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Item Ships From: London
Soldiers Playing Cards
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Soldiers Playing Cards', watercolour and gouache on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1939). Such an atmospheric image, this stunning depiction by celebrated F...
Category
1930s London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
$3,576 Sale Price
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Landscape with Man and Goats
Located in London, GB
'Landscape with Man and Goats', gouache on paper, by Raymond Guerrier (circa 1960s). After the artist moved from Paris to the South of France, he started painting landscapes illumina...
Category
1960s Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$825 Sale Price
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Courtyard in Provence
By Pierre Dionisi 1
Located in London, GB
'Courtyard in Provence', ink on art paper, by Pierre Dionisi (circa 1930s). Sepia-toned, original drawing in a compelling style depicts a view of a tree...
Category
1930s Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
$378 Sale Price
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The acrobats by Alexander Calder - Work on paper, Drawing, Ink on paper
By Alexander Calder
Located in London, GB
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The acrobats by Alexander Calder (1898-1976)...
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1930s Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Queen Street, Exeter watercolour by Louis Osman FRIBA
By Louis Osman
Located in London, GB
Louis Osman was an English artist, architect, goldsmith, silversmith and medallist. He is notable for the gold coronet he designed and made for the investiture in 1969 of Charles, Pr...
Category
1930s Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sacré-Coeur Montmartre at Willette Square Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre at Willette Square, Paris', gouache on art paper (circa 1930s), by Lucien Génin. Created by the Director of Public Ways and Promenades under Napoleon III, Sq...
Category
1930s Expressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$1,733 Sale Price
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Portrait of a Man’s Head
By William Etty
Located in London, GB
Charcoal and white chalk highlight on paper
Label of J.M Maas Gallery (verso)
36cm × 28cm (54cm × 43cm framed)
Etty, a student of Thomas Lawrence, R.A., was the first significant Br...
Category
19th Century English School London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Academic Study (Male Nude)
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, signed by the artist (upper right), and RA visitor L. Alma Tadema, RA., and dated (lower left), 76cm x 57cm, (64cm x 88cm framed).
Olivier studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1881, where this extraordinary display of drafting took place. Olivier exhibited extensively, including the Royal Academy starting in 1883, and the Paris Salon. He exhibited at the Fine Art Society in the 1880s and at the Grafton Galleries in 1908. An official war artist in the Great War, his work is included in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. It is also contained in many regional art galleries. Drawings of the nude, called academic studies...
Category
1880s Victorian London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Jason
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Signed and titled (lower right)
84cm × 60cm (87cm × 62cm framed)
Cayford, now retired, was a graphic designer and illustrator working in London in the postwar period...
Category
1980s Contemporary London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Ben
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Signed and titled (lower right)
49cm × 69cm (61cm × 81cm framed)
Cayford, now retired, was a graphic designer and illustrator working in London in the postwar period...
Category
1980s Contemporary London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$3,439
Louis Osman Christmas Card, Byford Court, 1985, Herefordshire Architect design
By Louis Osman
Located in London, GB
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Louis Osman FRIBA (1914-1996)
Christmas Card, Byford Court, 1985
22 x 31cm
Gouache and ink on paper
This characterful card was sent by Louis Osman and his wife Dilys, whom he had married in 1940. Written and painted in 1985, it features an ink sketch and gouache painting of the porch entrance to Byford Court, with handwritten notes about the house's significance. Osman moved to Byford Court in 1976, following a brief brush with bankruptcy.
Osman attended the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Slade School of Art, and became a Donaldson Medallist of RIBA in 1935.
In the late 1930s he took part in the British Museum and British School of Archaeology expeditions to Syria. After war service he worked in London designing buildings, furniture, tapestries, and glass including work in Westminster Abbey, Lincoln, Ely, Exeter and Lichfield Cathedrals. He also did work for the National Trust at Staunton Harold Church in Ashby de la Zouch.
Before moving to Byford Court, Osman and his wife lived at Canons Ashby House in Northamptonshire. Whilst there, they made the crown used at the investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales. In 1976, they also made the gold enamelled casket holding the Magna Carta...
Category
1980s Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Pen
David
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Signed and titled (lower right)
49cm × 76cm (62cm × 89cm framed)
Cayford, now retired, was a graphic designer and illustrator working in London in the postwar period...
Category
1980s Contemporary London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Seated Nude
Located in London, GB
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Signed and titled (lower right)
51cm × 38cm (63cm × 49cm framed)
Cayford, now retired, was a graphic designer and illustrator working in London in the p...
Category
1980s Contemporary London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Mon Colonel
By Auguste Chabaud
Located in London, GB
'Mon Colonel', pencil and crayon on paper, by noted French artist, Auguste Chabaud (circa 1914-1918). A delightfully simple drawing of a French Army colonel in profile along with clo...
Category
1910s Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
$412 Sale Price
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The Parade of Fairground Wrestlers, Modern French School
Located in London, GB
'The Parade of Fairground Wrestlers', India ink on art paper, Modern French School (early 1900s). Traveling shows often held promotional events before opening in local areas to generate enthusiasm for the spectacle. This is an intriguing depiction of the various acts on stage strutting their stuff before an audience of potential customers. On the platform, fairground wrestlers mix with clowns, dancers, a percussionist in bolero hat...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
$378 Sale Price
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Views of Madagascar
, French School
Located in London, GB
'Views of Madagascar', gouache on paper, French School (circa 1960s). The artist depicts two views of Madagascar in a charming and naive style. The first, a farm and its fields with a significant verdant elevation in the background. The second, a villager sitting in front of his home watching...
Category
1960s London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$577 Sale Price
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Small Boat and Bather in Dinard
By Jean Pons
Located in London, GB
'Small Boat and Bather in Dinard', gouache and charcoal on art paper, by French artist, Jean Pons (1961). Painted in a naïve style, the piece dep...
Category
1960s Expressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
$880 Sale Price
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Surrealist Large Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Artist Horse Pink Blue
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow.
Artwork Details:
Horse of Hope, 122x152cm, Collaged woodblock print, acrylic ink on Somerset satin paper, 2023
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown
In Isabel's own words:
Horse of Hope
The world had become a sad grey place, mud, empty plains with bleak, loveless sky as far as the eye could see. It seemed that all was lost of the old world.
Until one day a whisper began on the breeze, so quiet that you could hardly hear it. But it grew stronger and stronger until the trembled with the sound.
'The horse of hope is coming, the horse of hope is coming!'
The horse of hope had arrived, its dainty hooves tapping along the way. Where there had been nothing but emptiness the horse trod and from its feet sprung new life and hope. The world became a lush carpet under its footsteps. Up sprang greenery, pushing its tendrils to the sky. Blue irises reached out their twisted delicate petals welcoming the new life in. Strong, dark foliage grew and grew, and with this creatures began to return from their hiding places. Out from rocks and stones they came, for there was hope once again and the world buzzed with new life.
*Please note we are happy to ship this work rolled in an art tube. Whilst the work is on heavy duty art paper and mixed media, the artist is happy that the painting will be fine rolled in a tube. This is a more cost effective and environmentally sound method of shipping. Shipping via this method is free.
About Isabel Rock and her work:
Taking inspiration from Japanese woodblock prints and Indian miniature painting Rock has developed a unique collage technique that combines bold structures with large-scale woodblock prints and intricate detailing. The subject is a grand mixture of humour, drama, hidden morals, fanciful characters, modern culture, mythical beings and fantastical situations.
Rock creates a world that pulls you in and demands your attention. Quality of line is paramount, the drawings are created using a dipping pen and acrylic ink. An essential tool is a squirrel...
Category
2010s Contemporary London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
Les Andelys by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Landscape watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Les Andelys by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
28 x 38 cm (11 x 15 inches)
Inscribed, dated and signed lower left, Les Andel...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Paris - Porte Saint Martin by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel, Post-Impressionist
Located in London, GB
Paris - Porte Saint Martin by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower right, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a ce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Figure Study
Located in London, GB
Coloured and black chalk on paper
Stamp ‘NACHLASS Osmar Schindler 1867-1927’.
58cm x 36cm, (68cm x 48cm framed)
Osmar Schindler was a German painter ...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Male nudes, sketch by Keith Vaughan
Located in London, GB
Keith Vaughan
Male nudes
Ballpoint pen sketch
17 x 13 cm
Born in 1912, Keith Vaughan was a British painter known for his modernist and semi-abstract depictions of the male figure...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Artist Blue Pink
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow.
Artwork Details:
Porthole to Another Dimension, 168x153cm, woodblock print, acrylic ink, acrylic paint, 2020
* Please note this artwork is on two separate pieces of paper that have been joined together. The join is not obvious when looking at the work. At the time Isabel was desperate to make the piece but did not have a large enough piece of paper in the studio, so she joined two together.
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown
In Isabels own words:
Porthole to Another Dimension
The legend said, that down by the river, beneath the purple hills, where the black iris...
Category
2010s Surrealist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen, Woodcut
Pansies, 1930s art deco design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Pansies
Gouache
30 x 47 cm
c.1930
Label to reverse 'Baynard Press', Signed lower right, further signed in pencil and dated 1929.
Provenance: Family of the...
Category
1930s Art Deco London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
George Bissill, landscape watercolour
Located in London, GB
George Bissill (1896-1973)
Landscape
Watercolour
20 x 28 cm
Born in 1896, George Bissill was a British miner, painter and furniture designer. Raised in the mining village of Lang...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
South Kensington Station, 20th Century Pastel Signed and Dated
By Peter Gardner
Located in London, GB
Peter Gardner
Flourished: 1949-1979
A London Station
Pastel on Paper
Signed with monogram and dated 1975, lower right
Image size: 9 x 12 ½ inches
Acid free mount
Peter Gardner wa...
Category
20th Century London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Women artist Green Blue
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
Category
2010s Surrealist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen, Woodcut
Male nudes II, sketch by Keith Vaughan
Located in London, GB
Keith Vaughan
Male nudes II
Ballpoint pen sketch
17 x 13 cm
Born in 1912, Keith Vaughan was a British painter known for his modernist and semi-abstract depictions of the male fig...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Respite
Located in London, GB
Pencil on paper
Signed and dated (lower right)
29cm × 21cm (48cm × 39cm framed)
A truly original artist, Lear spent most of his 70 year career exploring beautifully proportioned mal...
Category
1980s American Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$5,846
French School, Academic Study (Male Nude)
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, 60cm x 42cm, (74cm x 60cm framed). The picture is framed behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass.
Drawings and paintings of the nude were central to academ...
Category
19th Century Old Masters London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Furs, 1930s art deco poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Furs
Airbrush and pen
50 x 32 cm
c.1930
Stamped signature
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist, illustrator...
Category
1930s Realist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Hats, 1930s art deco poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Hats
Airbrush and pen
50 x 32 cm
c.1930
Stamped signature
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist, illustrator...
Category
1930s Realist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Turfistes et Jockeys
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Pencil on paper
Paper size: 8 x 10.5 inches
Stamped with the artist’s atelier stamp ‘ATELIER/RAOUL DUFY’ lower right
Provenance: Galerie Fanny Guillon-Laffaille, Paris.
Neffe-Dega...
Category
20th Century Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Presents for George, Mary
Gladys, 1930s art deco poster design
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Presents for George, Mary & Gladys
Gouache and collage
46 x 33 cm
c.1930
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist...
Category
1930s Art Deco London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
War is War, 1930s art deco book cover design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
War is War
Gouache
21 x 19 cm (full sheet size 38 x 28 cm)
c.1930
With signature and title from applied support paper
Provenance: Family of the artist
...
Category
1930s Art Deco London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
19th century watercolour of a Girl at her Dressing Table
By William Henry Hunt
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Muir Hetherington;
Sir John and Lady Witt, acquired 1974;
By descent to 2015.
Literature:
Tom Jones (ed.), William Henry Hunt 1790-1864, exh. cat., 1981, no. 145 (Girl in a bedroom);
John Witt, William Henry Hunt (1790-1864) Life and Work, London, 1982, no. 553, p. 194, colour pl. 16.
Exhibited:
Wolverhampton, Central Art Gallery, Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery and Hastings, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, William Henry Hunt 1790-1864, 1981, no. 145 as Girl in a bedroom (Lent by Sir John & Lady Witt)
Framed dimensions: 20 x 20.75 inches
This unusually charming and well-preserved watercolour was painted by William Henry Hunt in around 1833. Almost certainly depicting his young wife, Sarah, possibly in the interior of her family home at Bramley in Hampshire. This work shows Hunt’s remarkable virtuosity as a watercolourist, Hunt, for example, articulates the profile of his young wife, by leaving a reserve of white paper to suggest the light modelling her features. Throughout the 1830s Hunt made a sequence of richly painted interior views of both domestic and agricultural spaces which pay scrupulous attention to detail.
Hunt was born in London, the son of a tin-plate worker and japanner. J. L. Roget recorded the observation of Hunt’s uncle: ‘nervy, little Billy Hunt… was always a poor cripple, and as he was fit for nothing, they made an artist of him.’ At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to the landscape painter John Varley for seven years, moving to live with Varley at 18 Broad Street, Golden Square, London. There he made close friends with both John Linnell and William Mulready. Hunt worked at the ‘Monro Academy’, at 8 Adelphi Terrace, London, the house of Dr Thomas Monro, an enthusiastic patron of landscape watercolourists. Through Monro, Hunt was introduced to the 5th Earl of Essex...
Category
19th Century Old Masters London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Venus
By Richard Westall
Located in London, GB
Richard Westall, R.A. (1765-1836)
Venus
signed and dated ‘R. Westall 1794’ (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, with white heightening
image 11 ⅞ x 15 ¼ in. (30.2 x 38.7 cm.)
frame 22 ⅛ x 26 in. (56.3 x 66.1 cm.)
Provenance:
Private Collection, UK.
Venus (1794) was produced during a highly creative and defining period of Richard Westall’s career and artistic development, when from 1790-95 the ambitious young artist was sharing a house at 57 Greek Street, Soho, with his friend Sir Thomas Lawrence, the future President of the Royal Academy.
Whilst lodging together, Lawrence became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1791, Westall the following year, and both were elected full-members in 1794 – the year Lawrence was appointed Painter-in-Ordinary to His Majesty King George III. Westall was to become Queen Victoria’s first Drawing Master, before her ascension to the throne.
It was in this very year, 1794 - as the two young artists became Royal Academicians - that the present watercolour was executed, and it is exciting to speculate that Lawrence would have examined and given his thoughts on the work.
Highly comparable to The Wallace Collection’s Nymph and cupids (c.1793, cat. P757), acquired by Francis Seymour-Conway (1777-1842), 3rd Marquess of Hertford, (who hung it in his bedroom), the mid-1790s saw Westall exhibiting and returning to similar subject-matter on a number of occasions. Two works with titles that could be applied to the present picture were exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1794 (no. 341 Nymph and Cupids) and 1795 (no. 620, A Wood–nymph and Cupids). However, a print after the watercolour, engraved by F. Screen, entitles the piece Venus.
Westall is regarded as a great virtuoso watercolourist, and Venus is evidence of the young artist’s mastery of the medium. Indeed, it is unusual to find a watercolour of comparable age so well preserved, and retaining such vibrancy - the superb condition providing an insight into his exceptional brushwork and use of colour.
Venus languishes luxuriously on her woodland bed, the trunk of a tree resembling a curtain, while three winged putti play beside her, seeming to gesture to someone in the woods. Cupid draws back his bow and aims an arrow of love, perhaps about to pierce the heart of a hunting nobleman, or unsuspecting woodcutter. The striking contrast between the almost luminescent nymph, with the deep, rich, luxuriant forest, gives the glade an alluring sense of mystery – perhaps an allusion to the mysteries of the heart, a pre-occupation with Romanticism, central to the emerging thought of the time. Westall can be classified as one of the great Romantic artists, and even painted Lord Byron’s portrait...
Category
1790s Romantic London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
$25,451
Landscape watercolour by George Bissill
Located in London, GB
George Bissill (1896-1973)
Landscape
Watercolour
26 x 31 cm
Initialled to bottom right
Born in 1896, George Bissill was a British miner, painter and furniture designer. Raised in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Male Torso
By John Koch
Located in London, GB
Pencil, coloured pencil and chalk on paper, titled (lower left), signed (lower right), 31cm x 46cm, (51cm x 68cm framed).
John Koch was an American painter and teacher, and an impo...
Category
1950s American Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil, Color Pencil
$2,270
Eighteenth century Old Master drawing - Apollo destroying Niobe
s children
By John Hamilton Mortimer
Located in London, GB
Pen, ink and wash
Framed dimensions: 13 x 11 ¼ inches
Drawn c.1765
Verso: a study of a hanged man
Mortimer has filled this small sheet with action, depicting in the top right, Apollo and Artemis...
Category
18th Century Old Masters London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
Pen and ink, ink wash and pencil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 38cm x 29cm (65cm x 55cm framed).
This penetrating and wonderfully executed self-portrait, is all the mor...
Category
1910s Old Masters London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil, Ink
Jonas by Marc Chagall - School of Paris, Russian Artist
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
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Jonas by Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Indian ink on paper
35.6 x 26.9 cm (14 x 10 ⅝ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower ...
Category
1950s Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Eighteenth century Old Master drawing - St Jerome
By John Hamilton Mortimer
Located in London, GB
Pen, ink and wash
Framed dimensions: 9 ½ x 11 ¼ inches
Drawn c. 1763
This small, powerful study shows St Jerome contemplating the bible with a cross and sk...
Category
18th Century Old Masters London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Drawing of a captive woman
By Henry Fuseli
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Sir Thomas Lawrence, who acquired the contents of Fuseli’s studio;
Susan, Countess of Guilford, née Coutts (1771-1837), acquired from the Lawrence estate;
Susan, Baroness North (1797-1884), daughter of the above;
Mrs A. M. Jaffé, acquired in France, c. 1950 to 2016.
Black chalks, on buff-coloured paper
Stamped verso: ‘Baroness Norths Collection / of Drawings by H Fuseli Esq.’
Framed dimensions: 26.38 x 20.63 inches
This boldly drawn sheet depicting a seated figure was made by Fuseli at an important and highly productive moment in his career. The monumental drawing is closely related to another sheet by Fuseli in the British Museum which Schiff published as subject unknown. Both drawings were made when Fuseli was designing his most important sequence of historical works, including scenes from Shakespeare and Milton, The Nightmare and The Death of Dido which was exhibited at the Royal Academy to great critical acclaim in 1781. The present drawing does not relate directly to any of Fuseli’s finished historical paintings of the period, but evidently the image of a slightly menacing, seated and covered old woman was precisely the sort of motif he was playing with. It is notable that the same figure reappears later in Fuseli’s work as the witch from Ben Jonson’s Witch’s Song which Fuseli produced as both a painting and engraving in 1812.
Fuseli returned to London in 1779 from a highly creative and productive period in Rome and established himself as one of the leading history painters of the period. Fuseli re-established contact with his old mentor Sir Joshua Reynolds, becoming a regular guest at his dinner table and visitor to his studio. The earliest and most striking manifestation of this strategy was Fuseli's Death of Dido, exhibited in 1781 at the Royal Academy. Executed on the same scale as Reynolds's version (Royal Collection), Fuseli's vertically oriented picture was hung directly opposite Reynolds's with its horizontal orientation, inevitably inviting comparison between the two works and garnering Fuseli much publicity and favourable reviews in the newspapers.
The present, previously unpublished sheet, relates closely to a drawing now in the British Museum. That sheet shows the same seated old woman, drawn on a smaller scale and more schematic in design, seated next to an anatomical drawing of a man. The pose of this figure is related to the pose of Dido in his Death of Dido; the foreshortened torso, arrangement of head, oblique view of Dido’s features and arms all suggest that the study can be viewed as an initial thought for the composition. Fuseli may have initially thought of including the figure of the hunched and covered old woman. Drawn on identical paper to the British Museum sheet, our study is an enlarged depiction of the same figure, more elaborately delineated and developed. The presence of a chain to the right of the figure, suggests that the iconography was related in some way to a scene of imprisonment.
Fuseli had first explored the motif of the hooded old woman in an early Roman drawing, 'The Venus Seller'. The idea of a grotesque old woman, hooded and with angular nose and projecting chin seen in profile was most spectacularly used by Fuseli in his sequence of paintings depicting The Three Witches from Macbeth. Fuseli seems to have kept the present sheet and may have returned to it when preparing a painting of The Witch and the Mandrake from Ben Jonson’s Witch’s Song from his Masque of Queens in 1812. Here the same seated figure looks out from under her hood and picks a mandrake by moonlight. Jonson’s drama had been performed at the court of James I in 1609, inspired the subject. To throw the nobility of the queens into relief, the poet added a coven of witches, one of whom declares: ‘I last night lay all alone, On the ground, to hear the mandrake groan; And plucked him up, though he grew full low, And, as I had done, the cock did crow.’ The figure was reversed in the associated etching which was published in 1812. It seems likely that the present drawing remained as part of Fuseli’s working archive of figure studies.
The present drawing was presumably purchased with the bulk of Fuseli’s drawings after the artist’s death by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Lawrence’s large group of Fuseli drawings were then acquired by Susan, Countess of Guildford (1771-1837). Lady Guildford was the eldest daughter of the banker Thomas Coutts (1735-1822), who himself had supported Fuseli’s journey to Rome in the 1770s and had remained one of the artist’s key...
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18th Century Old Masters London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Young Man Reclining (Boris Snezhkovsky)
Located in London, GB
Konstantin Andreevich Somov (Russian 1869-1939), Young Man Reclining (Boris Snezhkovsky), 1931, Sanguine and pastel on paper, signed and dated (twice) (lower right), 32cm x 48cm, (46...
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1930s Art Deco London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pastel
Academic Study
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper
Signed by RA visitor Edwin Long and dated (lower right)
76cm × 57cm (88cm × 64cm framed)
Olivier studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1881. He exhibited exten...
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Late 19th Century English School London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Standing Figure
By Keith Vaughan
Located in London, GB
Pencil on paper
Signed (lower right)
27.5cm × 20cm (46cm × 38cm framed)
Vaughan was a British artist, whose work is held in the collections of the Government Art Collection, Nationa...
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1950s London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Emile
s Tavern
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Emile's Tavern', gouache on paper (circa 1930s), by Lucien Génin. A tavern in French is called a 'guinguette'. With the rise in living standards from the 1860s along with the develo...
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1930s Expressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$1,637 Sale Price
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Return of the Fishermen - Fishermen German Expressionism
By Max Pechstein
Located in London, GB
This chalk drawing is signed and dated in pencil by the artist "HMP 1931" in the lower right image.
Note: The drawing was created in the region of Pomerania, Northern Poland, near t...
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1930s Expressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Paris la Bourse
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Paris, la Bourse', gouache on paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). Created at the beginning of the 19th century by Napoleon, la Bourse, or the Stock Exchange, was intended to assert and encourage France’s prosperity in industry and trade. In 1826 the Stock Exchange was installed in the palace that the architect Brongniart had begun in 1808. Surrounded by a large peristyle of Corinthian columns, the rectangular structure reflects the official neo-classicism of the Empire Period. The artist, Génin, depicts a typically lively 1930s day in front of the building with cars of the period zooming by pedestrians on the walkway and others on the stairs leading to the entrance. He has an extremely charming, almost childlike style particularly the way he renders the people and the vehicles. The building, on the other hand, is accurate in its detail and more seriously presented. Our gallery has held and has sold over a dozen of Genin's paintings but this one stands out for its pure stylish appeal and ability to captivate while inducing a smile in the viewer. The artwork is in good overall condition - there are some minor blemishes not on the artwork itself but on the edges of the mount to which it is attached. The frame is in fair condition showing some nicks and scratches. Please enjoy the many photos accompanying the listing. Upon request a video can be provided. Signed by the artist in the lower right hand.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer...
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1930s London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$1,650 Sale Price
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DALI...DALI...DALI...
By Salvador Dalí
Located in London, GB
Softcover book
Containing a signed and dated drawing by Salvador Dalí
First edition and in the French language
8 3/4 x 12 inches
Published by Draeger Éditeur, 1974
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Early 20th Century Surrealist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Man with Camel and Donkey by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Work on paper
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Man with Camel and Donkey by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pastel and pencil on paper
18.4 x 27.3 cm (7 ¹/₄ x 10 ³/₄ inches)
Signed with Estate s...
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20th Century London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
Motorcyclist drawing by Gerald Mac Spink
By Gerald Mac Spink
Located in London, GB
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Early 20th Century London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Female Nude - 1920s chalk drawing by Belgian Symbolist artist Marcel Delmotte
Located in London, GB
MARCEL DELMOTTE
(1901-1984)
Nude
Signed and dated l.r.: M Delmotte/1928
Black and red chalks
Framed
33 by 20 cm., 13 by 8 in.
(frame size 53 by 39 cm., 21 by 15 ¼ in.)
The son of...
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1920s Realist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Wiliam Wiehe Collins - "That
s Me!" - Victorian British Watercolour
Located in London, GB
WILLIAM WIEHE COLLINS
(1862-1951)
That’s Me
Signed l.l.: W W Collins; signed, inscribed with title and the artist’s address on the reverse: That’s Me / W W Collins RI, RBC / Stobor...
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Early 1900s Realist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Black and white still life flower drawing of Mimosas by artist, Yvon Pissarro
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Mimosas by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Graphite on paper
65 x 50 cm (25 ⅝ x 19 ⅝ inches)
Signed and dated lower left Yvon Vey 2002
Provenance
Studio of the artist, Montpellier
Artist b...
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Early 2000s Contemporary London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Soviet Union socialist irrigation Bulgarian propaganda poster design
Located in London, GB
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Soviet Union socialist irrigation Bulgarian propaganda poster design (circa 1950s)
Gouache on board
18 x 11 cm
After a Communist takeover in 1945, Bulgaria was a Soviet ally during the Cold War, and maintained good relationships with Russia until the Revolutions of 1989. From 1945 to 1948, the country became entrenched within the Soviet sphere of influence under the control of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) which oversaw a program of Stalinization in the late 1940s and 1950s. Both countries are Slavic nations, and are bound together by a common Orthodox Christian...
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20th Century Modern London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
Le marché aux bestiaux by Paulémile Pissarro - Watercolour and ink on paper
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Le marché aux bestiaux by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Watercolour and ink on paper
23.7 x 31.2 cm (9 ³/₈ x 12 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower right, Paul-Émile Pissarro
Executed circa 19...
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1910s Post-Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Tenterden by Lucien Pissarro - Watercolour
By Lucien Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Tenterden by Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944)
Watercolour, ink, pen and coloured crayon
16.5 x 24 cm (6 ¹/₂ x 9 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed with monogram and titled lower right
Provenance: The Redfern Gallery...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Parisian Street Scene
By Roland Dubuc
Located in London, GB
'Parisian Street Scene', watercolour on art paper, by Roland DuBuc (circa 1970s). This artwork is a delightful depiction of a Parisian street which scales the hill to the neighbourhood of Montmartre, the home of the basilica of Sacré-Cœur. DuBuc's artworks serve as a love letter to the city of Paris and are recognised by his incredibly charming style. The signed artwork is in good overall condition and has been newly framed with anti-reflective glass. Please enjoy the many photos accompanying this listing. Upon request a video of the piece may be provided.
About the Artist: Roland DuBuc (1924-1998), French artist, the sixth of 13 children and son of a construction worker. The very precariousness of the family's financial situation forced him to go to work at the age of 14. In extreme poverty, he moved to Rouen where he was lodged by the Salvation Army. During that time he struck up friendships with several artists who gave him advice and taught him techniques of drawing. He moved to other cities later where he met painters including, among others, Fred Pailhès...
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1970s London - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$980 Sale Price
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