Art by Medium: Pastel

In pastel "The Northern Sun" the artist utilizes a bold, high-contrast palette to define atmospheric depth. The piece features a dynamic diagonal composition, where textured sweeps o...

Artist Statement: "What was she thinking to herself as she waited to go out into the open arena and perform. I had no idea of course. I could only imagine the adrenaline surge that s...

For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...

"Seize the Moment", 60x40cm, acrylic, pastel, canvas

Bright figurative abstract with rich layers of texture and color by Chaz Cole (American, 20th Century). Irregular perimeter. Signed and dated "Chaz Cole" lower right. Signed and date...

American School, unsigned and painted circa 1975. A vivid and upbeat oil abstract comprising discrete areas of golden-yellow, coral and aqua-turquoise composed to evoke a sunlit lan...

"Autumn Landscape" is a poetic study of the forest in its most transformative state. This pastel work captures the quiet majesty of late autumn, where the vibrant greens of the pines...

Allegory of a Bird is an original artwork, pencil, pastel, gouache and watercolor on paper. Is not signed and dated but we can attribute the period late 19th Century. The artist p...

Cubist Scene 20th Century, Continental School signed initials pastel painting on paper stuck on board, framed framed: 18.5 x 13.5 inches provenance: private collection condition: ver...

EX COLL.: the artist; to I. David Orr (1904–1997), Long Island, New York; to his estate, 1997 until the present Originally trained as a figurative painter, Kline was an exceptional ...

Garth Bayley Garth Bayley. Out of the Gates -Horses Racing Original pen, watercolour and ink painting on watercolour paper Pen and ink on paper Image size: H24 cm x W32 cm x D 0.1cm ...

A striking fauvist work in chalk pastel. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a large contemporary frame with a crisp white mount. On paper.

America Martin "Woman in Blue" Pastel & Ink on Paper 22.25 x 25.75 in Framed 28.25 x 29 in America Martin is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based ...

Mother and Child in Garden by Pierre Neveu French Figurative Oil Painting by Pierre Neveu (1920–1998), French signed and dated 1955 lower right oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 29 x ...

Original Abstract Portrait in Mixed Media on Paper I (1987) Example of 1980s vintage Latin American School abstract expressionist art of a minimalist portrait by California-based La...

Title: Vaucluse Provence Mountain Landscape Pastel Drawing Pierre Neveu Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Pastel and coloured pencil on paper, unframed Size (H x W): 19.75...

Half Web in Pink, 2020, acrylic, oil, graphite, pastel, thread, nails and yarn on canvas. Pink, green, blue, abstract. Custom framed in a white wooden float frame. Gorgeous medium to large scale abstract painting with beautiful composition and palette of lilac pink, lilac purple, light peach, pale yellow, light pink, bright pink, fuchsia, mauve, light violet, periwinkle, sky blue, aqua, pale blue...

'The Red Headdress', pastel on art paper, by W. Worms (circa 1960s). A beautiful woman with contemplative expression and tender eyes is exquisitely portrayed by the artist. The treat...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Atlanta Olympics - Star Athletes. Year: circa 1996, Medium: Pastel and Collage on Paper, signed l.r., Size: 25 x 19.5 in. (63.5 x 49.53 cm),...

Irene Georgopoulou's "Cherished Playthings" (2020) is an original soft pastel on paper artwork, measuring 17 x 11 inches, and framed at 19 x 13 x 3 in. Georgopoulou's expert use of ...

Vintage American pastel by Leon Dolice (1892–1960). Pastel on paper. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 16 by 14 inches overall and 12 1/2 by 10 1/2 inches image alone. Excellent conditi...

'Modern Dancers', pastel, ink and gouache on fine art paper by French artist, singer and sculptor, Mick Micheyl (1964). Two elegant young men are depicted in a graceful dancing pose, arms outstretched, their lithe bodies so agile and limber. Perhaps one of the dancers was her friend, Philippe, to whom the painting is dedicated on the bottom. The dedication says: 'For you Philippe, all my friendship'. Signed: 'Mick Micheyl'. The work has been newly framed and glazed after having been acquired in the S. of France. It is in good vintage condition commensurate with age showing minor blemishing on the paper. Upon request a video of the piece can be provided. Dimensions with Frame: H 75 cm / 29.5" W 61 cm / 24" Dimensions without Frame: H 56 cm / 22" W 42 cm / 16.5" About the Artist: Mick Micheyl (1922 - 2019) was born in Lyon and had a busy and rewarding artistic career as a singer, producer, reviewer, metal sculptor, artist. After having received training at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon she became a painter and decorator in the theatre but then commenced a career in the musical activities of a theatrical troupe. She won the ABC competition in Paris in 1949 with a song, Le Marchand de Poésie, which she composed herself. She then performed in many cabarets: L'Échelle de Jacob, Harlequin and Liberty's. In the 1950s she was one of the most important French cabaret singers of that period. One of her titles, 'Un Gamin de Paris', became one of the French standards and also performed by Yves Montand and Robert Clary...

Pastel on canvas, signed lower right, measuring 38" x 48.25" including the frame. Pierre Carrier-Belleuse His first studies were with his father, the sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-...

Adelaide Deming Interior Still Life Pastel on paper 10 x 14 1/4 inches The child of a family with deep roots in the Litchfield community, Adelaide Deming left Connecticut for New Y...

"The Wildflowers" is a vibrant and intimate portrait of the height of summer. This pastel work brings the viewer into the heart of a lush meadow, where delicate blooms of crimson, wh...

Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents. Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalted the figure and genitality of the Latin American man, putting into tension the limits imposed by the sex/gender system that are part of an unquestionable patriarchal and phallocentric order. The majority of those portrayed are inhabitants of the Colombian coast, also constructing alternative ways of conceiving Latin American identity. By breaking taboos about corporality and male sexuality, his work has been censored on numerous occasions due to public accusations of immorality and pornography. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo...

Title: Mid-Century French Pastel Beach Scene With Seated Woman Knitting and Parasols by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977) Medium: Pastel on unframed paper Size: 14.5 inche...

French Landscape signed by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...

Title: Amongst The Wildflowers Abstract Contemporary Bold Statement Striking AMONGST THE WILDFLOWERS Let's remember how to belong, play, be free, limitless, abundant, connected, fi...

This original drawing by Fabien Granet, is created in 2025 with charcoal and pastel on paper (26 x 18 cm). This work is part of a series of contemporary landscapes inspired by the co...

French Landscape by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...

In this soft pastel work "Mountain Valley" the artist explores the lush, layered topography of a high-altitude landscape. The composition is defined by a series of receding ridge lin...

Original pastel drawing signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Art: 8.37" x 8" Frame: 15.37" x 14" Written in the lower margin "For DJB" the owner of the David Barnett Gallery...

Title: Mid Century French School Expressive Nude Figure Pastel Study Medium: Oil pastel and coloured pastel on paper, unframed Size: 18 x 14.75 inches (height x width) Provenance: pr...

French Landscape signed by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...

Artist: Raoul Dupoux (1906-1988) Title: Untitled Year: circa 1965 Medium: Watercolor and pastel on wove paper Size: 26 x 27 inches Condition: Good Inscrip...

Contemporary impressionist pastel of a garden in full bloom by Belgian artist Francis Besson. Signed to the very bottom left and to the backboard. Presented in a plain contemporary f...

"Northern Landscape" is a meditation on the serene and stark beauty of the subarctic wilderness. This pastel captures a moment of deep quiet, where the world is stripped back to its ...

Gary John's pop-street artworks have a whimsical, yet exciting and bold quality inspired by classic cartoon and comic book characters. Blending pop sensibilities with a roughened fau...

Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers a new outlook on an otherwise ordinary urban scene. His artworks represent an auth...

Fu’una’s “CAW” is a contemporary pastel painting of a great horned owl skull, trumpet creeper flowers, and lightning sun tulips. The work was created with soft pastel on 24 x 18 inch...

Stephen A. Davis, American (1945 - ) - Untitled 25, Year: 1999, Medium: Lithograph with hand colored pastel, signed and dated in pencil lower right, Image Size: 23 x 16 inches, Si...

In this piece, I captured the intimate moment of soulful music and quiet passion using minimal lines and expressive strokes. The red hues echo the fire within, while the charcoal's ...

Early 20th Century Tonalist Pastel Landscape Beautiful tonal landscape, c.1915, by pastel artist William Henry Chandler (American, 1854-1928). The viewer looks out over a serene riv...

Provence Landscape signed by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...

Artist: Marilina Marchica Title: Geometric Landscape Year: 2024 Medium: Mixed media on canvas Dimensions: 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Condition: Excellent Frame: Not required Ready to hang: Y...

Francesco Spicuzza (American, 1883-1962) Untitled Landscape, 20th century Pastel on paper Sight size: 24 x 30 in. Framed: 26 1/4 x 32 3/8 in. Signed lower right: Spicuzza Italian-born Francesco Spicuzza was primarily a Wisconsin painter who did portraits, still-lives and local landscapes. He spent the first part of his life in near-poverty to become a painter. An eternal optimist, in 1917, the artist reported: "I am happy and my only ambition now is to paint better and better until I shall have reached the measure of the best of which I am capable." (Spicuzza, 1917, p. 22). His predilection for beach scenes germinated early: reportedly, the five-year-old boy first drew the outlines of his father's fishing boat in the sand on the seashore near their home in Sicily. After setting himself up as a fruit peddler in Milwaukee, Spicuzza's father sent for his family when Francesco was eight years old. For the following six years the boy was unable to attend school because of his job in his father's fruit and vegetable business. The poor lad suffered a caved-in shoulder from carrying a heavy wooden crate. The young Spicuzza was aided by moral and financial support from a sympathetic Milwaukee businessman named John Cramer, publisher and editor of the Evening Wisconsin, who raised Spicuzza's salary as a newspaper assembler so that he could attend school. In 1899 or 1900, Spicuzza began studying drawing and anatomy under Robert Schade (1861-1912), a painter of panoramas who had been trained in Munich under Carl Theodor von Piloty. Spicuzza was also taught by Alexander Mueller (1872-1935), a product of the Weimar and Munich academies. Mueller realized Spicuzza was a colorist and encouraged that orientation (Madle, 1961). Spicuzza found it beneficial to accept an apprenticeship in a lithographic studio for $8 a week, which demanded most of his time. During the St. Louis Universal Exposition in 1904, still a struggling student, Spicuzza attended the fair, thanks to Cramer. It was not long before Spicuzza received a twenty-five dollar portrait commission, and this inaugural success led to new commissions and allowed him to continue as a painter. The earliest influences in his work appear to be from Edward H. Potthast and Maurice Prendergast, though Spicuzza never mentioned either artist. Already in August 1910, Spicuzza was described in a newspaper as "one of the most talented of Milwaukee's rising workers." He undoubtedly received lasting inspiration from his one summer study period in 1911 with John F. Carlson at the Art Students League's Summer School in Woodstock, New York. Certainly Spicuzza would have picked up spontaneity in handling the brush from Carlson. Although he executed numerous still-lives and an occasional religious work, Spicuzza is best known for his Milwaukee beach scenes populated with frolicking bathers in multi-colored attire, not unlike the images of Potthast, who used a similar technique. Many of these are small, preparatory works on canvas board executed between 1910 and 1915. Frequently with even greater animation than Potthast, Spicuzza produced moving images of youthful energy and uninhibited child's play. These beach genre scenes reflect the attitude of American impressionists who depicted the more pleasant side of life. Spicuzza manipulated a successful balance of rich pigment applied in varying degrees of impasto texture with subtle nuances of hue. Working all'aperto, he sought "the soft enticing shades of yellow, blue, green, pink and lavender . . . to get the effects of bright glistening summer air." (L.E.S., n.d.). As a painter whose color not only derived from direct observation but also from a personal theory of color symbolism, Spicuzza traded the linear approach of lithography for dynamic patches of brilliant color. Like Prendergast, he would often tilt the angle of the picture plane to bring the viewer's position above the scene. Spicuzza was unable to enter the 1913 Armory Show or the Panama-Pacific International Exposition two years later but he did submit work to the annual exhibitions of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and those of the Art Institute of Chicago. His first important award was the bronze medal presented by the St. Paul Institute in 1913, which was followed by the silver medal two years later. Before long, Spicuzza had acquired a greater sense of security in his profession and was described by a writer in International Studio (April 1917) as "an independent artist with an assured future. His pastels and water-colours are poetic and joyous bits of nature with a genuine out-of-door feeling." In 1918, his Spirit of Youth, exhibited at the National Academy of Design, sold for $112.50. Four years later, the artist achieved his greatest local recognition by winning the gold medal from the Milwaukee Art Institute. Spicuzza spent a great deal of time painting en plein air and by 1925 he began summering at Big Cedar Lake, near West Bend, Wisconsin to gather his subject matter. Easter Morning (1926) owes something to the Symbolist movement, with its figure of Christ appearing over a seascape. During the difficult era of the Depression, patrons came to Spicuzza's aid and during the 40s, he taught housewives, businessmen and students at the Milwaukee Art Institute, the Milwaukee Art Center, and in his private studio. In the following decade, although his kind of art was no longer popular in the "make-it-or-break-it" New York gallery world, Spicuzza enjoyed regular patronage and sales. His beach scenes became more static and he would experiment with modernist techniques. Spicuzza died at the age of seventy-eight. Sources: L.E.S., "Do Colors Change a Person's disposition? Experiments of a Milwaukee Artist...

Marie-Paule Carpentier French, 1876-1915 Versailles Pastel / Paper 12 by 16 in. W/frame 18 by 22 in. Signed on lower left Marie-Paule Carpentier Marie-Paule Carpentier painted i...

Title: Mid-20th Century French Pastel Landscape of Trees in a Sunlit Public Garden by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977) Medium: Pastel on unframed paper Size: 15.25 inches...

As your gaze lingers on one of Sally K’s paintings, you notice how Sally’s brush strokes add playfulness and life to the canvas, incorporating unexpected images and abstract color co...

Wolf Kahn (1927–2020) was a German-born American painter celebrated for his distinctive fusion of Realism and Color Field painting. Working primarily in oil and pastel, Kahn transfor...

Man in Mirror is a drawing artwork realized by Alfredo Furiga in the mid-20th century. Pastel and watercolor on paper. Hand-signed by the artist. Good conditions.

Landscape – Original Abstract Minimalist Oil and Pastel Painting on Canvas, 2026 Landscape is an original contemporary abstract landscape painting in oil and pastel on 100% cotton c...

" The work resists framing in concepts, it overflows the contours and borders of the rational. It is through the presence of color, combined with an abstraction at times with express...

This is an original paper, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood panel artwork by Seth Clark measuring 42”h x 33”w. Seth Clark grew up in Seekonk, Massachusetts and studi...

"White Swan" (2022) by Kate Breakey is an archival pigment print that depicts a swan in a lake. This piece was hand colored using pencil and pastel. About the artist: Kate Breakey...

Artist: Bart Perry (American, 1906-1992) Title: Landscape Year: Circa 1960 Medium: Pastel Paper: Sketch paper Image size: 16.75 x 22 inches paper size: 16.75 x 22 inches Signature: Signed lower right in pencil by the artist Condition: Very good About the artist. Bart Perry studied at the California School of Fine Arts, MFA, 1928. Fine Arts, Mills College, Berkeley, CA. 1955. Selected Exhibitions: Lucien Labaudt Gallery with Wm. Mayo, 1946; California School of Fine Arts, Roy DeForest...

Skillful and beautifully rendered pastel portrait of a handsome man, smartly dressed by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Textured...

Flamenco Dancer. Romantic French pastel portrait on paper of a Spanish beauty by Louis Fortuney. The work is signed bottom left, and presented in a very fine carved gilt rococo wood ...

Contemporary mixed medium on paper of a forest scene in Provence, France by Belgian artist Francis Besson, signed bottom right. Presented in oak 'case' ...