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Period: Mid-20th Century
Farm view by Charles Goetz - Watercolor 27x34 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper by Isaac Charles Goetz
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of Boy in a Chair
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Boy in a Chair', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1960s). Here the artist paints a young boy, very probably his son, Vincent, sitting in a chair posing fo...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$2,630 Sale Price
20% Off
Goodrich Castle Ruins, Impressionist Gouache Painting by Robert Andrew Parker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Robert Andrew Parker, American (1927 -2024) - Goodrich Castle Ruins, Year: circa 1959, Medium: Gouache on paper, signed and dated lower left, Size: 23 x 30 in. (58.42 x 76.2 cm), ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
“Still Life with White Roses”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original watercolor by Jessie Harris Bone Charman. Signed lower right. Circa 1940. Condition is very good. Under glass. Beautifully matted and framed. Overall framed mea...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$960 Sale Price
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Mid Century French Portrait of an Older Woman with Headscarf
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Portrait
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper
Size: 24.5 (height) x 18 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condition: ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Guiding the Herd
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Guiding the Herd" 1967 is a watercolor and ink on paper by noted Uruguayan artist Enrique Castells Capurro, 1913-1997. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 13 x 19 inches, framed size is 20.35 x 26 inches. Custom framed in a wooden light brown frame, with light grey matting and green fillet. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Enrique Castells Capurro ( Montevideo , March 9 , 1913 - Punta del Este , J...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Exhibition Poster, Conceptual Poster with Pen Drawing by Genichiro Inokuma
Located in Long Island City, NY
Genichiro Inokuma, Japanese (1902 - 1993) - Exhibition Poster, Year: 1968, Medium: Poster, with pen drawing, signed and dated in the plate, Size: ...
Category
Conceptual Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen, Offset
Show Girl with Fantasy Horse, Fashion Illustration in Blue and Black
Located in Miami, FL
This Drawing has a sketch on the reverse as well as handwritten notes, one of which reads "On loan from the Freddy Wittop's private collection." Costume designer Freddy Wittop won a Tony Award for his work on "Hello, Dolly!" and was also the recipient of a TDF Irene Sharaff...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Impressionistic Landscape Watercolor On Paper
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Impressionistic landscape watercolor 1960's
19x24 framed 25x30x1
Judith Sobel was born in Lwow Poland in 1924. After World War I...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
William Norman Gaunt (1918-2001) - Framed Watercolour, The Artist's Studio
Located in Corsham, GB
William Norman Gaunt (1918-2001), watercolour on paper. A lovely interior scene with life model seated in the artist's studio. Signed lower right. Well presented in a black and gilt ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Young woman by Alexandre Blanchet - Pastel on paper 50x56 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
$440 Sale Price
20% Off
Hut, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Hut (P4.2), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 11 x 15 in. (27.94 x 38.1 cm), Description: Surrounded by trees and ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Adolf Dehn, Haitian Scene A, signed painting, Associated American Artists, 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Arthur Dehn
Haitian Scene A, ca. 1951
Watercolor gouache on board
Signed on the front
Frame included: held in vintage modern frame
Measurements:
Framed:
11 inches vertical by 13 inches horizontal by .75
Painting
4.5 inches by 6 inches
Watercolor gouache, hand signed; framed with AAA Gallery label verso
Signed on the front bearing the original label on the verso of Dehn's longtime gallery, the prestigious Associated American Artists Gallery, New York City.
Provenance
Associated American Artists
Frame included: held in vintage frame with original label as provenance
Dehn, an influential artist and teacher (and author of the definitive textbook of his era on watercolor painting) joined Associated American Artists gallery in 1941. Although this painting is undated, it is likely circa early 1950s, as in 1951 Dehn won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to travel to Haiti -- the subject of this work. It was part of a series inspired by Dehn's visit to Haiti.
Dehn, an influential artist and teacher (and author of the definitive textbook of his era on watercolor painting) joined Associated American Artists gallery in 1941. Although this painting is undated, it is likely circa early 1950s, as in 1951 Dehn won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to travel to Haiti.
ADLOF DEHN
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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Landscape - Drawing by André Léveillé - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a drawing realized by André Léveillé (1880-1962) in the early 20th Century.
Charcoal and watercolor on paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is reali...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Mid 20th Century French Signed Painting Washing Line On A House River Boat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) signed watercolour on paper, mounted in a card frame
inscribed verso
card frame: 15 x 18 inches
painting: 9.5 x 12 inches
provenance: the artists es...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Nude in Black ink Reclining, Black ink on ivory paper
Located in Brookville, NY
John Begg studied art at Columbia University, with Arthur Wesley Dow, with Charles Martin, and studied sculpture with Jose De Creeft and Ossip Zadkine. He was a member of the Ameri...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Snowy roofs
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
40 x 46.5 x 1.5 cm
This work depicts a snowy village with remarkable precision, capturing the essence of a serene winter. The roo...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The Rock - Drawing by Albert Gaulme - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
China ink and watercolor on cardboard realized by Albert Gaulme in 1950s.
Not signed.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
The Carousel - Drawing by Maurice George Poncelet - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Carousel is a Drawing realized by Maurice George Poncelet (1897- 1973) in 1950.
Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled
Located in Santa Fe, NM
UNTITLED
charcoal on paper unique
©1969 R.C. Gorman
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
$7,600 Sale Price
36% Off
1940's Provence French Delicate Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
Signed and dated 46'
From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
meas...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Original Parisian Vintage Jewelry Design Art by Van Cleef & Boucheron Designer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Set of Two Silver Rings Jewelry Design
circa mid 20th century
by Paul Touzet (French b. 1917)
original gouache painting, with pencil on tracing paper, unframed
measurements: 4 x 6.5 inches
condition: the overall condition is very good, minor creasing to the corners/ edges, very minor staining.
provenance: private collection, France
We are honored to introduce to you an incredible and unique collection of original jewelry design artwork. We have over 100 similar original works - some offered as pairs, some individually. For the collector of jewelry they offer the ultimate accessory for their home. Equally, these would look stunning framed together in a jewelry or fashion store or even a vintage bistro or hotel!
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Each piece of Touzet's original design artwork...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
untitled (The White Barn with Farmers and Horse)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (The White Barn with Farmers and Horse)
Watercolor, c. 1950
Signed by the artist in ink lower right: Wm. C. Grauer
Numbered in pencil verso: 152
Provenance:
Estate of the Ar...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
“It’s high time we met" story illustration for the Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “The Gay Banditti” by I. A. R. Wylie for The Saturday Evening Post, published February 26, 1938, pages 6-7.
The full caption reads: “‘It’s high time we met,’...
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Tom's Day" c1961 Equestrian Watercolor
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 11 3/4" x 15 3/4"W
Frame Sz: 17 7/8"H x 22"W'
w/ yellow mat & gilt bamboo frame
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Parisian Fashion Model - Mid-Century - Female Artist Vogue Magazine ?
Located in Miami, FL
An elegantly rendered mid-century Parisian model with a stylish hat is masterfully rendered by American female illustrator Ruth Sigrid Grafstrom ...
Category
Feminist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Frank Hartigan Horse Trainer 1947 Pen & Ink w/ Watercolour by "The Tout"
Located in Bristol, CT
BUCHANAN Peter Ronald C. 1870-1950
Known as The Tout he worked as a sports cartoonist and caricaturist for the News of the World and Tatler in the 1930’s and exhibited 128 drawings at Walker's Gallery, London, in 1931.
Art Sz: 7 1/2"H x 5 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 9 7/8"H x 8"W
Frank Hartigan trained at nearby Weyhill from 1905 to 1952. By 1935, when he had his 1000th winner on the flat, he said he had won almost as many races under National Hunt...
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model (Study of Legs) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionall...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model (Shoulder and Arm) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exception...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
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
1940's Fashion Illustration - Four Brides Holding Candles
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas.
The painting, executed in gouache and pencil.
The sketch is original, vintage and me...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Mid 20th Century French Landscape, Watercolour, The Bastide
Located in Cotignac, FR
French watercolour on paper view of a manor house or bastide in a rural landscape. The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a fine gilded wood frame with a hessian cloth ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model (Legs) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well ex...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
An Captivating, 1945 Mid-Century Modern Figure Drawing of a Standing Female Nude
Located in Chicago, IL
An Captivating, 1945 Mid-Century Modern Figure Drawing of a Standing Female Nude By Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A finely rendered standing female nude studi...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Charcoal, Paper
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing, Female Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Anatomical Pastel Figure Study Drawing of a Female Nude Model (Study of Shoulder, Arm & Legs) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The Village Way, pencil sketch by George Bissill
Located in London, GB
George Bissill (1896-1973)
The Village Way
Pencil sketch
26 x 36 cm
Born in 1896, George Bissill was a British miner, painter and furniture designer. Raised in the mining village ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Hesitation Blues (Black Surrealist Artist)
By Roland Ayers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Surrealist proto-Afropunk drawing by African-American artist, Roland Ayers (1932-2014). Hesitation Blues, 1968. Ink on paper, sheet measures 13 x 23 inches; 14 x 18 inches in archival pH-neutral matting. Signed and dated lower right. Excellent condition with no damage or restoration.
Provenance: Sheila Ayers-Whitelaw
Exhibition History: Roland Ayers: Calligraphy of Dreams, Woodmere Art Museum, 07/10/2021 - 10/24/2021
Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only child of Alice and Lorenzo Ayers, and grew up in the Germantown district of Philadelphia. Ayers served in the US Army (stationed in Germany) before studying at the Philadelphia College of Art (currently University of the Arts). He graduated with a BFA in Art Education, 1954. He traveled Europe 1966-67, spending time in Amsterdam and Greece in particular. During this period, he drifted away from painting to focus on linear figurative drawings of a surreal nature. His return home inaugurated the artist’s most prolific and inspired period (1968-1975). Shorty before his second major trip abroad in 1971-72 to West Africa, Ayers began to focus on African themes, and African American figures populated his work almost exclusively.
In spite of Ayers’ travel and exploration of the world, he gravitated back to his beloved Germantown, a place he endowed with mythological qualities in his work and literature. His auto-biographical writing focuses on the importance of place during his childhood. Ayers’ journals meticulously document the ethnic and cultural make-up of Germantown, and tell a compelling story of class marginalization that brought together poor families despite racial differences. The distinctive look and design of Germantown inform Ayers’ visual vocabulary. It is a setting with distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and haunting natural beauty. These characteristics are translated and recur in the artist’s imagery.
During his childhood, one of the only books in the Ayers household was an illustrated Bible. The images within had a profound effect on the themes and subjects that would appear in his adult work. Figures in an Ayers’ drawing often seem trapped in a narrative of loss and redemption. Powerful women loom large in the drawings: they suggest the female role models his journals record in early life. The drawings can sometimes convey a strong sense of conflict, and at other times, harmony. Nature and architecture seem to have an antagonistic relationship that is, ironically, symbiotic.
A critical turning point in the artist’s career came in 1971 when he was included in the extremely controversial Whitney Museum show, Contemporary Black Artists in America. The exhibition gave Ayers an international audience and served as a calling card for introductions he would soon make in Europe.
Ayers is a particularly compelling figure in a period when black artists struggled with the idea of authenticity. A questioned often asked was “Is your work too black, or not black enough?” Abstractionists were considered by some peers to be sell-outs, frauds or worse. Figurative* work was accused of being either sentimental or politically radical depending on the critical source. Ayers made the choice early on to be a figurative artist, but considered his work devoid of political content.
Organizations such as Chicago’ s Afri-Cobra in the late 1960‘s asserted that the only true black art of any relevance must depict the black man and woman...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
$3,000 Sale Price
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In the Luxembourg Gardens, Paris
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Paper
Signature: 11.00" x 11.50"
Dimensions: Signed Initials Upper Right
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
View of Villa Strà sul Brenta - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1959.
Hand signed and dated lower right.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died i...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
View of Champs Elisées - Clemenceau, Paris - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed and dated lower left.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died i...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Wood in Alsace - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1963.
Hand signed lower left. Dated on rear.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, di...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
My Wife in New York - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1969.
Hand signed lower left. Titled and dated on rear.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September ...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
At the foot of the Salève
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
46 x 56 x 1.3 cm
Category
Italian School Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Church in the Cotsworld Way, England
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Church in the Cotsworld Way, England" 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...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Boat Scene
Located in Miami, FL
Watercolor on heavy paper
work is unframed
Signed by artist in pencil, lower right verso.
Property from the estate of Anne E. C. Porter, with the estate stamp, verso.
...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Portrait - 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...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Boats in Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1969.
Hand signed lower right. Dated on rear.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, d...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century French Drawing of The Fishermen, Port of Nice, South of France.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century French drawing of Fishermen bringing in their catch. The work is unsigned but annotated to the back of the paper 'Mars 7...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
Nude - Drawing by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Charcoal and oil pastel on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand signed.
Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist. cm. 44x34.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome ...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Cardboard
Trees in a French Country Landscape. Watercolor.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French watercolour on paper landscape by Roger Decaux. The work is signed and dated (as yet undeciphered) bottom right. Presented in a wood frame with cut card mount.
A fresh and charming view of trees in a landscape. Decaux has used simple, fluid but strong strokes for this composition. One can feel the influence of 'abstraction of form' that was a part of his later work. The eye is drawn from the trees to the surrounding fields, the touches of colour to the right and then to the silhouette of the hills beyond. The use of watercolour at its best.
Roger DECAUX was born in 1919 in Dombasle sur Meurthe in the Lorraine. He studied art in Paris with Gino Severini and Jan Brusselmans...
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Pre-Code Cover Portrait of Verna Hillie
By Cardwell Higgins
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 20.00" x 28.50;" Framed 32.50" x 41.25"
Cover Art for Unidentified Title
Pre-code Hollywood starlet Verna Hillie is the subject of this erotically charged pastel portrait, which was the title Reel Movie Fun, a short lived wild and racy publication that merged the world of pin-up and burlesque with the envelope pushing film culture emerging from Hollywood before enforcement of the notorious Hays code put an end to overt expressions of sexuality or immorality on screen. Pastel is dated and signed on the back and the sitter is identified in the artist's hand as seen. Beautifully framed and matted behind glass in a handsome gallery frame and ready to hang.
Verna Hillie was a Monograph Pictures star who appeared in The Marx brothers comedy "Duck Soup...
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Illustration Board
Abstract Composition - Pastel by Giorgio Zennaro - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Oil Pastel on paper realized in 1969.
Hand signed and dated in pencil lower right.
Hand dedicated, signed and dated (1971) on rear.
Includes a wooden frame cm. 43.5x52.
Very goo...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Untitled: Portrait of a Woman 2
By Pier Canosa
Located in New York, NY
Pier Canosa (Italian, b. 1940), "Untitled: Portrait of a Woman 2", Abstract Figurative/ Portrait Charcoal Drawing signed and dated on Paper, 25.25 x 18.25, Late 20th Century, 1969
C...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Unexpected Holiday
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
American Weekly magazine cover, September 9, 1956
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Sleeping In, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 19, 1954
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Vintage original dry point of an Octopus Bernard Buffet & Chants de Maldorer
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Original vintage dry point of an Octopus after Bernard Buffet on what looks to be Arches paper. This interesting engraving on paper is unsigned, there are notes on the back (see pho...
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
$215 Sale Price
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Cactus (Mexico), Early 20th Century Cubist Still Life by Woman Cleveland Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964)
Cactus (Mexico), 1930
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right, titled and dated on label verso
15.25 x 13.25 inches
25 x 22.5 inches, framed
A gradu...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Yellow Flowers Gelbe Blüten - German Expressionism
By Erich Heckel
Located in London, GB
This watercolour is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Heckel 48" [1948] in the lower right image.
It is also hand titled in pencil “Gelbe Blüten” [Yellow Flowers] in th...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Watercolor, Laid Paper
John Sergeant - 20th Century British Portrait of the Artist's Wife
Located in London, GB
JOHN SERGEANT
(1937-2010)
Portrait of Carolyn, the artist’s wife.
Pencil and watercolour, unframed
33 by 21.5 cm., 13 by 8 ½ in.
(mount size 49.5 by 37 cm., 19 ½ by 14 ½ in.)
Ser...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
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