1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

ALEXANDER EVGENEVICH IACOVLEFF (YAKOVLEV) 1887-1938 Saint Petersburg 1887-1938 Paris (Russian) Title: Portrait of a Girl, 1934 Technique: Ori...

CAMILLE BRYEN 1907-1977 [CAMILLE BRIAND] Nantes 1907 – 1977 Paris (French) Title: Surrealist Composition with Leg and Arm, ca 1935 Technique: Original Signed Graphite Drawing...

CAMILLE BRYEN 1907-1977 [CAMILLE BRIAND] Nantes 1907 – 1977 Paris (French) Title: Surrealist composition with Arm (Ink), circa 1935 Techn...

Born in Baltimore and raised in Newton, Massachusetts, William Paxton became a prominent late 19th, early 20th-century figure painter, especially noted for female subjects, and a key artist in the establishment of American Impressionism. Paxton also painted outdoor views of upper class life such as croquet games and hotel verandah scenes. In Philadelphia where he lived briefly, he received so many commissions for portrait paintings that he was referred to as the "court painter of Philadelphia." Portrait subjects included Presidents Calvin Coolidge...

SOLD UNFRAMED Village au bord d l'Eau by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972) Graphite on paper 32 x 23.5 cm (12 ⁵/₈ x 9 ¹/₄ inches) Signed lower right, Paulémile-Pissarro- Executed circ...

Études sur Titu by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972) Watercolour and pencil on paper 33.5 x 23.6 cm (13 ¹/₄ x 9 ¹/₄ inches) Signed lower middle Paulémile-Pissarro- and inscribed upper...

SOLD UNFRAMED Moulin Vardon près Gournay, Graphite on Paper by Paulémile Pissarro, 1934 Graphite on paper 32 x 23.5 cm (12 ⁵/₈ x 9 ¹/₄ inches) Signed lower right, Paulémile-Pissarr...

Art Sz: 8 3/8"H x 11 5/8"W

Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W 1933 Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933

Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W 1933 Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933

Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W 1933 Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933

Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W 1933 Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933

Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W 1933 Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933

Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W 1933 Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933

Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W 1933 Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933

Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W 1933 Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933

Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W 1933 For Radnor Foxhall Farm Challenge Cup Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933

Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W 1933 For Radnor Foxhall Farm Challenge Cup Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933

Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W 1933 Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933

Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W 1933 Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933

Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W 1933 Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933

Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W 1933 Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933

Classic pen & ink drawing depicting an English turf personality signed Mel 1930 (LL) c1930 Art Sz: 10 1/4"H x 6"W Frame Sz: 15 3/4"H x 11 3/4"W

Classic English watercolour depicting St James Palace c1930s sign EWH (LR) Art Sz: 10 3/4"H x 14 3/4"W Frame Sz: 18 1/2"H x 22 1/2"W

Classic limited edition signed original steeplechase etching by Nat Lowell (1880-1956) pencil signed (LR) c1930s Print Sz: 9 3/4"H x 13 1/2"W Frame Sz: 16"H x 19"W

Elegant watercolour depicting a French Palais gardens Art Sz: 8"H x 11 3/4"W Frame Sz: 13 1/4"H x 17"W w/ birdseye maple frame

Classic watercolour depicting a gentleman in a dressing gown Art Sz: 14"H x 10"W Frame Sz: 19 1/4"H x 15 1/4"W w/ lavender mat

Classic pen & ink depicting three nattily attired London gents c1930s Art Sz: 13"H x 10"W Frame Sz: 18 1/4"H x 15 3/8"W

Classic c1930s watercolour depicting a three horse photo finish Art Sz: 17 1/2"H x 14"W Frame Sz: 24 1/4"H x 20 3/4"W

Stylish hand-penned c1930s drypoint limited #52/250 in birdseye maple frame w/ turf green mat Image Sz: 9 1/2"H x 11 3/4"W Frame Sz: 14 1/2"H x 17 1/4"W

Art Sz: 15"H x 10"W

Art Sz: 12"H x 10"W Provenance: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown

Charming c1930s watercolor depicting a dapper sartorially resplendent gent strolling at a racetrack Art Sz: 13 3/8"H x 8 1/4"W Frame Sz: 17" x 11 3/4"

Watercolour on paper, signed, titled & dated 1933 Image size: 11 ½ x 7 inches (29 x 18 cm) Mounted This work is initialled lower right 'CT' and inscribed lower left 'Bristol Savages...

8.5" x 11.5" Mounted on board

PAUL DESMOND BROWN (American, 1893-1958) "Slater going to his own kind", ink and watercolor with white highlights, titled, signed, dated "35" lower right Art Sz: 8"H x 11"W Frame S...

Medium: Drawing/Painting

Medium: Charcoal and Ink on Board Signature: Unsigned Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Comedian Joe E. Brown, 1938, along with preliminary sketc...

Medium: Watercolor on Board Signature: Initialed Middle Right This illustration is from the book 'Three Jolly Cadets' by Escott Lynn (London and Edinburgh: W&R Chambers, 1931).

Medium: Watercolor and Charcoal on Board Signature: Unsigned Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004), of Jimmy `The Schnoz` Durante, circa 1939....

Medium: Pen and Ink on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Right Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004), of Broadway Actor, Director & Producer Ezra Stone, more famous to audiences a...

CAMILLE BRYEN 1907-1977 [CAMILLE BRIAND] Nantes 1907 – 1977 Paris (French) Title: Surrealist composition with Arm (Graphite), circa 1935 ...

A variation is a common term in various performing styles meant to refer to a planned or choreographed routine. In this original gouache, pastel, and graphite work on paper by French...

Untitled - Still Life 2 Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980) Date: 1936 Ink on paper, signed and dated Size: 3.63 x 5.25 in. (9.21 x 13.34 cm) Frame Size: 10.75 x 12.25 inches

Untitled - Child Sleeping on Desk Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980) Date: circa 1930 Gouache On Paper Size: 13.75 x 10.63 in. (34.93 x 26.99 cm) Frame Size: 18.75 x 16 inches

Mountain Range Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980) Date: 1938 Watercolor and ink on paper, signed and dated lower left Size: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm)

Set against a deep green background of layered paint and wavy lines, Benjamin Benno’s textured composition features an array of unidentifiable figures of varying sizes and shapes. Th...

Colored ink drawing of an abstract blue shape by British born American artist Benjamin Benno. Birth Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980) Date: 1938 Colored ink on paper, signed lowe...

Cubist artist Benjamin Benno depicts the famed Greek figure Atlas supporting on his shoulders a more angular version of our world. On his face is a strai...

Benjamin Benno was a British-born American artist, best known for his Cubist and abstract works. This artwork is signed and dated. Abstract Structure with Cup Benjamin Benno, Americ...

Abstract Composition 2 Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980) Date: 1934 Gouache on paper, signed and dated Size: 11 x 8 in. (27.94 x 20.32 cm) Frame Size: 19.5 x 16.25 inches

Ink on paper, signed and dated '34 lower left Image size: 9 3/4 x 15 inches (24.75 x 24.5 cm) Mounted and framed A unique drawing, this work is typical of Brodzky's early nudes with its economy in the use of the line and the seemingly relaxed, informal pose of the model. The spontaneous feel of many of Brodsky's drawings does in a way indicate that the works, such as the present drawing, are purely sketches and studies. In fact, Brodsky was known for making perhaps twenty or thirty drawings at a sitting and of those he preserved perhaps only a handful, only those that 'pass his rigorous censorship sum up qualities resulting from the perfect collaboration of hand and eye and sensibility' (Forty Drawings by Horace Brodsky, by James Laver, 1935, p.15). Laver continued to write that 'Brodsky preferred a pose that showed the body from an unexpected angle, daringly foreshortened or with the weight of the various parts freed from the monotony of the standing pose. He liked to see his models from above, the limbs relaxed, and.... he made many of his drawings from a step-ladder drawn up close to the platform on which the model is lying'. Horace Brodsky Horace Ascher Brodzky (30 January 1885 – 11 February 1969) was an Australian-born artist and writer most of whose work was created in London and New York. His work included paintings, drawings and linocuts, of which he was an early pioneer. An associate in his early career of many leading artists working in Britain of his period, including Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Mark Gertler, and members of the Vorticism movement, he ended his life relatively neglected. Brodzky was born in Kew, Melbourne in 1885 to the Australian journalist Maurice Brodzky (a Jewish immigrant to Australia from Poland), and his wife Flora, née Leon. In his youth he assisted his father in the production of the magazine Table Talk. Brodzky studied initially at the National Gallery School in Melbourne. In 1904 his father was bankrupted after exposing corruption, and Horace moved with his family to San Francisco. In 1908, Brodzky went to London where he studied during 1911 at the City and Guilds South London Technical Art School. He became an acquaintance and follower of Walter Sickert. Amongst his friends was Henri Gaudier-Brzeska who created in 1913 a portrait bust of Brodzky (now in the Tate Gallery, London), and whose biography he wrote in 1933. Brodzky is said to have been so engrossed in talk when he visited Gaudier-Brzeska's studio in the King's Road, that he missed the last bus to Herne Hill where he lived. Brodzky travelled to Italy with the poet John Gould Fletcher and this led to his first London exhibition, "Paintings and Sketches of Italian and Sicilian Scenes" (c. 1911), of which one painting was selected for the 1912 Venice Biennale. He was in fact the first Australian to be exhibited at the Biennale. In 1914 his work was exhibited along with that of other Jewish artists, including Mark Gertler and David Bomberg, in the Whitechapel Gallery. Brodzky became a member of The London Group. During this period he was a pioneer of the technique of linocut, in which medium he has been said to have "excelled". His early oils reveal the influence of both Gertler and Bomberg. Among his works of this period are portraits of Jacob Epstein and Jacob Kramer. In 1915 Brodzky moved to New York, with an introduction to the art patron John Quinn. There he worked as a poster artist and an arts journalist, and in 1917 helped Quinn organize a New York exhibition of Vorticist artists. In 1919 he married Bertha Greenfield; they were to have three sons. In 1920 Egmont Arens...

EDWARD HAGEDORN (AMERICAN 1902 – 1982) DEBRIS, ca. 1930 Large Ink Drawing - Study for the Print. Image 16 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches, sheet 17 1/2 x 28 inches. Ink wash, on blank side of...

EDWARD HAGEDORN (AMERICAN 1902 – 1982) UNTITLED MOUNTAINS, ca 1935 Tempera, Unsigned. Image 18 x 24 inches. See also 1stdibs item LU411312750272 for another example form the follow...

EDWARD HAGEDORN (AMERICAN 1902 – 1982) PLUNGING COMET - Large Ink and graphite drawing. Signed, titled and dated in pencil. Image, 16 x 22, Sheet 22 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches See also ...

EDWARD HAGEDORN (AMERICAN 1902 – 1982) VOLCANO c. 1935 Thick tempera, SIGNED at the upper right corner,. Sheet & image 18 1/2 x 25 inches. Provenance: Hagedorn estate, Around the...

This reclining nude portrait of a woman on a picnic makes several different art historical references. The bold, almost neon colors are reminiscent of the tropical paintings rendered by Gauguin at the end of the 19th century. The setting harkens back to "Luncheon in the Grass" by Manetl. And the pose is historically associated with sex workers and the goddess Venus, in paintings like "Olympia" by Manet, "Grande Odalisque" by Inges, and even further back like "Venus of Urbino...

This cubist work on paper in bold monochrome pastel is almost a piece of optical art thanks to the series of geometric shapes that build out the bodies of the two figures. In the for...

HANS HOFMANN California House (VI), c. 1930-31 Ink on paper 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches 26.7 x 34.3 cm Signed, lower right: H Hofmann -- Hans Hofmann (...

HANS HOFMANN Mechanical Life (XXIV), c. 1930-31 Ink on paper 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches 26.7 x 34.3 cm Signed, lower right: H Hofmann -- Hans Hofmann (b. 1800, Weissenburg, Bavaria, G...