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Sale Items
French Artist Drawing Sanctuary of San Luca Bologna 19 century pencil paper
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing depict the Sanctuary of Madonna di San luca in Bologna.
It can be attributed to a French artist because it's written "Bologne" (the french name of...
Category
Early 19th Century Other Art Style Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Dorothy and Toto
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal and White Pastel on Canson MiTientes paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: 25.00" x 19.00" Unframed
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper, Pastel
19th Century Antique silhouette of children, reverse painted on glass
Located in Harkstead, GB
A charming silhouette of a group of children ambling along. So much character is expressed through the minimal monochrome depiction.
English or American School, 19th Century
A silhouette...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Glass
Male Nude Pencil Drawing by Bernard Sleigh RBSA (circa 1900-1920)
Located in London, GB
Male Nude pencil drawing on wove paper (circa 1900-1920), by Bernard Sleigh, RBSA (Provenance: from the artist's studio). An exquisite drawing which is possibly a study for a larger ...
Category
Early 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Originals-Meeting Raphael-Studies of Movement and Form-UK Award Artist- Set of 2
Located in London, GB
This set of drawings included Two Studies of Raphael's paintings in National Gallery, London where Shizico Yi learned her craft in drawings from old masters in Museums, a project she...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Academic study of male Nude. Two -sided. Sketches on reverce. 19th century
Located in Firenze, IT
19th century Italian school drawing. Academic study of the figure of the young naked man.
Drawing made from two sides of the sheet of paper
On the other side two feet and an arm are ...
Category
19th Century Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Crayon, Pencil, Carbon Pencil
“Indian Prince with Rose”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original gouache and watercolor on archival paper of an Indian prince holding a pink rose. The pink rose signifies love and appreciation. No visible signature. Artist unknown. The ...
Category
Late 20th Century Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
“Girl in Blue”
By Anton Sipos
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil pastel on archival paper of a young girl in a blue blouse. Signed lower right and dated 1971. Condition is very good; no issues. Anton Sipos was living in the United S...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
Muscular Man Pencil Drawing by Bernard Sleigh RBSA (circa 1900-1920)
Located in London, GB
Muscular Man pencil drawing on wove paper (circa 1900-1920), by Bernard Sleigh, RBSA (Provenance: from the artist's studio). An exquisite drawing which is possibly a study for a larg...
Category
Early 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Sit woman pastel drawing
By Rafael Duran Benet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Sit woman - Pastel
Drawing measurements 62x42 cm.
Frame measurements 82x62 cm.
Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan painter...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"The Secretary" Minimalist Portrait in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Secretary" Minimalist Illustrative Portrait in Ink on Paper
This charming portrait by Jerry O'Day (American, 1912), depicts a tight-lipped woman with stern eyebrows in a fun and simplistic style. Her lips pop in red and the fine line detail of her hair gives texture and movement to the piece. Her rounded figure is created using basic shapes cleverly placed, dressed in a turtleneck with dangling earrings. She is looking sideways, drawing the viewer's eyes in that direction.
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Presented in a new blue mat.
Mat size: 32"H x 26"W
Paper size: 28.5"H x 22.5"W
Image size: 15.5"H x 11.5"W
Jerry O'Day is also known as Geraldine Heib. Born in Oakland, California, on June 17, 1912. Geraldine Heib assumed the name Jerry O'Day at an early age. She grew up in Washington and studied in Seattle at the Cornish School of Fine Arts. Upon moving to the San Francisco Bay area in 1938, she further studied with Bufano as a muralist for two years. O'Day wed sculptor David Lemon and had a gallery in a converted cod fishery in Belvedere from 1942 until 1963. At that time, the couple moved to a houseboat in Sausalito, where she remained until her demise on March 30, 1986.
Post War California artist, Jerry O'Day studied at the Cornish School of Fine Arts in Seattle; studied with Beniamino Bufano for two years. She lived in the artist's colony at the Cod fishery with artist David Lemon on Belvedere Island in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1942 - 1963.
Solo Exhibitions: City of Paris, Rotunda Gallery; Lucien Labaudt Gallery, 1963; Torrance Gallery, San Anselmo, 1955; Marin Art Gallery, Sausalito, 1956; Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1962; East & West Gallery, Fillmore Street, San Francisco; Landmarks Gallery, Marin County, 1991.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 65th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1945; Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963.
Source:
David J Carlson...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
"Spa Hair" Minimalist Illustrative Portrait in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
Located in Soquel, CA
"Spa Hair" Minimalist Illustrative Portrait in Ink on Paper
In this illustrative portrait by Jerry O'Day (American, 1912), a person is depicted in a continuous line contour style. The fine line detail of the hair gives texture and movement to the piece, with half-closed eyelids, giving the sense of calm and relaxation.
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Presented in a new black mat.
Mat size: 36"H x 30"W
Paper size: 28.5"H x 22.63"W
Image size: 25.5"H x 20"W
Jerry O'Day is also known as Geraldine Heib. Born in Oakland, California, on June 17, 1912. Geraldine Heib assumed the name Jerry O'Day at an early age. She grew up in Washington and studied in Seattle at the Cornish School of Fine Arts. Upon moving to the San Francisco Bay area in 1938, she further studied with Bufano as a muralist for two years. O'Day wed sculptor David Lemon and had a gallery in a converted cod fishery in Belvedere from 1942 until 1963. At that time, the couple moved to a houseboat in Sausalito, where she remained until her demise on March 30, 1986.
Post War California artist, Jerry O'Day studied at the Cornish School of Fine Arts in Seattle; studied with Beniamino Bufano for two years. She lived in the artist's colony at the Cod fishery with artist David Lemon on Belvedere Island in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1942 - 1963.
Solo Exhibitions: City of Paris, Rotunda Gallery; Lucien Labaudt Gallery, 1963; Torrance Gallery, San Anselmo, 1955; Marin Art Gallery, Sausalito, 1956; Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1962; East & West Gallery, Fillmore Street, San Francisco; Landmarks Gallery, Marin County, 1991.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 65th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1945; Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963.
Source:
David J Carlson...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Lounge Chair Nap - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
By Irene Pattinson
Located in Soquel, CA
Lounge Chair Nap - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
A man lazes in a lounge chair, book still in hand, as he dozes off with a content e...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Pen, Paper
African Mama - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
By Irene Pattinson
Located in Soquel, CA
African Mama - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
A charming illustration, by Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999), shows a woman with a...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Indian Dancer - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
By Irene Pattinson
Located in Soquel, CA
Indian Dancer - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
A stoic, dark-haired woman in elaborate dress is sitting cross-legged in this illustration by Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999). Pattinson uses fine ink line detail and a vibrant pink watercolor for a splash of color.
Signed at the bottom, "Irene Pattinson."
Provenance: The Artist, Estate of Irene Pattinson: David Carlson; Estate of Larry Miller Fine Art, Robert Azensky Fine Art.
Presented in a new white mat with foam core backing.
Mat size: 16"H x 12"W
Paper size: 11.75"H x 8.5"W
Image size: 7.5"H x 6.5"W
Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999) studied at the California School of Fine Art (now The San Francisco Art Institute), San Francisco State College and The Marion Hartwell School of Design. She was President of the San Francisco Woman Artists Association 1955-56.
Provenance: The Artist, Estate of Irene Pattinson: David Carlson; Estate of Larry Miller Fine Art, Robert Azensky Fine Art.
Solo Exhibitions: Lucien Labaudt Gallery 1955; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1961 (39 works).
Selected Group Exhibitions: San Francisco Art Association Annual 1948, 54, 55; San Francisco Woman Artists, 1957-1960; Oakland Art Museum Annual, 1951, 58; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1960; Richmond Art Center, 1955, 56, 57, 58; San Francisco Art Institute 1959, 60. The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, 1958, 59, 60, 62, 63; Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1960; Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963.
Awards: First Place, San Francisco Woman Artists Assoc., 1957, 1959; San Francisco Art Festival 1957;Literature: San Francisco Art Institute - A catalog of the Art Ban 1962/63; San Francisco and the Second Wave: The Blair Collection
Exhibitions:
1963 The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, CA
1963 California Palace of The Legion of Honor: Forth Winter Invitational, San Francisco, CA
1962 The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, CA
1961 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1960 California...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Paper, Watercolor, Pen
Erotic French painter - 19th century figure drawings - Nudes - Ink on paper
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (19th century) - Four erotic scenes.
17 x 24 cm without frames, 21.5 x 28.5 cm with frames.
Antique ink drawings on paper, in wood...
Category
Late 19th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Portrait Drawing of a Man at a Desk in India Ink on Tan Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait Drawing of a Man at a Desk in India Ink on Tan Paper
Figurative drawing of a man at a desk by Jerry O'Day (American, 1912). The man is seated, about to pick up a pen. His features are somewhat exaggerated, showing foreshortening in the arms and legs. This piece is executed with confident strokes but nonetheless feels loose and playful.
Signed in the bottom right corner, "Jerry O'Day."
Mat size: 20"H x 16"W
Paper size: 12"H x 8"W
Image window size: 11.25"H x 7.25"W
Jerry O'Day is also known as Geraldine Heib. Born in Oakland, California, on June 17, 1912. Geraldine Heib assumed the name Jerry O'Day at an early age. She grew up in Washington and studied in Seattle at the Cornish School of Fine Arts. Upon moving to the San Francisco Bay area in 1938, she further studied with Bufano as a muralist for two years. O'Day wed sculptor David Lemon and had a gallery in a converted cod fishery in Belvedere from 1942 until 1963. At that time, the couple moved to a houseboat in Sausalito, where she remained until her demise on March 30, 1986.
Post War California artist, Jerry O'Day studied at the Cornish School of Fine Arts in Seattle; studied with Beniamino Bufano for two years. She lived in the artist's colony at the Cod fishery with artist David Lemon on Belvedere Island in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1942 - 1963.
Solo Exhibitions: City of Paris, Rotunda Gallery; Lucien Labaudt Gallery, 1963; Torrance Gallery, San Anselmo, 1955; Marin Art Gallery, Sausalito, 1956; Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1962; East & West Gallery, Fillmore Street, San Francisco; Landmarks Gallery, Marin County, 1991.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 65th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1945; Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963.
Source:
David J Carlson...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Paper
Memento mori - A study of a Skull
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
E. Rusch (late 19th century)
Memento mori - Study of a skull
Pencil drawing
Drawing Size - 11 x 18 in
Framed Size - 17 1/2 x 24 1/2 in
Memento mori is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity and Christianity, and appeared in funerary art and architecture from the medieval period...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Abstract Expressionist Portrait of a Man in a Suit in Pastel on Paper Bay Area
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressionist Portrait of a Man in a Suit in Pastel on Paper
Moody portrait of a man with dark hair by an unknown artist (20th Century). The man is shown with an elongated face and ...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
UNTITLED (AFTERNOON REST)
By Itzchak Tarkay
Located in Aventura, FL
Original watercolor on paper. Hand signed on front by Tarkay. Sheet size 12 x 9 inches. Frame size approx 18 x 15 inches.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
About the Artist: Itzchak Tarkay (Israeli, 1935–2012) was a painter known for his Post-Impressionist portraits done in watercolor and acrylic. Influenced by the work of both Henri Matisse and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Tarkay’s expressive, use of color lent a dream-like quality to his serigraphs, prints, and paintings. Born in 1935 in Subotica, Serbia, Tarkay and family settled in Israel after Allied forces freed them from a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. The artist went on to study at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and later the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. Later in life, Tarkay mentored younger Israeli artists, including Yaacov Agam and Yuval Wolfson...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Portrait of a Man with White Hair and Mustache in Pastel on Artist's Board
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Man with White Hair and Mustache in Pastel on Cardstock
Portrait of a man by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). The man is looking directly at the viewer, with a neutral expression. He has white hair and a mustache, and is wearing a brown suit with a red tie.
Signed "Honora Berg" in the bottom right corner.
Stamp from Miller Fine Art on verso
Acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Initialed and numbered "HB 117" on verso
Unframed.
Board size: 20"H x 15"W
Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell — David Park's aunt — suggested a move to California in 1951 to study under Park. She exhibited at the 25th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961.
Provenance, Estate of Honora Berg - David Carlson Gallery, Larry Miller...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Canvas, Cardboard
Portrait of a Couple by M. Tarragona R. Drawing Signed and Dated in Mexico, 1948
Located in Pasadena, CA
A Beautiful portrait of a couple, probably a study for a painting.
Original drawing and watercolor signed by M. Tarragona R. ? and dated 1948 in Mexico.
With its origininal frame,
S...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Spring Breeze
Located in Seoul, KR
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work focuses on the relationship between ‘Writing and Drawing’. From a distance, it appears to be a drawn image but a closer look reveals innumerable minute hand...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Melany the artist's daughter signed pastel painting with original gallery label
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn
Melany (The Artist's Daughter), 1970
Pastel on paper painting
Hand signed by Wolf Kahn on the front
Unique
Frame included: newly matted and framed in a museum quality wood ...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"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...
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Odalisque (figurative drawing, female figure, charcoal, black and white)
By Susan Kiefer
Located in Kansas City, MO
Susan Kiefer
Odalisque
Charcoal on paper
Year: 1989
Size: 25x19in
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1665
Framed charcoal drawing of a crouching faceless female figure on Indi...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Caricatural Portrait - Gouache on Paper by Max Turner
Located in Pasadena, CA
In this gouache portrait, Max Turner has opted for caricature. Caricature is a form of art that involves exaggerating a person's physical features to create...
Category
1960s Other Art Style Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
'The Market Seller in Nice' French Vintage Gouache Painting
By Alfred Salvignol
Located in London, GB
'The Market Seller in Nice', gouache on paper, by Alfred Salvignol (circa 1950s). The role of women as support to their families has been both very important and highly undervalued b...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Portrait - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a Pencil Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (70x51 cm).
No Signature, another pen...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Black Girl Portrait - Gouache by Max Turner
Located in Pasadena, CA
A certain enigma surrounds Max Turner: he possesses both undeniable mastery and the humility of a great artist. Endowed with musicality and vibrancy in his brushwork, he remains a man of unassuming nature, far removed from the realm of trendy art galleries. His experience as an art instructor has sharpened his acuity for studying and capturing the essence of figure models, nurtured by his lifelong fascination with the human visage.
In this gouache portrait, one can sense that with each stroke, he repeats a gesture as if it was the very first time, capturing that fleeting fraction of a second, an emotion, a secret of his subject to infuse into his canvases. One can feel the artist’s pleasure...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
AIR JORDAN
By Bob Pollack
Located in Portland, ME
Pollack, Bob (American, born 1936).AIR JORDAN. Original painting in acrylics on paper, 2023. Signed and dated within the image. 11 X 14 inches. Matted. In ...
Category
2010s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
TYSON - ANOTHER K.O.
By Bob Pollack
Located in Portland, ME
Pollack, Bob (American, born 1936). TYSON - ANOTHER K.O. Original painting in acrylics on paper, 2023. Signed and dated within the image. 11 X 14 inches. Matted. In excellent condit...
Category
2010s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
A YOUNG FREDDY COUPLES
By Bob Pollack
Located in Portland, ME
Pollack, Bob (American, born 1936).A YOUNG FREDDY COUPLES. Original painting in acrylics on paper, 2023. Signed and dated within the image. 11 X 14 inches. Matted. In excellent cond...
Category
2010s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
TYSON WINS BY A KNOCKOUT
By Bob Pollack
Located in Portland, ME
Pollack, Bob (American, born 1936). TYSON WINS BY A KNOCKOUT. Original painting in acrylics on paper, 2023. Signed and dated within the image. 11 X 14 inches. Matted. In excellent c...
Category
2010s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Black and White Charcoal Portrait of a Woman by Max Turner
Located in Pasadena, CA
In this drawing, the background is deliberately neutral to accentuate the prominence of the face. Charcoal is a "free" drawing medium known for its expressive qualities, requiring artists to work within its unique constraints. As an experienced figure work instructor at the California Art Institute, Max Turner...
Category
1960s Neo-Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
THE BAMBINO
By Bob Pollack
Located in Portland, ME
Pollack, Bob (American, born 1936).THE BAMBINO. Original painting in acrylics on paper, 2023. Signed and dated within the image. 11 X 14 inches. Matted. In excellent condition.
Ori...
Category
2010s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
A YOUNG MIKE TYSON
By Bob Pollack
Located in Portland, ME
Pollack, Bob (American, born 1936). A YOUNG MIKE TYSON Original painting in acrylics on paper, 2023. Signed and dated within the image. 11 X 14 inches. Matted. In excellent conditi...
Category
2010s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Temple Official
Located in London, GB
'Temple Official', pencil and watercolour on paper by Robert Taylor Pritchett (1882). This is the artist's portrait of a financial official in a Cantonese temple in Guangzhou, China in the latter half of the 19th century. His garment is typical of that of a senior civil servant of the Chinese government. Clothes were designed to indicate rank and status, becoming so distinct that the wearer’s position could be ascertained at a glance. During his second career as an artist, Pritchett traveled widely in the Pacific region in the 1880s. This artwork has been professionally restored and cleaned to preserve it for decades to come and therefore in good overall condition. It has also been newly framed and glazed. The artist has written 'The Treasurer & Temple' and '5 Geni Temple, Canton Jan. 22 1882' on the lower left and right hands of the artwork. Upon request a video of the work may be provided.
About the Artist: Robert Taylor Pritchett (1823 - 1907), a gun maker and artist, was the son of Richard Ellis...
Category
1880s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Landscape - Painting by Alberto Gillani - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an artwork realized by Alberto Gillani, in 1981.
Oil on Canvas.
49 x 69 cm; 79 x 89 cm with frame.
Handsigned in the lower margin.
Very good conditions
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Artist at Her Easel - Figurative Drawing in Pen on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
The Artist at Her Easel - Figurative Drawing in Pen on Paper
Stylized figurative drawing by unknown artist "Ting" (20th Century). A woman is seated on a workbench, drawing on a larg...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Portrait of a Woman with Glasses - Drawing in Pen on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Woman with Glasses - Drawing in Pen on Paper
Stylized drawing by unknown artist "Ting" (20th Century). The sitter for this portrait is wearing horn-rimmed glasses, and...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Nude Portrait of a Woman with Curly Hair - Drawing in Pen on Paper Signed "Ting"
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude Portrait of a Woman with Curly Hair - Drawing in Pen on Paper
Stylized drawing by unknown artist "Ting" (20th Century). The sitter for this portrait has full, curly hair that i...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
'Portrait of a Young Man' — 1960s American Impressionism
By Robert Philipp
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Philipp, 'Portrait of a Young Man', color pastel and wet brush, c. 1967. Signed in pencil, lower right. A fine, painterly drawing, on cream laid Michallet drawing paper. The artist's tack holes in the four sheet corners, in very good condition. Image size 19 x 11 1/2 inches (483 x 292 mm); sheet size 19 x 12 3/8 inches (483 x 314 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Provenance: Art Students League, from the artist’s personal portfolio.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Philipp (1895–1981) was a celebrated American Post-Impressionist painter known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits. Noted art critic Henry McBride named Philipp one of America's top six painters of his generation. Philipp was an instructor of painting at the Art Students League, New York, for 33 years. Philipp was Secretary of the National Academy of Design, a National Academician, and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London. His composition and painting style has been compared to the art of Edgar Degas and Pierre Auguste Renoir.
In 1940, Philipp was invited to Los Angeles by Hollywood producer Louis B. Mayer to paint portraits of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie stars. The same year, Walter Wanger, producer of ‘The Long Voyage Home’, directed by John Ford and based on plays by Eugene O'Neill, contracted with Reeves Lewenthal, head of the Associated American Artists gallery in Manhattan, to bring nine well-known artists to the set and paint scenes from the movie and portraits of the actors in character. The artists included Robert Philipp, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Ernest Fiene, George Schreiber, Luis...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Canray and BoisSec (figurative drawing, Creole musicians, rural, fiddle player)
By Susan Kiefer
Located in Kansas City, MO
Susan Kiefer
Canray and BoisSec
Pastel on paper
Year: 2004
Size: 19x25in
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1664
Framed pastel portrait of beloved Creole musicians Canray Fontenot and BoisSe...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Artist's Self-Portrait in Pastel on Paper
By Michael William Eggleston
Located in Soquel, CA
Artist's Self-Portrait in Pastel on Paper
Bright yellow and ochre make up this self-portrait in chalk pastels by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century).
Unsigned, but acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Mat size: 30"H x 24"W
Paper size: 24"H x 18"W
Presented in a new soft peachy cream mat with foam core backing.
Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century) is a San Francisco...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Portrait Drawings a...
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Sketch of a head - Carved in stone -
Located in Berlin, DE
Emil Faesch (1865 Basel - 1915 Basel). Sketch of a head. Charcoal on painting cardboard, 60 x 47.5 cm (folio size), signed and dated at lower right "E. Faesch. 1888.".
Minor browning.
- Carved in stone -
About the artwork
The life-size head has an immensely present presence. This effect is due to the fact that Faesch took his cue from academic classical...
Category
1880s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Man sitting in the studio - Thinking about art -
Located in Berlin, DE
Adolph Eduard Otto von Faber du Faur (1828 Ludwigsburg - 1901 Munich). Man sitting in the studio. Watercolour painting, 43 x 27 cm (visible size), 73 x 53 cm (frame), monogrammed at lower right, estate stamp.
Upper right corner neatly repaired, small tear in the wall to the left of the sitter.
- Thinking about art -
About the artwork
The sitter, an elderly man, is seated in a studio on a pedestal reminiscent of an academy hall. The earthy, dark tones give the scene a weighty quality. The lightest tones are found in the incarnate parts of the figure, which do not stand out from the other colours of the picture, but are linked to them. As a result, the sitter's face is both part of and the highlight of the colour references in the picture. The colour of the sitter's skin is reflected in his pink coat, while his white-grey hair matches the colour of the wall next to him. This almost monochrome wall surface, in turn, is connected across the portrait to the framed picture standing on the floor, which seems to have been erased by this correspondence with the empty wall surface. Through the palette, which is positioned directly behind the sitter's head, the reference to painting, which is already given by the studio space, is explicitly linked to the sitter, who thus seems to be contemplating the question of the meaning of art.
This raises the question of whether Faber Du Faur, who had become lonely in his old age, might have painted a self-portrait here in his later years. In addition to the studio setting, the sitter's explicit reference to the palette and the fact that the picture was part of his estate, the only summary elaboration of the body suggests a self-portrait, while the representation of the face is concretised with the wide-open eyes typical of a self-portrait. This concentration on the face gives the impression of the artist's melancholy introspection, captured by the palette and related to the meaning of painting, whose dark character is reinforced by the concealment of the palette hanging on the right of the picture in the light tones so characteristic of Faber Du Faur. In the course of this resignation, Faber du Faur advises his son Hans, who has also become a painter: "Promise me one thing: never move to Munich, they'll kill you here!"
Whoever the sitter may be, the references to painting make the portrait a resigned self-contemplation by Faber Du Faur, focused on art.
About the artist
After leaving school, Otto Faber du Faur entered the service of the Württemberg army, at the same time cultivating his artistic talent. In 1851, on the recommendation of his father Christian Wilhelm, who was himself a battle painter, he spent six months in Munich as an apprentice to Alexander von Kotzebue. In 1852 he was granted a year's leave of absence from military service to study battle painting in the studio of Adolphe Yvon...
Category
1890s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait Study
Located in Soquel, CA
Unique set of expressive portrait studies in watercolor and ink by Santa Cruz artist Bob Newick (American, 20th Century). Signed "To Wendy / In Friendsh...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Foam Board
Sketchbook Page with Figures and Anatomical Details in Pencil on Paper - Germany
Located in Soquel, CA
Sketchbook Page with Figures and Anatomical Details in Pencil on Paper
Drawings of a man at a desk and other figurative sections by an unknown artist (19th Century). On the left sid...
Category
1880s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
'Portrait of a Tribesman.' Pencil and Conte crayon on paper circa 1960's.
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine profile portrait drawing of an elder tribesman. ( specific region unknown to us). Pencil and conte crayon on paper circa 1960's. Masterful use of the mediums . Unsigned. The q...
Category
1960s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Giuseppe Migneco(Italian painter) - 20th century figure drawing - Fortune teller
Located in Varmo, IT
Giuseppe Migneco (Messina 1903 - Milan 1997) - The fortune teller.
49.5 x 39.5 cm without frame, 52.5 x 40.5 cm with frame.
Antique mixed technique drawing on paper, in wooden fram...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
Female faces
Located in Ciudad De México, MX
Pastel chalk on textured paper, Series of 20 unique pieces. 100cm x 70cm x .05cm - framing option available.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Half-length portrait of a Pharisee - In the shadow of betrayal -
Located in Berlin, DE
Hermann Prell (1854 Leipzig - 1922 Dresden-Loschwitz). Half-length portrait of a Pharisee, 1885. Sketch for the right-hand figure in the painting Judas Iscariot, 1886. Pencil drawing heightened with opaque white and black chalk on beige-grey wove paper (papier vélin), 34 x 27.8 cm (visible size), 52 x 45 cm (mount), signed, dated and inscribed "H. PRELL 1885 zu 'Judas'".
Minor browning, collection stamp on the reverse.
- In the shadow of betrayal -
About the artwork
This painting is the sketch for the head of the Pharisee offering the coins to Judas in one of Herrmann Prell's major works, the painting Betrayal of Judas, completed in 1886. The painting belongs to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and is illustrated in Adolf Rosenberg: Prell, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1901, p. 21 (Fig. 19). It is especially highlighted in Thieme-Becker (vol. 27, p. 376).
Hermann Prell, Betrayal of Judas, 1886
The monumental head, which fills the picture and is distinguished by its ornamented robe, is almost a lost profile, which in the executed painting is justified by the Pharisee's turning towards Judas. Despite the fact that the sitter withdraws from the viewer by turning away, it was necessary to artistically elaborate the motivation for the purchase of one of Christ's disciples, which is why the drawing focuses on the expression of the face, while the 'accessories' are treated in a more summary manner.
In characterising the face, Hermann Prell performs a balancing act: since the Pharisee, despite his destructive actions, is an actor in the history of salvation, the head must show a dignity appropriate to the event, but at the same time the physiognomy must also bear witness to the scheming attitude that led to the betrayal. To solve this dilemma, Prell draws on the traditional depictions of the heads of the apostles, shading the face to indicate the obdurate darkness of the spirit and moving the base of the nose slightly upwards while the mouth falls away, thus giving a physiognomic expression to the motivation of the action. The fatal drama of the betrayal is expressed in the monumentalisation of the head and in the thunderous white highlights that contrast with the darkness of the chalk.
As a study, considered by the artist to be a work in itself, this drawing reveals the pictorial problems and brainstorming of monumental painting.
About the artist
In 1872 Prell, who was one of the most important exponents of monumental painting of his time, began studying painting with Theodor Grosse at the Dresden Academy of Art and continued with Carl Gussow at the Berlin Academy in 1876. Hans von Marées taught him in Rome in 1878. More influential on his work, however, were Arnold Böcklin and Max Klinger, with whom Prell had been friends since his student days and with whom he worked together on several occasions.
Prell's first major work, which established his reputation as a monumental painter, were the frescoes in the banqueting hall of the Architektenhaus in Berlin in 1881/82, commissioned by the state and depicting the different periods of architecture. Prell then went to Italy for two years to study fresco painting. Other major commissions followed. These included monumental frescoes in the town halls of Worms (1884), Hildesheim (1882-92), Gdansk (1895) and Dresden, the staircase of the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Breslau (1893/94), the throne room of the German Embassy in Rome (1896-99) and the staircase of the Albertinum in Dresden (1900-1904).
From 1886 Prell taught at the academy of arts in Berlin and in 1892 he was appointed professor at the academy of arts in Dresden. His students included Osmar Schindler and Hans Unger...
Category
1880s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Persephone, 19th Century Classical French Academy Drawing
Located in Cotignac, FR
19th Century French Academy drawing of a classical maiden, signed Xavier Rendeley bottom right, numbered and dated 2nd April 1883. Presented in ...
Category
1880s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
Abstracted Cubist Turkey in Pastel on Paper
By Michael William Eggleston
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Cubist Turkey Portrait in Pastel on Paper
Brightly colored abstract portrait by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). An abs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
postwar characters Spanish Civil War crayons drawing
By Alfredo Opisso
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Alfredo Opisso Cardona (1907-1980) - Post-war characters - Colored crayons
Crayons.
Frame in poor condition.
Measures work 32x20cm.
Frame measures 55x43 cm.
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Ballpoint pen drawing female face
By José Luis Fuentetaja
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 44x35 cm.
Is born in Madrid on the 21st july 1951.
After attending primary school, he starts to grow an enormous tendency for drawing.
At the age of 14 he begins to work in advertising and attends to the Vallecas school of arts.
At the age of 14 he travels to Switzerland and in Geneve he gets intensly into painting and decides to dedicate himself only to it.
When he returns to Spain he enrolls Arts Studies, and at the begining of summer '66, he visits Sitges, where he'll come back year after year and where ultimately he'll set his home.
At this time he starts selling his painting in the flea market in Madrid and later in Sitges, setting himself on the street, thus completing his studies and making it economically.
While he's in Madrid he recives lessons by Pedro Mozas at Bellas Artes and starts to learn profoundly about painting.
In 1969 he starts painting portraits in the streets.
In Sitges he creates, with other friends, a great artistic atmosphere in the Paseo de la Ribera, by the sea, that today still exists.
He starts travelling through Europe, visiting and painting in Paris, London and Amsterdam.
In the middle of this bohemian epoque, he moves to the Cannary Islands during the winters for 5 years in a row, he moves in the Parque de Santa Catalina "Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" where he works and meet all sorts of people in the streets, which later would mark his pictoric line.
He becomes friend with Sidney Nagley in 1969, who organizes his first exhibition in Toronto, Canada.
Afterwards he'll leave his studies and start painting exclusively in his studio.
He gathers his first exhibition in the Ateneu of Barcelona in 1970.
He befriends with the art critic of La Vanguardia, Fernando Gutierrez and the Count of Caralt orders him a set of illustration for a new edition of Garcia Lorcas Romancero Gitano.
His first exhibition in a commercial gallery is done in the Majestic Gallery in Barcelona with a gorgeous collection of nudity drawings.
He achieves huge success and for some years he affords his painting thanks to those drawings.
During a period in Madrid, Mr Ponce de León...
Category
2010s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
