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
1940's Provence French Bright Summer 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
measu...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Woman Standing', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
A bravura pencil study of a young woman in an overcoat, shown stand...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
'Nude in Coral and Jade' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
A bright, Post Impressionist figural gouache of a woman shown sta...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Gouache, Cardboard, Paper
Figures in Motion with Roses - Pointillist Figurative Abstract
By Ben Black
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed india ink abstract pointillist drawing of figures and roses with watercolor and gouache by Ben Black (American, 1922-2003), c.1990's. Signed "Ben Black" lower right. ...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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India Ink, Gouache, Paper, Watercolor
French Neo-Impressionist Pointillist Abstract Mid 20th Century Painting
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pointillist Abstract Design
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
initialled lower right
gouache painting on paper, unframed
measurements: 8.75 x 6 inches (overall the sheet measures 11...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Gouache
'Woman Seated', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
An atmospheric and psychologically penetrating figural drawing, sho...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
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
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Provence Summer Landscape Post-Impressionist Signed 1947 Painting
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provence Summer Landscape, Village Tree Against Summer Sun
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
Initialled lower right, dated 47 (1947)
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
measurem...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
1940's Provence Painting Cloudy French Fields - 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...
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19th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1940's Provence France Painting Vineyard Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
signed
inscribed verso
From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
me...
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19th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1940's Provence Painting Vibrant Tree Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
inscribed verso
From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
measureme...
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19th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Head of a Young Girl - Kiki de Montparnasse
Located in Miami, FL
Léonard Tsugouharu FoujitaFujita Tsuguharu?, November 27, 1886 – January 29, 1968) was a Japanese–French painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan who applied Japanese ink techniq...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
City View - Watercolor by French Master - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
City View is an original Watercolour on paper realized by an artist of the XX century. The state of preservation of the artwork is very good hand-signed on the bottom left. the sign ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
'Woman Seated', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) circa 1955 and accompanied by certificate of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los An...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Wax Crayon, Watercolor
1940's Provence Cottage Summer Garden Painting - Post Impressionist artist
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
inscribed verso
From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
measureme...
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19th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Village - Watercolor by French Master - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Village is an original painting in watercolor by an anonymous French artist of the XX century. The state of preservation is good and aged with signs of time on it, with two small hol...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
'Untitled No. 1', Royal Society of Artists, Edinburgh Academy, Palo Alto
By Thomas Guise
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'T.G.M. Guise' for Thomas Gladstone Middleton Guise (Scottish, 1916-1984) and dated 1967.
Previously with: Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California.
Thomas Guise studied art at Edinburgh College of Art under Thomson Adam Bruce, RSA (1947-1949) before serving with the Royal Artillery between 1939 and 1946. After returning to Scotland, Guise began working professionally as an artist and commenced his fruitful association with the Featherhal Press. Over the course of his career, he was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including the Award for Life Drawing (1947). Guise exhibited internationally with success and was a member of the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolor among others.
Accompanied by an artist catalogue, 'T.G.M. Guise: Propinquity', Featherhall Press Limited, Edinburgh 1996.
Selected Group Shows 1948 - 1984:
RBA, RSA, RI, RSW, RGI, SSA, NEAC.
Arun Art Centre
The Bath Festival Exhibition
Selected Solo Shows:
1966 - Randolph Gallery, Edinburgh Festival
1967 - Encina Gallery Stanford University, California, United States
1968 - Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California, United States
1968 - Randolph Gallery Edinburgh Festival
1970 - Clarkson Gallery, Victoria Street...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen, Gouache
“End of the Day”
Located in Southampton, NY
Wonderful original watercolor of a bucolic scene with a farm with geese and a man on his horse driven wagon as the sun sets in the English countryside. Signed lower left by the British artist, Henry Charles Fox...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Landscape - Original Watercolor on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in watercolor on paper realized by an anonymous artist of the early 20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower right, the signature is illegible.
The ...
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Early 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
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
'Oregon Coast', Art Institute of Chicago, AIC, Works Project Association, WPA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'A. Vincent' for Andrew McDuffie Vincent (American, 1898-1993); inscribed verso with title, 'Oregon Coast' and dated 1945.
A vibrant w...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
'Still Life with Pot-Belly Stove', California, Paris, Louvre, SFAA, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu, (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended t...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
Summertime - Martha's Vineyard - Sunset Golden Sky and Red Lighthouse
Located in Miami, FL
Summertime in Martha's Vineyard is drenched in saturated yellow and reds. People in the foreground look out to the sea. Two people on horseback are masterfully rendered in a loose b...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Pencil
Manhattan Skyline
By Leon Dolice
Located in Sheffield, MA
Leon Dolice
American, 1892-1960
Manhattan Skyline
Pastel on paper
19 by 12 in. W/frame 25 by 18 in.
Signed lower right
The romantic backdrop of Vi...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Boats - Watercolor by French Master - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Boats is an original painting in watercolor by an anonymous French artist of the XX century. The state of preservation is good and aged with signs of time on it, with two small holes...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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
Materials
Watercolor
'Old Carmel Cottage', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
A mid-twentieth century watercolor and graphite study of an early c...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Girl with Flowers, Watercolor Painting by Charles Levier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Levier, French (1920 - 2003)
Title: Girl with Flowers
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed
Image Size: 23 x 33.5 inches
Size: 26 in. x 36 in. (66.04 c...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Dusty Rose Convertible' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1950 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended th...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Gouache, Paper
Madame Petitjean Assise, 19 mai 1901 by Hippolyte Petitjean
By Hippolyte Petitjean
Located in London, GB
Madame Petitjean Assise, 19 mai 1901 by Hippolyte Petitjean (1854-1929)
Sanguine on paper
52.8 x 38.6 cm (20 ³/₄ x 15 ¹/₄ inches)
Studio stamp and dated lower left, 19 mai 1901
Executed in 1901
Provenance
JPL Fine Arts, London
Exhibition
Monte Carlo, Artis Monte-Carlo, Maitres modernes et contemporaines, 31 July - 15 September, 1989
Artist biography
Born at Mâcon in France, artist Hippolyte Petitjean studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under the tutelage of academic artists Alexandre Cabanel and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.
In 1884 Petitjean met and become close friends with the older Neo-Impressionist artist Georges Seurat – whose influence changed the course of Petitjean’s artistic career. Joining with the Neo-Impressionists, Petitjean was influenced by the Symbolists and employed Seurat’s Pointillist technique. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris and at Le Brac de Bouteville. Alongside his work as an art teacher, Petitjean also exhibited to wide critical acclaim in Brussels (1893,1898), Berlin (1898), Weimar (1903) and Wiesbaden (1921). Never prolific or indeed financially stable, Petitjean’s oeuvre of around three hundred and fifty painting...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper
'Seated Nude' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) circa 1955 and stamped, verso, with Victor di Gesu estate stamp.
A haunting and atmospheric figural watercolor showing a young woman ...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Paper, Gouache, Graphite
'Standing Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 and accompanied by certification of authenticity and estate seal for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955.
A dramatic, post-impressionist ...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
1940's Provence French Autumn Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provence 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
measu...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A View of Paris
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Gouache of Paris, 'L’ile St Louis' by Serge Mendjisky, signed and dated lower right and inscribed with title on reverse. The piece including frame measure...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Gouache
“Stone Wall”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a beautifully executed watercolor of a bucolic New England series of village houses by the American artist, Gary Shepard. ...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Archival Paper
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) circa 1955 and stamped, verso, with Victor di Gesu estate stamp.
An elegant figural drawing showing a woman seated, resting her head on her arms...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite, Paper
Bathers by a River
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
French School; unsigned and painted circa 1950.
A mid-twentieth century, Post Impressionist school pastel showing a group of bathers on a river bank.
An elegant and accomplished wo...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pastel
Bezalel School Jerusalem Israeli Judaica Etching
Located in Surfside, FL
YITSKHOK LIKHTENSHTEYN (ISAAC LICHTENSTEIN) (1888-1981) (Icchok, Izrael) was born in Lodz, Poland. Initially he was studying at Yehuda Pen school in Witebsk. In the same school where young Marc Chagall started to paint his shtetl Jews, Jewish neighbourhoods and personages. As many young Jewish children who decided painting to be their passion Isaac moved to Paris where he was one of the co-founders of Machmadim - a group of Jewish artists (mostly émigré from Eastern Europe) who dedicated their art to traditional Jewish themes. Later Isaac Lichtenstein studied with Boris Schatz and painted at Bezalel, Jerusalem. Until age seven he was raised in Warsaw; later, when his father received a position with Poznański, he lived with his parents in Lodz. There he studied in a state public school. He demonstrated talent for painting while still quite young, and in 1906 he began to attend the Cracow art academy, before going on to study painting in Rome, Florence, and Munich. In 1908 he entered the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. In 1910 he returned to Cracow, lived for a short time in Munich, 1911 in Paris, 1912-1913 again in the land of Israel, and in 1914 he returned to Paris, that very year setting off for the United States. He lived in New York during WWI, where he became part of Jewish literary and artistic circles, and contributed as a graphic artist to a variety of Jewish publications, among them: M. Basin’s Antologye (Anthology), the collection Velt ayn, velt oys (World in, world out), and designed frontispieces, little vignettes, and letters for Yiddish-language books. In 1916 he also began to write and published articles on the plastic arts in: Tsukunft (Future) in New York; the collection Shriften (Writings), vol. 6; Onheyb (Beginning), edited by Z. Vaynper; Morgn-zhurnal (Morning journal); Der amerikaner (The American); Forverts (Forward); and Di tsayt (The times). He did journalistic work also for M. F. Seidman’s correspondence bureau in New York. In 1918 he departed with the Jewish Legion for Israel. In 1920 he came to London, was demobilized there, and was a contributor to the journal Renesans (Renaissance), edited by Leo Kenig, and to the daily newspaper Di tsayt, edited by Morris Meyer. In 1924 he returned to Poland, exhibited his drawings in Warsaw, Lodz, Vilna, and other cities, gave speeches on art (general and Jewish), and published work in: Haynt (Today), Moment (Moment), Folkstsaytung (People’s newspaper), and Literarishe bleter (Literary leaves)—in Warsaw; Unzer lebn (Our life) in Grodno; Voliner lebn (Volhynia life); Nayer folksblat (New people’s newspaper) in Lodz; and elsewhere. He also published impressions from his travels and memoirs of the Jewish Legion in Haynt. In 1927 he founded with the Parisian publisher Triangle a series entitled “Yidn-kinstler, monografyes” (Jewish artists, monographs), for which he wrote: Mark shagal...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Etching
'Study of a Woman', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) circa 1955 and stamped, verso, with Victor di Gesu estate stamp.
A bold, expressionist drawing showing a young woman seated in a chai...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
'Pot-Bellied Stove', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu, (American, 1914-1988). Stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Lo...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite, Paper, Gouache
'Old Carmel', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) circa 1955 and stamped, verso, with estate stamp and certification of authenticity.
A delicate, grisaille watercolor view of a park a...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite, Paper, Watercolor
Paris : Moulin Rouge of Montmartre - Original watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002)
Paris : Moulin Rouge of Montmartre
Original watercolor and tempera
Bearing the artist stamp on the back
On drawing paper 42 x 53 cm (c. 17 x 21 inch)
E...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Tempera, Watercolor
Provence Rowboats Landscape Post-Impressionist Signed 1947 Painting
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provence Landscape, Rowing Boats Pulled Up Amid Trees
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
Initialled lower right, dated 47 (1947)
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
measurements:...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
“Smoke House, Duck Cove”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a well executed watercolor and gouache painting on archival paper of a smoke house in Duck Cove, Maine. A flock of white geese are seen in the foreground. Signed lower left. Circa 1955. In excellent original condition. The artwork is housed in a thin custom gold leaf frame and is double mated. Condition of frame is also excellent. Overall framed measurements are 16 by 18.25 inches.
James Milton Sessions (born September 20, 1882 in Rome, NY) received his initial exposure to art from his mother, who was an accomplished artist. He trained at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1903–1906 and initially supported himself as a wheelsman aboard Great Lakes ships from 1906–1914, later serving in the Illinois Naval Reserve during World War I. He also worked as a commercial illustrator.
He was a master watercolorist of marine, sporting, and military World War II scenes. He developed a love of the sea and is probably best known as a painter of marine subjects. Sessions painted images of numerous locations, from the Bahamas to New England's busy fishing harbors, north to the raw fishing grounds of Nova Scotia, and ultimately to the Navajo reservations in New Mexico.
Not only do his works document important World War II historical events, they visually portray and convey the spirit of the American fighting forces in both the Pacific and European campaigns, commencing with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, followed by D-Day Europe through to the final phases of the Pacific war, such as Jimmy Doolittle's daylight bombing raids of the Japanese mainland to the unconditional surrender of the Japanese military. The Chicago Tribune newspaper utilized his talents and Sessions is considered to be the greatest "brush reporter" of World War II. His works can be found in Presidential collections, numerous important corporate collections and military establishments throughout the country.
Sessions created numerous wartime advertisements. Examples are a 1943 Willys Jeep ad showing the Coast Guard at Guadalcanal, and a Borg-Warner ad in 1945 showing the mass production of radiators and clutches for motorized warfare manufactured in Detroit. His work is highly collectible in the field of Militaria/WWII/1939-1945.
In 1962 the New York Graphic Society commissioned him to make four paintings, reproductions of which were distributed as part of the Society's Works of Masters Group. Many of his other paintings have been reproduced over the years, issued as posters and as high quality reprints on watercolor paper.
Sessions was married in Chicago, Illinois in 1946 to Chrysanthy G. Deamanthopulos. Although very prolific in the style of John Whorf and Ogden Pleissner...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Archival Paper, Gouache
"Boat on the lake" Pastel cm. 29 x 21 1950
By Gleb Savinov
Located in Torino, IT
Boat, lake, russia, impressionism, 1950,blue,
GLEB SAVINOV (Charkev, 1915 – St. Petersburg, 2000)
Works by Gleb Savinov can be found in various private collections in Europe, Japa...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel
'Standing Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988), dated 1954 and inscribed with roman numeral, '4'; additionally stamped verso with certification of authenticit...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite, Paper
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...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1940's Provence Painting Joyful Green Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
signed and dated 46'
From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
meas...
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19th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Reclining Nude' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Di Gesu Estate Stamp verso for Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955.
An elegant, freehand sketch of a young woman with a bob cut, shown naked and reclining on...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
1940's Provence Painting French Bright 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: 8 x ...
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19th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Portrait of Woman - Pastel Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Woman is an original drawing in colored pastel by an Anonymous Artist of the XX century.
A pastel drawing on paper skilfully depicted a portrait of a woman, expression o...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel
Venice - Early 20th Century Impressionist Watercolor by Hubert Andrew Freeth
By Hubert Andrew Freeth
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Freeth was born in Birmingham and attended the Birmingham College of Art and, between 1936 and 1939, studied at the British School in Rome. From 1936 onwards, Freeth exhibited regula...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
'Cubist Kitchen Interior', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
A Cubist derived still-life in an interior showing fruit in a bowl ...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Graphite
Manhattan Skyline
By Leon Dolice
Located in Sheffield, MA
Leon Dolice
American, 1892-1960
Manhattan Skyline
Pastel on paper
19 by 12 in. W/frame 25 by 18 in.
Signed lower right
The romantic backdrop of Vi...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
“Nova Scotia Landscape”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a well executed watercolor and gouache painting by the American artist, James Milton Sessions. Signed lower right. Circa 1955. The landscape is of a Novia Scotia pastoral landscape. Here you see horses grazing and two men fishing nearby. The watercolor is in excellent original condition and is beautifully double matted and framed in a thin gold leaf gallery frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurement 16 by 18.25 inches.
James Milton Sessions (born September 20, 1882 in Rome, NY) received his initial exposure to art from his mother, who was an accomplished artist. He trained at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1903–1906 and initially supported himself as a wheelsman aboard Great Lakes ships from 1906–1914, later serving in the Illinois Naval Reserve during World War I. He also worked as a commercial illustrator.
He was a master watercolorist of marine, sporting, and military World War II scenes. He developed a love of the sea and is probably best known as a painter of marine subjects. Sessions painted images of numerous locations, from the Bahamas to New England's busy fishing harbors, north to the raw fishing grounds of Nova Scotia, and ultimately to the Navajo reservations in New Mexico.
Not only do his works document important World War II historical events, they visually portray and convey the spirit of the American fighting forces in both the Pacific and European campaigns, commencing with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, followed by D-Day Europe through to the final phases of the Pacific war, such as Jimmy Doolittle's daylight bombing raids of the Japanese mainland to the unconditional surrender of the Japanese military. The Chicago Tribune newspaper utilized his talents and Sessions is considered to be the greatest "brush reporter" of World War II. His works can be found in Presidential collections, numerous important corporate collections and military establishments throughout the country.
Sessions created numerous wartime advertisements. Examples are a 1943 Willys Jeep ad showing the Coast Guard at Guadalcanal, and a Borg-Warner ad in 1945 showing the mass production of radiators and clutches for motorized warfare manufactured in Detroit. His work is highly collectible in the field of Militaria/WWII/1939-1945.
In 1962 the New York Graphic Society commissioned him to make four paintings, reproductions of which were distributed as part of the Society's Works of Masters Group. Many of his other paintings have been reproduced over the years, issued as posters and as high quality reprints on watercolor paper.
Sessions was married in Chicago, Illinois in 1946 to Chrysanthy G. Deamanthopulos. Although very prolific in the style of John Whorf and Ogden Pleissner...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Gouache
1940's Provence French Painting River Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
signed and dated 45'
From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
meas...
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19th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Reclining Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended th...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Graphite
Margie Dickson "Pueblo 2" Original Pastel on Paper 20th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Margie Dickson "Pueblo 2" Original Pastel on Paper 20th Century
Dimensions 18.5" wide x 14.5" high
The frame measures 29.25" wide x 25.25" high
Signed and titled lower left
Good ...
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Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Post-impressionist drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Post-Impressionist drawings and watercolor paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add drawings and watercolor paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, blue, green, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Victor Di Gesu, Louis Bellon, Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro, and Hughes Claude Pissarro. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Watercolor and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Post-Impressionist drawings and watercolor paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available. Prices for drawings and watercolor paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $77 and tops out at $1,450,000, while the average work sells for $1,650.
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