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Item Ships From: Europe
Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Jerome
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Felice Pinariccio, known as Le Lasagna (active in Bologna during the 1560s-1570s)
Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Jerome
Pen and brown ink, brown wash heighte...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Study of a Man's Shoulder
By Glyn Philpot
Located in London, GB
Black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper, 19cm x 15cm, (32cm x 27cm framed).
First exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1904, Philpot was elected as an Academician in 1923. Like many artists of his generation, he enjoyed a comfortable income from portraiture, which enabled him to paint less commercially successful and perhaps more personal subjects. His interest in the male nude and portraits of...
Category
1920s Art Deco Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Chalk, Paper
Drawing - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Drawing is a pencil drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Trailblazer by Patsy McArthur, charcoal drawing, underwater diver and bubbles
By Patsy McArthur
Located in Dallas, TX
Scottish artist Patsy McArthur explores the grace and power of human movement in her naturalistic drawings and paintings. Her latest works, including small ink studies, charcoal and ...
Category
2010s Realist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
French Romantic school, View of a citadel, pen and watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French Romantic school, 19th century
View of a citadel
Pen and ink, watercolor and heightenings of white gouache on brown paper
18 x 29.5 cm
In good condition, some stains and traces...
Category
1850s Romantic Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Story of a sheep - 21st Century Contemporary Charcoal Drawing of a sheep
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Rosanna Gaddoni (Italian artist)
Story of a sheep
65 x 50 cm ( framed in wood frame with museum glass)
Measurement with included frame: 76 x 60 x 3 cm
Charcoal on Paper
The Italian ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Cliffs, backwash (Pointe du Grouin #23.04) by Yann Bagot - Ink drawing, seascape
Located in Paris, FR
Cliffs, backwash (Pointe du Grouin #23.04) is an India ink and salt on paper drawing by the French contemporary artist Yann Bagot, dimensions are 75.8 × 56 cm (29.8 × 22 in).
The ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Hercules vanquishing a drakaina (half‑woman, half‑serpent)
By Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Circle of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727 – Madrid 1804)
Hercules vanquishing a drakaina (half‑woman, half‑serpent) – interpreted either as Echidna or a personified Hydra
c. ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Figures at an Outdoor Cafe on a Busy Summers Day British Watercolour Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Summers Day
Signed By Tony Herbert (1927-2024)
Medium: Watercolor on artists paper on board, framed - glass covered
Framed: 15 x 16 inches
Watercolour: 8 x 9.5 inches
Condition: Goo...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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 Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
View of Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower right.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died in Venice ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Moroccan Market by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Moroccan Market by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pencil on paper
20.8 x 26.9 cm (8 ¹/₄ x 13 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower left
Execu...
Category
1940s Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Nude of Woman - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower right.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died in Venice ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Follower of Francesco Guardi, Figures in a Mediterranean port by a Roman Arch
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Harkstead, GB
A lively, well executed sketch painted by a 19th century follower of Francesco Guardi
Follower of Francesco Guardi, 19th Century
Figures by a Roman Arch
Watercolour with ink and sc...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Lalanne, ink drawing
By François-Xavier Lalanne
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
François-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008), original ink drawing, 2004
This unique work signed by François Xavier Lalanne is an original ink drawing depicting a bee on a beautiful flower. ...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
French Contemporary Art by Liubov Juravliova - Fille
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolour, ink on paper
Liubov Juravliova is a French painter born in Chisinau, Moldova in 1963 who lives and works in Argenteuil, near Paris, France She has been listed at Drouot...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
"The birth of Venus" by Anna Pennati, pastel on black cardboard, greek mythology
Located in Milano, MI
This artwork is part of the series that Anna Pennati has dedicated to Homer's Odyssey, a subject very dear to her and one that she has tackled several times in the past.
Venus has b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Letter A - Drawing by Simone Vaulpré - Late 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter A is a drawing in watercolor realized in the late 20th century.
Good condition.
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
19th Century french school, Villefranche-sur Mer, the harbour, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French School circa 1850
Villefranche sur mer, the Harbour
Watercolor on paper
16 x 24 cm
In good condition
Framed 29 x 38 cm
This very fine wat...
Category
1850s Romantic Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912), A trophy of arms, original signed Drawing
By Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
A trophy of arms
11.5 x 20 cm
Pen and ink with heightenings of white gouache on paper
Signed and dated 1885 lower right and annotated "Armée française...
Category
1880s Academic Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Gravity and Levity 1, Patsy McArthur, charcoal drawing, underwater diver, bubble
By Patsy McArthur
Located in Dallas, TX
Scottish artist Patsy McArthur explores the grace and power of human movement in her naturalistic drawings and paintings. Her latest works, including small ink studies, charcoal and ...
Category
2010s Realist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Study of a Fate at mid-body, a red chalk attributed to Giovanni da San Giovanni
Located in PARIS, FR
This spectacular red chalk drawing depicts an elderly woman, her eyes bulging, her hand stretched out towards the sky. This disturbing character, who seems close to dementia, and the elongation of her arm with its Mannerist overtones, plunge us into the Florentine artistic milieu of the first half of the 17th century. The proximity of this drawing to some characters in the fresco in the Pitti Palace representing The Muses, Poets and Philosophers chased from Parnassus, the last masterpiece of Giovanni da San Giovanni, leads us to propose an attribution to this artist and a dating of around 1635-1636.
1. Giovanni da San Giovanni, the painter of contradiction
We take here the title of the monography dedicated to the artist by Anna Banti in 1977, which remains the reference book for this artist. The son of a notary, Giovanni Mannozzi, known as Giovanni da San Giovanni, abandoned his studies to go to Florence at the age of sixteen, where he entered the studio of Matteo Rosselli (1578 - 1650) around 1609 and enrolled in the Academy of Drawing Arts in 1612. Around 1615 he produced his first known works, mainly frescoes for the city's tabernacles. He became famous in Florence for his originality, combining an obsessive application to the study of drawing and the reading of poetry and history with a disheveled appearance. Between 1619 and 1620 he decorated the facade of the Antella Palace in Piazza Santa Croce, a decoration that still partly survives today.
The death of Cosimo II in 1621 put an end to the Florentine building activity and Giovanni da San Giovanni left for Rome to find other sponsors with the painter Francesco Furini...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Twentieth Century Figurative Semi Nude Model Conte Crayon Drawing
By William Russell Flint
Located in ludlow, GB
Twentieth Century Figurative Semi Nude of Model Conte Crayon Drawing.
One of the most important British Painters of the Twentieth Century, Will...
Category
20th Century Romantic Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté
Disegno figurativo toscano nudo maschile a sanguigna del XIX secolo
By Bernardino Orsetti
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, sanguigna su carta, raffigura un uomo nudo con una specie di turbante sulla testa, preso di lato, seduto, in un'espressione di intensa sofferenza, come se stesse chiedend...
Category
Early 19th Century Other Art Style Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Rome 1878 Classical Roman Architecture Figures at Fountain Signed Watercolor
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rome
by Arthur A. Wilkinson (British, c.1860-1930)
signed and dated 1878
watercolor on artist paper , unframed
artist paper : 11 x 17 inches
Provenance: private collection, the Cotsw...
Category
19th Century English School Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Chimeras - Contemporary mixed media drawing, Mythology, Surreal, Black & white
By Leszek Rózga
Located in Warsaw, PL
LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015)
In 1970s Polish etchings gained world-wide recognition thanks to the activity to artists such as Rózga, whose works are in the collections of Albertina in Vienna, in Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and in etchings collection of Ermitage in Petersbourg.
Leszek Rózga created a series of colourful graphics inspired by travels and stories from his own life, sometimes bearing inspiration of the XX century masters: Mirò, Matisse and Picasso.
He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948, he began studies at the art school in Łódź (later: Academy of Fine Arts) in the studios of professors Władysław Strzemiński, Adam Rychtarski, Stefan Wegner and Ludwik Tyrowicz. He graduated with special award from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1954. In 1958 he became a member of the Piąte Koło association ("Fifth Wheel...
Category
1980s Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Disappearances / Extinctions #1 Hélène Duclos 21st Century drawing landscape art
By Hélène Duclos
Located in Paris, FR
This drawing is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris.
The liquid mountain is populated by living be...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Color Pencil, Graphite
Spring - Chalk design drawing for a Minton plaque by Herbert Wilson Foster
By Herbert Wilson Foster
Located in London, GB
HERBERT WILSON FOSTER
(1846-1929)
Spring
Inscribed with title beneath the mount
Chalk, circular
Framed
Diameter 42 cm., 16 ½ in.
(frame size 61 by 58 cm., 24 by 22 ¾ in.)
Herbert Wilson Foster was born in Endon, Staffordshire. He attended Hanley School of Art before continuing his studies in London, Belgium and France. His paintings of rural and domestic subjects were exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1873 and 1899. In 1893 he accepted a teaching position at the Nottingham School of Art, where his pupils included Laura Knight and Harold Knight. Works by him are in the collections of the Minton archives; the Wisbech & Fenland Museum; Leicester Art Gallery; Rushcliffe Council and Nottingham Castle Museum.
In addition to his work as a painter he worked as a porcelain painter, working at one point on the tile panels in the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is known to have worked at Mintons from 1872 where he specialized in portraits of contemporary personalities, including members of the Royal Family. This head of a girl was probably intended for a painted ceramic wall charger...
Category
1870s Realist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pencil
Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962) Paris, Les Bouquinistes, original drawing
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962)
Paris, Les Bouquinistes sur les quais, (The booksellers on the banks)
Signed and titled lower right
Pencil on paper
17 x 27 cm
In good condition, ...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Portraits - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portraits is a Charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
'Lilium Candidum, July' - Botanical Still Life of Flowers in Pen and Ink, 1969
By John Nash
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Lilium Candidum, July
Category
20th Century Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Polyamorous - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Polyamorous is a charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was...
Category
1960s Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
homme rouge (red man) - gouache on paper, 49x34 cm., framed
By Albert Chubac
Located in Nice, FR
gouache on paper. Stamped and signed. Not framed.
Last painter of the school of Nice. This is an important painter, the first school in nice to have exhibited in New York at the G...
Category
1950s Abstract Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch for a Portrait is a drawing on paper realized in the Mid-20th Century by Flor David.
Pencil on Creamy-colored paper.
Good conditions.
Flor David (1891-1958) ): pseudonym of...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch for a Portrait is a drawing on paper realized in the Mid-20th Century by Flor David.
Pencil on Creamy-colored paper.
Good conditions.
Flor David (1891-1958) ): pseudonym of...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch for a Portrait is a drawing on paper realized in the Mid-20th Century by Flor David.
Pencil on Creamy-colored paper.
Good conditions.
Flor David (1891-1958) ): pseudonym of...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Woman - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - 1905
By Gabriele Galantara
Located in Roma, IT
The Woman is an artwork realized by Gabriele Galantara in 1905 Century.
Drawing in tempera, ink, and watercolor.
Monogrammed RL.
The status of preservation is good, aged.
Gabriel...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Pen
Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch for a Portrait is a drawing on paper realized in the Mid-20th Century by Flor David.
Good conditions.
Flor David (1891-1958) ): pseudonym of David Florence. Pastel painter. He was a pupil of Desirè...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch for a Portrait is a drawing on paper realized in the Mid-20th Century by Flor David.
Good conditions.
Flor David (1891-1958) ): pseudonym of David Florence. Pastel painter....
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch for a Portrait is a drawing on paper realized in the Mid-20th Century by Flor David.
Good conditions.
Flor David (1891-1958) ): pseudonym of David Florence. Pastel painter...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Attributed to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) La famille heureuse, watercolor
By Eugene Deveria
Located in Paris, FR
Attribuetd to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
La Famille heureuse (The Happy Family)
Watercolor on paper
23 x 18 cm
In quite good condition : a small tear i...
Category
1840s Romantic Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Hand Fan Project With The Goddess Diana The Huntress floating in the clouds
By François Flameng
Located in PARIS, FR
François FLAMENG
Paris 1856 - 1923
Diana the Huntress floating in the clouds, fan project
1893
Watercolor and gouache on wove paper
Signed and dated lower right
25 x 70 cm sheet (le...
Category
1890s French School Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Three drawings by François Boucher in a mounting by Jean-Baptiste Glomy
By François Boucher
Located in PARIS, FR
We would like to thank Juliette Parmentier-Courreau of the Custodia Foundation for her welcome and support during the consultation of Glomy’s Journal des Ouvrages.
This spectacularly large "feuille de desseins ajustés" commissioned by François Boucher from Jean-Baptiste Glomy is emblematic of the painter's art and mastery of rocaille. It is also fully representative of the taste of this period in the field of decorative arts. The largest of these three drawings, placed at the bottom of the composition, is particularly interesting: dating from around 1756, it constitutes a modello (apparently unpublished) for the frontispiece of the "Catalogue des tableaux de Monsieur de Julienne"), preserved in the Morgan Library in New York.
1. François Boucher, the master of French rocaille
The extraordinary career of Francois Boucher was unmatched by his contemporaries in versatility, consistency and output. For many, particularly the writers and collectors who led the revival of interest in the French rococo during the last century, his sensuous beauties and plump cupids represent the French eighteenth century at its most typical. His facility with the brush, even when betraying the occasional superficiality of his art, enabled him to master every aspect of painting – history and mythology, portraiture, landscape, ordinary life and, as part of larger compositions, even still life. He had been trained as an engraver, and the skills of a draftsman, which he imbued in the studio of Jean-Francois Cars (1661 – 1738), stood him in good stead throughout his career; his delightful drawings are one of the most sought-after aspects of his oeuvre.
As a student of Francois Lemoyne (1688 - 1737), he mastered the art of composition. The four years he spent in Italy, from 1727-1731, educated him in the works of the masters, classics and history, that his modest upbringing had denied him.
On his return to Paris in 1734, he gained full membership of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with his splendid Rinaldo and Armida (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Although, throughout his career, he occasionally painted subjects taken from the Bible, and would always have considered himself first as a history painter, his own repertoire of heroines, seductresses, flirtatious peasant girls and erotic beauties was better suited to a lighter, more decorative subject matter. His mastery of technique and composition enabled him to move from large scale tapestry...
Category
1750s Old Masters Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Ink
Figurino della Divisa [...] - Original Watercolor on Paper - 1881
Located in Roma, IT
"Figurino della divisa della Guardia Municipale di Amatrice" 1881 is an original watercolor drawing on ivory-colorated paper by Anonymous Italian Artist of XIX Century.
In very goo...
Category
1880s Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Romantic school, Woman and Infant with guards, watercolor signed dated 1847
Located in Paris, FR
Romantic school, mid 19th century
Antique Scene, Woman and Infant surrounded by guards
watercolor, pen and black ink and heightenings of white gouache on...
Category
1840s Romantic Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Flower Shop - China Ink Drawing and Watercolor - 1934
Located in Roma, IT
"Flower Shop" is an original china ink drawing on ivory-colorated paper realized by Katerina Wilczynski in 1934.
In excellent conditions.
Containe...
Category
1930s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
'Mother Nature', Lyrical Surrealist Abstract Watercolour on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century lyrical surrealist abstract watercolour on paper by French artist Jean Clerté, signed and dated bottom right. Presented in mid-century frame.
Jean Clerté , born in 1930 in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe in Vienne, is a French painter, engraver, draftsman, watercolourist and sculptor . This work is a great example of his more humorous and expressive work influenced by Alechinsky from the late 1960s onwards. There is a light playfulness and yet the watercolours are more vivid than his previous palette.
Jean Clerté works in series. His sequential narrations testify both to a youthful spontaneity and to a perfect mastery in the distribution of forms and images on the painted surface. The narration is not only an accumulation of juxtaposed fragments and symbols, it forms a whole, it takes on and gives meaning. In general, we can say of Clerté that he practices an “eco-art” that feeds on primary hungers: the feeling of being united with nature, the vegetable, the mineral, the aquatic. In his colourful canvases, his inks, his boxes, his objects, like a shaman on the path of his dreams, the painter Clerté mounts an assault on beasts and demons, elves and gnomes. From the Poitevin marshes to the tropical forests emerges a fauna caught in the meanders of a design that marvels at the appearance of these grotesque idols.
Jean Clerté began to draw and paint at a very young age, and at the age of 15 he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Poitiers. Then in 1949, curious about the capital, he moved to Paris. Having very few financial resources, he could not continue his studies at first, worked as a model to survive, and met other artists; he was then admitted to the studio of Ossip Zadkine and, from 1952, he was also able to study engraving at Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter, an English engraver and printer living in Paris associated in the 1930s with surrealism.
At the end of the 1960s, he worked alongside Pierre Alechinsky, founding member of the Cobra movement, engraving Alechinsky's originals, benefiting from his advice, and discovering acrylic as a medium.
From 1976, Jean Clerté became associate professor at Hayter. Clerté had taught previously, in 1971 at the Salzburg Summer University and in 1972 he gave courses at the Paris-Sorbonne University . In 1981, he was appointed professor at the School of Decorative Arts , where he had Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas as a student and, from 1983 to 1988, he was Alechinsky's assistant professor at the Paris School of Fine Arts.
His first works are part of the current of lyrical abstraction, and are nourished by impressions of nature (landscape motifs, e.g. forest fires, waterscapes), then around 1968, encouraged by Alechinsky, he rejects abstraction, and his work becomes more figurative with expressive and humorous elements. From this period his colours are more subdued, often with pastel tones, he works on series. Jean Clerté has created a world in a space where drawing, painting, objects participate in a playful figuration. From his drawings were born sculptures and sometimes mobiles (Le Moulin à dessin). If it is the artist who makes astonishing, polychrome, whimsical “toys”, it is the painter who appeals to adults through his caustic and satirical humour.
His first exhibitions in France took place at the Galerie Massol , then at the Galerie Pascal...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Seated man ; head studies, india ink on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Rudolf SCHLICHTER (1890-1955)
Seated man ; head studies
India ink on paper
Signed "R. Schlichter" at the bottom right
59 x 46 cm
Missing at the top l...
Category
Early 20th Century Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
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Lily - Botanical Flower Still Life, Watercolour, Pen and Ink, 1969
By John Nash
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Lily
Category
20th Century Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Female Figure - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Female Figure is an original artwork realized in the 1970s by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original drawings in Charcoal and Oil Pastel on paper.
Good...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Disegno figurativo fiammingo ad acquerello del XVIII secolo, scena di genere
Located in Florence, IT
Sullo sfondo di un paesaggio dai tratti centro-settentrionali europei-in cui si riconoscono una cappella e il profilo di una città dagli alti pinnacoli-si svolge una scena di svago, ...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Whispers and Porcelain, Aquarel by Hector Caffieri
Located in Gent, VOV
In Whispers and Porcelain, Hector Caffieri unveils an intimate world of silence, beauty, and refinement. Two young women inhabit a richly decorated interior, surrounded by houseplant...
Category
19th Century Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Adoration Of The Christ Child Fine Renaissance Old Master Painting Large
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/School: After Filippo Lippi, Italian 1406-1469. The work is most likely by an English hand, late 19th century
Title: The Adoration of the Christ ...
Category
19th Century Renaissance Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Jazz Panel #5 - gouache, 111x283 cm.
By Paul de Cayeux
Located in Nice, FR
This is a panel painted with gouache on paper that was painted by Paul de Cayeux. He was a french painter and decorator. This suite comes from an old restaurant and ball room in Nice...
Category
1950s Art Deco Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Portrait I, paper/etching, 9.8x7 cm, 1984
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait I, paper/etching, 9.8x7 cm, 1984
Category
1980s Symbolist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Etching
Portrait of Boy - Original Pencil Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Boy is an original drawing pen realized by Anthony Roaland in early 1980s.
The artist want to define a well-balanced composition, through a harmonious style.
Good cond...
Category
1980s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of a Boy - Original Pencil Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
The artist represents the fi...
Category
1980s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Boy with Glasses - Original Pencil Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Boy with glasses is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981s. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
The artwork represents a you...
Category
1980s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Boy on a Cliff - Pencil Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Boy on a cliff is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
In the foreground the figure is...
Category
1980s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of a Boy - Pencil Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing pen realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
In the foreground the figure is de...
Category
1980s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil