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Period: Mid-20th Century
Parisian Fashion Model - Mid-Century - Female Artist Vogue Magazine ?
Located in Miami, FL
An elegantly rendered mid-century Parisian model with a stylish hat is masterfully rendered by American female illustrator Ruth Sigrid Grafstrom ...
Category
Feminist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century French Sketch of a Side Profile of a Expressive Young Man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Signed Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 9 (height) x 7 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Goo...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Soldiers Playing Cards
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Soldiers Playing Cards', watercolour and gouache on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1939). Such an atmospheric image, this stunning depiction by celebrated F...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
The Cavalry Drummer on Horseback British Mid 20th Century Impressionist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Cavalry Drummer
(thought to be the Household Cavalry wearing the uniform of HM Queen Elizabeth II)
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
original acrylic painting on board, unframed
size: 11 x 16 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for an unframed work
provenance: from a large private collection of this artists work in the UK
The artist:
Born in Warwick in 1901, Duffield came to Bristol at the age of 23 as an artist at the studio of Mardon Son and Hall. He worked as an illustrator producing designs for cigarette cards, remaining with the company for 37 years until his retirement. He was elected an Artist Member of the Bristol Savages in 1946. He was an extremely keen and regular attender not only in the studio but at all other Savage functions. He was noted for his friendly demeanour and seldom seen without a pipe in his mouth. He was a good pianist and would play popular tunes after the Wednesday evenings’ entertainment for members to join in singing and always with his pipe in his mouth. In 1965 he was commissioned by the Gloucester Regiment to paint a portrait of Brigadier Manley Angell James, VC, DSO, MBE, MC, a Bristol man who won his VC during the first World War. The painting is now in the Imperial War Museum. Frank was made a Life Member in 1973 and died in 1982.
Frank Duffiled was a member of the artist group, known as "The Bristol Savages":
Founded in 1894 by Ernest Ehlers, he invited his fellow Bristol based artists to spend a friendly evening in his studio to work and talk. At first, meetings were held in their private studios, then as their numbers grew, in rented premises. By 1904 this led to the official founding of the Bristol Savages and the holding ever since, of similar weekly meetings between October and May each year. In 1905 the first exhibition of paintings was held at the premises of George Nichols & Co., an auctioneer in Broad Street, Bristol. During the next 14 years exhibitions were held annually in Bristol and their first permanent home was Brandon Cottage which was made available to them through the good offices of fellow member James Fuller Eberle. When the Red Lodge...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Mid Century French Pencil Sketch Lady of Importance Sophisticatedly Dressed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil on artists paper, double sided
Size: 10 height) x 7.5 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Provenan...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Lanvin Of Paris Original Advertising Watercolor Christmas Artwork
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 10"H x 17"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Fashion illustrator for House of Lanvin Paris in the 1950s featured in Harper's Bazaar
Santa w/ Two Models On His Lap
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Ideal Decoration - Drawing by Carlo Parisi - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
Ideal Decoration is an Artwork realized by the artist Carlo Parisi (1922-2007) in 1935.
Black and white drawing on paper.
Good conditions.
Carlo Parisi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Inspiration - Drawing by Mino Maccari - mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
China ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
'Age 9', Art Deco, Woman Artist, AIC, ASL, Paris, Salon d'Automne, Corcoran
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899-1950) as a full-page illustration for the book 'The Buttermilk Tree', circa 1935. A rare example of a fully-developed pen, ink and gou...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Pen, Pencil
View over the Bridge, watercolour by George Bissill
Located in London, GB
George Bissill (1896-1973)
View over the bridge
Watercolour
18 x 22 cm
Born in 1896, George Bissill was a British miner, painter and furniture designer. Raised in the mining vill...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
20th Century French Modernist Black & White Painting Jesus's Crucifixion
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jesus On The Cross
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
signed watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 8.75 x 6.25 inches
stamped verso
provenance: artists estate, France
condi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Toulon - Drawing by Paul Emile Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Toulon is an artwork realized by Paul Emile Colin in the Mid-20th Century.
Ink and Watercolor.
Good condition.
hand-signed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Actress June Knight
Located in Miami, FL
Celebrity portrait sketch of
actress June Knight but James Montgomery Flagg on card stock in two colors.
Signed and inscribed lower right. The work is unframed.
There
is a slight cr...
Category
Academic Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Pencil
Mid Century French Watercolour of a Woman in a 1940s Style Swimsuit
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Watercolour of a Woman in a 1940s Style Swimsuit
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Watercolour and Paper
Size: 7 (height) x 4.75 (width)
...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Billie the Brownie Laughing' original watercolor by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this painting, Sylvia Spicuzza demonstrates her skill as an illustration artist, representing the Milwaukee character Billie the Brownie with a growing spring of a tree. An illustration like this could grace the pages of a children's book or illustrated magazine, or as an advertisement for Schuster’s Department Store.
Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper
8 x 5.75 inches, artwork
14 x 12 inches, frame
Stamped with artist signature, below image, lower left.
Presented in a new custom frame with a gold-finish neoclassical wood moulding, archival matting and mounting materials; and UV glass to inhibit fading.
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, Art Deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso, Kandinsky and Max Ernst in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy.
Billie the Brownie was a multi-media star of Christmas in Milwaukee from the 1920s to the 1950s. Years earlier, the writer and artist Palmer Cox...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
India Modern Art Drawing Felix Topolski Gandhi India Signed and Dated 1950
Located in Norfolk, GB
Felix Topolski (1907-1989)
Gandhi
Pen and ink on paper
Image 10.5” x 7.5”, Framed 26” x 21.5”
Signed and Dated 1950, India
Provenance: Private UK Collection
Felix Topolski (1907-1...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Strike Breakers — social realism, Great Depression
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Daniel Ralph Celentano, Untitled (Strike Breakers) pencil, c. 1934. Signed, lower right. A fine, social-realist drawing, on cream wove paper, with margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches), in...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Mid Century French Pencil Study of a Distinguished Man in Profile
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Signed by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 9 (height) x 7 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition:...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Mid Century French Pencil Study Portrait Profile of an Expressive Woman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Signed by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 10.75 (height) x 8.25 (width)
Stamped Verso
Con...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
"The Red Barn Players Summer Theater" - American Weekly Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Couple putting on theatrical make-up for summer theatre
Cover of American Weekly Magazine, June 20, 1954
Dimensions: 19.75 x 16.00 in.
Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Paper
Signa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Wonderland Tale - Fairy Tale - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Wonderland Tale - Fairy Tale - Female Illustrator - The work is meticulously rendered in an exacting technique of line to the point of wonderment. Yet, Baxter can obtain an ethereali...
Category
English School Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Fish & Underwater Flowers 3 — Hopei Folk Art, 1950s Chinese Cut Paper Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Fish & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum st...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Nude under the Tree - Drawing by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil pastel and watercolor on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand signed.
Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist. cm. 157.5x113.5.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in R...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard, Oil Pastel
At the Seaside - Drawing by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil pastel and watercolor on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist. cm. 157.5x113.5.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on Mar...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard, Oil Pastel
A Man's Wife
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal and Pencil on Paper
Dimensions: 31.00" x 23.75"
Signature: Inscribed and Signed. Signed and inscribed 'To Steve Kovac/sincerely/Norman/Rockwell' (lower right)
Proven...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
Mid 20th century French Original Line Drawing sketch Nude Lady - Stamped
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait sketch
original drawing by Jean-Paul LE VERRIER (1922-1996)
studio stamped
inscribed verso
pencil drawing on paper, unframed
Double sided
10.5 x 8.25 inches
provenance: pri...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Emile's Tavern
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Emile's Tavern', gouache on paper (circa 1930s), by Lucien Génin. A tavern in French is called a 'guinguette'. With the rise in living standards from the 1860s along with the develo...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Storm Cove Lighthouse
By Nat Levy
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Storm Cove Lighthouse" c.1950 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Nat Levy 1896-1984. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The a...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Art Deco 1940s High Fashion Illustration Woman with Fan and Screen
Located in Miami, FL
French female illustrator Geneviève Thomas renders a highly stylized fashion illustration set against a seamless red background, The model is wearin...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Mid 20th century French Original Line Drawing sketch Nude Lady - Stamped
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait sketch
original drawing by Jean-Paul LE VERRIER (1922-1996)
studio stamped
pencil drawing on paper, unframed
Double sided
10.5x 8.25 inches
provenance: private collection o...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Nude - Original Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions except for consumed margins and some foxings.
Jean-Ray...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Romantic Angels - Original ink and pencil drawing - Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Demetrios GALANIS (1879-1966)
Romantic Angels
Original ink and pencil drawing
Signed with the blue stamp signature of the artist
On vellum 16 x 15 cm (c. 6 x 6")
Very good condit...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Art Deco Glamorous woman in Purple Evening Dress - Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
Framed Size 28.5 x 21
Jaro Fabry was a brilliant illustrator with a defined style of his own. There is not a brushstroke out of place in his works that appear loosely rendered. He is best known for his depiction of Golden Age of Hollywood...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil, Paper
Mid Century French Portrait of a Seated Maid Watercolour Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Portrait
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black charcoal and watercolour on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Size: 9.75...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Portrait - Drawing by Jacqueline Barbet - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an artwork realized by the french Artist Jacqueline Barbet (1902-1975), in 1938.
Pencil, pastel and charcoal rawing on paper. Hand-signed and dated in pencil in Roman nu...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Pencil
Tourists — vintage drawing, original 'Superman' artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leonard Nowak, 'Tourists', conté crayon and India ink, c. 1940s. Signed in ink, lower left. Original cartoon drawing, on textured, off-white wove drawing...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, India Ink
Music Hall Pathos, Cubist Mixed Media Painting by Benjamin Benno 1938
Located in Long Island City, NY
Music Hall Pathos by Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980)
Date: 1938
Gouache and Colored ink on paper, signed and dated lower left
Size: 14 x 10 in. (35.56 x 25.4 cm)
Frame Size: 23....
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Art Deco Vogue Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Art Deco "Mademoiselle X" story illustration
for Vogue February 1, 1934, watercolor and ink, reverse signed in pencil "Benito for Madame X," pencil inscription "Feb.1, 1934 / Page 51 / 316," accompanied by corresponding issue of Vogue magazine...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Nude of Woman - Charcoal Drawing by Gio Colucci - 20th Century
By Gio Colucci
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Of Woman is a charcoal drawing on brown paper. Unsigned. Good conditions except for some folds and some rips on the corners.
Prolific and eclectic, the Italian Gio Colucci (Florence, 1892 – Paris, 1974), also known in France as Geo Colucci, was a painter, engraver, illustrator, ceramist, and sculptor. From 1921, he exhibited his engravings in various salons. He worked with French publishers specialized in the illustrated books of high bibliophilia, and delivered series of remarkable prints for texts by Barbey d'Aurevilly, Pierre Loti, Guy Maupassant...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
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
Mid Century French Pencil Drawing of a Peaceful Stone Female Head
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Study
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper
Size: 19 (height) x 12.5 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condition: Goo...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Our Army, Magazine Cover, July 1945
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor, Gouache and Charcoal on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Soldier awakens in bunk, with lipstick mark. "Who kissed me?" Magazine Cover July 1945
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor, Gouache
Mid Century French Sketch of a Woman in Profile with Elegant Flowing Hair
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 7 (height) x 5.5 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Pr...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Flowers 3 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Mid Century Drawing, 'Ligne Claire' after Hergé, Grasse, South of France
Located in Cotignac, FR
French mid 20th Century drawing in the style of Georges Remi, dit Hergé. The work is not signed but is titled (Cannes) and dated (Mai 1969) to the back of the paper. Presented in modern gilt frame under glass.
A charming street view of Cannes on the Cote D'Azur in the South of France, an area now internationally famous for its film annual festival. The artist has captured the imposing nature of the fine stone buildings with their blue and green shutters towering over the scene. Next to it a fine trees so characteristic of French streets are just coming in to leaf. Two men go about their business, one is walking towards a cafe. Cars and a red delivery truck animate the scene. The style of the artist is clearly inspired by the animations of Georges Remi, dit Hergé which were so popular at this period.
Georges Remi, more commonly known as Hergé created his own clean, expressive style of drawings known as ligne claire...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Mid Century French Drawing Study of a Classical Bust
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Bust Portrait
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper
Size: 19 (height) x 12.5 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condit...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Sickness - Charcoal Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Sickness is an original charcoal drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1960s.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner, on a yellowed worn paper.
Mino Maccari was an Itali...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
'Mother Nature', Lyrical Surrealist Abstract Watercolour on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century lyrical surrealist abstract watercolour on paper by French artist Jean Clerté, signed and dated bottom right. Presented in mid-century frame.
Jean Clerté , born in 1930 in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe in Vienne, is a French painter, engraver, draftsman, watercolourist and sculptor . This work is a great example of his more humorous and expressive work influenced by Alechinsky from the late 1960s onwards. There is a light playfulness and yet the watercolours are more vivid than his previous palette.
Jean Clerté works in series. His sequential narrations testify both to a youthful spontaneity and to a perfect mastery in the distribution of forms and images on the painted surface. The narration is not only an accumulation of juxtaposed fragments and symbols, it forms a whole, it takes on and gives meaning. In general, we can say of Clerté that he practices an “eco-art” that feeds on primary hungers: the feeling of being united with nature, the vegetable, the mineral, the aquatic. In his colourful canvases, his inks, his boxes, his objects, like a shaman on the path of his dreams, the painter Clerté mounts an assault on beasts and demons, elves and gnomes. From the Poitevin marshes to the tropical forests emerges a fauna caught in the meanders of a design that marvels at the appearance of these grotesque idols.
Jean Clerté began to draw and paint at a very young age, and at the age of 15 he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Poitiers. Then in 1949, curious about the capital, he moved to Paris. Having very few financial resources, he could not continue his studies at first, worked as a model to survive, and met other artists; he was then admitted to the studio of Ossip Zadkine and, from 1952, he was also able to study engraving at Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter, an English engraver and printer living in Paris associated in the 1930s with surrealism.
At the end of the 1960s, he worked alongside Pierre Alechinsky, founding member of the Cobra movement, engraving Alechinsky's originals, benefiting from his advice, and discovering acrylic as a medium.
From 1976, Jean Clerté became associate professor at Hayter. Clerté had taught previously, in 1971 at the Salzburg Summer University and in 1972 he gave courses at the Paris-Sorbonne University . In 1981, he was appointed professor at the School of Decorative Arts , where he had Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas as a student and, from 1983 to 1988, he was Alechinsky's assistant professor at the Paris School of Fine Arts.
His first works are part of the current of lyrical abstraction, and are nourished by impressions of nature (landscape motifs, e.g. forest fires, waterscapes), then around 1968, encouraged by Alechinsky, he rejects abstraction, and his work becomes more figurative with expressive and humorous elements. From this period his colours are more subdued, often with pastel tones, he works on series. Jean Clerté has created a world in a space where drawing, painting, objects participate in a playful figuration. From his drawings were born sculptures and sometimes mobiles (Le Moulin à dessin). If it is the artist who makes astonishing, polychrome, whimsical “toys”, it is the painter who appeals to adults through his caustic and satirical humour.
His first exhibitions in France took place at the Galerie Massol , then at the Galerie Pascal...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Dog - Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Dog is a drawing on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Pen Drawing
Good conditions and aged.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Mother and Child
Located in Astoria, NY
Sarai Sherman (American, 1922-2013), Mother and Child, Ink and Ink Wash on Paper, signed lower right, giltwood frame. Image: 34.75" H x 22.75" W; frame: 38.75" H x 26.5" W x 1.5" D. ...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Unexpected Holiday
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
American Weekly magazine cover, September 9, 1956
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
1950s Charcoal Drawing Bay Area Artist Female Nude
Located in Arp, TX
Henry Woon
Hand on Hip
c. 1950's
Charcoal on Strathmore Charcoal Paper
19" x 25", Unframed
Signed Woon in pen on lower right
Mid Century, c. 1950's, charcoal, standing, female, nude...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Cactus (Mexico), Early 20th Century Cubist Still Life by Woman Cleveland Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964)
Cactus (Mexico), 1930
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right, titled and dated on label verso
15.25 x 13.25 inches
25 x 22.5 inches, framed
A gradu...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Wifredo Lam, Cuban (1902 - 1982)
Title: Untitled - I
Year: 1957
Medium: Crayon and Pastel on Paper, signed and dated l.r.
Paper Size: 22 in. x 26.5 in. (55.88 cm x 67.31...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel
Two Old Pecan Trees, Early 20th Century Landscape, 1st Place May Show Winner
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Two Old Pecan Trees, 1932
Watercolor on paper mounted on board
Signed lower right
21 x 28.25 inches
27 x 35.25 inches, as framed
Exhibited: 1932 May Show (1st Place) Cleveland Museum of Art; Poetics of Place: Charles Burchfield and His Contemporaries, 2001 Cleveland Artist's Foundation.
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Standing Figure, figural abstract expressionist ink drawing, 20th century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph Glasco (American, 1925-1996)
Figure
1955
Ink on paper
Signed and dated lower center
9 x 12 inches
Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, Oklahoma and grew up in Texas. In 1...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
“It’s high time we met" story illustration for the Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “The Gay Banditti” by I. A. R. Wylie for The Saturday Evening Post, published February 26, 1938, pages 6-7.
The full caption reads: “‘It’s high time we met,’...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
