Graphics Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Academic Study with grotesques and Mascaron face. Signed Mossello Lorenzo and dated 1865-1866. Classes of Bobbio. Charcoal on paper. Dimensions : 75cm x 54cm This drawing, created in 1864, is an academic study of a plaster cast of an ancient bas-relief. It is adorned with intricate grotesques, fantastical mascaron face. This drawing represents one of the many examples of academic exercises based on the most important plaster statues. Students focused on the chiaroscuro effect and detailed representation of the face. This drawing, originally part of a private collection, comes from a portfolio of academic drawings by art students at the Fine Arts Accademia Albertina in Turin. The portfolio included exercises based on academic plaster casts...

A table by Christopher Spitzmiller, by Manuel Santelices Gouache and watercolor on paper Image size: 15" H x 11" W inches. Unframed 2023 Manuel Santelices explores the world of fa...

Palacio la Liria in Madrid by Manuel Santelices Ink and watercolor in paper Image size: 15" H x 11" W inches. Unframed 2023 Manuel Santelices explores the world of fashion, socie...

Signed lower right, 'J. de Gavardie' for Jean de Gavardie (French, 1909-1961), titled lower left, in margin, 'Les Capucines' and painted circa 1955. ...

Katsuito Nishikawa Untitled (Geometric Construction Drawing) Edition: Unique Size: 19.9 × 15.0 on 24.4 × 24.4 inches COA provided Born: 1949; Tokyo, Japan Nationality: Japanese Art Movement: Minimalism Genre: installation, sculpture Field: painting, sculpture, design, drawing, installation Katsuhito Nishikawa , born in Tokyo in 1949 is a Japanese visual artist . He studied at Keio University (Japan), Tokyo University (Tokyo), then at the Munich School of Fine Arts (Germany) and at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts (Germany). ). He taught for many years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg (Germany) and the School of Art and Design in Reims (France). He currently lives in Neuss (Germany). After having come to settle partially in Europe in the early 1980s , he is exposed in Japan, the United States, South Korea, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Great Britain and France where he signs twenty or so public commissions in the urban space. The work operates in cycles of white sculptures inspired by nature as architectural achievements, playing on the concept of different scales and varied materials. Let's mention "Innercouryard of Sintra" (1992), "Aqua" (2000), or the emblematic cycle of Physalis , begun in 1998. The Color as shadow cycle, made up of colored plexiglas screens, was shown in Europe and Asia . In 1999, he exhibited a work entitled Physalis Hanging on the Champs-Elysees as part of the international exhibition The Fields of Sculpture . This work, produced by the Caisse des Depots et Consignations was then offered to the Musée des Beaux- Douai Arts (Northern France). It is now installed permanently on the banks of the Scarpe, Douai. In particular, he inaugurated December 15 , 2006 Physalis Partitura , historic public commission in the courtyard of the University Hospital of Lille , with grants from the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the ERDF. The 5,500 m 2 work consists of the creation of a pacifying esplanade planted with magnolias and 24 sculpture...