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Period: Mid-20th Century
Portrait of Padreterno- Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Padreterno is an Original Drawing in pencil and watercolor on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lo...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
$575 Sale Price
20% Off
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Young Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well exe...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine 1946 Modern Portrait Figure Study of a Handsome Young Male Model / Artist
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1940s, Mid-Century Modern Academic Portrait Figure Study of a Handsome Young Male Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well execut...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Seated Young Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well execu...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Abstract Landscape, Surrealist Gouache Painting by Yohanan Simon 1962
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yohanan Simon (1905-1976)
Title: Landscape
Medium: Gouache on paper laid to card
Date: 1962
Signature: Signed and dated in Hebrew
Paper Size: 16.75 x 21 inches
Frame Size: 24...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Gouache
Framfield Church, Uckfield, Watercolour Stained Glass Window Design, Jane Gray
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of watercolour stained glass designs from Jane Gray's studio. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Rclined Nude - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1960s.
Hand signed lower right.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died in Venice ...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Among Women - Watercolor by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Among Women is an original Watercolour realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century.
Good condition on a colored cream paper.
No signature.
Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Italian...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Large, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of Quebec City by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Large, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ink Drawing of Quebec City by Rudolph Pen. Artwork is formatted in a trapezoid shape, an innovative composition device for which the artist's work ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Paesaggio di Menerbes " cm. 46 x 36 anni 50 circa
By Dora Maar
Located in Torino, IT
paesaggio di Menerbes dove Picasso le regalò una casa e lei visse per alcuni anni
L'opera è firmata e Timbrata MD
Dora MAAR (Parigi 1907 – 1997)
Nata Henrietta Theodora Markovitc...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
BLACK CHAIR (ORIGINAL GOUACHE)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original gouache and ink painting on paper. Hand signed and dated by Alexander Calder. Executed in 1969, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York,...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Sailing Boats with Billowing Sails Moored in Sunlit Nice France Port Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Harbor Scene in Nice
Tony Minartz (French, 1873 - 1994)
watercolour on artist paper
painting : 12.75 x 17 inches
Provenance: private collection in the South of France,
Condition: ...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Milchmädchen mit Kuh / Milkmaid with cow
Located in Wien, 9
Mariette Lydis (Vienna 1887 - Buenos Aires 1970) is an Austrian painter and illustrator who was successful in Paris in the 1930s, in Montparnasse and then in Argentina, where she emigrated in 1940. Mariette Lydis was born on 24 August in Vienna, Austria 1887. From 1919 to 1922 she signed her works with the initials MPK for Marietta Pachoffer Karñy, a name derived from her first marriage in 1910 to Julius Koloman Pachoffer-Karñy, who died on 22 April 1922. Subsequently she lived in different cities around Europe, among others: Athens and Florence. She moved to France from 1926 to 1939, during these years she exhibited and became a member of the Salon d'Automne. She befriended Count Giuseppe Govone, the art publisher, in 1928 and married him on 1 August 1934, for whom she illustrated the books of many authors and cultivated a great friendship with Henry de Montherlant, which came about through the publication of a first in 1938 monograph by the author of Les Jeunes Filles. Fearing the German invasion, she travelled to England and then to Buenos Aires in July 1940, where she stayed and published published her latest paintings...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"The Red Barn Players Summer Theater" - American Weekly Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Couple putting on theatrical make-up for summer theatre
Cover of American Weekly Magazine, June 20, 1954
Dimensions: 19.75 x 16.00 in.
Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Paper
Signa...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
In the Wood - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1968.
Hand signed lower left. Dated on rear.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, di...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Golden Miller Winning The 1934 Aintree Grand National" Watercolor by Paul Brown
Located in Bristol, CT
Watercolor w/ gouache highlights
Art Sz: 12"H x 18"W
Frame Sz: 16"H x 22 1/2"W
Inscribed LL: The Freshest thing to win a National in years- and he broke the record at that. Golden Miller wins in 9:20 2/5 1934
Golden Miller (1927–1957) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who is the most successful Cheltenham Gold Cup horse ever, winning the race in five consecutive years between 1932 and 1936. He also is the only horse to win both of the United Kingdom's premier steeplechase races - the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand National - in the same year (1934).
Golden Miller was trained by Basil Briscoe in Longstowe, Cambridgeshire and owned by Dorothy Paget, who was the British flat racing Champion Owner in 1943, and the leading National Hunt owner in 1933-34, 1940–41 and 1951-52.
In 1931, Golden Miller made his steeplechasing debut at Newbury Racecourse where he finished first, only to be disqualified for carrying incorrect weight. On 30 December, he won the Reading Chase before winning the Sefton Steeplechase on 20 January 1932.
In 1933, as a six-year-old and winner of two Cheltenham Gold Cups, he started as the 9/1 favourite in the Grand National but fell at the Canal Turn.
In the 1934 Grand National win, he set a new course record of 9 min 20.4s for Aintree. This victory was the middle of five consecutive Gold Cup victories, a Gold Cup record.[2]
He retired in 1939 with a record of 29 wins from 52 races. He is buried at Elsenham Stud, a working farm in Elsenham, West Essex.
Artist Bio:
Paul Desmond Brown (1893-1958) was born in Minnesota and soon moved to New York City with his family. A quote from his biography:"Paul Brown told his host on a radio interview held in September of 1956, 'One day in 1904, I got 50 cents someplace and went over to the National Horse Show at the old Madison Square Garden and saw 'fine leppers,' [a term used for jumpers] as we called them, and Thoroughbreds for the first time.' From then on he appeared to be hooked on drawing horses."
At the age of 17, his family relocated again to Garden City on Long Island, where Brown had the opportunity to explore polo grounds...
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Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Norman Barr, Coney Island (New York City)
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
An idyllic scene at New York City's favorite beach, Coney Island. Before the year was over Barr was in the Army.
It is ink and litho-crayon. Barr liked that medium because it didn't ...
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Ashcan School Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Two Preparatory Drawings by Wheeler Williams
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled Study, 1931
Pencil on paper
8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.
Each signed: Wheeler Williams, 1931
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with honors...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Boatman - Original Pen Drawing by S. Goldberg - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Boatman is an original drawing in pen on paper realized by Simon Goldberg(1913-1985). with the stamp of “Atelier Simon Goldberg, Delavenne Lafarge”
The state of preservation is very...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Manhattan Skyline
By Leon Dolice
Located in Sheffield, MA
Leon Dolice
American, 1892-1960
Manhattan Skyline
Pastel on paper
19 by 12 in. W/frame 25 by 18 in.
Signed lower right
The romantic backdrop of Vi...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
“Trinity Church, Wall Street”
By Leon Dolice
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil pastel on archival paper by the well known American artist, Leon Dolice. The painting depicts Trinity Church with several of the more contemporary buildings of Wall Stre...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Tiger - Original Pencil Drawing by Willy Lorenz - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Tiger is a beautiful pencil original drawing on ivory-colored, wire rod and watermarked "Rives Canson" paper, realized in XX century by the German artist Wilhelm Lorenz, best know as...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
A Striking Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Handsome Young Black Man in Profile
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Handsome Young Black Man by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A wonderful executed studio figure study portrait depict...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Graphite
Character - Original Watercolor by Danilo Bergamo - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Character is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Danilo Bergamo (b.1938) in 1957.
Original watercolor con paper.
Hand-sign...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Eight Reclining Figures
By Henry Moore
Located in Manchester, GB
Henry Moore, Eight Reclining Figures, 1962
Coloured felt-tip pen, pen and India ink on paper
29.2 x 23.3 cm (11.49 x 9.17 in) unframed
48.5 x 40.5 cm (11.22 x 15.94) framed
Signed ...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Felt Pen
Study, preparatory work for “La Princesse”, watercolor and pencil on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Raphael DELORME (1886-1962)
Study, preparatory work for “La Princesse”
Watercolor and pencil on paper
Annotated “La Princesse”
30,5 x 22,5 cm
Small folds and small stains
Born in 18...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Lions - Original Pencil Drawings by Willy Lorenz - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lions is a beautiful pencil original drawing on ivory-colored paper, with interventions with blender, realized in XXi century by the German artist Wilhelm Lorenz, best know as Willi ...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Women - 4 Original Pen Drawing on Paper - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Women is a series of four original drawings in pen by an anonymous French artist of the XX century. The state of preservation is good and aged, one of them with the signs of time on ...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen, Pencil
Rocky Shore, Mid Century Watercolor Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene mid century watercolor seascape signed by unknown artist M. C. Schmidt. Signed in the lower left corner. Presented in a new buff mat with...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
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...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Dead Tiger
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Dead Tiger
Ink and watercolor on paper, 1955
Signed and dated in ink (see photo)
Condition: Aging to the entire sheet (it's 78 years old)
Image/Sheet size: 18 1/4 x 23 inches
On...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Manhattan Skyline
By Leon Dolice
Located in Sheffield, MA
Leon Dolice
American, 1892-1960
Manhattan Skyline
Pastel on paper
19 by 12 in. W/frame 25 by 18 in.
Signed lower right
The romantic backdrop of Vi...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Gwendolen Young - 1930s Art Deco Design for fabric or paper
Located in London, GB
GWENDOLEN KITTY YOUNG
(1914-1994)
Red, Yellow & Grey Design
Signed on the reverse
Gouache
Unframed
21.5 by 4.5 cm., 8 ½ by 1 ¾ in.
(mount size 35.5 by ...
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Art Deco Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Incoming Tide, Mid Century Seascape Watercolor (unfinished work)
Located in Soquel, CA
Classic mid-century watercolor seascape of the incoming tide, waves crashing on rocks by Joseph Yeager (early-mid 20th Century), c. 1940s-1950s. Painted on heavy bond watercolor paper with ragged edges. No frame. Unfinished work...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Striking 1960s Mid-Century Modern City Rooftops View, Painted from a City Bus
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking, 1960s Mid-Century Modern Watercolor of European City Rooftops, Painted from a City Bus. Rudolph Pen was fond of these innovative city rooftop compositions completed whil...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Mother and Children watercolor painting by John E. Costigan
Located in Hudson, NY
Painting measures 22" x 28" and framed 26" x 32" x 2"
Hand-signed "J.E. Costigan NA 1952" lower left.
About this artist: John Costigan was a self-taught painter distinguished by h...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Nude Woman - 1940s - Emile Deschler - Charcoal Drawing - Modern
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is an original artwork realized by Emile Deschler between the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s. Pencil and charcoal on paper.
Hand-signed by the artist in p...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
The Three Graces Fantasy Fashion Illustration - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
For your consideration, we have a pen and ink drawing of an interpretation of The Three Graces, who strike a pose for a 1930s fashion ad. In Greek mythology, they were goddesses w...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Board
French Pointillist Reclining Male Nude Mid 20th Century Painting
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pointillist Reclining Male Nude
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
initialled lower right
gouache painting on paper, unframed
measurements: 5.5 x 10 inches (overall the sheet measures 8.25 x 11.9 inches)
provenance: private collection of the artists work, Provence, France
Condition report: very good, colour strong, thin paper, margins of sheet show light marks but image is clean
Beautiful Neo-Impressionist 1940's French pointillist...
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Pointillist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Gouache
Water Fight, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Thornton Utz
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 30, 1951
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Salzburger Berge
Located in Wien, 9
August Dressler is one of the painters of the New Objectivity. He is one of the lesser-known artists of the Weimar era, but he too, like his famous contemporaries Georg Grosz, John H...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Ballerina
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Ballerina" c.1950 is a watercolor on paper by French noted artist Charles Kiffer, 1902-1992. It has the estate stamp of the artist on the back. The artwork size ...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Butch Taking A Bath, Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, Dog Painting
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustration of a shaggy black and white dog taking a bath
Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, May 11, 1946
The Post editors described: "Artist Albe...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Seasons Greetings #2- Drawing by French Painter Marcel Vertes
Located in Pasadena, CA
Season's Greetings # 1 is a greeting card featuring an original drawing by the illustrator and artist Marcel Vertès. The work displays Vertès' signature at the bottom right. The work is based on wax crayons, and ink for the delicate black outlines and composition of the primary character and secondary figures.
Season's Greetings is a greeting card featuring an original drawing by the illustrator and artist Marcel Vertès. The work is presented unfolded. The work is based on wax crayons, and ink for the delicate black outlines and details of the six elves.
Legend has it that Christmas elves...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wax Crayon, Ink
$550 Sale Price
26% Off
Torture Scene, Folk Art Gouache by Unknown Artist
Located in Long Island City, NY
Unknown Artist - Torture Scene, Medium: Gouache on thin laid paper, Image Size: 4.5 x 4.5 inches, Size: 7 x 9.75 in. (17.78 x 24.77 cm)
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Folk Art Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Gouache
Mid 20th Century French Post Impressionist Painting Muddy Farmyard
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) watercolour on card, unframed
painting: 8 x 10 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
condition: very good and soun...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Downtown Lakefront" original conte cubist drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present work, drawn with black Conté crayon on a calendar sheet, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a rhythmic vision of an urban lakefront. The beach scene is dominated by...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
Watercolor on paper Italian expressionist figurative nude second quarter 1900
Located in Florence, IT
The work is titled "The Bathers" and is signed at the lower right "CARENA. "The scene depicts a natural setting in which two naked maidens are chatting as they are about to bathe; be...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bicep
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Dehner's legacy has been overshadowed by he...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$18,500
"He bent down and kissed her" Magazine WWII Era Story illustration for the Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Magazine story illustration for “Hero Come Home” by Ruth Burr Sanborn for The Saturday Evening Post, published September 12, 1942, page 24.
This sentimental illustration, accompany...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
View of Rome, the Aurelian Wall, Gateway at the Market Place
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid century watercolour view of a gateway into the ancient walls of Rome, Italy, by G Tosy. The painting is signed bottom left and presented in a plain wood frame with a hand cut mou...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled-009 Abstraction in Reds mixed media painting by John Von Wicht
Located in Hudson, NY
One of a group of over 100 works personally selected by the artist and gifted to a close personal friend in 1969, this work was never matted, framed, glued, taped or exposed to light...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
'Odalisque', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the ...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Monhegan Path, Summer
Located in Greenwich, CT
Albert Wein had a retrospective and he was called a classical modernist by art critics. He is primarily regarded as one of America's great sculptors but he loved doing drawings, wat...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Horses Leaving the Barn
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Horses Leaving the Barn
Watercolor on paper, 1940
Signed and dated lower left corner (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 14 1/2 x 21”
Frame: 25” x 31”
Provenance; Associated American Artists, New York (see photo of label)
Mamdouha and Elmer Holmes Bobst
Displayed in an original wormy chestnut frame with OP3 Acrylic. Most probably from the AAA Dehn watercolor exhibition of 1940. Vintage original framing chosen by the artist.
Note: Elmer Holmes Bobst (1884–1978) was an American businessman and philanthropist who worked in the pharmaceutical industry. His wife, Mamdouha, was also well known philanthropist.
Bobst was born in Lititz, Pennsylvania. He aspired to become a doctor, but instead, he taught himself pharmacology. After his wife Ethel composed his interview letter, he became manager and treasurer of the Hoffman-LaRoche Chemical Works by 1920. When Bobst retired from the company in 1944, he was one of the nation's highest paid corporate executives. In 1945 he took charge of the ailing William Warner Company (later Warner–Lambert) and he remained board chairman until his retirement.
Bobst had close connections to President Dwight Eisenhower, but was also a close friend of President Richard Nixon.
Note: In 1940, the year of this watercolor, Dehn and Elizabeth Timmerman visited Waterville, MN on their way to Colorado Sprint, Colorado where Dehn was to teach lithography and watercolor. This watercolor is obviously a view of the area around Waterville.
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Island in the San Francisco Bay, Mid Century Landscape by Alexander Nepote
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Island in the San Francisco Bay Landscape by Alexander Nepote
Lovely late 1930's Impressionist watercolor of a Bay Area island by listed California artist Alexander Nepo...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Nude Young Woman Art Deco Modernist ink drawing
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913).
Portrait of a young woman, ca. 1935.
Ink on paper, measuring 8.5 x 11 inches.
Signed lower right. Unframed...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Butterflies and Flowers
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. He not only defined Pop Art, but has had an unrivalled and lasting influence on artists an...
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Pop Art Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
French Modern Drawing by Jean Hélion - Veil Homme
By Jean Hélion
Located in Paris, IDF
Veil Homme
1947
drawing
26,9 x 21 x 0,1 cm
Registered on the catalogue raisonné with inventory number : N°0252 cat. B
sold without frame
about Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904 – October ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
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