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Period: 20th Century
'Reclining Nude' Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, Carmel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Reclining Nude' Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, Carmel
Signed lower right, 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955.
Winner of...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
German Expressionist drawing by Carl Hofer of one of his models
By Carl Hofer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Carl Hofer (German, 1875 – 1955)
Das Modell (The artist’s model)
Black crayon on paper
Signed with monogram ‘CH’ (lower right)
18 x 14.1/8 in. (45.8 x 36 cm.)
Provenance: These works come from the artist’s second wife Elizabeth and from then by descent.
Carl Hofer was a German expressionist painter and the director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. One of the most important painters of the Expressionist movement, his work was among those that was considered degenerate art by the Nazis. He studied in Karlsruhe under Hans Thoma. He first visited Paris in 1899 making acquaintance with Julius Meier-Graefe. In 1902 he studied in Stuttgardt and became friends with the sculptor Hermann Haller...
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Expressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Norman Adams RA Abstract Modern British Watercolour The Sound of Scarp (c.1980)
Located in London, GB
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Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Villeneuve-lès-Avignon Watercolor of Medieval Tower and Riverside Village
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Villeneuve-lès-Avignon Watercolor of Medieval Tower and Riverside Village
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper
Size:...
Category
French School 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
French Watercolor of La Baie de Port-Cros in Provence with Sailing Boats
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of La Baie de Port-Cros in Provence with Sailing Boats
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, mount...
Category
French School 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
"Casper" Diana Kurz, New York Female Abstract Expressionist Gouache on Paper
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Casper
Gouache on paper
11 x 17 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England and then ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Man in Raincoat, Vintage Modern Watercolor Painting
By John Dobbs
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstracted portrait of a man in a raincoat by artist John Dobbs. This impressionistic depiction of the subject allows for stylistic references to Monet, and Sisley.
John Barnes Dobbs, a determinedly figurative painter who launched his career in the 1950s against the prevailing winds of Abstract Expressionism, lived to see a time when Realism would coexist with Abstraction, Minimalism, Conceptual Art and a variety of other artistic movements. On August 9 Dobbs died at his home in New York’s Greenwich Village at the age of 80.
In his final works, Dobbs’ figures appear against flat backgrounds, iconic as the images on tarot cards: acrobats, boxers and contortionists, struggling against the physics of their own bodies and that of the universe.
Dobbs had many solo shows at galleries, universities and museums. His work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio, and the Salon Populiste in Paris. Dobbs’ paintings are part of the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; the Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; the Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH and the Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MA.
From 1972 to 1996, he was a Professor of Art at John Jay College, City University of New York. He was a member of the National Academy, to which he was elected in 1976.
Born in 1931 in a small house by the Lackawanna Railroad...
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Contemporary 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Male Lying Nude - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
This is a drawing from the artist's sketchbooks. This pencil drawing shows a nude male in repose, The drawing is dated November 30 '36 (1936). Clearly the works are authentic and this sketch is signed "Jackson Lee Nesbitt...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
Man sitting with a cigarette, black stone on paper, siigned
Located in PARIS, FR
Rudolf Schlichter (1890-1955)
Man sitting with a cigarette
Black stone on paper
Signed "R. Schlichter" at the bottom right
51 x 30 cm
Small damages o...
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, India Ink
Fruit Still Life, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Fruit Still Life (P5.19), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 10.5 x 14 in. (26.67 x 35.56 cm), Description: Arranged arou...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled
By Hans Hofmann
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) was a pre-eminent figure of postwar American art and one of the most important artists (and instructors) of the 20th century. Born in Germany, Hofmann immigr...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
$16,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid 20th century French Original Line Drawing sketch Nude Female- Stamped
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait sketch
original drawing by Jean-Paul LE VERRIER (1922-1996)
studio stamped
pencil drawing on paper, unframed
Double sided
10.5 x 8.25 inches
provenance: private collection ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
French Watercolor of "Château de Saumur: Riverside View"
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of "Château de Saumur: Riverside View"
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, unframed
Size: 20 x 1...
Category
French School 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
'Chinatown San Francisco at Twilight', French School (circa 1950s)
Located in London, GB
'Chinatown San Francisco at Twilight', ink and gouache, diptych on card stock, French School (circa 1950s). This artwork was discovered in Paris, France. The unnamed artist skilfully captured that magical moment at dusk when light is at its most beautiful. The scene is Chinatown, San Francisco in the 1950s. The Far East Café, depicted in this artwork was established in 1920. It is the oldest banquet-style Chinese restaurant in the city. Of course, Chinese cuisine in large cities in America has since moved on from the chop suey...
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
$1,313 Sale Price
20% Off
An Afternoon Cafe Scene of Figures Engaged in Conversations French Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Landscape
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper
Size: 7 height) x 9 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Provenance: All the pa...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Oil Refinery, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Oil Refinery (P1.12), Year: 1959, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.88 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's abi...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Historic Miniature Watercolor of Christmas Steps and St Bartholomew’s Hospital
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Historic Miniature Watercolor of Christmas Steps and St Bartholomew’s Hospital
by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist
Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed
Measure...
Category
English School 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Industrial Landscape'
By Wesley Wright
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, "Wesley Wright", and painted circa 1960.
A substantial, mid-century watercolor view of an industrial area with grain containers and smokestacks.
Category
American Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Original French Textured Equine Study of a Horse
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original French Textured Equine Study of a Horse
Artist: Robert Ladou (French, 1929-2014)
Medium: Acrylic and Textured Paste on Paper
Size: 14 (Height) x 14 (Width)
Signed: No...
Category
Academic 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Vintage French Watercolour Painting Scenic View of Monaco’s Coastline
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Monaco’s Coastline
Tony Minartz (French, 1873 - 1994)
signed watercolour on artist paper
painting : 12.5 x 17 inches
Provenance: private collection in the South of France,
Conditio...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century French Ink Studies of Study of Female Faces
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Ink Studies of Study of Female Faces
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Ink on paper
Size: 7 (height) x 5.75 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condi...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
"Streetscape" American Scene WPA Social Realism Mid 20th Century Industrial
Located in New York, NY
"Streetscape" American Scene WPA Era Social Realism Mid 20th Century Industrial
Herbert Heyel (American 1907-2000)
"Streetscape"
14 x 20 inches
Watercolor on paper, c. 1939
Signed l...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Study for "Lucifer"
Located in New York, NY
This drawing by James Childs is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
“Stone Wall”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a beautifully executed watercolor of a bucolic New England series of village houses by the American artist, Gary Shepard. ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,800 Sale Price
35% Off
Modern Dancers
By Mick Micheyl
Located in London, GB
'Modern Dancers', pastel, ink and gouache on fine art paper by French artist, singer and sculptor, Mick Micheyl (1964). Two elegant young men are depicted in a graceful dancing pose, arms outstretched, their lithe bodies so agile and limber. Perhaps one of the dancers was her friend, Philippe, to whom the painting is dedicated on the bottom. The dedication says: 'For you Philippe, all my friendship'. Signed: 'Mick Micheyl'. The work has been newly framed and glazed after having been acquired in the S. of France. It is in fair vintage condition commensurate with age showing minor blemishing on the paper. Upon request a video of the piece can be provided.
Dimensions with Frame:
H 75 cm / 29.5"
W 61 cm / 24"
Dimensions without Frame:
H 56 cm / 22"
W 42 cm / 16.5"
About the Artist: Mick Micheyl (1922 - 2019) was born in Lyon and had a busy and rewarding artistic career as a singer, producer, reviewer, metal sculptor, artist. After having received training at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon she became a painter and decorator in the theatre but then commenced a career in the musical activities of a theatrical troupe. She won the ABC competition in Paris in 1949 with a song, Le Marchand de Poésie, which she composed herself. She then performed in many cabarets: L'Échelle de Jacob, Harlequin and Liberty's. In the 1950s she was one of the most important French cabaret singers of that period. One of her titles, 'Un Gamin de Paris', became one of the French standards and also performed by Yves Montand and Robert Clary...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Gouache
$2,189 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Charcoal and watercolor drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Sacré-Coeur Montmartre at Willette Square Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre at Willette Square, Paris', gouache on art paper (circa 1930s), by Lucien Génin. Created by the Director of Public Ways and Promenades under Napoleon III, Sq...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$2,298 Sale Price
20% Off
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Deer Dance, painting by Tonita Pena, Santa Fe, Cochiti, Pueblo, male, female
Tonita Peña (born 1893 in San Ildefonso, died 1949 in Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico) was born as Quah Ah (meaning white coral beads) but also used the name Tonita Vigil Peña and María Antonia Tonita Peña. Peña was a renowned Pueblo artist, specializing in pen and ink on paper embellished with watercolor. She was a well-known and influential Native American artist and art teacher of the early 1920s and 1930s.
Tonita Peña was born on May 10, 1893, at San Ildefonso Pueblo, to Ascensión Vigil Peña and Natividad Peña of San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. When she was 12, her mother and younger sister died, as a result of complications due to the flu. Her father was unable to care for her and she was taken to Cochití Pueblo and was brought up by her aunt Martina Vigil Montoya, a prominent Cochití Pueblo potter. Peña attended St. Catherine Indian School in Santa Fe.
Edgar Lee Hewett, an anthropologist involved in supervising the nearby Frijoles Canyon excavations (now Bandelier National Monument) was instrumental in developing the careers of several San Ildefonso “self-taught” artists including Tonita Peña. Hewett purchased Peña's paintings for the Museum of New Mexico and supplied her with quality paint and paper. Peña began gaining more notoriety by the end of the 1910s selling an increasing amount of her work to collectors and the La Fonda Hotel. Much of this early work was done of Pueblo cultural subject matter, in a style inspired by historic Native American works, however, her use of an artist's easel and Western painting mediums gained her acceptance among her European-American contemporaries in the art world. At the age of 25, she exhibited her work at museums and galleries in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque area.
In the early 1920s, Tonita did not know how much her painting sold for at the Museum of New Mexico, so she wrote letters to the administrators because a local farmer was worried that she got paid too little.
In the 1930s Peña was an instructor at the Santa Fe Indian School and at the Albuquerque Indian School and the only woman painter of the San Ildefonso Self-Taught Group, which included such noted artists as Alfonso Roybal, Julian Martinez, Abel Sánchez (Oqwa Pi), Crecencio Martinez, and Encarnación Peña. As children, these artists attended San Ildefonso day school which was part of the institution of the Dawes Act of 1887, designed to indoctrinate and assimilate Native American children into mainstream American society.
In 1931, Tonita Peña exhibited at the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts which was presented at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City. Works from this exhibition were shown at the 1932 Venice Biennial. That year is the only time Native American artists have shown in the official United States pavilion at that biennial, and Tonita Peña's paintings were part of that exhibition.[1 Her painting Basket Dance, that had shown in the Venice Biennial was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York for $225. This was the highest price paid up to this time for a Pueblo painting...
Category
Tribal 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Juventus Football Player, Champions League Final vs Ajax, 1996 - 101 x 72 cm
Located in Firenze, IT
Juventus Football Player, Champions League Final vs Ajax, 1996 - 101 x 72 cm
Technique: Charcoal on paper, signed and dated '96
Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 - Albissola, 20...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Provence Watercolor of Sunlit Roussillon Ochre Cliffs
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Provence Watercolor of Sunlit Roussillon Ochre Cliffs
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper
Size: 16.25 x 12.25 (heig...
Category
French School 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers"
by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century)
signed bottom right
watercolour on paper, unframed
painting: 8 x 5.5 inches
Delightful early 20th century Fre...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century French Portrait Seated Figures with Hat and Loose Shirt
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seated figure
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black pen on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Size: 12 (height) x 8.5 (width)
Condition: G...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Edgar Chahine Etching of a Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. 20th Century
Edgar Chahine Etching of a Woman
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Etching
Giorgio de Chirico ( 1888 - 1978 ) - Coloured lithograph on paper - 1969
Located in Varese, IT
Coloured lithograph on paper, edited in 1969.
Limited edition of 90 copies, numbered as 54/90 in lower left corner.
Paper size: 61 x 81 cm
Framed size: 76 x 96 cm
Very good conditio...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
A Striking Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Seated Female Nude by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Seated Female Nude by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Completed in the 1960s, this compelling studio ink drawing is executed in ...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
French Watercolor of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Rhône River with Fishing Boat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Rhône River with Fishing Boat
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, mou...
Category
French School 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Little witches 5
Located in Genève, GE
Erotic scene
Work on paper
Wooden frame with glass pane
46.6 x 37.5 x 1.2 cm
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
British Impressionist Painting Fishermen With Their Nets Out
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
Signed original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 10.5 x 14 inches
condition: overall very good, minor w...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Nude - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by Sergio Barletta - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original painting in watercolor and pen on paper applied on brown cardboard, realized by Sergio Barletta, hand-signed.
In excellent conditions.
Sheet dimension: 24 x17 ...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Couple - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1958
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1958.
Hand signed and dated lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
View of Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1980.
Hand signed lower left. Date on rear,
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Reclining Female Nude
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Reclining, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower left, unframed. 18" H x 24" W. Provenance: From a 35 East 7...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Feeling of spring. Paper, pastel 21x23 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Feeling of spring. Paper, pastel 21x23 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painte...
Category
Realist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Falcon on Branch" Grey Tonal Painting of a Falcon Perched on a Branch
By Kaiko Moti
Located in Houston, TX
Grey tonal painting of a Falcon perched on a branch. The work is framed in a silver frame with a white matte. The artist signed the work in the bottom right corner.
Artist Biograph...
Category
Naturalistic 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Aquatint
Rockport, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P5.52), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15.5 x 21 in. (39.37 x 53.34 cm), Description: Moored along the wate...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Ghost and the Wheel - Drawing by Mino Maccari - mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
French Watercolor of Château d'Azay-le-Rideau with Riverside Details and Boat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of Château d'Azay-le-Rideau with Riverside Details and Boat
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, ...
Category
French School 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Pin Up Girl in Red Dress, Mid-Century, Female Artist
By Pearl Frush
Located in Miami, FL
The Pin-Up of ravishing young beauties in mid-century America was a widely popular art form. The assumption that Pin-Up art was the exclusive domain of men is a misnomer. Female illu...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
Fritz Brunner (1908-1996) - Framed 1981 Gouache, Summer Trees
Located in Corsham, GB
This expressive gouache painting depicts a grove of trees in the summer heat. The artist Fritz Brunner (1908-1996) uses bold, gestural brush strokes to capture the scene.
Presented ...
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Elui with World Record Cow Elephant Tusk, 47 lbs., Marsabit Forest, Kenya – Art
By Peter Beard
Located in Zurich, CH
PETER BEARD (1938–2020, USA)
Elui with World Record Cow Elephant Tusk, 47 lbs., Marsabit Forest, Kenya, 1962/2006
Color print with gelatin silver print collage, watercolor, tempera paint, ink
Sheet 141 x 108,6 cm (55 1/2 x 42 3/4 in.)
Unique
Signed recto and verso in ink
Peter Beard (1938–2020) was an American artist who lived and worked in New York and Kenya. In Africa Peter Beard found the central theme of his life, the destruction of the natural animal world by man and civilization. His photographs of Africa, African animals and the journals that often integrate his photographs have been widely shown and published since the 1960s.
Inspired by earlier trips to Africa in both 1955 and 1960, Beard traveled to Kenya upon graduation. Working at Tsavo National Park, he photographed and documented the demise of 35,000 elephants and other wildlife, later to become the subject of his iconic book, “The End of the Game...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Color, Silver Gelatin
French Watercolor of "La Grosse Cloche, Bordeaux" with Architectural Detailing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of "La Grosse Cloche, Bordeaux" with Architectural Detailing
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper,...
Category
French School 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Steps of St. Peter's, Rome - Original Watercolor, Framed
Located in New Orleans, LA
Provenance: Ex. Wykeham Galleries, Stockbridge, England
Dennis Page was a polymath, creating the Esso "Tiger" campaigns that ran around the world as an advertising star, while using...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Presents for George, Mary & Gladys, 1930s art deco poster design
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Presents for George, Mary & Gladys
Gouache and collage
46 x 33 cm
c.1930
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Mid Century French Ink Illustration of a Woman Carrying a Jug and Bags
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Ink Illustration of a Woman Carrying a Jug and Bags
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Ink and Paper
Size: 7.5 (height) x 5.25 (width)
Sta...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
"Hydrangeas, " Walter Inglis Anderson, Mississippi Southern Illustrator, Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Walter Anderson ( American, 1903 - 1965)
Hydrangeas, circa 1950
Mixed media on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
Provenance:
Luise Ross Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New Jersey
Acquired from the estate of the above, 2021
Walter Anderson firmly believed that quality art was an important part of life and should be made available to everyone. As he said, "There should be simple, good decorations, to be sold at prices to rival the five-and-ten." Noticing that only poor quality art was available in stores and little was available for children, he resolved to make art which could be reproduced easily and sell inexpensively — linoleum block prints. This technique enabled him to provide affordable, quality art.
The technique of linoleum block printing is a simple concept; however, it requires much skill and talent to actually produce memorable art. Anderson purchased surplus "battleship linoleum," thicker than ordinary linoleum with a burlap backing for better support, to create his blocks. During the mid-1940s, he created almost 300 linocuts working in the attic of the sea-side plantation house, Oldfields, his wife's family home in Gautier. Masses of linoleum chips accumulated at the foot of the attic stairs as he often worked night and day. He began with sketching out a design directly on the linoleum. Once he had carved the image into the surface, he used the back of faded, surplus stock wallpaper that a friend sent him, laying long strips on top of the inked linoleum. A roller made of sewer pipe filled with sand served as his press. When the print was completed, he often colored it by hand with bold strokes and vivid colors. The prints were sold at Shearwater Pottery, the family business, for a mere dollar a foot.
But "what about a well-designed fairy tale for a child's room?" he asked himself. Since there was a lack of affordable art for children, much of his work with linoleum blocks focused on subjects for children. He depicted fables and fairy tales ranging from Arabian Nights, to Germany and the Grimm Brothers' Rapunzel, to the French story of The White Cat, to the Greek tales such as Europa and the Bull, and to tales from China, India, and other cultures. Anderson also created "mini" books featuring the alphabet and Robinson Cat. The blocks are not only alive with the story being depicted, but they are also filled with designs taken from Best-Maugard's Method for Creative Design. Swirls, half-circles and zig-zag lines fill every available space on the linoleum block making them come alive and capture their audience.
But fairy tales, children's verses and the "mini" books, consisting of about 90 blocks, were not the sole subject of Anderson's linoleum block prints. In total, he created approximately 300 linoleum blocks with subjects ranging from coastal flora and fauna, coastal animals, and sports and other coastal activities. Anderson even created linoleum blocks to be used to print tablecloths and clothing, some worn by his own children. Color and subjects of the linoleum block prints were not the only things that got them noticed.
In 1945 when Anderson was creating these prints, the standard size of linoleum block prints was only 12 by 18 inches. These small dimensions were due to the common size of the paper available and the restrictions made by national competitions. Since Anderson used wallpaper...
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