Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Still Life with Tromp L'Oeil
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Still Life with Tromp L'Oeil
Graphite and watercolor on a book page.
Signed in ink by the artist lower right corner
(see photo)
Provenance:
Estate of the artist (Estate No. 00916 verso)
Ray Sommer (the artist's son)
Joseph M. Erdelac (No. 18 JME verso)
Book page verso is an illustration of a Durer woodcut...
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1920s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Flowers - Drawing by Albert Fernand-Renault - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a drawing realized in 1950s by Albert Fernand-Renault.
Watercolour and ink on paper. Hand-signed.
Good condition with diffused foxing and a cutting at the top left margi...
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1950s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Untitled, Still Life of Shell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled, Still Life of Shell
Graphite on paper, 1945-1951
Signed lower right in pencil "Bisttram" (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 9.63 x 7 .5 inches
EMIL BISTTRAM (189...
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1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Flower
Located in Dallas, TX
Robert Peterson, "Flower," pastel on paper, 19 x 26 1/4 inches paper size, 27 1/4 x 35 inches including white mat and frame.
The artwork is floated in the mat and only hinged at the...
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20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$3,800
Beulah Stevenson, Three Small Sunflowers and Two Roses by the Window
By Beulah Stevenson
Located in New York, NY
This Three Small Sunflowers still-life by Beulah Stevenson (1890-1965) is a joyful modernist composition. With just touches of color she indicates a window and colorful curtains blow...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Modern British pastel study of hydrangeas and fruit still life by Bernard Myers
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Bernard Myers (British, 1925 – 2007)
Still life with HyDrangeas and Fruit
Pastel on paper
Signed ‘B. Myers’ (lower right)
24 x 31.3/4 in. (61 x 80.7 cm.) (including frame)
From the e...
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20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Flowers - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a Black Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was born in Le Hav...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Blue and Pink Composition : Surrealist Bouquet- Original Handsigned Pastel
Located in Paris, IDF
Claude GAVEAU
Blue and Pink Composition : Surrealist Bouquet (Silence in petals)
Original pastel drawing
Handsigned in pencil
Countersigned on the back (with another drawing on the ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Israeli Yosl Bergner Modernist OIl Painting Kitchen Bottles Coffee, Vase
By Yosl Bergner
Located in Surfside, FL
Yosl Bergner
Abstract Composition, Kitchen Utensils.
Oil painting of kitchen implements. Hand signed in English bottom right
Titled and signed ve...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor
Exquisite Oval Floral Watercolor with Vibrant Bouquet Botanical
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Oval Floral Watercolor
watercolour on artist paper, stuck on black paper
painting: 12.75 x 10 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound condition
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Charming Floral Bouquet with Bright Blossoms in a Compact Oval Composition
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Charming Floral Bouquet
oil on artist paper, stuck on black paper
painting: 12.75 x 10 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound condition
This delightfu...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Small, Charming, Fauvist Painting Michel Henry French Modernist School of Paris
By Michel Henry
Located in Surfside, FL
Michel-Henry was born in Langres in 1928 and has shown strong passion for drawing since his childhood. Michel-Henry is acknowledged as an important painter in French contemporary art. From 1952 his work has periodically been singled out for France's highest prizes and awards. The French Government, the City of Paris , the Museum of Valence , Bogota and the Museum of Alencon are among the distinguished institutions who have acquired his work for their permanent collections.
Born in Langres in 1928 the aspiring artist attended the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He later studied with Narbonne , Georg, Chapelain-Midy and Legueult. In 1957 he became a member of the House of Descartes in Amsterdam and the following year was named member of the Casa Velazquez in Madrid , honors which are exceptional for a young painter.
He is a member of the Salon d'Automne as well as a member of its jury, he also exhibits in the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Salon Comparisons, and the Salon Terres Latines. In 1976 he shared in the honor of presenting the Salon d'Automne exhibition in Japan .
Michel-Henry blends delicate tones and strong and fascinating accents into his compositions of flower still life, landscapes and marines. An avid interest in nature is the predominant quality of his luminous works.
As a French artist whose works are known internationally, Michel-Henry over a period of twenty eight years has earned the status of a goodwill ambassador in a universal world of cultural exchanges. For his dedication and unselfish contributions to art and artists from all lands he was honored by his country by being awarded the prestigious - la Croix de Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur - on January 1, 1981 by the French Minister of Culture Mr. Jean Philippe Lecat. Michel Henry exhibited at prestigious galleries in Paris (Avenue Matignon) and New York (Madison Avenue) alongside such artists as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Armand Guillaumin, Maurice Utrillo and Claude Venard. He is part of School of Paris artists that included Marcel Cosson, Jean Jansem, Leni-Dael, Raoul Dufy, Claude Salomon, Michel Kouliche...
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1960s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Modern British pastel study Still life on blue by Bernard Myers
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Bernard Myers (British, 1925 – 2007)
Still life on blue
pastel on paper
signed ‘B. Myers’ (lower left)
24 x 31.3/4 in. (61 x 80.7 cm.) (including frame)
From the estate of Bernard My...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Modern British oil study of Dahlias and fruit by Bernard Myers
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Bernard Myers (British, 1925 – 2007)
Dahlias and fruit
oil on paper
signed with initials ‘B. M’ (lower left)
24 x 31.3/4 in. (61 x 80.7 cm.) (including frame)
From the estate of Bern...
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20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Still Life of Bar Table
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Still Life of Bar Table, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 20" H x 25.75" W. Provenance...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Still Life with Pots - Watercolor by Pierre Jacquelin - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with Pots is a contemporary artwork realized by Pierre Jacquelin (1944) in 1980s/90s.
Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed on the lower left.
Good conditions.
The artwork ...
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1980s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Flowers Still Life
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...
Category
1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Fruit Basket - Original Pencil by Serge Fontinsky - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Fruit basket is an original sketch pencil drawing realized by Serge Fontinsky (1887-1971) in the half of the 20th Century.
Good conditions, minor cosmetic wear.
Hand-signed on the...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Paul Simon's Live Concert Setup - Technical Drawing in Pen on Heavy Cardstock
Located in Soquel, CA
Paul Simon's Live Concert Setup - Technical Drawing in Pen on Heavy Cardstock
Detailed, accurate drawing of musical equipment for a live concert. The instruments and equipment are r...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Postcard, Felt Pen, Laid Paper
Tropical Vegetation - Original Pencil and Watercolor - 1917
Located in Roma, IT
Mediterranean Vegetation is an original watercolored pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by Anonymous French Artist of the early 20th Century.
In very good conditions.
...
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1910s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Surrealistic flower - Original Colour Pencil Drawing
By André Masson
Located in Paris, IDF
André Masson (1896-1987)
Surrealistic flower
Original colour pencil drawing
Signed with the artist's stamp on the back (see photo)
On 30.5 x 29 cm tracing paper (11.8 x 11.4 inche...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Carbon Pencil
Back Porch - Santa Cruz California Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Back Porch - Santa Cruz California Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Detailed still life and landscape by Harry Federico (American, 1922-2022). Several potted plants sit on a porch with a white wrought...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Still Life - Drawing by Sante Monachesi - 1939
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a modern artwork realized by Sante Monachesi in 1939.
Charcoal drawing on paper.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Includes frame.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Bouquet of Roses - Original ink drawing, Signed
By Jean Dufy
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean DUFY (1888-1964)
Bouquet of Roses
Original ink and lavish drawing
Signed with the artist stamp
On paper 29 x 36 cm (c. 12 x 14 in)
Very good condition, paper lightly yellowed
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Tribute to Morandi #29
Located in Dallas, TX
Bob Stuth-Wade: Tribute to Morandi, 2018
"Life is what happens while I'm thinking of something else."
"Driving. Listening to the radio. Talking on the phone. Thinking of where I'm ...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
1930s Surrealist Composition of Still Life with Egg Beater by Artist Jan Matulka
By Jan Matulka
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1930s graphite on pencil drawing of Surrealist still life of an egg beater by notable artist Jan Matulka. Artwork size: 8 1/2" x 11". Archivally matted...
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1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
White Poppies - Botanical Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
White Poppies - Botanical Watercolor on Paper
Detailed floral watercolor by Harry Federico (American, 1922-2022). Several white poppies ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Still Life - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a Pencil Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980) in 1970.
Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (50x35 cm).
Monogrammed by ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Nudes - Tempera and Carboard on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nudes is a beautiful double-sided sheet with two full page original pantings on cardboard, realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th Century.
On the recto a wonderful origin...
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Early 20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Tempera
Flowers - Watercolor - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is an Original Watercolour realized by an unknown artist in 1970s.
Good condition, included a cream colored cardboard passpartout (42x32.3 cm).
Signature on the lower left ...
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1970s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cactus Flower
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Silverpoint and crayon on paper
4 11/16 x 3 inches
11.9 x 7.6 cm
Framed dimensions 8 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches
Provenance
The artist;
By bequest to his nephew, Sergio Stella, 1946;
By desc...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Flowers - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a Color Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was born in Le Havr...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Blanche Grambs, (Lazy Susan)
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions. This was probably for a cookbook.
The dimensions are for the drawing. The sheet is somewhat larger, 7 x 6 1/2 inches.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Blanche Grambs, (Study for a Souffle)
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions.
The symmetrical nature of the drawing suggests it was for a book or magazine project with facing pages -- possibly a cookboo...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Blanche Grambs, (Cooking Still Life: Bread, Olives, Potato, Mushrooms)
Located in New York, NY
In the 1950s and 60s Grambs worked on many commissions. This drawing was probably for a magazine, perhaps House and Garden or House Beautiful. It is signed and dated in pencil on the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Alberto Morrocco 'Tomatoes', gouache on board, Scottish
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Alberto Morrocco OBE RSA RSW RP RGI LLD DUNIV
(Scottish, 1919 – 1998)
Tomatoes
gouache on board
11 x 15. ¾in. (28 x 40cm.)
Provenance: Alberto Morroc...
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20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
Still life - Drawing by Serge Fotisnky - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Still life is an artwork realized by Serge Fotinsky in 1947.
Original drawing in pencil.
Signature lower right.
20 x 27 cm.
Good conditions escept ...
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1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Flower Pot - Watercolor by Fiorenzo Tomea - 1950s
By Fiorenzo Tomea
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers Pot is an original contemporary artwork realized by Fiorenzo Tomea (1910-1960) in the mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored watercolor.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Flower Vase, Mixed media on paper by Drawings by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jogen Chowdhury - Flower Vase
7 x 5 Inches
Mixed media on Paper
2023
Style : He has immense contribution in inspiring young artists of India. Jogen Chowdhury had developed his indiv...
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Postcard
Flower Vase - Original Drawing - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Flower Vase is an original artwork realized by an Anonymous artist in the late 19th century.
Ink and watercolor on paper. Includes frame (with minor defects): 47.5 x 2 x 33 cm. The ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Israeli Yosl Bergner Modernist Watercolor Painting Drawing Pots, Pans
By Yosl Bergner
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract Composition, Kitchen Utensils.
Ink and watercolor of kitchen implements. Hand signed in Hebrew upper left. Dimensions: (Frame) H 25" x 18" (Sight) H 18.5" x W 11.75"
Bergn...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor
Still life - Drawing by Federico Zandomeneghi - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still life is an original modern artwork realized by the artist Federico Zandomeneghi (1841-1917).
Pencil drawing on paper.
Hand signed by the artist on the lower margin.
Includes...
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20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
'Still Life of Fruit', Denver Art Museum, WPA, Santa Barbara Museum, Who Was Who
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, faintly, lower left, 'Donald Bear' (American, 1905-1952) and painted circa 1945.
A dynamic, modernist still-life of fruit in gouache, watercolor, crayon and india-ink.
Donald Jeffries Bear was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and grew up in Denver. He first attended Denver's Art Academy and, later in life, became director of the Denver Art Museum (1930-35). During the 1930s, he was also regional advisor for the Federal Art Project and was a primary art...
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1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Crayon, Ink
George Drittler, (Still Life)
Located in New York, NY
British-born, New Jersey-based, George Drittler was primarily know for landscapes. In this still life that expansive approach serves him well. Richly drawn, with pottery, books and a...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
KK Kozik, Bookstack 2, 2016, Conté, Rag Paper
By KK Kozik
Located in Darien, CT
KK Kozik is an artist living and working in Sharon, CT and Brooklyn, NY.
Her paintings have ben exhibited widely in the United States and abroad and have been reviewed in publicat...
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2010s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Rag Paper
Porcelain Service - Original Ink and Watercolor - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Porcelain service is an original china ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colored paper realized by a French Anonymous Artist of the late 19th Century.
In very good conditions.
This artwork represents porcelain drinking service...
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19th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Modern British ink pen on paper work of Isaac Stern by Edmond Xavier Kapp
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Edmond Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978)
Isaac Stern at work
Inkpen
Signed, inscribed and dated ‘Isaac Stern at work Kapp 51’ (lower right)
17.1/8 x 13.7/8 in. (43.3 x 35.3 cm.)
Edmond Kapp was born in Islington, London, on 5 November 1890, of American and German Jewish parentage. He gave himself the middle initial ‘X’ – sometimes said to stand for Xavier – to distinguish himself from his father Emil Kapp, who was a wine merchant. However, his parents called him ‘Eddie’ while his wife and friends knew him as ‘Peter’.
During his early years, Kapp was continually ill and, while convalescing, entertained himself by drawing at home. As his health improved, he attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Islington (1903-10), with periods at Berlin University (1909) and L’Institut Français pour les Etrangers, Paris (1909). He then read Languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1910-13), though spent most of his time writing and drawing.
Kapp took a studio in London, and worked intensively until the outbreak of the First World War, contributing to the Daily News, the Onlooker and other periodicals. During the war, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front, and then in Intelligence, rising to the position of Staff Captain on Haig’s Staff. Finally, he founded and directed the Neutral Press Counter-propaganda Section.
In 1919, Kapp returned to London and, after abortive periods at three art schools, worked alone. In that year, he made his name with an exhibition of caricatures, held at Furst’s Gallery, London, and accompanied by a catalogue introduced by Max Beerbohm. This soon led to contracts with three London periodicals and a book of caricatures, Personalities, published by Martin Secker. Through the 1920s and 30s, his drawings of musicians and other personalities appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, most notably Time & Tide; were collected in further volumes; and were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. He considered himself to be a ‘character-portraitist’, producing images of psychological not satirical power, and disliking the term ‘caricature’.
Between the wars, Kapp developed other aspects of his artistic talents, the desire to study and the search for subject matter often taking him abroad. For instance, work at the British Academy, Rome, under Antonio Sciortino...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Still Life - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Mino Maccari in the 1950s.
Monogrammed in pencil.
Good condition with diffused foxing.
Mino Maccari (1898-1989) wa...
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1950s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$674 Sale Price
24% Off
The Plough - Original Pen Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Plough is an original pen drawing realized by an unknown artist of the Mid-20th Century.
The artwork is in very good conditions and mounted on a white cardboard (49x34).
There ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
XXX. 2002. acrylic on canvas, 80x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
This sizeable work is a combination of fauvist and impressionist style. It shows a hurricane of different feelings and moods that each one of us interprets differently
Ingrida Irbe ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$5,559 Sale Price
20% Off
Vase of Flowers - Drawing In Pen by Giovanni Omiccioli - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Vase of Flowers is a beautiful drawing in pen, realized in 1957 by the Italian artist Giovanni Omiccioli (Rome, 1901-1975).
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right and dated. In v...
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1950s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Still Life with Lemon and Hat - Oil Paste and Chalk Drawing - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with Lemon and Hat is beautiful original oil pastel and chalk drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by an anonymous French artist of the end of XIX century.
On a table...
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Late 19th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Still Life of Seashells
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Still Life of Seashells, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 20" H x 25.5" W. Provenance:...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Three Fruit, Modern Watercolor on Paper by John Urbain
By John Urbain
Located in Long Island City, NY
John Urbain, Belgian/American (1920 - 2009) - Three Fruit, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed in pencil, Size: 11.25 x 17.5 in. (28.58 x 44.45 cm)
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Modern British 'What's the Time?' by British German Kapp, 1975
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Eduard Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978)
What’s the Time?
Pen and crayon, tondo
Signed and dated ‘Kapp 75’ (in the centre)
8.1/2 x 8.1/2 in. (21.6 x 21.6 cm.)
Edmond Kapp was born in Islington, London, on 5 November 1890, of American and German Jewish parentage. He gave himself the middle initial ‘X’ – sometimes said to stand for Xavier – to distinguish himself from his father Emil Kapp, who was a wine merchant. However, his parents called him ‘Eddie’ while his wife and friends knew him as ‘Peter’.
During his early years, Kapp was continually ill and, while convalescing, entertained himself by drawing at home. As his health improved, he attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Islington (1903-10), with periods at Berlin University (1909) and L’Institut Français pour les Etrangers, Paris (1909). He then read Languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1910-13), though spent most of his time writing and drawing.
Kapp took a studio in London, and worked intensively until the outbreak of the First World War, contributing to the Daily News, the Onlooker and other periodicals. During the war, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front, and then in Intelligence, rising to the position of Staff Captain on Haig’s Staff. Finally, he founded and directed the Neutral Press Counter-propaganda Section.
In 1919, Kapp returned to London and, after abortive periods at three art schools, worked alone. In that year, he made his name with an exhibition of caricatures, held at Furst’s Gallery, London, and accompanied by a catalogue introduced by Max Beerbohm. This soon led to contracts with three London periodicals and a book of caricatures, Personalities, published by Martin Secker. Through the 1920s and 30s, his drawings of musicians and other personalities appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, most notably Time & Tide; were collected in further volumes; and were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. He considered himself to be a ‘character-portraitist’, producing images of psychological not satirical power, and disliking the term ‘caricature’.
Between the wars, Kapp developed other aspects of his artistic talents, the desire to study and the search for subject matter often taking him abroad. For instance, work at the British Academy, Rome, under Antonio Sciortino...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Modern British ink pen on paper work of a rose by Edmond Xavier Kapp
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Eduard Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978)
Rose in bottle
Ink pen
Signed, inscribed and dated ‘For Paby, no7 out of 7 Kapp. 59’ (lower edge)
11 x 8.1/4 in. (28 x 21 cm.)
Edmond Kapp ...
Category
20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Japan Issue Fortune Magazine Cover Proposal Japanese Mid-Century Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Japan Issue Fortune Magazine Cover Proposal Japanese Mid-Century Illustration
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
JAPAN ISSUE
Fortune cover proposal, c. 1936
14 1/4 x 12 inches (sight)
Framed 19 3/4 X 17 3/4 Inches
Gouache on board
Signed lower left
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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1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
The Hen Coop - 1940s Modern British watercolour by Pamela Spencer
Located in London, GB
PAMELA MARY SPENCER
(1924-2012)
The Hen Coop
Signed and dated 1946
Watercolour and pencil, unframed in conservation mount only
30 by 28 cm., 11 ¾ by 11 in.
Provenance:
The artist’s estate.
Pamela Spencer was the niece of Sir Stanley Spencer RA and Gilbert Spencer...
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1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
"Pansies" original crayon drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this small painting, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a simple trillium flower, the white petals framed by blue-green leaves.
4.5 x 8 inches, artwork
13 x 15 inches, fram...
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1950s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Crayon
British Modernist Vibrant Watercolor Painting of Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Sir Jacob Epstein KBE (10 November 1880 – 19 August 1959) was an American British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British subject in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged ideas on what was appropriate subject matter for public artworks. He also made paintings and drawings, and often exhibited his work.
Epstein's parents were Polish Jewish refugees, living on New York's Lower East Side. He studied art in his native New York as a teenager, sketching the city, and joined the Art Students League of New York in 1900. For his livelihood, he worked in a bronze foundry by day, studying drawing and sculptural modelling at night. Epstein's first major commission was to illustrate Hutchins Hapgood's 1902 book Spirit of the Ghetto. Epstein used the money from the commission to move to Paris.
Moving to Europe in 1902, he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts. He settled in London in 1905 and married Margaret Dunlop in 1906. Epstein became a British subject on 4 January 1911. Many of Epstein's works were sculpted at his two cottages in Loughton, Essex, where he lived first at number 49 then 50, Baldwin's Hill (there is a blue plaque on number 50). He served briefly in the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, known as the Jewish Legion during World War I; following a breakdown, he was discharged in 1918 without having left England.
In London, Epstein involved himself with a bohemian and artistic crowd. Revolting against ornate, pretty art, he made bold, often harsh and massive forms of bronze or stone. His sculpture is distinguished by its vigorous rough-hewn realism. Avant-garde in concept and style, his works often shocked his audience. This was not only a result of their (often explicit) sexual content, but also because they deliberately abandoned the conventions of classical Greek sculpture favoured by European Academic sculptors to experiment instead with the aesthetics of art traditions as diverse as those of India, West Africa, and the Pacific Islands.
Between 1913 and 1915, Epstein was associated with the short-lived Vorticism movement and produced one of his best known sculptures The Rock Drill.
Between the late 1930s and the mid-1950s, numerous works by Epstein were exhibited in Blackpool. Adam, Consummatum Est, Jacob and the Angel and Genesis, and other works, were initially displayed in an old drapery shop surrounded by red velvet curtains. The crowds were ushered in at the cost of a shilling by a barker on the street. After a small tour of American fun fairs, the works were returned to Blackpool and were exhibited in the anatomical curiosities section of Louis Tussaud's waxworks.
Bronze portrait sculpture formed one of Epstein's staple products, and perhaps the best known. These sculptures were often executed with roughly textured surfaces, expressively manipulating small surface planes and facial details. Some fine examples are in the National Portrait Gallery. He completed a bust of Winston Churchill...
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1930s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modern still-life drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.
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