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Sir Eduardo Paolozzi industrial drawings, (2 drawings), 20th Century, Scottish
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi CBE RA (Scottish, 1924 – 2005)
Industrial abstract; and another similar
Pencil, crayon and ink on paper
8 x 11.1/2 in. (20.3 x 29 cm.) (both)
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Ink, Pencil
1950s "Star Ear" Mid Century Figurative Drawing University of Paris
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Star Ear"
c.1950s
Ink on paper
Black wood frame 9.75"x17.25
Signed lower right in pencil
Came from artist estate
This striking piece of art is an original drawing by r...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Lykas, The Songs of Bilitis
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and Chinese ink on paper, signed and dated (upper right), 10cm x 17cm (30cm x 38cm framed).
George Barbier was one of the great French illustrators of the early 20th century. Born in Nantes, France on 16 October 1882, Barbier was 29 years old when he mounted his first exhibition in 1911 and was subsequently swept to the forefront of his profession with commissions to design theatre and ballet costumes...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Ink, Watercolor
Renaissance Male Hand Figure Study, 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Male Hand Figure Study
Year: circa 1964
Medium: Charcoal on vélin paper
Size: 18 x 23 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of I...
Category
Renaissance 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
'Santa Barbara Landscape', Paris, Académie Julian, LACMA, Pasadena, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'J. W. Nicoll' for John W. Nicoll (American, 1865-1943), titled lower left, 'Santa Barbara' and painted circa 1925. Sheet dimensions: 9 x 12.75 inches.
A luminous, early twentieth-century landscape showing a picturesque view of a Spanish style cottage set in a lush garden with a view beyond towards the Santa Ynez Mountains rising towards clouded, blue skies. An unusual and elegant view of old-time Santa Barbara that retains much of its crispness and freshness of color.
Born in New York, John Nicoll first studied with his uncle, the landscape painter, James Nicoll. He subsequently moved to Paris where he furthered his education for three years under Bouguereau and Ferrier at the Académie Julian. He then continued on to Seville where he studied for three years at the Academia Real, spending his winters traveling and painting in North Africa.
By 1899, Nicoll had settled in Pasadena where he painted, exhibited and taught drawing at the College of Fine Arts from 1906-1935. Upon his retirement, he moved to San Diego where he continued to paint and exhibit until his death in 1943. Over the course of a long career, James Nicoll exhibited widely and with success including at the Stickley Building, Pasadena, 1899; Blanchard Hall, Los Angeles, 1899; the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St Louis, 1904; the Ruskin Art Club, Los Angeles, 1904; Lewis & Clark Expo Portland, 1905 (Bronze Medal); the Painters Club, Los Angeles, 1906-09; the Nicholson Gallery...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
British Mid 20th Century watercolour on board still life painting of flowers
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Derrick Latimer Sayer (British, 1917 – 1992)
A vase of summer blooms
Watercolour on board
24.3/4 x 16.3/4 in. (60.3 x 42.5 cm.)
Sayer studied at the Chelsea School Art under Henry Mo...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
1964 "Tree with Blue" Pastel Impressionist Landscape Drawing NYC Female Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Edith Isaac-Rose
"Pastel Landscape Tree with Blue"
1964
Pastel on paper
11"x14" framed gold gallery frame 21.25"x1"x24"
Signed and dated lower right in pencil.
Came from a portfolio of her work.
Born in Chicago in 1929, and neé Ganansky-Teitelbaum, she graduated from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1951 and moved to New York in 1959 where she lived ever since. Taking as her professional name her parents’ first names, Edith was a prolific artist working first as an abstract expressionist then turning in the 1980s to figurative, political work consisting of drawings, paintings, and embroideries which she called “Daily Rage”.
She had been represented by the Phyllis Kind...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
French Impressionist Watercolor of a Coastal Scene with Outbuildings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Watercolor of a Coastal Scene with Outbuildings
By Maurice Mazeilie (French 1924-2021)
Medium: Watercolor on paper, unframed
Size: 4 x 6.5 inches (Height ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
ORIGINAL INK LOUIS VALTAT UNIQUE PIECE
By Louis Valtat
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
ORIGINAL INK ON PAPER
SIGNED WITH THE ESTATE INITIALS STAMP
Unique piece
Category
French School 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Forest edge at winter. 1983. Oil on cardboard, 40x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Forest edge at winter. 1983. Oil on cardboard, 40x50 cm
Winter landscape
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National University at stud...
Category
Realist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Mid 20th Century, Belgium, Antwerp Street to Cathedral of our Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Belgium. Antwerp, a Street leading to the Cathedral of our Lady
by Leonard Machin Rowe (1880-1968)
signed, inscribed and dated front lower left, signed, inscribed and dated to the b...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Large Drawing of Boy by French Armenian Modernist Jean Jansem Ecole De Paris Art
By Jean Jansem
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian) 1920-2013
Young Boy (sad young man)
Hand signed lower left corner
Provenance: Marble Arch Gallery NYC
Measurements Image size: 25 by 18 inches, ove...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
1940s WPA Era American Modern Colorado Mountain Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
This original watercolor painting by American artist Edgar Britton captures the serene beauty of a Colorado mountain landscape. Created in 1946, this piece showcases soft, airy tones...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Angelic Ruth Cobb Watercolor, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Ruth Cobb (American, 1914-2008)
Untitled, c. 20th century
Watercolor and mixed media on paper
Sight: 19 3/4 x 28 1/2 in.
Framed: 33 1/2 x 41 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.
Signed lower right
Born ...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Hasidic Boy, Judaica Portrait, Ink and Watercolor
By Mane Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Mane-Katz (1894-1962) composes an ink and watercolor portrait of a Hasidic young lad.
Signed upper right Mané-Katz, circa 1929.
Mane-Katz was a Litvak painter born in Ukraine best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe. Emmanuel Mané-Katz (Hebrew:מאנה כץ), born Mane Leyzerovich Kats (1894–1962), was a Litvak painter born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe.
Mane-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. During the First World War he returned to Russia, at first working and exhibiting in Petrograd; following the October revolution, he traveled back to Kremenchuk, where he taught art. In 1921, due to the ongoing fighting in his hometown during the civil war, he moved once again to Paris. There he became friends with Pablo Picasso and other important artists, and was affiliated with the art movement known as the School of Paris; together with other outstanding Jewish artists of that milieu, he is sometimes considered to be part of a group referred to specifically as the Jewish School of Paris. Includes painters Jankel Adler, Arbit Blatas, Marc Chagall, Jacques Chapiro, Michel Kikoine...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Early 20th Century Japanese Landscape Watercolor with Torii Gate
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century Japanese Landscape Watercolor with Torii Gate
Beautiful early 20th century Japanese landscape watercolor featuring a torii gate by Shumi...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Reclining Nude 2" Robert Gilberg 1950s Ink Brush Drawing on Japanese Rice Paper
Located in Arp, TX
Robert Gilberg (1911-1970)
"Reclining Nude 2"
c.1950s
Ink on Japanese rice paper with writing
21.75"x9.75 unframed
Signed in pencil lower right
Category
American Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper
The Boy at the Sea - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
The boy at the sea is an original drawing on pencil and pastel realized by Anthony Roaland in 1980. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
In the foregroun...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Pastel
Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study, 1964, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study
Year: circa 1964
Medium: Charcoal on vélin paper
Size: 18 x 23 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of I...
Category
Renaissance 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Sole Tree - Drawing by Mareal Abougit - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Sole Tree is a drawing realized by Mareal Abougit (1903-1985) in 1974.
Pencil, pastel and watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower left.
Good conditions with slight...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Pastel, Watercolor
Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): Bailey 1977
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait - Drawing by Nicolai Sarguir - Early-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Mirror is a drawing realized by Nicolai Sarguir in the Early-20th Century.
Charcoal ivory-colored paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through de...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
'Still Life, Plums with a Navaho Blanket', California League of Woman Artists
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Maria Winkler' (American, 20th century) and dated 1991.
Professor Emeritus of the Art Department at California State University, Sacramento, Maria Winkler earne...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Laid Paper
Piccolo Archivio - l Artwork by Leo Guida - 1988
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Piccolo Archivio is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1988 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original drawing in beautiful colored tempera o...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Cardboard
Sunflowers and Horses in Field, 20th Century Landscape Watercolor
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013)
Sunflowers in Field
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower left
12.5. ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century River Birches Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century River Birches Landscape Watercolor
Gorgeous vibrant mid century watercolor on paper painting of river birch trees by artist Eva Collins Marks (American, 20th century),19...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Study on a Mouse - Drawing by Augusto Monari - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
Study on a Mouse is a Drawing in pencil realized by Augusto Monari in 1935.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced composition.
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
An English scene of a Donkey and Rabbits in a field, with wild flowers
Located in Woodbury, CT
A wonderful English watercolor painting depicting A Donkey, Lambs and a Robin in a stable the night before Christmas..
This piece was drawn ...
Category
Romantic 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Pensiero rosa" Tecnica mista su carta cm.30 x 23 1950
By Dora Maar
Located in Torino, IT
Pensiero Rosa, splendida cornice nera 1930
Opera astratta di Dora Maar periodo dopo Picasso,queste opere descrivono gli stati d'animo e paesaggi mentali dell'artista
Dora MAAR (Pari...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Abstract Mid 20th Century WPA Non Objective American Modernism New Hope Modern
By Louis Stone
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Mid 20th Century WPA Non Objective American Modernism New Hope Modern.mixed media. 21 x 16 (sight). Housed in a hand carved frame.
Louis King Stone ...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
John Weston - Early 20th Century Watercolour, Old Montmartre
Located in Corsham, GB
This watercolour captures the charm of a Parisian street scene in the Parisian district of Montmartre. The artist skillfully renders the narrow, winding street, flanked by traditiona...
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1940's Americana WPA Modernist Watercolor Painting Catskill Mountains Bungalow
Located in Surfside, FL
Bungalow (fauvist painting of New York scene) 1940's.
image is 10X 11.5 inches. Hand signed lower right
Country Scene
Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA artist known for abstract, landscape and seascape paintings.
Arrived in the USA from Hungary in 1921 and settled in New York City where he studied at the Art Students League. Grunvald worked for the Federal Art Project, taught at Colony House in NYC. Member: Art Guild, Watercolor Society, New York Watercolor Club. exhibited at Montross Gallery, NYC, World House Galleries, NYC, Leonard Hutton Gallery, NYC, Associated American Artists Gallery and the A.C.A. Gallery. Gunvald's work spanned many modern American movements from the WPA to Abstract Expressionist painting. He was a member of the American Watercolor Society and the Brooklyn Society of Artists. He exhibited with both of these organizations and at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He was involved the the WPA being a Federal Arts Project artist. A number of prominent Jewish artists participated in this New Deal program among them Ben Shahn, Joseph Solman, William Gropper, Philip Guston Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Ben Shahn, the Soyers (Isaac, Moses, and Raphael), and many others
Grunwald exhibited alongside other popular artists such as Paul Klee, Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Charles Burchfield. He also taught and lectured on art and easel painting, Federal Art Project, NYC. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Jewish Museum, New York. Americana.
The Catskills became a major resort destination for Jewish New Yorkers in the mid-20th century. Borscht Belt is an informal term for the summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in Sullivan and Ulster counties in upstate New York which were frequented by Ashkenazi Jews. At its peak of popularity, about 500 resorts operated in the region. Later changes in vacationing patterns have led most of those travelers elsewhere, although there are still bungalow communities and summer camps in the towns of Liberty, Bethel, Monticello and Fallsburg catering to Orthodox Jewish populations. Borscht Belt, The term, which derives from the name of a beet soup popular with people of Eastern European origin, can also refer to the Catskill region itself.
In August, 1969, the Catskills were the site of a music and art festival in the town of Bethel, which had originally been planned for Woodstock, New York. Thirty-three of the best-known musicians of the era appeared during a sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers. The event, featuring liberal drug use and nudity, exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s.
Select Exhibitions
A.C.A. Gallery
Associated American Artists Gallery, 1936-1955
American Watercolor Society, 1932-1942
New York Watercolor Club, 1935-1937
Humanist Art...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
John Sergeant - 20th Century British Portrait Drawing of a Girl in a Hat
Located in London, GB
JOHN SERGEANT
(1937-2010)
Girl in a Hat
Pencil on tinted paper
Framed
24 by 18 cm., 9 ½ by 7 in.
(frame size 46 by 39 cm., 18 by 15 ¼ in.)
Sergeant was born in London, the son o...
Category
Realist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Renaissance Male Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Male Nude Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of ...
Category
Renaissance 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
'Pointillist Abstract', Paris, Étretat, New York, Whitney Museum, MoMA, PAFA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamp, verso, for Manfred Schwartz (American, 1909-1970) and painted circa 1960.
Paper dimensions: 15 x 19.75 inches.
Born in Lodz, Poland, Manfred Schwartz immigrated to Am...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Pen
"Balanced Rock" in the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO.
By Ted Lewy
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Balanced Rock" in the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO" c.1950 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Ted Lewy, 1912-1963. It is hand signed at the...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Academic Nude Study
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Turn of the century drawing signed E. Rantz on laid paper.
Watermark: Lalanne
Frame: 29 3/4 x 24
Image: 24 3/4 x 18 3/4"
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Seated Woman - Original Drawing by Louis Jou - Early 20th Century
By Louis Jou
Located in Roma, IT
Seated Woman is an Original Drawing in Pencil realized by Louis Jou (1882-1968).
Good conditions.
Hand-signed.
The Artwork is depicted through strong strokes in a well-balanced co...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Mid 20th Century Watercolour - A Piercing Stare
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking watercolour study depicting a woman draped in blue staring directly at the viewer. Her eyes are piercing and she wears a stony expression in her face. Unsigned. Presented in a rustic gilt...
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Early 20th century English portrait of a young girl, Deborah Blencowe
Located in Woodbury, CT
Louise H. "Louie" Burrell (née Luker 1873 – 1971) was an English-born artist who also lived in Canada and the United States.
The daughter of William and Ada Luker, both artists, Bur...
Category
Victorian 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Beverley - 1981 Pastel, Sunset Mountain
Located in Corsham, GB
With watercolour. Signed and dated to the lower right. Presented in a slim wooden frame. On paper.
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
The poet
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Support size
22 x 22 x 0.4 cm
Category
Italian School 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
Snowy Landscape, 1928 - signed litograph, 78x101 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Lithograph, signed lower right
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
Girl - Original Pencil Drawing by J.L. Rey Vila - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Girl is an original artwork realized by José Luis Rey Vila in 1959. Pencil drawing on paper.
Hand-signed and dated by José Luis Rey Vila on the bac...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Landscape with Cattle
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Cattle" c.1930 is a watercolor by noted American artist Raphael Senseman, 1870-1966 It is signed at the lower right ...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Douglas Sutton - Framed Mid 20th Century Watercolour, Berry Pomeray Castle
Located in Corsham, GB
An attractive view of Berry Pomeray Castle, illustrated through a blustery opening in woodland trees. Well-presented in a large hardwood frame. Signed to the lower right and dated 57...
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Artist Get a Tan - Drawing by Riccardo Origon - 1990
Located in Roma, IT
The Artist Get a Tan in an original pencil and pen drawing realized by Riccardo Origon in 1990.
Good condition, except for some stains on the back.
The little cardboard has a red o...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Pen
Agatha Christie's stables architectural design by Louis Osman FRIBA
By Louis Osman
Located in London, GB
Louis Osman was an English artist, architect, goldsmith, silversmith and medallist. He is notable for the gold coronet he designed and made for the investiture in 1969 of Charles, Pr...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Interior Navajo Trading Post, Modern Lithograph by Ira Moskowitz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Interior Navajo Trading Post, Year: 1946, Medium: Lithograph, Signed in Pencil, Size: 12 in. x 15 in. (30.48 cm x 38.1 cm), Frame Size: 18 x 21 inches, Description: This greyscale depiction of the interior space of a Navajo trading post features an Old Western...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
"San Anton Palace Malta" Early 20th Cent. Garden and Fountain Watercolor Russian
Located in Soquel, CA
A significant early 20th century landscape watercolor of the paradisical gardens at San Anton Palace in Attard, Malta by Nicholas Krasnoff, 1920 (Russian, 1864-1939). This beautiful piece is a wonderful example of the renowned Russian architect's prized watercolors, created while he was exiled to Malta in the early 1920's. Depicting a lush garden full of blooming, colorful flowers and a stately fountain at the San Anton Palace in Malta, one can see the deft hand and attention to detail rendered by the proficient artist and architect's hand.
Signed "N. Krasnoff" lower right. Titled and dated "Malta, St. Antonio 1920".
Unframed.
Measures 10.25"H x 14.25"W.
Right corner has a crease from being bent.
Nikolay Petrovich Krasnov, also known as Nicholas Krasnoff or Peter Nicholas Krasnoff, was a Russian Serbian architect and painter. He served as Chief Architect of Yalta, Crimea (1887-1899). From 1922 he lived and worked in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was a key figure in the architectural development of Belgrade. Attending the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1876, aged 12. As a young artist he received patronage from Sergey Tretyakov, brother of the founder of Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, and entrepreneur Petar Gubonyin.
In 1887 Krasnov became Chief Architect in Yalta. At the age of 23, Krasnov had large responsibility for the rapid growth of the city. He expanded the promenade, which by 1913 became the city's main street, before creating a new city plan in 1889 (including a new sewer system, planning regulations, new streets, prevention of unregulated construction, a school and children's hospital, and the construction of the Pushkin Boulevard). Two concrete bridges were built over the river, and the embankment strengthened. Krasnov also ran a private practice in Yalta until 1911. Among his most famous work is the Livadia Palace, later the location of the 1945 Yalta Conference. Designed over 60 buildings in Crimea, blending a modernist style with local traditions. Also of note: Dulber Palace, Koreiz (1895-97), Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Yalta (1902), Yusupov Palace, Koreiz (1909), Kokkoz Jami Mosque, Sokolyne (1910).
In 1913, he presented a collection of illustrations he had produced of his works to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he held the title of academician. An opponent of the Russian Revolution, he left Yalta with his family in 1919 for Malta, alongside the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, sister of Queen Alexandra, and over 600 members of the Russian aristocracy. Nikolay was in a group housed in the empty Villa St Ignatius, which had been a Jesuit college and then a hospital during World War I. To earn money, Nikolay painted many scenes of Malta, signing his paintings as N. Krasnoff. He is known as Nicholas Krasnoff in Malta. In May 2016 MaltaPost issued a commemorative set of stamps in his honor.
In 1922 Krasnov moved to Belgrade, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he became head of the Department of Monumental Architectural Developments and Monuments. His building designs in Serbia number around 60, and were created under the name Nikola Krasnov, as a mark of respect to his adopted homeland.
His key works in Belgrade include: Ministry of Forestry building (now Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (1923) which bears a memorial plaque...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Illustration Board
Hachiya Persimmons & Fan, Modern Still Life with Red-Orange and Blue
Located in Soquel, CA
Hachiya Persimmons & Fan, Modern Still Life with Red-Orange and Blue
Lovely modern still-life of a fan and persimmons by Santa Cruz, California artist Anita Heckman (American, b.20th Century). This 1987 mixed media work on paper depicts three vivid Hachiya persimmons on a windowsill beside an elegant paper fan with a tassel. A decorative window drape...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Color Pencil, Paper, Oil Pastel
JOSEPHINE BAKER .Original drawing by JEAN COCTEAU . ART DECO .
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
double portrait de Joséphine Baker by Jean Cocteau .
Ink on paper . executed in 1925-1927. 27x21cm . Framed : 45x38cm .
The authenticity of the work has been confirmed by Annie Gued...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Abstract Composition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a Color Markers Drawing and Watercolour realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Paris 1980).
Good condition.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was born ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Study for the Chairlift (Anacapri) - Drawing by Ennio Calabria - 1965
Located in Roma, IT
Study for the chairlift (Anacapri) is a contemporary artwork realized by Ennio Calabria in 1965.
Mixed colored watercolor on paper.
Hand signed, dated and titled on the lower margi...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Super hero
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
White wooden frame with plexiglass
98 x 78 x 2 cm
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
1951 Black and White Figure Study of a Male Nude by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A black and white figure study of a seated nude male, from 1951, by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size:
19" x 12 1/2". Archivally matted to 24" x 20". Provenance: Estate of the...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Untitled (P95.93) White Brown abstract
By Caio Fonseca
Located in Greenwich, CT
From his most desirable period, this restrained in color palette Fonseca is for a collector and room where sophistication is key. Long held that his works on heavy paper are the mos...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, SFAA, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamp, verso, for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and t...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Gouache, Watercolor
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