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Period: 1920s
Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929. Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne. Edition of 2...
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Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Lithograph

Walpurgis Nacht - Drawing by A. Kubin - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Walpurgis Nacht is a drawing with pen and Indian ink on paper, realized by Alfred Kubin in 1920, Hand-signed. Provenance Zevi Collection Milan. Included a frame. In very good co...
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Symbolist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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India Ink, Pen

“Waterfall with Birches”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor of a waterfall with birch trees on illustration board by the well known American artist, William Paskell. Signed lower left. Condi...
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Post-Impressionist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Illustration Board

French Watercolor - Path to Autumn
Located in Houston, TX
Dazzling French watercolor of fall colored foliage lining a large path, circa 1920. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archiv...
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Fool's Paradise Movie Costume Sketch Cecil B. DeMille - Classic Hollywood
Located in Miami, FL
Natacha Rambova imaginatively conceives and sketches a costume for Cecil B. DeMille's 1921 movie Fool's Paradise: Paramount. Rendered in Gouache, watercolor, pencil, and metallic s...
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Symbolist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Silver, Bronze

A 1920s Caricature of Author Lennox Robinson by Irish Artist Isa M. Macnie
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1920s caricature of author Lennox Robinson, by artist Isa M. Macnie. Inscription on drawing reads: "Author of “The White-Headed Boy” etc." Image size: 8 7/8" x 6 7/8". Archiva...
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Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Henri Rapin, Gouache on Paper "Fructidor", 1924-1928
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
This gouache is a museal and historical piece. Gouache and charcoal on paper stuck on panel by Henri Rapin, France, 1924-1928. "Fructidor". With frame: 80x114x3 cm - 31.5x44.9x1.2, w...
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Art Deco 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Lanvin of Paris c1920s Original Fashion Illustration in Gouache
Located in Bristol, CT
9 3/4"H x 6 3/4"W
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Projet de Fleurs - Fauvist Flowers Gouache by Raoul Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Botanical gouache on paper circa 1920 by French fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. The work flowers in red and blues with green foliage against a yellow and white stripped background. Dimensions: Framed: 25"x20" Unframed: 18"x13" Raoul Dufy was one of a family of nine children, including five sisters and a younger brother, Jean Dufy, also destined to become a painter. Their father was an accountant in the employ of a major company in Le Havre. The Dufy family was musically gifted: his father was an organist, as was his brother Léon, and his youngest brother Gaston was an accomplished flautist who later worked as a music critic in Paris. Raoul Dufy's studies were interrupted at the age of 14, when he had to contribute to the family income. He took a job with an importer of Brazilian coffee, but still found time from 1892 to attend evening courses in drawing and composition at the local college of fine arts under Charles Marie Lhullier, former teacher of Othon Friesz and Georges Braque. He spent his free time in museums, admiring the paintings of Eugène Boudin in Le Havre and The Justice of Trajan in Rouen. A municipal scholarship enabled him to leave for Paris in 1900, where he lodged initially with Othon Friesz. He was accepted by the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under Léon Bonnat, whose innate conservatism prompted Dufy to remark later that it was 'good to be at the Beaux-Arts providing one knew one could leave'. And leave he did, four years later, embarking with friends and fellow students on the rounds of the major Paris galleries - Ambroise Vollard, Durand-Ruel, Eugène Blot and Berheim-Jeune. For Dufy and his contemporaries, Impressionism represented a rejection of sterile academism in favour of the open-air canvases of Manet, the light and bright colours of the Impressionists, and, beyond them, the daringly innovative work of Gauguin and Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Dufy was an out-and-out individualist, however, and was not tempted to imitate any of these artists. He produced, between 1935 and 1937, Fée Electricité (Spirit of Electricity), the emblem for the French utilities company Electricité de France (EDF). Dufy visited the USA for the first time in 1937, as a member of the Carnegie Prize jury. In 1940, the outbreak of war (and his increasingly rheumatic condition) persuaded him to settle in Nice. When he eventually returned to Paris 10 years later, his rheumatism had become so debilitating that he immediately left for Boston to follow a course of pioneering anti-cortisone treatment. He continued working, however, spending time first in Harvard and then in New York City before moving to the drier climate of Tucson, Arizona. The cortisone treatment was by and large unsuccessful, although he did recover the use of his fingers. He returned to Paris in 1951 and decided to settle in Forcalquier, where the climate was more clement. Within a short time, however, he was wheelchair-bound. He died in Forcalquier in March 1953 and was buried in Cimiez. Between 1895 and 1898, Raoul Dufy painted watercolours of landscapes near his native Le Havre and around Honfleur and Falaise. By the turn of the century, however, he was already painting certain subjects that were to become hallmarks of his work - flag-decked Parisian cityscapes, Normandy beaches teeming with visitors, regattas and the like, including one of his better-known early works, Landing Stage at Ste-Adresse. By 1905-1906 Friesz, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Van Dongen and Rouault were described collectively as Fauves (the wild beasts). What they had in common was a desire to innovate, but they felt constrained nonetheless to meet formally to set out the guiding principles of what promised to be a new 'movement'. Dufy quickly established that those principles were acceptable; moreover, he was most impressed by one particular painting by Henri Matisse ( Luxury, Calm and Voluptuousness) which, to Dufy, embodied both novelty and a sense of artistic freedom. Dufy promptly aligned himself with the Fauves. Together with Albert Marquet in particular, he spent his time travelling the Normandy coast and painting views similar...
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Fauvist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Paper

Jean Launois (1898-1942) Opium smokers, Indochina, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Jean Launois (1898-1942) Opium smokers, Indochina Stamp of the artit's estate on the lower right Black ink on paper 22.5 x 30.5 cm Framed : 38 x 46 cm This beautiful drawing, a fine example of Jean Launois' particular art, dates from the artist's stay in Indochina, from which he brought a group of works. An exhibition devoted to this Indochinese period of the artist's production was held at the Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Sables d'Olonne in 1998. About the artist : Of Vendée origin, Jean Launois very quickly showed a sure talent for drawing and was encouraged in this by his parents. He trained with his fellow Vendeans Charles Milcendeau and Auguste Lepère and then entered the Académie Jullian in Paris. Enrolled in the First World War in 1916, he continued to draw at the front, and produced numerous portraits of soldiers...
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Post-Impressionist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Ink

Seated Woman
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Created at the height of the Munka (“Work”) circle’s activity, Seated Woman marks a critical moment in Ernő Schubert’s artistic trajectory—from the immediacy of expressionism to the ...
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Magazine Paper

Tippie Comic Strip Original Art - Female Cartoonist
Located in Miami, FL
An early example from pioneering Female Cartoonist/ Illustrator Edwina Dumm, who draws a comic strip from her long-running cartoon series Tippie which lasted for almost five decades. Signed and dated Edwina, 9-25, matted but unframed. Frances Edwina Dumm (1893 – April 28, 1990) was a writer-artist who drew the comic strip Cap Stubbs and Tippie for nearly five decades; she is also notable as America's first full-time female editorial cartoonist. She used her middle name for the signature on her comic strip, signed simply Edwina. Biography One of the earliest female syndicated cartoonists, Dumm was born in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, and lived in Marion and Washington Courthouse, Ohio throughout her youth before the family settled down in Columbus.[1] Her mother was Anna Gilmore Dennis, and her father, Frank Edwin Dumm, was an actor-playwright turned newspaperman. Dumm's paternal grandfather, Robert D. Dumm, owned a newspaper in Upper Sandusky which Frank Dumm later inherited. Her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm, was a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch, and art editor for Cole Publishing Company's Farm & Fireside magazine. In 1911, she graduated from Central High School in Columbus, Ohio, and then took the Cleveland-based Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning correspondence course. Her name was later featured in Landon's advertisements. While enrolled in the correspondence course, she also took a business course and worked as a stenographer at the Columbus Board of Education. In 1915, Dumm was hired by the short-lived Republican newspaper, the Columbus Monitor, to be a full-time cartoonist.[2] Her first cartoon was published on August 7, 1915, in the debut issue of the paper. During her years at the Monitor she provided a variety of features including a comic strip called The Meanderings of Minnie about a young tomboy girl and her dog, Lillie Jane, and a full-page editorial cartoon feature, Spot-Light Sketches[3]. She drew editorial cartoons for the Monitor from its first edition (August 7, 1915) until the paper folded (July 1917). In the Monitor, her Spot-Light Sketches was a full-page feature of editorial cartoons, and some of these promoted women's issues. Elisabeth Israels Perry, in the introduction to Alice Sheppard's Cartooning for Suffrage (1994), wrote that artists such as Blanche Ames Ames, Lou Rogers and Edwina Dumm produced: ...a visual rhetoric that helped create a climate more favorable to change in America's gender relations... By the close of the suffrage campaign, women's art reflected the new values of feminism, broadened its targets, and attempted to restate the significance of the movement.[4] After the Monitor folded, Dumm moved to New York City, where she continued her art studies at the Art Students League. She was hired by the George Matthew Adams Service[5] to create Cap Stubbs and Tippie, a family strip following the lives of a boy Cap, his dog Tippie, their family, and neighbors. Cap's grandmother, Sara Bailey, is prominently featured, and may have been based on Dumm's own grandmother, Sarah Jane Henderson, who lived with their family. The strip was strongly influenced by Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well as Dumm’s favorite comic, Buster Brown by Richard F. Outcault. Dumm worked very fast; according to comics historian Martin Sheridan, she could pencil a daily strip in an hour.[6] Her love of dogs is evident in her strips as well as her illustrations for books and magazines, such as Sinbad, her weekly dog page which ran in both Life and the London Tatler. She illustrated Alexander Woollcott's Two Gentlemen and a Lady. For Sonnets from the Pekinese and Other Doggerel (Macmillan, 1936) by Burges Johnson (1877–1963), she illustrated "Losted" and other poems. From the 1931 through the 1960s, she drew another dog for the newspaper feature Alec the Great, in which she illustrated verses written by her brother, Robert Dennis Dumm. Their collaboration was published as a book in 1946. In the late 1940s, she drew the covers for sheet music by her friend and neighbor, Helen Thomas, who did both music and lyrics. During the 1940s, she also contributed Tippie features to various comic books including All-American Comics and Dell Comics. In 1950, Dumm, Hilda Terry, and Barbara Shermund...
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Conceptual 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Ink, Color Pencil, Graphite

"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern
Located in New York, NY
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century Cityscape Modern Max Arthur Cohn (1903-1998) 6th Avenue Elevated 19 1/4 x 13 3/4 inches Watercolor on paper Signed an...
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American Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Girl and Horse - Watercolor by Marie Laurencin - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Sketch realized in 1924 for the invitation to "Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev". Published in the same invitation in June 26th, 1924. Ref. Mimì, Anna Laetitia Pecci...
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Post-Impressionist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

A ca. 1924 Caricature of Irish, Senator W.B. Yeats by Artist Isa M. Macnie
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1920s caricature of Irish senator W.B. Yeats by artist Isa M. Macnie. Inscription on drawing reads: "Senator W.B. Yeats, Nobel Prize, 1924". Image size: 8 7/8" x 6 7/8". Archi...
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Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Late Autumn, Beautiful Small Landscape Watercolor by Fanny Hjelm
Located in Stockholm, SE
This enchanting watercolor, measuring a mere 4.5 x 8 cm, offers a glimpse into the beauty of a serene autumn landscape overlooking Lake Möckeln, nestled between the municipalities of Degerfors and Karlskoga in the province of Värmland, Sweden. In this picturesque scene, the horizon reveals the serene outline of the distant shoreline, adorned with several small islands. The tranquil waters mirror the reflection of the trees on the land, creating a harmonious and captivating play of colors. In the foreground, a solitary birch tree stands tall, adding depth and perspective to this miniature watercolor. The level of precision achieved within this tiny format is truly remarkable, showcasing Fanny Hjelm...
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Early 20th Century Young Golfer Figurative
By Margaret Neilson
Located in Soquel, CA
Study of a young man with his golf clubs by listed artist Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, 1867-1944). Image, 14"H x 20"W. Displayed in vintage mat. S...
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Realist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Farm Horse Drinking
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Farm Horse Drunking Charcoal and pastel on artist's board, c. 1920 Signed lower right in pencil (see photo) Titled in ink lower center, as are all the illustration for At the Farm (s...
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English School 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk

Gallant Proposals - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Gallant Proposals is an original watercolored ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953). Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin. In go...
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Art Deco 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink

Mother Nursing Her Baby
Located in London, GB
'Mother Nursing Her Baby', pencil on art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger oil pai...
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Original Woodcut & Printed Colors of York, Emile Antoine Verpilleux, 1920
Located in New York, NY
Emile Antoine Verpilleux, 1888-1964 York, 1920 Original woodcut, printed in colors 14 x 18 inches Signed in pencil
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Woodcut

A ca. 1920s Caricature of Irish Politician Padraic Colum by Artist Isa M. Macnie
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1920s caricature of Irish politician Padraic Colum by artist Isa M. Macnie. Inscription on drawing reads: "Padraic Colum". Image size: 8 7/8" x 6 7/8". Archivally matted to 12...
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Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1921 Medium: Pastel on Paper Dimensions: 28.00" x 21.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Satuday Evening Post Cover, November 12, 1921
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

LA PRINCESSE LOINTAINE: LES FEMMES DE MILISSINDE
Located in Aventura, FL
Original on Gouache on paper. Hand signed on front; signed, titled, dated with dedication on verso. Stamped "Composition originale". Frame size 30.5 x 26.5 inches. Artwork is in e...
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Art Deco 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache

Broadway Costume Illustration by Designer Mabel E. Johnston
Located in New York, NY
Mabel E. Johnston Untitled, c. 1920s Watercolor and pencil on paper Sight: 18 x 12 1/2 in. Framed: 39 x 21 1/4 x 1/2 in. Signed lower right: Mabel E. Johnston The first tidbit I fou...
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American Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

A 1920s Caricature of Author Sean O’Casey by Irish Artist Isa M. Macnie
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1920s caricature of author Sean O'Casey, by artist Isa M. Macnie. Inscription on drawing reads: "Author of 'Juno and the Paycock' etc," Image size: 8 7/8" x 6 7/8". Archivally...
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Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Études de Personnages (Figure Studies)
Located in Chicago, IL
Provenance: Atelier of the artist Notes: Studio stamp on the verso of this important, early work by Gromaire. Over the years there has been an ever-widening interest in the work o...
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Expressionist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

The Dance - Drawing - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
The Dance is a pencil drawing realized in 1920 and attributed to Augusto Monari. Good condition, no signature. Mounted on a grey cardboard passpartout ( 23.5x18.5).
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Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Portrait of Woman - Original Drawing in pencil by Carl Bertold - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of woman is an original drawing in pencil realized by Carl Bertold in 1929. Hand-signed on the lower right and dated. Good conditions on aged p...
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Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Family Suggestions - Watercolor and Ink by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Family Suggestions is an original watercolored ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953). Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin. In g...
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Art Deco 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

The Weight Lifter (L'Homme aux halteres)
Located in Chicago, IL
The work is signed on the lower right by Gromaire. One of Gromaire's favorite subjects were men "of the people,” whether they worked in the fields or at sea, were construction worke...
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Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Pen

The Financing - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
China ink drawing realized by Gabriele Galantara in 1920s. Hand monogrammed lower right. Good condition.
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Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Lanvin of Paris c1920s Original Fashion Illustration in Gouache
Located in Bristol, CT
9 3/4"H x 6 3/4"W
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache

A 1926 Ink on Paper Drawing of a Cedar Tree & Lake by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1926 ink on paper drawing of a Cedar tree and northern lake by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 12" x 9". Archivally matted to 14" x 16". Harold Emerson Haydon was born in F...
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American Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Without Results - China Ink Drawing on Paper by G. Grosz - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
Original china ink drawing on paper by George Grosz, representing a typical subject of social and family issues. Provenance: Grosz Foundation (Regist...
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Expressionist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Gibson Girls - Set of Two 1920's Portraits, Vintage Fashion Illustrations
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous pair of two 1920's watercolor portraits of Gibson girls, one in blue and one in pink, by Charles Hollman (Dutch, 1877-1953). Each portrait renders...
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American Impressionist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Watercolor Painting by William Zorach, Titled "Redwoods, Yosemite Valley", 1920
Located in New York, NY
William Zorach, 1887-1966 Redwoods, Yosemite Valley, 1920 Watercolor and pencil 15 ¾ x 13 ⅜ inches Signed (at lower right): William Zorach WZorach-7 Provenance: Estate of William Zorach Exhibited: William Zorach, 1887-1996, Sculpture, Drawings and Watercolors, Zabriskie Gallery, New York; Feb. 10 – March 14, 1998. William Zorach was born in Lithuania in 1889, and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1893. Settling in Cleveland with his parents, he worked as a lithographer from 1902- 1908, making enough money to study painting with Henry G. Keller at the School of Art. In 1910, Zorach traveled to Paris to study in La Palette, where he was encouraged to develop his own unique style rather than adhere to traditional teachings. Zorach once said, “I began to be conscious of the various modern influences that were invading the art world…I was disturbed and confused, and yet I felt that I was a very young man entering a new age. The forces creating modern art seemed more alive to me than anything I had known or anything being done in America.” 1 Together with his wife Marguerite, William Zorach produced a number of Cubist- style paintings for the American Armory Show of 1913, and the Forum Exhibition in New York in 1916. Around 1917, Zorach followed the lead of cubist artist Pablo Picasso and began experimenting with wood and stone carvings. By 1922, he devoted himself entirely to sculpture, and like Picasso, became fascinated in “primitive art”—the ritual objects and sculpture pieces of Oceanic, Native American and African tribes. Zorach’s work developed in its use of block-like forms with progressive suppression of detail—drawing elements from sources as disparate as the contemporary cubist and modernist movements, and combining them with forms seen in early African sculpture. Though the forms of his sculpture were often abstract, Zorach primarily focused upon a traditional subject matter, producing such well-known sculptures as Young Girl, now in the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Mother and Child, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Today, William Zorach is known as one of the earliest and most influential American artists dedicated to direct carving. Zorach also made an impression as a teacher and writer, facilitating a major change in the aesthetic philosophy and technique of sculpture in the United States. During the summers from 1913 to 1922, Zorach and his wife Marguerite painted...
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Pencil

Trees and Sun
Located in New York, NY
Trees and Sun 1927 Color pastels on ivory wove paper 10.375 x 7.25 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
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Contemporary 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Pastel

"Isadora Duncan Dancing #3, " Watercolor and Ink signed by Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Isadora Duncan Dancing #3" is an original ink and watercolor piece on cream paper by Abraham Walkowitz. The artist signed the piece in the lower center. The drawing depicts Isadora ...
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Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

Art Deco Woman before a Mirror - Vogue Magazine Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Fabled Vogue Magazine Cover Artist Eduardo Garcia Benito depicts a perfectly posed long-neck flapper with her reflection in a mirror, Her extrav...
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Art Deco 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

The Couple
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "EJB" at lower left 21 13/16 x 17 inches including frame
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American Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Cubist Landscape/Cityscape of Capri, Italy, Early 20th Century Woman Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1965) Capri, 1927 Watercolor on paper Signed and dated lower right 11 x 10 inches 14.25 x 13.25 inches, framed A graduate of the Cleveland School of Art ...
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Cubist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Tea at the Ritz, New York
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Tea at the Ritz, New York Colored chalk, 1912 Signed with the estate stamp verso. (see photo) Authenticated by the artist's daughter, Mme Paulette Johnston. Image size: 10 5/8 x 10 1...
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Art Nouveau 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk

1920's Peaceful Marsh Wetlands Watercolor Landscape with Birds
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene 1920's watercolor landscape of calm water snaking through a lush marshy wetland, dotted with small birds, wildflowers and swaying grass, by an unknown artist (American, 20th C...
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American Impressionist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Composition No. 12
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Composition No. 12 Gouache on paper, c. 1926 Signed lower right: “Urban Weis” (see photo) Condition: Excellent Image: 16 5/8 x 10 5/8" Frame: 21 1/2 x 15 5/8" Provenance: Dudensing G...
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Cubist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Projet de Tissus - Fauvist Still Life Study Gouache by Raoul Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Botanical gouache on paper circa 1920 by French fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. The work depicts a study of apples and pears. This work was executed by Dufy as a fabric design. Dimensio...
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Fauvist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

"The opium smoker", Léa Lafugie (1890-1972)
Located in Paris, FR
Léa Lafugie (1890–1972) was a painter who traveled extensively across Asia. She was renowned for her portraits. She studied at the School of Decorative Arts, followed by the École de...
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Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

“Seated Woman”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautifully executed graphite on archival paper original drawing of a young woman seated by the American artist, William Sanders Fanning. Signe...
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Post-Impressionist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper, Graphite

"Gondolas at the Dock, Venice, Italy" Louis Wolchonok, Boats in the Harbor Scene
Located in New York, NY
Louis Wolchonok (1898 - 1973) Gondolas at the Dock, Venice, Italy, 1928 Watercolor on paper Sight 18 x 23 1/2 inches Signed and dated lower right Louis Wolchonok was an author of ar...
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Post-Impressionist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Allegory of Water - Original Lithograph by Ferdinand Bac - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Allegory of Water is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922. Signed and dated on plate on the lower central margin (...
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Art Nouveau 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Pastel on paper, 1922 Signed with the artist's initials in pencil Provenance: Estate of the artist Francis M. Nauman (label) Private collection, NY A very early abstract/cubist work by Kelly. Created while the artist was studying with Arthur Carles in Philadelphia. Leon Kelly (October 21, 1901 – June 28, 1982) was an American artist born in Philadelphia, PA. He is most well known for his contributions to American Surrealism, but his work also encompassed styles such as Cubism, Social Realism, and Abstraction. Reclusive by nature, a character trait that became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be limited by the trends of his time. His large output of paintings is complemented by a prolific number of drawings that span his career of 50 years. Some of the collections where his work is represented are: The Metropolitan Museum in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Boston Public Library. Biography Kelly was born in 1901 at home at 1533 Newkirk Street, Philadelphia, PA. He was the only child of Elizabeth (née Stevenson) and Pantaleon L. Kelly. The family resided in Philadelphia where Pantaleon and two of his cousins owned Kelly Brothers, a successful tailoring business. The prosperity of the firm enabled his father to purchase a 144-acre farm in Bucks County PA in 1902, which he named "Rural Retreat" It was here that Pantaleon took Leon to spend every weekend away from the pressures of business and from the disappointments in his failing marriage. Idyllic and peaceful memories of the farm stayed with Leon and embued his work with a love of nature that emerged later in the Lunar Series, in Return and Departure, and in the insect imagery of his Surrealist work. "If anything," he once said,"I am a Pantheist and see a spirit in everything, the grass, the rocks, everything." At thirteen, Leon left school and began private painting lessons with Albert Jean Adolphe, a teacher at the School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) in Philadelphia. He learned technique by copying the works of the old masters and visiting the Philadelphia Zoo, where he would draw animals. Drawings done in 1916 and 1917 of elephants, snakes and antelope, as well as copies of old master paintings by Holbein and Michelangelo, heralded an impressive emerging talent. In 1917, he studied sculpture with Alexander Portnoff but his studies came to an abrupt halt with the start of World War I. Being too young to enlist, he joined the Quartermaster Corp at the Army Depot in Philadelphia, where he served for more than a year loading ships with supplies and, along with other artists, working on drawings for camouflage. By 1920, the family's fortunes drastically changed. His father's business had failed due to the introduction of ready made clothing and his marriage, unhappy from the beginning, dissolved. Broken by circumstance Pantaleon left Philadelphia to begin a wandering existence looking for work leaving Leon to support his mother and grandmother. He found a job in 1920 at the Freihofer Baking Company where he worked nights for the next four years. Under these circumstances Leon continued to develop his skills in drawing and painting and learned of the revolutionary developments in art that were taking place in Paris. During the day he was granted permission to study anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Osteopathy where he dissected a cadaver and perfected his knowledge of the human figure. He also met and studied etching with Earl Horter, a well known illustrator, who had amassed a significant collection of modern art which included work by Brancusi, Matisse, and Cubist works by Picasso and Braque. Among the artists around Horter was Arthur Carles, a charismatic and controversial painter who taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Leon enrolled in the Academy in 1922, becoming what Carles described as, "his best student". In the next three years Leon work ranged from academic studies of plaster casts, to pointillism, to landscapes of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, as well as a series of pastels showing influences from Matisse to Picasso. Clearly influenced by Earl Horter's collection and Arthur Carles he mastered analytical cubism in works such as The Three Pears, 1923 and 1925 experimented with Purism in Moon Behind the Italian House. In 1925 Kelly was awarded a Cresson Scholarship and on June 14 he left for Europe. Paris The first trip to Europe lasted for approximately three and a half months and introduced Kelly to a culture and place where he felt he belonged. Though he returned to the Academy in the Fall, he left for Europe again a few months later to begin a four-year stay in Paris. He moved into an apartment at 19 rue Daguerre in Paris and began an existence intellectually rich but in creature comforts, very poor. "I kept a cinderblock over the drain in the kitchen sink to keep the rats out of the apartment" he once explained. He frequented the cafes making acquaintances with Henry Miller, James Joyce and the critic Félix Fénéon as well as others. His days were split between copying old master paintings in the Louvre and pursuing modernist ideas that were swirling through the work of all the artists around him. The Lake, 1926 and Interior of the Studio, 1927, now in the Newark Museum. Patrons during this time were the police official Leon Zamaran, a collector of Courbets, Lautrecs and others, who began collecting Kelly's work. Another was Alfred Barnes of the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. In 1929 Kelly married a young French woman, Henriette D'Erfurth. She appears frequently in paintings and drawings done between 1928 and the early 1930s. Philadelphia The stock market crash of 1929 made it impossible to continue living in Paris and Kelly and Henriette returned to Philadelphia in 1930. He rented a studio on Thompson Street and began working and participating in shows in the city's galleries. Work from 1930 to 1940 showed continuing influences and experimentation with the themes and techniques acquired in Paris as well as a brief foray into Social Realism. The Little Gallery of Contemporary Art purchased the Absinthe Drinker...
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Pastel

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Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964) Silent Prayers at St. Malo, France, 1925 Watercolor and gouache on board Signed and dated lower right 19 x 24 inches Frank Nelson Wilcox (...
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Watercolor, Gouache

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Located in Roma, IT
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

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Located in Roma, IT
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Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

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By Erminio Loy
Located in Roma, IT
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Pop Art 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

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Located in San Francisco, CA
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

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Located in Greenwich, CT
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American Realist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Graphite

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Located in Paris, FR
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Post-Impressionist 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Located in Roma, IT
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Modern 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Tempera, Watercolor

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Located in Roma, IT
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Art Deco 1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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