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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings For Sale
Arthur Wilde Parsons RA (1854-1931) - 1891 Watercolour, Moving the Herd
By Ali Alışır
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour scene by listed artist Arthur Wilde Parsons depicting a shepherd and his sheepdog moving a flock through a highland landscape. Signed and dated to the lower le...
Category
Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$408 Sale Price
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A Compelling Landscape of Morocco with Standing Shrouded Figure by Andre Delfau
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A Compelling, Mid-Century Modern Landscape of Morocco with Standing Shrouded Figure by Andre Delfau (Fr./Am. 1914-2000). Gouache on paper, dating circa 1948.
Artwork size: 5 x 2 3/...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Hollyhocks and Roses in a Garden with Butterfly
Located in Stockholm, SE
This is a beautiful and highly decorative watercolor painting, featuring a charming garden scene filled with pink and white hollyhocks alongside blooming roses. Nestled among the del...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Clinton Hill, Firenze (Florence, Italy), 1952, drawing, landscape/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images. This abstraction references Florence, Italy, where he studied in the early 1950s.
He lived in SoHo, New York, a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Mid 20th Century French Charcoal Drawing - Portrait of a Standing Nude Women
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Portrait"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
pencil/ charcoal on thick paper, unframed
paper size: 25 x 19.5 inches
Beautifully decorative, mid 20th century French orig...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil
Alexander Calder, Handwritten, signed letter, from Sache near Tours, France
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Calder
Handwritten, signed letter, 1956
Ink on paper: 2 page handwritten and hand signed letter
Hand signed by Calder at the end of the letter on the second page.
Unique
11...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
"Chimneys at Dusk", Small Pastel San Francisco Abstract Urban Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Bay Area skyline against a pink sunset creates beautiful and soft geometries in this small pastel urban landscape by San Francisco artist Chris...
Category
1990s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
Hurki Costume for an opera - Pencil and watercolor drawing by Taho - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Costume for an opera is an original artwork realized by Taho in the 1930s.
Beautiful pencil and watercolor drawing on cardboard.
Good conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Madonna and Child and Saint with Two Angels
Located in Chicago, IL
This confidently executed drawing is a study related to Maratta’s painting La Vergine appare a S.Stanislao Kotska 1687 in the second chapel to the right, in the church of S. Andrea a...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
The Red Shoes (Erotic), Ink and Watercolor Painting by George Grosz
By George Grosz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Grosz, German (1893 - 1959)
Title: Sex Scene in Red Shoes (Erotic)
Year: circa 1940
Medium: Watercolor, Pen and Ink on Paper, signed
Size: 17...
Category
1940s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Tulips and lilacs 1992, paper, watercolor, 64x73 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Dzidra Bauma (1930)
Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers and still life. She is one of the most productive wate...
Category
1990s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
French Watercolor - Fishing Boats
Located in Houston, TX
French watercolor of quiet fishing village in Brittany, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-size frame. Archiva...
Category
1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Architecture - Pencil Drawing - Mid- 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Architecture is an original Drawing in charcoal and pencil on paper realized by Hermine David in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is represented through rapid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Skyscapes Series - Large Scale Landscape in Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Skyscapes Series - Large Scale Landscape in Pastel on Paper
Brightly colored Dry Pastel abstract landscape by Aleah Koury (American, b. 1959). ...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$2,120 Sale Price
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The Knight and the Lady - Drawing by Mino Maccari - mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Charcoal and watercolor drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century.
Hand signed in pencil.
Some minor signs of the time on edgex.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 12.75 x 10 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we ha...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
" 1er d' Atelier" De Yves Saint Laurent
Located in CANNES, FR
Yves Saint Laurent
" 1er d'Atelier " est un dessin aquarelle , feutre, gouache et crayon de couleur
ce dessin a été réalisé pour le départ à la retraite en 1991 de Monsieur Georg...
Category
1990s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen, Color Pencil
1950s "Purple Head" Mid Century Oil and Pastel Portrait Original Drawing
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Purple Head"
c.1950s
Gouache and oil pastel on paper
13.75" x 17" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
Donald Stacy (1925-2008) New Jersey
Studied: Newark School of Fine Art
The Art Students League
Pratt Graphic Arts Center
University of Paris 1953-54
University of Aix-en-Provence 1954-55
Faculty: Art Department of the New School
Museum of Modern Art
School of Visual Arts
Stacy Studio Workshop
Exhibitions: Grand Central Moderns
George Wittenborn
The New School
Print Exhibitions, Chicago
University of Oklahoma
Honolulu Museum
Monclair Museum
Wisconsin State College
Louisiana Art Commission
Philadelphia Print...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
Surrealist Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Surrealist Composition, Mixed Media on Paper, stamped "Studio / Elfi Schuselka" to verso, unframed. 39.75" H x 29.75" W. Provenance: From the Coll...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil, Graphite, Paper
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir dancing with his harem attendees
Located in Middletown, NY
A joyful scene of lighthearted merriment in the palace of Jangahir Mahal Agra
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on light weight cream laid paper, 8 1/4 x 6 inches (2...
Category
18th Century Rajput Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
How To Capture This Feeling - Whimsical Figurative Watercolor Graphite Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' art is gro...
Category
2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Andra Samelson, Stars of Tallapooza, Acrylic on paper, 12 x 12 inches, 2018
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
L V Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950) A Man writing at his desk , Signed pastel
Located in Paris, FR
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950)
A Man writing at his desk, 18th century interior scene
Pastel on paper
Signed upper right
20.5 x 15.8 cm
Framed under glass : 37 x 31.5 cm
It is known that Guirand de Scevola was very interested in the Palace of Versailles and its Old Regime atmosphere, that he often painted it and that he participated in the Versailles Revival movement at the beginning of the century. This probably led him to paint scenes in the 18th century style, for which he was particularly well known and which are still sought after.
What is striking is the modernity of the execution of our pastel, which obviously contrasts with its subject in the style of the 18th century. Guirand de Scevoal is a great colourist and he proves it here with eclat, by building up his composition with white pastel highlights, contrasting with brown and black. There is something of the northern painters in this treatment of light. All this, as always with him, is very subtle. The light radiating from the window is almost an abstract notation, but it gives meaning to this interior scene.
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola ( 1871 – 1950) was a French painter.
He was student of Fernand Cormon and Pierre Dupuis...
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Happiness vase with pink flowers " ( expressive contemporary floral painting)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This modern colorful expressive artwork "Happiness vase with pink flowers" belongs to my “Floral” series which is full of expressionism and vivid colors where I could fully experienc...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Standing Male Nude, Arms Upraised (Kouros)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Male Nude, Arms upraised (Kouros)
Graphite on wove paper, c. 1930
Signed lower right (see photo)
Possibly exhibited in May 8-June 1,1973 at Alan Stone Gallery entitled Erotica, which lists Lachaise as one of the artists exhibited.
Part of small group of drawings of the male nude, done late in the artist's life, many of which are in museums (MMA, FAMSF, Whitney, Yale, Princeton).
Almost identical to the Lachaise drawing in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which is the same size and depicts the same model. (see photo)
Very similar to the smaller Lachaise drawing in the Whitney Museum of American Art (Accession number 32.2).
The Metropolitan Museum has a Lachaise male nude drawing with one arm upraised (Accession Number: 68.91.1)
Provenance: Alan Stone Gallery, New York
Alan Stone Projects, New York (see photo of label)
Condition: excellent
Archival framing with OP3 Acrylic for UV protection
22K gold leaf frame
Image size: 17 3/4 x 12 inches
Frame size: 26 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches
Regarding Alan Stone Gallery:
"Founded in 1960 by visionary connoisseur and dealer Allan Stone (1932 – 2006), the gallery known today as Allan Stone Projects has been admired for over half a century.
Celebrated for his eclectic approach and early advocacy of pivotal artists of the 20th Century, Allan Stone was a leading authority on Abstract Expressionism, the New York dealer for Wayne Thiebaud for over forty years, and a passionate collector of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Joseph Cornell, John Graham and John Chamberlain. He also promoted and collected the work of a younger generation of artists, including Robert Arneson, Jack Whitten, Robert Mallary, Lorraine Shemesh...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Mid Century French Study of a Seated Nude Woman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Nude Study
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 25 (height) x 19 (width)
Stamped: Ver...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Horse sketch by Otto Vautier - Drawing on paper 31x37 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on cardboard
Otto Vautier is a renowned Swiss painter, born in 1863 in Düsseldorf. He was influenced by a family of artists and developed his style ...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Color Pencil
$200 Sale Price
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Paysage de l'infini by José Gerson - Drawing 50x70 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
1970s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
$240 Sale Price
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Contemporary impressionist expressive acrylic floral bouquet vase painting
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This captivating floral artwork "Summer blooming flowers in a blue vase" is an exuberant portrayal of a bouquet, radiating vibrancy and textural complexity. The piece commands attention with its vigorous brushstrokes, creating a sense of movement and depth.
The bouquet is composed of blooming flowers in a rich palette of colors ranging from various shades of pinks and purples to luminous whites. Each flower is rendered with bold, gestural layers of paint, creating a tactile surface that invites the viewer to appreciate the artist’s dynamic technique.
The background, with its harmonious blend of cool blues and popping greens, forms a vivid contrast against the warm tones of the flowers, enhancing their visual impact.
Noteworthy is the blue-checkered vase...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Nude - Pen on Ivory Paper by Fausto Ghia - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pen on ivory paper realized by Fausto Ghia.
Hand-signed on the lower left with dedication.
The state of preservation is very good.
Included a Passep...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pen
$314 Sale Price
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Mid Century French Illustration Sketch pink plant pot
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Flower Pot
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed
pastel on paper, unframed
painting: 19 x 25 inches
good condition
provenance: from the artists estate, France
Josine Vigno...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Horses - Drawing by Domenico Purificato - 1952
Located in Roma, IT
Horses is an original drawing realized by Domenico Purificato in 1952.
Black and white pen drawing.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right.
Th...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Hoopoe Bird Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
414
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2025
Style: Classic Art
Title: Hoopoe
Size: 12 x 16 inch, ...
Category
2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Clinton Hill, (Nude #8), 1952, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. In 1951 Hill studied at the Academie de la...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
A Handsome 1940s Portrait of a Seated Man by Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Handsome 1940s Portrait of a Seated Man by Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A wonderfully executed line drawing dating from 1946 with great character; looks ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Iris - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of a purple iris, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b.194...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
FRIENDS
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original painting by Daria Kusto.
Acrylic markers on paper.
The magic flow reality...
The painting will be shipped directly from Thailand – safely and promptly."
Category
2010s Pop Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Permanent Marker
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 10.75 x 8.5 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Just a lemon"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Dear art lover,
I have worked on a new series of small oil paintings dedicated to a summer period.
This artwork called "Just a lemon" is done with oil ...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
$114 Sale Price
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Original 1940s Retrofuturism Gouache Painting 'Birth of Mind' in Black & White
Located in Denver, CO
This vintage 1940s gouache painting, titled Birth of Mind, is a striking example of retrofuturism by Charles Ragland Bunnell, a prominent artist from the Broadmoor Academy...
Category
1940s Futurist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Framed Early 20th Century Watercolour - Traditional Geisha
Located in Corsham, GB
This early 20th century watercolour & gouache study depicts a beautiful Japanese Geisha wearing a luxurious silk kimono, adorned with delicate embroidery and hand-painting. Every par...
Category
Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$369 Sale Price
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Colors - Figurative Abstract
By Kelvin Curry
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful abstract work by Bay Area artist Kelvin Curry (American, 20th Century). Signed "Kelvin Curry" lower left. Unframed. Image size, 15"H x 11.25"W.
Born in Oakland, California Kelvin Curry's creative destiny was clear early in life. Initially using black and white graphite as his medium and later expanding into mixed media to bring about multi-dimension; as well as a sense of rhythm and grace in the abstract female figure. Kelvin Curry studied fine arts at San Jose State University and has been making and exhibiting art all his life. Curry has a keen understanding of the arts, particularly the black arts movement in and around the Bay Area. Kelvin has exhibited his work in hundred of juried festivals, exhibits, and galleries throughout the country. Visitors from countries such as South Africa, Japan, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and China have chosen his work to adorn their homes in their native lands. Collectors include Randy Crawford, Nancy Wilson...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
$460 Sale Price
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Ghost Ranch Encantado 5
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Ghost Ranch Encantado
22 x 22" image size watercolor, unframed. Shrink-wrapped on poster board.
I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sunil Guha - 1982 Pen and Ink Drawing, Indian Village Scene
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderful pen and ink drawing with watercolour wash by the artist Sunil Guha. Presented in a simple gilt effect frame. Signed and dated. On paper.
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
$251 Sale Price
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Countryside - Original Watercolor by Armin Guther - 1993
By Armin Guther
Located in Roma, IT
Countryside is an original watercolor on paper, realized in 1993 by Armin Guther.
The artwork is hand-signed and dated in charcoal pencil on the lower-left.
In excellent condition...
Category
1990s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Bright Pine Trees Overlooking the Bright Blue Sea of Mont Boron, Nice Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mont Boron, Nice
Tony Minartz (French, 1873 - 1994)
signed watercolour on artist paper
Titled verso
painting : 12.75 x 17 inches
Provenance: private collection in the South of Fran...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
In Bed - Original Watercolor by Jean Demelier - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
In Bed is original watercolor drawing realized by Jean Demelier in 1968.
Hand-signed at the top left.
Very good conditions.
Included a white Passepartout: 34 x 49 cm.
Delicate and en...
Category
1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$359 Sale Price
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Figure - Original Pencil Drawing by Beppe Curzi - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
"Figure" is an original pencil drawing on ivory-colorated cardboard by Beppe Curzi in 1940.
In excellent conditions.
This is an original drawing representing a nude woman.
Not si...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
$179 Sale Price
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Pop Flower Four B Zero Five, Mandala in Orange, Red, Black
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This multicolored drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Pop Flower 4B05 is a predominately orange mandala shape with re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
SILENCE - original large blue female nude by Paula Craioveanu 39x27.5in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Silence", pencil and ultramarine tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse.
Part of Nude in Interior series.
Large drawing. Shipped rolled in a tube.
Size 39x27.5in /100x70cm
Free shi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Pencil, Archival Paper
Lauren in Balenciaga. From the Fashion series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
1940's Provence France Painting Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
Signed and dated 1947
From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
mea...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Nude under the Tree - Drawing by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil pastel and watercolor on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand signed.
Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist. cm. 157.5x113.5.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in R...
Category
1960s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil Pastel
$3,590 Sale Price
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Mariano Jose Maria Bernardo Fortuny Marsal
By Mariano Fortuny Y Marsal
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mariano Fortuny Marsal: 1838-1874. Very important and well listed Spanish artist. He has auction results for oil paintings over 1.1 million dollars a...
Category
Mid-19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Filipino Women and Children in a Pastoral Scene Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Pastoral pencil on paper sketch by a celebrated Filipino artist, Jose V. Blanco. The drawing depicts Filipino women and children sorting out mangoes...
Category
1980s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Mountain and Lake View, Gruyères
Located in Stockholm, SE
A watercolor depicting a mountain view and the lake Gruyère, (Lac De La Gruyère) in Switzerland by the American Impressionist and Tonalist Mary Rogers Williams (1857–1907). Signed M.R. Williams. On the verso, the artist wrote: ‘Painted in Gruyère July 1902.’ This is a newly discovered work by a rare woman artist who seldom appears on the art market. Small in scale, yet rich in atmosphere, power, and depth—a genuine little gem.
Mary Rogers Williams was born in 1857, in Hartford, Connecticut, the fifth of six children to a local baker. Orphaned by the age of fourteen, she pursued art with remarkable determination, studying at Hartford’s Decorative Art Society and the Art Students League in New York under William Merritt Chase. Her early mentor was James Wells Champney.
In 1888, she joined Smith College as associate professor of art, where she taught for nearly twenty years to help support her family. Alongside her academic career, she maintained a serious and evolving artistic practice, though much of it was pursued within the limitations of her era’s gender roles and financial pressures.
Her work is often classified as a blend of Tonalism and Impressionism—movements that were just taking shape during her lifetime. Tonalists used subdued palettes to evoke mood rather than detail, while Impressionists leaned toward brighter colors and broader subjects. Williams, working independently of art-world factions, forged a style rooted in mood, light, and atmosphere. She painted luminous pastels, watercolors, and oils—portraits, landscapes, and intimate studies of daily life.
Despite knowing figures like Whistler, William Merritt Chase, and Childe Hassam, she rarely aligned herself with any artistic “school” and found many male contemporaries pretentious or repetitive. She famously dropped out of Whistler’s Paris school, calling him “a pompous fop surrounded by fawners.” Though Mary Cassatt and Williams were both American Impressionists living in Paris, they never met—Cassatt enjoyed wealth and elite circles, while Williams was a self-reliant educator without patrons.
Williams traveled extensively throughout Europe—from the Arctic Circle to the ruins south of Naples—often alone or with her sister. She bicycled through fjords, hiked to medieval towns, and visited chateaux and harbors, all while sketching prolifically. She is likely the only 19th-century woman artist whose travels and daily life can be traced in such vivid, personal detail: what she ate, how she felt about fellow travelers, what she paid for trams, how the air smelled, what she wore, and how she missed home.
She documented everything—museum visits, church restorations, conversations with hotel guests, and her frustrations with men’s treatment of women artists. These letters, rediscovered in 2012 in a family boathouse, provide an extraordinary insight into not only her art but the intellectual and emotional texture of her life.
Her writings reveal not only artistic insight but the immense workload she carried. At Smith, she taught studio art and art history, organized faculty events, curated student exhibitions, wrote essays, handled housework, and even cooked and cleaned for her own lodgings. On vacations, she cooked for her family; in Europe, she waxed floors, painted walls, repaired clothing, and stoked fires—all while maintaining her painting and travel schedule.
Unlike many of her male peers, she had no assistants, no household staff, and little inherited wealth. Yet, as her letters reveal, she never saw herself as a victim—she relished challenges and even the absurdities of her era, from Italian waiters pushing marriage to department heads at Smith dismissing women’s artistic capacity.
Despite these challenges, Williams exhibited widely during her lifetime:
Paris Salon (1899)
National Academy of Design (1903–04)
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
New York Water Color Club, American Water Color Society, Art Association of Indianapolis, and more.
She was praised in The New York Times, Hartford Courant, and Springfield Republican, and compared by peers to figures like Emily Dickinson—another New England woman of quiet yet profound artistic power. But unlike Dickinson, Mary Williams...
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Early 1900s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
1937 Academic Female Nude Charcoal Drawing "Head in Hand" UC Berkeley
By John Ayres
Located in Arp, TX
John Ayres
Head in Hand
May 1, 1937
Charcoal on Paper
25"x19", unframed $1250
Signed and dated in charcoal top right
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect fr...
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1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Charcoal, India Ink
Early 20th Century French Military Portrait, The Brave Soldier
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century French pastel portrait of a military officer by Marie Laforge. The painting is signed dated and dedicated bottom right. The subject's name is written but as yet un...
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Early 20th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel
Architectural Drawing by Giuseppe Perotti - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Architectural Drawing is a modern artwork realized by Giuseppe Perotti in the Early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
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Early 20th Century Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Charcoal
MAGIC CAT
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
acrIcrylic on wotercolor paper.
The magic flow reality...
Shipped free
well protected
unframed.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Acrylic, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Drawings and Watercolor Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
Revitalize your interiors — introduce drawings and watercolor paintings to your home to evoke emotions, stir conversation and show off your personality and elevated taste.
Drawing is often considered one of the world’s oldest art forms, with historians pointing to cave art as evidence. In fact, a cave in South Africa, home to Stone Age–era artists, houses artwork that is believed to be around 73,000 years old. It has indeed been argued that cave walls were the canvases for early watercolorists as well as for landscape painters in general, who endeavor to depict and elevate natural scenery through their works of art. The supplies and methods used by artists and illustrators to create drawings and paintings have evolved over the years, and so too have the intentions. Artists can use their drawing and painting talents to observe and capture a moment, to explore or communicate ideas and convey or evoke emotion. No matter if an artist is working in charcoal or in watercolor and has chosen to portray the marvels of the pure human form, to create realistic depictions of animals in their natural habitats or perhaps to forge a new path that references the long history of abstract visual art, adding a drawing or watercolor painting to your living room or dining room that speaks to you will in turn speak to your guests and conjure stimulating energy in your space.
When you introduce a new piece of art into a common area of your home — a figurative painting by Italian watercolorist Mino Maccari or a colorful still life, such as a detailed botanical work by Deborah Eddy — you’re bringing in textures that can add visual weight to your interior design. You’ll also be creating a much-needed focal point that can instantly guide an eye toward a designated space, particularly in a room that sees a lot of foot traffic.
When you’re shopping for new visual art, whether it’s for your apartment or weekend house, remember to choose something that resonates. It doesn’t always need to make you happy, but you should at least enjoy its energy. On 1stDibs, browse a wide-ranging collection of drawings and watercolor paintings and find out how to arrange wall art when you’re ready to hang your new works.
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