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Period: Mid-20th Century
Erotic Scene - Pen Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1965
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a china ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1970.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good condition on a cardboard.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - French Town Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed
size: 12 x 9 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
proven...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Nude Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Seated Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed early 1930s ch...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (Female Legs & Feet)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study of a Standing Female Model (Legs and Feet) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early 193...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (Male Legs, Knee & Feet)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study of a Seated Male Model (Legs, Knee and Feet) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early 1...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study of a Male Nude Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Finely Drawn, 1930s Modern Figure Study of a Seated Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An early charcoal drawing by Haydon (a compos...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (Male Leg, Knee & Foot)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study of a Standing Male Model (Leg, Knee and Foot) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (Female Leg, Knee & Foot)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study of a Seated Female Model (Leg, Knee and Foot) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing (Male Legs & Feet)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study of a Standing Male Model (Legs & Feet) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early 1930s c...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Very Finely Drawn 1930s Modern Figure Study of a Female Nude Model (Back)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Very Finely Drawn, 1930s Modern Figure Study of a Standing Female Nude Model (Back) by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An early composite charcoal d...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing (Male Model, Arms)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of Male Arms by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early 1930s charcoal study (a c...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Nude - Drawing by L. B. Saint-André - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude is a drawing, realized in Mid 20th Century, by the French post-impressionist painter and illustrator Louis André Berthommé Saint-André (1905-1977).
Black and white penc...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Water Sports - Nude Swimmers and Bathers at Coney Island
Located in Miami, FL
Historically, academic artists have always featured the central figures in their composition in a prominent light with the background figures being darker. In water sports...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Abstract Geometric Illusory Line Art in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Geometric Illusory Line Art in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
In this line abstract by Jerry O'Day (American, 1912), lines intersect and layer in straight and rounded ways giving a sense of movement to the piece. O'Day uses simple ink on paper and pure geometric form in the Minimalist style of the 1960s.
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Mat size: 39"H x 27"W
Paper size: 30"H x 20"W
Image size: 27"H x 16"W
Jerry O'Day is also known as Geraldine Heib. Born in Oakland, California, on June 17, 1912. Geraldine Heib assumed the name Jerry O'Day at an early age. She grew up in Washington and studied in Seattle at the Cornish School of Fine Arts. Upon moving to the San Francisco Bay area in 1938, she further studied with Bufano as a muralist for two years. O'Day wed sculptor David Lemon and had a gallery in a converted cod fishery in Belvedere from 1942 until 1963. At that time, the couple moved to a houseboat in Sausalito, where she remained until her demise on March 30, 1986.
Post War California artist, Jerry O'Day studied at the Cornish School of Fine Arts in Seattle; studied with Beniamino Bufano for two years. She lived in the artist's colony at the Cod fishery with artist David Lemon on Belvedere Island in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1942 - 1963.
Solo Exhibitions: City of Paris, Rotunda Gallery; Lucien Labaudt Gallery, 1963; Torrance Gallery, San Anselmo, 1955; Marin Art Gallery, Sausalito, 1956; Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1962; East & West Gallery, Fillmore Street, San Francisco; Landmarks Gallery, Marin County, 1991.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 65th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1945; Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963.
Source:
David J Carlson...
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
$1,320 Sale Price
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Tayside Sheep Farm, Scotland
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Tayside Sheep Farm, Scotland" c.1930, is a watercolor on paper by British artist Ken Cherrington, 1886-1969. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The ar...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Apache Dolls, Gouache Dated 1958
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Apache dolls.
Gouache, signed (?), dated 1958.
Good condition.
Gouache (visible): 33.5 x 26 cm.
Mat: 50.5 x 40 cm.
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Beach of Kusambe, Bali 1937
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Four outrigger proa’s on the beach of Kusambe, Bali, 1937
Signed with initials, dated and described with location bottom left
Pencil and ink on paper, 29.7 x 35 cm
In ebonized frame with white mount
WILLEM OTTO WIJNAND NIEUWENKAMP
(1874-1950)
Nieuwenkamp was born on July 27th 1874 in Amsterdam. His father owned sailing ships sailing to Indonesia and hearing the stories of the returning captains evoked in the young Nieuwenkamp an obsession for distant lands and adventure. After a failed attempt by his father to have his son make a career in his business, Nieuwenkamp attended the Academy for Decorative Art in Amsterdam. However, he left within one year to go his own way.
He was an autodidact and a great experimenter with new techniques, particularly in the art of etching. Nieuwenkamp was a very focused man with the discipline of a scientist tempered by the sensitivity of an artist, a lust for adventure, a natural appreciation for ethnic arts and an enormous ambition to tread new paths.
In 1898 he visited Indonesia for the first time and on his second visit in 1903-1904 he went on to Bali and became the first foreign artist to love Bali and the Balinese with a passion. Having secured agreements with several museums in the Netherlands to obtain Balinese art and objects for their collections, Nieuwenkamp immediately started to purchase and order a wide range of ethnographic art and objects from local artists and craftsmen.
Through his drawings and books, he gave an excellent impression of Balinese art and culture at that time. Since 1854 Northern Bali was under Dutch...
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Art Nouveau Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Pencil
Fakir-1 & 3, Figurative, Pencil on Paper, Set of 2 Works by Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Fakir-1 & 3
Pencil on Paper
6 x 6 inches & 6.6 x 6 inches
(Set of 2 Works)
(Unframed & Delivered)
In this evocative sketch, Atul captures the weathered face and humble p...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Pencil
The Consultations - Drawing by Mino Maccari - mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century.
Hand signed.
Matted, mat dimensions cm. 40x50.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape
Located in New York, NY
"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape
Philip Goodwin (20th Century) "Times Square," 23 ½ x 17 ¼ inches. Gouache...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Edward Laning, Sketch for Sheraton East Hotel Mid-Century Mural of Ancient Myths
Located in New York, NY
This mural depicting ancient myths was designed for the Hotel Ambassador, a skyscraper at 345 Park Avenue, NYC; the building was converted to the Sheraton East in 1958. It was demolished in 1966. It could only be mid-century American!
Signed, titled, and annotated, 'Scale 2" = 1' in ink.
Edward Laning is largely known as a mural artist. His series The History of the Printed Word is installed at the New York Public Library at 42nd Street, New York City, and Building of the Transcontinental Railroad Mural, is in the Railroad Museum, Ogden, Utah. Laning was briefly a student of Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League, New York. They were lifelong colleagues and had studios on Union Square near friends Isabel Bishop, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh, and Raphael Soyer. As a group they were the Fourteenth Street School...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Figure Study in Red"
By Jean Hélion
Located in Southampton, NY
Early 1960's watercolor and gouache figure study by Jean Helion. Signed with initial H lower right and dated lower left February, 1963. Condition is fair with crease above the letter...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
$1,760 Sale Price
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New England Coastal Town Landscape w/ Houses, Cleveland School Woman Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Kae Dorn Cass (American, 1901-1971)
New England Coastal Town
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
9 in. h. x 11.5 in. w.
17 in. h. x 19 in. w., as framed
Kae Dorn Cass was born...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Lanvin of Paris Flower Girl Watercolour
Located in Bristol, CT
Original advert watercolour for Lanvin of Paris depicting a flower girl by Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
c1950s
Art Sz: 12"H x 7"W
Frame Sz: ...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Seated Female Nude by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Seated Female Nude by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Completed in the 1960s, this compelling studio ink drawing is executed in ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
'Nude in Coral and Jade' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
A bright, Post Impressionist figural gouache of a woman shown sta...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Cardboard
Erotic Look - China Ink Drawing by M. Vertès - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Look is a superb original black China ink drawing on "British" ivory-colored paper.
Unsigned, this is by all odds a Marcel Vertés's artwork with his unmistakable fluid line....
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Modern 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
$1,863 Sale Price
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Daphne and Chloe - Lithograph by Pierre Bonnard - 1930 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Daphne and Chloe is a beautiful black and white lithograph on paper by Pierre Bonnard in 1930s.
Not signed, as issued.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys
Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Casein
Bird & Flowers 1 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Bird & 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, unframed.
Image size 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches; sheet size 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; mat size 14 x 11 inches.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Hopei or Hebei is a province of North East China, on the Gulf of Chihli near Beijing that is home to Chengde Mountain Resort, the imperial summer residence of the Qing-dynasty emperors. Chengde contains 18th-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed...
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Folk Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
London Lodge
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "London Lodge" is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Henry Waltermar Doane, 1905-2002. It is signed by the artist at the lower right corner. The art...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Romantic Couple In Wartime Paris on Rainy Parisian Night
Located in Miami, FL
The technique and subject matter work well together in this loosely but masterfully rendered World War 1 romantic illustration of a Soldier and a Parisian woman. Even though this wo...
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Romantic Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
The Companion - Drawing by Mino Maccari - mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on paper 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
Watercolor
Surrealist Drawings Geometric Colorist Project, France circa 1960
Located in Atlanta, GA
These exceptional original project drawings, painted with colored pencil on translucent tracing paper, are by a French artist, circa the 1960s. The two paintings feature a geometric ...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper
Poster Sketch for fashion advertising for FACIS, Italian Pret-a-Porter company.
Located in Firenze, IT
Poster Sketch for fashion advertising for FACIS, Italian Pret-a-Porter company.
Italian Pop art
Water-colour, ink and pencil on paper.
Size with black ...
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Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Sculpture Motives
By Henry Moore
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A drawing by Henry Moore. "Sculpture Motives" is a semi-abstract, figurative drawing, ink, watercolor, and wax crayon on paper in beige, white, and black platte by British modern art...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon, Ink, Watercolor
$18,000 Sale Price
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Mid 20th century French Original Line Drawing sketch Nude Female- 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
10.5 x 8.25 inches
provenance: private collection ...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"The Bather"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Gershon Benjamin (1899 – 1985).
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and urban scene...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Young woman lying on the sofa
Located in Genève, GE
Stamp of the workshop lower right
Work on paper
Golden wood frame with glass pane
35.5 x 41 x 3.5 cm
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Academic Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
French Pencil Study of a Graceful Woman in Vintage Attire with Red Features
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 9.75 (height) x 9 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
P...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Seated Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed early 1930s c...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Mid Century French Portrait of an Older Woman with Headscarf
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Portrait
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper
Size: 24.5 (height) x 18 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condition: ...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Show Girl with Fantasy Horse, Fashion Illustration in Blue and Black
Located in Miami, FL
This Drawing has a sketch on the reverse as well as handwritten notes, one of which reads "On loan from the Freddy Wittop's private collection." Costume designer Freddy Wittop won a Tony Award for his work on "Hello, Dolly!" and was also the recipient of a TDF Irene Sharaff...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Tree Cutters, pencil drawing by William Roberts
Located in London, GB
William Roberts (1895-1980)
Tree Cutters
Pencil on paper
17 x 19 cm
Provenance: Albemarle Gallery
William Roberts (1895-1980) is remembered as a distinctive and independent figure i...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Guiding the Herd
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Guiding the Herd" 1967 is a watercolor and ink on paper by noted Uruguayan artist Enrique Castells Capurro, 1913-1997. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 13 x 19 inches, framed size is 20.35 x 26 inches. Custom framed in a wooden light brown frame, with light grey matting and green fillet. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Enrique Castells Capurro ( Montevideo , March 9 , 1913 - Punta del Este , J...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Adolf Dehn, Haitian Scene A, signed painting, Associated American Artists, 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Arthur Dehn
Haitian Scene A, ca. 1951
Watercolor gouache on board
Signed on the front
Frame included: held in vintage modern frame
Measurements:
Framed:
11 inches vertical by 13 inches horizontal by .75
Painting
4.5 inches by 6 inches
Watercolor gouache, hand signed; framed with AAA Gallery label verso
Signed on the front bearing the original label on the verso of Dehn's longtime gallery, the prestigious Associated American Artists Gallery, New York City.
Provenance
Associated American Artists
Frame included: held in vintage frame with original label as provenance
Dehn, an influential artist and teacher (and author of the definitive textbook of his era on watercolor painting) joined Associated American Artists gallery in 1941. Although this painting is undated, it is likely circa early 1950s, as in 1951 Dehn won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to travel to Haiti -- the subject of this work. It was part of a series inspired by Dehn's visit to Haiti.
Dehn, an influential artist and teacher (and author of the definitive textbook of his era on watercolor painting) joined Associated American Artists gallery in 1941. Although this painting is undated, it is likely circa early 1950s, as in 1951 Dehn won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to travel to Haiti.
ADLOF DEHN
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere - not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic "little magazines" such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895 - 1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Landscape - Drawing by André Léveillé - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a drawing realized by André Léveillé (1880-1962) in the early 20th Century.
Charcoal and watercolor on paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is reali...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Nude in Black ink Reclining, Black ink on ivory paper
Located in Brookville, NY
John Begg studied art at Columbia University, with Arthur Wesley Dow, with Charles Martin, and studied sculpture with Jose De Creeft and Ossip Zadkine. He was a member of the Ameri...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Untitled
Located in Santa Fe, NM
UNTITLED
charcoal on paper unique
©1969 R.C. Gorman
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
$7,600 Sale Price
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The Rock - Drawing by Albert Gaulme - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and watercolor on cardboard realized by Albert Gaulme in 1950s.
Not signed.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, 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,’...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
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 ...
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Feminist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
An Captivating, 1945 Mid-Century Modern Figure Drawing of a Standing Female Nude
Located in Chicago, IL
An Captivating, 1945 Mid-Century Modern Figure Drawing of a Standing Female Nude By Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A finely rendered standing female nude studi...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Charcoal, Paper
In the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Paper
Signature: 11.00" x 11.50"
Dimensions: Signed Initials Upper Right
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model (Study of Legs) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionall...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model (Shoulder and Arm) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exception...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
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 Seated Young Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well execu...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
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...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
