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Art Subject: Women
Untitled, Pen & Ink on Paper, Black color by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Ganesh Pyne - Untitled - 8.25 x 11 inches (unframed size) Pen & Ink on Paper Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : Initially, Pyne painted watercolo...
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1990s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Pen

Tarantella - Watercolor by M. De Vito - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Tarantella is an original watercolor on ivory-colored paper, realized by Michela De Vito in the first half of XIX century. Good conditions except for shading and light stains along...
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1820s Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Female Nude Liberty - Original Lithograph by Ferdinand Bac - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Female Nude Liberty is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922. Signed and dated on plate on the lower left corner: F. Bac 1922. Original Lith...
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1920s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Lithograph

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...
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1950s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Bare Tree by Beach, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Bare Tree by Beach (P2.37), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Image Size: 14.5 x 21.5 inches, Size: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.88 ...
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1960s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

France 19th century, The Bohème artist in his workshop, watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
France circa 1850 The Bohème artist in his workshop Watercolor on paper 15.5 x 21.5 cm In good condition except a small tear (visible on the photographs) on the upper right border. I...
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1840s Romantic Interior Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

The Garden - Drawing - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Garden is a drawing on paper realized by an anonymous in the early 20th Century. Mixed media on paper. Fair condition with missing pieces of paper on the margins.
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Watercolor, Pastel

Franco Matania (1922-2006) - Signed 20th Century Chalk Drawing, Robbie
Located in Corsham, GB
Subtle conte is used in a sculptural manner to render a delicate study of a child. The artwork has been completed on a piece of pale rose wove, which perfectly complements the rich t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

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...
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1950s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

The Carousel - China Ink Drawing by Renzo Vespignani - 1949
Located in Roma, IT
The Carousel is an original Modern Artwork realized in 1949 by the Italian artist Renzo Vespignani (Rome, 1924 - Rome, 2001). Original black ink and pen on ivory paper. Hand-sign...
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1940s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

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: ...
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1960s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Super hero
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper White wooden frame with plexiglass 98 x 78 x 2 cm
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Late 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache

Windy Day, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Windy Day (P6.14), Year: 1950, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 17.5 x 21.5 in. (44.45 x 54.61 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's w...
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1950s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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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...
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1950s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Early Modern Abstract Watercolor Painting of a Nude Figure Viewed from Behind
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern abstract figurative nude watercolor painting by German artist Konrad Cramer. The work features the back of a nude figure with their arms raised and crossed over their fa...
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1950s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Design for a theatre fresco with fancy plasterwork - early 18th century French S
Located in Middletown, NY
Pen and sepia ink on cream laid paper, 8 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches (222 x 136 mm). Scattered paper tape repairs on the verso in the area of the upper left corner, and along the right sheet...
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Early 18th Century French School Interior Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Laid Paper

Edgar Chahine Etching of a Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. 20th Century Edgar Chahine Etching of a Woman
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20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Etching

Portrait of the Young Thinker - Drawing by Albert Decaris - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of the young thinker is an artwork, charcoal drawing on paper, realized by the French Artist Albert Decaris. It is not signed nor dated.. The artist represents a portrait...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

Nude - Pencil Drawing by Flor-David - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original Drawing in pencil on creamy-colored paper attributed to Flor-David, and realized in the Mid 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork is represented posing nud...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Multi-Figure Nude Study
Located in New York, NY
This drawing by Paul Cadmus is offered by CLAMP in New York City. Multi-Figure Nude Study n.d. Signed, u.r. Color crayon on paper 8 x 18.5 inches (20....
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20th Century Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Crayon

Landscape with Men and Horses - Original China Ink and Watercolor - Early 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with men and horses is a beautiful ink and pencil drawing. Due to the concerned subject matter and the typology of the image, it is assumed th...
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Early 19th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

untitled, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
In my pictures I try to combine the visual and the conceptual. For me, drawing is a medium of knowledge which, beyond direct expression, makes visible material and immaterial forces,...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Nude Woman Pencil Drawing by Artistide Maillol
Located in Roma, IT
Sanguine drawing on paper, XIX-XX centuries. Dimensions : 19,6 x 22,5 cm This original sanguine drawing is signed with the artist’s monogram “M” at the lower right corner of the pa...
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19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Color Pencil

Watercolor Painting by William Zorach, Titled "Redwoods, Yosemite Valley", 1920
Located in New York, NY
William Zorach, 1887-1966 Redwoods, Yosemite Valley, 1920 Watercolor and pencil 15 ¾ x 13 ⅜ inches Signed (at lower right): William Zorach WZorach-7 Provenance: Estate of William Zorach Exhibited: William Zorach, 1887-1996, Sculpture, Drawings and Watercolors, Zabriskie Gallery, New York; Feb. 10 – March 14, 1998. William Zorach was born in Lithuania in 1889, and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1893. Settling in Cleveland with his parents, he worked as a lithographer from 1902- 1908, making enough money to study painting with Henry G. Keller at the School of Art. In 1910, Zorach traveled to Paris to study in La Palette, where he was encouraged to develop his own unique style rather than adhere to traditional teachings. Zorach once said, “I began to be conscious of the various modern influences that were invading the art world…I was disturbed and confused, and yet I felt that I was a very young man entering a new age. The forces creating modern art seemed more alive to me than anything I had known or anything being done in America.” 1 Together with his wife Marguerite, William Zorach produced a number of Cubist- style paintings for the American Armory Show of 1913, and the Forum Exhibition in New York in 1916. Around 1917, Zorach followed the lead of cubist artist Pablo Picasso and began experimenting with wood and stone carvings. By 1922, he devoted himself entirely to sculpture, and like Picasso, became fascinated in “primitive art”—the ritual objects and sculpture pieces of Oceanic, Native American and African tribes. Zorach’s work developed in its use of block-like forms with progressive suppression of detail—drawing elements from sources as disparate as the contemporary cubist and modernist movements, and combining them with forms seen in early African sculpture. Though the forms of his sculpture were often abstract, Zorach primarily focused upon a traditional subject matter, producing such well-known sculptures as Young Girl, now in the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Mother and Child, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Today, William Zorach is known as one of the earliest and most influential American artists dedicated to direct carving. Zorach also made an impression as a teacher and writer, facilitating a major change in the aesthetic philosophy and technique of sculpture in the United States. During the summers from 1913 to 1922, Zorach and his wife Marguerite painted...
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1920s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pencil

Pair of Miniature Mid 19th Century Watercolours - Brother and Sister
Located in Corsham, GB
Two exquisite mid 19th Century miniature portraits in watercolour. The children are in their finest clothes to have their portraits painted. The little boy wears a high ruffled collar and black jacket, holding a blue book in his hands. The little girl wears a fine light blue dress...
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Mid-19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

The Torture of Saint Concordia
By Domenico Piola the Elder
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Circle of Domenico Piola (Genoa 1627 – 1703) The Torture of Saint Concordia Black chalk, brown ink and brown wash on two sheets of paper, 40.5 x 42 cm Unsigned Provenance: Estate...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Dancer - Original China Ink and Watercolor on Paper - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Dancer is an original drawing in china ink and water color on paper, realized by Anonymous artist of the XX century. The state of preservation of the artwork is good except some ut ...
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20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

Sheer Deco Nude – 14-10-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Love for Sheer Textures This graphite pencil drawing ‘Sheer Deco Nude – 14-10-22’ is a deepening of my love for texture of fabrics. My Last drawing of Louise Brooks also bea...
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2010s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Impressionist Lake - Original Signed Charcoals Drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002) Impressionist Lake Original charcoal drawing Handsigned on the bottom right of the sheet On canson paper, 50 x 65 cm (c. 19,6 x 25,5 inch) Very good co...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

Portrait of a Lady /// Impressionism British Augustus Edwin John Drawing Red
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Augustus Edwin John (Welsh, 1878-1961) Title: "Portrait of a Lady" *Signed by John lower right Circa: 1910 Medium: Original red and black Chalk Drawi...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk, Charcoal

Dancing. Contemporary Mixed Media on paper
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela brings vibrant immediacy to her figurative paintings. She uses a depth of colour and bright outlines of her figures to emphasize shape and contours. In all her works Angela gi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings

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Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil

Conversation - Ink Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Conversation is an original china ink drawing realized by painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934). Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. The artwork is represented throug...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Embracing - Original Watercolor - 1950 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Embracing is an original drawing in mixed media on ivory paper realized in 1940 ca. by an Anonymous artist of the XX century. In very good conditions, except for some folding and sm...
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1950s Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Elsa
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Elsa, 1915 Charcoal on paper, 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm) Signed and dated lower left: Daniel Garber / 1915 Provenance The artist; Estate of the artist, 1958; Tanis Garber Page,...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

Cavalry - China Ink and Watercolor by Theodore Fort - 1844 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Cavalry is a beautiful watercolor on paper, realized in the mid-XIX century by Théodore Géricaul Fort (1810 - 1896). Hand-signed in brown ink on the lower right corner. A knight is portrayed in his uniform and galloping on a beautiful Arabian stallion, with the trumpet on his shoulders, ready to give the signal to attack to the cavalry. In excellent conditions, with shiny colors, including a white cardboard passepartout (49.5 x 34 cm). A very interesting artwork for a connoisseur of the militaria genre! Theodore Géricaul Fort (1810 - 1896), Simeone Fort's son, belonged to the French school of the XIX century; Théodore Fort...
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1840s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Grand Canyon Plateau - Line Drawing Landscape in Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Grand Canyon Plateau - Line Drawing Landscape in Ink on Paper Bold landscape line drawing by listed Maine artist Laurence Sisson (American, 1928-2015). Towering canyon walls frame a river snaking round a central plateau. This drawing was likely a preparatory sketch for a larger painting. This piece is unsigned, but was acquired from David Sisson, the artist's son. Copy of the letter of authentication included. Presented in a new black mat with foam-core backing. Mat size: 8"H x 10"W Image size: 3.38"H x 6.63"W Laurence Sisson, was a student of Herbert Barnett (1910-1972), he was one of America's preeminent realist painters today. His work may be found in the permanent collections of museums nationwide including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Laurence Sisson painted landscapes for sixty years. He was known for his paintings of the Maine coast and landscapes of the southwest. His style ranges from plein air watercolors to large oil landscapes...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Permanent Marker

Couple - Original China Ink Drawing and Pastel by Maria Lourdey - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Couple is original drawing in china ink realized by Maria Lourdey (1860-1934). The state of preservation is very good and with a trace of time. Sheet dimension: 17.5 x 17 cm. Inclu...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Ink

Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Circle of Life
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
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2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings

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Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen

Portrait of a Young Woman - 1900s - René François Xavier Prinet - Drawing
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of A Young Woman is an original artwork realized by the French artist and illustrator René François Xavier Prinet between the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX cent...
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Early 1900s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

The Little Mermaid - Fairy Tales - English Female Illustrator Pen and Ink
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering English Female Illustrator Helen Stratton masterfully renders in pen and ink a scene from "The Little Mermaid" in George Newnes's 1899 editi...
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1890s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Pen

You, Drawing, Charcoal on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Original charcoal drawing on paper by James Shipton My works are heavily influenced by the art work of Degas and Gustav Klimt. My desire is to capture the beauty of the human for...
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2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Girls
Located in Brecon, Powys
A group of girls forms the image for Barbara Wagner's silkscreen print. This is a unique piece and not part of an edition.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen

By the Fireside
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Edouard Bernard DEBAT-PONSAN (Toulouse 1847 – 1913 Paris) By the Fireside Ink, wash, and gouache on paper 15 3/8 x 15 3/4 in 39 x 40 cm Monogrammed lower right “DP” Provenance Private collection, France This work is a preparatory study related to the artist’s painting Before the Ball...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Interior Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Gouache

"Radio City Rockette"
Located in Southampton, NY
Watercolor on paper of a Radio City Music Hall Rockette done in the late 1940's or early 1950's. Ruth Adele Mysel grew up in Boston and attended the New Eng...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Danseuse By Pierre Carrier-Belleuse
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pierre Carrier-Belleuse 1851-1932 French Danseuse Signed “Pierre Carrier-Belleuse” (lower right) Pastel on canvas Strikingly elegant, this extraordinary pastel by French impressi...
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19th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Pastel

"Estudiante" - Portrait of a Mexican Girl
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Mexican girl in church by Joseph Yeager (early-mid 20th Century) on heavy bond watercolor paper with ragged edges. Signed "Joe Yeager" in th...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Double Sided Art Deco Drawing by Wheeler Williams, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972) Untitled (Study of Three Graces), 1947 Pencil on paper 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1947 A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. He graduated with...
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1940s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Framed 19th Century Watercolour - British School Watercolour
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate and alluring watercolour. depicting a farmer taking a break from her cattle. The painting is beautifully framed in an ornate moulded and gil...
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19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Allegory of Water - Original Lithograph by Ferdinand Bac - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Allegory of Water is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922. Signed and dated on plate on the lower central margin (...
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1920s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Lithograph

19th century silhouette of a lady
Located in York, GB
19th century silhouette of a female , framed and glazed and in good condition with only minor signs of age as to be expected. 2nd image with flash to show highlights etc.. Apologie...
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19th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper

Joshua Fisher (1859-1930) - 19th Century Watercolour, A Young Girl by a Fence
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming scene depicting a woman seated on a wooden fence in the summer garden. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame with acanthus detai...
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Late 19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

1600’s Flemish Old Master Ink Wash Drawing Biblical Figures Group on paper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure Studies Attriubted to Cornelis Schut (1597 - 1655) Flemish ink drawing on paper, inscribed on mount size: 4.75 x 7 inches private collection, France The painting is in overa...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

Life study of a male nude in repose - European School, late 18th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
European School, late 18th century. Red chalk with primo pensiero in graphite on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (215 x 293 mm). Scattered light handling wear and multiple s...
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Late 18th Century Naturalistic Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk, Laid Paper, Pencil, Graphite

Nude - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a drawing in china ink and watercolor realized by Leo Guida in the 1970s. Good condition. Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic movements and hist...
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Hand signed letter from Frankenthaler framed with Arkatov's signed portrait
Located in New York, NY
This work features a photographic portrait of Helen Frankenthaler, taken by renowned musician and photographer Jim Arkatov, founder of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchester, and author of the 1998 book "The Creative Personality". The photograph is hand signed and dated '92 by Jim Arkatov. Framed alongside the photograph is a typed letter, hand signed in marker with a personal annotation ("Thanks again!!") by Helen Frankenthaler, thanking Mr. Arkatov for sending her glossy prints of his photograph and stating that she looks forward to seeing his book. Arkatov's original signed portrait, along with Frankenthaler's original signed letter, are elegantly framed in a museum quality wood frame under UV plexiglass. There is also a die-cut window in the back of the frame to reveal Arkatov's signature on the back of his photograph. Measurements: Framed 14.25 inches (vertical) by 19.75 inches (horizontal) by 1.75 inches (depth) Photographic portrait of Helen Frankenthaler: 9.25 inches (vertical) by 7.25 inches (horizontal) Letter from Frankenthaler to Arkatov: 7 inches (vertical) by 6.25 inches (horizontal) This collection was acquired from the Estate of Jim Arkatov. Below is an excerpt from his 2019 obituary in the Los Angeles Times: "...His was an immigrant’s story, a child from Russia who landed in San Francisco, befriended violinist Isaac Stern — whose fame was still to come — took up the cello and decided to pour his life into making music. James Arkatov found work with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and then with the philharmonic in San Francisco before coming to L.A. as a Hollywood studio musician who worked on movie soundtracks and backed up Ella Fitzgerald on some of her more memorable recordings, such as “Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Books.” Amazed at the dazzling talent around him in Hollywood, he came up with a simple but lasting idea — form their own orchestra. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra made its debut on an April evening in 1968, as hundreds squeezed into the newly built Mark Taper Forum. Arkatov played cello as usual as the ensemble drifted through the works of Mozart, Vivaldi, Haydn and other legends of the classics who’d written music specially for smaller orchestras. Arkatov, who lived long enough to see the orchestra celebrate its 50th anniversary, died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 98. “The orchestra represented a contextualized part of L.A. that had simply never been captured,” said his son, Alan Arkatov, the chair of the education and technology program at USC’s Rossier School of Education. “L.A. simply didn’t have this type of ensemble.” Arkatov was born in Odessa, Russia, on July 17, 1920, and moved around Europe before sailing with his family to San Francisco, where his father opened a photo studio. One of his early childhood friends was Stern, who would become an international star who performed on the world’s biggest stages. Arkatov, who began playing the cello when he was 9, formed a string quartet with Stern when they were teens. After stints as a cellist in San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Indianapolis, Arkatov became a member of the NBC Orchestra, the studio musicians who supplied the soundtracks for the movies that kept Hollywood humming. Pulling from the talent of Hollywood like an NFL team on draft day, he cobbled together a roster capable of handling the delicate and nuanced music written for chamber orchestras. In contrast to the L.A. Phil, which filled the stage with 100 or so musicians, the chamber orchestra was but half that size. The idea was to create a group that would play works written expressly for such an orchestra, many of them from the Baroque era. “The ensemble was never meant to compete with the Philharmonic,” Arkatov’s son said...." Helen Frankenthaler Biography: Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), whose career spanned six decades, has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. She was eminent among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. Through her invention of the soak-stain technique, she expanded the possibilities of abstract painting, while at times referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways. She produced a body of work whose impact on contemporary art has been profound and continues to grow. Frankenthaler was born on December 12, 1928, and raised in New York City. She attended the Dalton School, where she received her earliest art instruction from Rufino Tamayo. In 1949 she graduated from Bennington College, Vermont, where she was a student of Paul Feeley. She later studied briefly with Hans Hofmann. Frankenthaler’s professional exhibition career began in 1950, when Adolph Gottlieb selected her painting Beach (1950) for inclusion in the exhibition titled Fifteen Unknowns: Selected by Artists of the Kootz Gallery. Her first solo exhibition was presented in 1951, at New York’s Tibor de Nagy Gallery, and that year she was also included in the landmark exhibition 9th St. Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture. In 1952 Frankenthaler created Mountains and Sea, a breakthrough painting of American abstraction for which she poured thinned paint directly onto raw, unprimed canvas laid on the studio floor, working from all sides to create floating fields of translucent color. Mountains and Sea was immediately influential for the artists who formed the Color Field school of painting, notable among them Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. As early as 1959, Frankenthaler began to be a regular presence in major international exhibitions. She won first prize at the Premiere Biennale de Paris that year, and in 1966 she represented the United States in the 33rd Venice Biennale, alongside Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jules Olitski. She had her first major museum exhibition in 1960, at New York’s Jewish Museum, and her second, in 1969, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, followed by an international tour. Frankenthaler experimented tirelessly throughout her long career. In addition to producing unique paintings on canvas and paper, she worked in a wide range of media, including ceramics, sculpture, tapestry, and especially printmaking. Hers was a significant voice in the mid-century “print renaissance” among American abstract painters, and she is particularly renowned for her woodcuts. She continued working productively through the opening years of this century. Frankenthaler’s distinguished, prolific career has been the subject of numerous monographic museum exhibitions. The Jewish Museum and Whitney Museum shows were succeeded by a major retrospective initiated by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth that traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, MI (1989); and those devoted to works on paper and prints organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1993), among others. Select recent important exhibitions have included Painted on 21st Street: Helen Frankenthaler from 1950 to 1959 (Gagosian, NY, 2013); Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler and JMW Turner (Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2014); Giving Up One’s Mark: Helen Frankenthaler in the 1960s and 1970s (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2014–15); Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler (Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 2015); As in Nature: Helen Frankenthaler, Paintings and No Rules: Helen Frankenthaler Woodcuts...
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1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Ink, Photographic Paper, Rag Paper

Marie Palmer-Smith - 1930s British Original Graphic Design for Advertising
Located in London, GB
MARIE PALMER-SMITH (1899-1997) Fabric Inspirations Signed and inscribed with title; bears artist’s studio stamp on the reverse Gouache on pen and ink on tinted paper Unframed in mo...
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1930s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Dancing Couple
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Attributed to Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger (Paris, 1715 – 1790) Dancing Couple Circa 1765–1770 Red chalk on cream paper; verso in black and red chalk 34 × 21 cm Unsigned Pro...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk

Flowers. 1997. Canvas, oil, 59x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers. 1997. Canvas, oil, 59x40 cm
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1990s Expressionist Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Figures - Original Watercolor on Paper - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original artwork realized by a French artist in the 1920s. Original watercolor on cardboard. The signature of the artist is present on the lower right corner in penc...
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Approach (Horse)
Located in Hudson, NY
This new series of painting is an exciting transition for Kinney as he is best known for assemblage and sculpture. “Anim”, the Latin root word of animal, means life, soul or breath. This exhibition features select large-format monochromatic oil paintings on stretched canvas and wood panels. On view as well are works on paper with Japanese Sumi Ink, which inspired the oil paintings. Kinney has been looking at pre-historic cave paintings as well as animals depicted therein, such as the Chauvet caves in Nice, Southern France. Emerging from the inextricable interplay of light and dark, Kinney’s black and white ink paintings capture the ever-shifting subjectivity shaped by shadow. Cast in Japanese Sumi ink, each unique painting explores the trajectories of human and animal, natural and architectural form- what is revealed or hidden? A variety of hand-torn, heavy weight papers add textural dimension to each mark and brush stroke, as well as through the immediacy of brushstrokes to depict the action within the artwork In his latest collection of works, Kinney explores animal form and meaning as seen in both contemporary and ancient times. In “Savanna (Zebras) ”, a stampede of zebras is depicted through oil paint on wood panel. Animal populations in regions like the horn of Africa today face the loss of their natural habitats due to extreme draught. He explores the deep imprint they leave behind and the interconnectedness of humans and animals in the world. With the balance of nature at stake, Kinney’s paintings underscore the importance of the relationship between the natural environment and civilization. Matt Kinney...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

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