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Medium: Watercolor
Vintage Nepalese Thangka - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Decorative Thangka is an original colored artwork realized in Nepal in the XX century. Gouache on line. This beautiful artwork represents a central mandala flanked by numerous bodh...
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Early 20th Century Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Cotton, Gouache

2 Sided Expressionist Detroit Modernist Painting Female Nude, Night Cruise Ship
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a two sided painting. Nude reclining woman and a ship lit at night. Harold Cohn (1908 - 1982) Harold Cohn was active/lived in New Jersey, Michigan. Harold Cohn is known fo...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Colour Based Drawings, Mixed Media on Paper by Artist Sunil Das "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Color Based Drawings, 13 x 9.5 inches ( Unframed sizes ) Acrylic, Watercolour, Pen &Ink on Handmade Paper, 2003 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Mas...
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Early 2000s Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Pen

French Coastal Gouache Painting of Fishing Boats at Low Tide
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Coastal Gouache Painting of Fishing Boats at Low Tide by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Signed: Yes Size: 8.75 inches (height) x 12.25 inches (width) Gouache painting on pa...
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20th Century Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Tree and Courtyard - 20th Century Painting with Tree and Buildings
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Lloyd was born in Alsager, Cheshire, the son of a policeman who had taken up farming. He had worked on his father's farm until the age of 19, when he too joined the police force. Llo...
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20th Century Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pen, Pencil

The Country House - Farm Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
The Country House - Farm Landscape Highly detailed scene with a country house, workers, and a hare with rider by an unknown artist (19th Century). Five people - one on a horse - are...
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19th Century Realist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Model in the Studio - Figurative in Gouache and Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Evocative figurative painting of a woman seated in a studio by an unknown artist (20th Century). A woman dressed in red is sitting in a chair atop a platform. There are studio lights...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Gouache

Petit Rhône, Gouache varnish on cardboard
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre Charbonnier (1897-1978) Small Rhone Gouache varnish on cardboard Signed "P. Charbonnier" and titled "Petit Rhône" lower right 15 x 20,5 inch Frame : 50 x 70 cm Born in 1897 i...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Modernist American Judaica Painting Synagogue Interior Ladies Section WPA Era
Located in Surfside, FL
Titled Torah Service, hand signed on Arches archival paper. In this painting, Nussbaum portrays a joyful holiday celebration of the Torah reading in the synagogue in a sketch-like m...
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20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

A Market Scene - French Impressionist art 1914 watercolour painting indis signed
Located in Hagley, England
This charming French Impressionist watercolour painting was painted in 1914 and is indistinctly signed. The composition is a market scene with various stalls under trees. The colouring is lovely and it is housed in a superb, gilded oak frame...
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1910s Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

1950s "Pink Towel 2" Mid Century Nude Gouache Painting
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedman Opper Yellow c. 1950's Gouache on Paper 15" x 18", Unframed *Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing time between 3-5 weeks. From the estate of Ruth Friedmann Opper & Jerry Opper. Ruth was the daughter of Bauhaus artist, Gustav Friedmann. San Francisco Abstract Expression A free-spirited wave of creative energy swept through the San Francisco art community after World War II. Challenging accepted modes of painting, Abstract Expressionists produced highly experimental works that jolted the public out of its postwar complacency. Abstract Expressionism resulted from a broad collective impulse rather than the inspiration of a small band of New York artists. Documenting the interchanges between the East and West Coasts, she cites areas of mutual influence and shows the impact of San Francisco on the New York School, including artists such as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt. San Francisco's Beat poets...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Mermaid, Fauvist Painting by Charles Cobelle
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Mermaids" is an original watercolor paintng on paper by French artist, Charles Cobelle (1902 - 1994), signed lower right. The playful imagery of the Mermaid, bird and goat in the s...
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1960s Fauvist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Pin Up Girl in Red Dress, Mid-Century, Female Artist
Located in Miami, FL
The Pin-Up of ravishing young beauties in mid-century America was a widely popular art form. The assumption that Pin-Up art was the exclusive domain of men is a misnomer. Female illu...
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1940s American Realist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Illustration Board

1940s WPA Watercolor by Charles Ragland Bunnell, Golden Cycle Mill, Colorado
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1940s grayscale watercolor by Charles Ragland Bunnell depicts a semi-abstracted view of the Golden Cycle Mill in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Rendered in subtle gradations of black and gray, the composition reflects the influence of WPA-era Modernism, combining industrial subject matter with expressive abstraction. The work is a notable example of mid-20th-century American Regionalism, capturing both a sense of place and a forward-looking artistic vision. Bunnell’s restrained palette and simplified architectural forms transform the industrial landscape into a dynamic modern composition, emphasizing structure, rhythm, and atmosphere. The subject references the Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company, a major contributor to Colorado’s early 20th-century mining industry, located in what is now Old Colorado City. Through this modernist lens, the painting documents an important chapter of Western industrial history. The watercolor measures 8 1/8 x 9 5/8 inches (sight size) and is presented in a custom black frame measuring 18 x 19 ½ x 1 ⅜ inches, making it a refined, display-ready piece for collectors of American Modern art, WPA works, and industrial landscapes. Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968) was a pioneering Colorado modernist, New Deal art...
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1940s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Original Painting. New Yorker Magazine Published 1935 American Scene Modern WPA
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Magazine Published 1935 American Scene Modern WPA Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Movers New Yorker published, September 20, 1935 18 X 11 1/2 inches...
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1930s American Realist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Northern Pyrenees N1 by C. Carratalá - Landscape painting, mountain, snow
Located in Paris, FR
Northern Pyrenees N1 from the Snow collection is a painting by contemporary Spanish artist Calo Carratalá. Dimensions are 100 × 140 cm (39.3 × 55.1 in). This artwork depicts a winte...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Pierrot et Colombine
Located in Wilton, CT
Fabulous gouache on paper for the Comedie de Française. This painting depicts Pierrot, the servant, and Columbine, who was the love interest of Harlequin. It is signed G. Barbier a...
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1910s Art Deco Watercolor Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

1950s "Slit" Mid Century Painting Bay Area Artist
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedmann Opper Slit c. 1940-1950's Gouache on Paper 15" x 18", Unframed *Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Outsider Folk Art Expressionist Rabbi Israeli Painting Signed Hebrew Jewish Star
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed in Hebrew, also marked with a Jewish star. this is from a collection of works by the same hand. they are all signed. Some have markings to the back of the paper. they have some age to them. They bear similarities to artists as dissimilar as Moshe Tamir, Mane Katz and an Israeli version of Purvis Young. In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted yet powerful. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladyzhensky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee). At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naïf, naïve art. Outsider art. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels Art en Marge Museum in Brussels MADmusée in Liege International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...
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20th Century Outsider Art Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

1950s "Orange Nude Lounging" Mid Century Figurative Painting Pratt Graphic Arts
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy "Orange Nude Lounging" c.1950s Oil pastel and gouache paint on paper 23" x 20" framed black gallery wood frame float mount Unsigned Came from artist's estate Donald Stacy (1925-2008) New Jersey Studied: Newark School of Fine Art The Art Students League Pratt Graphic Arts Center University of Paris 1953-54 University of Aix-en-Provence 1954-55 Faculty: Art Department of the New School Museum of Modern Art School of Visual Arts Stacy Studio Workshop Exhibitions: Grand Central Moderns George Wittenborn The New School Print Exhibitions, Chicago University of Oklahoma Honolulu Museum Monclair Museum Wisconsin State College Louisiana Art...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache, Oil Pastel

Vintage Aladdin and The Lamp with Dragon and Cats
Located in Soquel, CA
A highly detailed India ink drawing with watercolor and Gouache. Each intricate circle and line is hand drawn to create a matrix within which the artist colors the scene to a fine realistic conclusion. Aladdin smiles at the Lantern that has given him his wishes, wealth and knowledge. Signed and dated "Ben Black 85" lower right. Image, 17"H x 27"L (portions of the work flow into the full mat length and width, which is: 20"H x 30"L). We have included a lower resolution image (#1) taken in subdued light to show the full range of colors we were unable to capture due to the extensive fine India ink designs throughout. Ben Black was born in Boston, he graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art 1947. He served in World War 2. He was an art director at one of Boston's leading advertising firms, later opened his own studio where his works were included in The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, establishing himself as a leading American Illustrator. He had many solo and group exhibitions throughout New England and his work is collected throughout the world. Originally known for his clowns, he created a limited edition series of plates for Royal Daulton as well as clown figurines...
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1980s Pointillist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, India Ink, Watercolor

1920's British Impressionist Watercolor Painting Young Girl Gardening Vegetables
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Young Gardener by Carolyn Smith, British early 20th century signed watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed size: 10 x 7 inches double sided sketch verso of man leaning on ...
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Mid-20th Century Victorian Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Grey Zone: The Pull
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Grey Zone:The Pull' by celebrated figurative artist Kim Frohsin, painted in 2018. The artwork is 11 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches and it is professionally framed in a museum quality white mapl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Mixed Media, Gouache, Archival Paper

Untitled (Neo-Impressionist Figures in Landscape)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Neo-Impressionist Figures in Landscape) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Condition: Good P...
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1960s Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

"Colombo"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Ludwig Hans Fischer (1848–1915) – "Colombo" (1889) An exceptional original watercolor by Austrian artist Ludwig Hans Fischer (1848–1915), titled "Colombo" (1889). This vibrant and m...
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19th Century Realist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

"Pleased to See You, " Crash, Pop Art, Street Art Graffiti
Located in New York, NY
Crash Pleased to See You, 1989 Signed and dated lower left Watercolor and ink on paper 30 x 20 1/2 inches A contemporary of Keith Haring and a modern-day master of this present day ...
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1980s Street Art Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Rare German Israeli Surrealist Judaica Abstract Gouache Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
A Surrealist Judaica scene of a bearded man (Rabbi) in a boat with Shabbat candlesticks. Sight size: 17.75" x 22.5". Overall size with frame: 26.5" x31.5" Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נ...
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1970s Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

French Market Stall Scene With Figures Under Awning Modern Watercolor
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Market Stall Scene With Figures Under Awning Modern Watercolor Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour and Gouache on card, unframed Size (H x W): 4.25...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

French Market Scene With Figures Stalls and Awnings Modernist Watercolor
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Market Scene With Figures Stalls and Awnings Modernist Watercolor Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour and Gouache on card, unframed Size (H x W): 4...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Two Cyclists Racing Study French Modernist Watercolor Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Two Cyclists Racing Study French Modernist Watercolor Gouache Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour and Gouache on artists paper, unframed Size (H x W): 4.2...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Modern Cafe Scene With Figures Wine Bottles and White Hat French Watercolor
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modern Cafe Scene With Figures Wine Bottles and White Hat French Watercolor Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour and Gouache on card, unframed Size (H x W)...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Abstract Figurative Interior Still Life With Bottle Flowers and Seated Figure
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Abstract Figurative Interior Still Life With Bottle Flowers and Seated Figure Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour and Gouache on card, unframed Size (H x ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Pecherie De LOcean French Market Scene With Figures Watercolor Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Pecherie De LOcean French Market Scene With Figures Watercolor Gouache Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour and Gouache on artists paper, unframed Size (H ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Expressive Female Portrait With Raised Hand French Modernist Watercolor Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Expressive Female Portrait With Raised Hand French Modernist Watercolor Gouache Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour and Gouache on card, unframed Size (H ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Expressive Female Portrait in Red Watercolor Gouache French Modernist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Expressive Female Portrait in Red Watercolor Gouache French Modernist Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour and Gouache on card, unframed Size (H x W): 4 x ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Expressive Female Portrait With Hat French Modernist Watercolor Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Expressive Female Portrait With Hat French Modernist Watercolor Gouache Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour and Gouache on card, unframed Size (H x W): 4 ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Abstract Figurative Scene With Figures in Hats French Modern Watercolor Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Abstract Figurative Scene With Figures in Hats French Modern Watercolor Gouache Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour and Gouache on card, unframed Size (H ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Young Love: Walking to School, Four Seasons Calendar Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustrated for the 1949 Four Seasons Calendar, published by Brown and Bigelow. A young girl holds a freshly-picked bouquet of flowers as she strolls alongside a boy who carries he...
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1940s American Realist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

French Painting Orange Flowers With Bright Green Leaves In Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...
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20th Century Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

"Kimono 6" (Blue and Red)
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold, embossed kimono by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Numbered, titled, and signed along bottom edge ("1/25 Kimono 6 Patricia A Pearce"). No frame. Patricia Pearce ...
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1980s Contemporary Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Laid Paper, Gouache

'Crime', c.1945 painting by Pamela Denyer
Located in London, GB
Pamela Denyer (1923-2013) Crime 29 x 22 cm Provenance: The family of A. E. Halliwell Although little is known about Pamela Denyer other than that she studied under A. E. Halliwell...
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1940s Art Deco Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

The Lost Shoe, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951 Medium: Gouache on Paper Dimensions: 22.50" x 17.50", Framed 28.00" x 24.00" Signature: Signed Middle Right Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, Sep...
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1950s Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Family Portrait (Large Multimedia Contemporary Abstract Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
"I have been painting seriously for somewhere around 35 years, but have only ever sold regionally - most recently, through my gallery on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Through 1stDi...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor

Arnolt Bristol - Blue Sports Car Mid-Century Good Life - Playboy Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
The punchline on many of these 1950s cartoons fades, but the visuals more than hold up - they shine. The sleek, graphic style of painting with flat, broad areas of color shows that ...
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1950s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Illustration Board

Four women with puppets. 1947, paper, mixed media, 16.3x11 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Four women with puppets. 1947, paper, mixed media, 16.3x11 cm Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relatives give his art...
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1940s Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Erté, Raspoutine, troisieme mannequin, unique gouache, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
A unique, original gouache on paper by cabaret costume designer, Erté, also known as Romain de Tirtoff. Created in 1959 for the cabaret show, Folies Pigalle. From the private collect...
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1950s Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

1930's French Impressionist Figure Praying To The Sky Under Palm Tree
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape signed by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 9.75 high by 6 inch...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Bauhaus Moshe Raviv Moi Ver Abstract Dancing Painting Lithuanian Israeli Modern
Located in Surfside, FL
Dancing Jesters or Clowns (colorful Chassidim dancing) Gouache on paper Sheet is 19.25 X 25.25 Image is 13.5 X 19.25 Moshé Raviv-Vorobeichic, known as Moi Ver, born Moses Vorobeichik (1904–1995) was an Israeli photographer and painter. Moi Ver (Moshe Raviv) was born in 1904 in Vilnius, Lithuania as Moshe Vorobeichic. Moshe Vorobeichic received his initial artistic training in the early 1920s in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he studied painting, architecture, and photography. Having become an important figure in the Yiddish avant-garde culture, he exhibited his first works. From October 1927, he studied at the Bauhaus school in Dessau (Germany), with photographer-visual artist Laszlo Moholy Nagy and painters Josef Albers, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Hinnerk Scheper. In his book Moi Ver: Paris, he produced avant-garde photomontages. Originally published in 1931 by Editions Jeanne Walter with an introduction by futurist Fernand Leger. In 1932 Raviv was sent by the weekly La Vie Parisienne to British Mandate Palestine as photo reporter. Raviv illustrated many books. Raviv was a founder of the Artists' Colony in Safed. At the height of 20th Century modernism and one of the followers of Laszlo Moholy Nagy and his concept of New Vision, Moin Ver was one of the rising stars in European photography. Born in Lebedeva, in Belarus, he wandered through Europe until he immigrated to Palestine in 1934. His well known yet partly forgotten three photographic projects in 1931, The Ghetto Lane in Wilna, Paris: 80 Photographies de Moi Ver and Ci-Contre – 110 Photos de Moi Ver (that was not published at the time), have remained milestones in the art of the 1930s as he created and imposed a new visionary style in photography. As a contemporary of artists such as Man Ray, Ilse Bing...
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20th Century Bauhaus Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

'Study of a Young Woman', California Woman artist, Art Institute of Chicago
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Sarah H. Hobson' and dated, '1936'. A delicately modeled, gouache and watercolor study of a young woman with copper hair. Sarah Villarette Hoover Hobson studied...
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1930s Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Outsider Folk Art Expressionist Rabbi Israeli Painting Signed Hebrew Jewish Star
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a signed portrait painting done in an outsider, folk art, expressionist style. it is signed in Hebrew, also marked with a Jewish star. this is from a collection of works by the same hand. they are all signed. Some have markings to the back of the paper. they have some age to them. They bear similarities to artists as dissimilar as Moshe Tamir, Mane Katz and an Israeli version of Purvis Young. In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted yet powerful. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladyzhensky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee). At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naïf, naïve art. Outsider art. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels Art en Marge Museum in Brussels MADmusée in Liege International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...
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20th Century Outsider Art Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Autumn Excursions on the Southern Railway, 1930 poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987) Easter Excursions from London Gouache 26 x 15 cm c.1930 Artist's stamp to reverse Provenance: Family of the artist A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a Brit...
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1930s Realist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Gino Scalatelli (Venetian painter) - Early 20th century landscape painting
Located in Varmo, IT
Gino Scalatelli (Venice 1870 - Venice 1920) - Venice, view of the basin of St. Mark. 63.5 x 101.5 cm without frame, 84 x 121 cm with frame. Watercolor on paper, in a contemporary c...
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Early 20th Century Naturalistic Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

1920s Pair of Documented Orientalist Watercolors by Camillo Innocenti
By Camillo Innocenti
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful pair of Italian orientalist signed painting The first artwork Camillo Innocenti Watercolor on paper "The glorious past" Camillo Innocenti (Rome 1871-1961) Watercolor on paper. The back reports title, signature, inscription and date. The work is dated on the back September 16, 1926 Inscribed title: The glorious past, the victorious king, the construction of the temple, the sphinx. The back also reports that the work was given by the artist as a wedding gift in 1955. The second Camillo Innocenti artwork "Victorious Muhammad Ali" Camillo Innocenti (Rome 1871-1961) work on paper, with frame, Victorious Muhammad Ali. Pencil and tempera. Inscription, title, signature, and date on the back. The back reports that the work was given by the artist as a wedding gift in 1955 Thes artworks, never before on the market, comes from a private collection and is beautified by an impressive antique frame in gilded wood, in almost perfect condition. The paintings are also protected by glass Every item of our Gallery, upon request, is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Sabrina Egidi official Expert in Italian furniture for the Chamber of Commerce of Rome and for the Rome Civil Courts. Camillo Innocenti (14 June 1871 – 4 January 1961) was an Italian painter born in Rome. Biography[edit] After he studied in Lyceum, after 1889 he joined the studios of Antonio Mancini in Rome and Domenico Morelli in Naples. After a visit to Spain in 1901, he painted local folk subjects from Abruzzo (1904) and Sardinia (1908). At the 1903 Venice Biennale, he displayed his divisionist works with an attention to social topics, alongside Giacomo Balla, Enrico Lionne...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

One of The Thieves Was Saved
Located in Buffalo, NY
"One of The Thieves Was Saved" from Waiting for Godot by Samuel Becket An original watercolor painting by Westley "Wes" Olmsted. This work is currently featured in the exhibition ...
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1970s Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Archival Paper, Watercolor

“Six Figures, c. 1965-70” by Sakti Burman (b. 1935) Indian Folklore Watercolor
Located in Yardley, PA
“Six Figures, c. 1965-70” by Sakti Burman (b. 1935). A wonderful example of Burman’s distinctive fusion of Indian folkloric imagery with European surrealist and fantastical sensibil...
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1960s Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Untitled (Abstract Male Reclining Nude)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Male Reclining Nude) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Condition: Good Provenance:...
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1960s Impressionist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Astronaut - Space Man Mid Century - Howard Hughes
Located in Miami, FL
Mario Zamparelli served as the chief designer for the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes' empire, creating his promotional images and designing many of its products. In the present...
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1960s Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Gouache, Illustration Board, Color Pencil

Original Painting Steel Workers Fabric Design Industrial Deco American Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Steel Workers Fabric Design Industrial Deco American Modernism Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Steel Workers Textile design 19 1/4 X ...
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1930s American Modern Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

"Boat Dog" Figurative Ink & Japanese Watercolor Painting on Paper by Brad Fisher
Located in New York, NY
Boat Dog, 2021 Ink and Japanese Watercolor on paper by artist Brad Fisher. Unframed. 9 × 12 in Shipping is not included. See our shipping policies. Please contact us for shipping ...
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2010s Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Antique Illustration of a Golfer by Listed Illustrator for Vanity Fair
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique illustration of a golfer getting out of a sand trap by well listed illustrator Leslie Saalburg whose work appeared in Vanity Fair and Esquire.
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1910s Realist Watercolor Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Illustration Board

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