Sunil Guha

Sunil Guha - 1982 Pen and Ink Drawing, The Big Tree

1982

A charming ink drawing depicting a busy street in India with figures and cattle passing colourful buildings. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame with acanthus orname...

Caught in a blaze of fire - This visual delight by Zoltan Hecht depicts a surreal city scene with an overwhelming Paleolithic impression. Geometric shapes and cylindrical forms have ...

A deft and confident pen and ink drawing showing rolling fields, interspersed with woodland with stark trees. A dog can be seen trotting down the side of the field at the left. The p...

A very fine view of the Basilica of St Sernin in Toulouse, France. Laid to thin backing card. Signed and dated and inscribed. On wove.

A wonderful pen and ink drawing with watercolour wash by the artist Sunil Guha. Presented in a simple gilt effect frame. Signed and dated. On paper.

Well presented in a cream card mount and simple wood frame with gilt detail. Inscribed with the initials 'N.W' to the lower right. On wove.

Provenance: Dr. George Hamilton, Massachusetts; and by descent. Private Collection, Ohio, until 2021. Exhibited: (Possibly) Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts (according to a handwritten inscription on the reverse). This drawing by an anonymous, 16th-century German hand presents a delightful scene of nymphs—mostly nude but some draped with cloth—making music in an outdoor setting. The composition is executed within a roundel and centers on the harpsichord played by the figure seen from behind. She is accompanied by a host of other instruments, including horns, a harp, and a lira da gamba played by figures gathered nearby, several of which are positioned along the curved edges of the visual field. Two satyrs observe the merrymaking—one leans on the harpsichord while the other holds aloft a cup, presumably of wine, adding a bacchic element to the revelry. The drawing was previously owned by Dr. George Hamilton, scholar of modern art and Director of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown (1966–1977). Hamilton played...

Though he is most celebrated today for his extraordinary work as an artist of ornithological and zoological subject matters, Schouman was also a prolific documenter of landscape in his native Holland. The present drawing, which depicts a view of the Castel of Vianen, fits securely into a corpus of drawings Schouman produced on the same scale and in the same distinctive combination of media, examples of which are today housed in the collection of the Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen, Middelburg. Castle Batestein (also called Batenstein ) is a castle disappeared from the Netherlands . It was built on the banks of the Lek in the small town of Vianen, then in the province of South Holland (now in the province of Utrecht ). The castle was burned down in 1696 and then demolished. Remains only the Hofpoort (or castle gate...

Alpine Utah 1906, pen and ink, 6.5 x 10.75 inches (Framed size: 15 x 18 inches), $1,000 Waldo Midgley (1888-1986) had a fruitful career spanning eight d...

The attribution to Jan de Bisschop has been confirmed by the RKD with the following comment: "We base this attribution on the dark washes, the subject represented and the monogram". ...

PROVENANCE Mortimer Brandt, until 1993 and thus by descent in the family to Private Collection, Baltimore until the present time We would like to thank Charles Beddington for ident...

Ink, pen & pigment on paper Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi State...