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Period: Early 20th Century
Portrait of a Young Woman - 1900s - René François Xavier Prinet - Drawing
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of A Young Woman is an original artwork realized by the French artist and illustrator René François Xavier Prinet between the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX cent...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Portrait - Original Drawing in Pencil by Paul Charles Delaroche - 1910
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Paul Charles Delaroche (1886-1914). Hand-signed and dated on the lower left in pencil. The state of preservation is v...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Portrait of Woman - Pencil Drawing - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Woman is a drawing in pencil on paper by an Anonymous Artist of the XX century. Sheet dimension: 32 x 24.5 cm The state of preservation is good and aged Hand-signed o...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Early 20th Century Watercolour - Lady In A Blue Headscarf
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine early 20th Century portrait of a woman in a blue gathered headscarf and colourful shawl, gazing into the distance with a world weary stare. The painting is unsigned and inscri...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Mother and Child, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
America's greatest female illustrator draws a heartwarming picture of a mother putting to bed her child. Motherly love towards their children is the artist's most iconic theme. This ...
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Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

Jean Launois (1898-1942) Opium smokers, Indochina, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jean Launois (1898-1942) Opium smokers, Indochina Stamp of the artit's estate on the lower right Black ink on paper 22.5 x 30.5 cm Framed : 38 x 46 cm This beautiful drawing, a fine example of Jean Launois' particular art, dates from the artist's stay in Indochina, from which he brought a group of works. An exhibition devoted to this Indochinese period of the artist's production was held at the Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Sables d'Olonne in 1998. About the artist : Of Vendée origin, Jean Launois very quickly showed a sure talent for drawing and was encouraged in this by his parents. He trained with his fellow Vendeans Charles Milcendeau and Auguste Lepère and then entered the Académie Jullian in Paris. Enrolled in the First World War in 1916, he continued to draw at the front, and produced numerous portraits of soldiers...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Reverie - Early 20th Century British chalk drawing of a girl by H J Harvey
By Herbert Johnson Harvey
Located in London, GB
HERBERT JOHNSON HARVEY (British 1883-1956) Reverie Signed with monogram and dated l.l.: HJ 09 Red chalks Framed 29.5 by 22 cm., 11 ¾ by 8 ¾ in. (fra...
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Realist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk

Portrait of Christ - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Christ is an original artwork realized by the Unknown Artist in the early 20th century. Original colored pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on colored cardboa...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pen, Pastel

untitled Woman by the Windows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Woman by the Windows) Unsigned. Pastel on board, c. 1915 Created while the artist was in Giverny, France Provenance: Gift of the artist to his wife, Mary Hess Buehr by Desc...
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Abstract Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

William Henry Barribal - 1920s British watercolour of a Girl in a Fancy Bonnet
By William Henry Barribal
Located in London, GB
WILLIAM HENRY BARRIBAL (1873-1956) Her Best Bonnet Watercolour and bodycolour over traces of pencil Framed 23.5 by 18.5 cm., 9 ¼ by 7 ¼ in. (frame size 42 by 36 cm., 16 ½ by 14 ¼...
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Realist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Two Portraits - Pencil Drawings by Tony Minartz - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Two Portraits is included two original drawings in pencil on paper, realized byTony Minartz (1873-1944), with the stamp of the artist on the rear. Sheet...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Bernard BOUTET DE MONVEL (1881 - 1949), "Portrait of Miss Lise Brissaud"
Located in Paris, FR
Bernard Boutet de Monvel was a French painter, sculptor, engraver, fashion illustrator and interior decorator. Although first known for his etchings, he earned notability for his pai...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

France early 20th century, Head of a faun, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
France, early 20th century Head of a faun bears a monogram "P H" on the lower right Pencil on paper 24.5 x 13 cm In a period frame (in good condition except a small loss on the upper...
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Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Carbon Pencil

Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) Bust-length portrait of a woman, pastel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) Bust-length portrait of a woman signed lower right pastel on paper 53 x 43 cm Framed 74 x 64 cm This bust portrait of a woman shows us another aspect o...
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Art Deco Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Young Lady in Profile
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Young Lady in Profile (Dorothy Gibson) Graphite on paper, c. 1915 Signed lower right (see photo). The sitter for this drawing, along with a huge number of Harrison Fisher’s works, i...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Man, pencil on paper, signed
Located in PARIS, FR
Rudolf Schlichter (1890-1955) Man Pencil on paper Signed "R. Schlichter" on the lower right Study of a man leaning forward on the back 59 x 44 cm Sma...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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India Ink, Ink

French School, dated 1907 Portrait of a Young Girl with a White Headscarf
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
French School, dated 1907 Portrait of a Young Girl with a White Headscarf Charcoal on laid paper with watermark "CF" in a shield with caduceus (Canson Frères) 45 × 35 cm Signed and d...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk

Portrait of a man by Hans Berger - Pastel on paper 37x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Woman - Pencil Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an pencil drawing on paper, realized by an Anonymous artist, in the early 20th century. Good conditions with consumed margins. The artwork represented the drawing of a wom...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Girl with Braids
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal, Pastel, and Watercolor on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 18.75" x 15.25;" Framed 27.50" x 15.25" circa 1920 Girl with Braids...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Pastel, Watercolor, Board

Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962) Paris, Les Bouquinistes, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962) Paris, Les Bouquinistes sur les quais, (The booksellers on the banks) Signed and titled lower right Pencil on paper 17 x 27 cm In good condition, ...
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Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Carbon Pencil

Portrait of Ben Nicholson
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Christopher ' Kit ' Wood 1901-1930, was an English painter who briefly attended Liverpool University to study architecture but pursued an artistic career. He trained at the Academy J...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Siegfried
Located in London, GB
MAXWELL ARMFIELD, RWS. (1882-1972) Siegfried Signed, inscribed and dated l.c.: MAXWELL ARMFIELD/MDCCCCIV [1904] PARIS;SIEGFRIED/ACT III Pencil and watercolour Framed 24 by 16 cm., 9 ½ by 6 ¼ in. (frame size 42.5 by 34.5 cm., 16 ¾ by 13 ½ in.) Provenance: Fine Art Society, London, 1979. Born at Ringwood, Hampshire, of Quaker parents, his father being a milling engineer, Armfield studied at the Birmingham School of Art under Arthur Gaskin and Joseph Southall who taught him the tempera technique he was to practice for the rest of his life. In September 1902, after visiting Italy at the suggestion of Gaskin, he went to Paris, enrolling at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and sharing a studio with three other students – Norman Wilkinson (also from Birmingham), Keith Henderson and the sculptor Gaston Lachaise. Returning to London the following year, he embarked on the series of one-man exhibitions that were henceforth to mark his career, showing first at Robert Ross...
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Pre-Raphaelite Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

The Bully - Narrative Art by Female Illustrator Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
The present work exhibits a storytelling and illustration art style created before the mass communications age. It was rendered in a flat linear style by the highly talented Maginel ...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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India Ink, Watercolor, Board

Portrait of Christ - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Christ is an original artwork realized by the Unknown Artist in the early 20th Century. Original pen drawing on ivory-colored paper,...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pen

Figure of Man Pencil Drawing By Maurice Chabas - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of Man is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Maurice Chabas (1862-1947). The artwork is in good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (37.5x55 cm). Monogramm...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

The girl from Saint Tropez: American artist in the South of France portrait
Located in Norwich, GB
Alexander Warshawsky was born in Cleveland, Ohio on March 29, 1887. He studied painting at the Cleveland School of Art and the National Academy of Design in New York City. Warshawsky...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Singer Actress Eva Tanguqy - Mexican Artist, Mexican Writer
Located in Miami, FL
Eva Tanguqy-A Strange Request, New York Evening World newspaper and Puck magazine interior (two works), 1910s India ink and blue pencil on heavyweight paper 16-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches (4...
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Cubist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink, Color Pencil

[Woman at a Table]
Located in Boston, MA
Frederick Bosley was an Impressionist painter of the Boston School who most often depicted portraits, figures and still-lifes. The artist was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire in 1881. He studied at the Museum School in Boston from 1900-1906 with Edmund C. Tarbell (1862-1938) and Frank W. Benson (1862-1951), and then in Europe from 1906-1908. Bosley returned to Boston in 1909, obtaining a studio at the Fenway Studios from 1909-1918. He was to become a teacher in his own right, settling as Director at the Museum School from 1913-1931. His many awards include First prize in the 1920 Concord Art Academy Exhibition and a Gold Medal in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition, 1925. His work may be found in the collections of several institutions, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Farnsworth Museum, the National Academy of Design and the Concord Academy...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

STUDY OF A MAN WITH A HAT AND OVERCOAT
Located in Portland, ME
Stella, Joseph. STUDY OF A MAN WITH A HAT AND OVERCOAT. Blue, red and black crayon on tan wove paper, c. 1920. 6 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 173 x 120 mm. Signe...
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American Realist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon

SMITHEREENS
Located in Portland, ME
Anonymous. "SMITHEREENS" ORIGINAL ART FOR AN ALFRED E. SMITH CAMPAIGN POSTER. Circa 1920. Ink drawing with white highlighting. 20 x 22 inches, in an early fra...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

The Wise Book Children's Book Illustration- Woman Illustrator - Arts and Crafts
Located in Miami, FL
This little gem of a compact artwork was executed in the Arts and Crafts style for an interior illustration for "The Wise Book," J.M. Dent & Co, London, 1906. "You can't eat your ca...
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Victorian Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Board

Bride - Scottish Female Glasgow School Art Nouveau, Aubrey Beardsley
Located in Miami, FL
Scottish female illustrator Annie French renders a charming cropped portrait of a bride in an Art Nouveau / Aubrey Beardsley style with curved theme borde...
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Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Upscale Couple Illustration Puck magazine Interior - Mexican Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Marius de Zayas was born in Veracruz, Mexico and emigrated to New York with his family in 1907. He joined the art staff of the New York Evening World newspaper and quickly became kno...
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Art Deco Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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India Ink

Portrait of Seated Nude
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Seated Nude', 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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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Early 20th Century Portrait in Venice Drawing
Located in San Francisco, CA
A bit of a mystery scholarly sanguine drawing. Very well executed portrait of a Lady dated either 1904, 1907, or 1909 in Venice. It is signed but I cannot make it out. The paper meas...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Conté

Study of a Dancer and a Lady by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Study of a Dancer and a Lady by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Watercolour and pencil on paper 21 x 15.7 cm (8 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches) Signed with Estate stamp lower right Executed circa ...
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Fauvist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Hand-Me-Downs - Street Children - Waif - Cockney Gutter Imps.
Located in Miami, FL
19th Century Street Art - British children's book author and illustrator Edith Farmiloe depicts a waif-like girl - Cockney Gutter Imp - who is disheveled. The artist draws her i...
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Romantic Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pen, Ink

M.H. Hawkins - Early 20th Century Watercolour, Patience
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine and expressive watercolour painting by M.H. Hawkins, depicting a child playing a game of card. Unsigned. The title is inscribed to the lower margin. The artist's name is inscr...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Profile Portrait of a Woman Sitting on a Chair
Located in Stockholm, SE
A finely tuned oval drawing by the Finnish artist Ester Helenius depicting a young woman in profile seated on a chair. The room is suggested only by a diffuse background. Signed and ...
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Jugendstil Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal, Gouache

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...
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Art Deco Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

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 ...
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Art Deco Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Portrait of Virgin Mary - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Pastel

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...
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Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Disegno ritratto maschile accademico figurativo nudo seduto del XX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, carboncino su carta, è firmato e datato in basso a destra "Colacicchi Firenze 1924". è un tipico esempio di nudo maschile accademico, come si può notare dalla posizione e...
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Other Art Style Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

André Eugène Costilhes (1865-1940) Two studies of women, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
André Eugène Costilhes (1865-1940) Two studies of women bears the stamp of the studio of André Eugène Costilhes in the lower right-hand corner pencil on paper 23 x 36 cm In good ...
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Symbolist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Portrait of a Man at Flanders 1918
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a man at Flanders in 1918 by Eduard Dollerschell (German b. 1887 d. 1946.) Beautiful and delicately rendered portrait of a man done in gouache, pencil, and conte crayon....
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Conté, Gouache, Pencil

André Eugène Costilhes (1865-1940) Young woman in profile, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
André Eugène Costilhes (1865-1940) Young woman in profile bears the stamp of the studio of André Eugène Costilhes in the lower right-hand corner pencil on paper 30.5 x 20 cm In go...
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Symbolist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Torcapel Family att. to Alexandre Blanchet - Drawing 14x20 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Watercolor on paper without frame
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French School Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Carbon Pencil

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...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Gin Giving Doris a Haircut
Located in Middletown, NY
A life drawing by a well known book illustrator and long-term resident of the Chelsea Hotel in the 1930s. Caswell, Edward Gin giving Doris a hair cut Black crayon on lightweight, br...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon

Cafe Society: The Smoker, male portait Closerie des Lilas, Lost Generation Paris
By John Wentworth Russell
Located in Norwich, GB
A strong portrait, and a piece of history. It was confidently sketched in 1923, during the heyday of the "Lost Generation" in Paris, at the Closerie des Lilas - Ernest Hemingway's favourite haunt and home-from-home in the City. This historical café is where Hemingway first read The Great Gatsby with his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald and where he wrote most of The Sun Also Rises...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

Tiger, Lion, Panther, Wolf, Bear, Cat Predator Silhouette Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Woman Illustrator Margery Stocking Hart draws a pen-and-ink story depicting a round table of predators encircling a vulnerable bunny rabbit. ...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Pen

Mother with Child Under a Tree
Located in London, GB
'Mother with Child Under a Tree', pencil on art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger ...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

The Diggers in Ashford by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Ink on paper
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED The Diggers in Ashford by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Ink on paper 22.6 x 17.3 cm (8 ⅞ x 6 ¾ inches) Signed with Estate stamp lower left Inscribed and dated 191...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Watercolour artwork by Ludovic Rodo Pissarro titled 'Le Moulin de la Galette'
Located in London, GB
Le Moulin de la Galette by Ludovic Rodo Pissarro (1878 - 1952) Watercolour and ink on paper 21 x 15.7 cm (8 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches) Signed with Estate stamp and inscribed Elisabeth lower ri...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor, Paper

Portrait of a child
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper Wooden frame with glass pane 35 x 36 x 2 cm
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon

Portrait of a Young Child
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Young Child', 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 p...
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

The Power - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Power is a modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th century. The artwork was in mixed media of ink and white lead on paper. Included a Passepartou: 50...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media

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...
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Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

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