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Period: Mid-20th Century
Two Sketched Portraits - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Two Sketched Portraits is a drawing on paper, realized around the Sixties by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989).
China ink (fountain pen)...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait of Carlo Forte - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Carlo Forte is a drawing on paper, realized in the Mid-20th Century by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989).
Charcoal and pencil ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Charcoal
Interior Design - Drawing by Victor Courtray - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Interior Design is a beautiful drawing on paper, realized in 1948 by the French architect Victor Courtray (1897-1971). Ink and watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed and dated on the low...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Paper
American Veterans Remembrance Day Poster Study (National Poppy Day, Am. Legion)
Located in Chicago, IL
A wonderful study for an American Veterans Remembrance Day Poster Study (National Poppy Day, American Legion) by Elaine Jeanne Glickman (Ginsburg), created at Ferry Hall in Lake Fore...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Board, Watercolor
Untitled (Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in 1938 rematch)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
(Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in 1938 rematch)
Pen and ink with wash on heavy wove sketchbook paper, 1938
Signed lower right: Fletcher Martin
Directly related to Martin's famous painting of 1942 entitled "Lullaby", which was also used in the lithograph of the same name. (see photo)
The drawing depicts the third and final knockdown of Max Schmeling in their rematch of 1938.
Condition: Mat staining at the edges of the sketchbook page edges
Toning to verso from previous framing.
Does not affect framed presentation
"It was here that Louis first used sport to bridge America's cavernous racial divide. With Hitler on the march in Europe and using Schmeling's victory over Louis as proof of “Aryan supremacy,” anti-Nazi sentiment ran high in the States. Louis had long grown accustomed to the pressures of representing his race but here the burdens were broader and deeper. Now he was shouldering the hopes of an entire nation.
A few weeks before the match Louis visited the White House and U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose tenure lasted even longer than Louis' would, told him, “Joe, we need muscles like yours to beat Germany.”
Those muscles certainly beat Schmeling on fight night...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Man Sitting - Drawing by Suzie Bernardeau - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Man Sitting is an artwork made by Suzie Bernardeau in the mid-20th century.
Good condition.
Drawing made with crayons.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Girl Sitting - Drawing by Suzie Bernardeau - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Girl Sitting is an artwork made by Suzie Bernardeau (1875-1970) during the 20th century.
Good condition.
Signed on the back.
Drawing made with crayons.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Figure Study (Conversation)
Located in Chicago, IL
A ink on paper figure study by artist Harold Haydon depicting a conversation.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicago with ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Woman Sitting - Drawing by Suzie Bernardeau - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman Sitting is an artwork made by Suzie Bernardeau in the mid-20th century.
Good condition.
Drawing made with crayons on blue paper.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Famous Raincoat
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. In the 1950s, he was an in-demand and celebrated illustrator working for New York's toniest publicatio...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Personnages - Pencil and Pen Drawing by Paul Garin - Mid 20th Century
By Paul Garin
Located in Roma, IT
Personnages is a drawing pen realized by the French artist Paul Garin (Nice, 1898-1963).
Black-ink stamp on the lower right corner: "Catherine Charbonneux Commissaire Priseur - Atel...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Pencil
Rainman - Drawing by Angelo Griscelli - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Rainman is an artwork realized by Angelo Griscelli (1893-1978) during the 20th century.
Signed on the center left.
The drawing is glued on a white cardboard.
Good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Mediterranean Flora - Original Pencil Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Mediterranean Flora is an original watercolored pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by Anonymous French Artist of the mid-20th Century..
In very good conditions.
Not si...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Landscape - Drawing by Michel Cornille - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an Artwork realized by the Artist Michel Cornille.
Drawing on paper, Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner.
The artwork is glued on cardboard. Total d...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Surrealist composition, ca. 1935, pencil on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Mathieu (Matei) ROSIANU (1897-1969)
Surrealist composition, ca. 1935
Pencil on paper
Studio stamp on verso
5 x 5,5 inch.
Frame : 12 x 12 inch (30 x 30 cm)
Born in Bucharest in 1897...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Surrealist composition, ca. 1935, pencil on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Mathieu (Matei) ROSIANU (1897-1969)
Surrealist composition, ca. 1935
Pencil on paper
Studio stamp on verso
6,7 x 5,5 inch.
Frame : 12 x 12 inch.
Born in Bucharest in 1897 to an offi...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Paradise Lost Collection
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This collection of drawings is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
1. Paradise Lost (But His Doom)
Crayon on paper, 17 ½ x 12 ½ inches (image), 22 x 15 inc...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Man Trimming Tree
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This drawing is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Crayon on paper, 11 5/8 x 9 inches (image), 14 x 11 inches (sheet), Signed lower right, Matted, but no...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper
Figure Study (Conversation)
Located in Chicago, IL
An ink on paper figure study by artist Harold Haydon that depicts a conversation.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chicago w...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Portrait of a Woman - Drawing by Enzo Benedetto- 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a Woman is an Artwork realized by the Italian Artist Enzo Benedetto.
Pencil, ink and Tempera on paper. Hand signed on the right margin. The work is glued on cardboard.
...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Tempera, Ink
Bull engaging the muleta (Bull Fight)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bull engaging the muleta (Bull Fight)
Signed with the Estate stamp lower left (See photo)
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Marbella Gallery Inc., NYC
Refer...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Drying Off
Located in London, GB
Charcoal, sanguine and white chalk on paper, initialled ‘F.B.’ (lower right), 48cm x 38cm (69cm x 57cm framed).
British painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and designer, the son of a...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Nude of Woman - Drawing by Emile André Leroy - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an artwok realized by the French Artist Emile André Leroy.
Pastel Drawing on paper. Hand Signed in the left margin.
Good conditions except fo a small tear in the r...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
State Capitol at Night, Sacramento, California
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "State Capitol at night, Sacramento, California" c.1960 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist William Jack Laycox, 1921-1984. It is signed at he low...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
WPA Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Men Working Industrial
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Men Working Industrial
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Bailing Hay
42 x 40 inches
Oil on paper c. 1930s
Signed lower right
Unframed
Our gallery is pleased to present the exhibition, "Jo Cain: Echoes of an Era," a tribute to the enduring legacy of Joseph Lambert Cain and a celebration of his art that transcends time and remains relevant today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s, all are available on 1stDibs.
BIO
JOSEPH LAMBERT CAIN (1904–2003)
A painter, muralist, and art educator, Joseph Cain...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Nude - Pencil Drawing by Paul Garin - 1950s
By Paul Garin
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an drawing realized by the French artist Paul Garin (Nice, 1898-1963) in the 1950s .
Pencil on paper, Hand Signed on back. Black-ink stamp on the lower right corner: " Cathe...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Personnages - Pencil Drawing by Paul Garin - 1950s
By Paul Garin
Located in Roma, IT
Personnages is a drawing realized by the French artist Paul Garin (Nice, 1898-1963) in the 1950s .
Pencil on paper, Hand Signed on the left corner. Black-ink stamp on the lower righ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Tree - Drawing by Marcel Guillard -Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Tree is a drawing in pencil realized by Marcel Guillard (1896-?) in the early 20th Century.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Untitled - Mixed Media by Ben Shahn - 1950s
By Ben Shahn
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an drawing realized by Ben Shahn (Kovno 1898-New York 1969)
Pen drawing on paper applied on canvas.
Hand-signed lower right: Ben Shahn.
Some light folds and discoloring...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Paper
She Gets Her Way (Couple with Vase)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This drawing is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Crayon on paper, 11 ½ x 9 inches (image), 14 x 11 inches (sheet), Signed...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper
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...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Street Life New York - Haunting Faces Windows Expressionism Mid-Century
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century artist Lawrence Kupferman paints a madly eerie New York street scene. An exaggerated upward view of two 19th-century walk-ups is split by a forced perspective of a downwa...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor, Pen
Sketch - Drawing by Serge Fotisnky - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch is an artwork realized by Serge Fotisnky (1887-1971) , in the Mid-20th Century.
Drawing in Charcoal.
Stam-signed
Good conditions except some yellowing due by time.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
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...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
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
Baby Hooded - Drawing by Suzie Bernardeau - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Baby Hooded is a drawing in pencil realized by Suzie Bernardeau in 1938.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
House- Drawing by Suzanne Tourte - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
House is a drawing realized by Suzanne Tourte in the Mid 20th Century.
Ink and Water Color on paper.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled - Drawing by Miquel Renom - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an artwok realized by the Spanish Artist Miquel Renom (1912-1984) .
Drawing on paper. Hand Signed on the right corner.
The artist wants to define a well-balanced compo...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Post Soviet Avant Garde Russian Woodcut Print With Hand Watercolor Painting
By Ilya Shenker
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts a feast style celebration 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...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Mid Century Modern British 'Listeners' by British German illustrator Kapp, 1959
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Edmond Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978)
Listeners
Inkpen
Signed, inscribed and date ‘Listeners / Kapp 59’ (lower left)
7.5/8 x 10.1/2 in. (19.4 x 26.7 cm.)
Edmond Kapp was born in Islington, London, on 5 November 1890, of American and German Jewish parentage. He gave himself the middle initial ‘X’ – sometimes said to stand for Xavier – to distinguish himself from his father Emil Kapp, who was a wine merchant. However, his parents called him ‘Eddie’ while his wife and friends knew him as ‘Peter’.
During his early years, Kapp was continually ill and, while convalescing, entertained himself by drawing at home. As his health improved, he attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Islington (1903-10), with periods at Berlin University (1909) and L’Institut Français pour les Etrangers, Paris (1909). He then read Languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1910-13), though spent most of his time writing and drawing.
Kapp took a studio in London, and worked intensively until the outbreak of the First World War, contributing to the Daily News, the Onlooker and other periodicals. During the war, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front, and then in Intelligence, rising to the position of Staff Captain on Haig’s Staff. Finally, he founded and directed the Neutral Press Counter-propaganda Section.
In 1919, Kapp returned to London and, after abortive periods at three art schools, worked alone. In that year, he made his name with an exhibition of caricatures, held at Furst’s Gallery, London, and accompanied by a catalogue introduced by Max Beerbohm. This soon led to contracts with three London periodicals and a book of caricatures, Personalities, published by Martin Secker. Through the 1920s and 30s, his drawings of musicians and other personalities appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, most notably Time & Tide; were collected in further volumes; and were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. He considered himself to be a ‘character-portraitist’, producing images of psychological not satirical power, and disliking the term ‘caricature’.
Between the wars, Kapp developed other aspects of his artistic talents, the desire to study and the search for subject matter often taking him abroad. For instance, work at the British Academy, Rome, under Antonio Sciortino...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
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...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Untitled (Young Man Reading Beside his Dog)
Located in Chicago, IL
A watercolor of a man reading beside his dog by artist Harold Haydon. Provenance: Estate of the Artist. Estate stamped on reverse.
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William,...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Mercedes Matter, New York School Abstract Figures
Located in New York, NY
Mercedes Carles Matter (1913 - 2001)
Untitled, circa 1937
Pastel on paper
16 x 13 1/2 inches
Estate stamped on the reverse
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Spanierman Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Pennsylvania circa 2013
Private Collection, New York, 2021
Mercedes Matter was born in New York in 1913. Her father, the American modernist Arthur B. Carles, had studied with Matisse. Her mother, Mercedes de Cordoba, was a model for Edward Steichen. Ms. Matter grew up in Philadelphia, New York and Europe.
She began painting under her father's supervision at age 6, and studied art at Bennett College in Millbrook, N.Y., and then in New York City with Maurice Sterne, Alexander Archipenko and Hans Hofmann.
In the late 1930's, she was an original member of the American Abstract Artists organization and worked for the federal Works Progress Administration, assisting Fernand Léger on his mural for the French Line passenger ship company. Léger introduced her to Herbert Matter, the Swiss graphic designer and photographer, whom she married in 1939.
The Matters were active in the emerging New York art scene and also traveled frequently to Europe. Their closest friends included Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Alexander Calder and Willem de Kooning. They were also close to Alberto Giacometti, who was an important artistic role model for Mrs. Matter and a frequent photographic subject for her husband.
Beginning in 1953, Mrs. Matter taught at the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts), Pratt Institute and New York University. Based on her teaching experiences she wrote an article for Art News in 1963 titled ''What's Wrong with U.S. Art Schools?'' In it, she lamented the phasing out of the extended studio classes required to initiate ''that painfully slow education of the senses,'' which she considered an artist's life work.
The article prompted a group of Pratt students to ask her to form a school based on her ideas, which led, in 1964, to the founding of the New York Studio School. Originally in a loft on Broadway, the school gained almost immediate support from the Kaplan Fund, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford Foundation. It granted no degrees, had only studio classes and emphasized drawing from life. Its teachers, chosen by the students, included the artists Guston, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Charles Cajori, Louis Finkelstein...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil Pastel
Figures - Drawing by Suzanne Tourte - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is a drawing realized by Suzanne Tourte in the Mid 20th Century.
Pencil on paper.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Villeneuve Cloister in Avignon - Drawing by Leon Boulier - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
Villeneuve cloister in Avignon is a watercolor on paper, realized by Leon Boulier, 1941.
26 x 35 cm.
Titled lower left side.
Hand signed on the back.
Good conditions
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape with Man and Goats
Located in London, GB
'Landscape with Man and Goats', gouache on paper, by Raymond Guerrier (circa 1960s). After the artist moved from Paris to the South of France, he started painting landscapes illumina...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Figures - Pen on Paper by Maurice Rouzee - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an artwork realized by Maurice Rouzée in the Mid-20th Century.
Pen Drawing.
The artwork is in good conditions .
The artwork is depicted skillfully through confident...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
The Expectation - Drawing by Angelina Beloff - Early-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
he Expectation is an Artwork realized by the Russian Artist Angelina Beloff.
Drawing on paper.
The artist wants to define a well-balanced composi...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Painter - Drawing by Alberto Ziveri - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Painter is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1938.
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Mid Century Modern British 'Hot Soup' by British German illustrator Kapp, 1938
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Eduard Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978)
Hot soup
Pen on paper
Inscribed and dated ‘Hot Soup / 15-12-38’ (upper right) and signed ‘kapp’ (lower right)
7.1/2 x 12.3/8 in. (19 x 31.5 cm.)
Edmond Kapp was born in Islington, London, on 5 November 1890, of American and German Jewish parentage. He gave himself the middle initial ‘X’ – sometimes said to stand for Xavier – to distinguish himself from his father Emil Kapp, who was a wine merchant. However, his parents called him ‘Eddie’ while his wife and friends knew him as ‘Peter’.
During his early years, Kapp was continually ill and, while convalescing, entertained himself by drawing at home. As his health improved, he attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Islington (1903-10), with periods at Berlin University (1909) and L’Institut Français pour les Etrangers, Paris (1909). He then read Languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1910-13), though spent most of his time writing and drawing.
Kapp took a studio in London, and worked intensively until the outbreak of the First World War, contributing to the Daily News, the Onlooker and other periodicals. During the war, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front, and then in Intelligence, rising to the position of Staff Captain on Haig’s Staff. Finally, he founded and directed the Neutral Press Counter-propaganda Section.
In 1919, Kapp returned to London and, after abortive periods at three art schools, worked alone. In that year, he made his name with an exhibition of caricatures, held at Furst’s Gallery, London, and accompanied by a catalogue introduced by Max Beerbohm. This soon led to contracts with three London periodicals and a book of caricatures, Personalities, published by Martin Secker. Through the 1920s and 30s, his drawings of musicians and other personalities appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, most notably Time & Tide; were collected in further volumes; and were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. He considered himself to be a ‘character-portraitist’, producing images of psychological not satirical power, and disliking the term ‘caricature’.
Between the wars, Kapp developed other aspects of his artistic talents, the desire to study and the search for subject matter often taking him abroad. For instance, work at the British Academy, Rome, under Antonio Sciortino...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
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Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Gouache
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Located in Roma, IT
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Mixed media on paper.
Good condition, included an ivory cardbo...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
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Located in Roma, IT
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Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed.
In good conditions.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Ink Drawing
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Wilton, CT
Original Ink Drawing by Jean Cocteau. Signed with certificate of authenticity.
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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Located in Paris, FR
Paul Emile Lecomte (1877-1950)
La Grille (The Gate)
Signed lower left
Watercolor on paper
27 x 37 cm
In quite condition: yellowed by time, some stains
Framed: 43 x 53 cm
Paul Emile ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Draped Woman - Mixed Media by Ernest Fouard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
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Mixed media on paper. Hand Signed on back.
The work is glued on ivory cardboard.
Total ...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled (Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study), 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original drawing on archival paper, circa 1963. Paper Size: 18 x 23 inches. Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York. Notes: Created during Hornak’s undergraduate st...
Category
Renaissance Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper