Karen Bates

Last Walk Watercolor by Karen Bates Naive British Contemporary Painter

c2010

Cross Place du Village Watercolor Painting by C Koella c1897 19th Century Saas Switzerland E Vouga from Geneva is the previous owner Good antique condition with a small tear on one...

Rain Watercolour Signed Rob Moore early 20th Century Actual image 34cms 13.2 inches x 24.5cms 9.5 inches Good condition with only minor signs of age and use...

Original Watercolour Castle by Lake early 20th Century Very well painted Actual image 33.5cms 13.19 inches x 24cms 9.45 inches Good condition with only minor signs of age and use

Oriental Boats Watercolour Painting Artist Signed early 20th Century Good vintage condition there is very slight curve in the paper that can be flattened down

Castle with Lake View Watercolour Painting early 20th Century Actual image measures width 29cm height 15cm Good condition with minor signs of age and use

Pair of French 19th century miniatures by Felix Thoriguy 1824 - 1870 Good antique condition with minor signs of age Actual paintings W 8cms H 4.75cms

French 1960's gouache and watercolour view of a Provencale bastide, its surrounding farm, countryside and fields of poppies, by J P George. Signed and Dated bottom right. A super ch...

This mid-19th-century Swiss school drawing depicts the beautiful Esplanade de Montbenon in Lausanne, Switzerland. The picturesque gardens of the Esplanade de Montbenon provide a spl...

Joseph Yoakum Andes Mountains Peru So America, circa 1960s Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on paper 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches Provenance: Karen Lennox Gallery, Chicago Private Collection, South Dakota Yoakum began drawing in the early 1960s. Most of his work consists of radiantly colored landscapes with mountains, water, trees, and winding roads in abstract and complex configurations. his period of greatest activity — 1965 to 1970 — when he usually made one drawing a day. Yoakum maintained he had seen all the places represented in his drawings, a statement that may not be true in some instances. He traveled a great deal, beginning in his early teens when he ran away from home and became a circus handyman. Yoakum’s drawings can be considered memory images growing out of either actual or imagined experiences. All of his drawings have titles that grew longer and more specific over the years. He dated his works with a rubber stamp — an oddly impersonal, labor-saving device. Although Joseph Yoakum gave vastly different accounts of his background, he was, throughout his life, classified as an African American. Sometimes Yoakum claimed that he was a full-blooded ​“Nava-joe” Indian, one of twelve or thirteen children born to a farmer on an Indian reservation in Window Rock, Arizona. At other times he insisted that he was of African-American descent. He described his mother as a strong woman who was a doctor and knowledgeable in the use of herbal medicines. Yoakum’s family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, during his early childhood. His father was employed briefly in the railroad yards prior to settling permanently on a farm in nearby Walnut Grove...

Watercolor on paper of a sailboat in repose, flying a Cuban flag, in a tropical setting as if some grand adventure is waiting. Presented under glass and sign...

Mixed media drawing on paper Dated and signed on the back In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object of fascination, only its visual a...

Mixed media drawing on paper Dated and signed on the back In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...