Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

A little gem of an image captured by a master of light depicting this well known view on the Grand Canal. A delightful piece by this very sought after artist. Ken Howard (1932-2022)...

Rex Flood (1928-2009) Snipe Watercolour Signed lower right Image Size - 13 x 15 1/2 in Framed Size - 21 x 26 in Rex Flood (1928-2009) was an aviation and wildlife artist. He ws in ...

Thomas Wrigley (20th century) A duck landing in water Watercolour Signed lower left Image size - 11 1/2 x 18 in Framed size - 20 1/2 x 26 in

Thomas Wrigley (20th century) In Flight Watercolour Image size - 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 in Framed size - 18 x 21 1/2 in

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Modern abstract figure painting of Texas-born artist Charles Schorre. The work features a reclining nude woman reading a book set against an abstract green background. Signed in the ...

Minou-Study of Head Charcoal and pencil on vellum, 1984 Signed and dated in pencil by the artist Minou was Barnet's feline companion throughout many of his most prolific years. It has been said that if you entered Barnet's studio and Minou did not like you Barnet lost interest and dismissed you almost immediately. Provenance: Susan Teller Gallery, prior to 2005 (one of Barnet's friends and dealers) Babcock Galleries, 2005-2008 This drawing is related to a similar composition reproduced in the Richard Boyle catalog for Babcock Galleries. References: Boyle, Will Barnet Drawings, related to works reproduced on pp. 21, 41 (see photo of page 41) Minou is the cat on the back right. Condition: Excellent Stray ink and paint consistent with a working studio drawing Archival framing with DEN Glass (see photo) Image size: 9 x 11 7/8 inches Frame size: 17 x 19 inches Will Barnet Born May 25, 1911, Beverly, Massachusetts, US Died November 13, 2012 (aged 101), New York City, US Will Barnet (May 25, 1911 – November 13, 2012) was an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds. Biography Born in 1911 in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet knew by the age of ten that he wanted to be an artist. As a student, he studied with Philip Leslie Hale at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and viewed first-hand John Singer Sargent at work on the murals of the Boston Public Library. In 1930, Barnet studied at the Art Students League of New York, with Stuart Davis and Charles Locke, beginning his long association with the school. Here he concentrated on painting as well as printmaking, and, in 1936, he became the official printer for the Art Students League. There, he later instructed students in the graphic arts at the school and taught alongside the likes of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Robert Beverly Hale and Richard Pousette-Dart. Barnet influenced a generation of artists, including James Rosenquist, Knox Martin, Emil Milan, Paul Jenkins, Ethel Fisher...

'Tuscan Man Smoking a Pipe', watercolour on art paper, by Giuseppe Migneco (1969). Such a delightful, colourful depiction of a rural Tuscan man with b...

Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (British 1898-1986) Standing Nude Signed ‘Moore’ (lower right) Signed ‘Henry Moore’ verso Pen and ink charcoal and ink wash on paper Executed circa 1931 PROVENANCE - Bucholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York. Widely respected as one of the most astute dealers in modern art, Valentin organized influential exhibitions and attracted major artists to his Gallery - Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles. In the 1960s the gallery was at the forefront for contemporary and modern art exhibiting prominent European artists, including Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon. - Sothebys, London 1972 - Redfern Gallery, London - Private Collection, Florida EXHIBITED - Cincinnati Art Museum, 1950 (currently researching this) - Frank Perls, Beverley Hills, 6 British Moderns 16th March -17th April 1950. Perls introduced southern California to artists he believed represented the best modern art of America and Europe. Between 1950 to 1954, Frank Perls Gallery organized the first West coast exhibitions of Joan Miro, Marino Marini, and Alberto Giacometti - San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Six British Artists, 1st May – 4th June,1950, no 373.50 - Santa Barbara Museum of Art, June 1950 (currently researching this) - Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin, New York, Contemporary Drawings 26th September – 14th October, 1950, No 64 - - Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, Modern Masters Drawings and Watercolours, No 33 3rd – 29th April, 1967, LITERATURE Henry Moore Complete Drawings 1930-9, London 1998, volume II, No AG 31.13, illustrated p.48 Sheet height 55.8 cm 22 in. Length 36.1cm., 14 1/4 in. In a silvered, casseta frame Frame height 84 cm. 33 in. length 60 cm., 23 ½ in. The figure is monumental and sculptural; her strength and vitality embodied in a build- up of energy in her body mass. Her presence is conveyed through strength of form and articulation of her body. Whilst her face is treated with reserve, her expression reflects an inner radiance and beauty. Drawing and sculpture were separate practices for Moore. The drawings helped establish Moore’s reputation and were widely seen as complementary presences in their own right. In the 1930’s drawing became a central practice not just as a preliminary to sculpture, and the word ‘drawing’ gradually became less than adequate to describe these works which became recognized by the critics as pictorial art by the end of the 1930’s. As a draughtsman, pictorial artist, or perhaps even painter as he should properly be thought of at this point in his career, Moore was able to work fast with ideas flooding onto the paper, ideas relating to sculpture but which he elaborated and embellished with detail that was essentially pictorial. During the 1930’s pictorial art gave free range to his imagination more readily than sculpture. Pictorial art could reflect on the human condition by means of narratives developed through interaction of internal parts in a way that single-object sculpture could not. Life drawings extend to the early 1930s, but are rare later on, were generally made on larger sheets. ‘I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas which there is not enough time time to realize as sculpture…Every few months, I stop carving for two or three weeks and do life drawing. At one time I used to mix the two, perhaps carving during the day and drawing from a model during the evening. But I found this unsatisfactory – the two activities interfered with each other, for the mental approach to each is different..Stone.. is so different from flesh and blood that one cannot carve directly from life without almost the certainty of ill-treating the material. Drawing and carving are so different that a shape or size or conception which ought to be satisfting in a drawing will be totally wrong realized as stone..In my sculpture I do not draw directly on my memory or observations of a particular object, but rather use whatever comes up from my general fund of knowledge of natural forms’. HM The drawings demonstrate that Moore was a pictorial artist as well as a sculptor. ‘I wonder … very impertinently whether Mr Moore may not be a painter who has taken the wrong turning’. (Raymond Mortimer, critic) Moore’s imagination needed the expressive possibilities of both painting and sculpture. ‘The construction of the human figure, the tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human being much more difficult to get right, in a drawing, than anything else…its not just a matter of training – you can’t understand it without being emotionally involved…it really is a deep, strong fundamental struggle to understand oneself as much as to understand what one’s drawing’. (HM) Moore wanted to express what made a drawn figure real by expressing vitality through organization of form. He liked working quickly so that the vitality of the model was seen as liveliness and he could reflect volume in the drawing. His sketchbook notes show a constant emphasis on the idea that the human body gains strength in drawing from being conceived in terms of mass. He prioritises certain kinds of formal arrangement that stress organization of mass, over representational accuracy. In that way vitality becomes an attribute of form, not something brought in from the outside to give the superficial effect of liveliness. Moore avoided gestures with the hands, preferring what he called ‘pent up energy’ expressed through relation of masses, to the spent energy of limb movements which are rare after his very early work. He also avoided particular facial expression, and any sense of the model using gesture or expression to address the viewer. Curt Valentin and Buchholz Gallery, New York Curt Valentin was born in Hamburg Germany in 1902. After completing his education, Valentin became a modern art dealer in Berlin. In 1934 Valentin returned to Hamburg to work in the Buchholz Gallery. Owned by Karl Buchholz, this gallery maintained two businesses: a bookstore in the front and, in the rear, an art gallery devoted to the modern art classified as degenerate by Hitler. In 1937 Valentin immigrated to the United States with a sufficient number of modern German paintings...

Here for your consideration is an original mixed media fashion illustration by the world renowned fashion artist, Kenneth Paul Block. Signed with initials bottom right. Circa 1965. ...

Donald Stacy "Hand Over Head I" c 1950s Ink on paper 14" x 16.5" unframed Signed in pencil lower right Came from artist estate Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey Studied: Newark S...

Watercolor and pencil on buff wove watercolor paper, 10 x 8 inches (255 x 203 mm). In good condition with overall minor toning. Some watercolor paint splatters on the verso, contem...

Original watercolor on archival paper of a Rocky Mountain Meadow by the well known American artist, Werner Drewes. Signed lower right. Titled and dated 1956 on verso of sheet. Con...

Headdress Procession Watercolor, c. 1950's Signed by the artist in ink, lower right The Headdress Procession occurs every year as part of the Christmas celebrations in Oaxaca. Guilbe...

Untitled (Kneeling Male Nude) Graphite on paper, c. 1930 Unsigned Annotated in pencil verso: "This drawing was made by David Smith in the Matulka class at A. S. L. 1931 Signed Doroth...

Here for your consideration is an original watercolor and gouache fashion illustration by the world renowned fashion artist, Kenneth Paul Block. Presently unframed. Signed with initi...

Here for your consideration is an original mixed media fashion illustration by the world renowned fashion artist, Kenneth Paul Block. Signed with initials bottom right. Presently unf...

Sakti Burman - Untitled Watercolour on Paper 26 x 20 inches, 1960 Born : 1935 Kolkata Education : 1956 Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata and the Ecole Nationale des ...

Sakti Burman - Untitled Watercolour on Paper 26 x 20 inches, 1960 Born : 1935 Kolkata Education : 1956 Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata and the Ecole Nationale des ...

Sakti Burman - Kamdhenu Watercolour on Paper 14 x 20 inches Born : 1935 Kolkata Education : 1956 Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux ...

Sakti Burman - Untitled Watercolour on Paper 30 x 20 inches Born : 1935 Kolkata Education : 1956 Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux ...

Sakti Burman - Untitled Watercolour on Paper 30 x 20 inches Born : 1935 Kolkata Education : 1956 Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux ...

Somnath Hore - Untitled Watercolour on Paper, 7 x 5 inches ; Dated : 28-09-1995 Inclusive of shipment mounted not framed, Should you wish to receive the same framed and shipped kind...

Joseph Delaney Nude with Hand on Hip Leaning Against Chair, circa 1935 Signed lower right Watercolor on paper Sight 12 x 8 inches Provenance: Sacks Fine Art, New York Private Collec...

A colorful Modernist, still-life painting of fruit by New Jersey artist Israel Winarsky. This work comes from the estate of the2,500 artist. Image is double-sided. There is a wate...

A 1930s watercolor in pastel hues, depicting the City of Chicago by artist Francis Chapin. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, wa...

Bob Thompson Untitled, 1964 Felt tip pen on printed paper 11 x 20 1/2 inches Provenance: The artist Kathy Komaroff Goodman (gift from the artist) Hollis Taggart, New York Exhibited...

Walt Kuhn Reclining Figure, 1935 Signed and dated lower left Pen on paper Sight 11 x 15 inches Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, New York Spanierman Gallery, New York Private Collectio...

Oscar Bluemner Sheepshead, Long Island, 1907 Signed with the artist's conjoined initials "OB" and dated "4-30 - 5 - 30" / "Aug 3, 07" Watercolor on paper 6 x 10 inches Provenance: J...

In this piece the artist choice of colors is vibrant, and there is minimal blending of them. The artist takes a naive, Folk Art approach at rendering the subject simplifying the figu...

A group of three Picasso style figurative water color paintings depicting a man and a woman with an erotic flair. The paintings are framed and signed.

Dimensions: 25.5 X 20.5 Frame. Artwork measures 23.25 X 18.25 Ksenia Vladimirovna Ender ( Russian Ксения Владимировна Эндер , also Xenia Ender and Kseniia Ender. born 1895 in Sluzk , died 1955...

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Lovers is an ink and pencil drawing on paper realized in the early 20th Century by Louis Anquetin (1861-1932). Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition. Louis Émile Anquetin (26 J...

Jane Freilicher Untitled I, 1958-59 Signed lower right Charcoal on paper 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches Provenance: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York Private Collection, New York Jane Freilic...

The Piano Listeners is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1950 Ink and Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokes...

Watercolour and graphite on paper, signed and dated '1918' bottom right Image size: 9 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (25 x 35 cm) Contemporary style hand made frame Provenance London Private ...

The Writing Man is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1940 Ink on paper. Hand-signed. In good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly. Alberto...

Lovers is an ink and pencil drawing on paper realized in the early 20th Century by Louis Anquetin (1861-1932). Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition. Louis Émile Anquetin (26 J...

Nudes is an ink and pencil drawing on paper realized in the early 20th Century by Louis Anquetin (1861-1932). Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition. Louis Émile Anquetin (26 Ja...

Nude and Portrait is an ink drawing on paper realized in the early 20th Century by Louis Anquetin (1861-1932). Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition. Louis Émile Anquetin (26 J...

Prayer is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1947 Ink and Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly. A...

Watercolor painting of Shul interior in Tzfas, Safed Israel. MORDECHAI AVNIEL Minsk, Belarus, b. 1900, d. 1989 Mordecai Dickstein (later Avniel) was born in 1900 in Minsk, present-...

Aharon Giladi, Israeli painter, born in Russian Empire, 1907-1993 Aharon Golodetz (later Giladi) was born in Belarus, Russia to a wealthy family. In 1923-1926, he studied at the Len...

Gordon King. English ( b.1939 ). Fond Memories. Watercolor. Signed. Image size 13.6 inches x 21 inches ( 34.5cm x 53.5cm ). Frame size 22.4 inches x 29.9 inches ( 57cm x 76cm ). Av...

John Rattenbury Skeaping. English ( b.1901 - d.1990 ). On the Gallops, 1976. Gouache and Watercolor. Signed & Dated Lower Right. Image size 18.5 inches x 26.8 inches ( 47cm x 68cm )...

The Night is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good condition with slight foxing. The artwork is represented through deft stroke...

The Portrait is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1938 Ink and Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good condition with slight foxing. The artwork is represented through de...

The Nude Woman is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1947 Watercolor on paper. With another drawing on paper. Hand-signed. In good conditions. The artwork is represented th...

The Nude Man is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s Ink on paper. The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly. Alberto Ziveri (Rome,1908 – 1990), the Italia...

The Reading Man is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly. ...

The Couple is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s Ink and Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good condition with slight foxing. The artwork is represented through def...

The Carriage is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s Ink and Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good condition with slight foxing. The artwork is represented through d...

Oral Story Telling is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1937 Ink on paper. Hand-signed. In good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly. Albe...

The Atelier is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly. Alb...

The Reading Man is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly. ...

Resting Man is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s Ink and Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good conditions. The artwork is represented through deft strokes master...

The Nude is a drawing realized by Alberto Ziveri in 1930s Ink and watercolor on paper. Hand-signed. In good condition with slight foxing. The artwork is represented through deft ...