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Art Subject: Drawing
Charcoal Portrait of Sir Winston Churchill, Circa 1935
Located in New Orleans, LA
Portrait of Sir Winston Churchill
English I 1874-1965
Charcoal on paper
Signed lower right (indiscernible)
This lifetime charcoal portrait of Winston Churchill, dating to around 19...
Category
20th Century Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Teaching Drawing to Children - Drawing by Alexandre Lagrant - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Teaching Drawing to Children is a drawing artwork realized by Alexandre Lagrant in the early 20th Century.
Pencil and ink drawing on paper.
The state of preservation is good with s...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Portrait of a Girl, " attrib. to Edmund Tarbell, graphite, portrait, 1900-1910
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Groton, Massachusetts in 1862, impressionist painter Edmund Charles Tarbell studied with George H. Bartlett at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, under Otto Grundmann at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and in 1883, entered the Académie Julian to study under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. In 1884, his education included a Grand Tour to Italy and the following year to Belgium, Germany and Brittany.
Tarbell returned to Boston in 1886 where he began his career as an illustrator, private art instructor and portrait painter. He was a member of the Ten American Painters and was a leading member of a group of painters which came to be known as the Boston School.
In 1889 Tarbell assumed the position of his former mentor, Otto Grundmann, at the Museum School. His students included Bertha Coolidge, Margaret Fitzhugh Browne...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Vogue - Elegantly Dressed Women Shopping For Hats Art Nouveau - Female Artist
By Helen Dryden
Located in Miami, FL
The present work by pioneering female artist Helen Dryden was most likely a cover assignment for Vogue Magazine. It is deftly rendered in a tight linear art nouveau style with flat c...
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Male Portrait
By Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This work is unique.
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance issued by Christie’s.
Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visua...
Category
1950s Pop Art Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Pensive Young Woman
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Maurice Chabas (Nantes 1862 – Versailles 1947)
Pensive Young Woman
Graphite with white-chalk highlights on blue-grey paper
46 × 32 cm
Unsigned
Provenance
Bruno Delarue Gallery, É...
Category
1890s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Chalk
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...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934), Henri Rochefort for a duel, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934)
Portrait of Henri Rochefort ready for a duel,
Pencil on paper
Signed and titled lower left
28 x 21 cm
In good condition : the left and right borders irregularly cut
In a modern cardboard mount : 45.5 x 35 cm
Henri Rochefort, whose complete name was Victor Henri de Rochefort-Luçay , was born in Paris on January 31 , 1831, he died in Aix-les-Bains on 1 st July 1913. He was a french journalist , playwright and politician A great polemicist in the pages of his newspapers ( La Lanterne , La Marseillaise , L'Intransigeant), he defended radical and even extremist political options (anticlerical , nationalist , favorable to the Commune , Boulangist , socialist and anti-Dreyfusard ) which earned him the nickname of "The man with twenty duels and thirty trials », And convictions, in particular in the prison of Noumea from which, unique fact, he managed to escape in 1874.
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934) was a Swiss-French Impressionist painter, designer, watercolorist, and engraver who was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and died in France. His work often depicts the modern life in Paris.
He started out pursuing a military career, as an infantry officer (1866–1881). He was a lieutenant with the Twenty-third Infantry from 1868 to 1870. He fought in the Franco-Prussian War, was wounded at Rezonville, and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur. He subsequently served with the Ninety-fourth Infantry and the Seventy-third Infantry. At the time he left the army he held the rank of major, with the Chasseurs à Pieds.
He never ceased drawing. He was known for the first time in 1872 at the art exhibition Salon de Paris, where he presented a watercolor painting called Intérieur de forêt. The next year he presented the painting Le Vernan à Nass-sous-Sainte-Anne. From then on he was a regular contributor to the Salon de Paris, where he presented new works with views of Toulouse, Paris, Troyes, the edges of the Seine, and some portraits.
In 1881, after the army offered him the rank of commandant, he resigned to devote himself exclusively to painting. He took up residence in Paris. His works from this period represent mainly scenes of military life that allowed him to forge a reputation. Jeanniot established himself permanently in 1882 and obtained his first award the following year (medal third class of the Salon de Paris) with his les Flanqueurs (1883, Musée du Luxembourg). In 1886, La ligne de feu, souvenirs de la bataille de Rezonville, remembering the Battle of Mars-La-Tour (Museum of Pau), assured his notoriety.
From then on, he started to show a certain artistic independence. He then mostly portrayed Parisian women during the "Belle Epoque", women in bathing suits...
Category
1870s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Geoffrey Holder
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Antonio Pippolini
Geoffrey Holder
11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Framed Dimensions: 14 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches (36.2 x 27.3 cm)
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
" Elégante aux perles " .Carlton . Cannes
By René Gruau
Located in CANNES, FR
René Gruau ( 1909 - 2004 )
" Elégante aux perles " . 1950 .
Dessin Original et unique
graphite et fusain sur papier . Signé.
format feuille : 83 x 50 cm
feuille globale : 92 x 6...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
Nude - Drawing by Georges Gobo - Early 20th Century
By Georges Gobo
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a Pastel Drawing realized by Georges Gobo (1876-1958).
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner.
Georges Gobo or Georges Gob...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
contemporary figurative black and white charcoal drawing pop art interior female
Located in New York, NY
This is a hand drawn original artwork on heavyweight paper by internet sensation mad charcoal
He is represented by Krause Gallery NYC
Ships rolled in a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Charcoal, Archival Paper
Man in Costume- Original Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Man in Costume is an original Drawing on paper realized by the painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in Pencil.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions except for...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Wicker Chair - Pencil Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Wicker Chair is an original pencil drawing on ivory-colorated paper, realized by Anonymous French Artist of the early 20th Century.
In very good conditions.
Not signed.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Fortune Teller - Original China Ink by Gabriele Galantara - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
The Fortune Teller is an original drawing in china ink drawing on creamy paper realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937), in 1910s.
In good conditions.
This is an original drawi...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Sweat Band #3, Charcoal Drawing, Bust of a Man Wearing a Sweat Band
By David Becker
Located in Chicago, IL
Human facial expressions help convey our stories from one person to another. However, David Becker presents this charcoal drawing with a flair for confusion. Throughout his career,...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Mother and Child in Cradle Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan
A depiction of a mother putting her child to bed in a cradle, dated 1944.
6" x 5" Pencil on Paper
Framed Size: 13.75" x 12.75"
From Likan's collection of depictions ...
Category
1940s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pencil
Child Portrait - Original Drawing by Lucien Coutaud - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Child Portrait is an Original drawing in China Ink realized by Lucien Coutaud in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions.
The delicate and dynamic strokes created in a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
John Sergeant - 20th Century British Portrait Drawing of a Girl in a Hat
Located in London, GB
JOHN SERGEANT
(1937-2010)
Girl in a Hat
Pencil on tinted paper
Framed
24 by 18 cm., 9 ½ by 7 in.
(frame size 46 by 39 cm., 18 by 15 ¼ in.)
Sergeant was born in London, the son o...
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Running Man - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
The Running Man is an original drawing in pencil realized by Anthony Roaland.
The artwork represents a fresh and beautiful nude male. Behind the landscape is depicted with simple an...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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, ...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Portrait of a Woman
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Portrait of a Woman, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 24.25" H x 19" W. Provenance: Fr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Swimmers on the Beach- Original Drawing by Alfred Grévin - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Swimmers on the Beach is an original drawing in pencil realized by Alfred Grévin in the Late-19 Century.
Hand signed in pencil on the lower right margin. All around an inscrip...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Donna Sdraiata - Pastel by Aurelio Bulzatti - 2009
Located in Roma, IT
Donna Sdraiata is an original drawing realized by the Italian contemporary artist Aurelio Bulzatti in 2009.
The drawing is a unique piece pastel on p...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Soldier on Horseback - Pencil Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Soldier on Horseback" is a pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper by Anonymous Artist of 19th Century.
In very good conditions.
Sheet dimensio...
Category
19th Century Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The General….Baron de Brielhe - Pencil by E. O. Wauquier - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The general ... Baron De Brielhe is an original drawing in pencil with gray point, unsigned, on paper, realized by E. O. Wauquier (1808-1869).
Good conditions except for minor cosme...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait of a Boy - Original Pencil Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing in pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1980. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
In the foreground the figure...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
"Nursing Mother" Ink Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan
7" x 7" Ink on Paper
1944
Framed Size: 16" x 15.5"
This intimate piece depict a mother nursing her infant. This piece is part of Likan's portrayals of his wife Barb...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
1940's Fashion Illustration - Three Elegant Women Walking Through The Park
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Disegno accademia nudo maschile del XIX secolo su carta
Located in Florence, IT
Questa tipologia di disegno rientra pienamente nelle "accademie" ovvero degli studi dal vivo su modello (che poteva essere un modello in carne ed ossa oppure un'opera antica)che eran...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
[Man with cigar]
By Martin Lewis
Located in Boston, MA
Initialed lower right: "M.L.". Estate stamp verso, lower left: Lucille Deming Lewis Collection. Inscribed verso, lower left: "LDL-803". In fine condition.
Category
1930s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
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Conspiracy Zahra Zeinali Contemporary drawing black and white art animal rabbit
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine 1950s, Surrealist Depiction of a Summer Symphony
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1954 Surrealist depiction of a Summer symphony by artist Harold Haydon.
Images size: 16 1/2" x 14. Unframed, mounted / floated to a custom Holly Hunt designed gray toned wallpap...
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
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 ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Midday Rest (Watercolor)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original watercolor on paper. Hand signed on front by Tarkay. Sheet size 14 x 10.5 inches. Frame size approx 20 x 16 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condition. From the private coll...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$2,000 Sale Price
50% Off
Disegno figurativo toscano neoclassico raffigurante un uomo barbuto
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, matita su carta, raffigura un uomo barbuto, girato verso l'osservatore, che indossa una camicia con il colletto aperto ed è rappresentato con un'espressione di intenso st...
Category
Early 19th Century Other Art Style Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
A Striking 1940s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking 1940s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exquisite studio portrait study, charcoal on paper, dating...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
1950's French Modernist / Cubist Drawing, Red Portrait of Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid-20th century)
Original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed.
Size: 11.5 x 9.5 inches
Condition: very good and ready t...
Category
1950s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Juventus football Player - UEFA Champions League 1995-96. Cm 101 x 72.
Located in Firenze, IT
Juventus Football Player - UEFA Champions League 1995-96
Marco Silombria (1936-2017)
Charcoal on paper, signed and dated '96
Dimensions: 101 x 72 cm
This dynamic drawing capture...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
French Modern Drawing by Jean Hélion - Veil Homme
By Jean Hélion
Located in Paris, IDF
Veil Homme
1947
drawing
26,9 x 21 x 0,1 cm
Registered on the catalogue raisonné with inventory number : N°0252 cat. B
sold without frame
about Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904 – October ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Divers
Located in Saint Louis, MO
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 ...
Category
2010s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Man in Tie
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Drawing
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Contact for dimensions.
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
A Striking Modern 1946 Vermont Studio Scene, Standing Female Model in a Doorway
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking Modern 1946 Vermont Studio Scene of a Standing Female Model in a Doorway by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Depicting a finely executed portrait of t...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink
Signed Eliseo Sala Male Nude Academia Drawing 19 century chalk paper
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing is an “Academic study”, as we can notice by the deep attention given to lights and shadows (emphasized by the use of both black and white chalk) and by the plastic pose o...
Category
Mid-19th Century Other Art Style Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Cardboard, Laid Paper
Bodybuilder
By Andy Warhol
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This work is unique a unique drawing, graphite on colored paper.
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance issued by Christie's, the acting registrar for The Andy Warhol Foundatio...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Portrait of Broadway star Dorothy Dionne
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1933
Medium: Pencil on Paper
Dimensions: 16.00" x 13.00"
Signature: Signed and Titled
For the Broadway play "Young Sinners"
Dianne starred in the play “Young Sinners” in 1933.
Category
1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Fashion Model full figure in profile
Located in Miami, FL
Fashion Illustration. Work is unframed. Free standing heavy watercolor paper loosely hinged to board. Excellent condition.
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Giovanni Boldini drawing of a lady, Italian 19th Century
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931)
Etude de femme au ruban noir
Signed with atelier stamp (lower left), further inscribed, signed and dated by Emilia Boldini (the artist’s wife) `no 77 le_ atelier Boldini. Emilia Boldini Carbona 1931’ (on the reverse)
Black crayon on paper
11.7/8 x 8.7/8 in. (30 x 22.5 cm.)
Emilia’s inscription on the reverse from the year of his death.
Giovanni Boldini was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style, exemplified by the confident strokes in this fine example.
Boldini was born in Ferrara, the son of a painter of religious subjects, and in 1862 went to Florence for six years to study and pursue painting. He only infrequently attended classes at the Academy of Fine Arts, but in Florence, met other realist painters known as the Macchiaioli, who were Italian precursors to Impressionism. Their influence is seen in Boldini's landscapes which show his spontaneous response to nature, although it is for his portraits that he became best known.
Moving to London, Boldini attained success as a portraitist, painting notable members of society including Lady Holland and the Duchess of Westminster...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Young Man with Flower
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. He not only defined Pop Art but had an unrivaled influence on artists and image-making.
...
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen
Man with Big Smile - New Yorker Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
If a smile is an expression of momentary happiness, then the female in this cartoon appears driven to turn a moment into a more extended period of time. Leave it to Gahan Wilson to ...
Category
Early 2000s Outsider Art Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Flowers in Hair_America Martin_Ink on Paper_Figurative/Portrait/Floral
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Flowers in Hair"
Ink on Paper
24.5” x 22.5”
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angeles. America is a paint...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) The Children of the painter Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
The children of the painter
Portrait in an oval, study for a portrait
Black pencil on paper
23 x 19 cm
Stamp of the worksh...
Category
1840s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Disegno figurativo toscano nudo maschile a sanguigna del XIX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, sanguigna su carta, raffigura un uomo nudo con una specie di turbante sulla testa, preso di lato, seduto, in un'espressione di intensa sofferenza, come se stesse chiedend...
Category
Early 19th Century Other Art Style Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait of a Young Girl Writing
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Young Girl Writing', pencil on art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - man...
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
A Stunning, 1940s Modern Charcoal Portrait Drawing of a Young Woman
Located in Chicago, IL
A Stunning, 1940s Finely Rendered Modern Charcoal Portrait Drawing of a Young Woman by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994).
Artwork size: 15 x 11 inches, unfram...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Barbara Hutton, watercolor and gouache on paper Portrait
Located in Miami Beach, FL
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Gouache
Parisian Fashion Model - Mid-Century - Female Artist Vogue Magazine ?
Located in Miami, FL
An elegantly rendered mid-century Parisian model with a stylish hat is masterfully rendered by American female illustrator Ruth Sigrid Grafstrom ...
Category
1940s Feminist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Vogue Magazine Illustration Turn of the Century - Woman Illustrator
By Helen Dryden
Located in Miami, FL
Early in the artist's career most likely for Vogue Magazine. Signed lower left. Helen Dryden (1882–1972) was an American artist and successful industrial designer in the 1920s and 1...
Category
1910s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Pencil, Graphite, Gouache
A 1940s Modern, American Scene Study of a Seated Man at a Table by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming, 1940s American Scene study of a Man Seated at a Table by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A delightful sketch ("Dinner at the Windermere Hot...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
Portrait of George Arliss in Conte Crayon on Cardstock 1934
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately portrait of George Arliss by Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980). Mr. Arliss is depicted wearing his signature monocle, looking directly at the viewer. Although this piece appears to be done rapidly, there is a clear confidence in Opffer's work - he was an accomplished portrait artist - and the resemblance to the subject is unmistakable. George Arliss (born Augustus George Andrews; 10 April 1868 – 5 February 1946) was an English actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award – which he won for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) – as well as the earliest-born actor to win the honour. He specialized in successful biopics, such as Disraeli, Voltaire (1933), and Cardinal Richelieu (1935), as well as light comedies, which included The Millionaire (1931) and A Successful Calamity (1932).
Signed and dated "Ivan Opffer 1934" in the lower right.
Titled "Mr. Arliss" in the lower left.
Presented in a new off-white mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 22"H x 16"W
Art size: 17.5"H x 12"W
Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980) was born in Nyborg, Denmark, on June 4, 1897, to a family of Danish scholars and journalists. His brother was Emil Opffer, a Danish merchant seaman and journalist who was known for his relationship with American writer Hart Crane.
Ivan was raised in Mexico City and New York, where his anarchist father was the editor of a radical Danish-language newspaper. His involvement in painting and drawing began at an early age. At a summer workshop, he met and studied drawing with Winslow Homer, then went on to study at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York.
When the US entered World War I, Opffer was one of the members of the American Army Camouflage Corps, headed by Homer Saint-Gaudens (whose mother was a relative of Winslow Homer), the son of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. As a camoufleur, Opffer served with other artists and architects, some of whom became well-known, including Barry Faulkner, Sherry Edmundson Fry, Kimon Nicolaides, Robert Lawson, Abraham Rattner, Kerr Eby, and others.
It was this same unit, while still in training in at Camp American University in Washington DC, that launched a camp newspaper called The Camoufleur. Only three issues were published before the unit’s deployment to France in late 1917. In the October 31 issue, a satirical portrait by Opffer of Homer Saint-Gaudens (titled “Our Boss”) was published on page 5.
After the war, Opffer returned to New York, where he became known for his caricatures of leading Modern writers, among them James Joyce, Edgar Lee Masters, Siegfried Sassoon, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Sandburg, G.K. Chesterton, and Thomas Mann.
In the years between the wars, Opffer married Betty à Beckett Chomley, and settled in Paris, where he was a student at the Academie Julliard. He also lived in London and Copenhagen, where his drawings were frequently published in newspapers and magazines. With the outbreak of World War II, he and his family returned to New York and lived in Greenwich Village.
Among his friends in that era were William Butler Yeats, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Postcard, Illustration Board
