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Item Ships From: Continental Europe
Untitled - Parmis Sayous 21st Century drawing, Iranian contemporary painter
By Parmis Sayous
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel and India ink on cardboard
Created in 2019 in Paris, France
Unique work
Signed by the artist
Parmis Sayous was born in 1982 in Teheran, Iran.
Since 2015, She has lived and wo...
Category
2010s Expressionist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Pastel, Cardboard
Untitled - Parmis Sayous 21st Century drawing, Iranian contemporary painter
By Parmis Sayous
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel and India ink on cardboard
Created in 2018 in Paris, France
Unique work
Signed by the artist
Parmis Sayous was born in 1982 in Teheran, Iran.
Since 2015, She has lived and wo...
Category
2010s Expressionist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard, India Ink, Pastel
Tinnitus #3 - Parmis Sayous 21st Century drawing, Iranian contemporary painter
By Parmis Sayous
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel and oil paint on paper
Created in 2018 in Paris, France
Unique work
Signed by the artist
Parmis Sayous was born in 1982 in Teheran, Iran.
Since 2015, She has lived and worked...
Category
2010s Expressionist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard, Oil, Pastel
Anne Faure, Portrait of a Gentleman, 1946, Pastel
By Anne Faure
Located in Paris, FR
Anne Faure (born in 1878)
Portraits of a Gentlaman, 1946
Signed and dated lower right
Pastel on paper
40 x 31 cm,
Original frame with glass 60 x 51 cm
Anne Faure was born Anne F...
Category
1940s Academic Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) The Children of the painter Drawing
By Eugene Deveria
Located in Paris, FR
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
The children of the painter
Portrait in an oval, study for a portrait
Black pencil on paper
23 x 19 cm
Stamp of the worksh...
Category
1840s Romantic Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Philosopher - Original China Ink drawing by E. Berman - 1940 ca.
By Eugene Berman
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed with the artist's monogram. Ink and watercolour on cardboard. Passepartout included.
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy...
Category
1940s Modern Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The owner III - Parmis Sayous 21st Century drawing, Iranian contemporary painter
By Parmis Sayous
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel on paper
Created in Paris, France
Unique work
Signed by the artist
Category
2010s Expressionist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
The owner II - Parmis Sayous 21st Century drawing, Iranian contemporary painter
By Parmis Sayous
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel on paper
Created in 2018 in Paris, France
Unique work
Signed by the artist
Category
2010s Expressionist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Untitled - Parmis Sayous 21st Century drawing, Iranian contemporary painting
By Parmis Sayous
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel on paper
Created in 2018 in Paris, France
Unique work
Signed by the artist
Category
2010s Expressionist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Untitled - Parmis Sayous 21st Century drawing, Iranian contemporary painting
By Parmis Sayous
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel on paper
Created in 2019 in Paris, France
Unique work
Signed by the artist
Category
2010s Expressionist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Young Girl with Pink Ribbon - Original Charcoals Drawing
By Gustave Poetzsch
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Young Girl with Pink Ribbon
Original charcoals and pencil drawing
Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back
On linen vellum 26 x 20 cm (c. 10.5 x 8 ...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Charcoal
Polymorphisms II - Haude Bernabé, 21st Century, Contemporary Figurative Drawing
By Haude Bernabé
Located in Paris, FR
Ink and graphite on paper
Signed, entitled and dated below
Category
2010s Outsider Art Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Graphite, Paper
Polymorphisms IV - Haude Bernabé, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative drawing
By Haude Bernabé
Located in Paris, FR
Ink and graphite on paper
Signed, dated and entitled lower left
Category
2010s Outsider Art Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Graphite, Paper
Baby Boy - Original Charcoals Drawing
By Gustave Poetzsch
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Baby Boy
Original charcoals and pencil drawing
Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back
On grey vellum 22 x 26 cm (c. 9 x 1...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Charcoal
Brigante - Watercolor 1820 ca.
By Michela De Vito
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolour on ivory colored paper, 1820 c.a.. Hand titled and signed. Representing brigand. Very good conditions.
Very beautiful and good quality watercolour both for the drawing a...
Category
1820s Old Masters Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Boy with Long Blond Hair - Original Charcoals Drawing
By Gustave Poetzsch
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Boy with Long Blond Hair, c. 1900
Original charcoals and pencil drawing
Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back
On cream vellum 23.5 x 31 cm (c. 9...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Charcoal
Opera dei Pupi
By Michela De Vito
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolour on ivory colored paper stuck onwhite cardboard sheet, 1820 c.a. Representing people attending the typical Sicilian"Operadei Pupi". Excellent conditionsexcept a little sta...
Category
1820s Old Masters Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Young Boy with Pig Stuffed Toy - Original Signed Charcoal Drawing
By Gustave Poetzsch
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Young Boy with Pig Stuffed Toy
Original charcoals drawing
Signed Bottom right
on heavy paper 29 x 21 cm (c. 12 x 8 in)
Stamp...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Charcoal
Two studies of Woman Profile - Original Charcoals Drawing - Circa 1920
By Gustave Poetzsch
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Two studies of Woman Profile
Original sanguine charcoal drawing
Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back
on linen paper 25 x 40 cm (c. 10 x 16 in)
...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Red Hair Woman - Original gouache and watercolor painting - Signed - 1939
By Claire Vergez
Located in Paris, FR
Claire VERGEZ
Red Hair Woman, 1939
Original gouache and watercolor painting
Signed bottom right
On heavy vellum 38 x 25.5 cm (c. 15 x 10 in)
Excellent condition
Category
1930s Realist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Lady Wearing a Yellow Hat - Original Signed Charcoals Drawing
By Gustave Poetzsch
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Lady Wearing a Yellow Hat
Original charcoals drawing
Signed bottom left
on tinted linen watermarked paper 24 x 31 cm (c. 9 x ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Red Hair Dreaming Woman - Original Signed Charcoals Drawing - 1929
By Gustave Poetzsch
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Red Hair Dreaming Woman
Original charcoals drawing
Signed bottom right
on tinted linen paper 48 x 30 cm (c. 19 x 12 in)
Stamp of the Estate auction sal...
Category
1920s Realist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Peaceful Woman - Original Signed Charcoals Drawing - 1929
By Gustave Poetzsch
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Peaceful Woman, 1929
Original charcoals drawing
Signed bottom right
on tinted linen paper 43 x 31 cm (c. 17 x 12 in)
Stamp of the Estate auction sale o...
Category
1920s Realist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Victor Vasarely - Face - Original Signed Drawing
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Victor Vasarely - Face - Original Signed Drawing
Ink and felt pen Drawing
Hand-Signed on the lower right
Dimensions: 35 x 28 cm
Victor Vasare...
Category
1970s Kinetic Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Visage I
By Francine Auvrouin
Located in Paris, FR
one of a kind drawing , size 42 cm x 30 cm - Fusain – 2016
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Blue Eyes Boy - Original Signed Charcoals Drawing
By Gustave Poetzsch
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Blue Eyes Boy
Original charcoals drawing
Signed bottom right
on linen paper 37 x 31 cm (c. 15 x 12 in)
Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back
Ve...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Antoniucci Volti - Torso - Signed Original Sanguine Drawing
By Antoniucci Volti
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Antoniucci Volti
Torso
Dimensions: 64,5 x 50 cm
Sanguine
Signed on the lower Right
Sculptor, painter, and printmaker Antoniucci Volti was born in Albano, Italy, in 1915. His family ...
Category
1960s Modern Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Visage II
By Francine Auvrouin
Located in Paris, FR
one of a kind Drawing 42 cm x 30 cm - Fusain - 2016
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Miguel
By Francine Auvrouin
Located in Paris, FR
Fusain et Pastel – 2013 - one of a kind drawing , large size.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Charcoal
Erhard Klepper Watercolor Gouache Painting "Damen in Ballroben", 1947
By Erhard Klepper
Located in Berlin, DE
Watercolor, gouache on paper, 1947. Signed and dated left in the top. Framed.
Dimensions: 19.49 x 14.57 in ( 49,5 x 37 cm ), Framed: 23.15 x 18.62 in ( 58,8 x 47,3 cm )
Erhard Klepper ( 1906-1980 ) He was a German painter, draftsman, print maker...
Category
1940s Realist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Erhard Klepper Watercolor Gouache Painting " In Begleitung", 1948
By Erhard Klepper
Located in Berlin, DE
Watercolor, gouache on paper, 1948. Signed and dated left in the top. Framed.
Dimensions: 14.96 x 11.81 in ( 38 x 30 cm ), framed: 19.09 x 15.67 in ( 48,5 x 39,8 cm )
Erhard Klepper...
Category
1940s Realist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Rudolf Ausleger Drawing "Dame mit Hut" ( Lady with Hat )
By Rudolf Ausleger
Located in Berlin, DE
Pencil on paper, ca. 1924 by Rudolf Ausleger ( 1897-1974 ) , Germany. Signed lower right: Ausleger
Dimensions: 9.25 x 8.07 in ( 23,5 x 20,5 cm ), Framed: 18.31 x 16.93 in ( 46,5 x 43...
Category
1920s Other Art Style Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait Of A Monk, 19th Century Drawing
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Portrait of a monk.
19th century drawing, brown ink wash.
Framed and under glass.
Drawing (at sight): 14 x 11.5 cm
Frame: 25 x 22.5 cm
Category
19th Century Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
French Romantic Drawing Héloïse LELOIR gouache mother and daughter 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Héloïse LELOIR
Paris, 1819 - Paris, 1870
Pencil and gouache
18 x 13 cm (27.5 x 22 cm with frame)
Signed lower right “Héloïse Leloir”
Pretty carved and gilded wooden frame
Héloïse L...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
French school end of 19th Century, Portrait of a man, charcoal drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French school end of 19th Century,
Portrait of a man,
charcoal on paper
Signed ? and dated 94 (?) on the upper right
Dedicated "A mon ami Gaguin (?)" on the lower right
Framed : 57...
Category
1890s Symbolist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Academic Study of the Head of Paris by Canova (Gypsoteca plaster copy)
Located in Firenze, IT
Academic Study of the Head of Paris by Canova (plaster copy)
57 cm x 46.5 cm
Charcoal pencil drawing on matte paper. Excellent conservation conditions. Plaster casts from nineteenth...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Self-portrait
By Gino Severini
Located in Roma, RM
Gino Severini (Cortona 1883 - Paris 1966), Self-Portrait
Pencil drawing on paper 25 x 21 cm signed Io G. Severini lower right.
Bibliography: Gino Severini before and after the work...
Category
Early 20th Century Cubist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Study Of Woman Seen From Back
Located in PARIS, FR
Henri ROYER
Nancy 1869 - 1938 Paris
Woman seen from behind
Pastel
Monogrammed in red "HR" lower right
39 x 26 cm sheet
55 x 41 cm frame
Provenance: E...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
Portrait Of Woman
Located in PARIS, FR
Henri ROYER
Nancy 1869 - 1938 Paris
Portrait of a women
Pastel and black pencil on paper
Monogrammed in pencil "HR" on the lower right
37 x 31 cm feuille
50 x 42 cm passe partout
Pr...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
François-Maurice Roganeau (1883-1973) Portrait of young man 1947, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
François-Maurice Roganeau (1883-1973)
Portrait of a young man, 1947
signed and dated lower left
Titled Guy Ernoult (name of the sitter) on the upper part
27 x 22 cm
in a beautiful f...
Category
1940s Art Deco Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Bozzetto Accademico della Testa di un Cherubino.
Located in Firenze, IT
Bozzetto Accademico della Testa di un Cherubino.
Disegno a carboncino e gessetto bianco su carta leggermente colorata di grigio.
Seconda metà dell'Ottocento
In buone condizioni.
Prov...
Category
19th Century Academic Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper, Chalk
" Femme au serpent " Dar el-Hanch
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in CANNES, FR
Yves Saint Laurent ( 1936-2008 )
" Femme aux serpents " . année 1977.
dessin au feutre de couleur . original projet de la carte de voeux LOVE 1977 .
31 x24 cm .
Felt tip . unique ...
Category
1970s Modern Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Felt Pen, Ballpoint Pen
Harem Marrakech by YSL
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in CANNES, FR
Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008 )
"Harem " is part of Yves Saint Laurent works from private French collection .
drawing ( 31 x21 cm ) ink and felt-tip on paper .
Category
Late 20th Century Art Deco Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Felt Pen
" Odalisque " YSL
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in CANNES, FR
Yves Saint Laurent ( 1936-2008 )
Original drawing ink and felt-tip on paper ( 31 x21 cm )
provenance : Important private collection France .
these drawing(s) made in Marrakech during...
Category
1970s Fauvist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1938
By Alberto Ziveri
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1938.
Ink and Oil Pastel on paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes ...
Category
1930s Modern Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Paper
Madonna and Child - Orignal Indian Ink Drawing, Signed
By Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita
Located in Paris, FR
Tsuguharu (Leonard) Foujita (1886-1968)
Madonna and Child, c. 1950
Original India ink drawing
Signed lower right
On paper 33 x 24.5 cm at sight
Presented in a golden baguette frame ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
The Breton Girl, Mid Century Drawing with Watercolour
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French drawing and watercolour portrait of a Breton Girl by Renée Béja noted pupil of Fernand leger. The work is signed on the right margin and presented in a gilt frame with a fine cut card mount.
A wonderful character portrait of a girl in traditional Breton costume and head dress. Beja has completed a pencil drawing and then used washes, watercolour and gouache to give the composition life. Lifelike flesh tones and the blue of the subjects eyes give the whole a charming intimacy.
Renée Anne Béja was a French painter and theatre decorator of Greek origin born in Thessaloniki (Ottoman Empire, today in Greece) on July 4, 1905
Renée Béja was still a young child when the family moved to Solliès-Pont in France, where her father worked as a flour miller at the Crédit Agricole.
In the 1930s, Renée Béja was a pupil of Fernand Léger. Between 1935 and 1938, she exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries, presenting mainly Views of the Périgord, she also participated in 1938 in the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants.
During the Second World War, Renée Béja, her husband and some of her family were saved by being hidden by Eugène Viès, executive of the SNCF in Solliès-Pont, the industrialist Étienne Arnaud and the secretary of the town hall registering them under a false name on the register of inhabitants, so as to entitle them to food tickets. A Gestapo raid, however, meant that the Béja family had to leave Solliès-Pont for Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, always with the help of Eugène Viès and his wife Walda, to whom the Yad Vashem Institute has since awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations.
Based at 41, rue Blomet in Paris, Renée Béja then also worked as a decorator for the theatre. She created the sets, costumes and masks for the play Les Choéphores by Aeschylus, performed in the great amphitheatre of the Sorbonne in June 1949, then at the Palais des Papes as part of the Avignon Festival in July 1950.
The works of René Béjà, including portraits, nudes, still lifes, landscapes of Provence, Brittany and Paris, were presented at the Salon du Gemmail in Tours, stylistically, as with her colleague Andrée Bordeaux-Le Pecq, post-cubist and abstract experiments, but also classifying it, with Germaine Lacaze, Marguerite Bermond, Geneviève Gavrel and Guillemette Morand...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache
"Chris", charcoal, drawing, Katz, Portrait, cool
By Alex Katz
Located in Köln, DE
This is an outstanding charcoal drawing by Alex Katz. He is portraying "Chris", who was model for several paintings and prints. Drawings do have an important impact to Alex Katz pain...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Signed dated Tuscan Banti Male Nude Academy Drawing 19th century pencil paper
Located in Florence, IT
This drawing, pencil on paper 35,5 x 25,5 cm without frame, is signed and dated "Arturo Banti 21. Gennaio 1876." on the left in sanguine.
It's a typical "Academia", so a study on a naked figure in a plastic pose to exercise on the portraying of the body.
It belongs to the juvenile career of this Tuscan...
Category
1870s Other Art Style Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"Profil aux étoiles ". original drawing by Jean Cocteau certified
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Original drawing certified by Madame Annie Guedras .
black ink on paper from 1930-1932 .
dedicated to Germaine Krull (photographer ) .
signed Jean Cocteau and with the star .
Category
1920s Art Deco Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Portrait of a man, an expressionist drawing by László Moholy-Nagy
By László Moholy-Nagy
Located in PARIS, FR
This recently rediscovered expressionist drawing by László Moholy-Nagy is part of a small group of drawings made by the artist early in his career, in Vienna and Berlin. The use of interlaced curves, typical of the artist's technique, gives this hieratic portrait a magnetic radiance, while the absence of any connection with the rest of the body evokes a profane Holy Face.
1. From Hungary to Chicago, the ardent life of László Moholy-Nagy
Moholy-Nagy was born in Borsod, now known as Bácsborsód in Southern Hungary, in July 1895. He studied law in Budapest in 1913, when he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army to serve as an artillery officer on the Italian and Russian fronts. While serving at artillery observation posts, Moholy-Nagy was able to execute numerous drawings, recording his traumatic war experience, on the reverse of military-issued postcards which he could easily carry with him. In 1917, he was seriously wounded and hospitalized. The following year (around 1918 at the age of 23), he abandoned his plans to become a lawyer in favour of a career as an artist, with the encouragement of his friend, the art critic Iván Hevesy.
The drawings executed in those early years reveal Moholy-Nagy's powerful Expressionist lines. In his autobiography of 1944, Abstract of an Artist, Moholy-Nagy explained his early figurative style, writing that contemporary art in those days was too chaotic and that and all the '-isms' were incomprehensible and puzzling to him.
He was, however, experimenting with Dadaist compositions already in 1919 and then moved to Vienna and later to Berlin, where he would soon make his first works in his Constructivist style of the early 1920s.
In Berlin he met photograph and writer Lucia Schultz who became his wife the next year. In 1922 he met Walter Gropius. During a vacation on the Rhome with Lucia, she introduced him to making photograms on light-sensitized paper. Walter Gropius invited him to teach at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1923 where he replaced Paul Klee as Head of the Metal Workshop. The Bauhaus became known for the versatility of its artists and Moholy-Nagy was no exception: throughout his career, he became proficient in the fiels of photography, typography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, film-making and industrial design.
In 1928 Moholy-Nagy left the Bauhaus and established his own design studio in Berlin. He separated from his first wide Lucia in 1929. In 1931 he met actress and scriptwriter Sibylle Pietzsch. They married in 1932 and has two daughters, Hattula (born 1933) and Claudia. After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, he was no longer allowed to work there. He moved his family to London in 1935. In 1937, on the recommendation of Walter Gropius, Moholy-Nagy moved to Chicago to become the director of the New Bauhaus, but the school closed in 1938. Moholy-Nagy resumed doing commercial design work, which he continued for the rest of his life.
In 1939 Moholy-Nagy opened the School of Design in Chicago, which became in 1944 the Institute of Design, becoming part of the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1949. Diagnosed with leukemia in 1945, Moholy-Nagy died of the disease in Chicago in 1946.
2. Description of the artwork
This drawing presents us with a frontal representation of a man in his thirties, whose penetrating gaze seems to stare at us. The face is highly symmetrical and is modelled by curved black lines. The very high forehead and the slightly dilated left pupil reinforce the very expressive character of the face.
Like the Holy Face which appeared on the cloth stretched out to wipe Christ's face by Saint Veronica, only the model's face is represented on the cardboard piece. The curved lines that define the face, hollowing out the temples, the eyelids, the cheeks and the area around the mouth, create a kind of magnetic radiation around a median point located between the eyebrows.
In some respects, this face may evoke one of the most famous representations of the Holy Face: the extraordinary engraving by Claude Mellan...
Category
1910s Expressionist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon, Cardboard
Portugal, Young Girl with Fishes - Original color drawing, Signed
By Mily Possoz
Located in Paris, FR
Mily POSSOZ
Young Girl with Fishes, 1928
Original pencil and charcoals derawing
Signed bottom right
Dated 1928
On paper 42 x 34 cm at view (c. 17 x 13 in)
Presented in a wood frame ...
Category
1920s Modern Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil, Color Pencil
Untitled - Drawing, Young artist, Minimalistic, Black & white, single line
By Karol Drzewiecki
Located in Warsaw, PL
Karol Drzewiecki (born in 1987) He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (University of Arts) in Poznań (2006-2011) at the department of Graphics and Visual Communication. In 2011 grad...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Untitled - Drawing, Young artist, Minimalistic, Black & white, single line
By Karol Drzewiecki
Located in Warsaw, PL
Karol Drzewiecki (born in 1987) He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (University of Arts) in Poznań (2006-2011) at the department of Graphics and Visual Communication. In 2011 grad...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Young Girl with Violets - Original Watercolor and Gouache Painting, Signed
By Mily Possoz
Located in Paris, FR
Mily POSSOZ
Young Girl with Violets, 1934
Original Watercolor and Gouache Painting
Signed bottom right
On vellum 62 x 34 cm (c. 25 x 12 in)
Very good condition, light defects at th...
Category
1930s Modern Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Enki Bilal - Happy Birthday - Original Signed Drawing
By Enki Bilal
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Enki Bilal - Happy Birthday - Original Signed Drawing
Title: Happy Birthday
ink and acrylic on paper, story in a board published as a poster i...
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Woman in Theatrical Dress - Original Watercolor by Eugène Lacoste
By Eugène Lacoste
Located in Roma, IT
Signed on bottom right by Eugène Lacoste, the design of the Opera of Giuseppe Verdi.
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created ove...
Category
1870s Modern Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Blond Hair Boy with a Lamb - Original signed charcoals drawing - 1934
By Gustave Poetzsch
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Blond Hair Boy with a Lamb, 1934
Original charcoals drawing
Signed upper right
on paper 31 x 24 cm at view (c. 12 x 10 in)
Presented in a golden wood f...
Category
1930s Realist Continental Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
