Early 1900s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Medium: Graphite on Paper Signature: Initialed Lower Left and Identified by a Label on Verso The Harpers Monthly, August 1909

A political satire illustration “Hanging by a Hair” originally published in the The Philadelphia North American newspaper circa 1902, edited by Edwin A Van Valkenburg and pubilshed b...

Maurice Milliere (1871-1946) "A Close Competition" 1905 Colored Pencil on Paper Signed and Dated Lower Left Site: approx. 35 x 36 inches Framed: approx. 43 x 35 inches Born at Le Havre in Normandy on 12th December 1871, Millière began his art education in his home town but soon transferred to l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied portraiture, life drawing and figure painting in the atelier of Leon Bonnat, whose pupils included Toulouse-Lautrec and Raoul Dufy. He also studied at l'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs. His skill as a draughtsman translated quickly into success as a cartoonist and illustrator and his brilliant interpretation of the "Modern Parisienne" soon became known as the "Petite femme...

Allesandro Battaglia (1870-1940, Italian) "The Flirtation" 1906 Watercolor on Paper Signed "A. Battaglia, Roma 1906" Site Size: 30 x 20 inches Framed Size: approx 41 x 33 inches Son of Clelia Bompiani and Ercole Battaglia, he was trained by his grandfather Roberto Bompiani...