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Item Ships From: Continental Europe
View of Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed and dated lower right.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$462 Sale Price
30% Off
ENIGMA original art ink on colored paper Paula Craioveanu Neo Mythology
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Enigma", original ink and pencil on sepia paper. Part of Neo Mythology series. Shipped rolled in a tube.. Free shipping with 1stDibs code for items over $500.
Like the immortal myth...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Paper
Mermaid - Charcoal Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1980
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Mermaidt is a Charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1980s.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good condition on a white paper.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Jun...
Category
1980s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Anima Mundi- 21st Century Contemporary Charcoal Drawing, Nude Female on Paper
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Rosanna Gaddoni (Italian artist)
Anima Mundi
65 x 50 cm ( framed in wood frame with museum glass)
Measurement with included frame: 80 x 65 x 3 cm
Charcoal on Paper
The Italian artis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Lying Boy / - Fragile childlikeness -
Located in Berlin, DE
Alfred Fuchs (1925 Saarbrücken - 2003 Prague), Lying Boy. Charcoal drawing on strong paper, 30 x 41.5 cm, signed A.[lfred] Fuchs and dated [19]96.
- smal...
Category
1990s Realist Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Landscape - Drawing in Ink and Watercolor and on paper by Gérard Guyomard
By Gérard Guyomard
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in watercolor and China ink on paper realized by the French contemporary artist Gérard Guyomard.
Hand-signed on the l...
Category
20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Red Baobab by Calo Carratalá - Large drawing on wood, tree red, Africa, Tanzania
By Calo Carratalá
Located in Paris, FR
Red Baobab is a unique Conte pencil Sanguina on laminated wood drawing by contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 293 × 295 cm (115.4 × 116.1 in).
The artwork is signed, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Pencil, Graphite
The Tree of Life, Expressionist Drawing Landscape Watercolor Paper in Soft Tones
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a beautiful expressionist style drawing by Juanjo Saez. Juanjo's pictorial work is an exploration of color, texture, and movement, creating vibrant compositions that capture ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Wax Crayon
Studies for the Judgment of Solomon, a double-sided drawing by Simone Cantarini
Located in PARIS, FR
In this double-sided red chalk study, Simone Cantarini offers us a double reflection on the theme of the Judgment of Solomon. This sheet reveals his precise style and his sense of de...
Category
1640s Old Masters Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper
Under the Tree - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - 1910s
By Gabriele Galantara
Located in Roma, IT
China ink drawing realized by Gabriele Galantara in the 1910s.
Not signed.
Very good condition.
Category
1910s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Henri Harpignies (1819-1916) A Barrier on the hedge, study, signed drawing
By Henri Joseph Harpignies
Located in Paris, FR
Henri Harpignies (1819-1916)
A Barrier on the hedge, study
Signed lower left, annotation "branches séchées sur la barrière" (dried branches on the fence) on the upper right
Charcoal...
Category
1860s Barbizon School Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Reclined Nude - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1930s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Pencil drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1930s.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
BODY DOUBLE - original large art by Paula Craioveanu NEO MYTHOLOGY
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Body Double
Original art, signed
100x70cm / 30x27in
ink, graphite, tempera on paper
large size, shipped rolled in a tube directly from the artist's studio
The drawing has 2 wooden p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Pencil
Nude - Original India Ink Drawing by Herta Hausmann - 1940 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in China ink realized in 1940 ca, by Herta Hausmann.
With the stamp of the artist's atelier on the rear.
Very good conditi...
Category
1940s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Drawing 13, Series Drawing - Large Format, Charcoal On Paper Panting
By Krzysztof Gliszczyński
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is unframed and will be shipped rolled in a tube
Krzysztof Gliszczyński is Professor for painting on Academy of fine arts Gdansk. ...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
1980 Fauno e Ninfa Faun and Nymph Pencil on Paper Figurative Drawing
Located in Brescia, IT
This delicate drawing of the dance between a Faun and the Nimph, looks following the Jean Cocteau clean line drawings.
We can see in this scene, the grace and simplicity of the Neoc...
Category
1980s Academic Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Ballerina - Original pencil drawing
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN
Ballerina
Original drawing
Signed with the stamp of the artist
On paper 10 x 16 cm (c. 6.2 x 3.93 in)
Good condition, the paper slightly yellowish
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$1,322 Sale Price
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Scilla- 21st Century Italian charcoal drawing of a nude woman with long hair
By Daniela Astone
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Daniela Astone
Scilla
100 x 70
Charcoal on paper
framed the size is 120 x 90 with museum glass
Daniela Astone works and lives in Florence.
For years she was a teacher on the famous...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal, Laid Paper
There is no More Religion - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
There is no More Religion is an original watercolored ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin...
Category
1920s Art Deco Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
" 1er d
Atelier" De Yves Saint Laurent
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in CANNES, FR
Yves Saint Laurent
" 1er d'Atelier " est un dessin aquarelle , feutre, gouache et crayon de couleur
ce dessin a été réalisé pour le départ à la retraite en 1991 de Monsieur Georg...
Category
1990s Art Deco Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen, Color Pencil
HORSE AND RIDER - Ink drawing signed Marino
By Marino Marini
Located in Napoli, IT
Indian ink drawing on paper inspired by the works of Marino Marini, embellished with a beautiful frame, mis. est. cm. h.37x32x2.
Category
1970s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
By Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
STUDIO OF RAFFAELLO SANZIO, called RAPHAEL
(Urbino 1483 – Rome 1520)
Title The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Medium Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black ch...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Profile Portrait of Sitting Woman by Window - Charcoal and Opaque White 1910´s
Located in Stockholm, SE
A finely tuned oval drawing by the Finnish artist Ester Helenius depicting a young woman in profile seated on a chair. The room is suggested only by a diffuse background. Signed and ...
Category
1910s Jugendstil Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
Study for a fresco
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Attributed to Francesco PENNI (1488 – 1528)
Study for a fresco
Pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on prepared paper
14 x 12 cm
Unsigned
On the mount, handwriting ...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
$12,019
Auguste Mayer (1805-1890) A seascape with a boat, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Auguste Mayer (1803-1890
A seascape with a boat
signed with the initials on the lower left
Pencil and heightenings of white gouache on paper
17.5 x 26 cm...
Category
1860s Romantic Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Carbon Pencil
Primitive drawings on paper, hand-drawn Chinese ink, three thousand portraits
Located in Carballo, ES
Obsessive, meticulous, almost monastic, Kramer immerses us in a universe of graphic and sculptural repetitions. His drawings on kraft paper glued with rabbit glue recall both ancient...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Drawing Ink 16th 17th Flemish DE VOS Religious Martyrdom of James The Great
Located in PARIS, FR
Flemish school from the beginning of the 17th century (Circle of Martin DE VOS) Drawing Pen and wash 38 x 32 cm (58 x 52 cm with the frame) Inscription "Martin de Vos" Excellent cond...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper
$2,403 Sale Price
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View of Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower left.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died in Venice i...
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$378 Sale Price
30% Off
PLEASURE PRINCIPLE original art Paula Craioveanu Nude inspired by Matisse
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
“Pleasure Principle”, tempera pencil charcoal on blue paper
Check 1stDibs free shipping code for items over $500. Shipped rolled in a tube, well packed.
This bold and expressive dra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Archival Paper
Portrait of a Woman - Drawing by Enzo Benedetto- 1930s
By Enzo Benedetto
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a Woman is an Artwork realized by the Italian Artist Enzo Benedetto.
Pencil, ink and Tempera on paper. Hand signed on the right margin. The work is glued on cardboard.
...
Category
1930s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Ink, Tempera
The Sketch - Drawing by Luigi Galli - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Sketch is an artwork realized by Luigi Galli in the late 19th Century.
Pencil drawing on paper. The artwork has the stamp of the provenance's collection "Amodeo Collection" on t...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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 Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Albert Paul Guilmet (1879-1922) Portrait of a man, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Albert Paul Guilmet (1879-1922)
Portrait of a man,
signed upper left
charcoal on paper
26.5 x 33,8 cm
Framed : 43.5 x 52 cm
Little is known about Abert Paul Guilmet, apart from th...
Category
Early 1900s Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Hopeless - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1930 ca
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Hopeless is a Colored lithograph realized on japan paper by Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963) in 1930 ca. French draftsman, poet, essayist, playwright, librettist, ...
Category
1930s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Three Trees Wait, Expressionist Drawing Landscape Watercolor Paper in Spft Tones
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a beautiful expressionist style drawing by Juanjo Saez. Juanjo's pictorial work is an exploration of color, texture, and movement, creating vibrant compositions that capture ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Wax Crayon
Market in Paris - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower left.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died in Venice i...
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$504 Sale Price
30% Off
Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1933
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Pencil drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1933.
Hand signe "Mino" and daed 23/7/33..
Very good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Norwegian Pine Grove - The inner glow of the trees -
Located in Berlin, DE
Themistokles von Eckenbrecher (1842 Athens - 1921 Goslar), Norwegian pine grove, 1901. Watercolor on blue-green paper, 30 x 22 cm. Signed, dated and inscribed in his own hand "TvE. Fagermes [i.e. Fagermes]. 26.6.[19]01."
- Slight crease throughout at left margin, otherwise in good condition.
About the artwork
Themistokles von Eckenbrecher often traveled to Norway to study the nature that fascinated him there. On June 26, 1901, near the southern Norwegian town of Fagernes, in the summer evening sun, he saw a small pine grove, which he immediately captured in a watercolor. He exposed the trees growing on a small hill in front of the background, so that the pines completely define the picture and combine to form a tense motif. The tension comes from the contrast of form and color. The trunks, growing upward, form a vertical structure that is horizontally penetrated by the spreading branches and the pine needles, which are rendered as a plane. This structural tension is further intensified by the color contrast between the brown-reddish iridescent trunks and branches and the green-toned needlework.
Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, however, does not use the observed natural scene as an inspiring model for a dance of color and form that detaches itself from the motif and thus treads the path of abstracting modernism. Its inner vitality is to be brought to light and made aesthetically accessible through the work of art.
It is precisely in order to depict the inner vitality of nature that von Eckenbrecher chooses the technique of watercolor, in which the individual details, such as the needles, are not meticulously worked out, but rather a flowing movement is created that unites the contrasts. The trees seem to have formed the twisted trunks out of their own inner strength as they grew, creatingthose tense lineations that the artist has put into the picture. The inner strength continues in the branches and twigs, culminating in the upward growth of the needles. At the same time, the trunks, illuminated by the setting sun, seem to glow from within, adding an almost dramatic dimension to the growing movement.
Through the artwork, nature itself is revealed as art. In order to make nature visible as art in the work, von Eckenbrecher exposes the group of trees so that they are bounded from the outside by an all-encompassing contour line and merge into an areal unity that enters into a figure-ground relationship with the blue-greenish watercolor paper. The figure-ground relationship emphasizes the ornamental quality of the natural work of art, which further enforces the artwork character of the group of trees.
With the presentation of Themistokles von Eckenbrecher's artistic idea and its realization, it has become clear that the present watercolor is not a study of nature in the sense of a visual note by the artist, which might then be integrated into a larger work context, but a completely independent work of art. This is why von Eckenbrecher signed the watercolor. In addition, it is marked with a place and a date, which confirms that this work of nature presented itself to him in exactly this way at this place at this time. At the same time, the date and place make it clear that the natural work of art has been transferred into the sphere of art and thus removed from the time of the place of nature.
About the artist
Themistocles' parents instilled a life of travel in their son, who is said to have spoken eleven languages. His father, who was interested in ancient and oriental culture, was a doctor and had married Francesca Magdalena Danelon, an Italian, daughter of the British consul in Trieste. During a stay in Athens - Gustav von Eckenbrecher was a friend of Heinrich von Schliemann and is said to have given him crucial clues as to the location of Troy - Themistokles saw the light of day in 1842.
After an interlude in Berlin, where Themistokles was educated at the English-American School, the journey began again. From 1850 to 1857 the family lived in Constantinople, after which the father opened a practice in Potsdam, where Themistokles, who wanted to become a painter, was taught by the court painter Carl Gustav Wegener.
In 1861 the von Eckenbrechers left Potsdam and settled in Düsseldorf. There Themistokles received two years of private tuition from Oswald Aschenbach, who greatly admired the talented young artist. After his artistic training, he undertook extensive travels, often accompanied by Prince Peter zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, which took him to northern and eastern Europe, but above all to the Middle East and even to South America. The paintings that resulted from these journeys established his artistic reputation and led to his participation in large panoramas such as the 118 x 15 metre Entry of the Mecca Caravan into Cairo, painted for the City of Hamburg in 1882.
1882 was also the start of a total of 21 study trips to Scandinavia, most of them to Norway, and the unique Norwegian landscape with its rugged fjords became a central motif in his work. Along with Anders Askevold and Adelsteen Normann...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Nude - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in china ink and watercolor realized by Leo Guida in the 1970s.
Good condition.
Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic movement...
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Walpurgis Nacht - Drawing by A. Kubin - 1920
By Alfred Kubin
Located in Roma, IT
Walpurgis Nacht is a drawing with pen and Indian ink on paper, realized by Alfred Kubin in 1920,
Hand-signed.
Provenance Zevi Collection Milan.
Included a frame.
In very good co...
Category
1920s Symbolist Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Pen
Young Girl Studying at the Table - Original Signed Pencil Drawing
By Gustave Poetzsch
Located in Paris, IDF
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Young Girl Studying at the Table
Original grey and blue pencil drawing
Signed bottom right
Stamp of the Estate auct...
Category
1890s Realist Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a green pen drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Jun...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
The Monks - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
By Gabriele Galantara
Located in Roma, IT
China ink drawing, tempera and white lead on paper realized by Gabriele Galantara in the early 20th Century.
Hand signed lower left.
Good condition, with some minor signs of time.
Category
Early 1900s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
The Head Of A Woman Echo - Figurative Watercolor Painting, New Expressionism
By Maciej Olekszy
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork on paper will be sent unframed to you.
Maciej Olekszy was born in 1982, Poland. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2007. Faculty of Painting i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Kiss. 2025., acrylic on paper, 16x14 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ansis Butnors (1977)
Education:
J. Rozentals Art School in Riga – 1989. – 1996.
Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department – 1996. – 2000.
Exhibitions:
Solo exhibitions:
2003. – ...
Category
2010s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
The Kiss of the Angel - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1955
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Charcoal and watercolor on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1955 ca.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
1950s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Thorny Situations - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
By Gabriele Galantara
Located in Roma, IT
China Ink, watercolor and tempera on cardboard realized by Gabriele Galantara in the early 20th Century.
Not signed.
Good condition.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Drawing 14, Series Drawing - Large Format, Charcoal On Paper Panting
By Krzysztof Gliszczyński
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is unframed and will be shipped rolled in a tube
Krzysztof Gliszczyński is Professor for painting on Academy of fine arts Gdansk.
Krzysztof Gliszczyński born in Miastko in 1962. Graduated from the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in 1987 in the studio of Prof. Kazimierz Ostrowski. Between 1995 and 2002 founder and co-manager of Koło Gallery in Gdańsk. lnitiator of the Kazimierz Ostrowski Award, con-ferred by the Union of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP), Gdańsk Chapter. Dean of the Painting Faculty of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in the years 2008-2012. Vice Rector for Development and Cooperation of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in the years 2012-2016. Obtained a professorship in 2011. Currently head of the Third Painting Studio of the Painting Faculty of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts. He has taken part in a few dozen exhibitions in Poland and abroad. He has received countless prizes and awards for his artistic work. He is active in the field of painting, drawing, objects, and video.
Artist Statement
In the 1990s I started collecting flakes of paint – leftovers from my work. I would put fresh ones in wooden formworks, dried ones in glass containers. They constituted layers of investigations into the field of painting, enclosed in dated and numbered cuboids measuring 47 × 10.5 × 10.5 cm. I called those objects Urns. In 2016, I displayed them at an exhibition, moulding a single object out of all the Urns. The Urns inspired me to redefine the status of my work as a painter. In order to do it, I performed a daunting task of placing the layers of paint not in an urn, but on a canvas, pressing each fresh bit of paint with my thumb. In the cycle of paintings Autoportret a’retour, the matter was transferred from painting to painting, expanding the area of each consecutive one. Together, the bits, the residua of paint, kept alive the memory of the previous works. It was a stage of the atomization of the painting matter and its alienation from the traditional concepts and aesthetic relations. Thus, the cycle of synergic paintings was created, as I called them, guided by the feeling evoked in me by the mutually intensifying flakes of paint. The final aesthetic result of the refining of the digested matter was a consequence of the automatism of the process of layering, thumb-pressing, and scraping off again. Just like in an archaeological excavation, attempts are made to unite and retrieve that which has been lost. This avant-garde concept consists in transferring into the area of painting of matter, virtually degraded and not belonging to the realm of art. And yet the matter re-enters it, acquiring a new meaning. The matter I created, building up like lava, became my new technique. I called it perpetuum pictura – self-perpetuated painting. Alchemical concepts allowed me to identify the process inherent in the emerging matter, to give it direction and meaning. In a way, I created matter which was introducing me into the pre-symbolic world – a world before form, unnamed. From this painterly magma, ideas sprung up, old theories of colour and the convoluted problem of squaring the circle manifested themselves again. Just like Harriot’s crystal refracted light in 1605, I tried to break up colour in the painting Iosis. Paintings were becoming symptoms, like in the work Pulp fiction, which at that time was a gesture of total fragmentation of matter and of transcending its boundaries, my dialogue with the works of Jackson Pollock and the freedom brought by his art. The painting Geometrica de physiologiam pictura contains a diagram in which I enter four colours that constitute an introduction to protopsychology, alchemical transmutation, and the ancient theory of colour. It this work I managed to present the identification of the essence of human physiology with art. But the essential aspect of my considerations in my most recent paintings is the analysis of abstraction, the study of its significance for the contemporary language of art and the search for the possibilities of creating a new message. For me, abstraction is not an end in itself, catering to the largely predicable expectations of the viewers. To study the boundary between visibility and invisibility, like in the work Unsichtbar, is to ask about the status of the possibilities of the language of abstraction. The moment of fluidity which I am able to attain results from the matter – matter...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Scilla, 21-st Century Italian Charcoal Drawing of a nude woman by Daniela Astone
By Daniela Astone
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This Charcoal drawing is made on toned paper with charcoal and chalk.
The drawing is framed in a wooden gold frame with passe partout behind Clarity museum glass.
The Italian artist Daniela Astone...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
View of Venice (Ponte di Rialto) - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower right.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Art Decò Italian Portrait by Enrico Crespi Signed Located Dated Watercolor
Located in Roma, IT
Young Woman Portrait by Enrico Crespi Signed Located Dated Italian Watercolor
Beautiful and evocative watercolor technique painting by the great Milanese school artist Enrico Crespi...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Story of a sheep - 21st Century Contemporary Charcoal Drawing of a sheep
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Rosanna Gaddoni (Italian artist)
Story of a sheep
65 x 50 cm ( framed in wood frame with museum glass)
Measurement with included frame: 76 x 60 x 3 cm
Charcoal on Paper
The Italian ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Fishes: Before and After - Drawing by Marina Haas - 2012
Located in Roma, IT
Pair of watercolors on paper realized by Marina Haas in 2012.
Hand signed.
Very good condition.
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Reclined Man - Drawing by Sandro Chia - 1984
By Sandro Chia
Located in Roma, IT
Pencil and pastel drawing on paper, realized by Sandro Chia in 1984.
Hand signed and dated lower right.
Includes a wooden frame cm 45x40
Very good condition.
Category
1980s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
$2,692 Sale Price
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On the walk
Located in Oslo, NO
A minimalist but masterfully executed monochrome watercolor. The work is striking in its lightness - although there is nothing on it except the figure of a child, from the way he is ...
Category
2010s Realist Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Nude - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a drawing in china ink and watercolor realized by Leo Guida in the 1970s.
Good condition.
Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic movements and hist...
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
CENTAUR - original large art by Paula Craioveanu - New Mythology
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Sea Centaur"
Original art, signed
100x70cm / 30x27in
ink, graphite, tempera on paper
large size, shipped rolled in a tube directly from the artist's studio
Antiquity is an endless ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Pencil, Ink
$480 Sale Price
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Out of the Water - original female nude by Paula Craioveanu inspired Matisse
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Out of the Water, pencil and tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse.
Part of Nude in Interior series.
Shipped rolled in a tube, directly from the artist's studio.
See pictures, in mat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Woman - Original Drawing on Paper by A..E Viollet-Le-Duc - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Adolphe Etienne Viollet-Le-Duc (1817-1878).
Good condition on a white paper included a green cardboard passpartout (48x34 cm).
No Si...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Still Life - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower right.
Excellent condition.
Category
1960s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$378 Sale Price
30% Off