Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Period: 1980s
Strange Patient - Drawing by Shokirov - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Strange Patient is a drawing realized by Shokirov in the 1980s.
Waterclor and ink drawing on paper.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
The state of preservation is good.
Th artwork...
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1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Odalisque (figurative drawing, female figure, charcoal, black and white)
By Susan Kiefer
Located in Kansas City, MO
Susan Kiefer
Odalisque
Charcoal on paper
Year: 1989
Size: 25x19in
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1665
Framed charcoal drawing of a crouching faceless female figure on Indi...
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1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Mermaid - Charcoal Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1980
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Mermaidt is a Charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1980s.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good condition on a white paper.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Jun...
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1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
'Oleta's Hat', Carmel Art Association Exhibit, California Woman Artist, SFMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'V. Conroy' for Virginia Conroy (American, 1922-2006) and dated 1985.
Exhibited: Carmel Art Association, 1983 (on original backing...
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1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1980
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a China Drawing and Watercolor realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1980s.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good condition on a little cardboard.
Mino Maccari (Sien...
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1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pen
The Couple - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1980
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Couple is a Pencil, pastel and Watercolour drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1980s.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good condition on a white paper.
Mino Maccar...
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1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Cardinal - Drawing by Giovanni Boffa - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
The Cardinal is an original artwork realized by Giovanni Boffa in 1980s.
Mixed colored drawing on paper.
Includes wooden frame: 55 x 2 x 44 cm
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Pastel
The Family
Located in London, GB
'The Family', gouache on fine art paper (1984), by Raymond Dèbieve. In a clear nod to Picasso's influence both stylistically and in terms of subject matter ...
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1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Happy 1985 - Etching by Mino Maccari - 1985
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Happy 1985 is an original print realized by Mino Maccari in 1985.
Beautiful black and white etching on ivory-colored paper.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed by the...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Etching
Rare Large Original British Illustration Art Watercolor Painting "Horse Races"
By Sue Macartney Snape
Located in Surfside, FL
Sue Macartney-Snape Watercolor painting (with highlights of gold metallic paint) titled on label "Goodwood Races"
Signed with initials verso.
Info on label verso Dimensions: H 38.75" x W 31" (Sight) H 30" x W 22.5" (being sold unframed)
Goodwood Racecourse is a horse-racing track five miles north of Chichester, West Sussex, in England controlled by the family of the Duke of Richmond, whose seat is nearby Goodwood House.
Sue Mccartney Snape was born in Tanzania and brought up in Australia. She now lives and paints in London and is the award winning artist and illustrator of the 'Social Stereotypes' column in the Saturday Telegraph. Sue has been the Saturday Telegraph Magazine's illustrator for over 15 years, and has a reputation as the finest in her field. With her limited edition lithograph prints selling worldwide, she is a household name, and has been acclaimed as 'the P.G. Wodehouse of art' Social commentator Sue Macartney-Snape has been illuminating English life with her dart-like wit and observatory skills in the column ‘Social Stereotypes’, carrying on the grand old tradition of mordant English satire. She is a master of caricature and her limited-edition prints of British social stereotypes are brilliant, whimsical, and amusing. She shows us misfits and ultrafits, but always with affection.
Sue Macartney-Snape has the ability to observe the day to day and the humorous side of life. Her intriguing observations reveal the hideous and glorious nature of English Eccentricities. Travel writer and television personality John Julius Norwich calls Macartney-Snape a "master of caricature" and says her paintings and limited edition prints "illustrate the English social scene more brilliantly and with greater accuracy than those of any other painter working today." Her work is similar to Jules Feiffer, Ronald Searle, Quentin Blake...
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1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Fred Astaire and Diana Vreeland, Vanity Fair Magazine
By Robert Risko
Located in Miami, FL
Airbrush Illustration on paper
Signed Risko lower right
Blindstamp Upper Right
Published: Vanity Fair Magazine
Unframed
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Crying Man Collage
Located in Miami, FL
Mixed media on paper, 1989, signed 'Ivan Chermayeff' and dated lower right, titled lower left.
29 1/2 x 22 in. (sheet), 32 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. (frame).
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Laid Paper
Crying Man
Located in Miami, FL
Mixed media on paper, 1989, signed 'Ivan Chermayeff' and dated lower right, titled lower left.
29 1/2 x 22 in. (sheet), 32 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. (frame).
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Laid Paper
Meryl Streep & Cher, Caricature Drawing by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
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
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Fred Astaire and Diana Vreeland, Vanity Fair Magazine
By Robert Risko
Located in Miami, FL
Airbrush Illustration on paper
Signed Risko lower right
Blindstamp Upper Right
Published: Vanity Fair Magazine
Unframed
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Head of JYM III - 20th Century, Chalk and charcoal on paper by Frank Auerbach
Located in London, GB
Chalk and charcoal on paper.
Auerbach met Juliet Yardley Mills in 1956, when she was working as a model at Sidcup College of Art. He began to paint her the following year, and contin...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
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Modern Dancers
By Mick Micheyl
Located in London, GB
'Modern Dancers', pastel, ink and gouache on fine art paper by French artist, singer and sculptor, Mick Micheyl (1964). Two elegant young men are depicted in a graceful dancing pose, arms outstretched, their lithe bodies so agile and limber. Perhaps one of the dancers was her friend, Philippe, to whom the painting is dedicated on the bottom. The dedication says: 'For you Philippe, all my friendship'. Signed: 'Mick Micheyl'. The work has been newly framed and glazed after having been acquired in the S. of France. It is in fair vintage condition commensurate with age showing minor blemishing on the paper. Upon request a video of the piece can be provided.
Dimensions with Frame:
H 75 cm / 29.5"
W 61 cm / 24"
Dimensions without Frame:
H 56 cm / 22"
W 42 cm / 16.5"
About the Artist: Mick Micheyl (1922 - 2019) was born in Lyon and had a busy and rewarding artistic career as a singer, producer, reviewer, metal sculptor, artist. After having received training at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon she became a painter and decorator in the theatre but then commenced a career in the musical activities of a theatrical troupe. She won the ABC competition in Paris in 1949 with a song, Le Marchand de Poésie, which she composed herself. She then performed in many cabarets: L'Échelle de Jacob, Harlequin and Liberty's. In the 1950s she was one of the most important French cabaret singers of that period. One of her titles, 'Un Gamin de Paris', became one of the French standards and also performed by Yves Montand and Robert Clary...
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Located in Paris, FR
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Original French Art Deco Gouache Illustration Drawing by J. Hilly
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original Art Deco illustration hand-painted with ink and gouache on paper. The drawing features two elegant women with large windows and drapery in the background. This illustrati...
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H 15.56 in W 12.01 in D 1.97 in
Academic study of male Nude. Two -sided. Sketches on reverce. 19th century
Located in Firenze, IT
19th century Italian school drawing. Academic study of the figure of the young naked man.
Drawing made from two sides of the sheet of paper
On the other side two feet and an arm are ...
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Mughal School, 18th Century Emperor Jahangir with Empress Nur Jahan
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir and Empress Nur Jahan exchanging lotus blossoms; a symbol of beauty, purity, honesty, rebirth, self-regeneration, and enlightenment....
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Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir in his harem in flagrante delicto
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cre...
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Academic drawing of classical bust sculpture. 19th century
Located in Firenze, IT
This 19th century Italian drawing of classical bust sculpture in plaster showcases expert chiaroscuro modeling in black and brown charcoal on paper.
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Jules-Eugène Lenepveu (1819-1898) Portrait of a man in profile, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jules-Eugène Lenepveu (1819-1898)
Portrait of a man in profile
signed on the lower right
Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on paper
19.5 x 13 cm
Framed : 29 x 22.7 cm
Jules-Eugène Lenepveu is of course particularly well known for his large-scale paintings, such as the one on the ceiling of the Paris Opera, but his work here is much more delicate and intimate. We recognise the artist's mastery of talent, but the play of textures, with its highlights of white that enliven and illuminate the model's face, is also very subtle.
There's a particularly charming sense of life and impression of light.
Jules-Eugène Lenepveu was born in Angers on 12 December 1819, on the site of the street that now bears his name, into a family of small shopkeepers. The painter showed a deep attachment to his family throughout his life through his correspondence and the many portraits of his relatives.
He entered the drawing school in Angers in 1833, where he was a pupil of Jean-Michel Mercier. There he rubbed shoulders with the sculptor Ferdinand Taluet. He arrived in Paris in 1837 and entered the Beaux-Arts, where he was officially admitted to François-Édouard Picot's studio in 1838. He exhibited his work "L'Idylle" at the Salon of 1843 and, that same year, left for his first visit to Italy. He was awarded the Second Prix de Rome in 1843 for "Cincinnatus recevant les députés du Sénat" (Cincinnatus receiving the deputies of the Senate), then the First Prize in 1847 for "La Mort de Vitellius" (The Death of Vitellius).
A resident at the Villa Médicis from 1848, he was surrounded by painters Alexandre Cabanel, Léon Benouville, Gustave Boulanger, Félix Barrias...
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The Roman Bath
Located in London, GB
'The Roman Bath', pencil on art paper (circa 1960s), School of Rome. Three broad-shouldered men make their way through the sultry corridors of the Hammam in...
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Superb Stylish Vintage Fashion Design Painting Artist Stamped
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1950's fashion design, no doubt of Parisian origin.
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H 12.5 in W 9.75 in D 0.1 in
Alfred Bendiner, (Baseball Hitter and Pitcher -- The Philadelphia Phillies?)
Located in New York, NY
Of course it's possible that these baseball players aren't from a Philadelphia team, but I doubt it. There was so much drama and intrigue with both the Philadelphia Phillies and the ...
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Portrait of a Child at Home
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Child at Home', gouache on fine paper, by Raymond Dèbieve (1984). A charming scene of a toddler in his high chair and family dog und...
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1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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1982 "Bather" Modernist Figurative Drawing Jack Hooper
By Jack Hooper
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper
"Bather"
1982
Pastel on rag paper
22.5"x28.5 off white wood frame with detail 24.25"x2.25"x31.5"
Signed and dated in pencil lower right and rev...
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1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pastel
H 31.25 in W 3.25 in D 24.25 in
I Will Always Know
Located in Houston, TX
Beautiful abstract portrait drawing titled "I Will Always Know" by Charles Pebworth. Mixed Media on paper. Circa 1981.
Artist biography:
Charles Pebworth was born in 1926, a memb...
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1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media
Whimsical Modern Watercolor Painting of an Artist in his Studio
Located in Houston, TX
A delightful modern watercolor painting of an artist sitting in his studio observing his figure paintings. Painted by Carl Molno in 1988.
Dimensions with frame:
H: 18.25"
W: 20.25...
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H 10.5 in W 12.5 in D 0.25 in
Ink Drawing of a Man in a Mask
Located in Houston, TX
Delightful ink portrait drawing by John Alexander of a man in a mask.
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