Art by Medium: Pastel

Untitled Pastel on paper, 1922 Initialed and dated lower right (see photo) Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014. Provenance: Estate of the Artist The Orange Chicken...

"Untitled" Mid 20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Abstraction James Daugherty (1887 – 1974) "Untitled" 10 1/2 x 8 inches Pastel on paper Initialed lower right and dat...

White sailboat. Paper, pastel 27x33 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, ...

MAGIC CASEMENT, Abstract Non-Objective Mid-Century Pastel Color Field Drawing "Magic Casement" 16 x 20 ¾ inches Pastel on paper Initialed JD and dated February 22, 1967 lower left, Titled lower right The framed work measure 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: James Daugherty...

Peter Potworowski 1898-1962 Woodland Scene, 1956, circa gouache and pastel 25.1 x 28.2 cm 9 7/8 x 11 1/8 in unsigned Tadeusz Piotr (Peter) Potworowski was a Polish abstract and figu...

Soft pastel on toned sanded archival paper suitable for framing under glass. Signed and dated bottom. Part of an ongoing series of mermaids by the artist

Judith Brenner Rich Dancing 1 Original Figurative Painting Mixed Media on Paper Size: H 84.1cm x W 59.4cm x D 0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indicat...

Original mixed media drawing created with acrylic, ink, and colored pencils on Fabriano 120g/m² paper. The artwork incorporates a unique technique developed with natural pigments ext...

The Feature Presentation 40.0 x 20.0 x 1.0, 7.0 lbs Pastel on archival paper Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "This painting was so much fun to paint! I had a literal ...

Flower. Paper, pastel 33x27 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monume...

Diana Kurz Pink Green Study Pastel on paper 20 x 15 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England ...

I apologize for the reflections on the glass of this exquisite Gaston Bouy pastel drawing. It's in a very nice frame in great condition, and I did not want...

Untitled Pastel on paper, 1922 Signed with the artist's initials in pencil Provenance: Estate of the artist Francis M. Nauman (label) Private collection, NY A very early abstract/cubist work by Kelly. Created while the artist was studying with Arthur Carles in Philadelphia. Leon Kelly (October 21, 1901 – June 28, 1982) was an American artist born in Philadelphia, PA. He is most well known for his contributions to American Surrealism, but his work also encompassed styles such as Cubism, Social Realism, and Abstraction. Reclusive by nature, a character trait that became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be limited by the trends of his time. His large output of paintings is complemented by a prolific number of drawings that span his career of 50 years. Some of the collections where his work is represented are: The Metropolitan Museum in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Boston Public Library. Biography Kelly was born in 1901 at home at 1533 Newkirk Street, Philadelphia, PA. He was the only child of Elizabeth (née Stevenson) and Pantaleon L. Kelly. The family resided in Philadelphia where Pantaleon and two of his cousins owned Kelly Brothers, a successful tailoring business. The prosperity of the firm enabled his father to purchase a 144-acre farm in Bucks County PA in 1902, which he named "Rural Retreat" It was here that Pantaleon took Leon to spend every weekend away from the pressures of business and from the disappointments in his failing marriage. Idyllic and peaceful memories of the farm stayed with Leon and embued his work with a love of nature that emerged later in the Lunar Series, in Return and Departure, and in the insect imagery of his Surrealist work. "If anything," he once said,"I am a Pantheist and see a spirit in everything, the grass, the rocks, everything." At thirteen, Leon left school and began private painting lessons with Albert Jean Adolphe, a teacher at the School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) in Philadelphia. He learned technique by copying the works of the old masters and visiting the Philadelphia Zoo, where he would draw animals. Drawings done in 1916 and 1917 of elephants, snakes and antelope, as well as copies of old master paintings by Holbein and Michelangelo, heralded an impressive emerging talent. In 1917, he studied sculpture with Alexander Portnoff but his studies came to an abrupt halt with the start of World War I. Being too young to enlist, he joined the Quartermaster Corp at the Army Depot in Philadelphia, where he served for more than a year loading ships with supplies and, along with other artists, working on drawings for camouflage. By 1920, the family's fortunes drastically changed. His father's business had failed due to the introduction of ready made clothing and his marriage, unhappy from the beginning, dissolved. Broken by circumstance Pantaleon left Philadelphia to begin a wandering existence looking for work leaving Leon to support his mother and grandmother. He found a job in 1920 at the Freihofer Baking Company where he worked nights for the next four years. Under these circumstances Leon continued to develop his skills in drawing and painting and learned of the revolutionary developments in art that were taking place in Paris. During the day he was granted permission to study anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Osteopathy where he dissected a cadaver and perfected his knowledge of the human figure. He also met and studied etching with Earl Horter, a well known illustrator, who had amassed a significant collection of modern art which included work by Brancusi, Matisse, and Cubist works by Picasso and Braque. Among the artists around Horter was Arthur Carles, a charismatic and controversial painter who taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Leon enrolled in the Academy in 1922, becoming what Carles described as, "his best student". In the next three years Leon work ranged from academic studies of plaster casts, to pointillism, to landscapes of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, as well as a series of pastels showing influences from Matisse to Picasso. Clearly influenced by Earl Horter's collection and Arthur Carles he mastered analytical cubism in works such as The Three Pears, 1923 and 1925 experimented with Purism in Moon Behind the Italian House. In 1925 Kelly was awarded a Cresson Scholarship and on June 14 he left for Europe. Paris The first trip to Europe lasted for approximately three and a half months and introduced Kelly to a culture and place where he felt he belonged. Though he returned to the Academy in the Fall, he left for Europe again a few months later to begin a four-year stay in Paris. He moved into an apartment at 19 rue Daguerre in Paris and began an existence intellectually rich but in creature comforts, very poor. "I kept a cinderblock over the drain in the kitchen sink to keep the rats out of the apartment" he once explained. He frequented the cafes making acquaintances with Henry Miller, James Joyce and the critic Félix Fénéon as well as others. His days were split between copying old master paintings in the Louvre and pursuing modernist ideas that were swirling through the work of all the artists around him. The Lake, 1926 and Interior of the Studio, 1927, now in the Newark Museum. Patrons during this time were the police official Leon Zamaran, a collector of Courbets, Lautrecs and others, who began collecting Kelly's work. Another was Alfred Barnes of the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. In 1929 Kelly married a young French woman, Henriette D'Erfurth. She appears frequently in paintings and drawings done between 1928 and the early 1930s. Philadelphia The stock market crash of 1929 made it impossible to continue living in Paris and Kelly and Henriette returned to Philadelphia in 1930. He rented a studio on Thompson Street and began working and participating in shows in the city's galleries. Work from 1930 to 1940 showed continuing influences and experimentation with the themes and techniques acquired in Paris as well as a brief foray into Social Realism. The Little Gallery of Contemporary Art purchased the Absinthe Drinker...

This is a soft pastel painting on tones sanded archival paper signed and dated by the artist. It is suitable for framing under glass to protect the pastel medium. The work is part of...

Diana Kurz Light White Pastel on Paper 14 x 11 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England and t...

BERNARD SLEIGH (1872-1954) Moored Boats Pastel Framed 24 by 22 cm., 9 ½ by 8 ½ in. (frame size ) At the age of 14 Sleigh was apprenticed to a wood e...

This 28x20 pastel invites you to the serene meeting point of land and water, where soft textures and flowing lines evoke the calm beauty of a tranquil shoreline. Gentle hues blend to...

A wonderful tonalist cityscape of New York City at night by American impressionist artist Frederick (Frank) Usher De Voll (1873-1941). De Voll was born i...

Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...

Medium: Pastel and Watercolor Signature: Signed Lower Right Saturday Evening Post Cover, March 13th, 1937.

Diana Kurz Untitled, circa 1961 Pastel on paper 25 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first...

Hans Burkhardt regularly used live models for his figural pastels, which he maintained an interest in throughout his long career. Untitled (1963) Pastel on paper 24" x 19" Signed an...

Destination (Abstract drawing) Pastel on paper - Unframed. Margaret Neill works for a time on a group of pieces in a series, using classic almost primal materials such as graphite,...

BARBARA DYONIZIAK-STUSS (born in 1952) She studied at the State Schools of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and in Łódź (now: Academy of Fine Arts) and graduated in 1981. She is involved in paint...

BARBARA DYONIZIAK-STUSS (born in 1952) She studied at the State Schools of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and in Łódź (now: Academy of Fine Arts) and graduated in 1981. She is involved in paint...

A very large, astounding pastel of a beautiful woman in a veil, ex. the prestigious Arthur Roger gallery on Julia Street in New Orleans, which has shown Adrian Deckbar's work in the past (she now shows at Callan Contemporary...

Subrata Biswas - Untitled - 10 x 8 Inches ( unframed size ) Dry Pastel & Tea Liquor on Paper. ( Unframed All in Delivered Price ) Style : The motive of a child in its most basic fo...

"Untitled, Figure Study" is an abstract figurative Post War pastel on paper paintings by Hans Burkhardt in 1967. The artwork is 21 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches and, with the frame, is 28 3/4...

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...

Soft pastel on toned archival paper signed on bottom left. It is mounted on an acid free foam board suitable for framing under glass. The dimensions with board are 32x 40 inABOUT Ste...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Pastel portrait of artist's granddaughter. Complemented by original signed Harer frame. Illustra...

Belle of the Ball 24.0 x 6.0 x 2.0, 4.0 lbs Pastel on archival paper Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "Waves have a rhythm to them and the longer you watch them the qui...

Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...

Antoine Calbet presents his works, mainly portraits and genre scenes, at the Salons of the Société des artistes français from 1881 until 1940, as well as at the international exhibit...

Pastel on toned paperABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive wi...

Johann Berthelsen and one of New York city’s best known artists along with Guy Wiggins, depicting the streets, parks and skyline of New York. This is a romantic and atmospheric work ...

America Martin "Woman With Knees Up" Pastel & Ink on Paper 24” x 18” 34" x 31" inches framed AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist b...

September Seas, Original Seascape Painting in Pastel on Board, 2021 Sunlight reflects off of the waves crashing onto the beach. Artist Commentary: I’m mesmerized by waves of all sh...

Mediterranean view, via a cliff top framed by a curved Cyprus tree. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authe...

This series draws inspiration from Hatillo’s Fiesta de los Santos Inocentes, translating the festival’s vibrant movement and collective energy into a refined abstract vocabulary. Thr...

Domenick Capobiano (American, b. 1928), Celestial Composition, Mixed Media Collage on Board, 1963, pastel, acrylic, newspaper, signed and dated lower right, inscribed to verso "To El...

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Suhas Roy - Durga - 20 x 20 inches (unframed size) Tempera and Pastel on Board , 2005 ( Framed & Door Delivered ) Durga- Indian goddess combating evil...

Untitled 2003 (Abstract Drawing) Pastel, acrylic and pencil on paper - Unframed. In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and h...

Untitled (Pastel #19), c. 1920-30 Pastel on sandpaper 8 x 11 inches (20.3 x 27.9 cm) Framed dimensions: 16 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches Estate stamp on verso Provenance The artist; Estate of...

This drawing by Austin Reavis is from a series of abstract works that build lines and forms, suggestive of construction elements, as a foreground to chan...

Winold Reiss (1886-1953), who scholars increasingly recognize as a pivotal figure in early 20th-century American art, is known for his evocative portraits that capture the spirit and...

A delightful Edwardian portrait depicting a lady in lace with a heart shaped pendant. Signed 'E.L.' and dated to the upper right quadrant. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.

Michael Grimsdale (born 1936 in London) is a British artist known for his equestrian and sporting subjects, as well as portraits and landscapes. Raised in a military family, he spent...

soft pastel on toned archival heavyweight toned paper. suitable for framing under glass. this is one of the artists ongoing series titled Nudes With Attitude.

"The Humming of Cicadas at Chenequa" is an original pastel drawing on Canson paper by Peggy Leonard. The artist signed the piece lower left. This piece depicts a view into dense vegetation, likely the edge of a forest, in green, orange, yellow, and blue. 19 1/2" x 25 1/2" art 26" x 32" frame Peggy Leonard received her BFA in painting and drawing and an associate’s degree in nursing from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She is both a registered nurse, and accomplished artist, residing in Milwaukee, WI. From the artist: “These paintings are my prayers,” muses Leonard, reflecting on her driving need to express herself through her art. “We are made of the stuff that requires us to respond with our hearts and hands. Often, it requires terrible sacrifice and suffering, something not everyone can understand. But it is done with reverence of life, not irreverence.” Leonard’s pastels and oil paintings capture her reverence of life and reflect her own life’s journey, including earlier forays into the wilderness. Her venture into art began in early childhood, as childless neighbors nurtured her natural ability to draw; concurrently, Leonard’s parents instilled a respect for academic excellence and the higher order of nurturing others. As a young nurse, Leonard “heard and saw poignant messages to travel while one was young and free…while one had one’s health.” Consequently, she took to the open road and public lands, camping across America for months at a time. During these years, her “celebration of the natural splendor of this country” helped shape her sense of artistic expression. She was moved by such sights as the sunset on St. Mary’s Lake...

Artist Statement: This spirited little guy had some spunk which I thought certainly added to his character. I followed him through the field with my camera. He continued to nibble aw...

Jennifer Bartlett Summer, Iceland #5, 2000 Pastel on paper 30 x 44 1/4 inches (sheet) Unsigned

Artist Statement: "I find the behind the scenes action of more interest than the actual rodeo events themselves. Watching the men and women get ready with their horses before they go...

Oil on canvas + frame Fu Zenan always known as Da Han is a Chinese artist born in 1953 who lives & works in Songzhuang, Beijing, China. He is graduated from the Suzhou University. I...

Taller Than Your Dreams 10.0 x 10.0 x 1.0, 1.0 lbs Pastel on archival paper Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "'Taller Than Your Dreams' was created with the goal of bri...

Nude is an original drawing in Sanguine pastel on paper realized in 1940 ca. by Joseph Kaplan (1900-1980). Stamp on the lower right. The state of preservation is good except for s...

Pastel on paper, anthropomorphic variety of birds ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. Hi...

You can access artist’s inspiration from the celebrations, dance events, ferias, festivals taking place in AndalucÃ

Sea's Symphony 9.0 x 6.0 x 1.0, 1.0 lbs Pastel on archival paper Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "I love the abstraction of painting a slice of sea foam. It's a very z...