Los Angeles - Drawings

Super adorable Circus watercolor and ink by NYC artist John Bobbish. John had a BFA from the school of Visual Arts. Perfect in any room in the house but m...

Three gorgeous early 19th century architectural prints by Louis-Pierre Baltard de la Fresque (1764 — 1846).

Italian still life drawing, or "natura morta," involves creating detailed and realistic depictions of inanimate objects through the medium of drawing.

Architectural rendering of a Southern California ranch-style home by the artist Perrin. A watercolor rendering featuring greens and browns, with lush ...

Pair of rare signed Art Deco lithographs by Boris Lovet-Lorski. Lacquered wood frames. Boris Lovet-Lorski (1894-1973), sculptor, lithographer, and painter who contributed significantly to the American Art Deco movement, was born in Lithuania in 1894. Trained as an architect at the Royal Academy in Petrograd, Boris Lovet-Lorski was very aware of volume and structural space. His architectural background combined with other influences like the flattened aesthetic of Art Deco, produce a distinctly original style. Along with his idealized subjects, the originality and artistry of his design quickly won the young sculptor...

Detailed 18th century style framed pastel bouquet drawing. Intricate burlwood and ebonized wood period frame. Very decorative.

From 1957 comes this fabulous pair of abstracted still lifes by listed artist Emil Weddige. Striking Mid-Century art at its best. One is a drawing (top -- black and white with ochre...

A fine French 19th century etching and drypoint Titled "Soirée d'été" (Summer Evening) by Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902) depicting Mrs. Kathleen Newton resting on a lounge chair. Signed and dated (l/l): J.J. Tissot, 1881 in the plate. Under the mat, the front of the sheet inscribed in pencil with a '1' in a circle, the verso of the sheet with old price inscription "450-" in pencil. Circa: 1881-1882. Measures: Plate Height: 9 inches (22.9 cm) Plate Width: 15 1/2 inches (39.4 cm) Sheet Height: 14 1/2 inches (36.8 cm) Sheet Width: 20 5/8 inches (52.4 cm) Frame Height: 19 inches (48.3 cm) Frame Width: 24 1/2 inches (62.2 cm) Frame Depth: 1 1/8 inches (2.9 cm) Literature: Wentworth 56. Note: Tissot's from 1881 is said to depict his lover, the Irish divorcee Mrs. Kathleen Newton, resting on a lounge chair. Provenance: Private collection, Los Angeles, California Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), Anglicized as James Tissot, was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of Paris society before moving to London in 1871. He became famous as a genre painter of fashionably dressed women shown in various scenes of everyday life. He also painted scenes and characters from the Bible. Jacques Tissot was born in the city of Nantes in France and spent his early childhood there. His father, Marcel Théodore Tissot, was a successful drapery merchant. His mother, Marie Durand, assisted her husband in the family business and designed hats. A devout Catholic, Tissot's mother instilled pious devotion in the future artist from a very young age. Tissot's youth spent in Nantes likely contributed to his frequent depiction of shipping vessels and boats in his later works. The involvement of his parents in the fashion industry is believed to have been an influence on his painting style, as he depicted women's clothing in fine detail. By the time Tissot was 17, he knew he wanted to pursue painting as a career. His father opposed this, preferring his son to follow a business profession, but the young Tissot gained his mother's support for his chosen vocation. Around this time, he began using the given name of James. By 1854 he was commonly known as James Tissot; he may have adopted it because of his increasing interest in everything English. In 1856 or 1857, Tissot travelled to Paris to pursue an education in art. While staying with a friend of his mother, painter Elie Delaunay, Tissot enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study in the studios of Hippolyte Flandrin and Louis Lamothe. Both were successful Lyonnaise painters who moved to Paris to study under Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Lamothe provided the majority of Tissot's studio education, and the young artist studied on his own by copying works at the Louvre, as did most other artists of the time in their early years. Around this time, Tissot also made the acquaintance of the American James McNeill Whistler, and French painters Edgar Degas (who had also been a student of Lamothe and a friend of Delaunay), and Édouard Manet. In 1859, Tissot exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time. He showed five paintings of scenes from the Middle Ages, many depicting scenes from Goethe's Faust. These works show the influence in his work of the Belgian painter Henri Leys (Jan August Hendrik Leys), whom Tissot had met in Antwerp earlier that same year. Other influences include the works of the German painters Peter Von Cornelius and Moritz Retzsch. After Tissot had first exhibited at the Salon and before he had been awarded a medal, the French government paid 5,000 francs for his depiction of The Meeting of Faust and Marguerite in 1860, with the painting being exhibited at the Salon the following year, together with a portrait and other paintings. Émile Péreire supplied Tissot's painting Walk in the Snow for the 1862 international exhibition in London; the next year three paintings by Tissot were displayed at the London gallery of Ernest Gambart. In about 1863, Tissot suddenly shifted his focus from the medieval style to the depiction of modern life through portraits. During this period, Tissot gained high critical acclaim, and quickly became a success as an artist. Like contemporaries such as Alfred Stevens and Claude Monet, Tissot also explored Japonisme, including Japanese objects and costumes in his pictures and expressing style influence. Degas painted a portrait of Tissot from these years (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), in which he is sitting below a Japanese screen hanging on the wall. Still on Top, 1873 Tissot fought in the Franco-Prussian War as part of the improvised defense of Paris, joining two companies of the Garde Nationale and later as part of the Paris Commune. His 1870 painting La Partie Carrée (The Foursome) evoked the period of the French revolution. Either because of the radical political associations related to the Paris Commune (which he was believed to have joined mostly to protect his own belongings rather than for shared ideology), or because of better opportunities, he left Paris for London in 1871. During this period, Seymour Haden helped him to learn etching techniques. Having already worked as a caricaturist for Thomas Gibson Bowles, the owner of the magazine Vanity Fair, as well as exhibited at the Royal Academy, Tissot arrived with established social and artistic connections in London. Tissot used...

Francesco Ballesio (Italian, 1860-1923). A fine orientalist pencil and watercolor heightened with gum Arabic on paper figure of "A Middle-Eastern Beauty at Rest" depicting a young maiden resting on a Persian rug laid down as a bed while holding a tambourine and next to a Moroccan ivory-inlaid octagonal table with a tea pot on top. Signed and inscribed 'Ballesio Roma Tivoli' (upper right). All within an ornate rococo gilt wood and gesso carved frame with a protective glass, Rome, circa 1890-1900, Frame height: 23 inches (58.4 cm). Frame width: 30 1/2 inches (30.5 cm). Frame depth: 2 1/4 inches (5.7 cm). Paper height: 15 inches (38.1 cm). Paper width: 21 1/2 inches (54.7 cm). Literature: A similar subject matter watercolor is catalogued and illustrated in Caroline Juler, "Les Orientalistes...

This one’s got presence. A bold, gestural figure sketched on aged paper, framed in minimalist light wood for that perfect contrast of raw and refined. The torn edges and fluid lines ...

Group of 4 (individual) lithographs of important men of their day. Finely detailed. Framed and matted with bone linen matte. Silver-leafed frames. 21 available.

Detailed 18th century style framed pastel bouquet drawing. Intricate burl wood and ebonized wood period frame. Very decorative.

Italian Drawing: Nude Man, Pencil and Charcoal.Venetian artist drew the portrait of the nude man . Charcoal is valued for its expressive qualities. O...

Bernard Buffet, France, 1954. Still Life With Flowers in Vase, hand-pencil drawing. Ed. 75/100; hand-signed and numbered in pencil. Dimensions: Plate: 6 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. (17.1 x 14 ...

Large Framed Lithograph by Tony Friedlaender. Signed and numbered 44/95. Nicely framed over canvas.

Beautiful etching of a Vatican sculpture by Italian artist Piranesi. Great addition to your architectural and classic inspired interiors.

Large Framed Lithograph by Tony Friedlaender. Signed and numbered 44/95. Nicely framed over canvas.

Detailed 18th century style framed pastel bouquet drawing. Intricate burl wood and ebonized wood period frame. Very decorative.

Pair of whimsical surrealist oil on panel paintings in shadow boxes. Signed.

Pair of whimsical surrealist oil on panel paintings in shadow boxes. Signed.

Charcoal Drawing Inspired by the Mano dell Davide, Venice.Overall, charcoal drawing is a dynamic and expressive medium that offers artists a wide range of creative possibilities. It'...

Original Dario Campanile female nude drawing, circa 1995. It is beautifully framed and matted. Additional information: Materials: Paper. Color: Gray. Period: 1990s. Art subjects:...

Italian Midcentury Large Drawing: Nude Man, Pencil and Charcoal. 1960s: Accademia di Belle Arti, Venezia. It is not framed so it can be shipped standard parcel .

Amazing drawing of three horses galloping. This painting is signed "Chub 59' ". This drawing has a custom-made black painted frame.

This Elise Speights Drawing is a pencil artwork on paper, signed by the artist. Measuring 37 x 19 inches and framed, this piece showcases Speights' precision and attention to detail....

Signed and numbered Yaacov Agam, colors of love, Serigraph.

Detailed 18th century style framed pastel bouquet drawing. Intricate burl wood and ebonized wood period frame. Very decorative.

Italian Painting from the 1960s: Accademia di Belle Arti, Venezia.Overall, charcoal drawing is a dynamic and expressive medium that offers artists a wide range of creative possibilit...

Artist proof lithograph by French artist Ludmilla Tcherina which is a drawing of the sculpture that was titled "Europe at Heart". The piece is signed and marked "EA" epreuve d'art...

Large framed lithograph by Tony Friedlaender. Signed and numbered 44/95. Nicely framed over canvas.

Big Country, etching on zinc triptych by German artist Renata Zerner. This is the Artist Proof, and is signed by the artist. Measurements: 34 inches...

Framed gouache on paper drawing by Jean-Jacques Blot. Signed: "Jean Blot 88".

Fabulous small painting by artist MacGregor using paint, ink and paper collage. Plus one piece of foil paper. Going down the left side of the painting in ink it says Christmas. Could...

Three gorgeous early 19th century architectural prints by Louis-Pierre Baltard de la Fresque (1764-1846).

Leon Dolice pastel cityscape , signed LR and the image is approximate 18.5 X 11.2 inches. NOT EXAMINED OUT OF THE FRAME.

Large framed lithograph by Tony Friedlaender. Signed and numbered 44/95. Nicely framed over canvas.

Three gorgeous early 19th century architectural prints by Louis-Pierre Baltard de la Fresque (1764-1846).

French 1940s gouache on paper. Custom framed with sandblasted oak frame with acid free paper and UV glass.

French 1940s gouache on paper. Custom framed with sandblasted oak frame with acid free paper and UV glass.

Framed gouache on paper drawing by Jean-Jacques Blot. Signed: "Jean Blot 88".

Signed and numbered Yaacov Agam, colors of love, Serigraph.

Pair of rare signed Art Deco lithographs by Boris Lovet-Lorski. Lacquered wood frames. Boris Lovet-Lorski (1894-1973), sculptor, lithographer, a...

Framed gouache on paper drawing by Jean-Jacques Blot. Signed: "Jean Blot 88".

Stunning abstract composition by John Monti. John Monti (1957-) is one of the upcoming "undiscovered" artists of his generation. This piece, dated 1987, belongs to his early period. John Monti has exhibited regularly in New York since the mid-1980s. Against a fluctuating backdrop of stylistic convulsion he has single-mindedly pursued his own ideas. Monti's work is ingeniously devised and fabricated. His earliest wood sculptures, suggesting unlikely mergers of Constructivism and West African...

Detailed 18th century style framed pastel bouquet drawing. Intricate burlwood and ebonized wood period frame. Very decorative.

Nice sample of this series of the well known Philippine artist Jojo Legaspi , also master of drawing in charcoal .the image Zise is 8.5 x 11.75 inches , a...

Framed gouache on paper drawing by Jean-Jacques Blot. Signed: "Jean Blot 88".

Stunning abstract composition by John Monti. John Monti (1957-) is one of the upcoming "undiscovered" artists of his generation. This piece, dated 1987, belongs to his early period. John Monti has exhibited regularly in New York since the mid-1980s. Against a fluctuating backdrop of stylistic convulsion he has single-mindedly pursued his own ideas. Monti's work is ingeniously devised and fabricated. His earliest wood sculptures, suggesting unlikely mergers of Constructivism and West African...

Pair of whimsical surrealist oil on panel paintings in shadow boxes. Signed.

Mid-century modern portrait art collectors, this rare 1958 signed expressive drawing by California artist Jerry Campbell is a stunning example of abstract figurative minimalism from ...

Framed abstract geometric gouache on paper by Stevan Kissel Signed: Stevan Kissel Los Angeles, CA. Beautifully framed.

French 40's Gouache on paper. Custom framed with sandblasted oak frame with acid free paper and UV glass.

Signed and Numbered Yaacov Agam, Colors of Love, Serigraph

Fabulous small Impressionist painting attributed to French painter, Louis George Eleonor Roy (1862-1907) either gouache or water color on ...

Francis De Erdely (Hungarian/American, 1904-1959) “Mexican Shark Fishermen” water color and Pencil on Paper within a pine frame and protective glass, circa 1930. Signed: ‘De Erdely’...

Italian Midcentury Large Drawing Natura Morta Pencle and Charcole . Overall, charcoal drawing is a dynamic and expressive medium that offers artists a wide range of creative possib...

Original ink portrait, artist unknown. 31” x26” Ink, paint, and graphite on paper. A Metal frame (no glass) is also included Light pencil marks below the ink and paint suggest th...

Fun and fabulous mixed media drawing in pastel crayon of an artist and his nude model after a series of Picasso painting his models. Obviously in the artist's studio the fun colors a...