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Period: 1930s
Art Deco Fashion Illustration Ink Drawing by G. Ferro
Located in Atlanta, GA
Original Art Deco fashion drawing, ink, and wash on Vellum paper by French artist G. Ferro. The artwork features a stylish male model with a typical Art Deco overcoat. The piece is s...
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Art Deco 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paint, Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Cubist Woman Study Black Pencil Drawing by Wouyart
Located in Atlanta, GA
This interesting seated woman pencil study is by French artist Wouyart (20th Century). This unique representation captures the model's expression through trace lines and shadows that...
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Cubist 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pencil, Carbon Pencil
Disegno fronte retro figurativo toscano nudo femminile del XX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Disegno fronte retro matita su carta, 330 x 240 mm.
Su un lato, in verticale, è raffigurato un nudo femminile seduto in un ambiente domestico, colto nell'atto di voltarsi verso lo s...
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Other Art Style 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pencil
French Art Deco Woman Singing Gouache Painting
Located in Atlanta, GA
A lovely gouache on cardboard painting featuring an Art Deco singer with a typical stylish outfit. The composition is very vibrant, using the contrast of black and white elements ag...
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Art Deco 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache, Board, Cardboard
Composition - Drawing by Alfredo Mezio - 1934
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a drawing in pen on paper, realized by Alfredo Mezio in 1934 for the magazine "Il Selvaggio", Year XI, p. 46.
The artwork is depicted skillfully through confident an...
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Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
Portrait pencil drawing of a Dutch young boy (1934)
By Willy Sluiter
Located in Oostende, BE
Willy Sluiter (Amersfoort, 1873 – The Hague 1949) was a Dutch painter, draftsman and graphic designer.
The boy's name was Claes Honig from Koog aan Zaan (Dutch village), as can be ...
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1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Color Pencil
Art Deco Girl with Car Mid-20th Century American Modernism Pin-Up Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco Girl with Car Mid-20th Century American Modernism Pin-Up Illustration
Arthur Rosenman Ross (1913 - 1981)
Deco Girl with Car, 1936
30 x 20 inches
Oil on Canvas Board
Signed Arthur ‘36 lower right
Provenance: Estate of the artist.
BIO
Arthur Rosenman Ross was a key figure in automotive design at General Motors during America's "Golden Age" of auto design, the 1930's through the 1950s.
He attended the Art Institute of Chicago from age 17, exhibiting a special interest for automotive renderings and the female figure.
In 1934, he changed his name from Rosenman to Ross, fearing his Jewish ancestry could prejudice his career prospects. At age 20, he turned down job offers from MGM Studios in Hollywood
and Duesenberg to work at General Motors alongside the Legendary Harley Earl in 1935.
He was hand picked by Mr. Earl and assigned to GM's War and Camouflage Division in 1937 through WW2.
It was during this pivotal period in which he executed some extraordinary military aircraft artworks, likely used between GM and America's military aeronautics companies in design preparation for WW2. General Motors played an important role in helping America's aircraft manufacturers preceding and during the war.
Just after the war in 1945, Mr. Ross was rewarded by GM, being made Chief Designer of Cadillac, then two years later becoming Chief at Oldsmobile until his retirement in 1959.
He was in large part responsible for some of GM's classic Cadillac designs such as the Cadillac Sixty Special, Fleetwood, LaSalle and GM's first concept car, the extraordinary Buick Y-Job.
Mr. Ross was an exceptionally charismatic and vivacious man who quite by chance, befriended His idol, Salvador Dali at GM in 1955.
They talked about art, cars and girls late into the evening, according to his son, Carter Ross.
He had a gift in rendering the erotic arts...
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Art Deco 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Board
Original French Art Deco Gouache Illustration Drawing by J. Hilly
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original Art Deco illustration hand-painted with ink and gouache on paper. The drawing features two elegant women with large windows and drapery in the background. This illustrati...
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Art Deco 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink, Gouache
Teaching Drawing to Children - Drawing by Alexandre Lagrant - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Teaching Drawing to Children is a drawing artwork realized by Alexandre Lagrant in the early 20th Century.
Pencil and ink drawing on paper.
The state of preservation is good with s...
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Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Letter F - Drawing by Alexandre Lagrant - The Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Letter F is a drawing artwork realized by Alexandre Lagrant in the early 20th Century
Watercolor drawing on paper.
The state of preservation is good.
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Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Portrait of a Woman by Orovida Pissarro - Portrait painting
Located in London, GB
Portrait of a Woman by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Egg tempera on silk laid down on stretched linen
47.6 x 37 cm (18 ³/₄ x 14 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated upper right, OROVIDA 1936
Provenance: Christie's London, 1985
Kunstgalerij De Vuyst, Belgium
Private collection, London
Private collection, London, by descent
Artist biography:
Orovida Camille Pissarro...
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1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Linen, Egg Tempera
Portrait of a Young Woman - 1930's Art Deco portrait drawing British artist
Located in London, GB
A fine large charcoal and pencil drawing by British listed artist James Stroudley. Executed in 1931, it is a stunning example of a 1930s Art Deco portrait. Very strong and bold, it d...
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Realist 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Morceaux Choisis
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889-1963 )
" Morceaux Choisis " est un dessin à l'encre brune et légère estompe au crayon noir , exécuté en 1932 , il représente un profil de femme .
19 x 11 cm . si...
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Art Deco 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
Portrait of Juliana - British Art Deco pencil charcoal drawing of a woman
Located in London, GB
A fine large charcoal and pencil drawing by British listed artist James Stroudley. Executed in 1930, it is a stunning example of a 1930s Art Deco portrait. Very strong and bold, it d...
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Art Deco 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Color Pencil
Portrait of a Boy - British Art Deco interior painting seated male female artist
By Anna Airy
Located in London, GB
This large stunning watercolour portrait was painted circa 1930 by noted British female artist Anna Airy. The portrait depicts a full length boy seated in a beautiful Art Deco interi...
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Art Deco 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Industrial Working Man WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Working Man WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Man with a Tool
39 ¾ x 38 ¼ inches
Gouache...
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American Realist 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Tuscan Florentine Female Nude Portrait Drawing 20th century pencil paper
Located in Florence, IT
Pencil on paper 32.5 x 23.5 cm.
The subject is a double study of a female nude.
It's signed at the bottom right, "U. Capocchini".
Ugo Capocchini was an Italian artist. He won many ...
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Other Art Style 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pencil
Street Costumes, Gay Nineties Fashion - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Street Costumes by Ruth Kreps.
Signed lower right.
Most likely for a book published in the 1930's about turn of the century women's fashion. "Costume Design of the Gay Nineties" T...
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Academic 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Ink
Portrait of a Lady - British Roaring Twenties Art Deco female portrait red chalk
Located in London, GB
This is a very pretty sanguine chalk drawing on paper of a young woman dated 1923 by Count Mario Grixoni. Executed by one of the leading artists of the day it is a very striking and...
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Art Deco 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Chalk
Portrait of a Lady - British Art Deco 30's drawing young woman good provenance
Located in London, GB
A fine and detailed Art Deco pencil, black, red and white chalk portrait of a young woman by Hubert Williams. The work dates to circa 1930 and is very skilful in its execution. A bea...
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Realist 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Color Pencil
Old Jewish Shtetl Rabbi Charcoal Judaica Drawing World War II Era
Located in Surfside, FL
Maurycy Trębacz (1861 – 1941) was one of the most popular Jewish painters in Poland in the late 19th and early 20th century. Many of his paintings were lost in the Holocaust, but a representative selection of his artwork survived.Trębacz died of starvation in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto during the Nazi German occupation of Poland.
Maurycy Trębacz, along with Samuel Hirszenberg, Jakub Weinles, and Leopold Pilichowski, belonged to the first generation of Jewish artists in Poland who broke away from the religious prohibition on portraying a human figure (see below). The studies show his mastery of painting, his own unique style and great imagination. Trębacz was noted within the European art-world as a master portrait and landscape painter,[1] but above all he was also a rare chronicler of the contemporary Jewish life, depicting a world that is now lost. His popular subjects included praying Rabbis, old men, street and Jewish domestic scenes, and genre painting depicting the everyday side of life. His psychological portraits of Jews earned him the greatest popularity and critical acclaim, and influenced the work of other Jewish painters in Poland. Notably, Trębacz's oil painting "The Good Samaritan", reportedly stolen in 1904 at the World's Fair, was recently sold at auction at Sotheby's.
Born in 1861 in Warsaw, the son of David Trębacz, a house painter, Maurycy (Mojżesz) at the age of 16 years was admitted to the school of drawing by professor Wojciech Gerson and Aleksander Kamiński. Three years later, with the support of Leopold Horowitz, he received a scholarship sponsored by lawyer Stanisław Rotwand, and moved to Kraków where he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in the studios of Jan Matejko, Leopold Loeffler and Władysław Łuszczkiewicz.
From 1882, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Sandor Wagner (until 1884) and received the grand silver medal there at the completion of his studies for the work "Martyrdom". Between 1889 and 1890, he studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi. He lived and worked in Munich for 4 years before returning to Warsaw. Over time, Trębacz worked in Lviv and Drohobych, and eventually moved permanently to Łódź, where he founded and ran a private art school until September 1939. He is often criticized for giving in to popular demand later on in his career. Pressured by financial sponsors, he began to produce sentimental theme portraits pertaining to the bucolic life of country folk.
Trębacz made his successful artistic début twice, first at the Munich Kunstverein, and then at the Krywult Salon in Warsaw as a 23-year-old painter. His another big success was the participation of painting "Good Samaritan" (1886, pictured) in a Kunstverein exhibition in Munich as well as at the I National Art Exhibition in Kraków and in Warsaw at the Zachęta Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts. The painting was also awarded a gold medal at the Universal World Exposition in Chicago. Subsequently, Trębacz also received a bronze medal at the Paris Universal World Exposition of 1889.
"Good Samaritan" (1886), book engraving from painting by Maurycy Trębacz, Warsaw
Maurycy Trębacz died of hunger in the Łódź Ghetto...
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Expressionist 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Portrait of a Young Woman - Art Deco charcoal pencil drawing
Located in London, GB
A fine large charcoal and pencil drawing by British listed artist James Stroudley. Executed in 1931, it is a stunning example of a 1930s Art Deco portrait. Very strong and bold, it d...
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Art Deco 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
Portrait of a Lady, Charcoal Drawing, 20th Century Russian
Located in London, GB
Charcoal , signed lower right and dated 'Paris 1935'
Image size: 25 x 19 inches (63.5 x 48 cm)
Original oak frame
An accomplished example of Russian art from the mid 20th century.
...
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Art Deco 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Edith Piaf On Stage Watercolor signed Charles Kiffer circa 1935
Located in Paris, FR
Edith Piaf on stage watercolor and pencil on paper, mongrammed K for Charles Kiffer (1902-1992), Workshop stamp.
Charles Kiffer is well known for his figures, paintings, prints, pos...
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Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Figure of Woman - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1935
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of Woman is a Pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1935s.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good condition on a little yellowed paper.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1...
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Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
The Court Ladies Dressed Gerda - Women Illustrators
Located in Miami, FL
Women illustrators were alive, well, and quite active in the early 20th century. Most of their production was associated with topics that dealt with the home, children or fairy tales. In this masterfully rendered work in pen and ink, Jacobs displays great technical skill in presenting three maidens dressing a beautiful female member of the Court wearing a tiara. Signed in a cartouche lower right
From: Stella Mead, Great Stories from Many Lands, London: James Herbert and Co, 1936, page 78 " Red and White Roses"
Provenance: Chris Beetles
Work is elegantly matted and not framed.
Helen Mary Jacobs was born in Ilford, Essex, the sister of the writer W.W. Jacobs; she studied art at the West Ham...
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Art Nouveau 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Ink
Cabaret Dancers girls Austrian watercolor painting in fraimed 1930s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed: by Richard Geiger (1870 – 1945), Austrian - Hungarian painter. Also pencils inscriptions on reverse with date 33 (1933). By the 1920s, he worked illustrating books, bookplates and posters. His paintings included portraits, nudes, genre paintings, and mythological scenes, but he was known for his illustrations, especially his carnival motifs. Spectacular masterwork.
Size app.: 18 x 23.3 cm (roughly 7.1 x 9,2 in), framed 31.7 x 36.4 cm (roughly 12.5 x 14.3 in). Very Good condition, minimal age wear. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. Glass will be removed prior to shipment for safe transit. Weight of app. 0,5 kg (without glass!) is going to measure some 2 kg volume weight packed for shipment.
R. Geiger was born in Vienna. He first attended a drawing school and then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied under Christian Griepenkerl and August Eisenmenger. He studied sculpture with Fritz Klimsch at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. There he took part in the exhibitions of the Academy with his portrait busts and sculptures. In Paris he studied at the Julian Academy and worked in the studio of François Flameng...
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Realist 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Watercolor
The Cabaret Dancer
Located in London, GB
'The Cabaret Dancer', crayon on art paper, by Kolomon Moore (circa 1930s). The Crazy Years (les Années Folles) of Paris in the 1920s hit an abrupt end in...
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1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Crayon
Female Portrait Drawing Roaring Thirties Monogram Dated pencil paper
Located in Florence, IT
This drawing, color pencil on paper 26 x 23 cm without frame, portrays a lady on profile, styled as the typical fashion of the time. By the way she's portrayed, she seems an audaciou...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Portrait of Miss Bachelard
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Black wooden frame with glass pane
53 x 35 x 1.5 cm
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1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
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...
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1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Pierre Olivier Dubaut (1886-1968) Portrait of an artist, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Pierre Olivier Dubaut (1886-1968)
Portrait of an artist
Stamp of the artist on the lower part
watercolor on paper
46.5 x 30 cm
In a vintage frame : 58 x 42 cm, some damages in the ...
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Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Surprised Woman with Cactus 1920s Female Illustrator
By Susan Flint
Located in Miami, FL
The postman's delivery of a limp cactus creates a big emotional response the female recipient. Most likely an interior illustration for a newsstand magazine. Signed lower right Sus...
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American Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Romantic Couple In Wartime Paris on Rainy Parisian Night
Located in Miami, FL
The technique and subject matter work well together in this loosely but masterfully rendered World War 1 romantic illustration of a Soldier and a Parisian woman. Even though this wo...
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Romantic 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Samuel Wood Gaylor American Modernist Watercolor
Located in Larchmont, NY
Samuel Wood Gaylor (American, 1883 - 1957)
Untitled (Woman in Mirror), 1930
Watercolor on paper
Sight size: 14 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.
Framed: 20 3/4 x 16 1/4 in...
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American Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of a Woman Sitting in Profile
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size: 10 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches (26.5 x 36 cm)
Mounted
A fine pencil drawing and a stunning example of a 1930s Art Deco portrait.
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Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Portrait of George Arliss in Conte Crayon on Cardstock 1934
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately portrait of George Arliss by Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980). Mr. Arliss is depicted wearing his signature monocle, looking directly at the viewer. Although this piece appears to be done rapidly, there is a clear confidence in Opffer's work - he was an accomplished portrait artist - and the resemblance to the subject is unmistakable. George Arliss (born Augustus George Andrews; 10 April 1868 – 5 February 1946) was an English actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award – which he won for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) – as well as the earliest-born actor to win the honour. He specialized in successful biopics, such as Disraeli, Voltaire (1933), and Cardinal Richelieu (1935), as well as light comedies, which included The Millionaire (1931) and A Successful Calamity (1932).
Signed and dated "Ivan Opffer 1934" in the lower right.
Titled "Mr. Arliss" in the lower left.
Presented in a new off-white mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 22"H x 16"W
Art size: 17.5"H x 12"W
Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980) was born in Nyborg, Denmark, on June 4, 1897, to a family of Danish scholars and journalists. His brother was Emil Opffer, a Danish merchant seaman and journalist who was known for his relationship with American writer Hart Crane.
Ivan was raised in Mexico City and New York, where his anarchist father was the editor of a radical Danish-language newspaper. His involvement in painting and drawing began at an early age. At a summer workshop, he met and studied drawing with Winslow Homer, then went on to study at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York.
When the US entered World War I, Opffer was one of the members of the American Army Camouflage Corps, headed by Homer Saint-Gaudens (whose mother was a relative of Winslow Homer), the son of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. As a camoufleur, Opffer served with other artists and architects, some of whom became well-known, including Barry Faulkner, Sherry Edmundson Fry, Kimon Nicolaides, Robert Lawson, Abraham Rattner, Kerr Eby, and others.
It was this same unit, while still in training in at Camp American University in Washington DC, that launched a camp newspaper called The Camoufleur. Only three issues were published before the unit’s deployment to France in late 1917. In the October 31 issue, a satirical portrait by Opffer of Homer Saint-Gaudens (titled “Our Boss”) was published on page 5.
After the war, Opffer returned to New York, where he became known for his caricatures of leading Modern writers, among them James Joyce, Edgar Lee Masters, Siegfried Sassoon, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Sandburg, G.K. Chesterton, and Thomas Mann.
In the years between the wars, Opffer married Betty à Beckett Chomley, and settled in Paris, where he was a student at the Academie Julliard. He also lived in London and Copenhagen, where his drawings were frequently published in newspapers and magazines. With the outbreak of World War II, he and his family returned to New York and lived in Greenwich Village.
Among his friends in that era were William Butler Yeats, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...
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American Impressionist 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Postcard, Illustration Board
Man Smoking Shisha in Istanbul
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Man Smoking Shisha in Istanbul', watercolour on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1933). So many historic elements grace this stunning depiction by celebrated French artist and world trave...
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1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
La Voix Humaine
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
" Femme de profil au téléphone " .pen , India ink and wash paper . signed Jean and dated .
executed in 1930 . original drawing certified by Madame Annie Guedras .
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Art Deco 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Portrait of Leopold Myers by Sir William Rothenstein
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately sanguine portrait of Leopold Hamilton Myers (Novelist) by Sir William Rothenstein (English, 1872-1945). Captured in Rothenstein's characteristic style, Myers looks directly at the viewer with a neutral expression. Although this portrait uses only two colors and minimal shading, the likeness of Myers is incredibly well captured. Leo (Leopold) Hamilton Myers (1881 – 1944) was a British novelist. Numerous examples like this one of the writer are in the Tate Museum.
Initialed and dated in the lower right corner ("W.R. 1936")
Inscription on verso indicating materials, subject, and artist.
Presented in a new cream colored mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 18"H x 12"W
Paper size: 15.25"H x 10.75"W
William Rothenstein (English, 1872-1945) was born into a German-Jewish family in Bradford, West Yorkshire. His father, Moritz, emigrated from Germany in 1859 to work in Bradford's burgeoning textile industry. Soon afterwards he married Bertha Dux, and they had six children, of which William was the fifth. Rothenstein was knighted in 1931.
Rothenstein left Bradford Grammar School at the age of sixteen to study at the Slade School of Art*, London (1888-1893), where he was taught by Alphonse Legros, and the Académie Julian* in Paris (1889-1893), where he met and was encouraged by James McNeill Whistler, Edgar Degas and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. Whilst in Paris he also befriended the Anglo-Australian artist Charles Conder, with whom he shared a studio in Montmartre. In 1893 he returned to England to work on "Oxford Characters" a series of lithographic* portraits.
In Oxford he met and became a close friend of the caricaturist* and parodist Max Beerbohm, who later immortalised him in the short story Enoch Soames (1919). During the 1890s Rothenstein exhibited with the New English Art Club* and, in 1900, won a silver medal for his painting The Doll's House at the Exposition Universelle. In 1898 he co-founded the Carfax Gallery in St. James' Piccadilly with John Fothergill. During its early years the gallery was closely associated with such artists as Charles Conder, Philip Wilson Steer, Charles Ricketts and Augustus John. It also exhibited the work of Auguste Rodin, whose growing reputation in England owed much to Rothenstein's friendship and missionary zeal. The gallery was later the home for all three exhibitions of The Camden Town Group*, led by Rothenstein's friend and close contemporary Walter Sickert.
Rothenstein is best known for his portrait drawings of famous individuals and for being an official war artist in both World War I and World War II. He was also a member of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers. The style and subject of his paintings varies, though certain themes reappear, in particular an interest in 'weighty' or 'essential' subjects tackled in a restrained manner. Good examples include Parting at Morning (1891), Mother and Child (1903) and Jews Mourning at a Synagogue (1907) - all of which are owned by the Tate Gallery. The National Portrait Gallery owns over two hundred of his portraits. In 2011 the BBC and the Public Catalogue Foundation began cataloguing all of his paintings in public ownership online.
Between 1902 and 1912 Rothenstein lived in Hampstead, London, where his social circle included such names as H.G.Wells, Joseph Conrad and the artist Augustus John. Amongst the young artists to visit Rothenstein in Hampstead were Mark Gertler...
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Realist 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Handmade Paper
Lina – Pocasset
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Lina – Pocasset
August 6, 1934
Signed in pencil, u.r.; Also titled and dated in pencil, l.r.
Graphite on paper
10.25 x 14.5 inches, sheet
This work is offered by CLAMP in New Yor...
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Contemporary 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Pierre Olivier DUBAUT (1886-1968) Head studies of a horseman, signed watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Pierre Olivier DUBAUT (1886-1968)
Head studies of a horseman, Geoffrey Larcher, 1936
Signed lower center
Watercolor, black and red chalks and pencil on paper
22 x 27.5 cm
Titled a...
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Art Deco 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape in Lagny - Original Drawing by Paul Alouard-Carny - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape in Lagny is an Original Pastel and Watercolour realized by Paul Alouard-Carny (1884-1961) in 1936.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lo...
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Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
[Man with cigar]
By Martin Lewis
Located in Boston, MA
Initialed lower right: "M.L.". Estate stamp verso, lower left: Lucille Deming Lewis Collection. Inscribed verso, lower left: "LDL-803". In fine condition.
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American Realist 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
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Signed Giovanni Colacicchi Nude Drawing Psyche 1939 charcoal paper
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing, signed at the right bottom corner Colacicchi, is a study for the painting Psyche, exhibited for the first time in 1939 at the Ussi Prize-planned by the Florence Academy ...
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Other Art Style 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Portrait of a Woman, Paper Collage
Located in Miami, FL
Hildegard Anna Augusta Elisabeth Freiin Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, known as Baroness Hilla von Rebay or simply Hilla Rebay was the co-founder of the Museum...
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Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Portrait of a Man drawing WPA era
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Portrait of a young woman, ca. 1935. Signed lower right. Unframed. No damage or conservation.
Birth place: Cinc...
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American Realist 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
" Portrait d'Homme " . "Portait of a man " original drawing. certified .
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
" portrait d'homme en buste ". " portrait of a man " is an original drawing , graphite on tracing paper.
this drawing was executed by Jean Cocteau in 1931 during a stay in the clin...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Man with pipe
Located in Wien, 9
August Dressler is one of the painters of the New Objectivity. He is one of the lesser-known artists of the Weimar era, but he too, like his famous contemporaries Georg Grosz, John H...
Category
Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
" Philippe " original drawing " two profile " by J. Cocteau . certified .
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
" Philippe " is an graphite , black pencil and stump drawing by Jean COCTEAU , executed in 1931 during a stay in Toulon ( South of France ) . " la méditerranée "is a restaurant in Pa...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Study for an Illustration of "Il Selvaggio"-Pencil by Mino Maccari - 1930/40s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Study for an Illustration of "Il Selvaggio" is an original Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1930/1940s.
Good condition on a brown paper, except for a missing corner.
No ...
Category
Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Study for a Cover of "Il Selvaggio" - Pencil by Mino Maccari - 1930/40s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Study for a Cover of "Il Selvaggio" is an original Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1930/1940s.
Good condition on a brown paper.
No signature.
Mino Maccari (1898-1989) ...
Category
Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Allan Rohan Crite Portrait of an African American Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Allan Rohan Crite: 1910-2007. Well listed and important African American artist. He was born in Ne Jersey but moved at a young age to Massachusetts....
Category
American Realist 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
" double face " original drawing by Jean Cocteau . certified
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
original drawing by Jean Cocteau , certified and signed .
exceptionnel "Oedipe " drawing 27,7 x 22, 6 cm .
Category
Art Deco 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Berty Seuron 1st dancer by Leon-Laurent Galand - Drawing 43x57 cm
By Leon-Laurent Galand 1
Located in Geneva, CH
Léon Laurent Galand is a French painter and illustrator born April 18, 1872 in Montpellier (Hérault) and died November 4, 1960 in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine).
Léon Galand, born in Montp...
Category
Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Chalk
“A Balinese woman with offerings” (1936)
By Theo Meier
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Theo Meier (1908-1982)
“A Balinese woman with offerings”
Signed, dated '36 and annotated Mankok (the name of the sitter) lower left
Sanguine on paper, measures: 57 x 41.5 cm
In a handmade and hand painted frame with address: Max Kno¨ll, Herberggasse 4/1, Basel.
Provenance:
Private collection, Basel (acquired directly from the artist)
Private collection, London
Note:
Theo Meier was born in Basel, where he attended art school and became a successful portrait painter. However, after visiting an exhibition in Basel of Tahitian paintings by Paul Gaugin, he decided to follow in Gaugin’s footsteps and go to the South Pacific. To finance his voyage, he founded a club in which every member pledged a monthly sum in return of which they could choose one of Meier’s paintings upon his return.
In 1932, at the age of 24, he embarked on his voyage to the South Sea. In Tahiti, he certainly discovered the beauty of the colours of the tropical world but the simplicity of the inhabitants, he had seen in Gaugin’s paintings turned out to be more in the artist’s fantasy than in reality. He returned to Basel but in 1935 again was on his way to the South Sea. In 1936 he arrived in Bali, planning to stay there for two or three weeks, but thirty years later he was still there. In Bali “a delirium laid hold of me which even today has not subsided”, he was to write much later. The present drawing was made during his first “delirius” year in Bali. In Bali, he settled and found inspiration and friendship with other artists including Walter Spies...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper
Woman with Child in Marocco - Original Ink by Helen Vogt - 1930s
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
Woman with child in Marocco is an original blue china ink drawing realized by Helen Vogt in 1930s.
The state of preservation is very good.
Not signed.
Stamp of the artist on th...
Category
Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Caricatures - Ink by Adolf Reinhold Hallman - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Caricatures is a beautiful black China original drawing on ivory-colored paper, made by the Swedish illustrator and reporter Adolf Reinhold Hallman arou...
Category
Modern 1930s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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