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Period: 1940s
Facial Expressions Seen at the Cinema - Drawing - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Facial Expressions Seen at the Cinema is an original China Ink Drawing realized by an artist in 1940s.
Signature unreadable.
Good condition on a white little paper.
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Nude - Original Watercolor on Paper by Jean Delpech - 1940s
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Nude 1940's is an original drawing in tempera and watercolor a on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1988-1916).
Sheet dimension: 16.5 x 25 cm.
The artwork represents a nude woman l...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Women - Drawing by Pino della Selva - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Women is a drawing in Pen realize by Pino della Selva in the 1940s.
Good conditions.
Hand-signed.
The artwork is represented through soft pencil strokes.
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Small decorative sailboat
Located in Genève, GE
Work on watercolor paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
48 x 57 x 2.7 cm
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
7e Hussards - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
7e Hussards is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
Hand-signed.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines in well-balanced conditions.
Herbert Knotel was a german artist, son and pupil of the famous uniformologist and military historian Richard Knotel...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
No title
By Marcel Janco
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original ink on paper
Hand signed lower right
Unique piece
Category
Dada 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Spanish and Dutch Soldiers - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Soldiers is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines in well-balanced conditions.
Herbert Knotel was a german artist, son and pupil of the famous uniformologist and military historian Richard Knotel...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
'Transcendentalist Figural Oil', Paris, Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Geneva
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Marguerite Bordet' (French, 1909-2014) and painted circa 1940. Additionally signed, verso, titled, 'La Vanite' and inscribed with artist's Paris address in the 16th arrondissement.
From an early age, Marguerite Bordet avidly pursued both drawing and painting. In the late 1930's and early '40s, she attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris where she studied with the sculptor, Antoniucci Volti (Italian, 1915-1989). After several years, and feeling increasingly disconnected with the academic atmosphere of the Salon, she left to develop her independent artistic style.
Bordet's first public exhibition took place at the Galerie Claude (1947) and, for the next forty years, she continued to exhibit widely with success, both throughout France and internationally, including in Cairo (1955), Geneva (1960) and the United States (1966). A 1962 exhibition of her work showed a thematic rejection of the Academy's influence and the artist's shift to a more personal and spiritually driven style.
Bordet continued to take frequent study trips to Italy, especially to Florence, where she was inspired by the Renaissance Masters. She also visited England (1975-76) where the works of J.M.W.Turner and John Martin at the Tate Museum had a pronounced impact on her development.
In an interview with Hervé Serane, Marguerite Bordet described her artistic process in these words:
"I start my painting with spots. Sometimes I cover it completely and everything is dark. But then it's stronger than me, I can't bear that there isn't an opening. Immediately, I place a Light. I need the shadow to bring out the Light. So I start with the shadow to create this Light. I cannot define why I need this Light so much. It's stronger than me. It's something that dominates me without my being able to explain it intellectually. It is for me an absolute necessity to seek the Light in the darkness.. You have to open like you open a window. You have to reveal. I remove the stains that obscure my painting to find the luminous background of the canvas.... I only paint with transparent colors and I apply several layers of glaze to preserve this light."
Partial Exhibition Record:
1947 Paris, Galerie Claude
1951 Paris, Galerie Breteau - Cairo, Galerie Adam - Alexandria, l'Atelier
1954 Paris, Galerie Simone Bdinier
1955 Cairo, l'Atelier
1959 Paris, Galerie A. Weil
1960 Geneva, Galerie Motte
1962 Paris, Marignan Gallery
1964 Paris, Ror Volmar Gallery
1966 San Rafael (U.SA) International Museum
1966 Cagnes-sur-Mer, Castle Gallery...
Category
Symbolist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Landscape with Trees - Original Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with Trees is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in 1935 in Marac. Pencil Drawing, hand signed on the lower margin left and dated "Marac 1935" on the lef...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
German Legion 1806 - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
German Legion is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through strong line...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Two Figures on a Boat
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Two Figures on a Boat
Graphite on paper
5.75 x 6.25 inches (14.6 x 15.9 cm)
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
Contemporary 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Nude - Original Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in about 1940. Ink Drawing.
Good Conditions.
Georges Henri Tribout (1884-1962)
...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Breaking Up of the Penelope
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Breaking Up of the Penelope
watercolor on artists watercolor board, 1942
Signed and dated by the artist lower right (see photo)
Exhibitions:
Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, May 3 - June 11, 1944: "The 26th Annual Ehibition of Works by Artists and Craftsmen of the Western Reserve," , (label on verso)
Youngstown OH, The Butler Insititue of American Art, 1943: "1943 New Year Show," , (label on verso)
"Ed Dobrotka was one of comic-book illustrator Joe Shuster's early assistants. In the studio, he worked on the 'Superman' series, inking the pencils of artists including Shuster, John Sikela, Leo Nowak and Wayne Boring.
Dobrotka did do some pencilling of his own, however he returned to inking exclusively in 1945. In the following years, he worked with Sikela on the 'Superboy' series until the 1950s. He has also work on the solo 'Lois Lane...
Category
American Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Das Mondgespenst / The ghost of the moon
Located in Wien, 9
Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Garde du Corps -Kur Brandenburg, 1700-Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Garde du Corps is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through strong lin...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Du entgehst der Strafe nicht / You do not escape the punishment
Located in Wien, 9
Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Kurhessisches Corps - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Kurhessisches Corps is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
Hand-si...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Horses and Carriage - China Ink and Watercolor - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Horses and Carriage is an original artwork realized by a French artist in 1940s.
China ink watercolored drawing on ivory paper.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
'Man With Sailboat On Pier At Cedar Lake #756' original watercolor
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 10-3/4"x 8-1/4"
Frame: 17-3/4"x15-3/8"
Watercolor, stamped signature
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Geneva countryside
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Good condition
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Bacchus (1943) by Ernst Georg Heussler - Gouache 32x41 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Ernst Georg Heusser, Swiss painter with 60 auctions on the country. The oldest in 1991 ans the most recent on 2021
(1903-1982)
The work is on paper and ...
Category
Fauvist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil Pastel
Various Studies of Figures on a Boat
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Various Studies of Figures on a Boat
Graphite on paper
6 x 8.5 inches
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
Contemporary 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Jünglinge / Youths
Located in Wien, 9
Franz Rogler (1921 -1994) studied wood and stone sculpture with Wilhelm Gösser at the Graz School of Applied Arts and attended the master class for painting with Rudolf Szyszkowitz. During his studies he was drafted for military service and, together with fellow artist Hans Fronius, was deployed as a war painter in Austria, Germany, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Greece and Russia. During this time he completed studies at the Academy in Zagreb and organised exhibitions in Austria. In 1944 he deserted and managed to escape to Switzerland, where he settled in Basel after his internment and came into contact with the Swiss Surrealists of "Group 33" and with the artists Hans Arp, Max Ernst and Meret Oppenheim through his friend Regula Weilenmann. After the end of the war, he studied at the Basel Art School with Walter Bodmer and Heinrich Müller, which introduced him to Constructivist art. In 1947 Rogler returned to Graz and became a member of the Graz Secession. From 1948 to 1950 he studied at the Vienna Academy with Albert Paris Gütersloh, before returning to Graz as a freelance artist in 1950. In 1953 he received the Art Prize of the City of Graz and his works were published in the first issue of the "Surrealist Publications" edited by Edgar Jené and Paul Celan...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Regiment Provisoire Croate - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Regiment Provisoire Croate is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted thr...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Country villa
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Lifting the Torah by Ludwig Meidner - Religious scene, work on paper
Located in London, GB
Lifting the Torah by Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966)
Watercolour on paper
67 x 56 cm (26 ³/₈ x 22 inches)
Signed upper right, LM
Executed in 1943
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Soldiers - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Soldiers is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is ...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Regiment Provisoire Croate Officier - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Regiment Provisoire Croate Officier is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is dep...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
My Husbands Former Girl Friends - First Black Illustrator/ Cartoonist
Located in Miami, FL
Cuties Cartoon Strip - E. Simms Campbell
My Husband Former Girl Friends - First Black Illustrator/ Cartoonist,
Category
Contemporary 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Board
Swiss Valley
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Dancing Hassid
By Marcel Janco
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original mixed media on paper
Combining pastel, watercolor and pencil
Hand signed and dated lower right
Unique piece
Category
Dada 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Pencil
7e Hussards - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
7e Hussards is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
Hand-signed.
T...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Treno della Guardia. Ufficiale 1811 - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Treno della Guardia is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through stron...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Trees in front of the Swiss Mountains
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Pastel Portrait of a Circus Clown
Located in Hallowell, ME
Pastel Portrait of a Circus Clown
Samuel Brecher, American, (1897 - 1982)
This portrait of a clown is pastel on paper, is fully signed by Samuel Brecher and dated 1943.
This pastel painting of a clown measures 21.5 inches tall by 15.5 inches wide.
Matted in the frame the pastel portrait measures 33.5 inches tall by 26.5 inches wide.
Samuel Brecher was born in Boryslaw, Austria, a town near the Carpathian Mountains...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Antique Tuscan Terrace Landscape by R T Bickford
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4028 Italian Tuscan landscape watercolor in a period frame
Image size 9x14"
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled - Drawing by Lucio Fontana - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an original artwork realized by Lucio Fontana in 1946.
Mixed colored pencil, pastel and watercolor drawing.
Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin.
Certificat...
Category
Abstract 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
Tambour du Genie (French Army) - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Tambour is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines in well-balanced conditions.
Herbert Knotel was a german artist, son and pupil of the famous uniformologist and military historian Richard Knotel...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Grenadier Guards in Kur-Brandenburg in 1700 - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Grenadier Guards is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artw...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
beggars spanish modernism colored pencils
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ricard Opisso - Beggars - Colored pencils
Measurements drawing 21x31cm.
Frame measures 39x48 cm.
Damaged paper at bottom.
Anti-reflective glass.
Son of Alfredo Opisso y Viñas, journalist, historian and critic, and of Antonia Sala y Gil, his sister Regina Opisso, was also a writer. He comes from an enlightened family full of artists. His paternal grandfather was Josep Opisso y Roig, journalist and director of the Diari de Tarragona, father of the also writers Antonia Opisso y Viña and Antoni Opisso y Viña. His maternal great-grandfather was the painter Pere Pau Montaña, his maternal grandfather the fabulist Felipe Jacinto Sala and his maternal uncle, the painter Emilio Sala y Francés. His nephew was Arturo Llorens y Opisso, a writer better known under his pseudonym Arturo Llopis.
Although he was born in Tarragona, his family moved to Barcelona when Opisso was only two years old. In modernist Barcelona at the end of the 19th century, Opisso worked as an assistant to Antonio Gaudí in the works of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona since 1892. He was linked to the group Els Quatre Gats, along with Ramón Casas...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Naked woman from behind
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Silver wooden frame with glass pane
44 x 33 x 1 cm
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
Gentleman's Library - Fine Still Life Painting with Books & Map of Lincolnshire
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A very interesting signed and dated 1942 watercolour still life depicting the corner of a gentleman's library with books, antique map of Lincolnshire and an early wine bottle.
Very...
Category
Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
American Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
7e Hussards - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
7e Hussards is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
Hand-signed.
T...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Le 3e Régiment d'Infanterie Légère - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Le 3e régiment d'infanterie légère is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
Hand-signed.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines in well-balanced conditions.
Herbert Knotel was a german artist, son and pupil of the famous uniformologist and military historian Richard Knotel...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
'Billie the Brownie Laughing' original watercolor by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this painting, Sylvia Spicuzza demonstrates her skill as an illustration artist, representing the Milwaukee character Billie the Brownie with a growing spring of a tree. An illustration like this could grace the pages of a children's book or illustrated magazine, or as an advertisement for Schuster’s Department Store.
Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper
8 x 5.75 inches, artwork
14 x 12 inches, frame
Stamped with artist signature, below image, lower left.
Presented in a new custom frame with a gold-finish neoclassical wood moulding, archival matting and mounting materials; and UV glass to inhibit fading.
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, Art Deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso, Kandinsky and Max Ernst in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy.
Billie the Brownie was a multi-media star of Christmas in Milwaukee from the 1920s to the 1950s. Years earlier, the writer and artist Palmer Cox...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Gouache, Paper, Watercolor
7e Hussards - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
7e Hussards is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
Hand-signed.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines in well-balanced conditions.
Herbert Knotel was a german artist, son and pupil of the famous uniformologist and military historian Richard Knotel...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
The Lumber Wharf
By Gordon Grant
Located in New York, NY
Gordon Hope Grant (1875-1962) created the watercolor entitled “The Lumber Wharf” in circa 1947. It is signed in the lower left 1 inch above the paper edge. The watercolor paper size ...
Category
Naturalistic 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
German Legion - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
German Legion is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through strong line...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Church of Saint-Etienne-Du-Mont, Paris
Located in Genève, GE
Work on watercolor paper
Gray wooden frame with glass pane
94 x 73 x 3 cm
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
The Dancing Girl - Original Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
The Dancing Girl is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in about 1940. Pencil Drawing.
Good Conditions.
Georges Henri Tribout (1...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Kurhessisches Corps - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Kurhessisches Corps is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
Hand-si...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
La Torre D'Avorio - China Ink Drawing by Luigi Bartolini - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
La Torre D'Avorio is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Luigi Bartolini (1892-1963) in the 1940s.
Ink drawing on paper.
Hand-signed and titled on the lower margin.
...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
During the War - Drawing by Jean-Raymond Delpech - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
During the War is an original drawing in watercolor realized in 1941 by Jean-Raymond Delpech (1916-1988).
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. The state of preservation of the...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"New York City Skyline View from the East River, " Lionel Reiss, Jewish Artist
By Lionel Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
New York City Skyline View from the East River
Watercolor on paper
13 x 19 inches
Signed lower left
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
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Landscape - Charcoal and Watercolor By Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original Charcoal and watercolor realized by Mino Maccari in 1940s.
Good condition, hand-signed by the artis.
Some sketches of the artist on the back of the paper.
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Charcoal, Watercolor
Two Figures by the Sea, Work on paper by Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Two Figures by the Sea by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961)
Colour crayon and pencil on paper
20.3 x 26 cm (...
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Pair of Interior Scenes of a Victorian Home - Watercolor on Heavy Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately pair of watercolors by David Mode Payne (American, 1907-1985). The scene depicted is an interior of an opulent room, with finely crafted furni...
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American Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Watercolor
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