Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Profile of a Lady is an original drawing realized by Unknown Artist in the late 19th Century. Beautiful pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper. Included passport (49 x 34 cm). The a...

Portrait of Virgin Mary is an original artwork realized by the Unknown Artist in the early 20th Century. Original colored pencil and pastel drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued o...

The Lady is an original artwork realized by Unknown Artisti, in the early 20th Century. Beautiful pencil drawing on cardboard. Good conditions. Not signed.

Portrait of a Woman is an original drawing realized by Unknown Artist in the late 19th Century. Beautiful pencil drawing on ivory-colored cardboard. Includes passpartout (49 x 34 cm...

Portrait of Woman is an original drawing in Pencil on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 19th Century. Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted through free strokes in a ...

Portrait of Woman is an original pencil drawing on paper realized by Jeanne de Jesse in the early 20th Century. Good conditions. Hand-signed on the lower right. The artwork repres...

Sketches is an original Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century. Good condition on a brown paper, with other sketch on rear. No signature. Mino Maccari (1898-1...

Portrait of Young Boy is an original drawing in Pencil realized by Emile Adan (1839-1937) in the early 20th Century. Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes i...

Portrait is an original Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in early 20th century. Good condition on a colored cream paper, with other sketch on rear. Hand signed by the artist...

Portrait is an original artwork realized by Anonymous artist in early 20th century. Black and white pencil drawing. The artwork depict...

At the Café is an original China Ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century. Good condition on a white little paper. Hand-signed by the artist with pencil. Mino Mac...

Study for a Cover of "Il Selvaggio" is an original Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1930/1940s. Good condition on a brown paper. No signature. Mino Maccari (1898-1989) ...

Study for an Illustration of "Il Selvaggio" is an original Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1930/1940s. Good condition on a brown paper, except for a missing corner. No ...

Anatomical studies is an original artwork realized by Luigi Galli in the late 19th Century. The artwork is composed by a set of pencil drawings...

Portrait of Colette MacDonald is an original Drawing in Pencil realized by Georges Gobo in the Early 20th Century. Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted through strong strokes w...

Portraits of Woman is an original Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Hand-signed by the artist with pencil. Mino Macc...

Man Portrait is an original artwork realized in the late 19th Century by a french artist. Original Pencil Drawing on paper. Hand-signed on the lower left corner in pencil by the a...

Portrait is an original Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Hand-signed by the artist with pencil. Mino Maccari (1898-...

Portraits is an original Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Hand-signed by the artist with pencil, some sketches on th...

Portrait of Woman is an original Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Hand-signed by the artist with pencil. Mino Macca...

Portraits is an original Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century. Good condition except for a missing corner of the yellowed paper. Hand-signed by the artist wi...

Portrait of Colette MacDonald is an original Drawing in Pencil realized by an anonymous artist in the mid-20th Century. Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted through strong stro...

Divertissement is an original drawing in Ink, Watercolor, and pastel by an anonymous artist in the Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through strong strokes and harmonious c...

The Girl is an original pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Hand-signed by the artist with pencil. Mino Maccari (1898-...

Girl is an original Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th Century. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Hand-signed by the artist with pencil. Mino Maccari (1898-1989...

This is a unique artwork. This is an original Hyman Bloom drawing of fellow artist and his very good friend Martin Sumers.I believe this was drawn at the “variations of a theme” at Sumers gallery in NYC. The last two photos show a poster and a card from their shows. it is not included in this listing, it is just for provenance. Provenance: Acquired from the Sumers estate collection. Hyman Bloom (March 29, 1913 – August 26, 2009) was a Latvian-born American painter. His work was influenced by his Jewish heritage and Eastern religions as well as by artists including Altdorfer, Grünewald, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Blake, Bresdin, James Ensor and Chaim Soutine. He first came to prominence when his work was included in the 1942 Museum of Modern Art exhibition "Americans 1942 -- 18 Artists from 9 States". MoMA purchased 2 paintings from the exhibition and Time magazine singled him out as a "striking discovery" in their exhibition review. His work was selected for both the 1948 and 1950 Venice Biennale exhibitions and his 1954 retrospective traveled from Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art to the Albright Gallery and the de Young Museum before closing out at The Whitney Museum of American Art in 1955. In a 1954 interview with Yale art professor Bernard Chaet, Willem de Kooning indicated that he and Jackson Pollock both considered Bloom to be “America’s first abstract expressionist”, a label that Bloom would disavow. Starting in the mid 1950s his work began to shift more towards works on paper and he exclusively focused on drawing throughout the 1960s, returning to painting in 1971. He continued both drawing and painting until his death in 2009 at the age of 9 Hyman Bloom (né Melamed) was born into an orthodox Jewish family in the tiny Jewish village of Brunavišķi in what is now Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire At a young age Bloom planned to become a rabbi, but his family could not find a suitable teacher. In the eighth grade he received a scholarship to a program for gifted high school students at the Museum of Fine Arts. He attended the Boston High School of Commerce, which was near the museum. He also took art classes at the West End Community Center, a settlement house. The classes were taught by Harold Zimmerman, a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, who also taught the young Jack Levine at another settlement house in Roxbury. When Bloom was fifteen, he and Levine began studying with a well-known Harvard art professor, Denman Ross, who rented a studio for the purpose and paid the boys a weekly stipend to enable them to continue their studies rather than take jobs to support their families. He took Bloom and Levine on a field trip to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where Bloom was impressed by the work of Rouault and Soutine and began experimenting with their expressive painting styles. In the 1930s Bloom worked sporadically for the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project (WPA), He shared a studio in the South End with Levine and another artist, Betty Chase. It was during this period that he developed a lifelong interest in Eastern philosophy and music, and in Theosophy. He first received national attention in 1942 when thirteen of his paintings were included in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) exhibition Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States, curated by Dorothy Miller. MoMA purchased two of his paintings from that exhibition, and he was featured in Time magazine. The titles of his paintings in the exhibition reflect some of his recurring themes. Two were titled The Synagogue, another, Jew with the Torah; Bloom was actually criticized by one reviewer for including "stereotypical" Jewish images. He also had two paintings titled The Christmas Tree, and another titled The Chandelier, both subjects he returned to repeatedly. Another, Skeleton (c. 1936), was followed by a series of cadaver paintings in the forties, and The Fish (c. 1936) was one of many paintings and drawings of fish he created over the course of his career. Bloom was associated at first with the growing Abstract Expressionist movement. Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, who first saw Bloom's work at the MoMA exhibition, considered Bloom "the first Abstract Expressionist artist in America." In 1950 he was chosen, along with the likes of de Kooning, Pollock, and Arshile Gorky, to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale. That same year Elaine de Kooning wrote about Bloom in ARTnews, noting that in paintings such as The Harpies, his work approached total abstraction: "the whole impact is carried in the boiling action of the pigment". In 1951 Thomas B. Hess reproduced Bloom's Archaeological Treasure in his first book, Abstract Painting: Background and American Phase, along with works by Picasso, Pollock, and others. Both de Kooning and Hess remarked on Bloom's expressive paint handling, a key characteristic of Abstract Expressionist painting. As abstract expressionism dominated the American art world, Bloom became disenchanted with it, calling it "emotional catharsis, with no intellectual basis." In addition, instead of moving to New York to pursue his career, he opted to stay in Boston. As a result he fell out of favor with critics and never achieved the kind of fame that Pollock and others did. He disliked self-promotion and never placed much value on critical acclaim. Many of Bloom's paintings feature rabbis, usually holding the Torah. According to Bloom, his intentions were more artistic than religious. He began questioning his Jewish faith early in life, and painted rabbis, he claimed, because that was what he knew. Over the course of his career he produced dozens of paintings of rabbis...

The Baby is an original drawing in pencil, realized by Luigi Galli in the late 19th Century. The status of preservation Good. The artwork is depicted skillfully through confident a...

Portrait is an original drawing in pencil realized by an anonymous artist in the Early 20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted by perfect hatching with strong strokes.

Breastfeeding the Baby is an original drawing in pencil, realized by Luigi Galli in the 19th Century. The status of preservation is Good except for diffused foxings. The artwork is...

Girl is an original artwork realized by José Luis Rey Vila in 1959. Pencil drawing on paper. Hand-signed and dated by José Luis Rey Vila on the bac...

Portrait is an original drawing in pencil realized by an anonymous artist in the Early 20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted by perfect hatching with strong strokes.

Portraits is an original drawing in pen realized by an anonymous artist in the Early 20th Century Good conditions. The artwork is depicted by perfect hatching with strong strokes.

Dead Christ is an original drawing in pencil realized by an anonymous artist in the Early 20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted by perfe...

The Sketch is an original drawing realized by Luigi Galli in the Late 19th Century stamped," Coll. Amadeo" Fair conditions. The artwork is depicted thro...

Jay Alan Babcock is a St. Louis-based graphic designer and painter. His work exhibits his interest in the visual language of Americana, including old ...

Portraits is an original drawing in pencil realized by an anonymous artist in the Early 20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted by perfect hatching with strong strokes.

Portraits is an original drawing in pen realized by an anonymous artist in the Early 20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted by perfect hatching with strong strokes.

Theatrical Costume is an original pencil drawing realized by Alfredo Edel in 1895. Good condition, the artwork is with watercolor and biacca. Hand signed with pencil by the artis. Alfredo Leonardo Edel (1856–1912), sometimes credited as Alfredo Edel Colorno, was an Italian costume designer popular during the late 19th and early 20th century. He worked at the La Scala opera...

This fine and elegant woman portrait in red pastel on paper was drawn by Pietro Annigoni, an Italian artist of the 20th Century called the 'Queen's pa...

Harlequin is an original watercolor realized by Alfredo Edel in 1904. Good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout ( 69x49 cm). Hand signed by the artist. Alfredo Leonardo Edel (1856–1912), sometimes credited as Alfredo Edel Colorno, was an Italian costume designer popular during the late 19th and early 20th century. He worked at the La Scala opera...

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...

Profile of a Woman is original drawing realized by unknown artist of the early 19th Century. Dated on the lower 1818 and with description in pencil on the lower left. Pencil drawin...

Madonna is an original drawing on paper in pen and pencil mounted on greenish cardboard Passepartout: 21 x 16 cm, realized by an anonymous Italian artist of the Early 20th Century. ...

Portrait of woman is an original drawing in pencil realized by Carl Bertold in 1929. Hand-signed on the lower right and dated. Good conditions on aged p...

Portraits is an original drawing in Pencil on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the late 19th Century. Good conditions but aged. The artwork represents two portraits on both...

Christ Crucifixion is an original drawing on paper in pencil mounted on greyish cardboard Passepartout: 28.9 x 19 cm, realized by an anonymous Italian artist of the Early 20th Centu...

Family Portrait is an original pencil drawing realized by an artist of 19th century in 1853. Good condition, mounted on a white cardboard passpartout (34x49 cm). Illegible signature.

Nude of Woman is an original pencil drawing realized by an Italian artist of the early 20th century. Good condition on a yellowed paper. No signature.

Martin Bishop of Tours is an original drawing in mixed media, pencil, ink and watercolor on paper realized by an Anonymous artist in the early 20th Century. Hand-signed on the lower...

Saint Holding Crown of Thorns is an original artwork realized by Jean Marie Melchior Doze (1827 - 1913). Original blood drawing on paper. The state of preservation is good. Unsigned. Jean Marie Melchior Doze (1827 - 1913), was a French painter of miral compositions, religious compositions, nudes, portraits, designer. He specialized in decorative painting of churches...

Thieves is an original drawing in watercolor, white lead and pencil artwork on greenish cardboard realized by an Anonymous artist of the XIX century. The State of preservation is g...

House Outside is an original pencil drawing on ivory-colorated paper, realized by Anonymous French Artist of the Early 20th Century. In very good conditions. Not signed. This artwo...

Woman Bust is a beautiful pencil drawing on ivory paper realized by Alexis Mérodack-Jeanneau in the early 20th century. Stamp of the artist's atelier on the lower right corner of th...

Uomo che riflette (Reflecting man) is an original pencil drawing on paper, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989)...

Self-portrait of Mino Maccari is an original modern artwork realized by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Original drawing in pencil on paper. Hand-signed...

Veil Homme 1947 drawing 26,9 x 21 x 0,1 cm Registered on the catalogue raisonné with inventory number : N°0252 cat. B sold without frame about Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904 – October ...

The Japanese is an original modern artwork realized in 1880s by a french artist. Original drawing realized wth black pencil and sanguine. On the lower right corner: Musèe du Louvre...

Interior of a Room is an original pencil drawing on ivory-colorated paper, realized by Anonymous French Artist of the early 20th Century. In very good conditions. Not signed. This ...