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Item Ships From: London
Male Torso
By John Koch
Located in London, GB
Pencil, coloured pencil and chalk on paper, titled (lower left), signed (lower right), 31cm x 46cm, (51cm x 68cm framed).
John Koch was an American painter and teacher, and an impo...
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1950s American Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil, Color Pencil
La Promenade by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing, Pastel, Charcoal, Landscape
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
La Promenade by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Charcoal and pastel on paper
49.5 x 63.5 cm (19 ⅜ x 25 inches)
Signed lower left, Manzana
Executed circa 1920
This work is accom...
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1920s Art Deco London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
Dans La Loge
By Dimitri Bouchene
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper, signed (lower left), 63cm x 49cm (framed 75cm x 60cm).
Bouchéne was a Russian artist and costume and set designer for theatre, opera and ballet. Primarily working ...
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1920s Art Deco London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Les Tilleuls de L'Avenue de la Mer by H. Claude Pissarro - Post-Impressionism
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Les Tilleuls de L'Avenue de la Mer by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Sketch of Three Figures
Located in London, GB
Benjamin Robert Haydon
1786 - 1846
Sketch of Three Figures
Pen and ink on paper,
Image size: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (25 x 20 cm)
Acid Free mount, original frame
Provenance
Private Col...
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18th Century English School London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
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...
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1920s Art Deco London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Drawing of a captive woman
By Henry Fuseli
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Sir Thomas Lawrence, who acquired the contents of Fuseli’s studio;
Susan, Countess of Guilford, née Coutts (1771-1837), acquired from the Lawrence estate;
Susan, Baroness North (1797-1884), daughter of the above;
Mrs A. M. Jaffé, acquired in France, c. 1950 to 2016.
Black chalks, on buff-coloured paper
Stamped verso: ‘Baroness Norths Collection / of Drawings by H Fuseli Esq.’
Framed dimensions: 26.38 x 20.63 inches
This boldly drawn sheet depicting a seated figure was made by Fuseli at an important and highly productive moment in his career. The monumental drawing is closely related to another sheet by Fuseli in the British Museum which Schiff published as subject unknown. Both drawings were made when Fuseli was designing his most important sequence of historical works, including scenes from Shakespeare and Milton, The Nightmare and The Death of Dido which was exhibited at the Royal Academy to great critical acclaim in 1781. The present drawing does not relate directly to any of Fuseli’s finished historical paintings of the period, but evidently the image of a slightly menacing, seated and covered old woman was precisely the sort of motif he was playing with. It is notable that the same figure reappears later in Fuseli’s work as the witch from Ben Jonson’s Witch’s Song which Fuseli produced as both a painting and engraving in 1812.
Fuseli returned to London in 1779 from a highly creative and productive period in Rome and established himself as one of the leading history painters of the period. Fuseli re-established contact with his old mentor Sir Joshua Reynolds, becoming a regular guest at his dinner table and visitor to his studio. The earliest and most striking manifestation of this strategy was Fuseli's Death of Dido, exhibited in 1781 at the Royal Academy. Executed on the same scale as Reynolds's version (Royal Collection), Fuseli's vertically oriented picture was hung directly opposite Reynolds's with its horizontal orientation, inevitably inviting comparison between the two works and garnering Fuseli much publicity and favourable reviews in the newspapers.
The present, previously unpublished sheet, relates closely to a drawing now in the British Museum. That sheet shows the same seated old woman, drawn on a smaller scale and more schematic in design, seated next to an anatomical drawing of a man. The pose of this figure is related to the pose of Dido in his Death of Dido; the foreshortened torso, arrangement of head, oblique view of Dido’s features and arms all suggest that the study can be viewed as an initial thought for the composition. Fuseli may have initially thought of including the figure of the hunched and covered old woman. Drawn on identical paper to the British Museum sheet, our study is an enlarged depiction of the same figure, more elaborately delineated and developed. The presence of a chain to the right of the figure, suggests that the iconography was related in some way to a scene of imprisonment.
Fuseli had first explored the motif of the hooded old woman in an early Roman drawing, 'The Venus Seller'. The idea of a grotesque old woman, hooded and with angular nose and projecting chin seen in profile was most spectacularly used by Fuseli in his sequence of paintings depicting The Three Witches from Macbeth. Fuseli seems to have kept the present sheet and may have returned to it when preparing a painting of The Witch and the Mandrake from Ben Jonson’s Witch’s Song from his Masque of Queens in 1812. Here the same seated figure looks out from under her hood and picks a mandrake by moonlight. Jonson’s drama had been performed at the court of James I in 1609, inspired the subject. To throw the nobility of the queens into relief, the poet added a coven of witches, one of whom declares: ‘I last night lay all alone, On the ground, to hear the mandrake groan; And plucked him up, though he grew full low, And, as I had done, the cock did crow.’ The figure was reversed in the associated etching which was published in 1812. It seems likely that the present drawing remained as part of Fuseli’s working archive of figure studies.
The present drawing was presumably purchased with the bulk of Fuseli’s drawings after the artist’s death by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Lawrence’s large group of Fuseli drawings were then acquired by Susan, Countess of Guildford (1771-1837). Lady Guildford was the eldest daughter of the banker Thomas Coutts (1735-1822), who himself had supported Fuseli’s journey to Rome in the 1770s and had remained one of the artist’s key...
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18th Century Old Masters London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Paysage de l'Aven by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour, Coastal scene
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Paysage de l'Aven by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and pencil on paper
27 x 38 cm (10 ⅝ x 15 inches)
Signed lower right, Ludovic Rodo
Executed circa 1904
This work ...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Cricket: Defending the Wicket, 1930s vintage poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Defending the Wicket
Airbrush and pen
13 x 13 cm
c.1930
Signed to the bottom right
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a Bri...
Category
1930s Realist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Le Pont Neuf
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Le Pont Neuf', gouache on fine art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BC, the birthplace of Paris. It is called 'The New Bridge' because at the time of its inauguration (built 1578-1607), it embodied a very modern look compared to other bridges which spanned the Seine. Lucien Génin has captured its beauty in this lively depiction from the 1930s. Just before the bridge is a 'Bateau Mouche' an open excursion boat that provides visitors with a view of the city from along the river. The artwork is in good overall condition commensurate with age and medium used. It has been newly frame with anti-reflective glass. Please enjoy the photos accompanying this listing. Signed by the artist in the lower left hand. Upon request a video may be provided.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...
Category
1930s Expressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Moroccan Woman with Girl by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Work on paper
By Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Moroccan Woman with Girl, Pastel with Gold and Silver on Paper
Pastel with gold and silver on paper
47 x 62cm (18 ½ x 24 ⅜ inches)
Signed lower right, Manzana Pissarro
Painted circa ...
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1940s Art Deco London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Les Jardins de Monte-Carlo by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel, Post-Impressionist
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Les Jardins de Monte-Carlo by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower right, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a ce...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Smithfield Cattle Show, 1930s art deco poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Smithfield Cattle Show
Airbrush and gouache
26 x 33 cm
c.1930
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist, illustra...
Category
1930s Realist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Marseille by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel on Card
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Marseille by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⅝ x 20 ⅛ inches)
Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authentic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
The Death of Attis, 18th Century French Red Chalk Drawing, Greek Mythology
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper
Image size: 9 x 7 inches (23 x 17.75 cm)
Acid free mount
The Greek god Attis was the spouse of Cybele, the fertility goddess. He was from Phrygia, a kingdom in c...
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18th Century French School London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
HUMAN ATMOSPHERE Retro-study 1 - contemporary artwork, emerging artist
By Michael Pemberton
Located in London, GB
In this collection, British painter Michael Pemberton (b. 1974) suggests we each have a personal HUMAN ATMOSPHERE. An ether where we truly exist, unseen by the naked eye but as real ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Running Men
Located in London, GB
Graphite and coloured pencil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 36cm x 44cm, (45cm x 53cm framed). The picture is behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass.
Throughout h...
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1990s Contemporary London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil
Artists and their muses
Located in London, GB
Playboy School, 20th Century
Artists and their muses: Titian and Violante; Sir Peter Lely and Nell Gwyn; Francois Boucher and Louise O’Murphy; Hogarth, Nell...
Category
1980s Romantic London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Paysage à Chippenfield by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Landscape watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Paysage à Chippenfield by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
23 x 33 cm (9 x 13 inche...
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1910s Post-Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
20th century British Drawing - Les Deux Landaises (Evening)
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in London, GB
Pencil on paper
Signed 'G.L. Brockhurst’ (lower right)
Drawn c.1920
Collections:
The Fine Art Society, London, 1981;
Mr & Mrs Alan Fortunoff, acquired from the above;
Private col...
Category
20th Century London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Study for Batavia (The Woodcutters)
By Serge Ferat (Sergei Nicolaevitch Comte de Jastrebtsov)
Located in London, GB
SERGE FERAT 1881-1958
(Le Comte Sergueï Yastrebzov) Moscow 1881-1958 Paris (Russian/French)
Title: Study for Batavia (The Woodcutters), circa 1926
Technique: Original Pencil D...
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1920s Cubist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Diggers in Ashford by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Ink on paper
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
The Diggers in Ashford by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Ink on paper
22.6 x 17.3 cm (8 ⅞ x 6 ¾ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower left
Inscribed and dated 191...
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1910s London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Port de Honfleur by Paulémile Pissarro - Watercolour
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Port de Honfleur by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Watercolour and crayon on paper
31.5 x 47.7 cm (12 ³/₈ x 18 ³/₄ inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile Pissarro
Executed circa 1925
...
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1920s London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor
Grand Arbre dans la Sente by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Grand Arbre dans la Sente by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
28 x 38 cm (11 x 15 inches)
Signed lower right, Ludovic Rodo
Inscribed lower left, Grand A...
Category
1910s Fauvist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Studies of Man with Arms Raised
By Robert Colquhoun
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, 56cm x 38cm, (79cm x 60cm framed). Provenance: The Artist’s sister.
From the mid-1940s to the early 1950s Colquhoun was considered one of the leading artists of his generation. Along with that of Robert MacBryde, another artist and Colquhoun’s partner, his work was regularly shown at the Lefevre Gallery in London. This early work is likely to be a drawing from when Colquhoun was at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1930s.
Known as the ‘Two Roberts’, Colquhoun and MacBryde met at the Glasgow School of Art in 1932 and lived together until Colquhoun’s death in 1962. The pair also exhibited in several group shows at the Lefevre Gallery, including one in February 1946, alongside Ben Nicholson, Graham Sutherland, Bacon and Freud. Works were bought by the Arts Council, the British Council, the Contemporary Art Society and the Imperial War Museum. Major art patrons added their work to their collections, including Sir Kenneth Clark...
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1930s Post-War London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Academic Study (Archer)
Located in London, GB
Jean Durand, (French 1894-1977) Academic Study (Centaur), c.1930s, Charcoal on paper, studio stamp (lower right), 32cm x 48cm (63cm x 46cm framed.) The picture is framed behind museu...
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1930s Art Deco London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Triptych: The Olympic Games, Modern British Drawing, Ancient Greek, Nude
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size of rectangular works: 33 x 43 inches (84 x 109 cm)
Image size of arched central work: 38 1/4 x 29 inches (97 x 73.5 cm)
Provenance
Private Collection of Seymour Stein, Vice President of Warner Bros Records
Sotheby's 'Modern British and Irish Art,' London, 19 May 2004, lot 92
The three impressive drawings are studies for Stroudley’s ‘Olympic Games in a Demi-Lune’. From left to right the studies depict groups of athletes practicing diving, a conversing crowd of oarsmen, hurdlers mid jump and a collection of javelin throwers. This study was created in 1930 when Stroudley practiced in the British School in Rome. There are few surviving works from Stroudley’s short stay in Rome, with the compositions from his Rome period being among the last wholly successful decorative cycles produced by a Rome Scholar prior to World War II. Indeed, as can be seen here, his drawings from this period are technically brilliant and even bear comparison with those of Eric Kennington.
James Stroudley
Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker, paid homage to Stroudley by including his work in the exhibition ‘Pupil & Masters’, held at Westgate House, Long Melford, Suffolk.
Stroudley married three times, and his wives included the fashion artist to the Sun newspaper...
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1930s Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Le marché aux bestiaux by Paulémile Pissarro - Watercolour and ink on paper
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Le marché aux bestiaux by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Watercolour and ink on paper
23.7 x 31.2 cm (9 ³/₈ x 12 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower right, Paul-Émile Pissarro
Executed circa 19...
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1910s Post-Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Pinkie
By Klara Kristalova
Located in New York, NY
Kristalova is best known for her figurative ceramic sculptures that incorporate aspects of the human body and elements of nature. Across her oeuvre, she explores transition as a stag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Hats, 1930s art deco poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Hats
Airbrush and pen
50 x 32 cm
c.1930
Stamped signature
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist, illustrator...
Category
1930s Realist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Xmas Gifts, 1930s vintage poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Xmas Gifts
Airbrush and pen
50 x 32 cm
c.1930
Stamped signature
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist, illu...
Category
1930s Realist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Presents for George, Mary & Gladys, 1930s art deco poster design
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Presents for George, Mary & Gladys
Gouache and collage
46 x 33 cm
c.1930
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist...
Category
1930s Art Deco London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
View over the Bridge, watercolour by George Bissill
Located in London, GB
George Bissill (1896-1973)
View over the bridge
Watercolour
18 x 22 cm
Born in 1896, George Bissill was a British miner, painter and furniture designer. Raised in the mining vill...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Consecration of a Church 15th Century English School Illuminated Manuscript
Located in London, GB
English School
15th Century
The Consecration of a Church
Illuminated manuscript on Vellum
Image size: 5 ½ x 5 inches (14 x 12.7 cm)
18th century ornate Tabernacle frame
Category
15th Century and Earlier London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Vellum
Les Autobus du Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Les Autobus du Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Work on paper by Maximilien Luce titled Ouvrier au Travail
By Maximilien Luce
Located in London, GB
Ouvrier au Travail by MAXIMILIEN LUCE (1858 - 1941)
Black pencil on paper
29 x 17 cm (11 ³/₈ x 6 ³/₄ inches)
Signed lower right, Luce
Sold unframed
Maximilien Luce was born in Pari...
Category
20th Century London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Reclining Woman with Horseriders - Chinese American Art Watercolour Ink
By Walasse Ting
Located in London, GB
WALASSE TING (1929-2010) [Ding Xiongquan]
Wuxi 1929 – 2010 New York (Chinese/American)
Title: Reclining Woman with Horseriders
Technique: Stamp Signed Watercolour on Handmade Pape...
Category
20th Century London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
City View by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Landscape painting
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
City View by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
17.8 x 22.9 cm (7 x 9 inches)
Signed with Estate stamp
Executed circa 1904
Provenance
Priv...
Category
Early 1900s Fauvist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Le Café
By Catherine Garros
Located in London, GB
'Le Café', watercolour on paper, by Catherine Garros (circa 1990s). Many people's idea of heaven is being seated at an outdoor café somewhere in one o...
Category
1990s London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
20th Century Watercolour Painting - At the Fish Market
By William Lee Hankey
Located in London, GB
William LEE-HANKEY (1869-1952, British)
At the Fish Market
1904
pencil, watercolor, bodycolor w/gum arabic
20 x 20 inches, inc. frame
Provenance: The Swan Gallery...
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Early 20th Century Romantic London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Emile's Tavern
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Emile's Tavern', gouache on paper (circa 1930s), by Lucien Génin. A tavern in French is called a 'guinguette'. With the rise in living standards from the 1860s along with the develo...
Category
1930s Expressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Vase de fleurs by Paul Ranson, Pastel on paper, Still life, Drawing
By Paul Elie Ranson
Located in London, GB
Vase de fleurs by Paul Ranson (1864-1909)
Pastel on paper
46.5 x 41.5 cm (18 ¹/₄ x 16 ³/₈ inches)
Signed lower right, P. Ranson
Executed circa 1900
Proven...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
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 London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil, Ink
Les Équipages de l'Allée Acacias by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel
Located in London, GB
Les Équipages de l'Allée Acacias by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Chimera I
By Michael Leonard
Located in London, GB
Michael Leonard, (British b.1933), Chimera I, 1975, Graphite pencil on paper, initialled (lower left), signed and dated (lower right), 15cm x 14cm, (35cm x 32cm framed)
Michael Leon...
Category
1970s Post-War London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Fantasy
By Bela Kadar
Located in London, GB
BELA KADAR 1877-1956
Budapest 1877-1956 (Hungarian)
Title: Fantasy, circa 1940
Technique: Original Hand Signed Gouache on paper
size: 46.2 x 29.4 cm / 18.2 x 11.6 in
Additional Information: This work is a guache painting by the famous Hungarian artist Bela Kadar.
It is hand signed in pencil "Kadar Bela" in the lower right corner of the paper.
Exhibitions:
New York, Shepherd & Derom Galleries, Hungarian Modernism, 29 April-2 July 2010, no.12.
Tel Aviv, Galerie le Minotaure...
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1940s Cubist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Primordium Vitae - Late 19th Cent Scottish Celtic Revival Symbolist watercolour
By Robert Traill Rose
Located in London, GB
ROBERT TRAILL ROSE
(1863-1942)
Primordium Vitae
Signed with monogram; signed, inscribed with title and the artist’s address and dated 1899 on a labe...
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1890s Symbolist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Final Stretch
By Maurice EMPI
Located in London, GB
'The Final Stretch', pastel on weighted art paper, by Maurice Empi (circa 1980s). One can almost feel the excitement of the horse race from this exuberant and colourful work of art. ...
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1980s Expressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Lull Between Raids - Second World War drawing by Cecil Keeling
Located in London, GB
Cecil Keeling
Prisoner of War Camp
Pen, ink and wash
22 x 16 cm
Initialled lower right
This poignant work depicts a quiet moment between raids. Three soldiers sit in a row at ease. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Uxbridge Road, London by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - City scene watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Uxbridge Road, London by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour on paper
23.5 x 31 cm (9 ¹/₄ x 12 ¹/₄ inches)
Titled and dated lower left; initialled and inscribed lower right...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Farmhouse View, pencil sketch by George Bissill
Located in London, GB
George Bissill (1896-1973)
Farmhouse view
Pencil sketch
18 x 25 cm
Born in 1896, George Bissill was a British miner, painter and furniture designer. Raised in the mining village o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
View of the Village Church, pencil sketch by George Bissill
Located in London, GB
George Bissill (1896-1973)
View of the village church
Pencil sketch
13 x 18 cm
Born in 1896, George Bissill was a British miner, painter and furniture designer. Raised in the mini...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Les Parasols Blancs - Montmartre by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel on Card
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Les Parasols Blancs - Montmartre by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
51 x 37 cm (20 ⅛ x 14 ⅝ inches)
Signed lower middle, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Four Gloucestershire Cottages, pencil sketch by George Bissill
Located in London, GB
George Bissill (1896-1973)
Four Gloucestershire Cottages
Pencil sketch
28 x 38 cm
Born in 1896, George Bissill was a British miner, painter and furniture designer. Raised in the m...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Infighting, Ink Sketch, 20th Century British Artist, Framed
By Samuel Rabin
Located in London, GB
Ink on lined paper
Image size: 3 x 2 3/4 inches (8 x 7 cm)
Hand made frame
Sam Rabin
Samuel (Sam) Rabin, originally Samuel Rabinovitch, was an English sculptor, artist, teacher, singer, wrestler and Olympic bronze medallist. Rabin, who was Jewish, was born Samuel Rabinovitch on 20 June 1903 at Dewhurst Street, Cheetham, North Manchester. His parents were both Russian Jewish exiles from Vitebsk (now in Belarus).
During his childhood, the family moved to Salford where Rabin grew up and where his parents encouraged his talent for drawing. In 1914 Rabin won a scholarship to the Manchester Municipal School of Art making him, at the age of 11, the youngest pupil ever to attend the college. There he was taught drawing by French artist Adolphe Valette. In 1921 he moved to the Slade School of Fine Art in London where he continued his studies under Henry Tonks until 1924. After the Slade, Rabin studied in Paris where he met and was greatly impressed and influenced by sculptor Charles Despiau.
Rabin's own sculpture from this time is little known as he was a perfectionist and destroyed work that he considered unsatisfactory. In 1928, working under his full surname, he was commissioned by architect Charles Holden to carve West Wind, one of eight personifications of the four winds for the headquarters of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London at 55 Broadway. The sculpture was partly completed in-situ on the building. In 1930, he produced his only other public sculptures; two decorative winged masks, The Past and The Future, for the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. These were carved on the building directly from the scaffold.
Both commissions were well received at the time, but Rabin was unable to make a living as a sculptor and turned to another career – wrestling, for which he abbreviated his surname. Rabin was physically strong and had boxed and wrestled as an amateur to fund his art. He won a bronze medal in the middleweight division of the free-style wrestling at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Rabin turned professional in 1932 and fought as Rabin the Cat and Sam Radnor the Heb. Alexander Korda cast him as a wrestler in The Private Life of Henry VIII in 1933 and as Mendoza, a Jewish prize-fighter, in The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1934. Despite lacking any formal musical training, Rabin was a talented baritone and worked professionally during the 1940s singing with Stars in Battledress and sang operatic arias with the army's Classical Music Group. In 1946 he auditioned for La Scala's conductor, Victor de Sabata.
In 1949, Rabin began teaching drawing at Goldsmith's College of Art in New Cross, London. His disciplined teaching style including the production of demonstration works, followed that of his own teacher, Valette. His students included Mary Quant, Bridget Riley and Tom Keating...
Category
Mid-20th Century London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Paysage by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952) - Pastoral watercolour on paper
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Paysage by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952)
Watercolour on paper
28 x 36 cm (11 x 14 1⁄8 inches)
Signed lower r...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Cottage View, watercolour by George Bissill
Located in London, GB
George Bissill (1896-1973)
Cottage View
Watercolour
20 x 28 cm
Born in 1896, George Bissill was a British miner, painter and furniture designer. Raised in the mining village of L...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Chez Maxim's
By André Meurice
Located in London, GB
'Chez Maxim's', pastel and gouache on fine art paper, by André Meurice (circa 1950s - 60s). The artist depicts the glamorous clientele at the entryway to...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Nouveau London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
