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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Giacometti drawings emerge from the dust
14 August 2017Cheffins of Cambridge is offering two drawings by Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) at auction on October 12.
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Pop art pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi's study for London Tube station mosaic offered at Edinburgh auction
27 July 2017When London’s Tottenham Court Road Underground station started its £400m refurb, one of the trickiest tasks was not the tracks, the signals, ticket office or any of the usual suspects. Instead, it was tackling 950 square metres of mosaics designed by one of the most celebrated of 20th century British artists.
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Getty Museum chooses Old Master drawings for biggest-ever acquisition
24 July 2017Los Angeles’ J Paul Getty Museum has bought 16 Old Master drawings in its largest-ever purchase by value.
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Cartoonist auction price shows Max effect
24 July 2017This work above by the popular cartoonist Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) was a highlight of Mallams’ library sale on June 21.
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Children’s classics in the Vienna Secession avant garde
24 July 2017A superb suite of the original ink and gouache drawings – one shown here – made by Carl Otto Czeschka to illustrate a 1908 edition of Die Niebelungen dem Deutschen Volke sold at $290,000 (£224,805) in a Sotheby’s New York (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) sale of June 6 called Important Design.
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Canaletto creates a Venetian crowning glory
17 July 2017A record-breaking Canaletto (1697-1768) drawing was the toast of the capital’s Old Masters drawings sales.
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Government issues export bar for 18th century waterfall drawing in hope of finding UK buyer
03 July 2017The department of culture, media and sport has issued an export bar on an 18th century drawing of Schmadribach Waterfall by Austrian Romantic artist Joseph Anton Koch (1768-1839) and launched a search for a UK buyer to match the asking price of £68,750.
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Girl power fuels demand for drawing and etching in Kent
03 July 2017Exactly a week before Harry Rutherford’s ‘Camden Town’ painting sold in London (see separate Art Market story this edition), a small undated sketch, Female Nude, by his prolific mentor and tutor Walter Sickert (1860-1942) cropped up in Kent.
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Ruff black and white work adds colour to St James’s
26 June 2017Karen Taylor Fine Art’s exhibition of British drawings, watercolours and oils takes place from 30 June-July 7 at Illustrationcupboard Gallery in St James’s.
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Pick of the Week: Sir Peter Lely’s young girl in high demand
19 June 2017An enticingly estimated drawing by the 17th century English court portraitist Sir Peter Lely offered for sale in a French provincial auction drew a flurry of attention from English trade and private bidders last week. It was propelled to over 20-times its estimate.
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Paris exhibition focuses on André Maire’s take on ‘cultural’ Vietnam
19 June 2017A selection of drawings by the French painter-explorer André Maire (1898-1984) comes to the Dumonteil Gallery in Paris for the exhibition Indochina, Meeting Men and Gods.
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Sir Peter Lely drawing surfaces in Nantes
05 June 2017This drawing of a young girl by the Dutch-born artist Sir Peter Lely (1618-80), who was official portrait painter to the English court, features in a sale at Ivoire Nantes on June 13.
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Bavarian’s views of Dickensian London from Ephemera Society dealer
22 May 2017A sketchbook by the Bavarian artist Georg Johann Scharf (1788-1860) was discovered recently by ephemera dealer Valerie Jackson-Harris at the Sunbury Antiques Market at Kempton Park.
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Bonhams hosts exhibition of Erté’s designs from Glyndebourne Opera
13 May 2017Set and costume designs by artist Erté for the 1980 Glyndebourne Opera production of 'Der Rosenkavalier' are to go on display at auction house Bonhams this month.
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Previews: £30,000 plus
08 May 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
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Francis Picabia female figure sketch on offer in Madrid
08 May 2017Francis Picabia (1879-1953) famously declared that he wanted to change his ideas “as often as one would change one’s shirt”, and he embraced many different artistic styles throughout his life.
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Scarfe savages all before him with 130 works at auction
08 May 2017More than 130 original artworks by the artist, sometimes savage political cartoonist and stage designer, Gerald Scarfe, were offered by Sotheby’s (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) on April 5.
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The burgeoning market for original 19th and 20th century illustrations
02 May 2017From Arthur Rackham to Gerald Scarfe, there is a burgeoning market for original illustration art of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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William Heath Robinson and the art of illustration
02 May 2017The name of William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) is enshrined in the Oxford English Dictionary. Definition: “Ingeniously or ridiculously over-complicated in design or construction”.
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Having a laugh down at the private London club artwork sale
24 April 2017Nearly a quarter of the sale total at the auction held by Harry Moore-Gwyn at 25 Blythe Road (20% buyer’s premium) in West Kensington on April 5 came from a collection of original cartoons.
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