Watercolor Figurative Paintings

Watercolor on paper laid on board: An exceptional watercolor in terms of quality and presentation. During this earlier period of Day's career he exhibited extensively and was inspir...

The Country House - Farm Landscape Highly detailed scene with a country house, workers, and a hare with rider by an unknown artist (19th Century). Five people - one on a horse - are...

Bhaskar Chitrakar - Frida Kahlo - 15 x 11 inches (unframed size) Watercolor & Gouache on Paper, 2020 About the Artist & his works : Born : 1978. Bh...

Kerry Smith Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run Mixed Media on Crescent board Year: 2017 Size: 12x12in Signed, dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1623 *Black frame with a mirror-gl...

Martha Walter Market Scene, North Africa Signed lower right Watercolor on paper 9 x 9 inches Martha Walter was best known as a painter of colorful beach scenes and landscapes. Infl...

Even without the punch line, Gahan Wilson's highly stylized paintings are marvelous to behold. He is one of a few artists with a unique style instantly re...

Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers and still life. She is one of the most productive wate...

Modernist abstract "Manan du Terre" by LT Milton 1987 Abstract landscape on paper by Milton (American, 20th century). Bright colors in Gouache and Acrylic paints. A bold green mount...

Kerry Smith David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust Mixed Media on Crescent board Year: 2022 Size: 21x20in Signed, dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1643 *Black frame with a mirror-gloss...

Olga Sazykina Russian painter and artist. In the years 2011-2013, she studied in the field of painting under the direction of V. Nevzorov, then in the years 2013-2016 at the Faculty...

Red Bodice Nude Abstract A vibrant abstract painting in reds accented in canary yellow with gray background, by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva...

Mixed media (acrylic, gouache,oil) on canvas Miyuki Takanashi is a Japanese artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Sapporo in Japan. She is graduated from Hokkaido University of E...

Ryland studied under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845-1902), Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888), and Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911) in Paris, and also at the South Kensington Art Sc...

Kerry Smith Nat King Cole - Unforgettable Mixed Media on Crescent board Year: 2022 Size: 21x20in Signed, dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1647 *Black frame with a mirror-glos...

Kerry Smith Patsy Cline - Showcase Gouache, Conservation Glass Year: 2018 Size: 21x22in Framed Signed, dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 92-1658 *Black frame with a mirror-gloss fini...

Japanese No. 2 Mikhail Turovsky, Russian (1933) Date: 1990 Oil Pastel on Paper, signed l.r. Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55.88 cm x 76.2 cm) Frame Size: 33 x 40 ...

Artist/School: After Filippo Lippi, Italian 1406-1469. The work is most likely by an English hand, late 19th century Title: The Adoration of the Christ ...

A cover illustration for the June 1915 issue of Good Housekeeping depicting Coles Phillips’s iconic “Fadeaway Girl” kneeling at the seashore holding a beach umbrella. Phillips’ “Fade...

Colorful watercolor of mission entrance by Gladys Louise Bowman Fies (American, 1909-2005). Signed "Fies" lower left. Unframed. Image size, 18"H x 24"L. Gladys Fies was a watercolorist, art teacher. Gladys attended the Jade Fon workshop at Asilomar in Pacific Grove for thirty years. She studied under many nationally known watercolorists, Millard Sheets, Rex Brandt and eight years with George Post...

Predominantly recognized as a self-taught painter, he also worked in architectural murals, sculptures, ceramics, prints and drawings. Vigas is one...

Painting on paper is 10 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches. Professionally hinged into an 8ply museum mat with an outer dimension of 19 x 16 1/4 inches, with an archival crystal clear case. Fro...

This original 1930s watercolor painting by Charles Ragland Bunnell beautifully captures the majestic landscape of Cameron’s Cone near Colorado Springs...

artwork is 11 1/2 x 9 inches, Professionally matted in an 8ply museum mat and backing and comes in an archival sleeve. Ready for framing or for presentation. All archival materials u...

MAGDALENA SPASOWICZ Studied painting under prof. Jan Cybis and graphic arts with prof. Tadeusz Kulisiewicz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She received her diploma in 1953. He...

Stunning composition in blue and black of model Ashlyn's back from Kim Frohsin who is associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement that was started by David Park, Wayne Theibaud,...

Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906-2008) Cityscape Watercolor Signed lower right 22 x 30 inches 25.25 x 33.5 inches, framed The son of a commercial potter in Sebring, Ohio, Vikto...

Judd Mercer's (US based) "046 - Plein Air-Star K Ranch, CO" is a gouache painting depicting a river in a lush green forest. Artist bio/statement Judd Mercer is a contemporary lands...

Mixed media (acrylic, gouache,oil) on canvas Miyuki Takanashi is a Japanese artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Sapporo in Japan. She is graduated from Hokkaido University of E...

Wendy Artin is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timeless interaction of light and pigment on surface, with subjects ranging from the human figure to fresh fruits and vegetables, architectures, statues and city walls. "I love paper, and the way pigments are transported along a thin surface of transparent water then dry. Although my paintings are often classical, I studied at the Museum School in Boston and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris when marks, gesture and atmosphere were of greatest importance. As I travelled more and more, the charcoal and oils gave way to a small watercolor box and brushes. Through the streets of Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Boston, New York, Mexico and Guatemala, I have painted indoors and out, subjects from the eternal to the fleeting. The human form and the humble strawberry are endlessly inspiring." “When I paint with watercolor, I try to make each mark count, to make each stroke of the brush describe what I am looking at, to get the right puddle on the paper and capture life. Sometimes the puddle has a skinny red edge, sometimes a soft burst of pigment, sometimes a lucky watery accident.” Artistic Advisor at the American Academy in Rome, Wendy Artin completed her undergraduate studies with honors in Painting and French...

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.)

Blue and grey with peach abstracted figurative painting in neutral cool colors from Kim Frohsin's "Figures WIth Edges" series. Frohsin, third generation Bay Area Figurative artist—fr...

Figurative nude with complex color—pink, green, grey and yellow— rhythm, and overall design by Kim Frohsin. 'The Pastry Chef' abstracted nude acrylic and mixed media painting in Froh...

Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi. Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...

A Surrealist Judaica scene of a bearded man (Rabbi) in a boat with Shabbat candlesticks. Sight size: 17.75" x 22.5". Overall size with frame: 26.5" x31.5" Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נ...

Painting on paper is 7 3/4 x 10 3/8 inches. Professionally hinged into an 8ply museum mat with an outer dimension of 19 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches, with an archival crystal clear case. ...

John Bellany, one of the most significant British painters of the 20th century, is renowned for his deeply personal and symbolic work that often draws from his Scottish coastal roots...

Follower of Antoine Calbet. French ( b.1860 - d.1944 ). Theseus and Ariadne, Circa 1890 - 1910. Mixed Media. Watercolour, Gouache & Pastel Image size 16.5 inches x 11.2 inches ( 42cm...

"Birth" is a striking semi-abstract watercolor painting created by the talented Colorado artist, Charles Ragland Bunnell, in 1943. The artwork, crafted during Bunnell's Black and Blu...

Day at the Beach - Realistic Figurative Illustration in Gouache Original figurative illustration of people at the beach by Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). Several women are looking at someone's foot, as if there is a splinter being removed. Three of the women are closer, with their heads in the frame. Two of them have are standing with their backs to the viewer. Between the women, the viewer can catch glimpses of other activities on the beach. Possibly a sketch for Good Housekeeping Magazine. Signed "Charles Ross" in the lower right corner. (Charles Ross Kinghan) Acquired with other signed estate works by the artist. Presented in a new cream mat. Mat size: 16"H x 13"W Board size: 14"H x 11.75"W Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 1895-1984) was born in Anthony, KS on January 18, 1895. A teacher, he moved to Wichita as a teenager and did sign painting for the Western Sign Works. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art in 1916, the American Academy of Art in Chicago, the Audubon School of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a pupil of Carl Scheffler, J. Wellington Reynolds, and H.A. Oberteuffer. He taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He was an illustrator for McCalls, Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, and many others, including American Artist magazine. He was author and illustrator of Rendering Techniques for Commercial Art and Advertising (1956) and of Ted Kautzky...

Wendy Artin is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timele...

Figurative fauvist watercolor with three nude figures by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). From the estate of Doris Warner. Signed "Warner" lower right. Unframed. Image, 15"H x...

Reflections. 1982. Watercolor on paper, 82x84 cm Dzemma Lia Skulme (born 1925 20 IX - 2019) Skulme graduated from the Academy of Arts of Latvia, Department of Monumental Painting w...

LUCIEN ROUDIER ELLER 1894-1940 “CHANTEUSE ESPAGNOLE” MIXED MEDIA, SIGNED FRENCH, C.1925 27.25 X 38.5 INCHES Lucien Roudier Eller 1894-1940 It is thought the name Eller was a combina...

Fishing Village - Massachusetts Watercolor on Paper Cloudy day on the Massachusetts Coast by Richard Clark Hare (American, 1906-1959). Richard Clarke Hare was a painter best known f...

Abstract Expressionist painting of Bay Area Hills by Honora Berg Berkeley San Francisco Bay Area abstract expressionist landscape by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). A brilliant e...

Judd Mercer's (US based) "059 - Plein Air-Red Rocks, CO" is a gouache painting depicting a landscape. Artist bio/statement Judd Mercer is a contemporary landscape painter and Color...

Afternoon Street Scene - Mid Century Figurative Landscape by Rudolf Jacobi A mid century small town afternoon street scene with small figures by Rudolph...

Judd Mercer's (US based) "070 - Plein Air-Lafayette, CO" is a gouache painting depicting a landscape. Artist bio/statement Judd Mercer is a contemporary landscape painter and Color...

Judd Mercer's (US based) "041 - Plein Air-Boulder Falls, CO" is a gouache painting depicting a stream by a cliffside. Artist bio/statement Judd Mercer is a contemporary landscape p...

Judd Mercer's (US based) "008 - Plein Air-Cathedral Spires, CO" is a gouache painting depicting a snowy forest on a mountainside. Artist bio/statement...

framed 36 X 28 board 30 X 21.75 Sandu Liberman (Romanian-Israeli) was born in Yasi, Romania in 1923. between 1946 and 1953 he took part in the state art shows in Bucharest. in 1952 ...

On heavy Arches deckle edged paper. This combines text or poetry in calligraphy on the side. Gary Hansmann (1947-2008) was active/lived in California. He is known for abstract, Surr...

Nirvana literally means cool or to extinguish, it is a state of mindfullness where suffering has been extinguished and one achieves ultimate freedom. In this fabulous piece we can se...

ADAM NIEMCZYC (born in 1914) Painter, graphic artist, poet, novelist. He practiced easel, mural painting and book illustration. Since 1958 he participated in numerous exhibitions in ...

British Landscape by Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) * see notes below original watercolor on artists paper, unframed paper dimensions: 15 x 11 inches condition: very good and read...

Signed lower right, 'Storer' for Inez May Storer (American, born 1933) and dated 1979. Inez Storer first studied at the San Francisco College for Women, the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California at Berkeley. She later earned a bachelor's degree at Dominican College in San Rafael and, in 1971, a graduate degree in at California State University in San Francisco. From Inverness...

Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern WPA 1930s Industrial Workers Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Brick Layers House Beautiful cover proposal, c. 1939 ...

Float (Whimsical Landscape Collage of Swans and Figure Against Blue Sky) by Olan Quattro 2024, gouache, paper, and acrylic on wood panel, 24 x 36 inches Olan Quattro's subtle and so...

The Carpet Merchant by Giulio Rosati watercolour on paper signed Dimensions: 33 x 27 x 2in each, framed  Rosati trained at the Accademia di San Luca a...

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