Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Cityscape is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized in 1943 by an Anonymous artist of the Mid-20 Century. Hand-signed illegible-dated 43. T...

Sculptor and Model is an original China Ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th Century. Good condition on a brown paper. Hand-signed by the artist with pencil. Mino Macc...

Artist: (Romain De Tirtoff) Erte (Russian, 1892-1990) Title: La Fonctionaire, Elle. Year: February 26 1962 Medium: Original gouache Paper: Canson Mongolfier Size paper: 14.75 x ...

Portraits is an original Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Hand-signed by the artist with pencil, some sketches on th...

Berliner Tageblatt is an original China ink artwork by Gabriele Galantara In good conditions, and some pencil notes on the back of the cardboard. Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) w...

Study for a Cover for Ardengo Soffici is an original Watercolour realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century. Good condition for vivid colours. No signature, some spots on the bac...

Sleeping Woman is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1953 by the Italian artist Leo Guida. Original Drawing in pencil on paper. Good conditions except for diffused soft f...

Landscape is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the half of the 20th Century by Emilio Sobrero. Original China Ink on paper. Hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the l...

Portrait is an original artwork realized by an italian artist of the mid-20th Century. Good conditions. Hand-signed. The sheet of cardboard on which the artist has drawn derives f...

Girl is an original Pencil Drawing and Watercolor realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th Century. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Hand-signed by the artist with pencil. Mino Mac...

Landscape is an original drawing in marking pen on cardboard realized in 1954 by Gaston Laurieu( 1908-1983). Hand-signed and dated on the middle left with the dedication of the arti...

Nudes is an original drawing in Pencil realized by an unknown artist in the mid-20th Century. The status of preservation is Good except for some foxings. The artwork is depicted sk...

Country Houses is an original Modern Artwork realized in the half of the 20th Century in France by Pierre Segogne (? - 1958). Original watercolor on paper. Hand-signed on the lowe...

Sleeping Girll is an original China Ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th Century. Good condition on a cream colored paper. Hand-signed by the artist with pencil. Mino ...

Image dimensions: 15.3 x 19.8 cm. The Huts is an original work realized by Gaston Pastre in the first half of the XX Century. Black ink and pencil. Hand-signed in ink on the lower right corner: G. Pastre. Very good conditions. Fresh and smart work representing a perspective of a small village with trees on the background. The glimpse is characterized by very simple and linear strokes and by an effective and impressionistic touch. This work has been realized by Gaston Pastre (1881 - 1947) a French painter, xilographer and illustrator. Among his other works, he illustrated "Le Livre de demain" (edition Fayard), "Les diaboliques...

Romans Suta Born on April 28, 1896 in the vicinity of Cesis (Latvia), died on July 14, 1944 in Tbilisi (Georgia), rehabilitated posthumously. Painter, graphic artist, decorative and stage designer, art critic and theoretician. Studied at the J. Madernieks' Art Studio (1913), Riga City Art School (1913-1915), and Penza Art School (1915 -1917). A prominent figure and active protagonist of modernist trends in Latvian art. Travels to Berlin and Paris, where he made the acquaintance of A. Ozanfant, Le Corbusier, and others. The influences of Cubism and Constructivism. A member of the Riga Artists' Group (1920-1924) and the Riga Graphic Artists' Society. Painter of still lifes and figural compositions. After the first experiments in Modernism, he turned to a more realistic manner of representation. The initiator and developer of a national constructive style, especially in interior design; the founder of Baltars creative workshop for porcelain painting (1924-1928); a designer and painter at Kuznetsov...

Landscape is an original Charcoal and watercolor realized by Mino Maccari in 1940s. Good condition, hand-signed by the artis. Some sketches of the artist on the back of the paper. ...

Woman thinking is a beautiful original watercolor drawing on cream-colored paper made by the Italian artist Ildebrando Urbani (1901 - 1985). Realized by a skilled hand, this rapid s...

Countryside is an original artwork, realized by Pierre Segogne in the 1950s. Hand-signed on lower right margin. Mixed colored watercolor on paper. This beautiful artwork represe...

Soldier is an original drawing in pen and watercolor on brownish paper, realized by Jacques Hirtz With the stamp of "Atelier Jacques Hirtz" on the lower right. Good condition. Ap...

Nude is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Jeanne Daour in 1939. Hand-signed on the lower left and dated. The state of preservation is good except for some foxings ...

Beautiful mid-century small-scale watercolor landscape of fishermen with their boats on the shore by unknown artist. Signed lower left corner illegibly. Circa 1940's. Unframed. Image...

Nude is an original drawing in China ink artwork realized in 1941 by Toti Scialoja (Roma, 1914 – 1998) With a pencil description on the rear. Hand-signed and dated on the lower ri...

Interior of a Chapel is an original contemporary artwork realized by the French artist Pierre Segogne in the second half of the XX Century. Original colored pastel on paper. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner: P.Segogne. Mint conditions. Beautiful work on paper depicting the interior of a gothic chapel...

Internal Nude is an original china ink drawing on ivory paper, realized by Tibor Gertler, in 1950s. In good condition. This artwork represents a figure of a nude woman. Not signed.

Lion is a beautiful charcoal original drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by the German artist Wilhelm Lorenz, best know as Willi Lorenz (German, 1901–1981), in 1971. Signed and...

Household is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by an Claude Bils in 1950s The State of preservation is good except for some small foldings. Signed on the lower right....

Lions is an original drawing in pencil by Willy Lorenz. Hand-signed on the lower right. The State of preservation is very good except for some folding ...

Working Woman is an original drawing in sanguina on paper realized by Jeanne Daour. The state of preservation is good except for some foxings. Sheet dimension: 22 x 22 cm The artw...

The Plough is an original pen drawing realized by an unknown artist of the Mid-20th Century. The artwork is in very good conditions and mounted on a white cardboard (49x34). There ...

Artist Out for a Walk is an original pencil and china ink drawing on ivory-colorated paper, realized by unknown French Artist of the 20th Century. In very good conditions. This Art...

Stamped verso for estate of Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955. A Post-Impressionist figural watercolor showing a young woman partially-clothed in evening w...

Morandi or Molotoff is an original modern artwork realized in the 1960s by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Original pen drawing on Ivory paper. Hand-si...

Female figure is a black China ink drawing by Herta Hausmann. The original sheet is mounted on a cardboard passepartout (31,5x24 cm). In Good condition, worn paper on the marginal...

Bozzetto per Il Selvaggio (Sketch for Il Selvaggio) is an original drawing on paper, realized around by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989) in ...

Man is an original pencil drawing on ivory paper realized by Flor David in the 1950s. This is an original drawing representing the profile of a Man. The artwork is depicted through ...

This artwork titled "Olga Nikistens dans Athena" 1949 is a watercolor, pastel and black stone on paper by noted French artist Jean Target, 1910-1997 I...

The Port is an original drawing in china ink and watercolor realized by Herta Hausmann (1892-1972). Hand-signed on the lower right. Good conditions. This interesting drawing repre...

Hand signed, located, and dated on the lower right.

Austrian Village is an original artwork realized by Anonymous artist in the Mid-20th Century. Original mixed colored ink and watercolor on paper. The artwork represents a pretty a...

Entry is an original drawing in mixed media (ink and watercolor) on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). Hand-signed and dated on the lower left. The state of preservation ...

Portrait is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). Hand-signed in pencil on the lower left. The state of preservation is good. The artwork r...

Nude is an original drawing in China ink realized in 1940 ca, by Herta Hausmann. With the stamp of the artist's atelier on the rear. Very good conditi...

Horse is an original drawing in pencil realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century, in 1950 ca, with a quick sketch of a horse on the rear. In very good condition. Sheet dime...

The Rest is an original pen drawing on paper, realized by the French artist Paul Garin (Nice, 1898-1963) in the 1950s. Black ink stamp on the lower-right corner: "Catherine Charbon...

This striking mixed media work, entitled "Maya the Wonderful" was realized in the United States during the mid 20th Century. It offers an austere composition, whose effect is far gre...

Portrait is an original drawing in pen on paper, realized by the Italian painter Beppe Guzzi. Good conditions and aged except for some ripping and foxing along the margins which does not affect the image. This beautiful drawing represents a portrait from back...

Square is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century. The State of preservation is very good with the traces of time and some small mi...

Surreal Scene is an original contemporary artwork realized in the 1970s by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original drawings in pencil on paper. Good con...

Trainer is an original modern drawing in pastel on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the mid-20th Century.. Very good conditions, except for some folding. The artwork repres...

Portrait is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1963 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colored pa...

Painter is a beautiful original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by an anonymous artist of XX century. An artist is portrayed from his shoulder and while he is painti...

Nude is an original drawing in mixed media on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1988-1916). The state of preservation of the artwork is good and aged with small missing of paper on...

SUSIE Q. SMITH Medium: Newspaper comics Distributed by: King Features Syndicate First Appeared: 1945 Creators: Linda and Jerry Walter 5.5 X 19.5 Dated August 13, 1954 in top right corner. Like her contemporaries, Aggie Mack, Candy and Patsy Walker (before her conversion to a superhero), Susie Q. Smith was a female Archie-type — not exactly an imitator, because Archie, who had started only four years earlier, hadn't yet become popular enough to spawn imitators, but part of his genre. She attended high school, where her teachers often seemed unreasonable to her, interacted with the opposite gender in a typically adolescent way, and her parents didn't completely understand her. And she was cute and perky as only a teenage girl can be. Susie was the star of a comic strip distributed by King Features, the biggest of the comic strip syndicates, whose other offerings have ranged from Jackys Diary to Prince Valiant. King launched the strip in both daily and Sunday form in 1945. Daily, she was only in a panel at first, but it expanded into a full, multi-panel strip on February 7, 1953. In a very odd turn of events, in 1953 the Walters chose to leave King Features behind and hitch their wagon at the McNaught Syndicate. The creators were Harold "Jerry" Walter and his wife, Linda. Jerry was also responsible for Jellybean Jones, who has nothing to do with Jughead Jones's young sister, a modern-day addition to the Archie cast of characters. Together, they did The Lively Ones during the 1960s. Though each was capable of doing both major jobs in comic strip production, their usual working method was for Jerry to dream up the ideas and write the dialog, while Linda did the artwork. The Walters also collaborated on a series of Susie Q. Smith comic books for Dell Comics. Instead of reprinting newspaper strips, these ran new stories by the Walters. Between 1951 and '54, four issues were published as part of the Four Color Comics series, where many minor comic strips, including Dotty Dripple, Timmy and Rusty Riley had found a home. It had no other media spin-offs. Susie Q. Smith had a respectable run in the newspapers, but it ended in 1959. Jerry Walter (1915 - 2007) was an abstract expressionist artist whose output of energetic and colorful paintings were the products of the rich artistic milieu of post-war New York City. He was born Harold Frank Walter in Mount Pleasant, Iowa on November 25, 1915. After graduating from Colgate University in 1937, Walter moved to New York City, where he studied drawing and painting at the New School and the Art Students’ League. Before concentrating seriously on his art, he spent several years as a successful copywriter and idea man for the advertising agencies of J. Walter Thompson, McCann Ericson, and BBDO. During this time, he also worked as a syndicated cartoonist. Collaborating with his wife, Linda, his best-known series was Susie Q. Smith, which first appeared in 1945 and described as a “female Archie type.” Very popular, the cartoon was later the subject of a series of comic books published from 1951 to 1954. After serving in the United States Army for three years during World War II, Walter began to paint seriously. He ascribed his earliest artistic influence to Joan Miró, whose Dog Barking at the Moon (1926) he viewed when he was twelve, the year he published his first cartoon. Walter later wrote that jazz, “the first native expression of so-called modernism” was a strong influence on his work. During the later 1940s, Walters spent time at the Research Studio in Maitland, Florida. Founded in 1937 by artist and architect J. André Smith and supported by the philanthropist Mary Curtis Bok, the Research Studio was a lively colony that hosted prominent artists, including Milton Avery, Ralston Crawford, and Doris Lee. While at the Studio, Walter’s work was purchased by Frank Crowninshield. A founding trustee of the Museum of Modern Art and editor of Vanity Fair, Crowinshield was a noted collector; his collection included important works by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, George Bellows, and Pierre Bonnard. Returning to New York after his time at the Studio, Walter became an active member of the New York school of the abstract expressionist movement, and in the summer of 1956, Walter exhibited 13 paintings and a selection of drawings at New York’s Chase Gallery. The adroit manipulation of both color and composition evident in his work shows the influence of Abstract Expressionism, particularly Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and Hans Hofmann. illustrator and female cartoonist Linda Walter was the talented female mind behind the beloved "Susie Q. Smith" comic strip. She played an instrumental role in shaping the cultural landscape through her vibrant illustrations. Known for the timeless charm of the "Susie Q. Smith" comic strip, Linda's artistry brought joy and laughter to countless readers during the 1950s and continues to resonate with fans across generations. She was part of the Woodstock artists community. from Women in Comics: Linda Walter was the artist of newspaper strip Susie Q. Smith, which was written by her husband, Jerry. It was syndicated by King Features Syndicate and ran from 1945 to 1959. The Walters also contributed original Susie Q. Smith stories to Dell's Four Color comic books from 1951 to 1954. From 1964-1965, they created a singled panel comic called The Lively Ones. Vintage Golden Age of Comics era. The Golden Age of Comic Books describes an era in the history of American comic books from 1938 to 1956. During this time, modern comic books were first published and rapidly increased in popularity. The superhero archetype was created. Between 1939 and 1941 Detective Comics (DC) and its sister company, All-American Publications, introduced popular superheroes such as Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Doctor Fate, the Atom, Hawkman, Green Arrow and Aquaman. Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics, had million-selling titles featuring the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Another notable series was The Spirit by Will Eisner. Dell Comics' non-superhero characters (particularly the licensed Walt Disney animated-character comics) outsold the superhero comics of the day. The publisher featured licensed movie and literary characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Roy Rogers and Tarzan. Additionally, MLJ's introduction of Archie Andrews in Pep Comics #22 (December 1941) gave rise to teen humor comics, with the Archie Comics...

Sailors is an original artwork realized by an artist in 1950s. This pencil drawing represents three sailors sitting on some steps. The conditions are g...

Portrait of Woman is an original etching realized by Francis Mockel (1940) Limited edition of some copies numbered and signed. Good condition, on a white little cardboard. Francis...

Sketched portrait is an original drawing on paper, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 ...

Tartuffe is an original drawing on ivory glossy paper realized by Flor David in 1949. This is an original ink drawing representing a man in profile and in a meditative pose, portray...

Embracing is an original pen drawing on ivory paper, realized by the French artist Paul Garin (Nice, 1898-1963) in the 1950s. Black ink stamp on the higher-right corner: "Catherine...

Landscape is an original drawing in watercolor realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). with the stamp" Atelier Simon Goldberg" on the lower left. The state of preservation is good. ...