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Item Ships From: Europe
Deceased - Original Pencil on Paper - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Deceased is an original drawing in pencil realized by by Anonymous artist of XX century.
The state of preservation of the artwork is aged with some rips.
Dimension:21x 43 cm.
T...
Category
20th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait - Original Ink Drawing on Paper - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by anonymous artist in the 1920s.
The signature of the artist is unreadable on the lower right.
Original penc...
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1920s Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait - Drawing in Pencil on Paper by Victor Hubert - Early 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Victor Hubert (born 1786). Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right.
The state of preserv...
Category
Early 19th Century Modern Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Figure - Original Pencil Drawing by S. Goldberg - Mid 20th Century
By Simon Goldberg
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). With the stamp of “Atelier Simon Goldberg, Delavenne Lafarge” on the lower right.
The state ...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait - Original Pencil Drawing by S. Goldberg - Mid 20th Century
By Simon Goldberg
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). With the stamp of " Atelier Simon Goldberg, Delavenne Lafarge" on the lower right.
The state ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait - Original Pencil and Pen Drawing by S. Goldberg - Mid 20th Century
By Simon Goldberg
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original drawing in pencil and pen on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). Hand-signed on the lower right.
The state of preservation is very good.
Sheet dimens...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Pen
Child - Original Pencil Drawing by S. Goldberg - Mid 20th Century
By Simon Goldberg
Located in Roma, IT
Child is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). Hand-signed in pencil on the lower left.
The state of preservation is very good.
Sheet dimen...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait - Original Pencil and Ink Drawing by S. Goldberg - Mid 20th Century
By Simon Goldberg
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original drawing in pencil and ink on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). Hand-signed on the lower left.
The state of preservation is very good.
Sheet dime...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Ink
Man - Original Pencil Drawing by S. Goldberg - Mid 20th Century
By Simon Goldberg
Located in Roma, IT
Man is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985), with the stamp of "Atelier Simon Goldberg" on the lower right, with sketches on the rear.
The s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Gloom - Original Pencil Drawing by S. Goldberg - 1940
By Simon Goldberg
Located in Roma, IT
Gloom is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right.
The state of preservation is very good.
aSheet dim...
Category
1940s Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait - Pencil Drawing by S. Goldberg - Mid 20th Century
By Simon Goldberg
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). Hand-signed in pencil on the lower left.
The state of preservation is good, with some fold...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait - Original Pencil Drawing by T. Gertner - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by Tibor Gertner in 1941.
The signature of the artist and the date is present in pencil on the lower right c...
Category
1940s Modern Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Woman Bust - Pencil on Paper by A. Mérodack-Jeanneau
By Alexis Mérodack-Jeanneau
Located in Roma, IT
Woman Bust is a beautiful pencil drawing on ivory paper realized by Alexis Mérodack-Jeanneau in the early 20th century.
Stamp of the artist's atelier on the lower right corner of th...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Sleeping Girl - Charcoal Drawing and watercolor by S. Fontinsky - 1940s
By Serge Fontinsky
Located in Roma, IT
Sleeping Girl is a black and white charcoal drawing realized by Serge Fontinsky (1887-1971) in the half of the 20th Century.
The artwork represents a p...
Category
1940s Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Portrait - Original Charcoal Drawing by Serge Fotinsky - 1943
By Serge Fontinsky
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a black and white charcoal drawing realized by Serge Fontinsky (1887-1971) in 1943.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower margin.
The sheet is glued on passepartout (light...
Category
1940s Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Man On Postcard - Original China Ink Drawing on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Man On Postcard is a black and white drawing realized in the half of the XX century.
The drawing is glued on a postcard destined for Herrn Paul Strecker 59 av de saxe Paris 7 th.
S...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Sleeping Woman - China Ink on Paper by E. Diverly - 1970s
By Eliane Diverly
Located in Roma, IT
Sleeping Woman is an original artwork realized by Éliane Diverly in the 1970s.
Black ink on paper. The artwork includes passepartout 48.9 x 64 cm
Hand-signed by the artist on lower...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Schoolchild - Original Pencil Drawing by French Artist Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Schoolchild is an original artwork realized in the XX Century by a French artist.
Original drawing realized with different kind of pencil on water-marked paper.
Mint conditions. ...
Category
Early 20th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Smoker (Portrait of Ottone Rosai) - Charcoal Drawing by M. Maccari - 1940/50
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Nice charcoal and ink drawing on paper representing the famous italian painter Ottone Rosai smoking a cigarette.
Signed in pencil lower right.
Good conditions.
Category
1940s Modern Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Venditori e Mangiatori di Maccheroni - Watercolor by M. De Vito - 1820 ca.
By Michela De Vito
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolour on paper stuck on grey cardboard, 1820 c.a.
Wonderful watercolour both for the drawing and for the fineness of the colours representing a typical Italian scene of ordina...
Category
1820s Old Masters Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The grand father - Lajos Szalay, 20th Century, Figurative drawing
By Lajos Szalay
Located in Paris, FR
Ink on paper
Unique work
Signed, dated 1973 and situated NY lower right by the artist
This work was executed by the Hungarian artist in 1973 while he was living in New York, USA.
P...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Two Men Around a Table - 1940s - Paul-Franz Namur - Drawing - Modern
By Paul-Franz Namur
Located in Roma, IT
Two Men Around a Table is an original artwork realized by Paul-Franz Namur in the 1940s. Pencil on paper.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right margin. Passepartout and wood ...
Category
1940s Modern Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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 Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, India Ink, Cardboard
W. O. Harding - Early 20th Century Watercolour, Shaking Down Olives
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed and titled to the lower edge of the paper. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
Category
20th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$328 Sale Price
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Mid 19th Century Watercolour - Sisterly Affection
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
Category
Mid-19th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$346 Sale Price
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Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
Pen and ink, ink wash and pencil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 38cm x 29cm (65cm x 55cm framed).
This penetrating and wonderfully executed self-portrait, is all the mor...
Category
1910s Old Masters Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil, Ink
Study for Mr and Mrs R. H. Butler and Their Daughters
Located in Maidenhead, GB
Bernard Fleetwood-Walker RA RWS (1893-1965)
Study for Mr and Mrs R. H. Butler and Their Daughters, c. 1932
Graphite and coloured graphite on paper, mounted to card
Signed centre right
42.6 x 53 cm.; (within frame) 66.7 x 75.7 cm.
Provenance:
The artist’s studio, 1965 (no. 521);
Private Collection, United Kingdom.
Dated to c. 1932, the present drawing belongs to a series of preparatory studies for Mr and Mrs R. H. Butler and Their Daughters (1932), a large family composition...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Bijin Ôkubi, Edo Period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga series XXIX (Nº 29)
Title: Bijin Ôkubi
Upper torso portrait of a Japanese beauty, depicted with a graceful hand gesture and an ornate headdress. Her soft round features contrast with the colourful sharp angles of the collars of her kimono.
Her elongated oval face, straight nose and red butterfly lips are typical of the prototype of a beautiful woman, Bijin-ga. Her upper torso and face occupying the central section of the picture show a composition type that became known in time as Large-head pictures, or Okubi-e; compositions with which Utamaro became a model for generations of woodblock artists.
This image is part of the Bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
Category
2010s Edo Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Heroin
By Karl Anton Fleck
Located in Wien, 9
Karl Anton Fleck's portraits captivate through reduction to the essential, as well as distortion and the use of details and symbols. The striking stroke creates clear contours and th...
Category
1980s Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Die Bildhauerin
By August Wilhelm Dressler
Located in Wien, 9
August Dressler is one of the painters of the New Objectivity. He is one of the lesser-known artists of the Weimar era, but he too, like his famous contemporaries Georg Grosz, John H...
Category
20th Century Modern Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Conspiracy Zahra Zeinali Contemporary drawing black and white art animal rabbit
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
18th century portrait of the Royal Academy model George White
By John Russell
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Russell sale, Christie’s, 14 February, 1807: ‘John Russell, Esq., R.A. deceased, crayon painter to His Majesty, the Prince of Wales, and Duke of York; and brought from his late Dwelling in Newman Street’, lot 92, ‘St Peter’, bt. Thompson (£1.13s);
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 25th September 1980, lot 113;
Private collection, UK, 2016.
Literature:
Martin Postle, 'Patriarchs, prophets and paviours: Reynolds's images of old age', The Burlington Magazine, vol. cxxx, no. 1027, October 1988, pp. 739-40, fig. 9;
Martin Postle, Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Subject Pictures, Cambridge, 1995, p.136, repr.;
Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online edition, J.64.2928.
Signed and dated: J Russell/ fecit 1772 (lower right)
Framed dimensions: 25 x 31 inches
John Russell was admitted to the Royal Academy in March 1770, at the same time as Daniel Gardner. The nascent Academy Schools were still establishing their teaching structures, but central to the syllabus were the twin components of drawing after the antique and from life models. By 1772 Russell had already been awarded a silver medal and progressed to the life academy, where he produced this remarkable pastel study of George White. White was the most famous model employed by the Royal Academy and prominent artists in the second half of the eighteenth century. A paviour – or street mender –by profession White had been discovered by Joshua Reynolds, who in turn introduced him to the Academy. Russell’s striking head study demonstrates his abilities as a portraitist and pastellist, at the same time showing his interest in the Academy’s preoccupation with promoting history painting.
George White was one of the most celebrated models in eighteenth-century London. According to the painter Joseph Moser:
'Old George…owed the ease in which he passed his latter days, in a great measure to Sir Joshua Reynolds, who found him exerting himself in the laborious employment of thumping down stones in the street; and observing not only the grand and majestic traits of his countenance, but the dignity of his muscular figure, took him out of a situation to which his strength was by no means equal, clothed, fed, and had him, first as a model in his own painting room, then introduced him as a subject for the students of the Royal Academy.'
As Martin Postle has pointed out, whilst characterful studies of old men posed as biblical figures, prophets or saints by Continental old masters were readily available on the art market – Reynolds himself had copied a head of Joab by Federico Bencovich in the collection of his friend and patron, Lord Palmerston - finding a model in Britain from whom to execute a painting was more difficult.
White therefore offered a rare opportunity for artists to combine portraiture and history painting, by painting a model in the guise of an historical or literary character. In 1771 Reynolds showed at the Royal Academy a picture of White entitled Resignation. It was engraved in 1772 and accompanied by a stanza from Oliver Goldsmith’s Deserted Village, implying a literary context to what is essentially a portrait. In his annotated Royal Academy catalogue, Horace Walpole noted: ‘This was an old beggar, who had so fine a head that Sir Joshua chose him for the father in his picture from Dante, and painted him several times, as did others in imitation of Reynolds. There were even cameos and busts of him.’ White sat to, amongst others Johan Zoffany, John Sanders, Nathaniel Hone and the sculptor John Bacon...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Sans titre
By Albert Chubac
Located in PARIS, FR
Magnificent work on cardboard representing a face by Swiss artist Albert Chubac, measuring 81 x 61 cm.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard
A Study of Human Head and Tiger by Orovida Pissarro - Sketch
By Orovida Pissarro
Located in London, GB
A Study of Human Head and Tiger by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Pencil on paper
25.5 x 20 cm (10 x 7⁷/₈ inches)
Executed circa 1917
Artist biography:
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucie...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Frances Cohen Gillespie (1939-1998) - 1964 Pastel, Melancholy
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed and dated to the lower right. Presented in a part gilt frame. On paper.
Category
Mid-20th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
$262 Sale Price
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Frances Cohen Gillespie (1939-1998) - Charcoal Drawing, Deep Thinker
Located in Corsham, GB
On paper.
Category
Mid-20th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
$254 Sale Price
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After William Cossens Way (1833-1905) - Watercolour, Spanish Gentleman
Located in Corsham, GB
Bears initials of William Cossens Way to the lower left. On paper laid to card .
Category
Early 20th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cubist School 20th Century Pen & Watercolour - Portrait of a Soldier
Located in Corsham, GB
Illegibly signed. On laid to paper.
Category
20th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$244 Sale Price
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Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Hairdresser, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga series II (nº 02)
Title: “Hairdresser”
The interest in this picture is focused on the hairstyles of both women, a hairdresser leaning forward with a bow of intense black color, arranging his client's especially long hair. The ways of gripping both the hair and the comb, making it slide through the ocher-scented kimono of the customer, decorated with sea stars, stand out. Highlighting with great detail the drawing of loose hair on the obi of white lines on a red background, and the kosode of plum color.
This image is part of the Bijin-ga Series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print "Hairdresser" (1798-1799), 39,8 x 26,8 cm. Museum of Fine Arts. Boston-USA.
Utamaro drawn a series of twelve prints whose themes were related to the manual works of women, and this "Hairdresser" is one of them.
Mario BGil reproduces the seal of the censor (Kiwame) and writes his own signature, Mario BGil, in Japanese, with the date 14 (2014).
The mesaurements of the drawing are 76 x 56 cm. (29,92 x 22,05 in.), with a painted surface of 67 x 49,5 cm.
With his work on the bijing-ga series, Mario BGil wanted to embellish, give brilliance and volume to the images presented by japanese artist Kitigawa Utamaro in those beautiful engravings, ennobled with the patina of time, which have served as inspiration. The result obtained is almost life-size portraits, endowed with strong chromaticism and valuable contrasts, all enhanced, in turn, with the volume provided by the weight and rigidity of the paper, and its thick texture (Fabriano Artistico “grana grosso”, 640g/m2; the thickness and hardness of the paper makes it necessary to transport it without rolling).
In this way, Mario BGil pays tribute to his admired artist and offers us a new and enriched vision of this popular facet of oriental art from the 18th and 19th centuries.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mario BGil is a self-taught artist who for years has combined his creative activity with his work in the business world, away from commercial art galleries. Man of very diverse interests and great artistic sensitivity, studied Art History and in 2012, a deep interest in oriental art was awakened in him so that he began to study the great masters of Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, who had such an influence on the European avant-garde of the late 19th century.
The discovery of Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), a key figure in the metropolitan culture of Edo (now Tokyo), and a point of reference in the history of Japanese engraving...
Category
2010s Edo Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Elegant Joanna Flatau Contemporary art pastel woman black and white portrait
By Joanna Flatau
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Joanna Flatau was born in Varsaw, Poland.
She graduated from Varsaw History of Arts University and from the Fine Arts Varsaw A...
Category
1990s Expressionist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Did you say weird ? Zahra Zeinali Contemporary drawing clown animal circus art
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Adaptation #6 Zahra Zeinali Contemporary drawing blue young girl dream tale art
By Zahra Zeinali
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Marylin Joanna Flatau Contemporary art pastel on paper colour woman portrait
By Joanna Flatau
Located in Paris, FR
Oil pastel on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Series Imaginary portraits
Joanna Flatau was born in Varsaw, Poland.
She graduated from Varsaw History of Arts University ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Figurative drawing study 20th century female nude portrait on paper
Located in Florence, IT
This drawing (charcoal pencil on paper, 49 x 62 cm) is definitely a live study of a female figure, depicted nude in a semi-recumbent pose resting on her arm reminiscent of that of an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
“A Balinese woman with offerings” (1936)
By Theo Meier
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Theo Meier (1908-1982)
“A Balinese woman with offerings”
Signed, dated '36 and annotated Mankok (the name of the sitter) lower left
Sanguine on paper, measures: 57 x 41.5 cm
In a handmade and hand painted frame with address: Max Kno¨ll, Herberggasse 4/1, Basel.
Provenance:
Private collection, Basel (acquired directly from the artist)
Private collection, London
Note:
Theo Meier was born in Basel, where he attended art school and became a successful portrait painter. However, after visiting an exhibition in Basel of Tahitian paintings by Paul Gaugin, he decided to follow in Gaugin’s footsteps and go to the South Pacific. To finance his voyage, he founded a club in which every member pledged a monthly sum in return of which they could choose one of Meier’s paintings upon his return.
In 1932, at the age of 24, he embarked on his voyage to the South Sea. In Tahiti, he certainly discovered the beauty of the colours of the tropical world but the simplicity of the inhabitants, he had seen in Gaugin’s paintings turned out to be more in the artist’s fantasy than in reality. He returned to Basel but in 1935 again was on his way to the South Sea. In 1936 he arrived in Bali, planning to stay there for two or three weeks, but thirty years later he was still there. In Bali “a delirium laid hold of me which even today has not subsided”, he was to write much later. The present drawing was made during his first “delirius” year in Bali. In Bali, he settled and found inspiration and friendship with other artists including Walter Spies...
Category
1930s Expressionist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Gustave BRISGAND (1867-1944), portrait of a woman wearing a veil
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Brisgand (1867-1944) began his artistic career by focusing on landscapes. However, he later specialized in portraits of notable personalities, women, and female nudes. One of...
Category
1920s Art Deco Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal, Pastel
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, The courtese Hinakoto, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga series XXI (Nº 21)
Title: The courtese Hinakoto of the Hyôgorô House of Edo
The courtesan Hinakoto is depicted by smoking tobacco. She takes the pipe delicately in her left hand and, in her right hand, she seems to be holding a “uchiwa” (rigid hand fan) that comes out from the bottom of the drawing, decorated with written calligraphy. Some strands of hair that fall on her temple and her scant clothing show that the painter has surprised her in a relaxed moment in which she does not lose her elegance and slenderness.
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
Category
2010s Edo Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, The fickle type, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijing-ga Series XXII (Nº 22)
Title: THE FLICKLE TYPE
Upper half of the body of a woman in yukata (summer kymono) with part of her chest bare. Depicted just after a bath, she is turning her head and drying her hands with the towel hang on her shoulder. Her just-washed hair is tied around an ornate hairpin, the hair style called bai-mage (spiral-shell chignon).
The unkempt hair of the nape and the movement of the hands one on the other are clear examples of Utamaro's mastery, who had an exceptionally observant eye for women.
The Fickle ( or Fancy-free) Type is flirting with more than one member of the opposite sex
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
Category
2010s Edo Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Leaning Joanna Flatau Contemporary art woman nude polish portrait pastel red
By Joanna Flatau
Located in Paris, FR
Oil pastel on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Joanna Flatau was born in Varsaw, Poland.
She graduated from Varsaw History of Arts University and from the Fine Arts Vars...
Category
1990s Expressionist Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Mythological pen-on-paper drawing inspired by Annibale Carracci's frescoes
By Annibale Carracci
Located in Florence, IT
Pen drawing, pencil and sanguine elevations on paper.
The subject echoes Annibale Carracci's frescoes at the Palazzo Farnese in Rome (1597-1607), specifically the episode in which H...
Category
Early 19th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen, Pencil
Fine 19th Century Coloured Pencil - The Eligible Bachelor
Located in Corsham, GB
Tall, dark and handsome- this fine oval portrait captures the striking features of a young Victorian Bachelor. The artist has used directional hatching and fine line to create plumpn...
Category
19th Century Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
$268 Sale Price
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Japanese Art Figurative Painting, Love for a street-walker, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
LOVE FOR A STREET-WALKER
Crayon, graphite, pencil on paper.
Measurements: (H) 76 x (W) 56 cm.
Attractive portrait of an Edo prostitute hurrying through the streets. She wears a black kimono over layers of colored kimono, tucking her hand into the "obi" at her waist. A white scarf is draped over her head, the edge caught between her teeth, and loose wisps of hair framed her face. There is an impressive contrast between the black kimono and the yellow-orange of collars, sleeves and "obi", balancing the composition the pastel pink of the scarf that covers her head.
This image is part of the "bijin-ga" series, Pretty Women, drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print "Love for a street-walker" (1795), 37,2 x 24,6 cm. The British Musem. London, UK.
The artist reproduces the seal of the censor (Kiwame) and from the original publisher ("Tsutaya", climbing leaf)), between the two, the signature of Mario BGil written in Japanese, with the date 14 (2014).
The mesaurements of the drawing are 76 x 56 cm. (29,92 x 22,05 in.), with a painted surface of 67 x 49,5 cm.
With his work on the "bijing-ga" series, Mario BGil wanted to embellish, give brilliance and volume to the images presented by japanese artist Kitigawa Utamaro in those beautiful engravings, ennobled with the patina of time, which have served as inspiration. The result obtained is almost life-size portraits, endowed with strong chromaticism and valuable contrasts, all enhanced, in turn, with the volume provided by the weight and rigidity of the paper, and its thick texture (Fabriano Artistico “grana grosso”, 640g/m2; the thickness and hardness of the paper makes it necessary to transport it without rolling).
In this way, Mario BGil pays tribute to his admired artist and offers us a new and enriched vision of this popular facet of oriental art from the 18th and 19th centuries.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mario BGil is a self-taught artist who for years has combined his creative activity with his work in the family business, away from commercial art galleries. In 2012, a deep interest in oriental art was awakened in him and he began to study the great masters of Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, who had such an influence on the European avant-garde of the late 19th century.
The discovery of Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), a key figure in the metropolitan culture of Edo (now Tokyo), and a point of reference in the history of Japanese engraving...
Category
2010s Edo Europe - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Pencil, Graphite
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framed
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Category
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Materials
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Materials
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