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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

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
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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

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

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
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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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There is a broad range of preliminary drawings for sale on 1stDibs. There are many Abstract, Art Deco and Post-Impressionist versions of these works for sale. There are many variations of these items available, from those made as long ago as the 19th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. If you’re looking to add preliminary drawings that pop against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of beige, brown, gray, black and more. There have been many well-done artworks of this subject over the years, but those made by Boris Lovet-Lorski, Seymour Lipton, Gil Elvgren, Rolf Armstrong and Oscar Florianus Bluemner are often thought to be among the most beautiful. The range of these distinct pieces — often created in pencil, graphite and crayon — can elevate any room of your home.

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