Early 1900s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

This tranquil view shows Öland’s rolling green heath at dusk, with grazing sheep and a lone windmill on the far horizon. The broad sky streaked with soft gold and blue underscores Kr...

An early 20th-century Hayley Lever watercolor depicting fishing boats docked at the St. Ives Harbor, Cornwall, England. A fine, spontaneous rendering on watercolor paper, with fresh ...

Nude of Woman Reclined On the Back of a Chair on the Right is an original drawing realized by Gustav Klimt between 1904 and 1906, probably in 1905, as stated in the Catalogue Raisonn...

A very attractive American Impressionist watercolor & gouache painting, "The Spanish Peaks" Colorado mountain landscape scene, by Charles Partridge Adams (1858-1942), circa 1900. Thi...

Watercolor and pencil on buff wove watercolor paper, 10 x 8 inches (255 x 203 mm). In good condition with overall minor toning. Some watercolor paint splatters on the verso, contem...

Image dimensions: 11x15.2 cm. Saint-Tropez is a wonderful and important original watercolor drawing realized by Paul Signac in 1900 ca.. A marine view with sailing ships is incred...

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...

Giovanni BOLDINI (Ferrara 1842 - Paris 1931) Nude from behind, presumed portrait of Lina Cavalieri (1874-1944) Graphite paper H. 280 mm; L. 255 mm Signed lower right, and dated 1901 ...

'Chinatown, San Francisco', gouache on fine art paper, by Edward Wilson Currier (1903). Spofford Alley in San Francisco's Chinatown is best known for an address (number 36) where Dr. Sun Yat-Sen plotted the overthrow of China's last dynasty. During Prohibition, it was the site of turf battles over local bootlegging and protection rackets. Today it is lined with seniors' community centres. However, the quiet alley livens up in the evenings when a Chinese orchestra strikes up a tune, mah-jongg games begin with a cascade of clicking tiles, and barbers and florists use the pretence of sweeping their doorsteps to gossip. In this artist's depiction, a man smokes a long-stemmed Chinese pipe under the awning and colourful lanterns hanging from the wooden supports while a child looks on. The artwork is interesting from several standpoints including architectural, cultural and historical. Shortly after this work was painted, the neighbourhood was completely destroyed in the 1906 earthquake that levelled most of the city. From 1910 to 1940, Chinese immigrants were detained at the Angel Island...

This drawing by Nils Kreuger, a Swedish artist born on October 11, 1858, in Kalmar and who passed away on May 11, 1930, in Stockholm, showcases a quintess...

Signed and dated impressionist landscape oil on canvas by French painter Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin. This simply stunning piece de...

Wonderful watercolor depicting a plant/flower. These were used at a Belgium University to teach the students about botany. Dating from the early 20th century. They are watercolor on ...

This exquisite watercolor by the Swedish artist Olle Hjortzberg (1872–1959) captures a serene view of Montreux, Switzerland, in July 1902. Known for his masterful use of color and li...

An unfinished but spirited plein-air composition of what appears to be the Shenandoah or Potomac River valley with the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance. Watercolor on board with...

Hayley Lever, 'After the Storm', also 'Sunny Afternoon', watercolor on watercolor paper, the full sheet, the image extending to the sheet edges; in very good condition. Signed 'Hayle...

Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854-1941) "Theatre du Chatelet" watercolor and gouache on paper signed 'E Galien Laloue' lower left, within a giltwood and gesso carved frame and behind a prot...

Ludwig von Hofmann (1861 Darmstadt - 1945 Pillnitz), Female nude from the back, around 1900. Red chalk drawing on watermarked drawing paper, 36 cm x 44 cm (sheet size). Artist's liga...

Hilding Werner (1880-1944) Sweden 

Barns Buildings at Ruds Säteri, 1900

 watercolor on paper
unframed 21.5 x 31 cm (8.46 x 12.2 inches)
 framed 22 x 40 cm (8.66 x 15.75 inches)
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Lake Aiguebelette. Watercolor located, dedicated, signed and dated 1909. Signature to decipher. Paper laminated on cardboard. Good condition. 36 x 53 cm.

The Dryads… Ancient beings of old growth forests, with wisdom of ages long forgotten, knowing much of what us busy folk have forgotten. The Forest of Arden is famously featured in S...

Portrait of a resting young lady (Marjorie Organ) Black chalk on paper. c. 1907 signed in ink by Henri's nephew, John C. LeClair, the executor of the Henri estate "Robert Henri JLC" Note: The sitter for this portrait is depicted in two drawings of similar size, illustrated in Chapellier Galleries Inc., Robert Henri 1865-1929, 1976, nos. 15 & 16. Please see the attached photo of Marjorie Organ, Henri's second wife Condition: Excellent Image/Sheet size: 10 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches Provenance: Estate of the Artist John C. LeClair, Estate Adminitrator Private Collection, Pawling, New York Biography Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 24, 1865, the son of a professional gambler and real estate developer. The family lived in Nebraska and Colorado, but fled east when the father shot and killed a rancher over a land dispute and was indicted for manslaughter. They changed their last name because of the ensuing scandal and eventually settled in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the early 1880s. In 1886 Henri enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied under Thomas Anshutz, Thomas Hovenden...

1905 Pastel on paper mounted on canvas Signed lower left “L. Lhermitte”

Academic Nude Study by E. Rantz Charcoal on laid paper signed in charcoal Lalanne Watermark, c. 1880-1900 Image: 24 3/4 x 18 3/4"

A 1901 graphite & colored pencil drawing of La Barrière, Gerberoy, by important Post-Impressionist painter Henri Le Sidaner, titled "La Barrière, Gerberoy". Drawing accompanied with...

French School circa 1900 Studies of characters, four drawings in a same frame Pencil on paper Sizes of the drawings (from left to right and from top to bottom) A couple at a table ...

A turn of the century view of the town of St. Austrell, Cornwall, in the morning mist of southern England. A beautifully subtle work, in muted earth tones, on buff wove drawing paper...

Schooners on the Coast with Rocks Tide Pools and bird by Howard Garfield Gray Schooners in the mist by artist and illustrator Howard Garfield Gray (American, 19th-20th C). Watercolor...

Portrait of A Young Woman is an original artwork realized by the French artist and illustrator René François Xavier Prinet between the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX cent...

JOSEPH PENNELL (1857 - 1926) ACAPULCO 1901-08. Colored pastel and gouache drawing on blue paper. Signed and titled in pencil in his early signature. Image 10 x 14 inches to just ab...

Untitled (Young woman seen from the back) Sanguine crayon, charcola and watercolor on paper, c. 1910 Signed with the estate stamp, Lugt 5169 lower left corner Provenance: Estate of ...

Georges Clairin Sarah Bernhardt with Flowers Original watercolor with tempera Signed bottom right On paper 47 x 25 cm at view (c. 19 x 10 in) Presente...

Karl Feiertag (c.1874-1944) was an Austrian painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski, and J...

Annie French was part of the Glasgow Girls group of artists and illustrators who worked in a delicate, feminine, and detailed Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite style. This work, "Flora," is masterfully rendered and decorated with sumptuous floral patterns in the most detailed way. It is signed twice in the upper right quadrant. The mat has a hand-painted decorative border. The work presents better in person, and the viewer can marvel at the minute detail. The Video is overexposed and light and not representative of color. Use still...

Wonderful watercolor portrait by Theodore S. Slafter. Exhibited at the Boston Art Club and housed in a period arts and craft carved frame. Slafter was born to a distinguished New Eng...

An exceptionally fine, brush and wash, mythological figural study showing a centaur interrupting the playing of his pan pipes to cast a speculative eye towards a dancing nymph. Datin...

Serene depiction of a Whaling shack circa 1900 near Davenport, California attributed to Lillian Josephine (Dake) Heath (19th century). Monogram on Verso "J. H. 1900". Dated and initialed on verso "J. H. Feb. 1900" Presented in a new white mat with foam core backing. Mat size: 14"H x 18"W Paper size: 9.25"H x 13.25"W Lillian Heath was one of the Jolly Daubers at the turn of the 19th-century and as a young student, married the senior artist and instructor, Frank Heath...

Karl Feiertag (c.1874-1944) was an Austrian painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski, and J...

Robert Henri Self Portrait / Sketch on verso Estate stamped lower right Ink on paper, graphite on paper 12 1/2 x 8 inches Born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio, Robert Henri became one of the leading personalities in American art, known for his teaching skills, ethnic portraits, especially spirited children, and insistence that artists should adhere to social realism and give rein to their own artistic instincts. During his growing up years, he lived between Cincinnati and Cozad, Nebraska, founded by his father John Jackson Cozad, a gambler and real estate promoter. When Robert was about 10 years old, his family moved to Cozad in Dawson County. Tension existed between John Cozad and the established ranchers who resented development, and a rancher attacked Cozad, who in self defense shot the man to death. Fearing for his life, he, his wife and two sons sneaked out of town and re convened in Atlantic City where they disguised their identity by taking other names. The father was later cleared of the charge, but he changed his name to Richard H. Lee, and passed his two sons off as adopted children named Frank Southern and Robert Henri. Robert chose a variation of his middle name to rhyme with "buckeye" to symbolize his Ohio roots. From Atlantic City, as a young man, he attended boarding school in New York City. He, having shown early art talent, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as a student of Thomas Anschutz and Thomas Hovenden...

Here for your consideration is a well executed watercolor of a bucolic landscape scene with figures by the British artist, Henry John Kinnaird. Signed lower left. Title inscribed lower right. Circa 1908 when the artist moved to Sussex to live and paint. Condition is excellent. Framed in a beautiful contemporary white gold antiqued gallery frame. Under glass. Overall framed measurements are 28 by 40 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector. Henry John Kinnaird British, (1861-1929) “A View near Harting...

Karl Feiertag (c.1874-1944) was an Austrian painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski, and J...

Born in Amsterdam in 1868, Hendrick Maarten Krabbe attended the Academie des Beauz-Arts d’Amsterdam where he studied with August Allebe. Krabbe was known for his genre paintings, por...

Carcassonne Citadel, France - Pastel Drawing by Charles Sumner Schneider Dramatic black and white pastel drawing of Carcassonne Citadel, France by Ohio...

Karl Feiertag (c.1874-1944) was an Austrian painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski, and Josef Mathias Trenkwald. He wo...

Beautiful 1903 impressionist fragment of a California landscape by Karl Yens (1868-1945, German). Watercolor on paper, created in 1903. Presented in...

Karl Feiertag (c.1874-1944) was an Austrian painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski, and Josef Mathias Trenkwald. He wo...

A fine, circa 1907, Edwardian pencil / charcoal drawing. Executed by Maria Cowell nee Sayer, it depicts a portrait of Decima Moore - an actress and Suffragette. A very striking and f...

Karl Feiertag (c.1874-1944) was an Austrian painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski, and Josef Mathias Trenkwald. He wo...

Signed lower right, 'George H Harrington' (American, 1833-1911) and painted circa 1900. A substantial and animated coaching scene enlivened by the artist's acute and humorous observation of character and fine equestrian painting. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, George Harrington is known for his, often humorous, anecdotes of American life in the pre-industrial age. His subjects included polo matches, carriage rides and coaching scenes, and pastoral landscapes. After a professional career in business, Harrington studied art and subsequently became a successful landscape and equestrian painter. He exhibited widely and with success including at the National Academy of Design (1888), the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Boston Athenaeum and at the Boston Art Club of which he was a member. Reference: Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, page 1465; A Biographical Index of American Artists, Ralph Clifton Smith...

Stunning pointillist landscape oil on panel by French neo-impressionist painter Achille Lauge. The work depicts a path leading to the small village of Belveze du Razes in the South of France on a bright spring day. To the left are white blossom trees in bloom and the houses of the village can be seen in the distance. Signature: Signed and dated 1909 lower left Dimensions: Framed: 28"x36" Unframed: 21"x29" Provenance: We kindly thank Mme. Nicole Tamburini for allowing us to state that the work is included in the Catalogue Raisonne of the artist which she is currently preparing. A certificate of authenticity from Mme. Tamburini is available upon request. Achille Laugé...

An initialed, Turn-of-the-century pencil drawing of a seated woman by listed, multi talented French artist, Louis Valtat (1869-1952). Titled on the reverse Élégante Assise (Seated El...

To see more, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." Reginald Hallward (1858 - 1948) Design for a church wall painting (1904) Penci...

Signed with stamp, J.V. 7-5/8" x 4-3/4" art 19" x 15-1/4" frame Jacques Villon (French, 1875 - 1963) French painter, printmaker and illustrator. The oldest of three brothers who became major 20th-century artists, including Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, he learnt engraving at the age of 16 from his maternal grandfather, Emile-Frédéric Nicolle (1830-94), a ship-broker who was also a much appreciated amateur artist. In January 1894, having completed his studies at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, he was sent to study at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris, but within a year he was devoting most of his time to art, already contributing lithographs to Parisian illustrated newspapers such as Assiette au beurre. At this time he chose his pseudonym: Jack (subsequently Jacques) in homage to Alphonse Daudet’s novel Jack (1876) and Villon in appreciation of the 15th-century French poet François Villon...

Signed and dated "H. Pyle 1901" lower right corner Title-page illustration published in The Odes and Epodes of Horace, (Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1901). A beautiful and detailed...

A fantastic original painting on paper by an unknown but highly talented artist. This work is signed lower right what appears to be Chappell, although the exact artist has not been ...

Signed lower right, 'Elizabeth Gowdy Baker' (American, 1860-1927) and painted circa 1910. Exhibited: New York Watercolor Club, Circa 1900 After graduating from Monmouth College, Elizabeth Gowdy Baker furthered her studies at New York's Cooper Union...

A turn-of-the-century fantasy illustration by female illustrator May Audubon Post features a charming fairy with expanded wings resting on Lilly s...

Themistokles von Eckenbrecher (1842 Athens - 1921 Goslar), Norwegian pine grove, 1901. Watercolor on blue-green paper, 30 x 22 cm. Signed, dated and inscribed in his own hand "TvE. Fagermes [i.e. Fagermes]. 26.6.[19]01." - Slight crease throughout at left margin, otherwise in good condition. About the artwork Themistokles von Eckenbrecher often traveled to Norway to study the nature that fascinated him there. On June 26, 1901, near the southern Norwegian town of Fagernes, in the summer evening sun, he saw a small pine grove, which he immediately captured in a watercolor. He exposed the trees growing on a small hill in front of the background, so that the pines completely define the picture and combine to form a tense motif. The tension comes from the contrast of form and color. The trunks, growing upward, form a vertical structure that is horizontally penetrated by the spreading branches and the pine needles, which are rendered as a plane. This structural tension is further intensified by the color contrast between the brown-reddish iridescent trunks and branches and the green-toned needlework. Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, however, does not use the observed natural scene as an inspiring model for a dance of color and form that detaches itself from the motif and thus treads the path of abstracting modernism. Its inner vitality is to be brought to light and made aesthetically accessible through the work of art. It is precisely in order to depict the inner vitality of nature that von Eckenbrecher chooses the technique of watercolor, in which the individual details, such as the needles, are not meticulously worked out, but rather a flowing movement is created that unites the contrasts. The trees seem to have formed the twisted trunks out of their own inner strength as they grew, creatingthose tense lineations that the artist has put into the picture. The inner strength continues in the branches and twigs, culminating in the upward growth of the needles. At the same time, the trunks, illuminated by the setting sun, seem to glow from within, adding an almost dramatic dimension to the growing movement. Through the artwork, nature itself is revealed as art. In order to make nature visible as art in the work, von Eckenbrecher exposes the group of trees so that they are bounded from the outside by an all-encompassing contour line and merge into an areal unity that enters into a figure-ground relationship with the blue-greenish watercolor paper. The figure-ground relationship emphasizes the ornamental quality of the natural work of art, which further enforces the artwork character of the group of trees. With the presentation of Themistokles von Eckenbrecher's artistic idea and its realization, it has become clear that the present watercolor is not a study of nature in the sense of a visual note by the artist, which might then be integrated into a larger work context, but a completely independent work of art. This is why von Eckenbrecher signed the watercolor. In addition, it is marked with a place and a date, which confirms that this work of nature presented itself to him in exactly this way at this place at this time. At the same time, the date and place make it clear that the natural work of art has been transferred into the sphere of art and thus removed from the time of the place of nature. About the artist Themistocles' parents instilled a life of travel in their son, who is said to have spoken eleven languages. His father, who was interested in ancient and oriental culture, was a doctor and had married Francesca Magdalena Danelon, an Italian, daughter of the British consul in Trieste. During a stay in Athens - Gustav von Eckenbrecher was a friend of Heinrich von Schliemann and is said to have given him crucial clues as to the location of Troy - Themistokles saw the light of day in 1842. After an interlude in Berlin, where Themistokles was educated at the English-American School, the journey began again. From 1850 to 1857 the family lived in Constantinople, after which the father opened a practice in Potsdam, where Themistokles, who wanted to become a painter, was taught by the court painter Carl Gustav Wegener. In 1861 the von Eckenbrechers left Potsdam and settled in Düsseldorf. There Themistokles received two years of private tuition from Oswald Aschenbach, who greatly admired the talented young artist. After his artistic training, he undertook extensive travels, often accompanied by Prince Peter zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, which took him to northern and eastern Europe, but above all to the Middle East and even to South America. The paintings that resulted from these journeys established his artistic reputation and led to his participation in large panoramas such as the 118 x 15 metre Entry of the Mecca Caravan into Cairo, painted for the City of Hamburg in 1882. 1882 was also the start of a total of 21 study trips to Scandinavia, most of them to Norway, and the unique Norwegian landscape with its rugged fjords became a central motif in his work. Along with Anders Askevold and Adelsteen Normann...

Follower of Antoine Calbet. French ( b.1860 - d.1944 ). Theseus and Ariadne, Circa 1890 - 1910. Mixed Media. Watercolour, Gouache & Pastel Image size 16.5 inches x 11.2 inches ( 42cm...