Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Jean PONS (1913-2005) Sans titre, circa 1950 Fusain et crayon noir sur papier Monogrammé “JP” en bas à droite 27 x 33 cm Cadre : 40 x 50 cm Painter and lithographer born in Paris in...

ink and pastel on paper

Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (1859-1938) A zither player carbon pencil on thin paper 8.5 x 3.3 cm In good condition Framed : 35 x 24 cm Provenance: Estate of the artist and by Inher...

Eileen Lake Crayon on paper, early1930's Initialed in pencil lower right (see photo) Titled and annotated verso "Eileen Lake, early 1930s girlfriend" Note: Eileen Hall Lake was an American poet and Adolf Dehn's girlfriend in the early 1930s. Provenance: Estate of the artist By descent Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968 Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art. In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art. If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques. Early Years, 1895-1922 For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs. In many ways Dehn’s later artistic achievement was clearly a reaction against the grinding rural poverty of his childhood. After graduating from high school in 1914 at the age of 19—an age not unusual in farming communities at the time, where school attendance was often irregular—Dehn attended the Minneapolis School of Art from 1914 to 1917, whose character followed strongly reflected that of its director, Munich-trained Robert Kohler, an artistic conservative but a social radical. There Dehn joined a group of students who went on to nationally significant careers, including Wanda Gag (later author of best-selling children’s books); John Flanagan (a sculptor notable for his use of direct carving) Harry Gottlieb (a notable social realist and member of the Woodstock Art Colony), Elizabeth Olds (a printmaker and administrator for the WPA), Arnold Blanch (landscape, still-life and figure painter, and member of the Woodstock group), Lucille Lunquist, later Lucille Blanch (also a gifted painter and founder of the Woodstock art colony), and Johan Egilrud (who stayed in Minneapolis and became a journalist and poet). Adolf became particularly close to Wanda Gag (1893-1946), with whom he established an intense but platonic relationship. Two years older than he, Gag was the daughter of a Bohemian artist and decorator, Anton Gag, who had died in 1908. After her husband died, Wanda’s mother, Lizzi Gag, became a helpless invalid, so Wanda was entrusted with the task of raising and financially supporting her six younger siblings. This endowed her with toughness and an independent streak, but nonetheless, when she met Dehn, Wanda was Victorian and conventional in her artistic taste and social values. Dehn was more socially radical, and introduced her to radical ideas about politics and free love, as well as to socialist publications such as The Masses and The Appeal to Reason. Never very interested in oil painting, in Minneapolis Dehn focused on caricature and illustration--often of a humorous or politically radical character. In 1917 both Dehn and Wanda won scholarships to attend the Art Students League, and consequently, in the fall of that year both moved to New York. Dehn’s art education, however, ended in the summer of 1918, shortly after the United States entered World War I, when he was drafted to serve in the U. S. Army. Unwilling to fight, he applied for status as a conscientious objector, but was first imprisoned, then segregated in semi-imprisonment with other Pacifists, until the war ended. The abuse he suffered at this time may well explain his later withdrawal from taking political stands or making art of an overtly political nature. After his release from the army, Dehn returned to New York where he fell under the spell of the radical cartoonist Boardman Robinson and produced his first lithographs. He also finally consummated his sexual relationship with Wanda Gag. The Years in Europe: 1922-1929 In September of 1921, however, he abruptly departed for Europe, arriving in Paris and then moving on to Vienna. There in the winter of 1922 he fell in love with a Russian dancer, Mura Zipperovitch, ending his seven-year relationship with Wanda Gag. He and Mura were married in 1926. It was also in Vienna that he produced his first notable artistic work. Influenced by European artists such as Jules Pascin and Georg Grosz, Dehn began producing drawings of people in cafes, streets, and parks, which while mostly executed in his studio, were based on spontaneous life studies and have an expressive, sometimes almost childishly wandering quality of line. The mixture of sophistication and naiveté in these drawings was new to American audiences, as was the raciness of their subject matter, which often featured pleasure-seekers, prostitutes or scenes of sexual dalliance, presented with a strong element of caricature. Some of these drawings contain an element of social criticism, reminiscent of that found in the work of George Grosz, although Dehn’s work tended to focus on humorous commentary rather than savagely attacking his subjects or making a partisan political statement. Many Americans, including some who had originally been supporters of Dehn such as Boardman Robinson, were shocked by these European drawings, although George Grocz (who became a friend of the artist in this period) admired them, and recognized that Dehn could also bring a new vision to America subject matter. As he told Dehn: “You will do things in America which haven’t been done, which need to be done, which only you can do—as far at least as I know America.” A key factor in Dehn’s artistic evolution at this time was his association with Scofield Thayer...

Julien Leopold BOILLY Paris 1796-1874 Portrait of a man First third of the 19th century Pierre noire Signed on the right 23,5 x 17 cm 38 x 29 cm framed Small stains

Jacques GAMELIN Carcassone 1738-1803 Study after the triton of the Triumph of Galatea by Raphaël 1768 Black stone and light white chalk on blue paper Signed and dated lower right 41...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

figurative "Three-quarter standing naked " Indian ink and brushes on paper nude un nu hiératique, façon Maillol, dressé dans la splendeur des ses formes pleines contrastant étrangeme...

During heavy snowfall, snow-covered branches of bushes stick to the ground under the weight of snow. Sometimes small branches and trees are broken, although it would seem that the sn...

Wonderful figurative watercolor on Strathmore tinted paper by the well known Florida artist, Gerald “Jerry” Franklin McClish. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. The artwor...

This acrylic painting makes part of my series dedicated to the scenes of a summer period. This abstract vibrant floral painting called "Floral whirlwind" is done in a modern contemp...

figurative "Portrait of a woman, see from 3/4 " indian ink and brushes on paper 50x65cm a portrait in the Matisse tradition inspired by a woman proudly adorned with her jewels. Alway...

This piece is framed measuring 46 by 34 inches. Based in Carrollton, Georgia, Erin Dixon is a mixed media artist whose work bridges realism and surrealism. Her work is often heavily...

Paul Pagk Untitled Geometric Abstraction, 1989 Gouache and watercolor on paper Signed, dated and inscribed "A Jacqueline". Frame included Excellent unique work on paper by contempora...

Dovetail small 6 (Abstract drawing) Charcoal on paper - Unframed. "Paper dimensions: 23.7 x 19.7 inch / 60.2 x 50 cm Image's dimensions: 22.5 x 18.3 inch / 57.2 x 46.5 cm Neill cre...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

This original artwork on paper features the classic black pencil skirt, a quintessential fashion staple. Using paint and pencil, deliberate emphasis is placed on simplified compositi...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Ronald Maddox. English ( b.1930 - d.2018 ). Coast Path Towards Bats Head, Dorset, 1982. Watercolor. Signed. Image size 13.8 inches x 18.5 inches ( 35cm x 47cm ). Frame size 20.7 inches x 25 inches ( 52.5cm x 63.5cm ). Available for sale; this original painting is by the former long-standing President of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Ronald Maddox, and dates from 1980. The watercolor is presented and supplied in a sympathetic and contrasting contemporary frame to suit the subject coloration (which is shown in these photographs) and behind non-reflective Tru Vue UltraVue® UV70 glass. This vintage piece is in superb condition. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display. The watercolor is signed lower right. Provenance: The painting was exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours at The Mall Galleries at 17 Carlton Terrace, SW.1, London in 1980. The exhibition label from the previous backboard of the painting has been retained and affixed to the rear of the new backboard. Ronald Maddox was an accomplished and successful British artist, designer and illustrator. He was born in Purley, Surrey and studied at St. Albans School of Art from 1945 to 1948. He then served with the Air Ministry Design Service, during which time he attended Regent Street Polytechnic in London from 1949-51, before completing his studies at the London College of Printing. His tutors included Henry Trevick, Raymond Sheppard, and Christopher Saunders. From 1953 to 1962 Maddox worked as an art director for advertising agencies in London. He then worked as a freelance artist illustrator and graphic designer. Between 1972 and 1989 Maddox worked extensively for the Post Office and the Royal Mail, and the Isle of Man postal authority. He designed stamps, stamp book covers, first day presentation packs, posters and charts. His stamps typically feature British architecture, rural life and the countryside. He also produced posters for British Rail and painted pictures that were used as carriage panel prints, and illustrated several books. Maddox’s talents were well recognised and respected in the professional art and design communities. He was elected a member of the Society of Industrial Artists & Designers in 1956 and of the Royal Institute in 1959, in 1989 becoming its president. He was a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers and a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Illustrators. Maddox received many awards for his work as an artist and designer, including the Winsor & Newton / RI 150th Anniversary Award in 1981 and the Members’ Award in 1991. He was a Hunting Group Finalist several times and won the Design Council Award in 1973 and the Rowland Hilder Award for the Most Outstanding Landscape in 1990. Maddox excelled at architectural work, reproducing the textures and patterns of buildings, but he is perhaps best known for his topographical art...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Watercolour and inks on paper Fred Borghesi is an Italian artist born in 1987 who lives and works in London, UK. He is above all a multidisciplinary artist, constantly switching bet...

Early 20th Century Japanese Landscape Watercolor with Torii Gate Beautiful early 20th century Japanese landscape watercolor featuring a torii gate by Shumi...

Two small octopi are inked in the Japanese style of Gyo-Taku print making. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, the artist then embellishes it with colored pencil to convey an ext...

Sun Flowers original watercolour painting on artist paper signed by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below piece of paper is 12.5 x 9.5 inches ...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Watercolour and Ink on paper Fred Borghesi is an Italian artist born in 1987 who lives and works in London, UK. He is above all a multidisciplinary artist, constantly switching betw...

Original gouache and oil pastel figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California impressionist landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Crouching nude man with a mustache...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: William Wyllie (British, 1851-1931) Marking(s); notes: marking(s) Materials: canvas Dimensions (H, W, D): 11.5"h, 19.5"w; 17.75"h, 25.75"w frame Additi...

Né à Strasbourg le 19 novembre 1965 Diplômé de sculpture de l’Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg avec Patrick Lang “Toutes ces silhouettes qui habitent mon travail so...

Signed and localized on the verso : "Vedute di parte dalla Piazza dif.a alla Loggetta e cam panil parte della Zecca ed in lontan Proc.e vechie e parte della chiesa punto preso vic...

Arlene Shechet Summer Set 8, 2005 Watercolor monoprint on dieu donné hand made paper 21 × 27 1/2 inches Signed and dated in graphite on the front Exquisite watercolor monoprint on di...

*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Sklye by Sam Francis (1923-1994) Acrylic on paper 14.6 x 10.2 cm (5 ³/₄ x 4 inches) Signed, Sam Francis an...

Birds. 2020. Watercolor, paper, 66 x 96 cm Seagulls over the sea Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 an...

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WILLIAM EDWARD FROST, RA (1810-1877) Echo Signed l.r.: W E Frost RA Watercolour and pen and ink Unframed 16.5 by 10.5 cm., 6 ½ by 4 ¼ in. (mount size 29.5 by 22.5 cm., 11 ½ by 9 i...

Park is an original drawing in charcoal on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). Hand-signed on the lower left. The state of preservation is good with marks of sticks on the...

French school circa 1880 Portrait of a boy holding a book graphite and white gouache on paper 39.5 x 32 cm oval view in good condition, slightly yellowed with age In its original ova...

A charming watercolour study depicting a seated life model posing with a large red hat. Signed to the lower left. presented in a rustic gilt frame and double card mount. On paper.

We acquired a series of watercolour stained glass designs from Jane Gray's studio. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller...

3580 Charcoal drawing Set in a vintage giltwood frame Image size 13x9"

A charming Dutch coastal scene depicting two fishermen with a basket of waiting of the shoreline. To the distance windmills of Dutch towns can be scene on the the skyline. Unsigned. ...

Recling Female Nude Charcoal on tan paper Signed: Poterlet bottom center (see photo) Provenance: Alfred Barrion, Lugt 76 lower right recto (see photo) Eric G. Carlson, 1985 Very good...

Palazzo Farnese is an artwork of the 19th century. Watercolour on paper.  The evocative representation of a lodge in the garden of the palazzo Farnese in Rome, the artist depicts t...

A charming early 20th century watercolour depicting bustling Amsterdam. This particular view takes in one of the city's many picturesque waterways with moored ships to the river's ed...

Oil Pastel and pencil drawing on heavyweight printmaking paper. This is a bargain, one of those works that you might say in the future: "Oh, I bought it for almost nothing, and now i...

Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Pearl Hill Worthington (American, 1884-1949) Marking(s); notes: signed Materials: pastel on paper Dimensions (H, W, D): 38.5"...

A small octopus is inked in the Japanese style of Gyo-Taku print making. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, the artist then embellishes it with colored p...

Sarah Brenneman is an American artist based in West Orange, New Jersey working primarily in painting. Her overarching interest lies in abstraction as a universal language and she wor...

Julian Alden Weir River Landscape Signed lower left Watercolor on paper 9 x 11 1/2 inches Provenance: Kraushaar Galleries, New York Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 1965, Lot 27 E....

David Morrison was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1956. He received his MFA in Printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985. A visiting lecturer and guest artist at numerous universities, he is very involved in the world of printmaking, specifically stone lithography, and he is the Professor Emeritus at Indiana University’s Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. Morrison has exhibited widely, and his work is included in numerous public collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The New-York Historical Society, The National Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Figge Art Museum, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, the Portland Museum of Art, Collection of Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa, to name a few. 'David Morrison’s drawings are in the Old Master tradition of still-life and natura morte, whose surface beauty with its signs of decay warn viewers about the transitory nature of all life. In many ways the artist’s refined drawings can be connected to the works of John James Audubon in the N-YHS collection, which, along with their birds, showcase fruit, leaves, and flowers whose signs of decay allude to the cycle of nature and the temporal nature of life. Audubon also tended to isolate his birds and settings against empty white backgrounds. Morrison’s portrayals of leaves also tie into the poetic celebration of nature and landscape found in the works of the Hudson River School. Most profoundly they relate to Asher B. Durand’s obsession with trees (see the 2010 Durand catalogue and the essay “‘A Magnificent Obsession’: Durand’s Trees as Spiritual Sentinels of Nature”). Nevertheless, in the case of the over-lifesize measurements and the leaf's and branch's isolation on the page, Morrison's watercolors are contemporary and modern in appearance, yet profoundly evocative of both past and future.' (Roberta Olson, Curator of Drawings The New-York Historical Society). Artist Statement My drawings of tree branches and trunks embrace nature. I love the springtime when there are eruptive explosions of buds with new leaves and berries. I am seduced by the sensual shape and color of the buds protruding from the branches. I love the firecracker explosion of the red and yellow berries of the crabapple. My drawings capture a moment of this existence. I am also fascinated with fallen tree branches with their scarification left by diseases, infestation, decomposition and storm damage. My drawings capture the degeneration cycle of plant materials and how they echo the living conditions of man and nature. I am interested in capturing the reality of their existence, with all the imperfections, echoing their fragile existence in nature, not an idealized beautification of nature like botanical illustrations. The drawings are hyper realistic: they capture minute details of the subjects that I portray, but they are only an illusion of the actual reality. I became obsessed with drawing branches...

On Human Relations (d’après Adolph Freiherr Knigge) - Deborah Sengl 21st Century Animal Figurative Drawing Unique Title: "About dealing with adventurers and drifters" (Original: Ueb...

German School 19th Century, Portrait of a boy, pencil on paper 25.7 x 16 cm (view) Framed : 41.8 x 31.5 cm The style and execution are v...

Sarah Brenneman is an American artist based in West Orange, New Jersey working primarily in painting. Her overarching interest lies in abstraction as a universal language and she wor...