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Medium: Gouache
Mid-Century Modern Paris: A View of the Seine
Located in Norwich, GB
Experience the romance and abstraction of 1950s Paris through this striking original mixed media drawing by the acclaimed American Modernist, Frederick E. Conway (1900–1973).
This c...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
"Glitch in the Machine" Figure by Kevin Snipes
By Kevin Snipes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Glitch in the Machine" is an original piece by Kevin Snipes made from ink, gouache, and acrylic on paper. This piece measures 9.25”h x 6”w and is signed en verso.
Kevin Snipes (he/...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir in his harem in flagrante delicto
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cre...
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18th Century Rajput Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Antique Gouache and Watercolor Figurative Landscape by the Sea
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3942 Antique gouache and watercolor on paper set in a period 19th century frame
Image size 10x5.5"
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Late 19th Century Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Busy Figures In Forest
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on paper stuck on card
size: 18 x 25 inches
condition: very good and ready t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - The Girl In The Forest
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 19.5 x 16.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: the ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jahangir with Empress Nur Jahan & concubine
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
circa 1750. Gouache and ink with heightening in gold on li...
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17th Century Rajput Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Jean Marais, Cocteau's Muse, Master of Stage Design: Curtain for Sleeping Beauty
By Jean Marais
Located in Norwich, GB
Jean Marais (1913–1998) is immortalised as the face of French cinema's golden age—the hero of Beauty and the Beast, the swashbuckler of Le Bossu, and the muse of Jean Cocteau. Yet, t...
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Mid-20th Century French School Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
19th Century Italian Miniature Painting The Madonna & Child, Signed original
By J. Canava
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Madonna & Child
by J. Canava, Italian late 19th century
miniature painting on ceramic, framed within velvet inset and frame
image measures 3.2...
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Late 19th Century Renaissance Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Neapolitan School 19th Century Gouache - The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Located in Corsham, GB
A vibrant 19th-century painting from the Neapolitan School depicting the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Smartly mounted in a gilt-effect frame. Unsigned. On paper.
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19th Century Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Early 20th Century French Gouache on Paper, The Frog and The Fisherman
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century French gouache and watercolour on paper of a fisherman by Louis Henri Magnat, The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a carved and gilt wood frame und...
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Early 20th Century Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Cowboy in the Canyon, Small Contemporary Multicolor Abstract Figural Landscape
By Tiffanie Mang
Located in Soquel, CA
Small-scale yet bold multi-colored abstracted figurative landscape of a horse rider in a canyon (a study after Edgar Payne’s works) by Tiffanie Mang (Ameri...
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2010s American Impressionist Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
French Gouache Painting of Native American Antelope Hunt in Utah
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Native American Antelope Hunt in Utah
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
Si...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jangahir on a pleasure boat with his harem a
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir depicted with his harem attendees aboard a pleasure cruise, the water filled with lotus blossoms; symbols of paradise itself.
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold ...
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18th Century Rajput Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Expressionist Gouache and Watercolour Study for 'Alexander and His Army'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
French late 20th century watercolour and gouache study for the series 'Alexander and His Army' by Stephane Lovighi-Bourgogne. Presented in plain wood frame.
A strong and forceful de...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir in his harem in flagrante delicto
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir in his harem surrounded by lotus blossoms; symbols of paradise itself.
Circa 1690. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (...
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17th Century Rajput Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Chef Basting Chicken with Madeline Watching
Located in Miami, FL
This large Bemelans features a small image of Madeline in the smoke behind the chef's face. It was most likely preliminary work for an illustration with Madeline and the Chef that a...
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1950s American Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
'The Enduring Attractions of the Open Market', Capitalism Satire
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'A. Manganaro' for 'Antonio Manganaro (Italian, 20th Century), and titled lower center, 'The Enduring Attractions of the Open Market'.
Matted Dimensions: 16 x 20
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Mid-20th Century Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Pen, Graphite
'Stately Pleasure Dome', South-East Asian, Mughal, Concubines, Fine Gilding
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An 18th century, Mughal painting of a tribal chief, shown richly dressed and reclining in a courtyard surrounded by numerous concubines. Exceptional attention to detail throughout, p...
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Mid-18th Century Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold Leaf
Mughal School, 18th Century Emperor Jahangir with Empress Nur Jahan
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir and Empress Nur Jahan exchanging lotus blossoms; a symbol of beauty, purity, honesty, rebirth, self-regeneration, and enlightenment....
Category
18th Century Rajput Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
On the Top, People Crossing the Mountains, Montana Western Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
On the Top, Montana, 1952
Watercolor and gouache on board
Signed and dated lower right
22 x 30 inches
25.5 x 34 inches framed
Frank Nelso...
Category
1950s American Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
“Pauline Trigere”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an original watercolor and gouache with traces of acrylic paint fashion illustration by the world renowned fashion artist, Kenneth Paul Block. Painted ...
Category
1960s American Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Acrylic
'Bacchanal', Mid-century Pompeii, Roman Mythology, Bacchus, Neo-classical
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Gallo Giovanni' for Giovanni Gallo (Italian, 20th century) and dated 1954.
Titled lower left, 'Eseguito a Pompei, 'Trionfo di Bacco'' (Done in Pompeii, 'Triumph...
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1950s Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Landscape with Man and Goats
Located in London, GB
'Landscape with Man and Goats', gouache on paper, by Raymond Guerrier (circa 1960s). After the artist moved from Paris to the South of France, he started painting landscapes illumina...
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1960s Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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Mick and Bianca jagger at Studio 54, Portrait
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Chicago Jewish Modernist Judaica Painting Simchat Torah WPA Artist Israeli Flags
Located in Surfside, FL
This has young ISraeli pioneers dancing with the flag as typical of works of the late British mandate Palestine era early state of Israel.
Genre: Modern
Subject: Figurative (stained glass style)
Medium: Mixed media gouache on paper
Hand signed lower left
Alexander Raymond Katz, Hungarian / American (1895 – 1974)
Alexander Raymond Katz was born in Kassa, Hungary, and came to the United States in 1909. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In the late 1920s, he worked as a director of the Poster Department at Paramount Studios. He was appointed the Director of Posters for the Chicago Civic Opera in 1930.
During the Great Depression, notable architect Frank Lloyd Wright urged Katz to become a muralist. In 1933, he was commissioned to paint a mural for the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago. In 1936, he painted the mural History of the Immigrant for the Madison, Ill., post office. Katz’s works were included in various exhibitions and now are part of several museum collections, including those of the Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Jewish Museum, New York. His murals, bas-reliefs and stained glass designs adorn more than 200 Jewish synagogues in the United States.
Katz and other Jewish artists in Chicago who expressed Jewish and Biblical themes were inspired by the artist Abel Pann (1883-1963). Pann, who is regarded as the leading painter of the Land of Israel, exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1920.
Early in his career, Katz began to explore the artistic possibilities inherent in the characters of the Hebrew alphabet. He developed aesthetic and philosophical interpretations of each letter and became the leading innovator and pioneer in the field of Hebraic art.
Katz applies this concept in the woodcut Moses and the Burning Bush. Hebrew letters appears in Moses’ head, his cane and inside the flame. The initial of Moses’ name crowns his head. The letter in the flame is the first letter of the name of God. A combination of images and Hebrew letters appeared commonly in illustrations of the scene Moses and the Burning Bush in the Haggadah, the book of Passover.
The symbolism of the burning bush corresponds to the motifs of A Gift to Biro-Bidjan. Among the fourteen participating artists were notable Chicago modernists Todros Geller, Mitchell Siporin...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"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...
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1920s Constructivist Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Clinton Hill, (Nude #1), 1951, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. In 1951 Hill studied at the Academie de la...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
"If You Say So" Black Woman in Gouache, Acrylic and Ink on Paper
By Kevin Snipes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"If You Say So" is an original piece by Kevin Snipes made from ink, gouache, and acrylic on paper. This piece measures 8.25”h x 6”w and is signed en verso.
Kevin Snipes (he/him) is ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache
'After School', Art Deco, Woman Artist, AIC, ASL, Paris, Salon d'Automne, PAFA
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899-1950) and painted circa 1935.
This early twentieth-century painter, lithographer, muralist, author, poet and ill...
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1930s Art Deco Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board, Pen, Pencil
Pensive: Contemporary Mixed Media Figurative painting by John Emanuel
By John Emanuel
Located in Brecon, Powys
Less is more from the studio of John Emanuel
Image 21" x 15"
Originally from Bury, in the North of England, John Emanuel works in Porthmeor, Cornwall. He has received no formal art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Gianni Agnelli in Marrakesh
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 Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Clinton Hill, (Nude #2), 1950, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. From 1949 to 1951 he attended the Brooklyn...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$720 Sale Price
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Valley View with Pines and Distant Peaks, Sierra Nevada (Possibly Yosemite)
Located in Stockholm, SE
This luminous gouache captures a majestic mountain vista, likely set in California’s Sierra Nevada (possibly Yosemite). Two broad granite peaks with sunlit faces dominate the backgro...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Abstract Seated Nude with Red Background French Modern Figurative Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Abstract Seated Nude with Red Background French Modern Figurative Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 20.25 x 15.75 inches (height ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
A ca. 1950 Watercolor of Male Bathers in Morocco by Artist Andre Delfau
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1950 watercolor of male bathers in Morocco by artist Andre Delfau. Image size: 7 1/2" x 7 3/4". Archivally matted to 14" x 14". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Born in ...
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1950s Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper
'Napoleonic Guard at the Cathedral of Uspensky Sobor', Moscow, French Militaria
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'C.H.' for Charles Constantine Hoffbauer (French, 1875-1957) and painted circa 1900.
Accompanied by the original artist-signed mat, original backing with inscr...
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1940s Realist Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
WWII Anti-Nazi Poster - Jimmy Stewart's Sister
Located in Miami, FL
It's the beginning of WWII, and the Nazi war machine is on the move. For an anti-Nazi poster competition, female illustrator Mary Stewart chooses a very yo...
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1940s American Realist Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Gouache, Illustration Board
“India, 1912”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and gouache on paper of a busy street scene in India done in 1912 by the American artist, William Henry Drake. Copyrighted signed and dated 1912 lower left. Condition is good. Recently professionally matted. Unframed. Overall matte size is 12 by 16 inches. Provenance: A Long Island, New York estate.
William Henry Drake
Born: 1856 New York
Died: 1926 Los Angeles
Nationality: American
Education: Académie Julian, Art Students League of New York
Known for: Painting, illustration
Awards: National Academy
Biography:
Drake studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Henri Lucien Doucet.
Back from Europe, he studied at the Cincinnati School of Design, and would often go to the zoo, where he could draw the animals. He was then employed by the Museum of Natural History. He continued to study at the Art Students League of New York. In 1878 he worked as a freelance pen-and-ink artist for such periodicals as Century or Harper’s with animal studies...
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1910s Academic Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
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Threesome - Swingers - 1970s cocktail party - Playboy Cartoon
By Dink Siegel
Located in Miami, FL
If anyone has ever put pen to paper and tried to draw a face or a figure with any level of success, then you know how hard it is to do. Cartoonists are first conceptual artists for ...
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1970s American Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board
Sacré-Coeur Montmartre at Willette Square Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre at Willette Square, Paris', gouache on art paper (circa 1930s), by Lucien Génin. Created by the Director of Public Ways and Promenades under Napoleon III, Sq...
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1930s Expressionist Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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'Age 9', Art Deco, Woman Artist, AIC, ASL, Paris, Salon d'Automne, Corcoran
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899-1950) as a full-page illustration for the book 'The Buttermilk Tree', unsigned and dated circa 1935. A rare example of a fully-develop...
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1930s Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Pen, Pencil
Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Modern
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Telephone Pole Worker
38 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches
Oil on pap...
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1930s American Realist Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Jim Dine New York SIGNED poster "Gilbert and Sullivan" hand painted pink copper
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This radiant purple pink poster was designed by Jim Dine for a production of Gilbert and Sullivan at New York City Center in 1968. The stripe down...
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1960s Pop Art Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Offset
“Woman in Plaid”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an original watercolor and gouache with traces of acrylic paint fashion illustration by the world renowned fashion artist, Kenneth Paul Block. Painted ...
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1960s American Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Autumn Tree Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 20 x 12.75 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
provena...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Reading Before Bed, Original Illustration, Mother, Daughter, Cat, Book Worm
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Robert Konersman (American, 1889 - 1975)
Signed: Konersman (Lower, Left)
" Reading Before Bed " c. 1900-1920
Watercolor and Gouache on Paper Laid on Illustration Board
Image Size...
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Early 20th Century Realist Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Mughal School, 17th century – Emperor Jahangir reclining in his harem
Located in Middletown, NY
An illuminated page from a book likely in reference to palace life during Emperor Jahangir's reign over the Mughal Empire.
Circa 1690. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on light...
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18th Century Rajput Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Framed Art Nouveau Period Painting A Greek Love Affair Theseus And Ariadne
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Follower of Antoine Calbet.
French ( b.1860 - d.1944 ).
Theseus and Ariadne, Circa 1890 - 1910.
Mixed Media.
Watercolour, Gouache & Pastel
Image size 16.5 inches x 11.2 inches ( 42cm...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache
Clinton Hill, (Nude #8), 1952, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. In 1951 Hill studied at the Academie de la...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$720 Sale Price
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Adolf Dehn, Haitian Scene A, signed painting, Associated American Artists, 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Arthur Dehn
Haitian Scene A, ca. 1951
Watercolor gouache on board
Signed on the front
Frame included: held in vintage modern frame
Measurements:
Framed:
11 inches vertical by 13 inches horizontal by .75
Painting
4.5 inches by 6 inches
Watercolor gouache, hand signed; framed with AAA Gallery label verso
Signed on the front bearing the original label on the verso of Dehn's longtime gallery, the prestigious Associated American Artists Gallery, New York City.
Provenance
Associated American Artists
Frame included: held in vintage frame with original label as provenance
Dehn, an influential artist and teacher (and author of the definitive textbook of his era on watercolor painting) joined Associated American Artists gallery in 1941. Although this painting is undated, it is likely circa early 1950s, as in 1951 Dehn won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to travel to Haiti -- the subject of this work. It was part of a series inspired by Dehn's visit to Haiti.
Dehn, an influential artist and teacher (and author of the definitive textbook of his era on watercolor painting) joined Associated American Artists gallery in 1941. Although this painting is undated, it is likely circa early 1950s, as in 1951 Dehn won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to travel to Haiti.
ADLOF DEHN
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere - not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic "little magazines" such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895 - 1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
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1950s Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir dancing with his harem attendees
Located in Middletown, NY
A joyful scene of lighthearted merriment in the palace of Jangahir Mahal Agra
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on light weight cream laid paper, 8 1/4 x 6 inches (2...
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18th Century Rajput Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Oriental Landscapes With Palm Trees And Arab Houses. 1 Half Of The 20th Century.
Located in Firenze, IT
Fauve landscape with palm trees and Arab houses.
1 half of the 20th century.
Gouache paintings on cardboard.
Paintings is signed with monogram.
Dimensions with Passepartout 45.5cm x ...
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Early 20th Century Fauvist Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Cardboard
$239 Sale Price
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Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Gouache Painting Outsider Circus Trapeze Horse Acrobats
Located in Surfside, FL
MALCAH ZELDIS
Circus, Trapeze Artists, Horse rider and Acrobats
gouache on paper
Hand signed and dated bottom right. titled in pencil on paper verso.
Framed to 15 X 16.5 sheet is 9 ...
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1980s Folk Art Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
1950's Modernist Painting - Portrait Of Figure On Gold
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Gold Man
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century), stamped verso
original watercolour/gouache painting on paper
overall size: 111.75 x 8.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Soldiers Playing Cards
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Soldiers Playing Cards', watercolour and gouache on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1939). Such an atmospheric image, this stunning depiction by celebrated F...
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1930s Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
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Marella Agnelli in Marrakesh
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
ORIGINAL INK LOUIS VALTAT UNIQUE PIECE
By Louis Valtat
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
ORIGINAL INK ON PAPER
SIGNED WITH THE ESTATE INITIALS STAMP
Unique piece
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1940s French School Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Parley at Bristol, 1643 - 19th Century English Civil War Seige Painting Cromwell
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Parley at Bristol, 1643’ by Charles Cattermole RI, RBA, ROI (1834-1900). The painting – which depicts the surrender of Parliamentary forces under Nathaniel Fiennes to Prince Rupert ...
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Mid-19th Century English School Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
A Rajput prince with a sword, dagger, lotus – Rajasthani School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper, with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in purple ink on the recto, 12 1/2 x 9 inches (318 x 230 mm). Toning, handling c...
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19th Century Rajput Gouache Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
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