Drawing Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Amusing French oil pastel drawing of a colorful man in a bowler hat playing the accordion by artist Kseiran, 2009. Signed lower right. Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper disp...

Serene charcoal portrait of a young woman, quietly seated and reading, c. 1990. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic sleeve and Ce...

Playful French oil pastel of a man in bright green playing the standing bass by artist Kseiran, 2009. Signed lower left. Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on a white...

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...

Medusa, 2014 Graphite on paper 15.75 x 20.1 inches / 40 x 51 cm (framed) Nikos Kanarelis was born in Athens, Greece in 1975 where he now lives and works. Βetween 1999 and 2004 h...

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Robotically-fabricated drawings on paper, these series formally deal with mediation from screen image to ‘drawing’ while using a computer-controlled pen plotte...

Yves Saint Laurent ( 1936-2008 ) " Femme aux serpents " . année 1977. dessin au feutre de couleur . original projet de la carte de voeux LOVE 1977 . 31 x24 cm . Felt tip . unique ...

LOT:20230914S04 KAWS [Untitled] Ink on paper ca.2012-2019 Artist signed in lower right Unique 36.4 x 29.5 cm (14.3 x 11.6 in) Provenance: From the artist's agent.

LOT:20230914S03 KAWS [Untitled] Ink on paper ca.2012-2019 Artist signed in lower right Unique 36.3 x 25.7 cm (14.3 x 10.1 in) Provenance: From the artist's agent.

Kristalova is best known for her figurative ceramic sculptures that incorporate aspects of the human body and elements of nature. Across her oeuvre, she explores transition as a stag...

Kristalova is best known for her figurative ceramic sculptures that incorporate aspects of the human body and elements of nature. Across her oeuvre, she explores transition as a stag...

Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008 ) "Harem " is part of Yves Saint Laurent works from private French collection . drawing ( 31 x21 cm ) ink and felt-tip on paper .

" Deux personnages " . " Two characters " is an original indian ink on paper drawing by Jean Cocteau, graphite, stump and brown wash . "Anteil " was a jean Cocteau and Igor Stravinsky...

Tsuguharu (Leonard) Foujita (1886-1968) Madonna and Child, c. 1950 Original India ink drawing Signed lower right On paper 33 x 24.5 cm at sight Presented in a golden baguette frame ...

Tobey's work resembles Abstract Expressionism and Asian calligraphy.

Rare and huge work by Susumu Kamijo! Untitled oil pastel and pastel pencil on paper 72 x 94” 2019 signed

This is an outstanding charcoal drawing by Alex Katz. He is portraying "Chris", who was model for several paintings and prints. Drawings do have an important impact to Alex Katz pain...

A uniquely hand painted print from the original panting by the artist. The print feature a unique combination of lines, symbols, drawing and words painted by the artist on the surfac...

"double side " original drawing by Jean Cocteau . certified by Madame Annie Guedras . 31.8 X 24 cm . Framed under museum glass . Museum quality !

A uniquely hand painted print from the original panting by the artist. The print feature a unique combination of lines, symbols, drawing and words painted by the artist on the surfac...

A uniquely hand painted print from the original panting by the artist. The print feature a unique combination of lines, symbols, drawing and words painted by the artist on the surfac...

Head Study, 1930 John Sloan (1871-1951) Signed Lower Right 10.5" x 9" Unframed 19" x 16.5" Framed Born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, John Sloan became one o...

Signed (at lower right): WINOLD/REISS

This recently rediscovered expressionist drawing by László Moholy-Nagy is part of a small group of drawings made by the artist early in his career, in Vienna and Berlin. The use of interlaced curves, typical of the artist's technique, gives this hieratic portrait a magnetic radiance, while the absence of any connection with the rest of the body evokes a profane Holy Face. 1. From Hungary to Chicago, the ardent life of László Moholy-Nagy Moholy-Nagy was born in Borsod, now known as Bácsborsód in Southern Hungary, in July 1895. He studied law in Budapest in 1913, when he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army to serve as an artillery officer on the Italian and Russian fronts. While serving at artillery observation posts, Moholy-Nagy was able to execute numerous drawings, recording his traumatic war experience, on the reverse of military-issued postcards which he could easily carry with him. In 1917, he was seriously wounded and hospitalized. The following year (around 1918 at the age of 23), he abandoned his plans to become a lawyer in favour of a career as an artist, with the encouragement of his friend, the art critic Iván Hevesy. The drawings executed in those early years reveal Moholy-Nagy's powerful Expressionist lines. In his autobiography of 1944, Abstract of an Artist, Moholy-Nagy explained his early figurative style, writing that contemporary art in those days was too chaotic and that and all the '-isms' were incomprehensible and puzzling to him. He was, however, experimenting with Dadaist compositions already in 1919 and then moved to Vienna and later to Berlin, where he would soon make his first works in his Constructivist style of the early 1920s. In Berlin he met photograph and writer Lucia Schultz who became his wife the next year. In 1922 he met Walter Gropius. During a vacation on the Rhome with Lucia, she introduced him to making photograms on light-sensitized paper. Walter Gropius invited him to teach at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1923 where he replaced Paul Klee as Head of the Metal Workshop. The Bauhaus became known for the versatility of its artists and Moholy-Nagy was no exception: throughout his career, he became proficient in the fiels of photography, typography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, film-making and industrial design. In 1928 Moholy-Nagy left the Bauhaus and established his own design studio in Berlin. He separated from his first wide Lucia in 1929. In 1931 he met actress and scriptwriter Sibylle Pietzsch. They married in 1932 and has two daughters, Hattula (born 1933) and Claudia. After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, he was no longer allowed to work there. He moved his family to London in 1935. In 1937, on the recommendation of Walter Gropius, Moholy-Nagy moved to Chicago to become the director of the New Bauhaus, but the school closed in 1938. Moholy-Nagy resumed doing commercial design work, which he continued for the rest of his life. In 1939 Moholy-Nagy opened the School of Design in Chicago, which became in 1944 the Institute of Design, becoming part of the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1949. Diagnosed with leukemia in 1945, Moholy-Nagy died of the disease in Chicago in 1946. 2. Description of the artwork This drawing presents us with a frontal representation of a man in his thirties, whose penetrating gaze seems to stare at us. The face is highly symmetrical and is modelled by curved black lines. The very high forehead and the slightly dilated left pupil reinforce the very expressive character of the face. Like the Holy Face which appeared on the cloth stretched out to wipe Christ's face by Saint Veronica, only the model's face is represented on the cardboard piece. The curved lines that define the face, hollowing out the temples, the eyelids, the cheeks and the area around the mouth, create a kind of magnetic radiation around a median point located between the eyebrows. In some respects, this face may evoke one of the most famous representations of the Holy Face: the extraordinary engraving by Claude Mellan...

The Portrait is an original drawing in China ink on paper realized by an anonymous artist in 1929, applied on a greyish Passepartout. hand-signed, illegible, and dated on the lower....

" patineur sur glace ", "Ice Skater " is an original drawing by Jean COCTEAU . India ink and graphite on tracing paper . this drawing was executed in 1931 during a stay in Toulon ( s...

Untitled (Young Man Looking to the Left) Early 2000s Signed, verso Colored pencil on paper 11 x 8.5 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

Untitled (Young Man Looking Straight Ahead) Early 2000s Signed, verso Colored pencil on paper 11 x 8.5 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

Untitled (Young Man Looking Down) Early 2000s Signed, verso Graphite on paper 11 x 8.5 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

Mily POSSOZ Young Girl with Fishes, 1928 Original pencil and charcoals derawing Signed bottom right Dated 1928 On paper 42 x 34 cm at view (c. 17 x 13 in) Presented in a wood frame ...

José Vivenes Untitled, 2006-7 Oil pastel on paper 30 x 23 inches (76.2 x 58.4 cm)

Man Thinking (Study for a Sculpture) Various notes, u.r. Black ink on paper 10.5 x 8.25 inches (26.7 x 21 cm) This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

Graphite on paper Signed, l.r. Contact gallery for price This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

Signed, l.r. Graphite on paper Contact gallery for price This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

It is with great pride that we present a recently completed oil painting by Azerbaijani artist, Fidan Kim. Ms. Kim is a classically trained painter whose paintings evoke the surreal nature of life as seen through the feminine perspective. "My Lucky", is surrounded by adoring beautiful women. He knows what a lucky fellow he is, but they do not need to know that. This is an original pen and ink, signed, executed in 2020, and has just arrived at our West Hollywood gallery...

Signed and dated in pencil, l.r. Also signed, dated, and inscribed in pencil, recto Contact gallery for price. This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

Signed and dated in pencil, recto This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.

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...

Sean Keating (Irish 1889-1977) "Self Portrait" c. 1950s Charcoal on Paper Signed Lower Right Framed Size: approx 20 x 16 inches A noted portrait and figure painter, influenced by both Romanticism and Realism, Sean Keating was an Irish nationalist painter who executed several iconic images of the Irish Civil war era, and of the ensuing period of industrialization. One of the great exemplars of representational painting in Ireland, Keating was an intellectual artist in that he set out to depict the birth and development of the Republic of Ireland, and his pictures are deliberately idealized even heroic. However, he held very conservative views about art - verging on the academic style - and was a committed defender of traditional Irish painting, considering much modern art to be bogus. Born in Limerick, Sean Keating studied drawing at the Limerick Technical School before winning a scholarship, arranged for him by William Orpen, to study fine art painting at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin. In 1914 he won the Taylor Scholarship and the following year exhibited three paintings at the Royal Hibernian Academy. Over the next period of years he spent time on the Aran Islands off County Galway, and then in London. He returned to Ireland in 1916 and painted the war of independence and the subsequent civil war. Works he completed at this time include the painting: Men of the South (1921) depicting a group of IRA men about to stage a military ambush, and An Allegory (c. 1922) which features a cluster of figures representing the fractures in the young Irish state. Meantime, in 1919, Keating was appointed an assistant teacher at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. Then in 1921, he staged his first one-man show at The Hall, Leinster Street. In 1923, he was elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy. In a Dublin exhibition of Irish art held in 1924, Keating was awarded the gold medal for his picture Homage to Hugh Lane - now hanging in the Hugh Lane Gallery. In the late 1920s, Keating was commissioned to record the building of the hydro-electric power generator at Ardnacrusha, near Limerick. He painted a number of paintings of this scheme. Not unlike the Soviet Realism School of painting, these paintings sought to promote the construction work as an achievement of heroic proportions. Keating's works began to attract interest abroad. He exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and, in 1930, he held a one-man show at the Hackett Gallery, New York. In 1931 Keating's one-person exhibition was staged at the Victor Waddington Galleries, Dublin. In 1934 he was made professor of the National College of Art in Dublin, and Professor of Painting, three years later. His 1937 exhibition at the Victor Waddington Galleries attracted considerable interest. In 1939, he was asked to paint a wall-painting for the Irish pavilion at the New York World Fair and duly created a huge mural of fifty-four panels. He was President of the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1949 to 1962, exhibiting nearly 300 works during the period. In 1963, a retrospective exhibition was staged at the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, which was opened by Irish President de Valera...

An incredible original pen and ink drawing by American artist Stephen Longstreet. Longstreet authored more than 100 books, and worked extensively as a pr...

Belgian artist Miette Braive(1916-2000), was classically trained in Belgium, before moving to Paris to pursue her art career as first a student and then a contemporary of the French ...