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Period: Mid-20th Century
Audrey Lanceman (b.1931) - 1971 Watercolour, The Fish Market
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour study depicting figures gathering around a small fish market stall. Signed and dated to the lower left. Laid down to a white card mount. On paper.
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$281 Sale Price
20% Off
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, LACMA, Académie Chaumière, SFAA, California Fauve
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamp, verso, for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955.
An elegant figural interior showing a young woman seated on a bed beside a table bearing a vase...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
"Hide and Seek"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This piece is on 15.00" x 20.00" illustration board, and the drawing itself measures to 12.50" square.
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1957 Broadway production of `Hide and Seek...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
The Girlish - Drawing Hubert Yencesse - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
The Girlish is a drawing realized by Hubert Yencesse in 1955.
Pencil on paper.
Good condition.
Beautiful drawing with soft pencil strokes.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Thee Graces Preparatory Drawing by Wheeler Williams, Signed
Located in New York, 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...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
1950s British Fashion illustration by Eve Sheldon-Williams
Located in London, GB
EVE SHELDON-WILLIAMS
(1916-2001)
Fashion Illustration
White wash on black paper
Framed
30.5 by 15.5 cm., 12 by 6 in.
(frame size 50 by 34.5 cm., 19 ¾ by 13 ½ in.)
Provenance:
The artist’s family.
Eve Sheldon-Williams was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the younger daughter of artist Inglis and Ina Sheldon-Williams. She was governess educated until the age of ten, before settling with her parents on the Italian Riviera from 1926 to 1930. After finished her education in England she studied painting, illustration and design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts 1937-1941, under William Roberts, John Skeaping, Bernard Meninsky and John Farleigh...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The New Dreamliner: Biggest Baby News in Years!
By John Gannam
Located in Miami, FL
Published Thayer Stroller advertisement, 1951
Watercolor and gouache on board
Signed lower left
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$11,200 Sale Price
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Humorous Gentleman's Magazine cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Cartoon sketch, ca. 1955. Pencil on paper, sheet measures 8.5 x 11 inches. Unsigned with editor's notations.
From a group of sketches meant to be preliminary drafts for editor appro...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$125 Sale Price
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Mid-Century French Feutre on Paper. In the Stables..
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid Century French feutre drawing on paper of a Provençal stable with horses by Jean Arène. Signed and dated bottom left and presented in a wooden frame under glass.
This evocative...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen
A Charming Unexpected Visit - Original handsigned watercolor - 1930
By Marcel Bloch
Located in Paris, IDF
Marcel BLOCH
A Charming Unexpected Visit
Original watercolor with gouache enhancement
Handsigned bottom left
c. 1930
On vellum 35 x 24 cm at view (c. 14 x 10 in)
Information : This...
Category
Art Nouveau Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Secret Service Operator 13, Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “End of the World,” the final installment of the serial “Secret Service Operator 13” by Robert William Chambers, published in Cosmopolitan, July 1933, illustra...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Bicycle - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Bicycle is a marker realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Monogrammed.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an Italian writ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
Original Sinatra on the Set
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Cumming, GA
Original Graphite and Pen Sketch on Paper
12 1/4″ x 15 5/8″ Viewable
26″ x 29 1/2″ Framed
Circa 1960’s
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing (Study, Male Legs)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Male Model (Study, Male Legs) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well exe...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Jazz Panel #4 - gouache, 102x86 cm.
Located in Nice, FR
This is a panel painted with gouache on paper that was painted by Paul de Cayeux. He was a french painter and decorator. This suite comes from an old restaurant and ball room in Nice...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
French Money, unique signed drawing with collage Pop artist Larry Rivers, Framed
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers
French Money, ca. 1966
Original graphite drawing with collage
Boldly signed in graphite pencil in the center of this collage.
Larry Rivers original, unique drawing with ...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite
"The Embrace" Original Surreal Watercolor & Ink Drawing by Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell o...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
Japanese culture drawing, Kimono, Japanese dress, traditional clothing.
By Jean Jansem
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Title is Fillette en Kimono, 1954 .Drawing by Jean Jansem, 1954. Included the certificate of authentic by Stephanie's gallery.
Fillette en Kimono" is a captivating black and white drawing that beautifully captures the essence of Japanese culture and traditional clothing...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Al Hirschfeld "Beat the Band" New York Times Broadway Theatre Illustration 1940s
Located in New York, NY
Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003)
"Beat the Band"
22 x 26 1/2 inches
ink on board
published in The New York Times, October 11, 1942
The unframed work comes directly from the Al Hirschfeld F...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Board
MOMA Exhibited Watercolor by Chicago Artist Francis Chapin, "Tourists in Taxco"
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, vibrant, early Mexican city street scene by famed Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Titled "Tourists in Taxco", the watercolor was exhibited at the M...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Dancer. 1932, paper, mixed technique, 26.5x19 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to publicity.
“I am 58, and in five Years my c...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
$1,725 Sale Price
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Freddy Wittop Ballet Drawing, Mixed Media
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Freddy Wittop (1911-2001)
Marking(s); notes: signed, marking(s)
Country of origin; materials: Dutch/American; mixed media on illustration board
Dimensi...
Category
Feminist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Board
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Model, Young Man
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed early 1930s charco...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Haiti Beach, Impressionist Watercolor by James Amos Porter
By James Amos Porter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: James Amos Porter, American (1905 - 1970)
Title: Haiti Beach
Year: circa 1965
Medium: Watercolor, signed l.r.
Size: 15 in. x 12 in. (38.1 cm x 30.48 cm)
Frame Size: 22 x 18 i...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Two Dogs on the edge of a Cliff
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Margaret.S Johnson (American, 1893-1964)
Title: Two dogs on the Edge of a Cliff
Year: Circa 1930
Medium: Ink drawing
Paper: Bainbridge Bristol Art
Size image: 6.75 x...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Early Street Art - New York Urban Factory Scene - Mid Century - Factory X
By Dong Kingman
Located in Miami, FL
This early work from 1955 by Dong Kingman N.A. is as surreal as it is a document of a place. The artist effectively captures a slice of American urban life but constructs the compo...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper
$20,000 Sale Price
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Alfred Bendiner, (Baseball Hitter and Pitcher -- The Philadelphia Phillies?)
Located in New York, NY
Of course it's possible that these baseball players aren't from a Philadelphia team, but I doubt it. There was so much drama and intrigue with both the Philadelphia Phillies...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Charcoal Drawing "Waiting" Pensive Woman Americana WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
14x11.5 image size , 22.5x17.5 backing size
The New-York born artist William Gropper was a painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on social concerns, and was ac...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
A Striking Modern 1946 Vermont Studio Scene, Standing Female Model in a Doorway
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking Modern 1946 Vermont Studio Scene of a Standing Female Model in a Doorway by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Depicting a finely executed portrait of t...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink
Pondering being Naked - Sexy Girl taking off Bikini - Female Cartoonist
Located in Miami, FL
This work clearly has homosexual overtones which in the mid-'40s was as daring as showing nudity. I am not sure if this was the artist's intention but the salesgirl and the model look identical and she signs it twice Shermond. Added to this is a strobe light effect where the model's image is partly replicated giving the impression of 2 figures. She's lost in thought pondering the notion of removing the bows and seeing the consequences. Meanwhile, the sales girls ( perhaps her alta ego - perhaps an admirer ) eggs her on.
Caption: "You can always remove the bows if you think they're too fussy." Cover cartoon for unknown publication - Signed "Shermund" twice in the lower right image, dated on verso, and captioned in graphite in the lower margin. Original Matte and not framed - Barbara Shermund...
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Feminist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Graphite, Paper
George Grosz NYC City Scene Modernism Watercolor German Expressionism Weimar
By George Grosz
Located in New York, NY
George Grosz NYC City Scene Modernism Watercolor German Expressionism Weimar
George Grosz (Germany, 1893-1959) "City Scene," 17 x 12 inches, signed and dated “33” lower left, watercolor on paper. This drawing, created while Grosz was living in NYC. Period frame, It has been authenticated by Ralph Jentsch, the globally recognized Grosz expert.
Provenance: Hirschl & Adler and 511 Gallery...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Art Deco gouache original artwork 1937 Carnival Night advertising poster design
Located in London, GB
Hammond (British, fl. 1930s)
Original design for poster and flyer for Carnival Night at the King's Head
26x19 cm
Gouache, 1937
Sadly nothing is known of the life of the artist of th...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
The Last Fence Glangesia Jumps His 60th National Fence Aintree 1931
Located in Bristol, CT
Glangesia would finish 4th w/ J. Browne jockey aboard
Watercolor w/ gouache highlights
Art Sz: 9 3/4"H x 15 5/8"W
Frame Sz: 18"H x 24"W
Preparations for the Grand National Steeple...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Tantra & Underwater series, Ink & Water Color, Blue, Black, Brown "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Untitled - 23 x 16.5 inches (unframed size)
Ink & Watercolor on paper
Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form.
In the mid sixties again he explored diverse cults of popular ritual for pictorial ingredients of an
evocative mystic symbolism. An ink-and-wash of 1965 features a figurative image of ambiguous
connotation. The motif looks like a cult image worshipped by people practising primitive religion. A
squat but monumental figure, it has for each hand several reptilians snaking down from shoulder
to the finger-tips, for legs a pair of beastly fore-paws and its dark oval totemic frame...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
A Charming 1930s Charcoal Study of Three Young Men in a Lake House Window
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming 1930s Charcoal Study of Three Young Men in a Lake House Window by Noted Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Most likely completed during the summer mont...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Chrysler Building" Leon Dolice, New York City Street Scene, Mid-Century
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
Chrysler Building
Signed lower right
Watercolor on paper
19 x 12 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the yo...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Young Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well exe...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Ben ZIon Expressionist Judaica Rabbi Watercolor Painting Jewish Modernist WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Frame measures 13.5 X 11.5
Paper measures 6.5 X 4 inches
Hand signed lower right
Watercolor painting of prophet or Rabbi, Judaica artwork
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated h...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Drawing - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Drawing is a pencil drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Violinist (Portrait of Young Man with Violin)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Outstanding male portrait by 20th-century American artist, Vito Tomasello.
Portrait of a Violinist, 1950.
Charcoal on paper, sheet measures 13 x 19 inches.
Signed lower left.
A ...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Party discussion. 1961, paper, mixed technique, 30x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to publicity.
“I am 58, and in five Years my c...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
$1,686 Sale Price
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Nude - Watercolor Painting by Leo Guida - 1961
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor realized by Leo Guida in 1961.
Good condition.
Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic movements and historical te...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Mode Drawing : Military Inspired Dresses - Original watercolor & Ink drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Rosy ANDREASI-VERDIER (1934-2015)
Mode drawing : Military Inspired Dresses
Original watercolor, ink and lavish drawing
Bears the "Rosy Andreasi Verdier...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
homme rouge (red man) - gouache on paper, 49x34 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
gouache on paper. Stamped and signed. Not framed.
Last painter of the school of Nice. This is an important painter, the first school in nice to have exhibited in New York at the G...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Large Watercolor Painting John Groth, Men Wrestling, Esquire Magazine WPA Artist
By John Groth
Located in Surfside, FL
John August Groth (American, 1908-1988)
"Wrestling Match,"
Watercolor painting, hand signed upper right and inscribed upper left, "Las Palmas Canary Islands Lucha Canary Wrestling".
Framed Size: 21'' x 29'', 53 x 74 cm (sight); 28.5'' x 36.25'', 72 x 92 cm (frame).
Depiction of a wrestling match in a city square.
John August Groth (1908 - 1988) was an illustrator and art teacher. He gained recognition as a war correspondent-illustrator. He studies at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Art Students League with Todros Geller, Robert Brackman, Arnold Blanch and George Grosz.
He was a member: Society of American Etchers; American Newspaper Guild; Society of Illustrators; Associate Member of the National Academy of Design; American Water Color Society.
Positions : Art Director at Esquire 1933 - 1937, Parade Publications 1941 - 1944; War Correspondent for Chicago Sun 1944; American Legion Magazine 1945; Artist-Correspondent in Vietnam 1967.Teacher at Art Students LeagueHe was the first art director of Esquire Magazine and taught at the Art Students League, the Pratt Institute, and the Parsons School of Design.
In 1940, he was included in an exhibition at MOMA, titled, "PM Competition: The Artist as Reporter." The exhibition included Philip Guston, Reginald Marsh, John Tworkov, John Heliker, Adolf Dehn, and Chet La More.
Groth began sketching intently during the Great Depression after studying at the Art Institute of Chicago. Following the advice of an editor, he penned 100 sketches a day for years. He learned to increase his speed by listening to sports on the radio and sketching the action as fast as he could. "I would listen to the games on the radio at night, and sketch the plays. It made me very quick." His break came when Arnold Gingrich, an editor for Esquire magazine, approached him at an art show in Chicago and offered him a position. "The way (Arnold Gingrich) told it," John Groth says, "he found this barefoot, bearded kid in the park, and the next day made him art director of the world's leading men's fashion magazine. But I swear I was wearing shoes." Groth went on to work as a correspondent and illustrator for the Chicago Sun, Collier's, Sports Illustrated, and The Saturday Evening Post.
He developed a passion for war zones. He covered six different wars and was one of the first correspondents in Paris after its liberation. "It is only at war that I feel complete... There, you meet all sort of men -- farmers, mechanics, college professors. It rains on them and it rains on you. The shells burst in the air, and you are there, too." He would make a splash when he beat out friend and rival, Ernest Hemingway, into Paris in 1944. Hemingway was writing for the Chicago Tribune and Groth for the Chicago Sun. Groth was in the first jeep into Paris and got the scoop. His headline read, "Yanks are in Paris!" Hemingway would later write about Groth's technique. “None of us understood the sort of shorthand he sketched in. The men would look at the sketches and see just a lot of lines. It was a great pleasure to find what fine drawings they were when we got to see them.
Groth went on to illustrate such classic books as: A Christmas Carol, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Grapes of Wrath, The War Prayer, and Gone with the Wind.
Deborah Churchman described Groth's work in a 1980 Washington Post article: "Groth's pictures center on the day-to-day life of people caught in terrifying circumstances -- armies occupying cities, soldiers sweeping roads for land mines, bullfighters facing death." Bernie Schonfeld, a photographer for Life Magazine said of Groth, "John is one of the gentlest people in the world, and he always gets himself into the wildest hell hole." He joined the First Congress of American Artists Against War and Fascism in 1936, along with Stuart Davis, Peter Blume...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Fine 1930s, Art Deco Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Art Deco Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Seated Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed earl...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
French Contemporary Art by Francine Ledieu - Rue des Fossés, Saint Valery
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on paper
Francine Ledieu is a French artist born in 1931 who lives and works in Paris, France. In the 50s, she was a student of Maurice Rocher who specialized in Sacred art. In the ’80s, Francine was a student of Jean Bertholle from the Saint Roch Academy. The artist had personal exhibitions at Maison Mansart from 1989 to 1993 and at Étienne de Causans Gallery in 1997. In 1998 & 2009 she exhibited at La Petite Galerie. Francien Ledieu had three exhibitions at La Capitale Gallery in 2001, 2004, and 2007. She also showed her paintings at L’Oeil du Huit in 2011, 2013, 2016 & 2019. She participated in many group exhibitions as at Strasbourg Contemporary Art Fair in 2005. She exhibited also at Réalités Nouvelles in 2006, 2007, 2010 & 2011. She also worked in stained glass and mosaics in France. She achieved artworks in 1963 at Saint-Henri Pontoise chapel, Saint-Pierre des Louvrais church in Pontoise in 1969 & Mosaic in the same year at Jean Moulin...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Paper
$1,200 Sale Price
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Julie by Rene Leroy, French Cubist Figurative Painting on Carton
Located in Atlanta, GA
Raymond Debieve (1931-2011)
Born in northern France as a twin to brother Michel Debieve (who also become an accomplished artist later in life), Raymond painted his entire life. His ...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Post Soviet Avant Garde Russian Woodcut Print With Hand Watercolor Painting
By Ilya Shenker
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts a wedding scene in a style of German Expressionism. hand signed and hand painted in watercolor.
Ilya Shenker, Russian/American (1922 - )
As a soldier in World War II, he survived where millions perished. Upon returning to his home town of Odessa, felt abandoned and alone. He studied Art and Architecture in Odessa, but, one of a number of Russian Jewish artists allowed to emigrate, he left for America when the opportunity arose. He settled in New York City, a choice that has forever impacted his oeuvre. Many of his pictures depict New York cityscapes and lifestyle; however, they remain typically Russian. His subject matter often comes from memory and includes the life that he left behind, family, and friends. Drawing upon his Jewish heritage for inspiration, Shenker also paints historical events, such as "On the Eve of the Assault" in which he portrayed the last night before the destruction of Jerusalem. He has also illustrated a number of classics of Russian literature including Alexander Pushkin. His use of imagination also applies to the figures in his expressionist paintings—fictional characters such as the Spanish literary character Don Quixote make appearances in his work. He has also placed figures such as Rembrandt and Picasso in modern settings: in "Rembrandt Visiting our Family," Shenker sits his most favored artist at his family table, in a tribute to someone he describes as a "peoples artist." He is one in a long line of great Soviet Russian Judaica Jewish artists beginning with Yehuda Pen, who founded Russia's first art school for Jews in Vitebsk in 1897 continuing with his students, including Marc Chagall and El Lissitzky, Natan Altman, Leon Bakst and Robert Falk...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Sick - Drawing by Jean Cocteau - 1934
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch realized for the book "Les Enfants Terribles".
Unsigned and undated. Matting included.
Very good conditions.
Ref. Jean Cocteau, Poesia Grafica - Disegni dal 1921 al 1957.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
A Charming, Vintage 1930s Charcoal Drawing of a Saxophone Player, Jazz Musician
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming, Vintage 1930s Charcoal Drawing of a Saxophone Player, Jazz Musician, by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A striking and lively figure study ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
London Stock Exchange Waiter - 1960s British drawing by Francis Watt
By Frances Watt
Located in London, GB
FRANCES WATT
(1923-2009)
London Stock Exchange Waiter
Pen and ink and watercolour wash, unframed, in mount only
17 by 13 cm., 6 ½ by 5 in.
Edith Frances Watt was born in Falkirk in 1923. In 1926 the family moved to Switzerland when her father, the Rev Thomas Meikle Watt, was appointed permanent chaplain to the Church of Scotland in Geneva. Her father died in 1938 and the family returned to Scotland where Frances continued her schooling at Aberdeen High School for Girls. Her mother moved the family to London in about 1940 and they settled in Southwood Lawn Road, Highgate. Frances attended the Hornsey School of Art were she gained a National Diploma in Design before going on to study at the Byam Shaw School in London, where she later taught. In Highgate she was a member of the Highgate Artists Group, which included Sir Kyffin Williams among its exhibiting members, and she was also an active member of the Highgate Choral Society, designing many programmes and posters for its productions in the 1950s.
In the early 1960s she was commissioned by the Council of the Stock Exchange to record the daily life in the Square Mile. Over the next 20 years she was brilliantly placed to observe the enormous changes taking place in the great institutions of the Stock Exchange and Lloyd’s of London...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Beaver Pond, Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado Western Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Beaver Pond near Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, c. 1950
Watercolor on Paper
19 x 24 inches
21 x 26 inches framed
Frank...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Striking 1940s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking 1940s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exquisite studio portrait study, charcoal on paper, dating...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Original Painting. Vanity Fair Illustration Proposal. Art Deco Modern 1930s
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Vanity Fair Illustration Proposal. Art Deco Modern 1930s
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Vanity Fair
Illustration proposal, c 1930’s
18 X 13 3/4 inches (sight)
...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
WPA 1940s Framed Figurative Village Landscape with Figures, Houses & Mountains
Located in Denver, CO
This evocative watercolor painting, titled The Way War First Comes (1940), was created by noted American artist Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968) during the Depression era. The pie...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait. Watercolor on paper, 42x37 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. Watercolor on paper, 42x37 cm
Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013)
Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 194...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended th...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
8 Original Nude Pen, Pencil and China Ink Drawings by French Master 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Women is a series of eight original drawings in pen and pencil on paper, some of which double sided, realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century, some of them with a sketch of women...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
A Fabulous 1945 Mid-Century Female Nude Studio Figure Study By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fabulous Mid-Century Female Nude Studio Figure Study By Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Depicting a Seated Nude, the drawing is ink and watercolor on paper an...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
