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Period: Early 20th Century
George Sheridan Knowles (1863-1931) - Framed Watercolour, Mother
By George Sheridan Knowles
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine watercolour scene by genre artist George Sheridan Knowles (1863-1931), depicting a warm hearted moment between a mother and daughter. The young gir...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Bridge on the River - Charcoal and Pencil by E.-L. Minet - 1919
Located in Roma, IT
Bridge on the River is a beautiful drawing in pencil and charcoal realized by the French painter Emile-Louis Minet in 1919. The state of preservation is very good, except for a small...
Category
Naturalistic Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
VII Prise de Mon Bureau - Origina Pencil Drawing a Watercolor 1914
Located in Roma, IT
VII prise de mon bureau is a wonderful original pencil drawing watercolored on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1914 by a French artist whose signature seems to be J. Denis.
Title, ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Soldiers - Original Pencil Drawing by an Unknown French Artist - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Soldiers is an original artwork realized by an Anonymous French artist in the first decades of the XX Century.
Original pencil drawing. The sheet is drawed also on the back.
Mint conditions.
This work is a representation of several soldiers: a fresh and rapid sketch representing two male figures with the typical military clothes...
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Composition with Nude Woman - Original Pencil Drawing Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition with nude woman is a pleasant pencil drawing on a piece of paper from a sketchbook, realized by an anonymous artist in the early XX century. At the bottom, two monograms ...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Standing Nude in Profile - Pencil Drawing Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude in Profile is an original artwork realized by an Anonymous French artist in the first years of the XX century.
Pencil on paper. Passepartout included. Good conditions except fo...
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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
Northern Europe Typical Custumes-Pencil Drawing by J. Dreyfus-Stern
Located in Roma, IT
Typical Costumes is an original artwork realized in pastel by Jean Dreyfus-Stern in the first decades of the 20th Century.
Pencil on paper.
The signature of the artist appears on ...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Deux Baigneuses - Pencil Drawing by Michel Simonidy - 1910s
Located in Roma, IT
Deux Baigneuses is an original artwork realized by Michel Simonidy in the first years of the XX Century.
Pencil on paper. Passepartout included (cm 26.5 x 19).
Mint conditions.
V...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Woman Laughing - Original Pastel by Michel Simonidy - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman laughing is an original artwork by Michel Simonidy.
Mixed media, pastel drawing, and tempera on paper.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right. Includes passepartout. St...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Kaiser - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Kaiser is a modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th century.
Watercolor, ink. and pencil on paper.
Good conditions and aged with foxing.
Gabriele Galant...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Ink, Watercolor
Thomas King Yalland (1845-1934) - Framed Watercolour, Traders on a Break
Located in Corsham, GB
An original watercolour by Thomas King Yalland (1845-1934). Inscribed to the reverse "Near Dordrecht". Signed lower right. Presented in a wash-line mount and gilt frame. On paper.
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
William Kay Blacklock ARCA, Continental Farmhouse In Summer
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming early 20th-century watercolour by eminent British artist William Kay Blacklock ARCA (1872-1924) depicts an elderly lady carrying a basket and parasol before a farmhouse...
Category
English School Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Jules Cheret (1836-1932) A couple, 1909, drawing signed
By Jules Chéret
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Cheret (1836-1932)
A couple, 1909
signed and dated in the lower right
Charcoal and heightenings of white chalk
23 x 23 cm
Framed under glass : 33.8 x 33.8 cm
This work is hi...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932) Study of a reading monk , original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932)
Study of a reading monk
Pencil on paper
29.5 x 19 cm
Stamp of the Jean-Pierre Laurens Estate on the lower right
In quite good condition : crease and ...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Original watercolour Nude by Antoine Calbet
Located in Pasadena, CA
Antoine Calbet presents his works, mainly portraits and genre scenes, at the Salons of the Société des artistes français from 1881 until 1940, as well as at the international exhibit...
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Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pastel
Jules Cheret (1836-1932) La Confidence, 1909, drawing signed
By Jules Chéret
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Cheret (1836-1932)
La Confidence (The confidence) 1909
signed and dated in the lower right
Charcoal and heightenings of white chalk
22.7 x 22.7 cm
Framed under glass : 33.8 x...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
William MacKenzie Thomson - Early 20th Century Watercolour, HMS Northampton
Located in Corsham, GB
This accomplished nautical study depicts the HMS Northampton which was a Nelson-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in 1876. She was built by Napier and Sons in their yar...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1920 Watercolor Image of a Fishermen and Sailboat by Artist Flora Schofield
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming ca. 1925 Modernist watercolor by notable artist Flora Schofield, depicting fishermen and a sail boat. Artwork size: 10" x 13 1/2". Archivally matted to 16" x 20".
A painter, print maker and sculptor, Flora Schofield (Schoenfield), was born in Lanark, Illinois. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and taught Saturday classes there until 1904. Schoenfield also studied with Charles Hawthorne, B.J.O Nordfeldt and William Zorach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She studied with Albert Gleizes, Fernand Leger and Natalia Goncharova in Paris, France.
In 1923, Schofield’s abstractions caused a split at the venerable Chicago Society of Artists. When her artwork was was accepted by the jury, the notable Impressionist painter Pauline Palmer and the notable Modernist painter Carl Hoeckner got into a row that ended-up splitting the group. The Impressionists then broke away into their own organization called the ”Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors”.
Paintings by Flora Schofield have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Salon d’Automne and Salon de Independants, Paris; the Salons of America; the Society of Independent Artists, New York; the Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita; Gallery Carmine, Paris; the National Arts Club Galleries, New York; Marshall Fields Galleries...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rare Oil Painting Arab Man Bezalel School Jerusalem 1913, Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Extremely rare work of art from the early Bezalel School of Boris Schatz in Ottoman Palestine. it depicts an Orientalist Arab Sheik in traditional Headwear.
YITSKHOK LIKHTENSHTEYN ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil
"Divinità induista" Tecnica mista su carta cm. 48 x 33 1920 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Eccezionale disegno dei primi anni 20 stile Simbolista ,Orientalista
Anche il Passepartout attorno all'opera è stato realizzato dall'artista.
Louise JANIN nasce nel 1893, a Durham...
Category
Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
Etude pour la Pologne - Drawing By Alfred Plauzeau - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etude pour la Pologne is a modern artwork realized by Alfred Plauzeau in the Early-20th Century.
Pencil Drawing.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
"Tropical Flower with Azalea" Joseph Stella, circa 1919 Academic Azalea
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Stella
Tropical Flower with Azalea, circa 1919
Signed lower right
Silverpoint and crayon on paper
Image 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches
Sheet 11 x 12 1/4 inches
Stella was born June 1...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Horseshoe Cloisters, Windsor Castle, Original Signed Watercolor, c. 1910
Located in New Orleans, LA
A lovely watercolor of the Horseshoe Cloisters at Windsor Castle, with three Edwardian figures having a chat near the stairway. There's an inscription and the signature "Herbert" but...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Robert Anning Bell (1863-1933) - Early 20thC Watercolour, The Confrontation
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking, unidentified Biblical scene in pencil and watercolour, showing a man with a dagger in his sheath at his side, aggressively approaching an older man who hides his face. A ...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
D. Martin - Signed Edwardian Watercolour, Off the Coast
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolours scene of a boat sailing just off the coast. Signed to the lower left and well presented in a wash line mount and simple gilt frame. On wove.
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Art Deco gouache original artwork 1937 Shakespeare Twelfth Night programme
Located in London, GB
Hammond (British, fl. 1920s)
Original artwork for Design for Shakespeare Twelfth Night programme to be held in Bath
26x21 cm
Gouache, 1937
Sadly nothing...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Merton Clivette (American, 1868-1931)
Title: Landscape
Year: Circa 1925
Medium: Gouache
Paper: Heavy Bristol type
Size image: 22.75 x 28 inches
Paper size: 22.75 x 28 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
Boats on the Shore, Impressionist Watercolor Painting by Georges d'Espagnat
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Georges d’Espagnat, French (1870 - 1950)
Title: Boats on the Shore
Year: circa 1910
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed
Size: 4.5 x 7 in. (11.43 x 17.78 cm)
Frame Size: 13.5 ...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Red Dress
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Red Dress
Watercolor on paper, mounted on board by the artist, 1926
Signed and dated, 1926 lower left (see photo)
Condition: Mounted on support board by the artist
...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The University Church of St Mary Oxford - Dutch 1920's art watercolour painting
By Willem Leendert Bruckman
Located in London, GB
This beautiful exhibited watercolour painting is by Dutch listed artist Willem Leendert Bruckman. It depicts the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, South Porch. The Un...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
René Buignet (1888-1915) La Fontaine Médicis, Paris, two watercolors signed
Located in Paris, FR
René Buignet (1888-1915)
La Fontaine Médicis, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris
Each one signed lower right
watercolor on paper
size of each : 28.5 x 21 cm
In the same mount and framing :...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Akt mit Strümpfen
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 Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
P.A. Beale - Framed c.1900 Watercolour, Misty Morning, Trawlers at Brixham
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderfully atmospheric turn of the century watercolour depicting trawler boats at Brixham harbour just as the sun rises and shines through the smog. Well presented in a simple gil...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Jules Cheret (1836-1932) Three studies of women, original signed drawing
By Jules Chéret
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Cheret (1836-1932)
Three studies of women
charcoal on paper
signed on the bottom left
39 x 24.5 cm
This drawing of studies was part of the artist's workshop as so it bears the...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Modernist Watercolor Painting, Portrait of a Man, Judaica Rabbi
Located in Surfside, FL
Abraham Walkowitz (March 28, 1878 - January 27, 1965) was an American painter grouped in with early American Modernists working in the Modernist style.
Walkowitz was born in Tyumen, Siberia to Jewish parents. He emigrated with his mother to the United States in his early childhood. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City and the Académie Julian in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens. Walkowitz and his contemporaries later gravitated around photographer Alfred Stieglitz's 291 Gallery, originally titled the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, where the forerunners of modern art in America gathered and where many European artists were first exhibited in the United States. During the 291 years, Walkowitz worked closely with Stieglitz as well as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and John Marin (often referred to as "The Stieglitz Quartet").
Early Career and Training
Portrait of Abraham Walkowitz - 1907 - Max Weber - Brooklyn Museum
Walkowitz was drawn to art from childhood. In a 1958 oral interview with Abram Lerner...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Royal Academy Series-7, Conte on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-6
Pencil on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size)
1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition)
Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta.
Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque.
Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté, Ink, Pen, Pencil
Frederick R. Fitzgerald (1869-1944)- Framed Watercolour, Steephill Cove, I.o.W.
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour scene by Frederick R. Fitzgerald (1869-1944), depicting fishermen at Steephill Cove on the Isle of Wight. The watercolour has been signed by Fitzgerald to the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Russian, early 20th Century watercolour of Turkish fruit sellers
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Vladimir Pavlovich Nechoumoff (Russian, c. 1900 – 1977)
Turkish fruit sellers, Istanbul
Pencil and watercolour on paper
9 x 13.5/8 in. (22.8 x 34.5 cm.)
Figurative painter, illustra...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) Nude in the studio, drawing signed
Located in Paris, FR
Henry Ottmann (1877-1927)
Nude in the studio
signed lower right
Charcoal on paper
37.5 x 31.5 cm
In good condition
In a modern frame : 53 x 46.5 cm
Published under n°414 of the artist's catalogue raisonné (p 167 reproduced) published by Bernard Toublanc-Michel, Paris 2020
This drawing is a particularly interesting and touching example of Henry Ottmann's art. It shows his special technique, which gives priority to a kind of blur, and in this case it serves very well this scene of intimacy as if captured by stealth.
Henry Ottmann was born on 10 April 1877 in Ancenis.
He made his debut at the Salon La Libre Esthétique in Brussels in 1904 and took part in the Salon des Indépendants in Paris from 1905, the Salon d'Automne, the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Salon des Tuileries.
In 1911 and 1912, Ottmann exhibited at the Artistes de la Société Moderne at the Gallery Paul Durand...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
'Acrobatic Dancers ' Pencil , pen and ink on paper, circa 1950's.
Located in Frome, Somerset
An original pencil and indian ink drawing by listed Swedish Artist. Adolfo Rasmussum. He specialized in the movement of the human body when seeing a performance. His works are conce...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
'Vancouver Girl', Young Woman with Bobbed Copper Hair, AIC, Paris, New York
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'George Wilburton Colby' (American, 1859-1922) and dated 1920.
George Colby was a member of the old Art League and a life member of the Chicago Art Institute. After hi...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Illustration Board
Original 1920s British Pen and ink Children's book Illustration by Frank Watkins
Located in London, GB
FRANK WATKINS
(1863-1929)
The Boat Builder Giant
Pen and ink, unframed, in conservation mount only
20.5 by 29.5 cm., 8 by 11 ¾ in.
(frame size 36.5 by 45 cm., 14 ½ by 17 ¾ in.)
Frank Henry Watkins was born in Lambeth, London and was the son of a bank clerk. He worked as a children’s book and comic illustrator in the early 20th century, drawing for many children’s stories including Dolly Twoshoes (1901); The Wonder and Dolly Daydream (1902); Illustrated Chips and Dick and Daisy (1919-1921) and also for Merry Moments. He provided book illustrations for The Man From the Moon by Philip Carmichael (1909); The Sun’s Babies by Edith Howes (1910); The King Who Never Died: Tales of King Arthur by Dorothy Senior (1910) and Fairy Rings...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Royal Academy Series-4, Conte on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-4
Conte on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size)
1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition)
Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta.
Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque.
Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Conté
Royal Academy Series-3, Pen & Ink on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-3
Pen & Ink on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size)
1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition)
Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta.
Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque.
Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Reclining Young Man - Pencil Drawing - German Expressionism
Located in London, GB
ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER 1880-1938 (German)
Aschaffenburg 1880 - 1938 Davos
Title: Reclining Young Man Liegender junger Mann, circa 1911
Technique: Pencil Drawing on Firm Wove Paper ...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Eyres Simmons (1872-1955) - Watercolour, Beached on the Estuary
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming scene depicting beached fishing boats on an estuary at low tide. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
W. Wharton - 1923 Watercolour, The Lost Catch
Located in Corsham, GB
A charismatic watercolour scene depicting a hunting meet searching through boulder's where their prey has disappeared into the rocks. The figures dismount their horses and follow the...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Style of Myles Birket Foster - Watercolour, The Conkers Match
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming pastoral scene after British artist Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899). The painting depicts children in a meadow with two on the right playing a game of conkers. Signed with...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Dharma Prayer Book Manuscript Folio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dharma Prayer Book Manuscript Folio
Ink and gouache on handmade paper, 1875-1925)
Miniature depicting Tibetan deity
Script is Tibetan.
Miniature Size: 2 3/8 x 1 ½ inches
Part of a se...
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Other Art Style Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache
Fairy Tales Watercolor on Paper
By Dewitt M. Lockman
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Fairy tales,
Mixed media on paper, from the artist estate.
actual size 19"x23" framed 34"x39"
Impressionistic style watercolor, drawing, pastel on paper, from the artist Estate.
DeWitt Lockman began painting at the age of four in Brooklyn. By the age of seven, his family had moved to New York, where he worked with the animal painter James H. Beard. He later studied with Nelson Bickford and William Sartain. He was in Europe, principally in France, England, and Holland, from 1891 to 1892 and again from 1901 to 1902. In the years between the two European trips, Lockman painted little, suffering from ill-health. Resuming his artistic activities in the early years of the century, Lockman also served in the Office of Naval Intelligence from 1917 to 1918. He married Evelyn Walker in 1946. Although his oeuvre also includes still life and animal pictures, Lockman was most successful as a portraitist, painting over 500 works in that genre. President Calvin Coolidge, General of the Armies John J. Pershing, and Dr. Nicholas Murray...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media, Paper, Watercolor
Monte Carlo SEM circa 1910s Folio
Located in Bristol, CT
Each plate 20 1/4" x 13 1/2"
1 4-fold plate
2 2-fold plates
Georges Goursat (1863–1934), known as Sem, was a French caricaturist famous during the Belle Époque.
Life and works
Youth (1863–1900)
Georges Goursat was born and raised in an upper-middle-class family from Périgueux. The wealth inherited from his father at the age of 21 allowed him to sustain a gilded youth.
In 1888 he self published in Périgueux his first three albums of caricatures, signing some as "SEM" (Figure, left), allegedly as a tribute to Amédée de Noé who signed his caricatures for Le Monde illustré as "Cham".
From 1890 to 1898, he settled for a few years in Bordeaux. During this period, he published more albums and his first press caricatures in La Petite Gironde and discovered the work of Leonetto Cappiello. His style matured, becoming both simpler and more precise.
During the same period, he made trips to Paris. In 1891, he designed two posters printed in the workshop of Jules Chéret for the singer Paulus . He published his first caricatures of artists in L'Illustration (Albert Brasseur) and Le Rire (Paulus, Polin and Yvette Guilbert).
From 1898 to 1900, he lived in Marseille. During this stay, he met Jean Lorrain who convinced him to live in Paris.
Caricature women on a boat being sailed by a sailor by Sem, 1925
Belle Époque (1900–1914)
Goursat arrived in Paris in March 1900, at the time of the opening of the Universal Exposition.
He picked horse races as his way of entry in high society. In June, three months after his arrival, he self-published a new album, Le Turf, with caricatures of many prominent Parisian socialites (Marquess Boni de Castellane, Prince Trubetskoy, Count Clermont-Tonnerre, Baron Alphonse and Gustave de Rothschild, Polaire). The success of this album made him famous overnight. In October of the same year, he published another album, Paris-Trouville, with the same success. Nine others followed until 1913.
In 1904, Goursat received the Légion d'honneur. In 1909, he exhibited with the painter Auguste Roubille, first in Paris, then in Monte Carlo and London. a diorama, composed of hundreds of wooden figurines "of all the merely Paris celebrities".
World War I (1914–1918)
Aged over 50 at the start of World War I, Goursat was not drafted. He nevertheless involved himself as a war correspondent for Le Journal. Some of his rather "chauvinistic" articles had an "enormous impact".Ten were published in 1917 in Un pékin sur le front. Two others were incorporated in 1923 in another book, La Ronde de Nuit. In 1916 and 1918 Goursat published two albums of Croquis de Guerre (War sketches). Their style is completely different from his previous work. He also designed posters for war bonds.
Années Folles (1918–1934)
After the war, Goursat came back to the kind of caricatures that made him famous. In 1919, he published Le Grand Monde à l'envers (High Society upside down). Around 1923, he published 3 albums under the general title of Le Nouveau Monde...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Cyrus Johnson, Clare College Cambridge Gates Two Dons Engaged in Conversation
Located in London, GB
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Cyrus Johnson (1848-1925)
Two Dons Engaged in Conversation by Clare College...
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Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Thomas Nicholson Tyndale (1860-1930) - Watercolour, A Night Scene
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour scene depicting a quaint country scene with a horse and cart. To the right of the scene two horse and a dog stand by a tall hayrick before the gloomy night s...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Michele Capuano - Early 20th Century Watercolour, Italian Town on the Bay
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming scene by well listed artist Michele Capuano depicting an Italian town at sunset. A woman sits on a wall on a flower-lined pathways. The artist ...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932) Study of a sitting beggar, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932)
Study of a sitting beggar,
Pencil on paper
25.5 x 20.5 cm
Stamp of the Jean-Pierre Laurens Estate on the lower right
In quite good condition : glued ...
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Art Deco Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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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...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Boats in Tunisia - Drawing Ink on Paper Unique Post Impressionist, 1920
Located in New York, NY
Albert Marquet
Boats in Tunisia, ca. 1920
Ink on paper
5 7/10 × 5 1/5 in l 14.5 × 13.3 cm
Hand-signed by the monogram lower right
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink