Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

James Exley (1878-1967) Roaring Tiger, Signed and dated 1903, Watercolour 14 x 10 ¼ inches A superbly executed image capturing all the latent power and ferocity of the tiger. Jam...

Eva Ennist, a mixed media and fiber artist, travels extensively through the Far East, gathering materials and techniques for her practice. The artwork "SOMETHING ELSE #2" uses materi...

'Mother and Child' by Carel Eugene Mulertt, circa 1900, Académie Julien, Paris Salon, Amsterdam, Maternity, Infant ------- Signed lower left, 'Carel Mulertt' for Carel Eugene Mulertt...

[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER]. A Group of 10 Flowers and Butterflies. mid to late nineteeenth century. A fine group of Chines...

Available for sale; this original watercolor portrait is by Andrew Read and is dated 2012. The painting is mounted within a glazed frame (which is shown in these photographs). The f...

Christoper Ryland (born 1951) Still life of freesia Watercolour 16 x 23 inches Christopher Ryland's flower paintings are in collections all over th...

Morocco is an original drawing in Watercolor on paper applied on cardboard. realized by Michele Cascarano. The state of preservation of the artwork is excellent. Hand-signed and da...

Janet Skea (born 1947) Still life of strawberries Signed Watercolour 10.75 x 12 inches 19 x 20 inches with frame An incredibly highly detailed still life of a bowl of sumptuous stra...

A compelling and period mid-19th century portrait of a young woman with braided hair, wearing a shawl and shown three-quarters on. Signed lower right, "Mary Gunn" (American, 19th cen...

This is the only drawing Mary Reilly has ever done of Maui - a gorgeous scene with breaking, frothy water captured in graphite pencil.

Tree and House is a precious pencil study realized by the French painter Emile-Louis Minet. The state of preservation is excellent. The piece of paper comes from a sketchbook, and it...

Serene cloudy landscape by Arthur Philemon Coleman (Canada, 1852-1939). From atop a hill, the viewer looks across a valley. There are a few outcroppings of trees, as well as a farmhouse and livestock. In the far distance, rolling hills with exposed rock are seen in the distance. Signed "A. Coleman" in the lower left corner. Presented in a double mat with foam core backing. Image size: 9.75"H x 16"W Mat size: 14.88"H x 21.75"W Some age toning to paper and an age toned section is in the center of the painting running from top to bottom. Arthur Coleman...

PLAN OF A PART OF NEWPORT, R.I. SHOWING CHANGES IN HIGHWAYS ASKED FOR BY O.H.P. BELMONT, ESQ. The original ink and watercolor plan on paper from 1907. The plan is extremely large; if fully assembled it would measure no less than 11.5 feet in height and 6.5 feet in breadth. Segmented and backed on modern linen in four sections – each section is 70 x 39 inches. This grand oversized folding map can be folded down to four sections each 17.5 x 11 inches and stored in a modern made leather and marble paper case 18 x 11.75 x 3 inches. Text continues, "Prepared for Charles Warren Lippitt at the office of J. P. Cotton, C.E. Newport, R.I. Oct. 28, 1907." A fine manuscript plan of the Bellevue neighborhood of Newport, depicting the street layout and the detailed footprints of the area’s many mansions. The plan was produced at the behest of Charles Warren Lippett (1846-1924), who served as governor of Rhode Island from 1895-1897. The Lippett “Breakwater” mansion is also shown on this plan, situated at the southernmost tip of the peninsula. Though the circumstances are unclear, Lippitt seems to have requested the plan be drawn out of some concern for road construction proposed by Oliver Hazard Perry...

Jean Poulain 1884-1967 Jean Poulain was born in 1884 in Katanga (formerly Belgian Congo). The self-taught artist from an early age, he will be in search of all the emotions and beau...

Charles De Wolf Brownell (American, 1822 - 1909) Watercolor on paper depicting several plants in close proximity Hand dated and inscribed "Br...

Dancing nude figurative study of a french woman. The work is signed by Thierry Andre thought to be a French who was influenced by Edgar Degas. The paper i...

Black and white naturalistic interior scene pencil drawing by artist Douglas Schneider. The work features a young woman laying on an intricate bedspread in a highly decorated room. S...

Draft Horse is an original modern artwork realized in the second half of the XIX Century by a French Artist. Original pencil drawing watermarked paper. Mint conditions. Draft Horse is an interesting drawing realized in the XIX Century in France; it depicts a genre scene, a draft horse with a small carriage...

An excellent portrait of french women looking straight out at the viewer. The work is signed by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many oth...

Woman is an original modern artwork realized by the french Artist Florane (1871-1939) in the early 20th Century. Pen and pencil drawing on paper. Signature of the artist on the low...

Attributed to Xavier de Poret (1923-2016) Study of Greyhounds, 1963 Pencil, stump, and watercolor highlights. Signed in the lower right and dated "Oct. 63". 49 x 64 cm Provenance:...

Japanese Brush Painting Watercolor on handmade paper 28 1/2 x 22 in. Framed: 32 1/2 x 26 1/4 in.

Idyllic depiction of Mount Fuji by Japanese artist Emiko Satsuta (early 20th Century). Muted colors create a serene atmosphere, with Mount Fuji in the ba...

Neutral tone naturalistic city scene by an unknown artist. The work features a central figure on horseback riding down a village backstreet. The "hostal" street sign overhead indicat...

Beautiful ink drawing and white lead by Giuseppe Raggio, probably belonging to his last years of artistic activity. Good conditions. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existi...

Etablissement Thérmal press de Digne is an original pencil drawing glued on ivory paper by Anonymous Artist in 1860. In very good condition. Not signed. Notes of the artist on the ...

Villa is an original drawing in pencil on paper, realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century, with the stamp of "Vente Scott" in red on the lower left. The State of preservati...

Flowers is an original orangish drawing in pastel realized by Gustave Bourgogne, Hand-signed by the artist on the rear. The State of preservation is good. Sheet dimension: 59 x 46 ...

Bridge on the River is a beautiful drawing in pencil and charcoal realized by the French painter Emile-Louis Minet in 1919. The state of preservation is very good, except for a small...

Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being cross country hiking signed "W. Steig" Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at his ski resort, Mount Tremblant Lodge, in 1938. Mont Tremblant, P.Q., Canada Watercolor and ink on illustration board, sights sizes 8 1/2 x 16 1/2 in., framed. In 1938 Joe Ryan, described as a millionaire from Philadelphia, bushwhacked his way to the summit of Mont Tremblant and was inspired to create a world class ski resort at the site. In 1939 he opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today. This original illustration is on Whatman Illustration board. the board measures 14 X 22 inches. label from McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, on the frame backing paper. William Steig, 1907 – 2003 was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988. Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria, both socialists. His father, Joseph Steig, was a house painter, and his mother, Laura Ebel Steig, was a seamstress who encouraged his artistic leanings. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio.He graduated from Townsend Harris High School at 15 but never completed college, though he attended three, spending two years at City College of New York, three years at the National Academy of Design and a mere five days at the Yale School of Fine Arts before dropping out of each. Hailed as the "King of Cartoons" Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 covers for the magazine. Steig, later, when he was 61, began writing children's books. In 1968, he wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), won the Caldecott Medal. He went on to write more than 30 children's books, including the Doctor DeSoto series, and he continued to write into his nineties. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! (1990) formed the basis for the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek (2001). After the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, Steig became the first sole-creator of an animated movie franchise that went on to generate over $1 billion from theatrical and ancillary markets after only one sequel. Along with Maurice Sendak, Saul Steinberg, Ludwig Bemelmans and Laurent de Brunhofff his is one of those rare cartoonist whose works form part of our collective cultural heritage. In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. As one of the most admired cartoonists of all time, Steig spent seven decades drawing for the New Yorker magazine. He touched generations of readers with his tongue–in–cheek pen–and–ink drawings, which often expressed states of mind like shame, embarrassment or anger. Later in life, Steig turned to children's books, working as both a writer and illustrator. Steig's children's books were also wildly popular because of the crazy, complicated language he used—words like lunatic, palsied, sequestration, and cleave. Kids love the sound of those words even if they do not quite understand the meaning. Steig's descriptions were also clever. He once described a beached whale as "breaded with sand." Throughout the course of his career, Steig compiled his cartoons and drawings into books. Some of them were published first in the New Yorker. Others were deemed too dark to be printed there. Most of these collections centered on the cold, dark psychoanalytical truth about relationships. They featured husbands and wives fighting and parents snapping at their kids. His first adult book, Man About Town, was published in 1932, followed by About People, published in 1939, which focused on social outsiders. Sick of Each Other, published in 2000, included a drawing depicting a wife holding her husband at gunpoint, saying, "Say you adore me." According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow New Yorker artist Edward Sorel...

Signed lower right, 'Laura Hills' for Laura Coombs Hills (American, 1859-1952) and created circa 1915. Laura Coombs Hills first studied at the Cowles Art School in Boston, the New Y...

Study of a nude woman laying on a bed with her leg up on the bed. She is facing away from the viewer. The work is signed and dated by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many other...

Carl Friedrich Deiker (1838 Wetzlar - 1892 Düsseldorf). Vigilant fox. Pencil drawing on brown paper, 18 × 29.5 cm (inside measurement), 31.5 x 43.5 cm (mount), signed and dated "Deiker [18]54" at lower right. - a little bit stained, with a light water stain at lower right About the artwork Carl Friedrich Deiker's consummate ability to depict animals is already evident in this early work. He brought a whole new psychological dimension to animal painting, so that one could literally speak of animal portraits. The naturalistic appearance of the fox alone makes it seem alive. Every strand of muscle, even every hair, is captured, which requires an intensive artistic study of animal anatomy and physiology. But the fox's real liveliness comes not from its natural appearance, but from its internal movement: Stretched out, it has been brought out of rest. It turns around and, with its ears pricked up, looks intently in the direction from which it has seen something. His mouth is slightly open and his pointed teeth are bared, as if he were growling. Tension gradually takes hold of his whole body. While the hind legs were still in a relaxed position, closely observed by Deiker, one front leg was already raised, ready to begin a rising movement. The fox seems so alarmed with all its senses that one gets the impression that, at any moment, its tail will move jerkily and the animal will jump up. While wild animals have traditionally been portrayed as beasts or anthropomorphised, often for caricatural purposes, Deiker explores their inherent nature by attempting to capture their psychic impulses. The wild animal is neither bestial nor human, but a creature in its own right, valued by Deiker for its own sake. In this way, he brought the dignity of the animal into representation and raised animal painting to a whole new artistic level. About the artist Carl Friedrich Deiker was the son of the drawing teacher Christian Friedrich Deiker and the younger brother of the animal painter Johannes Deiker. In addition to the family art lessons, Christian Friedrich shared a studio with his brother Johannes at Braunfels Castle, Deiker attended the drawing academy in Hanau, and from 1858 he was a student at the Karlsruhe Art Academy, where he studied under the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. Carl Friedrich Deiker was already in demand as an artist during his first year: Grand Duke Frederick I of Baden, Margrave Max of Baden and Grand Duke Michael of Russia bought hunting scenes by him. In 1859 he went on a study trip to the Reinhardswald. Just as the Barbizon School had rediscovered the landscape, Deiker opened up the forest for animal painting. From 1861-64 Deiker had his own studio in Karlsruhe, then moved to Düsseldorf, where his brother Johannes followed four years later. Deiker married a daughter of the landscape painter Karl Hilger and remained in Düsseldorf until his death. In 1868 he finally achieved international fame with his painting 'Pursued Noble Deer' and was regarded as a virtuoso new founder of animal painting. "Deiker brought for the first time a truly great artistic quality to animal painting [...]". - Hans Vollmer From 1870 he participated in the academic art exhibitions in Berlin, Dresden, Munich and Hanover. He was also very busy as an illustrator. He drew for the Gartenlaube, the Salon, the Universum, and produced many of the finely illustrated hunting and animal books of the period. He also worked as a printmaker, while his oil paintings circulated as reprints by Franz Dinger. From 1865 to 1892 Deiker was a member of the artists' association Malkasten. Carl Friedrich Deiker's life's work was honoured with a large posthumous memorial exhibition at the Düsseldorf Kunsthalle in 1892. His son Carl Deiker, born in 1879, also became a painter. Selection of art museums that own works by Carl Friedrich Deiker: Hamburger Kunsthalle / Kunsthalle Karlsruhe / Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf / Wallraff Richartz Cologne. Selected Bibliography H. Schmidt: Johannes and...

'Ebren ha Dor, High Cirrus from the South West, September' Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang _________________ The dancing light and rapidly changing skies, hung high above the ...

[CHINESE SCHOOL]. Group of Eight Exotic Fruit. 19th century, c.1880. Group of eight watercolour and gouache pith papers of Exotic Fruits, edged in turquoise silk ribbon and laid ...

[CHINESE SCHOOL]. Chinese Craft on the Pearl River. Canton, circa 1810. A pencil, water colour and body colour drawing of craft, heightened with white on paper watermarked ‘J Whatm...

A naturalistic study of a nude woman standing with her back to the viewer. She appears to be gripping the corner of something. The work is signed and dated by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the entire collection. Artist Biography: Emile Lejeune...

Charles De Wolf Brownell (American, 1822 - 1909) Watercolor on paper depicting a pumpkin on a flowering vine Hand dated and inscribed "Lyme ...

The painting is of a Colorado landscape with evergreen trees and an eagle flying through the sky. The work is framed in a decorative wooden frame with a navy blue matte. The work is ...

Reclining nude study of a woman with her leg up on the bed and her eyes closed. The work is signed by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Please inquire ...

Idealized landscape painting with a waterfall and mountains fading into the distance. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner. It is framed in a wooden frame with black...

Nude woman seated on a bench looking out at the viewer. The work is signed by the artist and stamped. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the e...

Dancing Stems by Jo Haran [2020] original Gouache, watercolour ink and gesso. Image size: H:53.2 cm x W:62 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:56 cm x W:64.5 cm x D:0.01cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look 'Dancing Stems' by Jo Haran is an original paitnng of lively rose stems and dark inky leaves in a dynamic composition. I used touches of neon pink acrylic...

Small pen drawing of an Orange Spotted Fish (Oxymonacanthus Longirostris Monacanthidae) by husband and wife team David and Natasha Deighton. Matted and unframed. Framing options are ...

Summer pastel on paper 6 x 6inches 12 x 12 inches 2023

Bay Light I pastel on paper 6 x 6inches 12 x 12 inches 2023

In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a dark, subtle view of a milkweed pod, bursting forth with cotton. Examples like this show the ...

Portrait of a young girl with a styled hair cut. The work is signed and dated by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the entire col...

Charles De Wolf Brownell (American, 1822 - 1909) Watercolor on paper of maple leaves against the sky, Hand dated and inscribed "Papaw - E.H....

Muted Cascade by Jo Haran [2021] original Gouache, watercolour ink and gesso. Image size: H:53.5 cm x W:38.4 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40.5 cm x W:56 cm x D:0.01cm Sold U...

AMERICA'S CUP - 1967. BEAT TO THE FINISH - INTREPID (USA) VS. DAME PATTIE (AUS). “Beat to the Finish” is a 1967 watercolor by Joseph Webster ...

Seated nude study of a woman looking towards the viewer. The work is signed by the artist and dated. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the en...

Early 20th century landscape watercolor painting of an open field with trees done in an impressionistic style. Signed "H.G." in the lower right corner. Hung in a gold frame. Dimensio...

Portrait study of a woman seated with her dress coming off her body. She looks out at the viewer in a seductive manner. The work is signed and dated by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the entire collection. Artist Biography: Emile Lejeune...

A naturalistic study of a reclining woman. The woman is highlighted with color pencil. The work is signed and dated by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the entire collection. Artist Biography: Emile Lejeune...

Collection of girl portrait studies that are signed and dated by the artist. The papers are not framed. The dimensions are of the larger work, the small...

Landscape study of a French town on a mountain top. The work is signed and stamped by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the entir...

The eerie timeless Flat Iron building stands silhouetted against a winter sky one day in NYC. Tom was struck by the severe geometry of an historic b...

A natural landscape painting is beautiful because it connects us to the innate tranquility and majesty of the natural world. The harmonious colors, such as the greens of forests, the...

Seated nude woman that is looking down. The work is signed and dated by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Please inqui...