Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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
Pitcher, Dodger Catcher and baseball field positions, 3 drawings by Ronald Searl
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Ronald Searle, CBE HRWS (British, 1920 – 2011)
Pitcher; The Dodger’s catcher; and a drawing of the field positions on the day
A set of three baseball studies
Pencil on paper
5.1/4 x ...
Category
20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
View Of Rome - Watercolor on Paper by C.R. Cockerell - Mid 19th Century
By Charles Robert Cockerell
Located in Roma, IT
View Of Rome is a beautiful artwork realized by Charles Robert Cockerell in the XIX century.
Watercolor on paper. Inscribed in pencil on lower left and verso.
This charming artwork...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait - Drawing by Jean Lasnier - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Jean Lasnier in the Mid-20th Century.
Oil pastel and watercolor ink on paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor
A Fine Mid-Century Modern Abstract Figure Study Drawing, Male Model, Young Man
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Mid-Century Modern, Abstracted Figure Study Drawing of a Seated Male Model, Young Man by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well execute...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a pen drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a little white paper.
No signature, dated on the lower right corner..
Rey...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pen
Castel View on a Lake - Oil Paint - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Castel view on a lake is a modern artwork realized in the late 19th by a Dutch Artist.
Mixed colored oil painting.
Includes a gilded frame: 66.5 x 40 x 80 cm
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Masks - Drawing in Mixed Media on Paper by Mino Maccari - 1950 ca.
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Masks is an original modern artwork realized by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original drawing in mixed media on paper.
Hand-signed in pencil n b...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Tempera, Watercolor
Seascape - Drawing by Michele Ricciuti - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Seascape is a watercolor on paper realized by Michele Ricciuti in 1980s.
Hand signed in pencil lower left.
In very good condition, it includes a wooden frame.
Category
1980s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Transformista 3 - Original Figurative Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
Transformista 3 - Original Figurative Drawing by Jose Luis Cuevas (b. 1934 d. 2017.)
This original ink drawing by Cuevas depicts two distorted figures pressing their faces together....
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$2,437 Sale Price
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“Ski Style 1960”
Located in Southampton, NY
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. ...
Category
1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,400 Sale Price
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Cernay Passage - Drawing by André Gallaud - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Ink and watercolor on cardboard realized by André Gallaud in 1959.
Titled, dated and signed in pencil in top right side.
Very good condition.
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
The General - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1940s.
Hand signed in pencil lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Dahlias" Chiura Obata, Japanese American, Red and Blue Delicate Floral Work
By Chiura Obata
Located in New York, NY
Chiura Obata
Dahlias, 1940
Signed, dated and stamped lower right
Watercolor on paper
15 x 9 5/8 inches
Born in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, Chiura Obata was adopted by his uncle, an artist. As a child he was trained in ink painting, and at 14 he was apprenticed to the painter Murata Tanryo in Tokyo. He also studied with Kogyo Terasaki and Goho Hasimoto.
In 1903, Obata moved to San Francisco and began working as an illustrator for The New World and The Japanese American, two of the city's Japanese newspapers. He also did work as a commercial designer. Obata helped establish the East West Art Society in San Francisco in 1921, which sought to promote cross-cultural understanding through art. This goal was reflected in his embrace of the Nihonga style, which fused traditional Japanese sumi-e ink painting with the conventions of western naturalism.
He spent much of the 1920s painting landscapes throughout California, and among his favorite subjects were mountain landscapes. In 1927, he visited Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, creating over a hundred paintings and sketches of the high country. Obata stayed in the USA until the death of his father in 1928.
Between 1928 and 1932, he worked in Tokyo as a painter and transformed his California landscape watercolors...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cat - Original Watercolor by Giselle Halff - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cat is an Original Drawing in watercolorl realized in the Mid-20th Century by Giselle Halff (1899-1971).
Good conditions.
Giselle Halff (1899-1971) born in Hanoi, student of R.X. P...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Couple - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing on paper realized by Maccari in 1940s.
Hand signed lower left.
Very good condition.
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Young Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well exe...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Sven Berlin, modern British, 'Crazy horse', watercolour and gouache
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sven Berlin (British, 1911 - 1999)
Crazy horse
Watercolour and gouache
Signed and dated `SVEN ‘1980’ (lower right)
21./14 x 14.7/8 in. (54 x 37.8 cm.)
(47)...
Category
20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Nude Woman Pencil Drawing by Artistide Maillol
Located in Roma, IT
Sanguine drawing on paper, XIX-XX centuries.
Dimensions : 19,6 x 22,5 cm
This original sanguine drawing is signed with the artist’s monogram “M” at the lower right corner of the pa...
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19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Nude from the Back - Pencil Drawing - Mid-20th Century
By Paul Garin
Located in Roma, IT
Nude from the back is a pencil drawing attributed to Paul Grain and realized in the 1950s.
Good conditions.
Included a Passepartout: 41 x 51 cm.
The artwork represents a nude wom...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Reclining Female Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reclining Female Nude
Charcoal and colored chalks with white highlights on tan laid paper, c. 1948
Signed and monogrammed by the artist lower right
(see photo)
A masterpiece dr...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
SS Hesleyside SS Kymas steamer boat ink drawing by Laurence Dunn
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of marine works from Laurence Dunn's Archives. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller."
Laurence D...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Temple of Vesta - Drawing by Roberto Gigli - 1880s
Located in Roma, IT
View of the Temple of Vesta is an orginal modern artwork realized by Roberto Gigli (1846-1922).
Mixed colored ink and watercolor on paper.
The artwor...
Category
1880s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
$980 Sale Price
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Bird - Drawing by Benn - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Bird is a drawing in pastel on paper realized by Benn (Bencjon Rabinowicz) in 1970.
Hand signed on the lower, dated.
Good conditions.
Benn (Bencj...
Category
1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Belleville, NJ
Located in London, GB
The Modernist painter Oscar Bluemner was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1867. As a young man, he followed in the architectural careers of his father and grandfather. In the early 1880s...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Paris : The Moulin de la Galette in Montmartre - Original Handsigned Painting
Located in Paris, IDF
Gabriel Paris
The Moulin de la Galette in Montmartre, 1959
Original gouache painting
Handsigned and dated
On Arches vellum 64 x 50 cm (c. 25.1 x 19.6 in...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Sunset Outside of Utah, Early 20th Century Western Landscape w/ Mountain & Fire
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Sunset Outside of Zion, Utah, c. 1940
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
14 x 20 inches
18 x 24 inches framed
Frank Nelson Wilcox (Oct...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Poetry - Vintage Offset Print on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Poetry is a vintage offset print h on paper, realized by unknown artist in the early 20th Century.
In this artwork there is a poetry "il s'eteignit humblement, sans un bruit, so...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Offset
The Painter - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1945 ca.
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Ink and Watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1945 ca.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Untitled #5
By Jerry Opper
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled #5" c.1970 is a colors pastel and crayon on thick paper by American artist Jerry Opper, 1924-2014. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist. The image size is 22 x 17 inches, sheet size is 24 x 19 inches. It is in excellent condition, there are pastel marks on the margin all around the artwork and also on the back, see picture #1.
About the artist:
Jerry Opper was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 5, 1924. He moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1933. After graduating from Hollywood High School, he worked in movie studios and attended art classes at Chouinard Art Institute. In May 1942, Opper was drafted into the army and was then able to study at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center while his outfit was stationed in Colorado. Later he was sent to Guam and was discharged in December 1945.
Opper returned to Chouinard and his work in movie studios until 1947, when he moved to San Francisco. He enrolled as a full-time student at the California School of Fine Arts (now SFAI) and received his diploma in June of 1950. In 1948, Opper met his wife Gertrud Ruth Friedmann, daughter of artist Gustav Friedmann, whose works are also in the Lost Art Salon collection. It was love at first sight and a few weeks after their first encounter at the Black Cat in San Francisco's North Beach, they got married and enjoyed a passionate, life-long romance.
Shortly after he finished school, Opper worked briefly as a decorator’s assistant and then started his career as a commercial artist, working for several firms such as Fibreboard, Beatrix Food and Precision. Working full-time and dedicating himself to having a rich family life occupied most of Opper's time, but he continued to be creative. He was above all a family man with the pride of having raised two exceptional daughters, Erika and Jody. Year after year, Opper would painstakingly craft their Halloween costumes...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Cavalry - China Ink and Watercolor by Theodore Fort - 1844 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Cavalry is a beautiful watercolor on paper, realized in the mid-XIX century by Théodore Géricaul Fort (1810 - 1896).
Hand-signed in brown ink on the lower right corner.
A knight is portrayed in his uniform and galloping on a beautiful Arabian stallion, with the trumpet on his shoulders, ready to give the signal to attack to the cavalry.
In excellent conditions, with shiny colors, including a white cardboard passepartout (49.5 x 34 cm).
A very interesting artwork for a connoisseur of the militaria genre!
Theodore Géricaul Fort (1810 - 1896), Simeone Fort's son, belonged to the French school of the XIX century; Théodore Fort...
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1840s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of a Young Woman - 1900s - René François Xavier Prinet - Drawing
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of A Young Woman is an original artwork realized by the French artist and illustrator René François Xavier Prinet between the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX cent...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Nude - Pencil Drawing by Flor-David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper attributed to Flor-David, and realized in the Mid 20th century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is represented posing nud...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch for a Portrait is a drawing on paper realized in the Mid-20th Century by Flor David.
Good conditions.
Flor David (1891-1958) ): pseudonym of David Florence. Pastel painter....
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Nude - Original Pencil on Paper by André Meaux-Saint-Marc - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude woman is an original pencil drawing realized by André Meaux-Saint-Marc (1885 - 1941).
Pencil drawing on brown paper in good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Couple - Original China Ink Drawing and Pastel by Maria Lourdey - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Couple is original drawing in china ink realized by Maria Lourdey (1860-1934). The state of preservation is very good and with a trace of time.
Sheet dimension: 17.5 x 17 cm.
Inclu...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Ink
Water Bearers in the Desert - Drawing by Edouard Dufeu - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Water Bearers in the Desert is an artwork realized by Edouard Dufeu (1836-1900) during early 20th century.
Good condition.
Pencil and ink technique.
Edouard Dufeu coming from a fa...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Ink
Watercolor of Doylestown, PA by Ranulph Bye
Located in New York, NY
Ranulph Bye (American, 1916-2003)
Rocks and Trees (Doylestown, PA), 1958
Watercolor on paper
14 x 21 in.
Framed: 23 1/8 x 30 1/4 in.
Signed bottom: Ranulph...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Mother and Child - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Mother and Child is an China Ink and Watercolor realized by Mino Maccari in the Mid-20th Century.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed by the artist with pen.
Mino Macc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Moraine Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, 20th Century
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Moraine Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, c. 1950
Watercolor on paper
19 x 24 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Djibouti, African Landscape Original Israeli Watercolor Cityscape Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Subject: Cityscape, signed in Hebrew
Medium: Watercolor
Surface: Paper
Shmuel Katz (Hebrew: שמואל כ"ץ) (August 18, 1926 – March 26, 2010) was an Israeli artist, illustrator, and car...
Category
20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Fish and Cat" Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, Vibrant, Colorful, Japanese-American
Located in New York, NY
Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani
Fish and Cat, 1998
Signed and dated lower left
Crayon on paper
Sight 17 x 23 inches
When Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, a native of California, returned to the ...
Category
1990s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Cocaine - Drawing - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Cocaine is a satiric drawing realized by an Anonymous artist in the mid-20th century.
Watercolor and China ink on paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is created...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch for a Portrait is a drawing on paper realized in the Mid-20th Century by Flor David.
Pencil on Creamy-colored paper.
Good conditions.
Flor David (1891-1958) ): pseudonym of...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Landscape - Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a modern artwork realized by an italian Artist of the mid-20th century.
Mixed colored watercolor.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes frame.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled IV
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled IV" 1993 is a large graphite drawing on two sheets of paper by Japanese/American artist Tadashi (Tagashi) Hayakawa, b.1941. It is hand signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 23.5 x 37.5 inches, framed size is 32.75 x 46.75 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, with fabric matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Tadashi Hayakawa...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
1930s Surrealist Still Life with Profile and Hanger by Artist Jan Matulka
By Jan Matulka
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1930 graphite on pencil drawing of Surrealist still life of an egg beater by notable artist Jan Matulka. Image size: 8 1/2" x 11". Archivally matted to...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Petite Fille
Located in New York, NY
Signed and inscribed, lower center: Joseph / Ramanankamonjy / Madagascar / Petite fille / “aquarelle sur soie”
Provenance:
Private Collection, Paris
Private Collection, Florida
Som...
Category
20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Silk, Watercolor
Untitled #4
By Jerry Opper
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled #1" c.1970 is a colors pastel and crayon on thick paper by American artist Jerry Opper, 1924-2014. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist. The image size is 26.5 x 20.5 inches, sheet size is 28.5 x 22.5 inches. It is in excellent condition, there are pastel marks on the margin all around the artwork and also on the back, see picture #1.
About the artist:
Jerry Opper was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 5, 1924. He moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1933. After graduating from Hollywood High School, he worked in movie studios and attended art classes at Chouinard Art Institute. In May 1942, Opper was drafted into the army and was then able to study at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center while his outfit was stationed in Colorado. Later he was sent to Guam and was discharged in December 1945.
Opper returned to Chouinard and his work in movie studios until 1947, when he moved to San Francisco. He enrolled as a full-time student at the California School of Fine Arts (now SFAI) and received his diploma in June of 1950. In 1948, Opper met his wife Gertrud Ruth Friedmann, daughter of artist Gustav Friedmann, whose works are also in the Lost Art Salon collection. It was love at first sight and a few weeks after their first encounter at the Black Cat in San Francisco's North Beach, they got married and enjoyed a passionate, life-long romance.
Shortly after he finished school, Opper worked briefly as a decorator’s assistant and then started his career as a commercial artist, working for several firms such as Fibreboard, Beatrix Food and Precision. Working full-time and dedicating himself to having a rich family life occupied most of Opper's time, but he continued to be creative. He was above all a family man with the pride of having raised two exceptional daughters, Erika and Jody. Year after year, Opper would painstakingly craft their Halloween costumes...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Conversation - Ink Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Conversation is an original china ink drawing realized by painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
The artwork is represented throug...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Horse - Drawing by Antonio Vangelli - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Horse is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Vangelli.
Black marker drawing on paper.
Hand signed on the upper margin.
Includes frame.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Abstract Composition - Watercolor by Jean Delpech - Mid-20th Century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
"Abstract Composition" is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
The state of preservation of the artwork is good.
The artwork represents ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Figures - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original drawing in Pencil realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th Century.
Good condition.
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes in a well-balance...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
$171 Sale Price
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Portrait of an Old Man - Drawing by Hermann Paul - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of an Old Man is a black marker Drawing realized by Hermann Paul.
Good condition except for some ripples along the edges.
René Georges Hermann-Paul (27 December 1864 – 23 ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Country Haircut"
By Milton Avery
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this piece by Milton Avery (1885 – 1965).
Milton Avery was a prominent Modernist painter whose work combined abstraction and...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch for a Portrait is a drawing on paper realized in the Mid-20th Century by Flor David.
Pencil on Creamy-colored paper.
Good conditions.
Flor David (1891-1958) ): pseudonym o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Cat and Dog Playing - Original pencil drawing, 1953
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN
Cat and Dog Playing, 1953
Original pencil drawing
Signed by artist stamp
On paper 24.5 x 19.5 cm (c. 9.6 x 7.6 inch)
Very good condition, m...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Charcoal
Untitled #3
By Jerry Opper
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled #3" c.1970 is a colors pastel and crayon on thick paper by American artist Jerry Opper, 1924-2014. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist. The image size is 21.75 x 16.75 inches, sheet size is 24 x 19 inches. It is in excellent condition, there are pastel marks on the margin all around the artwork and also on the back, see picture #1.
About the artist:
Jerry Opper was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 5, 1924. He moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1933. After graduating from Hollywood High School, he worked in movie studios and attended art classes at Chouinard Art Institute. In May 1942, Opper was drafted into the army and was then able to study at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center while his outfit was stationed in Colorado. Later he was sent to Guam and was discharged in December 1945.
Opper returned to Chouinard and his work in movie studios until 1947, when he moved to San Francisco. He enrolled as a full-time student at the California School of Fine Arts (now SFAI) and received his diploma in June of 1950. In 1948, Opper met his wife Gertrud Ruth Friedmann, daughter of artist Gustav Friedmann, whose works are also in the Lost Art Salon collection. It was love at first sight and a few weeks after their first encounter at the Black Cat in San Francisco's North Beach, they got married and enjoyed a passionate, life-long romance.
Shortly after he finished school, Opper worked briefly as a decorator’s assistant and then started his career as a commercial artist, working for several firms such as Fibreboard, Beatrix Food and Precision. Working full-time and dedicating himself to having a rich family life occupied most of Opper's time, but he continued to be creative. He was above all a family man with the pride of having raised two exceptional daughters, Erika and Jody. Year after year, Opper would painstakingly craft their Halloween costumes...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Amish Farmscape #2 Study
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amish Farmscape #2, 1982, gouache, 9 x 12 inches, signed and dated lower right, label verso: “Artist-E. Lewandowski, Title- Amish Farmscape #2 STUDY, Date- 1982, Size- 9”x 12”, Mediu...
Category
1980s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Ibiza
By Allan Gould
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ibiza, 1978, watercolor on paper, signed, dated and titled lower right, 13 x 12 inches (sight)
Allan Gould was a New York-born painter, muralist and designer. He attended Dartmouth ...
Category
1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,500
Self Portrait with Arms Over Head, vignette on Paul Cadmus on left
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Self Portrait with Arms Over Head, vignette on Paul Cadmus on left
Graphite drawing on thin wove paper, c. 1940's
Unsigned
Provenance: Paull Cadmus
Jon F. Anderson (1937-2018)
Condition:
Sheet size: 15 x 10 1/4 inches
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Margaret Hoening (1906–1998) was a painter and an etcher perhaps best known for her
photographs as part of the PaJaMa photography collective. After attending Smith College, she settled in New York, where
she pursued formal artistic training at the Art Students League. There, she met the artist couple Paul Cadmus and Jared
French. In 1937, she married French, fifteen years her junior, who had spent the previous decade with Cadmus. The trio
formed a tight bond, with Cadmus and French continuing their relationship.
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Margaret Hoening (1906–1998) was a painter and an etcher perhaps best known for her
photographs as part of the PaJaMa photography collective. After attending Smith College, she settled in New York, where
she pursued formal artistic training at the Art Students League. There, she met the artist couple Paul Cadmus and Jared
French. In 1937, she married French, fifteen years her junior, who had spent the previous decade with Cadmus. The trio
formed a tight bond, with Cadmus and French continuing their relationship. Together, the three formed PaJaMa (a mashup of their first names, Paul, Jared, and Margaret). Using Hoening’s Leica, they captured themselves, their artist friends,
and members of the gay community posing in artful tableaux on the beaches of Fire Island, Provincetown, and Nantucket
over the following eight years. Those captured by their camera include the photographer George Platt Lynes; Cadmus’s
sister and artist Fidelma; artist Bernard Perlin; and Monroe Wheeler, director of exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art,
among others. Though she produced few canvases, Hoening’s paintings demonstrate the influences of French and Cadmus,
particularly with her adoption of the time-intensive, traditional medium of egg tempera that they championed.
In the 1940s, the Frenches’ social circle continued to expand. They befriended the British author E.M. Forster, who stayed
with them on his first trip to New York in 1947, spending a few days with them in Provincetown, and visiting them again
in 1949. When Cadmus began a relationship with the young artist George Tooker in 1944, the trio became a foursome,
with Tooker regularly vacationing with the group and appearing in PaJaMa’s photographs...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
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