Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
POSTIMPRESSIONIST STYLE
In the revolutionary wake of Impressionism, artists like Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin advanced the style further while firmly rejecting its limitations. Although the artists now associated with Postimpressionist art did not work as part of a group, they collectively employed an approach to expressing moments in time that was even more abstract than that of the Impressionists, and they shared an interest in moving away from naturalistic depictions to more subjective uses of vivid colors and light in their paintings.
The eighth and final Impressionist exhibition was held in Paris in 1886, and Postimpressionism — also spelled Post-Impressionism — is usually dated between then and 1905. The term “Postimpressionism” was coined by British curator and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 at the “Manet and the Postimpressionists” exhibition in London that connected their practices to the pioneering modernist art of Édouard Manet. Many Postimpressionist artists — most of whom lived in France — utilized thickly applied, vibrant pigments that emphasized the brushstrokes on the canvas.
The Postimpressionist movement’s iconic works of art include van Gogh’s The Starry Night (1889) and Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884). Seurat’s approach reflected the experimental spirit of Postimpressionism, as he used Pointillist dots of color that were mixed by the eye of the viewer rather than the hand of the artist. Van Gogh, meanwhile, often based his paintings on observation, yet instilled them with an emotional and personal perspective in which colors and forms did not mirror reality. Alongside Mary Cassatt, Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Gauguin, the Dutch painter was a pupil of Camille Pissarro, the groundbreaking Impressionist artist who boldly organized the first independent painting exhibitions in late-19th-century Paris.
The boundary-expanding work of the Postimpressionist painters, which focused on real-life subject matter and featured a prioritization of geometric forms, would inspire the Nabis, German Expressionism, Cubism and other modern art movements to continue to explore abstraction and challenge expectations for art.
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Style: Post-Impressionist
French Hilltop Village Fields Distant Landscape and Clouds Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Hilltop Village Fields Distant Landscape and Clouds Watercolor
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed
Size (H x W): 6.25 x ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
French Village House with Cypress Trees La Maison Churchill Watercolor Landscape
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Village House with Cypress Trees La Maison Churchill Watercolor Landscape
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on card, unframed
Size (H x W): 6 x 5...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Seated Female Nude by Window French Modernist Watercolour Figure Study
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seated Female Nude by Window French Modernist Watercolour Figure Study
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artist paper, unframed
Size (H x W): 9.75 x ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
$429 Sale Price
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Le Pontreau French Coastal Landscape Watercolour Seaside Scene by Pierre Neveu
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Le Pontreau French Coastal Landscape Watercolour Seaside Scene by Pierre Neveu
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on card, unframed
Size (H x W): 8.25 x ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
French Watercolour Mediterranean Garden Overlooking the Tranquil Blue Waters
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Landscape
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper
Size: 5.5 height) x 6.5 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Provenance: All th...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Sunlit Bench Overlooking the Azure Mediterranean French Watercolour Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Bench Overlooking the Azure Mediterranean
Tony Minartz (French, 1873 - 1994)
watercolour on artist paper
painting : 17 x 13 inches
Provenance: private collection in the South of F...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Mid Century French Sketch of a Standing Male Figure
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Male Study
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper
Size: 25 (height) x 19 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condition: ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Charcoal, Pencil
1940's Provence France Painting Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
Signed and dated 1947
From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
mea...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Provence Landscape Post-Impressionist Signed 1940's Painting
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
signed with initials, dated 1943
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
measurements: 10 x 14 inches
provenance: private coll...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Provence Hillside with Stone Houses and Lush Trees French Landscape Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Provence Hillside with Stone Houses and Lush Trees French Landscape Watercolor
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artist paper, unframed
Size (H x W):...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Bright Seascape in Capri, Nautical Cyanotype Triptych, Mediterranean Blue Waves
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of water, forests, and skies. These...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Lithograph, Paper
Provence Sunlit Stone Houses and Yellow Tiled Rooftops French Village Study
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Provence Sunlit Stone Houses and Yellow Tiled Rooftops French Village Study
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed
Size (H x W): 8...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
“Roses in a Porcelain Vase”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a very well executed oil pastel on archival paper by the well known French artist, Marcel Vertes. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. Circa 1...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
'Pink Daisies', California Watercolor Society, SWA, Woman Artist, Zoltan Szabo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Beverly Fields' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985.
This listed California artist has exhibited widely and with success and is the recipient of num...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Laid Paper
Provence Vineyard Village Landscape Post-Impressionist Signed 1962 Painting
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provence Landscape, Panoramic View of a Riverside Vineyard Village
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
Signed lower right, dated 62 (1962)
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
meas...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Riverside Village Hills Trees Reflections and Sunlit Fields Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Riverside Village Hills Trees Reflections and Sunlit Fields Watercolor
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed
Size (H x W): 6.5 x ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Garden Gate Stone Walls Trees Lush Landscape and River View Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Garden Gate Stone Walls Trees Lush Landscape and River View Watercolor
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed
Size (H x W): 6.25 x...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Mid Century French Stylized Deer in a Birch Forest Mixed Media Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Stylized Deer in a Birch Forest Mixed Media Drawing
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil, Acrylic and Tracing Paper
Size: 10.75 (heigh...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Acrylic, Pencil
French Market Stall with Woman Vendor and Colourful Produce Provence Watercolour
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Market Stall with Woman Vendor and Colourful Produce Provence Watercolour
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed
Size (H x ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Mid Century French Ink Sketches of Women in Various Poses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Ink Sketches of Women in Various Poses
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Ink and Paper
Size: 9 (height) x 12.5 (width)
Stamped: Verso
C...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
North Shore - colourful, impressionist, landscape, limited edition lithograph
Located in Bloomfield, ON
When the world thinks about the famous Group of Seven, this is likely the kind of image they recall—the quiet majesty of the Canadian wilderness. This lithograph by one of its youngest members, Alfred Joseph Casson is one of many classic landscapes he painted of the north—mountains, lakes, bare trees in the foreground rendered in his favoured bright palette of autumn colours—red, yellow, orange, a touch of green, and deep blue lakes against a cloudy white sky. Casson was an avid canoeist and spent many hours camping and drawing in northern Ontario often alongside fellow members of the Group.
“I had to develop my own style. I began to dig out places of my own...” A. J. Casson
He moved on to two commercial art firms in Toronto where he worked as an assistant to the artist Franklin Carmichael, one of the founding members of the renowned Group of Seven, (A group of Canadian landscape painters that included Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris and A. Y. Jackson.). Carmichael encouraged him to sketch and paint on his own. Casson was invited to join the Group of Seven in the 1920’s with whom he painted for years. Following their demise, he formed the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Lithograph
Mediterranean Archway Alley Sunlit Stone Buildings Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mediterranean Archway Alley Sunlit Stone Buildings Watercolor
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed
Size (H x W): 8.5 x 6.25 inch...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Mid Century French Expressive Ink Illustration of a Man Standing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Expressive Ink Illustration of a Man Standing
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Ink and Paper on paper
Size: 7 (height) x 5.25 (width)
S...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
French Village House Steps Garden Path and Hillside Landscape Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Village House Steps Garden Path and Hillside Landscape Watercolor
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed
Size (H x W): 8.75 x 6.5 inches
Condition: Good overall, with light handling marks and minor natural toning consistent with age.
Provenance: From the artist’s studio sale in France; all works by this artist in our collection originate from the artist’s estate.
Description: This lyrical watercolor by Pierre Neveu captures a peaceful French village scene framed by a sunlit garden path, steps, and a cluster of traditional houses set against rolling hills. Neveu’s fluid brushwork and instinctive sense of colour bring instant warmth to the composition. Golden ochres, deep greens, and soft sky blues harmonise to create a vibrant yet intimate view of rural life in France.
At the centre of the composition, a set of gently descending steps leads toward a small white house with a sharply peaked roof—one of the characteristic architectural forms found in many historic French villages. Surrounding it, Neveu uses expressive, loosely applied washes to depict dense foliage, casting natural shadows across the walkway. The vegetation, built from layered greens, ochres, and deep blue-greys, frames the scene beautifully and adds depth to the composition.
Beyond the houses, the distant hillside glows with warm, earthy tones—suggesting late summer or early autumn light spreading across the fields. Neveu’s characteristic blend of linework and transparency gives the painting a sense of immediacy, as though capturing a moment during a quiet stroll through a village lane. His architectural training subtly informs the structure of the houses, even as the overall work maintains an impressionistic softness.
Perfect for collectors of European village landscapes...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Seated Female Nude with Striped Curtain French Modernist Watercolour Figure
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seated Female Nude with Striped Curtain French Modernist Watercolour Figure
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artist paper, unframed
Size (H x W): 9....
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Le Casino de Monte-Carlo by Edward Cucuel
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edward Alfred Cucuel
1875-1954 American
Le Casino de Monte-Carlo
Signed "Cucuel" (lower left)
Watercolor on paper
American Impressionist Edward Alfred Cucuel was celebrated for h...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Menton Mediterranean Stone House Steps Sunlit Garden Terracotta Roof Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Menton Mediterranean Stone House Steps Sunlit Garden Terracotta Roof Watercolor
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed
Size (H x W...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Marie Laurencin portrait drawing of her mother, 1903
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Marie Laurencin (French, 1885 – 1956)
Portrait of Pauline Laurencin, the artist’s mother, circa 1903
Black crayon on paper
Inscribed ‘Despair and die / not die’ (upper right)
Not sig...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Crayon
Mediterranean Village Houses Terracotta Roofs Mountain View Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mediterranean Village Houses Terracotta Roofs Mountain View Watercolor
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed
Size (H x W): 8.25 x...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Aix en Provence Town Square with Clock Tower and Market Umbrellas Watercolour
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Aix en Provence Town Square with Clock Tower and Market Umbrellas Watercolour
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed
Size (H x W):...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Paris Street Watercolour Scene with Red Umbrella Attributed to Pierre Neveu
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Paris Street Watercolour Scene with Red Umbrella Attributed to Pierre Neveu
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed
Size (H x W): 9.5 x 9.5...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
$453 Sale Price
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Mid Century French Pencil Drawings of a Woman Cooking in a Kitchen
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Pencil Drawings of a Woman Cooking in a Kitchen
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil on paper
Size: 9.75 (height) x 6.5 (width)
Stamp...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil
Castellar Village Street Scene Provence Watercolour French Post Impressionist
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Castellar Village Street Scene Provence Watercolour French Post Impressionist
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed
Size (H x W):...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
'St Mark's Square, Venice', Paris, Post-Impressionist, Charlottenborg Palace
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'V. Isbrand' for Victor Isbrand (Danish, 1897-1989) and titled, 'Venedig' (Venice).
Precocious as a child, Victor Isbrand painted professionally from a young age...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
Early 20th Century French Fauvist drawing of a nude by Andre Derain
By André Derain
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Andre Derain (French, 1880 – 1954)
A nude looking right
Pencil on paper
Signed with atelier stamp (lower right)
16.1/4 x 8.1/4 in. (41.1 x 21 cm.)
André Derain (10 June 1880 – 8 Sep...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pencil
Landscape Castle Distant Village Trees and Sunlit Fields Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Landscape Castle Distant Village Trees and Sunlit Fields Watercolor
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed
Size (H x W): 6.25 x 8....
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Crowded Market Street Clock Tower Mediterranean City Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Crowded Market Street Clock Tower Mediterranean City Watercolor
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed
Size (H x W): 8.5 x 6.25 in...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Standing Female Nude with Floral Pattern French Modernist Watercolour Figure
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Standing Female Nude with Floral Pattern French Modernist Watercolour Figure
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artist paper, unframed
Size (H x W): 9...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Evening Harbour Scene Brittany Coast Watercolour Seascape by Pierre Neveu
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Evening Harbour Scene Brittany Coast Watercolour Seascape by Pierre Neveu
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on card, unframed
Size (H x W): 6.75 x 9 inc...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
$371 Sale Price
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Mid Century French Pencil Study of a Male Nude
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Pencil Study of a Male Nude
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil and Paper
Size: 10.75 (height) x 8.25 (width)
Stamped: No
Condition...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil
Saint Tropez - Watercolor Drawing by Paul Signac - 1900 ca.
By Paul Signac
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 11x15.2 cm.
Saint-Tropez is a wonderful and important original watercolor drawing realized by Paul Signac in 1900 ca..
A marine view with sailing ships is incred...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Autumn Forest - Mid Century Abstracted Fauvist Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century fauvist watercolor landscape with lush, vivid trees and distant houses by Emily Shotwell Goeller-Wood (American, 1887-1965). Presented in a rustic giltwood frame...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
$1,320 Sale Price
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French Market Scene with Woman in Red Dress Vibrant Figurative Street Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Market Scene with Woman in Red Dress Vibrant Figurative Street Watercolor
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artist paper, unframed
Size (H x W...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
1940's Provence France Painting Green Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
Signed and dated 47'
From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
meas...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Projet de Tissus - Fauvist Flowers Watercolor & Gouache by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Botanical watercolour and gouache on paper circa 1920 by French fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. The work depicts flowers in red, blue and green. This work was executed by Dufy as a fabric design.
Dimensions:
Framed: 19.5"x19.5"
Unframed: 12"x12"
Provenance:
Private collection of works by Raoul Dufy for Bianchini Ferier
Bianchini Ferrier Collection - Christie's London - July 2001
SF Fall Show
Raoul Dufy was one of a family of nine children, including five sisters and a younger brother, Jean Dufy, also destined to become a painter. Their father was an accountant in the employ of a major company in Le Havre. The Dufy family was musically gifted: his father was an organist, as was his brother Léon, and his youngest brother Gaston was an accomplished flautist who later worked as a music critic in Paris. Raoul Dufy's studies were interrupted at the age of 14, when he had to contribute to the family income. He took a job with an importer of Brazilian coffee, but still found time from 1892 to attend evening courses in drawing and composition at the local college of fine arts under Charles Marie Lhullier, former teacher of Othon Friesz and Georges Braque. He spent his free time in museums, admiring the paintings of Eugène Boudin in Le Havre and The Justice of Trajan in Rouen. A municipal scholarship enabled him to leave for Paris in 1900, where he lodged initially with Othon Friesz. He was accepted by the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under Léon Bonnat, whose innate conservatism prompted Dufy to remark later that it was 'good to be at the Beaux-Arts providing one knew one could leave'.
And leave he did, four years later, embarking with friends and fellow students on the rounds of the major Paris galleries - Ambroise Vollard, Durand-Ruel, Eugène Blot and Berheim-Jeune. For Dufy and his contemporaries, Impressionism represented a rejection of sterile academism in favour of the open-air canvases of Manet, the light and bright colours of the Impressionists, and, beyond them, the daringly innovative work of Gauguin and Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Dufy was an out-and-out individualist, however, and was not tempted to imitate any of these artists. He produced, between 1935 and 1937, Fée Electricité (Spirit of Electricity), the emblem for the French utilities company Electricité de France (EDF).
Dufy visited the USA for the first time in 1937, as a member of the Carnegie Prize jury. In 1940, the outbreak of war (and his increasingly rheumatic condition) persuaded him to settle in Nice. When he eventually returned to Paris 10 years later, his rheumatism had become so debilitating that he immediately left for Boston to follow a course of pioneering anti-cortisone treatment. He continued working, however, spending time first in Harvard and then in New York City before moving to the drier climate of Tucson, Arizona. The cortisone treatment was by and large unsuccessful, although he did recover the use of his fingers. He returned to Paris in 1951 and decided to settle in Forcalquier, where the climate was more clement. Within a short time, however, he was wheelchair-bound. He died in Forcalquier in March 1953 and was buried in Cimiez.
Between 1895 and 1898, Raoul Dufy painted watercolours of landscapes near his native Le Havre and around Honfleur and Falaise. By the turn of the century, however, he was already painting certain subjects that were to become hallmarks of his work - flag-decked Parisian cityscapes, Normandy beaches teeming with visitors, regattas and the like, including one of his better-known early works, Landing Stage at Ste-Adresse. By 1905-1906 Friesz, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Van Dongen and Rouault were described collectively as Fauves (the wild beasts). What they had in common was a desire to innovate, but they felt constrained nonetheless to meet formally to set out the guiding principles of what promised to be a new 'movement'. Dufy quickly established that those principles were acceptable; moreover, he was most impressed by one particular painting by Henri Matisse ( Luxury, Calm and Voluptuousness) which, to Dufy, embodied both novelty and a sense of artistic freedom. Dufy promptly aligned himself with the Fauves. Together with Albert Marquet in particular, he spent his time travelling the Normandy coast and painting views similar...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Mid Century French Castle Overlooking Green Forest Village Watercolour Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Landscape
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper
Size: 7 height) x 9 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Provenance: All the pa...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
1940's Provence Painting French Pathway Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
signed
From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
measurements: 11 x...
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19th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Summer Landscape near Sundsvall, 1911
Located in Stockholm, SE
In this radiant drawing from 1911, Swedish artist Oskar Lycke captures the quiet grandeur of a summer landscape near Sundsvall in northern Sweden. The view stretches across a serene ...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Ink
Sunlit Street in Cucuron with Terracotta Roofs and Shuttered Houses Watercolour
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Sunlit Street in Cucuron with Terracotta Roofs and Shuttered Houses Watercolour
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed
Size (H x W...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Provence Lavender Fields with Stone Farmhouse and Hills French Watercolour
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Provence Lavender Fields with Stone Farmhouse and Hills French Watercolour
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed
Size (H x W): 6....
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid 20th Century French Post Impressionist Signed Painting Golden Building Ruins
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) signed watercolour on card, unframed
painting: 18 x 22 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
condition: very good a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
La Fontaine de Vaucluse Hillside Village French Landscape Watercolour Painting
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: La Fontaine de Vaucluse Hillside Village French Landscape Watercolour Painting
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artist sketchbook paper, unframed
Si...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century French Portrait Seated Woman with Cross Necklace Study
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seated Woman with Cross Necklace
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black pen on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Size: 11.5 (height) x 8 (w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Mid 20th Century French Post Impressionist Signed Painting Tall Stone Monument
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) signed watercolour on card, unframed
inscribed verso
painting: 22.5 x 19 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
condition: very good and soun...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
“Waterfall with Birches”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor of a waterfall with birch trees on illustration board by the well known American artist, William Paskell. Signed lower left. Condi...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
French Pointillist Reclining Male Nude Mid 20th Century Painting
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pointillist Reclining Male Nude
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
initialled lower right
gouache painting on paper, unframed
measurements: 5.5 x 10 inches (overall the sheet measures 8.25 x 11.9 inches)
provenance: private collection of the artists work, Provence, France
Condition report: very good, colour strong, thin paper, margins of sheet show light marks but image is clean
Beautiful Neo-Impressionist 1940's French pointillist...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
“In the Dressing Room”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautifully executed oil pastel on archival paper by the renowned American artist Louis Kronberg. Signed lower left with the artist’s trademark Star of David symbol after his signat...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
$3,800 Sale Price
20% Off
1940's Provence French House Painting Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
Signed
From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
measurements: 10.5...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Tulips , White
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this piece, I poured vibrant emotions through acrylic, oil pastel, and colored pencil, blending expressionism, impressionism, and pop art to capture the delicate yet bold spirit o...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Mid Century French Mother Walking with Her Children Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil on artists paper, double sided
Size: 9.5 height) x 7.5 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Provenance:...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
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