Drawings & Pastels
Drawing is a type of graphic art created with lines and areas of tone applied to paper usually with pencil, charcoal and coloured pencil, but a wash may also be applied.
They frequently serve as preparatory studies for other works, but are also considered works of art in their own right. A practitioner of drawing is known as a draughtsman.
Pastels are created using a stick made of pure pigment and a binder.
A key part of the general art market, both are also specialist collecting areas in their own right.
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Lowry cricket match and Henry Moore’s Second World War drawing are top hits at Sotheby's
08 July 2019A Cricket Match (1938) by Mod Brit giant LS Lowry (1887-1976) was the fitting headliner at Sotheby’s. Offered in the midst of the Cricket World Cup, the 18in x 2ft (46 x 61cm) oil on canvas showing a back-street match played by local children in Salford sold for a mid-estimate £950,000 to a UK private buyer.
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Burne-Jones sketches head to Delaware museum via Cambridge
17 June 2019Two studies by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones for his 1868 oil Hymenaeus will soon be reunited with the finished painting.
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Pick of the week: Restituted Swiss self-portrait lights up saleroom
10 June 2019Berlin auction house Grisebach posted an auction record for the Swiss artist Karl Stauffer-Bern (1857-91) on May 29 when it sold a self-portrait which had been recently restituted to the family of its original Jewish owners.
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Burne-Jones bares his soul in heartfelt letters offered at Cheffins' auction
03 June 2019Tender letters from artist Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones to the daughter of his patron reveal the “emotional support” he craved.
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Singapore merchant's portrait is centre of attention at West Sussex auction
03 June 2019This pastel portrait of a Singaporean merchant by Percy Carpenter (1820-95) is believed to have broken a 30-year auction record for the artist.
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London gallery showcases rediscovered drawings that record an Italian journey in 1817
20 May 2019A collection of rediscovered drawings by the 19th century artist Elizabeth Frances Batty (1791-1875) feature at Bloomsbury gallery Abbott and Holder this month.
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Eyewitness view captures last action of the Indian Mutiny
20 May 2019Painted by Lt Gen Henry Hope Crealock (1831-91), this 6ft 8in (2m) wide pen and ink drawing is an eyewitness account of The Action of Bareilly – the battle of the last stronghold of Indian independence in 1858.
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Six places to see and buy art in London this weekend
17 May 2019This weekend London plays host to two major photography fairs, a new drawing fair and several gallery exhibitions.
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New drawings fair shows its sense of style
13 May 2019An exhibition of works by René Gruau (1909-2004), whose illustrations helped to reinvigorate the Parisian fashion industry after the Second World War, features on the stand of Galerie Alexis Pentcheff at the inaugural 'Draw Art Fair London'.
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Book dealer Bryars starts new chapter as a model
06 May 2019A portrait of rare books dealer Tim Bryars of Bryars & Bryars features in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Annual Exhibition.
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Hand of Raphael suspected in Italian Renaissance work
19 April 2019A drawing offered at a Paris auction with an attribution to Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Francesco Penni (1488-1528) was hammered down at €1.13m (£980,000).
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Search for UK buyer to pay £11.5m for Old Master drawing blocked from export
19 April 2019A sketch by Dutch artist Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533) has been temporarily blocked from export in the hope of finding a UK buyer.
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5 Questions: Stephen Ongpin
19 April 2019Stephen Ongpin deals in drawings and watercolours from the 16th-20th centuries in London, St James’s.
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Paris Drawings Week provides range of prices
19 April 2019Drawings Week in the French capital included a wide variety of styles, eras and value. Pictured here is a selection of highlights and some more affordable items from the vast array of works on paper of all types offered during Drawings Week in Paris in late March.
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Pail Nash battle scene at Frieze New York
19 April 2019'Battlefield' is among the works Piano Nobile includes in an exhibition of Paul Nash paintings at Frieze New York.
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‘More affordable’ options at Paris Drawings Week
19 April 2019Not everything in the spring drawings sales required a six-figure bank balance to purchase. Plenty of more affordable works appeared across all the Paris rooms – both Drouot and the independents (and, of course, in the various dealers shows and fairs). Pictured here are some works within the reach of less elevated budgets.
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Summer of Moore: exhibitions and events celebrating sculptor Henry Moore
16 April 2019Henry Moore (1898-1986) fans are spoilt for choice this summer with exhibitions and events across the UK.
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Delacroix’s London sketchbooks to go on display at the Louvre after auction
11 April 2019Sketchbooks owned by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) featuring views of London have been bought by the Louvre Museum for €314,000 (£268,375).
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Pick of the week: Catlin’s chief appeal brings high prices at London auction
08 April 2019Previously unpublished sketches and letters by the American artist and traveller George Catlin (1796-1872) attracted multiple bidders at Forum Auctions in London.
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Eyewitness sketches of the Indian Mutiny emerge at Olympia Auctions
08 April 2019A 2m (6ft 7in) pen and ink drawing, estimated at £5000-7000 in Olympia Auctions on April 17 in west London, forms an intriguing eyewitness view of the final moments of the Indian Mutiny.
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