Art by Medium: Pencil

Busy French Beach Scene with Parasol, Bathers and Boats on the Coast Maurice Mazeilie (French, 1924–2021) Watercolour and pencil on artist paper, unframed. Double-sided. Artwork: 6.2...

Lighthearted by Murray Duncan Lighthearted is a large-scale abstract painting that brings together a warm, earthy ground with expressive line, gestural movement, and softly contrast...

Kerry James Marshall Keeping the Culture, 2011 Silkscreen and linocut in colors with full margins and deckled edges on Arches paper with full margins and deckled edges 20-1/4 x 30-1/4 inches Hand signed, titled and numbered 79/100 by Kerry James Marshall in graphite pencil on the front Published by Africa House International, Chicago Unframed In September, 2025, "Kerry James Marshall: The Histories" opened at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. This major exhibition was the largest presentation of Marshall's work in the United Kingdom and Europe, and featured more than 70 works by the the artist, including a large number of paintings and a selection of prints, drawings and sculptures. Highlights of the show include a new series of paintings that explore the transatlantic slave trade, along with Knowledge and Wonder, a mural commissioned in 1995 by the Chicago Public Library that is the largest painting Marshall has produced. The exhibition at the Royal Academy will then travel to the Kunsthaus Zurich and the Musee d'Art Modern in Paris. Kerry James Marshall's 2011 "Keeping the Culture" is based upon the artist's eponymous painting done the year earlier, which is featured in the Royal Academy Exhibition. In 2013, an original painting, upon which this work is based, sold at Christie's auction. Below is the Christie's Lot Essay for that painting: ..." Set in a revolutionary apartment in the cosmos, Kerry James Marshall's Keeping the Culture optimistically anticipates a future that pays homage to the past. Ushering in a new stage of the artist's output, Keeping the Culture shifts focus from the failed utopia of urban renewal and the commemoration of civil rights era heroes in favor of a more technically refined meditation on the preservation of the traditional and spiritual values that shaped a culture. Placed in an ultramodern environment, two siblings marvel at a projection of the earth--in which Marshall has aptly positioned the African continent toward the viewer-while their affectionate parents dance in the foreground. Overlooking the milky way, Marshall's space-age flat is decorated with earthly relics-wooden tribal sculptures...

"Silence", pencil and ultramarine tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse. Part of Nude in Interior series. Large drawing. Size 39x27.5in /100x70cm. Shipped rolled in a tube from For...

John Rabone Harvey ( 1966 - 1922) graphic and chalk deep green artist paper , unframed artist paper : 5.5 x 7 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: very good condition Ha...

Douglas M. Olsen (b. 1960). The Purple People Eaters, 1979. Watercolor on rag paper, 15.5 x 22.5 inches. Signed, titled and dated on verso.

Los Angeles artist Taylour Martin creates captivating abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas, showcasing a dynamic interplay of emotions and colors....

Before the Dance (Ballet series) oil, acrylic, canvas, 40\40cm. “Before the Dance” — Original oil and acrylic painting on canvas (40x40 cm) from the Ballet Series. This highly expres...

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...

George Dannatt (1915-2009) Pencil Grid No 2 1966 Mixed media on paper Image: 12.7 x 17.7 cm Mount: 46.0 x 38.0 cm George Dannatt (1915-2009) was an outstanding and inspirationa...

Remembrance #35 is a work by the Japanese artist Maho Maeda. This work is composed of two assembled panels that give the work two different surfaces: canvas and wood. Acrylic, colore...

An original graphite on paper drawing titled "Elephant" by renowned Pop Artist, Andy Warhol 1955. The drawing depicts an elephant drawn freely and with a feeling of forward movement...

Signed lower center, 'Olaf Wieghorst' (American, 1899-1988) with dedication, 'To Herb with best wishes. El Cajon, 1959' Born in Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was the son of a photographe...

Landscape is an original artwork realized in the late 19th Century by Luigi Galli. Pencil on paper. Good conditions but aged.

American artist born in 1937, Peter Max is associated with the visual arts and culture of the 1960s, specifically with the psychedelic and pop art movements. Max is known for his use...

Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a sketchbook page, sheet measures 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (260 x 362 mm). Initialed in pencil in the lower left recto, and title...

Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a sketchbook page, sheet measures 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (260 x 362 mm). Titled and dated in pencil on the sheet below the pain...

China ink drawing on paper. Not signed. Good condition except for a minor tear on center margin and a central fold.

John Rabone Harvey ( 1966 - 1922) graphic and chalk deep green artist paper , unframed artist paper : 5.5 x 7 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: very good condition Ha...

Landscape is an original artwork realized in the late 19th Century by Luigi Galli Pencil on paper. Good conditions but aged.

Figure is a pencil drawing on brown paper by Charles Landelle (1812-1908). The state of preservation is good. The sheet is mounted on a cardboard pas...

Marie LAURENCIN Mermaid, 1953 Original ink and pencil drawing Signed by artist stamp On paper 24.5 x 19.5 cm (c. 9.6 x 7.6 inch) Very good condition, marks of the manipulation on ...

This unique artwork depicts 'Deep Blue', the largest great white shark ever caught on camera. Hand-drawn in underglaze pencils across nearly 2,900 individually made and hand-glazed t...

Rugby Players in a Team Huddle Laure Noetzlin-Azam (French, 1929–2024), pupil of André Lhote Canvas: 7.5 x 10.5 inches Medium: Oil and pencil on canvas, unframed. Provenance: From th...

Denis Ymeri (b. 1990, Tirana, Albania) is a Barcelona-based visual artist whose practice spans painting and sculpture. His work explores the relationship between matter, memory, spac...

French Barbizon School watercolour on paper view of a church and its tower in a landscape by Henri Clamen. The painting is unsigned but was acquired from the artist's atelier with ot...

"Adagio in Burnt Umber" 2025, 72" H x 60" W. Abstract, mixed media painting consisting of acrylic, pencils, and oil pastels on canvas by Argentine-born artist Karina Gentinetta (feat...

De Cost Smith Barn Butte, Nebraska, November 1884 Oil and graphite on canvas 9 1/2 x 15 inches Provenance Gerald Peters Gallery, New Mexico Private Collection, California Benny and ...

Landscape with birch trees and lake Hörken, pencil and graphite drawing, signed "Ruben Jansson" (1902–1987). Inscribed lower left "Parti från Hörken" (Detail from Hörken) This detail...

Every year a miracle harvest grows from a small seed..

A finished primary study for Bonheur's major oil paintings of the late 1850s, capturing the quiet, unadorned dignity of animals in their native environment. Circa 1855. Graphite and...

This drawing (100 × 78 cm) brings together human, animal, and botanical forms within a single composition, where overlapping figures create a continuous visual field. The work is bui...

Temptation, (Ballet series) oil, acrylic, canvas, 40\40cm. Original oil and acrylic painting on canvas (40x40 cm) from the Ballet Series. This exquisite figurative artwork presents ...

Henry Pearson FACE, from Portfolio 9, 1964 Color lithograph with deckled edges Signed, titled, and numbered 84/100 in graphite pencil on the front; with publishers' blind stamp 17 1/2 × 22 1/10 inches Publisher Irwin Hollander, with blindstamp Hand Signed and Numbered 84/100 with Irwin Hollander (printer) Blindstamp Unframed Henry Pearson's iconic Pop Art lithograph "Face" from the mid-Sixties is in the permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art as well as other public institutions. This Classic Sixties psychedelic designed Op Art lithograph was created as part of the legendary 'Portfolio 9' in 1967 - one of the most influential eras in 20th century art. It was housed in a gray cloth-colored box with maroon paper inner panels and a large maroon "9" designed by Richard Lindner on the cover. Portfolio 9 featured nine of the most important artists of the era, representative of the three major trends: Pop Art, Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism: Roy Lichtenstein, Saul Steinberg, Richard Lindner, Robert Motherwell, Henry Pearson, Louise Nevelson, Sam Francis, Willem de Kooning- and Ellsworth Kelly. The Introduction to the portfolio was written by Una E. Johnson, Curator of Prints & Drawings, The Brooklyn Museum. Johnson wrote in 1967 for the colophon page: "The artists were selected to demonstrate the great diversity and character of lithography in the United States today... the dialogue of diverse forms and many faceted idioms that compose this graphic journal mirror the eloquence and delight the strengths and caprices of a period. Furthermore, they reflect in fine measure the creative achievements of artists attuned to their time." The lithograph offered here has superb provenance: it comes directly from 'Portfolio 9', numbered 84/100. This is the very first time since 1967 that this hand signed & numbered print will be separated from the original portfolio presentation box. According to the description of this print in the catalogue raisonne, "Organized as a celebration of Irwin Hollander's collaboration with American artists working in the medium of lithography, the Portfolio 9 is a compendium of images by nine of Hollander's artist collaborators. Henry Pearson Biography: Henry Pearson was born in Kinston, North Carolina in 1914. He studied art at the University of North Carolina where he received his B. A. and later at Yale University where he received an M. F. A. Pearson spent over eleven years in the army during and after WWII. On one tour of duty in Japan he was assigned to interpret topographical maps due to his past training in Theatrical Set Design. He returned to Japan on another tour after the war in order to immerse himself more fully in the culture. Pearson returned to the United States in 1953 and enrolled at the Art Students League in New York where he studied with Reginald Marsh. The Op-Art Movement was beginning to gain popularity and Pearson...

Untitled #543 by Murray Duncan Mixed media on paper Size: 32" x 40" Unframed, signed This striking contemporary artwork by Murray Duncan showcases the artist’s signature blend of e...

A lovely rural scene with figures walking on a country track, pausing for a moment to chat and gaze over towards the castle in the woods. Circle of William Leighton Leitch (1804-188...

Richard Edward Elliot Chambers Irish–British, 1863–1944 Late October in the Rockies, Colorado 1890 Graphite on cream wove paper Inscribed lower right: “Late Oct. in / Rockies 1890 / ...

About this work: Before he became the celebrated chronicler of Montmartre’s nightlife, Lautrec was surrounded by a different kind of spectacle. At his family’s estates, the young art...

John Rabone Harvey ( 1966 - 1922) graphic and chalk deep green artist paper , unframed artist paper : 5.5 x 7 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: very good condition Ha...

French, Mid Century, pastel and crayon portrait of an elegant young lady by Gourdon. Signed and dated bottom left. Trade label to the back board. Presented in period deep 'tray' frame. This seems to be an early work by the artist and hence it carries his name rather than his later more distinctive signature 'Aslan'. Alain Gordon was one of two brothers, his sibling Michel also went on to achieve notable success with his distinctive 'comic' style. Alain Gourdon...

'The Seated Nude', pencil on paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger oil paintings or ot...

Few artists captured the poetry of the French coast with as much sensitivity and immediacy as Eugène Boudin, widely celebrated as one of the precursors of Impressionism and an early ...

Nina Tichava's paintings are about relationships; she is interested in the interactions between materials and methods as well as the color and spatial relationships that naturally de...

"Worth The Wait" is painting with many shades of blue and teal. Featured are herons and songs birds, and a hummingbird. There are also blue plants and flowers. The background is a th...

Signed lower right, 'DeMartis' for James Joseph DeMartis (American, 1926-1996) and painted circa 1965. Born in Queens, New York, James Joseph DeMartis served with distinction in World War II and was decorated at the Battle of the Bulge. He subsequently attended painting classes at New York's Museum of Modern Art (1946-47) and, later, at the Art Students League of New York. He then enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts in Santa Monica, California until 1949, before leaving t study in Europe in 1950. He settled in Florence, Italy where he attended L’Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze (1950-54). While continuing to study painting, he participated in several group and one-man shows in Italy and Switzerland. In 1956, DeMartis returned to New York at the height of the American Abstract Expressionist movement. He settled with his new family in Brooklyn and, after participating in a series of grass-roots galleries opened with fellow artists, he opened the Armory Gallery and studio in Manhattan. He also exhibited in other Manhattan galleries and at the National Arts Club. In 1961, De Martis was awarded the prestigious Emily Lowe Award for Painting. This led to to shows at the Ward Egglestone, ROKO, Pierantonio and Artemis West galleries from 1962-68. He then returned to Europe to participate in a group show in Florence. Upon his return, he opened the Brownstone Gallery in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, where he exhibited his own and others’ works until 1988. James De Martis exhibited widely and with success including at one-man shows in Tokyo, Brooklyn, New York, Sarasota, Florida, San Francisco and Santa Fe. Select Exhibitions: 1953 Brodighera, Italy 1954 Galerie an der Reuss, Lucerne, Switzerland 1955 La Casa di Dante, Florence, Italy 1956 Walden School, New York, New York 1957 Bottega 57 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 1960, 61 Hicks Street Gallery, Brooklyn New York 1960 Heights Casino, Brooklyn, New York 1961 Ward Eggleston Gallery, New York, New York 1962 Ray Gallery, Brooklyn New York 1962 Pietroantonio Gallery, New York, New York 1962,3,5,7 Armory Gallery, New York, New York 1965 Brooklyn Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 1966,9 Brooklyn Heights Association 1967 Roko Gallery, New York, New York 1970,3,4,5,8,9,83 Brownstone Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 1972 Artemis East Gallery, New York, New York 1975 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York 1977 Marcoleo Gallery, New York, New York 1978 Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York 1989,91,92 Gallery Gion Tokyo, Japan 1994 Private show, Sarasota, Florida 1995 Private show, San Francisco, California 1995 Private show, Copake, New York 1996 Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania May, 2018 Retrospective show, Ashawagh Hall...

Each a watercolor with graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a single sketchbook page, sheet measures 10 1/4 x 14 3/8 inches (261 x 365 mm). The top painting is initialed and dated...

Columbus, Georgia (USA) based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks. Her expressive style emphasizes line structure, creating vibrant painti...

Chair Duet by Hunt Slonem, 1951 - Date: 1981 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 175, AP 30 Image Size: 22 x 25 inches Size: 26 in. x 28 in. (66.04 cm x 71.12...

Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980 (Hand Signed and dated by Roy Lichtenstein), 1981 Offset lithograph. Hand signed and dated in ink Hand-signed by artist, Hand signed and dated in ink on the front. One of only 100 the artist signed in 1981 for the St. Louis Art Museum. with Artist's copyright (unnumbered) Frame included (vintage frame) This rare 1981 offset lithograph poster depicting Roy Lichtenstein's "Apple" is one of only 100 prints the artist signed for the Saint Louis Art Museum on the occasion of this 1981 ten year survey. It is extremely rare. It is held in the original vintage wood frame to preserve provenance. The gallery reserves the right to remove the glass for safe shipping. Measurements: Framed: 37 inches x 27 inches Sheet alone: 34.25 inches x 25 inches Roy Lichtenstein: A key figure in the Pop art movement and beyond, Roy Lichtenstein grounded his profoundly inventive career in imitation—beginning by borrowing images from comic books and advertisements in the early 1960s, and eventually encompassing those of everyday objects, artistic styles, and art history itself. Referring to Lichtenstein’s equalizing treatment of the subjects he chose for his art, Richard Hamilton, a fellow Pop artist, wrote in 1968: “Parthenon, Picasso or Polynesian maiden are reduced to the same kind of cliché by the syntax of the print: reproducing a Lichtenstein is like throwing a fish back into water.”1 Lichtenstein later recalled that 1961, the year he completed Girl with Ball, marked a break with both his own abstract style and “prevailing taste” in the art world. “Although almost anything seemed to be fair subject matter for art,” he recalled, “commercial art and particularly cartooning were not considered to be among those possibilities.”2 The figure from Girl with Ball came from a printed advertisement for the Mount Airy Lodge, in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains, and he based another painting, Drowning Girl, on a comic book cover. In these two paintings and throughout his other work, Lichtenstein would copy the source image by hand, adjusting its composition to suit his narrative or formal aims, and then trace this altered sketch onto the canvas, aided by a projector. In this rigorously manual process, he used perforated templates to replicate and often exaggerate the dot patterning commonly used in printing imagery. Known as Ben-Day dots, this patterning became a signature element of his style, which incorporated the look of mechanical reproduction into the fine-art world of painting. His transformations of the source image typically included reducing the color palette to saturated primaries, eliminating incidental details, heightening contrasts, and “emphasizing the pictorial clichés and graphic codes of commercially printed imagery.”3 In Drowning Girl, for example, Lichtenstein cropped out much of the original scene and modified the statement in the text bubble, amplifying this image of a damsel in distress. Lichtenstein soon turned his attention from the clichés of commercial print culture to the aesthetic clichés of high art.4 With bold, graphic simulations of brushstrokes in prints like Brushstroke and Brushstrokes, for example, he parodied the autographic mark-making of Abstract Expressionism. Yet where Jackson Pollock had been seen to imbue his skeins of paint with a bravura energy and force, Lichtenstein turned that device into something clichéd, commercial, and reproducible. “Visible brushstrokes in a painting convey a sense of grand gesture; but in my hands, the brushstroke becomes a depiction of a grand gesture,” he later said.5 Art history proved an enduringly rich field for Lichtenstein’s transformations. Concurrent with his Brushstrokes series were explorations of the landscape genre and, in 1969, two volleys at Claude Monet. Monet had also worked serially, devoting multiple canvases to a sustained study of the changing sun as it moved across the facade of the Rouen Cathedral or haystacks in a field. With his Cathedral Series and Haystack Series, Lichtenstein reprised those motifs in his signature Ben-Day dots, making Impressionism, in his words, “industrial.”6 In Artist's Studio “The Dance”, Henri Matisse’s Dance...

Gouache and graphite on handmade paper. 24 x 18 inches unframed. 28 x 22.25 inches framed. Artist Statement: “As an artist, I find endless possibilities overwhelming and use self-imposed boundaries to focus my work. This often includes some combination of: a literal grid or graphite border, employment of barbecue skewers or wooden chopsticks in lieu of paintbrushes for mark making, use of a monochromatic or limited color palette, and a reliance on shape and pattern to tell a story. Limiting the elements at play adds a measure of gravity to each decision, and every detail about the paper, the viscosity of the paint, micro variations in hues, and even the sharpness of the point on a skewer matters. I’ve found that the more restrictions I put in place when I paint, the freer my work has become, allowing a tension to form between the organic and prescribed. Rather than sketch before starting a new piece, I spend time with the paper and begin to visualize possibilities. From there, I can expand the work incrementally. Whether I’m working in an adapted form of pointillism, playing with opacity and hue, or building patterns through repeating shape, the work evolves in its own time. It is an intentionally open process of discovery that seeks to uncover the greatest potential of the basest elements we have at our disposal”. - Kate Snow

Los Angeles artist Taylour Martin creates captivating abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas, showcasing a dynamic interplay of emotions and colors. Martin's art is a reflection ...

This beautiful painting by Nacho Reina is a formidable example of the interplay between form and color forms as the central axis of his work, where he starts from architectural shape...

Interior is an original drawing in pencil and China ink on paper, realized by Jeanne Daour. In very good conditions. This artwork represents an admirable interior of a room, with a...

Title French Modernist Seated Female Figure Pencil Life Drawing Artist Jacqueline Boisselot French late 20th century Medium Graphite pencil on artist paper unframed Size 25.5 x 19.75...

Wicker Chair is an original pencil drawing on ivory-colorated paper, realized by Anonymous French Artist of the early 20th Century. In very good conditions. Not signed.

John, Augustus (British, 1878-1961) IDA WITH CHILD. Pencil on paper, not dated, but after 1901 and before 1907. Signed lower right. 7 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches (sheet), framed to 16 1/2 x ...

Crossings IV, By Murray Duncan Mixed media on paper Size: 32" × 40" Unframed, signed Part of a series of four. Crossings IV explores the relationship between line, structure, and ...

"Divine Spontaneity II" 2023, 48" H x 36" W. An original vertical abstract painting consisting of acrylics, house paint, oil pastels, color pencils, and carbon pencils on canvas by ...

Bettina Mauel expresses dynamism and sensuality in her paintings: “I paint what I experience,” she articulates. “This includes landscapes, flowers, and people in motion, capturing th...

John Rabone Harvey ( 1966 - 1922) graphic and chalk deep green artist paper , unframed artist paper : 5.5 x 7 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: very good condition Ha...