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Art Subject: Face
Portrait - Original Mixed Media Artwork by Maurice Lourday - 1927
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original pencil, pastel and watercolor drawing on creamy cardboard, realized in 1927 by Maurice Lourday (1860-1934).
Titled on the lower.
In very good conditions, ex...
Category
1920s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Pastel, Watercolor, Cardboard
Rudolf Schlichter, Shirtless man, shouting, circa 1920, black ink on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Rudolf SCHLICHTER (1890-1955)
Shirtless man, shouting, circa 1920
India black ink on paper
43,2 x 28,4 cm
provenance : artist's family
Rudolf Schlichter was born in Calw in 1890. He...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
The Death of Attis, 18th Century French Red Chalk Drawing, Greek Mythology
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper
Image size: 9 x 7 inches (23 x 17.75 cm)
Acid free mount
The Greek god Attis was the spouse of Cybele, the fertility goddess. He was from Phrygia, a kingdom in c...
Category
18th Century French School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Modern Pastel Figurative Drawing of a Seated Resting Sumo Wrestler with Kimono
Located in Houston, TX
Modern pastel drawing of a sumo wrestler resting after a match with a kimono or blanket draped over his shoulders. Signed by the artist in the front lower right corner. Currently hun...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
French Pencil Study of a Graceful Woman in Vintage Attire with Red Features
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 9.75 (height) x 9 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
P...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Mid Century French Pencil Posed Portrait of a Forlorn Female Face Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil on artists paper, double sided
Size: 10 height) x 6.5 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Provenan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Dog - Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Dog is a drawing on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Pen Drawing
Good conditions and aged.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
"He bent down and kissed her" Magazine WWII Era Story illustration for the Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Magazine story illustration for “Hero Come Home” by Ruth Burr Sanborn for The Saturday Evening Post, published September 12, 1942, page 24.
This sentimental illustration, accompany...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sketch of woman by Henri Fehr - Drawing
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
85 x 68 x 2,7 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Kachina Figures, by Dan Namingha, green, black, framed, Hopi, drawing, katsina
By Dan Namingha
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Kachina Figures, by Dan Namingha, green, black, framed, Hopi, drawing, katsina
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Neo Deco – 08-03-24, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Interesting Synthesis This graphite pencil drawing ‘Neo Deco – 08-03-24’ is another homage to the realm of art deco. To be precise, I dedicate this one to photographer Walte...
Category
2010s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Portrait Study of a Young Girl, Signed 19th Century Victorian Sketch
By Augustus Leopold Egg
Located in London, GB
Pencil and coloured chalk on paper, signed bottom right
Image size: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (3.75 x 3 cm)
Mounted and framed
Provenance
Studio sale, Christies 18th May 1863
The Artis...
Category
Mid-19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
Family, Signed Watercolor and Ink on Paper Folk Art by Jovan Obican
By Jovan Obican
Located in Long Island City, NY
Family
Jovan Obican
French/Yugoslavian (1918–1986)
Date: circa 1980
Watercolor and Ink on Paper, signed l.r.
Size: 16 x 13 in. (40.64 x 33.02 cm)
Frame Size: 24.5 x 20.5 inches
Category
1980s Folk Art Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Woman in the Hammam - Original Pastel Drawing, Signed #REFERENCED
Located in Paris, IDF
Françoise GILOT (1921-)
Woman in the Hammam
Original Pastel Drawing
Signed bottom right
On paper 74 x 55 cm at view (c. 30 x 22 in)
Presented in golden wood frame 96 x 77 cm (c. 38...
Category
1950s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Jacques Stettiner
Located in New York, NY
This work by Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957) is offered by CLAMP In New York City.
Jacques Stettiner
c. 1927
Signature stamp in purple ink, verso; Also titled in pencil, verso
Ink o...
Category
1920s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Saudi Arabia King Faisal Time Magazine Cover - Man of The Year Study
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
Master portrait artist and illustration legend Bob Peak captures the likeness, dignity and essence of Saudi Arabia's King Faisal for Time Magazine Cover ...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Amerindian (Dakota)
Located in Miami, FL
In the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC I learned that all indigenous peoples in Latin America, from Alaska to Patagonia, are connected through their DNA. In o...
Category
2010s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929.
Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne.
Edition of 2...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Figure in White. Seated while suited male Figure on couch black and white tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a soft pastel on archival black toned paper signed and dated by the artist on the bottom right corner. This work requires framing under glass for long term preservation.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Original French Anatomical Study of Horse's Eyes
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original French Anatomical Study of Horse's Eyes
Artist: Robert Ladou (French, 1929-2014)
Medium: Acrylic on Paper
Size: 18.25 (Height) x 14.75 (Width)
Signed: No
Condition: G...
Category
20th Century Academic Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Les Miserables
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal, Pastel
Dimensions: 40.00" x 30.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Les Misérables
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
Lanvin of Paris c1920s Original Fashion Illustration in Gouache
Located in Bristol, CT
9 3/4"H x 6 3/4"W
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Mid Century French Pencil Drawing of a Peaceful Stone Female Head
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Study
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper
Size: 19 (height) x 12.5 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condition: Goo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Flowers in Hair_America Martin_Ink on Paper_Figurative/Portrait/Floral
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Flowers in Hair"
Ink on Paper
24.5” x 22.5”
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angeles. America is a paint...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Charcoal Portrait Drawing of a Woman in Period Outfit
Located in Pasadena, CA
The identity of the artist who created this excellent charcoal study remains unknown. The model's outfit and the arrangement of her hair suggest a bygone era, possibly a study for a ...
Category
Early 19th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Jansem drawing, Grandma drawing, contemporary artist, Jansem grandma portrait.
By Jean Jansem
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
La Veille Dame, ink on paper by Jean Jansem (1920-2013). Stephanie's gallery's certificate of authentic available. Signed Jansem lower right.
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Woman in Fantasy Costume (pair)
Located in New York, NY
The pair consists of the present work and an engraving after it by the hand of Giles DeMarteau (Liège 1722 – 1776 Paris) titled Woman in Fantasy Costume, after Jean Baptiste Le Prince, and measuring, 10 ⅜ x 8 ⅝ inches (26.5 x 22 cm).
DeMarteau's engraving is inscribed at the bottom:
Le Prince inv. del. / Demarteau sc. / A Paris ches Demarteau Graveur du Roi, rue de la Pelterie à la Cloche...
Category
18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Engraving
French Boy in Bloomers
Located in London, GB
'French Boy in Bloomers', gouache on art paper (circa 1960s-70s), by Raymond Debiève. A young boy emerges from a beach cabana wearing a bloomer bathing costume that was still in use ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
Pen and ink, ink wash and pencil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 38cm x 29cm (65cm x 55cm framed).
This penetrating and wonderfully executed self-portrait, is all the mor...
Category
1910s Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil, Ink
Bouquet Bearer bright colors blue dress yellow wall pastel women fashion flowers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
soft pastel on toned archival sanded paper signed and dated bottom left this work is part on an ongoing series bt the artist depicting women with floral bouquets
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Untitled (Encyclopedia)
Located in Miami, FL
For these works on paper, he’s combining paintings of objects and collected ephemera with texts and graphics from other sources. He’s superimposing th...
Category
2010s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Oil
"Ukrainian Cossacks"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Mikhail Chemiakin (b. 1943)
“Ukrainian Cossacks”, 1981
Watercolor, ink on paper
29.5 × 29.5 cm
Signed lower right
A vivid and theatrical work by the internationally acclaimed Russia...
Category
20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Paper
The Profile - Drawing by Jean-Luis Forain - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Profile is a drawing on paper realized by Jean-Luis Forain in the Late 19th century.
Pencil drawing.
Good conditions.
Louis Henri Forain, known as Jean-Louis Forain, Jean Fora...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Nude - Original Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions except for consumed margins and some foxings.
Jean-Ray...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woman Graphite Pencil Drawing 1979 Signed Unique
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist : Raphael Soyer
Title : Woman
Year: 1979
Drawing in Pencil Signed in pencil
Drawing Size 11½" x 16 Inches
Matted Size : inches 16" x 20" inches
Born in 1899, Raphael So...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Bracey - Framed 1991 Pastel, Sleeping Nude
Located in Corsham, GB
Well presented in a distress-effect wood frame. Signed and dated. On paper.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
(After) "The Gleaners" Ink Drawing Painting Study
Located in Houston, TX
The original "The Gleaners" is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857. It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray stalks of wheat after the harvest. ...
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Nude Female Figures (Nude Women Study)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Martin Friedman (1896-1981). Two Nude Figures, ca. 1960. Charcoal on paper, image measures 17 x 22.5 inches; 24 x 30 in original custom chestnut frame ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Middle Eastern Man with Turban and Blue Cloak in Profile against Yellow
Located in Miami, FL
Portrait in primary blues and yellow of perhaps a Persian man. He is in profile set against a decorative yellow background with floral elements. The work...
Category
1940s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Antique English Impressionist Charcoal Pencil Drawing Portrait Study Two Heads
Located in Portland, OR
A very good English Impressionist charcoal and pencil drawing of two male heads, by the celebrated British artist Sir George Clausen R.A. (1852-1944), the drawing circa 1905.
Clausen was a very well respected British artist based in London in the late 19th & early 20th century, stylistically he managed to meld Romanticism and Impressionism with great success. This very handsome drawing depicts a study of two male heads, most likely related to the 1905 painting "Binding Sheaves" or another harvest painting from that period.
This work of art was exhibited & sold in 1976 by the "New Grafton Gallery 42 Old Bond Street London W1", exhibition to the verso, the gallery specialized in showing major 20th century British artists.
The drawing is in excellent condition and is ready to hang.
At sight without frame 5.50" x 8.50"
Biography
George Clausen was born at 8 William Street in the Regents Park district of London on 18 April 1852, the son of a decorative...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
'Train Station, Geneva', Swiss Woman Expressionist Artist, Vienna Secession
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signature lower right, 'Dopplera' for Freida Wilhelmine Doppler (Swiss, 1870-1968) and painted circa 1890. (Also spelled Frieda Doppler.) Accompanied by label with title, 'Train Stat...
Category
1890s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study, 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study
Year: circa 1964
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: E...
Category
1960s Renaissance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Regency portrait drawing of Lady Nugent
By John Downman
Located in London, GB
Collections:
With Ellis Smith, London;
Private collection, to 2015.
Literature:
G.C. Williamson, John Downman A.R.A., his Life and Works,
p. lviii no...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Largo
Located in New York, NY
Maurice Denis' extravagant charcoal drawing of a romantic draped figure with outstretched arms is a rare work from the post impressionist period.
Signed with monogram (lower left) a...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Mid 20th Century French Charcoal Drawing - Portrait of a Standing Nude Man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Portrait"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
pencil/ charcoal on thick paper, unframed
paper size: 25 x 18.75 inches
Beautifully decorative, mid 20th century French ori...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Oil
Composition with Reading Girl by an Unknown Artist, Ink on Paper, Dated 1922
Located in Stockholm, SE
Unknown Swedish Artist
Composition with Reading Girl
inkl on paper
indistinctly signed and dated Eric Eric SON? 1922
frame included
Category
1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Mid Century French Sketch of a Side Profile of a Expressive Young Man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Signed Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 9 (height) x 7 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Goo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Female Nude Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate o...
Category
1960s Renaissance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Mid Century French Stylish Lady in an Off The Shoulder Frilly Top Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil on artists paper, double sided
Size: 9 height) x 7 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Provenance:...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Mid Century French Portrait of a Seated Maid Watercolour Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Portrait
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black charcoal and watercolour on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Size: 9.75...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
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
Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys
Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
Reclining Woman with Horseriders - Chinese American Art Watercolour Ink
By Walasse Ting
Located in London, GB
WALASSE TING (1929-2010) [Ding Xiongquan]
Wuxi 1929 – 2010 New York (Chinese/American)
Title: Reclining Woman with Horseriders
Technique: Stamp Signed Watercolour on Handmade Pape...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Without Results - China Ink Drawing on Paper by G. Grosz - 1925
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
Original china ink drawing on paper by George Grosz, representing a typical subject of social and family issues.
Provenance: Grosz Foundation (Regist...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Louis Tinayre (1861-1942) An encampment of journalists, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Tinayre (1861-1942)
An encampment of journalists in Chambéry,
signed and titled lower left "Campement de journalistes à Chambéry"
Ink on paper
In quite good condition, a a visible vertical fold in the centre, some stains and foxings
21 x 29 cm
Framed : 33.7 x 45.5 cm
Louis Tinayre's background and adventurous life obviously shed light on this humorous and detailed scene. He shows a remarkable sense of observation, capturing as a journalistic illustrator this scene of extraordianarian life.
We don't know for the moment why these journalists had to improvise a camp, probably in a hotel room. No doubt it was to cover a trial or a sensational news item that had filled all the hotels in the city with journalists who had flocked for the occasion. In any case, what interests Tinayre as an almost ethnographic observer is this camp of journalists, of which he makes a tender and comical scene.
One understands him better when one knows how he could be fascinated in the same way by the territories of Madagascar, the North Pole or the Far West that he painted and drew.
Louis Tinayre was born on 14 March 1861 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. His mother, Victoire Tinayre, was a teacher and a member of the International Workers' Association.
Louis was the son of a Communard couple. His father, Jean Joseph, known as Jules Tinayre (Issoire 1821 - Paris 1871) was shot during the Bloody Week. His mother, Victoire Tinayre, fled with her children. Louis was the first to be sent to Hungary, and the rest of the family (including his brother Julien) joined him there later. He studied Fine Arts at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest.
Returning to Paris in 1880 (after the amnesty), Louis Tinayre assiduously frequented Le Chat noir, where he met the positivists and Adèle Jacomet (Buenos Aires 1867-1946), whom he married in 1888.
He became an animal painter and press illustrator and was sent by Le Monde Illustré to cover the second expedition to Madagascar (then under French protectorate) in 1895.
He stayed there, fascinated, for six months and produced numerous drawings and photographs. Back in France, he created eight 5 x 4 meters dioramas presented at the National and Colonial Exhibition in Rouen in 1896.
He returned to Madagascar in 1898 to prepare the creation of a giant panorama representing the surrender of Antananarivo in 1895. The Malagasy pavilion at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris allowed him to admire the dioramas (on the ground floor) and the panorama (on the first floor).
On his second trip, Tinayre took a Lumière cinematograph with him to document the daily life of the Malagasy people, no doubt to facilitate the design of the vast panorama. These short films were donated to the Cinémathèque française in 2009 by his grandson, Alain Tinayre.
One of the admirers of Tinayre's drawings, watercolours, paintings and photographs at the Universal Exhibition was Prince Albert I of Monaco: from 1901 onwards, Tinayre accompanied him on his hunts, painting scenes in North Africa, Russia, the Far West (Wyoming) and the North Pole. Tinayre, the official painter of the Prince's scientific expeditions, left his name to a glacier.
Together with the painter Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Brun, he painted the four murals in the large amphitheatre of the Oceanographic Institute in Paris. Louis Tinayre painted the figures while Alexandre Brun...
Category
1890s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Mid Century Nude Figure Study of a Black Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling mid century nude figure study of a black woman reclining by Raul Anguiano (Mexican/American, 1915-2006), 1968. Signed and dated lower left hand corner "R. Anguiano." Presented in wood frame under plexiglass. Image size: 25"H x 34"W. Framed size: 35"H x 43.75"W.
Raúl Anguiano was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on February 26th, 1915. He started drawing cubist pictures at the age of 5, taking as his first models movie stars, as Mary Pickford, Pola Negri and Charlie Chaplin. Anguiano first artistic influence or aesthetic emotion came from the Holy Family by Rafael Sanzio.
At the age of 12, Anguiano attended Guadalajara's Free School of Painting under the tuition of Ixca Farias. From 1928 to 1933, he studied with the Master painter José Vizcarra, the disciple of Santiago Rebull and José Salomé Piña, and organised the group "Young Painters of Jalisco" with other artists. During this period, Anguiano worked with different kinds of models: workmen, employees and a few intellectuals like Pita Amor.
In 1934 Anguiano moved to Mexico City. He began teaching in primary schools and taught drawing and painting at La Esmeralda academy and the UNAM School of Art.
Anguiano was a member of the Mexican Artistic Renaissance movement which was started in the 1920's by the Mexican School of Art in which he belonged. This renaissance began with the San Carlos Academy movement -- among whose leaders were Ignacio Asúnsolo and Jose Clemente Orozco -- and which emerged out of the students' and teachers' discontent with the traditional paintings methods (academicism), and the close contact that the young artists had with the problems of Mexico and its people, explaining the marked critical realism to the painters of the time, including Anguiano himself.
The same year, Anguiano received a commission to paint his first mural, Socialist Education, a 70 meters fresco located at A. Carrillo School in Mexico City. Other works followed, including Mayan rituals (oils on canvas and wood), for the Mayan Hall in the National Museum of Anthropology, and Trilogy of Nationality (acrylic on canvas and wood), for the Attorney General's Office.
In 1936 he moved into his surrealist period, which lasted almost a decade. He painted circus performers and prostitutes. The most notable among his works of the time are: The Madame (gouche, 1936), The Clown's Daughter (oil, 1940), the Pink Circus Artist and the Grey Circus Artist (oil, 1941). Also during this period, Anguiano produced a series of drawings based on his dreams, with cold tones and silver-greys predominating.
In 1937 Anguiano joined the Revolutionary Writers and Artists League. Together, with Alfredo Zalce and Pablo O'Higgins, he was also a founding member of the Popular Graphics Workshop, where artists practised a graphic style based on Mexico's folk traditions. This was due to the powerful influence of the recently discovered Jose Guadalupe Posada and Goya.
Raúl Anguiano belonged to the so-called "Third Generation" of post-revolutionary painters, along with Juan O'Gorman, Jorge González Camarena...
Category
1960s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
Portrait of Broadway star Dorothy Dionne
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1933
Medium: Pencil on Paper
Dimensions: 16.00" x 13.00"
Signature: Signed and Titled
For the Broadway play "Young Sinners"
Dianne starred in the play “Young Sinners” in 1933.
Category
1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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Mid-Century Americans Didn’t Know Antonio Petruccelli’s Name, but They Sure Knew His Art
The New York artist created covers for the nation’s most illustrious magazines. Now, the originals are on display as fine art.
Cecilia Vicuña Merges Politics, Science and Spirituality in Her Poetic Art
The Chilean creator, who has been living in exile in New York for decades, is having a major moment, receiving the biggest exhibitions, commissions and awards an artist could dream of.
Who Are the Most Popular Artists on 1stDibs?
Learn the stories of some of the world's most recognizable artworks and their makers.
Shantell Martin Finds Wonder in Sharing the Creative Process
The visual artist completed a new work in front of a crowd at the 1stdibs Gallery.