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Art Subject: Flower
Original Fashion Design Illustration Watercolor Painting Laura Ashley Designer
By Roz Jennings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Original Fashion Design Illustration
by Roz Jennings, British
watercolor and ink on card, unframed
size: 12 x 8.25 inches
condition: very good
A beautifully colorful and characterfu...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Village de Provence
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Village de Provence" c.1990 is a watercolor on paper by American impressionist artist Sharon Galigan, b.1939. It is hand signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is 17.5 x 13.75 inches, framed size is 25.5 x 22.5 inches. Custom framed in a wooden light brown and grey frame, with beige matting and light brown filet. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Sharon Galligan (American, b. 1939) is an artist painting in watercolor, oil, acrylic, monoprint and mixed media. She was an art major in both high school and college: San Jose State University, West Valley College, and Evergreen College. She has also studied with nationally noted artists and teachers, including Ted Goeschner, Frank Webb, Charles Movali, Howard Rees, Tom Lynch, Dale Laitinen, Marilyn Simandle...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century French Stylized Deer in a Birch Forest Mixed Media Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Stylized Deer in a Birch Forest Mixed Media Drawing
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil, Acrylic and Tracing Paper
Size: 10.75 (heigh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil
Still Life - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1960s.
Hand signed lower right.
Excellent condition.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Almond blossom" ( almond trees blossom inspired by Vincent va Gogh)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This painting features almond trees which are coming into full flower: big branches of white and light pink almond blossom against a blue sky. In these flowering trees, I wanted to ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Lee Radziwill with Pink Peonies. From the Art, Culture & Society series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Acrylic
Flowers - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1973.
Hand signed lower right. Dated in pencil on rear.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1971.
Hand signed lower right.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower right.
Excellent condition.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Georgian Contemporary Art by Eter Merkviladze - Flamingos
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache on a watercolor paper
Eter Merkviladze is a Georgian female artist born in 1999 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She was graduated from Robert Schuman European Schoo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Gouache
"Vase with gladioli in August " (contemporary floral piece inspired by Van Gogh)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This still-life painting depicts a bouquet of yellow, red and dark pink gladioli in a vase on the wooden table.
This painting allow me to discover a wider palette, exploring new co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Surrealist Large Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Artist Horse Pink Blue
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow.
Artwork Details:
Horse of Hope, 122x152cm, Collaged woodblock print, acrylic ink on Somerset satin paper, 2023
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown
In Isabel's own words:
Horse of Hope
The world had become a sad grey place, mud, empty plains with bleak, loveless sky as far as the eye could see. It seemed that all was lost of the old world.
Until one day a whisper began on the breeze, so quiet that you could hardly hear it. But it grew stronger and stronger until the trembled with the sound.
'The horse of hope is coming, the horse of hope is coming!'
The horse of hope had arrived, its dainty hooves tapping along the way. Where there had been nothing but emptiness the horse trod and from its feet sprung new life and hope. The world became a lush carpet under its footsteps. Up sprang greenery, pushing its tendrils to the sky. Blue irises reached out their twisted delicate petals welcoming the new life in. Strong, dark foliage grew and grew, and with this creatures began to return from their hiding places. Out from rocks and stones they came, for there was hope once again and the world buzzed with new life.
*Please note we are happy to ship this work rolled in an art tube. Whilst the work is on heavy duty art paper and mixed media, the artist is happy that the painting will be fine rolled in a tube. This is a more cost effective and environmentally sound method of shipping. Shipping via this method is free.
About Isabel Rock and her work:
Taking inspiration from Japanese woodblock prints and Indian miniature painting Rock has developed a unique collage technique that combines bold structures with large-scale woodblock prints and intricate detailing. The subject is a grand mixture of humour, drama, hidden morals, fanciful characters, modern culture, mythical beings and fantastical situations.
Rock creates a world that pulls you in and demands your attention. Quality of line is paramount, the drawings are created using a dipping pen and acrylic ink. An essential tool is a squirrel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
Flowers - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1971.
Hand signed lower right. Title and dated in pencil on rear.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Spring Bloom, Large Colorful Floral Watercolor by Gary Bukovnik
Located in Long Island City, NY
Gary Bukovnik, American (1947 -) - Spring Bloom, Year: 1983, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated in pencil lower right, Size: 45 x 71 in. (114.3 x 180.34 cm), Frame Size...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower right.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life with Vases of Flowers - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed in top right corner.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pansies, 1930s art deco design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Pansies
Gouache
30 x 47 cm
c.1930
Label to reverse 'Baynard Press', Signed lower right, further signed in pencil and dated 1929.
Provenance: Family of the...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
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 ...
Category
1880s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Butterfly & Flowers 1 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Butterfly & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 4 5/8 x 3 1/8 inches; sheet size 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; mat size 14 x 11 inches.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Hopei or Hebei is a province of North East China, on the Gulf of Chihli near Beijing that is home to Chengde Mountain Resort, the imperial summer residence of the Qing-dynasty emperors. Chengde contains 18th-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Vase of Flowers - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower right. Dated on rear.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cala Lily, Watercolor on paper. Sill life Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
A new series inspired by architecture, décor and stylish personalities of the world of interior design.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are captured in the illustrati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Surrealist Large Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Female Artist Blue Pink
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you, that that you decide to follow.
Artwork Details:
Porthole to Another Dimension, 168x153cm, woodblock print, acrylic ink, acrylic paint, 2020
* Please note this artwork is on two separate pieces of paper that have been joined together. The join is not obvious when looking at the work. At the time Isabel was desperate to make the piece but did not have a large enough piece of paper in the studio, so she joined two together.
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown
In Isabels own words:
Porthole to Another Dimension
The legend said, that down by the river, beneath the purple hills, where the black iris...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen, Woodcut
Still Life - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1960s.
Hand signed lower right.
Excellent condition.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1960s.
Hand signed lower right.
Excellent condition.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Futile, Original Contemporary Watercolor Painting, Roses, Flowers
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Watercolor Painting, Unique Work. Handmade artwork. Ready to Hang.
Medium : Watercolor on Archival paper
Artist : Deniz Bayav
Subject : Futile (Title)
Signature : T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life with Vases of Flowers - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1972.
Hand signed lower left. Dated on rear.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Lanvin Of Paris Original Advertising Watercolor Christmas Artwork
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 14 3/8"H x 23"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Fashion illustrator for House of Lanvin Paris in the 1950s featured in Harper's Bazaar
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Flowers - Drawing by Albert Fernand-Renault - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a drawing realized by Albert Fernand-Renault in the early 20th Century.
Pencil on paper.
Stamped signed.
Good Conditions with diffused foxing.
The artwork is realized ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Finding Space II, soft pastel on paper, still life, neutral and green flowers
Located in New York, NY
Couple / Pair / Lovers / Love / Wedding / Romance / Flowers / Bouquet / Still life
Angela A’Court’s narrative and still life drawings use a simple and direct vocabulary to show the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Garden's Flowers - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by Jan Pieter Verdussen - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Garden's Flowers is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen.
In good condition.
Not signed.
Passepartout included ( 48.8 x 33.8 cm).
The artwork represents a Garden's...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
"Nasturtiums" Chiura Obata, Japanese American, Red and Blue Delicate Flowers
By Chiura Obata
Located in New York, NY
Chiura Obata
Nasturtiums, circa 1940
Signed and stamped lower left
Watercolor on paper
15 x 9 5/8 inches
Born in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, Chiura Obata was adopted by his uncle, an artist. As a child he was trained in ink painting, and at 14 he was apprenticed to the painter Murata Tanryo in Tokyo. He also studied with Kogyo Terasaki and Goho Hasimoto.
In 1903, Obata moved to San Francisco and began working as an illustrator for The New World and The Japanese American, two of the city's Japanese newspapers. He also did work as a commercial designer. Obata helped establish the East West Art Society in San Francisco in 1921, which sought to promote cross-cultural understanding through art. This goal was reflected in his embrace of the Nihonga style, which fused traditional Japanese sumi-e ink painting with the conventions of western naturalism.
He spent much of the 1920s painting landscapes throughout California, and among his favorite subjects were mountain landscapes. In 1927, he visited Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, creating over a hundred paintings and sketches of the high country. Obata stayed in the USA until the death of his father in 1928.
Between 1928 and 1932, he worked in Tokyo as a painter and transformed his California landscape watercolors...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Rose - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pencil, ink and watercolor on paper realized by an unknown artist in the early 20th Century.
Good condition.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Ink
Flower Pot - Watercolor by Fiorenzo Tomea - 1950s
By Fiorenzo Tomea
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers Pot is an original contemporary artwork realized by Fiorenzo Tomea (1910-1960) in the mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored watercolor.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Contemporary Art by Francine Ledieu - Rue des Fossés, Saint Valery
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on paper
Francine Ledieu is a French artist born in 1931 who lives and works in Paris, France. In the 50s, she was a student of Maurice Rocher who specialized in Sacred art. In the ’80s, Francine was a student of Jean Bertholle from the Saint Roch Academy. The artist had personal exhibitions at Maison Mansart from 1989 to 1993 and at Étienne de Causans Gallery in 1997. In 1998 & 2009 she exhibited at La Petite Galerie. Francien Ledieu had three exhibitions at La Capitale Gallery in 2001, 2004, and 2007. She also showed her paintings at L’Oeil du Huit in 2011, 2013, 2016 & 2019. She participated in many group exhibitions as at Strasbourg Contemporary Art Fair in 2005. She exhibited also at Réalités Nouvelles in 2006, 2007, 2010 & 2011. She also worked in stained glass and mosaics in France. She achieved artworks in 1963 at Saint-Henri Pontoise chapel, Saint-Pierre des Louvrais church in Pontoise in 1969 & Mosaic in the same year at Jean Moulin...
Category
1960s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Paper
Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Johann Weinmann: 18th Century Engravings of Sunflowers, Set of 4, Framed
Located in Richmond, GB
A complete set of four hand-coloured mezzotint engravings of sunflowers from: "Phytanthoza Iconographia", c1739, presented in hand-made, parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania frame...
Category
18th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Flowers - Drawing by Albert Fernand-Renault - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a drawing realized in 1950s by Albert Fernand-Renault.
Watercolour and ink on paper. Hand-signed.
Good condition with diffused foxing and a cutting at the top left margi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Flowers - Original Pastel Drawing by G. Bourgogne - mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is an original orangish drawing in pastel realized by Gustave Bourgogne, Hand-signed by the artist on the rear.
The State of preservation is good.
Sheet dimension: 59 x 46 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Flowers - Original Drawing by Lucien Coutaud - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is an Original drawing in China Ink realized by Lucien Coutaud in Mid-20th Century.
Stamp Signed.
Good conditions.
The delicate and dynamic strokes created in a harmonious...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
IN THE BOTTOM OF MY GARDEN FS II.86-105
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Complete book comprising of 20 offset lithographs and cardboard cover, all hand-colored with watercolor. From the edition of unknown size. All 20 sheets bound (as issued). Minor ti...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Lithograph
"Dahlias" Chiura Obata, Japanese American, Red and Blue Delicate Floral Work
By Chiura Obata
Located in New York, NY
Chiura Obata
Dahlias, 1940
Signed, dated and stamped lower right
Watercolor on paper
15 x 9 5/8 inches
Born in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, Chiura Obata was adopted by his uncle, an artist. As a child he was trained in ink painting, and at 14 he was apprenticed to the painter Murata Tanryo in Tokyo. He also studied with Kogyo Terasaki and Goho Hasimoto.
In 1903, Obata moved to San Francisco and began working as an illustrator for The New World and The Japanese American, two of the city's Japanese newspapers. He also did work as a commercial designer. Obata helped establish the East West Art Society in San Francisco in 1921, which sought to promote cross-cultural understanding through art. This goal was reflected in his embrace of the Nihonga style, which fused traditional Japanese sumi-e ink painting with the conventions of western naturalism.
He spent much of the 1920s painting landscapes throughout California, and among his favorite subjects were mountain landscapes. In 1927, he visited Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, creating over a hundred paintings and sketches of the high country. Obata stayed in the USA until the death of his father in 1928.
Between 1928 and 1932, he worked in Tokyo as a painter and transformed his California landscape watercolors...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bold Flowers in a Vase
Located in Surfside, FL
Katarzyna LIBROWICZ
Polish French painter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and arrived in France in 1937 .
She studied with André Lhote in Montparnasse Paris and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Independants .
She is one of the painters of the School of Paris .
Peintre polonaise.Elle étudia à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Varsovie, puis arriva en France en 1937.
Elle suivit les...
Category
20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Children Amongst Foxgloves - Pink Flowers, Female Illustrator of The Golden Age
Located in Miami, FL
Children Amongst Foxgloves - Female Illustrator of The Golden Age by a female illustrator of The Golden Age Watercolor on paper, signed 'A. Bowerley' lower left.
11 x 20 in. (sight)...
Category
Early 1900s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Pencil
Georgian Contemporary Art by Eter Merkviladze - Acrobats’ Aesthetic
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache on a watercolor paper
Eter Merkviladze is a Georgian female artist born in 1999 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She was graduated from Robert Schuman European Schoo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Gouache
Talking To Whoever Is Listening - Figurative Surrealist Watercolor Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' art is gro...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier - Bleeding flowers -
Located in Berlin, DE
Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Hänsch (1875-1945), Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier, 1918. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 15 x 24.5 cm (image), 27 x 37 cm (sheet size / frame), monogrammed and dated "19JH18" at lower left.
- Paper slightly darkened
About the artwork
Despite the relatively small format, the watercolor with an internal frame depicts a panoramic view of a flat landscape stretching to the horizon. As far as the eye can see, the poppies bloom in flaming red. The flowers are not rendered individually, however, creating an almost cohesive red surface. The bright red is interspersed with vegetal green. A complementary contrast that creates an intense color effect. In this color contrast, a white area breaks through from the middle ground, widening towards the foreground and surrounding a brown hole. Next to it, in blue, is the actual protagonist of the painting, the first thing that catches the eye: a dead soldier. Next to him is his helmet, revealing the empty interior. The brown, hollow shape corresponds to the hole in the ground. A shell funnel is surrounded by bright ash, which, like the inverted helmet, becomes a sign of death. The soldier's arms point to the funnel, while the empty helmet paraphrases the calotte of the skull and, like the funnel, thematizes the empty darkness of death.
The soldier's body, however, is intact and not - as in Otto Dix's triptych "The War" - a dismembered corpse. Instead, Johannes Hänsch activates the landscape, especially the color, to illustrate a blooming landscape of death that extends from the shell funnel in the foreground to the rising column of smoke on the horizon. If the soldier's body is intact, the tangle of barbed wire emblematically placed over the empty helmet also appears tattered. On the right side of the picture, the barbed wire even seems to stretch its arms to the sky in horror. Against the background of this allegory, the content of the bright red also becomes clear: the landscape is drenched in blood, literally a sea of blood, and the single unknown soldier stands pars pro toto for all those who died on the battlefield. Dying in war is not dying in community, but in solitude. In order to emphasize the isolation in death, Johannes Hänsch has set the blue of the soldier in the axis given by his body in the middle ground of the picture into the red sea.
A master of landscape painting, Hänsch succeeds in creating a natural-looking landscape allegory that illustrates the horror and death of war, without depicting the brutality of war itself. This singular 'war memorial' of the unknown soldier is the opposite of heroization and yet the dignity of the deceased soldier is preserved through the integrity of his body.
About the artist
As the son of the sculptor Adolf Haensch, the young Johannes received his first artistic training in his father's Berlin studio. However, he eventually decided to become a painter, and in 1897 he entered the Berlin Academy of Arts. He initially studied under Paul Vorgang and Eugen Bracht, and was particularly influenced by Bracht's increasingly colourful landscape painting. In 1901 he moved to the class of Friedrich Kallmorgen, with whom he spent several weeks on excursions into nature. In 1905 he became a master pupil of Albert Hertel, who taught him watercolour painting.
From 1903 to 1933 he exhibited annually at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, the exhibitions of the Berlin Artists' Association and the Munich Glaspalast. In 1905 he was awarded the Carl Blechen...
Category
1910s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Peony
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencils on paper mounted on panel
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenage...
Category
2010s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
'Lilium Candidum, July' - Botanical Still Life of Flowers in Pen and Ink, 1969
By John Nash
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Lilium Candidum, July
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Lily - Botanical Flower Still Life, Watercolour, Pen and Ink, 1969
By John Nash
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Lily
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Johann Weinmann: 18th Century Engraving of an aloe in a decorative pot.
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings of decorative urns with aloes and cacti from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand- made, parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania...
Category
18th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
The Whispers Had Changed - Figurative Portrait Watercolor Graphite Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' art is gro...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Flowers - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1973.
Hand signed lower right. Dated on rear.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Go through the trials #7 Hélène Duclos 21st Century drawing art landscape red
Located in Paris, FR
This drawing is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris.
The liquid mountain is populated by living be...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Graphite
Plant - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1960s.
Hand signed lower left.
Excellent condition.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Butterfly & Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Butterfly & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches; sheet size 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; mat size 14 x 11 inches.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Hopei or Hebei is a province of North East China, on the Gulf of Chihli near Beijing that is home to Chengde Mountain Resort, the imperial summer residence of the Qing-dynasty emperors. Chengde contains 18th-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Dreamers #1 Caroline Veith Contemporary art drawing nature flora flower red
Located in Paris, FR
Ink on tracing paper
Hand-signed and dated lower left
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Bouquet of Flowers - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1960s.
Hand signed and dated lower right.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Medium Dandelions 2
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass's graphite drawing on black heavyweight paper transforms delicate dandelions into luminous, ghost-like forms. Each fine line is meticulously drawn, creating a richly det...
Category
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Ballerina and Bugs
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Melodie Provenzano (b.1974). Ballerina and Bugs, 2006. Graphiye pencil on paper, sheet measures 14.5 x 20.5 inches. 16.5 x 22.5 inches framed. Signed, titled and dated on back of sheet. Excellent condition.
Melodie Provenzano lived and worked in New York City until 2020. After receiving her BFA from Parsons School of Design in 1996, she freelanced for more than a decade painting window displays, showrooms and various commissioned projects for fashion companies including, Saks 5th Avenue, Donna Karan, Louis Vuitton, Ferragamo, Chanel and Hermes. At this time, she sharpened her drawing and painting skills while developing her fine art. Melodie has exhibited in group shows at The Brattleboro Museum, VT, The Chelsea Art Museum, NYC, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, and solo shows at Lyons Wier Gallery, NYC, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL, The University School of Nashville, TN, and Nancy Margolis Gallery, NYC. She has also written and recorded songs as "Connie Acher", releasing five LPs on Flipped Out Records and her most recent "For Giving" on UK label Golden Lab. Melodie currently lives and works in the countryside near Nashville, TN.
Born in Hudson, NY, 1974
EDUCATION
1996
BFA Parsons School of Design
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2020
Seeing Oneself in Others, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY, February 27 - April 11
2015
Stealth Peace, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY, May 14 - June 20
2014
Raw Ribbon, University School of Nashville, Nashville,, January 9 - February 10
2012
Rock Center, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY, November 15 - December 15
Selected Work 2005-2011, 5th Avenue Windows of Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, October 5-12
2011
Drawn Together: Melodie Provenzano & Philippe Simille, The Marketplace Gallery, Albany, NY, May 6-28
2010
Melodie Provenzano & Rachel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$680 Sale Price
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"Irises in a terracotta pot" (contemporary floral piece inspired by Van Gogh)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This floral artwork depicting irises on a terracotta pot belongs to my "Floral" series and was inspired by the art of Van Gogh. My floral artwork radiates striking color, spontaneity...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
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