The Most Beautiful Things
The Art Edit
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Jean Martin, Man with scarf, circa 1950, Graphite on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean MARTIN (1911-1996)
Man with scarf, circa 1950
Graphite on paper
Monogrammed “JM” lower right
16,5 × 14 cm
A self-taught painter born in Lyon in 1911, Jean Martin developed a st...
Category
1950s The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Pencil, Graphite
Guitare sur un guéridon by Pablo Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pablo Picasso
1881-1973 Spanish
Guitare sur un guéridon
(Guitar on a pedestal)
Gouache on Western wove paper laid on board
Signed “Picasso” (upper left)
Picasso’s prolific career has been marked by many grand love affairs, both romantic, intellectual and creative. Beyond his lovers like Olga Khoklova and Dora Maar and his intellectual muses like Georges Braques and Gertrude Stein, Picasso’s greatest love and inspiration was perhaps a humble instrument: the guitar. Whether it be the Old Guitarist from his early blue period, his groundbreaking series of three-dimensional guitar sculptures from his nascent explorations in Cubism, or his Mandolin and Guitar composition’s grander explorations with color and biomorphic shapes, the guitar is an elusive calling card for modern art’s greatest genius.
In Guitare sur un guéridon, Picasso intertwines his signature guitar and a bowl of fruit. These two elements are playfully brought together and skillfully anchored on the tabletop by a square positioned at the center of the composition. The result is a captivating and harmonious arrangement that showcases Picasso's artistic ingenuity in blending these everyday objects into a visually striking and cohesive composition.
This rare gouache was created during the pivotal summer of 1920. During this time, Picasso lived in Juan-les-Pins, a small coastal resort town in the South of France away from the confines of the city and the fallout of World War I. With this newfound freedom, Picasso entered an exciting and innovative creative period and began to interrogate the connections between Neoclassicism and Cubism.
Picasso created a series of gouache paintings characterized by their flat, geometric nature, sinuous contours and strikingly vivid colors. Though not a complete departure from his previous Cubist works, this series showcased the influence of the Surrealists, especially the biomorphic subconscious explorations of Joan Miró, upon Picasso’s oeuvre. While the breadth of his creativity grew, he returned back to a familiar motif — the guitar — with a renewed sense of vigor and excitement.
Guitare sur un guéridon’s undulating lines and biomorphic appeal bring Picasso's preoccupation with the guitar into deeper focus. The sinuous lines of guitar mirror...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Board
Storm in the Rockies, Colorado Mountain Landscape, Plein Air Ink Field Drawing
By Charles Partridge Adams
Located in Denver, CO
Own a rare, original vintage field study drawing by renowned Colorado artist Charles Partridge Adams. This atmospheric ink-on-paper composition captures the raw beauty of a storm swe...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Ink
Dark Green Field, Signed Pastel on Paper by Oliviero Masi
By Oliviero Masi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dark Green Field
Oliviero Masi
Italian (1948)
Date: 1980
Pastel on paper, signed lower right
Size: 17.5 x 17.5 in. (44.45 x 44.45 cm)
Category
1980s Modern The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Pastel
Charles Hinman, Minimalist Drawing, Mid-Century Modern Geometric Abstract Signed
By Charles Hinman
Located in New York, NY
Charles Hinman
Untitled Minimalist Drawing (Mid-Century Modern), 1980
Pastel on off-white wove paper
Signed in pencil and dated by the artist on the lower-right front. Jeffrey Fuller...
Category
1980s Minimalist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Pastel
Mystic Louisiana Marsh Landscape in Blue Tones, Limited Edition Cyanotype Print
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
Exquisite landscape of a "Mystic Louisiana Marsh".
Details:
+ Title: Mystic Louisiana Marsh
+ Year: 2025
+ Edition Size:...
Category
2010s Realist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph, Monotype
Hermes 1929
Located in Stockholm, SE
An interesting and highly decorative chalk drawing by Edvard Andersson, 1929. Drawn on a quite large scale. Signed and dated EA, 1929. A tergo written "Hermes".
The drawing is exec...
Category
1920s Cubist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Butterfly by Damien Hirst
By Damien Hirst
Located in London, GB
Butterfly
By Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst is a British contemporary artist known for his provocative and often
controversial works that explore themes of life, death, and the nature o...
Category
2010s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Felt Pen
Raphael’s Skull
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Ettore Calzone Collection, Rome, by 1912.
Exhibited:
“Raffaello: L’Accademia di San Luca e il mito dell’Urbinate,” Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome, 21 October 2020...
Category
19th Century Old Masters The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Black and white still life flower drawing of Mimosas by artist, Yvon Pissarro
By Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Mimosas by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Graphite on paper
65 x 50 cm (25 ⅝ x 19 ⅝ inches)
Signed and dated lower left Yvon Vey 2002
Provenance
Studio of the artist, Montpellier
Artist b...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Graphite
Three drawings by François Boucher in a mounting by Jean-Baptiste Glomy
By François Boucher
Located in PARIS, FR
We would like to thank Juliette Parmentier-Courreau of the Custodia Foundation for her welcome and support during the consultation of Glomy’s Journal des Ouvrages.
This spectacularly large "feuille de desseins ajustés" commissioned by François Boucher from Jean-Baptiste Glomy is emblematic of the painter's art and mastery of rocaille. It is also fully representative of the taste of this period in the field of decorative arts. The largest of these three drawings, placed at the bottom of the composition, is particularly interesting: dating from around 1756, it constitutes a modello (apparently unpublished) for the frontispiece of the "Catalogue des tableaux de Monsieur de Julienne"), preserved in the Morgan Library in New York.
1. François Boucher, the master of French rocaille
The extraordinary career of Francois Boucher was unmatched by his contemporaries in versatility, consistency and output. For many, particularly the writers and collectors who led the revival of interest in the French rococo during the last century, his sensuous beauties and plump cupids represent the French eighteenth century at its most typical. His facility with the brush, even when betraying the occasional superficiality of his art, enabled him to master every aspect of painting – history and mythology, portraiture, landscape, ordinary life and, as part of larger compositions, even still life. He had been trained as an engraver, and the skills of a draftsman, which he imbued in the studio of Jean-Francois Cars (1661 – 1738), stood him in good stead throughout his career; his delightful drawings are one of the most sought-after aspects of his oeuvre.
As a student of Francois Lemoyne (1688 - 1737), he mastered the art of composition. The four years he spent in Italy, from 1727-1731, educated him in the works of the masters, classics and history, that his modest upbringing had denied him.
On his return to Paris in 1734, he gained full membership of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with his splendid Rinaldo and Armida (Paris, Musée du Louvre). Although, throughout his career, he occasionally painted subjects taken from the Bible, and would always have considered himself first as a history painter, his own repertoire of heroines, seductresses, flirtatious peasant girls and erotic beauties was better suited to a lighter, more decorative subject matter. His mastery of technique and composition enabled him to move from large scale tapestry...
Category
1750s Old Masters The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Chalk, Ink
Penny Stars and Clouds (Matisse Inspired Drawing on Collaged Vintage Book Pages)
Located in Hudson, NY
Penny Stars and Clouds (Matisse-like Drawing on Collaged Vintage Book Pages) by Louise Laplante
2024
pastel and collaged vintage Penny Magazines and chalk
23.75 x 24.50 inches unfram...
Category
2010s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pastel
Untitled (Wasserzeichnung / Water drawing)
Located in New York, NY
In her 1980s series of 'Wasserzeichnungen' (Water Drawings), Heidi Bucher used gestural marks in gouache on paper to create what can be described as "wate...
Category
1980s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Composition, Original Modern Still Life Gouache Painting by Fernand Leger
By Fernand Léger
Located in Long Island City, NY
Fernand Leger's depiction of a still life with a pitcher and bowl of fruit starts in simplistic and tangible reality on the right side of the composition before quickly devolving int...
Category
1950s Modern The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Les Captives by Paul Delvaux - Nudes, Work on paper, Ink
By Paul Delvaux
Located in London, GB
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Les Captives by Paul Delvaux (1897-1994)
Pen, Indian ink and wash on paper
35 x 43.5 cm (13 ³/₄ x 17 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed and dated lower right, P. Delvaux 1955
Inscribed on the reverse
Provenance: Christie's London, 2010
Private collection, London, acquired from the above
Artist biography:
Belgian artist Paul Delvaux was born in Liège in eastern Belgium. Despite Delvaux’s desire to become an artist, his lawyer father encouraged him to train as an architect at the prestigious Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
Thanks to private art tuition undertaken alongside his architectural studies, in 1925 Delvaux gained his first solo exhibition in Brussels. Heavily influenced by contemporary Expressionism and Surrealism, Delvaux was soon drawn to the ‘metaphysical’ paintings of Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico. On a chance visit to a museum of medical curiosities...
Category
1950s Surrealist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Pen
Sklye by Sam Francis - Painting, Acrylic, Abstract Art
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
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Sklye by Sam Francis (1923-1994)
Acrylic on paper
14.6 x 10.2 cm (5 ³/₄ x 4 inches)
Signed, Sam Francis and dated on th...
Category
1980s Abstract The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Variation de l'Ecuyère, Original Modern Painting on Paper by Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
A variation is a common term in various performing styles meant to refer to a planned or choreographed routine. In this original gouache, pastel, and graphite work on paper by French...
Category
1930s Modern The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache, Graphite
Etude de Ciel - Impressionist Landscape Pastel Study by Eugene Boudin
By Eugène Louis Boudin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed pastel on grey paper circa 1860 by Eugene Boudin. The piece is a study of clouds in a blue sky.
Signature:
Signed with the cachet of the artist's estate lower right
Dimensio...
Category
1860s Impressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Springtime in the Meadow, from Daphnis and Chloe
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887–1985, France)
Springtime in the Meadow, from Daphnis and Chloe, 1961
Marc Chagall’s Springtime in the Meadow is a vibrant color lithograph from his celebrated Dap...
Category
1960s Symbolist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso Drawing, Nude Female Figure
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Marking(s); notes: signed, marking(s); 1963
Materials: colored wax crayons and pencil on paper
Dimensions (H, W, D):...
Category
Mid-19th Century The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Wax Crayon, Pencil
Moss Beach, California, San Francisco, West Coast Landscape, Ocean Shore
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Ernest William Christmas (Australian, 1863-1918)
Signed: E. W. Christmas (Lower, Left)
" Moss Beach, Ocean Shore, Cal. ", 1915
(California)
Watercolor on Paper
20" x 25 3/4"
Hou...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Green Square #19" Diana Kurz, Abstract Expressionist Gestural Green and Purple
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Green Square #19
Gouache on paper
25 x 19 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Gouache
summer:detroit
By McArthur Binion
Located in New York, NY
McArthur Binion (b. 1946, Macon, MS; lives and works in Chicago, IL) combines collage, drawing, and painting to create autobiographical abstractions of painted minimalist patterns ov...
Category
2010s Abstract The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969) - Composition rouge, carmin et jaune - Lithograph
By Serge Poliakoff
Located in Varese, IT
Rare color lithograph on Rives paper
, built in 1958
Limited edition of 125 copies
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist
Numbered specimen: 111/125
Sheet size: 76 x 56 cm
Plate...
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1950s Abstract The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Lithograph
Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook by Rembrandt van Rijn
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rembrandt van Rijn
1606-1669 Dutch
Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook
Etching on paper
New Hollstein's 309, second state of II
Signed and dated "Rembrandt f. 1658" (upper left)
Created from observations of a live model, this work started as a figure study before evolving into a more imaginative setting. It remains ambiguous whether the scene is set indoors, as suggested by the cushion the figure is seated on, or outdoors, indicated by the foliage in the background. The omission of her feet, suggesting they may be dangling in a brook, adds a charming touch to Rembrandt’s imaginative scene. The figure seems unaware of the viewer, presenting a dignified yet sensual demeanor.
The son of a miller, Rembrandt van Rijn is believed to have been born in Leiden on July 15, 1606. He studied first at the Latin School and then was enrolled at the University of Leiden at the age of 14. He soon left to study art—first with a local master, Jacob van Swanenburch, and then, in Amsterdam, with Pieter Lastman...
Category
17th Century Old Masters The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Etching, Paper
Wild Raspberries FS IV.126-143 (Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board Stamped)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Wild Raspberries FS IV.126-143
The complete book, comprising 18 offset lithographs, 3 with hand-coloring, (one of which is a double plate), printed title page and two blank pages (as issued), with recipes by Suzie Frankfurt...
Category
1950s Pop Art The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Study of Lucie (Ralph) Belin seated in an interior
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study of Lucie (Ralph) Belin seated in an interior
Graphite on paper, 1915
Signed with the estate stamp, Lugt 909b, the stamp faded from blue to brown (see photo)
Provenance:
Neffe-D...
Category
1910s Impressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Graphite
Untitled SF50-001
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis (1923-1994) was an American abstract painter, born in San Mateo, California. He turned to painting in the aftermath of World War II whilst recovering from severe injuries...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Egg Tempera
Towards the sea, gouache on paper by British female artist Rachel Fenner
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Rachel Fenner ARCA (British, b.1939)
Towards the sea, Porth Y Rhaw
Gouache on paper
Signed ‘Rachel Fenner’ (lower right)
11.3/8 x 14.7/8 in. (29 x 37.7 cm.)
Provenance: Duncan Campbe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Changing
By Klara Kristalova
Located in New York, NY
Kristalova is best known for her figurative ceramic sculptures that incorporate aspects of the human body and elements of nature. Across her oeuvre, she explores transition as a stag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Gouache
River landscape by Paulémile Pissarro - Work on paper
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
River landscape by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Charcoal on paper
24 x 32 cm (9 ¹/₂ x 12 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile- Pissarro.
This work is accompanied by a certific...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Baigneuse dans un cours d'eau by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Gouache on paper
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Baigneuse dans un cours d'eau by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Gouache on paper
49.5 x 36 cm (19 ¹/₂ x 14 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, manzana - Pissarro
This work is accom...
Category
1910s The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Bathers
By Paul Gauguin
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Bathers" is an abstract figurative Impressionist monotype with gouache on paper work by Paul Gauguin in 1902. The artwork is 8 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches and is 17 3/4 x 23 3/4 x 7/8 inche...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Monotype
Pastorales by Joan Miró - Abstraction, Work on Paper
By Joan Miró
Located in London, GB
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Pastorales by Joan Miró (1893-1983)
Gouache and wax crayon on paper
66 x 50.3 cm (26 x 19 ³/₄ inches)
Signed Miró, date...
Category
1960s Abstract The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Wax Crayon, Gouache
Barque Mary H. Vose
Located in Milford, NH
An exceptional watercolor ship portrait of the Barque Mary H. Vose by French artist Joseph Honore Maxime Pellegrin (1793-1869). Pellegrin worked and lived in Marseilles, France. His ...
Category
1850s The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Near Westport, Ireland”
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a location near Westport, Ireland, most likely Clew Bay by the very well known American artist, Adolf Arthur Dehn. Signed by the artist low...
Category
1960s American Realist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Early 19th Century, Portrait of a young man wearing glasses, gouache
Located in Paris, FR
Early 19th Century,
Portrait of a young man wearing glasses,
gouache on paper
13 x 10.5 cm oval view
In a vintage frame : 41.5 x 39 cm, accidents and lacks in the gilding but but...
Category
1820s Old Masters The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Gouache
Untitled (Wasserzeichnung / Water drawing)
Located in New York, NY
In her 1980s series of 'Wasserzeichnungen' (Water Drawings), Heidi Bucher used gestural marks in gouache on paper to create what can be described as "wate...
Category
1980s Contemporary The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Clinton Hill, Paris, July, 1951 (France), mid-century abstract gouache drawing
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images.
He lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor.
Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Gouache
summer:detroit
By McArthur Binion
Located in New York, NY
McArthur Binion (b. 1946, Macon, MS; lives and works in Chicago, IL) combines collage, drawing, and painting to create autobiographical abstractions of painted minimalist patterns ov...
Category
2010s Abstract The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Woman with Red Sash
By Philip Leslie Hale
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
An influential critic, writer and teacher, Philip Leslie Hale was an American Impressionist with an experimental, avant-garde approach to painting. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of author Edward Everett Hale and the younger brother of artist Ellen Day Hale, Philip was raised in a lively intellectual atmosphere. He probably received his first artistic training from his paternal aunt Susan Hale, after which he entered the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School under Edmund Tarbell, an American Impressionist painter who greatly influenced Hale’s style. A year later in 1884, the young artist moved to New York City, where he enrolled at the Art Students League and studied under Kenyon Cox and J. Alden Weir. There, his fellow students included Theodore Butler and William Howard “Peggy” Hart.
In 1887, Hale traveled to Paris with Theodore Butler and Susan Hale, where he furthered his artistic training at Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian. During this first year, he studied with Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, Gustave Boulanger and Henri Lucien Doucet...
Category
1890s Abstract Impressionist The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Pastel
Tornado in Space
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A drawing by Alexander Calder. "Tornado in Space" is a Post-War abstract drawing, ink on paper in black and white by artist Alexander Calder. The artwork is s...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-War The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Ink
" jeune Homme de profil " .
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889 - 1963 )
" le Rappel à l'Ordre " (1930-1932)
certificat de Madame Annie Guedras N° 6355 F.
dessin à l'encre Bleu foncé et encre noire exécuté sur la page de fa...
Category
1930s Art Deco The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Magazine Paper
"The Bather"
By Gershon Benjamin
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Gershon Benjamin (1899 – 1985).
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and urban scene...
Category
1950s The Most Beautiful Things
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
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