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Tom Clough (1867-1943) - Early 20th Century Watercolour, The Village in June
Located in Corsham, GB
An accomplished watercolour painting by the British artist Tom Clough. The scene depicts a charming village street with half-timbered houses and figures in the distance. Signed. Pres...
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20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Micro Gouache and Pencil Abstract Painting Bill Shields
Located in Arp, TX
Bill Shields "Micro Gouache and Pencil Abstract" 1990's Gouache and pencil on board Site measures 4.5"x4" silver wavy wood float mount 13.5"x12.75" Unsigned came from artist's estate...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Board, Pencil, Gouache

Lemon Meringue - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of a Multi-Colored Octopus
Located in Chicago, IL
A small octopus is inked in the Japanese style of Gyo-Taku print making. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, the artist then embellishes it with colored pencil to convey an extraordinary dimensionality. By printing it on Mulberry paper, which mimics the swirl of water, the artist achieves a beautiful aesthetic. The artwork is matted and framed in a simple white wooden frame measuring 18.25h x 24.25w x 1d inches. Jeff Conroy Lemon Meringue sumi ink and colored pencil on mulberry paper 12.50h x 18.25w in 31.75h x 46.35w cm JEC118 Gyotaku - A Japanese word translated from "gyo" meaning fish and "taku" meaning stone impression and is believed to get its inspiration from Chinese stone rubbings...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil

French Watercolor of Pont Royal, Paris, 1921
Located in Houston, TX
Combining soft sunlight, shadows, and reflections, French artist G. Genin provides an impressionistic view of the Pont Royal in Paris, 1921. Located between the Quai Anatole France a...
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1920s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Harry E. James (c.1870-1920) - Framed Early 20th Century Watercolour, Spring
By Harry E. James
Located in Corsham, GB
A very fine watercolour by the British artist Harry E. James (c.1870-c.1920). The scene depict a beautiful Cornish farm house set back from a field of spring daffodil. Well-presented...
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20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Mid 20th Century, Belgium, A Gent Morning Market
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Belgium. Gent - A Morning Market by Leonard Machin Rowe (1880-1968) signed and inscribed front lower right corner, inscribed and signed to the back watercolour painting on artist's ...
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1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor, Graphite

Sans Titre 2 Original Pastel/Drawing on Paper
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Roberto Matta Title: Sans Titre 2 Medium: Original pastel/drawing on paper Signed: Hand Signed Measurements: 20" x 25" Framed: 28" x 35" Authentication: Kajsa Westling N...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper

An Innovative Mid-Century Modern Landscape by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Unique, 1960s Mid-Century Modern, European City View Watercolor by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Artwork is formatted in a trapezoid shape, an innovative compositional dev...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

"The Red Silo" Winold Reiss, Rural Regionalist Landscape, Sunny Day on Farm
Located in New York, NY
Winold Reiss The Red Silo Signed lower left Watercolor on paper 20 x 29 inches Winold Reiss (1886-1953) was an artist and designer who emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1913. Probably best known as a portraitist, Reiss was a pioneer of modernism and well known for his brilliant work in graphic and interior design. A compassionate man who greatly respected all people as human beings, he believed that his art could help break down racial prejudices. Like his father Fritz Reiss (1857-1915), who was also an artist and who was his son's first teacher, Winold Reiss was artistically moved by diverse cultures. The elder Reiss focused on folk life in Germany while Winold drew substantial inspiration from a range of cultures, particularly Native American, Mexican, and African-American. As did many young aspiring artists, Winold Reiss studied with the esteemed painter and teacher Franz von Stuck at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, which was at that time a center of the decorative and fine-arts movement. It is not known whether Reiss met E. Martin Hennings...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Untitled IV
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled IV" 1993 is a large graphite drawing on two sheets of paper by Japanese/American artist Tadashi (Tagashi) Hayakawa, b.1941. It is hand signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 23.5 x 37.5 inches, framed size is 32.75 x 46.75 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, with fabric matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Tadashi Hayakawa...
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Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

A Grand Tour view of St Peter's Rome, Roman Campagna, Italy
By Thomas Hartley Cromek
Located in Harkstead, GB
A wonderful view of St Peter's, Rome encompassing the elegant landscaped gardens with rolling campagna in the background. Attributed to Thomas Hartley Cromek...
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Mid-19th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Untitled
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) was a pre-eminent figure of postwar American art and one of the most important artists (and instructors) of the 20th century. Born in Germany, Hofmann immigr...
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1940s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Crayon

Vintage French Watercolor Landscape - Rural Outskirts
Located in Houston, TX
Warmly hued watercolor of rust colored homes and buildings dotting a rural landscape by French artist Stephane Magnard, circa 1950. Signed lower right. Stéphane Magnard was the pain...
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1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Serene Valley Watercolor
Located in Houston, TX
French watercolor of a serene valley path by artist Raymond Segond, circa 1960. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border....
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1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

universe 02
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
In this work, I have used acrylic and enamel to capture the vast and mysterious beauty of the universe. Abstract swirls and galaxies represent constant evolution and cosmic dynamism....
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Enamel

Painting under le Pont Neuf River Seine Paris, Fine Impressionist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Le Pont Neuf by Rene Ligeron (French 1880-1946) signed lower left watercolour painting on paper, framed framed size: 6 x 7.75 inches Delightful French Impressionist painting capturi...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

Late 19th Century Watercolour - Crashing Estuary Waves
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine late 19th century watercolour by an unknown hand, evocative of tidal waters and the coastline of the British Isles. Unsigned. Well presented in a cream card mount and antique ...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Provence Town with Mountains
Located in Houston, TX
Classic mid-century ink drawing of Provence town with mountains in background by French artist Jean-Baptiste Grancher, circa 1960. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat...
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1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Asleep. Contemporary Mixed Media on paper
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela brings vibrant immediacy to her figurative paintings. She uses a depth of colour and bright outlines of her figures to emphasize shape and contours. In all her works Angela gi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil

The Chess Game (antique drawing by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance")
Located in New Orleans, LA
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...
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1890s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

"Siren" Welsh Surrealist Fairy Figurative Framed Watercolor And Ink Painting
By Liz Wall
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Liz Wall. Welsh. Siren. Watercolor & Ink. Signed & Dated 2011 Lower Right. Image size 11.4 inches x 18.9 inches ( 29cm x 48cm ). Frame size 25.6 inches x 26.8 inches ( 65cm x 68cm ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

"San Anton Palace Malta" Early 20th Cent. Garden and Fountain Watercolor Russian
Located in Soquel, CA
A significant early 20th century landscape watercolor of the paradisical gardens at San Anton Palace in Attard, Malta by Nicholas Krasnoff, 1920 (Russian, 1864-1939). This beautiful piece is a wonderful example of the renowned Russian architect's prized watercolors, created while he was exiled to Malta in the early 1920's. Depicting a lush garden full of blooming, colorful flowers and a stately fountain at the San Anton Palace in Malta, one can see the deft hand and attention to detail rendered by the proficient artist and architect's hand. Signed "N. Krasnoff" lower right. Titled and dated "Malta, St. Antonio 1920". Unframed. Measures 10.25"H x 14.25"W. Right corner has a crease from being bent. Nikolay Petrovich Krasnov, also known as Nicholas Krasnoff or Peter Nicholas Krasnoff, was a Russian Serbian architect and painter. He served as Chief Architect of Yalta, Crimea (1887-1899). From 1922 he lived and worked in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was a key figure in the architectural development of Belgrade. Attending the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1876, aged 12. As a young artist he received patronage from Sergey Tretyakov, brother of the founder of Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, and entrepreneur Petar Gubonyin. In 1887 Krasnov became Chief Architect in Yalta. At the age of 23, Krasnov had large responsibility for the rapid growth of the city. He expanded the promenade, which by 1913 became the city's main street, before creating a new city plan in 1889 (including a new sewer system, planning regulations, new streets, prevention of unregulated construction, a school and children's hospital, and the construction of the Pushkin Boulevard). Two concrete bridges were built over the river, and the embankment strengthened. Krasnov also ran a private practice in Yalta until 1911. Among his most famous work is the Livadia Palace, later the location of the 1945 Yalta Conference. Designed over 60 buildings in Crimea, blending a modernist style with local traditions. Also of note: Dulber Palace, Koreiz (1895-97), Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Yalta (1902), Yusupov Palace, Koreiz (1909), Kokkoz Jami Mosque, Sokolyne (1910). In 1913, he presented a collection of illustrations he had produced of his works to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he held the title of academician. An opponent of the Russian Revolution, he left Yalta with his family in 1919 for Malta, alongside the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, sister of Queen Alexandra, and over 600 members of the Russian aristocracy. Nikolay was in a group housed in the empty Villa St Ignatius, which had been a Jesuit college and then a hospital during World War I. To earn money, Nikolay painted many scenes of Malta, signing his paintings as N. Krasnoff. He is known as Nicholas Krasnoff in Malta. In May 2016 MaltaPost issued a commemorative set of stamps in his honor. In 1922 Krasnov moved to Belgrade, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he became head of the Department of Monumental Architectural Developments and Monuments. His building designs in Serbia number around 60, and were created under the name Nikola Krasnov, as a mark of respect to his adopted homeland. His key works in Belgrade include: Ministry of Forestry building (now Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (1923) which bears a memorial plaque...
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Illustration Board

Old town. The embankment 2017, oil on canvas, 40x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Spruce in snow. 2010, cardboard, oil, 24x34 cm Valery Bayda (1958) Valery Bayda was born in 1958 in Russia. From 1983 to 1989 he studied at the All-Unio...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Autumn by the River - Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene landscape by J. B. Schock. Several trees line the banks of a river, bursting with fall colors. Across the river on the far bank, the roof and chimneys of a house can be seen beyond the trees. California painter...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Waterco...

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Watercolor, Laid Paper

Untitled
Located in Dallas, TX
Francis Chapin was one of the most celebrated painters in Chicago during his lifetime. When he was a young art student, Valley House founder, Donald Vogel, painted with "Chape" on th...
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1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Vintage art - French cottage. Landscape with houses. O/C, signed
Located in PARIS, FR
Excellent overall condition. Analysis under UV light shows no retouching, and no prior restaurations. Original canvas.
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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

View of a Mansion in the South of France, a drawing by Claude-Joseph Vernet
By Claude-Joseph Vernet
Located in PARIS, FR
We would like to thank Madame Beck-Saiello for confirming the autograph nature of this drawing after an in-person examination. It was probably during an excursion in the countryside near Avignon that Claude-Joseph Vernet executed this drawing, enhanced with pen and brown ink, depicting a mansion on a hilltop overlooking a small village with geometric shapes. 1. Joseph Vernet, a painter influenced by Italy Claude-Joseph Vernet was born in Avignon in 1714, the son of Antoine Vernet (1689-1753), an artisan painter of architectural decorations, coach panels, and the like. He moved to the studio of Philippe Sauvan (1697-1792), a leading history painter in Avignon, and then worked with Jacques Viali (active 1681-1745), a decorative, landscape, and marine painter in Aix-en-Provence. Vernet's first recorded paintings were decorative overdoors executed in 1731 in the Aix townhouse of the marquise de Simiane. In 1734, Joseph de Seytres, marquis de Caumont, a leading amateur in Avignon, sponsored Vernet to make a study trip to Italy to complete his artistic education and to draw antiquities for his patron. As Avignon was a papal territory in Vernet's day, he also had a number of useful introductions among influential churchmen when he arrived in Rome. Vernet was soon at home in the French community there, and he was encouraged by Nicolas Vleughels (1668-1737), director of the Académie de France in Rome, even though the young painter had no official affiliation with the royal institution. He likely entered the studio of the French marine painter Adrien Manglard...
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1730s Old Masters Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Laid Paper, Pen, Carbon Pencil

French Country Landscape, Watercolour, The Farm
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century watercolour on paper of a farm in a landscape by G Lemy. The painting is signed bottom left and presented in a plain wood frame under glass. A charming bucolic sc...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Vue des Invalides
Located in PARIS, FR
Watercolor on charcoal lines Signed L.V lower right Provenance: - Belgium, Private collection.
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20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Oxen on Road, Gaspé, Canada, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Oxen on Road, Gaspé, Canada, 1932 Watercolor on board Signed and dated lower right 15.25 x 21 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, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery. In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College. Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country." Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Untitled Female Nude
By Steven Assael
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Female Nude) Graphite and sgrafitto on yellow paper, 1987 Signed lower right Note: Steven Assael is represented by Forum Gallery in New York. In 1977 he won the Charles Ro...
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1980s American Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

1893 Watercolour - Low Tide, Venice
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour depicting boats at low tide off the shore in Venice, Italy. Signed with a monogram, dated and titled. Presented in a gilt frame and gold mount. On paper.
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Late 19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism Jo Cain (1904 – 2003) Good Health Week 10 ½ x 15 1/2 inches Oil on pape...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

A bridge over river Oil on canvas British Inscribed William Marlow
Located in London, GB
William Marlow (1740 - 1815) A bridge over river Oil on canvas  Inscribed, 'William Marlow' to old label verso Provenance: J. Palser & Sons, 27 King Street, London Dimensions: (Fra...
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Late 18th Century English School Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Mid Century Winter Farm Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully vivid winter landscape painting, attributed to Ingeborg Christensen (Danish/American, 20th Century), c.1940. Signed "Ingeborg" lower left. Presented in a light orange/tan...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Laid Paper

Autumn Forest - Mid Century Abstracted Fauvist Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century fauvist watercolor landscape with lush, vivid trees and distant houses by Emily Shotwell Goeller-Wood (American, 1887-1965). Presented in a rustic giltwood frame...
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1940s Fauvist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Mary Chugg (1935-2024) - Framed Contemporary Pastel, Birthday Party
Located in Corsham, GB
Pastel on paper. Signed in the lower left. Well presented in a contemporary wooden frame.
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21st Century and Contemporary Interior Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

'Reclining Nude' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Di Gesu Estate Stamp verso for Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955. An elegant, freehand sketch of a young woman with a bob cut, shown naked and reclining on...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

Sea Coast Landscape, Original Watercolour, Pastel, Gouache, Britany
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work. Not Framed. Museum matting & backing included, ready to be framed in a standard frame 40x30 cm. Medium : Watercolour, Gouache...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Charcoal, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Pastel, Gouache

Junction - line drawing woman figure with silver new moon
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artworks were done with acrylic, ink in silver and white color on black watercolor paper 360g. The works are 12 by 16.5 inches in size, framed (silver...
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2010s Minimalist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

George Pyne (1800-1884) - Mid 19th Century Watercolour, The Castle Grounds
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed faintly to the lower right. Artist Name inscribed to the mount. Presented in a gilt frame and washline mount. On paper.
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Mid-19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Toiler's House Drawing
By George Demont Otis
Located in Soquel, CA
Significant 1940s work titled "Toiler's House" by George Demont Otis (American, 1879-1962). Titled "Toiler's House on the bottom left and signed "George Demont Otis" on the bottom right. Presented in a black wood frame. Image size, 12"H x 18"W. Otis was born in Memphis, Tennessee where he was orphaned at age six and was raised by his grandmother in Chicago...
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Crayon, Pencil

Fleurs et Papillons - Fauvist Flowers Watercolor & Gouache by Raoul Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
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...
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1920s Fauvist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Cormorant Rock, Gaspé, Canada, Mid 20th Century, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Cormorant Rock, Gaspé, Canada Watercolor on Whatman board Signed lower right 22 x 30 inches 29 x 37.5 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...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Vintage Figurative Landscape -- Sleeping Among the Trees
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling figurative nude with a surrealist feel by Ken Bower (American, 20th-C) a San Francisco Bay area artist. Pastel chalk color on paper created in 1980. Signed “Ken Bower 80' ...
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1980s American Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Chalk, Pastel

Thoughts - line drawing woman figure with white dandelions
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artworks were done with acrylic, ink and watercolor in white color on black watercolor paper 360g. The works are 12 by 16.5 inches in size, framed (bla...
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2010s Minimalist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

Delicacy, Jo Haran, Original Painting, Affordable Art, Floral Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Delicacy by Jo Haran [2020] original Watercolour, gouache and gesso Image size: H:36.5 cm x W:49 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:38 cm x W:50.7 cm x D:0...
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21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Still-life Drawings and Water...

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Gesso, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

1940's Provence Painting French Light Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998) From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947 watercolour painting on paper, unframed measurements: 10 x 13.5 i...
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19th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: David Fox (American, 1920-2011) Title: Landscape Year: 1992 Medium: Pastel on paper Paper: Wove paper Image size: 10.5 x 13.25 inches Fram...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Fenêtre sur lac, Original Painting, Still-Life, Interior Scene, Ready to hang
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Oil painting and Oil based color pencils on Archival Cardboard 2mm - Original Painting and Drawing, Still-Life, Interior, Ready to hang Work Title : Fenêtre sur lac (EN : Window on lake) Artist : Gabriel Riesnert...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil Crayon, Oil, Cardboard

H. A. Hanpen - Framed Early 20th Century Watercolour, White Mountains
Located in Corsham, GB
An early 20th century watercolour depicting alpine landscape with snow capped mountains in the distance. Well-presented in an elegant gilt-effect frame. On watercolour paper.
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20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Early autumn. 1990, cardboard, oil, 70x93 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Early autumn. 1990, cardboard, oil, 70x93 cm Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in different seaso...
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1990s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Mother Cat and her Two Kittens - Handsigned Original Ink Drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Laszlo TIBAY Mother Cat and her Two Kittens Original India ink and lavish drawing Handsigned Bearing the stamp of the artist On light board 20 x 30cm (c. 7.8 x 11.8 inch) Excellent...
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2010s Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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India Ink

“Reclining Female Nude”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil pastel on archival paper by the well known American artist, Byron Browne. Signed lower right and dated 1956. Condition is excellent. Recently professionally rematted. Original frame in very good condition. Overall framed measurements are 23.75 by 31.75 inches. Provenance: A Long Island, New York estate. Byron Browne: American (1907-1961) Byron Browne was a leader of the American Avante Garde art movement in the 1930’s and 40’s along with Bolotowsky, Greene, Gorky, and de Kooning. These artists helped pave the way for America, New York in particular, to be seen as a center for art innovation after decades of France being the art center of the world. He had more than 70 solo exhibitions during his lifetime. Browne's early artistic training was conventional, and little about his time at the National Academy of Design (1924-1928) suggested he would depart from the traditional methods in which he was being schooled. Several experiences are identified as being important to his transformation to an abstract artist. In 1927, he and his friend Arshille Gorky visited Albert Gallatin...
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1950s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel, Archival Paper

Standing Female Figurative Nude in Watercolor and Pastel on Paper by B. Warde
Located in Soquel, CA
Standing Female Figurative Nude in Watercolor and Pastel on Paper A woman is depicted standing, presumably pregnant, in the nude with her hand on the small of her back. The artist u...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Watercolor

Egyptian Buffalo & Farmers 19th Century American Orientalist Framed Watercolor
By Edwin Lord Weeks
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Edwin Lord Weeks. American ( b.1849 - d.1903 ). Egyptian Buffalo And Farmers, Egypt. Watercolor On Paper. Monogram Lower Right. Image size 5.1 inches x 8.3 inches ( 13cm x 21cm ). F...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

'Roofs of Ravello', Mid-Century Abstract, Harvard Fogg Museum, SFAA, Carmel, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'M. W.' for Margaret Wentworth (American, 1914-1999) and dated 1959. Exhibited: Feingarten Galleries, Carmel, California, 1960, and titled on label, verso, 'Ro...
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1950s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera, Postcard, Pen

Woman Figure - Original Ink and Pastel on Paper - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Woman Figure" is an original erotic ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on white paper, realized by Anonymous Artist of the XX Century. In excellent condition...
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20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel, Ink

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