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Boat in Tunisia - Drawing Ink on Paper Unique Post Impressionist, 1920
By Albert Marquet
Located in New York, NY
Albert Marquet
Boat in Tunisia, ca. 1920
Ink on paper
7 1/5 × 5 in 18.2 × 12.8 cm
Hand-signed by the monogram lower right
Category
1920s Impressionist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
1940s American Realist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Woman in the Street, Expressionist Painting by Irma Stern 1923
By Irma Stern
Located in Long Island City, NY
Woman in the Street by Irma Stern, South African (1894–1966)
Date: 1923
Gouache on Paper, signed and dated lower right
Size: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
Frame Size: 26.5 x 22 inches
Category
1920s Expressionist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Lovely Country House Pastel, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, c. 20th Century
Pastel on paper
Sight: 21 1/2 x 31 in.
Framed: 24 1/4 x 34 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.
Signed lower left
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Black and Blue Cat Woman. Charcoal three quarter drawing of large Lady with cats
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Seen here is a charcoal drawing of a large Lady with cats. The unique work of Stephen Basso is wildly imaginative. While he is also a brilliant colorist, the monochromatic charcoal...
Category
2010s Expressionist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Lines in Four Different Directions original signed inscribed drawing on postcard
By Sol LeWitt
Located in New York, NY
Sol LeWitt
Lines in Four Different Directions, 1997
Original drawing in black felt tip pen on postmarked (franked) postcard
Signed, dated and inscribed "For Andrew Thanks for the Dra...
Category
1990s Minimalist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Postcard, Felt Pen
Two Preparatory Drawings by Wheeler Williams
By Wheeler Williams
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled Study, 1931
Pencil on paper
8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.
Each signed: Wheeler Williams, 1931
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with honors...
Category
1940s Art Deco Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
gravesend, oler woman w city scape window yellow tones
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned paper
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive ...
Category
2010s American Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Graphite and gouache on handmade paper: 'The Remains: 9'
Located in New York, NY
The Remains, A series of 10 works
An insect approaches a crumpled paper doily to eat what remains of a party. This series explores the moment when the trimmings become debris and presumptions of human control are upended. The text-like marks on white vertical rectangles are deliberate, but indecipherable. They appear as if a poem, written in an ancient language, that honors this eternal cycle of destruction and regeneration.
Winifred McNeill...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Seated Woman and Bull Figure, Modern Drawing by Jose Ortega
By José Ortega
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jose Ortega, Spanish (1921 - 1991)
Title: Seated Woman and Bull Figure
Year: 1962
Medium: Watercolor on BFK Rives, signed and dated l.l.
Size: 20 x 25...
Category
1960s Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Where Have You Been, Where Are You Going?, Drawing 2014
By Kyle Andrew Szpyrka
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Paths series was born out of a trip I took one summer to LA. The trip itself was more of an escape from my life in New York. At the time I was at a crossroads. Having just gone t...
Category
2010s Surrealist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Thee Graces Preparatory Drawing by Wheeler Williams, Signed
By Wheeler Williams
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled (Study of Three Graces), 1947
Pencil on paper
9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.
Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1947
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with honors from Yale University in 1919 and earned a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard in 1922. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with sculptor Albin Polasek...
Category
1940s Art Deco Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Cords, Drawing 2014
By Kyle Andrew Szpyrka
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Paths series was born out of a trip I took one summer to LA. The trip itself was more of an escape from my life in New York. At the time I was at a crossroads. Having just gone t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Umbilical, Drawing 2014
By Kyle Andrew Szpyrka
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Paths series was born out of a trip I took one summer to LA. The trip itself was more of an escape from my life in New York. At the time I was at a crossroads. Having just gone t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
SHOULD I STAY IN or GO OUT? Signed Oil Pastel, Seated Man Surreal Interior Scene
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Union City, NJ
SHOULD I STAY IN or GO OUT? is an original oil pastel drawing on brown paper grocery bag by the self taught African American artist Reginald K. Gee, born April 28, 1964, in Milwaukee...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Don't You Recognize Me?, Drawing 2014
By Kyle Andrew Szpyrka
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Paths series was born out of a trip I took one summer to LA. The trip itself was more of an escape from my life in New York. At the time I was at a crossroads. Having just gone t...
Category
2010s Surrealist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Untitled
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
Signed and dated, recto
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt ...
Category
2010s Realist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Wax Crayon, Rag Paper
Moonlight, oversize drawing of contemplative young woman, monochromatic
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This work was intentionally torn and mended along the curve through the center of the work. It predates the artist's full immersion, years later into torn and re-pasted collages, us...
Category
2010s American Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
Renaissance Male Foot Figure Study, 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Male Foot Figure Study
Year: circa 1964
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Est...
Category
1960s Renaissance Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Hand signed letter of advice ("one either jumps into the water or doesn't")
By Jasper Johns
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns
Letter ("one either jumps into the water or doesn't"), 1996
Hand signed letter framed on top of a Time Magazine cover depicting a work by the artist
Hand signed by Jasper Johns underneath a typewritten letter by his secretary (JJ/st)
Frame Included
This listing consists of a typewritten letter, hand signed by Jasper Johns in response to one sent by the present addressee. While we do not see the fan's letter that prompted this response from Johns, it's not too difficult to guess, as Jasper Johns replies, stating, in part, "I wish I felt I could advise you but I can't. One either jumps in the water or doesn't. There doesn't seem to be any in-between." No truer words could have been spoken regarding the artist's life.
Underneath this letter, is a vintage Time Magazine cover, presumably from the same year, depicting a Jasper Johns Flag...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
Mission Impossible Original TV Guide Drawing Illustration Caricature Mid Century
By Albert Al Hirschfeld
Located in New York, NY
"Mission Impossible" Original TV Guide Drawing Illustration Caricature Mid Century NYC with Greg Morris, Barbara Bain, and Steve Hill. This original drawing...
Category
1960s American Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Board
"New York Harbor Nocturne" Leon Dolice, Mid-Century New York Nocturnal Landscape
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
New York Harbor Nocturne
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the...
Category
1930s American Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
Good Health Week
10 ½ x 15 1/2 inches
Oil on pape...
Category
1940s American Realist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Watercolor on paper: )"Monkey at Sea" (elephant nose )
Located in New York, NY
Shiri Mordechay's paintings are a whirlwind of emotion and complexity, drawing the viewer into a vibrant and dynamic world. Each piece is packed with countless details, your eyes are...
Category
2010s Surrealist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Graphite and gouache on handmade paper: 'The Remains: 7'
Located in New York, NY
The Remains, A series of 10 works
An insect approaches a crumpled paper doily to eat what remains of a party. This series explores the moment when the trimmings become debris and presumptions of human control are upended. The text-like marks on white vertical rectangles are deliberate, but indecipherable. They appear as if a poem, written in an ancient language, that honors this eternal cycle of destruction and regeneration.
Winifred McNeill...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper, Graphite
"New York Harbor Nocturne" Leon Dolice, Mid-Century New York Nocturnal Landscape
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
New York Harbor Nocturne
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the...
Category
1930s American Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Queen and Horse, Large Mixed Media by Michael Platt
By Michael Platt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A mixed media drawing by Michael Platt from 1981. A representational image of a figure in a cool, subdued color pallet. Platt creates artwork that centers on figurative explorations ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
"New York Harbor Nocturne" Leon Dolice, New York Harbor Scene Mid-Century
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
New York Harbor Nocturne
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the...
Category
1930s American Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Marc Chagall" Original Drawing Illustration Caricature William Saroyan book
By Albert Al Hirschfeld
Located in New York, NY
"Marc Chagall" Original Drawing Illustration Caricature William Saroyan book
This drawing was published in the 1976 edition of William Saroyan's SONS ...
Category
1970s American Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Board
Original flower drawing on Rockefeller Center Puppy print, Hand Signed by Koons
By Jeff Koons
Located in New York, NY
Jeff Koons
Original flower drawing on Rockefeller Center Puppy poster (Hand Signed), 2000
Drawing done in silver marker on offset lithograph
Hand signed by Jeff Koons in marker on t...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
insomniacs, 2015
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned paper.
Whimsical, imaginative , surreal, humor, folk, vivid, playful, evocative, fantasy, self taught, mentor style of Max Beckmann, Francisco Goya, Willem DeKooning, Philip Guston, Marsden Hartley, Albert Pinkham Ryder...
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2010s Outsider Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Ann Miller in Follies Broadway Musical Contemporary Drawing Illustration Eloise
Located in New York, NY
Ann Miller in Follies Broadway Musical Contemporary Drawing Illustration Eloise
Ann Miller in Stephen Sondheim's "Follies." The 1998 production, played at the Papermill Playhouse. Affixed to the back of the drawing is a brochure promoting the show. Mixed media on paper. Signed lower left. Inscribed lower right: "Ann Miller at 75 'I'm Still Here' in Stephen Sondheim's 'Follies' 1998." Framed. 17 x 12 in. (sight). 22 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (frame)
'Tops in Taps' Ann Miller was still going strong at 75 years old when she made her last appearance in the musical, "Follies." She was one of M.G.M's most prolific dancers and considered by many to be the greatest female tap dancer of all time.
Hilary, a friend of many years, is still going strong at 96. We saw this production at the Papermill Playhouse. Years ago, I was a press agent working in Henry Luhrman's office where we represented "Sugar Babies" with Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney.
Bio
Hilary Knight (born November 1, 1926) is an American writer-artist who is the illustrator of more than 50 books and the author of nine books. He is best known as the illustrator of Kay Thompson's Eloise (1955) and others in the Eloise series.
Knight has illustrated for a wide variety of clients, creating artwork for magazines, children's fashion advertisements, greeting cards, record albums and posters for Broadway musicals, including Gypsy, Irene, Half A Sixpence, Hallelujah Baby! and No, No Nanette.
The son of artist-writers Clayton Knight...
Category
1990s Performance Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
"Portrait of an Italian Fencer, " John Frederick Kensett, Hudson River School
By John Frederick Kensett
Located in New York, NY
John Frederick Kensett (1816 - 1872)
Portrait of an Italian Fencer, circa 1845-47
Watercolor on wove paper
13 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Signed with initials and inscribed lower right "J.F.K. Rome"
From October 1845 through the spring of 1847, Kensett lived in Rome. He attended classes where he sketched from live models, and he sketched in the countryside outside Rome and around Florence, Perugia, and Venice, places he visited with his artist friends. He fulfilled commissions for paintings from Americans in Italy, and by 1847 his career was well established.
Son of an English immigrant engraver, John Kensett lacked enthusiasm for that medium and became one of the most accomplished painters of the second generation of Hudson River School painters. His reputation is for Luminism, careful depiction of light, weather, and atmosphere as they affect color and texture of natural forms. He was particularly influenced by the painting of Asher Durand in that he focused on realism and detail rather than the highly dramatic views associated with Thomas Cole. Going to the western United States in the mid 1850s and the 1860s, he was the first of the Hudson River School painters to explore and paint the West.
Kensett was born and raised in Cheshire, Connecticut, and learned his engraving from his father, Thomas Kensett with whom he worked in New Haven, Connecticut until 1829. He continued working until 1840 as an engraver of labels, banknotes and maps and was employed part of that time by the American Bank Note Company in New York City. There he met Thomas Rossiter, John Casilear, and other artists who urged him to pursue painting. In 1840, he and Rossiter, Asher Durand, and Casilear went to Europe where Kensett stayed for seven years and supported himself by doing engraving but became accomplished in landscape painting.
Having sent canvases of Italian landscapes back to New York, he had a reputation for skillful painting that preceded him. When he returned to New York City in 1847, he was an "instant success" and very sought after by collectors. Two of his Italian landscapes had already been purchased by the American Art Union. By 1849, he was a full member of the National Academy of Design and was generally popular among his peers. His studio was a gathering place with travelers stopping by to see his canvases and to identify "precise locations in the Catskills or Newport or New England in the oil sketches and drawings that covered his walls." (Zellman 170). For the women, he was a popular bachelor, "romantic looking with high forehead and sensitive expression." (Samuels 262)
He was also sought after by many organizations. Among his activities were serving on the committee to oversee the decoration of the United States Capitol in Washington DC, and becoming one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
An inveterate traveler, Kensett spent summers on painting excursions away from New York City. One of these trips was a special painting excursion with fifteen other artists sponsored by the B & O Railroad from Baltimore, Maryland to Wheeling, West Virginia. Unlike many of the Hudson River painters...
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1840s Hudson River School Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Railroad worker
36 ¼ x 27 inches
Oil on paper c. 1930s
S...
Category
1930s American Realist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Buttercream Acrobats circus performers humorous subject male female dynamic
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
this is a soft pastel on red toned heavyweight archival paper , framing under glass recommended for display.
full figured women like Botero
theme: circus, food, cake, relationships,...
Category
2010s Expressionist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary
By David Fredenthal
Located in New York, NY
"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary
19 1/4 x 11 1/2 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by ...
Category
1930s American Realist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Untitled (Angel, Gabriel)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Angel, Gabriel)
Year: 1973
Medium: Ink on heavy archival paper
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Head of a Cheerful Man Wearing a Cap
Located in New York, NY
Watermark: the arms of Amsterdam
Provenance:
Christie’s, Amsterdam, 1 December 1986, lot 46; where acquired by:
Private Collection, New York
Literature:
Roger Adolf d’Hulst, “Jordaens Drawings: Supplement II,” Master Drawings, vol. 28, no. 2 (1990), pp. 153-156, no. A237a, fig. 17.
Matías Díaz Padrón, Jacob Jordaens...
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17th Century Baroque Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
The Flight into Egypt
Located in New York, NY
Inscribed: 3. una Madonna che va in Egitto, verso, and Madonna che va in Egitto, recto
Provenance:
Private Collection, UK, since 1999
This expressive and boldly executed drawing is the work of Luca...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Ink, Pen, Paper
Sleepwalking #23, earth tone, brown, gestural, abstract brushstrokes
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper
Dramatic disrupted realism imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of monochromatic monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent of Lucien Freud, Edgar Degas and the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Elongated and blurry, the horse racing up a hill (Canter Fritz, 2002) and the sinister cat landing a leap (Chien Blanc, 1998) elicit a sense of foreboding enhanced by Bennett’s somber palette; his female figures too reflect a grim sense of humor with their distorted nude bodies. The face of Untitled Figure (1997), for example, is obscured by layers of dark paint. Classically trained as a painter, he initially worked in oil on canvas but discovered that monotype printing enabled him to “literally push the image around,” creating an essential element of motion. To overcome the limited scale of monotypes, however, he switched to painting on slick-surfaced plastic.
Tom Bennett’s practice is rooted in the classical tradition where painting and drawing from life is highly regarded. Bennett’s work is heavily influenced by Francis Bacon, Frank Auberbauch and foremost his father, Harry Bennett, who was also an artist. Tom’s time living abroad in Spain and traveling through Eastern Europe and Africa provided the artistic freedom to explore many of the techniques and subject matter that continue to define his practice. Bennett was born and raised in Connecticut.
His mediums include monotypes, oil on paper, canvas or styrene board. In a technique that Tom started over 4 years ago, several of his monotypes have been painted over with oil paint using a palette knife, brush, or his fingers to re-purpose the underlying image. These works are a testament to Bennett’s ability to quickly and concisely compose an image with expressive brush strokes, foreshortened figures and expertly rendered light.
Tom’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Bennett lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently represented by Tabla Rasa...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Monotype
"Young Girl (Jenue Fille)" Louis Valtat, French Drawing
By Louis Valtat
Located in New York, NY
Louis Valtat
Young Girl
Stamped with initials lower right
Pencil on brown paper
Sight 7 x 6 inches
Provenance:
Mrs. Ernest M. Werner, New York
Private Collection, Rhode Island
Loui...
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Early 20th Century Fauvist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Outside with Parents from Grown Ups, Pastel Drawing by Daniel Fusaro
By Daniel Fusaro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Darrell Fusaro, American (1962 - )
Title: Outside with Parents from Grown Ups
Year: circa 1990
Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed l.l.
Size: 22 x 29.5 in. (55.88 x 74.93 cm)
Fra...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Light Envelope with Tape, realist watercolor and pencil still life, 2016
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass explores the fragility of communication, and people’s natural drive to find narrative in even the most ordinary of objects. In her Envelopes series, Glass works in water...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
Ballet Dancer, untitled drawing.
By Charles Maurin
Located in New York, NY
CHEZ SAGOT EXPOSITION CH. MAURIN 39 BIS RUE DE CHATEAUDUN.
Signed pencil drawing with the artist's owl head' stamp circa 1899. Paper size 9 7/8 x 12 3/4" (25 x 32.6 cm).
This orig...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Pencil
Broken Fist
By Nikos Kanarelis
Located in New York, NY
Broken Fist, 2016
Charcoal on paper
30 x 40 cm
Signed and dated
Kanarelis presents a journey towards the truth, a truth bound to a genuine subjective point of view of the familiar a...
Category
2010s Realist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Five at the Rail, View of Racetrack and Crowd, Saratoga Springs, New York
By Anne Diggory
Located in New York, NY
Anne Diggory (b. 1951)
Five at the Rail, Saratoga Springs Racecourse, New York, circa 1978
Watercolor on paper
4 3/4 x 6 inches
Initialed lower right: Dig...
Category
1970s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Gaia, mystery, collage, figure, fabric, mythology, bird
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper paint charcoal collage fabric
These collages were created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone in the studio...
Category
2010s Assemblage Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Magazine Paper, Fabric
All the Cheese in NYC, fantastic illustration by Guillaume Cornet white framed
By Guillaume Cornet
Located in Dallas, TX
This beautiful intricate, Rotring pen and markers on paper, on 350gsm Colorset white paper. This piece is framed on a white wood frame, uv glass and all archival materials.
GUILLAUM...
Category
2010s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen, Permanent Marker
Two Men on a Street Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
Two Men on a Street Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
Note: We have three similar in style works from 1911 available now on 1stDibs. All are framed identi...
Category
Early 1900s American Realist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Edward Laning, (Male Figures)
By Edward Laning
Located in New York, NY
This pencil drawing by master draughtsman Edward Laning has religious over tones. Perhaps it's a study for a deposition. There are male figures, both nude...
Category
1970s American Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Wet Kiss colorful mermaid warm humorous subject matter tropical color
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned sanded archival paper suitable for framing under glass. Signed and dated bottom right.. Part of an ongoing series of mermaid themes by the artist
Category
2010s Post-Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Final Study for Atalanta, Girl with Apple
By Will Barnet
Located in Greenwich, CT
Will Barnet is one of America's best loved and known artists of the Post War era. He is highly distinctive for his figurative and narrative work and in some ways he is the Edgar All...
Category
1970s American Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Vellum, Color Pencil, Graphite
Out of the Sun (Under the Racetrack Grandstand), Saratoga Springs, Anne Diggory
By Anne Diggory
Located in New York, NY
Anne Diggory (b. 1951)
Out of the Sun (Under the Racetrack Grandstand), 1978
Watercolor on paper
7 x 10 inches
Signed and dated lower left
Provenance:
Ac...
Category
1970s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Magazine Cover Illustration Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre Broadway Realism WPA
By Ernest Hamlin Baker
Located in New York, NY
Magazine Cover Illustration Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre Broadway Realism WPA
Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889 – 1975) “Today Magazine” Cover ...
Category
1930s American Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Summer Heat #2, abstract figure work w bold color
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on paper
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent of Lucien Freud, Edgar Degas and the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Elongated and blurry, the horse racing up a hill (Canter Fritz, 2002) and the sinister cat landing a leap (Chien Blanc, 1998) elicit a sense of foreboding enhanced by Bennett’s somber palette; his female figures too reflect a grim sense of humor with their distorted nude bodies. The face of Untitled Figure (1997), for example, is obscured by layers of dark paint. Classically trained as a painter, he initially worked in oil on canvas but discovered that monotype printing enabled him to “literally push the image around,” creating an essential element of motion. To overcome the limited scale of monotypes, however, he switched to painting on slick-surfaced plastic.
Tom Bennett’s practice is rooted in the classical tradition where painting and drawing from life is highly regarded. Bennett’s work is heavily influenced by Francis Bacon, Frank Auberbauch and foremost his father, Harry Bennett, who was also an artist. Tom’s time living abroad in Spain and traveling through Eastern Europe and Africa provided the artistic freedom to explore many of the techniques and subject matter that continue to define his practice. Bennett was born and raised in Connecticut.
His mediums include monotypes, oil on paper, canvas or styrene board. In a technique that Tom started over 4 years ago, several of his monotypes have been painted over with oil paint using a palette knife, brush, or his fingers to re-purpose the underlying image. These works are a testament to Bennett’s ability to quickly and concisely compose an image with expressive brush strokes, foreshortened figures and expertly rendered light.
Tom’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Bennett lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently represented by Tabla Rasa Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
headwind, female figure w beach umbrella beach blue ocean sand
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s American Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stik Hip (Blue Version)
By Stik
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Beautiful Hip poster in blue version by UK artist Stik.
Released by Big Issue Magazine Japan in September 2013.
Printed exclusively in Japan and was issued folded.
Has faint fold lin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
J.B. Dolitro? Bedtime Story. Male French WWII Soldiers w. Kepis, Drinks, Cigars
Located in New York, NY
Clearly an ironic title, 'Bedtime Story,' conjures up homey childhood experiences -- not over-sized, cigar-smoking, and alcohol-abusing, French soldiers.
The artist who made Bedti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Tri-State Area - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
