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Style: Modern
Medium: Watercolor
Portrait - Drawing - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an Ink, pastel and Watercolor realized by an artist of 18th Century. Good condition on a grey paper, included a brown cardboard passpartout. No signature.
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18th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Pastel, Watercolor

Trout stream in Oxfordshire
Located in Harkstead, GB
A lovely vibrant watercolour capturing a shimmering English river John Newberry (born 1934) Stream at Wytham, Oxford Signed Watercolour 4¼ x 5¾ inches unframed 9 x 11 inches with fr...
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1990s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

The Game of Sticks - Pencil Drawing - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
The Game of Sticks is a drawing in pencil and watercolor realized by an anonymous artist in the 1750s. Good Conditions. The artwork is represented through deft brushstrokes by del...
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1750s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Watercolor

Cityscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Cityscape is a Pencil and Watercolour Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition. No signature. Reynold Arnould was born in Le Havre, Franc...
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1970s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil, Watercolor

The Horseman - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The Horseman is an original drawing realized by Mino Maccari in the 1960s. Ink and watercolor on paper. Monogrammed in the lower left margin and numbered edition above , 33. Fre...
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1960s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Gerald Mackenzie Leet - A Day at the Seaside - Design for a Mural
Located in London, GB
GERALD MACKENZIE LEET (BRITISH 1913-1998) A Day at the Seaside – Design for a Mural Watercolour and gouache over pencil, arched top Framed 26.5 by 49.5 cm., 10 ½ by 19 ½ in. (frame size 47.5 by 69.5 cm., 18 ¾ by 27 ½ in.) Provenance: The artist’s estate; Harry Moore-Gwyn Fine Art. Gerald Leet was born in South London and studied at Goldsmiths’ School of Art 1929-1934, the Royal Academy of Art 1934-1937 and later at the Courtauld Institute. As a young man he shared a studio with Carel Weight. His first teaching appointment at Ealing School of Art in 1933 where he met fellow art student Denton...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Portrait - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a Watercolor and color Markes Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (49x35 cm). No si...
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1970s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Permanent Marker, Watercolor, Paper

Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a Watercolor Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (70x51 cm). Hand-signed on the l...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a Watercolour artwork realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980) in 1960. Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (35x51 cm). Hand-signed...
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1960s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a Watercolour artwork realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition on a yellow cardboard. No signature. Reynold Arnould was born in Le H...
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1970s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Sicilian Cart - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Sicilian Cart is a Watercolour and Pastel Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (32.5x49 cm). n...
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1970s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pastel, Paper

Watercolor Painting Road Signs, Load Limit, Aaron Bohrod WPA Artist Chicago Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Aaron Bohrod (1907-1992) Listed Wisconsin WPA American Artist Original Watercolor Painting Hand signed "Load Limit Bridge" Dimensions: 24"x18" inches Aaron Bohrod (1907 – 1992) was an American artist best known for his trompe-l'œil still-life paintings. This one presages Pop Art with its depiction of road signs. Bohrod was born in Chicago in 1907, the son of an emigree Bessarabian-Jewish grocer. Bohrod studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York between 1926 and 1930. While at the Art Students League, Bohrod was influenced by John Sloan and chose themes that involved his own surroundings. He returned to Chicago in 1930 where he painted views of the city and its working class. During the Great Depression, Schwartz became an artist on the Federal Art Project (WPA) payroll painting murals. He was one of the seven WPA artists who contributed to a mural at Riccardo's, Schwartz (Music), Malvin Albright (Sculpture), Ivan Albright (Drama), Aaron Bohrod (Architecture), Rudolph Weisenborn (Literature), Vincent D’Agostino (Painting), and Ric Riccardo (Dance). Many well known Jewish and Immigrant artists worked for the Federal Art's Project (the New Deal) commonly referred to as the WPA, including Berenice Abbott, William Baziotes, William Gropper, Ilya Bolotowsky, Stuart Davis, Adolf Dehn, Ben Shahn and Louis Schanker. In 2002 Chicago philanthropist Seymour H. Persky acquired the murals for his personal collection. He eventually earned a Guggenheim Fellowships which permitted him to travel throughout the country, painting and recording the American scene. His early work won him widespread praise as an important social realist and regional painter and printmaker and his work was marketed through Associated American Artists in New York. Bohrod completed three commissioned murals for the Treasury Departments Section of Fine Arts in Illinois; Vandalia in 1935, Galesburg in 1938 and Clinton in 1939. During World War II, Bohrod worked as an artist; first in the Pacific for the United States Army Corps of Engineers' War Art Unit...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

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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1930s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Jacques Thevenet (1891-1989) Portrait of a man in the studio, signed Gouache
Located in Paris, FR
Jacques Thevenet (1891-1989) Portrait of a man in the studio Gouache on paper Signed lower right 64 x 49 cm Framed 77 x 62 cm, some damages to the frame as visible on the photographs Jacques Thévenet was born in Montquinon 17 October 1891, in the family’s ancestral home, built by his great grand-father, Auguste Hugues Claude Thévenet, lawyer from Château-Chinon. He had 3 sisters and lost his mother in 1895 when he was only four. His father Louis moved the family to Paris where he run a law practice. Young Jacques studied at the Lycée Carnot and later attended the École de droit of the Sorbonne University. Simultaneously, he attended the Académie Julian, with several painters such as Amédée de la Patellière, Jean Crotti...
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1960s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a Watercolor realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (51x66 cm). Hand-signed on the lower rig...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Large Watercolor Painting John Groth, Men Wrestling, Esquire Magazine WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
John August Groth (American, 1908-1988) "Wrestling Match," Watercolor painting, hand signed upper right and inscribed upper left, "Las Palmas Canary Islands Lucha Canary Wrestling". Framed Size: 21'' x 29'', 53 x 74 cm (sight); 28.5'' x 36.25'', 72 x 92 cm (frame). Depiction of a wrestling match in a city square. John August Groth (1908 - 1988) was an illustrator and art teacher. He gained recognition as a war correspondent-illustrator. He studies at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Art Students League with Todros Geller, Robert Brackman, Arnold Blanch and George Grosz. He was a member: Society of American Etchers; American Newspaper Guild; Society of Illustrators; Associate Member of the National Academy of Design; American Water Color Society. Positions : Art Director at Esquire 1933 - 1937, Parade Publications 1941 - 1944; War Correspondent for Chicago Sun 1944; American Legion Magazine 1945; Artist-Correspondent in Vietnam 1967.Teacher at Art Students LeagueHe was the first art director of Esquire Magazine and taught at the Art Students League, the Pratt Institute, and the Parsons School of Design. In 1940, he was included in an exhibition at MOMA, titled, "PM Competition: The Artist as Reporter." The exhibition included Philip Guston, Reginald Marsh, John Tworkov, John Heliker, Adolf Dehn, and Chet La More. Groth began sketching intently during the Great Depression after studying at the Art Institute of Chicago. Following the advice of an editor, he penned 100 sketches a day for years. He learned to increase his speed by listening to sports on the radio and sketching the action as fast as he could. "I would listen to the games on the radio at night, and sketch the plays. It made me very quick." His break came when Arnold Gingrich, an editor for Esquire magazine, approached him at an art show in Chicago and offered him a position. "The way (Arnold Gingrich) told it," John Groth says, "he found this barefoot, bearded kid in the park, and the next day made him art director of the world's leading men's fashion magazine. But I swear I was wearing shoes." Groth went on to work as a correspondent and illustrator for the Chicago Sun, Collier's, Sports Illustrated, and The Saturday Evening Post. He developed a passion for war zones. He covered six different wars and was one of the first correspondents in Paris after its liberation. "It is only at war that I feel complete... There, you meet all sort of men -- farmers, mechanics, college professors. It rains on them and it rains on you. The shells burst in the air, and you are there, too." He would make a splash when he beat out friend and rival, Ernest Hemingway, into Paris in 1944. Hemingway was writing for the Chicago Tribune and Groth for the Chicago Sun. Groth was in the first jeep into Paris and got the scoop. His headline read, "Yanks are in Paris!" Hemingway would later write about Groth's technique. “None of us understood the sort of shorthand he sketched in. The men would look at the sketches and see just a lot of lines. It was a great pleasure to find what fine drawings they were when we got to see them. Groth went on to illustrate such classic books as: A Christmas Carol, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Grapes of Wrath, The War Prayer, and Gone with the Wind. Deborah Churchman described Groth's work in a 1980 Washington Post article: "Groth's pictures center on the day-to-day life of people caught in terrifying circumstances -- armies occupying cities, soldiers sweeping roads for land mines, bullfighters facing death." Bernie Schonfeld, a photographer for Life Magazine said of Groth, "John is one of the gentlest people in the world, and he always gets himself into the wildest hell hole." He joined the First Congress of American Artists Against War and Fascism in 1936, along with Stuart Davis, Peter Blume...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a Watercolor artwork realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980) in 1960. Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (35x51 cm). Hand-signed ...
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1960s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Cityscape is a Watercolor artwork realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (35x49.5 cm). Signature and date...
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1970s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Portrait - Drawing by Albert Fernand-Renault - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Fernand Renault in the early 20th Century Pencil and watercolor on paper. Stamped signed. Good Conditions with aged margins. The artwork is rea...
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1950s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pencil

Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a black Marker Drawing and Watercolour realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition on a little white paper. No signature, dated on the l...
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1970s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Paper

Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1979
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a China Ink Drawing and Watercolour realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition on a cream colored paper. ...
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1970s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink, Paper

Flowers - Drawing by Albert Fernand-Renault - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a drawing realized in 1950s by Albert Fernand-Renault. Watercolour and ink on paper. Hand-signed. Good condition with diffused foxing and a cutting at the top left margi...
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1950s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

Seascape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Seascape is a Watercolour and Color Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition on a sheet of notebook. No signature. Reynold Arnould...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Paper

Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a Gouache on paper realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (54x37.5 cm). Hand-signed by the ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Paper

Nude Woman - Drawing by Jean Chapin- 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is a watercolor and ink drawing realized by Jean Chapin in the 1950s. Signature stamp on the yellowed paper. Good condition, except for folding on the margins and small ...
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1950s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Kiev - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Kiev is a Watercolour and Color Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition and vivid colors on a sheet of a notebook. No Signature, ...
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1970s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Permanent Marker, Watercolor, Paper

Cityscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1979
Located in Roma, IT
Cityscape is a China Ink Drawing and Watercolor realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition on a cream colored paper. No signature, titled and dated ...
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1970s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor, Paper

Staunton Harold organ restoration architectural design by Louis Osman FRIBA
Located in London, GB
Louis Osman was an English artist, architect, goldsmith, silversmith and medallist. He is notable for the gold coronet he designed and made for the investiture in 1969 of Charles, Prince of Wales. We have acquired a large archive of Osman's works form his daughter; to see the other Osman works available, please scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Louis Osman (1914 - 1996) Staunton Harold: Restoration of the Organ (1953) Pen, ink, and watercolour 63 x 63 cm Titled below, signed lower right, and labelled in Osman's hand. Osman's architectural design for the restoration of the organ at Staunton Harold Church, part of the Staunton Harold estate. The church, known as the Chapel of the Holy Trinity, is a 1653-built Gothic chapel. It was commissioned by Sir Robert Shirley (the Shirley family were Anglicans and Royalists, and the ornate design of the church is likely why Sir Robert was imprisoned under Oliver Cromwell). Osman was as much an artist as an architect. He studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture; he was awarded a First Class degree and the Donaldson Medal of the RIBA (for the best result in his year group), and then went on to the Slade School of Art. He subsequently trained with Sir Albert Richardson - we also have several Richardson works in our collection. After the war, Osman busied himself as an architect. His work included contributions to Westminster Abbey, and Lincoln, Exeter, Ely, and Lichfield Cathedrals, Staunton Harold Church in Ashby de la Zouch for the National Trust, and of course his folly: the Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house, Canons Ashby in Northamptonshire, now a National Trust property. At Canons Ashby he established a workshop and had a team of silversmiths and goldsmiths working for him. In 1976 he made the gold enamelled casket that holds the copy of the Magna Carta...
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1950s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink, Pen

1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Figures Down By The Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Figures by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original gouache on card size: 10.5 x 13 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Mid- Century Fashion Illustration - Neiman Marcus ?
By Marjorie Ullberg
Located in Miami, FL
1950's elegant fashion models pose depicted for a designer clothing line for a major San Francisco department store - Perhaps Neiman Marcus. Estate ...
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1950s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pencil

How About a Little More Coffee, New Yorker Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
Interpretation 1: An utterly exhausted man collapses face-first into a diner's countertop. His face and the countertop become one. Seemingly oblivious to the acute nature of the man's condition, the night server gleefully offers him coffee instead of more appropriate help. Interpretation 2: The night server/psycho killer pours unsuspecting customer poisoned coffee and then taunts his lifeless body in a victorious tone. Like Charles Addams...
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1990s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

The Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait is a watercolor Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower in pencil. Good condition. The artwork is represented through confident deft and expressive strokes with a harmonious brownish tones. Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Italian writer, painter, engraver, and journalist, winner the Feltrinelli Prize for painting on 1963. For his pictorial work rich in evident chromatic accentuations and quick brushstrokes, the violent drawing combined with the living line of the graphic sign...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Edward Ardizzone, Bar scene, original drawing
By Edward Ardizzone
Located in Harkstead, GB
A superb original illustration from one of the foremost illustrators of the 20th Century. Edward Ardizzone (1900 - 1979) The barmaid Signed, gallery label verso Pen, ink and waterco...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Pen, Paper, Watercolor

Class Struggle - Fay the Maid Dusts Henry Moore - New Yorker Magazine?
Located in Miami, FL
Mary Petty gained fame as a cover artist for The New Yorker, illustrating a fictional upper-class Manhattan family called the Peabodys. One of the main char...
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1940s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

The Smith - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Smith is an original drawing in pencil and watercolor realized by Rémy Hetreau in the mid-20th Century. In good conditions. The artwork is presented through expressive and deft...
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Early 20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Watercolor

Rare Chaim Gross Watercolor Painting Manhattan Skyscrapers Train NYC WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
This appears to be dated 1927. It came in with a piece dated 1929. A very early, rare work. Framed 22.5 x 18. Image 14.5 x 9 A great New York city street scene with an El train (elevated subway line) and architectural renderings of buildings. This is a wonderful piece by one of America's most treasured artists, Chaim Gross. Throughout his lifetime Gross has gone through tragedy and a real test of faith however, he has the unique ability to focus and direct his expression to the most joyful and beautiful works of art, such as the present lot. For more than sixty years Chaim Gross's art has expressed optimistic, affirming themes. His acrobats, cyclists, and mothers and children convey joyfulness, exuberance, love, and intimacy. This aspect of his work remained consistent with his Hasidic heritage, which teaches that "only in his childlike happiness is man nearest to God." He often used his creative abilities to explore and experiment with media. In his artwork he retains an optimistic philosophy, even when facing somber issues such as war, depression, and the Holocaust. Chaim Gross (March 17, 1904 – May 5, 1991) was an American sculptor and educator. Gross was born to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa (now known as Mezhgorye, Ukraine), in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia (which was annexed into the Ukrainian USSR in 1939 and became part of newly independent Ukraine in 1991). When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest to join their older siblings Sarah and Pinkas. Gross applied to and was accepted by the art academy in Budapest and studied under the painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, Austria shortly before immigrating to the United States in 1921. Gross's studies continued in the United States at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League of New York, with Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky, at the same time as Moses Soyer and Peter Blume. In 1926 Gross began teaching at The Educational Alliance, and continued teaching there for the next 50 years. Louise Nevelson was among his students at the Alliance (in 1934), during the time she was transitioning from painting to sculpture. In the late 1920s and early 1930s he exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club. In 1929, Gross experimented with printmaking, and created an important group of 15 linocuts and lithographs of landscapes, New York City streets and parks, women in interiors, the circus, and vaudeville. The entire suite is now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gross returned to the medium of printmaking in the 1960s, and produced approximately 200 works in the medium over the next two decades. In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. For a short time they represented Gross, as well as his friends Milton Avery, Moses Soyer, Ahron Ben-Shmuel and others. Gross was primarily a practitioner of the direct carving method, with the majority of his work being carved from wood. Other direct carvers in early 20th-century American art include William Zorach, Jose de Creeft, and Robert Laurent. Works by Chaim Gross can be found in major museums and private collections throughout the United States, with substantial holdings (27 sculptures) at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A key work from this era, now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is the 1932 birds-eye maple Acrobatic Performers, which is also only one and one quarter inch thick. In 1933 Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration), which Gross worked for later in the 1930s. Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures that were placed in schools and public colleges, made work for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the Exposition universelle de 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, with a purchase prize at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Artists for Victory" exhibition for his wood sculpture of famed circus performer Lillian Leitzel. In 1949 Gross sketched Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel, at several functions in New York City where Weizmann was speaking, Gross completed the bust in bronze later that year. Gross returned to Israel for three months in 1951 (the second of many trips there in the postwar years) to paint a series of 40 watercolors of life in various cities. This series was exhibited at the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) in 1953. In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. At the end of the decade Gross was working primarily in bronze which allowed him to create open forms, large-scale works and of course, multiple casts. Gross's large-scale bronze The Family, donated to New York City in 1991 in honor of Mayor Ed Koch, and installed at the Bleecker Street Park at 11th street, is now a fixture of Greenwich Village. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African sculpture, formed since the late 1930s, was exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum in the show The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross. Gross was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1981. In 1984, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, with Jacob Lawrence and Lukas Foss. In the fall of 1991, Allen Ginsberg gave an important tribute to Gross at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is published in their Proceedings. In 1994, Forum Gallery, which now represents the Chaim Gross estate, held a memorial exhibition featuring a sixty-year survey of Gross's work. Gross was a professor of printmaking and sculpture at both the Educational Alliance and the New School for Social Research in New York City, as well as at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the MoMA art school, the Art Student's League and the New Art School (which Gross ran briefly with Alexander Dobkin...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

In the Land of the Cat - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
In the Land of the Cat is a Pencil Drawing and watercolour realized by Mino Maccari in 1950s. Good condition, no signature, titled on the centre of the artwork in italian language. ...
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1950s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

1950's Modernist Painting - Portrait Of Figure On Gold
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Gold Man by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century), stamped verso original watercolour/gouache painting on paper overall size: 111.75 x 8.5 inches condition: very good and ready to...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Watercolor

1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Blue Watercolor Knight and Horse Statue
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original gouache on paper size: 13.75 x 10.5 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: the artists ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Heavy Hauler - Mid-Century Illustration - Children's Books
Located in Miami, FL
Art Seiden was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1923. He received a BA at Queens College and studied for eight years (!) at the Art Students League. Mario Cooper was among his instructors. Up...
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1950s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pencil

Portrait of Man - Drawing - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Man is an original drawing, pencil, charcoal, watercolor on paper, realized by Albert Decaris in the mid-20th Century. Good conditions.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Charcoal, Pencil

View of the City of Vienna - Watercolor Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View of the City of Vienna is an original modern artwork realized by Viennese Artist in 1900 ca. Mixed colored Watercolor on paper. Signed bottom right by the artist. Includes fra...
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Early 20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

The Garden Of Eden - Pencil and Watercolor Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Garden Of Eden is a Drawing in watercolor and pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by Gustave Bourgogne in the early 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork has represente...
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Early 20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Watercolor

Lady with Flower
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "E.JB." at lower right 21 7/8 x 17 inches including frame
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1920s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Nude - Drawing by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a drawing in watercolor and ink realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). Good conditions except for folding and cuts and missing piece of paper due to ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

The Couple
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "EJB." at lower right 21 3/4 x 17 inches including frame
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1920s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

French Landscape - Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
"French Landscape" is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). Hand-signed on the lower right. The state of preservation o...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Nude - Drawing by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a drawing in watercolor realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). Good conditions with minor folding. The artwork is realiz...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Landscape - Drawing in Ink and Watercolor - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a Ink and Watercolour on Fabric realized by a Chinese Painter in early 20th century. Good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (19x22 cm). No signature.
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Early 20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

1940's Americana WPA Modernist Watercolor Painting Catskill Mountains Bungalow
Located in Surfside, FL
Bungalow (fauvist painting of New York scene) 1940's. image is 10X 11.5 inches. Hand signed lower right Country Scene Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA artist known for abstract, landscape and seascape paintings. Arrived in the USA from Hungary in 1921 and settled in New York City where he studied at the Art Students League. Grunvald worked for the Federal Art Project, taught at Colony House in NYC. Member: Art Guild, Watercolor Society, New York Watercolor Club. exhibited at Montross Gallery, NYC, World House Galleries, NYC, Leonard Hutton Gallery, NYC, Associated American Artists Gallery and the A.C.A. Gallery. Gunvald's work spanned many modern American movements from the WPA to Abstract Expressionist painting. He was a member of the American Watercolor Society and the Brooklyn Society of Artists. He exhibited with both of these organizations and at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He was involved the the WPA being a Federal Arts Project artist. A number of prominent Jewish artists participated in this New Deal program among them Ben Shahn, Joseph Solman, William Gropper, Philip Guston Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Ben Shahn, the Soyers (Isaac, Moses, and Raphael), and many others Grunwald exhibited alongside other popular artists such as Paul Klee, Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Charles Burchfield. He also taught and lectured on art and easel painting, Federal Art Project, NYC. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Jewish Museum, New York. Americana. The Catskills became a major resort destination for Jewish New Yorkers in the mid-20th century. Borscht Belt is an informal term for the summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in Sullivan and Ulster counties in upstate New York which were frequented by Ashkenazi Jews. At its peak of popularity, about 500 resorts operated in the region. Later changes in vacationing patterns have led most of those travelers elsewhere, although there are still bungalow communities and summer camps in the towns of Liberty, Bethel, Monticello and Fallsburg catering to Orthodox Jewish populations. Borscht Belt, The term, which derives from the name of a beet soup popular with people of Eastern European origin, can also refer to the Catskill region itself. In August, 1969, the Catskills were the site of a music and art festival in the town of Bethel, which had originally been planned for Woodstock, New York. Thirty-three of the best-known musicians of the era appeared during a sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers. The event, featuring liberal drug use and nudity, exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. Select Exhibitions A.C.A. Gallery Associated American Artists Gallery, 1936-1955 American Watercolor Society, 1932-1942 New York Watercolor Club, 1935-1937 Humanist Art...
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1940s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Rural Landscape with Cow - Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Rural Landscape with Cow is an artwork, ink, charcoal and watercolor on paper. Is not signed and dated but we can attribute the period middle 20th Century. The work is represented ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor, Charcoal

The Couple
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "EJB" at lower left 21 13/16 x 17 inches including frame
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1920s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Odalisque, Watercolour of a Female Nude
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th Century watercolour on paper of a naked female figure before an open window. Signed bottom right but as yet not deciphered. Presented in carved, white painted wood frame. ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Two Chinese Paintings of Woman with Cats in a Common Frame
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Intriguing pair of modern Chinese paintings executed with gouache on paper in a distinctive colorful naive Asian style depicting women with cat...
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20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Fisherman - Drawing in Ink and Watercolor - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Fisherman is an Ink and Watercolor realized by a Chinese Painter in early 20th century. Good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (17x24 cm). No signature.
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Early 20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

Love - Drawing by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Love is a drawing in watercolor and pastel realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). Good conditions with minor folding. The artwork is realized in harmonious ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pastel, Paper

Soviet Union pro-Lenin Marxist Bulgarian propaganda poster design
Located in London, GB
To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Bulgarian pro-natalist propaganda poster design (circa 1950s) Gouache on board 20 x 11.5 cm After a Communist takeover in 1945, Bulgaria was a Soviet ally during the Cold War, and maintained good relationships with Russia until the Revolutions of 1989. From 1945 to 1948, the country became entrenched within the Soviet sphere of influence...
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20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Board, Gouache

Soviet Union socialist irrigation Bulgarian propaganda poster design
Located in London, GB
To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Soviet Union socialist irrigation Bulgarian propaganda poster design (circa 1950s) Gouache on board 18 x 11 cm After a Communist takeover in 1945, Bulgaria was a Soviet ally during the Cold War, and maintained good relationships with Russia until the Revolutions of 1989. From 1945 to 1948, the country became entrenched within the Soviet sphere of influence under the control of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) which oversaw a program of Stalinization in the late 1940s and 1950s. Both countries are Slavic nations, and are bound together by a common Orthodox Christian...
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20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Board, Gouache

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