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Art Subject: Face
Bouquet of Flowers with Vanitas
Located in London, GB
'Bouquet of Flowers with Vanitas', wax crayon on paper, by French artist, Louis Latapie (circa 1930s). A vanitas painting contains collections of objects symbolic of the inevitabilit...
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1930s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Wax Crayon
$2,422 Sale Price
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Barca de Refugiados, Figurative Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Crayon, Pencil
The poet
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Support size
22 x 22 x 0.4 cm
Category
20th Century Italian School Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Gucci Spring 19 Accessories. Fashion watercolor on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Watercolor on paper: )"Monkey at Sea" (elephant nose )
Located in New York, NY
Shiri Mordechay's paintings are a whirlwind of emotion and complexity, drawing the viewer into a vibrant and dynamic world. Each piece is packed with countless details, your eyes are...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Nude of Woman - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower right.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died in Venice ...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Nude of Woman - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1960s.
Hand signed in the lower right.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died in ...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Old Master Drawing, 17th Century, Italian Art, Peace, Allegory, Love, Dove
Located in Greven, DE
Oak Leaf Peace Wreath with Dove and Serpent
Around 1700
Black chalk on thin, brownish paper
39,8 x 52,7 cm
Inscribed "N" in the centre left
This drawing is probably by an Italian Ar...
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17th Century Baroque Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
$383 Sale Price
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Vanitas III (Study) - Still Life Drawing of a Human Skull & Flowers
By Matthew Cook
Located in Chicago, IL
Matthew Cook
Vanitas III (Study)
Charcoal & Chalk on Paper
10h x 8w in
25.40h x 20.32w cm
FRAMED DIMENSIONS
16h x 14w x 1d in
40.64h x 35.56w x 2.54d cm
MLC014
Bio:
Matthew Cook ...
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2010s Old Masters Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Man Playing Tuba
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
size: 11.75 x 8 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
prov...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Perfume Bottles
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Unique drawing, graphite on paper.
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance.
Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts....
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1970s Pop Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Phantom Fireworks - original watercolor painting
Located in Burlingame, CA
Phantom Fireworks - an iconic American painting by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings.
Torlakson’s photoreal...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and W...
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Doggie Diner Booths - iconic watercolor
Located in Burlingame, CA
Phone booths at the Doggie Diner- an iconic American original watercolor painting - 24 x 16 inches - by James Torlakson, who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings. Doggie Diner Booths...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and W...
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
All about Eve. From the Art, culture & society series
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
"Cursed March" (2024) By Dustin Panzino, Procreate Illustration on Metal
Located in Denver, CO
"Cursed March" (2024) by Dustin Panzino is a beautiful digital painting created in Procreate, which details a renaissance style depiction of a parade of spirits, marching forward in ...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Metal
Watercolor British school 19thcentury Diamond jubilee Portrait Queen Victoria
Located in PARIS, FR
English school from the end of the 19th century Watercolor and gouache 38 x 28 cm (60x49 cm with the frame) Very beautiful late 19th century frame in pitch pine wood. Very good condition
This watercolor was made for the diamond "jubilee" in 1897 of Queen Victoria, crowned on the 20 June 1837 Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. She was also Queen of Canada from 1867 and Empress of India from 1876. This watercolor represents two portraits of the Queen, one in 1837 and the other in 1897, as well as a beautiful diamond which reminds of the famous Indian diamond the Koh-i-Nor which was presented in 1850 to Queen Victoria, for the 250th anniversary of the English East India Company, and cut and mounted on a tiara with two thousand other diamonds in 1852. We also recognize in this watercolor the insignia of the Order of the Star of India...
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Late 19th Century English School Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Joyful Cruise With Luke" (2022) By Irene Georgopoulou, Original Pastel Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
Irene Georgopoulou's "Joyful Cruise With Luke" is an original, handmade pastel drawing that depicts a items from childhood such as: jelly beans, letter blocks, marbles, game pieces a...
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2010s Photorealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Postman - original watercolor
Located in Burlingame, CA
Iconic Postman original watercolor painting is 11 1/2 x 7 inches / professionally framed at approximately 19 1/2 x 15 inches. Artist signed, titl...
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20th Century American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Nudes - Tempera and Carboard on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nudes is a beautiful double-sided sheet with two full page original pantings on cardboard, realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th Century.
On the recto a wonderful origin...
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Early 20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Tempera
'Neptune', Woman Artist, Berkeley Art Museum, California College of the Arts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created by Carole Doyle Peel (American, 1934-2016) circa 1985 and accompanied by first edition volume, 'Carole Doyle Peel: The Delight of Drawing', 2...
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1980s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Scapegoat
Located in Columbia, MO
Sean Lyman is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Missouri State University, with an extensive list of international exhibitions and work in public permanent collections including...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Interior Drawings and Wat...
Materials
Graphite, Wood Panel
Gerberas 1987. Paper, watercolor, 49x55 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Dzidra Bauma (1930)
Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers and still life. She is one of the most productive wate...
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1980s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modern British ink pen on paper work of Isaac Stern by Edmond Xavier Kapp
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Edmond Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978)
Isaac Stern at work
Inkpen
Signed, inscribed and dated ‘Isaac Stern at work Kapp 51’ (lower right)
17.1/8 x 13.7/8 in. (43.3 x 35.3 cm.)
Edmond Kapp was born in Islington, London, on 5 November 1890, of American and German Jewish parentage. He gave himself the middle initial ‘X’ – sometimes said to stand for Xavier – to distinguish himself from his father Emil Kapp, who was a wine merchant. However, his parents called him ‘Eddie’ while his wife and friends knew him as ‘Peter’.
During his early years, Kapp was continually ill and, while convalescing, entertained himself by drawing at home. As his health improved, he attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Islington (1903-10), with periods at Berlin University (1909) and L’Institut Français pour les Etrangers, Paris (1909). He then read Languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1910-13), though spent most of his time writing and drawing.
Kapp took a studio in London, and worked intensively until the outbreak of the First World War, contributing to the Daily News, the Onlooker and other periodicals. During the war, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front, and then in Intelligence, rising to the position of Staff Captain on Haig’s Staff. Finally, he founded and directed the Neutral Press Counter-propaganda Section.
In 1919, Kapp returned to London and, after abortive periods at three art schools, worked alone. In that year, he made his name with an exhibition of caricatures, held at Furst’s Gallery, London, and accompanied by a catalogue introduced by Max Beerbohm. This soon led to contracts with three London periodicals and a book of caricatures, Personalities, published by Martin Secker. Through the 1920s and 30s, his drawings of musicians and other personalities appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, most notably Time & Tide; were collected in further volumes; and were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. He considered himself to be a ‘character-portraitist’, producing images of psychological not satirical power, and disliking the term ‘caricature’.
Between the wars, Kapp developed other aspects of his artistic talents, the desire to study and the search for subject matter often taking him abroad. For instance, work at the British Academy, Rome, under Antonio Sciortino...
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20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
'Still Life with Pot-Belly Stove', California, Paris, Louvre, SFAA, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu, (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended t...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
"Three Medusas, " Eugene Berman, Surrealism, Greek Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Eugene Gustavovitch Berman (1899 - 1972)
Three Medusas, 1968
Watercolor on paper
12 x 9 1/2 inches
Initialed and dated lower right
Provenance:
Larcada Gallery, New York
Frank Oehlsc...
Category
1960s Surrealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$4,400 Sale Price
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Albert Rutherston - 1920s British Illustration for Cymberline
Located in London, GB
ALBERT RUTHERSTON, RWS
(1881-1953)
Tailpiece – Illustration for The Tragedie of Cymberline
Signed with initials l.r. AR; also signed with initials and inscribed beneath the mount: Tailpiece for end/of play {Cymberline}/No Reduction unless/”lay out”should make/necessary AR
Pen and ink
Unframed
6 by 10 cm., 2 ½ by 4 in.
(mount size 36.5 by 25.5 cm., 14 ½ by 10 in.)
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Exhibited:
London, Sally Hunter Fine Art, Albert Rutherston, Drawings, Theatre Designs and other Treasures, 2016, no.66
The present work was illustrated in Cymbeline, published by Ernest Benn in 1923. The series was a collaboration between Rutherston and Harley Granville-Barker following on from their work together 11 years earlier at the Savoy Theatre and celebrating the quatercentenary of the Shakespeare Folio edition.
Born Albert Daniel Rothenstein, he was the youngest of the six children of Moritz and Bertha Rothenstein, German-Jewish immigrants who had settled in Bradford, Yorkshire in the 1860s. He and his siblings proved to be a hugely talented and artistic family, his elder brother became Sir William Rotherstein (1872-1945), the artist and director of the Royal College of Art; two of his other siblings, Charles Rutherston and Emily Hesslein, both accumulated major modern British and French art collections and his nephew Sir John Rothenstein was direct of the Tate Gallery.
He was educated at Bradford Grammar School before moving to London in 1898 to study at the Slade School of Art where he became close friends with Augustus John and William Orpen. He met Walter Sickert during a painting holiday in France in 1900 and by introducing Sickert to Spencer Gove became instrumental in the beginning of the Camden Town Group. He was one of Sickert’s most frequent companions and was one of the original members of the Fitzroy Street Group. Rutherston had a sociable and attractive personality, he frequently travelled abroad with other artists including Max Beerbohm, Spencer Gore, Walter Russell and Edna Clarke...
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1920s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Green men, Fashion models new york city 2021. Watercolor fashion drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Pen, Watercolor, Ink
Gustave Riquet (1866-1938) Les Œillets de la vie, 1898 watercolor signed
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Riquet (1866-1938)
Les Œillets de la vie, 1898 (Carnations of life)
Signed and dated on the lower right,
The text on the lower left is the following "Cueille dès aujourd'hui les oeillets de la vie" , which can be translated as "Pick today the carnations of life"
watercolor on paper
37.5 x 51.5 cm
In good condition
In a modern frame : 53 x 67 cm
The text clearly gives the meaning of this allegorical portrait...
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1890s Symbolist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$1,173 Sale Price
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William C. Ostrander "A Tragedy in Still Life"
By William Cheesborou Ostrander
Located in San Francisco, CA
William C Ostrander: 1858-1933. Listed NYC and California artist. In the 19th century he taught at Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. His works are very scarce as I could only find o...
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19th Century American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Rose 17, Ellen Williams, Original Drawing, Pencil, Floral Still Life, Affordable
Located in Deddington, GB
Rose 17 by Ellen Williams [2021]
original
Pencil on 150gsm paper
Image size: H:30 cm x W:20 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:20 cm x D:0.01cm
Sold Unframed
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Still-life Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Mid 20th Century British Cubist watercolour drawing by John Sutton
By John Sutton
Located in London, GB
JOHN SUTTON
(20th Century)
Still Life with Fruit
Signed, inscribed and dated: 10/5/42
Watercolour, chalks and pen and ink, unframed
25 by 31.5 cm., 10 by 12 ½ in.
(mount size 40 ...
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1940s Cubist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Watercolor
Survival I, Sewing Machine, Charcoal on Fabriano Paper, Black, White "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Debabrata Basu - Survival I - 26 x 20 inches (unframed size)
Charcoal on Fabriano Paper.
Style : Debabrata derives his style and theme by introspecting within himself. The fears of ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Squash Still Life, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Squash Still Life (P5.18), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm), Description: Placed alongside...
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1960s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life with Corn, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Still Life with Corn (P6.31), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 10 x 22 in. (25.4 x 55.88 cm), Printer: , Description: R...
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1960s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Last Mohawk
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Last Mohawk, 2021' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 4 x 9 inches and 11 x 15.75 inches professional...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Drawings and W...
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Illustration Framed on Canvas: 'Mr February'
Located in New York, NY
The murder of John Lennon. The birth of my children. Nixon’s resignation. Brain surgery.
Driven by the desire to express myself, and leave a physical record of my life and times, I’v...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Color Pencil
Study for a Fallen Statue, Aston Hall, 20th Century British drawing by Hickman
Located in London, GB
NEVILLE HICKMAN
(1930-2012)
Study of a Statue, Aston Hall
Signed with initials, inscribed and dated: May 2 67. Aston Hall
Pen and ink, unframed
25.5 by 17.5 cm., 10 by 7 in.
(mount size 34.5 by 28 cm., 13 ½ by 11 in.)
Aston Hall is a magnificent seventeenth century red-brick mansion situated in a public park on the north side of Birmingham. It was built between 1618 and 1635 by Sir Thomas Holte, the head of an important Warwickshire family and was one of the last great Jacobean houses...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Circulus VI. Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Paul Rossi
Located in Brecon, Powys
Amazing, fantastical images pepper the entire painting. It for all the world looks like a piece of Wedgwood porcelain has come to life and the characters are playing in a new reality...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
"Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily" - pastel drawing, figurative, surrealism
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is framed measuring 36.5 by 44.5 inches.
Based in Carrollton, Georgia, Erin Dixon is a mixed media artist whose work bridges realism and surreal...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Still Life - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an Ink and tempera drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a white envelope.
Titled on the lower right corner, another s...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Tempera
Big Fruit Nude, colorful, imaginative nude with fruit on pastel on toned paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
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2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Old Doll, 10x6.5", pencil drawing, framed
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Old Doll by Lu Haskew
Pencil 10x6.5" image size
12x10" framed as pictured, behind glass
Still Life drawing of a doll from the artist's extensive doll collection.
Shipping price incl...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Clay Figurine, Milan
Located in Columbia, MO
HELEN HAWLEY
Clay Figurine, Milan
2024
Ink on paper
Framed: 12 x 16 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Un Enfant Vu Assis Sur
Located in Dallas, TX
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Un Enfant Vu Assis Sur
Ballpoint Pens, Crayons And Colored Pencil On Cardboard
7.5 x 5.5
March 11, 1948, he experienced ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Crayon, Cardboard, Ballpoint Pen, Color Pencil
$480 Sale Price
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Illustration Framed on Canvas: 'Glass Menagerie'
Located in New York, NY
The murder of John Lennon. The birth of my children. Nixon’s resignation. Brain surgery.
Driven by the desire to express myself, and leave a physical record of my life and times, I’v...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Color Pencil
"SOUL MOUNTAIN", watercolor, landscape, sky, stone, clouds, green, blue, rose
Located in Toronto, Ontario
SOUL MOUNTAIN is a new watercolor on Fabriano paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 22x30". Note the flow of the landscape, the curves and fields ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
A.J.W - 2001 Watercolour, Anemones And Apples
Located in Corsham, GB
A strikingly colourful and impressively large contemporary watercolour still life showing a willow pattern cup full of anemones on a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$500 Sale Price
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Self With Brushes, 9x11" pencil
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Self with Brushes by Lu Haskew
Pencil Portrait
9x11" image size
15x18" framed (behind glass)
Shipping price includes the custom packing necessary for safe transport of fine art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Lu Haskew 1921-2009
"Life is good to me. Being able to go to my studio five days weekly and paint for several hours, living in a supportive community, having family and friends who encourage me--all have contributed to helping me become an artist. Being fortunate to study with some of the artists I admire has kept me painting from the garden, people and my favorite things. With the support of galleries, teaching and doing demos, how could I do anything else? My goal is to try to be the best I can be by always being a student, looking for new ideas and stretching my horizons."
Upon retirement from a 33-year teaching career, Lu rented a studio in Loveland and began concentrating on her oil and watercolor painting. Learning from artists she had followed and admired throughout the years her painting became a full time career that lasted 17-years. Beginning in 1992, she studied with renowned painters Richard Schmid, Clyde Aspevig, Joyce Pike...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Nicolas V. Sanchez - Ola Arrolladora, Painting 2025
Located in Greenwich, CT
Oil on Canvas
8 x 12 feet
Ola Arrolladora (translated as “sweeping wave”) is a monumental oil painting on canvas measuring 8 x 12 feet recently exhibited at Art on Paper 2024 New Yo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Study for Going to Bed Drawing, Pencil on Paper by Stanley Spencer, 1935
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Study for Going to Bed Drawing, Pencil on Paper by Stanley Spencer, 1935
Additional information:
Medium: Drawing, Pencil on Paper
54.6 x 63.5 cm
21 1/2 x 25 in
This is a study for a painting featured in Spencer’s nine picture series, ‘Domestic Scenes’ (1935), throughout which the artist nostalgically reflected on and reimagined the marriage to his then-wife, Hilda Carline, following their separation after ten years together. Indeed, letters show that Hilda began divorce proceedings while the series was being produced, in part owing to Spencer’s infatuation with young artist Patricia Preece, who lived in Cookham alongside her partner Dorothy Hepworth. Spencer married Preece a week after the divorce was finalized, but the marriage was disastrous and his subsequent endeavors to reconcile with Hilda were also unsuccessful, although he did continue to visit her regularly until her death in 1950. Spencer saw the Domestic Scenes series as preparation for his 1953 painting ‘The Marriage of Cana’, a depiction of Christ’s first miracle, the turning of water into wine as described in St John’s Gospel, with the bride and groom reimagined as Stanley and Hilda.
This study has been exhibited widely, including at the opening exhibition of the Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham in 1962 and in the Royal Academy’s 1980 retrospective ‘Stanley Spencer: RA’. The completed painting, ‘Domestic Scenes: Going to Bed’ (1936) was included in the Barbican Art Gallery’s 1991 exhibition ‘Stanley Spencer: The Apotheosis of Love’, curated by John Toole...
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20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
