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Art Subject: Portrait
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)...
Category
Early 1900s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Pencil
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
"Jade", Figurative, Portrait, Acrylic, Chalk Pastel, Wax Pastel
By Chambers Austelle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative portrait drawing titled "Jade" is an original artwork by Chambers Austelle made of acrylic, chalk pastel, wax pastel. This piece measures 12"h x 12"w.
Chambers Austelle is a contemporary figurative painter and educator living and working in Charleston, SC. Austelle is best known for her compositions of vivid color and female subjects. The isolated environments challenge the viewer to question the way beauty and women are perceived in our culture.
Austelle’s work has been exhibited nationally and exists in many private collections. She was awarded Best in Show at The City Gallery for “Piccolo Spoleto’s 2016 Juried Exhibition”, as well as Charlie Magazine’s “50 Most Progressive”. Most recently, she was the 2018 recipient of St. Thomas’ Artist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Chalk, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Acrylic
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
Belle Epoque Romantic Pastel Portrait of a Spanish Beauty, Conchita de Cadiz
Located in Cotignac, FR
Romantic French pastel portrait of a Spanish beauty by Louis Fortuney. The work is signed bottom right, titled to the back board and presented in a fine...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Untitled: Portrait of A Blond Male
Located in New York, NY
Frank Campanella (American, 1922-2016), "Untitled: Portrait of A Blond Male", Figurative Portrait done in Charcoal on Brown Charcoal Paper Unsigned, 20 x 14, Late 20th Century
Colors: Black, Red, White, Gray, Blue, Brown, Yellow
"Untitled: Portrait Of A Blonde Male" is a Modern Figurative Portrait capturing a side profile of a young but mature male subject with a distinctive mustache. He's dressed in a red shirt with white pinstripe on the shoulder. His hair is a light dirty blond with lighter beige highlight with light bluish-grayish eyes, pointed nose with fuller lips.
Frank Campanella is a listed artist known for New Jersey landscapes...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
"The Red Barn Players Summer Theater" - American Weekly Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Couple putting on theatrical make-up for summer theatre
Cover of American Weekly Magazine, June 20, 1954
Dimensions: 19.75 x 16.00 in.
Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Paper
Signa...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Tetouanoui Man
Located in London, GB
Tetouanoui Man
Albert Charles Dequene
Pastel on paper, signed and dated 1933 lower left, titled upper right
Image size: 23 x 18 inches (58.4 x 45.7 cm)
Hand made ebonised and gilded ...
Category
20th Century French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The Argument
Located in New York, NY
Signed and inscribed on a label on the verso:
No. 1/ The Argument/ W. Cave Thomas/ 203 Camden Rd/ NW
Provenance:
Christie’s, London, 6 November 1995, lot 88.
Private Collection, London.
This powerful watercolor is a mature work by the little-known Victorian painter William Cave Thomas...
Category
19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
(Untitled)
By Ernest Leonard Blumenschein
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Board
Dimensions: 14.00" x 8.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Magazine story, an image of man in uniform.
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Board
Portrait of a Young Officer, Thomas Lawrence, Irish Volunteers
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in London, GB
Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA
1769-1830
Portrait of a Young Officer
Pastel with touches of black chalk on paper
Signed and inscribed on an old label verso: "Be pleased to keep away / from the Damp & from dust / T Lawrence AE 13. / 1783."
Wash mount and gilt frame
Provenance
W.E. Spooner;
Anonymous sale, Phillips London, 17 April 2000 lot 196
Sothebys, Old Master & Early British Paintings, 14 April 2011 • London Lot 246
Old label verso describes how this was drawn in 1783 at the age of 14!
This is a portrait of an officer from the Irish Volunteers. The Irish Volunteers was a part-time military force raised by local initiative in Ireland in 1778. Their original purpose was to guard against invasion and to preserve law and order at a time when British soldiers were withdrawn from Ireland to fight abroad during the American Revolutionary War.
As a young boy Thomas Lawrence lived with his parents who ran a coaching inn near Bath. Clearly talented from this young age, he drew the passing travellers who stopped at the inn and this soldier may have been one such sitter. Lawrence was only 13 years old when he drew this work. To capitalise upon their son's talents, the family later moved to Bath and sent Lawrence to London in 1787 where he entered the Royal Academy schools at the earliest possible age. Works from such an early period of Lawrence's creativity are rarely to be found today.
This rare early portrait drawn in Bath shows the level of technical skill that Lawrence had reached at 14 years old. His use of colour and tone to depict flesh and all the subtle variations in the texture and pigmentation of his sitter’s face, powdered hair and clothes show how Lawrence conceived pastel as a form of painting and partly explains how he could have made the smooth transition to oil painting so soon afterwards.
When he arrived in Bath from Devizes in 1780, eleven-year-old Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) was promoted as a natural-born genius like his Renaissance predecessor Raphael. The local press announced the arrival of the boy wonder and his ‘Striking Sketches’, inviting the ‘Nobility and Gentry’ to sit for their portraits.
Thomas Lawrence was a prodigious portraitist from the age of just eight, when he began to draw his first portraits in pencil...
Category
1780s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
German School Early 19th Century Pastel - Portrait of Joachim Simon
Located in Corsham, GB
A handsome early 19th-century pastel portrait of Joachim Simon, wearing a flamboyant floral waistcoat, double-buttoned overcoat and a black silk cravat. Well presented in a distresse...
Category
Early 19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Imperial Beauty, British School 20th Century Pastel Portrait
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper on canvas, initialled lower left "ND"
Image size: 13 ¾ x 22 ½ inches (35 x 57 cm)
Gilt frame
This fine Art Nouveau picture executed around 1900, depicts an auburn ha...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Mid Century French Portrait of an Older Woman with Headscarf
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Portrait
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper
Size: 24.5 (height) x 18 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condition: ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
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
Self Portrait at 72" - Imagined Future, Original Painting by David Kassan
By David Kassan
Located in Denver, CO
David Kassan’s "Self Portrait at 72" (2021) is an introspective exploration into the future, where the artist imagines himself as an elder. Painted in oil on acrylic mirror and measu...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mirror, Oil
Wakechai (Crouching Eagle) A Saukie Chief Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
1842 Wakechai (Crouching Eagle) A Saukie Indian Chief Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
The lithograph depicts Wakechai, also known as Crouching Eagle, who was a member of the Sauk and Fox delegation. King renders Wakechai with exceptional detail. The Saukie Chief is adorned with fine accoutrements such as a white fur robe...
Category
1840s Hudson River School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Lithograph
The Buttonhole By Charles Spencelayh
Located in New Orleans, LA
Charles Spencelayh
1865-1958 British
The Buttonhole
Signed “C.SPENCELAYH” (lower left) and inscribed “This Drawing was accepted into the Royal Academy but crowded out for want of ...
Category
20th Century Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
John Ridge, A Cherokee Indian & Interpreter Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
1838 John Ridge A Cherokee Indian and Interpreter Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
The lithograph depicts John Ridge, a Cherokee interpreter, by Charles Bird King (American, 1785 - 1862), published 1838. Compared to other indian portraits in tribal regalia, King's rendering of John Ridge appears to be different. King portrayed John Ridge in Anglo-American clothing, sitting at a desk with a document and pen in hand—hinting at Ridge’s education and career as tribal leader and politician. King was known for his realistic and sensitive renderings of his sitters, and his ability to capture their physical features and attire with dignity and attention to detail.
Condition: Good; tonal aging due to age; previous mat tonal aging marks
Presented in new conservation mat
Paper size: 19.75"H X 14"W
Image size: 15"H x 10"W
Mat size:24"H x 16"W
John Ridge received his education at Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut and served as clerk of the Cherokee National Council. When King painted...
Category
1840s Hudson River School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Lithograph
Bathing Beauty (Carole Lombard)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930s
Medium: Pastel on Thick Paper
Dimensions: 30.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Crandell (1896-1966) was the undisputed "artist of the stars," befriending and immortalizing Hollywood's most beautiful starlets in his portraits. Among his subjects were Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Carole...
Category
1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Lanvin Paris Mother & Daughter c1950s Artwork"
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 23"H x 14 1/4"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Category
1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mid Century French Charcoal Portrait of a Man in a Beret Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Charcoal Portrait of a Man in a Beret
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black charcoal on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Size: 7.5 (heigh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Pre-Code Cover Portrait of Verna Hillie
By Cardwell Higgins
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 20.00" x 28.50;" Framed 32.50" x 41.25"
Cover Art for Unidentified Title
Pre-code Hollywood starlet Verna Hillie is the subject of this erotically charged pastel portrait, which was the title Reel Movie Fun, a short lived wild and racy publication that merged the world of pin-up and burlesque with the envelope pushing film culture emerging from Hollywood before enforcement of the notorious Hays code put an end to overt expressions of sexuality or immorality on screen. Pastel is dated and signed on the back and the sitter is identified in the artist's hand as seen. Beautifully framed and matted behind glass in a handsome gallery frame and ready to hang.
Verna Hillie was a Monograph Pictures star who appeared in The Marx brothers comedy "Duck Soup...
Category
1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Illustration Board
Mid Century French Drawing of a Portrait of a Woman with Braided Hair
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Portrait
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper
Size: 24.5 (height) x 19 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condition: ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
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
Woman With Red Poppies
By Philip Boileau
Located in New York, NY
Woman With Red Poppies, 1905, by Philip Boileau (1863-1917)
Pastel on paper
35 ½ × 22 ¾ inches unframed (90.17 x 57.785 cm)
Signed, dated, and inscribed...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
'Self-Portrait with Black Hat' — Mid-Century American Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Philipp, 'Self-Portrait with Black Hat', ink and color pastel, c. 1945. Signed in ink, lower right. A fine, spontaneous drawing, on heavy, buff wove paper; the artist's tack holes in the top and bottom left sheet corners, minor rippling in the bottom sheet edge; otherwise in good condition. Image size 16 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches; sheet size 19 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Provenance: Art Students League, from the artist’s personal portfolio.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Philipp (1895–1981) was a celebrated American Post-Impressionist painter known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits. Noted art critic Henry McBride named Philipp one of America's top six painters of his generation. Philipp was an instructor of painting at the Art Students League, New York, for 33 years. Philipp was Secretary of the National Academy of Design, a National Academician, and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London. His composition and painting style has been compared to the art of Edgar Degas and Pierre Auguste Renoir.
In 1940, Philipp was invited to Los Angeles by Hollywood producer Louis B. Mayer to paint portraits of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie stars. The same year, Walter Wanger, producer of ‘The Long Voyage Home’, directed by John Ford and based on plays by Eugene O'Neill, contracted with Reeves Lewenthal, head of the Associated American Artists gallery in Manhattan, to bring nine well-known artists to the set and paint scenes from the movie and portraits of the actors in character. The artists included Robert Philipp, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Ernest Fiene, George Schreiber, Luis...
Category
1940s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Ink
Portrait of a Man Wearing a Turban, 18th Century Pastel Drawing
By Thomas Frye
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Image size: 13 x 17 1/2 inches (33 x 44.5 cm)
Mounted and framed
This original pastel drawing by Thomas Frye is a half-length portrait of a man dressed in a turban. This drawing is the original sketch for one of the heads depicted in Frye's collection 'Twelve Mezzotint Prints' of 1760 and it can be assumed that this pastel work was created earlier of this same year.
Two versions of the print, created from this original work, are currently held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Frye's evocative figures, although presumably based on living models, exceed the conventions of portraiture, and also function as character studies. The man shown here - dressed in the fashionable 'Turkish' manner - turns with parted lips as if poised to speak, while raising the elegant fingers in one hand in a rhetorical gesture. His long eyelashes and smoothly rendered wrinkles and dimples are hallmarks of Frye's refined style.
The Artist
Thomas Frye (c. 1710 – 3 April 1762) was an Anglo-Irish artist, best known for his portraits in oil and pastel, including some miniatures and his early mezzotint engravings. He was also the patentee of the Bow porcelain factory, London, and claimed in his epitaph to be "the inventor and first manufacturer of porcelain in England," though his rivals at the Chelsea porcelain factory seem to have preceded him in bringing wares to market. The Bow porcelain works did not long survive Frye's death; their final auctions took place in May 1764.
Frye was born at Edenderry, County Offaly, Ireland, in 1710; in his youth he went to London to practice as an artist. His earliest works are a pair of pastel portraits of boys...
Category
1750s English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
"Julius Caesar" original art for Penguin book cover
Located in Miami, FL
An uncanny and unexpected pose characterizes this work as Julius Ceasar warily looks over his shoulder and blood-stained toga. Signed lower right "M. Gl...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
Signed Eliseo Sala Male Nude Academia Drawing 19 century chalk paper
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing is an “Academic study”, as we can notice by the deep attention given to lights and shadows (emphasized by the use of both black and white chalk) and by the plastic pose o...
Category
Mid-19th Century Other Art Style Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Cardboard, Laid Paper
Gianni - Italian School 20th Century Watercolour, Portrait of a Man with Pipe
By Gianni
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine watercolour study depicting an Italian man smoking a pipe with a water urn upon his shoulder. The artist has exquisitely captured the fine details in the man's face and clothe...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Elegant Couple, Good Housekeeping Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1934
Medium: Charcoal on Paper
Dimensions: 34.00" x 25.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Story illustration: Elegant couple considers floor plan drawn in the sand.
“Benda finished explaining the house plan she had drawn in the sand. ‘But, Benda,’ Don said, examining it, ‘the place is not complete. Haven't you forgotten something?’ ‘That's all... I'm sure... Don,’ she answered softly.” Story illustration: “Between the Owl's Nest and a Rift in the Clouds”, author: Clara Hood Rugel, Good Housekeeping...
Category
1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
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
"My Son George" 1921 Pen & Ink Portrait by Paul Brown
Located in Bristol, CT
Very early 1921 pen & ink drawing on board by Paul Brown
Sz: 10 3/4"H x 8 1/4"W
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Vincente Romero, Thoughtfulness, original pastel
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Vincente Romero
Thoughtfulness
Original pastel on Ingres paper
Hand signed by the artist
Image: 25.6 x 19.7 inches
Framed dimensions: 32 x 26 inches
*T...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
The Portrait - Drawing by Émile Lévy - 1856
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait is a drawing artwork realized by Émile Lévy (1826-1890) in 1866.
Hand-signed
Good condition.
Category
1850s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The Portrait - Drawing by Francis Duchene - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait is an artwork realized by Francis Duchene in 1930.
Watercolor and pencil on paper
Hand-signed and dated, Paris.
Good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Ritratto a matita del pittore Francesco Albani, inizi del XIX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno rappresenta, come riportato a penna in basso al centro del foglio, il ritratto del celebre pittore dell'Emilia Romagna Francesco Albani, uno dei massimi rappresentanti del...
Category
Early 18th Century Other Art Style Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Sketch from Life, 19th Century English Watercolour, Girl in Profile
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and dated '1870' lower left
Image size: 5 x 6 1/2 inches (13 x 16.5 cm)
Category
1870s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Vintage Charcoal Drawing Woman with Earring 1965
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6018 Vintage charcoal drawing woman with earring
Framed
Signed verso
image 9.5x7.5"
Category
1960s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Girl with Braids
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal, Pastel, and Watercolor on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 18.75" x 15.25;" Framed 27.50" x 15.25"
circa 1920
Girl with Braids...
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Watercolor, Board
Framed Early 19th Century Watercolour - Madonna & Child
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine early 19th century portrait in watercolour depicting Madonna and her child. Presented in a beautiful 19th century frame with foliate and acanthus corner mouldings. Unsigned. O...
Category
Early 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Studies of the Head of a Young Girl by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing
Located in London, GB
Studies of the Head of a Young Girl by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Charcoal and colour crayon on paper
26.3 x 20.3 cm (10 ⅜ x 8 inches)
Signed lower right, manzana. Pissarro...
Category
1940s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Color Pencil
Pastel Portrait Young Blonde Woman French Marseille Michel FRONTI Late 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Michel FRONTI
Marseille, 1862 – Marseille, 1936
Portrait of a young blonde girl
Pastel signed top right “M. Fronti”
35 x 27 cm (56 x 50 cm with the frame)
Original frame
Very good co...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of Boy in a Chair
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Boy in a Chair', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1960s). Here the artist paints a young boy, very probably his son, Vincent, sitting in a chair posing fo...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Mid Century French Study of a Smiling Mythical Bust
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Study
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper
Size: 19.5 (height) x 13 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condition: Goo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
The Rose by Jose Parera - Oil pastel on paper 50x70 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
British early 20th Century pastel drawing of Puck, Midsommers Night Dream
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Herbert James Draper (British, 1863-1920)
Puck
Pastel
Inscribed ”PUCK” (middle left) and further inscribed and signed `Study for Puck/ Herbert Dra...
Category
20th Century Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Zeng Jianyong "The Header No. 68"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ZENG JIANYONG (b. 1971)
The Header No. 68
2008
Ink and watercolor on handmade paper
35 ½ x 28 ¾ inches (90 cm x 73 cm)
Inventory Number: CNLS2643
Jiangyong Zeng was born in 1971 in...
Category
Early 2000s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Portrait of a German Airman, Graphite on paper, 1919, Air Park Document Verso
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper, signed and dated '13 Feb (19)19' bottom left
Image size: 13 x 8 1/4 inches (33 x 21 cm)
This is a portrait of a German airman that was done by the artist at the start of 1919. The artwork has been created on the reverse of a document from Adlershof, a German Air Park. This exact document is from the 'Airman Replacement Department' and is a request form for replacement parts for aircrafts - it asks the writer to specify the type and number of aircrafts, the type of engine and details of its propellers.
Adlershof is a place with a long and famous history. Germany's first motorised aircraft took off from here at the beginning of the 20th century and the Wright brothers moved their company to the airfield in 1909 shortly after it was opened. In 1912 German Experimental Institute for Aviation was established and made the location it's headquarters. Indeed, pre-war it was often known as 'The cradle of German Aviation'.
During the war the War ministry used the site for extensive military production and it is particularly well known for a series of competitions between various aviation firms' fighter aircraft designs that were held in 1918 and 1919. Even after the War had ended, work continued at Adlershof with the final flight competition being held between February and May 1919 (when this portrait was created). Eventually, the signing of the Versailles Treaty ended all military aircraft work for Germany and led to the dissolution of the Luffstreikrafte in May 1920.
Karl Ludwig Nagel...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
French School 19th Century, Portrait of a young man, drawing signed
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19 th Century
Portrait of a young man
Signed (signature not deciphered) on the lower right
Pencil, black chalk and heightenings of white and red chalks on paper
Oval vi...
Category
1880s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Acrylic Polymer, Pencil
Portrait of a Young Man Original Charcoal and Pastel French 18th Century
Located in London, GB
French School
18th Century
Portrait of a Young Man
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Image size: 11 x 7 inches
Contemporary gilt frame
Category
18th Century Rococo Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Carole Lombard Holding Compace, Cosmopolitan Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1935
Medium: Pastel
Dimensions: 25.50" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Carole Lombard Holding Compact
Cover of Cosmppolitan Magazin...
Category
1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Head of a Cheerful Man Wearing a Cap
Located in New York, NY
Watermark: the arms of Amsterdam
Provenance:
Christie’s, Amsterdam, 1 December 1986, lot 46; where acquired by:
Private Collection, New York
Literature:
Roger Adolf d’Hulst, “Jordaens Drawings: Supplement II,” Master Drawings, vol. 28, no. 2 (1990), pp. 153-156, no. A237a, fig. 17.
Matías Díaz Padrón, Jacob Jordaens...
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17th Century Baroque Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
J. Buchanan - 1859 Watercolour, The Brothers
Located in Corsham, GB
This 19th century portrait depicts two young children in matching dark attire with white lace collars, set against a warm, muted background. The composition is balanced and intimate,...
Category
Mid-19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait - Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by an anonymous artist in 1872.
Pencil drawing on paper.
Hand-signed by the artist, illegible.
Good conditions, aged with foxing.
The artwork is re...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of Peggy Hoyt in Art Nouveau Hat
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Gravure Full Page in Woman's Home Companion Magazine
A wonderful and very detailed full page art supplement for the September 1922 issue of the Woman's Home Companion.
Charles Sheldon's exquisitely detailed portrait of fashion designer Peggy Hoyt...
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Quiet Time - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait Drawing, Two Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
FREE Shipping Worldwide
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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