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Art Subject: Flower
Flowers - Drawing by Albert Fernand-Renault - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a drawing realized in 1950s by Albert Fernand-Renault.
Watercolour and ink on paper. Hand-signed.
Good condition with diffused foxing and a cutting at the top left margi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Cherry Blossoms 2, black-and-white tree drawing, graphite pencil on paper
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite graphite drawing by Mary Reilly captures the delicate beauty of cherry blossoms with striking realism and atmospheric depth. Known for her masterful pencil work, Reill...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Vase of Spring Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Vase of Spring Flowers (P2.48), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Image Size: 21 x 13.75 inches, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88...
Category
1960s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Birfday Cake" 2023 oil on panel 25.5 x 30.25 in.
Located in New York, NY
Tess Michalik
Birfday Cake, 2023
oil on panel
25.5 x 30.25 in.
(mic039AP)
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Panel
Roses and Irises in Vase, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Roses and Irises in Vase (P1.22), Year: 1957, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38...
Category
1950s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Flowering Plant, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowering Plant (P1.33), Year: 1957, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 16.75 in. (55.88 x 42.55 cm), Description: Set against a...
Category
1950s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Red Flowers in Green Vase, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Red Flowers in Green Vase (P1.6), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22.5 x 15 in. (57.15 x 38.1 cm), Description: ...
Category
1960s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Garden Flowers in Bloom Landscape
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Cheerful landscape of a garden full of colorful flowers by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed "Warner" lower right. Unframed. Image size, 22.5"L x 15"H.
Doris Ann Warn...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$319 Sale Price
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Red Flowers in Vase, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Red Flowers in Vase (P1.9), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22.5 x 15 in. (57.15 x 38.1 cm), Description: Washed...
Category
1960s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Red Flowers in Vase, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Red Flowers in Vase (P1.21), Year: 1956, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Reflecting the sunlight, the apple green vase...
Category
1950s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Vase of Pink Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Vase of Pink Flowers (P3.22), Year: 1959, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 17.5 x 13.5 in. (44.45 x 34.29 cm), Description: A uniqu...
Category
1950s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Vase of Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Vase of Flowers (P3.20), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 19.5 x 13 in. (49.53 x 33.02 cm), Description: Illuminated by...
Category
1960s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid-Century Magnolia Tree Blossoms Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century floral watercolor still-life of magnolia blossoms on budding branches by Ann Hobbs (American, 20th Century). Signed "Ann Hobbs" lower right. Titled "Tulip Tree...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Primroses and Fruit Still Life
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant watercolor still life of primroses and fruit by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed "Les Anderson" bottom left. Unframed. Image size: 15"H x 23"W
Le...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Dahlias" Chiura Obata, Japanese American, Red and Blue Delicate Floral Work
By Chiura Obata
Located in New York, NY
Chiura Obata
Dahlias, 1940
Signed, dated and stamped lower right
Watercolor on paper
15 x 9 5/8 inches
Born in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, Chiura Obata was adopted by his uncle, an artist. As a child he was trained in ink painting, and at 14 he was apprenticed to the painter Murata Tanryo in Tokyo. He also studied with Kogyo Terasaki and Goho Hasimoto.
In 1903, Obata moved to San Francisco and began working as an illustrator for The New World and The Japanese American, two of the city's Japanese newspapers. He also did work as a commercial designer. Obata helped establish the East West Art Society in San Francisco in 1921, which sought to promote cross-cultural understanding through art. This goal was reflected in his embrace of the Nihonga style, which fused traditional Japanese sumi-e ink painting with the conventions of western naturalism.
He spent much of the 1920s painting landscapes throughout California, and among his favorite subjects were mountain landscapes. In 1927, he visited Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, creating over a hundred paintings and sketches of the high country. Obata stayed in the USA until the death of his father in 1928.
Between 1928 and 1932, he worked in Tokyo as a painter and transformed his California landscape watercolors...
Category
1940s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Nola Armstrong - 20th Century Pastel, A Swirl of Dahlias
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed. Presented in a white-painted wooden frame. Title inscribed on label verso. On paper.
Category
20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
$313 Sale Price
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Iris No. 196, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Original watercolor painting on 140 lb cold pressed paper :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Recollection
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & watercolour on marouflaged paper with wooden panel
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Watercolor, Wood Panel
Flowers - Original Drawing by Lucien Coutaud - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is an Original drawing in China Ink realized by Lucien Coutaud in Mid-20th Century.
Stamp Signed.
Good conditions.
The delicate and dynamic strokes created in a harmonious...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Delicacy, Jo Haran, Original Painting, Affordable Art, Floral Artwork
By Jo Haran
Located in Deddington, GB
Delicacy by Jo Haran [2020]
original
Watercolour, gouache and gesso
Image size: H:36.5 cm x W:49 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:38 cm x W:50.7 cm x D:0...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Still-life Drawings and Water...
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Cherry Blossoms 4, A Gray, Black and White Drawing of Cherry Blossoms on Branch
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
Mary Reilly's "Cherry Blossoms 4" (2025) is a 24 x 18-inch graphite pencil drawing that captures the delicate beauty of cherry blossoms. Reilly's meticulous technique involves layeri...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Water Hyacinth - Early 20th Century Botanical watercolour of by Arthur Wardle
Located in London, GB
ARTHUR WARDLE
(1864-1949)
Study of a Water Hyacinth
Signed
Watercolour and bodycolour on linen, framed
33.5 by 23 cm., 13 ½ by 9 in.
(frame size 52.5 by 43 cm., 21 ¾ by 17 in.)
A...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Allium Pop, Cyanotype, Flowers, Floral, Blue, Green, Botanical, Work on Paper
Located in Riverdale, NY
Allium Pop is a Cyanotype by Cynthia MacCollum. It is 30x22 on archival paper. It is currently unframed. It is a beautiful botanical artwork, an Allium Flower, filled with a range...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Cyclamen - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of cyclamen, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style blending into line drawing by California artist Deborah E...
Category
1980s American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Water lily_02, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
By Helal Uddin
Located in Yardley, PA
This is my studio painting :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Iris - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of a purple iris, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b.194...
Category
1980s American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Talking To Whoever Is Listening - Figurative Surrealist Watercolor Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' art is gro...
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Peonies. Summer magic 1985. Paper, watercolor, 61.5x73 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Dzidra Bauma (1930)
Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers and still life. She is one of the most productive wate...
Category
1980s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Orange Poppies in a Vase, Modernist Still Life in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Orange Poppies in a Vase, Modernist Still Life in Watercolor on Paper
A vibrant watercolor still life with a vase filled with orange poppies on a carnation pink background with abstract leaves of teal blue and purple, by California artist, Lucile Marie Johnston (1907-1994, American).
Signature, "L. Johnston '74" at the bottom left and "Lucile Johnston" on the back. Presented in a new cream mat with foam core backing.
Mat size: 24"H x 20"W
Paper size: 16"H x 12"W
Born in Santa Rosa, California on May 26, 1907, Lucile Johnston settled in Glendale 1930-1939, later moving to Carmel and then Pacific Grove in Monterey County, California where she remained. she managed Marsh's Oriental Antiques Shop...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Spring flowers, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Spring flowers :: Painting :: Fine Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Locati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Pa...
Materials
Watercolor
Phyllis I. Hibbert (b.1903) - Early 20th Century Watercolour, Mixed Flowers
Located in Corsham, GB
This large study of a display of flowers incorporates lilies, roses, foxgloves, hyacinths and honeysuckle among other pretty flowers. The artist's delicate touch has created a harmon...
Category
20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
late 20th century still life oil painting with flowers and fruit signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Grey Pitcher" is a pastel still life by American artist Warren Brandt created in 1986. Warren Brandt is known for his still-life paintings being especial...
Category
1980s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Peruvian Lily - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant watercolor, pen and ink floral study of Peruvian lilies, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b.194...
Category
1980s American Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Flower Pot - Watercolor by Fiorenzo Tomea - 1950s
By Fiorenzo Tomea
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers Pot is an original contemporary artwork realized by Fiorenzo Tomea (1910-1960) in the mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored watercolor.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Silver Teapot and Petunias 16x20", watercolor floral still life, framed
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Silver Teapot and Petunias by Lu Haskew
Watercolor 16x20" image size
24x28" framed as pictured, gold leaf, behind glass with archival matte
Still life of flowers in pinks and whites
...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$480 Sale Price
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Dandelion Pair, Fine Graphite Botanical Artwork on Black Paper
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
These elegant graphite dandelion drawings belie the rigor of their process. Once the surface of the paper is prepared, Glass uses a stylus to carefully delineate the lacy quality of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Spring. 2006. acrylic on canvas, 76x65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The artist captured the refreshing beauty of spring flowers after cold grey winter. By applying big and bright strokes, she makes a viewer feel the light radiating from the canvas, a...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,656 Sale Price
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"SECRET GARDEN 2", watercolor, flowers, foliage, sky, sparkling, patterns, stars
Located in Toronto, Ontario
SECRET GARDEN 2 is a new watercolor on Fabriano paper by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 22x30". It is custom framed with anti-UV and anti-glare glas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Sumi-e ink painting
Located in Torino, IT
ROBERTO NECCO, Turin 1969
SUMI- and , 2024
Painting in sumi-e ink and black suibokuga on handmade virgin Xuan paper
(composed of mulberry fiber, wood and rice) artist's seal imprint...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Sumi Ink
Gay - Mid 20th Century Watercolour, Still Life of Roses in Jug
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour painting, depicting a still life of roses in a jug. Signed to the lower left-hand corner. Well-presented in a wash line card mount and in a speckled frame with...
Category
20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$304 Sale Price
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Cherry Blossoms 1, Mary Reilly, Black & White Tree Graphite Drawing
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
"Since my early childhood, nature has had a profound affect on me in ways that I cherish. The state of mind that is instilled within me when walking through the woods, or on a seclud...
Category
2010s Academic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Roses Anyone?, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A rose can say I love you and want you to be mine, A rose can say I thank you for being so very kind, A rose can say congratulations, whatever the occasion may be, A rose can say ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolours Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers"
by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century)
set of 2.
Watercolour on paper, unframed.
Top painting : 5.25 x 8.25 inches, signed bottom right.
Bottom paint...
Category
Early 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
"APPLE BLOSSOM AND YEW", watercolor, flowers, tree, berries fruit, flora pattern
Located in Toronto, Ontario
APPLE BLOSSOM AND YEW is a new watercolor on Arches paper by Fleur Thesmar. This is part of a series by the artist examining the inherent geometry and co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
John Hopwood (1942-2015) - 1979 Pastel, Summer Flowers On Blue Check
By John Hopwood
Located in Corsham, GB
A beautifully vibrant pastel still life showing a jug of vibrant summer flowers on a blue check tablecloth. The artist has signed and dated to the lower right corner and the painting...
Category
Mid-20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
$344 Sale Price
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Ann Bridges, Late Afternoon Sunshine (poppies), Floral Art, Affordable Art
By Ann Bridges
Located in Deddington, GB
Ann Bridges
Late Afternoon Sunshine (poppies)
Contemporary Semi-Abstract Painting
Oil based ink on board
Image size: 59 x 75 cm
Sheet size: 75 x 91 cm
Framed size: 83 x 100 cm
Sold F...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Ink, Board
Flowers in a vase
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers in a vase
paper/pastel, 70x54 cm
Category
1990s Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Flowers still life study drawing by Gerald Mac Spink
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you ...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Dione Page (1936-2021) - 1992 Gouache, Under The Crescent Moon
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming still life composition depicting pink carnations in blue and white china vases and a bowl of pears. The arrangement is displayed under a dark night sky and a sweeping land...
Category
20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Georgian Contemporary Art by Eter Merkviladze - Acrobats’ Aesthetic
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache on a watercolor paper
Eter Merkviladze is a Georgian female artist born in 1999 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She was graduated from Robert Schuman European Schoo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Gouache
Fine Antique British Botannical Watercolour Painting, circa 1900's
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, England and had been part of an album of works assembled by the artist during the early 1900's.
During the Victorian and Edwardian era in Britain, it was very fashionable for ladies of aristocratic and wealthy backgrounds to draw and paint still lifes of flowers and plants that they had picked or seen in gardens. Many were highly accomplished and extremely talented artists, who sadly were not encouraged to exhibit due to society frowning upon such activities.
Artist/ School: Caroline Worsley...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Early Spring, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A long array of cherry blossoms marching in the daylight are shimmering in white, pink and fuchsia. And as they pass through where I stand, they stop: To caress my open pal...
Category
2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Woodland Stems On Dark, Jo Haran, Contemporary Floral Art, Original Artwork
By Jo Haran
Located in Deddington, GB
Woodland Stems on Dark by Jo Haran [2021]
original
Gouache, watercolour ink and gesso.
Image size: H:64 cm x W:47.3 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:67 cm x W:50.7 cm x D:0.01cm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Still-life Drawings and Water...
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
The Glass Vase, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Not only the cultivated ones in parks and gardens, unfolding immaculate petals on a terrace or trellis, and not just the wild ones, kissed by elegant birds in jungle foliage, or ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Magnolia Study No. 7, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Original watercolor painting on 140 lb Arches cold press paper :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: R...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Helena A. Wright - Early 20thC Watercolour, Chrysanthemums In Blue And White Urn
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate and finely executed floral still life of red and white chrysanthemums in a blue and white china urn in front of a deep blue curta...
Category
20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier - Bleeding flowers -
Located in Berlin, DE
Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Hänsch (1875-1945), Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier, 1918. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 15 x 24.5 cm (image), 27 x 37 cm (sheet size / frame), monogrammed and dated "19JH18" at lower left.
- Paper slightly darkened
About the artwork
Despite the relatively small format, the watercolor with an internal frame depicts a panoramic view of a flat landscape stretching to the horizon. As far as the eye can see, the poppies bloom in flaming red. The flowers are not rendered individually, however, creating an almost cohesive red surface. The bright red is interspersed with vegetal green. A complementary contrast that creates an intense color effect. In this color contrast, a white area breaks through from the middle ground, widening towards the foreground and surrounding a brown hole. Next to it, in blue, is the actual protagonist of the painting, the first thing that catches the eye: a dead soldier. Next to him is his helmet, revealing the empty interior. The brown, hollow shape corresponds to the hole in the ground. A shell funnel is surrounded by bright ash, which, like the inverted helmet, becomes a sign of death. The soldier's arms point to the funnel, while the empty helmet paraphrases the calotte of the skull and, like the funnel, thematizes the empty darkness of death.
The soldier's body, however, is intact and not - as in Otto Dix's triptych "The War" - a dismembered corpse. Instead, Johannes Hänsch activates the landscape, especially the color, to illustrate a blooming landscape of death that extends from the shell funnel in the foreground to the rising column of smoke on the horizon. If the soldier's body is intact, the tangle of barbed wire emblematically placed over the empty helmet also appears tattered. On the right side of the picture, the barbed wire even seems to stretch its arms to the sky in horror. Against the background of this allegory, the content of the bright red also becomes clear: the landscape is drenched in blood, literally a sea of blood, and the single unknown soldier stands pars pro toto for all those who died on the battlefield. Dying in war is not dying in community, but in solitude. In order to emphasize the isolation in death, Johannes Hänsch has set the blue of the soldier in the axis given by his body in the middle ground of the picture into the red sea.
A master of landscape painting, Hänsch succeeds in creating a natural-looking landscape allegory that illustrates the horror and death of war, without depicting the brutality of war itself. This singular 'war memorial' of the unknown soldier is the opposite of heroization and yet the dignity of the deceased soldier is preserved through the integrity of his body.
About the artist
As the son of the sculptor Adolf Haensch, the young Johannes received his first artistic training in his father's Berlin studio. However, he eventually decided to become a painter, and in 1897 he entered the Berlin Academy of Arts. He initially studied under Paul Vorgang and Eugen Bracht, and was particularly influenced by Bracht's increasingly colourful landscape painting. In 1901 he moved to the class of Friedrich Kallmorgen, with whom he spent several weeks on excursions into nature. In 1905 he became a master pupil of Albert Hertel, who taught him watercolour painting.
From 1903 to 1933 he exhibited annually at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, the exhibitions of the Berlin Artists' Association and the Munich Glaspalast. In 1905 he was awarded the Carl Blechen...
Category
1910s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$1,328 Sale Price
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Composition with Tumbling Vases - Screen I
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Composition with Tumbling Vases - Screen I', by Gary Bukovnik. Watercolor on mulberry, 28 1/2 x 68 inches, 2019. Hand painted folding screen created with watercolor on mulberry pape...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Field of Flowers 2, photorealist graphite floral drawing, 2016
By Mary Reilly
Located in New York, NY
Reilly uses a toning technique to endow her graphite works with a smooth, seamless quality. Rather than distinct outlines, her flower petals glide gracefully into the surrounding spa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pencil, Graphite
$1,440 Sale Price
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Ellen Williams, Anemone II, Original drawing, Floral Art, Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Ellen Williams
Anemone II
Original drawing
Pencil on 150gsm Paper
Sold Unframed
(Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Still-life Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
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