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
Horses - China Ink Drawing by Yves Brayer - 1954
By Yves Brayer
Located in Roma, IT
"Horses" is an original china ink drawing on ivory-colorated paper realized by Yves Brayer in 1954.
In excellent conditions.
This is an original drawing representing two horses.
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
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)
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
The Drinkers - Pencil and Blue Pastel Drawing - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
The Drinkers is an original modern artwork realized in the 1920s by a French artist.
Original Pencil and Blue Pastel Drawing on tissue ivory paper.
Passepartout is included (dime...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Pastel
"I Think I Will" Modern Oval Drawing of a Nude Woman with Wings and Boots
Located in Houston, TX
Modern oval figurative drawing of a nude, tattooed woman with wings and cowboy boots by Houston, TX artist Charles Pebworth. Signed by the artist next to the figure's right hip. Hung...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
At the Pool - Mid Century Illustration in Watercolor and India Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
At the Pool - Mid Century Illustration in Watercolor and India Ink on Paper
Lovely watercolor of a sunny day at a public pool by an unknown artist (20th Century). People are swimmin...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
The Parade of Fairground Wrestlers, Modern French School
Located in London, GB
'The Parade of Fairground Wrestlers', India ink on art paper, Modern French School (early 1900s). Traveling shows often held promotional events before opening in local areas to generate enthusiasm for the spectacle. This is an intriguing depiction of the various acts on stage strutting their stuff before an audience of potential customers. On the platform, fairground wrestlers mix with clowns, dancers, a percussionist in bolero hat...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Golf Bags, Caddy with Golf Bag on His Back
Located in Missouri, MO
Framed Size: approx 17 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches
Fred Conway (1900-1973)
"Golf Bags, Caddy with Golf Bag on His Back"
Pen/Ink/Watercolor on Paper
Site Size: approx. 10 x 13 inches
Framed Size: approx. 17 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches
A member of the faculty of the Washington University Art School from 1929 to 1970, Frederick Conway...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Cat - Original Drawing by Giselle Halff - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cat is a charcoal drawing realized by Giselle Halff (1899-1971).
Good conditions.
Giselle Halff (1899-1971) born in Hanoi, student of R.X. Prinet, R. Ménard, L. Simon, B. Boutet de...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Landscape - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a modern artwork realized by a French Artist in the Early 20th Century.
Watercolor drawings.
Good conditions.
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Nude - Drawing by Paul Emile Colin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an ink drawing realized by Paul Emile Colin in the Early-20th Century.
Ink and watercolor.
Good condition.
Hand monogrammed.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Headland & Rocks, White Island, Maine, early 20th century watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Headland & Rocks, White Island, Maine, c. 1923
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower left
15 x 19.5 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...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Original (unique) Self portrait drawing, hand signed ink on paper letter, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Al Hirschfeld
Original (unique) Self portrait drawing, 1976
Hand signed ink drawing, on typewritten letter with envelope
Hand signed in Hirschfel...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Interior Scene with Figures
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Interior Scene with Figures
Ink and watercolor on paper, c. 1930's
Signed with the Estate stamp lower center
Condition: Loss upper right corner; two small tears lower margin
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled: Seated Lady
By John LaGatta
Located in New York, NY
John LaGatta (American 1894-1977), "Untitled: Seated Lady", Signed Figurative Pencil Drawing on Paper, 17.38 x 11.38, Early to Mid 20th Century
Colors: Bl...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
A Furnished Room Howard Hodgkin, colorful abstract red green interior scene
Located in New York, NY
Abstract red, green and grey interior scene with lines, shapes and hand painted brushstroke texture. Colorful large scale work ideal for display in minimalist, modern and contemporary spaces. While British pop artists such as David Hockney and Patrick Caulfield numbered amongst Howard Hodgkin's circle of friends, Hodgkin's work is painterly, expressionist, and abstract.
Paper 21.25 x 27.25 in. / 54 x 69 cm
Softground etching and aquatint (from two plates) with hand coloring in watercolor (green and orange). Signed by the artist and dated 77 lower right in pencil; numbered lower left in pencil. This print was proofed by Daniel Levy and printed and hand-colored by Ken Farley at Claes Oldenburg’s studio in New York, which Petersburg Press was using at the time.
1977 heralded a breakthrough in Hodgkin’s prints showing an increase in emotional content and intensity. They are more fluid and lush due to an increased looseness of handling. They show a richness and a surface texture previously lacking – mainly due to the application of gouache or watercolor by hand but also to the more tonal techniques of aquatint and soft-ground etching with its chalk-like lines. This print amongst others of the period was prompted by a visit to Tulsa, Oklahoma and represents an interior scene.
Catalogue Reference: Elizabeth Knowles...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Watercolor
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
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Couple - Drawing - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Couple is a drawing artwork realized by an Anonymous artist in the early 20th century.
Black China ink on paper.
Good conditions and aged.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
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 ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Chalk
Hunters and Their Preys : Cats and Mice - Handsigned Original Ink Drawing
By Laszlo Tibay
Located in Paris, IDF
Laszlo TIBAY
Blue Cat with Big Whiskers
Original India ink and lavish drawing
Handsigned
Bearing the stamp of the artist
On light board 25 x 40 cm (c. 9.8 x 15.8 inch)
Excellent co...
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Contemplative Seated Nude Model
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady
French School, circa 1960's
chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed
size: 19 x 11.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: priva...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
Portrait of a woman by Emile Hornung - Pastel on paper 48x63 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on watercolor paper
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Pastel
'Rockport Harbor' — Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Wolchonok, 'Rockport Harbor', gouache, c. 1950. Signed in ink, lower right. A fine, modernist work, with fresh colors, on cream wove drawing pape...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
20th Century French Modernist Figure and Child Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure and child
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 8 x 5.5 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Dogs spanish modernism mixed media drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ricard Opisso - Dogs - Mixed media
Drawing measurements 23x28 cm.
Frame measurements 35x40 cm.
Son of Alfredo Opisso y Viñas, journalist, historian and critic, and of Antonia Sala y Gil, his sister Regina Opisso, was also a writer. He comes from an enlightened family full of artists. His paternal grandfather was Josep Opisso y Roig, journalist and director of the Diari de Tarragona, father of the also writers Antonia Opisso y Viña and Antoni Opisso y Viña. His maternal great-grandfather was the painter Pere Pau Montaña, his maternal grandfather the fabulist Felipe Jacinto Sala and his maternal uncle, the painter Emilio Sala y Francés. His nephew was Arturo Llorens y Opisso, a writer better known under his pseudonym Arturo Llopis.
Although he was born in Tarragona, his family moved to Barcelona when Opisso was only two years old. In modernist Barcelona at the end of the 19th century, Opisso worked as an assistant to Antonio Gaudí in the works of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona since 1892. He was linked to the group Els Quatre Gats, along with Ramón Casas, Manuel Hugué, Isidre Nonell...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
A 1950s Pastel & Charcoal on Paper Drawing of a Hockey Game by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
Perfect for you hockey enthusiast! A 1950s pastel & charcoal on paper drawing of a hockey game by artist Francis Chapin. Artwork 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
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Pablo Picasso 'Visage d'homme vers la gauche' Drawing' 1914
Located in Miami, FL
Drawn in 1914 by Picasso, this fine piece of work is a recognizable mark of his unique style. "VISAGE D'HOMME VERS LA GAUCHE", 1914 is pencil on paper, created in Avignon. Claude Pic...
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1910s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Dances - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Dances is a watercolor Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good condition.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an ...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Frog - Drawing in pencil by Emmanuel Gondouin - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Frog is a drawing in pencil realized in the early 1930s by Emmanuel Gondouin, (Versailles, 1883 - Parigi, 1934)
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes.
Emmanuel Gondouin is a French Cubist...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
View Towards Christmas Cove, Maine, Early 20th Century East Coast Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
View Towards Christmas Cove, Maine, c. 1923
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
14 x 19.5 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Prison - Original Drawing by Amédée Auguste Desmoulins - Late-19 Century
Located in Roma, IT
Tasso in His Prison is an Original ink and watercolor drawing realized by Amédée Auguste Desmoulins (1820-1870).
The little artwork is in good condition, included a cream colored ca...
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Late 19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Paper
Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
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
Materials
Charcoal, Permanent Marker
View Of Rome - Watercolor on Paper by C.R. Cockerell - Mid 19th Century
By Charles Robert Cockerell
Located in Roma, IT
View Of Rome is a beautiful artwork realized by Charles Robert Cockerell in the XIX century.
Watercolor on paper. Inscribed in pencil on lower left and verso.
This charming artwork...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Homme à l'agneau, mangeur de pastèque et flûtiste
Located in New Orleans, LA
Signed, dated and numbered “Picasso / 3.2.67 / II” (upper right)
Crayon on paper
Hailed among the fathers of modern art, Pablo Picasso possessed a seemingly e...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Chicago Jewish Modernist Judaica Painting Simchat Torah WPA Artist Israeli Flags
Located in Surfside, FL
This has young ISraeli pioneers dancing with the flag as typical of works of the late British mandate Palestine era early state of Israel.
Genre: Modern
Subject: Figurative (stained glass style)
Medium: Mixed media gouache on paper
Hand signed lower left
Alexander Raymond Katz, Hungarian / American (1895 – 1974)
Alexander Raymond Katz was born in Kassa, Hungary, and came to the United States in 1909. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In the late 1920s, he worked as a director of the Poster Department at Paramount Studios. He was appointed the Director of Posters for the Chicago Civic Opera in 1930.
During the Great Depression, notable architect Frank Lloyd Wright urged Katz to become a muralist. In 1933, he was commissioned to paint a mural for the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago. In 1936, he painted the mural History of the Immigrant for the Madison, Ill., post office. Katz’s works were included in various exhibitions and now are part of several museum collections, including those of the Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Jewish Museum, New York. His murals, bas-reliefs and stained glass designs adorn more than 200 Jewish synagogues in the United States.
Katz and other Jewish artists in Chicago who expressed Jewish and Biblical themes were inspired by the artist Abel Pann (1883-1963). Pann, who is regarded as the leading painter of the Land of Israel, exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1920.
Early in his career, Katz began to explore the artistic possibilities inherent in the characters of the Hebrew alphabet. He developed aesthetic and philosophical interpretations of each letter and became the leading innovator and pioneer in the field of Hebraic art.
Katz applies this concept in the woodcut Moses and the Burning Bush. Hebrew letters appears in Moses’ head, his cane and inside the flame. The initial of Moses’ name crowns his head. The letter in the flame is the first letter of the name of God. A combination of images and Hebrew letters appeared commonly in illustrations of the scene Moses and the Burning Bush in the Haggadah, the book of Passover.
The symbolism of the burning bush corresponds to the motifs of A Gift to Biro-Bidjan. Among the fourteen participating artists were notable Chicago modernists Todros Geller, Mitchell Siporin...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Over Head
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 unrivaled influence on artists and image-making.
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Horses - China Ink Drawing by Yves Brayer - 1954
By Yves Brayer
Located in Roma, IT
"Horses" is an original china ink drawing on ivory-colorated paper realized by Yves Brayer in 1954.
In excellent conditions.
This is an original drawing representing two horses.
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Brooklyn Bridge NYC American Scene Ashcan 20th Century Social Realism Modern
By John Marin
Located in New York, NY
Brooklyn Bridge NYC American Scene Ashcan 20th Century Social Realism Modern
John Marin (1870-1953)
Brooklyn Bridge
7 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches
Graphite on paper
Signed lower right, c. 1...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Guardian Cowboy And Horseman The Camargue France Original Framed Pastel Drawing
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
John Rattenbury Skeaping.
English ( b.1901 - d.1980 ).
Guardian, Cowboy And Horseman Of The Camargue, 1970.
Pastel On Paper.
Signed & Dated Lower Right.
Paper size 15.2 inches x 2...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Cute Baby Cats - Handsigned Original Ink Drawing
By Laszlo Tibay
Located in Paris, IDF
Laszlo TIBAY
Cute Baby Cats
Original India ink and lavish drawing
Handsigned
Bearing the stamp of the artist
On light board 40 x 30cm (c. 14 x 11.8inch)
Excellent condition
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
Rooftops (Framed 1970's New York Cityscape Landscape Drawing by William Clutz)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstracted New York City landscape drawing of urban rooftops and tree tops
"Rooftops", created by William Clutz in 1977
30 x 20 inches, charcoal and pastel on paper
33 x 25 inches in light wood frame
This framed pastel on paper was made in 1977 by William Clutz. It features an abstracted depiction of New York City rooftops as seen from a high window. Of particular note is the artist's technique with pastel; a wonderful texture and motion is created by closely woven striated lines. Sunlight reflects off brown rooftops and peaking green tree tops. The charcoal and pastel drawing is framed in a natural light wood frame with non-reflective glass and wire backing for installation.
About the Artist:
Renowned as the “impressionist of the contemporary metropolis”, William Clutz uses the city, in its entirety, as his subject. Pedestrians crossing streets become stars of the stage; the hustle and bustle of traffic and surrounding buildings are the chorus; each play their part in the overall composition. Lighting and color shift this observation of the everyday into a remarkable wonder. “It is surely Clutz”, wrote Gerrit Henry in Art News, 1979, “an artist who has rejected the niceties of representation in favor of the quintessence.” The young artist moved to New York City in 1955 and just four years later had his first solo exhibit at the Condon Riley Gallery. Clutz went on to show in major uptown galleries such as David Herbert, where, notably in 1962 he received a NYTimes review titled, Return of the Figure. That same year, his role in the revival of figuration was further solidified with inclusion in the MoMA group show, Recent Painting USA, The Figure. This was a pivotal turning point from which emerged a 50-year exhibiting career.
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Born: Gettysburg, PA 1933
Mercersburg, PA 1933-1951
New York City 1955-1996
Education
Painting: Thomas Danaher(WPA artist) 1944-51
Mercersburg Academy, PA 1947...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel, Archival Paper, Charcoal
John Lear Male Nude American Modernist Watercolor Landscape Gay Male Nude
Located in New York, NY
John Brock Lear, Jr., an American Modernist artist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His works are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Woodmere Art Museum, the D...
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Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Standing Nude Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady
French School, circa 1960's
signed chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed
double sided
size: 19.5 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
Chalk, Pastel
The French Rooster
Located in London, GB
'The French Rooster', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1960s). A Mid-Century modern depiction of the French coq, or rooster. The origin o...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
St John's College Cambridge University River Cam Watercolour J V C Anthony
By JVC Anthony
Located in London, GB
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
"Reclining Nude 2" Robert Gilberg 1950s Ink Brush Drawing on Japanese Rice Paper
Located in Arp, TX
Robert Gilberg (1911-1970)
"Reclining Nude 2"
c.1950s
Ink on Japanese rice paper with writing
21.75"x9.75 unframed
Signed in pencil lower right
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Rice Paper
Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929.
Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne.
Edition of 2...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Lithograph
Sketches - Original Drawing by Unknown - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketches is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by an Unknown artist in mid-20th century.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
No signature.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Ancient View of Montpellier - Original Lithograph - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Montpellier is an original modern artwork realized in the Mid-19th Century.
Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper.
Inscripted on the lower central margin in Capit...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Lithograph
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...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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India Ink, Pen
Pigs on a Trolley - Vintage Picture Book Two-Page Spread Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Pigs on a Trolley - Vintage Picture Book Two-Page Spread Illustration
A two-page spread in India ink pen and watercolor by Irene Pattinson (Ameri...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor, Pen
1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Portrait
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed
size: 10.5 x 7.75 inches
condition: very good and ready to...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
1951 Figure Study of a Standing Male- Torso by Artist Harold HAydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1951 graphite on paper, black and white figure study of a nude male, from 1951, by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 19" x 12 1/2". Archivally matted to 24" x 20". Provenance...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
The Terrace
Located in London, GB
'The Terrace', watercolour on art paper, by Maurice Savin (circa 1950s). An inviting scene from the South of France depicts a quiet sun terrace on a balmy day with azure skies. The v...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Erotic Scene - Pencil Drawing by Maurice Vertès - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is an original pencil drawing realized by Maurice Vertès in the 1930s.
The little drawing is in good condition with some folding on yellowed paper.
On the back is the ...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Mid Century Modernist French Painting Landscape With Forest, River, Path
Located in Surfside, FL
Beautiful gouache on paper, Moody atmospheric landscape in shades of black, blue green and gold by French artist, Roger Etienne Everaert Ret, signed on top right.
Roger Etienne, Fren...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Death March — Spanish Civil War, Anti-fascism
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Untitled (Death March)', brush and ink, c. 1936. Estate stamped, verso. A fine expressionist rendering, on cream wove drawing board, with margins (3/8 to 5/16 inch). Minor toning at the board edges, otherwise in very good condition. Image size 12 5/16 x 9 3/8 inches; sheet size 13 x 10 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
One of a series of powerful Anti-fascist brush and ink drawings created by the artist at the commencement of the Spanish Civil War...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Adolf Dehn, Haitian Scene A, signed painting, Associated American Artists, 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Arthur Dehn
Haitian Scene A, ca. 1951
Watercolor gouache on board
Signed on the front
Frame included: held in vintage modern frame
Measurements:
Framed:
11 inches vertical by 13 inches horizontal by .75
Painting
4.5 inches by 6 inches
Watercolor gouache, hand signed; framed with AAA Gallery label verso
Signed on the front bearing the original label on the verso of Dehn's longtime gallery, the prestigious Associated American Artists Gallery, New York City.
Provenance
Associated American Artists
Frame included: held in vintage frame with original label as provenance
Dehn, an influential artist and teacher (and author of the definitive textbook of his era on watercolor painting) joined Associated American Artists gallery in 1941. Although this painting is undated, it is likely circa early 1950s, as in 1951 Dehn won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to travel to Haiti -- the subject of this work. It was part of a series inspired by Dehn's visit to Haiti.
Dehn, an influential artist and teacher (and author of the definitive textbook of his era on watercolor painting) joined Associated American Artists gallery in 1941. Although this painting is undated, it is likely circa early 1950s, as in 1951 Dehn won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to travel to Haiti.
ADLOF DEHN
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere - not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic "little magazines" such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895 - 1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Capitola Beach, California - Original Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Capitola Beach, California - Original Watercolor on Paper
Beautiful watercolor painting of Capitola Beach by Ken L. Stephens (American, 20th Century). A couple sits by the water, wi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper
One Red One (Abstract Still Life Drawing of Black & Red Flowers in a Vase)
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative, still life chalk drawing of flowers in a vase against collaged vintage book pages
'One Red One' by Louise Laplante in 2024
pastel on collaged vintage book pages
27.5 x 29...
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
'San Francisco', Mid-century California Modernist, SFMOMA, Whitney Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A vibrant expressionist watercolor showing a view of San Francisco and the bay contrasted against a semi-abstracted colorist background.
Signed lower right, 'Provenzano' for Sam Pr...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Dances - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Dances is a watercolor Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good condition.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an ...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Civic Guard - Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Civic Guard is a china ink and watercolor artwork on paper realized by an Anonymous artist in 19th century.
Good condition.
Category
19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Lioness - Pastel Drawing by Marino Lenci - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lioness is an artwork realized by Marino Lenci (Naples 1874 - 1939).
Pastel on paper.
Signed at the bottom to the left.
36 x 36 cm, not framed.
Good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Standing Nude Study
Located in London, GB
'Standing Nude Study', pastel on art paper, by Louis Latapie (circa 1930). There is something very pure in the naked human body, but for some that purity can veer towards pruriency. ...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Watercolor and Charcoal on Paper Image of a Boy by Margo Hoff, Titled Sun Child
By Margo Hoff
Located in Chicago, IL
A brightly colored, Mid-Century, watercolor and charcoal on paper image of a boy by notable artist Margo Hoff, titled "Sun Child". Image size: 31" x 22". Framed size: 34" x 25". ...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
Cliff - Drawing - 1861
Located in Roma, IT
Cliff is a drawing realized in 1861.
Pencil on paper.
Hand-Signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft expressive strokes.
Category
1860s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Alfred Bendiner, Avalon (New Jersey)
Located in New York, NY
Apparently Bendiner never went a day without drawing. He was amazing! From Bendiner's Philadelphia the New Jersey beaches were an easy drive. Avalon is st...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
" Debardeur bleu " . Marrakech . Nude Male Erotic
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 .
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...
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Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
'Industrial Landscape'
By Wesley Wright
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, "Wesley Wright", and painted circa 1960.
A substantial, mid-century watercolor view of an industrial area with grain containers and smokestacks.
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cows in a Field (Recto) Two Figures in an Interior (Verso)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cows in a Field (Recto)
Two Figures in an Interior (Verso)
Watercolor on heavy textured paper, 1938
Signed in ink verso image of Two Figures, unsigned ...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled
Located in Dallas, TX
Francis Chapin was one of the most celebrated painters in Chicago during his lifetime. When he was a young art student, Valley House founder, Donald Vogel, painted with "Chape" on th...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled 31 (Figurative Drawing Polaroid Transfer of a Young Female Nude)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative, Polaroid transfer of a nude female
PT 31, Made in 1996
9.5 x 6.5 inch image size
22 x 15 inch paper size
signed & dated lower right
Uniq...
Category
1990s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Polaroid
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