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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
Figure - Drawing in Ink - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an Ink drawing on paper. realized in the mid-20th Century. Mint Conditions with diffused foxings.. The artwork id depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced composi...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Nude from the Back - Pencil Drawing - Mid-20th Century
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...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Figure on the Landscape - Original Pencil by Herta Hausmann - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure on the landscape is an original pencil drawing on ivory-colorated cardboard by Herta Hausmann (1916-?). In excellent conditions: As good as new. This is an original drawing ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Moraine Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, 20th Century
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

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Watercolor

Portrait - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a Black Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Paria 1980). Good condition on a little sheet. No Signature. Reynold Arnould was born in Le Havre...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Permanent Marker

"Radio City Rockette"
Located in Southampton, NY
Watercolor on paper of a Radio City Music Hall Rockette done in the late 1940's or early 1950's. Ruth Adele Mysel grew up in Boston and attended the New Eng...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Two Figures in Profile - Black Pen on Paper by M. Maccari - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Two Figures in Profile is an original modern artwork realized the half of the XX Century by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Original black Charcoal on pa...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen

Fog over North Beach, Percé Rock, Gaspé, Canada, Early 20th Century, Cleveland
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Fog over North Beach, Percé Rock, Gaspé, Canada, c. 1929 Watercolor on paper Signed lower left 13.75 x 20 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...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Portrait - Pencil Drawing on Paper by A. Vangelli - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Portrait is an original artwork realized by Antonio Vangelli in 1940s. Original pencil drawing on paper. The painting is glued to a cardboard. Hand-signed on the lower r...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Modernist Conte Crayon Drawing Beach Scene David Burliuk Russian Futurist
Located in Surfside, FL
David Burliuk (Ukrainian, 1882-1967) Three figure on the beach (Hamptons, Long Island New York) Conte crayon drawing on paper. Hand signed lower left. Unframed Provenance: Bloomsbury Auctions David Davidovich Burliuk (Дави́д Дави́дович Бурлю́к; 1882-1967) was a Russian poet, artist and publicist of Ukrainian origin associated with the Futurist and Neo-Primitivist movements. Burliuk has been described as "the father of Russian Futurism." David Burliuk was born on 21 July 1882 in the village of Riabushky (near Lebedyn, Ukraine) in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire. Burliuk's family was artistically inclined; two of his brothers were talented artists as well, Nikolai and Volodimir Burliuk. The Burliuk family partly descended from Ukrainian Cossacks on their father's side, who held premier positions in the Hetmanate. His mother, Ludmyla Mikhnevich, was of ethnic Belarusian descent. From 1898 to 1904, he studied at Kazan and Odesa art schools, as well as at the Royal Academy in Munich. His exuberant, extroverted character was recognized by Anton Azhbe, his professor at the Munich Academy, who called Burliuk a "wonderful wild steppe horse". During a time of significant industrialization and political change, movements such as the famed Der Blaue Reiter, a group Burliuk associated with in 1912, while he was in Munich, emphasized a shift away from the classical styles of the past, prioritizing the innovations of the future. In 1907, he made contact with the Russian art world; he met and befriended Mikhail Larionov, and they are both credited as being major forces in bringing together the contemporary art world. In 1908, an exhibition with the group Zveno ("The Link") in Kiev was organized by David Burliuk together with Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, Alexander Bogomazov, his brother Volodymyr (Wladimir) Burliuk and Aleksandra Exter. The exhibition was a flop, especially because they were all unknown painters. The Burliuks and Larionov left for the aforementioned brothers' home in Chernianka, also known as Hylea; it was during this stay that their work became more Avant-Garde. That autumn, while visiting Ekster, they organized an exhibition which took place in the street; it was a success, and enough money was raised to go to Moscow. In 1909, Burliuk painted a portrait of his future wife, Marussia, on a background of flowers and rocks...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Conté, Crayon

The Compassion - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Compassion is a drawing in watercolor and ink realized by Albert Decaris in the mid-20th Century. In good conditions with some foxing. The artwork is presented through deft st...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

Flamenco Dancers - Ink Drawing on Paper by H. Somm - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Flamenco Dancers is an original artwork realized between the XIX century and the XX century by Henry Somm. Original black and white pen drawings on paper. The artwork represents a couple of flamenco dancers. Good conditions except for some foxings, stains. The drawing is hand-signed with the initials of the artist on the lower right corner. Henry Somm (Rouen 1844 – Parigi 1907) François Clément Sommier, best known under the pseudonym “Henry Somm,” was born in Rouen in 1844. He attended the local École municipale des beaux-arts and went on in 1867 to Paris, where he studied under Isidore Pils (1813-1875).He moved to Paris in 1860. Between 1873 and 1876 he made many engravings for the magazine Paris à l'eau forte and then at the Cadart printing house. In 1879 and 1889 he participated in the Impressionist exhibitions from the Durand-Ruel gallery in Paris. He collaborated with the newspapers: Le Chat noir, La Charge, La Cravache, La Chronique parisienne, High Life, Frou-Frou, Le Rire. He wrote the comedy in one act La Berline de l'Emigré ou Jamais trop tard pour bien faire, created for Le Chat noir, on December 25, 1885. Somm left a large number of drawings and watercolors of Paris...
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Late 19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Portrait Of Man - Original Charcoal Drawing by Gio Colucci - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait Of Man is a charcoal drawing on brown paper, hand-signed by the artist on the lower right. Good conditions except for some folds and rips along the margins. Prolific and eclectic, the Italian Gio Colucci (Florence, 1892 – Paris, 1974), also known in France as Geo Colucci, was a painter, engraver, illustrator, ceramist, and sculptor. From 1921, he exhibited his engravings in various salons. He worked with French publishers specialized in the illustrated books of high bibliophilia, and delivered series of remarkable prints for texts by Barbey d'Aurevilly, Pierre Loti, Guy Maupassant...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Figure by Window, graphite, pastel, mylar, paper layered drawing, female, nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This feminist work of a nude gazing directly at the viewer, features graphite on mylar over cut paper, aligned to amplify the forms while maintaining the delicacy of the drawing. These recently discovered 1984 oversize works on mylar and archival papers were created with a live model. The series shows the last existing observational drawings prior to the artist's switch to working with her non- dominant left hand. As a feminist, Anastasi's main focus is presenting other women. Unlike the often objectified male gaze...
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1980s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mylar, Pastel, Mixed Media, Archival Paper

The Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait is a Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1940s. Monogrammed on the lower. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was a...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

The Sun - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Sun is a pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) w...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen

Christ Crucifixion - Original Pencil - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Christ Crucifixion is an original drawing on paper in pencil mounted on greyish cardboard Passepartout: 28.9 x 19 cm, realized by an anonymous Italian artist of the Early 20th Centu...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

The Power of Life - Oil Painting by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The power of life is a beautiful modern artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the half of 20th Century. Mixed colored oil painting on cardboard The artwork is hand-signed by the arti...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil

Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Sketch - Original Drawing by Henri Lehmann - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch is an original Drawing on paper realized by the painter Henri Lehmann (1814-1882). Drawing in Pastel. Good conditions. The artwork is represent...
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19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

The Bawdy Wind that Kisses All it Meets, Modern Art, Warm Landscape Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
The Bawdy Wind that Kisses all it meets is an original watercolour and gouache painting by artist Rosie Phipps, sold mounted. Featuring her gestural and expressive use of mark making...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Untitled, Pen & Ink on Paper, Black color by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Ganesh Pyne - Untitled - 8.25 x 11 inches (unframed size) Pen & Ink on Paper Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : Initially, Pyne painted watercolo...
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1990s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Pen

Tree - Original Pastel Drawing by Marcel Guillard - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Tree is an original pastels drawing artwork, realized by Marcel Guillard (1896 -?). The state of preservation is very good. The artist masterly created a pleasurable dreamlike scen...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

In the Countryside - Watercolor by Antonio Vangelli - 1944
Located in Roma, IT
In the Countryside is an original watercolor, realized by Antonio Vangelli in 1944. Fair conditions with repaired riping. The artwork is depicted skillfully through confident and s...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Portrait - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a Pastel and Watercolour artwork realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition on a little sheet. No Signature. Reynold Arnould was born i...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Watercolor

Figures in The Frame - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Figures in The Frame is a China ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16,...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Sailing Ship in the Harbour - Watercolor - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Sailing Ship in the Harbour is an original watercolor and pencil realized by a French artist of 20th Century (1929). The artwork is in good conditions, hand-signed by the artist on ...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Reclined Nude - Original Pencil Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Reclined Nude is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in the 1950s. Pencil Drawing. Applied on a white Passepartout. Monogrammed on the lower " G.T" Good Condition...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Vue des Invalides
Located in PARIS, FR
Watercolor on charcoal lines Signed L.V lower right Provenance: - Belgium, Private collection.
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Mid Century St. Ives artist Sven Berlin 'A lover's embrace' pen and ink on paper
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sven Berlin (British, 1911 - 1999) A Lovers embrace Pen and ink Signed 'SVEN 95' (lower right) 11 x 7.7/8 in. (20 x 28 cm.) Sven Berlin, born in Sydenham, London on 14th September 1...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Pen

Mission Impossible Original TV Guide Drawing Illustration Caricature Mid Century
Located in New York, NY
"Mission Impossible" Original TV Guide Drawing Illustration Caricature Mid Century NYC with Greg Morris, Barbara Bain, and Steve Hill. This original drawing...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Board

Automotive design for Alexis Kellner AG Berlin
Located in London, GB
Half-Limousine coachwork design for an Austro-Daimler. Gouache and watercolour heightened with gum-arabic on very dark green card, annotated in pale ink with body type below, numbere...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper

TW Camm Valley of the Shadow of... Stained Glass Window Design Wrekin College UK
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of designs for stained glass windows from the TW Camm studios. To see more of them scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from thi...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Seated Woman - Original Drawing by Louis Jou - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Seated Woman is an Original Drawing in Pencil realized by Louis Jou (1882-1968). Good conditions. Hand-signed. The Artwork is depicted through strong strokes in a well-balanced co...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Abstract Composition - Marker Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a Black Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition on a sheet of a notebook No signature. Reynold Arnould w...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Permanent Marker

Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
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....
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Luxor - Marker Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Luxor is a Color Markers Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition on a sheet of a notebook No signature, titled and dated on the lower ri...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Permanent Marker

Dominatrix Woman - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Dominatrix Woman is a beautiful watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari in the 1970s. The artwork is hand signed by the artist. Oil on panel. Includes frame 48.5 x 35 cm Min...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Pastel

Moroccan Female Players - Original Ink by Helen Vogt - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Moroccan female players is an original blue china ink drawing realized by Helen Vogt, in 1930. The state of preservation is very good. Not signed. Sta...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Street - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Street is a China Ink Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition on a white paper. No signature, dated on the lower right corner. Reynold ...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Female Figure - Original Drawing by Jean Chapin- 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Female Figure is an original china ink drawing realized by Jean Chapin in 1930s. Not signed. Good conditions. Jean Chapin is a French painter and lithographer born on 21 February ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Ballpoint Pen

A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Watercolor, Harbor Scene & Rooftops by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Cubist Watercolor, Harbor Scene & Rooftops by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. A vivid European harbor scene, depicting the whitewashed buildings ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor

Travelers - Original Drawing by Charles Joseph Traviès - Mid 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Travelers is an Original ink, pencil and watercolor realized by Charles Joseph Traviès (1804-1859). The little artwork represents two poor men in the street. Good condition, included a cream colored cardboard passpartout (30x24 cm). Hand-signed and notes by the artist on the lower margin. Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers, also known simply as Traviès, (21 February 1804 – 13 August 1859) was a Swiss-born French painter, lithographer, and caricaturist whose work appeared regularly in Le Charivari...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Pencil

Male Profile - Original Pencil Drawing by A. E. de Noailles - Early 20th Century
By Anna Elisabeth de Noaille
Located in Roma, IT
Male Profile is an original artwork realized by Anna Elisabeth de Noaille in the first decades of the XX Century. Original pencil on paper. Hand-signed...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

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...
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Early 1900s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Portrait - Original Drawing in Pencil by Paul Charles Delaroche - 1910
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Paul Charles Delaroche (1886-1914). Hand-signed and dated on the lower left in pencil. The state of preservation is v...
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1910s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Sketch - Drawing in Pencil - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch is an original drawing in Pencil, on creamy-colored paper realized b in the early 20th Century. Good conditions except for cutaways on the right margin. The artwork is depic...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Abstract Composition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a Black Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition on a sheet of a notebook. No signature. Reynold Arnould ...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Permanent Marker

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

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Paper, Color Pencil

Child Portrait - Original Drawing by Lucien Coutaud - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Child Portrait is an Original drawing in China Ink realized by Lucien Coutaud in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Good conditions. The delicate and dynamic strokes created in a ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Landscape - Drawing by Paul Huet - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a Pencil Drawing realized by Paul Huet. Good condition included a grey cardboard passpartout (32.5x50 cm). Stamp signed on the lower right corner. Paul Huet (3 October 1803 – 8 January 1869) was a French painter and printmaker born in Paris. He studied under Gros and Guerin. He met the English painter Richard Parkes Bonington in the studio of Gros, where he studied irregularly from 1819 to 1822. Bonington's example influenced Huet to reject neoclassicism and instead paint landscapes based on close observation of nature. The British landscape paintings exhibited in the Salon of 1824 were a revelation to Huet, who said of Constable's work: "It was the first time perhaps that one felt the freshness, that one saw a luxuriant, verdant nature, without blackness, crudity or mannerism."[4] Huet's subsequent work combined emulation of the English style with inspiration derived from Dutch and Flemish old masters such as Rubens, Jacob van Ruisdael...
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19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Nude of Woman - Drawing by Gaspard Maillol - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an Ink and Watercolor drawing realized by Gaspard Maillol (1880-1946). Good condition on a yellowed cardboard, included a white cardboard passpartout (51x35 cm). No signature. Gaspard Maillol , born on July 10 , 1880 in Barcelona and died on January 6...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper

Man w Gun "Sleuth" Original Ink Drawing Theater Film Caricature Illustration Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Samuel Norkin (January 10, 1917 – July 30, 2011) was a Brooklyn, New York-born cartoonist who specialized in theater caricatures for more than even decades. His drawings of theater, opera, ballet and film celebrities appeared in Variety, Backstage, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and many other publications. Norkin learned composition and anatomy from the muralist Mordi Gassner. He received a scholarship to the Metropolitan Art School after his high school graduation, and he later attended Cooper Union, the Brooklyn Museum Art School and the School of Fine and Industrial Art. During the 1940s, newspaper editors wanted to devote more space to new theatrical productions, but photo opportunities usually did not happen until a show opened. Norkin took advantage of the situation and gained access to rehearsals, performers, costume sketches, fittings and scenic designs, providing editors with illustrations prior to an opening. From 1940 to 1956, his theatrical illustrations were a regular feature in the New York Herald Tribune. Then for the next 26 years, he covered the performing arts for the Daily News. Since 1940, Norkin has had more than 4000 drawings published. When he began doing theatrical caricature, he supplied his own captions, which eventually prompted him to write articles and reviews. He was an art critic for the Carnegie Hall house program and a cultural reporter for the Daily News. Norkin's theater reminiscences and 266 drawings came together in the book Sam Norkin, Drawings, Stories (Heinemann, 1994), which was reviewed by David Barbour: A Norkin caricature cartoon is often densely packed with detail and may feature a great deal of solid black space. He also is more daring in his drafting; many of his pieces, in particular one from the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera, feature steeply raked lines which plunge vertiginously from top to bottom, to highly dramatic effect. On the other hand, many of Norkin's effects border on the surreal. His version of Michael Jeter and Jane Krakowski in Grand Hotel depicts the pair as a series of interrlated curves; Jeter, in particular, looks like a machine that you crank up and let loose on stage. His version of Constance Cummings as a stroke victim in Wings, uses cruelly sharp angles to create a Cubist deconstruction of the actress's face and limbs, which mirrors the disintegration of the character's mental functions. Norkin offers a wide-ranging collection of his works... He also showscases actors at different points in their careers (as in a trio of portraits of John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson) and different takes on different productions (he gives us a number of Salomes from the Metropolitan and New York City Operas). Exhibitions Artwork by Norkin has been exhibited in the Lincoln Center Library and Museum of the Performing Arts, the Museum of the City of New York, the Metropolitan Opera House, the Hudson River Museum in (Yonkers, New York) and various galleries. Awards In 1942, Sam Norkin drew Joan Roberts, who was then starring on Broadway in Oklahoma!. Various awards received over the years by Norkin include an award for "Outstanding Theater Art" from the League of American Theatres and Producers. (1980) and an award for “Lifetime Body of Work” (1995) from the Drama Desk, the association of drama critics, drama editors and drama reporters. Along with David Levine, Al Hirschfeld and Kin Platt he is one of the great artists of the American press. He received two awards from the National Cartoonists Society, the Special Features Award (1980) and the Silver T-Square Award (1984). Sleuth is a 1970 play written by Anthony Shaffer. The Broadway production received the Tony Award for Best Play, and Anthony Quayle and Keith Baxter received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance. The play was adapted for feature films in 1972, 2007 and 2014. The play is set in the Wiltshire manor house of Andrew Wyke, an immensely successful mystery writer. Wyke's home reflects his obsession with the inventions and deceptions of fiction and his fascination with games and game-playing. He lures his wife's lover Milo Tindle to the house and convinces him to stage a robbery of her jewelry, a proposal that sets off a chain of events that leaves the audience trying to decipher where Wyke's imagination ends and reality begins. Shaffer said the play was partially inspired by one of his friends, composer Stephen Sondheim, whose intense interest in game-playing is mirrored by the character of Wyke, and by John Dickson Carr. Paul Rogers and Keith Baxter in the Broadway production of Sleuth (1971) Directed by Clifford Williams, Sleuth opened on 12 January 1970 at the Royal Theatre in Brighton, England. The play eventually transferred to the United States and opened on Broadway on November 12, 1970, at the Music Box Theatre, where it ran for 1,222 performances. Anthony Quayle and Keith Baxter starred as Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle, with other parts listed as played by Stanley Wright, Sydney Maycock and Liam McNulty. When Quayle left the production in 1972, he was succeeded by Paul Rogers, George Rose...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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India Ink, Archival Paper

'New to the World', Hans Hoffmann, Brooklyn Museum, Corcoran, Parson School, ASL
By Frances Pratt
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, in graphite, 'Frances Pratt' (American, 1913-2003) and dated 1947. Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Frances Pratt moved to New York City where she studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Woman (1930-33), and, subsequently, at the Arts Students League (1933-35). She then met her first husband, Christopher Ritter, with whom she opened Laurel Gallery in Greenwich Village and printed the Laurel Folios. Frances Pratt taught drawing and painting at the Ballard School from 1942 into the early 1950's. She also taught mixed media and watercolor techniques at the Parsons...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

'California Coast', San Francisco Art Association, GGIE, Legion of Honor
By Nadine Pizzo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A vibrant coastal landscape showing a view of a jetty extending into the cove of a beachside town with a view to mountains beyond. Signed lower right, 'Nadine Pizzo' and painted circa 1960. Born in San Francisco, Nadine Pizzo was educated at UC Berkeley and the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. After marrying artist Sal Pizzo in the late 1930s, Overpack Pizzo moved to Sonoma County in 1976, where she continued painting until her death in 1985. Nadine Pizzo exhibited successfully on the West Coast, including a solo exhibition at the California Palace Legion of Honor...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Pond #4
By Ursula Schneider
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Pond #4" 1984 is an original soft pastel on paper by Swiss/American artist Ursula Schneider, b.1943. It is unsigned. The artwork size is 15 x 22 inches, framed size is 17.25 x 24.5 inches. Custom framed in a black metal frame. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: The work of Ursula Schneider include pastel drawings, paintings, small-scale sculptural paintings and woodcuts, working on one medium at a time. These processes complement and enrich each other by stimulating a fresh approach and allowing for experimentation. Drawing from observation in the landscape has been the basis for the work. She attended Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich and Keramische Fachschule in Bern and holds an Undergraduate Degree in Ceramics from Switzerland. In 1968 she moved to the United States and graduated in 1972 with an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. She lived and worked in New York from 1980-2004 and taught painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, Cooper Union and Sarah Lawrence College. Grants And Awards: 1985 National Endowment for the Arts. Major Fellowship Grant 1976 San Francisco Art Festival Award 1974 The Oakland Museum. The New Talent Award 1968 Swiss Government Grant: Kunststipendium Selected Solo Exhibitions: Kunstmuseum Bern Switzerland UC Art Museum Berkley, CA Oakland Museum, CA Forum Febicus, Switzerland Selected Group Exhibitions: Museum of Fine Arts, Forth Worth, TX Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum, NY San Francisco Museum, CA Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA Rockland Center for the Arts, NY. Collections: UC Berkley Art Museum, Di Rosa Preserve in CA, U.S. Department of State, Auditorium Netzwerk, Germany, The Union Bank of Switzerland, UBS Security, Bell Savings Art Plus, Security Pacific Bank, CA, Swiss Bank...
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Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Abstract Composition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a Color Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Paris 1980). Good condition. No Signature. Reynold Arnould was born in Le Havre, Fran...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Permanent Marker

View of the Lagoon in Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1977. Hand signed lower right. Dated on rear. Excellent condition. Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, d...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Tree - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Tree is a Pencil Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition on a little sheet of a notebook. No Signature. Re...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Sketches - l Charcoal by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketches is an original Charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century. Good condition except for some spots on a white paper. Hand-signed by the artist with pencil....
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

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