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View of Burano La Giudecca in Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1973.
Hand signed lower left.
Titled and dated on rear.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bouquet of Flowers - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1960s.
Hand signed and dated lower left.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died i...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Knight and the Lady - Drawing by Mino Maccari - mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Charcoal and watercolor drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century.
Hand signed in pencil.
Some minor signs of the time on edgex.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Fine 1930s, Art Deco Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Standing Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Art Deco Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed ea...
Category
1930s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Landscape Sketch, Impressionist Graphite Drawing by John Koch
By John Koch
Located in Long Island City, NY
John Koch, American (1909 - 1978) - Landscape Sketch, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Graphite on Paper, Size: 13.75 x 20 in. (34.93 x 50.8 cm)
Category
1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
French Watercolor of "Château de Plessis-Bourré" Reflected on Tranquil Waters
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of "Château de Plessis-Bourré" Reflected on Tranquil Waters
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, ...
Category
Late 20th Century French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Mid Century French Monochrome Watercolour, The Monastery
Located in Cotignac, FR
French mid century monochrome watercolour of a church and surrounding buildings by Henri Royere. The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a plain wood frame under glass.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor, Gouache
Pastel on paper Shtetl Scene
Located in Surfside, FL
Pastel or Tempera on paper. Judaica Shtetl scene of village.
Anatoli Lwowitch Kaplan was a Russian painter, sculptor and printmaker, whose works often reflect his Jewish origins.
his...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Man in Raincoat, Vintage Modern Watercolor Painting
By John Dobbs
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstracted portrait of a man in a raincoat by artist John Dobbs. This impressionistic depiction of the subject allows for stylistic references to Monet, and Sisley.
John Barnes Dobbs, a determinedly figurative painter who launched his career in the 1950s against the prevailing winds of Abstract Expressionism, lived to see a time when Realism would coexist with Abstraction, Minimalism, Conceptual Art and a variety of other artistic movements. On August 9 Dobbs died at his home in New York’s Greenwich Village at the age of 80.
In his final works, Dobbs’ figures appear against flat backgrounds, iconic as the images on tarot cards: acrobats, boxers and contortionists, struggling against the physics of their own bodies and that of the universe.
Dobbs had many solo shows at galleries, universities and museums. His work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio, and the Salon Populiste in Paris. Dobbs’ paintings are part of the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; the Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; the Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH and the Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MA.
From 1972 to 1996, he was a Professor of Art at John Jay College, City University of New York. He was a member of the National Academy, to which he was elected in 1976.
Born in 1931 in a small house by the Lackawanna Railroad...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Est...
Category
1960s Renaissance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
$2,200 Sale Price
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Johann Weinmann: c18th Botanical Engravings in Decalcomania Frames, Set of 6
Located in Richmond, GB
A group of mezzotint engravings of flowers from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in hand-made parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frames.
Johann Weinmann (1683-174...
Category
18th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Vintage Male Erotica 1951 Figure Study of a by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1951 graphite on paper, black and white figure study of a nude male, from 1951, by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 19" x 12 1/2". Archivally matted to 24" x 20". Provenance...
Category
1950s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
$285 Sale Price
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Flower Pot - Ink Drawing by Maurizio Gracceva - 2010
Located in Roma, IT
Flower Pot is an original artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva (Roma, 1955) in 2010.
Good condition.
Hand-signed.
Watercolor China.
Author of numerous philosophical and literary...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P5.13), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 20 x 14.5 in. (50.8 x 36.83 cm), Description: Arranged tightly around...
Category
1960s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Street Scene, Sperlonga Italy - Watercolor Architecture in Browns and Blues
Located in Morgan Hill, CA
"Street Scene, Sperlonga Italy" is a watercolor by award-winning L.A. artist and architect Thomas W. Schaller. The painting depicts layers of steps, walkways, arches, and windows. Peaceful and alive with light, the streets of Sperlonga Italy lend themselves freely to a heart of adventure and exploration. Thomas's attention to immediate detail reminds the viewer to be present and to soak in every moment as something extraordinary. This architectural watercolor is primarily painted in brown, tan, and blue colors. For more works by Thomas Schaller...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model (Shoulder and Arm) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exception...
Category
1930s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Standing Male Model (Back)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Nude Model (Back) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed early 1930s...
Category
1930s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Jake Lee "Tractor in the Barn" Original Watercolor Painting c.1990
By Jake Lee
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fine watercolor painting by noted American artist Jake Lee
Though untitled, we are calling this "Tractor in the Barn".
A nice farm scene with chickens outside a barn.
Dimensions 1...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Untitled 601 - Contemporary Abstract Landscape Blue Hunter Green Teal, 2021
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns, geometric shapes in indigo, bright blue and dark hunter green and delicate lines in bright prismatic colors complement a teal grayish blue background. Sig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Entanglement XII by Joachim van der Vlugt - Semi-abstract painting, woman's body
Located in Paris, FR
Entanglement XII is a unique oil on paper painting by contemporary artist Joachim van der Vlugt, dimensions are 57 × 42 cm (22.4 × 16.5 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Paper
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Drawing 426
Located in Paris, IDF
Indian ink and marker on archival paper
Sumit Mehndiratta is an Indian artist born in 1986 who lives & works in New Delhi, India. He has pursued Master of Science in International F...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Archival Paper, Permanent Marker
Jean Michel Basquiat Portrait. From the Series Maestros
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the Series Maestro Jean Michel Basquiat, 2017
Watercolor, pencil on paper
Size: 50 H x 45 W cm
framed size 70 H x 62 W x 4 D cm
Unique
Wood frame
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Emerson Cáceres, artis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Pencil
untitled- abstract nude woman bright color oil pastel drawing on paper
Located in New York, NY
Bruno Lassalle
Untitled, 1993
18.75 x 15.75 inches; framed in natural wood color 21.6 x 19.6 inches
oil pastels on board
signed 'LASSALLE' and dated recto; stamped verso
Bruno Lassa...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Untitled (P95.93) White Brown abstract
By Caio Fonseca
Located in Greenwich, CT
From his most desirable period, this restrained in color palette Fonseca is for a collector and room where sophistication is key. Long held that his works on heavy paper are the mos...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Untitled (Man Undressing)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Signed, c.l.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now live...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
W. Bolt - Framed Late 19th Century Watercolour, Ships Off a Choppy Coastline
Located in Corsham, GB
Fine late 19th-century nautical watercolour. Ships off a choppy coastline. The buoy has been inscribed 'Shambles', and the watercolour has been heightened with white. Well presented ...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Modernist Nude In Pose India Ink Drawing 1960's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6017Modernist Nude ink and watercolor woman in pose 1960's
Category
1960s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, India Ink
Hillside, Hudson (Realistic Charcoal Landscape Drawing of Trees in a Forest)
By Sue Bryan
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and white landscape drawing of country forest with hints of green pastel
charcoal and carbon on Arches paper
8 x 10 inches un...
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Charcoal, Paper
New Brighton Eucalyptus Landscape
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor of eucalyptus along New Brighton beach by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Mon...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P6.33), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 20 x 15 in. (50.8 x 38.1 cm), Description: Draping over the side of t...
Category
1960s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Original French Anatomical Pencil Study of a Horse in Profile
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original French Anatomical Pencil Study of a Horse in Profile
Artist: Robert Ladou (French, 1929-2014)
Medium: Pencil on Paper
Size: 14.25 (Height) x 19.25 (Width)
Signed: No
...
Category
20th Century Academic Animal Paintings
Materials
Pencil
$433 Sale Price
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Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P6.30), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's lush sti...
Category
1960s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
River Side, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - River Side (57), Year: circa 1961, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 15 in. x 22 in. (38.1 cm x 55.88 cm), Description: Bobbing beside the moor...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still life with fruits 1975. Paper, watercolor, 54x54 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Dzidra Bauma (1930)
Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers and still life. She is one of the most productive wate...
Category
1970s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
David Cox Jr ARWS (1809-1885) - 1851 Watercolour, Bouloton Abbey
By David Cox
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming depiction of Boulton Abbey from a distant meadow. Signed and dated to the lower right below the mount. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Fig. 8 BASE NEUTRO. From The Dibujar el Tiempo Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The project is a series of ink drawings on different surfaces, depicting the solstices and equinoxes of the year through the overlapping of shadows at various times of the day. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Venice, Piazza San Marco - Watercolor by A. Guidotti
Located in Roma, IT
Venice is an amazing colored watercolor on paper realized in the early years of the XX century by the Italian artist, Antonio Guidotti (1881-1958).
Signed in black ink on lower left margin.
This modern artwork representing the most famous square of Venice Piazza San Marco...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Muscular Man Pencil Drawing by Bernard Sleigh RBSA (circa 1900-1920)
Located in London, GB
Muscular Man pencil drawing on wove paper (circa 1900-1920), by Bernard Sleigh, RBSA (Provenance: from the artist's studio). An exquisite drawing which is possibly a study for a larg...
Category
Early 20th Century Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
John Sennhauser Geometric Abstract Pen and Ink Drawing, 1944
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Original pen and ink drawing by New York Abstract Artist, John Sennhauser (1907-1978)
Signed lower right "J. Sennhauser" and dated '44.
Titled and dated on the verso: "Line in Motion...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Still Life - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed right.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
H.E. Foster - Early 20th Century Charcoal Drawing, Old Scott
Located in Corsham, GB
A characterful sketch portrait of an elderly sea captain, captured in side profile with a flowing white beard. Executed with confident, economical lines, the drawing conveys a strong...
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Drawing Chalk Portrait of a Lady Renaissance French Romantic 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Léonie POISSON (XIX)
Black chalk and white chalk
56 x 45 cm (66 x 55 cm with frame)
Signed and dated lower right "Léonie Poisson / Août 1845"
Category
1840s Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Rare Israeli Modernist Judaica Watercolor Painting Lion Lithograph Naftali Bezem
Located in Surfside, FL
Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נפתלי בזם; born November 27, 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor. Lion on nude figure of wo,man.
Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. H...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Flowers for Mary #4
Located in Dallas, TX
Gail Norfleet earned her BFA at The University of Texas at Austin, and her MFA at Southern Methodist University. She has had solo exhibitions at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Acrylic, Illustration Board
Mediterranean Landscape II
Located in London, GB
Mediterranean Landscape II', ink on art paper, by Pierre Dionisi (circa 1930s). Sepia-toned, original drawing in a compelling style depicts a view of a ...
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Drawing Study" Charles Burchfield, American Modernism Design
Located in New York, NY
Charles Burchfield
Drawing Study
Graphite on paper
5 1/2 x 8 inches
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893–1967) was an American painter, best known for his watercolor landscapes. Burchfi...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$2,100 Sale Price
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Light Dark - abstract painting, made in black, grey, beige color, 2025
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with india ink in black and grey color on Yupo paper. The work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed with a glass on a mat board in white wi...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
The Benefit Gala
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Watercolor
Two Girls, Impressionist Gouache Painting by Ernst Berger
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ernst Berger, Austrian (1857 - 1919) - Two Girls, Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed lower right, Size: 15 x 16 in. (38.1 x 40.64 cm), Frame Size: 23 x 23.5 inches
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$1,200 Sale Price
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View of Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1980.
Hand signed lower left. Date on rear,
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Fine 1930s, Art Deco Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Art Deco Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Seated Male Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed early 193...
Category
1930s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Abstract Still Life with Fruit and Flowers
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful still life with flowers and fruit by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned but was acquired from the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Unframed. Image; 14"H x 20"W.
Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson(American, 1928-2009) owned and operated the Bear Flag Gallery in San Juan Bautista, California for many years and was known for his plein air watercolor...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Workers" Russian Constructivist 1920s Modern Social Realism Cubism Figurative
Located in New York, NY
"Workers" Russian Constructivist 1920s Modern Social Realism Cubism Figurative
VLADIMIR VASIL’EVICH LEBEDEV (1891-1967)
"Workers"
Gouache on paper
Monog...
Category
1920s Constructivist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
John Ridge, A Cherokee Indian & Interpreter Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
1838 John Ridge A Cherokee Indian and Interpreter Lithograph with Applied Watercolor
The lithograph depicts John Ridge, a Cherokee interpreter, by Charles Bird King (American, 1785 - 1862), published 1838. Compared to other indian portraits in tribal regalia, King's rendering of John Ridge appears to be different. King portrayed John Ridge in Anglo-American clothing, sitting at a desk with a document and pen in hand—hinting at Ridge’s education and career as tribal leader and politician. King was known for his realistic and sensitive renderings of his sitters, and his ability to capture their physical features and attire with dignity and attention to detail.
Condition: Good; tonal aging due to age; previous mat tonal aging marks
Presented in new conservation mat
Paper size: 19.75"H X 14"W
Image size: 15"H x 10"W
Mat size:24"H x 16"W
John Ridge received his education at Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut and served as clerk of the Cherokee National Council. When King painted...
Category
1840s Hudson River School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Lithograph
Race Car
Located in Houston, TX
Subtle French ink wash in shades of black and blue of a race car, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival...
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Central Park and Ballerina, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Central Park and Ballerina (71), Year: 1958, Medium: Two Side Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 in. x 22 in. (38.1 cm x 55.88 cm), Descripti...
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Tonita Peña (born 1893 in San Ildefonso, died 1949 in Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico) was born as Quah Ah (meaning white coral beads) but also used the name Tonita Vigil Peña and María Antonia Tonita Peña. Peña was a renowned Pueblo artist, specializing in pen and ink on paper embellished with watercolor. She was a well-known and influential Native American artist and art teacher of the early 1920s and 1930s.
Tonita Peña was born on May 10, 1893, at San Ildefonso Pueblo, to Ascensión Vigil Peña and Natividad Peña of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. When she was 12, her mother and younger sister died, as a result of complications due to the flu. Her father was unable to care for her and she was taken to Cochití Pueblo and was brought up by her aunt Martina Vigil Montoya, a prominent Cochití Pueblo potter. Peña attended St. Catherine Indian School in Santa Fe.
Edgar Lee Hewett, an anthropologist involved in supervising the nearby Frijoles Canyon excavations (now Bandelier National Monument) was instrumental in developing the careers of several San Ildefonso “self-taught” artists including Tonita Peña. Hewett purchased Peña's paintings for the Museum of New Mexico and supplied her with quality paint and paper. Peña began gaining more notoriety by the end of the 1910s selling an increasing amount of her work to collectors and the La Fonda Hotel. Much of this early work was done of Pueblo cultural subject matter, in a style inspired by historic Native American works, however, her use of an artist's easel and Western painting mediums gained her acceptance among her European-American contemporaries in the art world. At the age of 25, she exhibited her work at museums and galleries in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque area.
In the early 1920s, Tonita did not know how much her painting sold for at the Museum of New Mexico, so she wrote letters to the administrators because a local farmer was worried that she got paid too little.
In the 1930s Peña was an instructor at the Santa Fe Indian School and at the Albuquerque Indian School and the only woman painter of the San Ildefonso Self-Taught Group, which included such noted artists as Alfonso Roybal, Julian Martinez, Abel Sánchez (Oqwa Pi), Crecencio Martinez, and Encarnación Peña. As children, these artists attended San Ildefonso day school which was part of the institution of the Dawes Act of 1887, designed to indoctrinate and assimilate Native American children into mainstream American society.
In 1931, Tonita Peña exhibited at the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts which was presented at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City. Works from this exhibition were shown at the 1932 Venice Biennial. That year is the only time Native American artists have shown in the official United States pavilion at that biennial, and Tonita Peña's paintings were part of that exhibition.[1 Her painting Basket Dance, that had shown in the Venice Biennial was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York for $225. This was the highest price paid up to this time for a Pueblo painting...
Category
1940s Tribal Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper
"Central Park" Leon Dolice, New York Central Park Scene, Mid-Century
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
Central Park
Signed lower left
Watercolor on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the young ma...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$2,400 Sale Price
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Village Laundry Laying
Located in Surfside, FL
Katarzyna LIBROWICZ
Polish French painter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and arrived in France in 1937 .
She studied with André Lhote in Montparnasse Paris and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Independants .
She is one of the painters of the School of Paris .
Peintre polonaise.Elle étudia à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Varsovie, puis arriva en France en 1937.
Elle suivit les...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
“Strolling along the Seine, Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
The artwork is double matted with an antique style contemporary gold leaf gallery frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 24 by 31 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector.
Guy de Neyrac was born in France in 1900 and is widely known for his impressionistic watercolor and pen drawings of Paris...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,280 Sale Price
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Although he also produced pensive portraits and idyllic landscapes, the artist’s best-known images are of ice cream, cakes and other colorful sweets.
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Mid-Century Americans Didn’t Know Antonio Petruccelli’s Name, but They Sure Knew His Art
The New York artist created covers for the nation’s most illustrious magazines. Now, the originals are on display as fine art.
Cecilia Vicuña Merges Politics, Science and Spirituality in Her Poetic Art
The Chilean creator, who has been living in exile in New York for decades, is having a major moment, receiving the biggest exhibitions, commissions and awards an artist could dream of.
Who Are the Most Popular Artists on 1stDibs?
Learn the stories of some of the world's most recognizable artworks and their makers.
Shantell Martin Finds Wonder in Sharing the Creative Process
The visual artist completed a new work in front of a crowd at the 1stdibs Gallery.