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Medium: Watercolor
View in Summer of Napoli, Italy
Located in Soquel, CA
View in Summer of Napoli, Italy
Well executed pleinair painting of a hill over looking the Bay of Napoli, Italy. done at the turn of the century in ...
Category
1910s Northern Renaissance Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
Swimmer (Framed Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting)
By Guy Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement: "I typically paint abstractly, but this is part of a recent series of paintings that is figurative and symbolic. They harken back to 80s neo-Expressionism - my f...
Category
2010s Abstract Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, House Paint
"Giulia's Back" nude woman
Located in Edgartown, MA
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...
Category
2010s Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Bawdy Wind that Kisses all it meets, Rosie Phipps, Landscape painting, 2022
By Rosie Phipps
Located in Deddington, GB
The Bawdy Wind that Kisses All it meets by Rosie Phipps [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Watercolour and Gouache on Paper
Image size: H:10 cm x W:26 cm
Complete Size of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Figures Drinking in a Cosy Wooden Warm Lit Pub British Watercolour Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Warm Lit Pub Interior
Signed By Tony Herbert (1927-2024)
Medium: Watercolor on artists paper on board, framed - glass covered
Framed: 16 x 18.5 inches
Watercolour: 10 x 12 inches
C...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Modernist American Judaica Painting Synagogue Interior Ladies Section WPA Era
Located in Surfside, FL
Titled Torah Service, hand signed on Arches archival paper.
In this painting, Nussbaum portrays a joyful holiday celebration of the Torah reading in the synagogue in a sketch-like m...
Category
20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Antique Female American Orientalist painting ARABS PRAYING outside MOSQUE
Located in New York, NY
Maria Martinetti was born in 1864 in Italy. Martinetti attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, studying under the Orientalist painter Gustavo Simoni. Martinetti exhibited works in...
Category
1880s Academic Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting Judaica Kiddush Levana Blessing New Moon
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Judaic prayer scene
Subject: Landscape
Medium: watercolor
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
EMANUEL ROMANO
Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 1984
Emanuel Glicenstein Romano was born in Rome, September 23, 1897.
His father Henryk Glicenstein was a sculptor and was living in Rome with his wife Helena (born Hirszenberg) when Emanuel was born his father obtained Italian citizenship and adopted the name Enrico. Emanuel was brought up in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England and Poland.
In 1926 Emanuel and his father sailed for New York. They briefly visited Chicago. Romano's sister, Beatrice, and mother only joined them in New York years later.
Romano changed his name on his arrival to America and some have erroneously speculated that this was to avoid antisemitic anti Jewish discrimination. In truth, as the son of a highly-regarded artist, Romano changed his name to ensure that any success or recognition he would later attain, would be the result of nothing other than his own merit as an artist, and not on account of his father's fame.
In 1936 Romano was worked for the Federal Art Project creating murals. During and immediately after World War II, Romano created a series of allegorical works depicting graphic holocaust images that were held closely by the family until after his passing. One of these works is now on permanent display in the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg Florida.
Emanuel's father died in 1942 in a car accident before they could realize their shared dream of visiting Israel.
In 1944 Romano, having completed his degree at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, began teaching at the City College of New York.
Romano moved to Safed, Israel in 1953 and established an art museum in his father's memory, the Glicentein Museum.
COLLECTIONS
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Boston Fine Arts Museum
Fogg Museum
Musée Nacional de France
Recently his work has been added to the Florida Holocaust Museum collection. His notable works include his holocaust themed allegorical paintings as well as portraits of Marianne Moore, his father and William Carlos Williams...
Category
20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Etude de travailleurs - Impressionist Figurative Watercolor by Henri Cross
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Impressionist watercolour on paper circa 1890 by French Neo-Impressionist painter Henri Edmond Cross. The work is a rear view study of three workers in standing and kneeling position...
Category
1890s Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
R.E.M. - Murmur (Grammy, Album Art, Iconic, Rock and Roll, Pop, Legendary)
By Kerry Smith
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kerry Smith
R.E.M. - Murmur
Mixed Media on Crescent board
Year: 2022
Size: 21x20in
Signed, dated by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1633
*Black frame with a mirror-gloss finish avail...
Category
2010s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Board
"Orlando"
Located in Astoria, NY
Ramon Unzueta (Cuban/Spanish, 1962-2012), "Orlando", Gouache on Paper, 2009, signed and dated lower right, black lacquered wood frame. Image: 16.25" H x 11.25" W; frame: 27" H x 22.5...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
1970s Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico Southwest Landscape Gouache Painting, Signed Art
Located in Denver, CO
This stunning gouache painting by Wolfgang Pogzeba (1936-1982) captures the beauty of Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, depicting a dramatic cliffside landsca...
Category
1970s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Judith Brenner, Rich Seated 1, Original Life Painting, Cubist Impressionsit Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Judith Brenner
Rich Seated 1
Original Figurative Painting
Mixed Media on Paper
Size: H 84.1cm x W 59.4cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look.
Rich Seated 1 is a contemporary nude painting by Judith Brenner.This is an original drawing from life on paper using acrylic, pan pastel , ink and watercolour pencil. The idea is to capture the essence of the pose using line and wash...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
Garden Spirit no. 8, Women, Nature, Floral, Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Agnese Negriba Garden Spirit no. 8 Original Figurative Painting Natural pigments, acrylic paint, Japanese gouache on handmade paper from India Image Size: 100 cm x 70 cm Sheet Size: ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Pigment
One of The Thieves Was Saved
By Wes Olmsted
Located in Buffalo, NY
"One of The Thieves Was Saved" from Waiting for Godot by Samuel Becket
An original watercolor painting by Westley "Wes" Olmsted. This work is currently featured in the exhibition ...
Category
1970s Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Luckiness
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang
Title: Luckiness
Dimension: 29 x 36 cm
Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper
D...
Category
2010s Expressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
"Birth" 1940s Surrealist Abstract Watercolor Painting, Gray Scale Female Figure
Located in Denver, CO
"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...
Category
1940s Surrealist Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Tibetan Thangka of Chenresi, Gouache on Linen
Located in Chicago, IL
Thangkas are devotional paintings displayed by Buddhists in monasteries, temples, and even in their homes. The rich red, orange, green, and blue hues are still incredibly vibrant on ...
Category
Early 19th Century Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Silk, Gouache, Pigment
Commanding Curve - Equestrian Watercolor
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Commanding Curve" is a captivating watercolor painting on rag paper that beautifully portrays the freedom horse riding allows. The artwork depicts a woman with short brown hair grac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper
Twilight over an estuary in England
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Arthur SEVERN
(Rome, 1842 – London, 1931)
Twilight over an Estuary
Watercolour on paper mounted on canvas
H. 69 cm; W. 101 cm
Signed lower left
Provenance: Galerie The Fine Art Soci...
Category
1880s French School Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor
Japanese Contemporary Art by Miyuki Takanashi - Kick-Kick-Thump-Thump
Located in Paris, IDF
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Gouache
Jo Haran, Pooled Petals, Original floral paintings
By Jo Haran
Located in Deddington, GB
Pooled Petals by Jo Haran [2021]
original
Watercolour, gouache and gesso
Image size: H:63.5 cm x W:49 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:67 cm x W:53 cm ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Watercolor, Gouache
Untitled Figure (c. 1950s)
By Adine Stix
Located in Summit, NJ
Gorgeous oil and watercolor on paper by abstract expressionist artist Adine Stix. Beautiful shades of pink, purples, cobalt blue with s hint of orange cover the paper to create the h...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Watercolor
La rentrée des classes
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed lower left
Literature:
Aleksandrowski, Mathieu, Lobstein, Henry Jules Jean Geoffroy dit Géo, 1853–1924 (Édition Librairie des Musées...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Woman with Hounds, Original Cover for The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, October 27, 1906
Medium: Watercolor on board
Dimensions: 17.00" x 12.00"
Signed: Lower Right
EXHIBITED:
Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Ma...
Category
Early 1900s Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Watercolor
"Caroline with Pointed Toes" nude water color painting of a women jumping
Located in Edgartown, MA
Wendy Artin is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in watercolor and charcoal. Her work is figurative and classical and explores the timele...
Category
2010s Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Vibe Higher
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Vibe Higher, Ink and crystals on archival paper.
Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid & exacting mediums of watercolor and ink. He ha...
Category
2010s Pop Art Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Untitled Surrealist Mythical Portrait
By Bob Camblin
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract Surrealist ink and gouache drawing of a human and deer hybrid head sitting within a jar. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner. The work is framed in a silve...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Fireman Textile Fabric Design 1920s American Scene Modern Working Men Art Deco
Located in New York, NY
Fireman Textile Fabric Design 1920s American Scene Modern Working Men Art Deco
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Firemen
Textile design, c. 1929
19 1/4 ...
Category
1920s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern 1930s Workers
Located in New York, NY
Bricklayers House Beautiful Cover Proposal American Scene Modern WPA 1930s Industrial Workers
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Brick Layers
House Beautiful cover proposal, c. 1939
...
Category
1930s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Girl at the Beach with wide Brim Hat
By Bernie Fuchs
Located in Miami, FL
Wonderful 60's chic is on full display in this beach scene. It's masterfully designed. The beautiful model horizontally fills the center space while supporting players fill background spaces. The style is very flat with lots of gray muting the colors and defining the artist's palette. Fuch's was a giant talent who is overlooked by today's art world participants. His style could be described as a post-post impressionist. This particular work is so deftly designed and exhibits the most intriguing positive and negative spaces. The model is rendered with loose, quick and authoritative brush strokes which give an air of chic confidence. Most of all, it's her dreamy blue eyes that truly captivate the viewer. All parts of the eye ( Iris, Pupil, Sclera ) are composed of a soft robin's egg blue which is in counterpoint the pink day-glow color on her lips. She looks at you. You look back and the process is repeated and repeated. Fuch's not just a great painter, designer, academic artist but a brilliant and innovative colorist as well. To demonstrate how great this simple work is, out of a world population of 7.2 billion people, as a betting man, I would say there may be no other artist who could render a scene this good. An artist such as Peter Doig, who does nice and beautiful work, may come close to the talent of Fuchs.
Bernard Fuchs
American, 1932 - 2009
Girl at the Beach...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Madonna with baby. Paper, watercolor, 85, 5x62, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Madonna with baby. Paper, watercolor, 85,5x62,5 cm
Dzemma Lia Skulme (born 1925 20 IX - 2019)
Skulme graduated from the Academy of Arts of Latvia, Department of Monumental Painting ...
Category
1980s Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,716 Sale Price
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Contemporary still life composition of flowers in a pot acrylic on paper
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This artwork " Blue pot with flowers" presents an expressive and vibrant composition, capturing the viewer's attention with its bold use of color and dynamic brushwork.
The focal p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
French Aviation Illustration Poster Study Gouache Drawing by C. Villars
Located in Atlanta, GA
Original Post-War Airline Illustration by C. Villars (France, 20th Century) — Gouache on Arches Velin Paper.
This rare, original Post-war illustration drawing was hand-painted with g...
Category
1940s Post-War Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Family Portrait II" (Large Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting)
By Guy Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
"I have been painting seriously for somewhere around 35 years, but have only ever sold regionally - most recently, through my gallery on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Through 1stDi...
Category
2010s Abstract Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor
$2,240 Sale Price
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George Edwards, Engravings of Parrots, published by Seligmann.
Located in Richmond, GB
PRICE IS FOR EACH FRAMED PRINT
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with origina...
Category
18th Century Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
Art Deco Horses and Nude Figures
By Bela Kadar
Located in Miami, FL
This work is an exceptional example of Kádár's mature Cubist style. It's effortlessly designed around a complex composition of nude men and women tending to horses in a surreal landscape with
Greek columns, friezes and marshmello clouds set against a rich blue saturated sky. Kádár was a Hungarian painter influenced by Der Blaue Reiter...
Category
1930s Art Deco Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Yves in Tangier. From the Fashion series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Acrylic
Stage - Opera view. 1935-37s, paper, ink, watercolor, 35, 3x24 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Stage - Opera view. 1935-37s, paper, ink, watercolor, 35,3x24 cm
Women in evening dresses on the stage, mixed media on paper
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jur...
Category
1930s Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Cherry Blossoms
Located in Fairfield, CT
Alex Sax is an artist and educator who is driven by curiosity and respect for her subject matter. She finds inspiration in nature, history and literature; and the resulting works are...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Gouache
Art Nouveau Painting of a Maiden and Mischievous Cupids 19th Century by Rontini
Located in Rochester, NY
Art nouveau painting of beautiful maiden and mischievous angels. An allegory of Spring. Watercolor. Signed painting by Alessandro Rontini (Italian born 1854). In beautiful custom flo...
Category
19th Century Art Nouveau Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Post Impressionist Garden View, Lady Picking Flowers, Circle of Edouard Vuillard
Located in Cotignac, FR
1920s Garden view, mixed medium on paper, influenced by the garden paintings of Vuillard from the same period. The work is indistinctly signed, as yet undeciphered, bottom right. Pre...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Pastel, Gouache
Johann Seligmann: Engravings of Parrots After George Edwards, 1770, Framed
Located in Richmond, GB
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with original hand-colouring after the drawi...
Category
18th Century Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Young technicians. 1978, watercolor on paper, 25x28 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Young technicians. 1978, watercolor on paper, 25x28 cm
Dzidra Bauma (1930)
Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flower...
Category
1970s Expressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$610 Sale Price
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Story Illustration
By Orson Lowell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Sepia Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 25.50" x 16.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Story Illustration, Two Victorian women, man reading lett...
Category
Early 20th Century Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
1950's Open Air Jazz Concert in The Summer Forest French Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Forest Jazz Band
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper
size: 20 x 25.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
Description: This li...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$646 Sale Price
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Original Painting. Vanity Fair Illustration Proposal. Art Deco Modern 1930s
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Vanity Fair Illustration Proposal. Art Deco Modern 1930s
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Vanity Fair
Illustration proposal, c 1930’s
18 X 13 3/4 inches (sight)
...
Category
1930s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Puppy Dog & Kitten Greeting Card Illustration painting (Children's room decor)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Ferd Sondern (b.1923)
Puppy and Bluebird, 1977.
Pencil, gouache and watercolor on illustration board. Complete panel measures 7 x 7.5 inches.
Signed lower left. Credited on verso...
Category
1970s Realist Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Howard Schleeter 1949 Original Gouache & Wax Painting – Abstract Southwest Art
By Howard Schleeter
Located in Denver, CO
This striking original 1949 gouache and wax painting, titled "Fetishes", is a powerful work by acclaimed New Mexico modernist Howard Schleeter (1903–1976). Rich with symbolic abstrac...
Category
1940s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wax, Gouache
Early Signed, two sided figurative painting with portraits by renowned painter
Located in New York, NY
Alfred Jensen
Untitled two sided painting, 1947
2-sided gouache painting on board (one portrait is vertical; the other horizontal)
29 × 23 7/20 inches
Signed and dated in paint on th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache
Arrangement #2
By June Glasson
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a framed original painting. June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She live in Laramie, WY. Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Circus Wagons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This watercolor is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Circus Wagons, 1927, watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower left, 10 x19 ¾ inches (sight), provenance includes Stary-Sheets Art Gallery (Gualala, CA); J. Ralph & Louis Stone Foundation; presented in a newer metal frame behind glazing
About the Painting
Millard Sheets was only twenty years old and in his third year of studies at the Chouinard Art Institute when he painted Circus Wagons. Despite his youth, Sheets was already an accomplished artist who had publicly exhibited his work and won prestigious prizes. Within several years, he would have his first solo exhibition at one of Los Angeles’ premiere galleries and become a painting instructor at his alma mater. In Circus Wagons we already see Sheets deft handling of the watercolor medium and his interest in the California Scene. In this case, Sheets captures a back lot view of a traveling circus, a subject he sometimes returned to, including in a color screen print in the collection of the National Gallery. Sheets made a career by painting what he knew and observed firsthand. This approach allowed Sheets to capture with authenticity the details of each narrative. Even with a narrowly limited palette and an economy of brushstrokes, Sheets effectively depicts the southern California scene with its strong and mysterious shadows, as well as the workers and circus animals. Seen through the hindsight of his six-decade long career, Circus Wagons offers a fascinating insight into the early development of California Scene painting which would by the mid-1930s become the best recognized style on the West Coast.
About the Artist
Millard Sheets was the dean of California watercolorists. His list of accomplishments is so extensive that his entry in Who was Who in American Art is over forty lines. Born in Pomona, California, Sheets became a painter at an early age, winning a prize at the Los Angeles County Fair in 1918. By the mid to late-1920s, Sheets became a regular at art exhibitions in the western part of the United States, winning several additional prizes before he reached the age of twenty-five. Sheets studied at the prestigious Chouinard Art Institute from 1925 through 1929 with Frank Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle and had his first solo show with Los Angeles’ Dalzell Hatfield Gallery in 1929. During the 1930s, Sheets was invited to exhibit at almost every major American Museum and in many ways, his work came to represent the California watercolor school...
Category
1920s American Realist Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Tribal Swag
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Tribal Swag' by celebrated figurative artist Kim Frohsin, painted in 2018. The artwork is 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches and it is professionally framed in a museum quality white maple hardw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Archival Paper, Ink, Tempera, Watercolor, Pencil
Emile's Tavern
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Emile's Tavern', gouache on paper (circa 1930s), by Lucien Génin. A tavern in French is called a 'guinguette'. With the rise in living standards from the 1860s along with the develo...
Category
1930s Expressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
1600’s Flemish Old Master Ink Wash Drawing Biblical Figures Group on paper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure Studies
Attriubted to Cornelis Schut
(1597 - 1655) Flemish
ink drawing on paper, inscribed on mount
size: 4.75 x 7 inches
private collection, France
The painting is in overa...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
$911 Sale Price
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Still life , 65x50cm, paper/ pastel/ gouache
Located in Yerevan, AM
Still life
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
$750 Sale Price
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1700's Venetian Old Master Ink Drawing St. Marks Lion Angelic Figures Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Lion of St. Mark
Venetian Old Master, mid 18th century
circle of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venetian, 1696-1770)
ink and watercolour drawing on paper mounted on a card frame, unf...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
$1,248 Sale Price
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English Caricature Watercolour Painting, Victorian, 1902
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
An English Caricature Watercolour painting signed with the artists monogram & dated 1902 .
A beautiful painting of a tamp playing a trumpet on a winters day , outside a house that is for sale or to let .
( It makes me wonder if the tramp portrayed in the painting was once the owner of the property but has fallen on hard times...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Figures Viewing The Gallery Exhibition in a Pink Interior British Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Gallery
Signed By Tony Herbert (1927-2024)
Medium: Watercolor on artists paper on board, framed - glass covered
Framed: 16 x 17 inches
Watercolour: 8 x 10 inches
Condition: Good...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Young Maiden and Lion - "Beauty and the Beast" like Fairy Tale
Located in Miami, FL
Beauty and the Beast-like theme is realized in one side of this work by famed Childens Book illustrators Alice and Martin Provensen. Study for "The Pr...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Watercolor Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Watercolor figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Watercolor figurative paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add figurative paintings created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of purple and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Wolfgang Leidhold, Arlette Martin, Roger Herson, and MAE Curates. Frequently made by artists working in the Abstract, Art Deco, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Watercolor figurative paintings, so small editions measuring 28 inches across are also available Prices for figurative paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $520 and tops out at $720, while the average work can sell for $620.
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