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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
Period: 1940s
Gottfrid Olsson, La Ciotat
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming mid-20th-century gouache by Swedish artist Gottfrid Olsson (1890-1979) depicts a colourful street in La Ciotat, France. Situated in Provence, La Ciotat is a quaint 17t...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

“Strolling along the Seine, Paris”
By Guy de Neyrac
Located in Southampton, NY
The artwork is double matted with an antique style contemporary gold leaf gallery frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 24 by 31 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector. Guy de Neyrac was born in France in 1900 and is widely known for his impressionistic watercolor and pen drawings of Paris...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink, Archival Paper

Men Working on Kibbutz Palestine, Israeli Judaica Pastel Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
From The British mandate Pre State of Israel Palestine Period. Eliahu Sigad (Eliyahu Sigard), painter, born 1901, Lithuania. Founder of Israeli Painters' Association. Educated in Eur...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel

Le Pont du Vey by Paulémile Pissarro - Charcoal drawing
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Le Pont du Vey by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972) Charcoal on paper 24.5 x 31.5 cm (9 ⁵/₈ x 12 ³/₈ inches) Signed ...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Moroccan Dancer by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Nude drawing
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Moroccan Dancer by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Watercolour, coloured crayon and pencil 26.3 x 20.2 cm ( ...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Bacchus (1943) by Ernst Georg Heussler - Gouache 32x41 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Ernst Georg Heusser, Swiss painter with 60 auctions on the country. The oldest in 1991 ans the most recent on 2021 (1903-1982) The work is on paper and ...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Gouache

Two Figures by the Sea, Work on paper by Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Two Figures by the Sea by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961) Colour crayon and pencil on paper 20.3 x 26 cm (...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Crayon, Pencil

'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

'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

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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Watercolor, Paper

"At The Longchamp Races", Gouache on paper by Spanish Artist Roberto Domingo
Located in Madrid, ES
ROBERTO DOMINGO FALLOLA Spanish, 1883 - 1956 AT THE LONGCHAMP RACES signed and located "R. Domingo, París" (upper right) gouache on paper 10-1/2 x 13-1/4 inches ( 26.5 x 33.4 cm.) f...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

"Dreaming of Paradise Island, " Watercolor and Pastel signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dreaming of Paradise Island" is an original watercolor and pastel on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. It depicts a large female figure overl...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Watercolor

'Pacific Coast', California Post-Impressionist, Modernism, San Francisco
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Michel Kady' and dated 1948. A substantial watercolor on Arches paper showing a coastal scene with figures walking beside the Pacific Ocean beneath imposing cli...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Drunk man at party, Golden Age of Hollywood
Located in Miami, FL
During the Golden Age of Hollywood no illustrator chronicled the great stars, pin-ups and good girls better than Jaro Fabry, Work is Framed i...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

'Woman Holding a Flower', California Post-Impressionist, LACMA, Louvre, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Pastel figurative showing a young woman in a cobalt dress seated in an olive green chair and holding a flower, beside a vase of flowers on a side-table. ...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Paper, Oil Pastel

Nude Study no. 50, Gouache on Paper, 1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1913 - 2010) Title: Nude Study no. 47 Year: 1949 Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed and dated l.l. Size: 24 x 19 inches
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

"Nude Study 9, " Gouache on Paper, 1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1913 - 2010) Title: Nude Study no. 9 Year: 1949 Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed and dated Size: 19 in. x 24 in. (48.26 cm x 60.96 cm)
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache

"Nude Study no. 30, " Gouache on Paper, 1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1913 - 2010) Title: Nude 30 Year: 1949 Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed u.r. Size: 19 in. x 24 in. (48.26 cm x 60.96 cm)
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

"Nude Study no. 47", Gouache on Paper, 1949
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1913 - 2010) Title: Nude Study no. 47 Year: 1949 Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed and dated l.l. Size: 24 x 19 inches
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1940s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

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