Peter Marks Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Sonia Delaunay - Original Watercolor on paper Dimensions: 21 x 21 cm. Authentified by her son Charles Delaunay on the back. Sonia Delaunay was known for her vivid use of color and her bold, abstract patterns, breaking down traditional distinctions between the fine and applied arts as an artist, designer and printmaker. Born Sarah Stern on November 14, 1885 in Gradizhsk, Ukraine, she was adopted in 1890 by her maternal uncle, Henri Terk, a lawyer in St. Petersburg, where she grew up, exposed to music and art, and learning several foreign languages. In 1903, she moved to Germany to study drawing with Ludwig Schmidt-Reutler (1863–1909) at the Karlsruhe academy of fine arts; Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), composer-to-be, was among her classmates there. In 1905, she traveled to Paris where she attended art classes at the Académie de la Palette, learned printmaking from Rudolf Grossman (1889–1941), and met Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966), André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974), and Jean-Louis Boussingault (1883–1943). Sonia spent much of her time at exhibitions and galleries in Paris, which showed works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard, as well as Les Fauves, Henri Matisse and André Derain. She did, however, maintain contact with Germany, exhibiting at the Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, in 1913, 1920 and 1921. During her first year in Paris, Sonia met the German collector and art-dealer, Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), whom she married on December 5, 1908, and whose Montparnasse gallery, the Galerie Notre-Dame des Champs, showed her first solo exhibition. Through Uhde, Sonia encountered many painters, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Robert Delaunay (1885–1941). In 1910, Sonia divorced Uhde by mutual agreement, married Delaunay that same year, and gave birth to their son, Charles, in January 1911. Together Sonia and Robert Delaunay pursued the study of color, influenced by theories of Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889). Sonia’s interest in simultaneous contrast, as evidenced in her early collages, book bindings, small painted boxes...

Signed lower right, 'Charlotte A. Morton' (American, 1885-1974) and painted circa 1955. A sensitive study of various blossoms including geraniums, lupin and catmint. A landscape painter and teacher, Charlotte Augusta Morton graduated from Kansas State College before continuing her education at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League of New York and the Pratt Institute. After moving to California and attending Stanford University where she received her Masters in Education, Morton taught at San Jose State College before moving to Monterey and joining the Carmel Art...

Bold mid century modern abstracted pastel on paper still life of several terra cotta jugs and vessels distilled down to their most basic shapes and ar...

Abstract cubist style still life graphite drawing inspired by Giorgio Morandi's bottle paintings "Morandi 19” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made in 2023 Graphite on pap...

Abstract cubist style still life graphite drawing inspired by Giorgio Morandi's bottle paintings "Morandi 17” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made in 2023 Graphite on pap...

Monochromatic abstract still life drawing by Janice Redman. The piece depicts what appears to be a stack of bowls joined by strings. Signed by the artist at the lower right corner. Framed and matted in a modern wooden frame. Dimensions With Frame: H 11 in. x W 8.75 in. Artist Biography: Janice Redman, sculptor, was born in Huddersfield, England and received her BFA from Kingston University, Surrey, and her MFA from the University of Ulster in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is a former Fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center In Provincetown, Massachusetts,and has been the recipient of many awards, including The Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Purchase Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Massachusetts Cultural Council award in sculpture. Her residency programs include Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York,and the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts In Houston, Texas. Redman’s work has been shown nationally and is represented by Clark Gallery in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, Michigan. "My work,” Redman says, “is rooted in my everyday experience and my personal history. My mother was a seamstress and a lace maker; my father restored antique clocks...

Signed lower left, in graphite, 'Carl Fischer' (Danish, 1887-1962) and created created 1935. Watermarked 'Ingres Van Gelder Zonen' along right edge. Carl Fischer first studied under Viggo Johansen...

Estate stamp, verso, for Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and t...

"Four Charge Clouds" a geometric abstract painting made in 2019 by Amanda Andersen, initialed on the back. This was one of the first pieces that began a body of work inspired by ord...

"Morandi 14” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made in 2023 Graphite and acrylic on paper in an antique frame Abstract cubist style still life graphite drawing inspired by G...

Abstract cubist style still life graphite drawing inspired by Giorgio Morandi's bottle paintings “Three Morandi Bottles II” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made in 2022 G...

"Five Charge Clouds" a geometric abstract painting made in 2019 by Amanda Andersen, initialed on the back. This was one of the first pieces that began a body of work inspired by ordi...