Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

CLAES-THOBOIS Albert Statue. Pastel. Signed and dated 1929. Provenance : Collection of the mistress of the artist. Born in Ixelles in 1883, Claes-Thobois studied at the Academy of Brussels under Constant Montald...

A charming late 19th century painting by a follower of the prolific Victorian watercolourist, Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899). In this endearing scene children are pictured together on the back of a makeshift sledge, pulled along by a patient ploughing horse...

Late 19th century delicate watercolor of the harbor at Cape Ann, Gloucester, Massachusetts depicting rocks in the calm water along with seagulls and sailboats in the distance, by 19th century artist and Reverend William George Puddefoot (American, 1842-1925). Signed "W.G. Puddefoot" lower left. Titled on verso, "Cape Ann Scenery / Near Gloucester, Sunset". Presented in a carved giltwood frame and off-white mat. Reverend William George Puddefoot [1842-1925] (also known as W C Puddefoot) was an artist, traveler, lecturer and the field secretary for the American Home Missionary Society [1826-1893]. For his work, Puddefoot traveled all over the US, lecturing and doing missionary work, including: Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana Pennsylvania, California and Connecticut. He was known for being an extremely colorful character especially in his sermons and lectures. Puddefoot wrote the book Minute Man...

Original watercolor on archival paper of the mountains of Saint Maurice in Switzerland by the well known American artist, Dodge MacKnight. Signed lower left and titled and dated 189...

Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Fisherman's Island, Boothbay, Maine, c. 1925 Watercolor on paper Signed lower left 15 x 20 inches 20.75 x 25.75 inches, framed Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox...

Costume for Aida is a drawing in tempera and watercolor on brownish paper realized in 1920 ca. by an Anonymous Italian artist of the early 20th century. In very good condition The ...

Gorgeous pair of two 1920's watercolor portraits of Gibson girls, one in blue and one in pink, by Charles Hollman (Dutch, 1877-1953). Each portrait renders...

SIR WILLIAM BLAKE RICHMOND, RA (1842-1921) Study of an Angel Pencil on the artist’s writing paper for Beavor Lodge, Hammersmith Unframed 22.5 by 17 cm., 9 by 6 ¾ in. (mount size ...

Raro studio dell'artista Preraffaellita Frederick Sandys,Studio per l’opera Portrait of a Lady,( Anne Simms Reeve of Brancaster Hall, Norfolk) proprie...

Well-drawn early 19th century French watercolor of a family in a wooded landscape. Framed in an antique water gilded frame, which might be the original to the piece. The quality o...

A charming depiction of figures in abbey ruins. Signed and dated in the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.

Despite the tears and repairs, this remains an absolutely wonderful drawing, by a famous Southern artist. Many of you clicking on this are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparked an arts renaissance in the South, the arts and culture in general having been mostly moribund since the dispiriting defeat experienced in the Civil War. I won't bog you down with lots of detail here since all you have to do is Google his name to bring up a wealth of information about him. He is most famous for his leadership of the arts program at Newcomb College in New Orleans, and its famous Newcomb Pottery...

A charming watercolour depiction of the Holy family's flight to Egypt. They stop to rest beneath a tree with an infant St. John the Baptist to the right of the composition. Unsigned....

American Impressionist California coastal watercolor painting by Charles Partridge Adams (1858-1942), circa 1925. This stunning piece captures the beauty of the coastline with vibran...

Typical battle scene by T. Fort, in very good conditions and signed by the artist. A very interesting artwork for a connoisseur of the militaria genre! Theodore Géricaul Fort (1810 - 1896), Simeone Fort's son, belonged to the French school of the XIX century; Théodore Fort...

Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Fog over North Beach, Percé Rock, Gaspé, Canada, c. 1929 Watercolor on paper Signed lower left 13.75 x 20 inches Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian. In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer...

Estuary scene with boathouse and cottage in the foreground, watercolour on paper. Unsigned. Attributed to James Chisholm Gooden (fl.1835-1875). Presented in a wash-line mount and gil...

Provencal Landscape by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998) signed inscribed verso From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947 watercolour painting on paper, unframed me...

WILLIAM HENRY BARRIBAL (1873-1956) Her Best Bonnet Watercolour and bodycolour over traces of pencil Framed 23.5 by 18.5 cm., 9 ¼ by 7 ¼ in. (frame size 42 by 36 cm., 16 ½ by 14 ¼...

Born in Ixelles in 1883, Claes-Thobois studied at the Academy of Brussels under Constant Montald and Herman Richir. His career spanned an age of g...

This late 19th century French pen and ink drawing depicts the decoration of Monte Carlo by Lucas and George Clairin (French, 1843-1919). The price inc...

*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE. Once an order is placed we will arrange the VAT of 20% to be reduced to 5% La Rochelle. Sortie du port by Paul Signac (...

Sublime antique watercolor of the rising seaside cliffs of Porth Dafarch beach located in Wales, circa 1870. Artist unknown. Original vintage one...

Anonymous. BIRDS. Ink and watercolor on tissue thin Japanese laid paper. Not dated, unsigned. A lovely drawing showing 9 birds and heads of two others. 10 5/8 x 14 1/2 inches (sheet)...

Nude of Woman is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Jean-Hyppolyte Flandrin. The little artwork is in good condition on a yellowed paper. Signature by pencil on the back of the drawing, included a white cardboard passpartout (34x21.5 cm). Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (23 March 1809 – 21 March 1864) was a 19th-century French painter. His celebrated 1836 work Jeune Homme Nu...

Otto Schubert Pen & Ink Fairy Tale is an original pen & ink sketch 1927 from one of the artist's illustrations for a fairy tale. There is a father and mother fox talking to two younger versions of themselves. They are all dressed in human clothes at the door of their house with smoke coming out of the chimney. Next to the house is a tree with a mountain in the background and another house in the distance. There is gardening equipment here and there. In the foreground we see sketches of a rabbit in different poses with some writing in German below the middle image.The artis'ts pencil signature is bottom right. A rare opportunity to own an original signed sketch by this artist. There is a wrinkle in the bottom right side otherwise normal wear and in fair condition. Karl Max Otto Schubert ( 1892-1970 ) was a rising star in Dresden when the city was considered the cultural center of Germany. In 1919 he founded the Dresdner Sezession Gruppe together with Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, Conrad Felixmüller and others. Schubert was known for his portfolio of war lithographs...

Allegory of Water is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922. Signed and dated on plate on the lower central margin (...

Figure is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the mid-19th Century by Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Original Pencil Drawing. Hand-signed. Good condition.

Dazzling French watercolor of fall colored foliage lining a large path, circa 1920. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archiv...

Artist: Guy Dollian (1887 - 1964) Title: L'Escalier Date: 1926 Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower left Image Size: 18.5 x 11.5 inches Frame Size: 27 x 19.5 inches

Thomas Cooper Moore. English ( b.1827 - d.1901 ). Prospect Of Nottingham Castle And The Park. Watercolor. Signed Lower Left. Image size 12 inches x 17.3 inches ( 30.5cm x 44cm ). Fr...

Beautiful late 19th-century watercolor landscape in the style of Elmer Wachtel (American, 1864-1929), by an unknown 19th-century artist. This small watercolor...

French School 19th Century, Portrait of a dandy, watercolor on paper 19 x 13 cm Signed (?) with pencil lower right "L ... " illegible Framed : 29 x 23 cm

Important Russian-French Impressionist Gouache & Watercolor paining by Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus (Пётр Александрович Нилус in French Pierre Nilouss (1869– 1943), signed circa 1925. N...

Italian. 1871. paper, mixed media, 20.5x15 cm

Henri Harpignies (1819-1916) A Barrier on the hedge, study Signed lower left, annotation "branches séchées sur la barrière" (dried branches on the fence) on the upper right Charcoal...

Passageway North Africa was executed during Walter’s extensive travels throughout Spain, Northern Africa, and the Dalmatian coast. These works are magnificent snapshots –pictorial po...

Original pastel on archival paper by the well known Hudson River artist, George Douglas Brewerton. A Northern California scene near Mount Shasta. Signed lower left and dated 1876. Recently professionally matted and framed in new antique silver style gallery frame. Overall framed measurements are 27 by 36 inches. Under glass. Condition is excellent. Provenance: A Pennsylvania collector. George Douglas Brewerton received lessons in art from Prof. Robert W. Weir at West Point where his father was Superintendent. In 1874, he was detailed to San Francisco as an officer in the Stevenson Regiment. In 1848, he underwent many adventures in Western deserts and mountains with Kit Carson, who crossed the country with news of the California Gold Rush. After serving as an aide to Gen. Rufus Saxton during the Civil War, Brewerton called himself “Colonel,” although he never received an army commission...

Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in purple ink, 13 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches (340 x 222 mm). Toning, handling creases and...

Botanical watercolour and gouache on paper circa 1920 by French fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. The work depicts flowers in red and butterflies in blues, yellows, black and white. This work was executed by Dufy as a fabric design. Dimensions: Framed: 17"x27" Unframed: 10"x20" Provenance: Private collection of works by Raoul Dufy for Bianchini Ferier Bianchini Ferrier Collection - Christie's London - July 2001 SF Fall Show Raoul Dufy was one of a family of nine children, including five sisters and a younger brother, Jean Dufy, also destined to become a painter. Their father was an accountant in the employ of a major company in Le Havre. The Dufy family was musically gifted: his father was an organist, as was his brother Léon, and his youngest brother Gaston was an accomplished flautist who later worked as a music critic in Paris. Raoul Dufy's studies were interrupted at the age of 14, when he had to contribute to the family income. He took a job with an importer of Brazilian coffee, but still found time from 1892 to attend evening courses in drawing and composition at the local college of fine arts under Charles Marie Lhullier, former teacher of Othon Friesz and Georges Braque. He spent his free time in museums, admiring the paintings of Eugène Boudin in Le Havre and The Justice of Trajan in Rouen. A municipal scholarship enabled him to leave for Paris in 1900, where he lodged initially with Othon Friesz. He was accepted by the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under Léon Bonnat, whose innate conservatism prompted Dufy to remark later that it was 'good to be at the Beaux-Arts providing one knew one could leave'. And leave he did, four years later, embarking with friends and fellow students on the rounds of the major Paris galleries - Ambroise Vollard, Durand-Ruel, Eugène Blot and Berheim-Jeune. For Dufy and his contemporaries, Impressionism represented a rejection of sterile academism in favour of the open-air canvases of Manet, the light and bright colours of the Impressionists, and, beyond them, the daringly innovative work of Gauguin and Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Dufy was an out-and-out individualist, however, and was not tempted to imitate any of these artists. He produced, between 1935 and 1937, Fée Electricité (Spirit of Electricity), the emblem for the French utilities company Electricité de France (EDF). Dufy visited the USA for the first time in 1937, as a member of the Carnegie Prize jury. In 1940, the outbreak of war (and his increasingly rheumatic condition) persuaded him to settle in Nice. When he eventually returned to Paris 10 years later, his rheumatism had become so debilitating that he immediately left for Boston to follow a course of pioneering anti-cortisone treatment. He continued working, however, spending time first in Harvard and then in New York City before moving to the drier climate of Tucson, Arizona. The cortisone treatment was by and large unsuccessful, although he did recover the use of his fingers. He returned to Paris in 1951 and decided to settle in Forcalquier, where the climate was more clement. Within a short time, however, he was wheelchair-bound. He died in Forcalquier in March 1953 and was buried in Cimiez. Between 1895 and 1898, Raoul Dufy painted watercolours of landscapes near his native Le Havre and around Honfleur and Falaise. By the turn of the century, however, he was already painting certain subjects that were to become hallmarks of his work - flag-decked Parisian cityscapes, Normandy beaches teeming with visitors, regattas and the like, including one of his better-known early works, Landing Stage at Ste-Adresse. By 1905-1906 Friesz, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Van Dongen and Rouault were described collectively as Fauves (the wild beasts). What they had in common was a desire to innovate, but they felt constrained nonetheless to meet formally to set out the guiding principles of what promised to be a new 'movement'. Dufy quickly established that those principles were acceptable; moreover, he was most impressed by one particular painting by Henri Matisse ( Luxury, Calm and Voluptuousness) which, to Dufy, embodied both novelty and a sense of artistic freedom. Dufy promptly aligned himself with the Fauves. Together with Albert Marquet in particular, he spent his time travelling the Normandy coast and painting views similar...

A pair pf 19th century English School watercolor portraits of a man and woman, possibly husband and wife. Both are inscribed on the rever...

Signed to the lower left. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.

A delightful rustic scene from the Victorian period with figures chatting outside a thatched cottage English School, mid 19th Century Figures conversing by a cottage and stream Wat...

Carl Martin Western Mountain Landscape Watercolor Painting c.1970 Outstanding watercolor signed Carl Martin Original watercolor on paper ...

Architectural Floral Wallpaper Fragment 19th Century Italian hand painted floral design wallpaper lined with linen, in gold leaf framed.

A finely-drawn, pastel still-life showing red tulips informally arranged in a Chelsea soft paste porcelain Chocolate pot decorated in the Japanese style and set beside a cup and sauc...

"Green Landscape" by Philadelphia born modernist and surrealist painter Leon Kelly, is a framed and matted landscape painting. The 17.5" x 23.5" watercolor and ink on paper is signed...

The Landscape is a drawing realized by an anonymous artist in the late 19th century. Pastel on paper. Good conditions. Poetic and beautiful drawing.

Signed lower left, 'R. Gallon' for Robert Gallon (English, 1845-1925) and painted circa 1880. This well-listed landscape and seascape painter maintained a studio in St John's Wood, ...

A 1920s caricature of Irish politician Padraic Colum by artist Isa M. Macnie. Inscription on drawing reads: "Padraic Colum". Image size: 8 7/8" x 6 7/8". Archivally matted to 12...

Powerful French pencil sketch of nude male figure, circa 1920. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival pla...

In the yard. 1869, watercolor on paper, 30, 5 x 47, 5 cm C. J. W. Huns was born in the family of Estonian teacher, organ player and sacristan Karl Fridrich Huhn. He studied in Rig...

Untitled Watercolor on paper, c,. 1890 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the artist Image/Sheet size: 3 1/4 x 4 1/8 inches From Wikipedia "Francis Augustus Lathrop (June 22, 1849 – Oct...

Tea at the Ritz, New York Colored chalk, 1912 Signed with the estate stamp verso. (see photo) Authenticated by the artist's daughter, Mme Paulette Johnston. Image size: 10 5/8 x 10 1...

This is a fine detailed French Naturalistic portrait. Executed on November 2nd 1889 and signed PHL. In good condition. Signed and dated middle right. Provenance. Private collection. ...

Original Watercolor "Portrait of a Child in a White Dress" After Mary Cassatt C.1890 Gorgeous original painting by mystery artist. The painting is fain...

A dramatic 19th Century watercolor painted by a competent hand in the style of David Cox the Elder. A spirited scene with weather-beaten figures on the waterfront looking out to sail...

A charming miniature scene in the manner of Dutch artist Philips Wouwerman. The watercolour depicts a single figure fetching a heavy pail of water for two hard working horses. Also n...