Socrate Foscato Art

Ink and sepia wash on light wove paper, 5 1/8 x 4 inches (128 x 100 mm), signed in brown ink and dated in black ink below the image. Scattered light foxing and uniform toning. Adhered to nonarchival white cardstock, creating minor cockling, and obscuring the verso. Alberto Prosdocimi (1852-1925) was an Italian watercolorist and celebrated mansucript illuminator known for his atmospheric cityscapes and interior views of Venice. His canal scences are simple yet masterful, filled with languid motion...

Ink wash with watercolor in sepia and black, and blue, on buff wove watercolor paper, 14 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (360 x 260 mm). 1/4" of the lower right corner is lost, minor crack (doe...

Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860 - 1939) Medieval Thoughts, circa 1890 Wash, ink, and watercolor on paper 11 x 9 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Phillips New York, 19th and 20th ce...

L'Ile des Oiseaux by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972) Watercolour and charcoal on paper 23 x 31 cm (9 x 12 ¹/₄ inches) Signed lower right, Paulémile Pissarro Provenance Private collec...

gouache with pen and ink signed "Seymour Thomas" at lower right

An early Devonshire landscape, ex-collection West Collection of British Watercolors & the Fine Art Society, London. Circa 1800 Ink and brown wash on paper, 7 1/8 x 10 1/4 inches (...

Gravesend. August 1928. Ink and watercolor on paper. 13 1/2 x 21. Signed and dated in ink, lower left; and titled in ink, verso. Housed in a 24 1/2 x 31-inch Whistler-style gold frame. Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, on the south bank of the Thames, opposite Tilbury in Essex, about 15 miles southeast of London. Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James McBey attended evening classes at Graydon's School of Art and taught himself etching, building his own press at the age of fifteen. He moved to London to prepare for a one-man show at Goupil's Gallery, and shortly after this highly successful first show, he traveled to Morocco with James Kerr Lawson...

Grand Arbre dans la Sente by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Watercolour and ink on paper 28 x 38 cm (11 x 15 inches) Signed lower right, Ludovic Rodo Inscribed lower left, Grand A...

Rio della Misericordia. October 1924. Watercolor. 14 x 8 3/4. McBey did a striking nocturnal view of the bridge in his 1926 drypoint, The Bridge by Night Carter 232. Signed and dated, lower right; titled verso. Housed in a French mat and a 22 x 16 1/2-inch gold leaf frame. The Rio Della Misericordia ( from the Venetian to the Misericordia Canal ) is a canal from Venice in the sestiere of Cannaregio, Contrada San Marzillan in Italy. The river runs along the old Servite convent. The canal is crossed by two bridges, from east to west: the San Marziale spawning linking the campo of the same name with the Fondamenta de la Misericordia and the dei dei Servi or Betania linking the Mensa di Betania to the Fondamenta de la Misericordia . Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James McBey attended evening classes at Graydon's School of Art and taught himself etching, building his own press at the age of fifteen. He moved to London to prepare for a one-man show at Goupil's Gallery, and shortly after this highly successful first show, he traveled to Morocco with James Kerr...

Tenterden by Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944) Watercolour, ink, pen and coloured crayon 16.5 x 24 cm (6 ¹/₂ x 9 ¹/₂ inches) Signed with monogram and titled lower right Provenance: The Redfern Gallery...

Village in Normandy by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972) Watercolour, ink and charcoal on paper 40 x 31.2 cm (15 ³/₄ x 12 ¹/₄ inches) Signed lower left, Paulémile Pissarro Executed ...

Place Dauphine by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952) Watercolour and ink on paper 21 x 15.7 cm (8 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches) Signed with Estate stamp lower left Ins...