Post-War Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

"Woman with Headscarf" Watercolor Painting 18" x 12" inch by Inji Efflatoun Stamped by artist's estate Not signed Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has pa...

"Bedouin Woman" Pencil on Paper Painting 18" x 14" inch by Inji Efflatoun Not signed. Stamped by artist's estate. Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has par...

"Seated Officers" Pencil Drawing 10" x 14" inch (1960) by Inji Efflatoun signed & dated Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibitio...

Red chalk on paper, signed and dated (lower left), 27cm x 38cm, (53cm x 63cm framed). The picture is framed behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass. Born in Bogotá Caballero ...

Red chalk on paper, signed and dated (lower left), 27cm x 38cm, (53cm x 63cm framed). The picture is framed behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass. Born in Bogotá Caballero ...

Gouache and charcoal on paper, 53cm x 37cm (74cm x 55cm framed). Provenance: the Artist’s estate (stamped verso). Stonehouse had an extraordinary life. As a young art student studying fashion illustration, he joined the Royal Artillery at the beginning of WWII but soon became a part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He was sent to France as a radio operator but three and a half months later was caught by the Gestapo, tortured, given a death sentence and then selected for slave labour. He spent the subsequent war years in three French prisons and five concentration and labour camps, including Dachau. He still managed to continue to draw in some of the camps. Following the war, Stonehouse went to the US and continued his career as a fashion artist painting for magazines...

Pastel, charcoal, watercolour and gouache on paper, 62cm x 48cm (77cm x 60cm framed), Provenance: the Artist’s estate. Stonehouse had an extraordinary life. As a young art student studying fashion illustration, he joined the Royal Artillery at the beginning of WWII but soon became a part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). He was sent to France as a radio operator but three and a half months later was caught by the Gestapo, tortured, given a death sentence and then selected for slave labour. He spent the subsequent war years in three French prisons and five concentration and labour camps, including Dachau. He still managed to continue to draw in some of the camps. Following the war, Stonehouse went to the US and continued his career as a fashion artist painting for magazines...

Hommage Au Docteur Meyer, Picasso, work on paper, Felt pen, Drawing, artwork Hommage à Pablo Picasso : Au Docteur Meyer 11.02.1967 Felt pen on paper 25 x 20 cm 43 x 40 cm (with fram...

A drawing by Fernando Botero. "Dibujo a la Manera de Velasquez" is a portrait, charcoal and pastel on cardboard in an earth-tone palette by Latin American artist Fernando Botero. It is signed upper right, "Sobre Velazquez Botero -1-27-60 Para Rita. el recuerdo de uno payaso". Fernando Botero, best known for his voluptuously rotund human figures, was born in Medellín, Colombia on April 19, 1932. His father died when he was young, and he was raised by his mother, along with his two brothers. He attended a Jesuit school in Medellín and from the age of 12 to 14, he attended a matador training school. The bull fight became a recurring theme in Botero’s early work and while he was in his early teens, he sold his pictures of bull fights in front of the arena. By the time he was 16 years of age, Botero was working as an illustrator for the local magazine El Colombiano. He also began writing articles about art theory, one of which, entitled Picasso and Non-Conformity in Art, led to his expulsion from the Jesuit school for its endorsement of Cubism. One of Botero’s important early works, Woman Crying...

C'est pourtant bien moi qui suis reconnu par les Etats Unis! (It is nevertheless me who is recognized by the United States!) Signed and dated “Arthur Szyk / N.Y. 1941” (lower right)...

An exquisite example of post war artist Bernard Dunstan's line work. The relaxed pose of the sitter and sensitive approach to mark making is typical of...