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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
Zittend Naakt (Seated Nude) /// Figurative Girl Lady Pencil Drawing Woman Art
By Hendrik Paulides
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Hendrik Paulides (Dutch, 1892-1967) Title: "Zittend Naakt (Seated Nude)" *Monogram signed and dated by Paulides in pencil lower left Year: 1958 Medium: Original Graphite Pencil Drawing on cream wove paper Framing: Recently exquisitely framed in a heavy gold Art Deco moulding...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil, Graphite

Blanche Grambs, Butterflies
Located in New York, NY
Signed in pencil. Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, later developed a career in illustration. This drawing, watercolor and ink on trac...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Pénélope : Greek Woman's costume - Original watercolor drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Suzanne LALIQUE Pénélope : Greek Woman's costume Original India ink and watercolor drawing Signed with the stamp of atelier on the back On vellum 30.5 x ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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India Ink, Watercolor

Untitled (Seated Nude)
Located in Chicago, IL
A figure drawing, created by Leontine Wallace in 1931. The drawing is inscribed, “Paris á l’Atelier L’hote”. Image size: 12 1/2" x 9 1/2". Framed size: ...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

Matin - Ink drawing and Chacography on Paper - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Matin is an original artwork realized by Michel Gigon in 1978. Mixed media on cardboard (chalcography and ink). Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right. Very good conditions e...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original Charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Hand-signed by the artist with pencil. Mino Maccari (189...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Permanent Marker

Fisherman - Original Drawing - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The fisherman is an original drawing in China Ink realized by an anonymous artist in the mid-20th Century. Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-b...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Woman in front of Mirror, Nude, Marker on paper, Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Untitled - 23 x 20 inches (unframed size) Marker on paper Delivery of shipment in roll form. Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Bengal was ...
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1990s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Paper, Permanent Marker

Woman - Original Drawing on Paper by H. Somm - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Henry Somm (1844-1907). Good condition on a cream colored paper, included a grey cardboard passpartout (31.5x25 cm). Not signed. Fr...
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Late 19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Baby - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Baby is a pencil drawing realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Good conditions with slight foxing. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

View of the Forum Romanum - Watercolor by Giuseppe Costantini - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
View of the Forum Romanum is an original modern artwork realized by the Italian painter Giuseppe Costantini (Nola, 1843 - Naples, 1893) in the seco...
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1870s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil, Watercolor

Eros - Drawing by Maurice Vertès - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Eros is a pencil drawing realized by Maurice Vertès in the 1930s. Good conditions with slight folding.
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Pink and Blue Nude - Original signed charcoals drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002) Pink and Blue Nude Original charcoal drawing Stamp signature of the artist in the bottom left corner Stamp of the artist on the back On wove paper 48 x ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Rainy day. 2023, paper, acrylic, 25x25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Rainy day 2023, paper, acrylic, 25x25 cm Ansis Butnors (1977) Education: J. Rozentals Art School in Riga – 1989. – 1996. Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department – 1996. – 200...
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

"Suburb of Gif-sur-Yvette, France" Henry Yuzuru Sugimoto, Modernist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Henry Yuzuru Sugimoto Suburb of Gif-sur-Yvette, France, circa 1928-32 Signed lower left Watercolor on paper 11 x 14 inches Henry Sugimoto was born in Wakayama, Japan, on March 12, 1900. His father left for the United States shortly after he was born, and his mother joined him some years later, with the result that the young Henry was raised largely by his grandparents. Following the end of World War I, Henry Sugimoto arrived in the United States as a "yobiyose" (child brought over) and settled with his parents in Hanford, California. After attending Hanford High School, he enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley. He soon grew absorbed in art and his parents agreed to let him enroll at the California School of Arts and Crafts. After studying there for four years with a concentration in oil painting, he graduated with honors in 1928. He then moved to the California School for Fine Arts, but after a year there he decided to travel to France, the international artistic capital, for further study. Once arrived in Paris, Sugimoto became close to the circle of Japanese...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Duck Man - Pen Drawing by Leo Longanesi - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Duck Man is an original pen drawing realized by Leo Longanesi in 1937. The little drawing is in good conditions, numbered on the lower right corner. Le...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen

Still Life with Lemon and Hat - Oil Paste and Chalk Drawing - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with Lemon and Hat is beautiful original oil pastel and chalk drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by an anonymous French artist of the end of XIX century. On a table...
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Late 19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Suzanne LALIQUE - XVIII Century Women Costume- Original signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Suzanne LALIQUE XVIII Century Women Costume Original carbon pencil and gouache on vellum Signed with the stamp of atelier on the back On vellum 31 x 24 (c. 12 x 9.4 in) Very good c...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Carbon Pencil

Odalisque (figurative drawing, female figure, charcoal, black and white)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Susan Kiefer Odalisque Charcoal on paper Year: 1989 Size: 25x19in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1665 Framed charcoal drawing of a crouching faceless female figure on Indi...
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1980s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Portrait - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a Black Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition on a white paper. No signature. Reynold Arnould was born in Le Havre...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Modern school, Boats in Palma de Mallorca, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Modern School, Mid 20th century Boats in Palma de Mallorca Watercolor on paper 50 x 36.5 cm Framed : 56.5 x 43 cm The characteristic silhouette of t...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

A 1950s Pastel and Charcoal Drawing of a Hockey Game by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
Perfect for your hockey enthusiast! A 1950s pastel on paper drawing of a hockey game by Francis Chapin. Image size: 9" x 12". Matted size: 14" x 18". Provenance: Estate of the artist. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

Early Black & White Abstract Santa Fe Inspired Drawing of Dancing Figures
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern black and white sketch by iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. Pulled from a collection of previously undiscovered sketchbooks, this work serves as a peak behind t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Sven Berlin, Cornish St. Ives artist, 20th Century 'Pegasus' drawing
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sven Berlin (British, 1911 - 1999) Pegasus Pen and ink on paper laid down on card 11 x 7.7/8 in. (28 x 20 cm.) (16) Sven Berlin, born in Sydenham, London ...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Pen

Early Modern Black & White Abstract Figurative Sketchbook Page Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern black and white sketch by iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. Pulled from a collection of previously undiscovered sketchbooks, this work serves as a peak behind t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Pencil

Edwin La Dell Emmanuel College Cambridge watercolour Mid Century Modern British
Located in London, GB
For other views of Oxford and Cambridge please see our other stock. Edwin La Dell ARA (1914-1970) Emmanuel College Cambridge Signed Waterco...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Carbon Pencil

Portrait - Original Pen Drawing by Georges Vernotte - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original pen drawing realized by Georges Vernotte. Good condition on yellowed paper. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner.
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen

Modern Santa Fe, New Mexico Inspired Black & White Abstract Figurative Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern black and white sketch by iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. Pulled from a collection of previously undiscovered sketchbooks, this work serves as a peak behind t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Surrealistic flower - Original Colour Pencil Drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
André Masson (1896-1987) Surrealistic flower Original colour pencil drawing Signed with the artist's stamp on the back (see photo) On 30.5 x 29 cm tracing paper (11.8 x 11.4 inche...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil, Carbon Pencil

Saling Hall, Essex, Floral Watercolour Stained Glass Window Design, Jane Gray
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of watercolour stained glass designs from Jane Gray's studio. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller." Jane Gray (b.1931) Stained Glass Design Watercolour 11 x 20 cm Signed Provenance: the artist's studio sale Saling Hall, in Essex, has a long and rich history, dating back to the early 12th century when Sir Baldwin Wiscart was the first recorded Lord of the Manor. After his his son, the house passed to the knightly family of Bibbesworth, who lived there for four generations. Sir Walter de Bibbesworth was a crusader and a poet (in French). Nothing remains of the first Saling Hall which was rebuilt around 1590 by the Maxey family who had bought the hall in 1487. The house faced further remodelling by its 17th century owner, Martin Carter, a lawyer. He ornamented the new facade with Dutch gables, which are the latest example of their kind in Essex, and the house has changed little since. The hall passed through many more hands before it was bought, in 1935, by Lady Isabella Carlyle (née Barton) who was a passionate gardener and gave the Hall its first modern gardens. Lady Carlyle...
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Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

2 Nue Numa Sela, Painting by Benjamin Silva 1967
Located in Long Island City, NY
2 Nue Numa Sela Benjamin Silva, Brazilian (1927) Date: 1967 Gouache on Paper, signed Size: 28 x 21 in. (71.12 x 53.34 cm) Frame Size: 27 x 20 inches
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache

Piazza Navona - Drawing by Nicola Simbari - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Piazza Navona is a drawing in pencil and watercolor on paper realized by  Nicola Simbari  in 1964. Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil In good conditions except for some soft ...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil, Watercolor

"Tugboat at Dock, " Reginald Marsh, Modern WPA Industrial Ship
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh Tugboat at Dock, circa 1937 Signed lower right Watercolor and pencil on paper 13 3/4 x 20 inches Housed in a Lowy frame. Provenance: Sotheby'...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Landscape - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft exp...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Clown - Drawing by Niko Nardulli - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Clown is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Niko Nardulli in 1961.  Mixed colored drawing on canvas. Includes frame. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Permanent Marker

Three Shy Women - Original charcoal drawing, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Baptiste VALADIE Three shy women, 1970 Original charcoal drawing Handsigned bottom right On vellum 58 x 44 cm (c. 23 x 18 inch) Excellent condition
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Horse - Drawing by Joseph Alexander Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Horse is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft express...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Reclining Nude - Original hansigned ink drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Rene GENIS (1922-2004) Reclining Nude Original ink and lavish drawing on light brown paper Signed bottom right 21 x 30 cm (c. 8 x 12 inch) Excellent condition
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Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, India Ink

The Awakening, Six Studies of Nude - Original Signed Charcoals Drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002) The Awakening, Six Studies of Nude Original charcoal drawing Handsigned on the back of the sheet (see photo) On black paper 65 x 50 cm (c. 25,5 x 19,6 i...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

The Haunting Dream - Drawing - 1860s
Located in Roma, IT
The Haunting Dream is an original pencil and oil pastel drawing realized by an artist of 19th century, in 1860s. Good condition, no signature. Included a cream colored cardboard pa...
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1860s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil, Oil

Prof Sir Albert Richardson PRA London Bridge c. 1960 Watercolour painting
Located in London, GB
To see our other architectural drawings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Rare Israeli Modernist Judaica Watercolor Painting on Lithograph Naftali Bezem
Located in Surfside, FL
Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נפתלי בזם‎‎; born November 27, 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor. Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. His early adolescence was spent ...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Lithograph

“New York at Night”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed original pastel on archival paper of New York City at night with beacon by the well known American artist, Leon Dolice. Signed lower right. Circa 1930. Condition is excellent. Beautifully gallery framed with stained mahogany wood frame. Under glass. Overall framed measurements are 21 by 30 inches. Birham Wood Galleries, East Hampton, New York provenance. Exhibited artwork. See photo gallery labels verso. Leon Dolice was born in Vienna, Austria on August 14, 1892, the son of a machinest/welder. He went on to study art in Europe and viewing the works of the Masters. Dolice immigrated to the United States in 1920, finding a retreat in the European Bohemianism of Greenwich Village, he picked the streets of this landmark neighborhood as his first subjects. Concentrating on etching and with the encouragement of new found friends and artists such as George Luks and Herb Roth, he soon ventured out and devoted all his time to chronicling the architecture, back streets, dock scenes and other nostalgia that was fast disappearing from the face of Manhattan, mainly in copperplate etchings. A favorite subject for him was the Third Avenue El near one of his New York City studios on Third Avenue. He won accolades for his work, and although he traveled the East Coast recording landmarks in other cities including Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia, he always returned to his new home Manhattan. A decline in popular favor for etchings led him to put aside his plates in the late 1930s and devote some ten years to pastels, linocuts and painting. His subject matter was almost exclusively New York City street scenes, but figurative works, country scenes, and even experiments with Abstract Expressionism at the height of its new found favor in the 1940s punctuated his career. In 1953, after learning of the forthcoming demise of the Third Avenue El, in the shadow of which he had maintained his studio for over a decade, he once again took to his plates and press and created a final series of Third Avenue and or other New York City landmarks that were then threatened with extinction. His work brings to light aspects of nostalgic New York that survives today only in small part, whether in architecture or in spirit. Dolice's works are in a number of notable museums and private collections, including the Museum of the City of New York; The New York Public Library Print Collection; The New York Historical Society; Georgetown University Lauinger Library; The Print Club of Philadelphia and others. In the past few years, his work has been exhibited at Hofstra Museum, Long Island, NY; with the Montauk...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Archival Paper

Woman Looking at the Window - Original painting, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Jules CAVAILLES Woman Looking at the Window (c. 1965) Original gouache and oil painting on paper Signed bottom right On heavy paper 26 x 17 cm (c. 10 x 7 inch) Authenticated with th...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil, Gouache

Natural Beauty, Five Studies of Nude - Original Signed Charcoals Drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002) Natural Beauty, Five Studies of Nude Original charcoal drawing Handsigned on the back of the sheet (see photo) On black paper 65 x 50 cm (c. 25,5 x 19,6 inch) Very good condition, a few small surface defects on the edge Gaston Coppens studied sculpture in the prestigious Ecoule Boulle (Paris). Working in Boulogne Billancourt, just near Paris, his drawings keep the influence of his first formation : modeling volumes, subliming with harmony light and shadow. He was also influenced by the first cubist painters...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

The little violinist. 2021., pencil, paper, 25x25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The little violinist. 2021., pencil, paper, 25x25 cm Ansis Butnors (1977) Education: J. Rozentals Art School in Riga – 1989. – 1996. Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department – ...
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Geocentric Universe - Drawing - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Geocentric Universe is a China ink drawing realized by Anonymous in the late 19th century Good conditions. Good condition with aged margins
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Late 19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

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

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Paper, Pen

Barns in the Helderberg, New York (rural 1930s American scene with vintage car)
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

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Chalk, Charcoal

Augustus Edwin John original watercolour drawing of cavemen, British
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
This is one of a number of drawings that was accompanied by a signed letter from Augustus Edwin John which read as follows `Alderney Manor/ Nr Parkstone, Dorset / Dear Hodge, I send ...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Woman - Drawing by Willem Van Hasselt - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is a drawing realized by Willem Van Hasselt in the Mid-20th Century. Tempera and watercolor on paper. Good conditions with slight foxing. T...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Tempera

At Long Last - Paint by Ryan Mendoza - 2009
Located in Roma, IT
At long last is a contemporary artwork realized by Ryan Mendoza in 2009. Oil painting on canvas. Hand signed and dated on the back. Provenance: Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia Born in 1971 in New York, Mendoza's personal story is subsequently intertwined with the two extremes of Europe, Naples and Berlin, the two cities in which he has lived and worked up to now. In his works he represents complex theatricality, models anatomies, doses colours, calibrates lights, draws on a rich archive of memories, confusing ancient pictorial wisdom and contemporary risks. The artist's attention is particularly focused on portraits in which he carries out distortions and alterations: he exhibits perspective disproportions, reveals anatomical dissonances, manifests dystonias between the characters in the foreground and the backgrounds. His characters appear "possessed", it is no coincidence that the title of the 2010 solo show at the Muse d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina in Naples is "The possessed...
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Early 2000s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

An 1950's Modernist Watercolor of Amsterdam by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful & charming, Mid-Century, architectural, cityscape of Amsterdam by artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 7 3/4" x 10 3/4. Archivally matted to 14" x 18". Provenance: Est...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper, Ink

Sketch - Drawing by Henri Pierre Jamet - Late-19th Century
By Henri Pierre Jamet
Located in Roma, IT
Pencil drawing by H. P. James, realized in the ed of 19th Century. Good condition.
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Late 19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Letter to Dr. Laforet, 1960's Drawing by Jose Luis Cuevas
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexican (1934 - 2017) Title: Letter to Dr. Laforet Year: circa 1965 Medium: Ink and Wash on Paper, signed l.r. Size: 8.25 in. x 10.5 in. (20.96 cm x 26.67 ...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Nude - Original Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude 1940's is an original drawing in mixed media on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1988-1916). Sheet dimension: 24 x 16.3 cm. The artwork represents a nude woman, skillfully cr...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor

Court Violinist - Drawing - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Court Violinist" is an ink drawing on paper, realized by an Anonymous French Artist of the mid-20th Century . The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Sheet dimen...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Composition - Drawing by Robert Schmidt - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a drawing realized by Robert Schmidt in the Mid-20th Century. Oil pastel and watercolor on paper. Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized throug...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil, Watercolor

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