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
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting Bright and Colorful Rainbow Fishing Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on paper
size: 10.5 x 8.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoye...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Boy With Flowers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Portrait
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on paper
size: 14 x 10.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$532 Sale Price
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Long Blue Dress : Antique Greek costume (Antigone) - Original watercolor drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Suzanne LALIQUE
Long Blue Dress : Antique Greek Costume (Antigone)
Original carbon pencil and watercolor drawing
Signed with the stamp of atelier on the back
On vellum 37.5 x 26 (c...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Carbon Pencil
Sketches - Pen Drawing by Paul Garin - 1950s
By Paul Garin
Located in Roma, IT
Sketches is an original pen drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by the French artist Paul Garin (Nice, 1898-1963) in the 1950s.
Black ink stamp on the lower-left corner: "Cath...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
$340 Sale Price
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1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Down The French Streets
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on card mounted on card
size: 18.5 x 10 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$484 Sale Price
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“Monhegan Island, Maine”
By Ted Davis
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor of Monhegan Island, Maine on archival paper by the well known American watercolorist, Ted Davis. Signed lower right and dated 1950. Cond...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,120 Sale Price
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1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Peaceful French Bridge Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
stamped verso
size: 9 x 12.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be en...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Election Day - Original China Ink by Bernard Bécan - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Election Day is an original drawing in China ink realized in the early 20th Century by Bernard Bécan (1890-1943), applied on a white Passepartout.
Monogrammed on the lower right.
I...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - View Of The French Pub
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on card, mounted on card
size: 15.5 x 20.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenanc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$484 Sale Price
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1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Two Hunts Men
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Figures
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on card, mounted on card
size: 19.5 x 13.5 inches
condition: very good and re...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$775 Sale Price
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1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Figure Playing The Accordion
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Figure
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on paper mounted on card
size: 16.5 x 12.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance:...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Barns in the Helderberg, New York (rural 1930s American scene with vintage car)
By Martin Lewis
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Barns in the Helderberg, New York" by Martin Lewis shows neighbors (one in a Model T car) visiting outside a series of barns with a tree in the background...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Marital Portrait - Drawing by Alberto Savinio - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Marital portrait is a modern artwork realized by Alberto Savinio in 1948.
Pencil on paper.
Hand signed by the artist and dedicated to Raffaele Carrieri.
Certificate of authenticity by Ruggero Savinio...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
À travers les arbres by Henri Goetz - Gouache on paper 37x47 cm
By Henri Goetz
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame, good state
Category
20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$256 Sale Price
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The Cow - Paint by Fernand Bivel - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Cow is a mixed media on paper realized in the early 20th century by Fernand Bivel.
The state of preservation is fair with missing pieces of paper.
The artwork is created throug...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Oil Pastel, Pencil
The Big Tree - Drawing by Carlo Ferrari - 1899
Located in Roma, IT
The Big Tree is an artwork realized by Carlo Ferrari (1861-1950) in 1899.
Pencil drawing, dated and signed by the artist in the lower right.
Good condition.
Category
1890s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Marine Scene - Drawing - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Mixed media on paper realized by an italian artist in the 1970s.
Very good condition.
Includes a contemporary wooden frame cm. 80x62.5
Category
1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Ink, Watercolor
Housewife by Rodolphe Piguet - Drawing 21x24 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Drypoint
$320 Sale Price
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Portrait - Original Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an Original Drawing in Tempera on creamy-colored paper by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions with some foxing.
Hand-signed.
Mino Maccari (1898-198...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Early Abstraction II
Located in London, GB
This soft and inviting work is the second in a series of abstractions by Walkowitz. Containing a central sequence of wavey lines and a singular circle, it evokes a feelings of joy in...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Posed Family By French Church
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on board, unframed
size: 19.5 x 12.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
'Reclining Nude', Bay Area Abstraction, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, CWS
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Robert George Gilberg (American, 1911-1970) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
Born in Oakland, Robert George Gilberg first studied at the Oakland Art Center during the 1930s. Following service during WWII, he settled in Nevada City, California where he remained until shortly before his death in San Francisco. Gilberg exhibited widely and with success and was the recipient of numerous medals, prizes and juried awards, including at the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Crashing Wave Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 8.25 x 10.75 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provena...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Rare Early Drawing I, Nude, Pen, Ink on paper by Master Artist "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Rare Early Drawing I 22 x 8.25 inches (unframed size)
Pen & Ink on paper
Complimentary shipment in a roll form.
Sunil Das ( 1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian Arti...
Category
1980s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
1967 "Abstract 4 Pink, Blue and Yellow" Mid Century Watercolor Abstract
Located in Arp, TX
Michael Knigin
Abstract 4 Pink, Blue and Yellow
1967
Ink brush and watercolor on paper
8.25"x11" unframed $675
Signed and dated in ink lower right
Came from artist's estate
*Custom f...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Confederate Soldiers' Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio Watercolor
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Confederate Soldiers' Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, 1929
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lowe...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Abigail, by the Light of the Pool', San Diego Artist, Psychological Portraiture
By Daniel Camp
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Daniel M. Camp' (American, born 1947) and painted circa 1985.
A luminously atmospheric portrait of the artist's daughter, Abigail, at the age of three.
Daniel ...
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1980s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Nude of Lying Girl - Original Mixed Media by Jean-Raymond Delpech - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Lying Girl is an original artwork realized by Jean-Raymond Delpech (Hanoi, 1916 – 1988) in 1940s.
Good conditions. This painting was made with tempera and watercolor.
The w...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor, Mixed Media
Farming Girl - Etching - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Farming Girl is a print artwork on paper in the early 20th century by an Anonymous Artist.
Etching on paper
Good conditions with slight foxing and age margins
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
$179 Sale Price
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1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Tree Trunks
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 11 x 9.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance:...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Drawing Church and houses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original pencil drawing on artist paper, unframed
size: 11 x 9.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
prov...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The Apparition - Original Ink - 1918
Located in Roma, IT
The apparition is an original artwork realized in 1918 and signed and dated "Hinault 1918"
Black and white china ink, watercolor and biacca drawing .Hand signed Hinault and dated on...
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1910s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Black and White Harbour Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original biro on artist paper, unframed
stamped verso
size: 8.25 x 11.75 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoy...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Nude on a Chair - Original signed charcoals drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002)
Nude on a Chair
Original charcoal drawing
Signed in the bottom right
Stamp of the artist on the back
On drawing paper 52 x 43 cm (c 21 x 17 inch)
Exce...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Final Study for Atalanta, Girl with Apple
By Will Barnet
Located in Greenwich, CT
Will Barnet is one of America's best loved and known artists of the Post War era. He is highly distinctive for his figurative and narrative work and in some ways he is the Edgar All...
Category
1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Vellum, Color Pencil, Graphite
Caricature of Sandro Pertini - Drawing by Emilio Giannelli - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Caricature of Sandro Pertini is a modern artwork realized by the Artist Emilio Giannelli.
Black and white drawing
Hand signed on the lower margin
Includes frame: 34 x 24 cm
Category
1980s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
1950's French Modernist Painting signed - Figures on Horseback in Village
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Roadside Tavern
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
signed original watercolour/ gouache painting on paper board, unframed
size: 11 x 13.75 inches
condition: very good and...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Trainer - Original Pastel on Paper - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Trainer is an original modern drawing in pastel on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the mid-20th Century..
Very good conditions, except for some folding.
The artwork repres...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
$214 Sale Price
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Spring Blossom : Leaves in Blue - Original pencil drawing, 1953
Located in Paris, IDF
Marie LAURENCIN
Spring Blossom : Leaves in Blue, 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, marks of the ...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil, Color Pencil
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - French Castle Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
size: 12.5 x 9.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
pro...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
French Watercolour Breton School Mid 20th Century Fishing Fleet
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Breton Fishing Fleet
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
signed lower right and dated
watercolour painting, with gouache and some graphite on artist's paper, unframed
measurement of framea...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
$799 Sale Price
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Eating Elephant - Original ink and watercolor drawing, Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Ronald SEARLE
Eating Elephant, 1964
Original ink and color pencil drawing
Signed bottom right with the monogram
On heavy paper 76 x 56 cm (c. 30 x 22 in)
Very good condition, small...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Color Pencil
The Bold Dragoon (Figurative Chalk Drawing of a Young Man's Silhouette, Framed)
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative chalk drawing of a young man's silhouette and clouds on vintage collaged music sheets.
Artwork measures 48 x 28 inches
52 x 32 inches framed, deckle edge paper is floated in natural wood moulding with glass.
This modern, graphic chalk drawing on collaged vintage music sheets...
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Figure - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1952
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1952.
Black Marker drawing.
Dated and signed by the artist.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Woman - Drawing by Cesare Bentivoglio - 1920s
By Cesare Bentivoglio
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original drawing in pencil, ink and watercolor realized by Cesare Bentivoglio in 1920s.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted throu...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
POLITICAL CARTOONS - Vignette by Vauro Senesi, Italy 1970
Located in Napoli, IT
Vauro Senesi, known simply as Vauro (Pistoia, March 24, 1955), is an Italian cartoonist, editor, television personality and actor. He is among the best-known satirical cartoonists in...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Two Fine Lady Caricatures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Portrait
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 11.75 x 8.25 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
proven...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Red & Blue French Buildings Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
size: 11.75 x 8.25 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
p...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Detailed Bridge Watercolour Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
pro...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - French Chateau Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
size: 8.25 x 11.75 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
p...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a Pencil Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980) in 1970.
Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (50x35 cm).
Monogrammed by ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Trees and mazot by Charles Goetz - Watercolor 35x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper by Isaac Charles Goetz
Category
1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$320 Sale Price
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Path under the woods by Charles Goetz - Watercolor 37x56 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper by Isaac Charles Goetz
Category
1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$360 Sale Price
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View over the Bridge, watercolour by George Bissill
Located in London, GB
George Bissill (1896-1973)
View over the bridge
Watercolour
18 x 22 cm
Born in 1896, George Bissill was a British miner, painter and furniture designer. Raised in the mining vill...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Two Nude Figures - Modernist Abstract Figure Study in Red & Blue
By David Hill
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous and compelling modern figural study with two figures by David Hill (American, 20th century). The figures, which are rendered in red and blue, are posed in a dynamic conversa...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Circus Lot at Toledo, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Circus Lot at Toledo, c. 1920
Watercolor on Whatman board
Signed lower right
22 x 30 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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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Crashing Waves on Atlantic Coast, Mid-century Seascape, Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Crashing Waves on the Atlantic Coast, 1957
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Signed and dated lower right
22 x 29 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...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Watercolor
Modern Abstract Blue and Orange Toned Mountainous Village Landscape Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract blue and orange toned landscape drawing by American artist Jane Tate. The work features a majestic mountain landscape with houses dotting the...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Color Pencil
1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting signed - Bright Colour Shapes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Colourful Shapes
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
signed original watercolour/ gouache mounted painting on paper board, unframed
size: 8.5 x 5.75 inches
condition: very goo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Black & White French Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/gouache on artist paper, unframed
Mounted on card frame
size: 25.5 x 19.75 inches
condition: very goo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
$653 Sale Price
40% Off
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