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Black Girl Portrait - Gouache by Max Turner
Located in Pasadena, CA
A certain enigma surrounds Max Turner: he possesses both undeniable mastery and the humility of a great artist. Endowed with musicality and vibrancy in his brushwork, he remains a man of unassuming nature, far removed from the realm of trendy art galleries. His experience as an art instructor has sharpened his acuity for studying and capturing the essence of figure models, nurtured by his lifelong fascination with the human visage.
In this gouache portrait, one can sense that with each stroke, he repeats a gesture as if it was the very first time, capturing that fleeting fraction of a second, an emotion, a secret of his subject to infuse into his canvases. One can feel the artist’s pleasure...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$189 Sale Price
70% Off
The Art Model, 20th Century Oil Painting, Nude
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 24 x 20 inches (61 x 51 cm)
Original silver frame
With her back turned to us, the viewer look across to a female artist facing us, whose gaze is fixed on t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pen on Paper Drawing by Nakul Mondal, Titled "Amrita She Loves the Rain", 2013
Located in New York, NY
Nakul Mondal (b. 1982 Burdwan, West Bengal India) completed his M.F.A. in painting from the historic art school Kala-Bhavana, founded by Rabindranath Tagore, where he was exposed to ...
Category
2010s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Amanda
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Watercolour on paper
Paper size: 16 x 22 inches
Framed size: 30 x 26 inches
Signed lower left
Category
20th Century Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$34,170
"Blue Hair Woman and a Bird" Minimalist Watercolor #3 by Christopher Paul Cobb
Located in Pasadena, CA
This very unusual and introspective watercolor is a contemplative piece that invites viewers to ponder the nature of memories and how they come back into our brains. The artist creat...
Category
1990s Post-Minimalist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Woman in Blue, Modern Framed Pastel Drawing by Thomas Strickland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas Strickland, American (1923 - 1999)
Title: Woman in Blue
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed
Size: 21.5 in. x 17 in. (54.61 cm x 43.18 cm)
Frame: 27 x 22.5...
Category
1970s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Head of a Young Girl - Kiki de Montparnasse
Located in Miami, FL
Léonard Tsugouharu FoujitaFujita Tsuguharu?, November 27, 1886 – January 29, 1968) was a Japanese–French painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan who applied Japanese ink techniqu...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Head Series, Pen & Ink on Paper (Set of 2) by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Untitled - 6 x 7 inches & 7 x 7 inches (unframed size)
Pen and Ink on Paper, 2012 (Set of 2) Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form.
for auction : Please Note: The reserve price set is for one work only
The exceptions are the faces such as the profiles of bearded men in which the content is a mere excuse for the lines to create a pattern of untrammeled playfulness. Of course the Japanese face...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
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...
Category
1940s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
D'après Renoir by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Portrait drawing
Located in London, GB
D'après Renoir by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pencil on paper
19.5 x 25.8 cm (7 ⁵/₈ x 10 ¹/₈ inches)
Titled and signed lower right
This work is accompanied by a certificate...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Inquisitive Man with Long Neck - Giraffe Man. Humor Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
Giraffe Man. A man's acute inquisitive nature creates an unexpected physical change.
Initialed R. T. lower left . Framed under glass. Framed size 13.5 x 10.38
Source: Biography f...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Black and White Drawing of a Clown by Christopher Mark Brennan
Located in Pasadena, CA
A remarkable piece by Brennan. Clean and thick lines made with ink and gouache, featuring a clown-like figure very different from the usual clowns existing for the kid's fun. The background complements the clown's attire.
Christopher Mark Brennan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Portrait Drawings and Wate...
Materials
Wood, Paper, Ink
1920s Italian Signed Drawing Portrait
Located in Roma, IT
Rare and important pencil drawing by one of the most important Italian Avangarde Lorenzo Viani.
It represent one of his typical subject: the portrait of the people of Viareggio, his ...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Bust Of A Woman In Profile, Sanguine On Paper, Signed And Dated
Located in PARIS, FR
Nicolas-André COURTOIS
Paris 1734-1806
Bust of a woman in profile
1791
Sanguine
Signed and dated lower left on the original mount
43.5 x 37 cm framed
19 x 25 cm
Category
Late 18th Century French School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
ALEXANDER BEFELEIN San Diego California Crystal Pier Balboa 2021 watercolor ink
By Alexander Befelein
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Alexander Befelein
"San Diego"
2021
Watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper
8 ¼ x 4 ¾ Inches
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil in the lower margin
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Cardboard, Pencil
Autoportrait
Located in PARIS, FR
Emile WAUTERS
Bruxelles 1846 - Paris 1933
Autoportrait
Vers 1880-1890
Fusain sur papier fort
Signé en bas à droite
24 x 17 cm feuille
39 x 33 cm cadre
Petites tâches peu visibles, B...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
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...
Category
1750s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Self Portrait (of Dora Maar)
By Dora Maar
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Dora Maar (1907 - 1997).
Born Henriette Théodora Markovitch in France, Dora Maar was a 20th century photogra...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Bernard, Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
English School
Bernard, Self Portrait
1950s
Pencil and sepia chalk on paper
Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (24 x 34.3 cm)
Handmade contemporary frame
This imaginative self-portra...
Category
1950s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
Portrait of Lady, 18th Century English Pen and Ink
By Ozias Humphry
Located in London, GB
Ozias Humphry
1742-1810
Portrait of Frances Abington
Pen and brown ink on paper
Image size: 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches
Giltwood frame
The actress Frances (Fanny) Barton, better known as M...
Category
18th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Siegfried
Located in London, GB
MAXWELL ARMFIELD, RWS.
(1882-1972)
Siegfried
Signed, inscribed and dated l.c.: MAXWELL ARMFIELD/MDCCCCIV [1904] PARIS;SIEGFRIED/ACT III
Pencil and watercolour on paper
Framed
24 by 16 cm., 9 ½ by 6 ¼ in.
(frame size 42.5 by 34.5 cm., 16 ¾ by 13 ½ in.)
Provenance:
Fine Art Society, London, 1979.
Born at Ringwood, Hampshire, of Quaker parents, his father being a milling engineer, Armfield studied at the Birmingham School of Art under Arthur Gaskin and Joseph Southall who taught him the tempera technique he was to practice for the rest of his life. In September 1902, after visiting Italy at the suggestion of Gaskin, he went to Paris, enrolling at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and sharing a studio with three other students – Norman Wilkinson (also from Birmingham), Keith Henderson and the sculptor Gaston Lachaise. Returning to London the following year, he embarked on the series of one-man exhibitions that were henceforth to mark his career, showing first at Robert Ross...
Category
Early 1900s Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Young boy at Loemboeng, 1918
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Young boy at Loemboeng, 1918
Signed with initials and dated, bottom right
Black chalk on paper, 25.7 x 10 cm
Literature:
W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp, Zwerftochten door Timor en Onderhoori...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
L'enigme
By André Masson
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
André MASSON (1896-1987)
The enigma, 1975
ink drawing
Dimensions: 47.8 x 35cm
Signed lower right
Provenance: Louise Leiris Gallery, Paris
Paper in perfect condition.
FREE period ...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Girl with Kitten
Located in Jacksonville, FL
This charming watercolor painting by Evelyn S. Dumiel captures a moment of quiet innocence and curiosity between a young girl and a playful kitten. Dressed in a delicate floral dress...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Indian Man from Mexico
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Indian Man from Mexico is a souvenir of Winold Reiss’s 1920 sketching tour of Mexico. As he traveled, Reiss’s style began to reflect the influence of the aesthetics, color palette, a...
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The Japanese Girl by Orovida Pissarro - Watercolour on paper, Portrait
Located in London, GB
The Japanese Girl by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Watercolour on paper
17.78 x 12.7 cm (7 x 5 inches)
Signed lower right, Orovida
Circa 1920
This high...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Thunderheart
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original colored pencil and pastel drawing on paper by artist J.R. Hess. Framed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Color Pencil
Saudi Arabia King Faisal Time Magazine Cover - Man of The Year Study
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Master portrait artist and illustration legend Bob Peak captures the likeness, dignity and essence of Saudi Arabia's King Faisal for Time Magazine Cover ...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Portrait of Man with Shovel
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This painting depicts a man standing confidently with a shovel. This is an American School, likely Hudson River School drawing from the 1860s or 1870s. This 19th century unsigned painting...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Companions
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Watercolour on paper
Paper size: 10 x 13.75 inches
Framed size: 18.75 x 21.5 inches
Signed lower left
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$21,844
Woman in the Garden
By Stuart Travis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1907-1910
Medium: Pastel on Board
Dimensions: 22.00" x 28.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Stuart Travis did many early Vogue magazine covers. Signed with an address on ...
Category
1910s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Board
Lady in a Feathered Hat, Portrait, Figure, Charcoal Drawing, Austrian
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Irene Hölzer-Weineck was born in Prague in 1888 and later worked as a painter primarily in Vienna. After artistic training with the Czech painter Vojtech Hynais, Hölzer-Weineck studi...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Fourteen, 20x16", pastel, framed
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Fourteen by Lu Haskew
Pastel 20x16" image size
30x26" framed
Vintage Portrait of a young person. This painting has been in the artist's family collection since Lu painted it in the 1...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Studies of the Head of a Young Girl by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing
Located in London, GB
Studies of the Head of a Young Girl by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Charcoal and colour crayon on paper
26.3 x 20.3 cm (10 ⅜ x 8 inches)
Signed lower right, manzana. Pissarro...
Category
1940s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Color Pencil
The children of fire Haude Bernabé 21st Century Contemporary Figurative Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Ink and graphite on paper
Signed, entitled and dated lower left by the artist
Category
2010s Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
Tito Della Fralte Orientalist Watercolor The silk Rug .
Located in New York, NY
Title: Rug Merchant
Artist: Tito Della Fralte (20th C.)
Origin: French
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Dimension: 19 x 26 inches
Signed Tito Della Fralte and inscribed Roma (lr)
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Disegno figurativo neoclassico fiorentino studio di nudo in cornice intagliata
Located in Florence, IT
Questo disegno, matita su carta 14 x 10 cm, è uno squisito esempio di "Accademia", ovvero studio dal vero da modello nudo che era una delle attività tipiche nelle accademie, soprattu...
Category
Early 19th Century Other Art Style Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Anne Hyde, Duchess of York; King James II
Located in London, GB
After Sir Peter Lely
1618 - 1680
Anne Hyde, Duchess of York; King James II
Pencil, ink and white chalk on paper,
Image size: 10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20.5 cm)
Original frame
This work,...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Ink, Pencil
Girl with Bird and Violets
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Calendar illustration; publisher: (The Gray Lithograph Company), 1902;
Also used as the The Equitable Life Insurance Cale...
Category
Early 1900s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sketch of Finkel
Located in London, GB
Sketch of Finkel
Stephen Andrews
Born 1956
Ink on paper, signed bottom right
Image size: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches ( 23.5 x 31.5 cm )
Original Frame
Andrews, a friend of American direct...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The evening gold Haude Bernabé 21st Century drawing Africa Contemporary art ocre
Located in Paris, FR
Triptyc : Ink on paper
Signed and dated lower right by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled
Located in Saint Louis, MO
José Vivenes
Untitled, 2006
Oil pastel on paper
20 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (52.1 x 39.4 cm)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
A Study of Human Head and Tiger by Orovida Pissarro - Sketch
Located in London, GB
A Study of Human Head and Tiger by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Pencil on paper
25.5 x 20 cm (10 x 7⁷/₈ inches)
Executed circa 1917
Artist biography:
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucie...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"Mom's Coffee Time" (AWCS Award Winner) Framed Contemporary Watercolor Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
This superb, complex and relatively large watercolor won the Ida Wells Stroud Memorial Award from the American Watercolor Society in 2008, as evidenced by th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Head of a Gentleman sketch, mid modern
Located in New York, NY
A superbly executed work, this work would have been done for reproduction in a book or magazine. Simkhovitch received quite a number of illustration jobs and could adapt his style t...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Untitled - Parmis Sayous 21st Century drawing, Iranian contemporary painter
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on paper
Created in 2019 in Paris, France
Unique work
Signed by the artist
Parmis Sayous was born in 1982 in Teheran, Iran.
Since 2015, She has lived and worked in Paris and ded...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Portrait of a Merchant
By Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Il Guercino)
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....
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
$19,721
Run for your life #1 Caroline Veith Contemporary drawing blanck and white humour
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint and ink on paper
Hand-signed and dated lower right
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
The wild weeds Caroline Veith Contemporary drawing figurative art red colour
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint and ink on translucent paper
Hand-signed and dated lower right
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Mid-Century Art Deco Minimalism Black & White Female Figure Latin Artist Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Lucille (1940s Female Bust Fashion Rendition)' is an original drawing by Jorge Ruiz-Martinez. The artist works in a pared-down style with a nod to Art Deco fashion images while neve...
Category
2010s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Mid-Century Art Deco Minimalism Black & White Female Figure Latin Artist Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'1920s Flapper Fashion Rendition' is an original drawing by the American artist Jorge Ruiz-Martinez. The artist works in an art deco style, imagining graceful figures in historic cos...
Category
2010s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Woman with Head of Soldier in Background
By Guy Hoff
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Possibly unpublished poster illustration, on the theme of ‘Stand by our Soldiers’. Based on the helmet design, this was likely illustrated in early 1940's. This features Mardee Hoff,...
Category
1940s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Strangers - Haude Bernabé, 21st Century, Contemporary Figurative Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Ink and graphite on paper
Signed, entitled and dated lower right by the artist
Category
2010s Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
Self Portrait, Graphite Sketch 20th Century British Female Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 12 1/4 x 8 inches (31 x 20.25 cm)
Hand made contemporary style frame
This is a wonderful self portrait that captures the artist as she stares, unafraid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
When gods get involved #1 Haude Bernabé 21st Century Contemporary drawing Africa
Located in Paris, FR
Ink on paper
Signed and dated lower right by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The guardian of the temple Haude Bernabé 21st Century drawing Africa pastel
Located in Paris, FR
Ink on paper
Signed and dated lower left
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Trendsetter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Board
Dimensions: 30.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Women with brightly colored shirt
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Board
Self Portrait, Charcoal on Paper, 20th Century British Drawing
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper
Image size: 4 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (11.5 x 10.75 cm)
Mounted with a contemporary style frame
This is a somewhat haunting self-portrait by William Dring, crafted in charcoal. Here, Dring presents himself through dark shadow and bright highlights, looking out directly at the viewer with a serious gaze.
Although the Dring has been economical in the use of his marks we are still given plenty of information and can identify the energy in which the strokes of charcoal must have been placed onto the surface.
William Dring
Dring was born with the forenames Dennis William, but was known colloquially as John. He was the brother of the artist James Dring. He married the painter Grace Elizabeth...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Gaze, Signed Graphite 20th Century Portrait
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed bottom right
Image size: 13 x 8 3/4 inches (33 x 22.25 cm)
Original frame
Dora Thacher Clarke, later Dora Middleton, (1895–1989) was a British sculptor and wood carver who also wrote about, and promoted African art.
Clarke was born in Harrow in Middlesex. Her father, Joseph Thacher Clarke was an American architect. Clarke won a scholarship that allowed her to attend the Slade School of Fine Art. Aged fifteen, Clarke initially studied at the Slade on a part-time basis for three days each week throughout 1910 and 1911 but during 1915 and 1916 she studied sculpture there as a full-time student. Clarke first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1923 and continued to do so until 1959. In the early 1930s she was a regular exhibitor in group shows at the Goupil Gallery and in March 1937 had her first solo show at the French Gallery. She also exhibited at the Paris Salon and with the Royal Society of British Artists.
Clarke's works included bronze castings, memorials and wood sculptures, often of African heads. For example she was commissioned to sculpt the posthumous portrait bust of Sir Walter Morley Fletcher. The most notable of her memorials is the panel and medallion tribute to Joseph Conrad at Bishopsbourne in Kent, which was unveiled in 1927. Clarke also wrote about, and promoted African art and spent a year, between 1927 and 1928 in Kenya, where she made many drawings which when she returned to London she used as the basis for wood carvings and bronzes of tribal figures. Wood carving became her technique of choice, often working with hardwoods and, on occasion, sperm whale teeth.
Clarke married Admiral Gervase B Middleton in 1938 but rarely exhibited work under her married name. During World War II, Clarke was commissioned by the War Artists' Advisory Committee to produce a portrait medallion depicting a serviceman who had been awarded the George Cross. This proved to be the only portrait medallion acquired for the WAAC collection.
Sculptures by Clarke are held in various museums, including the Ashmolean Museum which also holds a 1936 portrait of her by Orovida Camille Pissarro.
Category
Mid-20th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
