Pencil Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

original watercolor, tempera, pencil on paper 21x29,7cm hand signed

'Posing Nude', pencil on fine art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger oil paintings ...

'Reposing Nude', pencil on fine art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger oil painting...

'Nude Woman After Bath', pencil on fine art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger oil ...

Pencil on paper, signed & dated 8.9.(19)67 dedication: with kind regards

CORNELIS RUHTENBERG "PORTRAIT 3" DRAWING, SIGNED LATVIAN, WORKED IN BERLIN, DATED 1949 25 X 19 INCHES Cornelis Ruhtenberg 1923-2008 Cornelis ...

CORNELIS RUHTENBERG "PORTRAIT 2" DRAWING, SIGNED LATVIAN, WORKED IN BERLIN, DATED 1949 25 X 19 INCHES Cornelis Ruhtenberg 1923-2008 Cornelis ...

Original drawing (circa 1910 - 1925) of Marius André, pencil on paper, by Raoul Dufy (1877 - 1953). With impeccable provenance and authentication* by the leading expert on Dufy's work, this drawing has a very interesting history. Its owner, from Sainte-Cècile-les-Vignes, in Provence, was cleaning an old frame which held the portrait of Jean Paul Casimir-Perrier (1847 - 1907), French politician who served as President of the French Third Republic. As he disassembled the old frame, he found hidden behind the top image, this portrait of Marius André (1868-1927), French writer, poet, journalist and translator of French and Occitan languages, by world renown artist, Raoul Dufy. Dufy was a friend of André and stopped over in Sainte-Cècile on his way further south. The drawing is in fair vintage condition with some evident blemishing and creasing of paper. For serious collectors, this is an incredible opportunity to own an original piece by an artist celebrated around the globe and whose works appear in some of the finest museums in the world. Signed: "À Marius André, son ami, Raoul Dufy" ("To Marius André, his friend, Raoul Dufy"). About the Artist: Raoul Dufy (1877 - 1953) was a French artist and designer. He created airy washes of light and shade, into which he would draw bold calligraphic brushstrokes. The artist's breezy yet experimental use of colour was influenced both by Claude Monet and his Fauvist peer, Henri Matisse. Born in Le Havre, France, he enrolled in night classes at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts on a scholarship. Dufy first encountered Fauvism at the Salon des Indépendants in 1905, after which he adapted the style to his own purposes. During his life, the artist traveled both abroad and within France, painting views of the Mediterranean city of Nice, as well as scenes of horse races and regattas. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago. The highest price for a Dufy painting at auction...

Maurycy Trębacz (1861 – 1941) was one of the most popular Jewish painters in Poland in the late 19th and early 20th century. Many of his paintings were lost in the Holocaust, but a representative selection of his artwork survived.Trębacz died of starvation in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto during the Nazi German occupation of Poland. Maurycy Trębacz, along with Samuel Hirszenberg, Jakub Weinles, and Leopold Pilichowski, belonged to the first generation of Jewish artists in Poland who broke away from the religious prohibition on portraying a human figure (see below). The studies show his mastery of painting, his own unique style and great imagination. Trębacz was noted within the European art-world as a master portrait and landscape painter,[1] but above all he was also a rare chronicler of the contemporary Jewish life, depicting a world that is now lost. His popular subjects included praying Rabbis, old men, street and Jewish domestic scenes, and genre painting depicting the everyday side of life. His psychological portraits of Jews earned him the greatest popularity and critical acclaim, and influenced the work of other Jewish painters in Poland. Notably, Trębacz's oil painting "The Good Samaritan", reportedly stolen in 1904 at the World's Fair, was recently sold at auction at Sotheby's. Born in 1861 in Warsaw, the son of David Trębacz, a house painter, Maurycy (Mojżesz) at the age of 16 years was admitted to the school of drawing by professor Wojciech Gerson and Aleksander Kamiński. Three years later, with the support of Leopold Horowitz, he received a scholarship sponsored by lawyer Stanisław Rotwand, and moved to Kraków where he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in the studios of Jan Matejko, Leopold Loeffler and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz. From 1882, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Sandor Wagner (until 1884) and received the grand silver medal there at the completion of his studies for the work "Martyrdom". Between 1889 and 1890, he studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi. He lived and worked in Munich for 4 years before returning to Warsaw. Over time, Trębacz worked in Lviv and Drohobych, and eventually moved permanently to Łódź, where he founded and ran a private art school until September 1939. He is often criticized for giving in to popular demand later on in his career. Pressured by financial sponsors, he began to produce sentimental theme portraits pertaining to the bucolic life of country folk. Trębacz made his successful artistic début twice, first at the Munich Kunstverein, and then at the Krywult Salon in Warsaw as a 23-year-old painter. His another big success was the participation of painting "Good Samaritan" (1886, pictured) in a Kunstverein exhibition in Munich as well as at the I National Art Exhibition in Kraków and in Warsaw at the Zachęta Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts. The painting was also awarded a gold medal at the Universal World Exposition in Chicago. Subsequently, Trębacz also received a bronze medal at the Paris Universal World Exposition of 1889. "Good Samaritan" (1886), book...