Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
The Bluecoat School, pencil drawing by M R A Hollis
Located in London, GB
M R A Hollis
The Old Bluecoat School
Pencil drawing
56 x 77 cm
Professor Malcolm A Hollis was a chartered surveyor, arbitrator and professor of Building Pathology. He produced th...
Category
20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
$1,427 Sale Price
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The Sportsmen - Early 20th Century British illustration
Located in London, GB
STEPHEN BAGHOT DE LA BERE
(1877-1927)
The Sportsmen
Signed
Watercolour and pencil
Framed
36 by 30.5 cm., 14 ¼ by 12 in.
(frame size 48.5 by 43 cm., 19 by 17 in.)
Baghot de la Ber...
Category
1890s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Graphite Drawing on Wood Titled, "Aren't We All Made Of The Same Stardust?"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind realistic graphite on wood drawing by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley. Its dimensions are 24" x 12" x 1.75". It is unframed. A certificate of authenticity w...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Graphite
Clare Bridge, watercolour by Mark McCrum
Located in London, GB
Mark McCrum
Clare Bridge
Watercolour
29 x 39 cm
Signed and dated to lower right
Mark McCrum, born in Cambridge, England, is a distinguished author and artist known for his diverse...
Category
1980s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape 1964, watercolor on paper, 20.5x26.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape
1964, watercolor on paper, 20.5x26.5 cm
Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978)
Graphic, army officer.
In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and many mili...
Category
1960s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mr Punch - How to Grow Tobacco - Original ink 20th Century British illustration
Located in London, GB
“IONICUS” JOSHUA CHARLES ARMITAGE
(1913-1998)
Mr Punch – How to Grow Tobacco
Pen and ink heightened with white, unframed
5.5 by 10 cm., 2 ¼ by 4 in.
(mount size 25.5 by 25.5 cm., ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Rising Mist, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Rising mist in the forest in early spring is the theme of this painting. Two prominent trees are in the foreground and more trees are less visible in the background through misty con...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The village 1964, paper/crayons/pencil., 14x19 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The village
1964, paper/crayons/pencil., 14x19 cm
Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978)
Graphic, army officer.
In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and many mili...
Category
1960s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Color Pencil
Ice breaker 1965, paper/watercolor, 16x21 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ice breaker
1965, paper/watercolor, 16x21 cm
Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978)
Graphic, army officer.
In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and many military ...
Category
1960s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Landscape 1967, paper/watercolor, 23x43.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape
1967, paper/watercolor, 23x43.5 cm
Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978)
Graphic, army officer.
In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and many military ...
Category
1960s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$228 Sale Price
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From the train to the Himalayas 1963., p/crayons, pencil, 20x27 cm
Located in Riga, LV
From the train to the Himalayas
1963., p/crayons, pencil, 20x27 cm
Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978)
Graphic, army officer.
In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latv...
Category
1960s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, 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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Morning 1965, paper/watercolor, 15x21 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Morning
1965, paper/watercolor, 15x21 cm
Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978)
Graphic, army officer.
In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and many military cour...
Category
1960s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Young Man by Victorian artist George Elgar Hicks
By George Elgar Hicks
Located in London, GB
GEORGE ELGAR HICKS
(1824-1914)
Portrait of a Young Gentleman
Signed and dated 1858
Watercolour and bodycolour, oval
30 by 25 cm., 11 ¾ by 9 ¾ in.
(frame size 50 by 41 cm., 19 ¾ b...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Before the rain. 2019. Watercolor, paper, 87 x 58 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Before the rain. Watercolor, paper, 87 x 58 cm
Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private collections in Latvia, USA...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$618 Sale Price
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Intervention 2. 2012, canvas, oil, 70x90 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Intervention 2. 2012, canvas, oil, 70x90 cm
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,665 Sale Price
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The Pitchmarket, Cerne Abbas - 1930s British watercolour drawing by Schwabe
Located in London, GB
RANDOLPH SCHWABE, RWS, NEAC
(1885-1948)
The Pitchmarket, Cerne Abbas
Signed, inscribed Cerne Abbas and dated 1937
Pencil and watercolour
Framed
34...
Category
1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
A Bomber Plane Landing, Second World War charcoal sketch
Located in London, GB
Anonymous
A bomber plane landing
Charcoal sketch
34 x 43 cm
This charcoal sketch depicts a four-engine bomber coming into land, featuring a further tw...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Rosehip. oil on cardboard, 23x27, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Rosehip. Oil on cardboard, 23x27,5 cm
Category
1970s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$428 Sale Price
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Chrysanthemums and Tiger Lilies
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chrysanthemums and Tiger Lilies
Signed and dated lower left (twice), see photo
Watercolor on paper, 1935
A symbol of the sun, the Japanese consider the or...
Category
1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Winter 1967, double-sided, paper/watercolor, 20x27.3 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Winter
1967, double-sided,paper/watercolor, 20x27.3 cm
Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978)
Graphic, army officer.
In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and many...
Category
1960s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Great grandfather at sea II. Watercolor, paper, 67 x 95, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Great grandfather at sea II. Watercolor, paper, 67 x 95,5 cm
Dark sea with two ships
Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$696 Sale Price
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Seated Nude
By August Gerasch
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing one of a pair of stunning antique realist drawings by well listed Viennese artist August Gerasch.
This piece was created with superb...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Board, Graphite
Regatta. 2019. Watercolor, paper, 69, 5 x 97 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Regatta. 2019. Watercolor, paper, 69,5 x 97 cm
Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private collections in Latvia, USA...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$696 Sale Price
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Rufus Crested Coquette, realist gouache miniature bird portrait, 2020
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina introduces a sense of movement to her gouache Bird by Bird series with her miniature portrait, Rufus Crested Coquette. Wings spread, beaks open wide, and legs hover in the air. ...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Turquoise Seas, " Sears Gallagher, realist, watercolor
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Painter and etcher Sears Gallagher was born in Boston in 1869. Gallagher studied in Boston with Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott in the 1880s as well as at the Parisian Académie Julian in ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Boat on the river bank. Oil on cardboard, 50x35 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Boat on the river bank. Oil on cardboard, 50x35 cm
Category
Early 2000s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$666 Sale Price
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Girl in a Sari - 20th Century pencil drawing by Carolyn Sergeant
Located in London, GB
CAROLYN SERGEANT
(1937-2018)
Girl in Sari
Signed on the reverse and inscribed: Set of six Drawings of a Figure from the Life - Finals
Pencil and...
Category
1960s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pencil
The Chinese Jacket - 20th Century British drawing of a Woman
Located in London, GB
CAROLYN SERGEANT
(1937-2018)
Woman in a Chinese Jacket
Pencil, unframed
49.5 by 36 cm., 19 ½ by 14 ¼ in.
(mount size 65.5 by 51.5 cm., 25 ¾ by 20 ¼ in.)
Carolyn Cann studied at ...
Category
1960s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Homestead, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An illuminated two storey country home is catching the late afternoon sunlight in contrast with the dark trees behind it creating a powerful image. :: Painting :: Realism :: This p...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$904 Sale Price
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Morning at the sea. 2020. Watercolor, paper, 40 x 62 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Morning at the sea. 2020. Watercolor, paper, 40 x 62 cm
Sea with waves in yellow colors
Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$418 Sale Price
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Stream at Enchanted Rock, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
By Leslie White
Located in Yardley, PA
Enchanted Rock is a beautiful granite dome in the Texas Hillcountry. On a recent hike up I noticed this little creek with clear water that made the granite sparkle. :: Painting :: Re...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Above the Cove, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A rustic house overlooking the Atlantic Ocean on top of a hill with large interesting rocks below including a well worn path in the grass. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Winter landscape 1965, paper/watercolor., 20.5x27.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Winter landscape
1965, paper/watercolor., 20.5x27.5 cm
Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978)
Graphic, army officer.
In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and many...
Category
1960s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Young Girl with Pink Ribbon - Original Charcoals Drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Young Girl with Pink Ribbon
Original charcoals and pencil drawing
Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back
On linen vellum 26 x 20 cm (c. 10.5 x 8 ...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Poppies, Paper and Paint, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Original watercolor painting on 300 lb Arches Cold Press Watercolor Paper. The painting is signed on front, bottom right corner. "Poppies, Paper, and Paint" reflects the artist's lov...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Evening Watercolor on paper, 23, 5x28 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Evening
Watercolor on paper, 23,5x28 cm
Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978)
Graphic, army officer.
In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and many military cours...
Category
1960s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Young Boy Smilling - Original Charcoals Drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Small Village in Switzerland
Original charcoals drawing
Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back
on linen vellum 31 x 24 cm (c. 12 x 10 in)
Very g...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Winter landscape 1965, paper/watercolor, 20x25.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Winter landscape
1965, paper/watercolor, 20x25.5 cm
Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978)
Graphic, army officer.
In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and many mi...
Category
1960s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Infanta Dolor - graphite pencil drawing - woman with cactus and succulents
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Infanta Dolor' features the face of a young woman with succulents and cactus in an intricately patterned and complex graphite drawing on Kent paper. from Japanese artist Chikako Oka...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Splendor, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This is my kind of garden; in full bloom, and crammed with a splendid variety of pretty things. The subject matter delights me not only because I love gardens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Two studies of Woman Profile - Original Charcoals Drawing - Circa 1920
Located in Paris, IDF
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Two studies of Woman Profile
Original sanguine charcoal drawing
Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back
on linen paper 25 x 40 cm (c. 10 x 16 in)
...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Sails I, 2020. Paper, watercolor, 24 x 18, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private collections in Latvia, USA, Sweden, Australia and Germany. He is a member ...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$375 Sale Price
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Golden Reality – 14-09-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Golden Reality – 14-09-20 Golden Reality My last drawing was slightly cubistic but today I did this realistic one, that I would like to name ‘Golden Reality’. Realism is no...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Flowers over the City. 1975. Watercolor on paper, 11x14, 8 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers over the City. 1975. Watercolor on paper, 11x14,8 cm
Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978)
Graphic, army officer.
In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and...
Category
1970s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$266 Sale Price
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Infanta Nocturna - pencil drawing - woman with cactus & victorian collar
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Infanta Nocturna,' features the face of a young woman with succulents, cacti and she is wearing a Victorian Queen's lace collar. An intricately patterned and complex graphite drawin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Lady Wearing a Yellow Hat - Original Signed Charcoals Drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Lady Wearing a Yellow Hat
Original charcoals drawing
Signed bottom left
on tinted linen watermarked paper 24 x 31 cm (c. 9 x ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Peaceful Woman - Original Signed Charcoals Drawing - 1929
Located in Paris, IDF
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Peaceful Woman, 1929
Original charcoals drawing
Signed bottom right
on tinted linen paper 43 x 31 cm (c. 17 x 12 in)
Stamp of the Estate auction sale o...
Category
1920s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Last View of a Great Departure - Original whandsigned watercolor - c. 1899
By Edmond Pellisson
Located in Paris, IDF
Edmond PELLISSON
Last View of a Great Departure, c. 1899
Original watercolor painting
Handsigned bottom right
On vellum 18 x 26 cm (c. 7 x 10.5in)
Excell...
Category
1890s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mode Drawing : Pretty Elegant Girls - Original charcoal drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Rosy ANDREASI-VERDIER (1934-2015)
Mode drawing : Pretty Elegant Girls
Original charcoal drawing
Bears the "Rosy Andreasi Verdier" Archives stamp bottom left
On vellum 45 x...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Child Picking Fruit - Original Pencil Drawing - Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Demetrios GALANIS (1879-1966)
Child Picking Fruit
Original pencil drawing
Signed with the blue stamp signature of the artist
On vellum 15 x 12.5 cm (c. 6 x 5")
Very good cond...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Seagull_01, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
By Helal Uddin
Located in Yardley, PA
This is one of my studio paintings. Trying to capture nature of beauty. I love watercolor because it’s a very challenging medium. I used Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors with wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Colored Pencils), unique painting, Allan Stone Collection & Sotheby's
By Grace Knowlton
Located in New York, NY
Grace Knowlton
Untitled (Colored Pencils), 1978
Mixed media watercolor and charcoal painting on paper. (Framed with labels from the legendary Allan Stone Collection...
Category
1970s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor, Mixed Media
Riverbank, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
This piece is focusing in on the foreground showing a close up of a riverbank and detailed grassy embankment with the strong image of a dark barn off in the distance across a field. ...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Melting Snow, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An old stone two storey rural house half hidden amongst dark trees and branches with a touch of snow on the on field in the foreground. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes wi...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Modern Realistic Black and White Pencil Drawing Study of Smiling Mouths and Lips
Located in Houston, TX
Modern realistic black and white pencil drawing study by American artist Scott Martin. The work features six meticulously rendered studi...
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20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Franklin Adams (New Orleans) "Camisole" - Modern Graphite Sketch Drawing
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Photographed behind the glass of the frame, so please pardon reflections.) As you can see from the receipt, this fine drawing was originally purchased for $3,500 on Julia Row in New Orleans. A New Orleans legend, Franklin Adams moved to the city in 1958 to teach painting and drawing at Newcomb College. Over the following years, he applied his wide-ranging talents to architecture, set design, logo design and other diverse projects. He was good friends with Mignon Faget...
Category
1990s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
$1,920 Sale Price
20% Off
High Moorland Landscape in the fog - The world as a transcendent phenomenon -
Located in Berlin, DE
Charles Edward Brittan Jr (1870 Plymouth - 1949). High moor landscape in the fog. Gouache, signed at lower left "Charles E. Brittan", 18 x 34.5 cm (passepartout), 45 x 62 cm (frame)....
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Early 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$1,713 Sale Price
20% Off
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