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Medium: Paper
Vibrant Alan Davie Scottish Colorful Surrealist British Pop Art Village Painting
By Alan Davie
Located in Surfside, FL
Alan Davie, Scotland (1920-2014).
Gouache painting with watercolor
'Village Myth'
Hand signed ('with love') lower left,
1982
Dimensions: with frame 37.5"H x 30.25"W; image, 28"H ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Ohne Titel (Bird in a cage and shoe)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Manchester, GB
Ohne Titel (Bird in a cage and shoe)
By Andy Warhol
c. 1956
ink, chalk and gold on paper
Image on Verso
43 x 35 cm. (16.9 x 13.8 in.)
Category
1950s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Air Mail hand drawn postcard signed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Original hand-drawn postcard by Jean-Michel Folon, addressed to Evelyn Farland from France to New York. This unique, one-of-a-kind piece is framed in a silver metal and wood frame wi...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Postcard, Color Pencil
French School (18th Century) Dancing Putti.
Located in Sydney, NSW
French School (18th Century), Dancing Putti.
This gouache on vellum scene of the dancing putti is derived from a drawing by Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis (Italian 1484 -1539) known a...
Category
Late 18th Century Rococo Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Vellum
Mythological combat scene with Roman soldiers on horseback.
By Virgil Solis
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and brownish black ink on grayish-cream laid paper, 6 1/2 x 8 inches (165 x 175 mm), irregular hexagonal sheet with margins. Some archival repairs along the top sheet edge, scatt...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Laid Paper, Ink
Jean Hillemacher (1889-1914), Lot Of 43 Drawings
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Jean Hillemacher (1889-1914)
Second Grand Prix de Rome 1913
Lot of three sketchbooks: 43 drawings.
Academic nudes, landscapes, animal studies, a watercolor battle...
Category
Early 20th Century Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Study for “The Artist’s Studio” 1820, Horace Vernet (French 1789-1820)
Located in Sydney, NSW
Horace Vernet (French 1789-1863), Study for “The Artist’s Studio” 1820.
This is a charming detailed pen and ink study for “Vernet’s The Artist’s Studio” which was painted in 1820. I...
Category
19th Century Academic Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Wimbledon hoax! or Waterloo review!!!
Located in Middletown, NY
A remarkable published sketch replete with primo pensiero; a window into Cruikshank's genius for sociopolitical caricature.
Double-sided preparatory drawing in graphite with watercolor and ink on light-weight cream wove paper, 19 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches (487 x 224 mm), the full sheet. Signed boldly in brown ink, lower right image area. Uniform age tone, marginal wear including some minor areas of edge wear and two very minor associated losses at the lower left sheet edge. Colors appear to be slightly attenuated. There are three tabs of archival tape at the top sheet edge, verso; at right corner, left corner, and center. All condition points are entirely consistent with the age and nature of the paper and media. Multiple inscriptions in ink and graphite in Cruikshank's own hand. A maquette for the engraved image of the same title, used as the frontispiece to The Scourge, xii, published on June 18, 1816, by J. Johnson Cheapside, London. Impressions of the engraving for which this is a study may be found in the collections of the British Museum and the Yale University Library.
Holiday-making 'cits' drive, ride, and walk (right to left) on a dusty road, in the direction of a sign-post (right) pointing 'To Wimbledon' (left); the opposite arm points (right) to Battersea. On the extreme left is the back of a coach, with outside passengers, one with a huge frothing tankard. A fat man trudges between two women, followed by a bloated dog. A 'cit' on a bucking horse follows. Next is a family party: a fat woman...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Graphite, Watercolor
Study of a Child. Circle of François Boucher (French 1703 - 1770)
By François Boucher
Located in Sydney, NSW
Circle of François Boucher (French 1703 - 1770), Study of a Child.
This charming work is probably a study for a painting, it shows a child with a swathe of billowing fabric over her ...
Category
18th Century Rococo Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper
Girl and Horse - Watercolor by Marie Laurencin - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed.
Sketch realized in 1924 for the invitation to "Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev".
Published in the same invitation in June 26th, 1924.
Ref. Mimì, Anna Laetitia Pecci...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor, Paper
Dennis Oppenheim Large Abstract Conceptual Sculpture Drawing for Ace Gallery LA
Located in Surfside, FL
Dennis Oppenheim (1938 - 2011)
Pencil and colored pencil drawing on paper,
'Memory Generator Receiver; Transmitter project for ACE Gallery Los Angeles'
(possibly with watercolor pai...
Category
1970s Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nina Narimanishvili - Quick Sketch, Circus
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media & acrylic on paper
Nina Narimanishvili is a Georgian artist born in 1999 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Nina has been painting since childhood and over time he...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper, Acrylic
Jonathan Winters, Old Cross Dresser, unique drawing in pen
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a unique drawing created by Jonathan Winters in 2001 using pen and ink. It is hand signed and dated, "May 22, 2001." Winters was an iconic American comedian, actor, aut...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Jonathan Winters, A Man in Drag, unique drawing in pen
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a unique drawing created by Jonathan Winters in 2001 using pen and ink. It is hand signed and dated, "Nov 18, 2001." Winters was an iconic American comedian, actor, aut...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
The Carpet Seller 19th Century Orientalist Antique Watercolor Painting on Paper
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Provenance
John Welles Hollenback, New York
The Painting is Signed FBartolini Lower Right
Federico Bartolini (Italian, 1861 - 1908)
Description:
Federico Bartolini was a renowned ...
Category
19th Century Academic Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bolognese School (Circa 1600). Study of a child.
By Annibale Carracci
Located in Sydney, NSW
Bolognese School (Circa 1600), Study of a child.
The Bolognese School or the School of Bologna flourished in the capital of Emilia Romagna, between the 16th and 17th centuries in Ita...
Category
16th Century Baroque Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper
Untitled - Mixed Media by Ben Shahn - 1950s
By Ben Shahn
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an drawing realized by Ben Shahn (Kovno 1898-New York 1969)
Pen drawing on paper applied on canvas.
Hand-signed lower right: Ben Shahn.
Some light folds and discoloring...
Category
1950s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Paper
Whimsical Drawing By Michael Dormer
Located in Pasadena, CA
A whimsical, abstract drawing. Signed Michael Dormer, 1970.
Michael Dormer is a prolific Southern Californian artist. Highly influential in California s...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon, Paper
Daniel Garber Original Drawing, from Artist's Estate
Located in Larchmont, NY
Daniel Garber (American, 1880-1958)
Balderstons, c. Early 20th Century
Pencil on paper
7 x 9 in.
Framed: 12 x 4 x 1/2 in.
Titled and initialed lower right: Balderstons, D.G.
Proven...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Study of a Sleeping Girl in a Cap
By Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in Middletown, NY
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.
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This drawing is closely related to two known mid 18th century oils...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Graphite
Cell 06 - Contemporary Art, Abstract, White, Black, Organic, Minimalist, Drawing
By Alina Aldea
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Cell 06, 2021
black ink on white paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 w cm
100 H x 70 W cm
The drawings signed by Alina Aldea show the meticulousness and perfection of microscopic observation....
Category
2010s Abstract Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Set of six 19th Century studies or Turkish characters by Maltese artist Preziosi
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Count Amadeo Preziosi (Maltese, 1816 – 1882)
A set of six pencil and watercolour studies or Turkish characters including street vendors, a Turkish sold...
Category
19th Century Academic Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
Hercules after Carracci V - Contemporary Art, Red, Yellow, Male, Lion, Nude
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Hercules after Carracci V, 2014
Tempera on paper (Signed)
27 3/5 H × 39 2/5 W in.
70 H × 100 W cm
On the subject of his new works the artist stated:
“There is not enough orange, ye...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Egg Tempera
“The Hunter”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of a solitary hunter in the field by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed bottom right. ...
Category
1940s Academic Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
“Bringing Home the Game”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of a hunter bring home the fresh game by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed top right. ...
Category
1940s Academic Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
“The Hunters”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of two hunters in the field by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed bottom right. Circa ...
Category
1940s Academic Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
“After the Hunt”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of interior pub scene by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed bottom left. Circa 1940. ...
Category
1940s Academic Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
“Tavern Meeting”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of interior crowded pub scene by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed bottom left. Circa...
Category
1940s Academic Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
“British Pub 2”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of interior crowded pub scene by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed top left and dated ...
Category
1930s Academic Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
“Tavern Life”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of a lively tavern scene. Signed lower right and dated 1942 by the British artist, George Anderson Short...
Category
1940s Academic Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
Monumental Surrealist Pastel, Of Course We Evolve But Does Anything Ever Change?
Located in Cotignac, FR
Surrealist, figurative large scale pastel of a deconstructed head and other elements by Gordon Muir. With original exhibition title label. Presented in fine silvered wood and fabric custom frame, under glass.
A magnificent and truly monumental work of a 'deconstructed' head and three other triptych elements. Influenced by the paintings of Francis Bacon and Salvador Dali the work is intriguing and arresting at the same time. We can see how Muir gained such success later for his sculptural pieces as he is even in this work thinking in three dimensions. On closer inspection the details reveal themselves, the eyeball reminiscent of the shell of a horse chestnut, the furry surface to the tongue all in soft pastel shades. The three upper elements, in monochrome revealing the development of man. A really intriguing and strong painting that would grace any interior and be the talking point of any collection.
It is very unusual to find a pastel of these proportions. The medium itself gives the work a softness creating an intriguing juxtaposition to the subject itself.
Sculptor, born in Hawick, Gordon Muir was educated at art colleges in London, Scotland and the University of New Mexico, after which he spent time working with woodblock artists in Japan. He has more recently concentrated his artistic endeavours on sculpture, much of this in collaboration with the Paul Hogarth...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Rare Large Collage New York Cityscape Skyline Assemblage Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Gottfried Salzmann worked on a series of photo collages inspired by the city streets and the urban. In this collage the artist cuts and crops pieces of newspaper, and attaches them t...
Category
20th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Island for Umberto 05 - Contemporary, Drawing, Nature, Trees, Landscape
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Island for Umberto 05, 2014
Pencil on paper ( Signed and dated front lower-right corner, framed)
11.6 H x 16,5 W in.
29.5 H x 42 W cm
"Island for Umberto" has the literary source in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
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 Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Paint, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
Madonna and Child - Colored Chalk Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Madonna and Child is a beautiful colored chalk low relief realized in the 19th Century by Anonymous Artist.
Frame included: 96x70 cm.
Good condition except some minor cracks and lo...
Category
19th Century Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Paper
Royal Dreams - 21st Century, Drawing on Paper, Tree, Crown, Blue, Fantasy
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Royal Dreams, 2013
Black and colored fine liner on paper
16.53 H x 11.69 W in
42 H x 29.7 W cm
Raluca Arnăutu creates a zoomorphic world, where animals...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
House of Dreams - Blue, Red, Drawing, Figurative, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
House of Dreams, 2013
Ink and colored pencil on paper
16.53 H x 11.69 W in
42 H x 29.7 W cm
Signed
Raluca Arnăutu creates a zoomorphic world, where an...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Color Pencil
Die Moralische Eifersucht - Drawing by Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Die moralische Eifersucht is a contemporary artwork realized by Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern in 1964.
Pencil and colored chalks on Schoellershammer cardboard.
Signed "F. S. SONN...
Category
1960s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
Fairy Tales Watercolor on Paper
By Dewitt M. Lockman
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Fairy tales,
Mixed media on paper, from the artist estate.
actual size 19"x23" framed 34"x39"
Impressionistic style watercolor, drawing, pastel on paper, from the artist Estate.
DeWitt Lockman began painting at the age of four in Brooklyn. By the age of seven, his family had moved to New York, where he worked with the animal painter James H. Beard. He later studied with Nelson Bickford and William Sartain. He was in Europe, principally in France, England, and Holland, from 1891 to 1892 and again from 1901 to 1902. In the years between the two European trips, Lockman painted little, suffering from ill-health. Resuming his artistic activities in the early years of the century, Lockman also served in the Office of Naval Intelligence from 1917 to 1918. He married Evelyn Walker in 1946. Although his oeuvre also includes still life and animal pictures, Lockman was most successful as a portraitist, painting over 500 works in that genre. President Calvin Coolidge, General of the Armies John J. Pershing, and Dr. Nicholas Murray...
Category
1920s Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Mixed Media
Figurative, Marker on Tracing Paper Board by Modern Artist F. N Souza "In Stock"
By F.N. Souza
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
F. N. Souza - Untitled
Marker on Paper, 11 x 8.5 inches
Marker on Tracing Paper Pasted on Board, 12.5 x 9 inches
( Set of 2 works )
(Unframed Delivered)
Francis Newton Souza was born in 1924 in Saligao, Goa. After losing his father at a very young age and being afflicted by a serious bout of small pox, he vowed to go about life his own way. Souza was expelled for participating in the Quit India Movement while studying at the Sir J J School of Art in Mumbai. In 1947, he founded the Progressive Artists' Group along with S H Raza...
Category
1960s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Board, Paper
Avant le Bain - Drawing by Jacques Villon - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. From the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt Collection. Matting included. Very good condition.
Category
1960s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Mid Century Nude Figure Study of a Black Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling mid century nude figure study of a black woman reclining by Raul Anguiano (Mexican/American, 1915-2006), 1968. Signed and dated lower left hand corner "R. Anguiano." Presented in wood frame under plexiglass. Image size: 25"H x 34"W. Framed size: 35"H x 43.75"W.
Raúl Anguiano was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on February 26th, 1915. He started drawing cubist pictures at the age of 5, taking as his first models movie stars, as Mary Pickford, Pola Negri and Charlie Chaplin. Anguiano first artistic influence or aesthetic emotion came from the Holy Family by Rafael Sanzio.
At the age of 12, Anguiano attended Guadalajara's Free School of Painting under the tuition of Ixca Farias. From 1928 to 1933, he studied with the Master painter José Vizcarra, the disciple of Santiago Rebull and José Salomé Piña, and organised the group "Young Painters of Jalisco" with other artists. During this period, Anguiano worked with different kinds of models: workmen, employees and a few intellectuals like Pita Amor.
In 1934 Anguiano moved to Mexico City. He began teaching in primary schools and taught drawing and painting at La Esmeralda academy and the UNAM School of Art.
Anguiano was a member of the Mexican Artistic Renaissance movement which was started in the 1920's by the Mexican School of Art in which he belonged. This renaissance began with the San Carlos Academy movement -- among whose leaders were Ignacio Asúnsolo and Jose Clemente Orozco -- and which emerged out of the students' and teachers' discontent with the traditional paintings methods (academicism), and the close contact that the young artists had with the problems of Mexico and its people, explaining the marked critical realism to the painters of the time, including Anguiano himself.
The same year, Anguiano received a commission to paint his first mural, Socialist Education, a 70 meters fresco located at A. Carrillo School in Mexico City. Other works followed, including Mayan rituals (oils on canvas and wood), for the Mayan Hall in the National Museum of Anthropology, and Trilogy of Nationality (acrylic on canvas and wood), for the Attorney General's Office.
In 1936 he moved into his surrealist period, which lasted almost a decade. He painted circus performers and prostitutes. The most notable among his works of the time are: The Madame (gouche, 1936), The Clown's Daughter (oil, 1940), the Pink Circus Artist and the Grey Circus Artist (oil, 1941). Also during this period, Anguiano produced a series of drawings based on his dreams, with cold tones and silver-greys predominating.
In 1937 Anguiano joined the Revolutionary Writers and Artists League. Together, with Alfredo Zalce and Pablo O'Higgins, he was also a founding member of the Popular Graphics Workshop, where artists practised a graphic style based on Mexico's folk traditions. This was due to the powerful influence of the recently discovered Jose Guadalupe Posada and Goya.
Raúl Anguiano belonged to the so-called "Third Generation" of post-revolutionary painters, along with Juan O'Gorman, Jorge González Camarena...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
"Country Haircut"
By Milton Avery
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this piece by Milton Avery (1885 – 1965).
Milton Avery was a prominent Modernist painter whose work combined abstraction and...
Category
1940s American Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College Art LGBTQ+ Female Blue Birds Paradise
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:
Paradise Island, 148x111.5cm, ink, acrylic paint and mixed media on paper, 2013
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown
In Isabel's own words:
Paradise island
It truly was paradise on paradise island. No plastic bottles touched these shores, no human hand had exploited the rich minerals and resources of the land, no complicated administrative tasks affected the residents. The birdmen who lived there were united in one common purpose, and that was to wait for The Egg. They waited day and night in a fever of excitement, hours and days and sometimes weeks went past and they did not grow weary, this only increased their anticipation. They stretched their arms to the sky and called for The Egg to bless them by falling. Deep in the hearts of the birdmen was a thing never spoken of and rarely even aknowledged to themselves, a common secret, that when The Egg actually fell it was not as good as the anticipation of it.
*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’s hair brush that gives incredible fine lines and was purchased on her travels in India.
Born in Hammersmith, London in 1981, Rock knew her destiny was to be an artist. Studying Fine Art Printmaking at The University of Brighton and graduating with First Class Honours in 2004 she went on to do a Masters Degree at The Royal College of Art in London, continuing her studies in printmaking and drawing, graduating in 2008.
Her first solo show at Bearspace Gallery in Deptford, London in April 2009 sold out and was the beginning of a career that continues to rise. Rock participated in the first ever India Art Fair represented by Art 1821...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Paint, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
Fresh Sketch - Red Ink Drawing by Wifredo Lam - 1970
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful fresh sketch in red ink on an ivory-colored paper, with an autograph dedication "Per Pino Fasio amicia Pittore Wifredo Lam Albissola 1970" . Dated and signed in red ink. V...
Category
1970s Surrealist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Personnages
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Personnages" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right, "Calder 67".
Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alex...
Category
1960s Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Gouache
Sleeping Boy - Drawing by Giovanni Fontana - 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sleeping Boy is an original modern artwork realized in the 16th century by Giovanni Fontana.
Ivory colored sheet attached on an ivory colored cardboard (...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
1910's Art Deco Erte Gouache Painting Original Hand Signed Rare French Costume
By Erté
Located in Buffalo, NY
A rare original signed Art Deco gouache on paper by Erte (Romain de Tirtoff)
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This stunning theatrical costume design is signed Erte at the lower right.
The piece is 20 by 18 fram...
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1910s Art Deco Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Archival Paper, Gouache
Le Secret Professionnel - Vintage Rare Book Illustrated by Jean Cocteau - 1925
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Le Secret Professionnel is an original modern rare book illustrated by Jean Cocteau (Maisons-Laffitte, 1889 – Milly-la-Forêt, 1963) in 1925.
Published by Au Sens Pareil, Paris.
Original Edition.
530 numbered copies, one of the 440 copies on vélin d'Annonay.
Format: in 8°.
The book includes 105 pages with Twelve full page color drawings.
Mint conditions.
Jean Cocteau (Maisons-Laffitte, 1889 – Milly-la-Forêt, 1963). Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was one of the most famous French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. The novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929) and the films Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents Terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Orpheus (1949) are his most appreciated works. His circle of friends, lovers and colleagues included Kenneth Anger...
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1920s Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Ryan - Drawing by Ryan Mendoza - 2000
Located in Roma, IT
Ryan is a contemporary artwork realized by Ryan Mendoza in 2000.
Pencil and charcoal on paper.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Provenance: Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia
Born in 1971 in New York, Mendoza's personal story is subsequently intertwined with the two extremes of Europe, Naples and Berlin, the two cities in which he has lived and worked up to now. In his works he represents complex theatricality, models anatomies, doses colours, calibrates lights, draws on a rich archive of memories, confusing ancient pictorial wisdom and contemporary risks. The artist's attention is particularly focused on portraits in which he carries out distortions and alterations: he exhibits perspective disproportions, reveals anatomical dissonances, manifests dystonias between the characters in the foreground and the backgrounds. His characters appear "possessed", it is no coincidence that the title of the 2010 solo show at the Muse d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina in Naples is "The possessed...
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Early 2000s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Lepidoptera
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Watercolor, flashe, color pencil, ink, silver paint, matte medium and Black 3.0 on watercolor paper, 55" high x 77" wide
Vivid matte blue, red, gray, silver and black
Framing availa...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled, Figurative, Watercolour on Paper by Modern Artist "In Stock"
By Sakti Burman
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sakti Burman - Untitled
Watercolour on Paper
26 x 20 inches, 1960
Born : 1935 Kolkata
Education : 1956 Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata and the Ecole Nationale des ...
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1960s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Contemplation
Located in Middletown, NY
This is an engaging work with masterful detail that will unfold for an intent viewer, particularly in the area of the figure's well-worn hands, and her traditional clothing. The image depicts a Bavarian woman deep in thought while winding a skein of wool. She is seated outside of her home, where she has brought her yarn swift...
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1870s English School Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Surrealist Mermaid Orchestra Large Painting Royal College Art Women LGBTQ+ Blues
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...
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2010s Surrealist Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
The Piece That Fits
Located in Kansas City, MO
Brittany Noriega
The Piece That Fits
Graphite on Archival Paper
Year: 2021
Size: 35 x 27 x 1.3 inches
Unique
Framed
Signed by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1047
This piece examines...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Archival Paper
Where the Fuck is Jimini? - Drawing by Ryan Mendoza - 2012
Located in Roma, IT
Where the fuck is Jimini? is a contemporary artwork realized by Mircea Suciu in 2012.
Charcoal on drawing paper.
Signed on the back – Origin Aeroplastics Brussels
Mircea Suciu Bo...
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2010s Modern Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Voice of the Moon" - 14 pc, Pink, Grey, and Blue Works on Paper Indian Artist
By Ritu Sinha
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Voice of the Moon" is a 14-panel installation by Indian artist Ritu Sinha. Each panel represents a different story or experience in Sinha's life as a woman and mother in India. Rit...
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2010s Contemporary Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
William Heath Robinson original drawing, British early 20th Century
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
William Heath Robinson (British, 1872 - 1944)
'Boring The First Tunnel With An Early Type Of Rotary Excavator, And The Red Flag', circa 1935 (railway ribaldry was published in this year)
The former signed 'W. Heath Robinson (lower left) and inscribed with title (lower left and right)
The former to mount 14 X 10.1/4in. (35.5 X 26cm.)
The latter 1.1/2 X 8.1/2in. (3.8 X 21.6 cm.)
Literature: Railway Ribaldry, first published by the Great Western Railway, Paddington, 1935.
William Heath Robinson was an English cartoonist and illustrator best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines for achieving simple objectives.
During the First World War, he drew large numbers of cartoons, depicting ever-more unlikely secret weapons being used by the combatants. In the UK the term "Heath Robinson" entered popular language during this time as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance. Its continuing popularity was undoubtedly linked to Second World War Britain's shortages and the need to "make do and mend".
In the course of his work, Robinson also wrote and illustrated three childrens books including The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (1902) which is regarded as the genesis of his depiction of unlikely machines.
The inventions he drew were frequently powered by steam boilers or kettles, heated by candles or a spirit lamp and usually kept running by balding, bespectacled men in overalls. There would be complex pulley arrangements, threaded by lengths of knotted string.
One of his most famous series of illustrations accompanied the first Professor Branestawm book written by Norman Hunter. The stories provided a perfect backdrop for Robinson's drawings.
One of the automatic analysis machines built for Bletchley Park during the Second World War to assist in the decryption of German message traffic was named "Heath Robinson" in his honour.
He died in September 1944 during the Second World War and is buried in East Finchley Cemetery.
The Heath Robinson Museum in Pinner opened in October 2016 to house a collection of nearly 1,000 original artworks owned by The William Heath Robinson Trust.
In the Wallace and Gromit...
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20th Century Paper Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
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