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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings For Sale
Style: Art Deco
Style: Old Masters
Original Erte furniture Art Deco designs in ink and watercolour, 20th century
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Romain de Tirtoff, called ERTE (Russian/French, 1892-1990)
Meuble a Secrets
Ink and watercolour
Inscribed with details and signed with studio stamp (lower right)
9.3/4 x 12.7/8 in. ...
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20th Century Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Study of a Franciscan Saint, probably San Diego de Alcalá
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Ivan E. Phillips, Montreal and New York, until 2023.
The brothers Bartolomé Carducho and Vicente Carducho, both born and trained in Florence, settled in Spain where they made their careers. Vicente worked on numerous commissions for both the church and the Spanish court...
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17th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Ink, Pen
Landscape with Trees and a Fisherman walking, a drawing by Jan Van Goyen
Located in PARIS, FR
No Dutch draughtsman ever captured the atmosphere of the rural countryside of Holland with the same atmospheric and engaging simplicity that Van Goyen achieved in drawings such as this. Indeed, his landscapes were seminal in the development of the genre. The present sketch conveys a striking sense of movement within the natural landscape, conveyed by the deftly applied strokes of chalk, from which the artist’s hand can be sensed. The composition is characteristic of his work, with the low horizon affording significance to the broad sky and the soaring birds within. This feeling of windswept motion powerfully evokes the expansive Dutch farmland with which he was evidently preoccupied.
1. Jan van Goyen...
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1650s Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Ink, Laid Paper
Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
Pen and ink, ink wash and pencil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 38cm x 29cm (65cm x 55cm framed).
This penetrating and wonderfully executed self-portrait, is all the mor...
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1910s Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil, Ink
Watercolor Painting of Tropical Architecture in the Bahamas
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Delightful watercolor on paper of colonial architecture with water, mountains, and two mysterious figures. Signed in the lower left by noted Amer...
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20th Century Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Call to the Dance - 1930s British Theatrical illustration by Robert Sherriffs
By Robert Stewart Sherriffs
Located in London, GB
ROBERT STEWART SHERRIFFS
(1906-1960)
Call to the Dance
Signed
Black ink, unframed
30.5 by 49.5 cm.; 12 by 19 ½ in.
(mount size 47.5 by 65 cm., 18 ¾ by 25 ½ in.)
Born in Edinburgh, Sherriffs was educated at Arbroath High School and studied at Edinburgh College of Art, initially specializing in heraldry. He contributed to several magazines, and his caricature of John Barrymore in the Bystander led to a series of illustrations of celebrities for the Sketch which resulted in his being appointed the magazine’s film and theatre caricaturist from 1930 onwards. He also contributed weekly drawings to the Radio Times. He was expected to replace Will Dyson...
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1930s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
French Neo classical school, Allegory of Time, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Neo classical school, France, end of the 18th Century
Allegory of Time,
Pen and black ink on paper, gray ink wash
30.5 x 19 cm
irregularly shaped
In g...
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1790s Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
Antique French Old Master Sanguine Chalk Drawing Mother & Child portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Mother & Child"
French School, 19th century
sanguine chalk drawing on paper, unframed
painting: 23.25 x 17.75 inches
Condition report:
The painting i...
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19th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
La Traviata - Rodolphe - 4th act - Drawing by Erté - 1948
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
La Traviata - Rodolphe - 4th act is a modern artwork realized in 1948 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on...
Category
1940s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Figure Study
Located in London, GB
Black and red chalk on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 31cm x 27cm (50cm x 45cm framed).
Delmotte was a painter, draftsman, watercolourist and Belgian sculptor. A realist painter at first, he was influenced by Expressionism of the beginning of the century. An impressive list of gallery exhibitions of his work during his lifetime, either independently or as part of a group, indicate that he was a known and successful figure in art worlds of Belgium and Europe. Marcel Delmotte received numerous awards and honors throughout his career. He was named Knight of the Order of Leopold II...
Category
1930s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Italian Landscape, a drawing by Louis-Jean Desprez (1743 - 1804)
Located in PARIS, FR
This landscape, masterfully executed in pen and wash by Louis-Jean Desprez around 1779, probably represents a view of the Roman countryside. The treatment of the trees is very similar to that of two engravings which Desprez executed in Rome, The Island of Cythera and The Temple of Love.
1. Louis-Jean Desprez, a cosmopolitan life between Italy and Sweden
Born in Auxerre in 1743, Louis-Jean Desprez probably began his apprenticeship with the engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin...
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1770s Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Ink
Tiffany Vase Designs
Located in London, GB
Tiffany Vase Designs
Group of Three Porcelain Vase designs.
Paris, [1920’s].
Group of three original watercolour designs on paper, with marginal stamps “Planche d’aquarelle” with ...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Deco Woman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Deco Woman
Crayon on paper, c. 1920
Signed in ink lower left: "Wm. Sommer" (see photo)
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Edwin Sommer (the artist’s son)
Jose...
Category
1910s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
Tiffany Vase Designs
Located in London, GB
Tiffany Vase Designs
Group of Three Porcelain Vase designs.
Paris, [1920’s].
Group of three original watercolour designs on paper, with marginal stamps “Planche d’aquarelle” with...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Profil lauré
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Original ink drawing by Jean Cocteau signed and dated 1951 .
framed under museum quality glass .
drawing : 22.6 x 14.2 cm .
" profil lauré " is cer...
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1950s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
Regency portrait drawing of Lady Nugent
By John Downman
Located in London, GB
Collections:
With Ellis Smith, London;
Private collection, to 2015.
Literature:
G.C. Williamson, John Downman A.R.A., his Life and Works,
p. lviii no's. 2 and 3, p. xxxi.
Exhi...
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19th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Sheer Deco Nude – 14-10-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Love for Sheer Textures This graphite pencil drawing ‘Sheer Deco Nude – 14-10-22’ is a deepening of my love for texture of fabrics. My Last drawing of Louise Brooks also bea...
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
19th century watercolour of a Girl at her Dressing Table
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Muir Hetherington;
Sir John and Lady Witt, acquired 1974;
By descent to 2015.
Literature:
Tom Jones (ed.), William Henry Hunt 1790-1864, exh. cat., 1981, no. 145 (Girl in a bedroom);
John Witt, William Henry Hunt (1790-1864) Life and Work, London, 1982, no. 553, p. 194, colour pl. 16.
Exhibited:
Wolverhampton, Central Art Gallery, Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery and Hastings, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, William Henry Hunt 1790-1864, 1981, no. 145 as Girl in a bedroom (Lent by Sir John & Lady Witt)
Framed dimensions: 20 x 20.75 inches
This unusually charming and well-preserved watercolour was painted by William Henry Hunt in around 1833. Almost certainly depicting his young wife, Sarah, possibly in the interior of her family home at Bramley in Hampshire. This work shows Hunt’s remarkable virtuosity as a watercolourist, Hunt, for example, articulates the profile of his young wife, by leaving a reserve of white paper to suggest the light modelling her features. Throughout the 1830s Hunt made a sequence of richly painted interior views of both domestic and agricultural spaces which pay scrupulous attention to detail.
Hunt was born in London, the son of a tin-plate worker and japanner. J. L. Roget recorded the observation of Hunt’s uncle: ‘nervy, little Billy Hunt… was always a poor cripple, and as he was fit for nothing, they made an artist of him.’ At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to the landscape painter John Varley for seven years, moving to live with Varley at 18 Broad Street, Golden Square, London. There he made close friends with both John Linnell and William Mulready. Hunt worked at the ‘Monro Academy’, at 8 Adelphi Terrace, London, the house of Dr Thomas Monro, an enthusiastic patron of landscape watercolourists. Through Monro, Hunt was introduced to the 5th Earl of Essex...
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19th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Mercurio / Mercury
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely, early drawing of the Roman god Mercury.
Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, with a partial crown and shield watermark, 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches (184x 123 mm) (matrix). In go...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
18th century English scene of a groom with a horse in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful 18th century English gouache on paper of a 18th century English scene of a groom with a horse in a landscape.
One of a set of five all framed in Hogarth frames.
L.Green ...
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1780s Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Traditional Japanese Scene, Geisha Nude, Ukiyo-e Style, Mixed Media Marbling
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a handmade cyanotype print inspired by Hashiguchi Goyo's 1915 print "Woman After a Bath." This image of a Japanese traditional Ukiyo-e print is then hand coated using the sum...
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2010s Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Emulsion, Ink, Sumi Ink, Watercolor, C Print, Color, Engraving, Other Me...
Traviata - Rodolphe - 2nd act - Drawing by Erté - 1948
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Traviata - Rodolphe - 2nd act is a modern artwork realized in 1948 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Titled and numbered "9893" on the back.
Includes frame
Provenance :
- Erté personal collection.
- Serge Leeman collection.
Erté is responsible for the costumes and sets for Les Mamelles de Tirésias. This opera bouffe in two acts by Francis Poulenc based on a play by Guillaume Apollinaire...
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1940s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Art Deco Nude – 20-08-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Third One This drawing ‘Art Deco Nude – 20-08-22’ is the third one in a row inspired by a Walter Bird photograph. However, after the last graphite pencil drawing ‘Roundism...
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
'Twins (Contemporary)' original art deco drawing by Jorge Ruiz-Martinez
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Twins (Contemporary)' is an original drawing by the American artist Jorge Ruiz-Martinez. The artist works in an art deco style, imagining graceful figures in historic costume throug...
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2010s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Woman in a Fur Wrap
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman in a Fur Wrap
Pen and ink heightened with white, c. 1920
Signed in ink lower right (see photo)
Estate stamp verso (see photo)
Provenance: estate of the artist
Borghi & Company, New York
Condition: excellent
Sheet/Image size: 11 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Rudolph Bauer
1889-1953
"Rudolf Bauer was born in Lindenwald near Bromberg, Silesia, in 1889 but his family moved only a few years later to Berlin. In 1905 Bauer began his studies at the Berlin Academy of Art but left the Academy only a few months later to educate himself. The upshot was paintings, caricatures and comical drawings which were published in 'Berliner Tageblatt', 'Ulk' and 'Le Figaro'.
From 1912 Bauer contributed to the magazine and Gallery 'Der Sturm' founded by Herwarth Walden and pivotal to German Expressionism and the international avant-garde. In 1915 Rudolf Bauer participated for the first time in a group show at Walden's gallery. There he met Hilla von Rebay...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Confidences - Watercolor and Ink by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Confidences is a beautiful artwork realized by Luigi Bompard in the 1920.
Original Ink Drawing and watercolor.
Signed by the artist.
Good conditions except some minor foxing.
I...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Those Who Wait - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Those Who Wait is an ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In good conditi...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Preliminary Study for Cretan Dancer Bronze
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary Study for Cretan Dancer Bronze
Graphite on tracing paper, 1930
Unsigned
Note: The bronze sculpture measures 24 1/2 x 33 5/8 inches and is signed and dated 1930 on the base (see image on right). It is currently being offered for sale by Taylor Graham Gallery in New York. (see photo)
“The stylizing of the Cretan allegories, used in figures of animals such as horses and bulls, symbolizes the ancient power of the South. These figures reveal a spiritual sensuality as he strives to attain a symbol of the earth and universe endowed with musical values. If man is the center of his idea of life and nature, it is because of the laws that govern the movement of stars and history. The link binding his figures together has, in a sense, a Pythagorean harmony.”
Salvatore Quasimodo, Milan, 1967, quoted from Bush, Boris Lover-Lorski: The Language of Time, page 12.
Image size: 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches
Condition: Repaired tear in the lower left corner (see detail photo)
Boris Lovet-Lorski
Lithuanian/Russian/American
1894-1973
Sculptor, painter, and printmaker, Boris Lovet-Lorski was born in Lithuania in 1894. His mother died when he was age three. His father was affluent and owned real estate. Boris grew up in a privileged environment. He studied architecture and then fine arts at the Imperial Academy of Art in Petrograd, Russia (now Saint Petersburg). Following the revolution in 1917 and its aftermath, Boris immigrated to Boston to live with his brother. In the 1920’s, his stylized, Art Deco inspired sculptures, lithographs, and paintings proved to be popular among the American elite. He exhibited frequently, holding his first solo exhibition in Boston, 1920. In the following years, Boris exhibited in New York at Marie Sterner Gallery, Jacques Seligmann Galleries and Wildenstein and Company. He lived in Paris from 1926 to 1932 where he befriended Joseph Hecht, and was exposed to the works of Pablo Picasso, Ossip Zadkine, Contantin Brancusi and Aristide Maillol. In 1932 he returned to America where he became a citizen later in the decade.
Lovet-Lorski exhibited in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists (New York), the National Academy of Design (New York), and the Lotos Club (New York), as well as several Parisian salons. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Musée Luxembourg, Bibliotèque Nationale, and the Petit Palais in France, the British Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (A more extensive list of his works in museums follows) He is considered one of the most successful and recognized sculptors of his generation. His creative influence can be seen in many of his contemporary artists.
He died in Los Angeles in 1973.
Regarding his iconic Art Deco sculptures of Cretan Dancers:
“The stylizing of the Cretan allegories, used in figures of animals such as horses and bulls, symbolizes the ancient power of the South. These figures reveal a spiritual sensuality as he strives to attain a symbol of the earth and universe endowed with musical values. If man is the center of his idea of life and nature, it is because of the laws that govern the movement of stars and history. The link binding his figures together has, in a sense, a Pythagorean harmony.”
Salvatore Quasimodo, Milan, 1967, quoted from Bush, Boris Lover-Lorski: The Language of Time, page 12.
Lovet-Lorski created sculptures of the following major figures
I.J. Paderewski, Prime Minister of Poland
Arturo Toscanini, Italian Conductor
Lilian Gish, Actress
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mrs. M. C. Niarchos, wife of Stavros Niarchos
President Abraham Lincoln
James Forrestal, Secretary of...
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1930s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
CHILD - Alfonso Grassi Pastel on paper Portrait italian Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
CHILD - Pastel on paper cm.51x41 signed lower right by Alfonso Grassi, Italy.
Wooden frame with passeportout cm.94x73
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Late 20th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Springtime
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Our Gallery acquired the estate of a Northern California artist, Thelma Terrell. Terrell lived in Oakland and was an illustrator and professional graphic artist.
"Springtime" is an ...
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1930s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
Lady and News - Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Lady and News is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In good condition,...
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Mixed Media Painting of a Parrot in a Faux Bamboo Frame
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Lofty mixed media painting on brown paper of a parrot executed in classic Art Deco style with a bold stroke using watercolor and gouache. Signed by not...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
A red chalk study sheet by Baldassare Franceschini, known as Volterrano
Located in PARIS, FR
This fresh sanguine sheet presents various studies placed next to each other in no apparent order. Two of the feet studies are preparatory to the first major commission received by the young Baldassare Franceschini, shortly after his installation in Florence, the frescoes for the Medici Fastes. This cycle was executed between 1636 and 1646 for the Villa La Petraia, a Medici villa on the outskirts of Florence, which allows us to date this sheet to the artist's youth.
1. The Medici Fastes, the first major commission for a young artist
Born in Volterra in 1611, the town from which he took his nickname, Baldassare Franceschini apprenticed with his father, a sculptor of alabaster, one of his home town's specialities, and studied with Cosimo Daddi (1540-1630), a local artist. The Marquis Inghirami, who spotted his talent, sent him to the workshop of Matteo Rosselli (1578 - 1650) in Florence, which was also attended by Francesco Furini (1603 - 1646).
In 1636, Lorenzo de' Medici, the youngest son of Ferdinand Ier and Christine of Lorraine, chose the 25-year-old artist, again on the advice of the Marquis Inghirami, to decorate with frescoes the loggias of the inner courtyard of the Villa La Petraia, which he had just inherited on the death of his mother. The project lasted about ten years and included ten scenes placed symmetrically in two loggias on either side of the courtyard: four main scenes and six placed above the doors, each to the glory of a member of the Medici family.
This decoration was his major secular project, but Volterrano also executed several religious frescoes and a few easel paintings, often with less success. Among the religious commissions, we can cite the dome of the Colloredo chapel dedicated to Saint Lucy...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Paper
Intimate Talk - Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Intimate Talk is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In good condition,...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Girls with a Flower - Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Girls with a Flower is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In good cond...
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Seducing Lady - Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Seducing Lady is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In good condition,...
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
The Assumption of Mary Magdalene, Italian School, 16th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
Brownish ink and grayish ink wash with white heightening on handmade cream laid paper, 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (267 x 208 mm)(matrix). Scattered minor losses to top sheet edge (outside...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Three studies executed in the Pitti Palace in 1761 by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Located in PARIS, FR
This brilliant study sheet, of which we present here a counterproof, is a souvenir of Fragonard's return journey from Italy. Between April and September 1761, he accompanied the abbot of Saint-Non on his way back to France. Three studies after the masters taken from the Pitti Palace’s gallery in Florence are gathered on this sheet. Although The Ecstasy of Saint Margaret...
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1760s Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Gossip - Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Gossip is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In good condition, excep...
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Reading Letter - Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Reading Letter is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In good condition...
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Deco Dancing Hungarian Expressionism European Drawing Modernism Figurative Dance
Located in New York, NY
Deco Dancing Hungarian Expressionism European Drawing Modernism Figurative Dance. 22 1/2 x 16 inches. Signed lower left. Framed.
BIO
Hugó Scheiber was born in Budapest in 1873. At the age of eight, he moved with his family from Budapest to Vienna.
In 1898, to help support his family after they had returned to Budapest. He started working during the day, attending painting classes at the Commercial Art School in the evening. In 1900, he completed his studies.
Scheiber showed an early interest in German Expressionism and Futurism. In 1915 he met Marinetti, who invited him to join the Futurist movement. Because Scheiber's paintings conflicted with academic style of the Hungarian art establishment, his work was virtually ignored in his own country. In 1919, he and his friend Béla Kádár held an exhibition organized by Hévesy in Vienna, which was a great success, so much so that the Budapest Art Museum purchased two of his drawings.
In 1920, Scheiber returned to Vienna. A turning point in his career came in 1921 when Herwarth Walden, founder of Germany's leading avant-garde periodical, Der Sturm...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Elite Discourse - Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Elite Discourse is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In good conditio...
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Portraits of the Hon. Mary Shuttleworth and Anna Maria, 9th Baroness Forrester
Located in London, GB
THE HON. MARY SHUTTLEWORTH, NÉE COCKBURN (D. 1777)
and her sister
ANNA MARIA, 9TH BARONESS FORRESTER (D. 1808)
Pastel and gouache on paper laid on canvas, on their original backb...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Art Deco charcoal drawing by Jean Dupas of The Triumph of Venus, 1933
By Jean Dupas
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jean Dupas (French, 1882-1964)
The Triumph of Venus
charcoal on paper
signed and dated '33/JEAN DUPAS'
(lower right)
25 x 31.1/8 in. (63.5 x 79 cm.)
Dupas was born in Bordeaux. He...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Fighting Children and Mother Cry - Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Fighting Children and Mother Cry is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
...
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Art Deco Nude – 23-08-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Movement Another graphite pencil drawing ‘Art Deco Nude – 23-08-22’, inspired by again a smashing picture by Walter Bird. The last drawing shows a seated lady. Contrasts are always on my mind though. Not in the style but in movement this time. What attracked me in the motif was the angular position of the female form. I am not sure whether she stood still like this but it looks like some ritual dance. I can ask my Spanish model Julia who is a dancer to strikes these kinds of poses. All induced by Walter! Extrapolate Them The bodily features almost took up a perfect square. However, I wanted to make sure I wasn’t going to end up with too much negative space around her. Therefor, extrapolating her features into the negative space came to my aid. The planes that are born from this process support the overall expression of her moves, I think. Some of them I hached up to complete darkness, other to midtones. Vice versa I did in the positive form as well. The most contrasting tonal values (completely light / dark) I placed within the body. I wanted only mildly distracting or diffuse the viewer’s attention. This way I found a perfect balance. Emotional and Expressive Someone on called...
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Art Deco Nude – 06-08-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
A Second One This graphite pencil drawing ‘Art Deco Nude – 06-08-22’ follows one day after the first, done with my new pencils. In fact, immediately after the completion of the first one I started the second in my studio at Brugman Art. However, finished a day later but within an hour in total. Surely this shows my enthusiasm. The Pitt Graphite Matt pencils and the Ingres paper to me are a perfect match. You have to know that I like to search for new ways to quickly put my ideas on paper. Charcoal simply is too stainy, even though it is quick and easy to correct. Pastel is also quick but falls off the Ingres paper quite easy without fixation. They are not very handy to carry around in my backpack as well. Pencils I easily can carry with my in my handy Derwent pencil folder. Deco Again This Deco title is a bit of a laugh really. Art Deco is a pre World War II art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Service Staff - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Service Staff is a watercolored ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In good condition, e...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
The Street - Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
The Street is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In good condition, ex...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Mother and Child - Watercolor and Ink by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Mother and child is an original watercolored ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In goo...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Art Deco, 20th Century, fashion, dress design for 'Estelle'
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Circle of Erte, Romain de Tirtoff (Russian / French 1892 – 1990)
A dress design for Estelle
Pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
Inscribed ‘Estelle’ (upper left) with other notations...
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20th Century Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Mythological Subject - Charcoal and Ink Drawing
Located in Roma, IT
Mythological subject is a precious original drawing (black chalk, brush, and watercolor ink on ivory colored paper). Unsigned.
Inscription: "Disegnato dal P. e Scotti ricavato da que...
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19th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Charcoal
Art Deco Nude – 05-08-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
New Materials This Art Deco Nude as theme is not something new, the materials are. The last decade I have been using mostly Bristol paper for my graphite pencil drawings. It has a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Offering - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Offering is an ink and watercolor ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In good condition...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Decorative Squirrel Design, Pencil and Watercolour on Paper
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
Decorative Squirrel Design by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Pencil and watercolour on paper
45.4 x 32.4 cm...
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1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor, Paper
Gallant Proposals - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Gallant Proposals is an original watercolored ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In go...
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
The Family Scheme - Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
The Family Scheme is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In good condit...
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Art Deco pastel drawings of ballerinas on point by French artist Charles Gir'
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Charles Gir (French, 1883 – 1941)
Ballerinas on point
Pastel on paper
Signed ‘CH. Gir’ (lower left)
24 x 18.1/2 in. (61 x 46.8 cm.)
Charles Gir was born in Tours, France on November 1, 1883. He was a noted painter, watercolorist, pastellist, sculptor and illustrator.
Gir was married to the well-known actress, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, and attended the Paris Opera every night for 17 years. He made many sketches of dancers and caricatures, and at the end of his wife’s performance used to deliver them to the newspapers he worked for.
He knew Raoul Dufy, Frances Carco and Jehan Rictus.
He sculpted a bronze statue of Don Quixote that now stands near the Prefecture of Cergy-Pontoise; and he also illustrated several books, including Edmond Rostand...
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20th Century Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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