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Nightfall, Piccadilly Circus-original impressionism London cityscape painting
Nightfall, Piccadilly Circus-original impressionism London cityscape painting

Nightfall, Piccadilly Circus-original impressionism London cityscape painting

By David Farren

Located in London, Chelsea

The Artist States: “The painting process begins with finding inspiration -walking the streets of New York or London with my sketchbook and camera, looking for interesting light and c...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Spanish Town Gate Landscape Road Scene Watercolor Painting Andalusia
Spanish Town Gate Landscape Road Scene Watercolor Painting Andalusia

Spanish Town Gate Landscape Road Scene Watercolor Painting Andalusia

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Works of this nature are often associated with travel studies or sketchbook paintings, capturing the essence of place through simplified forms and colour rather than detailed represe...

Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Watercolor

To a Higher Realm Abstract Painting, Oil on Wood Panel, 21st Century
To a Higher Realm Abstract Painting, Oil on Wood Panel, 21st Century

To a Higher Realm Abstract Painting, Oil on Wood Panel, 21st Century

By Daniel Ketelhut

Located in San Diego, CA

As part of the "Karma and Rebirth" series, the work represents the "final maturation" of forms that began as chaotic sketchbook scribbles, now alchemically transmuted into articulabl...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sketchbook Used

Materials

Oil

German Town with Twin Spired Church Pencil Drawing L J Wortley Study No 27
German Town with Twin Spired Church Pencil Drawing L J Wortley Study No 27

German Town with Twin Spired Church Pencil Drawing L J Wortley Study No 27

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

The sheet is inscribed “No. 27 — L.J.W.” in the upper right corner, suggesting it formed part of a numbered series of studies or a sketchbook produced during travel.

Category

Mid-19th Century Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Pencil

Rhine River Castle Landscape Pencil Drawing L J Wortley Study No 26
Rhine River Castle Landscape Pencil Drawing L J Wortley Study No 26

Rhine River Castle Landscape Pencil Drawing L J Wortley Study No 26

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

.”, suggesting the drawing may have formed part of a numbered series or sketchbook study.

Category

Mid-19th Century Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Pencil

River Thames at Dusk-original impressionism London painting-contemporary Art
River Thames at Dusk-original impressionism London painting-contemporary Art

River Thames at Dusk-original impressionism London painting-contemporary Art

By David Farren

Located in London, Chelsea

The Artist States: “The painting process begins with finding inspiration -walking the streets of New York or London with my sketchbook and camera, looking for interesting light and c...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Composition of Elements - Etching by Giovanni Omiccioli - 1974

Composition of Elements - Etching by Giovanni Omiccioli - 1974

By Giovanni Omiccioli

Located in Roma, IT

In the centre of the sheet, the artist gathers a series of small vignettes—boats, birds, plants, clouds, animals, rural fragments and tiny figures—each drawn with a light, spontaneou...

Category

1970s Modern Sketchbook Used

Materials

Etching

Greek Coastal Fortress Landscape Watercolor Mediterranean Architecture Study
Greek Coastal Fortress Landscape Watercolor Mediterranean Architecture Study

Greek Coastal Fortress Landscape Watercolor Mediterranean Architecture Study

By Bernard Labbe

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Greek Coastal Fortress Landscape Watercolor Mediterranean Architecture Study Artist: Bernard Labbe (French, mid 20th century) Medium: Watercolor and ink on paper, unframed Siz...

Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

Najac Village and Castle French Hilltop Landscape Watercolour Painting
Najac Village and Castle French Hilltop Landscape Watercolour Painting

Najac Village and Castle French Hilltop Landscape Watercolour Painting

By Pierre Neveu

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Najac Village and Castle French Hilltop Landscape Watercolour Painting Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on artist sketchbook paper, unframed Size (H x ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Watercolor

La Fontaine de Vaucluse Hillside Village French Landscape Watercolour Painting
La Fontaine de Vaucluse Hillside Village French Landscape Watercolour Painting

La Fontaine de Vaucluse Hillside Village French Landscape Watercolour Painting

By Pierre Neveu

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Subtle handling marks and perforations to the upper edge from original sketchbook binding. Colours remain vivid and stable, with no foxing or discolouration.

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Watercolor

La Roche d’Ougla Village Street and Church French Countryside Watercolour
La Roche d’Ougla Village Street and Church French Countryside Watercolour

La Roche d’Ougla Village Street and Church French Countryside Watercolour

By Pierre Neveu

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Executed on perforated sketchbook paper, this piece was likely painted en plein air, directly observing the scene.

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Watercolor

Adele Riley, Sea Mist, Seascape Art, Original Painting, Affordable Art
Adele Riley, Sea Mist, Seascape Art, Original Painting, Affordable Art

Adele Riley, Sea Mist, Seascape Art, Original Painting, Affordable Art

By Adele Riley

Located in Deddington, GB

Adele normally loves to start her works plein air, but with recent restrictions her numerous sketchbooks have come in to their own! This painting has a soft muted palette, it’s delic...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic

French Romantic School, Portraits of young men and other studies, drawing
French Romantic School, Portraits of young men and other studies, drawing

French Romantic School, Portraits of young men and other studies, drawing

Located in Paris, FR

The sheet brings together several studies on a single support, a common practice in sketchbooks and studio sheets of the period. The French Romantic movement flourished between the ...

Category

1850s Romantic Sketchbook Used

Materials

Ink

French Romantic School, Portraits of young men, double-sided drawing
French Romantic School, Portraits of young men, double-sided drawing

French Romantic School, Portraits of young men, double-sided drawing

Located in Paris, FR

The double-sided nature of the sheet evokes the context of a studio sketchbook or a working session drawn from life: these portraits were not intended for public presentation, but re...

Category

1850s Romantic Sketchbook Used

Materials

Ink

Basquiat Screenprint, Limited Edition of 50, 2010s, Signed, 30x22 in
Basquiat Screenprint, Limited Edition of 50, 2010s, Signed, 30x22 in

Basquiat Screenprint, Limited Edition of 50, 2010s, Signed, 30x22 in

By David Hollier

Located in New York, NY

Text - Two poems from his sketchbook Screenprint & Limited Edition of 50 On 100% cotton rag pH neutral, acid-free 250 gsm (90lb) paper using high-end water-based acrylic ink.

Category

2010s Sketchbook Used

Materials

Screen

Seated Male Figure Profile Watercolour Portrait Study Expressive Figure Painting
Seated Male Figure Profile Watercolour Portrait Study Expressive Figure Painting

Seated Male Figure Profile Watercolour Portrait Study Expressive Figure Painting

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Condition: good vintage condition with visible age-related wear, including light creasing, minor surface marks, and some edge perforation from a sketchbook. Colours remain stable and...

Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Watercolor

Paris Café Scene Watercolour Bar Restaurant Interior Figurative Painting
Paris Café Scene Watercolour Bar Restaurant Interior Figurative Painting

Paris Café Scene Watercolour Bar Restaurant Interior Figurative Painting

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Condition: good vintage condition with visible age-related wear, including light creasing, minor surface marks, and sketchbook edge perforation. Colours remain fresh and well preserv...

Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Watercolor

The Strunk Family Farm across from the East Fallowfield Park Coatesville, PA
The Strunk Family Farm across from the East Fallowfield Park Coatesville, PA

The Strunk Family Farm across from the East Fallowfield Park Coatesville, PA

By Ranulph Bye

Located in Philadelphia, PA

He was the author of Victorian Sketchbook (1980), Ranulph Bye's Bucks County (1989), Painting Buildings in Watercolor (1994), and Ranulph Bye's Collection of Old Firehouses (2000).

Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Composition of Elements - Etching by Giovanni Omiccioli - 1974

Composition of Elements - Etching by Giovanni Omiccioli - 1974

By Giovanni Omiccioli

Located in Roma, IT

In the centre of the sheet, the artist gathers a series of small vignettes—boats, birds, plants, clouds, animals, rural fragments and tiny figures—each drawn with a light, spontaneou...

Category

1970s Modern Sketchbook Used

Materials

Etching

Kodak Chrome Film Painting - “Orange Sky”, Miniature landscape oil painting
Kodak Chrome Film Painting - “Orange Sky”, Miniature landscape oil painting

Kodak Chrome Film Painting - “Orange Sky”, Miniature landscape oil painting

By Dina Brodsky

Located in Philadelphia, PA

Brodsky would place herself in a single spot, gazing out at the Trevi Fountain or the lush countryside, and spend hours working in her prized sketchbook. She would take in all the de...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Film, Oil

"Landscape Study on Daguerreotype Plate", Oil Painting Italian Countryside Hills
"Landscape Study on Daguerreotype Plate", Oil Painting Italian Countryside Hills

"Landscape Study on Daguerreotype Plate", Oil Painting Italian Countryside Hills

By Dina Brodsky

Located in Philadelphia, PA

Brodsky would place herself in a single spot, gazing out at the Trevi Fountain or the lush countryside, and spend hours working in her prized sketchbook. She would take in all the de...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Copper

Kodak Chrome Film Painting - “Pink Sky”, Miniature landscape oil painting
Kodak Chrome Film Painting - “Pink Sky”, Miniature landscape oil painting

Kodak Chrome Film Painting - “Pink Sky”, Miniature landscape oil painting

By Dina Brodsky

Located in Philadelphia, PA

Brodsky would place herself in a single spot, gazing out at the Trevi Fountain or the lush countryside, and spend hours working in her prized sketchbook. She would take in all the de...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Film, Oil

lithograph for Carnet Californie

lithograph for Carnet Californie

By (after) Pablo Picasso

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: lithograph (after the the sketch). Executed as a sketchbook drawing during the middle 1950's and subsequently made available by Picasso for publication as a lithograph.

Category

1950s Sketchbook Used

Materials

Lithograph

lithograph

lithograph

By (after) Georges Braque

Located in Henderson, NV

Printed in 1955 at the Mourlot Freres atelier, this composition is from George Braque's Intimate Sketchbooks (Carnets Intimes). Braque had kept these drawings private, but finally co...

Category

1950s Sketchbook Used

Materials

Lithograph

Angel Face VII - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Angel Sculptures in Rome

Angel Face VII - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Angel Sculptures in Rome

By Ivan Markovic

Located in Chicago, IL

Markovic's life in Rome brought him to walk across the Ponte Sant'Angelo time and time again, and with his sketchbook in hand he saw a world of Bernini's angels erupt into vivid tech...

Category

2010s Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Wood, Oil

Blue Hour III - Painting inspired by Bernini's Angel Sculptures in Rome
Blue Hour III - Painting inspired by Bernini's Angel Sculptures in Rome

Blue Hour III - Painting inspired by Bernini's Angel Sculptures in Rome

By Ivan Markovic

Located in Chicago, IL

Markovic's life in Rome brought him to walk across the Ponte Sant'Angelo time and time again, and with his sketchbook in hand he saw a world of Bernini's angels erupt into vivid tech...

Category

2010s Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Wood, Oil

Blue Hour IV - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Angel Sculptures in Rome
Blue Hour IV - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Angel Sculptures in Rome

Blue Hour IV - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Angel Sculptures in Rome

By Ivan Markovic

Located in Chicago, IL

Markovic's life in Rome brought him to walk across the Ponte Sant'Angelo time and time again, and with his sketchbook in hand he saw a world of Bernini's angels erupt into vivid tech...

Category

2010s Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Wood, Oil

Priests Cove 1 by Adele Riley, contemporary art, original painting, seascape art
Priests Cove 1 by Adele Riley, contemporary art, original painting, seascape art

Priests Cove 1 by Adele Riley, contemporary art, original painting, seascape art

Located in Deddington, GB

Adele normally loves to start her works plein air, but with recent restrictions her numerous sketchbooks have come in to their own! This painting has a purity about it, with a transp...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sketchbook Used

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board

Menton Lighthouse and Coastal Promenade French Riviera Study
Menton Lighthouse and Coastal Promenade French Riviera Study

Menton Lighthouse and Coastal Promenade French Riviera Study

By Pierre Neveu

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

The artist’s confident, gestural mark-making evokes the immediacy of plein-air observation and the cool brilliance of Mediterranean light. Executed on sketchbook paper, complete with...

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Watercolor

lithograph

lithograph

By (after) Georges Braque

Located in Henderson, NV

Printed in 1955 at the Mourlot Freres atelier, this composition is from George Braque's Intimate Sketchbooks (Carnets Intimes). Braque had kept these drawings private, but finally co...

Category

1950s Sketchbook Used

Materials

Lithograph

Venice: The Bay of San Marco
Venice: The Bay of San Marco

Venice: The Bay of San Marco

By Carlo Bossoli

Located in London, GB

Not only did he stay there for a very long period of time but he also frequently returned, filing a large number of his sketchbooks, as he did with his views of the lakes and any pan...

Category

19th Century Sketchbook Used

Materials

Paper, Tempera

French Sailing Ship Harbour Ink Drawing Maritime Scene Bernard Labbe
French Sailing Ship Harbour Ink Drawing Maritime Scene Bernard Labbe

French Sailing Ship Harbour Ink Drawing Maritime Scene Bernard Labbe

By Bernard Labbe

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Many works from this collection were originally bound within sketchbooks from the artist’s studio, often bearing the atelier stamp as seen here.

Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Ink, Felt Pen

Angel Face V - Colorful Portrait of Angel Sculpture

Angel Face V - Colorful Portrait of Angel Sculpture

By Ivan Markovic

Located in Chicago, IL

Markovic's life in Rome brought him to walk across the Ponte Sant'Angelo time and time again, and with his sketchbook in hand he saw a world of Bernini's angels erupt into vivid tech...

Category

2010s Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Wood, Oil

Judas' Hand - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Sculpture in Rome
Judas' Hand - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Sculpture in Rome

Judas' Hand - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Sculpture in Rome

By Ivan Markovic

Located in Chicago, IL

Markovic's life in Rome brought him to walk across the Ponte Sant'Angelo time and time again, and with his sketchbook in hand he saw a world of Bernini's angels erupt into vivid tech...

Category

2010s Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Wood, Oil

Hand with Nails - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Sculpture in Rome
Hand with Nails - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Sculpture in Rome

Hand with Nails - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Sculpture in Rome

By Ivan Markovic

Located in Chicago, IL

Markovic's life in Rome brought him to walk across the Ponte Sant'Angelo time and time again, and with his sketchbook in hand he saw a world of Bernini's angels erupt into vivid tech...

Category

2010s Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Wood, Oil

Hand with Die - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Sculpture in Rome
Hand with Die - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Sculpture in Rome

Hand with Die - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Sculpture in Rome

By Ivan Markovic

Located in Chicago, IL

Markovic's life in Rome brought him to walk across the Ponte Sant'Angelo time and time again, and with his sketchbook in hand he saw a world of Bernini's angels erupt into vivid tech...

Category

2010s Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Wood, Oil

Hand with Veronica's Veil - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Sculpture in Rome
Hand with Veronica's Veil - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Sculpture in Rome

Hand with Veronica's Veil - Painting Inspired by Bernini's Sculpture in Rome

By Ivan Markovic

Located in Chicago, IL

Markovic's life in Rome brought him to walk across the Ponte Sant'Angelo time and time again, and with his sketchbook in hand he saw a world of Bernini's angels erupt into vivid tech...

Category

2010s Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Wood, Oil

Blue Hour I - Colorful Painting of Bernini's Famous Angel Sculptures

Blue Hour I - Colorful Painting of Bernini's Famous Angel Sculptures

By Ivan Markovic

Located in Chicago, IL

Markovic's life in Rome brought him to walk across the Ponte Sant'Angelo time and time again, and with his sketchbook in hand he saw a world of Bernini's angels erupt into vivid tech...

Category

2010s Contemporary Sketchbook Used

Materials

Wood, Oil

Saint Nazaire French Harbour Boats and Shipyard Study Modern French
Saint Nazaire French Harbour Boats and Shipyard Study Modern French

Saint Nazaire French Harbour Boats and Shipyard Study Modern French

By Pierre Neveu

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

The sheet’s perforated edge suggests a page from his travel sketchbook — painted quickly, directly, en plein air.

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Sketchbook Used

Materials

Watercolor

lithograph for Carnet Californie

lithograph for Carnet Californie

By (after) Pablo Picasso

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: lithograph (after the the sketch). Executed as a sketchbook drawing during the middle 1950's and subsequently made available by Picasso for publication as a lithograph.

Category

1950s Sketchbook Used

Materials

Lithograph

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