Drawing Art

Male figures is original drawing in china ink on paper applied on a paper Passepartout realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th Century. Good co...

ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944) Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Le Peseur d'âmes, précédé d'un frontispice et suivi de hui...

Wild Poppies II by Ellen Williams [2022] original Coloured pencil on 150gsm paper Image size: H:29.7 cm x W:21 cmComplete Size of Unframed Work: H:29.7 cm x W:21 cm x D:0.01cm Sold U...

This drawing of Billie Holiday with her beloved dog Mister is an original concept drawing created 53 years ago in 1972 by the legendary Rock and Roll and Broadway art...

Figures is an original etching on paper by Marcello Avenali. Hand-signed. Numbered, edition 125/125. Image Dimensions: 32 x 50 cm Very good condition except for worn margins. Mar...

Graphite and conté crayon on paper Signed and dated, l.r. This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in Ne...

Landscape is an original artwork realized by George Henri Tribout. Original etching on paper glued on cardboard. Signature on the lower left corner. George Henri Tribout (Paris, 1...

Child is a pencil and pastel Drawing realized by Hermann Paul. Dated "1916" on the lower right corner. Passpartout included cm 50x35 Good condition except some foxing . René Georg...

Uses and Customs - Avellino is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the governm...

Apple and Butterfly is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1970 ca. by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original drawing in pencil on ivory-colore...

Sexual Desire is a black and white linocut on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1945 by Mino Maccari. Hand-signed with the pseudonym "Jean Barbe" and numbered in pencil on lower marg...

Three colored figures is an original artwork realized by Antonio Vangelli (1917-2003). Mixed colored lithograph. Hand signed by the artist on the lower right margin. Artist's proo...

Les Métamorphoses du Jour is an original Modern Artwork realized in the 1830s by the French artist Grandville. Original Lithograph hand watercolored...

Etching on paper, épreuve d'artiste, 1974 LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015). He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948,...

Just  Marilyn  is a black and white lithograph realized by Alejo Vidal-Quadras in the mid-20th century. Hand-signed by the artist in pencil on the lower right. Numbered in pencil on...

Sichem Removed Dina  is an artwork realized by March Chagall, 1960s. Lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature. Lithograph on both sheets. Edition of 6500 unsigned lithographs...

Harbor Scene in Nice Tony Minartz (French, 1873 - 1994) watercolour on artist paper painting : 12.75 x 17 inches Provenance: private collection in the South of France, Condition: v...

Nude Model is an original Modern Artwork realized in the half of the 20th Century. Original colored pastel on paper. Total dimensions: 35 x 50 cm. Good conditions.

Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Engraving Mme.Helvetius' Cats Original etching created in 1985, Printed Signature (LF). Conditions: excellent Edition: 100 Support: Arches paper. Dimensions: Paper dimensions: 44 x 28 cm Editions: Moret, Paris. Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life. Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums. Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931. Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy, very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy. In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture for her childhood friend Leo Castelli for the opening of his first gallery. Introductions to her exhibition catalogues were written by De Chirico, Ernst, and Jean Cocteau. A predominant theme of Fini’s art is the complex relationship between the sexes, primarily the interplay between the dominant female and the passive, androgynous male. In many of her most powerful works, the female takes the form of a sphinx, often with the face of the artist. Fini was also an accomplished portraitist; among her subjects were Stanislao Lepri...

The Artist is a drawing in ink pencil and watercolor realized by Jean Effel in the mid-20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balance...

Portrait de Mme de Mornand is an original drawing in ink on paper realized by Maurice Lourdey (1860-1934) Dated on the upper right 22.02.10 Stamp on the lower right ""CJ" Good con...

Drypoint and aquatint "Die Frau, rechte Seite" by Georg Baselitz from 1997/98. The edition on BFK RIVES comprises approx. 17 copies. The present copy is inscribed in pencil below...

Three Marrons, Diamond drypoint by Jakob Demus. In the 1986-1988 period Demus immersed himself in the depiction of flowers, and it was then that the most important works in this ge...

This lithograph shows the Obelisk (Cleopatra’s Needle), 1425 BCE, in Central Park, New York City, just behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on Greywacke Knoll. (This makes it a double example of ‘art about art.’) Carved from a single piece of granite from Aswan, it was gifted to this country by the Khedive Ismail Pasha...

Wildlife is an etching realized by Jean Le Pautre in 18th Century. Good conditions. Signed on plate. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes.

Ryan is a contemporary artwork realized by Ryan Mendoza in 2000. Pencil and charcoal on paper. Hand signed on the lower margin. Provenance: Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia Born in 1971 in New York, Mendoza's personal story is subsequently intertwined with the two extremes of Europe, Naples and Berlin, the two cities in which he has lived and worked up to now. In his works he represents complex theatricality, models anatomies, doses colours, calibrates lights, draws on a rich archive of memories, confusing ancient pictorial wisdom and contemporary risks. The artist's attention is particularly focused on portraits in which he carries out distortions and alterations: he exhibits perspective disproportions, reveals anatomical dissonances, manifests dystonias between the characters in the foreground and the backgrounds. His characters appear "possessed", it is no coincidence that the title of the 2010 solo show at the Muse d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina in Naples is "The possessed...

Groucho Marx Caricature Drawing Movie Star Comedy Legend NTY Times Published Al Hirschfeld (American, 1903 - 2003) Groucho: A Life In Revue Sight: 23 3/4 x 11 3/4 Lithograph on pape...

JOHN HITCHENS (BRITISH, B. 1940) WILD PASTURES, PETWORTH, 1963 Oil on canvas Signed ‘John Hitchens’ (lower right), further inscribed, signed and dated (on the reverse) 20 x 36in....

Industrial Mural Study, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbara WPA American Joseph Edward Knowles (1907-1980) "Study for Industry Mural, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbara, CA" 19 1/2 x 50 1/2 inches Oil on board, c. 1930s. Estate stamp verso Framed: 27 x 60 inches The completed mural is currently hanging on the wall, part of the building actually, at the Veterans Memorial Building in Santa Barbara. A photo of the work insitu is included in the attached photos. BIO Joseph Edward Knowles was born in Kendall, Montana, on June 15, 1907. He grew up in San Diego, California. At age twenty, two years before the beginning of the Great Depression, he moved north to another town on the coast of California---Santa Barbara. There he began studying fine art at the Santa Barbara School of the Arts* (1927-1930), under the supervision of Frank Morley Fletcher, previously director of the Edinburgh College of Art. Fletcher, who was trained in portraiture, landscape painting, and woodblock* printing, was a great influence on young Knowles. It was there that Knowles learned the art of color woodblock printmaking, a medium in which he showed great skill. Not long after completing his studies with Fletcher, Knowles began teaching art. For a period of thirty years, from 1930 to1960, he taught at the Cate School in Carpinteria, California. In 1934-1935, Knowles traveled throughout Europe, further developing his artistic skills in England, France, and Italy. Upon his return, he continued to teach art at various schools and institutions: Cate School, Crane Country School, extension classes at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), and at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA). Knowles also served as an art education consultant for the County of Santa Barbara. In addition, he was founding co-director and president of the Santa Barbara Fine Arts Institute (1969-1972), which later developed a specialization in photography and became the Brooks Institute of Photography. Knowles died at his home in Santa Barbara on September 8, 1980. Much of Knowles' watercolor work is associated with what has been termed the "California School*," a loose grouping of artists throughout the state that included such figures as Millard Sheets, Phil Dike, Dong Kingman, George Post, and the Santa Barbara painters Dan Lutz and Standish Backus, Jr. The California School artists, including Knowles, were known for their fresh, direct, spontaneous style of watercolor painting. Knowles and other members of the school found inspiration in nature and the built environment alike, emphasizing elements of design in their exuberant, boldly stated, colorful scenes from everyday life. While painting in a representational* manner, Knowles generally avoided photographic realism, preferring subjective interpretation of his subjects. In this, as well as in his experimental approach and vigorous brushwork, he displayed a strongly modern sensibility. Knowles often used the wet-on-wet watercolor technique as he painted seascapes and landscapes, mostly along the California coast. He also employed dry-brush* techniques in many of his paintings, often leaving some of the white of the watercolor paper exposed. Some of the latter depict trees and other forms in a broken and airy manner that recalls Cezanne. Knowles' colored woodblock prints are more reserved and exact in their draftsmanship than his paintings. Spare, clean, lyrical lines are drawn to illustrate floral motifs and boat scenes with a touch of asymmetry conjuring Japanese woodblock prints. His murals from the post-World War II period are considerably more modern in their approach and show an emphasis on design and color. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS California Watercolor Society (1940 - 1955) Santa Barbara Art Association (Vice President - 1952) ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) - San Francisco, California San Diego Fine Arts Gallery (SDMA) - San Diego, California Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) - Santa Barbara, California Cowie Galleries - Los Angeles, California Gallery de Silva - Santa Barbara, California Bradley Galleries - Santa Barbara, California MURALS Westmont College - Ellen Porter Hall Mural - Santa Barbara, California Safeway Grocery (now Vons Grocery on West Victoria Street) - Exterior Tile Mosaic - Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara Bank & Trust - Interior Mosaic Panels, Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara Girls Club - Interior Mosaic Mural - Santa Barbara, California Ernest Righetti High School - Mosaic Mural - Santa Maria, California Shell Oil Company - Mosaic Panel - California Beckman Instruments, Corporate Headquarters - Mosaic - Fullerton, California STAINED GLASS WINDOWS, WALLS and PANELS Katherine Thayer Cate Memorial Chapel - Cate School, Carpinteria, California William S. Porter Memorial Chapel - Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, California La Rinconada Building - Santa Barbara, California ILLUSTRATIONS "California's Wonderful Corner: True Stories for Children from the History of the Santa Barbara Region," by Walter A. Tompkins (1962 & 1975) China Designs: Two sets of dinnerware for Winfield China...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Le Peseur d'âmes, précédé d'un frontispice et suivi de hui...

W Hahn - Adam & Eve, Year: 1954, Medium: Woodblock on Japon, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 5/50, Image Size: 15 x 11 inches, Size: 18.5 x 15 in. (46.99 ...

This drawing is one in a series of botanical line drawings depicting the seasonal flowers of English gardens and the countryside. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Colour Pencil on Paper Sold...

The Torture is an original Pastel drawing on paper realized by Gabriel Ferrier (1847-1914) in the 19th Century. Stamped on the lower on the rear.. Go...

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903) Little Court, 1880-1 Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on ivory laid paper; first state of two (Glasgow), 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 ...

Original Illustration based on photograph by Karen Bystedt. Signed by Shepard Fairey and Karen Bystedt. "I’ve been a fan of Andy Warhol’s art since high school. At first, his works’...

Charles Bragg, American (1931 - 2017) - Don Quixote 2, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Etching, signed, numbered, and titled in pencil, Edition: 300, Image Size: 8.5 x 10 inches, Size: 1...

Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) - Self Portrait, Medium: Etching on Papier A La Main, Image Size: 9.5 x 7.25 inches, Size: 19.25 x 13 in. (48.9 x 33.02 cm), Description: From t...

Zeus is a print on cream-colored paper, realized by an Anonymous artist in the 1970s. Phototype print. Good condition

Follower of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Il Guercino (Cento 1591 – 1666 Bologna) Sibyl or bust-length woman, seen in profile to the left, wearing a turban Red chalk on paper,...

Extrana Devocion is an original artwork realized by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1810. Original Etching on paper. The artwork belongs to the famous series "Los Desa...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study Year: circa 1964 Medium: Charcoal on vélin paper Size: 18 x 23 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of...

Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, no signature. Héliogravure  on bot sheets, recto and verso. Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade on the A...

Attributed to Ross Bleckner (American, b. 1949) Group of 3 Double Sided Drawings Watercolor and graphite on paper All approx. 24 x 18 in. Ross Bleckner grew up in Hewlett, Long Island, New York; drawing all the time without being aware that other artists existed. He was the middle child between two sisters; his father manufactures electronic parts He attended New York University where Sol Lewitt, Chuck Close and others were his teachers. He graduated in 1972, then spent a year at the California Institute of Arts. His contacts in the next few years were very fortuitous; Sol Lewitt and Chuck Close, Carl Andre, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, etc. Bleckner is on the nervous side, beset by self-doubt, insomnia, and gloom. He is unpretentious, although he is bluntly handsome, with olive complexion, and a compact build. He is "10 percent that is superficial and 90 percent that has to do with the depths and that is threatened by living. He is a very complicated individual. He is a very, very morose, deeply feeling, hardworking artist- he takes a lot from within himself - but always, no matter how successful he is, he feels he is going to fall into those depths." 1 Bleckner first exhibited his work in New York in 1974. The following year he was given his first one-man show; he was included in the 1975 Whitney Biennial.. Since about 1985 has addressed many of his paintings to the subject of AIDS- both documenting it as a historical phenomenon and commemorating specific individuals who have died. Written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California. Bio sourced from the Archives of askArt. Sources include: Ross Bleckner's Mood Indigo by Lisa Liebmann, in ARTnews, May 1993...

José Luis Cuevas, Mexican (1934 - 2017) - Tasende Gallery, Year: 1989, Medium: Poster, Size: 23 in. x 19 in. (58.42 cm x 48.26 cm)

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study Year: circa 1963 Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper Size: 23 x 18 inches Condition: Good Provenance: E...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study Year: circa 1963 Medium: Charcoal on vélin paper Size: 23 x 18 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of I...

This exquisite collotype after Max Ernst (1891–1976), titled Les Fausses positions (The False Positions), from the album Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle (Natural History), originates f...

Hand-coloured drypoint etching on Arches paper, edited in 1971. Limited edition of 145 copies, numbered as 89/145 in lower left corner.
 Hand-signed in pencil by artist in lower righ...

Fall Der Engel is a black and white héliogravure on cream-colored cardboard realized by Choisy Le Conin, as is remembered Franz Von Bayros (Agram, 1866 – Vienna, 1924). From Mappe, ...

Ischia is a beautiful watercolor on paper with soft eathly color tones of a glimpse into the town of Ischia. The piece was realized by Léopold Survage in 1947. This unique piece is h...

Scilla is an artwork realized in 1979, by the Italian Artist Michele Cascella. Colored lithograph on paper of the Portfolio "Landscape", 1979, with six original lithograph and the poems of Franco Simongini titled "Twenty Landscapes 1953-1960" Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil and numbered edition of 29/125 ex. Lower right blind stamp of the Printer Graphis Art, Livorno The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Michele Cascella (Ortona, 7 September 1892 - Milan, 31 August 1989) was an Italian twilight painter and landscape painter. Over the course of his long artistic life which spanned almost eight decades of intense activity, Cascella has been able to maintain a unique, unmistakable style which is practically immune to the contamination of the pictorial currents and avant-gardes of the twentieth century. His works, including canvases, panels, pastels and drawings, are exhibited in numerous Italian and international museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum[1] in London, the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, the National Museum of History and Art in Luxembourg, the Musée d'Art Moderne in Brussels and the De Saisset Art Gallery of the University of Santa Clara in...

Study of a tiger is a beautiful original drawing in pencil on ivory-colored paper realized in the XX century by the German artist Wilhelm Lorenz, also known as Willi Lorenz. This i...

Architectural is a modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th century. Pen and pencil on paper. Good conditions and aged with foxing and cutting. The work ...

Richard Mock, American (1944 - 2006) - Kosovo, Year: 1999, Medium: Linocut on BFK Rives, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 80, Image Size: 17 x 21 inches, Si...

The Quarrel is original lithographon ivory-colored paper realized by Richard Parks Bonington. Signed on the plate on the lower left. Good co...

Grace is an Original Etching and Drypoint realized by Willette (Adolphe Léon). Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (49x32 cm). Titled "Grace!...Je suis une petite...

This original artwork on paper features the classic black pencil skirt, a quintessential fashion staple. Using paint and pencil, deliberate emphasis is placed on simplified line and ...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Pinceau (Brush), from the album Dessins de Henri-Matisse (Drawings by Henri Matisse), originates from the 1925 editi...

Horse's Head is an original pencil drawing on paper, attributed to Luigi Galli and realized in the late 19th Century. With another drawing of hands...