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
La Questione di Fiume
By Mario Sironi
Located in Roma, IT
Tempera on paper. Image dimensions: 17.5 x 22.5 cm
Certificate of authenticity provided by the Galleria Russo.
Provenance: Galleria F. Russo, Rome.
Mario Sironi was an Italian paint...
Category
1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Sketch for a Sculpture - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketche for a Sculpture is an original Pencil and Pastel realized by Charles Moulin in early-20th Century.
Good condition on a little brown paper.
No ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Chalk
Venir voir à Carnot, 35-40
By Marc Chagall
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Stamped with the signature 'chAgAll' (lower left), inscribed '8 90-44 Passy.' (center left) and inscribed 'Carnot 35.40' (lower right)
Pen and India ink on paper
Executed circa 192...
Category
1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Pen
$72,000 Sale Price
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MB 808 (Figurative Charcoal Drawing on Paper of Two Male Nudes Models)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative drawing made with graphite, conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper
30 x 13 inches, unframed
This unique life study drawing of two standing male nudes was made by Mar...
Category
2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
NYC Watercolor Drawing American Modern 20th Century Modernism Mid-Century WPA
Located in New York, NY
NYC Watercolor Drawing American Modern 20th Century Modernism Mid-Century WPA.
David Fredenthal (1914-1958) "View of New York from New Jersey,"7 x 10 inches. Watercolor on Paper, c. 1948. Signed lower right.
David Fredenthal (1914 - 1958) was one ot America's most respected watercolor artists. He was famous for his bold, intensely vigorous and complex paintings and drawings that expressed his deep feeling for excitement with life and living. He was a draftsman with seemingly a special gift for catching anything, physically and emotionally on the spot, and he never went anywhere without three or four loaded pens and a sketchbook in his pocket.
As part of the WPA project he executed a number of murals including the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World's Fair 1939. Some of his fresco and mural techniques were inspired by his friendship with Diego Rivera who had admired and encouraged him in the early 1930's.
After he won a traveling scholarship to Europe from The Museum of Modern Art at age 19, he was the recipient of two Guggenheim grants in Painting. He had his first solo exhibition at the Downtown Gallery in New York in 1937 at age 23, and many others after that including the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1947.
Because of Fredenthal's prodigious drawing gifts, he was chosen by Erskine Caldwell to illustrate his novel "Tobacco Road...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Flower Bouquet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan)
Watercolor on paper, 12 x 9 ½ inches unframed sheet, 15 x 12 ½ inches framed, signed lower left
About the Artist:
Nan Watson...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A ca. 1950 Watercolor of Male Bathers in Morocco by Artist Andre Delfau
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1950 watercolor of male bathers in Morocco by artist Andre Delfau. Image size: 7 1/2" x 7 3/4". Archivally matted to 14" x 14". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Born in ...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
A ca 1937 Watercolor Titled "Sad Girl" by Institute of Design Artist Eugene Dana
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1937 watercolor Titled "Sad Girl" by Institute of Design artist Eugene Dana. Image size:
19 3/4" x 12 1/2". Matted to 24 1/4" x 18 1/4". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Ghost and the Wheel - Drawing by Mino Maccari - mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing (Male Model, Feet)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early 1930s charcoal study of crossed legs a...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Women Nudes - Drawing by G. Riegler. - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Women Nudes is an Artwork realized by the Artist G. Riegler.
Drawing in ink on paper, Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right corner.
Th...
Category
20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Rare Charles Burchfield Drawing Book plate Rare Black and White Museum Framed
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original rare bookplate drawing by Charles Burchfield featuring his most famous motifs of sunflowers.
Category
1910s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Archival Ink
ALPSPITZE #3 (with Zabriskie Gallery Label), original pencil drawing of Bavaria
Located in New York, NY
Marsden Hartley
ALPSPITZE #3 (with Zabriskie Gallery Label), 1933
Pencil on cream wove paper. In original vintage frame with Zabriskie Gallery label
Sticker label, framed with Zabris...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Vintage French Modernist Jean Lurcat Watercolor Painting Mod Blue and Orange Owl
By Jean Lurçat
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean Lurcat,New York, France, 1892-1966
Depicts a highly stylized, expressionist owl bird figure hidden in leaves surrounded by bright, vibrant, vivid blue, yellow, and orange colors...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Posing Nudes - Charcoal Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1950
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Nudes is a drawing realized by an Anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Charcoal on paper.
Good Conditions.
The artworks are represented through strong deft strokes and nudes whil...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
In Bed - Original Watercolor by Jean Demelier - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
In Bed is original watercolor drawing realized by Jean Demelier in 1968.
Hand-signed at the top left.
Very good conditions.
Included a white Passepartout: 34 x 49 cm.
Delicate and en...
Category
1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Seymour Fogel (1911-1984)
Mural Study, untitled
11 x 49 1/4 inches (sight)
Tempera on board
Provenance:...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
A Finely Drawn, 1946 Modernist Portrait of a Young Woman by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Finely Drawn, 1946 Modernist Portrait of a Young Woman by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A beautifully executed and introspective charcoal portrait drawing o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Figures - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed by the artist.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
The Knight and the Lady - Drawing by Mino Maccari - mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Charcoal and watercolor drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century.
Hand signed in pencil.
Some minor signs of the time on edgex.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mediterranean Landscape II
Located in London, GB
Mediterranean Landscape II', ink on art paper, by Pierre Dionisi (circa 1930s). Sepia-toned, original drawing in a compelling style depicts a view of a ...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
'Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Tie' French School (1956)
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Tie', gouache and ink on art paper, French School (1956). Step into the world of mid-20th century European art with a striking portrait that capture...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Reclining Female Nude
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Reclining, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower left, unframed. 18" H x 24" W. Provenance: From a 35 East 7...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Portrait of a Woman, Modern Graphite Drawing by Wallace Putnam
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wallace Putnam, American (1899 -1989) - Portrait of a Woman, Year: circa 1960, Medium: Graphite on Paper, signed in pencil lower left, Image Size: 10 x 8.5 inches, Size: 13 x 10 ...
Category
1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Untitled (Reclining Woman)
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1933 watercolor of a reclining woman in a red dress, by Malvin Marr Albright (Zsissily), the identical twin of artist Ivan Albright and son of artist Adam Le Lorraine Albright. Im...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite, Paper
$850 Sale Price
29% Off
French Gouache Painting of Sioux Scalp Dance Ritual in South Dakota
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Sioux Scalp Dance Ritual in South Dakota
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The Thinker? —vintage drawing, original 'Superman' artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leonard Nowak, 'The Thinker?', conté crayon and India ink, c. 1940s. Signed in ink, lower left. Original cartoon drawing, on textured, off-white wove dra...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, India Ink
Little witches 2
Located in Genève, GE
Erotic scene
Work on paper
Wooden frame with glass pane
49.5 x 41.5 x 1.3 cm
Category
1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1930s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Pen drawing on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1930s.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Original Painting. New Yorker Cover Proposal Baseball c. 1939 Modern Cubist Deco
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Cover Proposal Baseball c. 1939 Modern Cubist Deco
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Play Ball
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
12 x 8 inches (sight)
Framed 18 1/2 X 14 3/4 inches
Gouache on board
Estate sticker verso
BIOGRAPHY:
Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests.
In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s.
‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune.
Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
" Debardeur bleu " . Marrakech . Male Erotic ."certified "
Located in CANNES, FR
Yves Saint Laurent ( 1936-2008 )
" Débardeur bleu " circa 1973 . from le Prince de Babylone
color pencil , Felt-Tip pen , colored pencil and graphite on paper .
27 X 21 cm . NUDE & UNIQUE .. Marrakech . certified by comité YSL
private collection FRANCE .
" Yves Saint Laurent led a revolution in women's fashion in the 60's "
born in Oran , Algeria , in 1936 , Saint Laurent was a keenly intelligent child ,
he fell in love with fashion at an early age ...
By his late teens , Saint Laurent was in Paris and a rising star of couture. after the sudden death of hid mentor Christian Dior in 1957, he became the head the illustrious fashion housesat the age of just 21 .
It was, after all , the golden era of YéYé Pop , his clothes became the uniform joyful bohemian dissent .
"Yves Saint Laurent and Andy Warhol "
In 1970 Andy Warhol came to Paris to film" L'amour " his transgressive travel movie featuring , somewhat surprisingly Karl Lagerfeld as a German aristocrat .
Warhol spend much of hid time with Yves ...
In 1961 , Saint Laurent founded his own label , bringing an insouciant elegance to his clean , minimal designs .the designs were playful and witty and Saint Laurent paid hommage to his artistic heroes
Piet Mondrian and Tom Wesselman ...
" Saint Laurent and Marrakech "
In 1966 the designer travelled to Morocco with his lover and business partner Pierre Bergé .it was the beginning of fascination with the city of Marrakech that lasted for the rest of Saint Laurent's life .
At the center of Marrakech scene was the American oil heir John Paul...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Hillside, Hudson (Realistic Charcoal Landscape Drawing of Trees in a Forest)
By Sue Bryan
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and white landscape drawing of country forest with hints of green pastel
charcoal and carbon on Arches paper
8 x 10 inches un...
Category
2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Charcoal, Paper
Flowers - Drawing by Albert Fernand-Renault - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a drawing realized by Albert Fernand-Renault in the early 20th Century.
Pencil on paper.
Stamped signed.
Good Conditions with diffused foxing.
The artwork is realized ...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Camille Hilaire - Nature - Signed Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Camille Hilaire - Nature
Signed Original Lithograph
Edition: 38 x 26 cm
Framed
Edition: 17/175
Camille Hilaire
(1916-2004)
Camille Hilaire began painting from a young age. At fif...
Category
1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
If They Look Close Enough They'll Find Her - Figurative Watercolor Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' art is gro...
Category
2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Mother and Child II
Located in London, GB
'Mother and Child II', watercolour on fine art paper (1970), by Raymond Debiève. In a clear nod to Picasso's influence both stylistically and in terms of subject matter (Picasso pain...
Category
1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Veduta Prospettica di un Ponte - Drawing by Carlo and Adolfo Coppedè - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Outstanding drawing realized fro Expo Roma by Carlo and Adolfo Coppedè in 1911.
Charcoal on paper mounted on stretcher.
Includes a beautiful iron frame by Roberto Fallani, realized...
Category
1910s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Landscape - Drawing in Ink and Watercolor and on paper by Gérard Guyomard
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in watercolor and China ink on paper realized by the French contemporary artist Gérard Guyomard.
Hand-signed on the l...
Category
20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Flamenco dancer by Jose Parera - Oil pastel on paper 50x70 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
$264 Sale Price
20% Off
African Mama - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
African Mama - Vintage Illustration in Ink and Watercolor
A charming illustration, by Irene Pattinson (American, 1909-1999), shows a woman with a...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Nu allongé avec bracelet by Tamara de Lempicka
Located in New Orleans, LA
Tamara De Lempicka
1898-1980 Polish
Nu allongé avec bracelet
(Nude lying down with bracelet)
Signed “Lempicka”(bottom right)
Pencil on paper
This exquisite pencil on paper by Tam...
Category
20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Woman - Drawing by Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is a Pencil drawing realized by Pierre Georges Jeanniot in the Early 20th Century.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed.
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934) wa...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Man - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1930s
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of Man is a Colored lithograph realized by Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963) in 1930 ca.
French draftsman, poet, essayist, playwright, librettist, film director.
Good conditions.
...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Clinton Hill, Paris, Oct., 1951 (France), mid-century abstract gouache drawing
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images.
He lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor.
Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Nude - Drawing in Pencil by Jeanne Daour - 1939
By Jeanne Daour
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Jeanne Daour.
The state of preservation good except for some foxings and stains.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Sheet d...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Birds in Morocco - Original Drawing by Helen Vogt - Mid-20th Century
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
Birds in Morocco is an original drawing realized by Helen Vogt in mid-20th Century.
Watercolored pen drawing on paper.
Fair conditions. Foxings.
Includes frame (fair condition) :...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Gravesend
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
Gravesend. August 1928. Ink and watercolor on paper. 13 1/2 x 21. Signed and dated in ink, lower left; and titled in ink, verso. Housed in a 24 1/2 x 31-inch Whistler-style gold frame.
Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, on the south bank of the Thames, opposite Tilbury in Essex, about 15 miles southeast of London.
Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James McBey attended evening classes at Graydon's School of Art and taught himself etching, building his own press at the age of fifteen. He moved to London to prepare for a one-man show at Goupil's Gallery, and shortly after this highly successful first show, he traveled to Morocco with James Kerr Lawson...
Category
20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
$1,925 Sale Price
44% Off
Trees in front of the Swiss Mountains
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$256 Sale Price
57% Off
Before the Storm
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original watercolor on paper by American modernist Charles E. Burchfield, created in 1916.
This work comes in an archival frame presentation and has been authenticated by the Bur...
Category
1910s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Clinton Hill, Paris, July, 1951 (France), mid-century abstract gouache drawing
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images.
He lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor.
Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
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...
Category
1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
View of Paris - Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
View of Paris is an artwork realized by an anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Watercolor drawing on paper.
Good conditions.
The artwork is created through deft brushstokes and har...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Paris modernist scene mixed media drawimg
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joan Cardona Lladós (1877-1957) - Modernist Paris scene - Mixed media (charcoal and white wax).
Drawing measurements 40x29 cm.
Frame measurements 66x54 cm.
He was born in Barcelona on June 30, 1877, he was registered with the name of Juan Bautista José Pedro. His parents Josep Cardona i Farré (Sant Salvador, 1852-Barcelona, ?) and Maria Lladós i Vidal (Isona, 1855-Barcelona, 1935) came from Sant Salvador de Toló and Isona, respectively, two towns very close to Tremp, in the Pallars Jussà region, close to the Lleida Pyrenees. The Cardona Lladós family was of humble origins, linked to the rural and peasant world. José Cardona and María Lladós married around 1876, when they were twenty-five and twenty-one years old respectively. The couple decided to improve their precarious situation by moving to live in Barcelona.
In 1877 Joan Cardona was born in the family home, at 62 Mediana de San Pedro Street, in the Ribera neighborhood of Barcelona and very close to the Rec Comtal. Joan Cardona was the firstborn of three brothers. When he was six years old, his sister Consuelo was born (1883) and later his younger sister, María (1888), was born. Josep Cardona i Farré was a day laborer and lived at least until the birth of his third daughter, María, in 1888. Her death, for reasons unknown to us, would occur shortly after.
After the death of Josep Cardona, León Farré i Duró (Isona, 1867-Barcelona, 1932) became part of the family nucleus with his mother María Lladós, who took care of the child Cardona and his sisters Consuelo and María.
Farré learned to play the guitar and was the most extraordinary disciple of the composer and guitarist Francesc Tàrrega i Eixea (Vila-real, 1852-Barcelona, 1909). Joan Cardona had in her stepfather the man who instilled in her a special musical and artistic sensitivity. The young Cardona took classes at the Academia Baixas, inaugurated in 1892 by the painter Joan Baixas i Carreter and installed on Carrer del Pi, a private center where a good batch of leading Catalan Modernisme artists were trained.
Cardona married Clemencia Parade Cazabat at the beginning of the century. Daughter of Carles Parade and Amara Cazabat, she was born in 1870 in Bagnères de Bigorre...
Category
1890s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$7,132 Sale Price
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Young Lovers - Original Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Young Lovers is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in about 1940. Pencil Drawing.
Good Conditions.
Georges Henri Tribout (1884-1962)
...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Reclining Nude Study
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady
French School, circa 1960's
chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed
size: 12.5 x 19 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: priva...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - The Girl In The Forest
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 19.5 x 16.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Reclined Nude from the Back - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Reclined Nude from the Back is a drawing realized in the Early 20th Century.
Charcoal on paper.
In good conditions.
The artwork is represented through deft strokes masterly.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Gerald Holding His Knees
By Andy Warhol
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most important American artist of the 20th century. He not only defined Pop Art but had an unrivalled influence on artists and image-making.
...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
"Seasons Greetings #1" Drawing by French Painter Marcel Vertes
Located in Pasadena, CA
Season's Greetings 1 is a greeting card featuring an original drawing by the illustrator and artist Marcel Vertès. Vertès defies the usual holiday expectations with his whimsical int...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Wax Crayon
$380 Sale Price
49% Off
WPA Era, Industrial Scene of a Steel Mill by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1935 tonal, watercolor of a steel mill by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 8 3/4" x 11 3/4". Archivally matted to 14" x 18". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Harold E...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
$585 Sale Price
31% Off
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