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Ballroom Dancers - Charcoal, Figurative, Fabric, Movement, Human Form, British
By Trudy Good
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Ballroom Dancers by Trudy Good. Original Charcoal & Pastel onto paper.
Trudy Good is a British figurative painter who has exhibited in numerous plac...
Category
Early 2000s Academic United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
The Callings of Saints Peter and Andrew
Located in London, GB
The Callings of Saints Peter and Andrew
Robert Edge Pine
1730-1788
Chalk on paper, unsigned
Image size: 15 1/2 x 17 inches (39.5 x 43 cm)
Original frame
Here in Pine’s picture disp...
Category
18th Century English School United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Wotton-under-Edge by LUCIEN PISSARRO - Watercolour, drawing, art, landscape
By Lucien Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Wotton-under-Edge by LUCIEN PISSARRO (1863-1944)
Ink, watercolour and crayon on paper
14.6 x 18.5 cm (5 3⁄4 x 7 1⁄4 inches)
Signed with monogram and dated lower left, 1920 Inscribed ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Ink, Watercolor
Mr Punch - How to Grow Tobacco - Original ink 20th Century British illustration
By Joshua Charles Armitage
Located in London, GB
“IONICUS” JOSHUA CHARLES ARMITAGE
(1913-1998)
Mr Punch – How to Grow Tobacco
Pen and ink heightened with white, unframed
5.5 by 10 cm., 2 ¼ by 4 in.
(mount size 25.5 by 25.5 cm., ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Study for a Fallen Statue, Aston Hall, 20th Century British drawing by Hickman
By Neville Hickman
Located in London, GB
NEVILLE HICKMAN
(1930-2012)
Study of a Statue, Aston Hall
Signed with initials, inscribed and dated: May 2 67. Aston Hall
Pen and ink, unframed
25.5 by 17.5 cm., 10 by 7 in.
(mount size 34.5 by 28 cm., 13 ½ by 11 in.)
Aston Hall is a magnificent seventeenth century red-brick mansion situated in a public park on the north side of Birmingham. It was built between 1618 and 1635 by Sir Thomas Holte, the head of an important Warwickshire family and was one of the last great Jacobean houses...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Visit to the Bazaar - 1916 British watercolour on silk by Sheringham
By George Sheringham
Located in London, GB
GEORGE SHERINGHAM
(1884-1937)
Visit to the Bazaar
Signed; inscribed with title on a label on the backboard
Watercolour and gold paint on silk
15 by 38 cm., 6 by 15 in.
(frame size 34 by 56 cm., 13 ½ by 22 in.)
Exhibited:
London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Works by George Sheringham, 1916, no.17.
Sheringham was born in London and studied at the Slade under Henry Tonks and later in Venice, Brussels, Berlin and Paris where he held his first one-man exhibition in 1905. On his return to London he initially supported himself with poster designs and teaching. His first exhibition of fan designs was held at the Ryder Gallery in 1909 followed by another in the following year. With enthusiastic reviews in Studio he had launched his career as a decorative designer, theatrical designer and illustrator. He illustrated books by Max Beerbohm and Cyrus MacMillan. In 1921 he collaborated with his brother Hugh on a book about fishing, The Book of the Fly Rod. He wrote Drawing in Pen and Pencil (1922), with James Laver, Design in the Theatre (1927) and with Rupert Mason and R Boyd Morrison he edited Robes of Thespis, Costume Designs by Modern Artists (1928). As a decorator, Sheringham designed the music room at 40 Devonshire House...
Category
1910s Realist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Laleham Road, Ashford by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Ink drawing
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Laleham Road, Ashford by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Ink on paper
25.6 x 20 cm (10 ¹/₈ x 7 ⁷/₈ inches)
Inscribed and dated lower right, Ashford 30 dec 1917
This work is accomp...
Category
1910s United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Girl in a Sari - 20th Century pencil drawing by Carolyn Sergeant
Located in London, GB
CAROLYN SERGEANT
(1937-2018)
Girl in Sari
Signed on the reverse and inscribed: Set of six Drawings of a Figure from the Life - Finals
Pencil and...
Category
1960s Realist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pencil
Paysan Centenaire, Soldat de l
Armée du Général Kosenisko by Franciszek Tepa
By Franciszek Tepa
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
Paysan Centenaire, Soldat de l'Armée du Général Kosenisko by Franciszek Tepa (1829-1889)
Watercolour
26.3 x 30 cm (10 ⅜ x 11 ¾ inches)
Initialed and dated lower left, ...
Category
1870s Realist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
L
Allée des Palmiers (Cannes) by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel, Post-Impressionist
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
L' Allée des Palmiers (Cannes) 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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
La Marne à Lagny (Quai de la Gourdine) by H. Claude Pissarro - River scene
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
La Marne à Lagny (Quai de la Gourdine) by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Marseille by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel on Card
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Marseille by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⅝ x 20 ⅛ inches)
Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authentic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Rue de la Mer by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel, Post-Impressionist
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Rue de la Mer 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 certificate of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Uxbridge Road, London by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - City scene watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Uxbridge Road, London by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour on paper
23.5 x 31 cm (9 ¹/₄ x 12 ¹/₄ inches)
Titled and dated lower left; initialled and inscribed lower right...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Still Life by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Charcoal on paper
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Still Life by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Charcoal on paper
28.4 x 24.3 cm (11 ⅛ x 9 ⅝ inches)
Signed lower right, L. Rodo
Provenance
Private Collection, London
This work is ...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Camouflage - Watercolour, War Artist
By Harold Yates
Located in London, GB
Harold Yates
1916 - 2001
Camouflage
Pencil and watercolour, signed and dated "42" lower right
Image size: 6 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches
Framed
Acid free mount
As a soldier in the Army during World War II, Yates did documentary work which was purchased by the War Artists...
Category
20th Century United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Roboa Sleeping (The Artist
s Wife) by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Roboa Sleeping (The Artist's Wife) by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Charcoal on paper
20.4 x 31.2 cm (8 x 12 ¼ inches)
Signed lower centre, manzana. Pissarro
This work is acc...
Category
1940s United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Farmhands by Yvon Pissarro - Figurative work on paper
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Farmhands by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Conté chalk on paper
76 x 56.5 cm (30 x 22 ½ inches)
Signed lower middle Yvon Vey
Executed in 1983
Provenance
Studio of the artist, Montpellier
...
Category
1980s Contemporary United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Farmhands by Yvon Pissarro - Figurative drawing
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Farmhands by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Pencil on paper
56 x 76 cm (22 x 30 inches)
Signed below left end of stick, Yvon Vey
Executed 1982
Provenance
Studio of the Artist, Montpellier ...
Category
1980s Contemporary United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Yvonne debout by Paulémile Pissarro - Nude drawing of the artist
s wife
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
THIS WORK IS SOLD UNFRAMED
Yvonne debout by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Pencil on paper
30.5 x 26 cm (12 x 10 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower centre, P...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Orientalist Watercolour Painting of a Desert Scene by Alphons Leopold Mielich
Located in London, GB
Orientalist Watercolour Painting of a Man Riding a Camel by Alphons Leopold Mielich
Austrian, late 19th Century
Frame: Height 46cm, wi...
Category
Late 19th Century United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Decorative Squirrel Design, Pencil and Watercolour on Paper
By Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Decorative Squirrel Design by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pencil and watercolour on paper
45.4 x 32.4 cm (17 ⁷/₈ x 12 ³/₄)
Signed lower right Manzana Pissarro
This work is ...
Category
1920s Art Deco United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Watercolor
Le Pont du Vey by Paulémile Pissarro - Charcoal drawing
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Le Pont du Vey by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Charcoal on paper
24.5 x 31.5 cm (9 ⁵/₈ x 12 ³/₈ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower centre and upper right
Executed circa 1940s
...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Back from India by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Back from India by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
21.5 x 18 cm (8 ¹/₂ x 7 ¹/₈ inches)
Initialled and titled lower left
Executed circa 1918
Provenance...
Category
1910s United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Les Andelys, la Place Saint Michel by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Les Andelys, la Place Saint Michel by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour on paper
22 x 29 cm (8 ⁵/₈ x 11 ³/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, Ludovic Rodo
Executed circa 1930
A...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Jeune Montagnarde des Environs de Truskaniva by Franciszek Tepa - Realist
By Franciszek Tepa
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
Jeune Montagnarde des Environs de Truskaniva by Franciszek Tepa (1829-1889)
Watercolour
26 x 20.5 cm (10 ¼ x 8 ⅛ inches)
Signed and dated lower left, Franciszek Tepa ...
Category
1870s Realist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Feeding the Birds, Colourful 20th Century Oil Painting, Female Artist
By Lena Gurr
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed verso
Image size: 40 1/4 x 29 inches (102.25 x 73.5 cm)
Hand made contemporary style frame
Here we see a smartly dressed woman sat on a park bench, feeding a group of pigeons that surround her. Lena Gurr had a prolific career in which she painted landscape scenes and still lifes but her most noted works are ones such as these, showing everyday city scenes that were laced with social commentary. Indeed, Gurr noted that her artwork always aimed to show "the joys and sorrows of everyday life."
During the course of her career Gurr's compositions retained emotional content as they evolved from a naturalistic to a semi-abstract cubist style. Discussing this trend, she once told an interviewer that as her work tended toward increasing abstraction she believed it nonetheless "must have some kind of human depth to it."
Lena Gurr
Lena Gurr, born in Brooklyn in 1897, studied at the Brooklyn Training School for Teachers, the Educational Alliance Art School, the Arts Students League with John Sloan, and with Maurice Sterne in Paris as well as in Mentone and Nice, France.
Gurr was a member of the Artists League of America, the National Association of Women Artists, the New York Society of Women Artists, the Brooklyn Society of Artists, Audubon Artists and the American Artists Congress. She exhibited in numerous exhibitions held by these organizations as well as the Whitney Studio Club, National Academy of Design, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, and the 1939 World's Fair.
Her work is included in the collections of the Biro-Bidjan Museum, Russia and the Library of Congress, where she has been selected as a "Curator's Choice" in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. In addition to her career as a painter, lithographer and serigrapher, she also taught art in the New York City public school system. She had three solo exhibitions at the ACA Gallery in 1935, 1939 and 1945, and a retrospective in 1963.
Notable among Gurr's colleagues - many of them WPA artists - were Mary Cecil Allen...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Board
Alençon by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Landscape watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Alençon by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour on paper
22 x 31 cm (8 ⁵/₈ x 12 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower left, LR
Inscribed an...
Category
Early 1900s Fauvist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
La Plage à Trouville by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel, Post-Impressionist
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
La Plage à Trouville 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 certifi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
La Seine à Paris by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Work on Paper, Paris scene
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
La Seine à Paris by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pencil on paper
22.5 x 28.3 cm (8 ⁷/₈ x 11 ¹/₈ inches)
Stamped lower right, Manzana-Pissarro
Executed circa 1930
This work i...
Category
1930s Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Un Chemin dans la Forêt by Paulémile Pissarro - Pastel and charcoal drawing
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Un Chemin dans la Forêt by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Pastel and charcoal on paper
24 x 31 cm (9 ¹/₂ x 12 ¹/₄ inches)
Stamped lower middle-right, Paulémile Pissarro
Provenance
E...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Red Lips by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Red Lips by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Coloured crayon and black pencil on paper
25.5 x 19.5 cm (10 x 7 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower left with Estate stamp
Created in Morocco a...
Category
20th Century United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Sketch of Marlon Brando
Located in London, GB
Sketch of Marlon Brando
Stephen Andrews
Born 1956
Ink on Paper, signed bottom left
Image size: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (23.5 x 31.5 cm)
Original frame
Andrews, a friend of American ac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Tettenhall Church Yard
Located in London, GB
Philip Byrne
20th Century
Tettenhall Church Yard
Ink on paper, signed and titled bottom left
Image size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (29.5 x 21 cm)
Hand made frame
Philip Byrne, an artist...
Category
20th Century Post-War United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Infighting, Ink Sketch, 20th Century British Artist, Framed
By Samuel Rabin
Located in London, GB
Ink on lined paper
Image size: 3 x 2 3/4 inches (8 x 7 cm)
Hand made frame
Sam Rabin
Samuel (Sam) Rabin, originally Samuel Rabinovitch, was an English sculptor, artist, teacher, singer, wrestler and Olympic bronze medallist. Rabin, who was Jewish, was born Samuel Rabinovitch on 20 June 1903 at Dewhurst Street, Cheetham, North Manchester. His parents were both Russian Jewish exiles from Vitebsk (now in Belarus).
During his childhood, the family moved to Salford where Rabin grew up and where his parents encouraged his talent for drawing. In 1914 Rabin won a scholarship to the Manchester Municipal School of Art making him, at the age of 11, the youngest pupil ever to attend the college. There he was taught drawing by French artist Adolphe Valette. In 1921 he moved to the Slade School of Fine Art in London where he continued his studies under Henry Tonks until 1924. After the Slade, Rabin studied in Paris where he met and was greatly impressed and influenced by sculptor Charles Despiau.
Rabin's own sculpture from this time is little known as he was a perfectionist and destroyed work that he considered unsatisfactory. In 1928, working under his full surname, he was commissioned by architect Charles Holden to carve West Wind, one of eight personifications of the four winds for the headquarters of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London at 55 Broadway. The sculpture was partly completed in-situ on the building. In 1930, he produced his only other public sculptures; two decorative winged masks, The Past and The Future, for the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. These were carved on the building directly from the scaffold.
Both commissions were well received at the time, but Rabin was unable to make a living as a sculptor and turned to another career – wrestling, for which he abbreviated his surname. Rabin was physically strong and had boxed and wrestled as an amateur to fund his art. He won a bronze medal in the middleweight division of the free-style wrestling at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Rabin turned professional in 1932 and fought as Rabin the Cat and Sam Radnor the Heb. Alexander Korda cast him as a wrestler in The Private Life of Henry VIII in 1933 and as Mendoza, a Jewish prize-fighter, in The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1934. Despite lacking any formal musical training, Rabin was a talented baritone and worked professionally during the 1940s singing with Stars in Battledress and sang operatic arias with the army's Classical Music Group. In 1946 he auditioned for La Scala's conductor, Victor de Sabata.
In 1949, Rabin began teaching drawing at Goldsmith's College of Art in New Cross, London. His disciplined teaching style including the production of demonstration works, followed that of his own teacher, Valette. His students included Mary Quant, Bridget Riley and Tom Keating...
Category
Mid-20th Century United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Funeral by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Funeral by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
17.6 x 21.2 cm (6 ⁷/₈ x 8 ³/₈ inches)
Signed with the Artist’s initials lower l...
Category
Early 19th Century United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moroccan Woman with Girl by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Work on paper
By Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Moroccan Woman with Girl, Pastel with Gold and Silver on Paper
Pastel with gold and silver on paper
47 x 62cm (18 ½ x 24 ⅜ inches)
Signed lower right, Manzana Pissarro
Painted circa ...
Category
1940s Art Deco United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Study for Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 7 1/2 x 9 inches (19 x 23 cm)
Carved gilt frame
Literature
Illustrated in Malcolm Bell's 'Sir Edward Burne-Jones, A Record and Review', London, 1899, p.127.
Provenance
Major Charles Sydney Goldman 1958
By descent to his Sons
John and Margaret Monck (John Goldman Monck) 1958-1963
Commander Victor Robert Penryn Monck (Victor Robert Penryn Monk Goldman) 1958-1963
Christie's London (Christie, Manson and Woods) 1963, John Monck and Cmdr Penryn Monck sale 26 April 1963 part lot 71
Sir John Richardson, 2019
Burne-Jones decided that the folds in the drapery in this study were too complex for the final painting and fairly soon after he simplified the draperies.
The work is a drapery study for the seated figures at the centre of Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones monumental The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon (Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico). The artist spent seventeen years working on the complex narrative, even moving his studio to a larger space to accommodate the canvas. Born as a commission from his patron George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle, to decorate a wall in his library at Naworth Castle, The Sleep of Arthur in Avalon was left unfinished in Burne-Jones’ studio upon his death. The work was bequeathed to a studio neighbour whose descendants sold it at auction in 1963, where it was purchased by Luis A. Ferré, politician and founder of the Museo de Arte de Ponce.
To his friends and family, Burne-Jones was known for his 'unpainted masterpieces'. Indeed, from his youth he made swift sketches, such as this study, that appeared effortless in contrast to his carefully crafted paintings and allowed him to work out ideas and refine details. He also drew outside of the studio, and his contemporaries remarked at his uncanny ability to do so while fully engaged in other activities. The painter W. Graham...
Category
19th Century Victorian United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
My Child by Lélia Pissarro - Mixed media on paper
By Lelia Pissarro
Located in London, GB
My Child by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963)
Oil, gold paint, glitter and pencil on paper
13 x 15 cm (5 ¹/₈ x 5 ⁷/₈ inches)
Signed lower right, Lélia Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the artist.
Artist biography:
Born in Paris in 1963, Lélia is the third and youngest child of Hugues-Claude and Katia Pissarro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Sketchbook II
By Artur Markowicz
Located in London, GB
ARTUR MARKOWICZ 1872-1934
Podgórze (Poland) 1872-1934 Cracow (Polish)
Title: Sketchbook II, 1915
Technique: A Sketchbook with 149 Pencil and Colour Pencil Drawings on Paper with Stamp
Size: 16.5 x 20.5 cm. / 6.5 x 8.1 in.
Additional Information: This is an original sketchbook...
Category
1910s United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Paysage en Normandie by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Charcoal landscape
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Paysage en Normandie by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Charcoal on paper
32 x 39 cm (12 ⅝ x 15 ⅜ inches)
Stamped lower right, Manzana Pissarro
Executed circa 1930
Artist biogr...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Battage à la Taillerie by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel, Post-Impressionist
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Battage à la Taillerie by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a certifi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Landscape with Gate by Orovida Pissarro - Drawing
By Orovida Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Landscape with Gate by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Pencil on paper
25.7 x 20.4 cm (10 ¹/₈ x 8 inches)
Executed circa 1917
Artist biography:
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies.
She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy.
Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects, such as Mongolian horse...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Nu Assise by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Nude drawing
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Nu Assise by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Charcoal on paper
31.3 x 24.2 cm (12 ⅜ x 9 ½ inches)
Signed lower right, L.Rodo
This work of art is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed and dated by Lélia Pissarro.
Artist biography:
Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro, born in Paris in 1878, was Camille Pissarro’s fourth son. Encouraged by his father, he began drawing from nature at an early age. He was familiarly known as “Rodo” and generally signed his works "Ludovic-Rodo", or early on in his career simply "Rodo".
The impact of Camille’s art and teaching on Rodo was considerable. His artistic production encompassed a wide range of media, including oil painting, tempera, watercolour, gouache, wood engraving, drawing and lithography. Rodo exhibited regularly at the Salon des Indépendants over a forty-year period.
In 1894, at the age of sixteen, Rodo published his first wood engravings in the anarchist journal, Le Père Peinard. When Camille left France for the safety of Belgium during the anarchist upheavals of the same year, Rodo joined him there.
Rodo moved into his first studio in Montmartre with his brother Georges in 1898. Works of this early important period until just after the death of his father in 1903 were post-impressionist and clearly painted under the influence of his father.
By 1904 living in Paris, he found the nightlife and the habitués of the cafes, theatres, circuses and cabarets compelling subjects for his work and changed dramatically the style of his painting, affiliating himself to the Fauve artists. Rodo became close to artists such as Kees Van Dongen, Maurice de Vlaminck and Raoul Dufy. In 1905 he participated in the first Fauve exhibition at the Salon des Indépendants. In 1907 he visited Van Dongen in Rotterdam and the two artists continued to paint together, something they often did in Paris.
In 1914 he married, though he never had children. Later that year at the outbreak of the War Rodo moved to England. Over the next seven years he lived mainly in and around West London. He worked closely with his brother Lucien to establish in 1915 the Monarro Group, formed with the aim of exhibiting work by contemporary artists inspired by Impressionism. Many of the works produced by Rodo while he was in England were of London landmarks but, he was also interested in the urbanisation of West London. After 1921, when Rodo had already returned to France, he divided his time between Paris and Les Andelys in Normandy, living and working closely with his elder brother Georges Manzana.
Despite his rich artistic heritage and his achievements as an artist, Rodo is perhaps best remembered for his contribution to art history. For ten years he researched and compiled a catalogue of his father’s paintings...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Study of a Moroccan Woman by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Study of a Moroccan Woman by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Coloured crayon and pencil on paper
26.3 x 20.5 cm (10 ³/₈ x 8 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, manzana. Pissarro.
Th...
Category
1940s United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Farmhands by Yvon Pissarro, 1983 - Pencil on Paper Drawing
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Farmhands by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Pencil on paper
56 x 76 cm (22 x 30 inches)
Signed
Executed 1983
Provenance
Studio of the Artist, Montpellier
Artist's Biography
The son of Pau...
Category
1980s United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Moroccan Dancer by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Nude drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Moroccan Dancer by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Watercolour, coloured crayon and pencil
26.3 x 20.2 cm ( 10 ⅜ x 8 inches)
Signed lower right, Manzana - Pissarro.
Executed c...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
A Triptych: The Olympic Games, Modern British Drawing, Ancient Greek, Nude
By James Stroudley
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size of rectangular works: 33 x 43 inches (84 x 109 cm)
Image size of arched central work: 38 1/4 x 29 inches (97 x 73.5 cm)
Provenance
Private Collection of Seymour Stein, Vice President of Warner Bros Records
Sotheby's 'Modern British and Irish Art,' London, 19 May 2004, lot 92
The three impressive drawings are studies for Stroudley’s ‘Olympic Games in a Demi-Lune’. From left to right the studies depict groups of athletes practicing diving, a conversing crowd of oarsmen, hurdlers mid jump and a collection of javelin throwers. This study was created in 1930 when Stroudley practiced in the British School in Rome. There are few surviving works from Stroudley’s short stay in Rome, with the compositions from his Rome period being among the last wholly successful decorative cycles produced by a Rome Scholar prior to World War II. Indeed, as can be seen here, his drawings from this period are technically brilliant and even bear comparison with those of Eric Kennington.
James Stroudley
Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker, paid homage to Stroudley by including his work in the exhibition ‘Pupil & Masters’, held at Westgate House, Long Melford, Suffolk.
Stroudley married three times, and his wives included the fashion artist to the Sun newspaper...
Category
1930s Modern United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Inconscience by Yvon Pissarro - Contemporary work on paper
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Inconscience by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Conté chalk and pastel pencil on paper
50 x 65 cm (19 ³/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, y. vey
Provenance: Studio of the artist, Montpe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Conté, Pastel, Pencil
Le Due Fait de la Peinture by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Colourful drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Le Due Fait de la Peinture by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
27.5 x 18.3 cm (10 ⁷/₈ x 7 ¹/₄ inches)
Graphite and coloured crayon on paper
Inscribed upper left and signed lower ...
Category
1940s United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
The Boxing Match
By Thomas Rowlandson
Located in London, GB
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on laid paper
Image size: 12 ¾ x 16 inches (33 x 40.5 cm)
Wash mount and period frame
Boxing was a subject that Rowlandson depicted on a number ...
Category
Late 18th Century United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Pencil
Farmhands by Yvon Pissarro - Figurative drawing
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Farmhands by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Pencil on paper
75 x 108 cm (29 ¹/₂ x 42 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed lower right, Yvon Vey
Provenance: Studio of the Artist, Montpellier
Artist biograph...
Category
1980s Modern United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Study of a Dancer and a Lady by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Study of a Dancer and a Lady by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and pencil on paper
21 x 15.7 cm (8 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower right
Executed circa ...
Category
Early 1900s Fauvist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Evasion by Yvon Pissarro - Contemporary work on paper
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Evasion by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Conté chalk, crayon, pastel pencil on paper
65 x 50 cm (25 ⁵/₈ x 19 ³/₄ inches)
Signed twice y. vey
Provenance: Studio of the artist, Montpellier
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Conté, Crayon, Pastel, Pencil
Le Barrage du Vey (Clécy) by H. CLAUDE PISSARRO - Post-Impressionist style
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Le Barrage du Vey (Clécy) by H. CLAUDE PISSARRO (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⅝ x 20 ⅛ inches)
Signe...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Draveil by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952) - Watercolour on paper
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Draveil by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952)
Watercolour on paper
24 x 32 cm (9 1⁄2 x 12 5⁄8 inches)
Titled and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Pencil
Abandon by Yvon Pissarro - Contemporary work on paper
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Abandon by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Conté chalk on paper
50 x 65 cm (19 ³/₄ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed centre right, y. vey
Provenance: Studio of the artist, Montpellier
Artist biogr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Conté
Indifference by Yvon Pissarro - Contemporary artwork
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Indifference by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Conté chalk and pastel pencil on paper
50.3 x 64 cm (19 ³/₄ x 25 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower right, y. vey
Provenance: Studio of the artist, Mon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Conté, Pastel, Pencil
Nude Reading by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO -Figurative work on paper, School of Paris
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Nude Reading by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952)
Black and colour pencil on paper
3...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Color Pencil, Paper
La Celle les Bordes by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO - Post-Impressionist watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
La Celle les Bordes by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952)
Watercolour on paper
35 x 25 cm (13 3⁄4 x 9 7⁄8 inches)
Signed lower left, Ludovic Rodo
Inscribed and dated lower right, La ...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist United Kingdom - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
