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Forma 3 - painting, paper, contemporary, young artist, German, muted colours
Located in Berlin, DE
sculpture. Krause's drawings are not preliminary sketches for her paintings, as she regards both media as
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Ink, Acrylic
Forma 4 - painting, paper, contemporary, young artist, German, muted colours
Located in Berlin, DE
sculpture. Krause's drawings are not preliminary sketches for her paintings, as she regards both media as
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Ink, Acrylic
Forma 2 - painting, paper, contemporary, young artist, German, muted colours
Located in Berlin, DE
sculpture. Krause's drawings are not preliminary sketches for her paintings, as she regards both media as
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Ink, Acrylic
Habitus 1 - painting, paper, contemporary, young artist, German, muted colours
Located in Berlin, DE
sculpture. Krause's drawings are not preliminary sketches for her paintings, as she regards both media as
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
Habitus 3 - painting, young artist, German, muted colours, abstract, ink, oil
Located in Berlin, DE
sculpture. Krause's drawings are not preliminary sketches for her paintings, as she regards both media as
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
Forma 1 - painting, paper, contemporary, young artist, German, muted colours
Located in Berlin, DE
sculpture. Krause's drawings are not preliminary sketches for her paintings, as she regards both media as
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Ink, Acrylic
Habitus 2 - painting, paper, muted colours, young artist, German, abstract
Located in Berlin, DE
sculpture. Krause's drawings are not preliminary sketches for her paintings, as she regards both media as
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
19th Century Oil Portrait Painting of Lady Clarke by George Henry Harlow R.A.
By George Henry Harlow
Located in London/Yorkshire, GB
his pictures, and occasionally drawing preliminary portions of Lawrence's own productions. A
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pair of Sèvres Bisque Porcelain Winged Lions Bearing Gilt Baskets
By Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard 1
Located in Paris, FR
exhibited at the Louvre the following year (Fragonard’s original drawings and Brachard’s preliminary
Category
Antique 1820s French Restauration Decorative Baskets
Materials
Porcelain, Sèvres
Aluminum Wall
By Joel Perlman
Located in San Francisco, CA
no preliminary drawings, for Perlman sees his work as evidence of a process, and the result of an
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Triangles
By Joel Perlman
Located in San Francisco, CA
no preliminary drawings, for Perlman sees his work as evidence of a process, and the result of an
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Steel
$30,000
Steel Circle
By Joel Perlman
Located in San Francisco, CA
no preliminary drawings, for Perlman sees his work as evidence of a process, and the result of an
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Small Round
By Joel Perlman
Located in San Francisco, CA
no preliminary drawings, for Perlman sees his work as evidence of a process, and the result of an
Category
2010s Conceptual Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Albert Gottschalk, Sketch / Preliminary Drawing of Bridge over a River
Located in Kastrup, DK
Albert Gottschalk - 1866-1906. Sketch / preliminary drawing. Landscape, 'Bro over å' (Bridge over
Category
Antique 19th Century Danish Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
San Francisco Art Institute Mural Preliminary Drawing
By Diego Rivera
Located in Santa Monica, CA
: “Upper drawing by Diego Rivera – collection of Emmy Lou Packard”. Packard worked on the mural and was
Category
1930s Realist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
DEMETER - Rare image - Together with 2 Preliminary Drawings (3)
By Paul Landacre
Located in Santa Monica, CA
) DEMETER 1950 Charcoal drawing on tan wove paper, 6 ½” x 10”.
Study for the print
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Charcoal, Engraving, Woodcut
Beauty Painting a Scroll
By Taiso Yoshitoshi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary drawing for either a woodcut or a woodcut illustration.
Done in a gestural style in
Woman in a hat with arm upraised
By Henri Edmond Cross
Located in Fairlawn, OH
, Paris (Folio 81 is 15 studies)
Note: This possibly is the preliminary drawing for the figure in the
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Top I
the World
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed by the artist lower right "G.B."
Preliminary drawing for the frontispiece illustration of
Category
1920s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Oil Crayon
Gentlemen and Scottie dog at Chess Board
By Norman Rockwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
40.25"
This is a preliminary drawing. It’s a masterful drawing that was mounted long long ago and so
Category
1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Return to Life
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed lower right by the artist's daughter Jean Bellows Booth (J.B.B.)
Preliminary drawing for
Category
1920s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Head of a Woman: A Preliminary Study
By Viktor Schreckengost
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Possibly a study for "The Seasons: Summer" one of a set of four clay heads.
Category
1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Preliminary Sketch for Old Barn at Sheepshead Bay
By Oscar Florianus Bluemner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signature: Initialed, numbered and dated lower right
Inscription verso states that the painting was sold to Mrs. Phillip Lewisohn for $25 in 1916. It also gives color annotations ...
Category
1910s Fauvist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Drawing of rural scene with crowd and mules
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
A preliminary drawing for an outside scene that Nesbitt planned to do as a companion pieces to
Category
1990s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Ceramics by Picasso by Marilyn McCully (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
bibliography, preliminary drawings and a list of his works. A very useful work of reference for both collectors
Category
20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
$1,850 / set
Yacht Blueprint by Harold Field Kellogg
Located in Norwell, MA
: Boat, Preliminary drawing no, "B", Drawn by HFK, Date March 5, 1932.
It is interesting to note that
Category
Vintage 1930s North American Prints
Materials
Paper
18th Century Pair of Transition Louis XVI Gilt Bronze Candlesticks "à la Grec"
By Jean-Charles Delafosse
Located in Berlin, DE
pair relates to the preliminary drawings of Parisian designers of the second third of the 18th century
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Candlesticks
Materials
Bronze
Avigdor Arikha Modernist Israeli Lithograph Jerusalem Landscape Bezalel School
By Avigdor Arikha
Located in Surfside, FL
. He survived thanks to the drawings he made of deportation scenes, which were shown to delegates of
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Avigdor Arikha Modernist Israeli Lithograph Jerusalem Landscape Bezalel School
By Avigdor Arikha
Located in Surfside, FL
. He survived thanks to the drawings he made of deportation scenes, which were shown to delegates of
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Avigdor Arikha Modernist Israeli Lithograph Jerusalem Landscape Bezalel School
By Avigdor Arikha
Located in Surfside, FL
. He survived thanks to the drawings he made of deportation scenes, which were shown to delegates of
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Avigdor Arikha Modernist Israeli Lithograph Jerusalem Landscape Bezalel School
By Avigdor Arikha
Located in Surfside, FL
. He survived thanks to the drawings he made of deportation scenes, which were shown to delegates of
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Avigdor Arikha Modernist Israeli Lithograph Jerusalem Landscape Bezalel School
By Avigdor Arikha
Located in Surfside, FL
. He survived thanks to the drawings he made of deportation scenes, which were shown to delegates of
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Avigdor Arikha Modernist Israeli Lithograph Jerusalem Landscape Bezalel School
By Avigdor Arikha
Located in Surfside, FL
. He survived thanks to the drawings he made of deportation scenes, which were shown to delegates of
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Avigdor Arikha Modernist Israeli Lithograph Jerusalem Landscape Bezalel School
By Avigdor Arikha
Located in Surfside, FL
. He survived thanks to the drawings he made of deportation scenes, which were shown to delegates of
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
The Umbrellas, Japan-USA, 1984-91
By Christo
Located in Winterswijk, NL
projects were preliminary drawings, project sketches and objects, and later photographic documentation
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Hara Number Two
By Peter Lodato
Located in Santa Monica, CA
preliminary drawings for these installations and eventually, Lodato was able to recreate the illusive effect
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Buscar Blue
By Peter Lodato
Located in Santa Monica, CA
preliminary drawings for these installations and eventually, Lodato was able to recreate the illusive effect
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chakra Number Six
By Peter Lodato
Located in Santa Monica, CA
preliminary drawings for these installations and eventually, Lodato was able to recreate the illusive effect
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chakra Number Two
By Peter Lodato
Located in Santa Monica, CA
preliminary drawings for these installations and eventually, Lodato was able to recreate the illusive effect
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study of "Hylas and the nymphs", and on the backside, study of a peasant
By Jean François Millet
Located in Barbizon, FR
well as one of the preliminary charcoal on canvas drawings of the said oil painting, exhibited at the
Category
19th Century Barbizon School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Freud
By Ben Shahn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in ink lower right: Ben Shahn
Note: This drawing is the preliminary composition for Ben
Category
1950s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
$8,500
Chakra Number Three
By Peter Lodato
Located in Santa Monica, CA
preliminary drawings for these installations and eventually, Lodato was able to recreate the illusive effect
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Independencia, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Jeff Ferst
Located in Yardley, PA
direct one, usually with no preliminary drawing. A canvas will develop as a spontaneous, free-flowing
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sara Bathing / oval painting on wood
By David Molesky
Located in Burlingame, CA
begin directly on the canvas with a loaded brush, with no preliminary drawing. From the onset, this
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Creamsicle / oil on canvas
By David Molesky
Located in Burlingame, CA
canvas with a loaded brush, with no preliminary drawing. From the onset, this encourages color and form
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Lady in a Fur - Scout / oil on linen
By David Molesky
Located in Burlingame, CA
preliminary drawing. From the onset, this encourages color and form to be the sole transmitter of illusion
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
La Chevrière (the goatherder) Palette Knife Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
movement and without preliminary drawing".
Painter of movement
"Unlike an image where a moment in time
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Holy Trinity, after an icon by Russian painter Andrei Rublev (15th century)
Located in Segovia, ES
sanded smooth as well.
Then the preliminary drawing is applied and the drawing board is prepared with a
Category
1990s Byzantine Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold
1963 Pop Art Mixed Media Silkscreen on Pillowcase Neon Colors Stephen Antonakos
By Stephen Antonakos
Located in Surfside, FL
: American Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
1970: Preliminary Drawings, Museum of
Category
1960s Pop Art Mixed Media
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic
By the Beach, Oil on Canvas Painting by André Hambourg
By André Hambourg
Located in Atlanta, GA
, and Mexico. During these lengthy journeys, the artist brought back numerous sketches and preliminary
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Roses Blanches - Impressionist Oil, Still Life White Flowers, Circle of E Manet
By Édouard Manet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
friends. He practised the craft of the Spanish, Flemish, and Dutch painters. The preliminary drawing held
Category
1870s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunset in New York, Vintage Sofa by Gaetano Pesce, Italy, 1980s
By Gaetano Pesce, Cassina
Located in Roma, IT
drawing and the preliminary model in the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris France
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Sofas
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Polystyrene
Sunset in New York - Vintage Sofa by Gaetano Pesce, Italy, 1980s
By Gaetano Pesce
Located in Madrid, ES
. 63, nos. 49-50 for a preparatory drawing and the preliminary model in the collection of the Musée des
Category
20th Century Italian Modern Sofas
Materials
Polystyrene, Wood
Summer Morning, Sydney Harbour
By James R. Jackson
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
born in New Zealand in 1882 and came to Sydney with his family in 1890. After preliminary studies in
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Femme couchée et homme à la guitare (Woman Lying Down and Man with a Guitar)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Chicago, IL
reductive technique to produce all the colors from only one piece of linoleum on which a preliminary
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Grand Kabuki Stainless Steel Abstract Brutalist Sculpture
By Alfred Van Loen
Located in Surfside, FL
without preliminary blueprints, models or drawings. "They are a waste of time," he says. "I never start a
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Liberty vs Slavery Van Loen Bronze Abstract Chess Set Modernist Museum Sculpture
By Alfred Van Loen
Located in Surfside, FL
without preliminary blueprints, models or drawings. Van Loen is a man in love with the materials. He is an
Category
1960s Expressionist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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