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Period: 20th Century
Landscape Watercolour, Lake and View to the Mountains
Located in Cotignac, FR
Watercolour landscape of a lake and surrounding mountains by Nano. The painting is signed bottom left and presented in a fine period gilt frame under glass.
This painting portrays a...
Category
Romantic 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Mid Century French Study of a Seated Nude Woman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Nude Study
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 25 (height) x 19 (width)
Stamped: Ver...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
$183 Sale Price
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Gentlemen and Scottie dog at Chess Board, Study for Maxwell House Coffee
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Charcoal on Paper
Sight Size 18.00" x 34.50", Framed 23.5" x 40.25"
This is a preliminary drawing. It’s a masterful drawing that was mounted lo...
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20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Boats at the Dock
By Stephen Seymour Thomas
Located in Dallas, TX
gouache with pen and ink
signed "Seymour Thomas" at lower right
Category
Academic 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Pen
1940's French Fashion Illustration - Elegant Three Women Face Portraits
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas.
The painting, executed in gouache and pencil, double sided
The sketch is original, v...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Lucien Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950) Portrait of a Lady, signed pastel
Located in Paris, FR
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950)
Portrait of a Lady
Signed upper right
Pastel on paper
46 x 38 cm
Framed under glass: 57.5 x 50 cm
The vintage frame is not in perfect ...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
British Impressionist Painting Religious Figures Exiting The Church
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
signed original watercolour painting on artistic paper, unframed
size: 10 x 14 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Maine Lighthouse, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Maine Lighthouse (66), Year: 1957, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 19 in. x 24 in. (48.26 cm x 60.96 cm), Description: Looking up at the floc...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Very Finely Drawn 1930s Figure Study of a Young Male Nude Model (Torso Study)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Very Finely Drawn 1930s Figure Study of a Young Male Nude Model (Torso Study) by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An early charcoal drawing by Haydon...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Vintage Watercolor Landscape - Trader's Market
Located in Houston, TX
Vivid and bright watercolor of merchants gathered to trade cloth by French artist Stéphane Magnard, circa 1950. Magnard was the resident artist in Madagascar then a French possession...
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing (Male Model, Foot)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study of a Male Foot by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early 1930s charcoal study highlighti...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Dorothy Dehner, Mid Century Modern signed abstract sculptural drawing, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Dorothy Dehner
Untitled Mid Century Modern abstract sculptural drawing, 1955
Marker and graphite on paper
Signed and dated by Dorothy Dehner in black felt tip pen on the front
Frame ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Graphite
Maine, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Maine (P6.41), Year: 1947, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 19 in. (38.1 x 48.26 cm), Description: Looking out over a group of...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Autumn Forest - Mid Century Abstracted Fauvist Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century fauvist watercolor landscape with lush, vivid trees and distant houses by Emily Shotwell Goeller-Wood (American, 1887-1965). Presented in a rustic giltwood frame...
Category
Fauvist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,320 Sale Price
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"NY Street Signs" Mid-20th Century WPA 1938 Modernist Abstract Realism Pop Art
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
"NY Street Signs" Mid-20th Century WPA 1938 Modernist Abstract Realism Pop Art
Stuart Davis (American, 1892-1964) "Street Signs" Modernist gouache and traces of pencil on paper in the proto-pop art style Davis is celebrated for, 1938, signed to lower right, framed. Image: 11 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches. Frame by Bark: 18 1/2 x 22 inches.
LITERATURE: A, Boyajian, M. Rutkowski, Stuart Davis, A Catalogue Raisonne, Vol. 2, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007, vol. II, p. 632, no. 1232, illustrated.
EXHIBITIONS: ACA Galleries, New York American Artists' Congress: Group Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Dec. 3-16, 1939 (SDAB I, 12/3/39, p. 129). Outlines Gallery, Pittsburgh, Stuart Davis, Mar. 3-16, 1946. Coleman Art Gallery, Philadelphia, 5 Prodigal Sons: Former Philadelphia Artists: Ralston Crawford, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Julian Levi, Charles Sheeler, Oct 4 - 30, 1947 (pamphlet), no. 12.
PROVENANCE: The artist; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bowles, New York, Apr. 3, 1956; thence by descent, Private Collection, New York.
NOTES: According to the Catalogue Raissonne, "the title 'Street Signs' is recorded in the artist's account books...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Pencil
Owl, Circa 1970 - Op Art-Inspired Geometric Composition
Located in Firenze, IT
Owl, Circa 1970 - Op Art-Inspired Geometric Composition
Date: Approximately 1970
Medium: Gouache on cardboard with embossed stamp
Dimensions: H 64 cm x W 49 cm approx.
A stylized o...
Category
Op Art 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Cardboard
Mid Century French Portrait Study of a Seated Nude Woman with Hands in Hair
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seated Nude Woman
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black pen on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Dated 1946
Size: 11 (height) x 8.5 (width...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
On the Top, People Crossing the Mountains, Montana Western Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
On the Top, Montana, 1952
Watercolor and gouache on board
Signed and dated lower right
22 x 30 inches
25.5 x 34 inches framed
Frank Nelso...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Beachside Village, Maine, 20th century landscape watercolor, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
George Gustav Adomeit (American, 1879-1967)
Beachside Village, Maine
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
10 x 14 inches
17.75 x 21.75 inches, framed
A major painter of American ...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century Place du Tertre and Sacre Coeur
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: Place du Tertre and Sacre Coeur, the Roman Catholic Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
signed lower right
watercolour and gouache painting on ar...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
$555 Sale Price
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Mid Century French Illustration Sketches - blue square
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed
pastel/watercolor on paper, unframed
painting: 13 x 19.5 inches
good condition
provenance: from the artists estate, France
Josin...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor
$144 Sale Price
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Original, signed, Amadeo Modigliani drawing of Mme Anka Zberowska in pencil
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
This is a very exciting and very rare signed drawing by Amadeo Modigliani of Mme Anka Zberowska. Madame Zberwoska was the daughter of a Polish aristocrat who, with her husband, arri...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Fauvist Watercolor Landscape with Weeping Willow Tree
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid, imaginative colors whirl and swirl together to form this whimsical Fauvist abstracted landscape watercolor, featuring a beautiful weeping willow tree...
Category
Fauvist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$316 Sale Price
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Figure - Original Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original Drawing in watercolor on creamy-colored paper realized by an anonymous artist in the Mid 20th century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is represented posing nude...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Impressionist scene of sheep grazing in an open pasture
Located in Harkstead, GB
A really atmospheric impressionistic image of sheep grazing in an open pasture with wonderful effects of light and shade.
John Robert Keitley Duff (1862-1938)
Sheep grazing
Signed w...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$220 Sale Price
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Mid Century French Original Pastel Drawing of Sunlit Garden with Stone Wall
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Original Pastel Drawing of Sunlit Garden with Stone Wall
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper
Size: 19.75 (height)...
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Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: E...
Category
Renaissance 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
$1,880 Sale Price
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Nude - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1965
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1965.
Hand signed lower left. Dated on rear.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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
Untitled Floral Still Life
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful floral still life by American artist Jane Piper (1916-1991) . Pastel, oil crayon and pencil on tracing paper. Image measuring 13 x 15.5 inches in ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Parchment Paper, Crayon, Pastel, Pencil
$1,200 Sale Price
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B, Modern Abstract Tempera Painting by Yasmin Brandolini
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large minimal abstract painting on paper by Yasmin Brandolini.
Artist: Yasmin Brandolini d'Adda, South African/Italian (1929 - )
Title: B
Year: 1984
Medium: Tempera on Paper, sig...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera
"Central Park" Leon Dolice, New York Central Park Scene, Mid-Century
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
Central Park
Signed lower left
Watercolor on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the young ma...
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American Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
American 20th century night time landscape painting of Gstaad by Horton, pastel
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
William Samuel Horton (American, 1865–1936)
Early Morning Moon Set, Gstaad
Pastel on paper
Signed lower right ‘W. S. Horton’, further signed and inscribed ‘Paysage / early morning mo...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Mid Century Modern British 'What's the Time?' by British German Kapp, 1975
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Eduard Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978)
What’s the Time?
Pen and crayon, tondo
Signed and dated ‘Kapp 75’ (in the centre)
8.1/2 x 8.1/2 in. (21.6 x 21.6 cm.)
Edmond Kapp was born in Islington, London, on 5 November 1890, of American and German Jewish parentage. He gave himself the middle initial ‘X’ – sometimes said to stand for Xavier – to distinguish himself from his father Emil Kapp, who was a wine merchant. However, his parents called him ‘Eddie’ while his wife and friends knew him as ‘Peter’.
During his early years, Kapp was continually ill and, while convalescing, entertained himself by drawing at home. As his health improved, he attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Islington (1903-10), with periods at Berlin University (1909) and L’Institut Français pour les Etrangers, Paris (1909). He then read Languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1910-13), though spent most of his time writing and drawing.
Kapp took a studio in London, and worked intensively until the outbreak of the First World War, contributing to the Daily News, the Onlooker and other periodicals. During the war, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front, and then in Intelligence, rising to the position of Staff Captain on Haig’s Staff. Finally, he founded and directed the Neutral Press Counter-propaganda Section.
In 1919, Kapp returned to London and, after abortive periods at three art schools, worked alone. In that year, he made his name with an exhibition of caricatures, held at Furst’s Gallery, London, and accompanied by a catalogue introduced by Max Beerbohm. This soon led to contracts with three London periodicals and a book of caricatures, Personalities, published by Martin Secker. Through the 1920s and 30s, his drawings of musicians and other personalities appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, most notably Time & Tide; were collected in further volumes; and were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. He considered himself to be a ‘character-portraitist’, producing images of psychological not satirical power, and disliking the term ‘caricature’.
Between the wars, Kapp developed other aspects of his artistic talents, the desire to study and the search for subject matter often taking him abroad. For instance, work at the British Academy, Rome, under Antonio Sciortino...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Field of Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor Painting by Charles Levier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Levier, French (1920 - 2003)
Title: Field of Flowers
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Watercolor, signed l.l.
Image Size: 22 x 25.5 inches
Size: 20.5 in. x 35 in. (52.07 cm x...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Frank Brangwyn Painting Mural Study Christ's Hospital West Horsham England 1912
Located in Portland, OR
FRANK BRANGWYN ( U.S./U.K./Belgium, 1867-1956) watercolor, gouache, and charcoal on paper, "The Scourging of St. Alban," study for the mural painted for Christ's Hospital, West Horsh...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
1920's Elegant Couple in the Snow - Original handsigned watercolor - 1930
By Marcel Bloch
Located in Paris, IDF
Marcel BLOCH
1920's Elegant Couple in the Snow
Original watercolor with gouache enhancement
Handsigned bottom left
c. 1930
On vellum 35 x 24 cm at view (c. 14 x 10 in)
Information ...
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Art Nouveau 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
French Impressionist Watercolor of Venetian Cityscape with Tower and Canal
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Watercolor of Venetian Cityscape with Tower and Canal
By Maurice Mazeilie (French 1924-2021)
Medium: Watercolor on paper, unframed
Size: 9.75 x 6.5 inches...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Dorothy Fitchew - 20th Century British Watercolor Illustration of Flower Fairies
By Dorothy Fitchew
Located in London, GB
DOROTHY FITCHEW
(1889-1975)
“I Must Go Seek Some Dewdrops Here,
And Hang a Pearl in Every Cowslip’s Ear.”
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II, Scene I
Signed l.l.: DOROTHY FITCHEW
...
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Realist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Historic Miniature Watercolor of Gatehouse of Bristol Cathedral c. 1156
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Historic Miniature Watercolor of Gatehouse of Bristol Cathedral c. 1156
by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist
Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed
Measurements: ...
Category
English School 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$77 Sale Price
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1900's, English Impressionist Watercolor Painting Spring Field
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Spring Fence
English school, early 1900's
original watercolor painting on artists paper, unframed
overall paper size: 11 x 7.75 inches
Double sided
From a large private collection ...
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
A Compelling, Surrealist 1946 Mid-Century Modern Still Life by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Compelling, Surrealist 1946 Mid-Century Modern Still Life Drawing by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A visually striking, finely executed charcoal drawing o...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Jose antonio, Martes 7 de julio, Figurative painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper, Crayon
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940) Poèmes magyars
Located in Paris, FR
Felician Myrbach (1853-1940)
Poèmes magyars, Magyar poems
bears the monogram "M" on the lower left, titled in the upper right
Ink on paper
29,8 x 19,8 cm
in good condition, the sheet is slightly yellowed
In a modern frame : 33 x 23 cm
This is an illustration project by Felician Myrbach for François Coppée's work, "Poèmes magyars". He leaves the space to be occupied by the text blank on the sheet and arranges his composition accordingly. It is interesting to see the artist imagine his drawing with this constraint.
Felician Myrbach (also Felicien de Myrbach, Felician von Myrbach, from 1919 Freiherr von Rheinfeld) was born on 9 February 1853 in Zalishchyky, he died 14 January 1940 in Klagenfurt
He was an Austrian painter, graphic designer and illustrator. He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession and the director of the Applied Arts School in Vienna (now the University of Applied Arts Vienna), and was instrumental in the creation of the Wiener Werkstätte.
Myrbach's father was Franz Myrbach (1818–1882), the Administrator of Bukovina in 1865–70. His older brother Franz Xaver (1850–1919) was an economist and professor at the University of Innsbruck. He attended the Theresian Military Academy in 1868–71, graduating as a Leutnant, then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna under August Eisenmenger. In 1875, he joined the 19th Feldjäger Battalion, and in 1877 became an Oberleutnant in the Military Geographic Institute, then, after campaigning in Bosnia in 1878, he taught drawing at the Infantry Cadet School in Vienna. He continued his artistic studies under C R Huber. In 1881, he went on military leave and moved to Paris, retiring totally from the military in 1884 as a Hauptmann, 2nd Class. He stayed in Paris until 1897, working as an illustrator, including illustrating the works of Alphonse Daudet, Victor Hugo and Jules Verne.
Myrbach was a founding member of the Vienna Secession in 1897. In the same year, he became the a professor of the Applied Arts School at the Museum of Art and Industry; Arthur von Scala, another reformer Modernist, was made head of the Museum. In 1889, Myrbach became the director of the school. He brought an enthusiastic Modernist attitude and encouraged an integration between art, design and production. He added Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann to the staff, amongst other Secession artists. This would lead to the foundation of the Wiener Werkstätte in 1903. Myrbach leant more towards an aesthetic approach than von Scala, but both worked together to bring about their combined vision of successful, popular Austrian applied art. Myrbach was a voice for reform towards Modernist ideals in the School, which was started 1899 with the support of Alfred Roller, and completed by 1901.The reform of the school has been described as his "lasting merit".
Ludwig Hevesi called Myrbach "probably the best [illustrator] in Vienna", partially for his work (with Moser) in the Secession magazine Ver Sacrum.
Myrbach visited America on a state-funded study trip in 1904, part of which was to represent the Applied Arts School at the 1904 World...
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Art Nouveau 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Maurice Mazeilie, French Impressionist Watercolour - Two Figures At The Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Watercolour Beach Scene"
by Maurice Mazeilie (French)
Watercolour painting on paper, unframed
Stamped verso
Painting: 4.25 x 5.5 inches
A delightful original oil painting by the 2...
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
In the Art Gallery, Early 20th Century Watercolor, Women Viewing Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Jules Andre Smith (American, 1880-1959)
In the Art Gallery, 1936
Watercolor and pen and ink
Signed Andre Smith, 1936 lower right
10.75 x 8.5 inches
20.25 x 17.25 inches, framed
Jule...
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen, Ink, Watercolor
Boat in the lake in windy weather, Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
40.3 x 49 x 3.5 cm
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
CLAES-THOBOIS Albert. Statue. Pastel. Signed and dated 1929.
Located in Paris, FR
CLAES-THOBOIS Albert
Statue. Pastel. Signed and dated 1929.
Provenance : Collection of the mistress of the artist.
Born in Ixelles in 1883, Claes-Thobois studied at the Academy of Brussels under Constant Montald...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Humorous Gentleman's Magazine cartoon Dancing School
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Cartoon sketch, ca. 1955. Pencil on paper, sheet measures 8.5 x 11 inches. Unsigned with editor's notations.
From a group of sketches meant to be preliminary drafts for editor appro...
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
$125 Sale Price
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Fishermen at the Shore in Concarneau - France Landscape by M. Saint-Guily
Located in Soquel, CA
Fishermen at the Shore in Concarneau - Seascape after Edouard Doigneau
Fishermen at the Shore in Concarneau - France Landscape by M. Saint-Guily. Lively watercolor of boats at the s...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Caricature of Giovanni Spadolini - Drawing by Emilio Giannelli - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Caricature of Giovanni Spadolini is a modern artwork realized by the Artist Emilio Giannelli.
Black and white drawing
Hand signed on the lower margin
Includes frame: 34 x 24 cm
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
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
$1,880 Sale Price
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Erotic - Drawing by Maurice Vertès - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic is an original pencil drawing realized by Maurice Vertès in 1930s.
The little drawing is in good condition on a yellowed paper.
On the back the stamp of the collection by Comtesse Anna Laetitia...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
'Vestal Virgin', Danish Modernism, Art Deco Figural, Mythological, Neo-classical
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'F. Sedivy' for Franz Sedivy II (Danish, 1888-1973) and dated 1959.
A dramatic figural painting of a young woman, shown naked and holding aloft an earthenware oil...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite, Gouache, Paper
Still Life - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970.
Hand signed lower left. Date on rear,
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Erotic Drawing n. 17 - 1930s - Marcel Vertès - Ink - Modern
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Drawing n. 17 is an original black China ink drawing on "British" ivory-colored paper. Hand-signed "Vertés" in black China ink on the lower righ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Illuminated Monte Carlo Casino at Night Vintage French Watercolour Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Monte Carlo Casino
Tony Minartz (French, 1873 - 1994)
watercolour on artist paper
painting : 16.5 x 12.75 inches
Provenance: private collection in the South of France,
Condition: ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$1,158 Sale Price
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Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Modern
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Telephone Pole Worker
38 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches
Oil on pap...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Dressing Up
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Norman Meredith was British painter and illustrator, born in Liverpool (1909 - 1985) England. He studied at the Liverpool College of Art. He subsequently won a scholarship to the Ro...
Category
Realist 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1900's English Impressionist Watercolor Painting Stunning Sunflowers Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sunflowers on the Beach
English School, early 1900's
original watercolor painting on artists paper, unframed
overall paper size: 7.75 x 11.25 inches
From a large private collecti...
Category
20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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