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Art Subject: Face
Henry Moore 1983 charcoal drawing of two heads, signed
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Henry Moore O.M. C.H. (British, 1898–1986)
Portrait of Two Heads II, 1983
Charcoal, conté and chalk on Bockingford White wove paper
Signed lower right ‘Moore’
8¼ × 11¾ in. (21 × 29.8...
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20th Century Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
[Woman at a Table]
Located in Boston, MA
Frederick Bosley was an Impressionist painter of the Boston School who most often depicted portraits, figures and still-lifes. The artist was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire in 1881. He studied at the Museum School in Boston from 1900-1906 with Edmund C. Tarbell (1862-1938) and Frank W. Benson (1862-1951), and then in Europe from 1906-1908. Bosley returned to Boston in 1909, obtaining a studio at the Fenway Studios from 1909-1918. He was to become a teacher in his own right, settling as Director at the Museum School from 1913-1931. His many awards include First prize in the 1920 Concord Art Academy Exhibition and a Gold Medal in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition, 1925. His work may be found in the collections of several institutions, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Farnsworth Museum, the National Academy of Design and the Concord Academy...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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Black Woman's Beauty, 10x8" watercolor
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Black Woman's Beauty by Lu Haskew
Watercolor Portrait
10x8" image size
20x18" 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 Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
$2,500
“Bugs Bunny & Rocky”
Located in Southampton, NY
The image is an original animation drawing featuring Bugs Bunny and Rocky, signed by Virgil Ross lower right. Circa 1990. Condition is very good. Colored pencil and graphite. Provena...
Category
1990s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Smiling Nude by Tamara de Lempicka
Located in New Orleans, LA
Tamara de Lempicka
1898-1980 Polish
Smiling Nude
Signed “Lempicka”(bottom right)
Pencil on paper
“Everything that I did was never done like the others were doing... I wanted to d...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Mughal School, 19th century Empress Nur Jahan hunting an Indian Gazelle.
Located in Middletown, NY
Circa 1890. Pencil and black ink on cream laid paper with a border drawn in light blue ink, 6 x 5 1/8 inches (153 x 130 mm). Scattered light surface soiling and multiple soft horizontal folds.
Nur Jahan was fond of hunting and often went on hunting tours with her husband and was known for her boldness in hunting ferocious tigers. She is reported to have slain four tigers with six bullets during one hunt. According to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan this feat, inspired a poet to declaim a spontaneous couplet in her honor: "Though Nur Jahan be in form a woman, In the ranks of men she...
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19th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Female Critic - Female Connosieurs - Scottish Female Artist Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Two young Scottish women wear smart business jackets and fashionable tartan skirts. They are depicted as discerning Art Connoisseurs evaluating a small bronze dancer. The Artist Hele...
Category
1910s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Silver
Young Lady With Coiffure - Ellsworth Woodward Antique Graphite Drawing
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this drawing are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...
Category
1890s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
gravesend, oler woman w city scape window yellow tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned paper
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive ...
Category
2010s American Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Figurative/Portrait/Abstract_Ink on Paper_America Martin, Woman Rests on Clover
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Woman Rests on Clover"
Acrylic on Paper
11.25 x 30 in. 17 x 36 in. Framed
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in L...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink
Large Drawing, Study Of Dancers
Located in PARIS, FR
Henri ROYER
Nancy 1869 - 1938 Paris
Study of dancers
Sanguine pastel and charcoal on cream white paper
Circa 1900-1910
Unsigned
47 x 62.5 cm sheet
67 x 83 cm cm frame
Provenance: Es...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media
Study for the Spring (preparatory to the Four Seasons) by René-Marie Castaing
Located in PARIS, FR
René-Paris Castaing, winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1924, left a large body of work, both sacred and secular. Many churches in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in South-West France still bear witness to the diversity of his talent. In 1942, he began a major decoration project for the Château de Diusse, in the north-east of the county, including an allegory of the four seasons. The vigorous pastel we are presenting here is a study for Spring, depicted as Flore undressing. This commission was a veritable swan song for the artist, who died a year later at the age of 47.
1. René-Marie Castaing, the great inter-war painter in Pau
René-Marie Castaing was born in Pau on December 16th 1896. His father, Joseph Castaing, was also a painter: he was the official portraitist of Pau's high society, which was particularly cosmopolitan at the end of the century, when many rich foreigners spent the winter in Pau, taking advantage of the mild weather to enjoy an outdoor lifestyle punctuated by hunting, horse ridings and golf.
René-Marie Castaing was admitted to the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in April 1920 and entered the studio of Paul-Albert Laurens (1870-1934). In 1924, he was awarded the First Grand Prix de Rome for Painting, which earned him a stay at the Villa Médicis for more than three years. He then returned to Pau in 1928, where he lived until his death.
Castaing's work is marked by the academic tradition, in which drawing plays as important a role as painting. Although his drawings are often sketches that help to set up large painted compositions, they stand as independent artworks in which the artist fully expresses the vivacity of his talent.
Castaing was a fervent Christian and religious painting played an essential part in his work, as shown by the decorations he created for the churches of Bizanos, Borce, Bidache and Salies-de-Béarn. The painter also created several secular decorations, such as that for the dining room of the Villa Saint-Basil's in Pau in 1935, and the Hunting at the Albret’s time commissioned in 1940 by the Prefecture of Pau. The décor created in 1942-1943 for the Château de Diusse, a mansion located north-east of Pau, was his last large-scale décor, as the painter died shortly after its completion on December 8th 1943.
2. Description of the drawing
Our pastel depicts an eminently secular theme: Spring is embodied by Flore, crouching on the ground with one knee touching the ground. She reveals her ample bosom by removing her shirt, her arms raised above her shoulders to undress.
Given Castaing's classical training at the Beaux-Arts and the influence of ancient statuary...
Category
1940s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Giovanni Boldini drawing of a lady, Italian 19th Century
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931)
Etude de femme au ruban noir
Signed with atelier stamp (lower left), further inscribed, signed and dated by Emilia Boldini (the artist’s wife) `no 77 le_ atelier Boldini. Emilia Boldini Carbona 1931’ (on the reverse)
Black crayon on paper
11.7/8 x 8.7/8 in. (30 x 22.5 cm.)
Emilia’s inscription on the reverse from the year of his death.
Giovanni Boldini was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style, exemplified by the confident strokes in this fine example.
Boldini was born in Ferrara, the son of a painter of religious subjects, and in 1862 went to Florence for six years to study and pursue painting. He only infrequently attended classes at the Academy of Fine Arts, but in Florence, met other realist painters known as the Macchiaioli, who were Italian precursors to Impressionism. Their influence is seen in Boldini's landscapes which show his spontaneous response to nature, although it is for his portraits that he became best known.
Moving to London, Boldini attained success as a portraitist, painting notable members of society including Lady Holland and the Duchess of Westminster...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
William Glackens Drawing Titled "M. Durand... Arrived on the Scene", Dated 1903
Located in New York, NY
William Glackens, 1870-1938
M. Durand... Arrived on the Scene, 1903
Ink, wash, charcoal and Chinese white on paper
Signed (at lower left): W. Glackens...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern 1930s Workers
Located in New York, NY
Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern WPA 1930s Industrial Workers
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Brick Layers
House Beautiful cover proposal, c. 1939
...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Portrait of a Louis XIV Period Gentleman, Drawing by Vivian Rydgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Vivian Rydgren
Title: Portrait of a Gentleman
Year: 1948
Medium: Color pencil and pastel on paper, signed and dated l.r.
Paper Size: 23 x 15.5 inches
Framed: 37.5 x 29.5 inches
Category
1940s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Color Pencil
Two divine women - Pencil drawing - circa 1914
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges CONRAD (1874-1936)
Two divine women
Original pencil and color pencil drawing
Signed with the stamp of atelier
On paper 26.5 x 20 cm (c. 10,4 x 7.8 in)
Very good condition, ...
Category
1910s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil
$237 Sale Price
33% Off
Study of a Woman Sitting, Graphite Drawing, 19th Century French School
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 13 x 10 1/2 inches (33 x 27 cm)
Mounted
This is a delicate 19th century academic graphite drawing of a seated female nude in the neoclassical style.
A...
Category
19th Century French School Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
LeRoy Neiman 'Femling - Happy New Year 1982' Original ink & watercolor
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Leroy Neiman (1921 - 2012)
Title: Femling - Happy New Years
Type: Original
Material: Ink & Paper
Year Produced: 1982
Medium: ink on paper
Size: 10.5" x 8.5"
Framed approx.: 2...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
" Elégante aux perles " .Carlton . Cannes
By René Gruau
Located in CANNES, FR
René Gruau ( 1909 - 2004 )
" Elégante aux perles " . 1950 .
Dessin Original et unique
graphite et fusain sur papier . Signé.
format feuille : 83 x 50 cm
feuille globale : 92 x 6...
Category
1950s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
Woman in Blue, Modern Framed Pastel Drawing by Thomas Strickland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas Strickland, American (1923 - 1999)
Title: Woman in Blue
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed
Size: 21.5 in. x 17 in. (54.61 cm x 43.18 cm)
Frame: 27 x 22.5...
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1970s American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Portraits of the Hon. Mary Shuttleworth and Anna Maria, 9th Baroness Forrester
Located in London, GB
THE HON. MARY SHUTTLEWORTH, NÉE COCKBURN (D. 1777)
and her sister
ANNA MARIA, 9TH BARONESS FORRESTER (D. 1808)
Pastel and gouache on paper laid on canvas, on their original backb...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Cows in a Field (Recto) Two Figures in an Interior (Verso)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cows in a Field (Recto)
Two Figures in an Interior (Verso)
Watercolor on heavy textured paper, 1938
Signed in ink verso image of Two Figures, unsigned ...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
Good Health Week
10 ½ x 15 1/2 inches
Oil on pape...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
A Renaissance Angel.
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
Evelyn de Morgan 1855 - 1919, was an English painter. She was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. She was born Mary Evelyn Pickering in London into a wealthy family her fath...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Back View
Located in Deddington, GB
Daniel Ludwig is an American figurative artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Berkley. His original piece of artwork pictured above is called 'Back View' and this work of ar...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Dancer in White
Located in Mc Lean, VA
American Impressionist
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard
Untitled Surrealist Mythical Portrait
By Bob Camblin
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract Surrealist ink and gouache drawing of a human and deer hybrid head sitting within a jar. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner. The work is framed in a silve...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Ova
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenager. It was the beau...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Iris Hardcastle (c.1919-2013) - Mid 20th Century Gouache, Windswept Figures
Located in Corsham, GB
This dynamic composition utilises a tall vertical format to match the elongated figures. Hardcastle's bold, linear brushstrokes generate visual movement that captures the energy of t...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Female Nude - Charcoal Drawing - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Female Nude is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the 1970s.
Original Charcoal drawing on paper.
Mint conditions.
Female Nude is an original Contemporary artwork realiz...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Edward Bawden drawing 'White Collar Worker Cat' pen and ink Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
From a series of Bawden Cat illustrations we have listed. To see the others and our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" a...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
"Marc Chagall" Original Drawing Illustration Caricature William Saroyan book
Located in New York, NY
"Marc Chagall" Original Drawing Illustration Caricature William Saroyan book
This drawing was published in the 1976 edition of William Saroyan's SONS ...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Board
"Nude with Pattern" Mixed Media Drawing
Located in Chicago, IL
Kent Williams’ work melds the rigor of technical prowess with the iconoclast’s impulse to disrupt. Juxtaposing beautifully rendered classical forms with elements of abstraction and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Mixed Media
Screaming Face
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
DENYS CALVAERT (Antwerp c. 1540 – 1619 Bologna), ATTRIBUTED TO
Screaming Face
Red chalk on paper
17.5 x 14.5 cm
After 1608
Unsigned
Provenance:
Unidentified collection (Lugt L.2339...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Untitled #1 Zahra Zeinali Contemporary drawing Iranian woman artist art charcoal
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist on the back
THE IMAGINARY LAND OF ZAHRA ZEINALI
“Over time Zahra Zeinali develops her universe, which evolves slowly accordi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, early 1930...
Category
1930s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Seated Young Lady (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance") - Antique Drawing
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this pen-and-ink of a pretty Edwardian-era lady are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the...
Category
1890s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Disegno figurativo toscano neoclassico raffigurante un uomo barbuto
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, matita su carta, raffigura un uomo barbuto, girato verso l'osservatore, che indossa una camicia con il colletto aperto ed è rappresentato con un'espressione di intenso st...
Category
Early 19th Century Other Art Style Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Eden Lockdown, colorful humorous nude woman with apple and snake
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on linen on mounted board
outsider pastel on archival paper
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking f...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Achille Devéria (1800-1857) A young woman seen in profile, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Achille Devéria (1800-1857)
A young woman seen in profile
Black Chalk on paper
with cut edges
Bears the stamp of the Achille Deveria Estate Sale of 1...
Category
1840s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Ghost - 21st Century Contemporary Charcoal Drawing of a kitten
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Rosanna Gaddoni (Italian artist)
Gohst
42 x 33 cm ( framed in wood frame with museum glass)
Measurement with included frame: 52 x 42 x 3 cm
Charcoal on Paper
The Italian artist Rosa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Coachman - 18th Century British Figure watercolour drawing by Paul Sandby
By Paul Sandby
Located in London, GB
PAUL SANDBY
(1731-1809)
Study of a Coachman
Pencil and brown wash, shaped
Framed
16.5 by 9 cm., 6 ½ by 3 ½ in.
(frame size 32 by 22.5 cm., 12 ½ by 9 in.)
Provenance:
Iolo Williams;
Private collection.
Exhibited:
Sudbury, Gainsborough House, 1979.
Sandby was born in Nottingham and moved to London in 1745. He and his brother Thomas first worked in the military drawing department at the Tower of London, later working on a military survey of new roads and bridges in the Highlands. On leaving this post in 1751 he spent some time living with his brother who had been appointed Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park. There he assisted his brother, and made a series of drawings of the castle, town and neighbourhood. In 1760 he settled in London where he contributed to the first exhibition of the Society of Artists where he regularly exhibited until the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, becoming one of its founder members. In same year he was appointed chief drawing...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sweat Band #3, Charcoal Drawing, Bust of a Man Wearing a Sweat Band
By David Becker
Located in Chicago, IL
Human facial expressions help convey our stories from one person to another. However, David Becker presents this charcoal drawing with a flair for confusion. Throughout his career,...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Portrait of Lydia Clifton, aged 5 years, 6 months Dated January 31st 1841
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Lydia Clifton, aged 5 years, 6 months and dated January 31st 1841
watercolour on artist paper with wood panel backing, framed
framed: 16 x 12 inches
painting : 13.5 x 9.5...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Woman
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Portrait of a Woman, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 24.25" H x 19" W. Provenance: Fr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
1840's English Watercolor Portrait of a Young Mother Titled Inscribed & Dated
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Sophia Clifton, aged 33 years, dated January 29th 1841
watercolour on artist paper with wood panel backing, framed
framed: 16 x 12 inches
painting : 13.5 x 9.5 inches
Pro...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Fine Mid-Century Modern Abstract Figure Study Drawing, Male Model, Young Man
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Mid-Century Modern, Abstracted Figure Study Drawing of a Seated Male Model, Young Man by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well execute...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Japanese culture drawing, Kimono, Japanese dress, traditional clothing.
By Jean Jansem
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Title is Fillette en Kimono, 1954 .Drawing by Jean Jansem, 1954. Included the certificate of authentic by Stephanie's gallery.
Fillette en Kimono" is a captivating black and white drawing that beautifully captures the essence of Japanese culture and traditional clothing...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
William Henry Barribal - 1920s British watercolour of a Girl in a Fancy Bonnet
By William Henry Barribal
Located in London, GB
WILLIAM HENRY BARRIBAL
(1873-1956)
Her Best Bonnet
Watercolour and bodycolour over traces of pencil
Framed
23.5 by 18.5 cm., 9 ¼ by 7 ¼ in.
(frame size 42 by 36 cm., 16 ½ by 14 ¼...
Category
1920s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
20th century female artist nude woman figure drawing conte small sketch
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Seated Nude with 'X'" is a conté crayon drawing on paper by the American artist Sandra Sweeney (1947 - 2017). The figure study captures an intimate and candid moment: In the image, ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Paper
"Portrait of an Italian Fencer, " John Frederick Kensett, Hudson River School
Located in New York, NY
John Frederick Kensett (1816 - 1872)
Portrait of an Italian Fencer, circa 1845-47
Watercolor on wove paper
13 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Signed with initials and inscribed lower right "J.F.K. Rome"
From October 1845 through the spring of 1847, Kensett lived in Rome. He attended classes where he sketched from live models, and he sketched in the countryside outside Rome and around Florence, Perugia, and Venice, places he visited with his artist friends. He fulfilled commissions for paintings from Americans in Italy, and by 1847 his career was well established.
Son of an English immigrant engraver, John Kensett lacked enthusiasm for that medium and became one of the most accomplished painters of the second generation of Hudson River School painters. His reputation is for Luminism, careful depiction of light, weather, and atmosphere as they affect color and texture of natural forms. He was particularly influenced by the painting of Asher Durand in that he focused on realism and detail rather than the highly dramatic views associated with Thomas Cole. Going to the western United States in the mid 1850s and the 1860s, he was the first of the Hudson River School painters to explore and paint the West.
Kensett was born and raised in Cheshire, Connecticut, and learned his engraving from his father, Thomas Kensett with whom he worked in New Haven, Connecticut until 1829. He continued working until 1840 as an engraver of labels, banknotes and maps and was employed part of that time by the American Bank Note Company in New York City. There he met Thomas Rossiter, John Casilear, and other artists who urged him to pursue painting. In 1840, he and Rossiter, Asher Durand, and Casilear went to Europe where Kensett stayed for seven years and supported himself by doing engraving but became accomplished in landscape painting.
Having sent canvases of Italian landscapes back to New York, he had a reputation for skillful painting that preceded him. When he returned to New York City in 1847, he was an "instant success" and very sought after by collectors. Two of his Italian landscapes had already been purchased by the American Art Union. By 1849, he was a full member of the National Academy of Design and was generally popular among his peers. His studio was a gathering place with travelers stopping by to see his canvases and to identify "precise locations in the Catskills or Newport or New England in the oil sketches and drawings that covered his walls." (Zellman 170). For the women, he was a popular bachelor, "romantic looking with high forehead and sensitive expression." (Samuels 262)
He was also sought after by many organizations. Among his activities were serving on the committee to oversee the decoration of the United States Capitol in Washington DC, and becoming one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
An inveterate traveler, Kensett spent summers on painting excursions away from New York City. One of these trips was a special painting excursion with fifteen other artists sponsored by the B & O Railroad from Baltimore, Maryland to Wheeling, West Virginia. Unlike many of the Hudson River painters...
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1840s Hudson River School Figurative Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Mermaid &Tonic mythical sea creatures humor soft light color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Part of an ongoing series of mermaids by the artist on toned archival paper signed and dated on bottom
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2010s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Archival Paper
Edward Burra original drawing for a costume design for clown, British, 20th Cent
By Edward Burra
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Edward Burra CBE (British, 1905 – 1976)
Costume design for clown pencil
watercolour and body colour on paper
19.3/8 x 9.3/4 in. (49.3 x 24.7 cm.)
Provenance: The collection of Gillia...
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20th Century Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Children Amongst Foxgloves - Pink Flowers, Female Illustrator of The Golden Age
Located in Miami, FL
Children Amongst Foxgloves - Female Illustrator of The Golden Age by a female illustrator of The Golden Age Watercolor on paper, signed 'A. Bowerley' lower left.
11 x 20 in. (sight)...
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Early 1900s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Paper, Pencil
The Infamous - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1930s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Charcoal and Watercolor on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1930s.
Hand signed lower right.
Good condition except for a minor part of the lower left edge missing.
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1930s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
Edward Bawden Dandy Boy Cat pen and ink Modern British Art drawing
Located in London, GB
From a series of Bawden Cat illustrations we have listed. To see the others and our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" a...
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Late 20th Century Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Pen
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