Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Portrait is an original Drawing on paper realized by the painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934). Drawing in Pencil. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions except for aged ...

Signed lower right, 'Arthur Dawson' (American, 1857-1922) and painted circa 1915; additionally inscribed, verso, 'The Stream'. Bearing old framing label: Ferguson Art Shop, Flint, Mi...

Sketch in The Garden is an original drawing in Ink and Watercolor in the first half of the 20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through strong strokes and harmoni...

The Family Scheme is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953). Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin. In good condit...

Girls is an original artwork realized by Erhard Klepper in the early 20th Century. Original black and white china ink drawing. The artwork repr...

A charming watercolour scene by British artist Frederick William Booty (1840-1924), depicting the bustling streets of Rouen. Dominating the artist's paper is a detailed study of the Gros-Horloge. A 14th century astronomical clock...

Charles Edward Brittan (1870-1949). Original watercolour. A moorland scene with sheep grazing. Smartly mounted in a wooden frame. Signed to the lower left. On paper.

Figures is an original Drawing on paper realized by the painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934). Drawing in Pencil. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions except for aged m...

Portrait of Young Woman is an Original Pastel Drawing, realized in the 20th Century Henri Gervex (1852-1929). The status of preservation Good. The artwork is depicted skillfully th...

The Conversation is an Original China Ink Drawing realized by Hermann Paul (1864-1940). Good condition on a white paper. Hand-signed and titled on the lower margin. Hermann René ...

Three studies of a woman in movement is an original black charcoal drawing on thick serrated sheet on the left side, realized at the beginning o...

A pencil sketch by famed American Modernist Joseph Stella, who burst on to the American scene at the epochal Armory Show of 1913 and whose work is today in the collections of every m...

Scenography is an original watercolor drawing on cream-colored paper applied on a white Passepartout, realized by The French artist Auguste Leroux ( Par...

Jules Cheret (1836-1932) Three studies of women charcoal on paper signed on the bottom left 39 x 24.5 cm This drawing of studies was part of the artist's workshop as so it bears the...

Simkhovitch was a celebrated artist in New York City from the 1920's through the 1940's. Life Magazine did a story on him and he was having great success in the New York Galleries. ...

Hand signed lower right: “F. Depero”. Certificate of authenticity by the Archive of Fortunato Depero. There are different versions of drafts that the Italian artist Fortunato Depero realized before the final Collage poster...

GEORGE SHERINGHAM (1884-1937) The War Birds Signed and inscribed with title on a label on the backboard Watercolour and gold paint on silk, semi circle shape, in artist’s decorated mount Framed 24 by 47.5 cm., 9 ½ by 18 ¾ in. (frame size 46 by 71 cm., 18 by 28 in.) Exhibited: London, Leicester Galleries. Sheringham was born in London, the son of the Rector of Christ Church, Marylebone. He studied at the Slade under Henry Tonks and later in Venice, Brussels, Berlin and Paris, holding his first one-man exhibition in Paris in 1905. On his return to London he initially supported himself with poster designs and teaching. Before and during World War I he concentrated much of his artistic energy on painting fan leaves, often on silk. His first exhibition of fan designs and silk panels was held at the Ryder Gallery in 1909 followed by another in the following year. With enthusiastic reviews in Studio he had launched his career as a decorative designer, theatrical designer and illustrator. Sheringham also worked as an illustrator, providing illustrations for books by Max Beerbohm and Cyrus MacMillan and others. In 1921 he collaborated with his brother Hugh on a book about fishing, The Book of the Fly Rod. He wrote Drawing in Pen and Pencil (1922), with James Laver, Design in the Theatre (1927) and with Rupert Mason and R Boyd Morrison he edited Robes of Thespis, Costume Designs by Modern Artists (1928). As a decorator, Sheringham designed the music room at 40 Devonshire House...

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...

Christ on the Cross is an original artwork realized by the Unknown Artist in the early 20th century. Original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on colored cardboard (22 x...

Study of a seated woman and body part in profile is an original sanguine drawing on sheet, realized at the beginning of the 20th Century by the artist Georges Gôbo (Saint Francisco, ...

Their Heroism is an original drawing in China ink realized in 1916 by Adolfo Brayas Bruno. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. With description on the lower and right margin ...

Figure of a woman is a pencil drawing realized by Jean Bernard on 1910 ca. In good condition, worn paper on the marginal line, and traces of old scotch on the back. Atelier's stamp...

Confidences is a beautiful artwork realized by Luigi Bompard in the 1920. Original Ink Drawing and watercolor. Signed by the artist. Good conditions except some minor foxing. I...

Bonjour Pacifiste? is an Original China Ink Drawing realized by Hermann Paul (1864-1940). Good condition on a white paper. Hand-signed and titled on the lower margin. René George...

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"

Contrasts is an Original China Ink Drawing realized by Hermann Paul (1864-1940). Good condition on a white paper. Hand-signed and titled on the lower margin. Hermann René Georges...

Wisdom is an original drawing in pen on paper, realized in 1920 ca. by Filiberto Scarpelli (Naples, 1870 - Rome, 1933). Published on Italian magazine "la guerra dell’asino". Includ...

Edward Dufner is one of America's finest American Impressionists. This is an exceptional work by him. The technique is exquisite with the brushwork being refined and sophisticated,...

The Conversation is an Original China Ink Drawing realized by Hermann Paul (1864-1940). Good condition on a white paper. Hand-signed and titled on the lower margin. Hermann René ...

The Meeting is an Original China Ink Drawing realized by Hermann Paul (France, 1864-1940). Good condition on a white paper. Hand-signed and titled on the lower margin. Hermann Re...

"Costumes" is an original watercolor drawing on ivory-colorated paper by Anonymous Artist of XX Century. In excellent conditions:, Sheet dimension: 31.5 x 23 cm. Illegible Hand-...

Sketches for female nudes is an original artwork realized by Jean Dreyfus-Stern in 1916. Pencil of paper. Hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the lower margin. Dated in pencil...

A sensitively drawn and highly-detailed study for a three-panel set of stained glass windows showing the ascension of Jesus by angels and mortals. Initialed, lower right, 'EB-J', an...

Paul-Emile Lecomte (1877-1950) Landscape by he river Signed lower right watercolor on paper 11.5 x 13.5 cm Framed : 23 x 29 cm Paul Emile Lecomte particularly excelled in small-...

Louis Wolchonok (1898 - 1973) Gondolas at the Dock, Venice, Italy, 1928 Watercolor on paper Sight 18 x 23 1/2 inches Signed and dated lower right Louis Wolchonok was an author of ar...

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...

Pioneering Woman Illustrator Margery Stocking Hart draws a pen-and-ink story depicting a round table of predators encircling a vulnerable bunny rabbit. ...

Black Shirt is an ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953). Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin. In good condition, ...

There is no More Religion is an original watercolored ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953). Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin...

French Countryside Landscape is an original China Ink drawing and watercolor realized by a french artist of the 20th century. Good condition on a brown paper. Illegible signature.

The Dancer is an Original Pencil Drawing and Watercolour realized by Maurice Van Moppes. The artwork represents a young lady with her costume. Good condition, included a white card...

JAMES JOSHUA GUTHRIE (1874-1952) The Sower Signed with monogram l.r., inscribed with title l.c. Watercolour, bodycolour and pen and ink 21 by 15.5 cm., 8 ¼ by 6 in. (frame size 39.5 by 33 cm., 15 ½ by 13 in. Provenanace: Pickford Waller...

After the Cure is an ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953). Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin. In good conditio...

Untitled Pastel on paper, 1922 Signed with the artist's initials in pencil Provenance: Estate of the artist Francis M. Nauman (label) Private collection, NY A very early abstract/cubist work by Kelly. Created while the artist was studying with Arthur Carles in Philadelphia. Leon Kelly (October 21, 1901 – June 28, 1982) was an American artist born in Philadelphia, PA. He is most well known for his contributions to American Surrealism, but his work also encompassed styles such as Cubism, Social Realism, and Abstraction. Reclusive by nature, a character trait that became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be limited by the trends of his time. His large output of paintings is complemented by a prolific number of drawings that span his career of 50 years. Some of the collections where his work is represented are: The Metropolitan Museum in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Boston Public Library. Biography Kelly was born in 1901 at home at 1533 Newkirk Street, Philadelphia, PA. He was the only child of Elizabeth (née Stevenson) and Pantaleon L. Kelly. The family resided in Philadelphia where Pantaleon and two of his cousins owned Kelly Brothers, a successful tailoring business. The prosperity of the firm enabled his father to purchase a 144-acre farm in Bucks County PA in 1902, which he named "Rural Retreat" It was here that Pantaleon took Leon to spend every weekend away from the pressures of business and from the disappointments in his failing marriage. Idyllic and peaceful memories of the farm stayed with Leon and embued his work with a love of nature that emerged later in the Lunar Series, in Return and Departure, and in the insect imagery of his Surrealist work. "If anything," he once said,"I am a Pantheist and see a spirit in everything, the grass, the rocks, everything." At thirteen, Leon left school and began private painting lessons with Albert Jean Adolphe, a teacher at the School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) in Philadelphia. He learned technique by copying the works of the old masters and visiting the Philadelphia Zoo, where he would draw animals. Drawings done in 1916 and 1917 of elephants, snakes and antelope, as well as copies of old master paintings by Holbein and Michelangelo, heralded an impressive emerging talent. In 1917, he studied sculpture with Alexander Portnoff but his studies came to an abrupt halt with the start of World War I. Being too young to enlist, he joined the Quartermaster Corp at the Army Depot in Philadelphia, where he served for more than a year loading ships with supplies and, along with other artists, working on drawings for camouflage. By 1920, the family's fortunes drastically changed. His father's business had failed due to the introduction of ready made clothing and his marriage, unhappy from the beginning, dissolved. Broken by circumstance Pantaleon left Philadelphia to begin a wandering existence looking for work leaving Leon to support his mother and grandmother. He found a job in 1920 at the Freihofer Baking Company where he worked nights for the next four years. Under these circumstances Leon continued to develop his skills in drawing and painting and learned of the revolutionary developments in art that were taking place in Paris. During the day he was granted permission to study anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Osteopathy where he dissected a cadaver and perfected his knowledge of the human figure. He also met and studied etching with Earl Horter, a well known illustrator, who had amassed a significant collection of modern art which included work by Brancusi, Matisse, and Cubist works by Picasso and Braque. Among the artists around Horter was Arthur Carles, a charismatic and controversial painter who taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Leon enrolled in the Academy in 1922, becoming what Carles described as, "his best student". In the next three years Leon work ranged from academic studies of plaster casts, to pointillism, to landscapes of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, as well as a series of pastels showing influences from Matisse to Picasso. Clearly influenced by Earl Horter's collection and Arthur Carles he mastered analytical cubism in works such as The Three Pears, 1923 and 1925 experimented with Purism in Moon Behind the Italian House. In 1925 Kelly was awarded a Cresson Scholarship and on June 14 he left for Europe. Paris The first trip to Europe lasted for approximately three and a half months and introduced Kelly to a culture and place where he felt he belonged. Though he returned to the Academy in the Fall, he left for Europe again a few months later to begin a four-year stay in Paris. He moved into an apartment at 19 rue Daguerre in Paris and began an existence intellectually rich but in creature comforts, very poor. "I kept a cinderblock over the drain in the kitchen sink to keep the rats out of the apartment" he once explained. He frequented the cafes making acquaintances with Henry Miller, James Joyce and the critic Félix Fénéon as well as others. His days were split between copying old master paintings in the Louvre and pursuing modernist ideas that were swirling through the work of all the artists around him. The Lake, 1926 and Interior of the Studio, 1927, now in the Newark Museum. Patrons during this time were the police official Leon Zamaran, a collector of Courbets, Lautrecs and others, who began collecting Kelly's work. Another was Alfred Barnes of the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. In 1929 Kelly married a young French woman, Henriette D'Erfurth. She appears frequently in paintings and drawings done between 1928 and the early 1930s. Philadelphia The stock market crash of 1929 made it impossible to continue living in Paris and Kelly and Henriette returned to Philadelphia in 1930. He rented a studio on Thompson Street and began working and participating in shows in the city's galleries. Work from 1930 to 1940 showed continuing influences and experimentation with the themes and techniques acquired in Paris as well as a brief foray into Social Realism. The Little Gallery of Contemporary Art purchased the Absinthe Drinker...

Waves 1913 Inscribed in ink and pencil, recto; Extensive notes in pencil, verso Watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper 3.5 x 5.5 inches This work is offered by ClampArt in N...

Austro-Hungarian Soldiers is an original mixed media drawing in pencil and pen realized by Gabriele Galantara, the state of preservation of the artwork is good. The artworks represe...

Christ Crucifixion is an original drawing on paper in pencil mounted on greyish cardboard Passepartout: 28.9 x 19 cm, realized by an anonymous Italian artist of the Early 20th Centu...

"Elegant Ladies" is an original watercolored ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953) in 1920s. Hand-signed in pen o...

Two Men is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934). Hand-Signed by the artist on the lower left corner. Good condition included a qhite cardboar...

A lady with a porcelain-delicate toasty face, enchants with playful and refined coquetry. The lively movability of the artist's stroke conveys with all tangibility the reflections and the play of light on the surface of the blue satin, and the airiness of the underwear. The professionalism of this work captures with its imagination, grace and harmony of colors. By an unidentified professional painter, vintage pastel drawing...

Rudolf SCHLICHTER (1890-1955) Seated man ; head studies India ink on paper Signed "R. Schlichter" at the bottom right 59 x 46 cm Missing at the top l...

Portrait of Christ is an original artwork realized by the Unknown Artist in the early 20th Century. Original pen drawing on ivory-colored paper,...

Provencal Landscape by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998) signed with initials, dated 1943 watercolour painting on paper, unframed measurements: 10 x 14 inches provenance: private coll...

Portrait is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Paul Charles Delaroche (1886-1914). Hand-signed and dated on the lower left in pencil. The state of preservation is v...

This soft and inviting work is the first in a series of abstractions. Walkowitz utilises innovative drawing techniques, the side of the pencil becomes a valuable tool in creating a b...

Figure is an original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper realized by An anonymous artist in the Mid 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork is represented posing nude thr...

CLAUDE ALLIN SHEPPERSON, ARA, ARWS (1867-1921) Petrushka – Scene from the Ballets Russes Signed l.l.: Shepperson Watercolour over traces of pencil Framed 30.5 by 45.5 cm., 12 by 18 in. (frame size 52.5 by 66 cm., 20 ¾ by 26 in.) Provenance: Richard C Davis...

Woman is an original drawing in ink realized in the early 20th Century by Louis Emile Adan (1839-1937). Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted thr...

A beautiful antique original watercolor of the Dutch landscape. I apologize for the reflections on the glass - this piece comes already framed and behind glass, in an antique wood fr...

Artist: Augustus Edwin John (Welsh, 1878-1961) Title: "Portrait of a Lady" *Signed by John lower right Circa: 1910 Medium: Original red and black Chalk Drawi...