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Untitled (Sideview of a Gentleman)
By John Gilroy
Located in New York, NY
John Thomas Young Gilroy (English, 1898-1985), "Untitled: Sideview of a Gentleman", Charcoal/Pencil on Paper signed and matted to original card stock, 20.75 x 12.75 (22 x 14), Early 20th Century, 1920
Colors: White, Black
John Thomas Young Gilroy (30 May 1898 – 11 April 1985) was an English artist and illustrator, best known for his advertising posters for Guinness, the Irish stout. He signed many of his works, simply, "Gilroy".
Born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England, Gilroy attended Durham University until his studies were interrupted by World War I, during which he served with the Royal Field Artillery. He resumed studying at the Royal College of Art in London, where he remained as a teacher. He taught at Camberwell College of Arts.[1]
In 1925, he gained employment at S.H. Benson's advertising agency, where he created the iconic advertisement art for Guinness featuring the Zoo Keeper and animals enjoying Guinness.[2] He worked with Dorothy L. Sayers.[3] He was also an accomplished portrait painter, numbering Royalty, Politicians, Actors and many others amongst his sitters. He worked in his large studio at 10 Holland Park, London, the former home and studio of Sir Bernard Partridge. He was a long-standing and much loved member of the Garrick Club...
Category
Academic 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
Costume for Aida - Tempera and Watercolor - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Costume for Aida is a drawing in tempera and watercolor on brownish paper realized in 1920 ca. by an Anonymous Italian artist of the early 20th Century.
In very good condition.
The...
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Thoughtful woman
Located in PARIS, FR
Karl HUBBUCH (1891-1979)
Thoughtful young woman, circa 1920-30
Pen and ink, pink colored pencil on paper
Stamp of the Karl Hubbuch estate in the upper left corner
14,5 x 14 inch
German artist and figure of the New Objectivity, Karl Hubbuch was born in Karlsruhe in 1891. He received his first artistic training at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1908, where he became friends with Georg Scholz and Rudolf...
Category
Dutch School 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Pencil, Color Pencil
'A Young Lady', Flapper, Roaring 20's, Figural, Portrait of a Woman, Figural
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted in the style of Frederick Appleyard. Initialed lower left, 'FR.A' and created circa 1925. Bearing signature, verso.
An elegant and psychologically-penetrating pastel study of a fashionable young brunette with gray-green eyes, shown standing and gazing to the viewer's left.
This notable British landscape and portrait artist attended Scarborough School of Art where he studied under the genre and landscape painter Albert Strange. He then proceeded to the National Art Training School at South Kensington and from there, on the recommendation of the artist John Sparkes, to the Royal Academy. At the Royal Academy, he was met with immediate success, first receiving the Turner Gold Medal, followed by the Creswick Prize and the Landseer Scholarship.
Frederick Appleyard was a painter of landscapes, portraits and allegorical compositions of the decorative kind frequently associated with English Impressionism. Over the course of a long and storied career, he received a number of prestigious public commissions that included mural decorations for the Royal Academy of Art. He exhibited for many years at the Royal Academy (1900-1935), the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts. From 1918-1950, he was also a regular exhibitor at the Royal West of England Academy of which he was elected a full member in 1926.
Appleyard's work is well-represented in private and public collections including in the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery which holds 'A Secret', a Chantrey Bequest purchase from the Royal Academy Exhibition...
Category
Impressionist 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Laid Paper
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) Élégante au chien 1925, pastel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927)
Élégante au chien, an elegant woman with a dog
signed lower right
pastel on paper
32 x 25 cm
Framed 52 x 42 cm
Published under n°602 of the artist's cat...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
L V Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950) Portrait of a young woman, 1928, oval pastel
Located in Paris, FR
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950)
Portrait of a young woman
Pastel on paper
38 x 28 cm (oval)
Framed under glass in a vintage framing : 45 x 35 cm
A label on the back "1928 Portrait de femme Etude au pastel de Guirand de Scévola" (see photographs please)
This pastel study is of course not signed, as the label on the back of the frame gives its attribution to Guirand de Scévola and, equally interestingly, the date 1928, but in fact the artist's style and execution are immediately recognisable without the need for a signature.
This type of woman with a bun is typical of the models the artist loved. Her mysterious air recalls his Symbolist period, and pastel is hisr preferred medium because it lends itself to all the characteristics typical of his art.
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola ( 1871 – 1950) was a French painter.
He was student of Fernand Cormon and Pierre Dupuis...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Red Hair Dreaming Woman - Original Signed Charcoals Drawing - 1929
Located in Paris, IDF
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Red Hair Dreaming Woman
Original charcoals drawing
Signed bottom right
on tinted linen paper 48 x 30 cm (c. 19 x 12 in)
Stamp of the Estate auction sal...
Category
Realist 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Portrait - Original Black Marker Pen Drawing - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original Pen Drawing realized by an unknown artist in 1929.
Good condition on a yellowed paper, another sketch of a nude woman on the...
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1928
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a Pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1928.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good condition on a little paper.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16...
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Winter landscape - Drawing by Emilio Longoni - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Mixed media artwork (tempera, watercolor and pencil) on cardboard by Emilio Longoni.
Hand signed by the artist on the lower right margin.
Includes gilded frame.
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Tempera, Watercolor
Le Nouveau Napoleon - Original Pen Drawing by Emile Rouff - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Le Nouveau Napoleon is an original pen drawing realized by Emile Rouff in 1929.
The little picture is in good conditions on a yellowed paper.
Some pencil...
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Self-portrait - Charcoal Drawing by M. Maccari - 1929 ca
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
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...
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Bubu de Montparnasse - China Ink drawing - 1928/29
Located in Roma, IT
Original China Ink drawing realized by Dunoyer de Segonzac as a sketch for the illustrations of the book "Bubu de Montparnasse" by Charles-Louis Philippe published in 1929 by Societé...
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait of Woman - Original Drawing in pencil by Carl Bertold - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
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...
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Generals - Original China Ink by Filiberto Scarpelli - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Generals is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of the 20th Century by the Italian artist Filiberto Scarpelli (Naples, 1870 - Rome, 1933).
Original drawing realize...
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Woman Laughing - Original Pastel by Michel Simonidy - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman laughing is an original artwork by Michel Simonidy.
Mixed media, pastel drawing, and tempera on paper.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right. Includes passepartout. St...
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932) Study of a reading monk , original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932)
Study of a reading monk
Pencil on paper
29.5 x 19 cm
Stamp of the Jean-Pierre Laurens Estate on the lower right
In quite good condition : crease and ...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of a Lady - Roaring twenties art female portrait chalk drawing
By Count Mario Grixoni
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful sanguine chalk drawing portrait of a young woman, by Count Mario Grixoni, dated 1922. Executed by one of the leading artists of the day, it is a very striking and...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
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...
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
Dancers. 1928, paper, mixed technique, 29x18.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to publicity.
“I am 58, and in five Years my c...
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Akt mit Strümpfen
Located in Wien, 9
August Dressler is one of the painters of the New Objectivity. He is one of the lesser-known artists of the Weimar era, but he too, like his famous contemporaries Georg Grosz, John H...
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
'Vancouver Girl', Young Woman with Bobbed Copper Hair, AIC, Paris, New York
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'George Wilburton Colby' (American, 1859-1922) and dated 1920.
George Colby was a member of the old Art League and a life member of the Chicago Art Institute. After hi...
Category
Impressionist 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Illustration Board
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932) Study of a sitting beggar, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932)
Study of a sitting beggar,
Pencil on paper
25.5 x 20.5 cm
Stamp of the Jean-Pierre Laurens Estate on the lower right
In quite good condition : glued ...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Friends
Located in Austin, TX
Title: "Friends"
Artist: Orovida Pissarro
Medium: Etching on paper
Size: 9.75 x 3.5"
Year: 1922
Framed
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Etching
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932) Study of a sitting bearded man, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932)
Study of a sitting bearded man
Pencil on paper
24.5 x 20 cm
Stamp of the Jean-Pierre Laurens Estate on the lower left
In quite good condition : glued...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Art Deco Portrait of a Young Blonde
By Franc Root McCreery
Located in Buffalo, NY
A beautiful pastel portrait by American female modern artist Franc Root McCreery
Franc Root McCreery
(1888-1957)
Born: Dodge City, Kansas, US
Franc Root M...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Nude Pencil Drawing pair of Portraits
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Nude Pencil Drawing pair of Portraits
Pencil and pastel on paper, unsigned from the artist portfolio.
George Kenneth Hartwell painter and illustrator was born in Fitchburg 1891-1949...
Category
American Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
Portrait of a Man
Located in Houston, TX
Enigmatic portrait watercolor in warm autumn hues, circa 1930. Signed lower right.
Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a s...
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Jules Cheret (1836-1932) Two studies of a woman, 1921 charcoal drawing, signed
By Jules Chéret
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Cheret (1836-1932)
Two studies of a woman, 1921
charcoal on grey paper
signed and dated 24 10 (19)21 on the bottom right
39.5 x 24 cm
A varnish stain in the lower middle of t...
Category
Art Nouveau 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Carolyn (Arms raised to her head)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Carolyn (Arms raised to her head)
Graphite on laid paper
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the artist
by descent to his Grandson
Depicts the artist's wife Carolyn.
Most probably created in Nashville, Indiana
Related to the painting entitled "Maiden" in the Haan Museum, Lafayette, IN (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Archival framing with TruVue Conservation Clear glass
Image size: 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches
Frame size: 18 7/8 x 16 inches
Louis Oscar Griffith
(1875-1956)
Born in Greencastle, Indiana, Griffith grew up in Dallas, Texas where Texas artist and teacher Charles Franklin Reaugh recognized young “Griff’s” artistic talent. At age 18, Griffith moved to St. Louis where he attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts.
In 1895, he moved to Chicago where he worked making color prints for the firm Barnes and Crosby. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and during a brief stay in New York, the National Academy of Design. A successful commercial artist with a studio in the Chicago Loop, Griffith was a member and president of the Chicago Palette and Chisel Club.
He made his first trip to Brown County...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Peaceful Woman - Original Signed Charcoals Drawing - 1929
Located in Paris, IDF
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Peaceful Woman, 1929
Original charcoals drawing
Signed bottom right
on tinted linen paper 43 x 31 cm (c. 17 x 12 in)
Stamp of the Estate auction sale o...
Category
Realist 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Female Nude in Profile
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman
Pen and ink on paper, c. 1925-1928
Signed in pencil lower left
Exhibited: Akron Art Institute (Akron Art Museum),
William Sommer Retrospective, Oct. 25 to Nov. 29,
1 970
Illu...
Category
American Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Story of a Boy - Pen Drawing by Filiberto Scarpelli - 1910
Located in Roma, IT
Story of a Boy is a modern artwork realized in 1910 by the Italian artist Filiberto Scarpelli (Naples, 1870 - Rome, 1933).
Two Original drawings realized in China ink on paper.
...
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Story of a Boy - Pen Drawing by Filiberto Scarpelli - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
The King of Sardinia is a modern artwork realized in 1925 by the Italian artist Filiberto Scarpelli (Naples, 1870 - Rome, 1933).
Three drawings rea...
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Un Lecteur d'Henri Dordeaux - Drawing by Norbert Meyre - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Un Lecteur d'Henri Dordeaux is an original Pen and Pencil Drawing realized by Norbert Meyre in 1924.
The little artwork on a yellowed paper is in good c...
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Watercolor
Portrait - Original Ink Drawing on Paper - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by anonymous artist in the 1920s.
The signature of the artist is unreadable on the lower right.
Original penc...
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Art Deco Woman before a Mirror - Vogue Magazine Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Fabled Vogue Magazine Cover Artist Eduardo Garcia Benito depicts a perfectly posed long-neck flapper with her reflection in a mirror, Her extrav...
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Head of a Young Girl - Kiki de Montparnasse
Located in Miami, FL
Léonard Tsugouharu FoujitaFujita Tsuguharu?, November 27, 1886 – January 29, 1968) was a Japanese–French painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan who applied Japanese ink techniqu...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Jeune fille aux cheveux roulés - Drawing on Paper Modern art, 1920
By Jean Crotti
Located in New York, NY
Jean Crotti
Jeune fille aux cheveux roulés (Girl with rolled-up hair), ca. 1920
Pencil on paper
17 9/10 × 12 3/5 in 45.5 × 32 cm
Condition: Excellent condition.
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Pencil
Head of a Young Girl - Kiki de Montparnasse
Located in Miami, FL
The beauty of the sitter can determine the value of the painting. A charming and lovely sitter is the subject of this work and the reason why the work is so special. This precious...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
"Contemplation"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Circus girl reclining
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated center right, Seam down center where two sheets attached is original. Some slight surface smudging outside figure area .
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Portrait of Alfred Hardiman, Graphite Sketch, Signed and Dated 1925
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed and dated
Image size: 18 x 12 1/2 inches (46 x 32 cm)
Mounted and framed
The sitter for this portrait, Alfred Hardiman, was an English sculptor. Hardiman and Lyon were friends and met when they both attended the British School at Rome in the early 1920s.
Hardiman won a London County Council Scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1912, and three years later joined the Royal Academy School. After a period as an engineer's draughtsman in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, Hardiman resumed his studies and in 1920 was awarded the British Prix de Rome scholarship, spending two years at the British School at Rome. There he developed his style, a blend of naturalism and classicism influenced by Roman and Etruscan art and early fifth century Greek sculpture.
Hardiman's best-known (but also most controversial) work is the Earl Haig Memorial on Whitehall in London. More universally admired are the heraldic lions flanking the main entrance to the City Hall, Norwich, a work which fully epitomises his style. He was appointed consultant sculptor to the building, having worked with one of the architects, Stephen Rowland Pierce, on the Haig Memorial. Hardiman also carved three large stone figures for the outside of the council chamber, and worked with other sculptors on the project including James Woodford and Eric Aumonier.
Hardiman was elected Associate of the Royal Academy in 1936 and a full Academician in 1944. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1938 and the following year received their silver medal for his statue of Haig. In 1946 he won a gold medal for his bronze fountain figure for the New Council House, College Green, Bristol, which however was never erected.
In 1918 he married Violet, daughter of Herbert Clifton White, of London, and had two daughters. He died at Stoke Poges on 17th April 1949.
Robert Lyon...
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Angle Playing Harp with Circled by Doves, Cherubs - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Katie Blackmore, R.B.A., A.S.W.A. (fl.1913-1950) She was a female illustrator and artist who painted fantastic scenes of fairies and Angles and Doves floating in celestial space. Blackmore exhibited at the RBA, and also at RA, RI, RHA, Ridley Art Club, Carfax Gallery, Royal Glasgow Institute...
Category
Symbolist 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Country Life
By Stuart Davis
Located in Miami, FL
Early work when Stuart Davis was an illustrator.
Christie's, New York
Catalogue Raisonné
Category
American Realist 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Pencil
Art Deco Handsome Couple in Garden Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Handsome couple in a bucolic setting rendered masterfully with post-impressionistic brushstrokes. Watercolor, and pencil, wash on heavy paper, Signed and dated lower left .
Framed ...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
"Lilian"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
Category
Modern 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
First Mate, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928
Medium: Pastel on Paper
Dimensions: 25.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, July 7 1928
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Winnie and the Copperhead” Saturday Evening Post Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Published in the Saturday Evening Post dated 11-18 1922 page 107 for the "Winnie and the Copperhead” story written by Bertram Atkey
Signed and dated lower left
Arthur William Brown...
Category
Other Art Style 1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Autoportrait au Petit Col Rond (Self-Portrait with a Small Round Neck), 1925
Located in London, GB
Suzanne Fabry
Autoportrait au Petit Col Rond (Self-Portrait with a Small Round Neck), c.1925
Charcoal on paper
22 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches
signed SUZANNE FABRY (lower right)
Brussels-bor...
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
