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Art Subject: Graphics
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor on Velin paper 300 g Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Still life. Paper, watercolor, 72.5x89 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life. Paper, watercolor, 72.5x89 cm Malda Muižule was born in 1937 in the family of a blacksmith. Graduated from Liepāja Applied Arts High School (1957). She continued her stu...
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1970s Post-Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Flowers for Mary #5
Located in Dallas, TX
Gail Norfleet earned her BFA at The University of Texas at Austin, and her MFA at Southern Methodist University. She has had solo exhibitions at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary and ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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India Ink, Acrylic, Illustration Board

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...
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2010s Naturalistic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Sumi Ink

Garden Flowers in Bloom Landscape
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...
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1970s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

The imperceptible beating of the heart Hélène Duclos Contemporary art drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Gouache and color pencil on paper Unique work Hand-signed by the artist The red necklace of the naked Queens “My artistic research has expanded over the years, crossing paths alre...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache, Color Pencil

Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P5.57), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 20 x 15 in. (50.8 x 38.1 cm), Description: Bursting with color and ba...
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1960s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Garden's Flowers - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by Jan Pieter Verdussen - 1750s
Located in Roma, IT
Garden's Flowers is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen. In good condition. Not signed. Passepartout included ( 48.8 x 33.8 cm). The artwork represents a Garden's...
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Mid-18th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, 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)
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil, Panel

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...
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1980s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Spring Blooms II
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This piece is my interpretation of spring flowers, done in a loose watercolor style. This piece is on heavyweight paper and will need a frame for display.

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Waterc...

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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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Pa...

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Watercolor

Flowers - Original Pastel Drawing by G. Bourgogne - mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is an original orangish drawing in pastel realized by Gustave Bourgogne, Hand-signed by the artist on the rear. The State of preservation is good. Sheet dimension: 59 x 46 ...
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Mid-20th Century Naturalistic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

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...
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20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

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 ...
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2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Agatha Christie's stables architectural design by Louis Osman FRIBA
Located in London, GB
Louis Osman was an English artist, architect, goldsmith, silversmith and medallist. He is notable for the gold coronet he designed and made for the investiture in 1969 of Charles, Pr...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Design for Modernist Brutalist Institute I mid-century architectural drawing
Located in London, GB
To see our other Architectural Drawings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller"; you can also search for other drawings by this artist. V A Hards...
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1950s Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink, Pen

"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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Lanvin Of Paris Original Advertising Watercolor Christmas Artwork
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 14 3/8"H x 23"W Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002) Fashion illustrator for House of Lanvin Paris in the 1950s featured in Harper's Bazaar
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1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

"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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Woodland Stems On Dark, Jo Haran, Contemporary Floral Art, Original Artwork
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Still-life Drawings and Water...

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Gesso, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Dream World, Rabbit
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & watercolor on paper with wood panel Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer & art director, she was involv...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Paper, Watercolor, Wood Panel

Spring Composition no. 2
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Spring Composition no. 2' watercolor on paper. Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...

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Paper, Watercolor

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...

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Paper, Watercolor

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...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Paper, Gouache

V A Hards: 'Design for A Departmental Store' Mid Century architectural drawing
Located in London, GB
To see our other Architectural Drawings, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller." V A Hards (British, c. 193...
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1950s Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Petals In Monotone, Jo Haran, Original Floral Painting, Affordable Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Jo Haran Petals In Monotone Original Floral Painting Watercolour, Gouache and Gesso on paper Image Size: 73cm x 53.5cm Sheet/Canvas Size: 75.5cm x 56cm Sold Unframed Free Shipping Pl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...

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Gesso, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom right watercolour on paper, unframed painting: 7.25 x 9.5inches Delightful early 20th century F...
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Early 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic

White And Grey, Jo Haran, Contemporary Floral Artwork, Original Work On Paper
Located in Deddington, GB
White and Grey By Jo Haran [2020] original Watercolour, gouache and gesso Image size: H:63.5 cm x W:51 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:66 cm x W:64 cm x D:0.001cm Sold Unframed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...

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Gesso, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Bold Flowers in a Vase
Located in Surfside, FL
Katarzyna LIBROWICZ Polish French painter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and arrived in France in 1937 . She studied with André Lhote in Montparnasse Paris and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Independants . She is one of the painters of the School of Paris . Peintre polonaise.Elle étudia à l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Varsovie, puis arriva en France en 1937. Elle suivit les...
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20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Spring Equinox 1_Mary Finlayson, Still Life_Flashe/Gouache/SprayPaint/Oil Sticks
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Mary Finlayson "Spring Equinox 1" Flashe, Gouache, Spray Paint, Oil Stick on Canvas 25.25 x 21.25 inches, framed Mary Finlayson’s interest in painting ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

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Gouache, Canvas, Spray Paint

The Whispers Had Changed - Figurative Portrait Watercolor Graphite 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...
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2010s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

American Scene Industrial Modern Lamp Magazine Illustration Mid-Century c. 1930s
Located in New York, NY
American Scene Industrial Modern Lamp Magazine Illustration Mid-Century Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Oil Terminal Lamp Magazine, published, c. 1930s. 15 3/4 X 12 inches (image) 18 X 14 inches board Gouache on board Signed lower right unframed BIOGRAPHY: Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests. In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s. ‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune. Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Golden Cubism - 21-02-21, Drawing, Pastels on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Real Cubism This pastel Golden Cubism – 21-02-21 is the first real cubist drawing in my Golden series. After my last pastel drawing Lakshmi – 16-02-21 I realized I only made pastels in my Roundism style. The last one in that style was ‘Golden Lilac – 07-02-21’. What if I would return to the initial form of cubism I employed back in 2014. Besides that, once in a while my preference is to put the stress on angular forms rather than round ones. Variety is the spice of life...
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21st Century and Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Nude II by Jacques Nestle Petite, blue and white modern nude painting on paper
Located in Atlanta, GA
Welcome to Heritage, our carefully curated collection of French vintage and antique paintings. We scour the flea markets and fairs for these gems: poignant portraits of long-gone Me...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media

Rituals #1 Hélène Duclos, 21st Century Contemporary figurative art, orange green
Located in Paris, FR
Gouache, color pencil and graphite on paper Signed lower right Unique work 1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement “Questioning the human condition and the position of being ali...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...

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Paper, Gouache, Color Pencil, Graphite

Flowers 1 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

“Eco of the Earth ” Triptych "Symphony of the Elements"
Located in Zofingen, AG
The painting is ready to hang, the painting has no decorative frame. Triptych "Symphony of the Elements" "Symphony of the Elements" is a triptych that immerses the viewer in a medit...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Go through the trials #7 Hélène Duclos 21st Century drawing art landscape red
Located in Paris, FR
This drawing is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris. The liquid mountain is populated by living be...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache, Graphite

Episodic disturbances #2 Hélène Duclos 21st Century drawing art landscape red
Located in Paris, FR
This drawing is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris. The liquid mountain is populated by living be...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache, Graphite

Vase of Flowers - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1969. Hand signed and dated lower left. Signed also on rear. Excellent condition. Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on Septe...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Flame Vine Screen
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Flame Vine Screen', by Gary Bukovnik. Watercolor on mulberry, 14 1/4 x 68 inches, 2019. Hand painted folding screen created with watercolor on mulberry paper within a minimal dark w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...

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Paper, Watercolor

4 x Early 1900s French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolours by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom watercolor on paper, unframed set of 4 Left to right: 1: 3.75 x 2.5 inches 2 3.75 x 2.5 inches ...
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Early 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic

Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom right watercolour on paper, unframed painting: 5 x 7 inches Delightful early 20th century Fren...
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Early 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic

Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom right watercolor on paper, unframed Painting: 9.75 x 14 inches Delightful early 20th century Fr...
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Early 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic

Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) Signed bottom right Watercolour on paper, unframed Measures: Painting: 6.25 x 8.75 inches Delightful early 20...
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Early 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic

Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom right watercolor on paper, unframed Painting: 9.25 x 14 inches Delightful early 20th century Fr...
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Early 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic

Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom left watercolour on board, unframed painting: 8.75 x 6 inches Delightful early 20th century Fre...
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Early 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic

Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) Signed bottom right Watercolour on paper, unframed Painting: 4.5 x 6.25 inches. Delightful early 20th century...
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Early 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic

Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolours y Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) Set of 2 Watercolour on paper, unframed Measures: Top painting : 4.5 x 7 inches, signed bottom right Bottom pa...
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Early 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic

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 Measures: Left painting : 5.75 x 5 inches, signed bottom left Right pa...
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Early 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic

Dreamers #1 Caroline Veith Contemporary art drawing nature flora flower red
Located in Paris, FR
Ink on tracing paper Hand-signed and dated lower left
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Pink Peonies
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Pink Peonies' watercolor on paper. Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...

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Paper, Watercolor

Cherry Blossom No. 12, Original Minimalist Floral Watercolor Still Life Study
Located in Boston, MA
Cherry Blossom No. 12, Original Minimalist Floral Still Life Study, 2020 20" x 16" (HxW) Watercolor on Cold Pressed Paper A simple and minimalist nature study, this botanical watercolor painting features a large, pink cherry blossom caressed by a delicate sprig of leaves in a deep olive green. A gray and blue shadow indicates depth, allowing the flower to appear as if it is popping out of the composition. The soft color palette and brush strokes, along with the bleeding nature of the watercolors, gives this work an expressive and impressionist feel. Images with frames are examples only; this work comes unframed. Artist Commentary: Original watercolor painting on 140 lb Arches cold pressed paper (2019). About the Artist: Elizabeth Becker...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...

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Paper, Watercolor

Red Roses In Red Glass Beaker 4.19.09
Located in New York, NY
Colored Pencil on Museum Board Signed and Dated; Impressed with artist's stamp lower right Archivally framed with black float mount and bleached maple surround.
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Early 2000s Expressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Board, Color Pencil

Garden Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Charles Demuth was one of the most complex, talented, and deeply sensitive artists of the American modern period. Whether he was painting floral still lifes, industrial landscapes, or Turkish bathhouses, art was, for Demuth, fraught with personal meaning. A fixture of the vanguard art scene in New York, Demuth navigated the currents of Modernism, producing some of the most exquisite watercolors and original oil paintings in twentieth-century American art. Demuth was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the only child of a well-to-do family. He had an awkward and introverted childhood shaped by a childhood illness, Perthes, a disease of the hip that not only left him permanently lame, but, as part of the “cure,” bedridden for two years in the care of his mother. This long period of incapacitation had a deep impact on Demuth, who came to see himself as an invalid, an outsider who was different from everyone else. It was perhaps during this period of indoor confinement that his keen interest in art developed. Several relatives on his father’s side had been amateur artists, and, following his convalescence, his mother encouraged his artistic pursuits by sending him to a local painter for instruction. The majority of his early pictures are of flowers, a subject for which Demuth maintained a lifelong passion. Following high school, Demuth enrolled at the Drexel Institute of Art in Philadelphia, a school renowned for its commercial arts program. He advanced through the program rapidly, and, in 1905, at the encouragement of his instructors, he began taking courses at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The two leading teachers then at the Academy were William Merritt Chase and Thomas Anshutz. Anshutz, himself a former student of Thomas Eakins, was well liked by his students, and is best known as the teacher of Robert Henri, John Sloan, and several of the other artists of the Ashcan School. Demuth, too, adopted a similar idiom, working in a controlled, realistic manner while at the Academy, where he remained until 1910. In 1907, Demuth made his first trip to Europe, staying in Paris. He spent time on the periphery of the art scene composed of the numerous American artists there, including John Marin and Edward Steichen. He returned to Philadelphia five months later, and immediately resumed courses at the Academy. Despite his introduction to advanced modern styles in Europe, Demuth’s work of this period retains the academic style he practiced before the trip. It wasn’t until he had summered at New Hope, Pennsylvania, in 1908 and 1911, that his style began to evolve. New Hope was a prominent American Impressionist art colony whose members were largely affiliated with the Pennsylvania Academy. Demuth dropped the conservative tone of his style and adopted a freer and more colorful palette. Although he remained based in Philadelphia, Demuth frequently went to New York during this period. Many of the same American artists of the Parisian art scene Demuth had encountered on his earlier European trip now formed the nucleus of New York’s avant-garde, which centered around Alfred Stieglitz’s 291 gallery. It wasn’t long before Demuth began to apply modernist-inspired strategies to his work. He was particularly influenced by the watercolor work of John Marin, also a former student of Anshutz, whose bold use of color in the medium Demuth freely adapted into looser washes of color. In 1912, Demuth again left for Paris, this time studying in the Académie Moderne, Académie Colorossi, and Académie Julian. In Paris Demuth met the American modernist Marsden Hartley. Hartley, a principal figure in the expatriate art circle, acted as a mentor to Demuth, and introduced him to the wide array of modern styles currently practiced in Europe. Hartley also introduced Demuth to many of the members of the Parisian avant-garde, including Gertrude Stein. Demuth was an aspiring writer, and he spent many hours in conversation with Stein. He wrote extensively during this period, and published two works shortly after his return to America. He also developed an interest in illustrating scenes from literary texts. From 1914 to 1919, Demuth produced a series of watercolors of scenes from books such as Emile Zola’s Nana and Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw. Upon his return to America, Demuth settled in New York. In 1914, Demuth had his first one-man show at Charles Daniel’s gallery, which promoted emerging modern American artists, including Man Ray, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Stuart Davis, and Max Weber. Demuth drew closer to the artistic vanguard in New York, becoming friends with many in the Stieglitz and Daniel circles, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Marcel Duchamp, Carl Van Vechten, and Edward Fiske. New York’s cosmopolitan atmosphere and active nightlife appealed greatly to Demuth. In a sketchy style well suited to watercolor, he painted many vaudeville and circus themes, as well as nightclub, café, and bathhouse scenes. Often with Duchamp, Demuth took part in an urban subculture replete with nightclubs, bars, drugs, and sexual permissiveness, which, for a homosexual artist like himself, allowed room for previously unattainable personal expression. Demuth’s pictures of sailors, bathhouses, and circus performers embody a sensual and sexual undercurrent, expressing the artist’s sense of comfort and belonging in the bohemian subculture of New York. Simultaneously, Demuth deepened his interest in floral pictures, painting these almost exclusively in watercolor. His style evolved from the broad color washes of his earlier pictures to more spare, flattened, and sinuous compositions, inspired by the drawings of Aubrey Beardsley and other artists of the Aesthetic Movement. Demuth’s flower watercolors are moody and atmospheric, sensuous and elegant, introspective and yet full of expressive power. Moreover they are beautiful, and are unequivocally among the finest still lifes in American art. Despite numerous subsequent artistic undertakings that led him in a variety of directions, Demuth never stopped painting flower pictures, ultimately adding fruits and other still-life objects to his repertoire. In 1916, Demuth began to develop a style later known as Precisionism, a form of landscape painting infused with Cubism, in which space is divided into precisely drawn geometric regions of color. Demuth first began to paint the landscape in an appropriated Cubist mode while on a trip with Hartley to Bermuda. In these early landscapes, in which the curvilinear forms of trees intersect the geometrically articulated architectural forms, Demuth explored ideas that shaped the future development of modernism in America. The full realization of Demuth’s explorations came after his return to America in 1917, when he turned his attention to industrial subjects. These works derive from a “machine aesthetic,” espoused by New York artists such as Francis Picabia, Joseph Stella, Albert Gleizes, and Duchamp, by which artists viewed machines as embodying mystical, almost religious significance as symbols of the modern world. Rather than painting the skyscrapers and bridges of New York as did most of his like-minded contemporaries, Demuth returned to his home town of Lancaster, where he painted factories and warehouses in a Precisionist idiom. The titles for these pictures are often contain literary references, which serve as clues for the viewer to aid in the decoding of the artist’s meaning. In 1923, Demuth planned a series of abstract “poster portraits” of his friends and contemporaries in the New York art and literary scene. In these “portraits,” Demuth combined text and symbolic elements to evoke the essential nature of his sitters’ distinguishing characteristics. In this fashion, he painted portraits of such artists as Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, and Arthur Dove. His most famous poster portrait, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold...
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20th Century American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Red Roses In Red Glass Beaker 1.2.09
Located in New York, NY
Colored Pencil on Museum Board Signed and Dated; Impressed with artist's stamp lower right Archivally framed with black float mount and bleached maple surround.
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Early 2000s Expressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Board, Color Pencil

Orchids, Calla Lilly and Hydrangeas, Triptych. Watercolor on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
A new series inspired by architecture, décor and stylish personalities of the world of interior design. The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are captured in the illustrati...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Interior Drawings and Waterco...

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen

Poem 6 from 9 Poems from Nature, 1959
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Morris Cox (1903-1998) Poem 6 from 9 Poems from Nature, 1959 Linocut inked with watercolours Image: 19.0 x 27.0 cm Frame: 34.0 x 41.0 cm Provenance: Morris Cox Archive Morris ...
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1950s Landscape Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Last Garden - Contemporary, Figurative Art, Red, Orange, Nude, Male
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Last Garden, 2016 collage on cardboard 27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 W in. 70 H x 100 W cm The artist's reference to fundamental myths of humanity and their analysis from the perspective of co...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Cardboard

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