Pastel Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

"He [Cobble] has come to accept the fact that low production can lead to under appreciation in the short run, but he also knows that his gifts of perception and discrimination are ra...

Signed lower left: 'W.P. Burpee'. From the estate of the artist. Estate stamp verso. Back bears pastel board preparer's stamp of 'W. Devoe Co. / New York'. In fine condition. This piece might have been shown February 28 -- March 12, 1910, at the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters 21st annual exhibition in the gallery of Charles Cobb, as #10 'Gold and Rose on Mt.Blanc' See: 'William Partridge Burpee, American Marine Impressionist' by D.Roger Howlett,1991, Copley Square...

"He [Cobble] has come to accept the fact that low production can lead to under appreciation in the short run, but he also knows that his gifts of perception and discrimination are ra...

"He [Cobble] has come to accept the fact that low production can lead to under appreciation in the short run, but he also knows that his gifts of perception and discrimination are ra...

Unexpected materials, found and manufactured, perch precariously on torn edges and bifurcated sheets of large paper. Here, fluid calligraphic lines are posed against the veracity of ...

"He [Cobble] has come to accept the fact that low production can lead to under appreciation in the short run, but he also knows that his gifts of perception and discrimination are ra...

"He [Cobble] has come to accept the fact that low production can lead to under appreciation in the short run, but he also knows that his gifts of perception and discrimination are ra...

Dry pastel on paper

Joanne Seltzer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Charleston, West Virginia. After having majored in journalism at Northwestern University (she graduated in 1963), she gained her fine arts degree at the University of Michigan. Ms. Seltzer has also attended the New School for Social Research, the Pratt Institute and New York University, at Which she gained invaluable experience in photography, silkscreen and design. In Addition, Ms. Seltzer has lectured at several institutions, including the school of Visual Arts in New York, the University of Virginia and the University of Iowa. she is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art and has showed at Un jardin secret - Collection Monique Dorsel et Emile Lanc - Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée, La Louvière along with Jean Tinguely, Francois Morellet, Georg Baselitz, Berto Lardera...

Beautiful mid-century pastel landscape of small fishing boats along the shore, next to a long curved pier of Aquatic Park Pier San Francisco by an Russian...

A delightful suburban scene depicting rows of trees lining a pathways before brightly coloured buildings. Signed to the lower right. On paper.

"Imbaba Bridge" Pastel on Paper 12" x 16" inch by Anna Boghiguian Anna Boghiguian (Cairo, 1946) is one of Egypt's foremost contemporary artists. Of Ar...

A Beautiful Day, 1978 by Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900-1982) Unframed: 9" x 12" Framed: 11.25" x 14.25" Signed and Dated Lower Left Nellie Mae Rowe ...

Coal & dry pastel on paper

"1940 - Children at Play," an original mixed media on heavy paper cardstock by Tom Perkinson, is a piece for the true collector. His use of saturated violets, vivid yellows, and resp...

Yvonne Jacquette (American, b. 1935) Tokyo Diptych, 1985 Pastel on paper Overall 17 1/4 x 28 1/2 inches Signed lower center Provenance: Carey Ellis Company, Houston, Texas Brooke Alexander, New York Collection of an American Corporation Exhibited: New York, Brooke Alexander, Yvonne Jacquette: Tokyo Nightviews, April 5 - May 3, 1986, n.p., illustrated; this exhibition later traveled to Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Yvonne Jacquette: Tokyo Nightviews, June 27 - August 24, 1986. Yvonne Jacquette has a preference for high places, a circling plane, a penthouse window, an aerie from which to watch the world. Her work has often depicted the city and man-made landscape from the vantage of angels. It is a privileged perspective, long loved by photographers, who were perhaps the first to recognize the geometric grandeur of the city below. That grandeur structures Jacquette's images but is not its full content. Her work attempts to resolve the visual and emotional pardoxes of the modern metropolis. Only from the tower is there the possibility of order and context. And unlaced beauty. Jacquette first visited Japan in 1982. Nighttime Tokyo, its cars and crowds and canyons of loud Vegas neon, made a vivid and bewildering impression on her. The neon signs, pulsing, scaling the walls of high rises, fascinated the artist, "like Times Square spread over miles." Her fascination was equal parts marvel, confusion, and curiosity—the sparks of art. She returned to Tokyo in May of 1985, choosing hotel rooms with expansive vistas. From these views Jacquette excerpted images for a series of pastel night scenes. The basic forms and colors of each drawing were blocked in during night sessions by the window. She worked in the dark, selecting colors by flashlight. In daylight, she sharpened the geometry and corrected ambiguous passages. She refined the drawings further in the studio until the images read clearly. Photographic correctness was not important. The finished drawings are complete statements, not simply preparatory sketches for paintings. They have the authority of expert witness. In clear, discreet jots of pastel they record the performance of seeing, each touch of color attesting to a moment's close scrutiny. Yvonne Jacquette was born on December 15, 1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence from 1952 to 1955, when she moved to New York City. Her late husband was photographer Rudy Burckhardt, and the couple were part of a circle of artist friends that included Fairfield Porter, Alex Katz, Red Grooms, and Mimi Gross. She continues to live and work in New York City, as well as in Searsmont, Maine. A flight to San Diego in 1969 sparked Jacquette’s interest in aerial views, after which she began flying in commercial airliners to study cloud formations and weather patterns. She soon started sketching and painting the landscape as seen from above, beginning a process that has developed into a defining element of her art. Her first nocturnal painting...

Putting Green on the Golf Course by Kamil Kubik, Czech/American (1930–2011) Pastel on Paper, signed l.r. Size: 19.5 x 25.5 in. (49.53 x 64.77 cm)

Pastel on buff paper by Léon Auguste Lhermitte. Signed lower left. Framed dimensions are 17.5 inches high by 20.5 inches wide. Léon Augustin Lhermitte...

Lesser Ury (1861-1931) Auf dem Kanal 1912 pastel on board 49.2 x 34.9 cm signed and dated 'L.Ury.1912.' (lower left) Price: $25,000 USD Provenance: Sale: Christie's London, 30 June 2000, lot 42 Collection of Simone and Jean Tiroche (acquired at the above sale) Thence by descent Sale: Christie's London, 19 June 2013, lot 199 Private collection, UK (acquired from the above sale) Notes: Dr Sibylle Gross has confirmed the authenticity of this work. Lesser Ury, a German-Jewish Impressionist...

Hughes Claude Pissarro "Katia en Rose, au Jardin de Marras" 1989 Pastel on Paper approx 14 x 18.5 inches approx. 23 x 26.75 inches framed Signed Lower Left

Katerina-Papazissi The Fall, 2016 Pasel on paper Her work constructs a universe where the body and nature, as well as inner reality, an inexplicable, overwhelming, material but...