Handmade Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a sketchbook page, sheet measures 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (260 x 362 mm). Initialed and dated in pencil in the lower right recto...

Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper adhered along the left sheet edge to a sketchbook page, 11 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches (285 x 232 mm), the full sheet. Titled and dated in pencil i...

Watercolor with graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a sketchbook page, 9 x 12 inches (228 x 305 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with minor toning and a few scattered ...

A wonderful study of Grecian vases at the Louvre. English School, early 20th century c1910. Watercolor and ink light wove paper, 9 1/4 x 6 inches (235 x 152 mm), the full sheet. In v...

A finished primary study for Bonheur's major oil paintings of the late 1850s, capturing the quiet, unadorned dignity of animals in their native environment. Circa 1855. Graphite and...

Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a sketchbook page, sheet measures 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (260 x 362 mm). Initialed and dated in pencil in the lower left recto,...

Watercolor with graphite on watercolor paper 4 3/4 x 10 5/8 inches (120 x 270 mm), the full sheet. Initialed and dated in pencil in the lower right recto. In very good condition with...

Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a sketchbook page, sheet measures 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (260 x 362 mm). Initialed, dated and titled in brown ink in the lower ...

Graphite and grayish ink wash on bluish wove paper, 7 x 10 1/2 inches (177 x 265 mm) (matrix). Scattered surface soiling, adhesive residue, dog-eared corners, and scattered edge tears along left margin, outside of image area. Paper is braced on the verso with two pages from a mid 19th century book with illustrations by C.Perrin. One image depicts a scene of a group of soldiers representing the Holy Roman Empire...

Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a sketchbook page, 5 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches (143 x 200 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with minor toning. Ellen Brooke...

Graphite and watercolor on light weight salmon-colored wove paper, 4 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches (109 x 194 mm), the full sheet. An unfinished study in good condition. On the mat-back is a n...

Watercolor with graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a sketchbook page, 7 x 5 inches (178 x 127 mm), the full sheet. Initialed and dated in pencil in the lower left recto, titled ...

Each a watercolor with graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a single sketchbook page, sheet measures 10 1/4 x 14 3/8 inches (261 x 365 mm). The top painting is initialed and dated...

A wonderful study of Grecian vases at the Louvre. English School, early 20th century c1910. Watercolor and ink light wove paper, 9 1/4 x 6 inches (235 x 152 mm), the full sheet. In v...

A quintessential example of the Picturesque tradition, popular among both professional artists and "gentleman sketchers" of the Georgian and Victorian eras. c1840. Ink and wash on w...

A lovely and curious composition, circa 1780. Ink and wash on tissue thin Japon paper, adhered to period cream laid paper, 5 1/4 x 3 3/8 inches (132 x 84 mm), the full sheet. With ...

Amate Bark Painting - Harvest Dance with Giant Rabbits In this scene, people are carrying baskets to the village, through dense foliage. There are...

c1700. Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, 3 x 8 inches (76 x 230 mm), the full sheet. In good condition with some edge wear and losses at all but the lower right corner. Adhered ...

A late-Boroque study of relief-style carvings adorned with scrolling acanthus leaves, mythical figures, and floral swags. Graphite on cream laid paper, 6 x 4 1/2 inches (154 x 115 m...

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...

Each a watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper, each adhered to a sketchbook page matrix, sheet measures 14 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (362 x 260 mm). The top painting is initialed in p...

Rosanna Gaddoni Stillness 50 x 41 cm ( framed in wood frame with museum glass) Measurement with included frame: 57 x 65 cm Italian artist Rosanna Gadd...

circa 1840. Watercolor and pencil on wove paper, 4 1/4 x 6 7/8 inches (109 x 175 mm), the full sheet. In good condition with moderate attenuation and some toning, especially around t...

Walasse Ting 1929-2010 Chinese-American Beauties with Flowers Signed with artist's seal (lower right) Watercolor on rice paper Exceptionally bold and dynamic, Beauties with Flowe...

A fine work with masterful detail by an exceptional artist whose name is lost to history. European School, 17th century Ink and wash in black, sepia and grayish brown ink with white...

A 19th century study of a mounted Life Guard; a member of the military unit charged with protecting high-ranking individuals, such as a monarch. c1890. Black crayon with white heigh...

circa 1650 Ink and wash on laid paper, 3 3/8 x 2 1/4 inches (87 x 58 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition, adhered to a slip of archival paper at the top and bottom sheet edge...

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...

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...

Ink wash with watercolor in sepia and black, and blue, on buff wove watercolor paper, 14 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (360 x 260 mm). 1/4" of the lower right corner is lost, minor crack (doe...

Watercolor with graphite on watercolor paper, 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (115 x 165 mm), the full sheet. Initialed, dated and titled in pencil in the lower right recto. In very good condit...

A luminous landscape of the Roman ruins at Timgad, with the Aurès mountains aglow in the background. Watercolor on artist board, 9 7/8 x 7 inches (252 x 178 mm), the full sheet. Tit...

The painting and the preparatory drawing are offered together. Provenance Private collection, Germany, Trier, c. 1980- 2013 Saint John the Baptist Brown ink and wash over red chalk on oatmeal paper 31 x 20.5 cm Inscribed: „Ferrau Fenzonio da Faenza invt. esque … imp. da Fran. Villamena …“. bears the collector's mark of Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1882-1950; Lugt 2274a) on a tiny label glued to the verso On the reverse is a partial drawing of a Pieta, pricked for transfer. Provenance New York, Doyle, 14. October 2015, No. 6 The painting and the preparatory drawing resemble the composition of an engraving after Ferraù Fenzoni by Francesco Villamena. Drawing, engraving and painting are almost identical, except for minor differences. Even the measurements nearly correspond: painting (32 x 25,5 cm), drawing (30 x 20,5 cm), engraving (31,1 x 23,5 cm). Dr. Guiseppe Scavizzi confirmed the attribution of the present panting to Fenzoni and he dates it to c. 1590. The inscription on the drawing reads “Ferrau Fenzonio da Faenza invt. esque. . . imp. da Fran: Villamena . . .”. The engraving’s inscription also lists place and date “Ferra Fensionius inventor/F. Villamoena sculpsit Rome/Aspectu fruitur… antra puer/cum Privilegio… 1613”. Interestingly, the engraving is not mirrored as it is in most printing processes. Painting, drawing and engraving are not reversed but the same. It is remarkable to note that there are further paintings by Fenzoni which were engraved in the same order and not reverted. They also show strong parallels regarding the compositions and the measurements (see for example “Deposition of Christ” ). Ferraù Fenzoni was an Italian painter mainly active in Todi. He is also called Il Faenzone after his birthplace (Faenza). He apprenticed in Rome during the papacy of Gregory XIII and contributed to numerous fresco cycles under pope Sixtus V, such as the Loggia della Benedizioni in the Lateran Palace, the frescoes on the walls and vaults of the Scala Santa of the adjacent Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, and the decoration in the Sistine library. His expressive canvases straddle the styles of Mannerism and Baroque. In 1594, he moved to Todi. A “Last Judgement” by him is housed in the cathedral of Todi. He returned to Faenza in 1599, where he decorated chapels in the cathedral from 1612 to 1616. In 1622, he completed a “Deposition”, now in the local Pinacoteca. In 1640, Fenzoni was named “cavaliere dello speron d’oro” by Cardinal Colonna and, on 25th April 1634, he was nominated vicar and “castellano of Granarolo”. Fenzoni‘s style is characterized by a mixture of the Mannerism of the Northern Netherlands and the Italian Baroque. Saint John the Baptist, Old Master, 17th Century, By Fenzoni, Religious Scene, Rome Art...

The artist created this illustration as an addition to a series of illustrations for the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Rapunzel." It doesnt follow the text directly; the scene depicted ...

A serene Hudson River scene by a student of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Anna May Walling was born in 1881, a native of Goshen, New York. She was a graduate of the Blair Academy, and Prat...

Charcoal and graphite on grayish laid paper, 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches (265 x 195 mm), the full sheet. Scattered light, minor and unobtrusive foxing, several non-archival cellophane tape...

Graphite on greenish gray wove paper. 15 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches (390 x 295 mm). Initialed "G. B." in pencil on the lower right recto. In generally good condition with some minor scattered surface soiling. Condition is consistent with age. ____ This drawing is closely related to two known mid 18th century oils...

Amate Bark Painting - People Working in a Village by Manuel Remigio S. In this scene, people are working in a village. Interspersed throughout th...

Brush and brown ink and wash with graphite on cream wove paper, 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (165 x 232mm). Inscribed "Fahlerant, No. 9754, Paisaje--Orillas de un lago" in ink on the verso. ...

Graphite and watercolor on light weight salmon-colored wove paper, 4 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches (109 x 194 mm), the full sheet. An unfinished study in good condition. On the mat-back is a n...

Karl Feiertag (c.1874-1944) was an Austrian painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski, and J...

Figures and Birds Watercolor Traditional Indian Mithila Painting artist signed. Pencil, ink, natural dye watercolor, on handmade paper 17.7x22.7 framed under glass 24x29. Binda Dev...

[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER]. A Group of 10 Flowers and Butterflies. mid to late nineteeenth century. A fine group of Chines...

Karl Feiertag (c.1874-1944) was an Austrian painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski, and J...

Mary Frank Untitled 3-D Cast Paper Collage, 1985 3D Cast Paper with Deckled Edges Hand signed, numbered 78/85 and dated by the artist on lower left front 21 3/4 × 28 1/2 × 1 3/4 inch...

"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain." --Thaddeus Radell

A pair pf 19th century English School watercolor portraits of a man and woman, possibly husband and wife. Both are inscribed on the rever...

Art Deco/Cubist rendition of two Black Men with Muscular Bodies in an artistically formal pose with shovels and pitchforks. The work is executed in an Art Deco/Cubist style. Titled ...

Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a sketchbook page, sheet measures 14 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches (365 x 261 mm). Titled and dated in pencil in the lower right recto an...

Each a watercolor with graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a single sketchbook page, sheet measures 10 1/4 x 14 3/8 inches (261 x 365 mm). Each initialed in pen and ink, and date...

Watercolor with graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a sketchbook page, 5 x 9 inches (127 x 228 mm), the full sheet. Initialed, dated and titled in pencil in the lower right recto...

Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a sketchbook page, sheet measures 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (260 x 362 mm). Initialed in pencil in the lower left recto, and title...

[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER]. Group of 12 Courtiers. Mid to late nineteenth century. 12 hand painted water-colours on pith paper, pale blue silk borders, a few minor...

A Grand Tour image of the Alps. English School, 19th century c1850. Graphite and wash in sepia and brown ink on two sheets of heavyweight wove paper, 10 1/4 x 7 inches, (260 x 178 mm...

Jose Bedia - Figurative & Religious painting on thick handmade paper. Bedia is one of the most renown living Cuban artist exhibiting around the world and showcased in many of the top...

Graphite and watercolor on grayish-tan wove paper, 7 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches (194 x 175 mm), the full sheet. An unfinished study in good condition. On the mat-back is a notation that the...

François Alfred DELOBBE Paris 1835 - 1920 Study of a Reclining Man Black chalk on blue-gray paper Stamp from the studio sale in the lower left corner 30 x 45 cm sheet 45 x 6...

Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper, 9 x 12 inches (228 x 305 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with a paper support running along the top sheet edge on the verso, ...

Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a sketchbook page, sheet measures 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (260 x 362 mm). Initialed in pencil in the lower left recto, and title...

Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper adhered to a sketchbook page, sheet measures 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches (260 x 362 mm). Titled and dated in pencil on the sheet below the pain...