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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings For Sale
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Antoine Calbet (1860-1944) - Early 20th Century Watercolour, Ladies in Summer
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour study by French artist Antoine Calbet. The scene depicts two ladies reclining in a stately garden in high summer. There are sur...
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20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

"Flower 1" Graphite Drawing
By Lindsay Payton
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white graphite drawing of a dropping flower. The artist signed the print and titled it. It is framed in a black frame with a white matte. Dimensions without Frame: H 11 in ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

"Almond blossom" ( almond trees blossom inspired by Vincent va Gogh)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This painting features almond trees which are coming into full flower: big branches of white and light pink almond blossom against a blue sky. In these flowering trees, I wanted to ...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Acrylic, Paper

Composition
Located in Zug, CH
Abstract composition on paper by Karl Peter Röhl.
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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India Ink, Aquatint

Composition
Located in Zug, CH
Abstract composition on paper by Karl Peter Röhl.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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India Ink, Watercolor

Biedermeier Period Academic Life Study Male Nude Half Kneeling Pose Circa 1826
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Eduard Braun. German ( b.1798 - d.1876 ). Academic Life Study Of A Male Nude Half Kneeling Pose. Pencil & Charcoal On Paper With Heightening. Paper size 2...
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Early 19th Century Academic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Pencil

Original 1930's Vintage Motor Car Racing Original Drawing Signed Dated
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Wonderful original pencil drawing depicting a vintage motor car racing scene from the 1930's. The drawing is by - "K. B. White" - a British illustrator and motoring artist who was working in the 1930's. The drawing perfectly capture the glamorous spirit of vintage...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

1910's Art Deco Erte Gouache Painting Original Hand Signed Rare French Costume
Located in Buffalo, NY
A rare original signed Art Deco gouache on paper by Erte (Romain de Tirtoff) . This stunning theatrical costume design is signed Erte at the lower right. The piece is 20 by 18 fram...
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1910s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil

Frida
Located in Zofingen, AG
The painting "Frida" explores the depths of the human soul through the image of the renowned Mexican artist. Inspired by Frida Kahlo's unique personality, this piece conveys her com...
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Geometric synthesis, emotional abstraction, lines and spots, stage
Located in Carballo, ES
Vítor Mejuto introduces a geometric synthesis that breaks down painting into its most structural essence. His work, in which line, stain and shape establish a precise chromatic balan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Constructivist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite

Malua Rosea Multiplex (drawing paper monochrome Botany girl braids monochrome)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
keywords; surrealism, portrait, oil painting, earth tones, figurative painting, strangeness, contemporary surrealistic, unsettling, contemporary figurative painting, dreams, symbolic...
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2010s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Color Pencil, Paper

Original 1970's French Abstract Ink Painting Black and White
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Claude Lagouche (French 1943-2020) Claude Lagouche was born January 2, 1943 in Naves, died January 16, 2020. He quickly gained recognition for his talent and his work, exh...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Ky Anderson "Sun 22.1" Acrylic on Watercolor Paper
Located in New York, NY
"My work falls somewhere between abstraction, formalism and narrative painting. I see the content and story when I look at my work, but shape and color are equally important, along w...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

Reader, oversize drawing of young woman reading, minimal color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This work was intentionally torn and mended. It predates the artist's full immersion, years later into torn and re-pasted collages, using ripped previous drawings and paper-based materials from media. These recently discovered 1984 oversize drawings on archival papers were created working quickly, from a live model. The series shows the last existing observational drawings prior to the artist's switch to working with her non- dominant left hand. As a feminist, Anastasi's main focus is presenting other women. Unlike the often objectified male gaze...
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2010s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

Clipper at Full Sail
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Watercolor signed in the lower left corner. The piece measures 19.25" x 23.25" including the frame and features a clipper ship at full sail. Provenance: ...
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20th Century Victorian Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

St. Gregory in Rome - Original Ink and Watercolor by J. P. Verdussen - 1741
Located in Roma, IT
St. Gregory in Rome is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1741. Ink and watercolour on brown paper. In very good codition. Dated on the lower margin. The origin...
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1740s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

Fauvist Shipyard
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright and bold shipyard by an unknown artist. Presented in a new cream mat. Paper size: 10.25"H x 14.25"W; Mat size: 13"H x 18"W
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21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

English Antique Portrait Sketch of Female Nude Seated
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English Graphite Sketch of a Female Nude, Seated by Henry George Moon (British 1857-1905) on yellowed thin artists paper, unframed measurements: sheet 15 x 18 inches provenance: f...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Mark Beard 054 (Figurative Charcoal Drawing of Two Male Nudes on Arches Paper)
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative drawing of two male nudes made with graphite, charcoal, and conte crayon on Arches paper 30 x 14 inches, unframed This unique life study drawing of two standing nude m...
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Graphite, Paper

Happier You Are.. Happier You'll Be, Contemporary Ink Drawing by Julian Schnabel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Julian Schnabel, American (1951 - ) - Happier You Are... Happier You'll Be, Year: 2009, Medium: Archival pigment inks on 365 gsm fine art paper, Edition: AP, Size: 46 x 30 in. (1...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Mystery - abstract painting, made in grey, blue color
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcoholic ink in grey, blue color on Yupo paper. The work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (gold or black) with a styrene face on ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

'Cap Ferrat', Academy of Fine Arts of Rouen, Mandelieu-la-Napoule, Benezit, Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Picot' for Jean-Claude Picot (French, born 1933), and painted circa 1985; additionally titled, verso, 'La Route Vers St Jean Cap Ferr'...
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1980s Fauvist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French Impressionist Watercolor of Relaxed Beach Scene with Sailboats
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Watercolor of Relaxed Beach Scene with Sailboats By Maurice Mazeilie (French 1924-2021) Medium: Watercolor on paper, unframed Size: 4.75 x 6.25 inches (He...
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20th Century Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

1940's Provence France Painting Tranquil Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
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...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

"Chromatic research and movement"abstract, yellow , orange, cm. 24 x 33 1954
Located in Torino, IT
abstract, yellow ,orange,grey,geometric,1954 Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989) From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical and exp...
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1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
LA II (Angel Ortiz) Ink on paper 12 x 18 inches $1,500
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Early 2000s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

French Watercolor of a Sunlit Mont Saint-Michel at Low Tide
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of a Sunlit Mont Saint-Michel at Low Tide by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017) Signed: Yes Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper Size: 11.25 x 13.5 ...
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Late 20th Century French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Pen

Mid Century French Portrait Reclining Man With a Pipe Watercolour Study
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Reclining Figure Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: signed watercolour on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered Size: 9.75 (height) x 9 (width) Conditi...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

"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 ...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil, Paper

"Landscape BW" Minimalist Original Art , Draw on Paper -Large size Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape BW Mineral Oxide on Paper 109 x74 Original Art Ready to Hang A unique and original work of art This painting, made with mineral oxide powder pigments on Canson paper, i...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

At The Beach, Watercolor, Signature To Identify
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
At the beach. Watercolor. Signature to be identified. Watercolor (at sight): 22.5 x 31.5 cm Frame: 37.5 x 46.5 cm
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20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Still life. Paper, watercolor, 72.5x89 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life. Paper, watercolor, 72.5x89 cm Malda Muižule was born in 1937 in the family of a blacksmith. Graduated from Liepāja Applied Arts High School (1957). She continued her stu...
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1970s Post-Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Charles Culver Landscape Winter Road Watercolor Signed & Dated
Located in Detroit, MI
The idyllic atmosphere of this country scene falls within a couple of styles one being regionalism, an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest and frequently associated with Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. The other style is romanticism wherein the scene depicted is a more desired or dramatic version of what actually is. “Untitled (Winter Road)” is a quiet country scene depicting a road leading into the distance either going to or coming from a local farm. The snow does not particularly seem fresh suggesting a melt and the coming of spring. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and conservator glass. In a 1952 Detroit Free Press article, entitled “Artist Explains His Work,” Culver was asked why he painted the way he did. He stated: “I try to ‘see’ though not too exactly; I try to think though not too ponderously; I feel emotion yet I try not to become overwrought. I interpret rather than describe, and design rather than depict. I work with values, not light and shade; hence, when I am successful, I achieve substance rather than three-dimensional form, and this satisfies me as being wholly sufficient. In my work I wish to be serious without becoming a bore, exuberant without being frivolous, humorous without being silly. I believe that good paintings are conceived, not contrived; and I am interested in art much more than in pictures.” Charles...
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1940s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

"Untitled" Vivian Springford, 1960s Color Field Abstract Expressionist Forms
Located in New York, NY
Vivian Springford Untitled (Rice Paper Mounting), 1963-65 Signed lower left Ink, watercolor and acrylic on rice paper laid to canvas 27 1/4 x 53 3/8 inches A contributor to Abstrac...
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1960s Color-Field Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Ink, Watercolor, Rice Paper

Clinton Hill, Paris, July, 1951 (France), mid-century abstract gouache drawing
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images. He lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor. Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache

Small surreal house, green and yellow, oil on board
Located in Carballo, ES
Ventura A. Pérez (1992) is one of the most seductive artists on the contemporary Spanish scene. After earning a doctorate in contemporary art from the University of Vigo, he moved to...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Giovanni Boldini drawing of a lady, Italian 19th Century
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Giovanni Boldini (Italian, 1842-1931) Etude de femme au ruban noir Signed with atelier stamp (lower left), further inscribed, signed and dated by Emilia Boldini (the artist’s wife) `no 77 le_ atelier Boldini. Emilia Boldini Carbona 1931’ (on the reverse) Black crayon on paper 11.7/8 x 8.7/8 in. (30 x 22.5 cm.) Emilia’s inscription on the reverse from the year of his death. Giovanni Boldini was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style, exemplified by the confident strokes in this fine example. Boldini was born in Ferrara, the son of a painter of religious subjects, and in 1862 went to Florence for six years to study and pursue painting. He only infrequently attended classes at the Academy of Fine Arts, but in Florence, met other realist painters known as the Macchiaioli, who were Italian precursors to Impressionism. Their influence is seen in Boldini's landscapes which show his spontaneous response to nature, although it is for his portraits that he became best known. Moving to London, Boldini attained success as a portraitist, painting notable members of society including Lady Holland and the Duchess of Westminster...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Crayon

Liber Mystia XLIII
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Liber Mystia XLIII" is an original artwork by Henry Hablak made of gouache, ink, and colored pencil on paper measuring 16.25"h x 12.25"w framed and 14"h x 11"w unframed. Henry Habl...
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Gouache, Color Pencil

Rare Modernist Hungarian Rabbi Pastel Drawing Gouache Painting Judaica Art Deco
Located in Surfside, FL
Rabbi in the synagogue at prayer wearing tallit and tefillin. Hugó Scheiber (born 29 September 1873 in Budapest – died there 7 March 1950) was a Hungarian modernist painter. Hugo Scheiber was brought from Budapest to Vienna at the age of eight where his father worked as a sign painter for the Prater Theater. At fifteen, he returned with his family to Budapest and began working during the day to help support them and attending painting classes at the School of Design in the evening, where Henrik Papp was one of his teachers. He completed his studies in 1900. His work was at first in a post-Impressionistic style but from 1910 onward showed his increasing interest in German Expressionism and Futurism. This made it of little interest to the conservative Hungarian art establishment. However, in 1915 he met the great Italian avant-gardist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and the two painters became close friends. Marinetti invited him to join the Futurist Movement. The uniquely modernist style that he developed was, however, closer to German Expressionism than to Futurism and eventually drifted toward an international art deco manner similar to Erté's. In 1919, he and his friend Béla Kádar held an exhibition at the Hevesy Salon in Vienna. It was a great success and at last caused the Budapest Art Museum to acquire some of Scheiber's drawings. Encouraged, Scheiber came back to live in Vienna in 1920. A turning point in Scheiber's career came a year later, when Herwarth Walden, founder of Germany's leading avant-garde periodical, Der Sturm, and of the Sturm Gallery in Berlin, became interested in Scheiber's work. Scheiber moved to Berlin in 1922, and his paintings soon appeared regularly in Walden's magazine and elsewhere. Exhibitions of his work followed in London, Rome, La Paz, and New York. Scheiber's move to Germany coincided with a significant exodus of Hungarian artists to Berlin, including Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Sandor Bortnyik. There had been a major split in ideology among the Hungarian avant-garde. The Constructivist and leader of the Hungarian avantgarde, Lajos Kassák (painted by Hugó Scheiber in 1930) believed that art should relate to all the needs of contemporary humankind. Thus he refused to compromise the purity of his style to reflect the demands of either the ruling class or socialists and communists. The other camp believed that an artist should be a figurehead for social and political change. The fall out and factions that resulted from this politicisation resulted in most of the Hungarian avant gardists leaving Vienna for Berlin. Hungarian émigrés made up one of the largest minority groups in the German capital and the influx of their painters had a significant effect on Hungarian and international art. Another turning point of Scheiber's career came in 1926, with the New York exhibition of the Société Anonyme, organized by Katherine Dreier. Scheiber and other important avant garde artists from more than twenty-three countries were represented. In 1933, Scheiber was invited by Marinetti to participate in the great meeting of the Futurists held in Rome in late April 1933, Mostra Nazionale d’Arte Futurista where he was received with great enthusiasm. Gradually, the Hungarian artists began to return home, particularly with the rise of Nazism in Germany. Kádar went back from Berlin in about 1932 and Scheiber followed in 1934. He was then at the peak of his powers and had a special flair in depicting café and cabaret life in vivid colors, sturdily abstracted forms and spontaneous brush strokes. Scheiber depicted cosmopolitan modern life using stylized shapes and expressive colors. His preferred subjects were cabaret and street scenes, jazz musicians, flappers, and a series of self-portraits (usually with a cigar). his principal media being gouache and oil. He was a member of the prestigious New Society of Artists (KUT—Képzőművészek Új Társasága)and seems to have weathered Hungary's post–World War II transition to state-communism without difficulty. He continued to be well regarded, eventually even receiving the posthumous honor of having one of his images used for a Russian Soviet postage stamp (see image above). Hugó Scheiber died in Budapest in 1950. Paintings by Hugó Scheiber form part of permanent museum collections in Budapest (Hungarian National Museum), Pecs (Jannus Pannonius Museum), Vienna, New York, Bern and elsewhere. His work has also been shown in many important exhibitions, including: "The Nell Walden Collection," Kunsthaus Zürich (1945) "Collection of the Société Anonyme," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut (1950) "Hugó Scheiber: A Commemorative Exhibition," Hungarian National Museum, Budapest (1964) "Ungarische Avantgarde," Galleria del Levante, Munich (1971) "Paris-Berlin 1900-1930," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1978) "L’Art en Hongrie, 1905-1920," Musée d’Art et l’Industrie, Saint-Etienne (1980) "Ungarische Avantgarde in der Weimarer Republik," Marburg (1986) "Modernizmus," Eresz & Maklary Gallery, Budapest (2006) "Hugó Scheiber & Béla Kádár," Galerie le Minotaure, Paris and Tel Aviv (2007) Hugó Scheiber's paintings continue to be regularly sold at Sotheby's, Christie's, Gillen's Arts (London), Papillon Gallery (Los Angeles) and other auction houses. He was included in the exhibition The Art Of Modern Hungary 1931 and other exhibitions along with Vilmos Novak Aba, Count Julius Batthyany, Pal Bor, Bela Buky, Denes Csanky, Istvan Csok, Bela Czobel, Peter Di Gabor, Bela Ivanyi Grunwald, Baron Ferenc Hatvany, Lipot Herman, Odon Marffy, C. Pal Molnar...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache

Giuseppe Migneco(Italian painter) - 20th century figure drawing - Fortune teller
Located in Varmo, IT
Giuseppe Migneco (Messina 1903 - Milan 1997) - The fortune teller. 49.5 x 39.5 cm without frame, 52.5 x 40.5 cm with frame. Antique mixed technique drawing on paper, in wooden fram...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

HUMAN ATMOSPHERE Retro-study 5 - contemporary artwork, emerging artist
Located in London, GB
In this collection, British painter Michael Pemberton (b. 1974) suggests we each have a personal HUMAN ATMOSPHERE. An ether where we truly exist, unseen by the naked eye but as real ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk, Charcoal

French Pointillist Reclining Male Nude Mid 20th Century Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pointillist Reclining Male Nude by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998) initialled lower right gouache painting on paper, unframed measurements: 5.5 x 10 inches (overall the sheet measures 8.25 x 11.9 inches) provenance: private collection of the artists work, Provence, France Condition report: very good, colour strong, thin paper, margins of sheet show light marks but image is clean Beautiful Neo-Impressionist 1940's French pointillist...
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Mid-20th Century Pointillist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

1930's French Impressionist Pretty Provencal Hill Top Village Blossom Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Provence Blossom French School, circa 1930's signed watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed painting: 10.75 x 8.25 inches condition: very good provenance: private collecti...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Frederick J Knowles (1874-1931) - Framed Watercolour, Drover on Horseback
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful depiction of a quiet country lane with young boy on horseback, driving sheep past rural cottages. The watercolour has been signed by the artist to the lower right. Beaut...
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Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Antique Impressionist Painting "Spanish Peaks" Colorado Mountain Landscape 1900
Located in Portland, OR
A very attractive American Impressionist watercolor & gouache painting, "The Spanish Peaks" Colorado mountain landscape scene, by Charles Partridge Adams (1858-1942), circa 1900. Thi...
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Early 1900s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

No title 2 and 3, Diptych. Abstract Watercolor
Located in Miami Beach, FL
No title 2 and 3, Diptych, 2018 by Rodrigo Zampol Black ink on paper Overall size: 67 cm H x 100 cm W Individual size: 67 cm H x 50 cm W Unframed Unique piece Signed on back The pi...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

"Cubist Factory" American Scene WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Industrial
Located in New York, NY
"Cubist Factory" American Scene WPA Era Social Realism Mid 20th Century Industrial Herbert Heyel (American 1907-2000) "Cubist Factory" 14 x 20 inches Watercolor on paper, c. 1933 S...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

French Impressionist Painting of Rustic Village Dwellings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Painting of Rustic Village Dwellings By Maurice Mazeilie (French 1924-2021) Medium: Acrylic on paper, unframed Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches (Height x Width) S...
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20th Century Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Acrylic

Animated Street, Mixed Technique Early Twentieth, Signature To Identify
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Busy street. Mixed media on paper: ink wash and marker. Signature to be identified lower right. Framed and under glass. Paper ripples. Storm beasts under the glass. Drawing (at sight...
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Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Target acrylic on paper geometric Color Field painting signed & inscribed Framed
Located in New York, NY
Kenneth Noland Untitled Target, 2001 Acrylic paint on offset lithograph paper Signed, dated, and dedicated along lower edge: For Howard and Susan with Love Kenneth Noland 6.10.01 Fra...
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1990s Color-Field Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset

Original French Abstract Artwork of a Horse in a Forest Setting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original French Abstract Artwork of a Horse in a Forest Setting Artist: Robert Ladou (French 1929-2014) Medium: Acrylic on paper drawing: 11.5 x 9.5 inches condition: Good pro...
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20th Century Academic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Acrylic

Cabin in the Woods, India Ink Forest Landscape with Redwood Trees
Located in Soquel, CA
India ink and watercolor landscape in black done with expressive, linear brushstrokes featuring tall redwood trees with cabin windows peaking through the ...
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2010s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, India Ink, Watercolor

MODERN EVE - nude by Paula Craioveanu - original art ultramarine blue
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Part of my Nude series, inspired by Matisse. Ultramarine tempera on paper. Shipped rolled in a tube. Shipping anywhere in the world. Registered airmail. This piece, Modern Eve, is a striking and expressive work that beautifully captures the essence of Matisse’s influence while maintaining its own contemporary voice. The use of ultramarine tempera on paper creates a dynamic interplay between form and negative space, with the vivid blue standing out against the warm, neutral background. The loose, fluid brushstrokes give the figure an organic, almost spontaneous energy, reminiscent of Matisse’s Blue Nudes series. The dripping paint and gestural lines evoke a sense of movement, reinforcing the sensuality of the pose. The arching posture of the figure conveys ecstasy or release, with an elongated, exaggerated form that enhances emotional intensity. The simplification of anatomy aligns with Fauvist principles—prioritizing emotional impact over precise realism. The choice of ultramarine is bold and effective. It has historical significance in art, often associated with spirituality and depth (as seen in Yves Klein’s monochromes), yet here it is used in a raw, expressive manner that makes the figure feel both powerful and ethereal. The use of tempera adds a unique opacity and depth to the strokes. It gives the painting a sense of immediacy, as if the artist captured the moment in a burst of inspiration. The visible brushwork and drips make the process part of the final aesthetic, reinforcing a connection between artist and viewer. The clear homage to Henri Matisse’s Blue Nude series is well-executed but doesn’t feel derivative—it builds upon his legacy while pushing it forward. The sensual yet modern representation of the female body echoes the freedom of early 20th-century modernists but with a contemporary edge. The piece also recalls the expressive, raw energy of Egon Schiele’s linework, albeit with a more fluid and painterly approach. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artist Statement "I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now. As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space. My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair. Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes, in a reversal of the male-artist/female-muse pattern, validate the feminine experience, defining myself through it. I was interested in how one experiences the body in a sensual form, and later focused on my own body, as I experience it myself, looking into the mirror and reconnecting. My work challenges the tradition of the nude by capturing my point of view, the gaze of a female painter, by using photography, drawings, sketches, and painting on canvas, for, both physical and psychological exploration. My art tries to create a visual language for emotion, beauty, feelings of intimacy and in the same time autonomy, captured with paint and vivid colors. My intense interest in color and the gestures of the brush strokes are the means I see and convey the subjects in space, as living, passionate beings." Paula Craioveanu
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Tempera

Sailboat Journey, Nautical Cyanotype Print on Watercolor Paper, Indigo Seascape
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. "Misty Sailboat Journey" is a handmade cyanotype print portraying a daytime sailboat journey...
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2010s Photorealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Monotype, Photogram, Paper

1960s "Fruit Bowl in Mexico" Gouache & Oil Pastel Abstract Mid Century
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield Mexican Fruit Bowl 1960s Oil Pastel and Gouache on Paper 36"x32" unframed $1600 *Custom framing available for additional charge. Please...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache

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 (elev...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Nude of Woman - Mixed Media by Achille Funi - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman nude is a modern artwork realized by Achille Funi in the early 20th Century. Mixed media on plywood. Hand signed on the lower margin. Includes frame.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Provence Vineyard Village Landscape Post-Impressionist Signed 1962 Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provence Landscape, Panoramic View of a Riverside Vineyard Village by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998) Signed lower right, dated 62 (1962) watercolour painting on paper, unframed meas...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

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