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Art Subject: Portrait
George Bonavia, Portrait Of A Young Officer
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming mid-19th-century pastel by Maltese artist George Bonavia (1818-1901) depicts a young British officer in uniform.
Upstanding with his right...
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1850s Victorian Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Portrait of a Man with White Hair and Mustache in Pastel on Artist's Board
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Man with White Hair and Mustache in Pastel on Cardstock
Portrait of a man by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). The man is looking directly at the viewer, with a neutral expression. He has white hair and a mustache, and is wearing a brown suit with a red tie.
Signed "Honora Berg" in the bottom right corner.
Stamp from Miller Fine Art on verso
Acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Initialed and numbered "HB 117" on verso
Unframed.
Board size: 20"H x 15"W
Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell — David Park's aunt — suggested a move to California in 1951 to study under Park. She exhibited at the 25th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961.
Provenance, Estate of Honora Berg - David Carlson Gallery, Larry Miller...
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1950s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Canvas, Cardboard
Francois Grenier de Saint Martin (1793-1867) Lady on the beach, 1829, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Francois Grenier de Saint Martin (1793-1867)
A Young Lady on the beach, 1829,
signed and dated on the lower left
watercolor on paper
17 x 19.5 cm
F...
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1820s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Ink and Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions with foxing.
The artwork is represented through deft s...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Charcoal and Pastel on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes mast...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Lovely Watercolor of a Little Girl with an Umbrella, Signed
Located in Larchmont, NY
Untitled (Little Girl with an Umbrella), 1998
Watercolor on paper
Sight: 19 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.
Framed: 19 2/3 x 23 x 3/4 in.
Signed lower right: Cecil '98
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Young Woman, Red Chalk and Graphite Sketch, Pre-Raphaelite
Located in London, GB
Red chalk and graphite over paper
Image size: 19 x 13 1/2 inches (48.25 x 34.25 cm)
Contemporary style frame
The name Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood referred to the groups’ opposition t...
Category
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Graphite
Portrait of a Mother and Child by Tsuguharu Foujita
Located in New Orleans, LA
Tsuguharu Foujita
1886-1968 | Japanese-French
Portrait of a Mother and Child
Signed “Foujita / Paris” (lower left)
Ink and watercolor on paper
An artistic luminary well ahead of his time, Tsuguharu Foujita burst onto the international art scene in the early 20th century as one of the most important artists in early Japanese modernism...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Charcoal on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Albe...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Black and White Charcoal Portrait of a Woman by Max Turner
Located in Pasadena, CA
In this drawing, the background is deliberately neutral to accentuate the prominence of the face. Charcoal is a "free" drawing medium known for its expressive qualities, requiring artists to work within its unique constraints. As an experienced figure work instructor at the California Art Institute, Max Turner...
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1960s Neo-Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
A YOUNG FREDDY COUPLES
By Bob Pollack
Located in Portland, ME
Pollack, Bob (American, born 1936).A YOUNG FREDDY COUPLES. Original painting in acrylics on paper, 2023. Signed and dated within the image. 11 X 14 inches. Matted. In excellent cond...
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2010s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
The Profile - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Profile is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good condition.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes mas...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A YOUNG MIKE TYSON
By Bob Pollack
Located in Portland, ME
Pollack, Bob (American, born 1936). A YOUNG MIKE TYSON Original painting in acrylics on paper, 2023. Signed and dated within the image. 11 X 14 inches. Matted. In excellent conditi...
Category
2010s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
The Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions with foxing.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes m...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Charcoal on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Albe...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Charcoal on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Albe...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Portrait of a Girl
Located in Austin, TX
Charcoal portrait drawing of a woman by Miles Mathis.
27.75" x 18.25"
About the Artist:
Miles Mathis is an American artist known for his nude portrait pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1938.
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes ...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1938.
Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
In good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is represented through de...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
HAVANA
Located in Tallahassee, FL
Intriguing female from Havana.
Part of artist's private collection.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1938.
Ink and Oil Pastel on paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes ...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil Pastel
Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1938.
Oil Pastel on paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
The Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait is an original drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in the 1930s.
Ink on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes master...
Category
1930s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Sketch from Life, 19th Century English Watercolour, Girl in Profile
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and dated '1870' lower left
Image size: 5 x 6 1/2 inches (13 x 16.5 cm)
Category
1870s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Black Girl Portrait - Gouache by Max Turner
Located in Pasadena, CA
A certain enigma surrounds Max Turner: he possesses both undeniable mastery and the humility of a great artist. Endowed with musicality and vibrancy in his brushwork, he remains a man of unassuming nature, far removed from the realm of trendy art galleries. His experience as an art instructor has sharpened his acuity for studying and capturing the essence of figure models, nurtured by his lifelong fascination with the human visage.
In this gouache portrait, one can sense that with each stroke, he repeats a gesture as if it was the very first time, capturing that fleeting fraction of a second, an emotion, a secret of his subject to infuse into his canvases. One can feel the artist’s pleasure...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Portrait of a Young Man, Early 19th Century English Graphite Sketch
Located in London, GB
Graphite and coloured pencil on paper
Image size: 4 x 5 inches (10 x 12.75 cm)
Period frame
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Graphite
'Young Lady Seated', Royal Academy London, PAFA, Queen Victoria, King Edward VII
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper left, 'C. J. Turrell' for Charles James Turrell (British-American, 1845-1932) and dated 1876.
Framed dimensions: 12 x 1 x 10 inches
Charles James Turrell was one of the most talented miniaturists of his age. Born in London, he studied under a Mr. Sargeant, perhaps Frederick Sargeant who exhibited at the Royal Academy, before visiting the United States in 1867 where he painted miniatures at the studio of photographer Napoleon Sarony. During this time, Turrell had distinguished sitters including members of the Vanderbilt, Whitney, and Morgan families. While in America, Turrell married and would go on to maintain successful careers in both New York and London where, in 1869, he opened a studio on Bond Street.
Turrell exhibited widely and with success including annually at the Royal Academy (1873-1904), the Society of Miniaturists (1873 – 1932), the Brooklyn Art Association (1868), the Pennsylvania Academy of Art (1901) and at the Paris Salons. His sitters included Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, and Queen Alexandra, when she was Princess of Wales (1884). In 1890, he was appointed official miniature painter to Queen Victoria. Turrell's work is held in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace as well as in the permanent collections of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, London's Victoria & Albert Museum and the Mount Vernon Collection in Washington D.C., among others.
Reference:
E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 13, page 863; Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 3, page 3354; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith: New York 1948 Edition, R.R. Bowker Company 1935, page 444; The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940, J. Johnson and A. Greutzner, 1980 Edition, Antique Collectors’ Club 1976, page 511; Dictionary of British Miniature...
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1870s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
David Hardy (act.1835-1870) - 1868 Watercolour, Sisters
By David Hardy
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming 19th century watercolour, showing an older sister, holding her younger sister in her arms as the two embrace with soft smiles. The artist has signed and dated to the lower...
Category
Mid-19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Art Deco Society Portrait, Beauty in a Hat
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French art deco pastel portrait by Louis-Jean Beaupuy. The work is signed and dated bottom right. Presented in carved and gilded wood frame.
Beaupuy has captured all the charm and...
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Mid-20th Century Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
C. Ondano - 1907 Watercolour, portrait of a Bearded Gentleman
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming study of a bearded gentleman. The artist captures the man's features in fine detail and leaves a rough edge to the composition. Signed and dated to the lower right. Presen...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Watercolour - The Minstrel
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour portrait depicting a minstrel playing a woodwind instrument. The man ports a hat with feathers and a blue overcoat. The artist pays particular attention to the...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Ivan Lindhe (1875-1954) - Framed Swedish-American Watercolour, Tired Eyes
Located in Corsham, GB
A particularly fine watercolor portrait of an elderly matron dressed in black, with a white lace cap and glimpse of a white blouse. The sitter looks half awake in her pose, gazing wi...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Framed 19th Century Watercolour - Portrait of a Scholarly Gentleman
Located in Corsham, GB
A detailed graphite and watercolour portrait of a 19th century gentleman, seated at a writing desk with an open book and inkwell. The gentleman can be seen wearing a black tailored s...
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Baby - Drawing by Augusto Monari - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Baby is a Drawing in pencil, watercolor, and white lead realized by Augusto Monari in the Early-20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions, including a ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Portrait - Drawing by Augusto Monari - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a Drawing in pencil realized by Augusto Monari in the Early-20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions, including a creamy-colored Passepartout.
The artw...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Imperial Beauty, British School 20th Century Pastel Portrait
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper on canvas, initialled lower left "ND"
Image size: 13 ¾ x 22 ½ inches (35 x 57 cm)
Gilt frame
This fine Art Nouveau picture executed around 1900, depicts an auburn ha...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Portrait of a Young Duke, 19th Century French Chalk Drawing
Located in London, GB
Black chalk, white smudge and highlights, on paper
Image size: 10 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (27.25 x 14.5 cm)
A half-length portrait of a young Duke wearing a long wig with his head turned...
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Portrait of a Girl in Profile, Watercolour Painting, 1884
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and dated 1884 top left
Image size: 11 x 8 3/4 inches (28 x 22.25 cm)
Original gilt frame
This is a late 19th century portrait of a girl in profile, wea...
Category
1880s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Man sitting in the studio - Thinking about art -
Located in Berlin, DE
Adolph Eduard Otto von Faber du Faur (1828 Ludwigsburg - 1901 Munich). Man sitting in the studio. Watercolour painting, 43 x 27 cm (visible size), 73 x 53 cm (frame), monogrammed at lower right, estate stamp.
Upper right corner neatly repaired, small tear in the wall to the left of the sitter.
- Thinking about art -
About the artwork
The sitter, an elderly man, is seated in a studio on a pedestal reminiscent of an academy hall. The earthy, dark tones give the scene a weighty quality. The lightest tones are found in the incarnate parts of the figure, which do not stand out from the other colours of the picture, but are linked to them. As a result, the sitter's face is both part of and the highlight of the colour references in the picture. The colour of the sitter's skin is reflected in his pink coat, while his white-grey hair matches the colour of the wall next to him. This almost monochrome wall surface, in turn, is connected across the portrait to the framed picture standing on the floor, which seems to have been erased by this correspondence with the empty wall surface. Through the palette, which is positioned directly behind the sitter's head, the reference to painting, which is already given by the studio space, is explicitly linked to the sitter, who thus seems to be contemplating the question of the meaning of art.
This raises the question of whether Faber Du Faur, who had become lonely in his old age, might have painted a self-portrait here in his later years. In addition to the studio setting, the sitter's explicit reference to the palette and the fact that the picture was part of his estate, the only summary elaboration of the body suggests a self-portrait, while the representation of the face is concretised with the wide-open eyes typical of a self-portrait. This concentration on the face gives the impression of the artist's melancholy introspection, captured by the palette and related to the meaning of painting, whose dark character is reinforced by the concealment of the palette hanging on the right of the picture in the light tones so characteristic of Faber Du Faur. In the course of this resignation, Faber du Faur advises his son Hans, who has also become a painter: "Promise me one thing: never move to Munich, they'll kill you here!"
Whoever the sitter may be, the references to painting make the portrait a resigned self-contemplation by Faber Du Faur, focused on art.
About the artist
After leaving school, Otto Faber du Faur entered the service of the Württemberg army, at the same time cultivating his artistic talent. In 1851, on the recommendation of his father Christian Wilhelm, who was himself a battle painter, he spent six months in Munich as an apprentice to Alexander von Kotzebue. In 1852 he was granted a year's leave of absence from military service to study battle painting in the studio of Adolphe Yvon...
Category
1890s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1945
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait is a Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1945.
Monogrammed in the lower margin.
Good condition.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was...
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1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait of a Man Wearing a Turban, 18th Century Pastel Drawing
By Thomas Frye
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Image size: 13 x 17 1/2 inches (33 x 44.5 cm)
Mounted and framed
This original pastel drawing by Thomas Frye is a half-length portrait of a man dressed in a turban. This drawing is the original sketch for one of the heads depicted in Frye's collection 'Twelve Mezzotint Prints' of 1760 and it can be assumed that this pastel work was created earlier of this same year.
Two versions of the print, created from this original work, are currently held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Frye's evocative figures, although presumably based on living models, exceed the conventions of portraiture, and also function as character studies. The man shown here - dressed in the fashionable 'Turkish' manner - turns with parted lips as if poised to speak, while raising the elegant fingers in one hand in a rhetorical gesture. His long eyelashes and smoothly rendered wrinkles and dimples are hallmarks of Frye's refined style.
The Artist
Thomas Frye (c. 1710 – 3 April 1762) was an Anglo-Irish artist, best known for his portraits in oil and pastel, including some miniatures and his early mezzotint engravings. He was also the patentee of the Bow porcelain factory, London, and claimed in his epitaph to be "the inventor and first manufacturer of porcelain in England," though his rivals at the Chelsea porcelain factory seem to have preceded him in bringing wares to market. The Bow porcelain works did not long survive Frye's death; their final auctions took place in May 1764.
Frye was born at Edenderry, County Offaly, Ireland, in 1710; in his youth he went to London to practice as an artist. His earliest works are a pair of pastel portraits of boys...
Category
1750s English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Portrait of a Woman in Thought, 20th Century English Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 16 x 20 inches (40.5 x 51 cm)
This portrait is painted in an impressionist palette and is likely to have been created by Caroline Hutchinson circa 1955. It...
Category
20th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Lady, Charcoal Drawing, 20th Century Russian
Located in London, GB
Charcoal , signed lower right and dated 'Paris 1935'
Image size: 25 x 19 inches (63.5 x 48 cm)
Original oak frame
An accomplished example of Russian art from the mid 20th century.
...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
"Ocean Beach" Figurative Painting, Beach, Landscape, Watercolor, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Painting: Watercolor on Paper, Framed
Dimensions: 22 in x 31.5 in, 28 in x 37 in
Unique
Signed on Verso, includes a certificate of authenticity.
Elena Chestnykh was born in Novosibi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Greg G - Stylized Baseball Card of Chicago Cub Greg Gross, Original, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
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...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper
"Happiness is a Butterfly" Portrait, Beach, Watercolor on Paper, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Painting: Ink and Watercolor on Paper, Framed
Dimensions: 18 in x 24 in, Framed 22 in x 31 in
Unique
Signed on Verso, includes a certificate of authenticity.
Elena Chestnykh was bor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
"In Love With Summer" Portrait, Beach, Watercolor on Paper, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Painting: Watercolor on Paper, Framed
Dimensions: 11 in x 14 in, Framed 17 in x 21 in
Unique
Signed on Verso, includes a certificate of authenticity.
Elena Chestnykh was born in Nov...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Canray and BoisSec (figurative drawing, Creole musicians, rural, fiddle player)
By Susan Kiefer
Located in Kansas City, MO
Susan Kiefer
Canray and BoisSec
Pastel on paper
Year: 2004
Size: 19x25in
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1664
Framed pastel portrait of beloved Creole musicians Canray Fontenot and BoisSe...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Portrait 1957, paper, charcoal, 36x31 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait
1957, paper, charcoal, 36x31 cm
The focus of the portrait is a woman. Charcoal, with its rich and versatile qualities, has been utilized by the artist to capture the vario...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Artist's Self-Portrait in Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Artist's Self-Portrait in Pastel on Paper
Bright yellow and ochre make up this self-portrait in chalk pastels by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century).
Unsigned, but acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Mat size: 30"H x 24"W
Paper size: 24"H x 18"W
Presented in a new soft peachy cream mat with foam core backing.
Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century) is a San Francisco...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Portrait Drawings a...
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Sketch of a head - Carved in stone -
Located in Berlin, DE
Emil Faesch (1865 Basel - 1915 Basel). Sketch of a head. Charcoal on painting cardboard, 60 x 47.5 cm (folio size), signed and dated at lower right "E. Faesch. 1888.".
Minor browning.
- Carved in stone -
About the artwork
The life-size head has an immensely present presence. This effect is due to the fact that Faesch took his cue from academic classical...
Category
1880s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
1981 Pastel - A Lady And Her Dachshunds
Located in Corsham, GB
A strikingly sized and engaging three-quarter length portrait of a refined woman in an elegant green dress and pearls with her two beloved dogs on her lap. The artist has signed ille...
Category
1980s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Half-length portrait of a Pharisee - In the shadow of betrayal -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hermann Prell (1854 Leipzig - 1922 Dresden-Loschwitz). Half-length portrait of a Pharisee, 1885. Sketch for the right-hand figure in the painting Judas Iscariot, 1886. Pencil drawing heightened with opaque white and black chalk on beige-grey wove paper (papier vélin), 34 x 27.8 cm (visible size), 52 x 45 cm (mount), signed, dated and inscribed "H. PRELL 1885 zu 'Judas'".
Minor browning, collection stamp on the reverse.
- In the shadow of betrayal -
About the artwork
This painting is the sketch for the head of the Pharisee offering the coins to Judas in one of Herrmann Prell's major works, the painting Betrayal of Judas, completed in 1886. The painting belongs to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and is illustrated in Adolf Rosenberg: Prell, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1901, p. 21 (Fig. 19). It is especially highlighted in Thieme-Becker (vol. 27, p. 376).
Hermann Prell, Betrayal of Judas, 1886
The monumental head, which fills the picture and is distinguished by its ornamented robe, is almost a lost profile, which in the executed painting is justified by the Pharisee's turning towards Judas. Despite the fact that the sitter withdraws from the viewer by turning away, it was necessary to artistically elaborate the motivation for the purchase of one of Christ's disciples, which is why the drawing focuses on the expression of the face, while the 'accessories' are treated in a more summary manner.
In characterising the face, Hermann Prell performs a balancing act: since the Pharisee, despite his destructive actions, is an actor in the history of salvation, the head must show a dignity appropriate to the event, but at the same time the physiognomy must also bear witness to the scheming attitude that led to the betrayal. To solve this dilemma, Prell draws on the traditional depictions of the heads of the apostles, shading the face to indicate the obdurate darkness of the spirit and moving the base of the nose slightly upwards while the mouth falls away, thus giving a physiognomic expression to the motivation of the action. The fatal drama of the betrayal is expressed in the monumentalisation of the head and in the thunderous white highlights that contrast with the darkness of the chalk.
As a study, considered by the artist to be a work in itself, this drawing reveals the pictorial problems and brainstorming of monumental painting.
About the artist
In 1872 Prell, who was one of the most important exponents of monumental painting of his time, began studying painting with Theodor Grosse at the Dresden Academy of Art and continued with Carl Gussow at the Berlin Academy in 1876. Hans von Marées taught him in Rome in 1878. More influential on his work, however, were Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger, with whom Prell had been friends since his student days and with whom he worked together on several occasions.
Prell's first major work, which established his reputation as a monumental painter, were the frescoes in the banqueting hall of the Architektenhaus in Berlin in 1881/82, commissioned by the state and depicting the different periods of architecture. Prell then went to Italy for two years to study fresco painting. Other major commissions followed. These included monumental frescoes in the town halls of Worms (1884), Hildesheim (1882-92), Gdansk (1895) and Dresden, the staircase of the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Breslau (1893/94), the throne room of the German Embassy in Rome (1896-99) and the staircase of the Albertinum in Dresden (1900-1904).
From 1886 Prell taught at the academy of arts in Berlin and in 1892 he was appointed professor at the academy of arts in Dresden. His students included Osmar Schindler and Hans Unger...
Category
1880s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
James Arden Grant (1885-1973) - Pastel, Portrait of a Young Girl
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming portrait of a young girl with short cropped hair seated in a red chair. The artist captures her features and ruffled dress in expressive pastel markings, bringing vibrancy...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Luke
Located in MADRID, ES
In this portrait of a young man I wanted to show feelings of boredom and frustration held in check. Created with pastel pencils on recycled kraft paper.
Category
2010s Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Harriet
Located in MADRID, ES
I wanted to capture the fierce gaze of the young woman in this portrait. Created with colour pencil on recycled kraft paper.
Category
2010s Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
French School 18th Century, L'étonnement, form of expression, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 18th Century,
L'étonnement, Astonishment as a form of expression,
Titled on the lower right "L'étonnement N°9"
Black chalk on paper
43 x 29 cm
In good condition, a sta...
Category
1750s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Ben Woollcombe - Framed 1999 Watercolour, Self Portrait of Netting a Brown
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed and dated in graphite to the lower right. Well-presented in a fine white mount and plain wood frame. With the title and artist's name verso. On watercolour paper.
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
