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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings For Sale
Period: 18th Century
Period: 1940s
four drawings colored inks nude
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Pedro Pruna Ocerans (1904-1977) - Four drawings - Ink drawing
Four framed drawings, ane of them signed and dated.
Frame measures 26x29 cm.
Pere Pruna Ocerans (Barcelona, 1904-1977...
Category
1940s Post-Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
The Death of Attis, 18th Century French Red Chalk Drawing, Greek Mythology
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper
Image size: 9 x 7 inches (23 x 17.75 cm)
Acid free mount
The Greek god Attis was the spouse of Cybele, the fertility goddess. He was from Phrygia, a kingdom in c...
Category
18th Century French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Paul Brown Original Pencil Drawing For The 1946 Scribner's Book "Fur Or Feather"
Located in Bristol, CT
Belle, Being The Younger, Usually Got There First And, Grabbing The Bird...
Original pencil drawing for the 1946 Charles Scribner's Sons book "Fur Or Feather Days With Dog And Gun" ...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Antique Italian artist - 18th/19th century figure drawing - St. Sebastian
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian artist (18th-19th century) - Study for a St. Sebastian.
28 x 22 cm. 50 x 35 cm with passepartout.
Ink and pencil drawing on paper, without frame.
Condition report: Good st...
Category
Late 18th Century Baroque Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Paull Sandby, R.A. Ink & Wash on Paper of a Chair
By Paul Sandby
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 4 1/4"H x 3 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 8"H x 7"W
Paul Sandby RA (1731 – 7 November 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours, who, along with his older b...
Category
18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Old Master Drawing, Roccoco, 18th Century, German Artist, Animal Drawing
By Johann Martin Metz
Located in Greven, DE
Black chalk, partly washed, on paper, sheet 27.5 x 19.7 cm
Plain gold moulding, 44.8 x 36 cm
The Rhenish still life painter Johann Martin Metz was ...
Category
18th Century Rococo Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
View of Castle of Vianen, Batestein, Dutch Golden Age, Schouman, Old Master Art
By Aert Schouman
Located in Greven, DE
Though he is most celebrated today for his extraordinary work as an artist of ornithological and zoological subject matters, Schouman was also a prolific documenter of landscape in his native Holland. The present drawing, which depicts a view of the Castel of Vianen, fits securely into a corpus of drawings Schouman produced on the same scale and in the same distinctive combination of media, examples of which are today housed in the collection of the Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen, Middelburg.
Castle Batestein (also called Batenstein ) is a castle disappeared from the Netherlands . It was built on the banks of the Lek in the small town of Vianen, then in the province of South Holland (now in the province of Utrecht ).
The castle was burned down in 1696 and then demolished. Remains only the Hofpoort (or castle gate...
Category
18th Century Baroque Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Pen
Moroccan Woman with Girl by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Work on paper
Located in London, GB
Moroccan Woman with Girl, Pastel with Gold and Silver on Paper
Pastel with gold and silver on paper
47 x 62cm (18 ½ x 24 ⅜ inches)
Signed lower right, Manzana Pissarro
Painted circa ...
Category
1940s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Court Jester - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously and carefully rendered period piece that reenact this magicaly moment. Works on Paper, Gouache, Watercolor over traces of pencil heightened with white on illustration ...
Category
1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Les Voiles by Léopold Survage - Abstract watercolour, Landscape, Modern
Located in London, GB
Les Voiles by Léopold Survage (1987-1968)
Watercolour on paper
23 x 38 cm (9 x 15 inches)
Monogrammed, stamped and dated lower right
Executed in 1945
Provenance
Private collection, ...
Category
1940s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Charles Culver Watercolor Landscape "Red Hills Near Patzcurao" Signed & Dated
Located in Detroit, MI
The idyllic atmosphere of this Mexican scene is located in Mexico, west of Mexico City and south of Guadalajara. “Red Hills Near Patzcuaro” is set in a golden light. and was one of three paintings by the artist while the artist visited Patzcuaro, Mexico. The humans depicted lend an atmosphere to the painting and an indication of location - dressed in native Mexican peasant dress - without being obtrusive and causing the viewer to concentrate on them. The intense red hills of Patzcuaro are the feature in this painting along with the pinon and juniper trees and the Chamisa shrub. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and museum 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 Culver...
Category
1940s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Woman in Fantasy Costume (pair)
Located in New York, NY
The pair consists of the present work and an engraving after it by the hand of Giles DeMarteau (Liège 1722 – 1776 Paris) titled Woman in Fantasy Costume, after Jean Baptiste Le Prince, and measuring, 10 ⅜ x 8 ⅝ inches (26.5 x 22 cm).
DeMarteau's engraving is inscribed at the bottom:
Le Prince inv. del. / Demarteau sc. / A Paris ches Demarteau Graveur du Roi, rue de la Pelterie à la Cloche...
Category
18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Engraving
Snowy roofs
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
40 x 46.5 x 1.5 cm
This work depicts a snowy village with remarkable precision, capturing the essence of a serene winter. The roo...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Four Charging Polo Players" Signed Original Etching by Nat Lowell (1880-1956)
Located in Bristol, CT
Pencil signed LR c1940s
Art Sz: 7 1/2"H x 9"W
Frame Sz: 13 1/4"H x 14 1/2"W
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
The Dethroning / Italian School, 18th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite and grayish ink wash on bluish wove paper, 7 x 10 1/2 inches (177 x 265 mm) (matrix). Scattered surface soiling, adhesive residue, dog-eared corners, and scattered edge tears along left margin, outside of image area. Paper is braced on the verso with two pages from a mid 19th century book with illustrations by C.Perrin. One image depicts a scene of a group of soldiers representing the Holy Roman Empire...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Theatre Scene, Opera, Old Master Drawing, Griselidis, Mallet, French Art
Located in Greven, DE
Unknown Artist, French School 18th Century, Circle of Mallet? Scene taken from the Decamerone.
Old Master Drawing
Category
18th Century Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Cardboard
Harlequin Lady and Her Owl - Color Drawing by Amalia Schulthess
Located in Pasadena, CA
Everything about Amalia Schulthess's work is wonderfully delicate. Our gallery usually features abstract works by this artist. We're very gifted to have this rare figurative and sign...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Middle Eastern Man with Turban and Blue Cloak in Profile against Yellow
Located in Miami, FL
Portrait in primary blues and yellow of perhaps a Persian man. He is in profile set against a decorative yellow background with floral elements. The work...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Original 1944 Pencil Drawing From Hi, Guy! The Cinderella Horse By Paul Brown 39
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W
1944
Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown
*Book sold separately*
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Original 1944 Pencil Drawing From Hi, Guy! The Cinderella Horse By Paul Brown 28
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W
1944
Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown
*Book sold separately*
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Dancing Hassid
By Marcel Janco
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original mixed media on paper
Combining pastel, watercolor and pencil
Hand signed and dated lower right
Unique piece
Category
1940s Dada Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Pencil
Lyre Bird (Design for the cover of Poetry London), 1943, Ink, gouache and pastel
Located in New York, NY
Ceri Richards
Lyre Bird (Design for the cover of Poetry London), 1943
Ink, gouache and pastel on paper
Bears original Jonathan Clark & Co. label on the back of the frame
Unique
Frame...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Gouache
Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys
Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
Category
1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Casein
Barbara Regina Dietzsch Watercolor Painting of White Primrose, ca. 1730
Located in New York, NY
Barbara Regina Dietzsch, 1706-1783
White Primrose, Japanese Quince, a Beetle, and a Butterfly, ca. 1730
Opaque watercolor painting
inscribed on...
Category
1730s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Georg Philipp I RUGENDAS (1666-1742) - Frederick I of Prussia
By Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Georg Philipp I RUGENDAS (1666-1742)
Frederick I of Prussia
Red chalk, ink and brown wash on paper
45x42 cm
This drawing has been long considered representative of Charles VI. In r...
Category
Early 1700s Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Dancer in Pink
Located in Mc Lean, VA
American Impressionist
Category
1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard
'Rainy Day, Pool and Billiards', Laguna Beach Art Association, Solvang, Moure
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Marshall Thomas' for Marshall F. Thomas, (American, 1916-2011), and painted circa 1945.
An elegantly composed and atmospheric view of a California Main Street sh...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Geneva countryside
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Good condition
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"At The Longchamp Races", Gouache on paper by Spanish Artist Roberto Domingo
Located in Madrid, ES
ROBERTO DOMINGO FALLOLA
Spanish, 1883 - 1956
AT THE LONGCHAMP RACES
signed and located "R. Domingo, París" (upper right)
gouache on paper
10-1/2 x 13-1/4 inches ( 26.5 x 33.4 cm.)
f...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Soldier begging for Mercy a preparatory study by Jean-Marc Nattier (1685 - 1766)
Located in PARIS, FR
This rare drawing by Nattier is part of a set of preparatory studies executed in 1717 for one of the painter's first commissions, the painting commissioned by Tsar Peter I of Russia ...
Category
1710s Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Original 1944 Pencil Drawing From Hi, Guy! The Cinderella Horse By Paul Brown 5
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W
1944
Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown
*Book sold separately*
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Nero's Temple On The Nile
By Willy Pogany
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Middle Right
Sight Size 20.50" x 27.00;" Framed 30.25" x 35.00"
Framed and matted under glass in antique gold painted art deco...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jahangir with Empress Nur Jahan on a Tiger
Located in Middletown, NY
circa 1750. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on brown laid paper, 12 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (317 x 210 mm), with a floral-motif border painted in blue and gold, the full sheet. With extensive inscriptions in Persian written in black ink on the verso. In good condition with extraordinary color. We see Empress Nur Jahan making an offering to a sage in his hut, as Emperor Jahangir looks on from a tree stand.
Nur Jahan was fond of hunting and often went on hunting tours with her husband and was known for her boldness in hunting ferocious tigers. She is reported to have slain four tigers with six bullets during one hunt. According to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan this feat, inspired a poet to declaim a spontaneous couplet in her honor: "Though Nur Jahan be in form a woman, In the ranks of men she...
Category
18th Century Rajput Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
two drawings colored inks nude
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Pedro Pruna Ocerans (1904-1977) - Two drawings - Ink drawing
Two framed drawings, all of them signed and dated.
Frame measures 23x28 cm.
Pere Pruna Ocerans (Barcelona, 1904-1977) ...
Category
1940s Post-Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Portrait of a Young Officer, Thomas Lawrence, Irish Volunteers
By Sir Thomas Lawrence
Located in London, GB
Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA
1769-1830
Portrait of a Young Officer
Pastel with touches of black chalk on paper
Signed and inscribed on an old label verso: "Be pleased to keep away / from the Damp & from dust / T Lawrence AE 13. / 1783."
Wash mount and gilt frame
Provenance
W.E. Spooner;
Anonymous sale, Phillips London, 17 April 2000 lot 196
Sothebys, Old Master & Early British Paintings, 14 April 2011 • London Lot 246
Old label verso describes how this was drawn in 1783 at the age of 14!
This is a portrait of an officer from the Irish Volunteers. The Irish Volunteers was a part-time military force raised by local initiative in Ireland in 1778. Their original purpose was to guard against invasion and to preserve law and order at a time when British soldiers were withdrawn from Ireland to fight abroad during the American Revolutionary War.
As a young boy Thomas Lawrence lived with his parents who ran a coaching inn near Bath. Clearly talented from this young age, he drew the passing travellers who stopped at the inn and this soldier may have been one such sitter. Lawrence was only 13 years old when he drew this work. To capitalise upon their son's talents, the family later moved to Bath and sent Lawrence to London in 1787 where he entered the Royal Academy schools at the earliest possible age. Works from such an early period of Lawrence's creativity are rarely to be found today.
This rare early portrait drawn in Bath shows the level of technical skill that Lawrence had reached at 14 years old. His use of colour and tone to depict flesh and all the subtle variations in the texture and pigmentation of his sitter’s face, powdered hair and clothes show how Lawrence conceived pastel as a form of painting and partly explains how he could have made the smooth transition to oil painting so soon afterwards.
When he arrived in Bath from Devizes in 1780, eleven-year-old Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) was promoted as a natural-born genius like his Renaissance predecessor Raphael. The local press announced the arrival of the boy wonder and his ‘Striking Sketches’, inviting the ‘Nobility and Gentry’ to sit for their portraits.
Thomas Lawrence was a prodigious portraitist from the age of just eight, when he began to draw his first portraits in pencil...
Category
1780s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
"Untitled (Dock Scene)" Watercolor on Paper, Local Scene, Buildings, Water
Located in Detroit, MI
The idyllic atmosphere of this local dock 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 (Dock Scene)” is typical of a small town dock scene from Michigan where Culver lived or from places as far away as Maine, but what makes it important is its easy familiarity: water, gulls or terns, slanting wood shanties, scruffy dirt patches and course grasses. It is not idealized, but does set the tone of fresh air, the scream of birds and the sun on water. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and museum 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 Culver...
Category
1940s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Two Cavalry Officers" Pencil Drawing by Paul Brown
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic pencil sketch c1930s by the equine master, Paul Desmond Brown
Art Sz: 7 3/8"H x 10 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 14"H x 17"W
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Row of Plane Trees In Winter - Maussane-les-Alpilles
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Row of Plane Trees In Winter - Maussane-les-Alpilles', Provence, watercolour and pencil on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1946). A line of Plane trees greets visitors to almost every vi...
Category
1940s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Attrib. Johann Tischbein (1751-1829)- 18th Century Pastel, Maria Luisa of Parma
Located in Corsham, GB
A romantic late 18th-century pastel portrait, attributed to the German portraitist Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751-1829). Exquisitely presented in its original giltwood frame...
Category
18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Legend meets the Second World War: Allegory of St George Slaying the Dragon
Located in London, GB
Vivan Bewick
Allegory of St George slaying the Dragon
Gouache
22 x 13 cm
Signed to reverse along with the Golden Hinde, probably for publication in Swillbin or similar.
This goua...
Category
1940s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Drawing of George Kelly's "Craig's Wife"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Drawing by George Wachsteter (1911-2004), for the revival of George Kelly`s ...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
beggars spanish modernism colored pencils
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ricard Opisso - Beggars - Colored pencils
Measurements drawing 21x31cm.
Frame measures 39x48 cm.
Damaged paper at bottom.
Anti-reflective glass.
Son of Alfredo Opisso y Viñas, journalist, historian and critic, and of Antonia Sala y Gil, his sister Regina Opisso, was also a writer. He comes from an enlightened family full of artists. His paternal grandfather was Josep Opisso y Roig, journalist and director of the Diari de Tarragona, father of the also writers Antonia Opisso y Viña and Antoni Opisso y Viña. His maternal great-grandfather was the painter Pere Pau Montaña, his maternal grandfather the fabulist Felipe Jacinto Sala and his maternal uncle, the painter Emilio Sala y Francés. His nephew was Arturo Llorens y Opisso, a writer better known under his pseudonym Arturo Llopis.
Although he was born in Tarragona, his family moved to Barcelona when Opisso was only two years old. In modernist Barcelona at the end of the 19th century, Opisso worked as an assistant to Antonio Gaudí in the works of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona since 1892. He was linked to the group Els Quatre Gats, along with Ramón Casas...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
"Masquerade" Original Watercolor & Ink Storyboard by Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
Note: We highly recommend shipping through 1stDibs for its cost effectiveness, full insurance coverage, and reliable handling. While standard parcel services are an option, the defau...
Category
1940s Art Nouveau Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Miss Twisty: Back to the City - Mid-Century Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Miss Twisty is a story of a young girl who leaves the big city to spend time in the country. The book is filled with insight and humor. This work is a deftly rendered black-and-wh...
Category
1940s Academic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of a Man Wearing a Turban, 18th Century Pastel Drawing
By Thomas Frye
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Image size: 13 x 17 1/2 inches (33 x 44.5 cm)
Mounted and framed
This original pastel drawing by Thomas Frye is a half-length portrait of a man dressed in a turban. This drawing is the original sketch for one of the heads depicted in Frye's collection 'Twelve Mezzotint Prints' of 1760 and it can be assumed that this pastel work was created earlier of this same year.
Two versions of the print, created from this original work, are currently held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Frye's evocative figures, although presumably based on living models, exceed the conventions of portraiture, and also function as character studies. The man shown here - dressed in the fashionable 'Turkish' manner - turns with parted lips as if poised to speak, while raising the elegant fingers in one hand in a rhetorical gesture. His long eyelashes and smoothly rendered wrinkles and dimples are hallmarks of Frye's refined style.
The Artist
Thomas Frye (c. 1710 – 3 April 1762) was an Anglo-Irish artist, best known for his portraits in oil and pastel, including some miniatures and his early mezzotint engravings. He was also the patentee of the Bow porcelain factory, London, and claimed in his epitaph to be "the inventor and first manufacturer of porcelain in England," though his rivals at the Chelsea porcelain factory seem to have preceded him in bringing wares to market. The Bow porcelain works did not long survive Frye's death; their final auctions took place in May 1764.
Frye was born at Edenderry, County Offaly, Ireland, in 1710; in his youth he went to London to practice as an artist. His earliest works are a pair of pastel portraits of boys...
Category
1750s English School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Le Pont du Vey by Paulémile Pissarro - Charcoal drawing
Located in London, GB
Le Pont du Vey by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Charcoal on paper
24.5 x 31.5 cm (9 ⁵/₈ x 12 ³/₈ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower centre and upper right
Executed circa 1940s
...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A 1940s American Scene Watercolor of a Chicago Street Scene by Grace Spongberg
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1940s American Scene watercolor depicting a snowy Chicago Street Scene by artist Grace Spongberg. Image size: 12 1/2" x 17". Framed size: 18 1/2" x 22 1/2". This painting come...
Category
1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Original 1944 Pencil Drawing From Hi, Guy! The Cinderella Horse By Paul Brown 12
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W
1944
Provenance stamp on verso:
The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown
*Book sold separately*
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
1940s Fashion Study Featuring an Advertisement for Lilly Daché Perfumes
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s fashion study featuring an advertisement for Lilly Daché Perfume. Artwork size:
11" x 8 1/2". Archivally matted to 12". x 16". Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin...
Category
1940s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Woman Folk-1 & 2, Pencil on Paper, Set of 2 Works by Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Woman Folk-1 & 2
Pencil on Paper
5 x 3.4 inches
(Set of 2 Works)
(Framed & Delivered)
In this evocative pencil sketch, Bose captures a candid moment among a group of wom...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Pencil
Rajgir-1 & Roadside Tea Stall, Bankura, Pencil on Paper, Set of 2 Works-In Stock
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Rajgir-1 & Roadside Tea Stall, Bankura
Pencil on Paper
7 x 10 inches & 9.3 x 7 inches, 1943
(Set of 2 Works)
(Framed & Delivered)
In this evocative sketch, Atul captures...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Pencil
Fakir-1 & 3, Figurative, Pencil on Paper, Set of 2 Works by Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Fakir-1 & 3
Pencil on Paper
6 x 6 inches & 6.6 x 6 inches
(Set of 2 Works)
(Unframed & Delivered)
In this evocative sketch, Atul captures the weathered face and humble p...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Pencil
Squatting Man-2 & 4, Figurative, Pencil on Paper, Set of 2 Works "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Squatting Man-2 & 4
Pencil on Paper
4.5 x 3.5 inches & 4.5 x 5.4 inches, 1943
(Set of 2 Works)
(Unframed & Delivered)
His poignant sketch captures the quiet vulnerabilit...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Pencil
Portrait of a Young Man, Figurative, Pencil on Paper by Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Portrait of a Young Man
Pencil on Paper
8 x 6 inches, 1935
(Unframed & Delivered)
In this delicate pencil portrait, Atul renders the profile of a young man with remarkab...
Category
1730s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Pencil
Divertimento I (Picasso)
By Conger A. Metcalf
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Divertimento I (Picasso)
Graphite, color wash and oil paint on coated glossy paper, c. 1940
Signed C. Metcalf lower left (see photo)
Inscribed Matisse, Picasso, C. Metcalf lower left...
Category
1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le 3e Régiment d'Infanterie Légère - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Le 3e régiment d'infanterie légère is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
Hand-signed.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines in well-balanced conditions.
Herbert Knotel was a german artist, son and pupil of the famous uniformologist and military historian Richard Knotel...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Henri Matisse Drawing Masque D'eskimo Crayon
Located in Dallas, TX
Henri Matisse Drawing Of An Eskimo COA By George Matisse.
Pencil on paper, 1949,
Unsigned.
Sheet size: 11.75 Inches x 9.2 Inches
Framed in Museu...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
The Thinker? —vintage drawing, original 'Superman' artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leonard Nowak, 'The Thinker?', conté crayon and India ink, c. 1940s. Signed in ink, lower left. Original cartoon drawing, on textured, off-white wove dra...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, India Ink
Drawings and Watercolor Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
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Drawing is often considered one of the world’s oldest art forms, with historians pointing to cave art as evidence. In fact, a cave in South Africa, home to Stone Age–era artists, houses artwork that is believed to be around 73,000 years old. It has indeed been argued that cave walls were the canvases for early watercolorists as well as for landscape painters in general, who endeavor to depict and elevate natural scenery through their works of art. The supplies and methods used by artists and illustrators to create drawings and paintings have evolved over the years, and so too have the intentions. Artists can use their drawing and painting talents to observe and capture a moment, to explore or communicate ideas and convey or evoke emotion. No matter if an artist is working in charcoal or in watercolor and has chosen to portray the marvels of the pure human form, to create realistic depictions of animals in their natural habitats or perhaps to forge a new path that references the long history of abstract visual art, adding a drawing or watercolor painting to your living room or dining room that speaks to you will in turn speak to your guests and conjure stimulating energy in your space.
When you introduce a new piece of art into a common area of your home — a figurative painting by Italian watercolorist Mino Maccari or a colorful still life, such as a detailed botanical work by Deborah Eddy — you’re bringing in textures that can add visual weight to your interior design. You’ll also be creating a much-needed focal point that can instantly guide an eye toward a designated space, particularly in a room that sees a lot of foot traffic.
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