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Art Subject: Portrait
My Best Girl
By Jules Erbit
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Board
Dimensions: 26.50" x 18.50"
Signature: Signed Middle Right
Date: 1949
Category
1940s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Board
Jean Harlow, Picture Play Magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1936
Medium: Pastel
Dimensions: 14.00" x 18.00"
Signature: Unsigned
Original cover artwork for Smith & Street's Picture Play Magazine, April 1936 by Tatiana Fall.
Category
1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
STUDENT
Located in Portland, ME
Hirsch, Joseph (American, 1910-1980). STUDENT. Charcoal drawing on paper, not dated, but before 1980. Signed lower left, "J Hirsch." 17 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches (framed to 25 x 19 inches)...
Category
1970s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
34th Street Jesus
By Kent Twitchell
Located in Palm Springs, CA
This is a pencil study done for a mural on a proposed new mission building which planned in downtown Los Angeles in 1992 (to be located on 34th Street). The Mission was never built.
Category
1990s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Carole Lombard Holding Compace, Cosmopolitan Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1935
Medium: Pastel
Dimensions: 25.50" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Carole Lombard Holding Compact
Cover of Cosmppolitan Magazin...
Category
1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
French Watercolor
Located in Houston, TX
Pencil and watercolor portrait of a person in loose period clothing displaying nervous energy and vibrant demeanor by P.B. Faurnier, 1833. Signed lowe...
Category
1830s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Vintage French Watercolor Painting
By Laure
Located in Houston, TX
Warm and pleasing watercolor portrait painting of a charming young lady with a small crown on leaves accenting her hair, 1912. Signed Laure and dated lower right.
Original one-of-a-...
Category
1910s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Bayus
By Nicholas Conrad Miller
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mixed media work by Contemporary American artist Nicholas Conrad Miller.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Gouache, Archival Ink, Watercolor
The French Model
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a rare, early original drawing, "The French Model", by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime,...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Watercolor & Ink - A Gentlemen's Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful watercolor and ink portrait of a male figure donning a suit and tie by Irmgard von Reppert, 1966. Signed and dated lower right.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a whi...
Category
1960s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
First Mate, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928
Medium: Pastel on Paper
Dimensions: 25.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, July 7 1928
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Elegant Couple, Good Housekeeping Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1934
Medium: Charcoal on Paper
Dimensions: 34.00" x 25.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Story illustration: Elegant couple considers floor plan drawn in the sand.
“Benda finished explaining the house plan she had drawn in the sand. ‘But, Benda,’ Don said, examining it, ‘the place is not complete. Haven't you forgotten something?’ ‘That's all... I'm sure... Don,’ she answered softly.” Story illustration: “Between the Owl's Nest and a Rift in the Clouds”, author: Clara Hood Rugel, Good Housekeeping...
Category
1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Portrait of a Man
Located in Houston, TX
Enigmatic portrait watercolor in warm autumn hues, circa 1930. Signed lower right.
Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a s...
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
BLIND SELF PORTRAIT
By Gregg Louis
Located in New York, NY
ink on canvas
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Ink, Canvas
Sketch After Vincent Self Portrait No. 3
By Wes Olmsted
Located in Buffalo, NY
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...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Portrait of Bachoo, Countess Woronzow, 1946
Located in Miami, FL
Powerful pencil study of Bachoo, Countess Woronzow. Tchelitchew exaggerates the sitters features with abnormally large eyes for dramatic effect, Bachoo (Countess Bachoobai Woronzow-D...
Category
1940s Surrealist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Portrait of a Girl
By Alexander Evgenevich Iacovleff
Located in London, GB
ALEXANDER EVGENEVICH IACOVLEFF (YAKOVLEV) 1887-1938
Saint Petersburg 1887-1938 Paris (Russian)
Title: Portrait of a Girl, 1934
Technique: Ori...
Category
1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Medusa
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Graphite
19th Century Watercolour - Portrait of a Sea Captain
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait of a young sea captain holding a telescope. The portrait appears to have been completed by two different hands. We believe the study of the head and face, completed i...
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Changing
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Gouache
Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban, Early 19th Century Orientalist Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper
Image size: 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (11.5 x 9 cm)
Mounted and framed
This is an arresting image featuring a head and shoulders portrait of a bearded man wearing a ...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Young Man, Charcoal 1800 French School, Romanticism
Located in London, GB
Charcoal and grey wash on paper
Image size: 14 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (37.5 x 36 cm)
Provenance
Private collection, Washington DC.
C.G. Sloan & Co., Sept. 1980.
This charcoal portrait...
Category
Early 1800s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Mirror L
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Mirror Metamorphosis II Reimagined
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Cotton Canvas, Archival Ink, Ink, Pencil
Self Isolation
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Paper, Archival Paper, Ink, Canvas
Mirror K
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil, Archival Pigment, Canvas, Paper
Millenium Reimagined
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Cotton Canvas, Archival Ink, Oil, Acrylic
Censored II
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Canvas
Mirror II Reimagined
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil
Niño by Diego Rivera
By Diego Rivera
Located in New Orleans, LA
Diego Rivera
1886-1957 Mexican
Niño
Signed and dated “Diego Rivera 1935” (lower left)
Charcoal and sanguine on rice paper
A rebel against the traditional school of painting, Diego Rivera is revered as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. Niño, completed by Rivera in 1935, represents a masterwork within an important part of the artist’s output — his portraits of children. It is a touching work paying homage to both childhood innocence and the cultural identity of the Mexican people...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rice Paper, Charcoal
Mirror O Reimagined
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil
DS Mirror Reimagined
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Mirror L
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pencil, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
#Artviewers
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Vanity Mirror Reimagined
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Cotton Canvas, Archival Paper, Ink, Pencil, Archival Ink
Black Mirror Reimagined
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Mirror I Reimagined
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Portrait of Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943)
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): WINOLD/REISS
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Japanese Girl
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): WINOLD/REISS
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
MW Mirror Reimagined
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Ink, Pencil
Mirror V Reimagined
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Ink
Portrait of a man, an expressionist drawing by László Moholy-Nagy
By László Moholy-Nagy
Located in PARIS, FR
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...
Category
1910s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon, Cardboard
British Pre-Raphaelite Portrait drawing of Girl with Pug Dog by Frederick Sandys
By Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys
Located in London, GB
FREDERICK SANDYS
(1829-1904)
Reine Chapman and her Pug
Signed, inscribed and dated u.l.: Reine Chapman 1881/F Sandys
Coloured chalks on pale blue ti...
Category
1880s Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Early 20th-Century American Stage Actor Ralph Stuart Oil Pastel Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Brown, black, and green-toned realistic oil pastel portrait of New York stage actor Ralph Stuart. The Courier Co.'s signature is attached at the back. Matt...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pastel
Untitled (Young Man Looking to the Left)
Located in New York, NY
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.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Untitled (Young Man Looking Straight Ahead)
Located in New York, NY
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.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Mr. Universe Contest
By Tim Gardner
Located in New York, NY
Mr. Universe Contest
Las Vegas, 2002
Signed, verso
Ink on paper
36 x 24 inches
Contact gallery for price.
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Untitled
Located in Saint Louis, MO
José Vivenes
Untitled, 2006-7
Oil pastel on paper
30 x 23 inches (76.2 x 58.4 cm)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
French Watercolour Breton School Mid 20th Century Fisherman
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Breton Fisherman
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
signed lower right edge
watercolour painting, with gouache and some graphite on artist's paper, unframed
measurement of frameable image...
Category
1960s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
"Roman Woman" - Late 19th Century Framed Watercolor Portrait
Located in New Orleans, LA
A stunningly rendered, evocative portrait of an elderly Roman woman, painted by Rinaldo Werner in 1870 (as written on the painting itself. He lived from 1...
Category
1870s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Colored pencil on paper
Signed and dated, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Paul P. is known for his drawings and paintings of young men that systematically re-imagined found erotic photographs...
Category
Early 2000s Other Art Style Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Self-Portrait
By Sean Keating
Located in Missouri, MO
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...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal
Male Portrait
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A number of years ago, we acquired the balance of a Northern California estate of artist Thelma Terrell. Terrell lived in Oakland and was an illustator and commercial graphic artist.
This male...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
