Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Wettersteinkamm - The blue of the mountains -
Located in Berlin, DE
Adalbert Holzer (1881 Munich - 1966 Munich). Wettersteinkamm. Watercolour, 29 x 34.5 cm (visible size), 37.5 x 43 cm (frame), signed and dated at lower right 'ADALBERT HOLZER [19]23'.
Framed behind glass. Frame shows signs of wear.
- The blue of the mountains -
About the artwork
The Wetterstein ridge is revealed to the viewer from a gentle, snow-covered hill. In contrast to conventional depictions of mountains, the painting is composed entirely of shades of blue, which condense into the blue-grey of the rock or fade into the white of the snow. As a complementary colour to the blue, Holzer virtuously activates the ochre ground. The uniform yet exciting polarity of the colours emphasises the massive majesty of the mountains and at the same time underlines the special character of the Wetterstein ridge. Holzer transferred the translucency of glass painting, in which he was originally trained, to watercolour and developed a pictorial language related to the art of Ferdinand Hodler, which earned him the nickname 'Master of Blue' and led to the appreciation of his watercolours in particular.
About the artist
After an apprenticeship as a stained glass painter at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Adalbert Holzer studied at the Munich Art Academy under Carl von Marr...
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1920s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Large Seated Male Nude" - Modern Pastel Portrait
By Kittie O
Meallie
Located in New Orleans, LA
An exquisite nude by Kittie O'Meallie, an artist out of the famous Newcomb arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans which beginning in the early 20th century led the Southern "...
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Early 2000s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier - Bleeding flowers -
Located in Berlin, DE
Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Hänsch (1875-1945), Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier, 1918. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 15 x 24.5 cm (image), 27 x 37 cm (sheet size / frame), monogrammed and dated "19JH18" at lower left.
- Paper slightly darkened
About the artwork
Despite the relatively small format, the watercolor with an internal frame depicts a panoramic view of a flat landscape stretching to the horizon. As far as the eye can see, the poppies bloom in flaming red. The flowers are not rendered individually, however, creating an almost cohesive red surface. The bright red is interspersed with vegetal green. A complementary contrast that creates an intense color effect. In this color contrast, a white area breaks through from the middle ground, widening towards the foreground and surrounding a brown hole. Next to it, in blue, is the actual protagonist of the painting, the first thing that catches the eye: a dead soldier. Next to him is his helmet, revealing the empty interior. The brown, hollow shape corresponds to the hole in the ground. A shell funnel is surrounded by bright ash, which, like the inverted helmet, becomes a sign of death. The soldier's arms point to the funnel, while the empty helmet paraphrases the calotte of the skull and, like the funnel, thematizes the empty darkness of death.
The soldier's body, however, is intact and not - as in Otto Dix's triptych "The War" - a dismembered corpse. Instead, Johannes Hänsch activates the landscape, especially the color, to illustrate a blooming landscape of death that extends from the shell funnel in the foreground to the rising column of smoke on the horizon. If the soldier's body is intact, the tangle of barbed wire emblematically placed over the empty helmet also appears tattered. On the right side of the picture, the barbed wire even seems to stretch its arms to the sky in horror. Against the background of this allegory, the content of the bright red also becomes clear: the landscape is drenched in blood, literally a sea of blood, and the single unknown soldier stands pars pro toto for all those who died on the battlefield. Dying in war is not dying in community, but in solitude. In order to emphasize the isolation in death, Johannes Hänsch has set the blue of the soldier in the axis given by his body in the middle ground of the picture into the red sea.
A master of landscape painting, Hänsch succeeds in creating a natural-looking landscape allegory that illustrates the horror and death of war, without depicting the brutality of war itself. This singular 'war memorial' of the unknown soldier is the opposite of heroization and yet the dignity of the deceased soldier is preserved through the integrity of his body.
About the artist
As the son of the sculptor Adolf Haensch, the young Johannes received his first artistic training in his father's Berlin studio. However, he eventually decided to become a painter, and in 1897 he entered the Berlin Academy of Arts. He initially studied under Paul Vorgang and Eugen Bracht, and was particularly influenced by Bracht's increasingly colourful landscape painting. In 1901 he moved to the class of Friedrich Kallmorgen, with whom he spent several weeks on excursions into nature. In 1905 he became a master pupil of Albert Hertel, who taught him watercolour painting.
From 1903 to 1933 he exhibited annually at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, the exhibitions of the Berlin Artists' Association and the Munich Glaspalast. In 1905 he was awarded the Carl Blechen...
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1910s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Decima Moore - Actress
Suffragette Edwardian drawing female artist
By Maria Cowell nee Sayer
Located in Hagley, England
A fine, circa 1907, Edwardian pencil / charcoal drawing. Executed by Maria Cowell nee Sayer, it depicts a portrait of Decima Moore - an actress and Suffragette. A very striking and f...
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Early 1900s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
"Underfoot" (2016) By Robin Cole, Original Charcoal Drawing
By Robin Cole
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Cole's (US based) "Underfoot" is an original, handmade charcoal drawing in a diptych format that depicts grey monochrome grasses and pinecones.
Nature and those that inhabit ...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Panel
The University Church of St Mary Oxford - Dutch 1920
s art watercolour painting
By Willem Leendert Bruckman
Located in Hagley, England
This beautiful exhibited watercolour painting is by Dutch listed artist Willem Leendert Bruckman. It depicts the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, South Porch. The Un...
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1920s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Joseph Arthur Powell - Early 20th Century British Watercolour of a Watermill
Located in London, GB
JOSEPH ARTHUR POWELL
(1876-1961)
A Watermill
Watercolour
Unframed
38 by 55 cm., 15 by 21 ¾ in.
(mount size 54 by 70 cm., 21 ¼ by 27 ½ in.)
Born in London he was the son of the su...
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Early 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The actor Karl Seydelmann as soldier / - The expressiveness of a simple pose -
Located in Berlin, DE
Theodor Hosemann (1807 Brandenburg - 1875 Berlin), The actor Karl Seydelmann as soldier, around 1840. Watercolor in pencil, 22 cm (height) x 14.7 cm (width), signed “Th.[eodor] Hosem...
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1840s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
The Market Place Venice - British Victorian art watercolour painting Italy
By Thomas Ellison
Located in Hagley, England
A fine, large watercolour by British listed artist Thomas Ellison who exhibited at The Royal Academy and the British Art institutions. It is a busy scene depicting the market at Veni...
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19th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mike Tyson Portrait, Drawing, Charcoal on Paper
By David Sipko
Located in Yardley, PA
This is portrait of arguably one of the most feared boxers in the history of the sport. This piece will complement your sports collection room quite nicely and demonstrate your love...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
The Prince
s Room
By Willy Pogany
Located in Buffalo, NY
Born in Szeged, Hungary, he became one of the better known and successful illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration, completing over 100 books. Among them are "A Treasury of Verse for Little Children," "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." He is probably best known for pen and ink drawings of mythology subjects geared towards children.
He studied at Budapest Technical University and attended art schools in Munich and Paris before moving to London at age 23. In 1907, he began illustrating children's books and did a series of annual gift books...
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1940s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Pen, Watercolor
Naturalistic Monochromatic Figurative Drawing of a Mustached Calvary Officer
Located in Houston, TX
Naturalistic monochromatic figurative portrait by an unknown artist. The drawing features a pencil portrait of a calvary officer wearing a hat with a "2F" logo. Framed in a reddish-b...
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Early 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Regatta. 2019. Watercolor, paper, 63 x 87 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Regatta. Watercolor, paper, 63 x 87 cm
Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private collections in Latvia, USA, Swede...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$694 Sale Price
35% Off
University of Oxford Botanic Garden watercolour by Margaret Waller
Located in London, GB
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20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
"Study for Armadillo IV" (2024) By Lee Andre, Original Charcoal Illustration
Located in Denver, CO
"Study for Armadillo IV" (2024) by Lee Andre is a beautiful charcoal illustration of an armadillo.
Born in Korea and adopted at age five by a family in Minnesota, Lee Andre's early ...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Gun from Clue
By A.J. Fries
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mixed media drawing by American artist A.J. Fries.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Paper
Pink Flamingos, Illustrative Watercolor Painting by Oscar Hess
By Oscar Hess
Located in Long Island City, NY
This watercolor painting was created by Oscar Hess in circa 1980. It is hand signed in the lower right hand corner, and measures 19.5 x 14 inches. It is displayed in a 27 x 22 inch m...
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1980s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Golden Reality – 14-09-20, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Golden Reality – 14-09-20 Golden Reality My last drawing was slightly cubistic but today I did this realistic one, that I would like to name ‘Golden Reality’. Realism is no...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
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...
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1880s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
JVC Anthony, Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge 20th century watercolour
By JVC Anthony
Located in London, GB
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20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Tribute to Alma Tadema – 28-12-21, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Another Fine Dutch One Time for a tribute to Lourens Alma Tadema and why not? Vermeer, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Mondriaan and De Kooning are house hold name...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
A Coachman - 18th Century British Figure watercolour drawing by Paul Sandby
By Paul Sandby
Located in London, GB
PAUL SANDBY
(1731-1809)
Study of a Coachman
Pencil and brown wash, shaped
Framed
16.5 by 9 cm., 6 ½ by 3 ½ in.
(frame size 32 by 22.5 cm., 12 ½ by 9 in.)
Provenance:
Iolo Williams;
Private collection.
Exhibited:
Sudbury, Gainsborough House, 1979.
Sandby was born in Nottingham and moved to London in 1745. He and his brother Thomas first worked in the military drawing department at the Tower of London, later working on a military survey of new roads and bridges in the Highlands. On leaving this post in 1751 he spent some time living with his brother who had been appointed Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park. There he assisted his brother, and made a series of drawings of the castle, town and neighbourhood. In 1760 he settled in London where he contributed to the first exhibition of the Society of Artists where he regularly exhibited until the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, becoming one of its founder members. In same year he was appointed chief drawing...
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Late 18th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
19th Century British School Still Life Watercolour of Holly and a Cherry
Located in London, GB
BRITISH SCHOOL
(19th Century)
Still Life of Cherry and Holly Leaf
Watercolour and bodycolour
Unframed, in mount only
10.5 by 7.5 cm., 4 ¼ by 3 in.
(mount size 25 by 21 cm., 6 by 8...
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Late 19th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Riverbank, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
This piece is focusing in on the foreground showing a close up of a riverbank and detailed grassy embankment with the strong image of a dark barn off in the distance across a field. ...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Ruins of St. Clement
s Church in Visby, Sweden / - Real romanticism -
Located in Berlin, DE
Otto Günther-Naumburg (1856-1941), The Ruins of St. Clement's Church in Visby, Sweden. Watercolor and ink, heightened with white, on sand-colored paper, mounted on cardboard, 33 x 24...
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Early 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Sailboats. Watercolor on paper, 24x18 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sailboats. Watercolor on paper, 24x18 cm
Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private collections in Latvia, USA, Swed...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$327 Sale Price
20% Off
A Good Day Fishing, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Fishing boats are a favorite subject of mine to watch and paint. Shrimp boats are a special breed, with the outriggers in front or in back of the wheelhouse. They go out for several ...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Trompe L
oeil [untitled]. Homage... Ter Nagedachtenis van S. G. Wezel oud 76 Jar
Located in New York, NY
Trompe l'oeil [untitled]. Homage.... Ink drawing, multimedia, 1837. Paper size 13.13 x 16.44" (33.3 x 41.8 cm). On watermarked paper "Blauw and Briel." Overall good condition. Small tears and the occasional bit of paper missing at the paper edge. Original color. Center paper crease - as issued. We believe the artist created this artwork on a sheet of paper that had been previously bound in a book.
Dutch trompe l'oeil drawing with pen & ink, pencil, sepia, and black chalk, wax seal, and painted pigment. This montage of early 19th century ephemera depicts sheet music, scenic views, a sealed letter, cards, a portrait of an unknown sitter, and a penned sheet noting ... van S. G. Wezel Wassenaar, October 1837. Is this a homage to the individual portrayed, a metaphorical self-portrait, or just a random assortment of ephemera beautifully composed? The artist keeps us wondering and visually appeased by a striking harmony created through contrast. This piece starts with sheet music entitled; Romance Larghetto No 2. There is a Psalm and Op Jezus Geboorte (On Jesus Birth...
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Mid-19th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Ink, India Ink, Watercolor
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oeil [untitled]. Homage... Ter Nagedachtenis van S. G. Wezel oud 76 Jar](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_3312/a_80146321619885874600/Wezel_Tromphe_l_oeil_crop_82094_master.jpg?width=240 "emilio briel")
James Priddey, Merton College Oxford University Watercolour
Located in London, GB
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James Priddey (1916-1980) FRSA RBSA
Merton...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Rococo portrait Nude lady in Royal mantle Early 20th century Pastel drawing
Located in Stockholm, SE
A lady with a porcelain-delicate toasty face, enchants with playful and refined coquetry. The lively movability of the artist's stroke conveys with all tangibility the reflections and the play of light on the surface of the blue satin, and the airiness of the underwear. The professionalism of this work captures with its imagination, grace and harmony of colors. By an unidentified professional painter, vintage pastel drawing...
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Early 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper, Pastel
Flowers over the City. 1975. Watercolor on paper, 11x14, 8 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers over the City. 1975. Watercolor on paper, 11x14,8 cm
Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978)
Graphic, army officer.
In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and...
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1970s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$265 Sale Price
20% Off
Morning 1965, paper/watercolor, 15x21 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Morning
1965, paper/watercolor, 15x21 cm
Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978)
Graphic, army officer.
In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and many military cour...
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1960s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Baby on a Chair - Original Charcoals Drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Baby on a Chair
Original red chalk drawing
on linen watermarked paper 19 x 13 cm (c. 7,5 x 5 in)
Stamp of the Estate auction sale on the back
Very goo...
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Early 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Two studies of Woman Profile - Original Charcoals Drawing - Circa 1920
Located in Paris, IDF
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)
...
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Early 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Design for the Midland Hotel, Manchester Architectural Drawing Railway Hotel
Located in London, GB
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A Design For The Midland Hotel Manc...
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Late 19th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Landscape 1964, watercolor on paper, 20.5x26.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape
1964, watercolor on paper, 20.5x26.5 cm
Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978)
Graphic, army officer.
In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and many mili...
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1960s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Eileen Soper - 20th Century British drawing of chicks in the nest
By Eileen Soper
Located in London, GB
EILEEN SOPER
(1905-1990)
The Coconut Nest Box
Dated l.r.: June 14 1956, bears artist’s studio stamp on the reverse
Pencil
Unframed, in conservation mount only
18 by 15 cm., 7 by 6 in.
(mount size 37 by 33.5 cm., 14 ½ by 13 ¼ in.)
Provenance:
The artist’s estate;
Chris Beetles, London;
Private collection.
Eileen Alice Soper was born in Enfield, Middlesex in 1905. In 1908 the family moved to Harmer Green, Welwyn in the Hertfordshire countryside and she was the live in that same house of the rest of her life. She attended Hitchen Girls School and was artistically trained by her father, the noted illustrator and etcher, George Soper...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Woman in a Red Kimono – 02-07-21, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Woman in a Red Kimono This drawing of a woman in a red kimono is based on a session with my regular model. It so happened that I teamed up with a student of mine who rents a lovel...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Self-portrait - Homo nudus -
Located in Berlin, DE
Bruno Paul (1874 Seifhennersdorf - 1968 Berlin). Self-portrait, c. 1895. Pencil on paper, mounted on cardboard, 53.5 x 35 cm, signed 'Paul' at upper left.
- Homo nudus -
About the artwork
In a mirrored situation, Bruno Paul looks at himself in the picture. While his body, which is the size of the format, is shown in profile parallel to the picture, he turns his head into the picture in order to become aware of himself there, whereby the lighter use...
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1890s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
In the park. Paper, watercolor, 42x29.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
In the park. Paper, watercolor, 42x29.5 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In ...
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1970s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$90 Sale Price
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"Ukrainian Cossacks"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Mikhail Chemiakin (b. 1943)
“Ukrainian Cossacks”, 1981
Watercolor, ink on paper
29.5 × 29.5 cm
Signed lower right
A vivid and theatrical work by the internationally acclaimed Russia...
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20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Three Setters on Point
By Edmund Henry Osthaus
Located in Missouri, MO
Three Setters on Point
Edmund Henry Osthaus (German, 1858-1928)
Watercolor on Paper
Signed Lower Right
18 x 27 inches
24.5 x 33.5 inches with frame
Born in Hildesheim, Germany, Edmu...
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Early 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Prospect of Durham from the River 19th Century Watercolour
Located in London, GB
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19th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Tranquility, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A mid winter painting with an ominous dark sparsely snow covered tree in the foreground on a blustery, atmospheric day. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Charcoal Portrait of Sir Winston Churchill, Circa 1935
Located in New Orleans, LA
Portrait of Sir Winston Churchill
English I 1874-1965
Charcoal on paper
Signed lower right (indiscernible)
This lifetime charcoal portrait of Winston Churchill, dating to around 19...
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20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Charcoal
Louis Tinayre (1861-1942) An encampment of journalists, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Louis Tinayre (1861-1942)
An encampment of journalists in Chambéry,
signed and titled lower left "Campement de journalistes à Chambéry"
Ink on paper
In quite good condition, a a visible vertical fold in the centre, some stains and foxings
21 x 29 cm
Framed : 33.7 x 45.5 cm
Louis Tinayre's background and adventurous life obviously inform this humorous and detailed scene. He demonstrates a remarkable sense of observation, capturing this scene of extraordinary life like a journalistic illustrator.
A contributor, to whom I'd like to express my sincere thanks, sheds important light on the nature of this scene.
It appears that this drawing is the draft for an illustration published in “Le Monde illustré” of August 4, 1888 (page 77), to accompany the article “Épilogue du voyage présidentiel” (Epilogue to the presidential trip) - president Sadi Carnot- en Savoie et en Dauphiné (p. 74), which ends with: “As a picturesque note, we enclose an improvised journalists' dormitory in Chambéry, where our colleagues deeply regretted the comfort of the special train”.
As a quasi-ethnographic observer, Tinayre's interest lies in the journalists' camp, which he turns into a tender, comical scene. We understand him better when we know that he may have been similarly fascinated by the territories of Madagascar, the North Pole or the Far West that he painted and drew.
Louis Tinayre was born on 14 March 1861 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. His mother, Victoire Tinayre, was a teacher and a member of the International Workers' Association.
Louis was the son of a Communard couple. His father, Jean Joseph, known as Jules Tinayre (Issoire 1821 - Paris 1871) was shot during the Bloody Week. His mother, Victoire Tinayre, fled with her children. Louis was the first to be sent to Hungary, and the rest of the family (including his brother Julien) joined him there later. He studied Fine Arts at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest.
Returning to Paris in 1880 (after the amnesty), Louis Tinayre assiduously frequented Le Chat noir, where he met the positivists and Adèle Jacomet (Buenos Aires 1867-1946), whom he married in 1888.
He became an animal painter and press illustrator and was sent by Le Monde Illustré to cover the second expedition to Madagascar (then under French protectorate) in 1895.
He stayed there, fascinated, for six months and produced numerous drawings and photographs. Back in France, he created eight 5 x 4 meters dioramas presented at the National and Colonial Exhibition in Rouen in 1896.
He returned to Madagascar in 1898 to prepare the creation of a giant panorama representing the surrender of Antananarivo in 1895. The Malagasy pavilion at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris allowed him to admire the dioramas (on the ground floor) and the panorama (on the first floor).
On his second trip, Tinayre took a Lumière cinematograph with him to document the daily life of the Malagasy people, no doubt to facilitate the design of the vast panorama. These short films were donated to the Cinémathèque française in 2009 by his grandson, Alain Tinayre.
One of the admirers of Tinayre's drawings, watercolours, paintings and photographs at the Universal Exhibition was Prince Albert I of Monaco: from 1901 onwards, Tinayre accompanied him on his hunts, painting scenes in North Africa, Russia, the Far West (Wyoming) and the North Pole. Tinayre, the official painter of the Prince's scientific expeditions, left his name to a glacier.
Together with the painter Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Brun, he painted the four murals in the large amphitheatre of the Oceanographic Institute in Paris. Louis Tinayre painted the figures while Alexandre Brun...
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1890s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
At Baltic sea. 2020. Watercolor, paper, 63x94 cm
Located in Riga, LV
At Baltic sea. Watercolor, paper, 63x94 cm
Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private ...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$664 Sale Price
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Victorian Landscape Detailed Large Watercolour of Ludlow Castle and Ludlow town
Located in ludlow, GB
Victorian Landscape a Detailed Watercolour of Ludlow Castle, Dinham and Ludlow town.
Looking towards Dinham and Ludlow Castle, Shropshire - a Landscape view
Signed Watercolour on P...
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Late 19th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Girl from Zeeland - Original watercolour by Christoffel Bisschop (1828-1904)
By Christoffel Bisschop
Located in Gent, VOV
This delightful watercolour by the famous Dutch painter Christoffel Bisschop transports us to the heart of 19th-century Zeeland. The artist, known for his detailed realism and sensit...
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19th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Apple tree - XX Century, Contemporary Figuratie Watercolor Painting, Dog, Animal
By Stanislaw Sobolewski
Located in Warsaw, PL
Stanislaw Sobolewski (born in 1952)
Studied philology at the Jagiellonian University (1971-1976) and painting under prof. Zbigniew Grzybowski at the Academy of Fine Arts (1974-1979)....
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1990s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Queen
s College, Oxford watercolour by Bernard Cecil Gotch
Located in London, GB
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Bernard Cecil Gotch (1876 - 1964)
Queen's College, Oxford
Watercolour
28 x 39 cm (51 x 64 cm framed)
Signed lower right.
Queen's College in all its leafy glory. The dreaming spires of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, the Radcliffe Camera, and All Souls peek over the quad.
Bernard Cecil Gotch was a Winchester-born artist who is best known for his atmospheric watercolours of Britain's towns and cities (most notably Oxford).
He moved to Oxford in 1927, painting many watercolours of the interiors and exteriors of Oxford’s many buildings. His works concentrate on the grand exteriors and interiors of the University's colleges, and he exhibited frequently - including an exhibition every term at Oriel College.
His first notable commission was for the publisher Methuen, illustrating 'A Shepherd’s Life' by W H Hudson...
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20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Natures Cycle, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A fallen down tree over a stream, near the end of winter. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Ha...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Gone - Original Charcoal Drawing of a Male Torso, Matted and Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
The subject is walking away from the viewer in Nathan Brad Hall's charcoal drawing entitled simply "Gone". His muscular physique, with defined muscul...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Old Schools Quad, Bodleian Library, Oxford watercolour by Bernard Cecil Gotch
Located in London, GB
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Bernard Cecil Gotch (1876-1964)
The Bodleian Library, Oxford: Passageway into the Old Schools Quandrangle
Watercolour
35 x 49 cm
Signed in pencil lower right.
An enticing view of the passageway leading into the Old Schools Quad of the Bodleian Library. Through the gateway, we see the passageway leading out of the Quad onto the other side, into Radcliffe Square. A glimpse of the Radcliffe Camera...
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20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Shrimp Boat Eagle, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
This realistic rendering of a shrimp fishing boat caught my eye because of its unusual hull and the outriggers were partially lowered with the wooden doors up. The nets look like curtains. It was from Biloxi, Ms. and anchored in Tampa Bay, Florida. I loved the colors and overall image of this old work horse...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Nailsmith Houses, Late 19th Century Rattenberg Austria Historical Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
The Nailsmith Houses, Late 19th Century Rattenberg Austria Historical Landscape
Exquisitely detailed 1888 watercolor of The Nailsmith Houses, a historical building in Rattenberg, A...
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1880s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Illustration Board
Newbern Groves Packing House, Lutz, Fl., Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is about a bygone era in Florida-oranges and the packing houses that processed them. Newbern Groves was a fixture in Lutz. Fl. for decades. Behind it was an orange Grov...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Archibald Hartrick - 1884 chalk drawing by Frank Lewis Emanuel
Located in London, GB
FRANK LEWIS EMANUEL
(1865-1948)
Portrait of Archibald Hartrick
Signed, inscribed and dated l.l.: A S HARTRICK (artist) by F L EMANUEL 1884
Black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper...
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1880s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Episode of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, a cantonment of soldiers, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French School 19th Century
Episode of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, a cantonment of soldiers during the siege of Paris
Pen and brown ink on paper
15 x 23 cm
Annotated on the lower...
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1870s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Bend in the RIver, Black and White
Located in New York, NY
Nothing short of amazing, this is an exceptional DRAWING by an artist that is appreciated for her skill and abilities and pictorial beauty. Her meticulous style of working with charcoal in this case and ink but often with pencil, has garnered her many collectors of her work. She often works in series and this is from 2014. It is under plexiStriking for anSarah Gillespie...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Archival Paper
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