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Style: Modern
Medium: Watercolor
Ruins of the Ancient Aqueducts by Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner - 1872
Located in Roma, IT
Ruins of the Ancient Aqueducts is an original artwork realized by Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner (Weimar, 4 October 1808 – Leipzig, 10 January 1894) in 1872.
Watercolour and pencil on paper.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower left corner: C. Werner 1872.
Good conditions. Prov. Collection Dr. Peter Nicolaus (1940-2020).
Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner (4 October 1808 – 10 January 1894) was a German...
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1870s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Harlequin - Watercolor by Alfredo Edel - 1904
By Alfredo Edel
Located in Roma, IT
Harlequin is an original watercolor realized by Alfredo Edel in 1904.
Good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout ( 69x49 cm).
Hand signed by the artist.
Alfredo Leonardo Edel (1856–1912), sometimes credited as Alfredo Edel Colorno, was an Italian costume designer popular during the late 19th and early 20th century. He worked at the La Scala opera...
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Early 1900s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
In the Land of the Cat - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
In the Land of the Cat is a Pencil Drawing and watercolour realized by Mino Maccari in 1950s.
Good condition, no signature, titled on the centre of the artwork in italian language.
...
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1950s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
French Gouache Painting of Native American Mustang Hunt in Nevada
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Native American Mustang Hunt in Nevada
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
S...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
French Gouache Painting of Pueblo Bread Baking in Taos New Mexico
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Pueblo Bread Baking in Taos New Mexico
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
S...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
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 Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Crowd in Barcelona spanish modernism watercolor drawing Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ricard Opisso - Crowd in Barcelona - Watercolor drawing
Drawing measurements 19x24 cm.
Frame measurements 30x35 cm.
Son of Alfredo Opisso y Viñas, journalist, historian and critic, and of Antonia Sala y Gil, his sister Regina Opisso, was also a writer. He comes from an enlightened family full of artists. His paternal grandfather was Josep Opisso y Roig, journalist and director of the Diari de Tarragona, father of the also writers Antonia Opisso y Viña and Antoni Opisso y Viña. His maternal great-grandfather was the painter Pere Pau Montaña, his maternal grandfather the fabulist Felipe Jacinto Sala and his maternal uncle, the painter Emilio Sala y Francés. His nephew was Arturo Llorens y Opisso, a writer better known under his pseudonym Arturo Llopis.
Although he was born in Tarragona, his family moved to Barcelona when Opisso was only two years old. In modernist Barcelona at the end of the 19th century, Opisso worked as an assistant to Antonio Gaudí in the works of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona since 1892. He was linked to the group Els Quatre Gats, along with Ramón Casas, Manuel Hugué, Isidre Nonell...
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1930s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Clinton Hill, (Nude #5), 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. From 1949 to 1951 Hill attended the Brookl...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
20th Century French Modernist Painting Set of Six Dark Watercolour Scenes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Set of 6
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 8.75 x 6.5 inches
stamped verso
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good an...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Vibrant French Gouache Painting of Navajo Jewelry Makers in Albuquerque
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Vibrant French Gouache Painting of Navajo Jewelry Makers in Albuquerque
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed p...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
French Gouache Painting of Navajo Night Dance in New Mexico
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Navajo Night Dance in New Mexico
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
Size: 1...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
The Endeavour.
Located in Storrs, CT
The Endeavour. c.1935. Pencil and watercolor on watercolor board. 14 3/8 x 20 7/8. Signed in pencil, lower right; titled in pencil, verso. Housed in a subtle 23 1/2 x 36-inch light ...
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1930s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
French Gouache Painting of Navajo Weavers in Canyon de Chelly Arizona
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Navajo Weavers in Canyon de Chelly Arizona
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed pape...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
How To Capture This Feeling - Whimsical Figurative Watercolor Graphite Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' art is gro...
Category
2010s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Drawing from Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux
Located in Roma, IT
Signed in ink by the artist in ink.
Original ink drawing and watercolor on paper realized by Grandville for the volume “Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux”, published by...
Category
1840s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
The Ghost and the Wheel - Drawing by Mino Maccari - mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Dominatrix Woman - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1970s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Dominatrix Woman is a beautiful watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari in the 1970s.
The artwork is hand signed by the artist.
Oil on panel.
Includes frame 48.5 x 35 cm
Min...
Category
1970s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pastel
French Gouache Painting of Sioux Scalp Dance Ritual in South Dakota
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Sioux Scalp Dance Ritual in South Dakota
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
“Montmartre”
By Fernand Guignier
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautifully executed original watercolor by French artist Fernand Guignier of a street scene in Montmartre, Paris. Signed lower right and dated 1949. Titled lower left, “Montmartre”. Fernand Guignier was a student of the sculptors Emil Derré and Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris . Between 1926 and 1960 he took part in the Salon des Artistes Français in the Palais de Tokyo. The watercolor is housed in its original off white wood frame. Under glass. Condition is very good. Overall framed measurements are 18.25 by 16.5 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector.
Fernand Guignier
Born: 1902
Died: 1972
Known for: Paris street scene watercolor...
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1940s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
French Gouache Study of Hopi Kachina Mask and Taos Pueblo Textile
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Study of Hopi Kachina Mask and Taos Pueblo Textile
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Cocaine - Drawing - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Cocaine is a satiric drawing realized by an Anonymous artist in the mid-20th century.
Watercolor and China ink on paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is created...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Rare Chaim Gross Watercolor Painting Manhattan Skyscrapers Train NYC WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
This appears to be dated 1927. It came in with a piece dated 1929. A very early, rare work.
Framed 22.5 x 18. Image 14.5 x 9
A great New York city street scene with an El train (elev...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Hurki Costume for an opera - Pencil and watercolor drawing by Taho - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Costume for an opera is an original artwork realized by Taho in the 1930s.
Beautiful pencil and watercolor drawing on cardboard.
Good conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Three Robbers - Original Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Three Robbers is an original drawing in watercolor on paper realized by Gabriele Galantara.
The state of preservation of the artwork is good.
Titled on the lower in Italian.
The a...
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Early 20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
In Bed - Original Watercolor by Jean Demelier - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
In Bed is original watercolor drawing realized by Jean Demelier in 1968.
Hand-signed at the top left.
Very good conditions.
Included a white Passepartout: 34 x 49 cm.
Delicate and en...
Category
1960s Modern Watercolor 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.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Couple - 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 lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Cart with Oxen - Original Pencil and Watercolor on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cart with Oxen is an original modern artwork realized in the half of the early 20th Century.
Original mixed media artwork: tempera, watercolor, china ink and pencil on cardboard.
V...
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20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Tempera, Pencil
Portrait of a Lady - Drawing by Hermann Paul - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a Lady is a pencil, ink and watercolor drawing realized by Hermann Paul.
Hand signed on the lower right corner. Passpartout included cm 40.5x30.5
Good condition.
René ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Landscape - Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a drawing realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Watercolor on paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft expressive strokes.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
MB 804 A&B (Double Sided Figurative Drawing, Two Male Nudes and Safari Hunter)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative drawing with graphite, charcoal, and conte crayon on Arches paper
30 x 19 inches, unframed
One piece of 30 x 19 inch Arches paper. Two drawings on opposite sides.
These u...
Category
2010s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal, Graphite, Watercolor
If They Look Close Enough They'll Find Her - Figurative Watercolor Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' art is gro...
Category
2010s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Reader, oversize drawing of young woman reading, minimal color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This work was intentionally torn and mended. It predates the artist's full immersion, years later into torn and re-pasted collages, using ripped previous drawings and paper-based materials from media. These recently discovered 1984 oversize drawings on archival papers were created working quickly, from a live model. The series shows the last existing observational drawings prior to the artist's switch to working with her non- dominant left hand.
As a feminist, Anastasi's main focus is presenting other women. Unlike the often objectified male gaze...
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2010s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
"Showers Today" San Francisco's Chinatown on an Overcast Day Original Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
"Showers Today" San Francisco's Chinatown on an Overcast Day Original Watercolor
A two sided watercolor on Arches paper by San Francisco and Maryland artist Harolod Gretzner (America...
Category
1970s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
St. Gregory in Rome - Original Ink and Watercolor by J. P. Verdussen - 1741
Located in Roma, IT
St. Gregory in Rome is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1741.
Ink and watercolour on brown paper. In very good codition. Dated on the lower margin. The origin...
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1740s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Clinton Hill, Firenze (Florence, Italy), 1952, drawing, landscape/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images. This abstraction references Florence, Italy, where he studied in the early 1950s.
He lived in SoHo, New York, a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Alfred Bendiner, Santa Fe Cowhands (New Mexico)
Located in New York, NY
Apparently Bendiner never went a day without drawing. He was amazing!
In this scene of a young 'cowgirl' is working a lasso while an 'old cowhand' looks on -- clutching a cigaret of...
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1950s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
African American Woman artist Mailou Jones Cezannian Cote d'Azur cubist village
Located in Norwich, GB
If you are interested in African American Art and in Women in the Arts, I will certainly not need to introduce Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1988). Often associated with the Harlem Renaissance, her
work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection. I am proud to present an original watercolour painting by the artist which dates from the late 1940s or early 1950s.
Jones was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a father who became the first African-American to earn a law degree from Suffolk Law School. Jones's parents encouraged her to draw and paint using watercolors during her childhood. She held her first solo exhibition at the age of seventeen in Martha's Vineyard.
He career began in the 1930s and she continued to produce art work until her death in 1998 at the age of 92. Her style shifted and evolved multiple times in response to influences in her life, especially her extensive travels. She felt that her greatest contribution to the art world was "proof of the talent of black artists". Her work echoes her pride in her African roots and American ancestry.
In 1937, Jones received a fellowship to study in Paris at the Académie Julian, bringing her to France for the first time. The French were appreciative of her paintings and talent and Loïs Mailou Jones was thrilled at the country’s racial tolerance, so different from her reality in the United States.
She summered in France annually from 1945 to 1953, sharing studio with her lifelong friend Celine Marie Tabary in Cabris, France.
It was during one of these sojourns that the lovely work presented here was created.
Our painting depicts the village of Tourettes sur Loup, just north of Nice, in the Provence Cote d'Azur region, about 14 miles from Cabris.
Please note its similarities with her painting "Arreau, Hautes-Pyrénées" in the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Her portrayal of the picturesque village nestled in a valley evokes landscape paintings by Paul Cézanne, a stylistic influence she acknowledged.
Over the course of the following 10 years, Jones exhibited at the Phillips Collection, Seattle Art Museum, National Academy of Design, the Barnett-Aden Gallery, Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, Howard University, galleries in New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In 1952, the book Loïs Mailou Jones: Peintures 1937–1951 was published, reproducing more than one hundred of her art pieces completed in France.At the Barnett-Aden Gallery, Jones exhibited with a group of prominent black artists, such as Jacob Lawrence and Alma Thomas. These artists and others were known as the "Little Paris...
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Mid-19th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
(ORANGE ABSTRACT FACE)
By Henry Miller
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Sheet 23 3/4 x 118 7/8
HENRY MILLER (1891 – 1980)
((ORANGE ABSTRACT FACE) 1967
Watercolor, signed in ink and dated 47/ 1967. Image 19 1/4 x 13, Sheet 23 3/4 x 18 7/8. Likely done...
Category
1960s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Dahlias" Chiura Obata, Japanese American, Red and Blue Delicate Floral Work
By Chiura Obata
Located in New York, NY
Chiura Obata
Dahlias, 1940
Signed, dated and stamped lower right
Watercolor on paper
15 x 9 5/8 inches
Born in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, Chiura Obata was adopted by his uncle, an artist. As a child he was trained in ink painting, and at 14 he was apprenticed to the painter Murata Tanryo in Tokyo. He also studied with Kogyo Terasaki and Goho Hasimoto.
In 1903, Obata moved to San Francisco and began working as an illustrator for The New World and The Japanese American, two of the city's Japanese newspapers. He also did work as a commercial designer. Obata helped establish the East West Art Society in San Francisco in 1921, which sought to promote cross-cultural understanding through art. This goal was reflected in his embrace of the Nihonga style, which fused traditional Japanese sumi-e ink painting with the conventions of western naturalism.
He spent much of the 1920s painting landscapes throughout California, and among his favorite subjects were mountain landscapes. In 1927, he visited Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, creating over a hundred paintings and sketches of the high country. Obata stayed in the USA until the death of his father in 1928.
Between 1928 and 1932, he worked in Tokyo as a painter and transformed his California landscape watercolors...
Category
1940s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Polish French Judaica Watercolor Gouache Painting Original Bauhaus Yiddish Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Bahelfer BAGEL (1908-1995)
Moses Bagel (born Moshe Bahelfer) was a Polish-born Jewish artist and graphic designer associated with the original Bauhaus and then the School of Pa...
Category
20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, ABS
French Gouache Portrait Study of Three Navajo and Kumeyaay Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Portrait Study of Three Navajo and Kumeyaay Figures
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Original Painting. New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal WPA Mid Century American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal WPA Mid Century American Scene
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Perplexed Gentleman
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
13 1/4 X 8 ...
Category
1930s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
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 Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Neoclassic Garden- Original Drawing by Jules Arsene Garnier - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Neoclassic Garden is an original drawing in China ink and watercolor on paper applied on a Passepartout paper, realized by Jules Arsene Garnier (French, 1847-1889), in the late 19th ...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
The Shipwreck of Attualismo - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Chia ink and watercolor drawing on paper realized by Maccari in 1940s.
Hand signed in pencil lower right.
It depicts Giovanni Gentile in the middle of the sea, while his philosophi...
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1940s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Hall - Drawing by Alexandre Berlant - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Hall is a drawing realized by Alexandre Berlant in the Mid-20th Century.
Tempera and Watercolor on paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Collioure Harbour, French 1950's Modernist Colorful Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Collioure, France
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 13 x 19.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
provena...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Ca. 1915 Portrait of a Gentleman by Artist Anthony Stuffers
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1915 portrait of a gentleman by artist Anthony Stuffers. This artist died at the age of 26--so this is a rare drawing, indeed! Image size: 19 1/2" x 14 3/4". The watercolor...
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1910s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
"Nasturtiums" Chiura Obata, Japanese American, Red and Blue Delicate Flowers
By Chiura Obata
Located in New York, NY
Chiura Obata
Nasturtiums, circa 1940
Signed and stamped lower left
Watercolor on paper
15 x 9 5/8 inches
Born in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, Chiura Obata was adopted by his uncle, an artist. As a child he was trained in ink painting, and at 14 he was apprenticed to the painter Murata Tanryo in Tokyo. He also studied with Kogyo Terasaki and Goho Hasimoto.
In 1903, Obata moved to San Francisco and began working as an illustrator for The New World and The Japanese American, two of the city's Japanese newspapers. He also did work as a commercial designer. Obata helped establish the East West Art Society in San Francisco in 1921, which sought to promote cross-cultural understanding through art. This goal was reflected in his embrace of the Nihonga style, which fused traditional Japanese sumi-e ink painting with the conventions of western naturalism.
He spent much of the 1920s painting landscapes throughout California, and among his favorite subjects were mountain landscapes. In 1927, he visited Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, creating over a hundred paintings and sketches of the high country. Obata stayed in the USA until the death of his father in 1928.
Between 1928 and 1932, he worked in Tokyo as a painter and transformed his California landscape watercolors...
Category
1940s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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 Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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 Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Portrait - Drawing by Jean Lasnier - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Jean Lasnier in the Mid-20th Century.
Oil pastel and watercolor ink on paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Oil Pastel
Bull engaging the muleta (Bull Fight)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bull engaging the muleta (Bull Fight)
Signed with the Estate stamp lower left (See photo)
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Marbella Gallery Inc., NYC
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
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 Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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Located in Roma, IT
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Located in Fairlawn, OH
Wire Haired Girl and Cat
Pen and ink with watercolor, c. 1930
Signed with the Estate stamp "B"
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
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1930s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Located in Riga, LV
Romans Suta
Born on April 28, 1896 in the vicinity of Cesis (Latvia), died on July 14, 1944 in Tbilisi (Georgia), rehabilitated posthumously.
Painter, graphic artist, decorative and stage designer, art critic and theoretician. Studied at the J. Madernieks' Art Studio (1913), Riga City Art School (1913-1915), and Penza Art School (1915 -1917). A prominent figure and active protagonist of modernist trends in Latvian art. Travels to Berlin and Paris, where he made the acquaintance of A. Ozanfant, Le Corbusier, and others. The influences of Cubism and Constructivism.
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Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 20x14 cm
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1840s Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Located in Surfside, FL
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Signed with initials verso.
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By John Emanuel
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
John Emanuel .
English ( b.1930 ).
I Can’t Stay Away From You.
Watercolor & Ink.
Signed Lower Right.
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Good condition.
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By Clinton Hill
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1950s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Yiddish Theatre Cubist Costume Design 1924 Deco Color Field Modernism Broadway
Located in New York, NY
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1920s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
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The Rio Della Misericordia ( from the Venetian to the Misericordia Canal ) is a canal from Venice in the sestiere of Cannaregio, Contrada San Marzillan in Italy.
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Located in Roma, IT
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Located in New York, NY
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Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998)
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