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Period: 1940s
"Petit Dalles beach "Normandy France Gouache cm. 34 x 45 1940
Located in Torino, IT
Lanscape France,Ocean, France , grey, blue, azure,beach,cliffs, Normandy
Henry Maurice CAHOURS (Paris, 1889 – Vence, 1974)
He was born in Paris but spent his childhood and adolesce...
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1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
1945 Pastel Drawing Girl with Flower American Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Frank Kleinholz was a painter based in New York City whose work spanned several art movements including Expressionism and Social Realism. His early works ...
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American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Oil Pastel
four drawings colored inks nude
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Pedro Pruna Ocerans (1904-1977) - Four drawings - Ink drawing
Four framed drawings, ane of them signed and dated.
Frame measures 26x29 cm.
Pere Pruna Ocerans (Barcelona, 1904-1977...
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Post-Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Double Sided Art Deco Drawing by Wheeler Williams, Signed
Located in Larchmont, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled (Study of Three Graces), 1947
Pencil on paper
9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.
Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1947
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with...
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Wheeler Williams Classical Figure Study for Twilight
Located in Larchmont, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Study for Twilight, 1947
Pencil on paper
9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.
Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1947
Inscribed: Study for Twilight
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with honors from Yale University in 1919 and earned a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard in 1922. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with sculptor Albin Polasek...
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Two Preparatory Drawings by Wheeler Williams
Located in Larchmont, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled Study, 1931
Pencil on paper
8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.
Each signed: Wheeler Williams, 1931
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with honors...
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Thee Graces Preparatory Drawing by Wheeler Williams, Signed
Located in Larchmont, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled (Study of Three Graces), 1947
Pencil on paper
9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.
Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1947
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with honors from Yale University in 1919 and earned a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard in 1922. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with sculptor Albin Polasek...
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Art Deco Wheeler Williams Allegorical Painting Study, Double Sided
Located in Larchmont, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled Study, 1942
Pencil on paper
9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.
Signed lower right recto: Wheeler Williams, 1942
Inscribed recto: Study for painting of the black stallion and wood nymphs, balcony on studio 15 @ 67th, NYC, 1942
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with honors from Yale University in 1919 and earned a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard in 1922. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with sculptor Albin Polasek...
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Art Deco Polo Players Study by Wheeler Williams
Located in Larchmont, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled Study, 1944 (Polo Players)
Pencil on paper
15 1/2 x 19 1/4 in.
Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1944
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with...
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
My Room - Drawing - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
My Room is a Drawing on paper realized by an Anonymous artist in the 1948.
Watercolour on paper.
Hand-signed, illegible, dated.
Good conditions. Included a Passepartout: 47 x 59 c...
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Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Lying Down Tiger - Original Pencil Drawing by Willy Lorenz - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Lying down Tiger is a beautiful pencil original drawing on ivory-colored, realized by the German artist Wilhelm Lorenz, best know as Willi Lorenz, in 1940s.
A tiger is portrayed fr...
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1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Art Deco Black Stallion and Wood Nymph Drawing by Wheeler Williams
Located in Larchmont, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled Study, 1942
Pencil on paper
8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.
Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1942
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with honors from Yale University in 1919 and earned a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard in 1922. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with sculptor Albin Polasek...
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Art Deco Polo Mural Study Signed by Wheeler Williams
Located in Larchmont, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled Study, 1944 (Polo Players)
Pencil on paper
15 1/2 x 19 1/4 in.
Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1944
Artist studio label verso
Inscribed on mat:
Drawings for Proposed Murals: Polo Room, Hotel Plaza....
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with honors from Yale University in 1919 and earned a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard in 1922. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with sculptor Albin Polasek...
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
La Traviata - Dancer of the Bohemian Ballet - 3rd Act - Drawing by Erté - 1948
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
La Traviata - Dancer of the Bohemian Ballet - 3rd Act is a modern artwork realized in 1948 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on ...
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
“Nassau Harbor, Bahamas”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and gouache on archival paper by the American artist, Martin Louis Lindsay. Signed, titled and dated top right. Done in 1944. Condi...
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Academic 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Twentieth Century Mask (Red), Modern Drawing by Benno 1948
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original crayon on paper drawing by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980) measuring 30 x 17 inches. By the early 1930s he had established a reputation as a member of the internat...
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Cubist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Crayon
Miss Twisty: Back to the City - Mid-Century Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Miss Twisty is a story of a young girl who leaves the big city to spend time in the country. The book is filled with insight and humor. This work is a deftly rendered black-and-wh...
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Academic 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Que Font Ces Gens - Ink Drawing by Salvador Dalì - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
Que font ces gens is a beautiful modern artwork realized by Salvador Dalì in 1945.
China Ink Drawing on paper.
Original outstanding drawing realized to illustrate the book "The Labyrinth" by Maurice Sandoz, published in 1945.
Signed and dated on the lower right recto.
Executed on thick cream wove paper, not laid down and taped to the mount along the upper edge. The upper, right and lower edges are slightly unevenly cut. There are two pinholes towards the upper right and upper left corners. The sheet is time stained and there is a spot of foxing beneath the lower edge of the drawing. There are some remnants from previous mounting at the upper two corners not visible when framed. There are handling marks to the perimeter of the sheet. The ink is strong and well preserved.
The artwork is accompanied by authentication of Robert P. Descharnes, Paris 2003, reference archive: D-3461.
Prov. Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Sale...
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Surrealist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Le Pont du Vey by Paulémile Pissarro - Charcoal drawing
Located in London, GB
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Le Pont du Vey by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Charcoal on paper
24.5 x 31.5 cm (9 ⁵/₈ x 12 ³/₈ inches)
Signed ...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Art Deco 1940s High Fashion Illustration Woman with Fan and Screen
Located in Miami, FL
French female illustrator Geneviève Thomas renders a highly stylized fashion illustration set against a seamless red background, The model is wearin...
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Spanish and Dutch Soldiers - Original drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Spanish and Dutch Soldiers is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines in well-balanced conditions.
Herbert Knotel was a german artist, son and pupil of the famous uniformologist and military historian Richard Knotel...
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Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Stipple Drawing in Black and White of the First Lady of Haiti - African American
Located in Miami, FL
1942 Calendar illustration featuring the First Lady of Haiti (Madame Elie Lescot]) rendered in a precise stipple effect and celebrating African-American women which was titled "Twelve American Women." It was executed during the hight of World War II. Lois Mailou Jones...
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Academic 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Glamorous Palm Beach Portrait with Sun Hat - Mid Century Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
The mid-century glamour portrait of an elegant, long-necked woman in silhouette with a straw sun hat. Signed and dated Grafstrom Palm Beach 1947 - Condition is good with some scatter...
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Impressionist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Class Struggle - Fay the Maid Dusts Henry Moore - New Yorker Magazine?
Located in Miami, FL
Mary Petty gained fame as a cover artist for The New Yorker, illustrating a fictional upper-class Manhattan family called the Peabodys. One of the main char...
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Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Moroccan Dancer by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Nude drawing
Located in London, GB
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Moroccan Dancer by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Watercolour, coloured crayon and pencil
26.3 x 20.2 cm ( ...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
Dancer in White
Located in Washington, DC
American Impressionist
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American Realist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard
Dancer in Pink
Located in Washington, DC
American Impressionist
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American Realist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard
The Family - Original Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
The Family is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in about 1940. Ink, pencil drawing and watercolor; hand signed on the left ma...
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Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil, Paper
Devant le Chateau - China Ink Drawing by Salvador Dalì - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
Devant le Chateau une Carrosse Passait is a modern artwork realized by Salvador Dalì in 1945.
China Ink drawing on paper.
Signed and dated on the lower right recto.
Outstanding dr...
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Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Reading Woman - Pencil Drawing - 1940s
By Paul Morin
Located in Roma, IT
Reading Woman is a modern artwork realized in the 1940s by a French artist.
Original Pencil Drawing on paper.
Passepartout is included (dimensions: cm 38 x 30).
Perfect condit...
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Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Les Mamelles de Tirésias - Drawing by Erté - 1948
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Les Mamelles de Tirésias is an original modern artwork realized in 1948 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes frame
Provenance :
- Erté personal collection.
- Serge Leeman collection.
Erté is in charge for the costumes and sets for Les Mamelles de Tirésias. This opera bouffe in two acts by Francis Poulenc based on a play by Guillaume Apollinaire...
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
La Traviata - Rodolphe - 4th act - Drawing by Erté - 1948
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
La Traviata - Rodolphe - 4th act is a modern artwork realized in 1948 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on...
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Les Mamelles de Tirésias - Choriste - 2nd act - Drawing by Erté - 1947
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Les Mamelles de Tirésias - Choriste - 2nd act is a modern artwork realized in 1947 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on the lower mar...
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Nachtgespenst / Night ghost
Located in Wien, 9
Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...
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Surrealist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Nude - Drawing by Mario Sironi - 1940s
By Mario Sironi
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a modern artwork realized by the Italian Artist Mario Sironi.
Charcoal drawing on paper.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes frame.
Good conditions but some ...
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Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Traviata - Rodolphe - 2nd act - Drawing by Erté - 1948
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Traviata - Rodolphe - 2nd act is a modern artwork realized in 1948 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Titled and numbered "9893" on the back.
Includes frame
Provenance :
- Erté personal collection.
- Serge Leeman collection.
Erté is responsible for the costumes and sets for Les Mamelles de Tirésias. This opera bouffe in two acts by Francis Poulenc based on a play by Guillaume Apollinaire...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
1940's Americana WPA Modernist Watercolor Painting Catskill Mountains Bungalow
Located in Surfside, FL
Bungalow (fauvist painting of New York scene) 1940's.
image is 10X 11.5 inches. Hand signed lower right
Country Scene
Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA artist known for abstract, landscape and seascape paintings.
Arrived in the USA from Hungary in 1921 and settled in New York City where he studied at the Art Students League. Grunvald worked for the Federal Art Project, taught at Colony House in NYC. Member: Art Guild, Watercolor Society, New York Watercolor Club. exhibited at Montross Gallery, NYC, World House Galleries, NYC, Leonard Hutton Gallery, NYC, Associated American Artists Gallery and the A.C.A. Gallery. Gunvald's work spanned many modern American movements from the WPA to Abstract Expressionist painting. He was a member of the American Watercolor Society and the Brooklyn Society of Artists. He exhibited with both of these organizations and at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He was involved the the WPA being a Federal Arts Project artist. A number of prominent Jewish artists participated in this New Deal program among them Ben Shahn, Joseph Solman, William Gropper, Philip Guston Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Ben Shahn, the Soyers (Isaac, Moses, and Raphael), and many others
Grunwald exhibited alongside other popular artists such as Paul Klee, Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Charles Burchfield. He also taught and lectured on art and easel painting, Federal Art Project, NYC. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Jewish Museum, New York. Americana.
The Catskills became a major resort destination for Jewish New Yorkers in the mid-20th century. Borscht Belt is an informal term for the summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in Sullivan and Ulster counties in upstate New York which were frequented by Ashkenazi Jews. At its peak of popularity, about 500 resorts operated in the region. Later changes in vacationing patterns have led most of those travelers elsewhere, although there are still bungalow communities and summer camps in the towns of Liberty, Bethel, Monticello and Fallsburg catering to Orthodox Jewish populations. Borscht Belt, The term, which derives from the name of a beet soup popular with people of Eastern European origin, can also refer to the Catskill region itself.
In August, 1969, the Catskills were the site of a music and art festival in the town of Bethel, which had originally been planned for Woodstock, New York. Thirty-three of the best-known musicians of the era appeared during a sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers. The event, featuring liberal drug use and nudity, exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s.
Select Exhibitions
A.C.A. Gallery
Associated American Artists Gallery, 1936-1955
American Watercolor Society, 1932-1942
New York Watercolor Club, 1935-1937
Humanist Art...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1940's American WPA Modernist New York City Watercolor Painting Tenement Market
Located in Surfside, FL
The Market, (fauvist painting of NYC scene) 1940's.
image is 10X 11.5 inches. Hand signed lower right
Lower East Side Tenements Pushcart Market
Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA artist known for abstract, landscape and seascape paintings.
Arrived in the USA from Hungary in 1921 and settled in New York City where he studied at the Art Students League. Grunvald worked for the Federal Art Project, taught at Colony House in NYC. Member: Art Guild, Watercolor Society, New York Watercolor Club. exhibited at Montross Gallery, NYC, World House Galleries, NYC, Leonard Hutton Gallery, NYC, Associated American Artists Gallery and the A.C.A. Gallery. Gunvald's work spanned many modern American movements from the WPA to Abstract Expressionist painting. He was a member of the American Watercolor Society and the Brooklyn Society of Artists. He exhibited with both of these organizations and at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He was involved the the WPA being a Federal Arts Project artist. A number of prominent Jewish artists participated in this New Deal program among them Ben Shahn, Joseph Solman, William Gropper, Philip Guston Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Ben Shahn, the Soyers (Isaac, Moses, and Raphael), and many others
Grunwald exhibited alongside other popular artists such as Paul Klee, Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Charles Burchfield. He also taught and lectured on art and easel painting, Federal Art Project, NYC. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Jewish Museum, New York. Americana.
Select Exhibitions
A.C.A. Gallery
Associated American Artists Gallery, 1936-1955
American Watercolor Society, 1932-1942
New York Watercolor Club, 1935-1937
Humanist Art...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Du entgehst der Strafe nicht / You do not escape the punishment
Located in Wien, 9
Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Das Mondgespenst / The ghost of the moon
Located in Wien, 9
Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Jünglinge / Youths
Located in Wien, 9
Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Transcendentalist Figural Oil', Paris, Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Geneva
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Marguerite Bordet' (French, 1909-2014) and painted circa 1940. Additionally signed, verso, titled, 'La Vanite' and inscribed with artist's Paris address in the 16th arrondissement.
From an early age, Marguerite Bordet avidly pursued both drawing and painting. In the late 1930's and early '40s, she attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris where she studied with the sculptor, Antoniucci Volti (Italian, 1915-1989). After several years, and feeling increasingly disconnected with the academic atmosphere of the Salon, she left to develop her independent artistic style.
Bordet's first public exhibition took place at the Galerie Claude (1947) and, for the next forty years, she continued to exhibit widely with success, both throughout France and internationally, including in Cairo (1955), Geneva (1960) and the United States (1966). A 1962 exhibition of her work showed a thematic rejection of the Academy's influence and the artist's shift to a more personal and spiritually driven style.
Bordet continued to take frequent study trips to Italy, especially to Florence, where she was inspired by the Renaissance Masters. She also visited England (1975-76) where the works of J.M.W.Turner and John Martin at the Tate Museum had a pronounced impact on her development.
In an interview with Hervé Serane, Marguerite Bordet described her artistic process in these words:
"I start my painting with spots. Sometimes I cover it completely and everything is dark. But then it's stronger than me, I can't bear that there isn't an opening. Immediately, I place a Light. I need the shadow to bring out the Light. So I start with the shadow to create this Light. I cannot define why I need this Light so much. It's stronger than me. It's something that dominates me without my being able to explain it intellectually. It is for me an absolute necessity to seek the Light in the darkness.. You have to open like you open a window. You have to reveal. I remove the stains that obscure my painting to find the luminous background of the canvas.... I only paint with transparent colors and I apply several layers of glaze to preserve this light."
Partial Exhibition Record:
1947 Paris, Galerie Claude
1951 Paris, Galerie Breteau - Cairo, Galerie Adam - Alexandria, l'Atelier
1954 Paris, Galerie Simone Bdinier
1955 Cairo, l'Atelier
1959 Paris, Galerie A. Weil
1960 Geneva, Galerie Motte
1962 Paris, Marignan Gallery
1964 Paris, Ror Volmar Gallery
1966 San Rafael (U.SA) International Museum
1966 Cagnes-sur-Mer, Castle Gallery...
Category
Symbolist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Board
Lifting the Torah by Ludwig Meidner - Religious scene, work on paper
Located in London, GB
Lifting the Torah by Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966)
Watercolour on paper
67 x 56 cm (26 ³/₈ x 22 inches)
Signed upper right, LM
Executed in 1943
Category
1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Dancing Hassid
By Marcel Janco
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original mixed media on paper
Combining pastel, watercolor and pencil
Hand signed and dated lower right
Unique piece
Category
Dada 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Pencil
Circus in Villefranche-sur-Mer- Drawing in Pencil - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Circus is a drawing in pencil on paper realized in 1948 and attributed to Géo François.
Titled and dated on the lower right and dated in pencil.
The State of preservation is very ...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
'Man With Sailboat On Pier At Cedar Lake #756' original watercolor
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 10-3/4"x 8-1/4"
Frame: 17-3/4"x15-3/8"
Watercolor, stamped signature
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff...
Category
1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Les Regiments Croates en Illyrie - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Les Regiments Croates en Illyrie is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depict...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Women - Drawing by Pino della Selva - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Women is a drawing in Pen realize by Pino della Selva in the 1940s.
Good conditions.
Hand-signed.
The artwork is represented through soft pencil strokes.
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
No title
By Marcel Janco
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original ink on paper
Hand signed lower right
Unique piece
Category
Dada 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Le Croates en Allemagne - Grenadier 1813 - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Le Croates en Allemagne is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through s...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
My Husbands Former Girl Friends - First Black Illustrator/ Cartoonist
Located in Miami, FL
Cuties Cartoon Strip - E. Simms Campbell
My Husband Former Girl Friends - First Black Illustrator/ Cartoonist,
Category
Contemporary 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Board
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Two Figures on a Boat
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Two Figures on a Boat
Graphite on paper
5.75 x 6.25 inches (14.6 x 15.9 cm)
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
Contemporary 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Various Studies of Figures on a Boat
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Various Studies of Figures on a Boat
Graphite on paper
6 x 8.5 inches
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
Contemporary 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
beggars spanish modernism colored pencils
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ricard Opisso - Beggars - Colored pencils
Measurements drawing 21x31cm.
Frame measures 39x48 cm.
Damaged paper at bottom.
Anti-reflective glass.
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...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
WPA 1940s Framed Figurative Village Landscape with Figures Houses Mountains
Located in Denver, CO
Depression era watercolor painting by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968) titled "The Way War First Comes" from 1940 of an outdoor village scene. Presented in a custom black frame wi...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Figure - Original drawing by Pierre Charles Danobis - 1943
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing in pen, tempera and watercolor realized by Pierre Charles Danobis in 1943.
Good Conditions.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a wel...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Tempera, Pen
Seated Woman - Drawing by Moise Kisling - 1930/40s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an Original drawing in Pen and China Ink realized in 1940 by Paulette Humbert.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced composi...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
