Sonia Robinson RSMA SWA

Sonia Robinson RSMA SWA - 20th Century Gouache, White Houses, Pont-Croix

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A delightful watercolour painting with gouache details by the artist Baragwanath King, depicting a morning woodland scene. Presented in a double card mount and gilt effect frame. Sig...

A superb mid 20th century painting by the highly acclaimed British artist Rowland Suddaby, depicting a fine winter landscape with barren trees and melting snow. The sky is filled with snow clouds...

Unsigned. On wove.

An interesting mid 20th century gouache with watercolour wash by listed artist Laurence H.F. Irving. Here he has captured an unusual landscape with a scap tip and male figure lookin...

Bright gouache highlights bring this delicate watercolour study of a spring woodland to life. The artwork is signed and dated in the lower right-hand corner and is well presented in ...

A fine charcoal and gouache, mid Century street scene showing a shady Italiante arcade with sunlight falling brightly on the shop fronts oppos...

Singed (at lower left): Jane Peterson

Charles Burchfield 1893-1967 Trilliums and Rock Ledge, 1919 Gouache and watercolor on paper Provenance: The artist until at least 1963 Private collection, New York Private Collectio...

Charles Burchfield, 1893-1967 Wallpaper Design No.2, 1922-28 Watercolor and gouache on paper

"Three Pyramids + Blue Ball" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right, "Calder 73”. Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alexander Calder started his artistic career as an abstract painter, preferring to use gouache. What is gouache? Gouache is a water-soluble paint – a type of opaque watercolor. As Calder returned to gouache painting towards the end of his life, he was now armed with a lifetime of experience as a sculptor. He explored the three-dimensional vocabulary of sculptural forms he had developed onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper. Certain shapes and colors recur throughout his gouaches and sculptures. Circles, ovals, and other geometric forms dominate the space. There is the same sense of energy and fluidity. The shapes do not sit on the surface but vibrate giving a feeling of movement in contrast to the static nature of painting. Like his sculpture, Calder’s gouache...

La Baie des Anges a Nice et le Casino is a lovely gouache on paper from 1928. The work is fully authenticated by Fanny Guillon-Laffaille and is listed in the Raoul Dufy Catalogue Rai...

FRANÇOIS MATHURIN ADALBERT, BARON DE COURCY (1805-1839) 'Le Negrito à l’ancre. Dans le port de la havanne' Indistinctly signed lower left Titled on the mount Pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, on paper, 24.8 x 34.6 cm Literature: The present watercolour will be illustrated in: - Prof. Manuel Garcia’s projected book on the disease and the slave trade provisionally titled “Fighting the Yellow Demon of Fever: The Struggle against Disease in the Illegal Slave Trade”. - Prof. Micael Zeuske’s forthcoming Global history of slave trade. Exhibited: Mexico City, 1998, Palacio Virreinal, El Barón de Courcy, illustrationes de un viaje, 1831-1833, no. 108 Note: Baron de Courcy was in the Caribbean in late 1832 and early 1833, following his tour of Mexico in 1832, on the last leg of his “Grand Voyage...