Paper Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Pouncing Tiger by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Ink and pencil on paper 18.1 x 25.7 cm (7 ⅛ x 10 ⅛ inches) Executed circa 1917 Artist biography: Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and ...

Study of Large Wild Cat Head by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Pencil on paper 20 x 26 cm (7 ⅞ x 10 ¼ inches) Executed circa 1917 Artist biography: Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien an...

Lioness in Profile by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Pencil on paper 20.3 x 27 cm (8 x 10 ⅝ inches) Executed circa 1917 Artist biography: Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies. She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy. Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects...

Study of Crouching Tiger by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968) Ink on paper 25.7 x 22.5 cm (10 ⅛ x 8 ⅞ inches) Executed circa 1917 Artist biography: Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucien and Esther Pissarro’s only child, was the first woman in the Pissarro family as well as the first of her generation to become an artist. Born in Epping, England in 1893, she lived and worked predominantly in London where she became a prominent member of several British arts clubs and societies. She first learned to paint in the Impressionist style of her father, but after a brief period of formal study with Walter Sickert in 1913 she renounced formal art schooling. Throughout her career, Orovida always remained outside of any mainstream British art movements. Much to Lucien's disappointment she soon turned away from naturalistic painting and developed her own unusual style combining elements of Japanese, Chinese, Persian and Indian art. Her rejection of Impressionism, which for the Pissarro family had become a way of life, together with the simultaneous decision to drop her famous last name and simply use Orovida as a ‘nom de peintre’, reflected a deep desire for independence and distance from the weight of the family legacy. Orovida's most distinctive and notable works were produced from the period of 1919 to 1939 using her own homemade egg tempera applied in thin, delicate washes to silk, linen or paper and sometimes embellished with brocade borders. These elegant and richly decorative works generally depict Eastern, Asian and African subjects, such as Mongolian horse...

A beautiful watercolour on paper circa 1920 by French impressionist painter Henri Duhem. The piece depicts a white and a brown horse grazing in a meadow. The sky beyond the row of gr...

A delicate, Art Deco derived, figural landscape showing a man seated on a riverbank with a stag standing in a copse of trees and wild horses playing in the distance. Signed lower right, 'Kay H. Nebel' for Kay Heinrich Nebel (German, 1888-1953) and dated November 9, 1915. After graduating with honors from an apprenticeship as an art and decoration painter in Hamburg, Nebel studied at the school of the Museum of Applied Arts in Berlin under Max Friedrich Koch. Study trips took him to Paris and Italy in 1911 and 1912. In 1913 Nebel accompanied an expedition with filmmaker and adventurer Hans Schomburgk to Liberia, West Africa, Togo and Sudan. After military service at the front in the First World War, Nebel taught figurative drawing at the School of Applied Arts in Darmstadt before joining the faculty at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Kassel in 1921. Nebel joined the Darmstadt Sezession movement in 1919 and was an important representative for the New Objectivity...

An original graphite on paper drawing by American modernist Charles E. Burchfield, created in 1917. This extremely rare work comes in an archival frame presentation and has been aut...

An elegant chalk sketch on paper of a goat. A really great piece from the German artist. Atelier stamped verso. Max Liebermann was a German-Jewish painter best known as a leader o...