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Item Ships From: Florida
The Art World Series, Watercolor on Archival Paper
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
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2010s Pop Art Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
Solitary (original mixed media on paper)
By Purvis Young
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media on 10.5 x 7.5 inch paper mounted on 14 x 11 inch paper. Hand signed on front by Purvis Young. Frame size approx 20 x 17 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condit...
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Late 20th Century Outsider Art Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
$1,250 Sale Price
50% Off
Vogue Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
"Mademoiselle X" story illustration
for Vogue February 1, 1934, watercolor and ink, reverse signed in pencil "Benito for Madame X," pencil inscription "Feb.1, 1934 / Page 51 / 316," ...
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1930s Art Deco Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Wonderland Tale - Fairy Tale - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Wonderland Tale - Fairy Tale - Female Illustrator - The work is meticulously rendered in an exacting technique of line to the point of wonderment. Yet, Baxter can obtain an ethereali...
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1950s English School Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Sea Battle - (Stories from the Edda)
By Arthur Rackham
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, "A Rackham" lower right
Sotheby's New York - The work has recently been elegantly framed with a high end frame and archivalled matted and looks wonderful in person.
Arth...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Jerusalem Old City Landscape, Expressionist Judaica Israeli Painting
By Andre Elbaz
Located in Surfside, FL
In this painting the artist uses gestural brushstrokes, which causes distortion and exaggeration for emotional effect. Andre Elbaz uses as his subject figures walking in old city Jerusalem.
André Elbaz (born April 26, 1934, El Jadida, Morocco) is a famous Moroccan painter and filmmaker.
Elbaz studied art and theatre in Rabat and Paris from 1950 to 1961. He started painting only at the age of 21, until which age he had been interested mainly in theatre. A few years later, he managed to combine his two passions into a new approach in art-therapy, inventing together with his wife, a psychiatrist, the Pictodrame, which brought him world recognition.
His first exhibition, which was very successful, took place in Casablanca in 1961 and earned him an appointment as Professor at the Beaux-Arts school in Casablanca. Years later, in 1976, he exhibited his paintings at the Tel-Aviv Museum.
In parallel to his career as a painter, Elbaz is also known as a filmmaker. He produced several short films in France, Canada and the United States. One of them, La nuit n'est jamais complète (The night is never complete), won a prize at the "5th Biennale de Paris in 1967". Among the themes chosen for the many films he produced, there was a short one about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, as well as a series of drawings entitled Seuls (Alone), with texts written by both Elie Wiesel...
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20th Century Expressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Black Power, Attica Prison Riot Prisoners Racial Justice - African American Art
Located in Miami, FL
African American Artist Vincent D Smith makes a statement about racial justice. In this work from 1972, he depicts three African American prisoners with their faces pushed up agains...
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1970s Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Children Snow Sledding in Central Park - New Yorker Cover Study
Located in Miami, FL
Hungarian/American artist/illustrator depicts a charming scene of sledding in the snow in Central Park. The work is abstract in its design as it's functional in its narrative - Unpublished New Yorker...
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1940s Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Art Deco 1940s High Fashion Illustration Woman with Fan and Screen
Located in Miami, FL
French female illustrator Geneviève Thomas renders a highly stylized fashion illustration set against a seamless red background, The model is wearin...
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1940s Art Deco Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Art Deco Glamorous woman in Purple Evening Dress - Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
Framed Size 28.5 x 21
Jaro Fabry was a brilliant illustrator with a defined style of his own. There is not a brushstroke out of place in his works that appear loosely rendered. He is best known for his depiction of Golden Age of Hollywood...
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1940s Art Deco Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Early Indian Mithila Folk Art Painting
By Sita Devi
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Early Indian Mithila Folk Art Painting
Traditional Indian Mithila Painting artist signed verso.
Pencil, ink, natural dye watercolor, on handmade paper 22x30 framed under glass 26x36...
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1970s Folk Art Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Artist Tracey Emin Working. Watercorlor on paper.
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Category
2010s Pop Art Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper
Children Amongst Foxgloves - Pink Flowers, Female Illustrator of The Golden Age
Located in Miami, FL
Children Amongst Foxgloves - Female Illustrator of The Golden Age by a female illustrator of The Golden Age Watercolor on paper, signed 'A. Bowerley' lower left.
11 x 20 in. (sight)...
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Early 1900s Pre-Raphaelite Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Pencil
Contemporary Asian Cartoon Fantasy Art Mixed Media Drawing Tang Wei Hsu Anime
Located in Surfside, FL
Tang-Wei Hsu (1980 born in Changhua, Taiwan) obtained a BA in Architecture at the Shih Chien University and finished an MFA in Visual Arts at the Tainan National University of the Ar...
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2010s Street Art Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Para Celso, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Para Celso, 1984 by Enrique Grau
Graphite on paper
Image size: 23 in H x 18 in W
Signed in the lower right corner. Great condition with flaws.
Provenance...
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1980s Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Romantic Couple In Wartime Paris on Rainy Parisian Night
Located in Miami, FL
The technique and subject matter work well together in this loosely but masterfully rendered World War 1 romantic illustration of a Soldier and a Parisian woman. Even though this wo...
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1930s Romantic Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Erte (Roman de Tirtoff) Original Set Design for the Opera Dreams of Vienna
By Erté
Located in San Francisco, CA
Erte Roman de Tirtoff:1892-1990. Well listed and very important Russian artist. Most famous for his set decorations and art deco design. He has an auc...
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1940s Art Deco Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Art Deco Flapper Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Original Vintage 1920's Ink and Watercolor Fashion Illustration by listed New England artist Harriette (Nutting) Cooper (1901 - 2002).
The illustration depicts a lovely young flappe...
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1920s Art Deco Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Parisian Fashion Model - Mid-Century - Female Artist Vogue Magazine ?
By Ruth Sigrid Grafstrom
Located in Miami, FL
An elegantly rendered mid-century Parisian model with a stylish hat is masterfully rendered by American female illustrator Ruth Sigrid Grafstrom ...
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1940s Feminist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Charcoal Drawing Abstract Teeth Bone Erica Child Prudhomme American Woman Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Tooth (from Bone Drawings series)
1994
charcoal drawing on paper
11 x 14 inches
Charcoal study of abstract teeth (perfect for a dentist office!)
Erica Prudhomme learned some of the basics from her artist father and his brother, Charles and Paul Child...
Category
1990s Naturalistic Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Show Girl with Fantasy Horse, Fashion Illustration in Blue and Black
Located in Miami, FL
This Drawing has a sketch on the reverse as well as handwritten notes, one of which reads "On loan from the Freddy Wittop's private collection." Costume designer Freddy Wittop won a Tony Award for his work on "Hello, Dolly!" and was also the recipient of a TDF Irene Sharaff...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys
Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
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1940s American Realist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Casein
Summertime - original large blue nude by Paula Craioveanu 39x27in
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Summertime", pencil and ultramarine tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse.
Part of Nude in Interior series.
Large drawing. Shipped rolled in a tube.
Artist Statement
"I started by ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Pencil
$560 Sale Price
20% Off
“The Gesturing Man”
By Benjamin Stahl
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a gesturing old man by the well known American artist Benjamin Stahl. Condition is very good. Two spots of foxing or staining to the left of the figure. Very slight wrinkling of paper. Otherwise, no other issues. Circa 1970. Gallery wide linen matted and framed with a thin silver leaf frame. Overall framed measurements are 19.5 by 20 inches. Provenance: A Nokomis, Florida collector.
Ben Stahl
Biography
Born in Chicago in 1910, Ben Stahl was introduced to the world of art by his grandmother. She took him on visits to the Chicago Art Institute and other galleries beginning when he was six years old and continuing until he was fifteen. After these adventures she would buy him oilcloth, brushes, and paints, and he would create “masterpieces” on the front porch of the family home.
Stahl also read voraciously, which did not translate into academic excellence. However, when he was in seventh grade, he received a scholarship to attend Saturday morning lectures at the Chicago Art Institute. He would spend his Saturday afternoons drawing live animals at the Lincoln Park Zoo and the stuffed variety at the Field Museum, honing his knowledge of animal anatomy.
After high school, Stahl got a job as an apprentice at a commercial art studio. One of the partners, realizing Stahl was ambitious and talented, encouraged him to draw and paint to create a portfolio. It was the contents of this portfolio that landed him a job at Chicago’s most prestigious art studio. During his time there and at other studios, plus a stint as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News, Stahl continued to develop a unique style, influenced by the Impressionists, which he felt would carry the mood and the emotional impact of commercial illustrations.
Ironically, Stahl’s first assignment for The Saturday Evening Post was to illustrate a sea story – this for an artist who had never seen either the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans! The editors liked his work, and there followed four years of marine-themed assignments. Eventually Stahl asked for a change, so his next assignment was set in the desert – which he had also never seen.
He was being noticed, however, and eventually he decided to move to New York and become a freelance illustrator. He illustrated over 750 stories for the Post along with a number of other magazines, and he continued to explore new approaches in his easel painting.
In 1951, Stahl was commissioned to paint "The 14 Stations of the Cross...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Varicose Wyn. Work on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Varicose Wyn, 1989 - 2012 by Judith Mason
Pencil on paper
Frame size: 12 H x 10.5 W x 1 D in.
Image size: 9 H x 7.5 W in.
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Judith Mason born Judith Seel...
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2010s Post-Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"To the left" 2024 signed original acrylic ink watercolor work on paper 26x38 in
By Luis Miguel Valdes
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949)
'To the left, woman', 2024
acrylic, ink and watercolor on paper
25.6 x 37.8 in. (65 x 96 cm.)
Hand-signed by author
_________________________________...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
Environmental Prognostication Coil Narrative "Homo Sapiens R.I.P."
Located in Miami, FL
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot," Joni Mitchell said. - - Created in 1969, at the dawn of the American environmental movement, artist Richard Erdoes draws a sequential narrative in the form of a coil. From inception to destruction, it illustrates a list of things that humans are doing to destroy the world we live in. The work was commissioned for school-age humans and executed in a whimsically comic way. Yet the underlying narrative is sophisticated and foreshadows a world that could be on the brink of ecological disaster.
Graphically and conceptually, this work exhibits an endless amount of creativity and Erdoes cartoony style is one to fall in love with.
Signed lower right. Unframed 12.4 inches Width: 12.85 inches Height is the live area. Board is 16x22 inches.
Richard Erdoes (Hungarian Erdős, German Erdös; July 7, 1912 – July 16, 2008) was an American artist, photographer, illustrator and author.
Early life
Erdoes was born in Frankfurt,to Maria Josefa Schrom on July 7, 1912. His father, Richárd Erdős Sr., was a Jewish Hungarian opera singer who had died a few weeks earlier in Budapest on June 9, 1912.After his birth, his mother lived with her sister, the Viennese actress Leopoldine ("Poldi") Sangora,He described himself as "equal parts Austrian, Hungarian and German, as well as equal parts Catholic, Protestant and Jew..."[4]
Career
He was a student at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power. He was involved in a small underground paper where he published anti-Hitler political cartoons which attracted the attention of the Nazi regime. He fled Germany with a price on his head. Back in Vienna, he continued his training at the Kunstgewerbeschule, now the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.[5] He also wrote and illustrated children's books and worked as a caricaturist for Tag and Stunde, anti-Nazi newspapers. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he fled again, first to Paris, where he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and then London, England before journeying to the United States. He married his first wife, fellow artist Elsie Schulhof (d. xxxx) in London, shortly before their arrival in New York City.
In New York City, Erdoes enjoyed a long career as a commercial artist, and was known for his highly detailed, whimsical drawings. He created illustrations for such magazines as Stage, Fortune, Pageant, Gourmet, Harper's Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Time, National Geographic and Life Magazine, where he met his second wife, Jean Sternbergh (d. 1995) who was an art director there. The couple married in 1951 and had three children.[6] Erdoes also illustrated many children's books.
An assignment for Life in 1967 took Erdoes to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the first time, and marked the beginning of the work for which he would be best known. Erdoes was fascinated by Native American culture, outraged at the conditions on the reservation and deeply moved by the Civil Rights Movement that was raging at the time. He wrote histories, collections of Native American stories...
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1960s American Realist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board
New York City 2 original work on Japanese paper color pastel collage charcoal
By Bernardo Navarro Tomas
Located in Miami, FL
Bernardo Navarro Tomas (Cuba, 1977)
'Untitled', 2017
mixed media on japanese paper
12.3 x 17 in. (31 x 43 cm.)
ID: NAA-302
Hand-signed by author
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Fabric, Oil Pastel, Pastel
Street Costumes, Gay Nineties Fashion - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Street Costumes by Ruth Kreps.
Signed lower right.
Most likely for a book published in the 1930's about turn of the century women's fashion. "Costume Design of the Gay Nineties" T...
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1930s Academic Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Board
Oedipus And The Sphinx
By Eugene Berman
Located in Miami, FL
Initialed in cartouche bottom center
Provenance: Robert L. B. Tobin Foundation
Matted but Unframed
Category
1960s Surrealist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, India Ink
Androscoggin River Falls, study for The Manufacturers National Bank of Lewiston-
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Miami, FL
If there ever were a perfect work in the canon of art history, this masterpiece study by Dean Cornwell would be it. Every line has meaning and not a line out of place, as Cornwell d...
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1950s American Realist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Leda and the Swan
By Reuben Nakian
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, 1897-1986
Reuben Nakian, born August 10, 1897 in College Point, New York enjoyed a long and distinguished career, maintaining his innovative spirit and creativity over mor...
Category
1980s Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
German Expressionist Drawing, Watercolor Painting Jules Pascin Cuba Scene 1910
By Jules Pascin
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: German Expressionist
Subject: Woman, Cuban Scene
Medium: watercolor paint, ink or pencil
Surface: Paper
This is hand signed lower right.
There is an inscription at bottom e...
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1910s Expressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Fashion Illustration with Two Leggy Models in Monochromatic Greys
Located in Miami, FL
Two elegant and leggy models are rendered and meticulously designed in this illustration for Geoffrey Beene. Miyake's composition is one model as two or two models as one. We see th...
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1960s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Carbon Pencil
The Yellow Jacket, Portrait Painting
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink
Untitled IV, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled IV, 1992 by Enrique Grau
Graphite on ight cardboard
Image size: 17 in H x 14 in W
Frame size: 32 in H × 28.5 in W × 2 D in
Signed and dated in th...
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1980s Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Cardboard
Showgirl (Chorus Girl drawing)
By Elmer Pirson
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Elmer Pirson (1988-1935). Color pencil and paint on paper. Sheet measures 10.5 x 14 inches. Unframed and unmounted. Estate stamp on verso. Excellent condition.
An American Illustrator and painter, Elmer William Pirson was born in 1888 in New York.
Artistically, he is known to have studied under George Bridgman and James Earle Fraser...
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Early 20th Century Realist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Pastel on paper Shtetl Scene
By Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan
Located in Surfside, FL
Pastel or Tempera on paper. Judaica Shtetl scene of village.
Anatoli Lwowitch Kaplan was a Russian painter, sculptor and printmaker, whose works often reflect his Jewish origins.
h...
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20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
New York City 6 original work on Japanese paper color pastel collage charcoal
By Bernardo Navarro Tomas
Located in Miami, FL
Bernardo Navarro Tomas (Cuba, 1977)
'Untitled', 2017
mixed media on japanese paper
12.3 x 17 in. (31 x 43 cm.)
ID: NAA-306
Hand-signed by author
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Pastel
Vogue Magazine Hi Fashion Illustration (Stephen Sprouse)
By Antonio Lopez
Located in Miami, FL
Vogue Magazine Fashion Illustration (Stephen Sprouse)
Antonio's mature style is on full display with a few quick strokes of the brush he is exemplifying the epitome of style and clas...
Category
1980s Impressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
New York City 8 original work on Japanese paper color pastel collage charcoal
By Bernardo Navarro Tomas
Located in Miami, FL
Bernardo Navarro Tomas (Cuba, 1977)
'Untitled', 2017
mixed media on japanese paper
12.3 x 17 in. (31 x 43 cm.)
ID: NAA-308
Hand-signed by author
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Pencil
“Afternoon Stroll”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor of a hunter and his dog taking a late afternoon stroll in the countryside. Signed middle bottom and dated 1852 or 1853 J. Hamilto...
Category
1850s Academic Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,400 Sale Price
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Maud Stumm Pair of original 19th Century Ladies Golf Watercolors
Located in San Francisco, CA
Maud Stumm: 1866-1935. Fabulous pair of rare antique watercolors by the listed American artist Maud Stumm. She studied at the Art Students League in NYC. Her watercolors were shown at the most prestigious settings of the time such as the Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts...
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1890s Realist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
STUDY OF FERGUSON RIOT COPS
By Robert Longo
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, titled and dated by the artist. Original ink and charcoal on vellum paper. Framed size approx 30.75 x 34 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Acquired by our g...
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2010s Pop Art Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Saturday Night with Artists Karen Kilimnik and Elizabeth Peyton painting
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Category
2010s Pop Art Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper
Chaim Gross Mid Century Mod Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbis WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
Chaim Gross (American, 1904-1991)
Watercolor painting
Rabbinical Talmudic Discussion
Hand signed
17 x 29 framed, paper 10 x 22
Chaim Gross (March 17, 1904 – May 5, 1991) was an ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Watercolor Painting "Passages in Darkness" NYC Businessmen
By Elinore Schnurr-Colflesh
Located in Surfside, FL
Schnurr has an art studio in Long Island City, Queens, New York.
Over the years she has exhibited widely. Her most recent solo shows were at the H. Pelham Curtis Gallery at the New Canaan Library in New Canaan, Connecticut and the Dougherty Gallery at Crescent Grill in Long Island City, both in 2014; in 2011 she
was one of four artists representing the United States in Nordart 2011 at Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Budelsdorf, Germany. Previous solo exhibitions were at the Atlanta Art...
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1980s American Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Shtetl Interior, Cheyder
By Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan
Located in Surfside, FL
Pastel or Tempera on paper. Judaica Shtetl scene of village.
Anatoli Lwowitch Kaplan was a Russian painter, sculptor and printmaker, whose works often reflect his Jewish origins.
h...
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20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Tempera
“The Pink Parasol”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed oil pastel on archival paper done in the style of the French Impressionists. Circa 1985. Condition is excellent. Illegible signed lower left. Possibly the arti...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
$1,280 Sale Price
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Allan Rohan Crite Pair of Female nude drawings
Located in San Francisco, CA
Allan Rohan Crite: 1910-2007. Very well listed and important african-American artist. He has Auction results as high as $20,000 for a drawing. He lived and worked most of his life in...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
SIESTA - original ultramarine large nude by Paula Craioveanu inspired Matisse
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Siesta", 100x70cm / 39x27.5in Nude in Interior, pencil and ultramarine tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse.
Large drawing. Shipped rolled in a tube, from Florida, US.
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"Siesta" is a serene and visually arresting addition to the "Nude in Interior" series. It conveys a quiet intimacy and relaxation, perfectly encapsulated in its title. The reclining female figure, with legs elegantly extended upward, creates a sense of balance between stillness and subtle energy. The interplay of ultramarine tempera and the warm-toned paper once again demonstrates the artist’s ability to use limited color palettes to great emotional and visual effect.
The ochre-like background provides a sunlit, tranquil atmosphere that pairs beautifully with the cool, calm energy of the ultramarine tempera. The artist’s choice of medium emphasizes contrast while imbuing the piece with a harmonious duality—warmth in the environment and coolness in the figure. The fluidity of the brushstrokes aligns with the theme of relaxation, while the vertical drips lend a dreamlike quality, as if the figure is melting into her surroundings. The looser strokes in the background contrast with the more defined lines of the figure, highlighting her as the focal point.
The unconventional reclining pose, with legs extended upward, adds visual interest and a sense of lightheartedness to the piece. It suggests a playful yet completely relaxed moment, as though the figure is unwinding and stretching in the midst of a private, comfortable setting. The verticality of the legs and the drips juxtaposes with the horizontal lines in the background, creating a sense of structure and stability. This geometric balance anchors the composition and enhances the overall sense of calm. The artist has included abstract horizontal strokes in the background, reminiscent of blinds or a window. These subtle details suggest an interior space filled with sunlight and add depth without detracting from the figure’s prominence.
The title, "Siesta," reinforces the narrative of rest and tranquility. The figure’s pose is unapologetically casual and unguarded, evoking the vulnerability and freedom found in moments of private repose. While other works in the series explore themes of introspection, passion, or desire, this piece focuses purely on physical and emotional relaxation. It offers a more subdued, meditative perspective, providing variety to the series while maintaining its stylistic coherence.
The reclining nude is a recurring motif in art history, seen in works by Titian, Ingres, and Modigliani. However, this piece’s contemporary execution—fluid, minimalist, and abstracted—ties it more closely to modernist traditions, particularly the gestural energy of Egon Schiele or Matisse’s reclining nudes. The artist’s decision to leave much of the environment abstract enhances the piece’s timeless quality. The figure feels anchored in both a specific space (suggested by the window-like strokes) and an almost dreamlike, universal realm.
"Siesta" is a masterful exploration of rest and serenity, demonstrating the artist’s ability to convey mood through form, color, and composition. The elegant simplicity of the figure, combined with the abstracted interior elements, invites the viewer to share in this peaceful moment. Its balance of gestural abstraction and classical themes makes it both timeless and distinctly modern. This piece is a beautiful representation of intimacy, calm, and the universal human experience of seeking rest.
Artist Statement
"I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now.
As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space.
My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair.
Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Pencil, Archival Paper
WW1 1925 Original Artwork
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rare example of WW1 art signed and dated 1925. Image shows either a French or American soldier after having shot a German soldier.Signature is illegible.. Piec...
Category
1920s Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Polish French Judaica Watercolor Gouache Painting Original Bauhaus Yiddish Art
By Moses Bagel Bahelfer
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Bahelfer BAGEL (1908-1995)
Moses Bagel (born Moshe Bahelfer) was a Polish-born Jewish artist and graphic designer associated with the original Bauhaus and then the School of Pa...
Category
20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, ABS
Rare Israeli Modernist Judaica Watercolor Painting on Lithograph Naftali Bezem
By Naftali Bezem
Located in Surfside, FL
Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נפתלי בזם; born November 27, 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor.
Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. His early adolescence was spent ...
Category
20th Century Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Outdoor Market WPA sketch
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
David Margolis (b.1911). Outdoor Market, ca. 1935. Charcoal on paper, image measures 7 x 9.5 inches. Framed measurement 13 x 15.5 inches. Signed lower right.
David Margolis (Septem...
Category
1930s Realist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Watercolor Painting Road Signs, Load Limit, Aaron Bohrod WPA Artist Chicago Art
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Surfside, FL
Aaron Bohrod (1907-1992)
Listed Wisconsin WPA American Artist
Original Watercolor Painting
Hand signed "Load Limit Bridge"
Dimensions: 24"x18" inches
Aaron Bohrod (1907 – 1992) was an American artist best known for his trompe-l'œil still-life paintings. This one presages Pop Art with its depiction of road signs.
Bohrod was born in Chicago in 1907, the son of an emigree Bessarabian-Jewish grocer. Bohrod studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York between 1926 and 1930. While at the Art Students League, Bohrod was influenced by John Sloan and chose themes that involved his own surroundings.
He returned to Chicago in 1930 where he painted views of the city and its working class. During the Great Depression, Schwartz became an artist on the Federal Art Project (WPA) payroll painting murals. He was one of the seven WPA artists who contributed to a mural at Riccardo's, Schwartz (Music), Malvin Albright (Sculpture), Ivan Albright (Drama), Aaron Bohrod (Architecture), Rudolph Weisenborn (Literature), Vincent D’Agostino (Painting), and Ric Riccardo (Dance).
Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, William Gropper, Ilya Bolotowsky, Stuart Davis, Adolf Dehn, Ben Shahn and Louis Schanker. In 2002 Chicago philanthropist Seymour H. Persky acquired the murals for his personal collection. He eventually earned a Guggenheim Fellowships which permitted him to travel throughout the country, painting and recording the American scene. His early work won him widespread praise as an important social realist and regional painter and printmaker and his work was marketed through Associated American Artists in New York. Bohrod completed three commissioned murals for the Treasury Departments Section of Fine Arts in Illinois; Vandalia in 1935, Galesburg in 1938 and Clinton in 1939. During World War II, Bohrod worked as an artist; first in the Pacific for the United States Army Corps of Engineers' War Art Unit...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Set of 6 Watercolour on paper from the Battle Series.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This set of drawings has been like a Covid-19 diary of one woman and her domestic realm. Simone de Beauvoir, the century's most iconic feminist scholar, called the burden of women's ...
Category
2010s Abstract Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Splash" 2024 signed original acrylic ink watercolor work on paper 26x38 in
By Luis Miguel Valdes
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949)
'Splash', 2024
acrylic, ink and watercolor on paper
25.6 x 37.8 in. (65 x 96 cm.)
Hand-signed by author
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Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
"A Different Sun" 2024 original acrylic ink watercolor work on paper 26x38 in
By Luis Miguel Valdes
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949)
'Looking at a different sun', 2024
acrylic, ink and watercolor on paper
25.6 x 37.8 in. (65 x 96 cm.)
Hand-signed by author
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Category
2010s Contemporary Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
“The Dress Rehearsal”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a ballet rehearsal by the American artist Grace Haverty signed lower left with Transparent Watercolor Society of American to the right of sig...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Florida - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
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