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
Interior - Original Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Interior is an original Drawing on paper realized by painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in Pencil.
Good conditions except for Some cutaways on the margins.
The a...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Chariot - Original Drawing by Lucien Coutaud - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Chariot is an Original drawing in Pen realized by Lucien Coutaud in Mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
The delicate and dynamic strokes created in a harmonious manner.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Rural Landscape - Original Drawing by Lucien Coutaud - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Rural Landscape is an Original drawing in Pen realized by Lucien Coutaud in Mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
The delicate and dynamic strokes created in a harmonious manner.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Rural Landscape - Drawing by Lucien Coutaud - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Rural Landscape is an Original drawing in Pen realized by Lucien Coutaud in Mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
The delicate and dynamic strokes created in a harmonious manner.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Posing Nude - Original Drawing in pencil by George-Henri Tribout - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Nude is an original drawing in pencil realized by Georges Henri Tribout in the 1930s. Pencil Drawing. Applied on a Creamy colored Passepartout.
Stamp of artist's atelier on t...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Horses and Carriage - China Ink and Watercolor - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Horses and Carriage is an original artwork realized by a French artist in 1940s.
China ink watercolored drawing on ivory paper.
Good conditions.
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Le 3e Régiment d'Infanterie Légère - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Le 3e régiment d'infanterie légère is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
Hand-signed.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines in well-balanced conditions.
Herbert Knotel was a german artist, son and pupil of the famous uniformologist and military historian Richard Knotel...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Portrait - Original Drawing in China ink by Georges Gobo - 1903
By Georges Gobo
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an Original drawing in China Ink realized by Georges Gobo in 1903.
Good conditions with some foxings.
The delicate and dynamic strokes created in a harmonious manner.
Category
Early 1900s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Woman - Drawing by Lucien Coutaud - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an Original drawing in watercolor realized by Lucien Coutaud in 1931.
Hand-signed on the lower by the artist.
Good conditions.
The delicate ...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Hospitalité - China Ink Drawing by Louis Touchagues - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Hospitalité is an Original china ink drawing realized by Louis Touchagues in the mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower by the artist.
Good conditions.
The delicate and dynami...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
'Billie the Brownie Laughing' original watercolor by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this painting, Sylvia Spicuzza demonstrates her skill as an illustration artist, representing the Milwaukee character Billie the Brownie with a growing spring of a tree. An illustration like this could grace the pages of a children's book or illustrated magazine, or as an advertisement for Schuster’s Department Store.
Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper
8 x 5.75 inches, artwork
14 x 12 inches, frame
Stamped with artist signature, below image, lower left.
Presented in a new custom frame with a gold-finish neoclassical wood moulding, archival matting and mounting materials; and UV glass to inhibit fading.
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, Art Deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso, Kandinsky and Max Ernst in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy.
Billie the Brownie was a multi-media star of Christmas in Milwaukee from the 1920s to the 1950s. Years earlier, the writer and artist Palmer Cox...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Gouache, Paper, Watercolor
Figures - Original Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original Drawing on paper realized by painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in Pencil.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Pierre-Georges Jean...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Figures - Original Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original Drawing on paper realized by painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in Pencil.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Pierre-Georges Jean...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The Sketches of Figures - Original Drawing by Norbert Meyre - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Sketches of Figures is an original Drawing on paper realized by French painter Norbert Meyre in the mid-20 century.
Drawing in pencil and pen.
Good conditions.
The artwork is ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen, Ink, Pencil
1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Signed Painting - Vibrant Red Flowers In Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Interior Scene
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
signed original watercolour/ gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 12 x 9 inches...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Cats - Original Watercolor by Giselle Halff - 1965
Located in Roma, IT
Cats is an original pencil drawing realized by Giselle Halff (1899-1971). Not signed and dated 1965 on the lower right margin.
The artist want to define a well-balanced composition...
Category
1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
African Tapestry - Composition in Cotton Blanket - Mid-20th Cent.
Located in Roma, IT
African tapestry is an original modern work realized in Cotton blanket in mid-20th century by a malinese manufacture.
Bogolan technique depicting a village scene, Dogon (Mali).
The...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Fabric
Native Mexican Women (Cuban Miami artist pastel)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Alex (Cuban, b.1949). Indigenous Mexican Women, 1982. Pastel and charcoal on wove paper, sheet measures 23 x 33 inches; 31.5 x 41 inches framed. Excellent condition with no damage or...
Category
1980s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
The Arve from Vessy, Switzerland
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
56 x 70 x 1.6 cm
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Confucius - Original Woodcut by Victor Golubew - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Confucius is an original artwork realized by Victor Golubew (1878-1945). Original woodcut print on paper, realized on early-20th century, hand signed in pencil on the lower right corner. Passepartout included: cm 30x23.
Good conditions.
Victor Golubew (1878-1945)is an orientalist , French of Russian origin, specialized in art history and archaeology. From 1890 to 1892 he studied at the Karl May...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Woodcut, Paper
Red Sailing Ship Stained Glass Window Design c 1900 For TW Camm by Florence Camm
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of designs for stained glass windows from the TW Camm studios. To see more of them scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller". Further designs will be listed in due course, please send us a message if you would like to see them.
Florence Camm (1874-1960)
Red Sailing Ship Stained Glass...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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
Oscar Wilde - Drawing in Pen and Pencil by Bernard Bécan - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oscar Wilde By Becan is an original drawing in pen and pencil realized in the mid-20th Century by Bernard Bécan (1890-1943), applied on a white Passepartout: 33x 24 cm.
Monogrammed ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Pen
Reclining Female Nude
By Emil Ganso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reclining Female Nude
Charcoal on paper, c. 1933
Signed lower right (see photo)
Provenance:
Weyhe Gallery, New York (Ganso's dealer 1925-1941)
Joseph Mark Erdelac, Cleveland, noted collector who had a large collection of Ganso works
Ganso was born in Germany in 1895. At age 14, he apprenticed to a baker and then worked his way to America when he was 17. He worked in bakeries in Scranton, Pennsylvania; and Cincinnati and Akron, Ohio. By 1916, Ganso out of a job, and was living the life of a bohemian in New York City, sometimes on less than 30 cents a week.1
In 1921, Ganso painted a realistic nude on a bedsheet, and was forced by the police to remove it from an exhibition. The bedsheet with the painting was later stolen. He soon had a job baking again at $140 a month, and with time to spare for painting and study. Ganso quit baking in 1925 when a New York dealer gave him financial backing of $50 a week. Ganso prospered from his art after that.
His work is in over 15 American museums, and the Print Club of Cleveland awarded him a $500 purchase prize for a wood engraving. A versatile artist, he painted a variety of subjects.
(from a profile written by Clyde Singer...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Americana, Lawyer in Court, Politician, Gouache Painting WPA Art William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
William Gropper Original Gouache on Paper
Hand signed lower right
33.5 x 27.5 image 26 x 20.5
The New-York born artist William Gropper was a painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on social concerns, and was actively engaged in support of the organized labor movement throughout his career. This original watercolor drawing is done in the iconic style of the artist's oeuvre.
Born to Harry and Jenny Gropper in 1897, William was raised in New York City's Lower East Side. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Romania and Ukraine, and young William grew up in relative poverty, watching his family struggle to achieve that sought-after American dream. His father, a bright and college-educated man, was unable to find employment that worthy of his intellect. His mother, meanwhile, worked as a seamstress from home. Coupled with the devastating loss of an aunt to the infamous Triangle Factory fire of 1911, significant childhood factors created the foundation that led to Gropper’s exploration of the American experience.
Early on, Gropper displayed an extraordinary, natural skill for art. By 1912, he was already studying under the instruction of George Bellows and Robert Henri at the Ferrer School in Greenwich Village. During his time at school, Gropper was also awarded a prestigious scholarship to study at the National Academy of Design. However, he refused to fit into convention and was swiftly expelled from the Academy. After his expulsion, Gropper returned home to help financially by assisting his mother and taking a shop position. However, he didn't abandon art academia and soon presented a portfolio to the New York School of Fine Art which earned him a scholarship for study.
Gropper obtained his first significant job as a cartoonist for the New York Tribune in 1917. While working as a staff cartoonist for the Tribune, he also contributed drawings to publications like Vanity Fair, New Masses, The Nation, and Freiheit. His interest in the welfare of the American worker, class inequality, and social injustice was central in his work. After publishing the graphic novel Alley Oop in 1930, Gropper's illustration career extended well into the decade. However, he was never exempt from controversy, and his 1935 Vanity Fair cartoon; prompted anger from the Japanese government.
As an involved labor organizer and Social Realist activist, Gropper continued to bring attention to his radical reputation with visits to the Soviet Union and Poland. However, his concern with European politics and U.S. social causes didn't slow down his artistic career, and by the late 1930s, he had produced significant murals for American cities like Washington D.C. His 1938 mural Construction of a Dam was commissioned for the Department of the Interior and represents the Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and everyday societal life. Measuring at a staggering 27ft by 87ft, the piece portrays muscular, robust American laborers scaling rocky hillsides, building infrastructure, and operating heavy machinery. The mural feels undeniably American with golden scenery, denim blues, and steely gray colors. Gropper fits perfectly into Social-Realism because the style exhibits an illustrative flair with strong lines and simple, bold hues.
The inspiration for Construction of a Dam sprang from his 1937 travels to the poverty-stricken Dust Bowl area. The trip was sponsored by a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and his drawings of the Grand Coulee and Boulder Dams...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Sketch for 'The X & Its Tails'. 1967
Located in Palo Alto, CA
This work is registered as an authentic work by Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976) in the archives of the Calder Foundation (NY), under application number A.24492. Created in 1967, this original pen and red ink drawing on paper is initialed ‘CA’ in blue ink in the lower right by Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976) with a handwritten dedication, also in blue ink, ‘To Alvin Lane’ along the lower center.
The Sketch for ‘The X & Its Tails’ is an original study and preliminary drawing made by Calder preceding his large-scale sculpture for the Detroit Institute of Arts. Sketches for models and sculptures are rare and this is no exception; according to Alvin S. Lane, collector and friend to Calder, “To the best of my knowledge there were very few, if any, preliminary drawings done by Calder that were on the market, but he was good enough when he did two for commissions to send the drawings to me as a present [including this Sketch for ‘The X & Its Tails’]. I included one of them here to show that although his drawings usually have a flowing steady line, his preliminary drawings are sloppy scribbles” (23).
Provenance:
~ Gift of artist
~ Private Collection (Riverdale, NJ)
Catalogue Raisonné and COA:
Sketch for 'The X & Its Tails,' 1967 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work).
1. Registered with the Calder Foundation, NY under application number A.24492.
2. Elvehjem Museum of Art. The Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Old Lady - Original Drawing by Edmé Jean Pigal -19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old Lady is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by Edmé Jean Pigal (1798-1872).
The little artwork is in good condition.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner.
Edme-...
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19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Figures - Original Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original Drawing on paper realized by painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in Pencil.
Hand signed.
Good conditions.
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–19...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
7e Hussards - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
7e Hussards is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
Hand-signed.
T...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Tambour du Genie (French Army) - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Tambour is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines in well-balanced conditions.
Herbert Knotel was a german artist, son and pupil of the famous uniformologist and military historian Richard Knotel...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
"New York City Harbor (Brooklyn Bridge), " Leon Dolice, East River, Mid-Century
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960)
New York Harbor (Brooklyn Bridge), circa 1930-40
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Spanierman Gallery, New York
The romantic b...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The Cityscape - Original Drawing by Norbert Meyre - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Cityscape is an original Drawing on paper realized by French painter Norbert Meyre in the mid-20 century.
Drawing in pencil, pen, and marker.
The artwork is represented through...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Pen
7e Hussards - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
7e Hussards is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
Hand-signed.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines in well-balanced conditions.
Herbert Knotel was a german artist, son and pupil of the famous uniformologist and military historian Richard Knotel...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Figures - Original Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original Drawing on paper realized by painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in Pencil.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Pierre-Georges Jean...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Laughing Cow, Ink on Paper by Modern Artist Prokash Karmakar "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Laughing Cow - 15.5 x 11.5 inches (unframed size)
Ink on Paper , 2006
Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Bengal was solely responsible for ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Kurhessisches Corps - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Kurhessisches Corps is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
Hand-si...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
VI Rose Nose Cat
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
VI Rose Nose Cat
Colored chalks on black paper, 1977
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Part of a series entit...
Category
1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Regiment Provisoire Croate Officier - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Regiment Provisoire Croate Officier is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is dep...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Fires of Spring in Big Woods
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamp lower right
Category
20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Female Figure - Original Drawing by Jean Chapin- 1930s
By Jean Chapin
Located in Roma, IT
Female Figure is an original china ink drawing realized by Jean Chapin in 1930s. Not signed.
Good conditions.
Jean Chapin is a French painter and lithographer born on 21 February ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Ballpoint Pen
Young Love - Original Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Young Family is an original Drawing on paper realized by painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in Pencil.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions.
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (18...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Study For an Arm - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Study For An Arm is an Original Carbon Pencil Drawing realized by Pierre Georges Jeanniot in the early 20th century.
The Drawing is in good condition on a yellowed cardboard.
No si...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The Tree - Pencil Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot-Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Tree is an original Drawing on paper realized by painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in pencil and watercolor.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
The...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Colourful French Town Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/ gouache on artist paper, unframed
Mounted on card frame
size: 13.75 x 15 inches
condition: very good...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Portrait of an Old Man - Drawing By Bencjon Rabinowicz - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of an Old Man is an original drawing realized by Benn (Bencjon Rabinowicz) in mid-20th century . Pencil on paper, hand signed on the lower...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
'Women And Brown Cat' Acrylic And Ink Original Drawing On Paper By Devie
Located in Carmel, CA
Inspired by the theatre world, Devi had retained her own unique drawing strokes. Her works reflect an approachable other-worldliness. She paints a story to be told and answered.
The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Ink, Handmade Paper
The Assembly - Original Drawing By Edouard Dufeu - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Assembly is an original drawing in watercolor and pencil realized by Edouard Dufeu (1840-1900) in the late 19th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower, illegible.
Good conditions.
...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Woman - Original Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original Drawing on paper realized by painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in carbon Pencil.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions except for being...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Figure - Original Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original Drawing on paper realized by the painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in Pencil.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions except for aged m...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The Young Girl - Original Drawing By P. G. Jeanniot - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Young Girl is an original Drawing on paper realized by the painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in Pencil.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions with aged ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The Figures Sketches - Drawing By Norbert Meyre - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Figures Sketches is an original Drawing on paper realized by the French painter Norbert Meyre in the mid-20 century.
Drawing in pencil and pen an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Pastel, Pen
Spanish and Dutch Soldiers - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Soldiers is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines in well-balanced conditions.
Herbert Knotel was a german artist, son and pupil of the famous uniformologist and military historian Richard Knotel...
Category
1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Nude Man - Original Pencil Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Man is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in about the 1950s. Pencil Drawing. Applied on a white Passepartout.
Monogrammed on the lower " G.T"
Good Conditio...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Cleaning Of the House - Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot-Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cleaning Of the House is an original Drawing on paper realized by the painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in pencil and watercolor.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
"New York City Skyline View from the East River, " Lionel Reiss, Jewish Artist
By Lionel Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
New York City Skyline View from the East River
Watercolor on paper
13 x 19 inches
Signed lower left
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
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Good conditions.
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Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through...
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Located in Roma, IT
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Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through strong line...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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