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Medium: Pencil
Figures - Original Pencil Drawing - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original drawing in pencil on paper, realized by an E. de Vaublanc, hand-signed, the woman very delicately is created with a look down, simplicity and sadness in her eyes...
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20th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Winged character Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art drawing outsider art portrait
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...
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Early 2000s Outsider Art Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
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 Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Tattoed character Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing colour
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...
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2010s Outsider Art Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Hairdresser, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga series II (nº 02)
Title: “Hairdresser”
The interest in this picture is focused on the hairstyles of both women, a hairdresser leaning forward with a bow of intense black color, arranging his client's especially long hair. The ways of gripping both the hair and the comb, making it slide through the ocher-scented kimono of the customer, decorated with sea stars, stand out. Highlighting with great detail the drawing of loose hair on the obi of white lines on a red background, and the kosode of plum color.
This image is part of the Bijin-ga Series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print "Hairdresser" (1798-1799), 39,8 x 26,8 cm. Museum of Fine Arts. Boston-USA.
Utamaro drawn a series of twelve prints whose themes were related to the manual works of women, and this "Hairdresser" is one of them.
Mario BGil reproduces the seal of the censor (Kiwame) and writes his own signature, Mario BGil, in Japanese, with the date 14 (2014).
The mesaurements of the drawing are 76 x 56 cm. (29,92 x 22,05 in.), with a painted surface of 67 x 49,5 cm.
With his work on the bijing-ga series, Mario BGil wanted to embellish, give brilliance and volume to the images presented by japanese artist Kitigawa Utamaro in those beautiful engravings, ennobled with the patina of time, which have served as inspiration. The result obtained is almost life-size portraits, endowed with strong chromaticism and valuable contrasts, all enhanced, in turn, with the volume provided by the weight and rigidity of the paper, and its thick texture (Fabriano Artistico “grana grosso”, 640g/m2; the thickness and hardness of the paper makes it necessary to transport it without rolling).
In this way, Mario BGil pays tribute to his admired artist and offers us a new and enriched vision of this popular facet of oriental art from the 18th and 19th centuries.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mario BGil is a self-taught artist who for years has combined his creative activity with his work in the business world, away from commercial art galleries. Man of very diverse interests and great artistic sensitivity, studied Art History and in 2012, a deep interest in oriental art was awakened in him so that he began to study the great masters of Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, who had such an influence on the European avant-garde of the late 19th century.
The discovery of Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), a key figure in the metropolitan culture of Edo (now Tokyo), and a point of reference in the history of Japanese engraving...
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2010s Edo Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Vinicja - Figurative drawing, Surrealist portrait, Black & white, Minimalism
By Leszek Rózga
Located in Warsaw, PL
LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015)
He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948, he began studies at the art school in Łódź (later: Academy of Fine Arts) in the studios of professors Władysław Strzemiński, Adam Rychtarski, Stefan Wegner and Ludwik Tyrowicz. He graduated with special award from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1954. In 1958 he became a member of the Piąte Koło association ("Fifth Wheel...
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2010s Contemporary Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Schoolchild - Original Pencil Drawing by French Artist Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Schoolchild is an original artwork realized in the XX Century by a French artist.
Original drawing realized with different kind of pencil on water-marked paper.
Mint conditions. ...
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Early 20th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Disegno figurativo toscano nudo maschile a sanguigna del XIX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, sanguigna su carta, raffigura un uomo nudo con una specie di turbante sulla testa, preso di lato, seduto, in un'espressione di intensa sofferenza, come se stesse chiedend...
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Early 19th Century Other Art Style Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Hitomoto of the Daimonjiya, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
“Hitomoto of The Daimonjiya in Kyô-Machi Itchôme”
Hitomoto holds a bouquet of flowers looking to her left, with a surprised face, and with her mouth aj...
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2010s Edo Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, The fickle type, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijing-ga Series XXII (Nº 22)
Title: THE FLICKLE TYPE
Upper half of the body of a woman in yukata (summer kymono) with part of her chest bare. Depicted just after a bath, she is turning her head and drying her hands with the towel hang on her shoulder. Her just-washed hair is tied around an ornate hairpin, the hair style called bai-mage (spiral-shell chignon).
The unkempt hair of the nape and the movement of the hands one on the other are clear examples of Utamaro's mastery, who had an exceptionally observant eye for women.
The Fickle ( or Fancy-free) Type is flirting with more than one member of the opposite sex
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 Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Tatsumi Roko, Edo Period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga series XXVIII (Nº 28)
Title: Tatsumi Roko
Portrait of Tatsumi Roko, a geisha of the pleasure quarters in the Edo period. The image belongs to the series Renowed Beauties Likened to the Six Inmortal Poets.
The popular top-class geishas of the day , known as “oiran”, were depicted in this type of print. In ukiyo-e woodblock prints, this close-up portrait view of the upper body is known as an okubi-e (bust portrait).
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 Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Disegno figurativo francese paesaggio italiano neoclassico del XIX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il piccolo ma ben definito disegno raffigura una veduta dettagliata del Santuario della Madonna di San Luca, sul colle della guardia a Sud Ovest della città di Bologna.
Può essere a...
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Early 19th Century Other Art Style Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Italian gothic 19th century Italian religious figurative drawing pencil on paper
Located in Florence, IT
This small drawing (pencil on paper, 25 x 19.5 cm) depicts a friar (who from the style of his tonsure and tunic would appear to be a Franciscan) on the left, seated in the act of rea...
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19th Century Romantic Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Untitled portrait with hand on throat
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on museum board
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
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2010s Contemporary Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Board, Graphite
Untitled portrait with hand in mouth
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on museum board
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
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2010s Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Board, Graphite
Balloon, Flying Machine, Drawing, Work on Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Tan, Yellow
Located in Riverdale, NY
Balloon is an original Ink and Watercolor Pencil drawing on paper. It is 16x24, unframed. It is an invented flying machine idea imagined by Pastuszka. As the bicycle is pedaled, t...
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2010s Contemporary Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Color Pencil
Lord Lithgow, Time magazine cover, March 16, 1942
Located in Miami, FL
Lord Lithgow, Time magazine cover, March 16, 1942
matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches. Not framed.
Pencil on paper
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1940s Realist Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Ink Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Notation 418.012
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Notation 418.012 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Ink and Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Notation 418.012 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages ...
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2010s Feminist Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
Illustration Framed on Canvas: 'Profile of a Lady'
Located in New York, NY
The murder of John Lennon. The birth of my children. Nixon’s resignation. Brain surgery.
Driven by the desire to express myself, and leave a physical record of my life and times, I’v...
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1990s Contemporary Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Color Pencil
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Tomimoto Toyohina, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijing-Ga series XXVII (Nº 27)
Title: Tomomoto Toyohina
Tomimoto Toyohina was a much sought-after geisha (entertainer) who performed narrative ballads accompanied by the shamisen. She was one of several non-prostitute beauties, including teahouse waitresses, whom Utamaro depicted repeatedly in the early to mid 1790s. She appears here with a brush in hand, dressed and combed with simple elegance.
This composition is from a six-print series comprising half-length portraits of famous beauties (Famous beauties of Edo).
Utamaro elevated Tomimoto Toyohina to the status of one of the three most renowned beauties of her age (together with Okita and Ohisa). She was from a prominent family of musicians that provided entertainment in the Yoshiwara. Toyohina’s appeal undoubtedly was as much due to her appearance as to her skills in singing, and Utamaro’s celebration of her would have further elevated the status of an already well-known lineage.
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 Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
"50" (FRAMED) 50 Cent Portrait Pencil Drawing 17" x 15" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"50" (FRAMED) 50 Cent Portrait Pencil Drawing 17" x 15" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Medium: Pencil on Paper
Artist Antonio Pelayo, born in Glendale, California, and yet raised for most ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Illustration Framed on Canvas: 'Pilgrim's Progress'
Located in New York, NY
The murder of John Lennon. The birth of my children. Nixon’s resignation. Brain surgery.
Driven by the desire to express myself, and leave a physical record of my life and times, I’v...
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1990s Contemporary Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Color Pencil
Watchmaker, Drawing, Inventor, Work on Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Tan, Yellow
Located in Riverdale, NY
Watchmaker is an original Ink and Watercolor Pencil drawing on paper. It is 16x24, unframed.
Krzysztof Pastuszka is an interdisciplinary artist who spans sculpture, drawing, engineering, and computer design.
Much of his work focuses on the complexity and tension in transition/transitioning, giving voice to his experience growing up as a trans kid in the late 90s -2000s. His process consists of idea generation and the testing and creation of prototypes to generate a multitude of parts. He focuses on mechanical movement and the interplay between parts to visualize the intricacies of change and focus on the necessity of each component's ability to cooperate with another and create movement. He uses motion as a way to expose all the micro-operations and mental acrobatics involved in navigating and rejecting the unchanging nature of cisnormativity. He combines his array of skills to envision and compose an elaborate trail of blueprints archiving the hidden and unseen essence of his trans experience--building documentation that didn't exist in his childhood. His current body of work consists of multiple assemblies within one mechanical sculpture...
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2010s Contemporary Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Color Pencil
Untitled #21 (from the series "Album")
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Signed, verso
This drawing is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Price includes framing.
About the artist:
Chris Ironside is a Toronto-based artist wor...
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2010s Contemporary Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Ritratto di nudo femminile matita su carta firmato e datato
By Guido Peyron
Located in Florence, IT
Figura femminile nuda con i capelli lunghi sciolti, seduta frontale, con accanto un vaso di fiori (matita su carta, 31 x 22 cm) firmato e datato a penna "G. Peyron 1947" .
Guido Peyr...
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1940s Other Art Style Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Fine 19th Century Coloured Pencil - The Eligible Bachelor
Located in Corsham, GB
Tall, dark and handsome- this fine oval portrait captures the striking features of a young Victorian Bachelor. The artist has used directional hatching and fine line to create plumpn...
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19th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Costume drawings for ‘Ambassadeur de Siam’ and ‘La Sultana Reine’
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809)
‘Ambassadeur de Siam’ and ‘La Sultana Reine’
Both titled lower centre, the drawing of the ambassador inscribed with colours intended for the prints, e...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Disegno toscano figurativo nudo maschile a sanguigna su carta del XIX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, sanguigna su carta, raffigura un uomo nudo seduto su una roccia, ritratto di schiena nell'atto di alzare una mano al cielo, con una posa e un'espressione ricche di pathos...
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Early 19th Century Other Art Style Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Ernest Proctor (1886-1935) - Graphite Drawing, Study of a Lady
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming graphite sketch if a woman with neatly pinned hair. The artist's proprietary sketch can be scene to the right, which the artist has used to create the much finer portrait ...
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Early 20th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Ernest Proctor (1886-1935) - Graphite Drawing, Portrait of a Woman
Located in Corsham, GB
A captivating graphite study of a middle aged woman with short cropped hair. The artist depicts the women from lower angle to best captures her strong features and distant gaze. Sign...
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Early 20th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
"Guardian of the Mosque" Drawing 14" x 10" inch by MOUNIR CANAAN
Located in Culver City, CA
"Guardian of the Mosque" Drawing 14" x 10" inch by MOUNIR CANAAN
Signed and dated.
ABOUT:
Mounir Canaan (1919 – 1999) was a powerful artist whose body of work & style was always...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Tattoed character Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing colour
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...
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2010s Outsider Art Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Portrait or Study for a Bust
By Chaim Gross
Located in New York, NY
Portrait or Study for a Bust, 1959 by Chaim Gross (1902-1991)
Ink wash and pencil on paper
8 x 5 inches unframed (20.32 x 12.7 cm)
14 ⅛ x 11 inches framed (35.8775 x 27.94 cm)
Signed...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Untitled Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing colour character
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Graphite Drawing, Victorian Beauty
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming graphite study in the delicate manner. The woman wears a puffed sleeved and ringlets fall to the side of her face in a typical Victorian fashion. Unsigned. Presented in a ...
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19th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Untitled British caricature
Located in New York, US
British caricature drawing, especially flourishing in the 18th and 19th centuries, holds a significant place in art and social commentary. Renowned for its satirical edge, this art f...
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19th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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
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2010s Contemporary Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Cardboard, Pencil
Jan Stanley Hiller (b.1918) - Mid 20th Century Graphite Drawing, Grand Old Lady
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed with initials to the lower right. On wove.
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Mid-20th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Robert Luard Selby (1800-1880) - 19th Century Graphite Drawing, Man with Pipe
Located in Corsham, GB
A finely drawn graphite study of a Dutch peasant smoking a pipe in the style of David Teniers the Younger. He sits on a small wooden stool and wears rag...
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19th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Peter Collins ARCA - 1986 Graphite Drawing, Sue
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming graphite drawing with charcoal details by the artist Peter Collins, depicting a head study of a female figure. Title, signature and date to the lower right-hand corner. We...
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20th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Alfred Kingsley Lawrence RA (1893-1975) - 20th Century Graphite Drawing, Girl
Located in Corsham, GB
A page of soft facial studies in graphite of a young girl. Although just studies, the drawings capture a lot of the child's personality.
The drawing has been presented in a black, g...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Alfred Kingsley Lawrence RA (1893-1975) - Graphite Drawing, Young Girl
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine graphite drawing by the artist Alfred Kingsley Lawrence, depicting a young girl. Even though this work is unsigned, it belongs to a collection by the artist. Well-presented in...
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20th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Peter Collins ARCA - 1980 Graphite Drawing, Woman with Long Hair
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait by the listed British artist Peter Collins. With pastel detail. Very well presented in a contemporary black frame with double card mount. Signed and dated. On wove.
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20th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Alfred Kingsley Lawrence RA (1893-1975) - Graphite Drawing, Young Girl
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine study of a young girl completed carefully in graphite. The artwork is well presented in a molded black frame with glazing and a double card mount.
On wove.
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20th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Peter Collins ARCA - Signed 1980 Graphite Drawing, Woman with Blue Eyes
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderful portrait of a young woman by the listed British artist Peter Collins. Here he has captured the sitter's effortless beauty with a small number of expressive pencil marks a...
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20th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
After Raphael - Fine 19th Century Graphite Drawing, Portrait of Leo X
Located in Corsham, GB
A meticulously detailed 19th Century copy of Raphael's 'Portrait of Leo X', depicting a seated Pope Leo X with two cardinals either side of him. These additio...
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19th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Follower of Stephen Denning - 19th Century Graphite, Portrait of a Child
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate and delightful graphite study of a young child, by a follower of Stephen Poyntz Denning (1795-1864).
This study came from an album that was assembled in the 1940's by a c...
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19th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Alfred Kingsley Lawrence RA (1893-1975) - Graphite Drawing, Young Boy
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine graphite drawing by the artist Alfred Kingsley Lawrence, depicting a young boy. Even though this work is unsigned, it belongs to a collection by the artist. Well-presented in ...
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20th Century Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
A Study of Thomas Cooper Gotch, 19th Century Graphite Sketch
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 5 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches (14 x 52 cm)
Framed
This sketch is a portrait of Thomas Gotch is by his lifelong friend and confidante, Jane Ross, whom he met at...
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Mid-19th Century English School Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
18th century ink study for the Leveson-Gower Children
Located in London, GB
Collections: J. Goodfriend, USA.
Brown wash and pencil on laid paper
Framed dimensions: 13.25 x 11.75 inches
This powerful drawing was made at the time that Romney was painting the famous group portrait of the Gower Children now in Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal. Romney was a bold and incisive draughtsman who made numerous rich brown ink studies, principally for historical compositions; by contrast, comparatively few studies linked directly to his portraits survive. The existence of a group of studies for the Gower Children underscores its importance to Romney. The sitters were the five youngest of the eight children of Granville, 2nd Earl Gower who, at the time the portrait was commissioned, was President of the Council in Lord North’s government and one of the best-connected and most influential people in England. The present drawing which is a large scale treatment of the composition in its final form perfectly distils Romney’s conceit: the younger children dancing whilst their elder sister, in the guise of a Bacchante plays the tambourine. The bold and dramatic study underlines both the artistic confidence and classical grandeur Romney gained during his trip to Italy between 1773 and 1775.
The commission from Granville, 2nd Earl Gower to paint five of his children came shortly after Romney’s Continental tour. The initial idea, as represented by the present drawing, seems to have been to paint Lady Anne, the figure on the right of the composition playing the tambourine, who was the youngest of Gower’s first four children by his second wife Lady Louisa Egerton and who married the Rev. Edward Vernon Harcourt, later Archbishop of York, with three of her younger half-siblings by Gower’s third wife, Lady Susanna Stewart: at the left Lady Georgina, who became Countess of St Germans following her marriage to the Hon. William Eliot; at the right Lady Charlotte Sophia, later Duchess of Beaufort and in the centre Lady Susanna, later Countess of Harrowby. Romney added a fifth child to the finished portrait, Gower’s son: Lord Granville, later created Viscount Granville and Earl Granville. In Italy Romney had produced a large number of studies of classical antiquities and old master paintings.
The commission from Gower offered Romney the opportunity to explore a complex multi-figural group, putting into practice the kind of ambitious classical quotations that Reynolds was currently exploiting. In 1773 Reynolds had completed the remarkable group portrait of the Montgomery Sisters, now in the Tate Gallery, London, which showed them adorning a herm of the Roman god Hymen; the composition used a garland to link the three figures who were shown in classical costume dancing at the foot of a Roman sculpture. Scholars have long pointed to a similar sources for the two compositions: the works of Nicolas Poussin. Whilst the Montgomery Sisters is based, in part, on a Bacchanal now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, the Gower Children has always been associated with Poussin’s Dance to the Music of Time, now in the Wallace Collection, London. It seems more likely that Romney was looking to an antique source in the form of the Borghese Dancers, a Roman relief, then in Palazzo Borghese in Rome. Romney would have seen the relief of interlocking, dancing maidens and would also have known Guido Reni’s Aurora...
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18th Century Old Masters Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Fruits de mer (2024)
Located in Oostende, BE
This pencil drawing by Lies Casier (BE), depicting a person at the seaside, combines a sketch portrait with childlike painting elements.
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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Friend 2022. Paper/pencil, 29.1x20.1 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Friend
2022. Paper/pencil, 29.1x20.1 cm
Liga Kalnina
Artist Liga Kalnina(1990) is born in Riga, Latvia.
Her artist interests is mainly realistically based -landscapes, architect...
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2010s Contemporary Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Flying 446.154
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Flying 446.154 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Flying 446.154 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and paintin...
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1970s Feminist Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of a Young Male, Graphite on paper sketch, 20th Century English Artist
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 (26 x 22 cm)
Mounted
Drawing was at the heart of all of his artistic practice. A friend once recalled an anecdote that out on a walk he ...
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20th Century English School Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Geisha. Paper, colored pencils, 22x21 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Geisha. Paper, colored pencils, 22x21 cm
Ivars Zaikins (1942-2017)
Zaikins Ivars - an artist. He was born in 1942. During of the Soviet Union period, h...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing - Profile Flying 446.086
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Flying 446.086 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Graphite on Paper Drawing
Profile Flying 446.086 is from Linda Stein's Profiles series--drawings, collages and paintin...
Category
1970s Feminist Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Polymorphisms IV - Haude Bernabé, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Ink and graphite on paper
Signed, dated and entitled lower left
Category
2010s Outsider Art Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
Rose 15, Ellen Williams, Original Drawing, Floral Still Life Art, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Rose 15 [2021]
original
Pencil on 150gsm paper
Image size: H:30 cm x W:20 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:20 cm x D:0.01cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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