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Period: Mid-20th Century
Original Parisian Vintage Jewelry Design Art by Van Cleef & Boucheron Designer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Elegance of Tied Silver Ring With Blue Emerald Jewelry Design
circa mid 20th century
by Paul Touzet (French b. 1917)
original gouache painting, with pencil on tracing paper, unf...
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French School Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
'Still Life, Lilac and Jade', Mississippi Modernist Woman, Peabody Collection
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Layton', for Gray Layton (American, 20th century) and created circa 1965.
An exuberant and brilliantly colored, Post Impressionist collaged still-life painting comprising a bouquet of lilac blossoms, shown informally arranged in a patterned vase and set beside a jade glass bottle of absinthe and a ripe, yellow Boscobel pear, all contrasted against a background of scumbled and stippled rectangular elements in muted tones of ochre, violet and amethyst.
Gray Layton first studied with Elizabeth Hazeltine at the University of Chicago and George Dutch at Peabody College. She furthered her training with Eliot O'Hara before studying watercolor with William Hollingsworth...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Adhesive, Acrylic, Carbon Pencil
Sans Titre 1
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Roberto Matta
Title: Sans Titre 1
Medium: Original pastel/drawing on paper
Signed: Hand Signed
Year: 1969
Measurements: 12" x 16"
Framed: 20" x 24"
Authentication: Kajsa...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Original Parisian Vintage Jewelry Design Art by Van Cleef & Boucheron Designer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Dual Blooms: The Contrast of Ice and Flame Jewelry Design
circa mid 20th century
by Paul Touzet (French b. 1917)
original gouache painting, with pencil o...
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French School Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Composition avec cheval en movement, original engraving
Located in Belgrade, MT
Roderick Fletcher Mead (American, 1900-1972) was an important painter and printmaker, best known for his surrealist landscapes and figural compositions reminiscent of Pablo Picasso a...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Engraving
$636 Sale Price
29% Off
Still Life - Drawing by Louis Gabriel Croison - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an artwork realized by Louis Gabriel Croison (Paris, 1890 - Paris, 1963) in 1930.
Good condition.
Ink and watercolour.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Portrait
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed
size: 10.5 x 7.75 inches
condition: very good and ready to...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Whitehall Building, July 1939 - Harbor Seascape with Tugboat in Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Whitehall Building, July 1939 - Harbor Seascape with Tugboat in Watercolor
Detailed harbor landscape by Ernest Clegg (British, 1976-1954). The Whitehall Building towers over the sce...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
“Monhegan Island, Maine”
By Ted Davis
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor of Monhegan Island, Maine on archival paper by the well known American watercolorist, Ted Davis. Signed lower right and dated 1950. Cond...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Farmers Market, Glasgow
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Farmers Market, Glasgow" c.1930, is a watercolor on paper by British artist Ken Cherrington, 1886-1969. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwor...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Original Parisian Vintage Jewelry Design Art by Van Cleef & Boucheron Designer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Gold Necklace With Diamanté Arrows Jewelry Design
circa mid 20th century
by Paul Touzet (French b. 1917)
original gouache painting, with pencil on tracin...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Figures - Pen on Paper by Mogniat-Duclos Bertrand - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original black and white drawing in pen on ivory-colored paper, realized by the French painter Mogniat-Duclos Bertrand.
In very good conditions.
This artwork is a ver...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Reclining Nude in black ink on buff 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
Mid Century French Drawing of a Portrait of a Woman with Braided Hair
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 19 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condition: ...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
La Montera
Located in London, GB
'La Montera', gouache, watercolour and ink on art paper, by Pierre Ambrogiani (circa 1960s). The artist created many artworks with bullfighting as theme. In this case, a single torer...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
$1,753 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape with Ancient Olive Tree, Stone Wall and Winding Leading Path
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Olive Tree Landscape
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Nude - Original 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 (1988-1916) is a French painter,...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Provence Landscape Mid 20th Century French Post Impressionist Signed Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provence
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) signed watercolour, mounted in a card frame
card frame: 12 x 15 inches
painting: 9 x 12 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
cond...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
1947 Broadway Drama, "The Whole World Over"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1947 Broadway drama, `The Whole World Over`, starring Uta Hag...
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Mid 20th Century French Charcoal Drawing - Portrait of a Standing Nude Women
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Portrait"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
pencil/ charcoal on thick paper, unframed
paper size: 26 x 19 inches
Beautifully decorative, mid 20th century French origin...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil
Dog and Wolf Fighting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Margaret.S Johnson (American, 1893-1964)
Title: Wolf and Dog fighting
Year: Circa 1930
Medium: Ink drawing
Signature: signed in pencil on the reverse
Paper: Bainbri...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
untitled, still life fish, wine
Located in Belgrade, MT
This etching is from my private collection of 20th Century artists. It is original, signed and numbered. Edouard Righetti (1921-2001) was a French post impressionist artist who speci...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, ABS, Etching, Lithograph
$420 Sale Price
30% Off
Carousel, Impressionist Watercolor by Charles Cobelle
Located in Long Island City, NY
A vibrant painting of a carousel in a crowded Paris plaza by French artist Charles Cobelle. His style regularly uses bright neon colors to depict everyday street life scenes of 1960s...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Dante - Drawing By Albert Decaris - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a modern artwork realized by Albert Decaris in the Mid-20th Century.
Charcoal and watercolor drawings.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Nude Female Figure Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady
French School, circa 1960's
signed and stamped
chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed
size: 18.75 x 11 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoy...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
Mid Century French Minimalist Ink Study of a Seated Woman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Ink Drawings of Interior Scene with Woman Resting in Bed
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Ink on paper
Size: 11.25 (height) x 8.5 (width)...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Original Parisian Vintage Jewelry Design Art by Van Cleef & Boucheron Designer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Gold and Silver Leaf Bracelet Jewelry Design
circa mid 20th century
by Paul Touzet (French b. 1917)
original gouache painting, with pencil on tracing paper
stuck on thin card
overall...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Nude - Original 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 (1988-1916) is a French painter,...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Rocket In The Rocket National Horse Show 1932
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 12 1/2"W
1933
Proof Plate for 'Spills and Thrills' Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1933
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
"Luisa on the sofa" Watercolor and black ink cm. 33 x 46 1965
Located in Torino, IT
woman, , Italian painter,Red,Black
Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989)
From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical and expressive re...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
$2,875 Sale Price
20% Off
"Four Charging Polo Players" Signed Original Etching by Nat Lowell (1880-1956)
Located in Bristol, CT
Pencil signed LR c1940s
Art Sz: 7 1/2"H x 9"W
Frame Sz: 13 1/4"H x 14 1/2"W
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Portrait - Drawing- mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pen, oil pastel and watercolor on paper realized by an unknown artist in the mid-20th Century.
Not signed.
Veru good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Oil, Pen
'Interior', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, LACMA, SFAA, Carmel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Cen...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"New York Harbor Nocturne" Leon Dolice, Mid-Century New York Nocturnal Landscape
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice
New York Harbor Nocturne, circa 1930-40
Signed lower right
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long inf...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Country Path with Red Roofs, Coloured Crayon, Pencil & Charcoal on Paper
Located in London, GB
Country Path with Red Roofs by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Coloured crayon, pencil and charcoal on paper
32 x 24 cm (12 ⅝ x 9 ½ inches)
Signed with Estate Stamp lower right
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper, Pencil
Nude with Crossed Arms - Drawing in Pencil by Beppe Guzzi - 1940s
By Beppe Guzzi
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pencil on paper, realized by the Italian painter Beppe Guzzi.
Included a passepartout: 40 x 30 cm.
Good conditions and aged except for some ripping ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Mid Century Nude Figure Study of a Black Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling mid century nude figure study of a black woman reclining by Raul Anguiano (Mexican/American, 1915-2006), 1968. Signed and dated lower left hand corner "R. Anguiano." Presented in wood frame under plexiglass. Image size: 25"H x 34"W. Framed size: 35"H x 43.75"W.
Raúl Anguiano was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on February 26th, 1915. He started drawing cubist pictures at the age of 5, taking as his first models movie stars, as Mary Pickford, Pola Negri and Charlie Chaplin. Anguiano first artistic influence or aesthetic emotion came from the Holy Family by Rafael Sanzio.
At the age of 12, Anguiano attended Guadalajara's Free School of Painting under the tuition of Ixca Farias. From 1928 to 1933, he studied with the Master painter José Vizcarra, the disciple of Santiago Rebull and José Salomé Piña, and organised the group "Young Painters of Jalisco" with other artists. During this period, Anguiano worked with different kinds of models: workmen, employees and a few intellectuals like Pita Amor.
In 1934 Anguiano moved to Mexico City. He began teaching in primary schools and taught drawing and painting at La Esmeralda academy and the UNAM School of Art.
Anguiano was a member of the Mexican Artistic Renaissance movement which was started in the 1920's by the Mexican School of Art in which he belonged. This renaissance began with the San Carlos Academy movement -- among whose leaders were Ignacio Asúnsolo and Jose Clemente Orozco -- and which emerged out of the students' and teachers' discontent with the traditional paintings methods (academicism), and the close contact that the young artists had with the problems of Mexico and its people, explaining the marked critical realism to the painters of the time, including Anguiano himself.
The same year, Anguiano received a commission to paint his first mural, Socialist Education, a 70 meters fresco located at A. Carrillo School in Mexico City. Other works followed, including Mayan rituals (oils on canvas and wood), for the Mayan Hall in the National Museum of Anthropology, and Trilogy of Nationality (acrylic on canvas and wood), for the Attorney General's Office.
In 1936 he moved into his surrealist period, which lasted almost a decade. He painted circus performers and prostitutes. The most notable among his works of the time are: The Madame (gouche, 1936), The Clown's Daughter (oil, 1940), the Pink Circus Artist and the Grey Circus Artist (oil, 1941). Also during this period, Anguiano produced a series of drawings based on his dreams, with cold tones and silver-greys predominating.
In 1937 Anguiano joined the Revolutionary Writers and Artists League. Together, with Alfredo Zalce and Pablo O'Higgins, he was also a founding member of the Popular Graphics Workshop, where artists practised a graphic style based on Mexico's folk traditions. This was due to the powerful influence of the recently discovered Jose Guadalupe Posada and Goya.
Raúl Anguiano belonged to the so-called "Third Generation" of post-revolutionary painters, along with Juan O'Gorman, Jorge González Camarena...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
English Country Estate 1952 Watercolour by Montague Birrell Black (1884-1964)
Located in Bristol, CT
Delightful watercolour by the noted illustrator Montague Birrell Black (1884-1964) & dated 1952 depicting an English country house & gardens
Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 16"W
Frame Sz: 15 1/2...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Fixed Idea - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1940s.
Hand signed lower left.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Windmill Rural Landscape
By H. Kendall
Located in Soquel, CA
Stoic watercolor painting of a tall windmill in a rural landscape by H. Kendall . Signed "H. Kendall" lower right. Presented in a yellow mat and wood f...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Man Playing Tuba
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
size: 11.75 x 8 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
prov...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Grace Martin Taylor (Frame), (Town View), 1930, pastel, signed
Located in New York, NY
West Virginia native Grace Martin Taylor, artist for the brightly colored pastel (TownView), attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art S...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Marine Painting on Paper of a Great Lakes Steamship
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Ink and gouache painting on paper of a 19th century Great Lakes steamship executed in precise draftsman style and signed by noted American artist Frank Crevier, framed and presented ...
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Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Oedipus And The Sphinx
Located in Miami, FL
Initialed in cartouche bottom center
Provenance: Robert L. B. Tobin Foundation
Matted but Unframed
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, India Ink
Poem 6 from 9 Poems from Nature, 1959
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Morris Cox (1903-1998)
Poem 6 from 9 Poems from Nature, 1959
Linocut inked with watercolours
Image: 19.0 x 27.0 cm Frame: 34.0 x 41.0 cm
Provenance: Morris Cox Archive
Morris ...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
$356 Sale Price
20% Off
Blue Ships
By Tom Lewis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan)
Watercolor on paper, 14 x 21 inches unframed sheet, 24 x 30 inches framed, signed and dated lower right
About the Artist:
Born in 1909, Tom E. Lewis studied architecture at the University of Southern California. Beyond that training, Lewis was largely self-taught as an artist. He began watercolor painting during the late 1920s and focused on scenes of California. Lewis was an active organizer of the arts and exhibitor and aided the formation of the Progressive Painters of Southern California. Prior to World War II, the Treasury Section of Fine Arts awarded two commissions to Lewis, the first completed in 1938 for the Hayward California Post Office and the second completed in 1941 for the El Dorado County California District Attorney’s Office...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Androscoggin River Falls, study for The Manufacturers National Bank of Lewiston-
Located in Miami, FL
If there ever were a perfect work in the canon of art history, this masterpiece study by Dean Cornwell would be it. Every line has meaning and not a line out of place, as Cornwell d...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Finely Detailed British Watercolor of Cloves Drying North of Zanzibar Town
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed
Size: 10 inches (height) x 6.75 inches (width)
Signed: Yes
Condition: Sound condition, with some minor signs of foxing visible
Provenance: Priv...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Two French Racehorses"
Located in Bristol, CT
circa 1940s watercolour depicting two racehorses with their jockeys in vivid racing silks
Signed JD Reyala (LL)
Image Sz: 10"H x 12"W
Frame Sz: 15"H x 17"W
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Trompe-l'Oeil Study
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Trompe-l'Oeil Study
Watercolor on heavy wove paper, 1943
Signed with the artists initials, lower center of image; Dated 1943, lower center of image
Provenance:
Swann Galleries, 2007, realized $2,640
Condition: Excellent. Fresh colors. Framed with conservation glass.
Sheet: 14 3/4 x 11 1/4"
Frame size: 20 3/4 x 17
Berman brothers (painters)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eugene Berman in Italy in the 1960s
Eugène Berman (Russian: Евгений Густавович Берман; 4 November 1899, Saint Petersburg, Russia – 14 December 1972, Rome) and his brother Leonid Berman...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portraits - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1930s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Pen drawing and watercolor on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1930s.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
On the verso: male portrait, charcoal and watercolor on paper.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Sketch - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1930s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1930s.
Hand signed in the bottom center.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Nude Woman Drying Her Hair
Located in London, GB
'Nude Woman Drying Her Hair', crayon and pencil on fine paper (1967), by Raymond Debiève (1931 - 2011). A shapely woman has just finished bathing and is drying her hair in the privac...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Graphite
$1,753 Sale Price
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Oxen on Road, Gaspé, Canada, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Oxen on Road, Gaspé, Canada, 1932
Watercolor on board
Signed and dated lower right
15.25 x 21 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Colourful Castle Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 8.25 x 9.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenanc...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Mid Century Country Meadow and Hills Landscape
By Rene Weaver
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Country Meadow and Hills Landscape
Mid Century California Meadow and Hills landscape, watercolor of a pathway through rolling hills by California artist Rene Weaver (Amer...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Landschap te St Tropez, Landscape at St Tropez
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century drawing study on paper of a Provencale landscape by the Dutch artist Wim Oepts. Possibly an atelier sketch for the painting Landschap te St ...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Modernist Fisherman's Hut architectural drawing design Mid Century Modern UK
Located in London, GB
V A Hards (British, c. 1930-c. 2012)
Design for Modernist Fisherman's Hut
Watercolour on wove
Signed and dated March 1956 and stamped for Brixton School of Building.
77x55cm
Hards w...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Lanvin Paris Femme Perfume c1950s Advertising Artwork"
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 11 3/4"H x 17"
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Lanvin Paris Candelabra c1950s Advertising Artwork"
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 17"H x 11 3/4"W
Category
Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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