Smoking Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Joan Cardona Lladós (1877-1957) - Modernist Paris scene - Mixed media (charcoal and white wax). Drawing measurements 40x29 cm. Frame measurements 66x54 cm. He was born in Barcelona on June 30, 1877, he was registered with the name of Juan Bautista José Pedro. His parents Josep Cardona i Farré (Sant Salvador, 1852-Barcelona, ​​?) and Maria Lladós i Vidal (Isona, 1855-Barcelona, ​​1935) came from Sant Salvador de Toló and Isona, respectively, two towns very close to Tremp, in the Pallars Jussà region, close to the Lleida Pyrenees. The Cardona Lladós family was of humble origins, linked to the rural and peasant world. José Cardona and María Lladós married around 1876, when they were twenty-five and twenty-one years old respectively. The couple decided to improve their precarious situation by moving to live in Barcelona. In 1877 Joan Cardona was born in the family home, at 62 Mediana de San Pedro Street, in the Ribera neighborhood of Barcelona and very close to the Rec Comtal. Joan Cardona was the firstborn of three brothers. When he was six years old, his sister Consuelo was born (1883) and later his younger sister, María (1888), was born. Josep Cardona i Farré was a day laborer and lived at least until the birth of his third daughter, María, in 1888. Her death, for reasons unknown to us, would occur shortly after. After the death of Josep Cardona, León Farré i Duró (Isona, 1867-Barcelona, ​​1932) became part of the family nucleus with his mother María Lladós, who took care of the child Cardona and his sisters Consuelo and María. Farré learned to play the guitar and was the most extraordinary disciple of the composer and guitarist Francesc Tàrrega i Eixea (Vila-real, 1852-Barcelona, ​​1909). Joan Cardona had in her stepfather the man who instilled in her a special musical and artistic sensitivity. The young Cardona took classes at the Academia Baixas, inaugurated in 1892 by the painter Joan Baixas i Carreter and installed on Carrer del Pi, a private center where a good batch of leading Catalan Modernisme artists were trained. Cardona married Clemencia Parade Cazabat at the beginning of the century. Daughter of Carles Parade and Amara Cazabat, she was born in 1870 in Bagnères de Bigorre...

Gouache and watercolour on corrugated cardboard after the famous self portrait by Vincent van Gogh with his fur hat, bandaged ear and pipe. This painting is by Jean Ducel who has pla...

A strong portrait, and a piece of history. It was confidently sketched in 1923, during the heyday of the "Lost Generation" in Paris, at the Closerie des Lilas - Ernest Hemingway's favourite haunt and home-from-home in the City. This historical café is where Hemingway first read The Great Gatsby with his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald and where he wrote most of The Sun Also Rises...

This early 20th-century watercolour by British artist Henry M Terry (1854-c.1920) depicts an elderly fisherman. Terry’s body of work is brimming with characters: dapper old gentleme...

Interwoven Elegance in Gold and Silver Jewelry Design circa mid 20th century by Paul Touzet (French b. 1917) original gouache painting, with pencil on tracing paper unframed overall ...

House Beautiful Cover Proposal. American Scene Social Realism Industrial WPA Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Mixing Mortar 12 1/2 X 14 3/4 inche...

An original mixed media drawing by American artist A.J. Fries.

Karl Feiertag (c.1874-1944) was an Austrian painter. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski, and Josef Mathias Trenkwald. He wo...

A fine watercolour study depicting an Italian man smoking a pipe with a water urn upon his shoulder. The artist has exquisitely captured the fine details in the man's face and clothe...

Caricature of Sandro Pertini is a modern artwork realized by the Artist Emilio Giannelli. Black and white drawing Hand signed on the lower margin Includes frame: 34 x 24 cm

'Infanta Soledad,' features the face of a young woman with succulents and skulls in an intricately patterned and complex graphite drawing on Kent paper. from Japanese artist Chikako ...

Portrait is an original artwork realized by an unknown artist and signed "Choppard". Original pencil drawing on ivory paper. Good conditions. Hand.signed on the lower left margin.

Portrait is original pencil drawing on paper realized by Pierre Daboval. In very good condition. Signed in Capital letters on top right edge. Sheet di...

G. DES FOUGERES (19th century) Watercolor and gouache 33 x 24 cm (38 x 29 cm with the frame) Signed lower left "G. des Fougères" Beautiful wood gilded frame of the beginning of the 2...

An accomplished portrait in an unusual style of dry brush worked gouache over graphite underdrawing finished with watercolour wash. The painting shows a portrait of a young man smoki...

A watercolor work on archival quality paper 300g/m. Representing a Noh mask used in Japanese Noh theatre. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificat...

In his hyperrealist drawing, "Paper Wasp Series No. 2," David Morrison uses colored pencil to render, in overwhelming detail, an abandoned wasp nest. He crea...

Smoker is an original Drawing on paper realized by the painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934). Drawing in Pencil. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions except for aged ma...

Portrait is an original Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in early 20th century. Good condition on a colored cream paper, with other sketch on rear. Hand signed by the artist...

Alix Waline is a French artist known for her large-scale, in-situ drawings that blur the line between fine and decorative arts. After studying at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and La Cambr...

Original Colored pencil and Pastel. Signed by the Artist on lower left corner.

Art Sz: 11"H x 7"W Provenance: Gillian Dupont's The Old Habit Tack Shop Marshall, VA

Art Sz: 11"H x 6 1/2"W Provenance: Gillian Dupont's The Old Habit Tack Shop Marshall, VA

Art Sz: 11"H x 8 1/2"W Provenance: Gillian Dupont's The Old Habit Tack Shop Marshall, VA

Art Sz: 11"H x 8 1/2"W Provenance: Gillian Dupont's The Old Habit Tack Shop Marshall, VA

Art Sz: 12"H x 9"W Provenance: Gillian Dupont's The Old Habit Tack Shop Marshall, VA

Art Sz: 9"H x 12"W Provenance: Gillian Dupont's The Old Habit Tack Shop Marshall, VA

Art Sz: 7 1/2"H x 11"W Provenance: Gillian Dupont's The Old Habit Tack Shop Marshall, VA

Art Sz: 12"H x 9"W Provenance: Gillian Dupont's The Old Habit Tack Shop Marshall, VA

Art Sz: 12"H x 15 1/2"W