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Style: Abstract Impressionist
Rice Field, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"Vietnam is a country of contrasts - lowlands with lush green ricefields like this one as well as mountains around every corner," says artist James Nyika. "This picture was so compelling because of the huge color contrast of the bright luscious foreground and the greying distant mountains. I wanted to capture these contrasts that are pervasive throughout the country."


About the Artist
Artist James Nyika paints the glowing atmosphere of cities across the world. As a child growing up in Kenya, he found art materials at the student bookshop and also borrowed just about every art history volume from the British Council library in Nairobi. "I checked out the same books over and over just to stare at the art, to try and understand how it was created," says James. With family encouragement to study engineering, James moved to the U.S. and immersed himself in science studies at Boston University. Several years after embarking on a tech career, he set a goal to create at least one painting a week, never throwing away any works and learning as much as possible in his off hours. Today, James still balances his full-time career designing large software systems with his prolific output as a painter. "Painting is a great antidote to the regularity of a computing profession and I really value it for the uncertainty that it brings - something frowned upon when writing code."


Words that describe this painting: Vietnam, paddy, rice field...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Moonglow Black Beauty, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A full moon illuminates fishing boats moored in still evening waters. "I was captivated by the sleek, beautiful boat at the forefront of this piece," says artist Judy Mudd. "It complemented the soft, quiet mood created by the glow of the moon in the sky above. The combination of these elements provides a gentle flow for the viewer's eye to follow." This watercolor is part of Judy's Moonglow Series.


About the Artist
For Judy Mudd, creating a work of art means much more than simply reproducing something she sees. “It is more than painting a subject, it is expressing a feeling,” she explains. Judy develops her paintings with thorough reconnaissance work. She goes out on photo shoots in a variety of atmospheric conditions, sketches outdoors, takes notes, and completes color and value studies. From there, back in the studio, she lets the paintbrush guide her. Outside of painting, Judy also leads watercolor workshops and runs a real estate business with her husband.


Words that describe this painting: impressionism, marine, moon, fishing, boats, calm...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Beavertail Trail Again, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Catherine McCargar based this painting off of a plein air piece she created while standing in the middle of this walking path and horse trail. "I had t...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Reaching Across, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Patricia set up her easel at one of her favorite spots along the American River and painted a small study of the early morning scene. Then she went back to he...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil Pastel

The Quiet of the River Fog, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Patricia set up her easel on an early fall morning to catch the beauty of the fog rising off of the river. The sun was just beginnin...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel

The Pond at Windmill Farm, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"A tranquil setting for a picnic or an early afternoon nap," says Patricia. The eucalyptus trees create a frame for the pond, the mid-ground bushes and the di...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel

View down the River
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This is my interpretation of a section of the American River near my home. I tried to convey the feeling of peace that I get when walking in this area with the ducks and birds for company. I added the path for a little sense of mystery as to what we might see in those trees beyond the river. I created this piece on Ampersand Pastelbord and it will need framing for display.

About the Artist
Pastel artist Patricia Prendergast creates impressionist artworks that depict the rivers and landscapes near her home in Sacramento, California. With each nature vignette, she captures the sense of larger natural rhythms through quick mark-making, mauve undertones, and a tranquil and serene haziness. Her work recalls the paintings from the Hudson River School such as Thomas Cole and Asher Brown Durand. Before working on her pastels at home in her studio, she spends hours studying nature on walks along the river near her home. Since becoming an artist, she says “everything is more vivid - the beauty of light and shadow in the trees, the subtlety of the color of clouds, the sparkle and reflections in water.” Her work as been exhibited in solo shows around California. She is represented by UGallery.

View down the River...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel

Untitled, Flowers
By Charlotte Britton
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled, Flowers" is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Charlotte Britton, American, b.1938. It is signed at the middle left side by the artist. The artw...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Abstract Color Field Composition in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Color Field Composition in Watercolor on Paper Bold abstract composition by Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). Two rectangles of color sit vertically, with gray-pu...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Spring Bouquet XIV
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This piece is part of my spring bouquet series. It is my interpretation of spring flowers, done in a loose, watercolor style. This piece is on heavyweight pap...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Spring Blooms II
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This piece is my interpretation of spring flowers, done in a loose watercolor style. This piece is on heavyweight paper and will need a frame for display.

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Carolyn (Arms raised to her head)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Carolyn (Arms raised to her head) Graphite on laid paper Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the artist by descent to his Grandson Depicts the artist's wife Carolyn. Most probably created in Nashville, Indiana Related to the painting entitled "Maiden" in the Haan Museum, Lafayette, IN (see photo) Condition: Excellent Archival framing with TruVue Conservation Clear glass Image size: 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches Frame size: 18 7/8 x 16 inches Louis Oscar Griffith (1875-1956) Born in Greencastle, Indiana, Griffith grew up in Dallas, Texas where Texas artist and teacher Charles Franklin Reaugh recognized young “Griff’s” artistic talent. At age 18, Griffith moved to St. Louis where he attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. In 1895, he moved to Chicago where he worked making color prints for the firm Barnes and Crosby. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and during a brief stay in New York, the National Academy of Design. A successful commercial artist with a studio in the Chicago Loop, Griffith was a member and president of the Chicago Palette and Chisel Club. He made his first trip to Brown County...
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1920s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Graphite

Self Portrait
Located in Atlanta, GA
You meet the Spanish artist Alexandro Santana and you think, cripes, can he be for real? So handsome, so flamboyant, so seductive, so amusing -- you’...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Merton Clivette (American, 1868-1931) Title: Landscape Year: Circa 1925 Medium: Gouache Paper: Heavy Bristol type Size image: 22.75 x 28 inches Paper size: 22.75 x 28 inches Signature: Signed lower left by the artist Condition: Excellent Frame: Unframed About the artist. Clivette was born in Portage, Wisconsin, in 1868 as Merton Clive Cook, the youngest of five (four sons and one daughter). His father was a retired British sea captain, and his mother was an American of French, Scottish and Iroquois Indian stock. He stayed with a circus for about five years, traveling all over the Western United States, Canada and Mexico. They did shows for the army forts, for railroad workers and on Indian Reservations. Clivette settled in San Francisco in 1886, when he was offered a job as a reporter and theatrical writer for the San Francisco Call. He met Frederic Remington during this period. He was the first serious artist Clivette had met and he was an inspiration to him. Clivette had done some drawing and painting on the road during his vaudeville years, he had a natural facility for it, and he had had some formal art training as well. He had had some training in Europe and was aware of the modern art movement in Europe. Later in New York he participated in symposiums and workshops at the Art Students League. Around 1910 he gave up his stage career and began to paint full time. He was about 40 years old and was to continue to paint vigorously and prolifically for the remaining 22 years of his life, His style can be identified with the Expressionist Movement, His subjects include portraits (some quite realistic, others more generalized) Indians and horsemen, laborers, gentlemen and vamps, jungle animals and birds, fish, seascapes and landscapes. He was an active participant in the art world of New York. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists. In 1923 he showed at the Ainslee Art Gallery at 677 Fifth Ave., in 1925 at the Spanish Society in Brooklyn and in 1927 he had a solo show at the New Gallery, 600 Madison Ave. That same year there was also a solo show of his work in Paris at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, which included a catalogue. In 1929 he exhibited at the Art Center of the Roerich Museum in a group show of work from the collection of George Hellman. In 1930 he was in a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, "Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans" which also included the work of Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, William Glackens, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, George Luks and Mark Tobey and sculptors Gaston Lachaise and William Zorach among others. A description and critical analysis of his work in included in the book by Henry Rankin Poore...
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Early 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Gouache

George Goodwin Kilburne (1839-1924) - 1867 Watercolour, Mother and Baby
Located in Corsham, GB
A touching scene depicting a mother sitting with her baby outside a cottage. Signed and dated in the lower left. Presented in a gilt frame with a beaded running pattern. On paper.
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Mid-19th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Colourful Abstract Flowers using Pinks & Yellows by Contemporary British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Colourful Abstract Flowers using Pinks & Yellows by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield. This original is from the 'Spring Burst' Interior Design Series. Art measures 10 x...
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Early 2000s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor

Abstract Red Blue Yellow Flower Design on White by British Contemporary Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of Abstract Red, Blue & Yellow Wild Flowers on a White Background by British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. This original is from the 'Spring Burst' Interior Design ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, B...

Horse With Rising Sun Modern British Northern Art Japanese Aesthetic Watercolor
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Geoffrey Key. English ( b.1941 ). Horse With Rising Sun, 1989. Watercolor & Ink On Paper. Signed & Dated Lower Right. Image size 13.6 inches x 9.7 inches ( 34.5cm x 24.5cm ). Frame size 20.5 inches x 16.5 inches ( 52cm x 42cm ). Available for sale; this original painting is by Geoffrey Key and is dated 26th September 1989. The watercolor is presented and supplied in a sympathetic and contrasting contemporary frame (which is shown in these photographs) to suit the subject coloration, mounted using conservation materials and behind glass. This artwork and its presentation is in excellent condition. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display. The watercolor is signed and dated lower right. Geoffrey Key is a leading figure in Northern contemporary art, widely regarded as Lancashire’s greatest living artist, noted for his realism, his expressive use of bold color and his graphic, linear style. His striking works, now much in demand, have established him as a major player of post war British figurative art. Geoffrey Key was born in Rusholme, Manchester in 1941. His mother, Marion, worked as an illustrator and encouraged him to draw and he took to this easily and with great enthusiasm. He was educated at Manchester's High School of Art, whose headmaster, Ernest Goodman, established the Salford Art Club. It is fitting that many years later, after Goodman's death, its members chose Geoffrey Key as Honorary President. In 1958 Key enrolled at the Manchester Regional College of Art, where he was tutored by the sculptor Ted Roocroft and the painter Harry Rutherford, both of whom influenced him greatly. After gaining the National Diploma of Design and the Diploma of Associateship of Manchester, the latter with distinction, Key took up a postgraduate scholarship in sculpture. His academic awards include the Heywood Medal in Fine Art and the Guthrie Bond Travelling Scholarship. Geoffrey Key’s early work included an important period of development during which he concentrated on painting and drawing a specific area of the Derbyshire landscape, the Whiteley Nab hill, south of Glossop. Key created literally hundreds of images of this one landscape and later revealed that the sole purpose of this dedicated period of study, was to build upon the firm foundation established by his academic training, whilst divesting himself of the influences he had absorbed in order to arrive at his own personal artistic language. In other words, this is where he found his own style. After graduating Key worked as a teacher at Duke Street Secondary Modern in Broughton, Salford, which later became Broughton Modern. In every spare moment though he painted and his talent was quickly recognised. As the likes of Salford Art Gallery, The Rutherston Loan Collection and North West Arts began to acquire his work he made the decision to relinquish his salary and to become a full time artist. Key was elected to membership of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts in 1968 and was a prize winner in 1971. During this time he was also commissioned by three North West England based companies – Mather & Platt, Richard Johnson & Nephew, and Wilson’s Brewery. The Richard Johnson & Nephew pictures are now held by the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester. In the 1980s the French company Société des Caves de Roquefort also commissioned Key’s work and further successful exhibitions were held in both the UK and abroad. In 1987 the Manchester Evening News asked Key to write an article on L. S. Lowry, who Key had known well, for a feature marking the centenary of the artist's birth. This article was accompanied by a contemporary drawing of Lowry by Key. Apart from LS Lowry, Key is arguably Lancashire’s best-known and most collected contemporary artist. Key says ‘I knew Lowry and he was a lovely...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Circle Lime
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937) Title: Circle Lime Year: Circa 1990 Medium: Acrylic on paper Paper: Thick wove Size, image: 29.5 x 39.5 inches Size, pap...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Acrylic

State of Grace
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937) Title: State of Grace Year: Circa 1990 Medium: Acrylic on paper Paper: Thick wove Size, image: 29.5 x 39.5 inches Size, ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Acrylic

Oak Tress #1
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937) Title: Oak Trees #1 Year: Circa 1990 Medium: Acrylic on paper Paper: Thick wove Size, image: 29.5 x 39.5 inches Size, p...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Landscape #II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Merton Clivette (American, 1868-1931) Title: Landscape II Year: Circa 1925 Medium: Gouache Paper: Watercolor Size image: 17.35 x 22.65 inches Size paper: 17.35 x 22.65 inches Signature: Signed lower left by the artist Condition: Excellent Frame: Unframed About the artist. Clivette was born in Portage, Wisconsin, in 1868 as Merton Clive Cook, the youngest of five (four sons and one daughter). His father was a retired British sea captain, and his mother was an American of French, Scottish and Iroquois Indian stock. He stayed with a circus for about five years, traveling all over the Western United States, Canada and Mexico. They did shows for the army forts, for railroad workers and on Indian Reservations. Clivette settled in San Francisco in 1886, when he was offered a job as a reporter and theatrical writer for the San Francisco Call. He met Frederic Remington during this period. He was the first serious artist Clivette had met and he was an inspiration to him. Clivette had done some drawing and painting on the road during his vaudeville years, he had a natural facility for it, and he had had some formal art training as well. He had had some training in Europe and was aware of the modern art movement in Europe. Later in New York he participated in symposiums and workshops at the Art Students League. Around 1910 he gave up his stage career and began to paint full time. He was about 40 years old and was to continue to paint vigorously and prolifically for the remaining 22 years of his life, His style can be identified with the Expressionist Movement, His subjects include portraits (some quite realistic, others more generalized) Indians and horsemen, laborers, gentlemen and vamps, jungle animals and birds, fish, seascapes and landscapes. He was an active participant in the art world of New York. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists. In 1923 he showed at the Ainslee Art Gallery at 677 Fifth Ave., in 1925 at the Spanish Society in Brooklyn and in 1927 he had a solo show at the New Gallery, 600 Madison Ave. That same year there was also a solo show of his work in Paris at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, which included a catalogue. In 1929 he exhibited at the Art Center of the Roerich Museum in a group show of work from the collection of George Hellman. In 1930 he was in a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, "Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans" which also included the work of Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, William Glackens, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, George Luks and Mark Tobey and sculptors Gaston Lachaise and William Zorach among others. A description and critical analysis of his work in included in the book by Henry Rankin Poore...
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Early 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Abstract Study of English Seascape Shoreline by Contemporary British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Abstract Study of English Seascape Shoreline by Leading Contemporary British Artist Angela Wakefield Art measures 12 x 10 inches Frame measures 17 x...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Acrylic, Board

Farm in Autumn with Corn and Pumpkins in Watercolor on Heavy Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Farm in Autumn with Corn and Pumpkins in Watercolor on Heavy Paper Colorful landscape of a farm in autumn with pumpkins by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderso...
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Early 2000s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Laid Paper

Daisies and Sunflowers - Still Life Oil Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Daisies and Sunflowers - Still Life Oil Pastel on Paper This fun, quirky oil pastel by a David Mark (American, 20th C) features bright, abstract yellow and white flowers with contra...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel

Red and Yellow Galaxy Abstract on Wrapper of Interview Magazine Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Red and Yellow Galaxy Abstract on Wrapper of Interview Magazine Acrylic on Paper Saturated abstract composition by Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). Splashes of red, yello...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Acrylic

Sophia Katherine Charleton (1789-1844) - Watercolour, A Summer Bloom
Located in Corsham, GB
A detailed early 19th century botanical study by the artist Sophia Katherine Charleton (1789-1844) depicting a plentiful summer bloom. The edges of the artwork have been delicately e...
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Early 19th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

John Weston - Framed Mid 20th Century Watercolour, Barges at Teddington Lock
Located in Corsham, GB
Original watercolour. Presented in a narrow oak frame. Signed to the lower left. Labelled verso. On watercolour paper.
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

William Cruikshank (1848-1922) - Late 19th Century Watercolour, Study of Game
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine watercolour study of a game bird and hare in a pantry interior. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a part gilt frame.
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Late 19th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Woman on a Patio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman on a Patio Pastel on paper, c. 1915 Unsigned Provenance: Gift of the artist to his wife, Mary Hess Buehr By decent to the artist's niece, daughter of Will Hess David Saltzman Robert Henry Adams Fine Art Thomas French Fine Art Ronald C. Sloter, Columbus, Ohio Columbus College of Art and Design (de-accessed) Exhibited at Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, 1994, the first exhibition at the North Franklin Street Gallery. One of the early Chicago artists to adopt Impressionism, Karl Buehr became a figure and landscape painter. As a figure painter, his specialty became "gorgeously colored images of young women on porches overlooking brilliant summertime gardens." (Kennedy 98) His later work often showed a female figure with serious expression engaging the viewer with a direct stare. In his landscapes, he was noted for his strong coloration. In a December 1896 student exhibition at the Art Institute, a reviewer for the "Chicago Times Herald" described Buehr's landscapes as "blithe and joyous" with "country roads brilliant in sunlight . . . fields rich in summer verdure, under soft skies painted in a high, musical key." (Gerdts 68) Buehr was born as one of seven sons to a prosperous German family who immigrated to America and settled in Chicago in 1869. He was first exposed to his signature style of Impressionism in 1888 when he enrolled in night classes at the Art Institute while working in the shipping department of a lithographic firm near the Institute. He remained a student there until 1897 and was recognized in a "Chicago Times Herald" editorial of June 13, 1897 as one of the Institute's most outstanding pupils. The next year, his art career was temporarily put on hold when he briefly enlisted with the U.S. Army in the Spanish American War. In 1899, he resumed his art studies, this time with Frank Duveneck. He exhibited a painting at the Paris Salon of 1900. In 1905, thanks to a wealthy Chicago patron, Buehr and his family moved to France. They spent the following year in Taormina, Sicily, and spent time in Venice as well. In Paris, Buehr studied at the Academy Julian with Raphael Collin for two years. Then he went to England, enrolling in the London Art School but had returned to Paris by 1908. During this time, he began painting at Giverny, the home of Impressionist leader Claude Monet (1840-1926, and by 1912, Buehr was listing that village as his home address. One of his good friends and associates at Giverny was Frederick Frieseke. One of Buehr's paintings from that time, "News from Home", was exhibited in 1913 at the French Salon in Paris and at the annual exhibit of the Chicago Art Institute. It shows a woman in floral dress sitting on a porch with a background with potted flowers and lush greenery background. Of his painting done at Giverny, Buehr wrote in 1912 to William Macbeth of Macbeth Galleries in New York: "My figures painted in and around Giverny are costumed and in appropriate out door settings." (Gerdts 68) In 1914, he returned to the United States and took a teaching position in Chicago at the Art Institute, which he held for the remainder of his life. He was married to Mary Hess, a painter of miniatures and decorative works. In 1928-29, he was a guest artist at Stanford University. Courtesy, AskArt “Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952) was a painter born in Germany. Buehr was born in Feuerbach - near Stuttgart. He was the son of Frederick Buehr and Henrietta Doh (Dohna?). He moved to Chicago with his parents and siblings in the 1880s. In Chicago, young Karl worked at various jobs until he was employed by a lithograph company near the Art Institute of Chicago. Introduced to art at work, Karl paid regular visits to the Art Institute, where he found part-time employment, enabling him to enroll in night classes. Later, working at the Institute as a night watchman, he had a unique opportunity to study the masters and actually posted sketchings that blended in favorably with student's work. Having studied under John H. Vanderpoel, Buehr graduated with honors, while his work aroused such admiration that he was offered a teaching post there, which he maintained for many years thereafter. He graduated from the Art Inst. of Chicago and served in the IL Cav in the Spanish–American War. Mary Hess became Karl's wife—she was a student of his and an accomplished artist in her own right. In 1922, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member. Art Studies in Europe In 1904, Buehr received a bronze medal at the St. Louis Universal Exposition, then, in 1905, Buehr and his family moved to France, thanks to a wealthy Chicago patron, and they spent the following year in Taormina, Sicily, where the artist painted local subjects, executing both genre subjects and landscapes as well as time in Venice. Buehr spent at least some time in Paris, where he worked with Raphaël Collin at the Académie Julian. Giverny and American Impressionism Prior to this time, Buehr had developed a quasi-impressionistic style, but after 1909, when he began spending summers near Monet in Giverny, his work became decidedly characteristic of that plein-air style but he began focusing on female subjects posed out-of-doors. He remained for some time in Giverny, and here he became well-acquainted with other well known expatriate America impressionists such as Richard Miller, Theodore Earl Butler, Frederick Frieseke, and Lawton Parker. It seems likely that Buehr met Monet, since his own daughter Kathleen and Monet’s granddaughter, Lili Butler, were playmates, according to George Buehr, the painter’s son. His other daughter Lydia died before adulthood due to diabetes. He returned to Chicago at the onset of World War I and taught at The Art Inst for many years. One of his noted pupils at the Art Institute was Archibald Motley...
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1910s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pastel

"Sunlight" - Abstracted Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright abstracted landscape by Maxine "Mickey" Spencer (American, 1927-2011). Strong blues and magentas create an abstracted scene, evoking a body of water with trees...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Blue and Bronze Kimono - Hand Augmented Collotype
Located in Soquel, CA
Hand-augmented collotype by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Signed "Patricia A. Pearce" in the lower right corner. There are embossed wavy lines running horizontally, with ri...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pen, Color Pencil

Pink Rope Kimono
Located in Soquel, CA
Multi-layered collotype by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of other Pearce work. No frame. Patricia Pearce (Americ...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Gouache, Lithograph

Abstracted Still Life of White and Yellow Flowers
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful abstracted watercolor still life with white and yellow daisies on a soft purple and blue background, on heavy paper by Les Anderson (American, 1928-2009). This piece is uns...
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Early 2000s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Post Office, New York
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Post Office, New York Watercolor on paper, c. 1930 Signed with the Estate stamp lower left (see photo) Illustrated: Marbella Gallery, Robert Hallowell (1886-1939), No. 64 Provenance:...
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1930s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Charles F. Allbon (1856-1926) - Watercolour, Haddon Hall in the Olden Time
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming depiction of Tudor figures wandering the grounds of Haddon Hall in Bakewell, Derbyshire. Signed and inscribed to the lower left. Presented in a gilt frame and double card ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

'August, Welcomed'. Botanical roses flowers abstract yellow blue brown modern
Located in Penzance, GB
SOPHIA MILLIGAN 'August Remembered' Original Artwork. Unframed _________________ The eucalyptus is swaying softly this morning, dancing with it's shad...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Photogram

French Impressionist Landscape Rural Harbour Scene with Church
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
“Rural Harbour Scene with Church" By Maurice Mazeilie (French) Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 4.75 x 6.25 inches (Height x Width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good - There are no n...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape River Seine Bridge Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
“Cityscape with Bridge” By Maurice Mazeilie (French) Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 4.5 x 6.25 inches (Height x Width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good - There are no noticeable f...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape Seaside Village Overlooking the Bay
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
“Seaside Village Overlooking the Bay" By Maurice Mazeilie (French) Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 5.5 x 9 inches (Height x Width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good - There are no n...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape Mountainous with Village and bridge
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
“Mountainous Landscape with Village and Bridge" By Maurice Mazeilie (French) Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 3.5 x 5.5 inches (Height x Width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good - Th...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape Paris River Bridge Scene with Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
“Bridge Scene with Trees" By Maurice Mazeilie (French) Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 7 x 8.25 inches (Height x Width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good - There are no noticeable f...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape Paris River Bridge Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
“Cityscape with Bridge" By Maurice Mazeilie (French) Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 4.5 x 6.25 inches (Height x Width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good - There are no noticeable f...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolour Landscape - Urban landscape with tower
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: "Urban Landscape with Tower" Artist: Maurice Mazeilie (French) Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 7.5 x 9.4 inches (Height x Width) Signed: Yes, bottom right S...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape - Couple Wandering Down Village Street
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: "Couple Wandering Down Village Street" Artist: Maurice Mazeilie (French) Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 13 x 11 inches (Height x Width) Signed: No Stamped V...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape City Square with Equestrian Statue
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
“City Square with Equestrian Statue" By Maurice Mazeilie (French) Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 5.5 x 7.5 inches (Height x Width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good - There are no ...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape The River Seine Bridge Horse Statue
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
“River Seine with Bridge and Equestrian Statue" By Maurice Mazeilie (French) Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 6.25 x 8.5 inches (Height x Width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good - T...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Landscape - Boats in a Dry Bay w/ Figure Tending to Rigging
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: "Boats in a Dry Bay with Figure Tending to Rigging" Artist: Maurice Mazeilie (French) Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 7 x 10 inches (Height x Width) Signed: Y...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape Castle Overlooking The Bay
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
itle: "Castle overlooking fields" Artist: Maurice Mazeilie (French) Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 5 x 7 inches (Height x Width) Signed: No Stamped Verso: Yes Con...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French Impressionist Watercolor Landscape Village Scene Upon a Hilltop
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: "Village Scene Upon a Hilltop" Artist: Maurice Mazeilie (French) Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed Size: 5.3 x 8.2 inches (Height x Width) Signed: No Stamped Verso: ...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Untitled (Woman working in the fields)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Woman working in the fields) Graphite on wove paper Unsigned Exhibited: Spanierman Galleries, In Praise of Women, Oct. 21-Nov. 20, 2010 Illustrated: Lisa N. Peters, In Praise of Women, Spanierman Galleries (see catalog entry in photos) Condition: Excellent Sheet size (sight): 14 1//2 x 10 5/16 inches Provenance: Spanierman Galleries, New York The young woman is a known model for Knight. She is depicted in numerous paintings. The striped skirt and wooden shoes she wears also is repeated in Knight's oeuvre. "Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in Philadelphia to a Quaker family and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1858 to 1861, the year he became a founding member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club. He went to Paris and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1861 to 1863 with Charles Gleyre (1808-1874) and Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), and attended the Accademia di San Lucca, then in Venice, in 1863. Knight returned to Philadelphia that year, married, and served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He went back to France in 1871 and lived there for the remainder of his long and successful career. He settled in Seine-et-Oise near Poissy to study with the noted academic painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891) in 1873, and the two artists became close friends. Influenced by his French contemporaries Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) and Jules- Adolphe-Aimé-Louis Breton...
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1890s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Fashionably Late - Abstract Watercolor on Paper in Green and Purple
Located in New York, NY
Andrei Petrov's Fashionably Late is 9 x 13.5 inches watercolor on paper. The main colors are green, and purple. As it is often the case in Petrov's work, his abstractions acquire, at...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

Touch of Fall watercolor and pastel painting by Nell Blaine
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed "Nell Blaine" upper left in pencil. Signed, titled, dated verso on sheet. Signed, titled, dated verso on backing panel. The artist. Exhibited at Fischbach Gallery, NYC, in 1994 (Gallery label verso, and wall label affixed verso). Purchased by private collectors c.1994. By descent. Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC (the artist's estate representative), exhibited 2020 (label verso). Exhibited at Fischbach Gallery, NYC, in 1994 (Gallery label verso, and wall label affixed verso). Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC (the artist's estate representative), exhibited 2020 (label verso). From her November 15, 1996 NYT obituary: Nell Blaine, a widely respected New York landscape painter and watercolorist, died yesterday at Mount Sinai Hospital. She was 74 and had homes in Manhattan and Gloucester, Mass. Ms. Blaine, who had been hospitalized since July, had been confined to a wheelchair since 1959, when she contracted polio. Ms. Blaine was born in Richmond, Va., in 1922, and first studied at the Richmond School of Art, now part of Virginia Commonwealth University. She moved to New York in 1942 to study painting with Hans Hofmann and later studied etching and engraving at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayter. During her first years in New York, her work, which had previously been tightly realist, turned abstract, inspired by Mondrian, Leger and Jean Helion. At one time she was the youngest member of the American Abstract Artists. She was also a founding member of the Jane Street Gallery, one of Manhattan's earliest artists' cooperatives, and had her first solo show there in 1945. Just as Ms. Blaine was becoming known as a promising abstract painter, and gaining the admiration of such critics as Clement Greenberg, she started to shift back to representation. Inspired in part by a trip with Larry Rivers in 1950 to Paris, where she was especially impressed by the work of Vuillard and Bonnard, she immersed herself in the tradition of 19th-century European painting. From the mid-1950's, she cultivated an increasingly painterly and colorful style, usually working directly from nature, or still life, with particular emphasis on the forms and hues of flowers. Her work retained a sense of all-over structure and pulsating energy that she nonetheless credited to abstract art. ''It all goes back to Mondrian,'' she would say. In the 1950's, Ms. Blaine was prominent among a circle of New York artists and poets that included John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, Mr. Rivers, Jane Freilicher, Leland Bell, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Robert De Niro Sr. and Rudy Burckhardt. She had her first solo show of representational work at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 1953 and was represented by the Poindexter Gallery until it closed in 1978, and, in recent years, by the Fischbach Gallery. During the 1950's she supported herself as a commercial artist, designing brochures for art galleries. In 1955, she designed the original logo, column heads and layout for The Village Voice. In 1957, Ms. Blaine was featured in Life magazine as one of five leading young female artists in America. In 1959, after several months of traveling and painting in Greece, she contracted severe bulbar polio on the island of Mykonos. ''To Nell Blaine,'' an exhibition organized at Poindexter to raise money for her hospital bills, included the work of 79 artists, including Saul Steinberg, Robert Motherwell, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Mr. Rivers, Ms. Freilicher and Robert Rauschenberg. After eight months in a New York hospital, including five months in an iron lung...
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1990s Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Watercolor

"Still Life" Abstract Drawing 20" x 12" inch by Nazli Madkour
Located in Culver City, CA
"Still Life" Abstract Drawing 20" x 12" inch by Nazli Madkour Madkour was born on 25 February 1949 in Cairo, Egypt. She has held solo exhibitions since 1982 in many galleries in Eg...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Blue sky over the loch
Located in Deddington, GB
Blue sky over the loch by Natalie Bird [2022] original Pastel Image size: H:36 cm x W:28 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:25 cm x W:20 cm x D:0.5cm Sold Unframed Please note tha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 12.75 x 9.75 inches condition: excellent pr...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil

French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 14.75 x 11 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we ha...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil

Post-Impressionist French Watercolour Painting Seascape of Port Lazo, Brittany
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 10 x 14 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the artists...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Post-Impressionist Watercolour Painting The Mountains Of Cerisé, Normandy
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 9.5 x 12.5 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the arti...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Post-Impressionist French Watercolour Painting Trees And The Valley
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed lower left, Inscribed Verso. watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed 10 x 14 inches Very good condition. Provenance: from the artists...
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20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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