Paris - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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...

Pastel and oil paint on paper Created in 2018 in Paris, France Unique work Signed by the artist Parmis Sayous was born in 1982 in Teheran, Iran. Since 2015, She has lived and worked...

Pastel and India ink on cardboard Created in 2018 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...

Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) Young Girl with Pink Ribbon Original charcoals and pencil drawing Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back On linen vellum 26 x 20 cm (c. 10.5 x 8 ...

Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) The children of the painter Portrait in an oval, study for a portrait Black pencil on paper 23 x 19 cm Stamp of the worksh...

Pastel on paper Created in 2018 in Paris, France Unique work Signed by the artist

Pastel on paper Created in Paris, France Unique work Signed by the artist

Pastel on paper Created in 2019 in Paris, France Unique work Signed by the artist

Pastel on paper Created in 2018 in Paris, France Unique work Signed by the artist

Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) Baby Boy Original charcoals and pencil drawing Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back On grey vellum 22 x 26 cm (c. 9 x 1...

Ink and graphite on paper Signed, entitled and dated below

Ink and graphite on paper Signed, dated and entitled lower left

Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) Boy with Long Blond Hair, c. 1900 Original charcoals and pencil drawing Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back On cream vellum 23.5 x 31 cm (c. 9...

Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) Two studies of Woman Profile Original sanguine charcoal drawing Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back on linen paper 25 x 40 cm (c. 10 x 16 in) ...

Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) Lady Wearing a Yellow Hat Original charcoals drawing Signed bottom left on tinted linen watermarked paper 24 x 31 cm (c. 9 x ...

Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) Young Boy with Pig Stuffed Toy Original charcoals drawing Signed Bottom right on heavy paper 29 x 21 cm (c. 12 x 8 in) Stamp...

Claire VERGEZ Red Hair Woman, 1939 Original gouache and watercolor painting Signed bottom right On heavy vellum 38 x 25.5 cm (c. 15 x 10 in) Excellent condition

Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) Peaceful Woman, 1929 Original charcoals drawing Signed bottom right on tinted linen paper 43 x 31 cm (c. 17 x 12 in) Stamp of the Estate auction sale o...

Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) Red Hair Dreaming Woman Original charcoals drawing Signed bottom right on tinted linen paper 48 x 30 cm (c. 19 x 12 in) Stamp of the Estate auction sal...

Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) Blue Eyes Boy Original charcoals drawing Signed bottom right on linen paper 37 x 31 cm (c. 15 x 12 in) Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back Ve...

one of a kind Drawing 42 cm x 30 cm - Fusain - 2016

Fusain et Pastel – 2013 - one of a kind drawing , large size.

one of a kind drawing , size 42 cm x 30 cm - Fusain – 2016

Tsuguharu (Leonard) Foujita (1886-1968) Madonna and Child, c. 1950 Original India ink drawing Signed lower right On paper 33 x 24.5 cm at sight Presented in a golden baguette frame ...

This recently rediscovered expressionist drawing by László Moholy-Nagy is part of a small group of drawings made by the artist early in his career, in Vienna and Berlin. The use of interlaced curves, typical of the artist's technique, gives this hieratic portrait a magnetic radiance, while the absence of any connection with the rest of the body evokes a profane Holy Face. 1. From Hungary to Chicago, the ardent life of László Moholy-Nagy Moholy-Nagy was born in Borsod, now known as Bácsborsód in Southern Hungary, in July 1895. He studied law in Budapest in 1913, when he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army to serve as an artillery officer on the Italian and Russian fronts. While serving at artillery observation posts, Moholy-Nagy was able to execute numerous drawings, recording his traumatic war experience, on the reverse of military-issued postcards which he could easily carry with him. In 1917, he was seriously wounded and hospitalized. The following year (around 1918 at the age of 23), he abandoned his plans to become a lawyer in favour of a career as an artist, with the encouragement of his friend, the art critic Iván Hevesy. The drawings executed in those early years reveal Moholy-Nagy's powerful Expressionist lines. In his autobiography of 1944, Abstract of an Artist, Moholy-Nagy explained his early figurative style, writing that contemporary art in those days was too chaotic and that and all the '-isms' were incomprehensible and puzzling to him. He was, however, experimenting with Dadaist compositions already in 1919 and then moved to Vienna and later to Berlin, where he would soon make his first works in his Constructivist style of the early 1920s. In Berlin he met photograph and writer Lucia Schultz who became his wife the next year. In 1922 he met Walter Gropius. During a vacation on the Rhome with Lucia, she introduced him to making photograms on light-sensitized paper. Walter Gropius invited him to teach at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1923 where he replaced Paul Klee as Head of the Metal Workshop. The Bauhaus became known for the versatility of its artists and Moholy-Nagy was no exception: throughout his career, he became proficient in the fiels of photography, typography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, film-making and industrial design. In 1928 Moholy-Nagy left the Bauhaus and established his own design studio in Berlin. He separated from his first wide Lucia in 1929. In 1931 he met actress and scriptwriter Sibylle Pietzsch. They married in 1932 and has two daughters, Hattula (born 1933) and Claudia. After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, he was no longer allowed to work there. He moved his family to London in 1935. In 1937, on the recommendation of Walter Gropius, Moholy-Nagy moved to Chicago to become the director of the New Bauhaus, but the school closed in 1938. Moholy-Nagy resumed doing commercial design work, which he continued for the rest of his life. In 1939 Moholy-Nagy opened the School of Design in Chicago, which became in 1944 the Institute of Design, becoming part of the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1949. Diagnosed with leukemia in 1945, Moholy-Nagy died of the disease in Chicago in 1946. 2. Description of the artwork This drawing presents us with a frontal representation of a man in his thirties, whose penetrating gaze seems to stare at us. The face is highly symmetrical and is modelled by curved black lines. The very high forehead and the slightly dilated left pupil reinforce the very expressive character of the face. Like the Holy Face which appeared on the cloth stretched out to wipe Christ's face by Saint Veronica, only the model's face is represented on the cardboard piece. The curved lines that define the face, hollowing out the temples, the eyelids, the cheeks and the area around the mouth, create a kind of magnetic radiation around a median point located between the eyebrows. In some respects, this face may evoke one of the most famous representations of the Holy Face: the extraordinary engraving by Claude Mellan...

Mily POSSOZ Young Girl with Fishes, 1928 Original pencil and charcoals derawing Signed bottom right Dated 1928 On paper 42 x 34 cm at view (c. 17 x 13 in) Presented in a wood frame ...

Mily POSSOZ Young Girl with Violets, 1934 Original Watercolor and Gouache Painting Signed bottom right On vellum 62 x 34 cm (c. 25 x 12 in) Very good condition, light defects at th...

Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950) Blond Hair Boy with a Lamb, 1934 Original charcoals drawing Signed upper right on paper 31 x 24 cm at view (c. 12 x 10 in) Presented in a golden wood f...