Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Three figures with subtitles is a beautiful artwork realized by an artist of the 20th century. Blue and black pen drawing. In good condition except for the ripped lower margin of the plate. This drawing rapresents three figures: an old woman, a woman praying...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Double Bass Player - II, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Although hi...

"Figure of Woman" is an original drawing in tempera on paper, realized by an Anonymous Artist of the XX Century . The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Sheet dimen...

"Studies" is an original drawing in tempera on paper, realized by an Anonymous French Artist of the XX Century . The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Sheet dimens...

Paysanne d’Egypte (Portrait of Egyptian Woman) is a beautiful drawing realized by the French artist Simone Leclercq-Beuvart, active in the second half of the 20th century. The artwo...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Mother and Child - II, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Sitti...

Sunil Das - Untitled - 9 x 7 inches (unframed size) Pen and Ink on Paper Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. The exceptions are the faces such as the profiles of bearded men in which the content is a mere excuse for the lines to create a pattern of untrammeled playfulness. Of course the Japanese face...

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...

Patrick Vale Greg G acrylic, ink, colored pencil on paper 24h x 19w in 60.96h x 48.26w cm PKV015 See What I See Why are Chicago and baseball so perfect f...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Artist and Nude Model - II, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: ...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Couple - I, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Ira Moskowitz's render...

Woman Portrait is an original watercolor drawing realized by Paul Bonet in 1930. Hand-signed and dated on the lower margin. Dedication handwritten by the artist "pour mon ami Lévrie...

Watercolour on ivory colored paper, 1820 c.a. Beautiful watercolour representing a monk. Hand-titled black ink on lower margin. Excellent conditions. Michela De Vito In the XIX century, Michela De Vito native of Abruzzi, worked in Naples and became a famous artist. She was maybe the daughter or sister of Camillo de Vito...

Hand signed with the artist's monogram. Ink and watercolour on cardboard. Passepartout included. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy...

Watercolour on ivory colored paper, 1820 c.a. Hand-titled "Costume di Sorrento", with autograph caption black ink "Provincia di Napoli" on lower margin at the center. Representing ...

Watercolour on ivory colored stuck on paper, 1820 c.a. Hand-signed on lower-right and hand-titled "Costume di Tortorella", with autograph caption black ink "Provincia di Salerno" on...

This piece is a unique gouache on paper by Erté, also known as Romain de Tirtoff. This piece was created in 1940 as a costume design for a cabaret show entitled Phi-Phi. It is from t...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Clarinet Player, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink and Pastel on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: ...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Couple - VI, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Sitting at a ta...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Nude - III, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: This thoughtful ...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Artist and Nude Model - XIV, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description:...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Three Women, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink and Pastel on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Posing alo...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Fiddlers - I, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Ira Moskowitz'...

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...

Peter Paone, American (1936 - ) - Woman with Flower, Year: 1953, Medium: Gouache on Laid paper, signed and dated in pencil, Size: 12 x 12 in. (30.48 x 30.48 cm)

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Artist and Nude Model - IV, Year: 1985, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Ira Mo...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Rabbi with Book - III, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Sitti...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Hasidic Men Reading, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Gathered toge...

Sunil Das - Untitled - 9 x 7 inches & 9.25 x 7 inches (unframed size) Pen and Ink on Paper, 2012 & 2010 (Set of 2) Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. The exceptions are the faces such as the profiles of bearded men in which the content is a mere excuse for the lines to create a pattern of untrammeled playfulness. Of course the Japanese face...

Antoniucci Volti (French, 1915-1989) Untitled, 1969 Red chalk on paper 14 3/4 x 11 in. Signed: Volti Sculptor, painter, and printmaker Antoniucci Volti was...

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 ...

SUSIE Q. SMITH Medium: Newspaper comics Distributed by: King Features Syndicate First Appeared: 1945 Creators: Linda and Jerry Walter 6 X 18.25 Like her contemporaries, Aggie Mack,...

Rabbi in the synagogue at prayer wearing tallit and tefillin. Hugó Scheiber (born 29 September 1873 in Budapest – died there 7 March 1950) was a Hungarian modernist painter. Hugo Scheiber was brought from Budapest to Vienna at the age of eight where his father worked as a sign painter for the Prater Theater. At fifteen, he returned with his family to Budapest and began working during the day to help support them and attending painting classes at the School of Design in the evening, where Henrik Papp was one of his teachers. He completed his studies in 1900. His work was at first in a post-Impressionistic style but from 1910 onward showed his increasing interest in German Expressionism and Futurism. This made it of little interest to the conservative Hungarian art establishment. However, in 1915 he met the great Italian avant-gardist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and the two painters became close friends. Marinetti invited him to join the Futurist Movement. The uniquely modernist style that he developed was, however, closer to German Expressionism than to Futurism and eventually drifted toward an international art deco manner similar to Erté's. In 1919, he and his friend Béla Kádar held an exhibition at the Hevesy Salon in Vienna. It was a great success and at last caused the Budapest Art Museum to acquire some of Scheiber's drawings. Encouraged, Scheiber came back to live in Vienna in 1920. A turning point in Scheiber's career came a year later, when Herwarth Walden, founder of Germany's leading avant-garde periodical, Der Sturm, and of the Sturm Gallery in Berlin, became interested in Scheiber's work. Scheiber moved to Berlin in 1922, and his paintings soon appeared regularly in Walden's magazine and elsewhere. Exhibitions of his work followed in London, Rome, La Paz, and New York. Scheiber's move to Germany coincided with a significant exodus of Hungarian artists to Berlin, including Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Sandor Bortnyik. There had been a major split in ideology among the Hungarian avant-garde. The Constructivist and leader of the Hungarian avantgarde, Lajos Kassák (painted by Hugó Scheiber in 1930) believed that art should relate to all the needs of contemporary humankind. Thus he refused to compromise the purity of his style to reflect the demands of either the ruling class or socialists and communists. The other camp believed that an artist should be a figurehead for social and political change. The fall out and factions that resulted from this politicisation resulted in most of the Hungarian avant gardists leaving Vienna for Berlin. Hungarian émigrés made up one of the largest minority groups in the German capital and the influx of their painters had a significant effect on Hungarian and international art. Another turning point of Scheiber's career came in 1926, with the New York exhibition of the Société Anonyme, organized by Katherine Dreier. Scheiber and other important avant garde artists from more than twenty-three countries were represented. In 1933, Scheiber was invited by Marinetti to participate in the great meeting of the Futurists held in Rome in late April 1933, Mostra Nazionale d’Arte Futurista where he was received with great enthusiasm. Gradually, the Hungarian artists began to return home, particularly with the rise of Nazism in Germany. Kádar went back from Berlin in about 1932 and Scheiber followed in 1934. He was then at the peak of his powers and had a special flair in depicting café and cabaret life in vivid colors, sturdily abstracted forms and spontaneous brush strokes. Scheiber depicted cosmopolitan modern life using stylized shapes and expressive colors. His preferred subjects were cabaret and street scenes, jazz musicians, flappers, and a series of self-portraits (usually with a cigar). his principal media being gouache and oil. He was a member of the prestigious New Society of Artists (KUT—Képzőművészek Új Társasága)and seems to have weathered Hungary's post–World War II transition to state-communism without difficulty. He continued to be well regarded, eventually even receiving the posthumous honor of having one of his images used for a Russian Soviet postage stamp (see image above). Hugó Scheiber died in Budapest in 1950. Paintings by Hugó Scheiber form part of permanent museum collections in Budapest (Hungarian National Museum), Pecs (Jannus Pannonius Museum), Vienna, New York, Bern and elsewhere. His work has also been shown in many important exhibitions, including: "The Nell Walden Collection," Kunsthaus Zürich (1945) "Collection of the Société Anonyme," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut (1950) "Hugó Scheiber: A Commemorative Exhibition," Hungarian National Museum, Budapest (1964) "Ungarische Avantgarde," Galleria del Levante, Munich (1971) "Paris-Berlin 1900-1930," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1978) "L’Art en Hongrie, 1905-1920," Musée d’Art et l’Industrie, Saint-Etienne (1980) "Ungarische Avantgarde in der Weimarer Republik," Marburg (1986) "Modernizmus," Eresz & Maklary Gallery, Budapest (2006) "Hugó Scheiber & Béla Kádár," Galerie le Minotaure, Paris and Tel Aviv (2007) Hugó Scheiber's paintings continue to be regularly sold at Sotheby's, Christie's, Gillen's Arts (London), Papillon Gallery (Los Angeles) and other auction houses. He was included in the exhibition The Art Of Modern Hungary 1931 and other exhibitions along with Vilmos Novak Aba, Count Julius Batthyany, Pal Bor, Bela Buky, Denes Csanky, Istvan Csok, Bela Czobel, Peter Di Gabor, Bela Ivanyi Grunwald, Baron Ferenc Hatvany, Lipot Herman, Odon Marffy, C. Pal Molnar...

Sunil Das - Untitled - 9 x 7 inches (unframed size) Pen and Ink on Paper Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. The exceptions are the faces such as the profiles of bearded men...

Antoniucci Volti (French, 1915-1989) Untitled (Double Sided Portrait), 1969 Red chalk on paper 14 3/4 x 11 in. Each side signed: Volti Sculptor, painter, and printmaker Antoniucci Volti was born in Albano, Italy, in 1915. His family lived in there until 1920 when the family moved to France to stay. Volti studied at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Nice from 1928 to 1920. By 1932 the young artist had won a gold medal for two polychrome bas-reliefs before going to Paris, where he entered the studio of Jean Boucher at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of only fifteen. After serving in the Second World War, when he was interned as a prisoner of war in Bavaria, he returned in poor health to Paris, only to find his studio destroyed. From 1947 he showed work at various Paris Salons and, in 1954 and 1955 at the Brussels and Antwerp Biennales. In 1957 a retrospective of his work was organized at the Museum Rodin in Paris. He died in Paris in 1989 Works by Volti are in leading museums such as the Musee National d'Art Modern...

Artist: Raul Anguiano, Mexican (1919 - 2006) Title: Portrait of a Woman Year: 1964 Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed and dated l.r. Size: 31 x 22 inches Frame Size: 39 x 30 inches

Man in Mirror is a drawing artwork realized by Alfredo Furiga in the mid-20th century. Pastel and watercolor on paper. Hand-signed by the artist. Good conditions.

An original watercolor painting by Westley "Wes" Olmsted. This work is currently featured in the exhibition Man of Extremes at Benjaman Gallery in Buffalo, NY. Westley G. Olmsted (1934-2011) was a painter and sculptor. He was born in Buffalo, New York, and was a distant relative Frederick Law Olmsted...

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...

Samuel Wood Gaylor (American, 1883 - 1957) Untitled (Woman in Mirror), 1930 Watercolor on paper Sight size: 14 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. Framed: 20 3/4 x 16 1/4 in...

A bright and engaging portrait of the famed comedian Victoria Wood (1953 - 2016). She wears a vibrant yellow jersey with a vivid blue stripe running across it. In the background are ...

Self Portrait with Arms Over Head, vignette on Paul Cadmus on left Graphite drawing on thin wove paper, c. 1940's Unsigned Provenance: Paull Cadmus Jon F. Anderson (1937-2018) Condition: Sheet size: 15 x 10 1/4 inches 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...

Inspired by the theatre world, Devie had retained her own unique drawing strokes. Her works reflect an approachable other-worldliness. She paints a story to be told and answered. Th...

Image size is 11.60" by 9" Boris Deutsch (Lithuanian-American Modernist) was born in Krasnogorsk Lithuania june 4 1892 died in Los Angeles 1978. Entered the polytechnic school in rig...

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Donald Stacy (1925-2008) New Jersey "Upclose Portrait" 1953 Ink on paper 14" x 16.5" unframed Signed and dated in pencil lower right Came from artist estate *Custom framing available...

A pencil sketch by famed American Modernist Joseph Stella, who burst on to the American scene at the epochal Armory Show of 1913 and whose work is today in the collections of every m...

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The painting “Still Life with Crab” combines elements of piquancy and intrigue. The central place is occupied by a vase of flowers, depicted in the fo...

Etude pour la Pologne is a modern artwork realized by Alfred Plauzeau in the Early-20th Century. Pencil Drawing. Good conditions.

The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...

Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him. The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...

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...

the piece without the original frame measures 18X7.5 inchesThis is a wonderful watercolor by one of America's most treasured artists, Chaim Gross. Throughout his lifetime Gross has gone through tragedy and a real test of faith however, he has the unique ability to focus and direct his expression to the most joyful and beautiful works of art, such as the present lot. For more than sixty years Chaim Gross's art has expressed optimistic, affirming themes. His acrobats, cyclists, and mothers and children convey joyfulness, exuberance, love, and intimacy. This aspect of his work remained consistent with his Hasidic heritage, which teaches that "only in his childlike happiness is man nearest to God." Chaim Gross, born in Wolowa, Austria in 1904, was educated at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design and at the Art Student's League in New York. Chaim Gross's work was greatly influenced by his experiences during a period of international conflict, World War II. He had moved to Kolomyya from Wolowa to get a better education, but the Germans came to occupy, killing, raping, and looting. Gross and his family were chased from one village to the next. He wrote, "We were sleeping on roofs and in the fields, with the sound of cannon fire...

Sunil Das - Untitled - 9 x 7 inches (unframed size) Pen and Ink on Paper, 2010 & 2012 (Set of 2) Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. The exceptions are the faces such as th...

A powerful portrait of the writer Samuel Beckett by Miguel Herrera, Chilean/American (1935). unframed. Graphite on Paper, signed Size: 31 x 23 in. (78...

Artist: Raphael Soyer, Russian/American (1899 - 1987) Title: Pensive Dancer Year: circa 1956 Medium: Pencil on Paper, signed lower right Paper Size: 8 x 5 inches Frame: 11.5 x 9.5 i...

Inspired by the theatre world, Devie had retained her own unique drawing strokes. Her works reflect an approachable other-worldliness. She paints a story to be told and answered. Th...

Artist: Marshall Goodman, American XXth Title: Meryl Streep and Cher Year: circa 1980 Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Signed Image Size: 20 x 25.5 inches

The Scapegoat II Marshall Goodman, American (1916–2003) Watercolor on paper Size: 10 x 10 in. (25.4 x 25.4 cm) For the last ten years of his life Mr. Goodman worked as a Courtroom Illustrator. for high profile trials such as John Gotti...