1910s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

China Town San Francisco 1896 - Watercolor on Paper A vintage watercolor by Theodore Ernest Langguth (German-American, 1861-1952). Presented in a rustic giltwood frame. Signed "T. Langguth" lower right. Watercolor circa 1920-30. Image: 12.5"H x 8.5"W. Painted from the photograph by Arnold Genthe...

Georges CONRAD (1874-1936) French Woman with a Officer Original India ink and pencil drawing Signed with the stamp of atelier On paper 26.5 x 20 cm (c. 10,4 x 7.8 in) Very good co...

L'infirmier is an original satiric artwork realized by the illustrator Leka . Hand-signed on the lower left. Ink and watercolor. Titled on the lower center. Dated 1914-1915 on the lower left. Very good conditions. Very fresh and bright artwork...

Antoine Calbet presents his works, mainly portraits and genre scenes, at the Salons of the Société des artistes français from 1881 until 1940, as well as at the international exhibit...

Austrian Soldiers is a modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in 1916. The artwork was realized in China ink and watercolor on cardboard. ...

L'effet is an original satiric artwork realized by the illustrator Leka . Hand-signed on the lower left. Titled in the center. Dated 1914-1915 on the lower left. Ink and watercolo...

This pencil drawing by the German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is stamped at the lower left corner, verso with the artist's estate stamp (Lugt 1570b) and inscribed in black ink “B Dr...

Montelupone ... al Fronte is an original drawing in China ink, watercolor and white lead on creamy cardboard realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937). In good conditions. This a...

The Flight is an original drawing in pencil and pen on paper by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937). In good conditions except for some diffused foxings and some small holes. Sheet dime...

The Bottle is a drawing artwork in Black Marker on paper realized by Italian Artist Giuseppe Scalarini (Mantova, 29 Gennaio 1873 – Milano, 30 December 1948). The state of preservati...

Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (1859-1938) Study for "Le Cocher" carbon pencil on thin paper 14.5 x 13 cm In good condition Framed : 36.7 x 31 cm Provenance: Estate of the artist and...

The apparition is an original artwork realized in 1918 and signed and dated "Hinault 1918" Black and white china ink, watercolor and biacca drawing .Hand signed Hinault and dated on...

Collection of girl portrait studies that are signed and dated by the artist. The papers are not framed. The dimensions are of the larger work, the small...

Landscape in Lagny is an Original Pastel and Watercolour realized by Paul Alouard-Carny (1884-1961) in 1936. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Hand-signed by the artist on the lo...

L'Italie: c'est encore ce costume là qui me va le mieux is an original satiric artwork realized by the illustrator Leka . Hand-signed on the lower left by Leka. Ink and watercolor....

George Grosz (German, 1893-1959), "In der Loge" [In the Lodge], Pen and Ink on Paper, circa 1913, signed in pencil "Grosz" and titled lower lower left, Achim Moeller, Ltd. label to v...

Sketch for The Donkey is an original artwork realized by Gabriele Galantara (Montelupone, 1865 - Roma, 1937) in November 7th, 1909. The sketch was realized for the 45° cover of The ...

Vittorie is an original China Ink Drawing on paper realized by Carlo Rivalta (1887-1941) in 1918 s. Good condition mounted on a white cardboard passpartout (49x34 cm). No signature...

Studies for a Female Nude is an original artwork realized by the french artist Ginsbourg in 1918. Original red pencil on paper. Hand-signed and dated in pencil on the lower right ...

Travel, in 1915, is an original drawing in china ink and white lead on brown paper realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937). In good conditions. Not signed. This artwork represe...

Lucky to Be Dead is a very beautiful ink, tempera and watercolor drawing by Gabriele Galantara (1910). The little artwork is on a yellowed cardboard, in good conditions. Gabriele ...

Answering the Door Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene Note: We have three similar in style works from 1911 available now on 1stDibs. All are framed identi...

Nude Sketch is an original artwork realized by Michel Simonidy in the first years of the XX Century. China ink on paper. Passepartout is included (cm 19 x 26). Mint conditions. ...

Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) A Still life with a lamp signed lower right pastel on paper 30 x 38 cm Framed 45 x 53 cm We knew that Henry Ottmann was a great pastelist, and he demons...

Studies of Figures is an original drawing in pencil and china ink on creamy cardboard realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937), in 1915. In good conditions. Not signed. Gabriel...

Sketch for a Nude is an original artwork realized by Jean Dreyfus-Stern in the 1920s. Pencil and red pencil on paper. Hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the lower right margi...

Four Kings is an original color drawing on paper realized around 1910s, by the Italian satiric illustrator, Gabriele Galantara (Montelupone, Italy, 1867 - R...

Giolitti allo specchio is an original drawing in China ink, watercolor and white lead on creamy cardboard realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937). In good conditions. This artw...

Globe is an original drawing in China ink and white lead on creamy cardboard realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937). In good conditions. This is an original drawing representi...

The Beggar and the Child is an original drawing in China ink, watercolor and white lead on creamy cardboard realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937). In good conditions. This is...

Invitation with sketch is an original invitation of the early 20th Century with an original sketch in china ink on it. Good condition except for dor the bein fold on the middle and ...

La Libia is an original drawing in China ink, watercolor and white lead on creamy cardboard realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937). In good conditions. This is an original dra...

Austrian Soldier with Prisoners is an original China ink watercolored realized by Gabriele Galantara (1914 s.). Good conditions but worn paper, ...

Czarisme is an original Drawing in pencil and pen realized by Gabriele Galantara. Good conditions except for diffused foxings and two rippings at the bottom margin. The artwork is ...

The Monk is an original drawing in china ink and white lead on creamy paper realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in 1910s. In good conditions. This is an original drawing re...

Their Heroism is an original drawing in China ink realized in 1916 by Adolfo Brayas Bruno. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. With description on the lower and right margin ...

Woman's Figure is an original pencil and pastel drawing realized by D. Ginsbourg in 1916. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner of the brown paper. Another pen and wa...

The Cinema is an original drawing in china ink on creamy paper realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937), in the early 20th Century. In good conditions. This is an original drawi...

The prison is an original drawing in China ink and white lead on creamy cardboard realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937). In good conditions. This artwotk presents on the back...

Image dimensions: 16,5x8,5 cm. The Discussion is an original artwork realized by Rivalta, in 1914. The state of preservation is good, except for some small holes on the back. Hand-...

Back Cover is an original China ink and Watercolor artwork realized by Gabriele Galantara in 1913. In good conditions, there is some pencil notes on the back of the card. Gabriele ...

The car is an original drawing in china ink and white lead on creamy paper glued on ivory paper, realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937), in 1910s. In good conditions. This is ...

Porta Pia is an original drawing in pen and white on cardboard by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937). In good conditions except for some diffused foxings. Sheet dimension: 30.5 x 20.5 ...

Figures is a drawing in pencil and pastel on paper realized by Anonymous Artist of the 20th Century. In good condition, except for small folding. The artwork represents three figur...

Studies for the Female Figure is an original artwork realized by the french artist Ginsbourg in 1918. Original red pencil on paper. Hand-signed and dated in pencil on the lower ri...

Studies for a Female Standing Nude is an original artwork realized by the french artist Ginsbourg in 1918. Original red pencil and pencil on paper. Hand-...

Deux Baigneuses is an original artwork realized by Michel Simonidy in the first years of the XX Century. Pencil on paper. Passepartout included (cm 26.5 x 19). Mint conditions. V...

Antoine Calbet presents his works, mainly portraits and genre scenes, at the Salons of the Société des artistes français from 1881 until 1940, as well as at the international exhibit...

Bather Sketch is an original artwork realized by Michel Simonidy in the first years of the XX Century. China ink on cardboard. The mark of the artist appears both on the back and o...

Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) "Orée du bois par brume", A forest in the mist signed lower right pastel on paper 24 x 32 cm In good condition In a vintage frame : 43.5 x 53 cm The gilding on the frame is missing in many places Henry Ottmann particularly excelled in the pastel technique, as can be seen here. This is due to the fact that this delicate material obviously lends itself very well to the artist's characteristic vaporous style and manner. We should also note the great modernity of this landscape and its fades, which go almost as far as abstraction. Henry Ottmann was born on 10 April 1877 in Ancenis. He made his debut at the Salon La Libre Esthétique in Brussels in 1904 and took part in the Salon des Indépendants in Paris from 1905, the Salon d'Automne, the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Salon des Tuileries. In 1911 and 1912, Ottmann exhibited at the Artistes de la Société Moderne at the Gallery Paul Durand-Ruel together with Armand Guillaumin, Henri Lebasque and others. In 1912, he exhibited at the gallery Eugène Druet. In 1920, Ottmann exhibited at the gallery Marcel...

An original charcoal drawing of a football player in his uniform circa 1910. This work is initialed what appears to be "e.w." with the phrase "1/2 hr" written below. We have not be...

Jules Cheret (1836-1932) Three studies of women charcoal on paper signed on the bottom left 39 x 24.5 cm This drawing of studies was part of the artist's workshop as so it bears the...

CHARLES SIMS, RA, RWS, RSW (1873-1928) Drapery Study for the Royal Academy Arts & Crafts Mural Pencil, squared for transfer Unframed, in conservation mount 17.5 by 24 cm., 7 by 9 ...

Eugene Higgins In Foreign Parts, circa 1913 Signed lower right Watercolor on paper Sight 17 x 13 inches Born William Victor Higgins in 1884 to a Shelbyville, Indiana farm family where the only art Victor was aware of as a child was his father's love of flowers. "He loved their forms and their colors, and he tended his garden as a painter might work a canvas." At the age of nine, Victor met a young artist who traveled the Indiana countryside painting advertisements on the sides of barns. He purchased paints and brushes so the young Higgins could practice his own artwork on the inside of his father's barn. He also taught Victor about art museums and especially about the new Chicago Art Institute. This information never left the young artist, and he saved his allowance until his father allowed him at the age of fifteen to attend Chicago Art Institute. He worked a variety of jobs to finance his studies both there and at the Academy of Fine Arts. Victor Higgins traveled to New York in 1908, where he met Robert Henri, who became a significant influence by depicting every-day scenes and stressing the importance of the spirit and sense of place as important factors in painting. Higgins was also greatly affected by the New York Armory Modernism Show of Marsden Hartley in 1913. While Victor Higgins was in Chicago he met former mayor and avid collector Carter H. Harrison who was to prove instrumental in the growth of Higgins career for several years. Harrison agreed to support Higgins for four years to go to Paris and Munich and paint and study in the great museums in Europe. While at the Academie de la Grande Chaumier in Paris (1910-1914) he met Walter Ufer, who was another Chicago artist being sponsored by Carter Harrison. This meeting was not only a life-long friendship, but the beginning of a great change in the way Higgins looked at "American" art. He decided that America needed it's own authentic style rather than the 19th Century classic style he was taught in Europe. Very soon after returning to Chicago in 1914, Harrison sent him and Walter Ufer on a painting trip to Taos, New Mexico for a year in exchange for paintings. Higgins made other similar agreements and was able to support himself with his painting. This trip was a life-changing experience and introduced Higgins to the authentic America he had been looking for. In 1914 Taos was an isolated village about twelve hours from Santa Fe on an impossible dirt road. But the colorful life of the pueblo people and the natural beauty drew a collection of artists who became the Taos art colony, from which the Taos Society of Artists was founded in 1915. Victor Higgins became a permanent resident within a year of his arrival and a member of the society in 1917, exhibiting with Jane Peterson in 1925 and with Wayman Adams and Janet Scudder in 1927. The members would travel around the country introducing the Southwest scenes with great success. He remained a member until the Society's dissolution in 1927. Higgins was the youngest member of the group of seven. Other members were Joseph Henry Sharp, Bert Phillips...

French school early 20th century  View of the Grosbois castle and a portrait study. Black ink, black ink wash and watercolor on paper Signed lower right (indistinct, see photo) 27 x ...

Woman on a Patio Pastel on paper, c. 1915 Unsigned Provenance: Gift of the artist to his wife, Mary Hess Buehr By decent to the artist's niece, daughter of Will Hess David Saltzman Robert Henry Adams Fine Art Thomas French Fine Art Ronald C. Sloter, Columbus, Ohio Columbus College of Art and Design (de-accessed) Exhibited at Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, 1994, the first exhibition at the North Franklin Street Gallery. One of the early Chicago artists to adopt Impressionism, Karl Buehr became a figure and landscape painter. As a figure painter, his specialty became "gorgeously colored images of young women on porches overlooking brilliant summertime gardens." (Kennedy 98) His later work often showed a female figure with serious expression engaging the viewer with a direct stare. In his landscapes, he was noted for his strong coloration. In a December 1896 student exhibition at the Art Institute, a reviewer for the "Chicago Times Herald" described Buehr's landscapes as "blithe and joyous" with "country roads brilliant in sunlight . . . fields rich in summer verdure, under soft skies painted in a high, musical key." (Gerdts 68) Buehr was born as one of seven sons to a prosperous German family who immigrated to America and settled in Chicago in 1869. He was first exposed to his signature style of Impressionism in 1888 when he enrolled in night classes at the Art Institute while working in the shipping department of a lithographic firm near the Institute. He remained a student there until 1897 and was recognized in a "Chicago Times Herald" editorial of June 13, 1897 as one of the Institute's most outstanding pupils. The next year, his art career was temporarily put on hold when he briefly enlisted with the U.S. Army in the Spanish American War. In 1899, he resumed his art studies, this time with Frank Duveneck. He exhibited a painting at the Paris Salon of 1900. In 1905, thanks to a wealthy Chicago patron, Buehr and his family moved to France. They spent the following year in Taormina, Sicily, and spent time in Venice as well. In Paris, Buehr studied at the Academy Julian with Raphael Collin for two years. Then he went to England, enrolling in the London Art School but had returned to Paris by 1908. During this time, he began painting at Giverny, the home of Impressionist leader Claude Monet (1840-1926, and by 1912, Buehr was listing that village as his home address. One of his good friends and associates at Giverny was Frederick Frieseke. One of Buehr's paintings from that time, "News from Home", was exhibited in 1913 at the French Salon in Paris and at the annual exhibit of the Chicago Art Institute. It shows a woman in floral dress sitting on a porch with a background with potted flowers and lush greenery background. Of his painting done at Giverny, Buehr wrote in 1912 to William Macbeth of Macbeth Galleries in New York: "My figures painted in and around Giverny are costumed and in appropriate out door settings." (Gerdts 68) In 1914, he returned to the United States and took a teaching position in Chicago at the Art Institute, which he held for the remainder of his life. He was married to Mary Hess, a painter of miniatures and decorative works. In 1928-29, he was a guest artist at Stanford University. Courtesy, AskArt “Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952) was a painter born in Germany. Buehr was born in Feuerbach - near Stuttgart. He was the son of Frederick Buehr and Henrietta Doh (Dohna?). He moved to Chicago with his parents and siblings in the 1880s. In Chicago, young Karl worked at various jobs until he was employed by a lithograph company near the Art Institute of Chicago. Introduced to art at work, Karl paid regular visits to the Art Institute, where he found part-time employment, enabling him to enroll in night classes. Later, working at the Institute as a night watchman, he had a unique opportunity to study the masters and actually posted sketchings that blended in favorably with student's work. Having studied under John H. Vanderpoel, Buehr graduated with honors, while his work aroused such admiration that he was offered a teaching post there, which he maintained for many years thereafter. He graduated from the Art Inst. of Chicago and served in the IL Cav in the Spanish–American War. Mary Hess became Karl's wife—she was a student of his and an accomplished artist in her own right. In 1922, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member. Art Studies in Europe In 1904, Buehr received a bronze medal at the St. Louis Universal Exposition, then, in 1905, Buehr and his family moved to France, thanks to a wealthy Chicago patron, and they spent the following year in Taormina, Sicily, where the artist painted local subjects, executing both genre subjects and landscapes as well as time in Venice. Buehr spent at least some time in Paris, where he worked with Raphaël Collin at the Académie Julian. Giverny and American Impressionism Prior to this time, Buehr had developed a quasi-impressionistic style, but after 1909, when he began spending summers near Monet in Giverny, his work became decidedly characteristic of that plein-air style but he began focusing on female subjects posed out-of-doors. He remained for some time in Giverny, and here he became well-acquainted with other well known expatriate America impressionists such as Richard Miller, Theodore Earl Butler, Frederick Frieseke, and Lawton Parker. It seems likely that Buehr met Monet, since his own daughter Kathleen and Monet’s granddaughter, Lili Butler, were playmates, according to George Buehr, the painter’s son. His other daughter Lydia died before adulthood due to diabetes. He returned to Chicago at the onset of World War I and taught at The Art Inst for many years. One of his noted pupils at the Art Institute was Archibald Motley...

ALBERT RUTHERSTON, RWS (1881-1953) Page for the Emperor – Costume Design for Androcles and the Lion Variously inscribed: “Androcles”/No.28/ Two Pages for The Emperor/ Mr Alfree/Mr Bugh/King Watercolour, pen and ink and gold paint Framed 25 by 19 cm., 9 ¾ by 7 ½ in. (frame size 43 by 36 cm., 17 by 14 ¼ in.) Provenance: By descent in the family of the artist. Exhibited: London, Sally Hunter Fine Art, Albert Rutherston – Drawings, Theatre Designs & other Treasures, 2016, no.75. The present work is a costume design for a page in Androcles and the Lion, a play in two acts by George Bernard. Rutherston designed the set and costumes for the 1913 premier production performed at St James’s Theatre, London and produced by Harley Granville-Barker. 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...

Rousselet, French School early 20th century Portrait of an officier, 1915 Wax crayon on paper signed "E Rousselet" and dated 1915 lower right 51.5 x 31.5 cm In quite good condition, ...

Stone statue in the temple at Madura, India, 1914 Signed with initials and dated, bottom left Pencil on paper, 25.4 x 16.7 cm Literature: Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbroek, W.O.J. ...

Delovincourt: biography Delovincourt, is a poster artist. Delovincourt was an art nouveau artist. He was mainly active during the modern period. Delovincourt: his main works Delovinc...