20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor on paper sold with frame Total size with frame 73x89 cm Heinrich RETTIG is an artist born in Germany in 1859 and died in 1921. His works have been sold at public auction ...

Abstract drawing on paper without frame

Here for your consideration is an original mixed media fashion illustration by the world renowned fashion artist, Kenneth Paul Block. Signed with initials bottom right. Circa 1965. ...

Woman in a Fur Wrap Pen and ink heightened with white, c. 1920 Signed in ink lower right (see photo) Estate stamp verso (see photo) Provenance: estate of the artist ...

La obra va firmada con el sello de testamentería en la parte inferior La obra se presenta enmarcada Medidas de la obra: 30 cm. de altura x 41 cm. de ancho Medidas del marco: 52 cm...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Still Life with Fruit (P1.29), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.88 cm), Description: Scattered a...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Seascape (P2.52), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 11 x 15 in. (27.94 x 38.1 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's p...

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...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Still Life with Fruit (P4.20), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 14 x 18 in. (35.56 x 45.72 cm), Description: Fill...

"King & I" Orig 1951 Broadway Drawing Published NYT Tony Awards Mid 20th Century Al Hirschfeld (1903 – 2003) "The King and I," 14 3/4 x 30 inches. Ink on board. Signed lower right. ...

Irving Lehman, Untitled (Woodland Reflection), watercolor, c. 1955. Unsigned, with the artist's estate stamp verso: 'Original Artwork By: IRVING G. LEHMAN Russian/American 1900-1982'...

Lyman Kipp Untitled drawing, 1993 Unique Colored Ink Drawing on paper with two deckled edges Hand signed, inscribed and dated by the artist on lower front 26 1/4 × 20 inches Unframed...

Color etching, edited in 1976 Limited edition of 100 copies signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner and numbered 52/100 in lower left corner paper size: 50 x 65 cm excellen...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rocky Seascape (P1.14), Year: 1957, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.88 cm), Description: Looking out onto t...

Duel is a Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in 1935. Monogrammed on the lower margin. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 1...

Simon Karczmar, Polish (1903 - 1982) Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1903, Simon Karczmar studied art in Paris, where he lived for twenty years. Although he left France for Israel in 1962, most of his work evokes his experiences in Eastern Europe. Immigrated to Israel 1962 and joined Artists' Quarter in Safed. Represented Israel at exhibitions in Mexico, Canada, U.S.A. and Europe. In this series of images known collectively as Shtetl, Karczmar draws inspiration from his childhood memories of the vacations he spent at his grandfather's house in Lithuania. The word shtetl is Yiddish for little town and refers to the villages with significant Jewish populations that could once be found throughout Eastern Europe. The nostalgia of Karczmar's renderings contrasts with the darker views of life for Jews revealed in the photographs by Roman Vishniac and drawings of Ephraim Moshe Lilien...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Pines (P5.33), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 21.5 in. (38.1 x 54.61 cm), Description: Scattered over the rollin...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Red Flowers in Vase (P1.9), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22.5 x 15 in. (57.15 x 38.1 cm), Description: Washed...

Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address. Gattus...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P5.54), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 18 x 20 in. (45.72 x 50.8 cm), Description: This view of Rockport, M...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 12.75 x 9.75 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we ...

Raymonde Heudebert 1905-1991) Study of a hand holding a cigarette Pencil on paper Annotated “Jean de Vogué” on the back Dimensions of the drawing : 26 x 27 cm Dimensions of the frame...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Salt Marsh (P6.29), Year: 1959, Medium: Ink and Watercolor on Paper, Size: 13 x 18 in. (33.02 x 45.72 cm), Description: Rendered with...

Keith Haring (untitled) 1989 drawing: This original 1980s Keith Haring drawing was executed by the artist on the occasion of Art Cologne Germany 1989. The w...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Windy Day (P6.14), Year: 1950, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 17.5 x 21.5 in. (44.45 x 54.61 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's w...

An unusual coloured line drawing of figures conversing. Signed with initials to the lower right. Beautifully presented in a stained oak frame with a white card mount. On paper.

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Tree (P5.61), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's adept...

A 1951 graphite on paper, black and white figure study of a nude male, from 1951, by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 19" x 12 1/2". Archivally matted to 24" x 20". Provenance...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Winter Trees (P2.41), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 14 x 20 in. (35.56 x 50.8 cm), Description: Illuminated by the s...

Eizo Kato: 1906-1972. Well listed Japanese artist with auction records for watercolors over $8500. This is a magnificent tropical scene, probably in Japan or another pacific island. ...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P6.39), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 16 x 11 in. (40.64 x 27.94 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's unique...

Composition is a drawing realized by Henry Wormser in the Mid-20th Century. Watercolor. Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft expressive strokes.

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Seaside (P5.6), Year: 1947, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 13 x 20 in. (33.02 x 50.8 cm), Description: The versatility of Eve Net...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P6.38), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 12 x 18 in. (30.48 x 45.72 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's portra...

The Alpine Chalets Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982) signed original watercolor painting on thick artist paper, unframed size: 10...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Yellow House (P6.44), Year: circa 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 20 in. (38.1 x 50.8 cm), Description: Situated on a s...

Magnificent French watercolor of a crystal blue waterfall spilling out from a rocky crevice by artist J. Aucante-Roy, circa 1920. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper disp...

Lourdes is al watercolor and tempera drawing on ivory-colorated paper, realized by Anonymous Artist of the 20th Century. In very good conditions. Illegible signature on the back of...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P5.57), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 20 x 15 in. (50.8 x 38.1 cm), Description: Bursting with color and ba...

Francesco Spicuzza (American, 1883-1962) Untitled Landscape, 20th century Pastel on paper Sight size: 24 x 30 in. Framed: 26 1/4 x 32 3/8 in. Signed lower right: Spicuzza Italian-born Francesco Spicuzza was primarily a Wisconsin painter who did portraits, still-lives and local landscapes. He spent the first part of his life in near-poverty to become a painter. An eternal optimist, in 1917, the artist reported: "I am happy and my only ambition now is to paint better and better until I shall have reached the measure of the best of which I am capable." (Spicuzza, 1917, p. 22). His predilection for beach scenes germinated early: reportedly, the five-year-old boy first drew the outlines of his father's fishing boat in the sand on the seashore near their home in Sicily. After setting himself up as a fruit peddler in Milwaukee, Spicuzza's father sent for his family when Francesco was eight years old. For the following six years the boy was unable to attend school because of his job in his father's fruit and vegetable business. The poor lad suffered a caved-in shoulder from carrying a heavy wooden crate. The young Spicuzza was aided by moral and financial support from a sympathetic Milwaukee businessman named John Cramer, publisher and editor of the Evening Wisconsin, who raised Spicuzza's salary as a newspaper assembler so that he could attend school. In 1899 or 1900, Spicuzza began studying drawing and anatomy under Robert Schade (1861-1912), a painter of panoramas who had been trained in Munich under Carl Theodor von Piloty. Spicuzza was also taught by Alexander Mueller (1872-1935), a product of the Weimar and Munich academies. Mueller realized Spicuzza was a colorist and encouraged that orientation (Madle, 1961). Spicuzza found it beneficial to accept an apprenticeship in a lithographic studio for $8 a week, which demanded most of his time. During the St. Louis Universal Exposition in 1904, still a struggling student, Spicuzza attended the fair, thanks to Cramer. It was not long before Spicuzza received a twenty-five dollar portrait commission, and this inaugural success led to new commissions and allowed him to continue as a painter. The earliest influences in his work appear to be from Edward H. Potthast and Maurice Prendergast, though Spicuzza never mentioned either artist. Already in August 1910, Spicuzza was described in a newspaper as "one of the most talented of Milwaukee's rising workers." He undoubtedly received lasting inspiration from his one summer study period in 1911 with John F. Carlson at the Art Students League's Summer School in Woodstock, New York. Certainly Spicuzza would have picked up spontaneity in handling the brush from Carlson. Although he executed numerous still-lives and an occasional religious work, Spicuzza is best known for his Milwaukee beach scenes populated with frolicking bathers in multi-colored attire, not unlike the images of Potthast, who used a similar technique. Many of these are small, preparatory works on canvas board executed between 1910 and 1915. Frequently with even greater animation than Potthast, Spicuzza produced moving images of youthful energy and uninhibited child's play. These beach genre scenes reflect the attitude of American impressionists who depicted the more pleasant side of life. Spicuzza manipulated a successful balance of rich pigment applied in varying degrees of impasto texture with subtle nuances of hue. Working all'aperto, he sought "the soft enticing shades of yellow, blue, green, pink and lavender . . . to get the effects of bright glistening summer air." (L.E.S., n.d.). As a painter whose color not only derived from direct observation but also from a personal theory of color symbolism, Spicuzza traded the linear approach of lithography for dynamic patches of brilliant color. Like Prendergast, he would often tilt the angle of the picture plane to bring the viewer's position above the scene. Spicuzza was unable to enter the 1913 Armory Show or the Panama-Pacific International Exposition two years later but he did submit work to the annual exhibitions of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and those of the Art Institute of Chicago. His first important award was the bronze medal presented by the St. Paul Institute in 1913, which was followed by the silver medal two years later. Before long, Spicuzza had acquired a greater sense of security in his profession and was described by a writer in International Studio (April 1917) as "an independent artist with an assured future. His pastels and water-colours are poetic and joyous bits of nature with a genuine out-of-door feeling." In 1918, his Spirit of Youth, exhibited at the National Academy of Design, sold for $112.50. Four years later, the artist achieved his greatest local recognition by winning the gold medal from the Milwaukee Art Institute. Spicuzza spent a great deal of time painting en plein air and by 1925 he began summering at Big Cedar Lake, near West Bend, Wisconsin to gather his subject matter. Easter Morning (1926) owes something to the Symbolist movement, with its figure of Christ appearing over a seascape. During the difficult era of the Depression, patrons came to Spicuzza's aid and during the 40s, he taught housewives, businessmen and students at the Milwaukee Art Institute, the Milwaukee Art Center, and in his private studio. In the following decade, although his kind of art was no longer popular in the "make-it-or-break-it" New York gallery world, Spicuzza enjoyed regular patronage and sales. His beach scenes became more static and he would experiment with modernist techniques. Spicuzza died at the age of seventy-eight. Sources: L.E.S., "Do Colors Change a Person's disposition? Experiments of a Milwaukee Artist...

Provencal Landscape by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998) signed and dated 45' From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947 watercolour painting on paper, unframed meas...

A fabulous pair of early, coloured oleographs, originating from India. Oleographs are chromo lithographs that have been coloured to look like oil paintings. In the case of these two...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - House with Banisters (P1.32), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15.5 x 22 in. (39.37 x 55.88 cm), Description: Vie...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Red Flowers in Vase (P1.21), Year: 1956, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Reflecting the sunlight, the apple green vase...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - City Street Corner (P1.24), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.88 cm), Description: Looking ...

Signed and dated to the lower left-hand corner. Presented in a card mount and in a light wooden frame, as shown. On watercolour paper.

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Forest (P2.59), Year: 1959, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 27.94 cm), Description: Leaning to the left, the a...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Central Park and Ballerina (71), Year: 1958, Medium: Two Side Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 in. x 22 in. (38.1 cm x 55.88 cm), Descripti...

Figures is an original modern drawing in pencil and pastels on paper realized by O.Roche in 1938 Sheet dimension: 25 x 32 good conditions except for a cutaway at the top margin tha...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Red and Yellow Flowers, Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 20 in. x 14 in. (50.8 cm x 35.56 cm), Description: Flowing out of t...

Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Center Right Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Johhny Carson on `The Tonight Show...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Portrait of a Blonde Woman (P1.4), Year: 1961, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22.5 x 15 in. (57.15 x 38.1 cm), Description: This sumptuous portrait of a woman with cropped, curly blonde hair is imbued with luxury and elegance. As she lifts her hands to her shoulder, the woman's decadent fur robe...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Bridge in Central Park and Manhattan View from Brooklyn (70), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 15 in. x 22 in. (38.1 cm x 55.88 cm)...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - View from Docks (P2.50), Year: 1947, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 7 x 9.5 in. (17.78 x 24.13 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's...

Cart with Oxen is an original modern artwork realized in the half of the early 20th Century. Original mixed media artwork: tempera, watercolor, china ink and pencil on cardboard. V...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - River Side (57), Year: circa 1961, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 15 in. x 22 in. (38.1 cm x 55.88 cm), Description: Bobbing beside the moor...

Rosy ANDREASI-VERDIER (1934-2015) Mode drawing : Elegant Short Dresses Original gouache and watercolor drawing Bears the "Rosy Andreasi Verdier" Archives stamp bottom left...