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Medium: Chalk
"Divination" (2024) By Ashly Lovett, Original Chalk Pastel Portrait Illustration
Located in Denver, CO
"Divination" By Ashly Lovett is a beautiful chalk pastel illustration done on archival paper, which depicts a young witch in a moment of pause, surrounded by magical fire.
Artist Bi...
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2010s Surrealist Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Archival Paper
Pair of antique portraits women period clothes framed drawing red hats 19th
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of original red conte crayon drawings in their original frames featuring two young women in period clothing.
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1910s Art Deco Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
$551 Sale Price
20% Off
"Jade", Figurative, Portrait, Acrylic, Chalk Pastel, Wax Pastel
By Chambers Austelle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative portrait drawing titled "Jade" is an original artwork by Chambers Austelle made of acrylic, chalk pastel, wax pastel. This piece measures 12"h x 12"w.
Chambers Austelle is a contemporary figurative painter and educator living and working in Charleston, SC. Austelle is best known for her compositions of vivid color and female subjects. The isolated environments challenge the viewer to question the way beauty and women are perceived in our culture.
Austelle’s work has been exhibited nationally and exists in many private collections. She was awarded Best in Show at The City Gallery for “Piccolo Spoleto’s 2016 Juried Exhibition”, as well as Charlie Magazine’s “50 Most Progressive”. Most recently, she was the 2018 recipient of St. Thomas’ Artist...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Acrylic
French School 19th Century, Portrait of a young man, drawing signed
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19 th Century
Portrait of a young man
Signed (signature not deciphered) on the lower right
Pencil, black chalk and heightenings of white and red chalks on paper
Oval vi...
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1880s Romantic Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Acrylic Polymer, Pencil
Portrait of Elaine Blunt - British 19th century art Pre-Raphaelite chalk drawing
Located in London, GB
This captivating Victorian sanguine chalk portrait drawing of a young girl is by Pre-Raphaelite British artist Edward Robert Hughes. Signed and dated 1896, Hughes depicts in great detail her sweet young face and beautiful dress which appears to almost glow with light. A full length portrait and a really lovely drawing epitomising childhood innocence. The portrait depicts Elaine Blunt and has an inscription from Edward Hughes verso.
Signed and dated lower right.
Provenance. Colchester estate.
Sotheby Lot 283 29th June 1976
Chapman Bros
Condition. Sanguine chalk on paper, 28 inches by 20 inches unframed and in good condition.
Housed in a glazed oak frame, 37 inches by 29 inches framed and in good condition.
Edward Robert Hughes - Not to be confused with Edward Hughes (1832 - 1908), who specialised in portrait painting. Edward Robert Hughes RWS (1851 – 1914) was an English painter who worked prominently in watercolours, but also produced a number of significant oil paintings. He was influenced by his uncle and eminent artist, Arthur Hughes who was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and worked closely with one of the Brotherhood's founders, William Holman Hunt. Having settled on his career choice, Edward Robert Hughes attended Heatherley's in London to prepare himself for the chance of auditioning for the Royal Academy School. Hughes became a student at the Royal Academy School in 1868. While Pre-Raphaelitism played an influential part in shaping Hughes work, Aestheticism is also seen in his paintings. E.R. Hughes is widely known for his works Midsummer Eve and Night With Her Train of Stars yet he built a career as a portrait painter to the upper classes. In addition to being an accomplished artist himself, E.R. Hughes was also a studio assistant to the elder artist and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founding member William Holman Hunt when Hunt suffered from glaucoma. Two of the paintings that Hughes worked on with Hunt were The Light of the World, which is displayed in St Paul's Cathedral, and The Lady of Shalott, which is exhibited at the Wadsworth Atheneum. On his own he experimented with ambitious techniques and was a perfectionist; he did numerous studies for many of his paintings, some of which turned out to be good enough for exhibition. Hughes held several important offices within the artistic community over his lifetime such as becoming a member of the Art Workers Guild in 1888, and was on their committee from 1895 to 1897. He was elected to Associate Membership of The Royal Water Colour Society (ARWS) on 18 February 1891, and he chose as his diploma work for election to full membership a mystical piece (Oh, What's That in the Hollow?) inspired by a verse by Christina Rossetti entitled Amor Mundi. His painting A Witch was given by the Royal Watercolour Society to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to mark the coronation in 1902. In later years Hughes served as the Vice-President of the RWS before leaving in 1903. Throughout his career, E.R. Hughes exhibited his works in several galleries around London: Dudley Gallery, Grosvenor Gallery, New Gallery, The Royal Academy, and toward the end of his career he exhibited with The Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours (RWS). His works can be seen in public collections including Cartwright Hall, Bradford, Cambridge & County Folk Museum, Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery, Bruce Castle...
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19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Portrait of Leopold Myers by Sir William Rothenstein
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately sanguine portrait of Leopold Hamilton Myers (Novelist) by Sir William Rothenstein (English, 1872-1945). Captured in Rothenstein's characteristic style, Myers looks directly at the viewer with a neutral expression. Although this portrait uses only two colors and minimal shading, the likeness of Myers is incredibly well captured. Leo (Leopold) Hamilton Myers (1881 – 1944) was a British novelist. Numerous examples like this one of the writer are in the Tate Museum.
Initialed and dated in the lower right corner ("W.R. 1936")
Inscription on verso indicating materials, subject, and artist.
Presented in a new cream colored mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 18"H x 12"W
Paper size: 15.25"H x 10.75"W
William Rothenstein (English, 1872-1945) was born into a German-Jewish family in Bradford, West Yorkshire. His father, Moritz, emigrated from Germany in 1859 to work in Bradford's burgeoning textile industry. Soon afterwards he married Bertha Dux, and they had six children, of which William was the fifth. Rothenstein was knighted in 1931.
Rothenstein left Bradford Grammar School at the age of sixteen to study at the Slade School of Art*, London (1888-1893), where he was taught by Alphonse Legros, and the Académie Julian* in Paris (1889-1893), where he met and was encouraged by James McNeill Whistler, Edgar Degas and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. Whilst in Paris he also befriended the Anglo-Australian artist Charles Conder, with whom he shared a studio in Montmartre. In 1893 he returned to England to work on "Oxford Characters" a series of lithographic* portraits.
In Oxford he met and became a close friend of the caricaturist* and parodist Max Beerbohm, who later immortalised him in the short story Enoch Soames (1919). During the 1890s Rothenstein exhibited with the New English Art Club* and, in 1900, won a silver medal for his painting The Doll's House at the Exposition Universelle. In 1898 he co-founded the Carfax Gallery in St. James' Piccadilly with John Fothergill. During its early years the gallery was closely associated with such artists as Charles Conder, Philip Wilson Steer, Charles Ricketts and Augustus John. It also exhibited the work of Auguste Rodin, whose growing reputation in England owed much to Rothenstein's friendship and missionary zeal. The gallery was later the home for all three exhibitions of The Camden Town Group*, led by Rothenstein's friend and close contemporary Walter Sickert.
Rothenstein is best known for his portrait drawings of famous individuals and for being an official war artist in both World War I and World War II. He was also a member of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers. The style and subject of his paintings varies, though certain themes reappear, in particular an interest in 'weighty' or 'essential' subjects tackled in a restrained manner. Good examples include Parting at Morning (1891), Mother and Child (1903) and Jews Mourning at a Synagogue (1907) - all of which are owned by the Tate Gallery. The National Portrait Gallery owns over two hundred of his portraits. In 2011 the BBC and the Public Catalogue Foundation began cataloguing all of his paintings in public ownership online.
Between 1902 and 1912 Rothenstein lived in Hampstead, London, where his social circle included such names as H.G.Wells, Joseph Conrad and the artist Augustus John. Amongst the young artists to visit Rothenstein in Hampstead were Mark Gertler...
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1930s Realist Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Handmade Paper
Apple and Evelyn / figurative work on paper - gorgeous
Located in Burlingame, CA
Apple and Evelyn is a stunningly gorgeous original work of art from Kenyan born American artist Stephen Namara who is widely known for creating paintings and masterful drawings creat...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Charcoal, Archival Paper, Pigment
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967) A woman seated, drawing signed
Located in Paris, FR
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967)
A young woman seated
signed lower leftt
Charcoal, red and white chalks on thin paper transfered on cardboard
49 x 39 cm
Framed : 55.5 x ...
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1930s Art Deco Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
La Bella Attrice
Located in Mokena, IL
La Bella Attrice, 2018
Graphite and White Chalk on Toned Paper, 7.75 x 5.5 inches
Exemplifying the essence of Renaissance poise, La Bella Attrice showcases Justas Varpucanskis’s e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Renaissance Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Graphite
Portrait of Cecil Day Lewis 20th Century Original Chalk Drawing
Located in London, GB
Sir William Rothenstein
1872 - 1945
Portrait of Cecil Day Lewis
Black and white chalk on paper
Image size: 13 ½ x 9 inches
Period gilt frame
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20th Century Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Stalemate
Located in Kansas City, MO
Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, our gallery will donate 10% of our commission from this sale to the Kansas City Artists Coalition, which has been supporting local Kansas City Artists for the past 40 years. The Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC), is a non-profit, artist-centered, artist-run alternative space, supporting artists at every level in their career through exhibitions, continuing education and artist studios.
Artist: Joseph Broghammer
Title: “Stalemate”
Materials : Chalk pastel and pencil on Arches Paper
Date : 2018
Dimensions : 7 x 11 ft.
Omaha based artist Joseph Broghammer is as much of a storyteller as he is an artist. His one-of-a-kind pastel drawings in “Animals” are chronicles of his life. The creatures Broghammer creates are vehicles to uncover the varying characteristics of the artist’s personal identity.
Hence, Broghammer’s “Animals” translates as a flowing stream of consciousness. The different birds and livestock staring back at the viewer are ornamented with iconographic symbols – small surprises along the way. These trinkets are keys to understanding the stories Broghammer is sharing.
Broghammer began mastering his “dry painting” technique during his B.F.A. in Visual Art at the University of South Dakota. He graduated in 1986 and a year later went on to study his M.F.A. at the University of Wisconsin. In 2009, he studied at Creative Capital in Omaha, Nebraska.
As storytellers often do, Broghammer later went on to become an educator himself, teaching at WhyArts? and becoming an Artist Assistant at Vera Mercer in Omaha – both of which he still practices at today.
It’s apparent that Broghammer’s work has resonated with so many people around the world. Only a few years after his formal education, he began exhibiting his work through various International group shows in Italy, Germany, Holland, Mexico, and even Kansas City.
Although Broghammer’s portraits depict downy creatures, his work is very much about the human experience. They are honest and full of life, evoking a sincere exchange between artist and viewer. “Animals” is for the animal lovers, students, teachers, collectors, writers, the young or old, and art historians alike.
Dry Painting, Pastel, Drawing, Chalk Pastel, Oil Pastel, Painting, Contemporary Drawing, Contemporary Painting, Animal Drawings, Animal Paintings, colored pencil, pencil, large-scale drawings, portrait, portrait drawing, contemporary art, contemporary artists, Joan Miro, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, Vladimir Kush...
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2010s Contemporary Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
$8,900 Sale Price
57% Off
Portrait of Old Giuseppe Garibaldi - Chalk, Charcoal and Oil Pastels - 1880
Located in Roma, IT
Garibaldi is a wonderful colored original drawing (chalk, charcoal and oil pastels) by an anonymous artist in 1880.
A superb drawing representing the Italian hero of the unification...
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1880s Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal, Oil Pastel
$1,258 Sale Price
25% Off
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 Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Madonna and Child - Colored Chalk Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Madonna and Child is a beautiful colored chalk low relief realized in the 19th Century by Anonymous Artist.
Frame included: 96x70 cm.
Good condition except some minor cracks and lo...
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19th Century Modern Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
$1,620 Sale Price
25% Off
Untitled (Man in Blue Tank Top)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Pastel and conté crayon with partial foil star on Rives BFK paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in ...
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1970s Realist Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Foil
Portrait of a Lady - British art Post Impressionist 40s drawing female portrait
Located in London, GB
A dramatic head and shoulders portrait of a lady in coloured chalks attributed to noted British artist Edward Bainbridge Copnall. This is just a stunning artwork which dates to circa 1940.
Signed Bainbridge Copnall.
Provenance. Midlands collection.
Condition. Coloured chalks on paper, 16 inches by 13 inches and in good colour and condition. Some staining to edges.
Housed in its original gallery frame 21 by 18 inches. In excellent condition.
Edward Bainbridge Copnall MBE ( 1903-1973) was a British sculptor and painter. He was best known for his architectural and decorative sculptures featuring allegorical and religious subjects. He was the President of the Royal Society of Sculptors from 1961 - 1966. Edward Bainbridge Copnall was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1903 and moved to Horsham, West Sussex in England as a young child after the death of his mother. His father, photographer Edward White Copnall (born 1878, Isle of Wight), lived and worked in Horsham from 1915-1962. His uncle was Liverpool-based portrait painter Frank Thomas Copnall...
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Early 20th Century Realist Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
John da Costa - Lillie - A Portrait of the artist's wife
By John da Costa
Located in London, GB
JOHN DA COSTA
(1867-1931)
Lillie, the Artist’s Wife
Signed l.l.
Coloured chalks on tinted paper
Framed
61 by 48.5 cm., 24 by 19 in.
(frame size 80 by 69 cm., 31 ½ by 27 ¼ in.)
Jo...
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Early 1900s Realist Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Untitled (Reclining Female Nude)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Conté crayon on paper
Signed, l.c.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in New York City. His works ...
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1970s Realist Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
Monument to Denzil Holles, Dorchester - 1950s drawing by British Artist
Located in London, GB
NEVILLE HICKMAN
(20th Century)
Monument to Denzil Holles, Dorchester
Signed, inscribed and dated: Holles Monument, St Peter’s Church, Dorchester, 16 April 1958.
Chalks heightened ...
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1950s Realist Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Early 20th Century Portrait in Venice Drawing
Located in San Francisco, CA
A bit of a mystery scholarly sanguine drawing. Very well executed portrait of a Lady dated either 1904, 1907, or 1909 in Venice. It is signed but I cannot make it out. The paper meas...
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Early 1900s Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté
Study of young woman in profile
Located in PARIS, FR
Ernest LAURENT
Gentilly 1859 - Bièvres 1929
Study of young woman in profile
Red chalk
Circa 1900
80 x 63 cm framed
54 x 39 sheet
Beautiful antique frame in natural wood, probabl...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Drawing of a Sleeping Woman by Antoniucci Volti, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Antoniucci Volti (French, 1915-1989)
Untitled, 1969
Red chalk on paper
11 x 14 3/4 in.
Signed: Volti
Sculptor, painter, and printmaker Antoniucci Volti was born in Albano, Italy, in 1915. His family lived in there until 1920 when the family moved to France to stay. Volti studied at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Nice from 1928 to 1920. By 1932 the young artist had won a gold medal for two polychrome bas-reliefs before going to Paris, where he entered the studio of Jean Boucher at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of only fifteen.
After serving in the Second World War, when he was interned as a prisoner of war in Bavaria, he returned in poor health to Paris, only to find his studio destroyed. From 1947 he showed work at various Paris Salons and, in 1954 and 1955 at the Brussels and Antwerp Biennales. In 1957 a retrospective of his work was organized at the Museum Rodin in Paris. He died in Paris in 1989
Works by Volti are in leading museums such as the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris. Antoniucci Volti is one of the most important Late Modern sculptors...
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1960s Modern Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
19th century German orientalist nude portrait figurative drawing on paper
By Anselm Feuerbach
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing (measures 59 x 41 cm ; with carved and gilded wooden frame 92 x 73 cm) features on the left side, a small putto in flight raises his arms in a movement that, together wit...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pencil, Paper
Red Chalk Figure Study by Antoniucci Volti
Located in New York, NY
Antoniucci Volti (French, 1915-1989)
Untitled, 1969
Red chalk on paper
14 3/4 x 11 in.
Signed: Volti
Sculptor, painter, and printmaker Antoniucci Volti was...
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1960s Modern Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Signed Antoniucci Volti Red Chalk Portrait, Double Sided
Located in New York, NY
Antoniucci Volti (French, 1915-1989)
Untitled (Double Sided Portrait), 1969
Red chalk on paper
14 3/4 x 11 in.
Each side signed: Volti
Sculptor, painter, and printmaker Antoniucci Volti was born in Albano, Italy, in 1915. His family lived in there until 1920 when the family moved to France to stay. Volti studied at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Nice from 1928 to 1920. By 1932 the young artist had won a gold medal for two polychrome bas-reliefs before going to Paris, where he entered the studio of Jean Boucher at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of only fifteen.
After serving in the Second World War, when he was interned as a prisoner of war in Bavaria, he returned in poor health to Paris, only to find his studio destroyed. From 1947 he showed work at various Paris Salons and, in 1954 and 1955 at the Brussels and Antwerp Biennales. In 1957 a retrospective of his work was organized at the Museum Rodin in Paris. He died in Paris in 1989
Works by Volti are in leading museums such as the Musee National d'Art Modern...
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1960s Modern Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Peter Collins ARCA - 20th Century Sanguine, Long-haired Woman
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming charcoal drawing by the artist Peter Collins, depicting a long-haired figure. Unsigned. Well-presented in a grey on white double card mount and in a simple contemporary bl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
$334 Sale Price
20% Off
Reverie - Early 20th Century British chalk drawing of a girl by H J Harvey
By Herbert Johnson Harvey
Located in London, GB
HERBERT JOHNSON HARVEY
(British 1883-1956)
Reverie
Signed with monogram and dated l.l.: HJ 09
Red chalks
Framed
29.5 by 22 cm., 11 ¾ by 8 ¾ in.
(fra...
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Early 20th Century Realist Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Portrait of a Woman
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage watercolor portrait by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed "Warner" in the lower right corner. Dated "1978". Unframed.
Doris Ann Warner began as an Abstract Expre...
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1970s American Impressionist Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Conté
Edward Ridley (1883-1946) - 1917 Sanguine, Edwardian Portrait
Located in Corsham, GB
A finely detailed and expertly executed sanguine portrait of a characterful woman in a high-necked, Edwardian dress. The artist has captured the intensity of the sitter's personality...
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Early 20th Century Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Portrait of Archibald Hartrick - 1884 chalk drawing by Frank Lewis Emanuel
Located in London, GB
FRANK LEWIS EMANUEL
(1865-1948)
Portrait of Archibald Hartrick
Signed, inscribed and dated l.l.: A S HARTRICK (artist) by F L EMANUEL 1884
Black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper...
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1880s Realist Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Pensive Young Woman
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Maurice Chabas (Nantes 1862 – Versailles 1947)
Pensive Young Woman
Graphite with white-chalk highlights on blue-grey paper
46 × 32 cm
Unsigned
Provenance
Bruno Delarue Gallery, É...
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1890s Impressionist Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Chalk
Portrait of a Lady - British Art Deco 30's drawing young woman good provenance
Located in London, GB
A fine and detailed Art Deco pencil, black, red and white chalk portrait of a young woman by Hubert Williams. The work dates to circa 1930 and is very skilful in its execution. A bea...
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1930s Realist Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Color Pencil
Portrait of Grace - British 1920's art female chalk portrait
By Jacob Kramer
Located in London, GB
This enigmatic 1920's Art Deco portrait is by noted Russian born British artist Jacob Kramer. Worked in chalk/pastel on paper it is a portrait of 'Grace'. There is strong emphasis on...
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1920s Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
$4,670 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century, Portrait of a Lady in a Tondo, red chalk drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French (?) school circa 1770
Portrait of a Lady in a Tondo,
red chalk on paper
20 x 29 cm
Numbered 25 on the upper left
Little holes in the bottom (intended for binding)
Not framed
...
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1770s Baroque Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Study of a girl sitting and reading a book
By William Hoare
Located in Bath, Somerset
A study in red chalk of a girl sitting and reading a book. Red chalk on paper under glass in a giltwood and gesso frame. This small drawing has a sense of intimacy in the capturing of a moment where the sitter is seemingly unaware of being observed, unlike the feeling of formailty and self-awareness in a staged portrait sitting
Provenance:
Private collection, Somerset
With J. Davey & Sons Ltd, Liverpool
William Hoare...
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Late 18th Century English School Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Glass
$2,224 Sale Price
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Portrait of a woman, 1929, red chalk on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Erich HERMES (1881-1971)
Portrait of a Woman, 1929
Sanguine on paper
Signed "E. Hermès" and dated "29" lower left
29.5 x 22.5 cm
original frame
Erich Hermès, a Geneva artist of German origin, was born in Ludwigshafen-am-Rhein in 1881 of Huguenot parents. He trained as a painter-decorator before entering the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva. Awarded a Swiss Confederation scholarship, he spent his first year in Paris in 1909, before continuing his training in Munich, Italy and Spain.
Erich Hermès was an important figure in Geneva figurative painting in the first half of the 20th century. He produced numerous monumental works integrated into architecture. They adorned official and sacred public buildings such as the Protestant temple in Carouge (ill.1), as well as private edifices. The easel painting of his early years was strongly influenced by the work of Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918), whom he met around 1903. Like Hodler, he painted Switzerland and its heroic figures and battles, while maintaining a strong empathy for the common people. He later moved towards New Objectivity, developing a more personal style.
The artist is also renowned in the world of graphic arts, particularly for his work as a poster artist in the 1930s and 1940s. He used his art to promote the Alps and winter sports (ill.2), as well as products such as wine and cigars.
The red chalk portrait of a woman is dated 1929. We seem to find the model's physiognomy in some of the artist's paintings (ill.3) depicting intimate subjects. Our figure, who wears a Huguenot cross...
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1920s Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Italian School 18th century, An Ancient soldier in profile, red chalk on paper
Located in Paris, FR
Italian School 18th Century
An Ancient soldier in profile,
red chalk on paper
35 x 23.5 cm
in good condition, traces of folds in the lower right corner
Framed : 46.5 x 35.5 cm
This...
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1750s Baroque Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Portrait of a Man
Located in London, GB
Charcoal, chalk and red chalk
Initialled (lower left and right)
12cm × 9.5cm (41cm × 37cm framed)
A French actor and artist. He is known for acting in several French films in the 1...
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20th Century French School Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Untitled (Children Sleeping)
By Amalia Polleri
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Amalia Polleri, 'Untitled (Sleeping Children)', Conté crayon on cream wove drawing paper, signed and dated '43 in ink beneath the image, lower right; with 1/4 margins all around. Arc...
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1940s Modern Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté
Gustave BRISGAND (1867-1944), portrait of a woman wearing a veil
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Brisgand (1867-1944) began his artistic career by focusing on landscapes. However, he later specialized in portraits of notable personalities, women, and female nudes. One of...
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1920s Art Deco Chalk Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal, Pastel
Half-length portrait of a Pharisee - In the shadow of betrayal -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hermann Prell (1854 Leipzig - 1922 Dresden-Loschwitz). Half-length portrait of a Pharisee, 1885. Sketch for the right-hand figure in the painting Judas Iscariot, 1886. Pencil drawing heightened with opaque white and black chalk on beige-grey wove paper (papier vélin), 34 x 27.8 cm (visible size), 52 x 45 cm (mount), signed, dated and inscribed "H. PRELL 1885 zu 'Judas'".
Minor browning, collection stamp on the reverse.
- In the shadow of betrayal -
About the artwork
This painting is the sketch for the head of the Pharisee offering the coins to Judas in one of Herrmann Prell's major works, the painting Betrayal of Judas, completed in 1886. The painting belongs to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and is illustrated in Adolf Rosenberg: Prell, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1901, p. 21 (Fig. 19). It is especially highlighted in Thieme-Becker (vol. 27, p. 376).
Hermann Prell, Betrayal of Judas, 1886
The monumental head, which fills the picture and is distinguished by its ornamented robe, is almost a lost profile, which in the executed painting is justified by the Pharisee's turning towards Judas. Despite the fact that the sitter withdraws from the viewer by turning away, it was necessary to artistically elaborate the motivation for the purchase of one of Christ's disciples, which is why the drawing focuses on the expression of the face, while the 'accessories' are treated in a more summary manner.
In characterising the face, Hermann Prell performs a balancing act: since the Pharisee, despite his destructive actions, is an actor in the history of salvation, the head must show a dignity appropriate to the event, but at the same time the physiognomy must also bear witness to the scheming attitude that led to the betrayal. To solve this dilemma, Prell draws on the traditional depictions of the heads of the apostles, shading the face to indicate the obdurate darkness of the spirit and moving the base of the nose slightly upwards while the mouth falls away, thus giving a physiognomic expression to the motivation of the action. The fatal drama of the betrayal is expressed in the monumentalisation of the head and in the thunderous white highlights that contrast with the darkness of the chalk.
As a study, considered by the artist to be a work in itself, this drawing reveals the pictorial problems and brainstorming of monumental painting.
About the artist
In 1872 Prell, who was one of the most important exponents of monumental painting of his time, began studying painting with Theodor Grosse at the Dresden Academy of Art and continued with Carl Gussow at the Berlin Academy in 1876. Hans von Marées taught him in Rome in 1878. More influential on his work, however, were Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger, with whom Prell had been friends since his student days and with whom he worked together on several occasions.
Prell's first major work, which established his reputation as a monumental painter, were the frescoes in the banqueting hall of the Architektenhaus in Berlin in 1881/82, commissioned by the state and depicting the different periods of architecture. Prell then went to Italy for two years to study fresco painting. Other major commissions followed. These included monumental frescoes in the town halls of Worms (1884), Hildesheim (1882-92), Gdansk (1895) and Dresden, the staircase of the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Breslau (1893/94), the throne room of the German Embassy in Rome (1896-99) and the staircase of the Albertinum in Dresden (1900-1904).
From 1886 Prell taught at the academy of arts in Berlin and in 1892 he was appointed professor at the academy of arts in Dresden. His students included Osmar Schindler and Hans Unger...
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Located in London, GB
HERBERT WILSON FOSTER
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Summer
Inscribed with title beneath the mount
Chalk, circular
Framed
Diameter 42 cm., 16 ½ in.
(frame size 61 by 58 cm., 24 by 22 ¾ in.)
Herbert Wilson Foster was born in Endon, Staffordshire. He attended Hanley School of Art before continuing his studies in London, Belgium and France. His paintings of rural and domestic subjects were exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1873 and 1899. In 1893 he accepted a teaching position at the Nottingham School of Art, where his pupils included Laura Knight and Harold Knight. Works by him are in the collections of the Minton archives; the Wisbech & Fenland Museum; Leicester Art Gallery; Rushcliffe Council and Nottingham Castle Museum.
In addition to his work as a painter he worked as a porcelain painter, working at one point on the tile panels in the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is known to have worked at Mintons from 1872 where he specialized in portraits of contemporary personalities, including members of the Royal Family. This head of a girl was probably intended for a painted ceramic wall charger...
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Located in London, GB
FREDERIC JAMES SHIELDS, ARWS
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Ellen, A Greek Model
Signed and indistinctly inscribed with the name of the sitter on the reverse
Chalks
37 by 28.5 cm., 14 ½ by 11 ¼ in.
(frame size 63.5 by 54.5 cm., 25 by 21 ½ in.)
Provenance:
The Artist’s estate;
Private collection.
Shields was born in Hartlepool and brought up in extreme poverty with most of his family succumbing to TB. Employed by a commercial engraver he studied at evening classes in London and then in Manchester, where he settled in 1848. He was greatly impressed by the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which he saw at the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition in 1857. The quality of his illustrations for Defoe’s History of the Plague (1862) and Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress...
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Nicolas-André COURTOIS
Paris 1734-1806
Bust of a woman in profile
1791
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Signed and dated lower left on the original mount
43.5 x 37 cm framed
19 x 25 cm
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Minor browning.
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