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Paysage en Normandie by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Charcoal landscape
Located in London, GB
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Paysage en Normandie by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Charcoal on paper
32 x 39 cm (12 ⅝ x 15 ⅜ inches)
St...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Landscape with Trees - Original Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with Trees is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in 1935 in Marac. Pencil Drawing, hand signed on the lower right margin and dated "Marac 1935".
Good Co...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
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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Expressionist 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Musical Group - Drawing by Georges Guido Filiberti - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Musical Group is an Original Drawing, china ink on yellowed paper, realized by the french artist Georges Guido Filiberti. Hand signed on th...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait of George Arliss in Conte Crayon on Cardstock 1934
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately portrait of George Arliss by Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980). Mr. Arliss is depicted wearing his signature monocle, looking directly at the viewer. Although this piece appears to be done rapidly, there is a clear confidence in Opffer's work - he was an accomplished portrait artist - and the resemblance to the subject is unmistakable. George Arliss (born Augustus George Andrews; 10 April 1868 – 5 February 1946) was an English actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award – which he won for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) – as well as the earliest-born actor to win the honour. He specialized in successful biopics, such as Disraeli, Voltaire (1933), and Cardinal Richelieu (1935), as well as light comedies, which included The Millionaire (1931) and A Successful Calamity (1932).
Signed and dated "Ivan Opffer 1934" in the lower right.
Titled "Mr. Arliss" in the lower left.
Presented in a new off-white mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 22"H x 16"W
Art size: 17.5"H x 12"W
Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980) was born in Nyborg, Denmark, on June 4, 1897, to a family of Danish scholars and journalists. His brother was Emil Opffer, a Danish merchant seaman and journalist who was known for his relationship with American writer Hart Crane.
Ivan was raised in Mexico City and New York, where his anarchist father was the editor of a radical Danish-language newspaper. His involvement in painting and drawing began at an early age. At a summer workshop, he met and studied drawing with Winslow Homer, then went on to study at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York.
When the US entered World War I, Opffer was one of the members of the American Army Camouflage Corps, headed by Homer Saint-Gaudens (whose mother was a relative of Winslow Homer), the son of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. As a camoufleur, Opffer served with other artists and architects, some of whom became well-known, including Barry Faulkner, Sherry Edmundson Fry, Kimon Nicolaides, Robert Lawson, Abraham Rattner, Kerr Eby, and others.
It was this same unit, while still in training in at Camp American University in Washington DC, that launched a camp newspaper called The Camoufleur. Only three issues were published before the unit’s deployment to France in late 1917. In the October 31 issue, a satirical portrait by Opffer of Homer Saint-Gaudens (titled “Our Boss”) was published on page 5.
After the war, Opffer returned to New York, where he became known for his caricatures of leading Modern writers, among them James Joyce, Edgar Lee Masters, Siegfried Sassoon, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Sandburg, G.K. Chesterton, and Thomas Mann.
In the years between the wars, Opffer married Betty à Beckett Chomley, and settled in Paris, where he was a student at the Academie Julliard. He also lived in London and Copenhagen, where his drawings were frequently published in newspapers and magazines. With the outbreak of World War II, he and his family returned to New York and lived in Greenwich Village.
Among his friends in that era were William Butler Yeats, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...
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American Impressionist 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Postcard, Illustration Board
Signs of the Zodiac, Taurus and Gemi - Drawing by Jacques Villon - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Signs of the Zodiac, Taurus and Gemini is an original modern artwork realized by Jacques Villon in 1937.
China ink drawing.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Vintage fram...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Milchmädchen mit Kuh / Milkmaid with cow
Located in Wien, 9
Mariette Lydis (Vienna 1887 - Buenos Aires 1970) is an Austrian painter and illustrator who was successful in Paris in the 1930s, in Montparnasse and then in Argentina, where she emigrated in 1940. Mariette Lydis was born on 24 August in Vienna, Austria 1887. From 1919 to 1922 she signed her works with the initials MPK for Marietta Pachoffer Karñy, a name derived from her first marriage in 1910 to Julius Koloman Pachoffer-Karñy, who died on 22 April 1922. Subsequently she lived in different cities around Europe, among others: Athens and Florence. She moved to France from 1926 to 1939, during these years she exhibited and became a member of the Salon d'Automne. She befriended Count Giuseppe Govone, the art publisher, in 1928 and married him on 1 August 1934, for whom she illustrated the books of many authors and cultivated a great friendship with Henry de Montherlant, which came about through the publication of a first in 1938 monograph by the author of Les Jeunes Filles. Fearing the German invasion, she travelled to England and then to Buenos Aires in July 1940, where she stayed and published published her latest paintings...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"Going to the Festival" WPA Ashcan 20th Century American Scene Modern Realism
Located in New York, NY
"Going to the Festival" WPA Ashcan 20th Century American Scene Modern Realism
Daniel Celentano (1902 - 1980) "Going to the Festival," 14 1/2 x 10 1/2. Watercolor on paper, c. 1930s....
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American Realist 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Children Playing on the Beach /// British Watercolor Figurative Seascape Antique
By David Thomas Robertson
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: David Thomas Robertson (Scottish, 1879-1952)
Title: "Children Playing on the Beach"
*Signed by Robertson lower left, (the signature is faded)
Circa: 1935
Medium: Original Wat...
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Impressionist 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Family Dinner Time 1932 American Classic Interior Design
Located in Soquel, CA
Classic Interior design and Family Dinner by Architectural Digest illustrator David Mode Payne (American, 1907-1985). The scene depicted is an interio...
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American Impressionist 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
The Hyena has replaced the She-Wolf- Drawing by E. Tapissier - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Hyena has replaced the She-Wolf (Mussolini) is an original artwork, pen, ink on paper, realized bu the french Artist Edmond Tapissier, so called "TAP". On the lower right appear ...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Paul Emile Lecomte (1877-1950) La Grille (The Gate), signed watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Emile Lecomte (1877-1950)
La Grille (The Gate)
Signed lower left
Watercolor on paper
27 x 37 cm
In quite condition: yellowed by time, some stains
Framed: 43 x 53 cm
Paul Emile ...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Leopold Myers by Sir William Rothenstein
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately sanguine portrait of Leopold Hamilton Myers (Novelist) by Sir William Rothenstein (English, 1872-1945). Captured in Rothenstein's characteristic style, Myers looks directly at the viewer with a neutral expression. Although this portrait uses only two colors and minimal shading, the likeness of Myers is incredibly well captured. Leo (Leopold) Hamilton Myers (1881 – 1944) was a British novelist. Numerous examples like this one of the writer are in the Tate Museum.
Initialed and dated in the lower right corner ("W.R. 1936")
Inscription on verso indicating materials, subject, and artist.
Presented in a new cream colored mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 18"H x 12"W
Paper size: 15.25"H x 10.75"W
William Rothenstein (English, 1872-1945) was born into a German-Jewish family in Bradford, West Yorkshire. His father, Moritz, emigrated from Germany in 1859 to work in Bradford's burgeoning textile industry. Soon afterwards he married Bertha Dux, and they had six children, of which William was the fifth. Rothenstein was knighted in 1931.
Rothenstein left Bradford Grammar School at the age of sixteen to study at the Slade School of Art*, London (1888-1893), where he was taught by Alphonse Legros, and the Académie Julian* in Paris (1889-1893), where he met and was encouraged by James McNeill Whistler, Edgar Degas and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. Whilst in Paris he also befriended the Anglo-Australian artist Charles Conder, with whom he shared a studio in Montmartre. In 1893 he returned to England to work on "Oxford Characters" a series of lithographic* portraits.
In Oxford he met and became a close friend of the caricaturist* and parodist Max Beerbohm, who later immortalised him in the short story Enoch Soames (1919). During the 1890s Rothenstein exhibited with the New English Art Club* and, in 1900, won a silver medal for his painting The Doll's House at the Exposition Universelle. In 1898 he co-founded the Carfax Gallery in St. James' Piccadilly with John Fothergill. During its early years the gallery was closely associated with such artists as Charles Conder, Philip Wilson Steer, Charles Ricketts and Augustus John. It also exhibited the work of Auguste Rodin, whose growing reputation in England owed much to Rothenstein's friendship and missionary zeal. The gallery was later the home for all three exhibitions of The Camden Town Group*, led by Rothenstein's friend and close contemporary Walter Sickert.
Rothenstein is best known for his portrait drawings of famous individuals and for being an official war artist in both World War I and World War II. He was also a member of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers. The style and subject of his paintings varies, though certain themes reappear, in particular an interest in 'weighty' or 'essential' subjects tackled in a restrained manner. Good examples include Parting at Morning (1891), Mother and Child (1903) and Jews Mourning at a Synagogue (1907) - all of which are owned by the Tate Gallery. The National Portrait Gallery owns over two hundred of his portraits. In 2011 the BBC and the Public Catalogue Foundation began cataloguing all of his paintings in public ownership online.
Between 1902 and 1912 Rothenstein lived in Hampstead, London, where his social circle included such names as H.G.Wells, Joseph Conrad and the artist Augustus John. Amongst the young artists to visit Rothenstein in Hampstead were Mark Gertler...
Category
Realist 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Handmade Paper
La Main de Mon Père - Sanguine on Paper by E. Diverly - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
La main de mon père is a superb original sanguine drawing on paper, realized in 1935 by the French artist Eliane Diverly (1914-2012).
Dated and signed in sanguine pencil by the arti...
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Contemporary 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Athens: Vie of the Akropolis - Watercolor on Paper by Jean Delpech - 1937
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Athens: View of The Akropolis is a drawing in tempera and watercolor on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
The state of preservation of the artwork is very good.
Sheet di...
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1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Allan Rohan Crite "God and Man"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Allan Rohan Crite: 1910-2007. Well listed and important African American artist. He has auction results over $200,000 and as high as $15,000 for his ...
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1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Les Andelys, la Place Saint Michel by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
Located in London, GB
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Les Andelys, la Place Saint Michel by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour on paper
22 x 29 cm (8 ⁵/₈ x ...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Cubist Male Nude
Located in Miami, FL
This powerful Cubist male nude is rendered in long uninterrupted bold black strokes that draw our gaze like a magnet. Mercedes Matter was a female ar...
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Cubist 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Interior of The Church - Original Drawing by Rémy Hetreau - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Interior of The Church is an original Artwork realized by Remy Hetreau (1913-2001).
Realized with pencil, and watercolor on cardboard.
in good condition.
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
"Brick Layers" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing Men Working
Located in New York, NY
"Brick Layers" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing Men Working.
21 x 15 inches Watercolor on paper. c. 1938. Signed lower left.
BIO
David Fredenthal (1914 - 1958) was one ot America's most respected watercolor artists. He was famous for his bold, intensely vigorous and complex paintings and drawings that expressed his deep feeling for excitement with life and living. He was a draftsman with seemingly a special gift for catching anything, physically and emotionally on the spot, and he never went anywhere without three or four loaded pens and a sketchbook in his pocket. As part of the WPA project he executed a number of murals including the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World's Fair 1939. Some of his fresco and mural techniques were inspired by his friendship with Diego Rivera who had admired and encouraged him in the early 1930's. After he won a traveling scholarship to Europe from The Museum of Modern Art at age 19, he was the recipient of two Guggenheim grants in Painting. He had his first solo exhibition at the Downtown Gallery in New York in 1937 at age 23, and many others after that including the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1947. Because of Fredenthal's prodigious drawing gifts, he was chosen by Erskine Caldwell to illustrate his novel "Tobacco Road" in 1940. He was a War Artist Correspondent for both the State Department (the European and Asian fronts) and Life magazine from 1943 to 1946 and his work was featured in Life magazine regularly during the war and after until the end of his life. Also featured in Life in 1956 were drawings that Fredenthal had vividly recorded on his sketch pad, of the entire filming of the movie, The Pride and the Passion, starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, and Frank Sinatra, along the treacherous mountain passes of Spain. Though he was fiercely committed to an art that expressed deeply human social values and issues and was quite hostile to abstraction, he was friendly with a number of abstract artists such as David Smith, Ad Reinhardt, Philip Guston, Paul Feeley, and Herman Cherry.
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American Realist 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
The Portrait - Original Drawing by Lucien Coutaud - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait is an Original drawing in pen realized by Lucien Coutaud in the 1935s.
Stamp Signed on the rear.
Good conditions.
The dynamic strokes ar...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Moulin Vardon près Gournay, Graphite on Paper by Paulémile Pissarro, circa 1934
Located in London, GB
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Moulin Vardon près Gournay, Graphite on Paper by Paulémile Pissarro, 1934
Graphite on paper
32 x ...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Nude Girl - Original Drawing by Lucien Coutaud - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Girl is an original pen drawing on paper realized by Lucien Coutaud in the 1930s.
Stamped on the rear "Fond Coutaud"
Included a Passepartout: 40x...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Amphitrite - Watercolor on China Paper - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Amphitrite is an original modern artwork realized in the 1930s by the French artist.
Original watercolor on precious China Paper.
Passepartout is inclu...
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1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
La Maison Rose, Les Andelys by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Landscape, watercolour
Located in London, GB
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La Maison Rose, Les Andelys by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour, ink and ...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Fortune Magazine cover Depression-Era Illustration, WPA industrial Modernist
Located in New York, NY
Fortune Magazine cover, Depression-Era Illustration, WPA industrial Modernist.
Signed lower left. The drawing measures 13. x 11 inches. Framed by Bark...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Board
American Modernist Abstract Mining Scene Watercolor Painting, Red Green Brown
By Frank Pancho Gates
Located in Denver, CO
1935 American Modernist watercolor on paper by Frank "Pancho" Gates (1904-1998). An abstract scene of a mining town in the mountains, completed in colors of red, green, yellow, and black. Presented in a custom frame with all archival materials, outside dimensions measure 14 ¼ x 17 ¼ inches. Image size measures 8 ¾ x 11 ¾ inches.
Painting is clean and in good condition, has had restoration work - please contact us for a detailed condition report.
Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote.
About the Artist:
A Colorado modernist artist and theater set designer, he grew up in Edgewater, Colorado, near the Manhattan Beach Theater and the winter quarters of the Denver Post’s Sells-Floto Circus which he frequented as a youngster. These two places introduced him early on to the theater. Additionally, his father toured the United States in a wire walking act with the Barnum and Bailey Circus. Gates began his association with the theater in 1919 when just out of high school. He initially worked with scenic artist, Jack Stein, at the old Tabor Theater in the Tabor Grand Opera House (demolished in 1964) in downtown Denver. Soon after that, he became an assistant scenic artist to George Bradford Ashworth, a famous New York stage set designer, who during the summer designed sets for the Elitch Gardens Theater in northwest Denver. Gates later produced the sets there until 1928.
He was offered a scholarship to Colorado A & M College (now Colorado State University) in Fort Collins but declined because of his growing commitment to the theater. He followed his tenure at Elitch’s with positions at the Denham Theater in Denver and the Palm Theater in Pueblo. Upon returning to Denver, he became a free-lance artist for studios producing scenery for stage shows at the city’s Tabor, Denver, Paramount, Alladin, Rivoli, Broadway, Orpheum and Empress Theaters.
He moved to California, perfecting his craft at the Pasadena Playhouse, a training school for young actors and actresses pursuing stardom in the movies. Later associated with the Technicolor Corporation, he helped to produce the film used in early color movies such as Becky Sharp (1935) and the Garden of Allah...
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Abstract 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Resting - 1930s British design for a mural by Harry Carleton Attwood
Located in London, GB
HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD
(1907-1985)
Resting - Design for Eltham Palace
Watercolour over traces of pencil
Framed
20 by 14 cm., 8 by 5 ½ in.
(frame size 39.5 by 31.5 cm., 15 ½ by 12 ...
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Art Deco 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape - Drawing by Ardengo Soffici - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original modern artwork realized by Ardengo Soffici in 1930s.
Pencil on paper.
Hand signed lower right.
Includes frame.
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Women Resting - 1930s British Design for a Mural by Harry Carleton Attwood
Located in London, GB
HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD
(1907-1985)
Women Resting - Design for Eltham Palace
Watercolour
Framed
20.5 by 14.5 cm., 8 by 5 ¾ in.
(frame size 39.5 by 31.5 cm., 15 ½ by 12 ½ in.)
Attw...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"The Great Mouthpiece" - Vintage Political Cartoon
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage political cartoon by H.M. Talburt (American, 1895-1966). A man in a suit is speaking about the president into his "hat," which is the mouthpi...
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Other Art Style 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Nudes - Original Drawing by Lucien Coutaud - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
Nudes is an original China ink drawing on paper realized by Lucien Coutaud in 1935.
Stamped on the rear.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted thr...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Women in Marocco - Original Pencil Drawing by Helen Vogt - 1930s
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
Women in Marocco is an original pencil drawing realized by Helen Vogt in 1930s.
The state of preservation is very good.
Not signed, Only stamp of the artist on the lower margin.
...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Metamorphosis - Drawing by Lucien Coutaud - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
Metamorphosis is an original pencil drawing on paper realized by Lucien Coutaud in 1945.
Stamped on the rear "Fond Coutaud"
Included a Passepartout: 4...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Posing Woman - Original Drawing by Lucien Coutaud - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Woman is an original pen drawing on paper realized by Lucien Coutaud in the 1930s.
Stamped on the rear "Fond Coutaud"
Included a Passepartout: ...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
The Rider - Original Drawing by Charkes Laborde - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
The Rider is an Original China ink drawing on paper realized by Charkes Laborde in 1935.
Stamped on the rear.
The artwork is in good condition on creamy-co...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Interior Scene with Figures
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Interior Scene with Figures
Ink and watercolor on paper, c. 1930's
Signed with the Estate stamp lower center
Condition: Loss upper right corner; two small tears lower margin
Colors very fresh and vibrant
Provenance: Jem Hom Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Martin Dimanond Fine Arts, NYC (?)
Louis Schanker (1903–1981)[1] was an American abstract artist.
"He grew up in an Orthodox Jewish environment in the Bronx, New York. His parents, Sam, a tailor, and Fannie Schanker, were of Romanian descent.[2] He had five siblings.[3] At an early age he had an interest in both art and music He took art courses at Cooper Union, The Educational Alliance and The Art Students League with Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Milton Avery amongst others. During this time he shared a coldwater studio with the Soyer brothers, Chaim Gross and Adolph Gottlieb. In 1920 he traveled across the country. He lived the hobo life, joined the Sparks and then Barnum and Bailey circuses, later working as a thresher in the wheat fields of the Great Plains. There are elements in his works such as the circus murals...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woman - Drawing by Lucien Coutaud - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an Original drawing in watercolor realized by Lucien Coutaud in 1931.
Hand-signed on the lower by the artist.
Good conditions.
The delicate ...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape - Drawing by Ardengo Soffici - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original modern artwork realized by Ardengo Soffici in 1932.
Pencil on laid paper.
Hand signed lower right.
Left margin restoration sign, generally in good conditi...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Ball Playing Nudes
Located in London, GB
ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER 1880-1938 (German)
Aschaffenburg 1880 - 1938 Davos
Title: Ball Playing Nudes Ballspielende Akte, 1932
Technique: Chalk Drawing on Smooth Wove Paper
Paper s...
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Expressionist 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
"The Knockout" Boxing Sports American Watercolor WPA Mid-Century Modern 30s/40s
By Robert Riggs
Located in New York, NY
"The Knockout" Boxing Sports American Watercolor WPA Mid-Century Modern 30s/40s.
Known for his paintings of prize-fighting and circus-genre scenes and lithography of gigantic size c...
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American Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Daughters of Atreus" Broadway Play Set Design Drawing American Modernism WPA
By Jo Mielziner
Located in New York, NY
"Daughters of Atreus" Broadway Play Set Design Drawing American Modernism WPA. 8 x 10 ¾ inches. Graphite on paper, 1936. Initialed on lower right. The play opens October 14, 1936 at Broadway’s 44th Street Theatre.
Handwritten title, date, and signature on lower center of original matte which is now affixed to the verso. Inscription on lower right of matte reads, "For Prince & Barbara - Jo Mielziner...
Category
Performance 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Africa - Life in the Village - Original Lithograph by Emmanuel Gondouin - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Africa - Life in the Village is an original artwork realized by Emmanuel Gondouin (Versailles, 1883 - Parigi, 1934) in 1930s.
Original Lithograph on ivory paper.
This drawing is pa...
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Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Magazine Cover Illustration Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre Broadway Realism WPA
Located in New York, NY
Magazine Cover Illustration Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre Broadway Realism WPA
Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889 – 1975) “Today Magazine” Cover ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Volunteer Firemen, Provincetown
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preparatory drawing for Volunteer Firemen, Provincetown
Graphite on paper, 1932
Initialed in pencil by the artist lower left: W
Provenance:
Estate of the artist, 1935
Georgianna Webs...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Landscape in Lagny - Original Drawing by Paul Alouard-Carny - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
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...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
Art Deco Era Fashion Drawing -- The Flapper
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful fashion drawing of flapper by Helen Farr Sloan (American, 1911 - 2005), circa 1930. Signed lower edge "Helen Farr." Presented in new mat. Unframed. I
mage size: 10"H x 6"W....
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Moroccan - Original Pencil and Ink by Helen Vogt - 1930
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
Moroccan is an original pencil and china ink drawing realized by Helen Vogt in 1930.
The state of preservation is very good.
Not signed.
Stamp of the ...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Ink
Pierre Olivier DUBAUT (1886-1968) Head studies of a horseman, signed watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Pierre Olivier DUBAUT (1886-1968) Head studies of a horseman, Geoffrey Larcher, 1936
Signed lower center
Watercolor, black and red chalks and pencil on paper
22 x 27.5 cm
Titled an...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Figure from Behind - Original Pastel on Paper by Helen Vogt - 1935
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
A Figure from Behind is an original modern artwork realized in 1935 by Hélène Vogt (1902 - 1994).
Original white pastel on black paper.
Passepartout is included (cm 50 x 35). The ...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Pastel
Orpheus - Art Deco British watercolour design for a mural by H C Attwood
Located in London, GB
HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD
(1907-1985)
Orpheus - Design for Eltham Palace
Watercolour, squared for transfer
Framed
22.5 by 14 cm., 9 by 5 ½ in.
(frame size 39.5 by 31.5 cm., 15 ½ by 1...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Jeune Femme Assise', Paris, Charlottenborg, Danish Post Impressionist, Benezit
By Carl Fischer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, in graphite, 'Carl Fischer' (Danish, 1887-1962) and created created 1935. Watermarked 'Ingres Van Gelder Zonen' along right edge.
Carl Fischer first studied under Viggo Johansen...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Desperate - Original Drawing by Lucien Coutaud - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
Desperate is an original watercolor drawing on paper realized by Lucien Coutaud in 1945.
Stamped on the rear "Fond Coutaud"
Included a Passepartout: 4...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Searching the Car - Desaturated Colors Muted Warm Yellows and Grey
Located in Miami, FL
This Harry Beckhoff illustration is masterfully rendered and intricately designed in line and wash. It's as abstract as it's representational with its graphic style, clean lines, and flat patterning. Every element in the composition works in harmony without a line out of place. The flat and abstract nature of the work rivals that of the great modernist painters of the 1930s.
Perhaps this was done for a major newsstand magazine like Collier's.
Although he studied with Dean Cornwell and Harvey Dunn, he didn't pursue the style of painterly brushstrokes and impastos. Instead, he defined his forms with flat shapes, whose internal forms are defined by thin lines. The emphasis is more on silhouette and line than it is on texture and lighting. Beckhoff also described his work as having been influenced by illustrators like Pierre Brissaud...
Category
1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
Man with pipe
Located in Wien, 9
August Dressler is one of the painters of the New Objectivity. He is one of the lesser-known artists of the Weimar era, but he too, like his famous contemporaries Georg Grosz, John H...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Glassblowers WPA American Scene Mid- 20th Century Modern Figurative Workers 1932
Located in New York, NY
Glassblowers WPA American Scene Mid- 20th Century Modern Figurative Workers. Dated and signed "32 Harry Gottlieb" lower right. Sight: 13 1/8" H x 18 1/4" W.
Harry Gottlieb, painter, screenprinter, educator, and lithographer, was born in Bucharest, Rumania. He emigrated to America in 1907, and his family settled in Minneapolis. From 1915 to 1917, Gottlieb attended the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. After a short stint as an illustrator for the U.S. Navy, Gottlieb moved to New York City; he became a scenic and costume designer for Eugene O"Neill's Provincetown Theater Group. He also studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design.
He was one of America's first Social Realist painters, influenced by that Robert Henri-led movement in New York City where Gottlieb settled in 1918. He was also a pioneer in screen printing, which he learned while working for the WPA. He married Eugenie Gershoy, and the couple joined the artist colony at Woodstock, New York. He lectured widely on art education.
In 1923, Gottlieb settled in Woodstock, New York and in 1931, spent a a year abroad studying under a Guggenheim Fellowship.
In 1935, he joined the Federal Art Project...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Le Front de la Paix - Original Drawing by Edmond Tapissier - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Le Front de la Paix is an Original drawing in china ink realized in the 1930s by Edmond Tapissier (1861-1943)
good conditions except for being aged and a cutaway on the lower left a...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Surrealist Nude Female Figure
Located in Miami, FL
This is an important work that is loaded with Surrealist iconographies. The shape of her hands is echoed in the shape of her hair. Tiny man and woman figures...
Category
Surrealist 1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Archival Paper
