Henry Somm

Snake Tail - Ink Drawing on Paper by H. Somm - Late 19th Century

Late 19th Century

The Magician is an original artwork realized between the XIX century and the XX century by Henry Somm. Original black and white pen drawings on paper. The artwork represents a man,...

Figure is an original drawing in pen on paper realized by Alphonse Stengelin (1852- 1938). Aged with the trace of humidity and diffused stains. The artwork represents a figure pass...

Portraits is an original artwork realized between the end of 19th century and the beginning of 20th century by Henry Somm. Original black and white pencil drawings on paper attached on cardboard. Dimensions: variable dimensions between 2.5 and 4 cm high. The artwork various portrait sketches of man and female figure. Good conditions except for some foxings and stains. The drawings are hand-signed o signed with the initials of the artist. Henry Somm (Rouen 1844 – Parigi 1907) François Clément Sommier, best known under the pseudonym “Henry Somm,” was born in Rouen in 1844. He attended the local École municipale des beaux-arts and went on in 1867 to Paris, where he studied under Isidore Pils (1813-1875).He moved to Paris in 1860. Between 1873 and 1876 he made many engravings for the magazine Paris à l'eau forte and then at the Cadart printing house. In 1879 and 1889 he participated in the Impressionist exhibitions from the Durand-Ruel gallery in Paris. He collaborated with the newspapers: Le Chat noir...

Costumed Character is an original artwork realized by Louis Touchagues (1893 - 1974). Original ink drawing on Louis Touchagues sheet. This artwork represents a different costumed c...

ALBERT RUTHERSTON, RWS (1881-1953) The Meeting with Caius Lucius – Illustration for The Tragedie of Cymberline Signed with initials l.r. Pen and ink Unframed 4.5 by 13 cm., 1 ¾ by 5 in. (mount size 39.5 by 33 cm., 15 ½ by 13 in.) Provenance: Estate of the artist Exhibited: London, Sally Hunter Fine Art, Albert Rutherston, Drawings, Theatre Designs and other Treasures, 2016, no.65 The present work was illustrated in Cymbeline, published by Ernest Benn in 1923. The series was a collaboration between Rutherston and Harley Granville-Barker following on from their work together 11 years earlier at the Savoy Theatre and celebrating the quatercentenary of the Shakespeare Folio edition. Born Albert Daniel Rothenstein, he was the youngest of the six children of Moritz and Bertha Rothenstein, German-Jewish immigrants who had settled in Bradford, Yorkshire in the 1860s. He and his siblings proved to be a hugely talented and artistic family, his elder brother became Sir William Rotherstein (1872-1945), the artist and director of the Royal College of Art; two of his other siblings, Charles Rutherston and Emily Hesslein, both accumulated major modern British and French art collections and his nephew Sir John Rothenstein was direct of the Tate Gallery. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School before moving to London in 1898 to study at the Slade School of Art where he became close friends with Augustus John and William Orpen. He met Walter Sickert during a painting holiday in France in 1900 and by introducing Sickert to Spencer Gove became instrumental in the beginning of the Camden Town Group. He was one of Sickert’s most frequent companions and was one of the original members of the Fitzroy Street Group. Rutherston had a sociable and attractive personality, he frequently travelled abroad with other artists including Max Beerbohm, Spencer Gore, Walter Russell and Edna Clarke Hall...

Henry-François Sommier, called Henry Somm (1844-1907). Original India ink drawing by the Artist depicting a scene of elegant people in the street, in Paris. Signed on the bottom...

French school 19th Century A Muskeeter Pencil on paper 26.5 x 17 cm Bears a signature "F. Roybet" in the lower right In quite good condition, bears some visible foxings, In an old mount (some damages) (not framed) Even if the style, execution and of course subject are those of Ferdinand Roybet...

A drawing :: Drawing :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Location: ...