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Period: Early 20th Century
Costume for Aida - Tempera and Watercolor - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Costume for Aida is a drawing in tempera and watercolor on brownish paper realized in 1920 ca. by an Anonymous Italian artist of the early 20th Century.
In very good condition.
The...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Harbor Village
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Village Harbor" c.1910 is a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Frederick Leo Hunter, 1858-1943 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 8 x 15 inches, framed is 17 x 23.75 inches. It is framed in a custom wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. It is in very good condition.
About the artist.
Frederick Leo Hunter was born in New York City in 1858. He was known for street scene paintings and etchings of New York...
Category
American Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Peasant Woman with Geese - Original Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - 1915
Located in Roma, IT
Peasant Woman with Geese is an original drawing in ink and watercolor on creamy cardboard realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937).
In good conditions.
This is an original drawi...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Fisherman - China Ink by Carlo Rivalta - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Fisherman is an original modern artwork realized in the early 20th Century by the italian painter and illustrator RIV (Carlo Rivalta).
Black and white china...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Destructed Houses - Drawing by Paul Emile Colin - Early-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Destructed Houses is al drawing realized by Paul Emile Colin in the Early 20th Century.
Carbon Pencil on ivory-colored paper
Stamped on the lower.
Good conditions with slight foxi...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Sunbonnet Babies - Modernist Female Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Bertha Corbett Melcher's The Sunbonnet Babies, with their flat, minimalist, semi-abstract, and symbolic style, are an early example of American Modernism/Surrealism by a lesser-known female artist/illustrator. The present work demonstrates a delicate balance between abstraction and representation and between the commonplace and the mysterious. Her signature use of a hat or sunbonnet to hide the identity of her subjects is a big conceptual and visual idea that has been overlooked in the fine art canon. The exact meaning of this is unknown, but 120 years after they were done, it resonates as somewhat surrealistic. Her work is a contradiction. She shows innocent children engaging in everyday activity but are depicted in vail of mystery. Why does she not show the faces of her subjects?
Watercolor on paper (each)
Six drawings in all on one board. 6-1/8 x 5 inches (15.6 x 12.7 cm) (each)
One signed; two initialed; three not signed.
Six drawing in all on one board. 6-1/8 x 5 inches (15.6 x 12.7 cm) (each)
One signed; two initialed; three not signed
The Sunbonnet Babies characters were created by illustration Bertha L. Corbett when she was challenged to create a faceless character who nonetheless was engaging and appealing. The characters were a wild hit and appeared in books, comics, and popular collectibles. They also became a popular motif in quilting. Few of Corbett's original drawings for the babies are known to survive, making this a rare offering.
From: Wikipedia
Sunbonnet Babies are characters created by commercial artist Bertha Corbett Melcher (1872–1950). Sunbonnet Babies featured two girls in pastel colored dresses with their faces covered by sunbonnets. Sunbonnet Babies appeared in books, illustrations and advertisements between the years of 1900 and 1930. Sunbonnet Babies were later used as a popular quilting pattern also known as Sunbonnet Sue.[1] Melcher created a male version of the Sunbonnet Babies, named the 'Overall Boys' in 1905.[2][3]
History
Bertha L. Corbett Melcher
Sunbonnet Babies were created by Bertha Corbett Melcher (1872–1950).[4] Melcher was born in Denver and moved with her family to Minneapolis in the 1880s. Melcher attended art school in Minneapolis with plans to become a commercial artist.[5] She may have also studied with Howard Pyle.[6] By the 1920s, Melcher had moved to Topanga, California.[7][4]
Melcher started drawing the Sunbonnet Babies in 1897. The origin of the signature style of the faces being covered by sunbonnets is contested by different members of Melcher's family and by Melcher herself. In an interview, Melcher's brother said their mother suggested Bertha avoid the difficulty of drawing faces by covering them with sunbonnets.[4] Melcher herself said that covering faces allowed her to communicate with body position.[4] Melcher has also said that the design came about in "answer to a friend’s challenge to convey emotion without a face."[2]
Melcher published her first book, The Sun-Bonnet Babies in 1900.[3] Later, she shopped her illustrations to publisher Rand McNally of Chicago, and nine subsequent books were written by Eulalie Osgood Grover and illustrated by Bertha Corbett. In 1905, Melcher wrote The Overall Boys.[3] Many of these books were used as primers and used widely in primary schools in the midwest.
Melcher used the sunbonnet babies in advertising and later established the Sunbonnet Babies Company. She started a studio to illustrate and create merchandise of the Sunbonnet Babies.[2] The characters also appeared in a comic strip.[2]
Quilting
Melcher herself did not originate the use of the sunbonnet babies as quilting pattern. The Sunbonnet Babies quilting pattern appeared in textile art 1910's in the Ladies Home Journal 1911–1912 in a quilt stitched by Marie Webster. The pattern was popular during the Great Depression. In the American South, it was often known as "Dutch Doll" until the 1970s.[3] There was also a quilt pattern based on the "Overall Boys," known by the various names including “Overall Bill, “Overall Andy,” “Sunbonnet Sam,” “Suspender Sam,” “Fisherman Jim."[3] Many patterns for quilts and sewing were designed by Ruby Short McKim and published in nationally syndicated newspapers.[8]
Sunbonnet Sue became symbolic of 'female innocence and docility'.[9] Linda Pershing collected accounts from women quilters who depicted 'Sues' doing activities such as smoking, wearing more revealing clothing, and subverting feminine stereotypes.[10] In 1979, the “Seamsters Union Local #500," a group of quilters from Lawrence, Kansas, created “The Sun Sets on Sunbonnet Sue," a quilt depicting the character murdered in a variety of ways.[3]
Collectibles
Sunbonnet Babies merchandise includes school books, valentines cards, postcards, china, and quilts.[2][5][11]
Sunbonnet Babies were adapted into three dimensional porcelain collectibles and pottery made by Royal Bayreuth Company in the early 1900s. The Royal Bayreuth China...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French Pencil Drawing - Illustrated Guide of Geneva
Located in Houston, TX
Elegant pencil sketch for the cover of an illustrated guide to Geneva in French, circa 1900.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Study of young woman in profile
Located in PARIS, FR
Ernest LAURENT
Gentilly 1859 - Bièvres 1929
Study of young woman in profile
Red chalk
Circa 1900
80 x 63 cm framed
54 x 39 sheet
Beautiful antique frame in natural wood, probabl...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Vintage Parisian Theater Sketch - Bonnet Beauty
Located in Houston, TX
Darling gouache and pencil sketch of a feminine stage costume complete with matching bonnet for a Paris theater by Willie & Co., circa 1930.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Pencil
Four Indian landscape paintings by illustrator P. G. Sirur. Bombay school
Located in New York, NY
P. G. Sirur was an renowned painter and illustrator who lived and worked in Bombay. His paintings are characterized by effective drawing, in-depth study of anthropomorphism, dexterit...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Study for an allegory of victory / - A virtuoso victory -
By Arthur Kampf
Located in Berlin, DE
Arthur Kampf (1864 Aachen - 1950 Castorp-Rauxel), Study to an allegory of victory, around 1900. Pencil on paper, 21 cm x 18 cm, signed lower left "A. Kampf".
- slightly darkened, otherwise in good condition
- A virtuoso victory -
About the artwork
The vertical-format sketch illustrates a plateau to which a staircase leads up from the right. Arthur Kampf thus takes up a typical baroque disposition for the depiction of allegories. And indeed, a female figure climbs the steps to hand the palm of victory to a figure that is probably also female. Other persons standing on the plateau pay homage to her, whereby the figure on the left edge of the picture may represent a warrior.
The scene is framed by an ornamentally decorated arch field, which additionally emphasizes the allegorical-historical content of the depiction. An arch can also be seen under the staircase, suggesting that this may be a design for a supraport.
The sheet could have been created in the wake of Arthur Kampf's appointment in 1899 as head of the studio for history painting at the Berlin Art Academy. The drawing style, which only outlines the idea of the picture and yet is determined by concise lines, corresponds to the sketchiness of the Baroque and testifies to Arthur Kampfs intensive study of this heyday of history painting.
About the artist
Arthur Kampf was the son of the Aachen painter and imperial court photographer August Kampf. His older brother Eugen and his son Herbert were also painters.
Arthur Kampf studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art from 1879 under Eduard von Gebhardt and Peter Janssen the Elder, whose master pupil he was from 1883 to 1891. Influenced by the naturalistic paintings of Jules Bastien-Lepage, which Kampf saw on a trip to Paris in 1885, he created the painting "The Last Statement" in 1886, which was based on a personal experience. It shows a man mortally wounded by knife wounds. The oppressive drasticness of the almost life-size depiction caused a sensation and controversial criticism.
The first successes were achieved: At the Berlin Jubilee Exhibition of 1886, Kampf received an honorable mention, and at the Munich Annual Exhibition of 1890, he was awarded a gold medal. Between 1886 and 1936, Kampf participated in all the major German exhibitions.
In 1887 the artist painted his first fresco, which was the beginning of a series of monumental compositions. With the highly successful painting "The Burial of the Corpse of Kaiser Wilhelm I in the Berlin Cathedral" (1888), Kampf established himself as a painter of contemporary history, following in the footsteps of Adolph von Menzel, whose oeuvre he immediately took up with the painting "Speech by Frederick the Great to His Generals in Koeben" (1893). The pictures of his Liberation War cycle were included in school textbooks and distributed in large editions as postcards.
As for his academic career, Kampf became an assistant professor at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art in 1887, and in 1894 he was appointed professor of the class for antiquities and nature, and in 1897 he became head of the painting class. In 1899 Kampf was appointed director of the history painting studio at the Berlin Academy of Art. In 1901 he became a full member of the academy and was its president from 1907 to 1912. As Anton von Werner's successor, Kampf directed the Academy of Fine Arts in Charlottenburg from 1915 to 1925.
Among his monumental works is the painting of the assembly hall of the Aachen town hall, done between 1898 and 1902. It focuses on the social welfare of the state and the work of the people. Important subsequent commissions include the painting of the reading room of the new Royal Library in Berlin and the new auditorium of the University of Berlin with "Fichte's Speech to the German Nation". During World War I, at the request of General Ewald von Lochow, Kampf traveled to the Western theaters of war, including Warsaw in 1916.
In addition to painting, Kampf was also intensively involved in printmaking and, together with his brother Eugen and artist friends such as Alexander Frenz and Olof Jernberg, was considered an innovator of lithography in Düsseldorf. From 1913 on, he worked continuously as an illustrator of historical works and literary classics such as Shakespeare and Goethe.
Kampf remained a recognized artist after 1933. On the occasion of the retrospective of his complete works at the "Great German Art Exhibition", he was awarded the "Eagle Shield of the German Reich". During the final phase of World War II, Kampf was placed on Hitler's "Gottbegnadetenliste," which protected him from military service. After World War II, Kampf, whose work was largely destroyed, fell into obscurity.
Arthur Kampf belonged to numerous artists' associations. He was a member of the "Rheinisch-Westfälischer Künstlerbund", the "Society of German Watercolorists", the "Association of German Illustrators", the "Malkasten", the "Künstlerclub St. Lucas", the "Düsseldorfer Künstlerbund", the "Freie Vereinigung Düsseldorfer Künstler" and the "Berliner Künstlerbund".
Arthur Kampf's sister was married to the painter Alexander Frenz.
"Kampf's public recognition in the German Empire later led to his being one-sidedly labeled as a history painter and representative of the Wilhelmine era. This classification does not do justice to the artist's oeuvre as a whole. His early talent did not experience a rapid development later on, but it reached an ever greater mastery in the sense of an impressively relaxed realism and extended thematically beyond history. Kampf was also an excellent draughtsman, etcher and lithographer. Many of his works have been destroyed or lost, and some lead a shadowy existence in museum storerooms."
- Otto Zirk
"His importance as a Wilhelminian painter and cultural politician has been forgotten in favor of an exaggerated reception of his work during the Third Reich.
- Andreas Schroyen
Selection of public collections that own works by Arthur Kampf:
Altonaer Museum Hamburg, Berlinische Galerie, Burg Frankenberg Aachen, Busch-Reisinger Museum Cambridge/Mass., Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, Government Art Collection London, Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Van der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal.
Selected Bibliography
Hans W...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Seated man ; head studies, india ink on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Rudolf SCHLICHTER (1890-1955)
Seated man ; head studies
India ink on paper
Signed "R. Schlichter" at the bottom right
59 x 46 cm
Missing at the top l...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Study for Scenograpy on Ancient Egypt - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Study for Scenograpy on Ancient Egypt is an original Ink and Watercolor Drawing realized by an unknown artist in the early-20th century.
Very good condition on a yellowed paper.
No...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Early 20th Century Peking Bell Tower
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant scene of visitors arriving by camels at the Peking Bell Tower by William Clothier Watts (American 1967-1961). This piece is unsigned, bu...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rider - Drawing by Gustave Flasschoen - Early-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Rider is a drawing realized by Gustave Flasschoen in the Early-20th Century.
Charcoal and watercolor.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft expr...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Charcoal
Seducing Lady - Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Seducing Lady is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In good condition,...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Smiling Girl - Drawing by Arnaldo De Lisio - 1917
Located in Roma, IT
Smiling Girl is an original modern artwork realized by Arnaldo De Lisio in 1917.
Mixed colored oil pastel o board.
Hand signed and dated on the lower ma...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Eden - Original pencil drawing by Max Théron - Early 1900
By Max Théron
Located in Roma, IT
Eden is a pencil drawing realized by Max Theron ( 1873-1936) in the early 20th Century.
The artwork represents a sketch of a woman in a garden.
Good conditions. Signed by the ar...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Alluring Nude Woman - Original Pencil Drawing- Early-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Alluring Nude Woman is an original drawing on paper in pencil mounted on blueish Passepartout, realized by an Italian anonymous artist of the early 20th century.
Passepartout: 23.5 ...
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Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Untitled (Mother Holding Baby)
By John Gilroy
Located in New York, NY
John Thomas Young Gilroy (English, 1898-1985), "Untitled: Mother Holding Baby", Figurative/Academic Drawing signed on Paper, 14 x 8, Early 20th Century
Colors: White, Black
"Untitled: Mother Holding Baby" is a Figurative/ Academic Drawing signed on Paper. Among our Gilroy collection of drawings, this particular work is unique due to its original grid markings included here within. As one can view among our details, the drawing has visible age markings and 3/4 of the perimeter rear of the work has tape. Nevertheless, as with all his figurative graphite works, a wonderfully drawn piece of a Mother cradling her infant child.
John Thomas Young Gilroy (30 May 1898 – 11 April 1985) was an English artist and illustrator, best known for his advertising posters for Guinness, the Irish stout. He signed many of his works, simply, "Gilroy".
Born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England, Gilroy attended Durham University until his studies were interrupted by World War I, during which he served with the Royal Field Artillery. He resumed studying at the Royal College of Art in London, where he remained as a teacher. He taught at Camberwell College of Arts.
In 1925, he gained employment at S.H. Benson's advertising agency, where he created the iconic advertisement art for Guinness featuring the Zoo Keeper and animals enjoying Guinness.He worked with Dorothy L. Sayers. He was also an accomplished portrait painter, numbering Royalty, Politicians, Actors and many others amongst his sitters. He worked in his large studio at 10 Holland Park, London, the former home and studio of Sir Bernard Partridge. He was a long-standing and much loved member of the Garrick Club...
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Academic Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Landscape #II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Merton Clivette (American, 1868-1931)
Title: Landscape II
Year: Circa 1925
Medium: Gouache
Paper: Watercolor
Size image: 17.35 x 22.65 inches
Size paper: 17.35 x 22.65 inches
Signature: Signed lower left by the artist
Condition: Excellent
Frame: Unframed
About the artist.
Clivette was born in Portage, Wisconsin, in 1868 as Merton Clive Cook, the youngest of five (four sons and one daughter). His father was a retired British sea captain, and his mother was an American of French, Scottish and Iroquois Indian stock.
He stayed with a circus for about five years, traveling all over the Western United States, Canada and Mexico. They did shows for the army forts, for railroad workers and on Indian Reservations.
Clivette settled in San Francisco in 1886, when he was offered a job as a reporter and theatrical writer for the San Francisco Call. He met Frederic Remington during this period. He was the first serious artist Clivette had met and he was an inspiration to him.
Clivette had done some drawing and painting on the road during his vaudeville years, he had a natural facility for it, and he had had some formal art training as well. He had had some training in Europe and was aware of the modern art movement in Europe. Later in New York he participated in symposiums and workshops at the Art Students League. Around 1910 he gave up his stage career and began to paint full time. He was about 40 years old and was to continue to paint vigorously and prolifically for the remaining 22 years of his life, His style can be identified with the Expressionist Movement, His subjects include portraits (some quite realistic, others more generalized) Indians and horsemen, laborers, gentlemen and vamps, jungle animals and birds, fish, seascapes and landscapes.
He was an active participant in the art world of New York. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists. In 1923 he showed at the Ainslee Art Gallery at 677 Fifth Ave., in 1925 at the Spanish Society in Brooklyn and in 1927 he had a solo show at the New Gallery, 600 Madison Ave. That same year there was also a solo show of his work in Paris at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, which included a catalogue. In 1929 he exhibited at the Art Center of the Roerich Museum in a group show of work from the collection of George Hellman. In 1930 he was in a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, "Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans" which also included the work of Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, William Glackens, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, George Luks and Mark Tobey and sculptors Gaston Lachaise and William Zorach among others. A description and critical analysis of his work in included in the book by Henry Rankin Poore...
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Abstract Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Three Studies of a Woman in Movement - Charcoal by G. Gôbo - Early 20th Century
By Georges Gobo
Located in Roma, IT
Three studies of a woman in movement is an original black charcoal drawing on thick serrated sheet on the left side, realized at the beginning o...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Glassblower - Original Mixed Media Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Glassblower is an original drawing in watercolor as advertising sketch on paper realized by Anonymous artists of the XX century.
The state of preservation of the artwork is good and...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Mixed Media, Pencil
The Wounded Man by Caleb Althin, Mixed Media on Paper, Signed
By Caleb Althin
Located in Stockholm, SE
Caleb Althin (1866-1919) Sweden
The Wounded Man
Caleb Althin studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm 1885–1894 with a few years break for studies abroad in decorative pai...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Pencil
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) Élégante au chien 1925, pastel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927)
Élégante au chien, an elegant woman with a dog
signed lower right
pastel on paper
32 x 25 cm
Framed 52 x 42 cm
Published under n°602 of the artist's cat...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Sketch of a woman's head in profile
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sketch of a woman's head in profile
Graphite on paper, c. 1900-1910
Unsigned
Condition: Excellent
Tiny tear upper right near hinge (repaired and bearly visible)
Sheet size: 4 5/8 x 3...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
19th Century Watercolour Drawing of Autumnal Trees in Northern Ireland Forest
Located in Preston, GB
19th Century Watercolour Drawing of Autumnal Trees in Northern Ireland Forest, by 19th Century Artist, William Hume
Art measures 11 x 8 inches
Frame measures 17 x 13 inches
Pres...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Faithful in Chains - Ink Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Faithful in chained is a china ink and pencil drawing realized by Albert Decaris in the mid-20th Century.
In good conditions with some foxing.
The artwork is presented through def...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Motorcyclist drawing by Gerald Mac Spink
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you ...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Village - Original Watercolor and Pen by Paul Albert Moras - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Village is an original drawing in watercolor and pen realized by the French artist Paul Albert Moras in 1926. Hand-signed on the lower right and dated.
The state of preservation is very good.
Included a Passepartut: 27.5 x 37.5 cm.
The artwork represents a brilliant landscape, created through soft and precise strokes with poetical hatching which made the village picturesque, with delicate coloring and lighting. The artwork characterized by a well-balanced drawing of houses...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Study for Batavia (The Woodcutters)
Located in London, GB
SERGE FERAT 1881-1958
(Le Comte Sergueï Yastrebzov) Moscow 1881-1958 Paris (Russian/French)
Title: Study for Batavia (The Woodcutters), circa 1926
Technique: Original Pencil D...
Category
Cubist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Prière du Christ - Original Watercolor - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Prière du Christ is an original modern artwork realized by the French artist and sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (Montauban, 1861 - 1929) in the first years of the 20th Century.
Original colored watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the upper left corner: Bourdelle. Titled on the lower right corner in pencil: Prière du Christ.
Excellent conditions.
Beautiful and fresh painting depicting christ in prayer. The figure is luminous and the background completely blue. The color gives a great brightness to the whole painting. The figure of Christ is kneeling and wearing a very bright white toga.
This work has been realized by the French artist Antoine Bourdelle (Montabaun, 1861 - 1929). Born Émile Antoine Bordelles, he was an influential and prolific French sculptor and teacher. He was a student of Auguste Rodin, a teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, and an important figure in the Art Deco movement and the transition from the Beaux-Arts style to modern sculpture. His studio became the Musée Bourdelle, an art museum dedicated to his work. In 1885, he moved into the studio on 16, impasse du Maine - which is now the museum. That same year, his paster cast of La Première victoire d'Hannibal (The First Victory of Hannibal) won a medal at the Salon of French Artists. In 1900, Bourdelle decorated the theatre of the Grevin Museum. In 1909, Bourdelle started teaching at the Grande Chaumière Academy, where his students included Alberto Giacometti, Germaine Richier, Vieira da Silva and Otto...
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Musketeer 28th Foot (Gloucestershire Regiment) 1746 in Watercolor on Paper
By Clarence F. Bretherick
Located in Soquel, CA
Muskateer 28th Foot (Gloucestershire Regiment) 1746 in Watercolor on Paper
A beautiful watercolor of a British Musketeer of the 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot, in full uniform standing with poise and readiness by English artist Clarence F. Bretherick (b. 1868). Signed lower right. Displayed in a rustic giltwood frame. Image, 12"H x 9"W.
In 1892 Bretherick was appointed permanently on the Liverpool Weekly Post as artist to that journal, to be responsible for all illustrations therein. His great specialty was figure drawing, military figure subjects in particular. This particular watercolor is a fine example of his skill as an artist and his fine attention to detail. 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot. The regiment was first raised in 1694 by Colonel Sir John Gibson, the Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth, as Sir John Gibson's Regiment of Foot and was posted to Newfoundland to protect the colony there. They saw action in Flanders during the War of the Austrian Succession...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of Benito Mussolini - Drawing by Alberto Manetti - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Duce Portrait is a modern artwork realized by the artist Alberto Manetti (known also as Brivido).
Pencil and charcoal on paper.
Hand signed on the higher right margin.
Inscription...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
Figures - Original Drawing in Pencil - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original drawing in pencil realized by an Anonymous artist active in the 1900 Century.
Sheet dimension:16 x 24.4 cm.
The state of preservation is good and aged.
The ...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Naked Woman - Drawing by André Meaux Saint-Marc - Early-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Naked Woman is an artwork, realized in early 20th Century, by the French Artist André Meaux Saint-Marc (1885-1941).
Drawing pencil on paper. Hand Signed on back.
The artist wants t...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Men and Bureaucracy - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Men and Bureaucracy is a modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th century.
The artwork was realized in ink on paper.
Included a Passepartout:50 x 35 cm
G...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
Thinking Man - Original Charcoal Drawing by Georges Gôbo - Early 20th Century
By Georges Gobo
Located in Roma, IT
Character holding his head with reflection in mirror is an original black chalk drawing on drawing sheet, torn at the top, realized at the beginning of the 19th Century by the artist...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Trees - Original China Ink and Pen Drawing by Gustave Pierre- Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Trees is an Original China Ink and Pen Drawing realized by Gustave Pierre.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner.
Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (48.5x32.5 cm).
Gustave René Pierre...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
STEINLEN Drawing charcoal Women walking in the street in Paris Art nouveau 20e
Located in PARIS, FR
Théophile Alexandre STEINLEN
Lausanne, 1859 Paris, 1923
Charcoal
25 x 30 cm
Signed lower right
Inscription at the verso "A St Lazare"
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Decorative - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Decorative is a modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th century.
The artwork has been realized in ink and white lead and pencil on paper.
Good conditions...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Girls - China Ink on Paper by Erhard Klepper - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Girls is an original artwork realized by Erhard Klepper in the early 20th Century.
Original black and white china ink drawing.
The artwork repr...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Landscape - Charcoal Drawing by Achille Lega - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a modern artwork realized by Achille Lega in 1928.
Black and white charcoal drawing.
Published on the Art Review "Il Selvaggio".
Hand signed and dated on the lower ma...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Nudes - Tempera and Carboard on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nudes is a beautiful double-sided sheet with two full page original pantings on cardboard, realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th Century.
On the recto a wonderful origin...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Tempera
Untitled (Sideview of a Gentleman)
By John Gilroy
Located in New York, NY
John Thomas Young Gilroy (English, 1898-1985), "Untitled: Sideview of a Gentleman", Charcoal/Pencil on Paper signed and matted to original card stock, 20.75 x 12.75 (22 x 14), Early 20th Century, 1920
Colors: White, Black
John Thomas Young Gilroy (30 May 1898 – 11 April 1985) was an English artist and illustrator, best known for his advertising posters for Guinness, the Irish stout. He signed many of his works, simply, "Gilroy".
Born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England, Gilroy attended Durham University until his studies were interrupted by World War I, during which he served with the Royal Field Artillery. He resumed studying at the Royal College of Art in London, where he remained as a teacher. He taught at Camberwell College of Arts.[1]
In 1925, he gained employment at S.H. Benson's advertising agency, where he created the iconic advertisement art for Guinness featuring the Zoo Keeper and animals enjoying Guinness.[2] He worked with Dorothy L. Sayers.[3] He was also an accomplished portrait painter, numbering Royalty, Politicians, Actors and many others amongst his sitters. He worked in his large studio at 10 Holland Park, London, the former home and studio of Sir Bernard Partridge. He was a long-standing and much loved member of the Garrick Club...
Category
Academic Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
The Weight Lifter (L'Homme aux halteres)
Located in Chicago, IL
The work is signed on the lower right by Gromaire. One of Gromaire's favorite subjects were men "of the people,” whether they worked in the fields or at sea, were construction worke...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
“Mother and Children”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a mother and her children by the Japanese artist, Takashi Nakayama. Signed in watercolor lower left...
Category
Academic Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Architectural Design Original Ink and Watercolor on Cardboard-Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Architectural design is an original painting in ink and watercolor on cardboard by Anonymous french Artist in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions except for being aged and repai...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Sketch - Drawing by Henry Gabriel Ibels - 1919
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch is a China Ink and watercolor Drawing realized by Henry Gabriel Ibels in 1919.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed, dated on the lower right corner.
Henri-Gabri...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Figure of Official - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of Official is a Pencil Drawing realized by Gabriele Galantara (1924-1989) in Early 20th Century.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Nude - Pencil Drawing by André Meaux Saint-Marc - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Naked Woman is a pencil drawing by the artist André Meaux Saint-Marc (1885-1941)
The drawing is in good conditions, except for some stains on the back and worn paper on the margin...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
South of France - Early 20th Century Impressionist Watercolour by Bennett
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Sterndale Bennett Honor 1886-1975
Watercolour artist, born in Watford, she married into the famous family noted for its composers and for its military members. As an army wife she s...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Nude of Woman - Original Pencil and Pastel by René Lorrain - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an original pencil and pastel realized by René Lorrain (1873-?)
The artwork in good condition except for some torn paper on the margins....
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Small Sketch of Interiors - Pencil Drawing by J. Dreyfus-Stern - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Small Sketch is an original artwork realized in pencil by Jean Dreyfus-Stern in the first decades of the XX Century.
Pencil and colored pastels on paper...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Fisherman - Drawing in Ink and Watercolor - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Fisherman is an Ink and Watercolor realized by a Chinese Painter in early 20th century.
Good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (17x24 cm).
No signature.
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Sydney W. Starling (1889-1984) - 1930 Watercolour, The Fair at Worthing
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming scene depicts a colourful fairground with people playing games and riding fair rides. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a glaz...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Florentine religious figurative drawing from the 20th century front back
By Giuseppe Fraschetti
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing is signed at lower left "G. Fraschetti," or Giuseppe Fraschetti, a Florence-born artist who was a pupil of Giacomo Lolli, active mainly in Tuscany at the turn of the 19th...
Category
Academic Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Feminine Figure - Drawing in Pen realized by Giovanni Nicolini - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Feminine Figure is an original drawing in pen realized by Giovanni Nicolini (1872-1956).
Hand-signed on the lower right, with the dedication to the a...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen