Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
IMPRESSIONIST STYLE
Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.
The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.
Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.
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Style: Impressionist
1900's French Impressionist Watercolor Portrait Lady Overlooking Balcony Garden
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Garden View
French School, early 20th century
signed with initials lower corner
watercolour painting on artist paper, framed
Glass covering
framed: 13 x 10.5 inches
board: 10 x 8...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
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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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
Valley View with Pines and Distant Peaks, Sierra Nevada (Possibly Yosemite)
Located in Stockholm, SE
This luminous gouache captures a majestic mountain vista, likely set in California’s Sierra Nevada (possibly Yosemite). Two broad granite peaks with sunlit faces dominate the backgro...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Crinolones sur la Plage - Impressionist Figurative Watercolor by Eugene Boudin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated watercolour and pencil on paper by impressionist painter Eugene Boudin. The work depicts elegantly dressed people enjoying a day on the beach. Some women are resting...
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1860s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Colorful Lake Reflections, Large-Scale Pastel Landscape with Ducks
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant large-scale pastel landscape of colorful reflections rippling on a calm lake with three small ducks and a boat by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Signed with the ...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pastel
$675 Sale Price
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House at the Beach, Baja California Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Colors of tropical waters create a light and breezy mood in this figurative landscape watercolor by David Stephens (American, 20th century). Signed lower left, "D. Stephens." Present...
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1990s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Archival Paper
$584 Sale Price
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Untitled (Young woman seen from the back)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Young woman seen from the back)
Sanguine crayon, charcola and watercolor on paper, c. 1910
Signed with the estate stamp, Lugt 5169 lower left corner
Provenance:
Estate of ...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Mid Century French Original Charcoal Portrait of a Seated Woman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Original Charcoal Portrait of a Seated Woman
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Charcoal on artist paper
Size: 24.25 (height) x 19 (width)
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Charcoal
$241 Sale Price
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Portrait of a resting young lady (Marjorie Organ)
By Robert Henri
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait of a resting young lady (Marjorie Organ)
Black chalk on paper. c. 1907
signed in ink by Henri's nephew, John C. LeClair, the executor of the Henri estate
"Robert Henri JLC"
Note: The sitter for this portrait is depicted in two drawings of similar size, illustrated in Chapellier Galleries Inc., Robert Henri 1865-1929, 1976, nos. 15 & 16.
Please see the attached photo of Marjorie Organ, Henri's second wife
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 10 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
John C. LeClair, Estate Adminitrator
Private Collection, Pawling, New York
Biography
Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 24, 1865, the son of a professional gambler and real estate developer. The family lived in Nebraska and Colorado, but fled east when the father shot and killed a rancher over a land dispute and was indicted for manslaughter. They changed their last name because of the ensuing scandal and eventually settled in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the early 1880s.
In 1886 Henri enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied under Thomas Anshutz, Thomas Hovenden...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
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
ink on paper, unframed
Double sided
10.5 x 8.25 inches
provenance: private collection of the arti...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Charcoal and Graphite Study of Hands Gently Clasped Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Hand Sketch
pencil drawing on artist paper
painting: 9.5 x 12 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: very good and sound condition
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$95 Sale Price
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The Round Pond, Kensington Gardens, London /// Female Artist British Watercolor
By Beatrice Stella Pedder
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Beatrice Stella Pedder (English, 1875-1965)
Title: "The Round Pond, Kensington Gardens, London"
*Signed by Pedder lower right
Circa: 1920
Medium: Or...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cowboy in the Canyon, Small Contemporary Multicolor Abstract Figural Landscape
By Tiffanie Mang
Located in Soquel, CA
Small-scale yet bold multi-colored abstracted figurative landscape of a horse rider in a canyon (a study after Edgar Payne’s works) by Tiffanie Mang (Ameri...
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2010s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
Siebe Johannes Ten Cate (1858-1908) A Dune Landscape, pastel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Siebe Johannes ten Cate (1858-1908)
A Dune Landscape
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
25.5 x 39.5 cm
in good condition, very fresh, traces of pinholes in the upper corners barely...
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1890s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
At the dock
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "At the Dock" c.1980 is a watercolor on 500 Aquarelle paper by noted American artist Allen Daniel (Dan) Burt, 1930-2004. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 21.5 x 29.5 inches, framed size is 29.5 x 37.5 inches. Custom framed in a white metal frame, with off-white matting. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame has some minor scratches, the acrylic glass have some scratches and will be replaced by a new...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Tirez les Premiers, Messieurs les Français - Impressionist Woodcut by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Raoul Dufy, French (1877 - 1953) - Tirez les Premiers, Messieurs les Francais, Year: 1915, Medium: Woodcut and Pencil Drawing, signed, dated and numbered in pencil, Edition: 25/10...
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1910s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Woodcut
Ladies of Spain
Located in Greenwich, CT
Martha Walter is one of the most formidable and talented American female artists of her time. Her extensive schooling and unprecedented travel around the world, particularly for a wo...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Fishermen at the Shore in Concarneau - France Landscape by M. Saint-Guily
Located in Soquel, CA
Fishermen at the Shore in Concarneau - Seascape after Edouard Doigneau
Fishermen at the Shore in Concarneau - France Landscape by M. Saint-Guily. Lively watercolor of boats at the s...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Figures Being Waited in a English Warm Lit Cafe Watercolour Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Warm Lit Cafe
Signed By Tony Herbert (1927-2024)
Medium: Watercolor on artists paper on board, framed - glass covered
Framed: 15 x 17 inches
Watercolour: 8.5 x 11.5 inches
Condition...
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Le Lever - Impressionist Figures in Interior Pastel by Jean Louis Forain
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist figurative pastel on board circa 1895 by sought after French impressionist painter Jean Louis Forain. The piece depicts a man asleep in a bed while a woman stands at the foot of the bed getting dressed. The room is dimly lit by the bedside lamp.
Signature:
Signed upper right
Dimensions:
Framed: 22"x26"
Unframed: 15"x19"
Provenance:
Galerie Jean-Claude Bellier
Jean Forain was the son of a painter and decorator and was apprenticed to a visiting card engraver. He studied briefly under Gérôme and Carpeaux at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and regularly visited the Louvre, where he copied works by the masters. It is said that for a time he made a precarious living by selling small drawings in the style of Grévin. He went on to collaborate on various publications as a draughtsman and columnist, starting in 1876 on La Cravache and then collaborating on the newspapers Le Journal Amusant, Le Figaro and L'Écho de Paris. This introduced him to the diverse worlds of Paris society - the world of the theatre, of shows, and of literature - where he wryly noted the habits and shortcomings particular to each. This led him to follow a route very characteristic of this period, already seen in the work of Steinlen, Caran d'Ache and Toulouse-Lautrec in the journals La Pléiade, La Vogue and La Revue Blanche.
His work draws a picture of the society of the period, not in a strictly imitative fashion but in the form of the 'dessin-charge' or mild caricature. In 1880 he illustrated Parisian Sketches...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel, Board
1930's Milford, CT Landscape -- First Church of Christ Congregational
Located in Soquel, CA
1930's watercolor figurative landscape depicting the First Church of Christ Congregational in Milford, Connecticut by J. Nolan of Providence, Rhode Island (American, 20th Century). S...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
$451 Sale Price
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"Untitled 4, " Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Untitled 4" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts a cow in a mountainous landscape.
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2010s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$225 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
8.25 x 10.5 inches
provenance: private collection ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) A Flowerbed, signed watercolor
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920)
A Flowerbed
signed lower left
Watercolor on paper,
15.5 x 23.5 cm
Framed : 25.5 x 33 cm
This is a particularly original work by Paul Lecomte. It shows his ...
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1880s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Sur la plage de Deauville - Impressionist Figurative Watercolor by Eugene Boudin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed watercolour on paper landscape circa 1865 by French impressionist painter Eugene Boudin. This work depicts an artist painting a portrait of an elegant couple on the beach at D...
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1860s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Arabs in Tetouan Morocco drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep Martinez Lozano - Arabs in Tetouan - Pencil drawing
Drawing measurements 19x25 cm.
Frame measurements 33x38 cm.
Frame in poor condition.
Josep Martínez Lozano was born in the ...
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
$345 Sale Price
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The girl from Saint Tropez: American artist in the South of France portrait
Located in Norwich, GB
Alexander Warshawsky was born in Cleveland, Ohio on March 29, 1887. He studied painting at the Cleveland School of Art and the National Academy of Design in New York City. Warshawsky...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Spenger's Fish Grotto, Berkeley CA
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Spenger's Fish Grotto, Berkeley CA" is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Arnold A. Grossman, 1923-2016. It is signed at...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Nude Laying Over the Edge of the Bed in Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude Laying Over the Edge of the Bed in Pastel on Paper
Elegant pastel composition of a nude woman by an unknown artist (20th Century). The model is laying on her back, with her hea...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"The Artists Wife" Realistic Nude Woman in Conté on Paper by Garth Benton
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Artists Wife" Realistic Nude Woman in Conté on Paper by Garth Benton
Detailed nude drawing by Paul "Garth" Garfield Benton (American, 1940-2012). Po...
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1980s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
"Yesterday's Ladies" Figurative Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming "Yesterday's Ladies" drawing by Aptos, California artist Virginia J Hughins,(Virginia Brubaker DeWolf), (American, 1923-2004). Presented in a rustic black wood frame. Signed...
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1990s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
$357 Sale Price
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Nude Figurative Drawing in Pen on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Clean and confident sketch of a nude model by an unknown San Francisco Bay Area artist (20th Century). A woman is lying down on her back, with her arms above her head and legs up on ...
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1980s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pen, Laid Paper
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
1920's Peaceful Marsh Wetlands Watercolor Landscape with Birds
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene 1920's watercolor landscape of calm water snaking through a lush marshy wetland, dotted with small birds, wildflowers and swaying grass, by an unknown artist (American, 20th C...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Pine trees in a river valley with the Blue Ridge Mountains - American School
Located in Middletown, NY
An unfinished but spirited plein-air composition of what appears to be the Shenandoah or Potomac River valley with the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance.
Watercolor on board with...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Crayon, Watercolor, Board
"Ballet Dancer, Rose Variation" - Large Modern Framed Pastel Portrait
Located in New Orleans, LA
An exquisite depiction of a ballet dancer in motion, rendered exquisitely in pastel by Russian/American artist Valery Kosorukov. The artist has manage...
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Pastel
$1,280 Sale Price
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Art Class on the Beach, Vintage Bay Area Coast Figural Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
A charming and colorful vintage coastal figurative landscape watercolor by Bay Area artist Sewall Smith (American, 1904-1988), c.1960s-1970s. This coastal scene depicts a plein air art class on the beach, with a group of figures busy working at their easels.
Signed "Sewall Smith" lower right.
Displayed in a new mat and vintage wood frame.
Image size: 10.5"H x 13.25"W
Edmund Sewall Smith, known as Sewall Smith or E. Sewall Smith, was a Berkeley, California based architect and artist known for watercolor paintings with nautical themes. A well known architect, Smith moved from Niagara Falls, New York to California in 1944. He flourished as an artist in the Bay Area in the 1970’s, exhibiting extensively in the East Bay throughout this time. Exhibitions included venues such as UC Berkeley, El Cerrito...
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1970s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Early 20th Cent. Figurative -- Fontainebleau Forest and Women Gathering
By C. Harry Allis
Located in Soquel, CA
A lush, historic watercolor figurative landscape by C. Harry Allis (American, 1870-1938). Signed and dated "C. Harry Allis 1919" lower right. Displ...
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1910s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
$1,720 Sale Price
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New Brighton Eucalyptus Landscape
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor of eucalyptus along New Brighton beach by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Mon...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Archival Paper
Preliminary Study for the painting Rose and Gold, 1913
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary Study for the painting Rose and Gold, 1913
Graphite on paper, 1913
Signed in pencil lower left (see photo)
Titlted "Lizzy Young" in pencil upper left (see photo)
Lizzy was a modle that Paxton depicts numerous times.
The painting that this drawing is related to, is illustrated in Lee & Krause, William McGregor Paxton, 1869-1941, Plate 32, text on page 132. The painting was formerly in the collection of Victor Spark and the Honorable Paul Buchanan. It is currently in a Texas Collection.
Provenance: Private Collection, Florida
William McGregor Paxton (June 22, 1869 – 1941) was an American painter and instructor who embraced the Boston School paradigm and was a co-founder of The Guild of Boston Artists. He taught briefly while a student at Cowles Art School, where he met his wife Elizabeth Okie Paxton, and at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston. Paxton is known for his portraits, including those of two presidents—Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge—and interior scenes with women, including his wife. His works are in many museums in the United States.
Early life
He was born on June 22, 1869, in Baltimore to James and Rose Doherty Paxton. William's father moved the Paxton family and established a catering business in Newton Corner, Massachusetts, in the mid-1870s.
Education
Paxton attended Cowles Art School on a scholarship he attained at the age of 18. He studied with Dennis Miller Bunker...
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1910s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Lubin de Beauvais (1873-1917) L'Anse de Launay 1911, signed color drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Lubin de Beauvais (1873-1917)
L'anse de Launay, a woman at the beach, 1911
signed, dated and titled "Anse de Launay, Loguivy Ploubazlanec, Bretagne,...
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1910s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Color Pencil
"Packed With Personality" (2024) by Mo Myra, Original Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Packed With Personality" (2024) by Mo Myra is a watercolor painting on paper that depicts a chicken standing in a grassy field.
Mo Myra, born in 1990, is a Connecticut-based artist...
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2010s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
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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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"Estudiante" - Portrait of a Mexican Girl
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Mexican girl in church by Joseph Yeager (early-mid 20th Century) on heavy bond watercolor paper with ragged edges. Signed "Joe Yeager" in th...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$700 Sale Price
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Beach Scene with Figures Enjoying the Shoreline Gentle Waves Sailing Boats
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
"Fields of Pink" (2024) by Mo Myra, Original Watercolor Painting of Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
"Fields of Pink" (2024) by Mo Myra is a watercolor painting on paper that depicts a landscape with large trees and pink flowers.
Mo Myra, born in 1990, is a Connecticut-based artis...
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2010s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) L'étang à Mortefontaine, signed watercolor
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920)
L'étang à Mortefontaine, an autumn landscape
signed lower left
Watercolor on paper,
29,3 x 22.5 cm
In its original vintage frame : 46 x 39,5 cm
titled on t...
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1880s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Rehearsal, "Long Day's Journey Into Night" — Mid-Century American Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Philipp, 'Rehearsal, "Long Day's Journey Into Night" ', color pastel, c. 1957. Unsigned. A fine, atmospheric rendering, on warm gray charcoal paper; a reinforced crease (1/2 inch) across the bottom left sheet corner; otherwise in very good condition. Image and sheet size 17 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Provenance: Art Students League, from the artist’s personal portfolio.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Philipp (1895–1981) was a celebrated American Post-Impressionist painter known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits. Noted art critic Henry McBride named Philipp one of America's top six painters of his generation. Philipp was an instructor of painting at the Art Students League, New York, for 33 years. Philipp was Secretary of the National Academy of Design, a National Academician, and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London. His composition and painting style has been compared to the art of Edgar Degas and Pierre Auguste Renoir.
In 1940, Philipp was invited to Los Angeles by Hollywood producer Louis B. Mayer to paint portraits of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie stars. The same year, Walter Wanger, producer of ‘The Long Voyage Home’, directed by John Ford and based on plays by Eugene O'Neill, contracted with Reeves Lewenthal, head of the Associated American Artists gallery in Manhattan, to bring nine well-known artists to the set and paint scenes from the movie and portraits of the actors in character. The artists included Robert Philipp, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Ernest Fiene, George Schreiber, Luis Quintanilla...
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1950s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Landscape in Red
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape in Red" c.1980 is a watercolor on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the lower ri...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Madeleine RENAUD, Watercolor, The Wreath Of Carnations
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Watercolor by Madeleine RENAUD (1900-1994), France. Wreath of Carnations. With frame: 60.2x89 cm - 23.7x35 inches
without frame: 73x43 cm - 28.7x16.9 inches. Signed "Madeleine Renaud...
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20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"San Anton Palace Malta" Early 20th Cent. Garden and Fountain Watercolor Russian
Located in Soquel, CA
A significant early 20th century landscape watercolor of the paradisical gardens at San Anton Palace in Attard, Malta by Nicholas Krasnoff, 1920 (Russian, 1864-1939). This beautiful piece is a wonderful example of the renowned Russian architect's prized watercolors, created while he was exiled to Malta in the early 1920's. Depicting a lush garden full of blooming, colorful flowers and a stately fountain at the San Anton Palace in Malta, one can see the deft hand and attention to detail rendered by the proficient artist and architect's hand.
Signed "N. Krasnoff" lower right. Titled and dated "Malta, St. Antonio 1920".
Unframed.
Measures 10.25"H x 14.25"W.
Right corner has a crease from being bent.
Nikolay Petrovich Krasnov, also known as Nicholas Krasnoff or Peter Nicholas Krasnoff, was a Russian Serbian architect and painter. He served as Chief Architect of Yalta, Crimea (1887-1899). From 1922 he lived and worked in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was a key figure in the architectural development of Belgrade. Attending the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1876, aged 12. As a young artist he received patronage from Sergey Tretyakov, brother of the founder of Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, and entrepreneur Petar Gubonyin.
In 1887 Krasnov became Chief Architect in Yalta. At the age of 23, Krasnov had large responsibility for the rapid growth of the city. He expanded the promenade, which by 1913 became the city's main street, before creating a new city plan in 1889 (including a new sewer system, planning regulations, new streets, prevention of unregulated construction, a school and children's hospital, and the construction of the Pushkin Boulevard). Two concrete bridges were built over the river, and the embankment strengthened. Krasnov also ran a private practice in Yalta until 1911. Among his most famous work is the Livadia Palace, later the location of the 1945 Yalta Conference. Designed over 60 buildings in Crimea, blending a modernist style with local traditions. Also of note: Dulber Palace, Koreiz (1895-97), Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Yalta (1902), Yusupov Palace, Koreiz (1909), Kokkoz Jami Mosque, Sokolyne (1910).
In 1913, he presented a collection of illustrations he had produced of his works to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he held the title of academician. An opponent of the Russian Revolution, he left Yalta with his family in 1919 for Malta, alongside the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, sister of Queen Alexandra, and over 600 members of the Russian aristocracy. Nikolay was in a group housed in the empty Villa St Ignatius, which had been a Jesuit college and then a hospital during World War I. To earn money, Nikolay painted many scenes of Malta, signing his paintings as N. Krasnoff. He is known as Nicholas Krasnoff in Malta. In May 2016 MaltaPost issued a commemorative set of stamps in his honor.
In 1922 Krasnov moved to Belgrade, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he became head of the Department of Monumental Architectural Developments and Monuments. His building designs in Serbia number around 60, and were created under the name Nikola Krasnov, as a mark of respect to his adopted homeland.
His key works in Belgrade include: Ministry of Forestry building (now Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (1923) which bears a memorial plaque...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor, Illustration Board
"Oriental Flowers" - Figurative Etching and Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
"Oriental Flowers" - Figurative Etching and Watercolor
Figurative etching and watercolor of four men sitting, wearing coats and berets by San Francisco artist Margaret (Maggi) McEll...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor, Etching
Ships at the Harbor - Nautical Seascape with Seagulls in Charcoal on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Ships at the Harbor - Nautical Seascape in Charcoal on Paper
Detailed and layered harbor scene by Maude Folmar Ramsey (American, 1908-1993). The viewer is looking out at the harbor, across the water from the docks, buildings, and ships. The pillars, buildings, and masts are jumbled together in a pleasing manner that is almost abstract. Despite the simplified shapes, this piece is full of detail. This piece is executed in a rectilinear style frequently seen in American mid-century modern compositions.
Signed in the lower right corner "Maude Folmar"
Presented in a wood frame with a double mat.
Frame size: 25.25"H x 29.25"W
Image size: 17"H x 21.5"W
Maude Love (Folmar) Ramsey (American, 1908-1993) studied at the School of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the director of the Laguna Gloria Art Museum from 1968-1972. Ramsey was one of the charter members of the “Waterloo...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Charcoal
"Untitled 1, " Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Untitled 1" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts an urban landscape with human silhouettes.
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2010s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Paper
$225 Sale Price
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Sonoma County Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sonoma County Landscape" 1901, is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Elizabeth Hoen, 1868-1955. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 5.75 x 8.65 inches, framed size is 13 x 15.65 inches. Custom framed in a silver decorated frame, with beige matting. It is in good condition, the paper have 3 vertical soft creases that cross the image.
About the artist:
Born in Santa Rosa, California to a pioneering California family, Elizabeth Hoen was known for her watercolor paintings, many of them landscapes, in impressionist style. Her father, Berthold Hoen started a trading post in the Carillo adobe, the first building erected in the Sonoma Valley. He also helped survey and lay out the city of Santa Rosa.
Elizabeth Hoen is not only the first painter to have their work cataloged into the Sonoma County Museum’s collection, but she was also a prolific artist in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and maintained a studio during a period when California art was largely dominated by men. She was from an important family in early Sonoma County history. Her father, Berthold Hoen, purchased land from the Carrillo family that would one day be...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
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...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
Thoughts, Abstract Figurative, Original Painting, Ink on Paper, Black and White
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Mkrtich Sarkisyan (Mcho)
Work: Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Ink on Paper
Year: 2023
Style: Abstract Figurative
Subject: Thoughts
Size: 11" x 1...
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2010s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
The Bully - Narrative Art by Female Illustrator Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
The present work exhibits a storytelling and illustration art style created before the mass communications age. It was rendered in a flat linear style by the highly talented Maginel ...
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1910s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink, Watercolor, Board
Mid Century Country House Landscape
By Rene Weaver
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid watercolor of a country house and grove of trees in a rural landscape of rolling green hills, with farm animals in the distance, by California artist Rene Weaver (American, 189...
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1940s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
$1,116 Sale Price
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Family Dinner Time 1932 American Classic Interior Design
Located in Soquel, CA
Classic Interior design and Family Dinner by Architectural Digest illustrator David Mode Payne (American, 1907-1985). The scene depicted is an interio...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Laid Paper
$1,397 Sale Price
35% Off
Impressionist figurative drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.
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