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George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761. A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
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18th Century Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Engraving

Seated Woman and Bull Figure, Modern Drawing by Jose Ortega
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jose Ortega, Spanish (1921 - 1991) Title: Seated Woman and Bull Figure Year: 1962 Medium: Watercolor on BFK Rives, signed and dated l.l. Size: 20 x 25...
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1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

The Odes and Epodes of Horace
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed and dated "H. Pyle 1901" lower right corner Title-page illustration published in The Odes and Epodes of Horace, (Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1901). A beautiful and detailed...
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Early 1900s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Pen

Sailboats at Dock Watercolor by Carl Broemel Original Arts and Crafts Frame
Located in Buffalo, NY
Original watercolor of sailboats at dock by well listed artist Carl Broemel. This work is stunning with wonderful colors and movement. This piece is also housed in the original hand carved arts and crafts frame. Carl William Broemel...
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1940s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

L'Aurore boréale by Erté
Located in New Orleans, LA
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) 1892-1990 Russian-French L'Aurore boréale(The Aurora Borealis) Signed "Erté" (lower right) Inscribed ---- (en verso) Gouache on paper In this colorful gouache, Erté draws an enticing and unique fashion design on his model's elegantly elongated figure. Crowned by an elaborate headdress, the woman wears a daring gauzy caftan that drapes dangerously low, celebrating her nude form. EntitledL'Aurore Boréale" or The Aurora Borealis, this work embodies the Art Deco glamour for which the artist's designs are so beloved. This ensemble was inspired by Les Fleurs du mal, the famed volume of poems from iconic French writer Charles Baudelaire. As the name suggests, this creative design links the celebrated "fleur" orchids with one of nature's other great marvels, the Aurora Borealis. This refined piece of art radiates the essential luxury and theatricality that could only be accomplished by Erté, oft referred to as the "Father of Art Deco." First published in 1857, Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal was controversial for its suggestive content and themes of decadence and eroticism. The volume provided a wealth of inspiration for Erté and he drew from several themes to create original fashion sketches...
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20th Century Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Beethoven, Modern Pastel on Paper Portrait by Alton Tobey
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alton Tobey Tite: Beethoven Year: 1974 Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed l.r. Size: 35.5 x 41 in. (90.17 x 104.14 cm) Frame Size: 40 x 36 in. (101.6 x 91.44 cm)
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1970s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Mid Century St. Ives artist Sven Berlin 'A lover's embrace' pen and ink on paper
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sven Berlin (British, 1911 - 1999) A Lovers embrace Pen and ink Signed 'SVEN 95' (lower right) 11 x 7.7/8 in. (20 x 28 cm.) Sven Berlin, born in Sydenham, London on 14th September 1...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Pen

Haitian Scene #7 Signed Mid Century modern painting, Associated American Artists
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Arthur Dehn Haitian Scene #7, ca. 1951 Watercolor gouache, hand signed; framed with AAA Gallery label verso Signed on the front bearing the original label on the verso of Dehn'...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache

Mid Century Cornish gouache abstract painting by William Black 'Doorway'
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
William Black (British, Fl. 1963 – 69) Doorway Ink and watercolour on paper Signed, inscribed and dated ‘Doorway William Black 64’ (lower edge) 7.1/2 x 4.7/8 in. (19.2 x 12.4 cm.) (to site edge) William Black is a little known and underrated member of the St Ives artist group who, having worked as an architect after the Second World War, went on to work as an artist following the inheritance of money in the early 1950s. He was a self taught artist, producing numerous deconstructivist sculptures in the 1960s. He moved to St Ives in Cornwall where he knew artists such as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo. There is a clear architectural element to the sculptures that he made . They illustrate an assemblage of fragmented shapes and forms of a deconstructivist nature. William Black’s artwork is very much rooted in the time and Cornish School so one can see elements from those such as Wilhelmina Barns Graham...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Little witches 2
Located in Genève, GE
Erotic scene Work on paper Wooden frame with glass pane 49.5 x 41.5 x 1.3 cm
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1960s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Disappearances / Extinctions #1 Hélène Duclos 21st Century drawing landscape art
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...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache, Color Pencil, Graphite

19th Century Romantic school, A Pavilion in a garden, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Romantic School, circa 1860 A pavilion in a garden , an animated view Pen and black ink, black ink wash on paper 19.5 x 26.5 cm In good condition, slightly undulating. Framed : 39 x ...
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1860s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Late 17th cent. Drawing of a rider galloping away from the viewer
By Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder
Located in Greenwich, CT
Late 17th-early18th century Drawing Pen and brown ink , brush and gray wash on paper att. to Georg Philipp Rugendas (1666 – 1742) bears a period ink inscription in bottom margin...
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Late 17th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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India Ink, Pen

Untitled
Located in San Francisco, CA
Victor Cartagena Untitled, 2021 Charcoal and India Ink on paper Unframed dimensions: 30 x 22 inches Framed dimensions: 35.12 x 26.50 in
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal, India Ink

Framed 19th Century Watercolour, City of Rouen
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine 19th century watercolour showing figures in the French streets of Rouen. The artist has included many architectural features within the composition, such as a medieval turret and church spire...
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19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Poppies . 2007. acrylic on canvas, 40x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
This work by Ingrida Irve makes us travel to Latvian fields around midsummer, where poppies are dominating the color palette. Ingrida Irbe (1969) Born 15th of June 1969 in Riga ...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

An Old Military Road, The Road over Dovrefjell, Norway
Located in Stockholm, SE
Carl Oscar Borg (1879–1947) An Old Military Road, The Road over Dovrefjell, Norway gouache on paper, ca. 1900 signed sheet 12.5 cm x 17.5 (4.9 x 6.9 in) framed 23 × 28 cm (9 × 11...
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1890s American Impressionist Mixed Media

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Paper, Gouache

Mid 19th Century Gouache - Winter Walk
Located in Corsham, GB
This delightful winter scene shows a man carrying kindling across an icy bridge towards snow laden fields. The artist has used white gouache to depict the texture of the fresh snow a...
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Mid-19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

James W. Gozzard (1862-1926) - Signed Late 19th Century Watercolour, A Misty Day
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolours scene of three figures walking along the rural path on a misty day. Signed to the lower right with the titled inscribed to the lower left. The work has also b...
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Late 19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Gustave Den Duyts (1850-1897) - Late 19th Century Pastel, Wassail!
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking 19th Century pastel, showing a rustic farm building with a bonfire raging behind it. The sparks can be seen flying up over the top of the thatch against the night sky. A g...
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Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Male Nude II
Located in New York, NY
Male Nude II (2008) by artist Christian Brechneff, featured in "The Queer Show, Part I" at Hal Bromm Gallery
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Early 2000s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Original Painting Life Mag Published 1955 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Life Mag Published 1953 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) The World We Live In Birds of Paradise Life Magazine Illustration ...
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1950s American Realist Animal Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Ocean Cove unique signed pastel painting by America's foremost landscape painter
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn Ocean Cove, 1996 Pastel on paper painting Hand signed and dated by Wolf Kahn on the lower right Frame included: matted and framed in a wood frame with UV plexiglass This u...
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1990s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Oil Pastel

Edgar Chahine Etching of a Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. 20th Century Edgar Chahine Etching of a Woman
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20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Etching

18th century portrait drawing of the Rev. William Atkinson
Located in London, GB
Collections: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1882-1950); Private collection, UK to 2019 Framed dimensions: 14.50 x 15.38 inches This drawing is one of only two known portrait drawings by Romney (as opposed to preliminary studies for portraits) and is dated by Alex Kidson as being executed no later than 1769. It is likely that the present drawing was originally part of a sketchbook, now largely dismembered (Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal), which Kidson notes, contained some of Romney’s most beautiful early drawings. This drawing, and a second sheet formerly with Andrew Wyld, have been identifying as depicting the Rev. William Atkinson...
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Modernist Self Portrait of The Artist
By Bren Bauer
Located in Soquel, CA
A colorful modernist portrait of a woman by Bren Bauer (American, 20th-c.), the lines of which are reminiscent of Modigliani. In contrast to the artists use of bold color and movemen...
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil Pastel

Side View Seated Female Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Side View Seated Female Nude Graphite on paper, c. 1890's Unsigned Provenance: Rookwood Pottery Factory Collection, Cincinnati Spanierman Gallery, New York (label) Drawings from the...
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1890s American Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

George Grosz NYC City Scene Modernism Watercolor German Expressionism Weimar
Located in New York, NY
George Grosz NYC City Scene Modernism Watercolor German Expressionism Weimar George Grosz (Germany, 1893-1959) "City Scene," 17 x 12 inches, signed and dated “33” lower left, watercolor on paper. This drawing, created while Grosz was living in NYC. Period frame, It has been authenticated by Ralph Jentsch, the globally recognized Grosz expert. Provenance: Hirschl & Adler and 511 Gallery...
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1930s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

"Pigeons" Group of Birds in Layered Hand Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Pigeons" is an original piece by Nayan and Vaishali made from watercolor on layered hand-cut paper. This piece measuures 11.75”h x 9.5”w x 1"d framed, and is shipped in the featured...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, near Rome
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean-François Joseph LECOINTE Paris 1783 - Versailles 1858 The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, near Rome Watercolor and brown ink Signed and dated "Lecointe 1833" lower left 56 x 44 cm s...
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1830s French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Golden Gate Park, San Francisco" c.1960 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Henry Waltermar Doane, 1905-2002. It is signed by the artist at the lower ri...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Edward Bawden Hot Cat pen and ink Modern British Art drawing
Located in London, GB
From a series of Bawden Cat illustrations we have listed. To see the others and our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" a...
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Late 20th Century Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Pen

Old Bobbin Mill on the Spey
Located in Hillsborough, NC
William Beattie-Brown is a 19th century Scottish artist, and a master landscape painter using tonal color in a naturalistic style. 'Old Bobbin Mill on ...
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1880s Naturalistic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Egret" Small ScaleHand-Cut and Layered Watercolor of Bird
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Egret" is an original piece by Nayan and Venus made from watercolor on layered hand-cut paper. This piece measures 11.75”h x 9.5”w x 1"d framed, and is shipped in the featured woode...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Study for Alyssa II
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A charcoal portrait drawing of a young woman. "The emotional intensity found in Bauman’s figurative work is astounding. A hallmark of Bauman’s character portraits is that, somehow,...
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2010s Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Archival Paper

Abu Bakar Ibrahim (1925-1977) - Framed Watercolour, Farmer with Oxen Drawn Cart
Located in Corsham, GB
Abu Bakar Ibrahim (1925-1977) - original watercolour. Malaysian village scene with farmer riding an oxen drawn cart. To the background sits a traditional Mal...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

This Morning (blue, red, floral, textured still life pastel on paper)
Located in New York, NY
34.5 X 35 Inches framed This piece is featured in A’Court’’s 2024 solo exhibition at Susan Eley Fine Art titled, “Keeping Memories”. Artist Biography: A...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Shape of Resonance 18
Located in Phoenix, AZ
pastel and micron pen on paper, framed b. 1979, Poole, Dorset, UK In this new series of work, I explore the intersection of minimalist architecture, design, and the raw beauty of ma...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Archival Paper, Pen

Early 20th Century River Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 20th Century River Landscape Watercolor Painting Beautiful river landscape. The river flows through a mountain forest setting. Watercolor dimensions 23" wide x 16" high The ...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"When you finally get to know yourself"
Located in Zofingen, AG
"When You Finally Meet Yourself" is not merely a painting — it is a threshold. A liminal space between imagined wholeness and the truth that ripens quietly in the darkness of the sub...
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2010s Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil

Exquisite Rose Drawing (unique) done in graphite, hand signed with provenance
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt Untitled Rose, 1983 Graphite on Lanaquarelle Watercolor Paper Signed and dated on the front Framed Unique, poignant, exquisitely rendered graphite drawing on watercolor paper with deckled edges. This work is framed and ready to hang; frame bears Alan Brown Gallery (Hartsdale) label verso. It was acquired from the Estate of Noel Frackman, renowned art historian, scholar, writer, and professor with a lifelong passion for 20th Century Art - and a close personal friend of Lowell Nesbitt. She earned a M.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in English Literature and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. She was an art critic for the Patent Trader Newspaper and the Scarsdale Inquirer, contributing editor for Arts Magazine, author of numerous catalogs including ''John Storrs'', for the Whitney Museum of American Art. For 19 years she was a faculty member at Purchase College, State University of New York. Measurements: Framed: 13 inches by 13 inches x .5 Artwork: approx. 10.5 inches by 10.5 inches Lowell Nesbitt Biography: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and sculptor, was born in Baltimore, Maryland on 4 October 1933. He studied at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Nesbitt worked in abstraction until Robert Indiana suggested in the early 1960s that he explore realism in his paintings. As subjects for his work he favored studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes, his Rottweiler, the Neo-Classical facades of 19th century cast iron buildings, and Manhattan's bridges. He was also famous for his enormous paintings and prints of roses, lilies, irises, and other flowers. In 1980, the United States Post Office issued...
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1880s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite, Mixed Media

Let’s play- Line Drawing Woman Body with red “Playboy” Bunny mask
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Let’s play- Line Drawing Woman Body with red “Playboy” Bunny mask, 2025. Interior design paintings. The artwork was done with watercolor on watercolor paper 300g. The works are 15 by...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Intimacy
Located in Zofingen, AG
On Intimacy True intimacy is not born from words or touch — it arises in the space where one presence allows another to enter. It is a delicate field of trust, where there is no nee...
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2010s Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil

Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a manor and a traveler, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a manor and a traveler Signed lower left Pencil on paper 27.5 x 44.5 cm Framed under glass : 43 x 59.5 cm This drawing shows more particularly...
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1860s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Leslie Fry_Revelation_2016_Acrylic on paper_Surrealism_Framed
Located in Darien, CT
Leslie's public projects respond to site, history and the body. Figures are female or hermaphroditic, of imaginary descent, often melded with animal, architecture and plant forms. I ...
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2010s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

River in winter. 1987, oil on board, 40x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
River in winter. 1987, oil on board, 40x50 cm Winter landscape by the river Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paint...
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1980s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Isabelle Mulvany - 2020 Gouache, Corona Girls
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking contemporary illustration, showing a group of glamorous girls out for drinks. The painting is full of interesting commentary on Covid, from the year 2020, at the start of the outbreak. One woman, shows off her hand, dripping with hand sanitiser, to her friends, with her stash of flu pills and hand sanitiser bottles at her side. Another holds a bottle of Corona beer...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

A Pair of Watercolour Illustrations of a Donkey and Cow by Carton Moore Park
By Carton Moore-Park
Located in London, GB
CARTON MOORE PARK (1877-1956) The Kicking Donkey and Watching Cow A Pair One signed Both grisaille watercolour heightened with white Framed 37 by 35 cm., 14 ½ by 13 ¾ in. each (frame size 58.5 by 55.5 cm., 23 by 21 ¾ in. each) Canadian born Frederic Carton Moore Park studied at Glasgow School of Art under Francis Newbery. He specialized in highly stylized illustrations and prints of animal subjects. He wrote and illustrated a variety of children’s books featuring animals, including; An Alphabet of Animals (1899); A Book of Birds (1900); The Dog Book...
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Early 20th Century Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Green Landscape, Watercolor and Ink on Paper, circa 1926
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Green Landscape" by Philadelphia born modernist and surrealist painter Leon Kelly, is a framed and matted landscape painting. The 17.5" x 23.5" watercolor and ink on paper is signed...
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1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Three Studies of Mastaba of Ty - Saqqara, Egypt
Located in PARIS, FR
Lucienne Épron grew up in the Charente Maritime in France, and was awakened to art under the influence of her tutors Felix Lionnet and Victor Richard, painters from Nantes. She follo...
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1930s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Manner of Frederick Widgery (1861–1942) - 20thC Gouache, Overcast Coastline
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine coastal landscape in gouache in the manner of Frederick John Widgery (1861–1942). The painting is unsigned and presented in a gilt frame ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Percy Thomas RE (1846-1922) - 1893 Watercolour, Winding Country Path
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming rural scene showing figures walking along a winding country path that leads towards a small village. The artist has signed, dated and inscribed to the lower left corner. T...
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Late 19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Rufus Way Smith Winter Forest Landscape Watercolor c.1880
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rufus Way Smith Winter Forest Landscape Watercolor c.1880 Beautiful 19th century watercolor by listed American artist Rufus Way Smith (1840-1900). Or...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Train Station, " Max Kuehne, Industrial City Scene, American Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
Max Kuehne (1880 - 1968) Train Station, circa 1910 Watercolor on paper 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Private Collection, Illinois Max Kuehne was born in Halle, Germany on November 7, 1880. During his adolescence the family immigrated to America and settled in Flushing, New York. As a young man, Max was active in rowing events, bicycle racing, swimming and sailing. After experimenting with various occupations, Kuehne decided to study art, which led him to William Merritt Chase's famous school in New York; he was trained by Chase himself, then by Kenneth Hayes Miller. Chase was at the peak of his career, and his portraits were especially in demand. Kuehne would have profited from Chase's invaluable lessons in technique, as well as his inspirational personality. Miller, only four years older than Kuehne, was another of the many artists to benefit from Chase's teachings. Even though Miller still would have been under the spell of Chase upon Kuehne's arrival, he was already experimenting with an aestheticism that went beyond Chase's realism and virtuosity of the brush. Later Miller developed a style dependent upon volumetric figures that recall Italian Renaissance prototypes. Kuehne moved from Miller to Robert Henri in 1909. Rockwell Kent, who also studied under Chase, Miller, and Henri, expressed what he felt were their respective contributions: "As Chase had taught us to use our eyes, and Henri to enlist our hearts, Miller called on us to use our heads." (Rockwell Kent, It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1955, p. 83). Henri prompted Kuehne to search out the unvarnished realities of urban living; a notable portion of Henri's stylistic formula was incorporated into his work. Having received such a thorough foundation in art, Kuehne spent a year in Europe's major art museums to study techniques of the old masters. His son Richard named Ernest Lawson as one of Max Kuehne's European traveling companions. In 1911 Kuehne moved to New York where he maintained a studio and painted everyday scenes around him, using the rather Manet-like, dark palette of Henri. A trip to Gloucester during the following summer engendered a brighter palette. In the words of Gallatin (1924, p. 60), during that summer Kuehne "executed some of his most successful pictures, paintings full of sunlight . . . revealing the fact that he was becoming a colorist of considerable distinction." Kuehne was away in England the year of the Armory Show (1913), where he worked on powerful, painterly seascapes on the rocky shores of Cornwall. Possibly inspired by Henri - who had discovered Madrid in 1900 then took classes there in 1906, 1908 and 1912 - Kuehne visited Spain in 1914; in all, he would spend three years there, maintaining a studio in Granada. He developed his own impressionism and a greater simplicity while in Spain, under the influence of the brilliant Mediterranean light. George Bellows convinced Kuehne to spend the summer of 1919 in Rockport, Maine (near Camden). The influence of Bellows was more than casual; he would have intensified Kuehne's commitment to paint life "in the raw" around him. After another brief trip to Spain in 1920, Kuehne went to the other Rockport (Cape Ann, Massachusetts) where he was accepted as a member of the vigorous art colony, spearheaded by Aldro T. Hibbard. Rockport's picturesque ambiance fulfilled the needs of an artist-sailor: as a writer in the Gloucester Daily Times explained, "Max Kuehne came to Rockport to paint, but he stayed to sail." The 1920s was a boom decade for Cape Ann, as it was for the rest of the nation. Kuehne's studio in Rockport was formerly occupied by Jonas Lie. Kuehne spent the summer of 1923 in Paris, where in July, André Breton started a brawl as the curtain went up on a play by his rival Tristan Tzara; the event signified the demise of the Dada movement. Kuehne could not relate to this avant-garde art but was apparently influenced by more traditional painters — the Fauves, Nabis, and painters such as Bonnard. Gallatin perceived a looser handling and more brilliant color in the pictures Kuehne brought back to the States in the fall. In 1926, Kuehne won the First Honorable Mention at the Carnegie Institute, and he re-exhibited there, for example, in 1937 (Before the Wind). Besides painting, Kuehne did sculpture, decorative screens, and furniture work with carved and gilded molding. In addition, he designed and carved his own frames, and John Taylor Adams encouraged Kuehne to execute etchings. Through his talents in all these media he was able to survive the Depression, and during the 1940s and 1950s these activities almost eclipsed his easel painting. In later years, Kuehne's landscapes and still-lifes show the influence of Cézanne and Bonnard, and his style changed radically. Max Kuehne died in 1968. He exhibited his work at the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, and in various New York City galleries. Kuehne's works are in the following public collections: the Detroit Institute of Arts (Marine Headland), the Whitney Museum (Diamond Hill...
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1910s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Brimscombe Hill - Early 20th Century Cotswold Group Watercolour by H A Payne
By Henry Arthur Payne, RWS
Located in London, GB
HENRY ARTHUR PAYNE, RWS (1868-1940) Evening, Brimscombe Hill Signed and indistinctly dated l.l..: HENRY A PAYNE Watercolour Framed 20.5 by 24.5 cm.; 8 by 9 ...
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Early 20th Century Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing. A modernist artist who emigrated to America from Greece in 1904, when he was fourteen years old, Jean Xceron is described as having a reputation as an artist that has mysteriously fallen into obscurity---especially since he was reportedly quite prominent during his lifetime. However, a partial explanation of that omission is the fact that many of his papers and early records have been lost. He was a painter of biomorphic abstractions and did collages, which were influenced by Dadaism. Xceron was active in New York City when modernism was gaining influence. Of him during this period, it was written that his artistic role was "a vital link between what is commonly termed as the first-generation (the Stieglitz group, the Synchromists, etc.) and second-generation, the American Abstract Artists, the Transcendental Painting...
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1940s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Modernist Abstract Lithograph w/ Multicolor Looping Line Work signed Yaakov Agam
Located in New York, NY
This Lovely Modernist Lithograph Originates from the Israeli born artist Yaakov Agam (made in Paris, France Circa 1980). This Lithograph is an Artist's Proof and a member of Agam's "...
Category

1980s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Lithograph

Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism Jo Cain (1904 - 2003) Railroad worker 36 ¼ x 27 inches Oil on paper c. 1930s S...
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Oil

Original Signed & Dated Female Nude Drawing African American Expressionist
Located in Portland, OR
An early drawing of a female nude by the celebrated African American artist Robert Colescott (1925-2009), shown at the Smith Tower Gallery, Seattle, in 1960, signed & dated. The dra...
Category

1960s Expressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Winter landscape. 1980. Oil on cardboard, 24x32.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Winter landscape. 1980. Oil on cardboard, 24x32.5 cm
Category

1980s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

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