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Period: Mid-20th Century
Interior (Untitled)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
nterior (Untitled), 1958, watercolor and ink on paper mounted on cardboard, signed and dated lower right, 11 ½ x 16 ½ inches (sight); 12 x 18 inches (sheet); inscribed lower left “To...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
UNTITLED
Located in New York, NY
felt tip pen on paper.
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Sleeping Nude
By Leo Brooks
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in New York City in 1909, artist Leo Brooks spent the majority of his life working as a linotype operator for the New York Times before turning to painting at the age of 60 upon...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
American Scene Industrial Modern Lamp Magazine Illustration Mid-Century c. 1930s
Located in New York, NY
American Scene Industrial Modern Lamp Magazine Illustration Mid-Century
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Oil Terminal
Lamp Magazine, published, c. 1930s.
15 3/4 X 12 inches (image)
18 X 14 inches board
Gouache on board
Signed lower right
unframed
BIOGRAPHY:
Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests.
In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s.
‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune.
Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Art Lovers and Art Critics Analyzing Obscene Painting. Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
Cartoonist Richard Taylor was trained in academic art. He frequently comments on abstract art which was the new and radical thing at the time. "Curtis sees so much more in these thi...
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Academic Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Board
A Striking Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Seated Female Nude by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Seated Female Nude by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Completed in the 1960s, this compelling studio ink drawing is executed in ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Star Time"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter 1911-2004) for the DuMont Network`s `Star Time`, broadcast from their NYC flagship station WABD (now WNYC). The hour series ran on Tuesday nights at 10 p.m. from September 5, 1950 to February 27, 1951. Depicted from left to right: Benny Goodman...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
A Fabulous, Beautifully Rendered 1945 Modern Seated Female Nude by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fabulous, Finely Rendered 1945 Modern Seated Female Nude by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). The drawing is charcoal on paper and dates from 1945. Artwork siz...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Nude - Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions.
Jean-Raymond Delpech (1988...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Henri Matisse Drawing Masque D'eskimo Crayon
Located in Dallas, TX
Henri Matisse Drawing Of An Eskimo COA By George Matisse.
Pencil on paper, 1949,
Unsigned.
Sheet size: 11.75 Inches x 9.2 Inches
Framed in Museu...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
William by Raymond Debieve, French Cubist Figurative Painting on Carton
Located in Atlanta, GA
Raymond Debieve (1931-2011)
Born in northern France as a twin to brother Michel Debieve (who also become an accomplished artist later in life), Raymond painted his entire life. His ...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
Montmartre - China Ink Drawing by A. Hallman - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Montmartre is a beautiful black China ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, made by the Swedish illustrator and reporter Adolf Reinhold Hallman around the 40s. The state of preservatio...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Nude II by Jacques Nestle Petite, blue and white modern nude painting on paper
Located in Atlanta, GA
Welcome to Heritage, our carefully curated collection of French vintage and antique paintings. We scour the flea markets and fairs for these gems: poignant portraits of long-gone Me...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Watercolor, Harbor Scene & Rooftops by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Cubist Watercolor, Harbor Scene & Rooftops by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. A vivid European harbor scene, depicting the whitewashed buildings ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
Portrait - Drawing - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original charcoal drawing on paper, realized by an anonymous artist in the Mid-20th Century.
Good conditions with some foxing.
The artwork is represented through de...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
DANCE MARATHON
By Phyllis (Pele) De Lappe
Located in Portland, ME
De Lappe, Pele (American, 1916-2007). DANCE MARATHON. Pencil, 1935. Signed in pencil. 13 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches. In very good condition, except for minor creases at the top and bottom ri...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
At the market by Jean Ducommun - Drawing 30x42 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Signed
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Academic Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
The Holy Family - Original Drawing by Giselle Halff - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Holy Family is an Original Drawing in Pastel realized by Giselle Halff (1899-1971). Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right margin.
Good conditions.
Giselle Halff (1899-...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The Caveau - Drawing in Pencil by Roger Clamagirand - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Caveau is an original Drawing in pencil on paper realized by Roger Clamagirand in the mid 20th Century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft and precise str...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Divertimento I (Picasso)
By Conger A. Metcalf
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Divertimento I (Picasso)
Graphite, color wash and oil paint on coated glossy paper, c. 1940
Signed C. Metcalf lower left (see photo)
Inscribed Matisse, Picasso, C. Metcalf lower left...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Magician - Original Drawing by Jean Effel - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Magician is an original drawing pencil on paper realized by Jean Effel (1908-1982) in the mid-20th Century. Stamp signed on the lower right.
The Person...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Machine Age Industrial WPA Era American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Machine Age Industrial WPA Era American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Elliot
17 ¼ x 35 ¾ inches
Gouache on board, c. 1930s
Signed lower left
27 x 46 in...
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Children Snow Sledding in Central Park - New Yorker Cover Study
Located in Miami, FL
Hungarian/American artist/illustrator depicts a charming scene of sledding in the snow in Central Park. The work is abstract in its design as it's functional in its narrative - Unpublished New Yorker...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
A Striking 1950s Mid-Century Modern Cubist Portrait of a Young Man
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Cubist Portrait of a Young Man by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A small gem, this charming studio portrait study is charc...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Nude - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original Charcoal and Watercolour Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed by the artist with pencil.
Mino ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era
Located in New York, NY
Outsider Folk Art American Mid-Century Naive WW2 Self Taught WPA Depression Era "Victory for Now"
Ralph Fasanella (1914-_1997) "Victory and After,” gouache on paper. Signed, titled...
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Outsider Art Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Reclining Nude Woman Covering Her Face
Located in Houston, TX
Reclining nude woman covering her face from the viewer. The work is signed by the artist. The paper is not framed.
Many others are available. Ple...
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Naturalistic Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Male Portrait
By Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique.
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance issued by Christie’s.
Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visua...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
ABSTRACT American Woman Abstract Non-objective Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing
Located in New York, NY
ABSTRACT American Woman Abstract Non-objective Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing
Irene Rice Pereira (1902-1971)
Abstract
8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
Watercolor, gouache, and ink on black paper
Signed lower right
Framed by Bark
BIO
rene Pereira was born in 1902 in Chelsea, Massachusetts and grew up in Great Barrington. She was strongly influenced by her mother who was an amateur artist. Irene began art lessons at the age of fifteen; she took a secretarial job because her father had died. She took art classes at the Art Students League in New York City. At the age of twenty-one she married the first of three husbands, Humberto Pereira, whose name she kept.
She traveled extensively in Europe and North Africa and was much inspired by the expansive vistas of the Sahara Desert. Returning to New York, she began incorporating these visions into her work, increasingly experimental in her styles and methods. At first she painted on canvas, then she devised a means of actually incorporating light into her works by painting on layers of glass and mounting the layers together.
In 1942 she married George Brown, an engineer, who helped her experiment with a variety of materials. By the 1950s she became more interested in writing poetry and, divorced from Brown in 1952, she married George Reavey, an Irish Poet...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Young Woman Sitting - Charcoal Drawing by Gio Colucci - 20th Century
By Gio Colucci
Located in Roma, IT
Young Woman Sitting is a charcoal drawing on brown paper. Unsigned. Good conditions except for some folds on the corners.
Prolific and eclectic, the Italian Gio Colucci (Florence, 1892 – Paris, 1974), also known in France as Geo Colucci, was a painter, engraver, illustrator, ceramist, and sculptor. From 1921, he exhibited his engravings in various salons. He worked with French publishers specialized in the illustrated books of high bibliophilia, and delivered series of remarkable prints for texts by Barbey d'Aurevilly, Pierre Loti, Guy Maupassant...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Figures - Labor Study - China ink by Herta Hausmann - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures - Labor Study is a drawing in China ink on paper, realized by Herta Hausmann.
Atelier stamp on the lower left corner on the rear.
Very good conditions.
The artwork represe...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
House in the Countryside - Original Pencil Drawing by A. R. Brudieux - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
House in the Countryside - L'Oise is a original pencil drawing on paper, realized around 1960s by the French artist André Roland Brudieux (1921-1999).
Monogrammed in pencil "AB“ on ...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Tale e Quale - China Ink and Pencil - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original artwork realized by an artist of the Mid-20th century.
China ink and pencil drawing on ivory paper.
Good conditions.
Illegible signature in pencil on t...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Internal Nude - Original China Ink by Tibor Gertler - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Internal Nude is an original china ink drawing on ivory paper, realized by Tibor Gertler, in 1950s.
In good conditions.
This artwork represents a figure of a nude woman.
Not signed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Figures in the Landscape - Original Pen by B. Mogniat-Duclos - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures in the Landscape is an original Contemporary artwork realized by the French artist Bertrand Mogniat-Duclos (Sedan, 1903 - 1987) in the half of the XX Century.
Original pen d...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Conversation - Original China Ink and Watercolor - MId-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Conversation is an original modern artwork realized in the mid-XX Century by an unknown artist..
Original Black China Ink and watercolor on paper. The signature of the artist appea...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Landscape - Original Watercolor on Cardboard by Jean Delpech - 1947
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
"Landscape" is an original drawing in watercolor on cardboard, realized in 1942 by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
The state of preservation of the artwork is good with some ripping on l...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard
Art Deco Glamour illustration, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
Caption: "He proposed this morning right
after the alarm clock went off."
From the Estate of Charles Martignette
Signed lower center
unframed
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Industrial Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modern WPA
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modern WPA
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Hammering Nails
39 x 50 ½ inches
Gouache on paper c. 19...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Cricket: Defending the Wicket, 1930s vintage poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Defending the Wicket
Airbrush and pen
13 x 13 cm
c.1930
Signed to the bottom right
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a Bri...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Tayside Sheep Farm, Scotland
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Tayside Sheep Farm, Scotland" c.1930, is a watercolor on paper by British artist Ken Cherrington, 1886-1969. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The ar...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Smoker - Original Pencil Drawing by S. Goldberg - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Smoker is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right, with sketches on the rear.
The state of preservati...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Georgetown, Colorado, 1938 WPA Era Ink Drawing of Rocky Mountain Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
This vintage 1938 ink drawing by Charles Bunnell (1897–1968) captures a stunning scene of a church nestled in the majestic Rocky Mountains of Georgetown, Colorado. Executed in bold black ink on creamy white paper, the piece is signed and dated by the artist in the lower right and titled in the lower left. The image size is 7 ¾ x 5 ¾ inches, and it is framed with archival materials, with outer dimensions measuring 16 ¼ x 14 ½ x 1 ¼ inches.
Condition:
The drawing is in good vintage condition, with no notable flaws. For a detailed condition report, please contact us directly.
Provenance:
This artwork comes from the estate of Charles Ragland Bunnell, ensuring its authenticity.
About Charles Bunnell:
Charles Bunnell was a prominent American artist whose career spanned multiple styles and influences. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he moved to Colorado Springs around 1915, where he developed a love for art. After serving in World War I, Bunnell studied at the Broadmoor Art Academy (later renamed the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center), where he met his wife, Laura Palmer...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Sunset - Original Watercolor - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
"Sunset" is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by anonymous artist of the XX century. date in 1951, hand-signed not readable.
The state of preservation of the artw...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Flower Studies
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unsigned
Graphite and colored pencils on laid paper
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Graphite
A Striking 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Standing Female Dancer
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Standing Female Dancer by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Exhibiting a spare and exceptional use of brushwo...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
A Striking 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Standing Female Nude
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Standing Female Nude by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Exhibiting a spare and exceptional use of brushwork...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
A Striking 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Standing Female Nude
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Standing Female Nude by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Exhibiting a spare and exceptional use of brushwork...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
A Striking 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Reclining Female Nude
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Reclining Female Nude by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Exhibiting a spare and exceptional use of brushwor...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
An Avant-Garde, Mid-Century Modern Abstract Female Figure Study by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Dynamic, Avant-Garde, Mid-Century Modern Abstract Female Figure Study by Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A striking, black & white figural studio ink drawing on paper depicting an...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
An Avant-Garde, Mid-Century Modern Abstract Female Figure Study by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Dynamic, Avant-Garde, Mid-Century Modern Abstract Female Figure Study by Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A striking, black & white figural studio ink drawing on paper depicting an...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing
By Jean Xceron
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing.
A modernist artist who emigrated to America from Greece in 1904, when he was fourteen years old, Jean Xceron is described as having a reputation as an artist that has mysteriously fallen into obscurity---especially since he was reportedly quite prominent during his lifetime. However, a partial explanation of that omission is the fact that many of his papers and early records have been lost. He was a painter of biomorphic abstractions and did collages, which were influenced by Dadaism.
Xceron was active in New York City when modernism was gaining influence. Of him during this period, it was written that his artistic role was "a vital link between what is commonly termed as the first-generation (the Stieglitz group, the Synchromists, etc.) and second-generation, the American Abstract Artists, the Transcendental Painting...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Seated Female Nude by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of a Seated Female Nude by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Completed in the 1960s, this compelling studio ink drawing is executed in ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Sketch for the Spinner" Alexander Calder, Preliminary Drawing for Mobile
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Calder
Preliminary drawing for the Spinner, 1966
Signed lower right
Felt tip pen on paper
Overall 27 x 15 1/2 inches
Individual sheets 8 x 10 1/2 inches
Alexander Calder ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen
Harold Hemingway (1908-1976) - 1953 Gouache, The Far Storm
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful landscape study by well listed Northern artist Harold Hemingway. The scene depicts a view over the artist's local industrial town of Rochdale. A storm can be seen gather...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Magazine Cover Illustration Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre Broadway Realism WPA
Located in New York, NY
Magazine Cover Illustration Mid 20th Century Modern Theatre Broadway Realism WPA
Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889 – 1975) “Today Magazine” Cover ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Watercolor, Ink
A Triptych: The Olympic Games, Modern British Drawing, Ancient Greek, Nude
Located in London, GB
Graphite on paper
Image size of rectangular works: 33 x 43 inches (84 x 109 cm)
Image size of arched central work: 38 1/4 x 29 inches (97 x 73.5 cm)
Provenance
Private Collection of Seymour Stein, Vice President of Warner Bros Records
Sotheby's 'Modern British and Irish Art,' London, 19 May 2004, lot 92
The three impressive drawings are studies for Stroudley’s ‘Olympic Games in a Demi-Lune’. From left to right the studies depict groups of athletes practicing diving, a conversing crowd of oarsmen, hurdlers mid jump and a collection of javelin throwers. This study was created in 1930 when Stroudley practiced in the British School in Rome. There are few surviving works from Stroudley’s short stay in Rome, with the compositions from his Rome period being among the last wholly successful decorative cycles produced by a Rome Scholar prior to World War II. Indeed, as can be seen here, his drawings from this period are technically brilliant and even bear comparison with those of Eric Kennington.
James Stroudley
Stroudley was born in London on 17 June 1906, the son of James Stroudley, showcard and ticket writer. He studied at Clapham School of Art (1923-27) and then at the Royal College of Art (1927-30), where his teachers included Alan Gwynne-Jones and William Rothenstein. As a recipient of the first Abbey Scholarship he was able to spend three years in Italy from 1930, where he absorbed the influences of Giotto and Piero della Francesca, and produced one of the last wholly satisfying decorative cycles by a Rome Scholar of the period. From 1934, he exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, and was elected to its membership in the following year.
From the Second World War – in which he worked with the Camouflage Unit – Stroudley taught at St Martin’s School of Art and was a visiting lecturer at the Royal Academy Schools. Though he continued to live in London, his later work, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1955, indicated regular painting trips to Kent and Sussex coasts. However, much of his later work was abstract. In 1971, his former student, Peter Coker, paid homage to Stroudley by including his work in the exhibition ‘Pupil & Masters’, held at Westgate House, Long Melford, Suffolk.
Stroudley married three times, and his wives included the fashion artist to the Sun newspaper...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Surrealist Figure in Space-scape, Surrealist Wax Crayon Drawing by Roberto Matta
Located in Long Island City, NY
Roberto Matta, Chilean (1911 -2002) - Surrealist Figure in Space-scape, Year: 1956, Medium: Wax Crayon on paper, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm), Frame Size: 20.5 x 18 inches...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wax Crayon
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