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Period: Mid-20th Century
French Watercolor - Village Vendors at the Outdoor Market
Located in Houston, TX
Vintage watercolor in colorful jewel tones of local villagers selling their wares at an outdoor market by French artist Stephane Magnard (1917-2010), circa 1950.
Original artwork on...
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Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Woman, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Portrait of a Woman (P5.24), Year: 1961, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Sitting with ...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Woman in Maine, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Portrait of Woman in Maine (P2.55), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 27.94 cm), Description: Starin...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Woman in Blue Turtleneck, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Portrait of Woman in Blue Turtleneck (P2.61), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Image Size: 14.5 x 10 inches, Size: 15 x ...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Face II - Ink on Paper Unique Signed Drawing Surrealist Woman Painter, c. 1960
By Leonor Fini
Located in New York, NY
Leonor Fini
Face II, ca. 1960
Ink on paper
11 x 8.5 cm 4 1/3 x 3 1/8 in.
23 x 20 cm 9 x 7 7/8 in. (Frame included)
Unique work
Exhibition History: Leonor Fini: Small Faces, April ...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Study for the Murder of Marat - China Ink Drawing - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Study for the Murder of Marat (Studio per l'uccisione di Marat) is the original black ink and black marker drawing on paper, realized in 1968 by Gian Paolo Berto (Andria, Italy, 1940...
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Synthetic Cubist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Drawing
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Karl Lagerfeld (German, 1933-2019)
Marking(s); notes: marking(s)
Materials: mixed media on paper
Dimensions (H, W, D): 19"h, 14"w (work is not framed)
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Feminist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Flore - Drawing by Marcel Dupont - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Flore is a beautiful drawing on paper, realized by the French artist Marcel Dupont (1898-1974).
Hand-signed on back.
The artwork represents a minimalistic, clean design, through p...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of a Woman in a Green Shirt -San Francisco Bay Area Figurative Movement
Located in Soquel, CA
Study of a woman in profile by San Francisco artist William Kirchner (20th Century). Signed and dated "W. Kirchner 67" in the lower right corner. Presented in a new charcoal grey mat with foam core backing. Paper size: 18"H x 12"W.
Exhibitions, San Francisco 28th Annual Arts Festival 1974, Capricorn Asunder Gallery 1974, Nevada City...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Angry Man - Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Angry Man is an artwork realized by an anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Pencil drawing on paper. With another drawing on the rear.
Good conditions.
The artwork is created through ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Colisée, Rome
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
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Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Portrait of a Woman - Original Watercolor by Mino Maccari - 1960 ca.
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a Woman is a very beautiful mixed media and oil painting realized by Mino Maccari in 1960 ca.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner.
In good condition, ex...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Fillmore East 1968 Traffic, Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly original artwork
Located in Southampton, NY
This is the original character study art for the very first Fillmore East concert Poster by David Edward Byrd in 1968, it is featured on page 74 of the new coffee table book "Poster Child, The Psychedelic Art and Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd". The poster was for a concert at the Fillmore East featuring, Traffic, Blue Cheer and Buttery. An image of the finished poster is shown in this listing just for reference to the figures. David Edward Byrd created some of the most important and memorable Classic Theatre and Rock and Roll images from the 1960s and 70s. David created ALL of the Art for Bill Graham’s Fillmore East, including their Program covers and Rock posters, the art for Jimi Hendrix’s first Fillmore East appearance, The Rolling Stones 1969 World Tour art, The Who’s Performance of Tommy at the New York Metropolitan Opera House and The Fillmore, and The Grateful Dead Swell Dance Concert to name only a few. He also created the poster art for the original location of the 1969 Woodstock music festival . His memorable images were also used for classic Broadway shows like Godspell, Follies and Jesus Christ Superstar to mention only a few. A new coffee table book titled "Poster Child, The Psychedelic Art & Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd" features his classic Rock and Roll art and Broadway art...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Vellum, Pencil
Portrait - Drawing By Gabriel Zendel - Mid-20th Century
By Gabriel Zendel
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an artwork realized by Gabriel Zendel in the Mid 20th Century.
Ink drawing.
In good conditions.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Portrait of Couple - Pencil and Watercolor by Mino Maccari - 1950
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Couple is an original modern artwork realized the half of the XX Century by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Figures - Drawing by Francisco Bores - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is a modern artwork realized by Francisco Bores in 1950.
Charcoal drawings.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Sketch of a Man with Mustache and Hat by Philadelphia Artist Julius Bloch
By Julius Bloch
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Julius Thiengen Bloch
(American, born Germany, 1888–1966)
Man with Mustache and Hat
Crayon on paper, 6 x 4 1/2 inches
FRAMED: 12 x 11 inches (approx.)
Si...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
View of the Môle and Mont-Blanc
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
68 x 82.5 x 2.5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Portrait - Drawing By Lucien Coutaud - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a modern artwork realized by Lucien Coutaud in the Mid-20th Century.
Ink and watercolor drawing.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Clown Portrait #11
Located in Soquel, CA
Watercolor portrait of a clown on heavy paper by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "M. Blake" in the lower right corner. Unframed.
Marjorie ...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1940's Fashion Illustration - Four Brides Holding Candles
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas.
The painting, executed in gouache and pencil.
The sketch is original, vintage and me...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of a man - Original Charcoal Drawing by Dimitri Godycki Cwirko - 1966
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a man is an original drawing in charcoal on paper realized by Dimitri Godycki Cwirko (1901-1987) in 1966.
The state of preservation is good and aged, with some stains an...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Sleeping Woman - Pen Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Sleeping Woman is an original modern artwork realized the half of the XX Century by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original pen drawing on paper.
Hand-...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tissue Paper, Pen
Resting Girl, Modern Pastel on Paper by Joseph Hirsch
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joseph Hirsch, American (1901 - 1981) - Resting Girl, Year: circa 1960, Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed in pencil top left, Size: 12.25 x 19.75 in. (31.12 x 50.17 cm), Frame Siz...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
A ca 1937 Watercolor Titled "Sad Girl" by Institute of Design Artist Eugene Dana
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1937 watercolor Titled "Sad Girl" by Institute of Design artist Eugene Dana. Image size:
19 3/4" x 12 1/2". Matted to 24 1/4" x 18 1/4". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Patricia
Located in Maidenhead, GB
R. Lang Thomas (British, 20th century)
Patricia, 1947
Graphite on paper
Signed and dated lower right
34.4 x 26.8 cm.; (within frame) 56 x 47.5 cm.
Provenance:
The Chelsea Art Society;
Private Collection, United Kingdom.
Exhibition history:
The Chelsea Art Society, 1947
In attractive side profile, a young lady rests her gaze at a gentle distance, her lips pursed...
Category
Post-War Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Moses and Israel - Drawing by Albert Decaris - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Moses and Israel is an original china ink drawing realized by Albert Decaris in the Early 20th Century.
In good conditions.
The artwork is presented through deft engraving, the ex...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait - Pencil and Watercolor on Paper by Mino Maccari - 1955
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait 1955 is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari.
Lapis drawing and watercolor on paper, in good conditions, hand-signed by the artist on the lower left corner.
Mino M...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an Original Drawing in pen on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Ma...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
In full swing by John Torcapel - Gouache on paper 24x35 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
A Sensitive 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Sensitive, Finely Rendered 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Man By Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Artwork size: 12 x 9 1/2 inches. Artwork is un...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
At the End of the World, Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Portrait of Dante - Drawing By Albert Decaris - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a modern artwork realized by Albert Decaris in the Mid-20th Century.
Charcoal and watercolor drawings.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Figures - Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is a drawing realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Watercolor on paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft expressive strokes.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Study of a man with a hat
By Henri Fehr
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
82 x 61.4 x 3.5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Sketched Portrait - Charcoal by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Sketched portrait is an original drawing on paper, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Woman - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original China Ink Drawing and Watercolour realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th Century.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed by the artist with pencil.
Min...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Traviata - Rodolphe - 2nd act - Drawing by Erté - 1948
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Traviata - Rodolphe - 2nd act is a modern artwork realized in 1948 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Titled and numbered "9893" on the back.
Includes frame
Provenance :
- Erté personal collection.
- Serge Leeman collection.
Erté is responsible for the costumes and sets for Les Mamelles de Tirésias. This opera bouffe in two acts by Francis Poulenc based on a play by Guillaume Apollinaire...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of Young Girl Gouache Painting by Max Moreau
By Max Moreau
Located in Atlanta, GA
1950s portrait, gouache on paper painting by Belgian artist Max Moreau (1902 - 1992).
This is a finely detailed portrait of a lovely young girl looking like a good child from right a...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Scholar - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Scholar is a china ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1940s.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good condition on a little yellowed paper.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Country villa
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of Leopold Myers by Sir William Rothenstein
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately sanguine portrait of Leopold Hamilton Myers (Novelist) by Sir William Rothenstein (English, 1872-1945). Captured in Rothenstein's characteristic style, Myers looks directly at the viewer with a neutral expression. Although this portrait uses only two colors and minimal shading, the likeness of Myers is incredibly well captured. Leo (Leopold) Hamilton Myers (1881 – 1944) was a British novelist. Numerous examples like this one of the writer are in the Tate Museum.
Initialed and dated in the lower right corner ("W.R. 1936")
Inscription on verso indicating materials, subject, and artist.
Presented in a new cream colored mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 18"H x 12"W
Paper size: 15.25"H x 10.75"W
William Rothenstein (English, 1872-1945) was born into a German-Jewish family in Bradford, West Yorkshire. His father, Moritz, emigrated from Germany in 1859 to work in Bradford's burgeoning textile industry. Soon afterwards he married Bertha Dux, and they had six children, of which William was the fifth. Rothenstein was knighted in 1931.
Rothenstein left Bradford Grammar School at the age of sixteen to study at the Slade School of Art*, London (1888-1893), where he was taught by Alphonse Legros, and the Académie Julian* in Paris (1889-1893), where he met and was encouraged by James McNeill Whistler, Edgar Degas and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. Whilst in Paris he also befriended the Anglo-Australian artist Charles Conder, with whom he shared a studio in Montmartre. In 1893 he returned to England to work on "Oxford Characters" a series of lithographic* portraits.
In Oxford he met and became a close friend of the caricaturist* and parodist Max Beerbohm, who later immortalised him in the short story Enoch Soames (1919). During the 1890s Rothenstein exhibited with the New English Art Club* and, in 1900, won a silver medal for his painting The Doll's House at the Exposition Universelle. In 1898 he co-founded the Carfax Gallery in St. James' Piccadilly with John Fothergill. During its early years the gallery was closely associated with such artists as Charles Conder, Philip Wilson Steer, Charles Ricketts and Augustus John. It also exhibited the work of Auguste Rodin, whose growing reputation in England owed much to Rothenstein's friendship and missionary zeal. The gallery was later the home for all three exhibitions of The Camden Town Group*, led by Rothenstein's friend and close contemporary Walter Sickert.
Rothenstein is best known for his portrait drawings of famous individuals and for being an official war artist in both World War I and World War II. He was also a member of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers. The style and subject of his paintings varies, though certain themes reappear, in particular an interest in 'weighty' or 'essential' subjects tackled in a restrained manner. Good examples include Parting at Morning (1891), Mother and Child (1903) and Jews Mourning at a Synagogue (1907) - all of which are owned by the Tate Gallery. The National Portrait Gallery owns over two hundred of his portraits. In 2011 the BBC and the Public Catalogue Foundation began cataloguing all of his paintings in public ownership online.
Between 1902 and 1912 Rothenstein lived in Hampstead, London, where his social circle included such names as H.G.Wells, Joseph Conrad and the artist Augustus John. Amongst the young artists to visit Rothenstein in Hampstead were Mark Gertler...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Handmade Paper
Egyptian Queen - Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Egyptian Queen is an artwork realized by an unknown in mid-20th Century.
Tempera on Papyrus.
77 x 51 cm ; 94 x 48 cm with frame.
Good conditions!
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Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967) A woman seated, drawing signed
Located in Paris, FR
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967)
A young woman seated
signed lower leftt
Charcoal, red and white chalks on thin paper transfered on cardboard
49 x 39 cm
Framed : 55.5 x ...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Self Portrait sketching with Vignette in Profile
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Self Portrait sketching with Vignette in Profile
Graphite on thin wove paper, c. 1940's
Unsigned
Condition: Small nicks in the right margin, not affecting the image
Sheet size: 14 1/2 x 10 inches
Provenance: Paul Cadmus
Jon F. Anderson (1937-2018)
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Margaret Hoening (1906–1998) was a painter and an etcher perhaps best known for her
photographs as part of the PaJaMa photography collective. After attending Smith College, she settled in New York, where
she pursued formal artistic training at the Art Students League. There, she met the artist couple Paul Cadmus and Jared
French. In 1937, she married French, fifteen years her junior, who had spent the previous decade with Cadmus. The trio
formed a tight bond, with Cadmus and French continuing their relationship.
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Margaret Hoening (1906–1998) was a painter and an etcher perhaps best known for her
photographs as part of the PaJaMa photography collective. After attending Smith College, she settled in New York, where
she pursued formal artistic training at the Art Students League. There, she met the artist couple Paul Cadmus and Jared
French. In 1937, she married French, fifteen years her junior, who had spent the previous decade with Cadmus. The trio
formed a tight bond, with Cadmus and French continuing their relationship. Together, the three formed PaJaMa (a mashup of their first names, Paul, Jared, and Margaret). Using Hoening’s Leica, they captured themselves, their artist friends,
and members of the gay community posing in artful tableaux on the beaches of Fire Island, Provincetown, and Nantucket
over the following eight years. Those captured by their camera include the photographer George Platt Lynes; Cadmus’s
sister and artist Fidelma; artist Bernard Perlin; and Monroe Wheeler, director of exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art,
among others. Though she produced few canvases, Hoening’s paintings demonstrate the influences of French and Cadmus,
particularly with her adoption of the time-intensive, traditional medium of egg tempera that they championed.
In the 1940s, the Frenches’ social circle continued to expand. They befriended the British author E.M. Forster, who stayed
with them on his first trip to New York in 1947, spending a few days with them in Provincetown, and visiting them again
in 1949. When Cadmus began a relationship with the young artist George Tooker in 1944, the trio became a foursome,
with Tooker regularly vacationing with the group and appearing in PaJaMa’s photographs...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Large Drawing of Boy by French Armenian Modernist Jean Jansem Ecole De Paris Art
By Jean Jansem
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian) 1920-2013
Young Boy (sad young man)
Hand signed lower left corner
Provenance: Marble Arch Gallery NYC
Measurements Image size: 25 by 18 inches, ove...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Bloom Floral Display Mid 20th Century French Post Impressionist Signed Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) signed gouache on paper, unframed
dated 1953
painting: 21 x 15 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound conditi...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Lady's Profile, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Lady's Profile (P5.74), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 27.94 cm), Description: Facing the left, E...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woman in Kimono, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Woman in Kimono (89), Year: 1961, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 20 in. x 14 in. (50.8 cm x 35.56 cm), Description: Wearing a traditional Ja...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woman in Yellow, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Woman in Yellow (P3.21), Year: 1961, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 20 x 13.5 in. (50.8 x 34.29 cm), Description: Rendered in the...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Renaissance Female Figure Study, 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Female Figure Study
Year: circa 1964
Medium: Charcoal on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of Ian ...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Alfred Bendiner, La Alsacienne (pair)
Located in New York, NY
Leave it to the Bendiners to find an Alsatian restaurant in Paris (La Taverne Alsacienne) and use it's stationary to such a great end! And thank goodness that the paper required two ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Edward Wesson (1910-1983) - Watercolour, Portrait of Royal Artillery Officer
By Edward Wesson
Located in Corsham, GB
An accomplished watercolour portrait of William J. Osbourne of the Royal Artillery. Here, Wesson captures William in gestural brush strokes, giving the portrait a wonderful loose and...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Clown in Yellow
Located in Houston, TX
Mid-century French watercolor of clown in yellow tones, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic sleeve and Certificate of...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1940's French Fashion Illustration - The Stylish Lady With The Green Features
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas.
The painting, executed in gouache and pencil.
The s...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Lady in Tunic by Benjamin II Vautier - Graphite on Paper - 21.5x19 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Benjamin II Vautier (1895–1974) was a Swiss-born artist, known for his contributions to both painting and graphic art. He was born into a family with artistic roots, as the son of Ot...
Category
Academic Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
"King of the Blues" - B.B. King Portrait in Watercolor and Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant portrait entitled "King of the Blues" by John Martin Socha (American, 1913-1983). Bold and angular, this piece depicts an African-American man wearing a crown. Given the date of the piece (1955), it is likely a reference to B. B. King, who began topping the Billboard charts in 1953. The portrait is slightly abstracted, with ornamentation that adds detail and depth.
Signed and dated "Socha 1955" in the lower left corner.
Presented in a wood frame with a linen mat.
Frame size: 17.5"H x 14.75"W
Image size: 9.5"H x 6.5"W
John Martin Socha (American, 1913-1983) was a painter and teacher from St. Paul, Minnesota. As a teenager, Socha studied with Diego Rivera and attended the Minneapolis School of Art. He later worked as a WPA artist in the 1930s, and Rivera’s influence can be seen in his murals. Socha then served in the US Army from 1943-1946 before attending the University of Minnesota in 1947. Socha’s work has won many awards and is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
Exhibited: Minnesota State Fair, 1938-40 (prize), 1941 (prize), 1942; Minneapolis Women's Club, 1938-42 (prize); Minneapolis IA, 1938-41, 1942 (prize), 1943-46; AIC, 1941-42; MMA, 1941-42; WMAA, 1942; NGA, 1940, 1942; Guatemala City, 1940; Mexico City, 1942; Walker Art Center, 1938, 1940, 1949 (prize); Davenport Municipal Art Gal., 1941; St Paul Art Gal., 1938-42; Denver Art Mus.; Univ. Wisconsin; Fed. Courts Bldg (solo), Hamline Univ. (solo), St. Catherine's Col. (solo), Public Library (solo), St. Paul Park H.S (solo), all in St. Paul; Guy Mayer Gal., NY (solo); Mankato State College, 1957 (solo).
Member: Minnesota AA; Minnesota Art...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
Untitled (Children Sleeping)
By Amalia Polleri
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Amalia Polleri, 'Untitled (Sleeping Children)', Conté crayon on cream wove drawing paper, signed and dated '43 in ink beneath the image, lower right; with 1/4 margins all around. Arc...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté
