Paper Drawings

Sight size 13 x 201/2", Drawn with red conte crayon on paper. Signed lower right. Label on verso. Framed and glazed 18 x 24".

Our lovely drawing in grey wash and white chalk on laid paper by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) depicts a wooded landscape with stone bridge spanning a stream with a nearby flock of...

Vintage black wood framed sketch of a rolled up snake, from the Book Peinture et Dessins de Paul Jouve. Dated circa 1930. Not an original Paul Jouve dra...

Le Shoppe Too in Michigan is offering this modern inspired artwork titled Homage to Picasso Volume 5 Etching XVII by Peter Max. Signed in pencil with an annotation of 68/99. Created ...

A curious and intriguing set of 4 spray paint and ink drawings on torn paper by Portland based artist Charlie Alan Kraft. Created in 2005. The technique of this set is interesting where the artist spray painted the paper white and then illustrated the figures on top of the white back background. This set was from the private collection of a curator and gallery owner from Los Angeles, who has a collection of artworks ranging from Barry McGee to Picasso. Dimensions: 7.75 x 10.5 per artwork (unframed). In excellent condition. Charlie Alan Kraft is an up-and-coming low brow...

Hand Inked artwork on Paper Surrealist Male Portrait Etching Signed Kea Kreel 1989. Kenneth Kreel was born on 1 July 1941 in Evansville, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Nic...

Hand colored engraving on paper of sailors in a long boat rowing against high seas among closely reefed ships of the line. Published by William Miller, Alber...

Italian Master Drawings by Hugo Chapman and David Lachenmann. Publisher Paul Holberton Publishing, 2020. 1st Ed hardcover catalog with dust jack...

Set of Six Austrian Hand Colored Engravings Circa 1790 Plenk, Vienna. Measuring 17 by 12 in. (43.18 x 30.48 cm.) Provenance: Sotheby's, 07-15-04, lot 425.

This Mughal miniature was painted at one of the princely courts of India. It depicts a raven-haired princess in a gold-trimmed saffron-colored silk sari. Under a glowering evening sky she dawdles on a white marble terrace, with a pet fawn on a leash, before a landscape dotted with buildings nestled amongst trees beyond a river. Her hair, falling loosely about her shoulders, rather than carefully dressed on her head, indicates that she is a maiden. The overall mood is one of expectancy. Perhaps walking a pet and catching an evening breeze is a pretext to escape palace scrutiny for a lovers’ assignation. In Mughal India tender sentiments were a bridge to the erotic – and if this seems contradictory, so too is the balance of realism and caricature, and naturalism with the schematic. Both are hallmarks of miniatures painted in this place and time. The earliest Mughal Indian miniatures date to the 16th century. They were inspired by those painted at the refined Moslem courts of the neighboring Persian empire. They incorporated figures in spite of the Moslem faith’s proscription against depicting the human form. Such was the nature of sophisticated courtly life everywhere that beauty and pleasure trumped systems of morality. This was no less the case at the provincial Indian courts, where our miniature, marked by a charming pictorial naiveté, was most likely painted. Yet the artist was undeniably accomplished. His command of perspective, introduced by Jesuit missionaries in the 17th century, is seen in the landscape, which rolls back to a distant horizon, contrary to the flat two-dimensional ones following Indian-painting traditions. And if Mughal artists were influenced by Western art, the compliment was returned by Rembrandt and Sir Joshua Reynolds, among others, who collected Indian miniatures (as did, perhaps, Giovanni Bellini who painted in Mughal style the famous miniature of a Persian man...

The Timeless Eye: Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection. Berlin: G+H Verlag, 1999. 1st Ed exhibition catalog, from 2 ...

Super adorable Circus watercolor and ink by NYC artist John Bobbish. John had a BFA from the school of Visual Arts. Perfect in any room in the house but m...

Art Deco etching of walking black panther by french artist Paul Jouve signed on the lower left side.

Vintage black wood framed sketch of a grazing Ram in the bushes, from the Book Peinture et Dessins de Paul Jouve. Dated circa 1930. Not an original Paul...

Decorate an office or study with this antique black and white engraving. Hand colored in Italy circa 1770, the large monochromatic etching is...

Artist proof of an Asian girl on white paper. Black mat in a black frame. Signed by the artist and marked AP. In January of 1990, Jason Pulgarin, a though...

David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France: Drawings from the Louvre, by Louis-Antoine Prat, Jennifer Tonkovich, Esther Bell, Alison Hokanson, and Kori Lisa Yee Litt. Publisher Morga...

Superbly conceived and executed by Gaston Goor in the late 1940s, when he was at the height of his powers, this drawing brings together three male figures -- all beautifully depicted...

Drawing of a column base from the Constantine Baptistry in Rome, with description 'base qui esa au Baptistaire Constantin'. Framed H. 27.5" W. 31.5" Sheet Size: H. 17" W. 20".

The abstract expressionist drawing of a graceful ballerina dancing to Swan Lake in a deep bow; with illegible signature.

Dessins Anciens by Nicolas Schwed. Publisher Nicholas Schwed, 2014. 1st Ed softcover. A large collection of old master drawings and watercolors. NPT Books, a division of Trent Anti...

Signed Geraldine Valentini and dated 1979. Pen and ink Post-Modern drawing on paper. Modernist rendition of two sprawling limb trees. Labor intensive and intricately hand drawn work ...

Decorate an office or study with this antique black and white engraving. Hand colored in Italy circa 1775, the large monochromatic etching is...

Entitled "Drawing for Allegheny + Ludlum Helmet & Jacket," this work by Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald is a companion piece to his sculpture "A+L Helmet & Jacket." Worn by t...

Hand-Inked Surrealist artwork drawing Signed Ken Kreel 1989. The piece depicts an abstract image of a ghostly woman being wrapped up and bound by a haunting image of male lover love....

Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns by Stacey Sell, Hugo Chapman and Kimberly Schenck. With gift card from the curator at National Gallery of Art, Washington. Publis...

Confident and masterful, this drawing of a male nude leaning back into a chair, fast asleep, with his arms thrown in every direction, was made by Allyn Cox, probably as a study for one of his murals. Cox spent 20 years painting and restoring murals at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. starting in 1952; among his accomplishments was painting the Frieze of American history and restoring the apotheosis of Washington in the Rotunda. He also designed murals for three first-floor corridors in the House wing, now called the Cox Corridors. Here he uses pencil on paper to demonstrate his mastery of the human figure. He was the son of Kenyon Cox...

Honore Daumier. Catalogue Raisonné of the paintings watercolors and drawings. Published by New York Graphic Society Ltd., 1968. 1st Limited Edition of a two volume set in a custom sl...

Entitled "Drawing for The Sponsor," this work by Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald envisions an advertisement by Southport Tool and Die, a Chicago company from the 1940s and th...

Walter Stomps, Jr. (Kentucky/Ohio, 1929 – 2020) Untitled (abstract), 1961 Crayon on paper Signed to the lower left Introducing the stunning Abstract C...

'Llanberis Lake at the Foot of Mount Snowdon' in Wales. Watercolor on paper, signed and dated "J. Varley 1812" ll, identifying info on verso. sight size: 8 x 19 3/4 in. John Varley is known as an English landscape painter in watercolor and a close friend of William Blake. Varley represents the transition between tinted topographical drawing and the bolder, more fully developed manner of watercolor painting characteristic of the 19th century. As well as being a leading painter, he was the most popular and enthusiastic teacher of his day: his pupils included Cox, De Wint, Linnell, Mulready (his brother-in-law), and Samuel Palmer, and he published various instructional works, including one with Blake. In his early years Varley was influenced stylistically by the work of Thomas Girtin...

"Sophisticated Lady" an Al Ross (1911-2011) ink drawing. Ross the famous New Yorker Magazine Cartoonist and Illustrator since the 1930's, was also a...

Italian drawings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura Giles. Published in Princeton, NJ, Princeton Univ. Press, 1997. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket The third in a series of scholarly catalogs on the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago, this book focuses on the museum's important holdings of Italian drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The catalog contains comprehensive entries on over 700 drawings, including preliminary studies for major compositions, cartoons, modelli, independent drawings, and copies after Renaissance and Mannerist masters. Featured are major works by some of the most significant artists of the time: Baccio Bandinelli, Federico Barocci, Fra...

Master drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery by Suzanne Boorsch and John Marciari. Published by Yale University Press, 2006. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket exhibition cata...

Christies July 2004 Old Master & 19th Century Drawings. Published by Christie's Auctioneers, London, 2004. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog. 205 lots, 104pp. Illustrated in color artists: Abbate Aertsen Antwerp School; Arthois van Asch van Balen Baziray Beerstraten Bellucci Berentz van Blarenberghe van Bloemen de Bloot Bock. Bolognese School Bonito After Borch van Borssom Boschi Boucher Boudewijns Brakenburgh Bramer Bredael Bruandet Brueghel Cagnacci del Cairo Calraet Cano Caravaggio Carre Casissa. Catalan School: Ceresa de Champaigne van Cleve Coecke van Aelst Colombel Cossiers Courtois Crespi Cunningham Cuyp van Diepenbeeck Dietrich Dughet Dujardin. Dutch School: van Dyck El Greco van Falens. Flemish School and Florentine School: Floris de la Fosse Francken. French School: Gael Gandolfi Geldorp Ghisolfi Gianni Giovane Giovanni van Goyen Greuze Guardi Guercino Hardime Heeremans Heinz van Herp Hobbema Horemans van Huysum. Italian School: Joli Kalf Kauffman Key Lagoor de Lairesse Lancret Lanfranco Le Sueur Ledoux van Loo Lorrain Luini Luti Magnasco Manetti Marieschi Master of the Langmatt Foundation Views Master of the Parrot Mazzoni Metsu van Mierevelt...

Pencil drawing of women gold framed This print measures: 19 wide x 1.5 deep x 23 inches high This print is in great vintage condition with mino...

Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd.: An Exhibition of Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, New York & London, 2004, at Adam Williams Fine Art, New York, 4 - 28 May 2004, and Baroni's London Gallery, 1...

Judith Minna Pike December 19, 1942- October 18, 2019 Mixed media painting of a young thoughful woman, sitting comfortably. Pike used many different brush techniques when painting...

A beautiful set of three framed abstract drawings by artist, Anne Abueva, rendered in conté crayon on paper and framed in simple maple gallery fram...

Master Drawings the Oppé Collection. 5 December 2006, Christie's London. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog. NPT Books, a division of Trent Antiques, has a large collection of used a...

The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings; Volume III: Bolognese and Emilian Schools by Michael Jaffé. Published by Phaidon Press, London, 1994. 1st...

The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings: Roman and Neapolitan Schools by Michael Jaffe. Published by Phaidon Press, London, 1994. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. The Collection of Old Master drawings at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, home of the Dukes of Devonshire, ranks with the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle as the finest privately owned group of such drawings in Britain and as one of the great princely collections of Europe. It contains outstanding drawings by the great masters from every artistic school. The book is devoted to the Italian drawings have detailed entries for nearly 1,000 works from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, among them numerous reattributions and discoveries. This volume includes the works of Pietro da Cortona, Giulio Romano...

The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art of Washington: Tiepolo, Canaletto, Sargent, Whistler, by Andrew Robison. Publ...

Magnificent restored mid-19th century lithograph in it's original frame. Transporting your senses to a place far away is what great art does, thus being the case with this. The waves...

Black Americana original illustration for Collier's Magazine by Frederick Coffay Yohn, American artist and magazine illustrator (1875 - 1933) Fine drawing / illustration for "The Modern Judgment of...

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles. by Fermín Solís 1st Edition Hardcover Metro Media Limited, 2019 - Biographical comic books, strips, etc - 120 pages A fascinating portrait ...

Etchings Set of 3 Modern Etchings framed. Column Architecture Italian Midcentury Modern 1960s. No further information. The frame Measures: 30.38 tall x 15.63 W x 1D The art measures:...

A set of three playful horse paintings by Mary Sprague, dated 1988. Each painting is rendered in graphite and white paint against yellow and orange papers...

Michael Argov (1920-1982) Title: Untitled 2 Year: 1970 Medium: Serigraph in colors on wove paper Edition: 17/43 Print Grade: 8/10 Condition: Great Artist signed, numbered, a...

Continental school, 19th-20th century "Cherubs" Gouache and Watercolor on paper Size with frame: 19 x 11 in. (48.26 x 27.94 cm.)  

Illustration painting attributed to Al Corn, unsigned, drawn for Mans World Magazine.

Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921 : Reinventing Tradition by Marilyn McCully; Susan Grace Galassi. Yale University Press, 2011. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 74 drawings with detail...

A mid century ink and watercolor on paper by Elliott Barowitz circa 1961. Signed ‘E. O. Barowitz’, titled ‘Standing Nude’ and dated top right. Wooden frame is painted in a gray wash ...

Fun and fabulous mixed media drawing in pastel crayon of an artist and his nude model after a series of Picasso painting his models. Obviously in the artist's studio the fun colors a...

This striking portrait of a sophisticated, beautifully groomed young man holding a tennis racket, his straw-colored hair beautifully echoed and emphasized by his canary-yellow shirt, his cheeks ruddy from the sun and his eyelids heavy from the heat of the day, was drawn in pastel by Marianne Clouzot...

Beautiful continuous line drawings by Jean Negulesco - Oscar award winning Hollywood director. Newly framed. 4 different variations available, priced individually: Black frame, sea foam green background, and black line drawing...

A fine French 19th century etching and drypoint Titled "Soirée d'été" (Summer Evening) by Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902) depicting Mrs. Kathleen Newton resting on a lounge chair. Signed and dated (l/l): J.J. Tissot, 1881 in the plate. Under the mat, the front of the sheet inscribed in pencil with a '1' in a circle, the verso of the sheet with old price inscription "450-" in pencil. Circa: 1881-1882. Measures: Plate Height: 9 inches (22.9 cm) Plate Width: 15 1/2 inches (39.4 cm) Sheet Height: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm) Sheet Width: 20 5/8 inches (52.4 cm) Frame Height: 19 inches (48.3 cm) Frame Width: 24 1/2 inches (62.2 cm) Frame Depth: 1 1/8 inches (2.9 cm) Literature: Wentworth 56. Note: Tissot's from 1881 is said to depict his lover, the Irish divorcee Mrs. Kathleen Newton, resting on a lounge chair. Provenance: Private collection, Los Angeles, California Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), Anglicized as James Tissot, was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. He also painted scenes and characters from the Bible. Jacques Tissot was born in the city of Nantes in France and spent his early childhood there. His father, Marcel Théodore Tissot, was a successful drapery merchant. His mother, Marie Durand, assisted her husband in the family business and designed hats. A devout Catholic, Tissot's mother instilled pious devotion in the future artist from a very young age. Tissot's youth spent in Nantes likely contributed to his frequent depiction of shipping vessels and boats in his later works. The involvement of his parents in the fashion industry is believed to have been an influence on his painting style, as he depicted women's clothing in fine detail. By the time Tissot was 17, he knew he wanted to pursue painting as a career. His father opposed this, preferring his son to follow a business profession, but the young Tissot gained his mother's support for his chosen vocation. Around this time, he began using the given name of James. By 1854 he was commonly known as James Tissot; he may have adopted it because of his increasing interest in everything English. In 1856 or 1857, Tissot travelled to Paris to pursue an education in art. While staying with a friend of his mother, painter Elie Delaunay, Tissot enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study in the studios of Hippolyte Flandrin and Louis Lamothe. Both were successful Lyonnaise painters who moved to Paris to study under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Lamothe provided the majority of Tissot's studio education, and the young artist studied on his own by copying works at the Louvre, as did most other artists of the time in their early years. Around this time, Tissot also made the acquaintance of the American James McNeill Whistler, and French painters Edgar Degas (who had also been a student of Lamothe and a friend of Delaunay), and Édouard Manet. In 1859, Tissot exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time. He showed five paintings of scenes from the Middle Ages, many depicting scenes from Goethe's Faust. These works show the influence in his work of the Belgian painter Henri Leys (Jan August Hendrik Leys), whom Tissot had met in Antwerp earlier that same year. Other influences include the works of the German painters Peter Von Cornelius and Moritz Retzsch. After Tissot had first exhibited at the Salon and before he had been awarded a medal, the French government paid 5,000 francs for his depiction of The Meeting of Faust and Marguerite in 1860, with the painting being exhibited at the Salon the following year, together with a portrait and other paintings. Émile Péreire supplied Tissot's painting Walk in the Snow for the 1862 international exhibition in London; the next year three paintings by Tissot were displayed at the London gallery of Ernest Gambart. In about 1863, Tissot suddenly shifted his focus from the medieval style to the depiction of modern life through portraits. During this period, Tissot gained high critical acclaim, and quickly became a success as an artist. Like contemporaries such as Alfred Stevens and Claude Monet, Tissot also explored Japonisme, including Japanese objects and costumes in his pictures and expressing style influence. Degas painted a portrait of Tissot from these years (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), in which he is sitting below a Japanese screen hanging on the wall. Still on Top, 1873 Tissot fought in the Franco-Prussian War as part of the improvised defense of Paris, joining two companies of the Garde Nationale and later as part of the Paris Commune. His 1870 painting La Partie Carrée (The Foursome) evoked the period of the French revolution. Either because of the radical political associations related to the Paris Commune (which he was believed to have joined mostly to protect his own belongings rather than for shared ideology), or because of better opportunities, he left Paris for London in 1871. During this period, Seymour Haden helped him to learn etching techniques. Having already worked as a caricaturist for Thomas Gibson Bowles, the owner of the magazine Vanity Fair, as well as exhibited at the Royal Academy, Tissot arrived with established social and artistic connections in London. Tissot used...

Midcentury abstract expressionist ink drawing on paper by Salvatore Grippi, 1953. Measures: 9.5" x 12". This ink wash figurative abstract Expressionist piece on paper is signed by it...