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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Auctions in Drawings Week
18 March 2019The independent salerooms and those operating from the Drouot auction centre in Paris provide an important part of the city's Drawings Week.
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Paris Drawings Week draws on a 28-year legacy
18 March 2019The long-standing fair 'Salon du Dessin' remains at the core of the annual works on paper events in the French capital.
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Major selection of German Expressionist works come to auction in New York
28 February 2019Swann Auction Galleries is to sell a major selection of German Expressionist works from one of the movement’s most important collections next week.
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Dutch royal family Rubens drawing sets $7m auction record
30 January 2019A sketch by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) that formerly belonged to the Dutch King William II and his wife Anna Pavlovna has set an auction record for a drawing by the artist at Sotheby’s New York.
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Five features of Forum Auctions’ upcoming two-day sale
22 January 2019South London’s Forum Auctions will hold its latest sales in its usual venue of The Westbury Hotel in central London with highlights including a Lowry pencil on paper and a rare lithographic poster for the legendary ocean liner SS Normandie.
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Thirty dealers gather in the Big Apple for Master Drawings New York 2019
14 January 2019'Master Drawings New York', the gallery-based event in Manhattan Upper East side started 13 years ago, timed to coincide with the major January/February auctions of Old Master paintings and drawings in the Big Apple.
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Highlights of New York drawings auctions include single-owner lots with provenance to Dutch king
14 January 2019For many years New York’s major salerooms mounted auction series of Old Master paintings, drawings and sculpture in the first months of the year immediately following their Americana series.
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Lucas van Leyden drawing from Rugby School’s historic collection leads Old Master auction series in London
07 December 2018The highlight of the latest series of Old Master auctions in London was not a painting this time round but a rare work on paper by an enigmatic draughtsman.
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Tajan to offer Leonardo drawing after ‘national treasure’ deadline expires
14 November 2018French auction house Tajan has announced a date next year for the sale of the Leonardo da Vinci drawing that it discovered in 2016.
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Leon Kossoff's view of King's Cross appears at Sydney sale
12 November 2018A London scene by an important Modern British painter will be offered at Deutscher and Hackett in Sydney on November 28.
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Ballet designs take the stage at Abbott and Holder
05 November 2018Yolanda Sonnabend’s (1935-2015) costume and stage designs helped revolutionise the look of British ballet.
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Airfix artwork brings bidding at specialist toy auction house
24 September 2018For most enthusiasts of Airfix’s plastic construction kits, it was the company’s dramatic box artwork that caught the eye when choosing the next model to make.
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Sickert strikes a Venetian portrait pose
27 August 2018The setting for this near-monochrome self-portrait, below, by Walter Sickert (1860-1942) is the Campo SS Giovanni e Paolo in Venice and shows the equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni and the Scuola Grande di San Marco.
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'Hundred Acre Wood' map leads way to book illustration auction record
16 July 2018The original drawing of the map of Winnie-the-Pooh’s 'Hundred Acre Wood' sold for £350,000 (plus 25/20/12% buyer’s premium) at Sotheby’s sale of English Literature, History, Science, Children’s Books and Illustration on July 9-10.
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Record set for Sir Quentin Blake illustration as 40-year collection sells at auction
13 July 2018Watercolours and drawings from the personal collection of artist Sir Quentin Blake (b. 1932) have been sold at Christie’s for over £750,000.
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Poignant wartime sketches by Artists Rifles member who was killed at Passchendaele
09 July 2018It has been described as perhaps the most curious regiment in the British Army, but the well-known names associated with the Artists Rifles were certainly not obscure.
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Henry Moore’s hands grip bidders in Glasgow
02 July 2018Like many artists, hands held a strong fascination for British sculptor Henry Moore (1898-1986), and he came back to the subject numerous times in his career.
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Case study: a trip to Paris with Giacometti
25 June 2018No two jobs are the same for the art shippers offering a bespoke service at the top end.
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Henri Matisse drawing of Bloomsbury hostess fetches £2.6m at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern art auction
20 June 2018A charcoal portrait by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) of the writer and Bloomsbury hostess Mary Hutchinson was knocked down at £2.6m at Sotheby’s latest Impressionist & Modern Art evening sale in London.
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Well-known map featured on endpapers of Winnie-the-Pooh returns to auction after nearly 50 years
11 June 2018It was in December 2014 that Sotheby’s put an estimate of £100,000-150,000 on what it called at the time “probably the most famous and evocative illustration of the 20th century”.
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