anarchist father was the editor of a radical Danish-language newspaper. His involvement in painting and drawing began at an early age. At a summer workshop, he met and studied drawing with Winslow Homer, then went on to study at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York.
When the US entered World War I, Opffer was one of the members of the American Army Camouflage Corps, headed by Homer Saint-Gaudens (whose mother was a relative of Winslow Homer), the son of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. As a camoufleur, Opffer served with other artists and architects, some of whom became well-known, including Barry Faulkner, Sherry Edmundson Fry, Kimon Nicolaides, Robert Lawson, Abraham Rattner, Kerr Eby, and others.
It was this same unit, while still in training in at Camp American University in Washington DC, that launched a camp newspaper called The Camoufleur. Only three issues were published before the unit’s deployment to France in late 1917. In the October 31 issue, a satirical portrait by Opffer of Homer Saint-Gaudens (titled “Our Boss”) was published on page 5.
After the war, Opffer returned to New York, where he became known for his caricatures of leading Modern writers, among them James Joyce, Edgar Lee Masters, Siegfried Sassoon, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Sandburg, G.K. Chesterton, and Thomas Mann.
In the years between the wars, Opffer married Betty à Beckett Chomley, and settled in Paris, where he was a student at the Academie Julliard. He also lived in London and Copenhagen, where his drawings were frequently published in newspapers and magazines. With the outbreak of World War II, he and his family returned to New York and lived in Greenwich Village.
Among his friends in that era were William Butler Yeats, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Postcard, Illustration Board
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Materials
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Materials
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Materials
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Materials
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Materials
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