Art by Medium: Pencil

Provenance: Frédérique Tison, Château de Chassy (Burgundy-Franche Comté - France) Bibliography: J. Clair, V. Monnier Balthus, catalogue raisonné of the complete works, Gallimard, Pa...

Silverpoint and colored pencil on paper, 29 x 23 in. Signed (at lower right): Joseph Stella Executed about 1919 EXHIBITED: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, November 23, 1985–January 4, 1986, American Masterworks on Paper: Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints, pp. 6, 46 no. 47 illus. // (probably) Richard York Gallery, New York, October 5–November 17, 1990, Joseph Stella: 100 Works on Paper, no. 36 // Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Brandywine Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, October 1, 2022–September 24, 2023, Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature EX COLL.: [Dudensing Galleries, New York]; sale, Christie’s, New York, December 7, 1984, lot 324; [Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1984]; to private collection, 2006 until the present An independent-minded artist who adhered to the credo “Rules don’t exist,” Joseph Stella explored a range of styles, media, and themes, willfully ignoring the “barricades erected by ... [the] self-appointed dictators” of the art establishment (Joseph Stella, “On Painting,” Broom 11 [December 1921], pp. 122–23; Joseph Stella, “Discovery of America: Autobiographical Notes,” Art News 59 [November 1960], p. 41). By doing so, he produced a diverse and highly eclectic body of work, ranging from realist figure subjects, pulsating Futurist cityscapes, and modernist religious...

A stylish, vintage early 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant young woman standing in an autumn themed hat and coat with the inscription "Southern Collection by Nettie Rosenstein...

August Frederick Biehle (1885-1979) Houses in Zoar, c. 1921 Gouache, litho crayon, colored pencil and graphite on paper Signed lower right 14 x 19 inches 20.25 x 25.25 inches, framed...

At some point, the fine art/museum world will recognize how truly brilliant a trailblazing artist like Coby Whitmore is. His exploration of bold colors, flattened, simplified space, ...

China ink and pencil on paper. Not signed. Good condition.

Pencil drawing, ink and watercolor on paper realized by Gabriele Galantara in the early 20th Century. Not signed. In good condition, with signs of time.

Artist Still Life Sketch by Jacqueline Boisselot, French late 20th century size: 19.75 x 25.5 inches pencil drawing on thin paper, unframed condition: very good and ready to enjoy pr...

Stuart Davis Houses on the Shore (Summer Cottages), 1913 Signed and dated lower right Watercolor and pencil on paper 11 x 14 1/2 inches Provenance The artist Private Collection, New...

Naked woman is a pencil drawing by the artist André Meaux Saint-Marc (1885-1941). Good conditions.

Art Seiden was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1923. He received a BA at Queens College and studied for eight years (!) at the Art Students League. Mario Cooper was among his instructors. Up...

The Cattery by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Oil and pencil on canvas 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 ⅛ inches) Signed and dated upper right Orovida 1964 Provenance Estate of the artist G Hassel...

Grass with white leaves and flowers and a red petroglyph on the right. Marina Skvortsova lives and works between Norway and Estonia. Born in Siberia with Asian roots, Marina feels a...

Untitled III, 1984 by Enrique Grau Graphite on paper Signed in the top right corner. Great condition. Provenance: Private collection. Image size: 12 in H ...

Pencil, white lead and watercolor on paper. Not signed. Good condition.

China ink and pencil drawing on paper. Not signed. Good condition.

China ink and white lead on paper. Not signed. Good condition.

Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' art is gro...

China ink, pencil and white lead on paper. Not signed. Good condition.

Pencil drawing on paper. Not signed. Good condition, with some foxing.

China ink drawing on paper. Not signed. Very good condition.

Joseph Stella was a visionary artist who painted what he saw, an idiosyncratic and individual experience of his time and place. Stella arrived in New York in 1896, part of a wave of Italian immigrants from poverty-stricken Southern Italy. But Stella was not a child of poverty. His father was a notary and respected citizen in Muro Locano, a small town in the southern Appenines. The five Stella brothers were all properly educated in Naples. Stella’s older brother, Antonio, was the first of the family to come to America. Antonio Stella trained as a physician in Italy, and was a successful and respected doctor in the Italian community centered in Greenwich Village. He sponsored and supported his younger brother, Joseph, first sending him to medical school in New York, then to study pharmacology, and then sustaining him through the early days of his artistic career. Antonio Stella specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis and was active in social reform circles. His connections were instrumental in Joseph Stella’s early commissions for illustrations in reform journals. Joseph Stella, from the beginning, was an outsider. He was of the Italian-American community, but did not share its overwhelming poverty and general lack of education. He went back to Italy on several occasions, but was no longer an Italian. His art incorporated many influences. At various times his work echoed the concerns and techniques of the so-called Ashcan School, of New York Dada, of Futurism and, of Cubism, among others. These are all legitimate influences, but Stella never totally committed himself to any group. He was a convivial, but ultimately solitary figure, with a lifelong mistrust of any authority external to his own personal mandate. He was in Europe during the time that Alfred Stieglitz established his 291 Gallery. When Stella returned he joined the international coterie of artists who gathered at the West Side apartment of the art patron Conrad Arensberg. It was here that Stella became close friends with Marcel Duchamp. Stella was nineteen when he arrived in America and studied in the early years of the century at the Art Students League, and with William Merritt Chase, under whose tutelage he received rigorous training as a draftsman. His love of line, and his mastery of its techniques, is apparent early in his career in the illustrations he made for various social reform journals. Stella, whose later work as a colorist is breathtakingly lush, never felt obliged to choose between line and color. He drew throughout his career, and unlike other modernists, whose work evolved inexorably to more and more abstract form, Stella freely reverted to earlier realist modes of representation whenever it suited him. This was because, in fact, his “realist” work was not “true to nature,” but true to Stella’s own unique interpretation. Stella began to draw flowers, vegetables, butterflies, and birds in 1919, after he had finished the Brooklyn Bridge series of paintings, which are probably his best-known works. These drawings of flora and fauna were initially coincidental with his fantastical, nostalgic and spiritual vision of his native Italy which he called Tree of My Life (Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth Foundation and Windsor, Inc., St. Louis, illus. in Barbara Haskell, Joseph Stella, exh. cat. [New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994], p. 111 no. 133). Two Wood Ducks...

Pastel Landscape by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) pastel and pencil sketch on brown artist tracing paper , unframed painting: 4.5 x 3.75 inches provenance: private collection, Cotsw...

Stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for Suzanne Gertz (American, 1938-2003) and painted circa 1985, partial signature lower right. Suzanne Gertz first studied at the...

Mel Bochner's Floating World (Ukiyo-E) print series consists of five woodcuts: Floating World 1, Floating World 2, Floating World 3, Floating World 4, and Floating World 5. Produced ...

Marina Edge by Howard Bradford, 1919 - 2008 Date: 1968 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 32/100 Image Size: 17.5 x 30 inches Frame Size: 26.5 x 38 inches

Nude Female Sketch by Jacqueline Boisselot, French late 20th century size: 19.75 x 11 inches pencil drawing on thin paper, unframed condition: very good and ready to enjoy provenance...

Pencil drawing and watercolor on paper. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition.

Jehudith Sobel (1924-2012 ) Polish/Jewish artist (also known as Judyta Sobel) Judith Sobel was born in Lwow, Poland in 1924. After Word War II she attended the Academy of Fine Arts ...

Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' art is gro...

Lucy Dawson (British, 1870–1954) Watching Raindrops (“Whisky”), circa 1950 Pencil on paper, inscribed and titled This delicate pencil study by Lucy Dawson, also known by her artist’...

1950's elegant fashion models pose depicted for a designer clothing line for a major San Francisco department store - Perhaps Neiman Marcus. Estate S...

Pencil and watercolor on paper realized by Maccari in 1950s. Not signed. Very good condition.

Absolutely rare Assen Peikov drawing "Head of Tsar Asparuh" Signed, located, and dated in the lower right corner "Assen Peikov Rome 72" Initials on the left "A P " Important origina...

Signed and dated center right, Seam down center where two sheets attached is original. Some slight surface smudging outside figure area .

A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring colorful designs for women's red Robin Hood hat, suit and coat. Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/4 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 in...

Nudes is an artwork realized in the early 20th century and attributed to Augusto Monari. Pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper. Not signed. This artwork represents two nude women...

'The Roman Bath', pencil on art paper (circa 1960s), School of Rome. Three broad-shouldered men make their way through the sultry corridors of the Hammam in...

Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' art is gro...

Relax is a Pencil Drawing realized by Angelina Beloff (1884-1969) in 1930s. Good condition included a white carddboard passpartout (35x49 cm). Hand s...

Mary Ingebrand-Pohlad (American, b. 1953). Graphite, pastel, and paper collage painting "Nantucket Still Life with Whirligig and Hydrangea" depicting a mixed media still life colla...

Mary Ingebrand-Pohlad (American, b. 1953). Graphite, pastel, and paper collage painting "Still Life with Quilt and Nantucket Whirligig" depicting a mixed media still life collage ...

A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's hat by Maria Guy. Likely an illustration study for a print advertisement for the famed Chicago depa...

Nude Female Sketch by Jacqueline Boisselot, French late 20th century size: 19.75 x 25.5 inches pencil drawing on thin paper, unframed condition: very good and ready to enjoy provenan...

Ideal Decoration is an Artwork realized by the artist Carlo Parisi (1922-2007) in 1935. Black and white drawing on paper. Good conditions. Carlo Parisi...

Vintage American drawing by noted cartoonist and illustrator Michael Berry (1907-2000). Framed. Measuring: 17 by 13 inches overall and 11 by 9 inches image alone. Excellent condition...

This graphite drawing on paper is in excellent condition and and has only been shown in a gallery setting. The size dimensions do not include the frame. Alvar pays homage to one o...

Stanford White (1853-1906) Sketches of Two Sofas and Chair Graphite on paper, c. 1890 Unsigned Provenance: Davis Galleries, 1963, New York Davis Galleries organized the important 196...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...

Shipping Procedure 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 Authenticity (issued by The Gal...

Nude Figure Sketch by Jacqueline Boisselot, French late 20th century size: 25.5 x 19.75 inches double sided pencil drawing on thin paper, unframed condition: very good and ready to ...

Nude Figure Sketch by Jacqueline Boisselot, French late 20th century size: 25.5 x 19.75 inches pencil drawing on thin paper, unframed condition: very good and ready to enjoy provenan...

Political benefactor is a modern artwork realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th century. Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper. Hand signed on the right margin. ...

Marie LAURENCIN Ballerina Original drawing Signed with the stamp of the artist On paper 10 x 16 cm (c. 6.2 x 3.93 in) Good condition, the paper slightly yellowish

City is an original drawing in pencil made by the Hungarian artist Nicolas Czinober in the mid-20th century.The state of preservation is good, the paper presents some small stains. ...

Nam June Paik Do You Know...?, from the New York Collection for Stockholm portfolio, 1973 Silkscreen on paper, in original portfolio sleeve Signed and dated '73 and numbered 36/300 i...

Pencil Portraits by Jacqueline Boisselot, French late 20th century size: 19.75 x 25 inches pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed condition: very good and ready to enjoy provenanc...

Four pencil drawings, each with hand coloring in watercolor, each 6 3/4 x 10 inches (sheet) (172 x 254 mm), full margins. Each with inscriptions and notations by the artist in the up...

A charming, finely drawn American Modern portrait drawing of a young child, attributed to artist Alice Beach Winter (1877-1970). Artwork size: 10 x 8 inches, graphite on paper (Fr...

"Fallen Ponderosa" Original California Pencil Drawing, signed, 1973 Beautifully rendered drawing of a ponderosa pine by prominent Californian artist Olga Seem (b. 1927 d. 2022. The ...