Pencil Figurative Paintings

Artist/ School: Norman A.Olley (British, 20th century) dated 1994 and inscribed verso Title - The Keels Game, traditional English village tavern scene...

Modern, elegant mixed media (oil, oil pastel, pencil, and collage) painting on wood board. Through overlays and transparencies, the contemporary artist Federica Aiello Pini...

Artist/ School: Norman A.Olley ( British, 20th Century) dated 1992 and inscribed verso Title - The Boat Repair Yard Medium: gouache/watercolour/ ink/ pencil on artist paper, unfram...

Artist/ School: Norman A.Olley ( British, 20th Century) dated 1992 and inscribed verso Title - Mill beyond the marshes Medium: gouache/watercolour/ ink/ pencil on artist paper, unf...

Artist/ School: Norman A.Olley (British, 20th Century) dated 1992 and inscribed verso Title: Mallards dropping on a back wager of the Ember - East Molesy Surrey Medium: gouache/wa...

Nude Lady Drawing by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013) pencil/charcoal drawing on paper paper: 10.5 x 14.5 inches Superb mid-century oil painting on board by the French artist...

Nude Lady Drawing by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013) pencil/charcoal drawing on paper paper: 13 x 10 inches Superb mid-century oil painting on board by the French artist, Ge...

Artist/ School: Norman A.Olley ( British, 20th Century) dated 1996 and inscribed verso Title - Tranquil Bridge Landscape Medium: gouache/watercolour/ ink/ pencil on thin board, un...

Nude Lady Drawing by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013) pencil/charcoal drawing on paper paper: 13 x 10 inches Superb mid-century oil painting on board by the French artist, Ge...

"" by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013) pencil/charcoal drawing on paper in a folded A3 paper with other drawings on paper: 12.5 x 9 inches Superb mid-century oil painting on ...

James Dean Smoking Cigarette Portrait Pop Art by British Urban Graffiti Artist, Chris Pegg. Chris Pegg is a self-taught Street Artist producing artwork with a strong social commentar...

***Please note the glass will be removed for shipping*** For local and London deliveries the glass can be retained if agreed prior to purchase. George Large, R.I. (born 1936) Feeding the swans...

Oswald Oberhuber's art was rich in diversity of expression, as well as in the media he used. This work, coloured pencil and pencil on paper, shows a portrait of a man, reduced to few...

Mid 20th Century Italian Futurist, Novecento Italiano, work on paper, signed bottom right and with dedication top right (see photos). The subject is bathers enjoying the delights of a spa and sauna with colourful tiling to the background. The classical figures languorously positioned in repose but the central 'white' figure in stark contrast. The play on colours gives the work a vibrancy. The drawing is possibly a preparatory sketch for a larger work or mural. A vibrant, exciting and colourful work incorporating the styles of Futurism and the Novecento Italiano movement and with the influences or artists such as Anselmo Bucci, Adami, Jean Helion, Maryan, Achille Funi and Ugo Guidi. Anselmo Bucci was born in 1887 in Fossombrone in the district of Pesaro. Even though he studied Classics, right from a tender age he showed a talent for drawing and, when his parents moved near to Florence, he was taught by the artist Francesco Salvini. In 1904 the family settled in Monza and so the boy was able to study for a year at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, but he did not follow up this educational experience and in 1906 he left Italy for Paris where he came into contact with the Parisian avant-garde, met fellow Italian artists such as Severini and Modigliani, and made friends with Picasso, Utrillo and Apollinaire. In 1907 he showed a painting at the Salon, but these Parisian years were most important for his love of engraving techniques – etching and dry point that enabled him to fully develop his themes characterised by movement. On the outbreak of war in 1915 he returned to Italy and he enlisted in the same battalion as several Futurist artists such as Martinetti, Boccioni, Sant’Elia and Carlo Erba. In 1914 he won the silver medal at the Mostra dell’Incisione (Exhibition of Engravings) at Florence. In 1917 in Paris he published pictures of war scenes entitled “Croquis du Front Italien”. In 1919 he printed twelve lithographs entitled “Finis Austriae” again showing events from the war. At the end of the war he lived between Milan and Paris and he dedicated his time completely to his art with personal exhibitions, exhibiting at all the most important Italian and French shows, in Belgium, Holland and England. In 1922, he established the group “Movimento del Novecento”, (Novecento Italiano), (20th century Movement) a joint venture with the artists Sironi, Funi, Oppi, Malerba, Dudreville and Marussig. Their aim was to return to figurative art in contrast with the growing extremism of the Avant-gardists. In 1925 he worked on the illustration of the first edition of Kipling’s The Jungle Book producing eight dry point plates. In the early 30’s he lived in Bucci, Trieste, where he worked on the furnishing of the steamships for the Trieste Navigazione Libera, at the same time he continued to work on many book illustrations. During the second European war he adapted to being a war artist recording the events of the war as he had done previously. Indeed the engravings depicting battles of the Marines and the Air Force belong to this period. In 1945, following the bombing of his house in Milan, he returned to Monza to his father’s home where he remained until his death. Futurism was an Italian art movement of the early twentieth century that aimed to capture in art the dynamism and energy of the modern world. Futurism was launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909. On 20 February he published his Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. Among modernist movements futurism was exceptionally vehement in its denunciation of the past. This was because in Italy the weight of past culture was felt as particularly oppressive. In the Manifesto, Marinetti asserted that ‘we will free Italy from her innumerable museums which cover her like countless cemeteries’. What the futurists proposed instead was an art that celebrated the modern world of industry and technology: We declare…a new beauty, the beauty of speed. A racing motor car…is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace. (A celebrated ancient Greek sculpture in the Louvre museum in Paris.) Futurist painting used elements of neo-impressionism and cubism to create compositions that expressed the idea of the dynamism, the energy and movement, of modern life. Chief artists associated with futurism were Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini. After the brutality of the first world war, many artists rejected the avant-garde notions of futurism and other pre-war movements, by using more traditional and reassuring approaches, a phenomenon described as the ‘return to order’. Novecento Italiano was founded by Anselmo Bucci (1887–1955), Leonardo Dudreville (1885–1975), Achille Funi, Gian Emilio Malerba (1880–1926), Pietro Marussig, Ubaldo Oppi, and Mario Sironi. Motivated by a post-war "call to order", they were brought together by Lino Pesaro, a gallery owner interested in modern art, and Margherita Sarfatti, a writer and art critic who worked on Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's newspaper, The People of Italy (Il Popolo d'Italia). Sarfatti was also Mussolini's mistress. The movement was officially launched in 1923 at an exhibition in Milan, with Mussolini as one of the speakers. The group was represented at the Venice Biennale of 1924 in a gallery of its own, with the exception of Oppi, who exhibited in a separate gallery. Oppi's defection caused him to be ejected from the group, which subsequently split and was reformed. The new Novecento Italiano staged its first group exhibition in Milan in 1926. Several of the artists were war veterans; Sarfatti had lost a son in the war. The group wished to take on the Italian establishment and create an art associated with the rhetoric of fascism. The artists supported the fascist regime and their work became associated with the state propaganda department, although Mussolini reprimanded Sarfatti for using his name and the name of fascism to promote Novecento. The name of the movement (which means 1900s) was a deliberate reference to great periods of Italian art in the past, the Quattrocento and Cinquecento (1400s and 1500s). The group rejected European avant garde art and wished to revive the tradition of large format history painting in the classical manner. It lacked a precise artistic programme and included artists of different styles and temperament, for example, Carrà and Marini. It aimed to promote a renewed yet traditional Italian art. Sironi said, “if we look at the painters of the second half of the 19th century, we find that only the revolutionary were great and that the greatest were the most revolutionary”; the artists of Novecento Italiano “would not imitate the world created by God but would be inspired by it”. Despite official patronage, Novecento art did not always have an easy ride in Fascist Italy. Mussolini was personally uninterested in art and divided official support among various groups so as to keep artists on the side of the regime. Opening the exhibition of Novecento art in 1923 he declared that “it is far from my idea to encourage anything like a state art. Art belongs to the domain of the individual. The state has only one duty: not to undermine art, to provide humane conditions for artists, to encourage them from the artistic and national point of view." The movement was in competition with other pro-Fascist movements, especially Futurism and the regionalist Strapaese movement. Novecento Italiano also met outright opposition. Achille Starace, the General Secretary of the Fascist Party, attacked it in the Fascist daily press and there was virulent criticism of its “un-Italian" qualities by artists and critics. In the 1930s, a group of professors and students at the Accademia di Brera established an opposition group to Novecento Italiano. Among them was the director of the academy Aldo Carpi, and students Afro, Aldo Badoli, Aldo Bergolli, Renato Birolli, Bruno Cassinari, Cherchi, Alfredo Chighine, Grosso, Renato Guttuso, Dino Lanaro, Giuseppe Migneco, Mantica, Ennio Morlotti, Aligi Sassu, Ernesto Treccani, Italo Valenti, and Emilio Vedova (and later Giuseppe Ajmone...

"Venetian Light Jazz Piece" is a 2020 unique oil on canvas painting by German mid-career artist Michael Pröpper. Comes with certificate on back. It de...

Wonderful original pencil drawing depicting a vintage motor car racing scene from the 1930's. The drawing is by - "K. B. White" - a British illustrator and motoring artist who was working in the 1930's. The drawing perfectly capture the glamorous spirit of vintage...

***Please note the glass will be removed for shipping*** For local and London deliveries the glass can be retained if agreed prior to purchase. George Large, R.I. (born 1936) Edible Fungi Signed and dated (19)91 Watercolour over traces of pencil 26¾ x 14¾ 37 x 24½ with frame ​​ George Large is a painter in watercolour and oil, born in Islington, London in 1936. He studied at Hornsey College of Art (1958-63), teachers including Maurice de Sausmarez, John Titchell and Alfred Daniels. Large spent some time in the display department of Simpson’s, Piccadilly, was part-time at Hornsey College of Art, then head of department at St Julian...

"Heaven Can Wait" is a 2020 unique oil on canvas painting by German mid-career artist Michael Pröpper. Comes with certificate on back. It depicts a dance scene at the sea. The art...

Acrylic, oil, pencil & nitro on canvas

Jessica Pliez, artist in the poetic and infantile world, which reminds one of the filmmaker Tim Burton, loves the surprising supports. 2020 Drawing / pencil on cardboard 24 x 12 cm ...

***Please note the glass will be removed for shipping*** For local and London deliveries the glass can be retained if agreed prior to purchase. George Large, R.I. (born 1936) Street musicians Signed and dated (19)91 Watercolour over traces of pencil 15¾ x 26 25½ x 35 with frame ​​ George Large is a painter in watercolour and oil, born in Islington, London in 1936. He studied at Hornsey College of Art (1958-63), teachers including Maurice de Sausmarez, John Titchell and Alfred Daniels. Large spent some time in the display department of Simpson’s, Piccadilly, was part-time at Hornsey College of Art, then head of department at St Julian...

In 1955, as he was residing at the Château de Chassy in the Morvan for two years, Balthus created a large painting entitled "Getting up". Balthus was inspired for this painting by t...

Ray Richardson is a contemporary British artist known for his cinematic paintings. The artist employs icons of working-class London, including bull terriers, soccer pitches, and grit...

Ray Richardson is a contemporary British artist known for his cinematic paintings. The artist employs icons of working-class London, including bull terriers, soccer pitches, and grit...

Staedtler pencil & acrylic on canvas

Jessica Pliez, artist in the poetic and infantile world, which reminds one of the filmmaker Tim Burton, loves the surprising supports. 2020 Drawing / pencil on cardboard 25 x 19 cm ...

Jessica Pliez, artist in the poetic and infantile world, which reminds one of the filmmaker Tim Burton, loves the surprising supports. 2020 Drawing / Pencil on cardboard 32 x 29 cm ...

Jessica Pliez, artist in the poetic and infantile world, which reminds one of the filmmaker Tim Burton, loves the surprising supports. 2020 Drawing / Posca on cardboard 40 x 21 cm O...

"Befriend Your Soul" is a 2020 unique oil on canvas painting by German mid-career artist Michael Pröpper. Comes with certificate on back. The artists Michael Pröpper calls these wo...

Acrylic and Staedtler pencil on canvas

"The Clouds, the Sky" is a 2019 unique oil on canvas painting by German mid-career artist Michael Pröpper. Comes with certificate on back. It depicts a caroussel in the sky. The ...

Wonderful set of four original pencil drawings depicting vintage motor cars from the 1930's. They are an ideal gift or interior furnishing for any 'man cave' or 'boys room...

"One Direction" is a 2020 unique oil on canvas painting by German mid-career artist Michael Pröpper. Comes with certificate on back. Inspired by the ly...

"Group in the Clouds" is a 2018 unique oil on canvas painting by German mid-career artist Michael Pröpper. Comes with certificate on back. It depicts a scene of a group of people w...

"Nariwal ko" is a 2018 unique oil on canvas painting by German mid-career artist Michael Pröpper. Comes with certificate on back. It depicts a scene of rice pickers. The artists M...

Burka Bikini Girl, 2019 Oil and graphite on canvas 15.75 x 11.75 inches (40 x 30 cm) Signed, titled and dated on verso Lee Wells (b.1971) is a conceptua...

Heter Golosh's Venus. 1958, cardboard, mixed media, 6,8x15.6 cm Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relatives give his a...

The Good The Bad & The Ugly Pop Art by British Urban Graffiti Artist, Chris Pegg. Art measures 42 x 24 inches Chris Pegg is a self-taught Street Artist producing artwork with a str...

Flying is an original artwork in pencil and watercolor on paper realized by Maurice Rouzée. Good conditions. Sheet dimension:44.5 x 37 cm Included a white Passapartout: 69 x 49 cm...

"Old Master Drawing" Italian School, 18/19th century pencil/ charcoal/ sanguine drawing on paper, unframed paper size: 15.5 x 10 inches Fine quality 18/19th century Italian Old Mas...

Like Swimming In A Quarry - 120 feet and dark in the middle. One of Wadsworth's celebrated & innovative Black Cloth series. His sitters pose with a large black cloth & talk about wha...

Superb period work from the 1960's era - very close in every respect to the later works by Pablo Picasso. The artwork is not signed but we believe it to be of French authorship. Pr...

"Iris" oil on panel, mixed technique by Lluis Rizzo. Hyperrealist painting. Measurements: (H) 114 x (W) 146 cm. Framed: (H) 144 x (W) 176 x (D) 5 cm. « Iris » Here we have a rare species of Iris that will not be found in botanical books but in art catalogs...

A Brun (French, circa 1900) Raising a glass Pencil, watercolour and gouache on canvas Signed ‘A Brun’ (lower right) 20.1/2 x 15.3/4in. (52 x 40 cm.)

Pastel and graphite on paper, 1930 by Adolf Richard Hoelzel ( 1853-1934 ), Germany. Estate stamp verso. Height: 5.71 in ( 14,5 cm ), Width: 4.53 in ( 11,5 cm ). Framed: 13.39 x 12.2...

Drawn from life this model is obviously at ease which has allowed Angela to present a relaxed and subtle figurative work. Her colors are warm and this is a beautiful, graceful piece....

Translated title: "Untitled (Compass)" Acrylic and pencil on sand and canvas.

Pencil, wax crayon, watercolour, pen & ink on paper Signed & dated 'Moore/44' lower right, titled 'Family Group' upper centre & inscribed '21' upper right