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Medium: Paper
OriginalSet-the Way of Seeing-Meeting Raphael-studies of Masters-British Artist
Located in London, GB
Free shipping worldwide ! This set of drawings included Two Studies of Raphael's paintings in National Gallery, London where Shizico Yi learned her craft in drawings from old masters...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Juventus Player in Acrobatic Fall - UEFA Champions League 1995-96. Cm 101 x 72.
Located in Firenze, IT
Juventus Player in Acrobatic Fall - UEFA Champions League 1995-96
Marco Silombria (1936-2017)
Charcoal on paper, signed and dated '96
Dimensions: 101 x 72 cm
Juventus, 1996. A playe...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
A Striking 1940s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking 1940s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exquisite studio portrait study, charcoal on paper, dating...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Decorative Figure - Portrait Decorative Figure French
By Jean Cocteau
Located in London, GB
Signed Felt-tip pen drawing signed by the artist Jean Cocteau with his monogram “JC” in the lower right image.
The drawing was created in 1963.
Note: This work is accompanied by a p...
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1960s Surrealist Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen
Dead King 26 [20th Century German Führer]
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This wall-hanging artwork titled "Dead King 26 [20th Century German Führer]" is an original artwork by Kate Glasheen made of pen and ink on archival paper. T...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pen
![Dead King 26 [20th Century German Führer]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_1882/a_74138721611432711075/Dead_King_26_20th_Century_German_Dictator_web_master.jpg?width=240 "kate glasheen")
Mother Nursing Her Baby
Located in London, GB
'Mother Nursing Her Baby', pencil on art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger oil pai...
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1920s Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Growing Pains
Located in Burlingame, CA
Chikako Okada’s autobiographical works of art bridge traditional realism with magical realism and surrealism. The artist uniquely addresses questions of the human condition through her meticulously detailed, and patterned imagery. The work is mesmerizing, rich in symbolism, and reference feminine power, vulnerability, sadness, longing, and desire. Often featuring adolescent girls and boys that are mysteriously posed, the artist leaves the circumstances of her subjects to the viewer's interpretation. Chikako Okada is inspired by the paintings of European masters, Mexico's Frida Kahlo, and the American surrealists.
The drawing is 23 1/4 X 18 1/4 inches. Professionally matted and framed in a museum quality rose gold wood...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Chaim Gross Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbi Klezmer Music WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991)
Watercolor with pencil painting
Rabbi Klezmer music concert, flute player.
Hand signed
framed: 15 X 28.5, paper: 9.5 X 23
Chaim Gross (March 17...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sketch from Life, 19th Century English Watercolour, Girl in Profile
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and dated '1870' lower left
Image size: 5 x 6 1/2 inches (13 x 16.5 cm)
Category
1870s Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Argentinian Tango, Mixed Media Abstract Expressionist
Located in Soquel, CA
Argentinian Tango, Mixed Media Abstract Expressionist
An abstract portrait in cool pastels accented in vibrant yellow and pink and lined in ink, by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American). Paper size: 17.75"H x 12"W
From a collection of Ricardo de Silva's work and memorabilia. DeSilva was born in Brazil and grew up in Los Angeles. He was a gallery owner, first in Santa Barbara in the 1960's and 70's, then in San Jose in the 1980's. He was dedicated to promoting the work of talented upcoming artists, including Kogyo and Hasui Kiyochika, Robert Frame, Jim Stuckenberg, Alice Robertson Carr, Deborah Eve Alastra...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Ink, Watercolor
Untitled 02 - Contemporary Figurative Watercolor Painting, New Expressionism
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork on paper will be sent unframed to you.
Untitled 02, From the Series "Iron Stove"
Maciej Olekszy was born in 1982, Poland. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poz...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Ritratto a tempera di nobile sullo sfondo di Firenze del XIX secolo, firmato
Located in Florence, IT
Il piccolo ma dettagliato dipinto a tempera acquerellata su carta, di forma ovale, è firmato in basso a sinistra E. Niccheri, ovvero Egisto Niccheri, un pittore toscano attivo soprat...
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Late 19th Century Other Art Style Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Tempera, Watercolor
Talluah Bankhead 3 and Pola Negri II Diptych. From The Dis-enchanted series.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has always liked divas and femmes-fatales. "My grandmothers spoke often of these actresses and admired them openly as if they were real. They created a collective imaginat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Portrait of Boy in a Chair
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Boy in a Chair', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1960s). Here the artist paints a young boy, very probably his son, Vincent, sitting in a chair posing fo...
Category
1960s Modern Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Illustration of Jewish Laborers by Chaim Goldberg
Located in New York, NY
Chaim Goldberg (Polish-American, 1917-2004)
Untitled, 20th century
Ink and gouache on paper
Sight: 11 1/4 x 14 in.
Framed: 19 1/2 x 22 1/4 x 7/8 in.
Signed lower left: Chaim Goldberg...
Category
20th Century Modern Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Gouache
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Karagoto of the Chojiya, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga Series I (Nº1)
Title: Karagoto of The Chojiya
Head and bust portrait of the beautiful courtesan Karagoto, of the Chojiya House, who appears looking to her left while drying her right ear with the sleeve of her yukata (a fine summer garment, normally made of cotton that was normally used after bathing). The wide sleeve falls from her ear covering her right breast and leaving the left one uncovered.
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
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2010s Edo Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Modernist Ink and Wash Drawing, Painting Jankel Adler Woman Model Ecole De Paris
By Jankel Adler
Located in Surfside, FL
Jankel Adler (Polish, 1895–1949)
'Seated Nude'
Watercolor in sepia tones on paper,
Hand signed
Dimensions: Framed 26 x 20 inches, sheet 17.88 x 14.75 inches
Provenance: Bears a la...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
A Young Beauty Holding Flowers
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Paper
Dimensions: 24.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Early 20th Century Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Torso - Contemporary Figurative Ink Painting, New Expressionism
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork on paper will be sent unframed to you.
Untitled 001,
Maciej Olekszy was born in 1982, Poland. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2007. Facult...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Romanian Woman watercolor by Sandu Liberman
Located in New York, NY
Sandu Liberman (1923-1977)
Untitled, c. mid-20th century
Watercolor on paper
Sight: 13 1/4 x 10 in.
Framed: 22 1/4 x 18 3/4 x 3/4 in.
Signed lower right: Sandu Liberman
Sandu Liberm...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Draw, pastel, Ink and Colored Pencils. "First day in eternity."
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Drawing, pastel, Pencil, Petal Flowers, Color and Ink on Paper. The base of this drawing is 120g/m2 Fabriano paper. I use natural dyes from flowers, herbs, leaves, and tree bark as t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Pencil, Color Pencil
Disegno figurativo ritratto femminile di maestro fiorentino del XX secolo
By Arcangelo Salimbeni
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, matita su carta 32 x 22.5 cm, raffigura una figura femminile che indossa un vestito con le maniche corte e la gonna che lascia intravedere le gambe, distesa su un fianco,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.060
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.060 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing
Profile Solid 383.060 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
Category
1970s Feminist Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.035
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.035 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing
Profile Solid 383.035 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
Category
1970s Feminist Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.036
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.036 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing
Profile Solid 383.036 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
Category
1970s Feminist Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Acrylic Gouache on Paper Drawing - Profile Solid 383.037
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Solid 383.037 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Acrylic and Gouache on Paper Drawing
Profile Solid 383.037 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, coll...
Category
1970s Feminist Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Ink on Paper Musical Notation Drawing - Bourrée I 418.031
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Bourrée I 418.031 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Ink and Graphite on Paper, Musical Notation Drawing
Bourrée I 418.031 is from Linda Stein's Profiles Notation series--draw...
Category
2010s Feminist Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
Marella Agnelli and Gianni Agnelli in Marrakesh. Diptych
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Portrait of a Man Wearing a Turban, 18th Century Pastel Drawing
By Thomas Frye
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Image size: 13 x 17 1/2 inches (33 x 44.5 cm)
Mounted and framed
This original pastel drawing by Thomas Frye is a half-length portrait of a man dressed in a turban. This drawing is the original sketch for one of the heads depicted in Frye's collection 'Twelve Mezzotint Prints' of 1760 and it can be assumed that this pastel work was created earlier of this same year.
Two versions of the print, created from this original work, are currently held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Frye's evocative figures, although presumably based on living models, exceed the conventions of portraiture, and also function as character studies. The man shown here - dressed in the fashionable 'Turkish' manner - turns with parted lips as if poised to speak, while raising the elegant fingers in one hand in a rhetorical gesture. His long eyelashes and smoothly rendered wrinkles and dimples are hallmarks of Frye's refined style.
The Artist
Thomas Frye (c. 1710 – 3 April 1762) was an Anglo-Irish artist, best known for his portraits in oil and pastel, including some miniatures and his early mezzotint engravings. He was also the patentee of the Bow porcelain factory, London, and claimed in his epitaph to be "the inventor and first manufacturer of porcelain in England," though his rivals at the Chelsea porcelain factory seem to have preceded him in bringing wares to market. The Bow porcelain works did not long survive Frye's death; their final auctions took place in May 1764.
Frye was born at Edenderry, County Offaly, Ireland, in 1710; in his youth he went to London to practice as an artist. His earliest works are a pair of pastel portraits of boys...
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1750s English School Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
"Floored", Figurative Oil Pastel Drawing of Legs, Boots, Portrait
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative drawing titled "Floored" is an original artwork by Lauren Rinaldi made of oil pastel on Arches paper. This piece measures 18"h x 11"w framed. The piece ships in the p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Figure - Original China Ink and Watercolor by Madeleine Scellier - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing in watercolored china ink on ivory-colored paper realized by the French artist Madeleine Scellier (1928).
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower margin.
T...
Category
1950s Modern Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Couple - Original Ink Drawing by Chas Laborde - Early 20th Century
By Chas Laborde
Located in Roma, IT
Couple is an original drawing in China ink on ivory paper, realized by Chas Laborde (1886-1941).
Good conditions except for minor cosmetic wear.
Unsigned.
Chas Laborde, born in 1886, of Béarnese origin, he was at the same time a reporter, painter, engraver, humorous draftsman, book illustrator and poet.
He was one of the great artists of the early 20th century. He was open to the world and to life. Colette says of him, after having illustrated "Claudine", "He made twenty of these villages bloom, with their colors of a fresh green, of a tulle rose. One has its bell tower, the others who a train, some a row of pioffi, some a house, some a group of girls...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Shah Jahan in a shirt of mail and plate of armor. Rajasthani School, 19th cent.
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in black ink, 13 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches (340 x 222 mm). Toning, handling creases and ...
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19th Century Rajput Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Imperial Beauty, British School 20th Century Pastel Portrait
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper on canvas, initialled lower left "ND"
Image size: 13 ¾ x 22 ½ inches (35 x 57 cm)
Gilt frame
This fine Art Nouveau picture executed around 1900, depicts an auburn ha...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Chinese ink painting made with thousands of numbers, natural black, brown
Located in Carballo, ES
Obsessive, meticulous, almost monastic, Kramer immerses us in a universe of graphic and sculptural repetitions. His drawings on kraft paper glued with rabbit glue recall both ancient...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Amal, George Clooney and Julia Roberts, Watercolor Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Sensitive 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Sensitive, Finely Rendered 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man By Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Artwork size: 12 x 9 1/2 inches. Artwork is un...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The Yellow Jacket, Portrait Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink
ROBOT - Original Children Book Illustration Painting for "Stupid Funio"
Located in Salzburg, AT
Original Illustration for published children's book "Stupid Funio"" - "Glupi Funio" by Grazyna Rigall, signet by artist, It is already framed - in a wooden frame behind glass
Gra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Buvette by Benjamin II Vautier - Graphite on paper - 19x21 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Benjamin II Vautier (1895–1974) was a Swiss-born artist, known for his contributions to both painting and graphic art. He was born into a family with artistic roots, as the son of Ot...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Head of a Cheerful Man Wearing a Cap
Located in New York, NY
Watermark: the arms of Amsterdam
Provenance:
Christie’s, Amsterdam, 1 December 1986, lot 46; where acquired by:
Private Collection, New York
Literature:
Roger Adolf d’Hulst, “Jordaens Drawings: Supplement II,” Master Drawings, vol. 28, no. 2 (1990), pp. 153-156, no. A237a, fig. 17.
Matías Díaz Padrón, Jacob Jordaens...
Category
17th Century Baroque Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Portrait of Smiling Woman
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Smiling Woman', pastel and crayon on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1970s). Is this a modern version of da Vinci's Mona Lisa? The simi...
Category
1970s Modern Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
Man in a wheelchair / - Looking to the future -
By Ruth Schloss
Located in Berlin, DE
Ruth Schloss (1922 Nuremberg - 2013 Kfar Shmaryahu), Man in a wheelchair, around. 1990. Mixed media on watercolor paper, 38.5 cm x 33 cm, signed “Schloss” lower left and again in Heb...
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1990s Realist Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Louise Brooks. Drawing From The Dis-enchanted series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has always liked divas and femmes-fatales. My grandmothers spoke often of these actresses and admired them openly as if they were real. They created a collective imaginati...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Prison Portrait II" Portrait Ink Drawing 13" x 9" in (1960) by Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Prison Portrait II" Portrait Ink Drawing 13" x 9" in (1960) by Inji Efflatoun
Signed and dated
Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the ...
Category
20th Century Post-War Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Bonaparte Bride I - Royal Queen Female Portrait Gold Tiara Crown Blue, 2016
By Francine Fox
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary portrait drawing in graphite and colored pencil on paper is a powerful depiction of a regal woman wearing a gold crown and ornate blue/gray dress. Signed, dated and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
"Untitled 15, " Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Untitled 15" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts an impasto scene of artists with their easels.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
A 1928 Caricature of Irish Politician Alexander Green by Artist Isa M. Macnie
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1928 caricature of Irish politician Alexander Green by artist Isa M. Macnie. Inscription on drawing reads: "For my Irish friend Richard Madden, Alex Greene, 20 October 1928, Alex...
Category
1920s Modern Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
"Julius Caesar" original art for Penguin book cover
Located in Miami, FL
An uncanny and unexpected pose characterizes this work as Julius Ceasar warily looks over his shoulder and blood-stained toga. Signed lower right "M. Gl...
Category
1980s Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
$17,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Woman in Fantasy Costume (pair)
Located in New York, NY
The pair consists of the present work and an engraving after it by the hand of Giles DeMarteau (Liège 1722 – 1776 Paris) titled Woman in Fantasy Costume, after Jean Baptiste Le Prince, and measuring, 10 ⅜ x 8 ⅝ inches (26.5 x 22 cm).
DeMarteau's engraving is inscribed at the bottom:
Le Prince inv. del. / Demarteau sc. / A Paris ches Demarteau Graveur du Roi, rue de la Pelterie à la Cloche...
Category
18th Century Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Engraving
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Handmade Paper
$656 Sale Price
31% Off
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 Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Postcard, Illustration Board
Study for a Costume - Watercolor by Eugène Lacoste - 1869
By Eugène Lacoste
Located in Roma, IT
Ink and watercolor drawing realized by Eugène Lacoste in 1869.
Hand signed and dated lower left.
Very good condition.
Category
1860s Modern Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Dead King 27 [20th Century Iraqi President]
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This wall-hanging artwork titled "Dead King 27 [20th Century Iraqi President]" is an original artwork by Kate Glasheen made of pen and ink on archival paper....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pen
![Dead King 27 [20th Century Iraqi President]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_1882/a_74138621611432540204/Dead_King_27_20th_Century_Iraqi_President_wall_master.jpg?width=240 "Kate Glasheen - Dead King 27 [20th Century Iraqi President]")
Art dealerd Jeffrey Deitch Protected by His Angels Warhol and Basquiat
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Category
2010s Pop Art Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper
Portrait of a Boy, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Portrait of a Boy
Graphite on paper
Image size: 18 x 14 inches
James Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker...
Category
20th Century Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of Benito Mussolini - Drawing by Alberto Manetti - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Duce Portrait is a modern artwork realized by the artist Alberto Manetti (known also as Brivido).
Pencil and charcoal on paper.
Hand signed on the higher right margin.
Inscription...
Category
1920s Modern Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
Portrait of a Young Girl Writing
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Young Girl Writing', pencil on art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - man...
Category
1920s Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Florentine Gent, 20th Century Graphite on Paper
Located in London, GB
James Stroudley
1906 -1985
Florentine Gent
Graphite on paper, signed and inscriber '1931 Florence'
Image size: 24 x 18 inches
Framed
James Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker...
Category
20th Century Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
"A Sense of Balance" - Figurative Harlequin Clown Watercolor on Heavy Paper
By Sefla Joseph
Located in Soquel, CA
"A Sense of Balance" - Figurative Harlequin Clown Watercolor on Heavy Paper
Watercolor of three clowns by Sefla Joseph (Canadian, 20th Century). Three clowns are standing closely to...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paper Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
$1,320 Sale Price
20% Off
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