McNaught Fine Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

'Dancing Musician' by Ronald Mallory, 1975. New York Museum of Modern Art, Kinetic Figural, Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum ----- Signed lower right, 'Mallor...

'Reclining Nude' by Elmer Bischoff, 1964. Bay Area Figurative School, California School of Fine Art, San Francisco, California ----- Signed lower left, 'E. Bischoff' for Elmer Nelson Bischoff (American, 1916-1991) and dated ''64'". Previously with: Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, California Framed Dimensions: 21.75 H x 18.5 W x .75 D Inches This work is accompanied by a First edition volume of 'Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint' by Susan Landauer & Bill Berkson, University of California Press, 2001. A key figure in the California Bay Area abstract and figurative movement following World War II, Elmer Bischoff graduated in 1939 from the University of California. As an art student there, he had been strongly influenced by Margaret Peterson...

'Tropical Breeze, Madagascar' by Paul Samuel, 1979. American School watercolor ---- Signed lower left, 'Paul J. Samuel', (American, 20th century), titled 'Madagascar' and dated 1979...

'Woman in Red' by Robert George Gilberg. California Modernist, San Francisco Bay Area Modernism, Thiebaud ----- Signed lower right, 'Gilberg' for Robert George Gilberg (1911-1970) a...

'Still Life, Ochre and Rose' by Victor Di Gesu. Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, San Francisco Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art ----- Signed, lower right, 'Di Gesu'...

'Still Life' by Victor Di Gesu. Louvre, California Post-Impressionist, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Académie Chaumière ----- Estate stamp, verso, for Victor di Gesu (American, ...

'After the Storm' by Herbert Lewis. Carmel, California, Paris, Académie Julian, New York, Art Institute of Chicago ----- Signed lower right, 'Herbert Lewis' (American, 1893-1962) and inscribed 'Caques 1928 and Tucson 1950'. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Herbert Taylor Lewis was known as a painter of abstracts, still lives and figure studies painted with a vivid palette in a bold Modernist style. Lewis first studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and, subsequently, in Europe including at the Académie Julian in Paris during the birth of Modernism and Cubism in the early part of the 20th century. Upon his return to the United State, he kept a studio in New York City for several years but, by 1920, was living and painting in Arizona. In the late 1920s and 1930s, Lewis was working as an art instructor at Rockford College, Illinois, and, from 1943 to 1954, was a resident of Tucson. By the early 1930s, he lived part time in California...

'Untitled No. 1' by Thomas Guise, 1967. Royal Society of Artists, Edinburgh Academy, Palo Alto ----- Signed lower right, 'T.G.M. Guise' for Thomas Gladstone Middleton Guise (Scottish, 1916-1984) and dated 1967. Previously with: Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California. Thomas Guise studied art at Edinburgh College of Art under Thomson Adam Bruce, RSA (1947-1949) before serving with the Royal Artillery between 1939 and 1946. After returning to Scotland, Guise began working professionally as an artist and commenced his fruitful association with the Featherhal Press. Over the course of his career, he was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including the Award for Life Drawing (1947). Guise exhibited internationally with success and was a member of the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolor among others. Accompanied by an artist catalogue, 'T.G.M. Guise: Propinquity', Featherhall Press Limited, Edinburgh 1996. Selected Group Shows 1948 - 1984: RBA, RSA, RI, RSW, RGI, SSA, NEAC. Arun Art Centre The Bath Festival Exhibition Selected Solo Shows: 1966 - Randolph Gallery, Edinburgh Festival 1967 - Encina Gallery Stanford University, California, United States 1968 - Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California, United States 1968 - Randolph Gallery Edinburgh Festival 1970 - Clarkson Gallery, Victoria Street...

'Evening Landscape' by Robert George Gilberg. Bay Area Abstraction, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, California Watercolor Society ----- Signed ...

'By the Pool' by Daniel Camp. San Diego Artist, Psychological Portraiture ---- Signed lower right, 'Daniel M. Camp' (American, born 1947) and painted circa 1985. A luminously atmo...

'Two Women' by Jean Negulesco, 1969. Continuous Line Drawing, British Academy Film Awards, Maltese Falcon, Oscar, Hollywood ---- Signed lower left 'Negulesco' for Jean Negulesco (Rom...

'Roofs of Ravello' by Margaret Wentworth, 1959. Mid-Century Abstract, Harvard Fogg Museum, San Francisco Art Association, Carmel, Art Institute of Chicago ------ Initialed lower rig...

'Medea' by Peter Brandes, 1964. Jason's Enchantress, Greek Mythological Figural, Expressionist Woman ----- Signed lower right, 'Peter Brandes' (Danish, ...

'Figural Interior' by André Dignimont. Paris, Académie Julian, Salon D’Automne, Benezit, Bordello ---- Signed lower right, "Dignimont" for André Digni...

'Nymph with a Centaur' by T.M. French School, Academic, Framed Greek Mythological Grisaille --- An exceptionally fine, brush and wash, mythological figural study showing a centaur i...

'The Cote d'Azur' by Irma Engel Grabhorn. Paris, Salon d'Automne, Post-Impressionist California Artist ---- Signed lower right 'Engel G' for Irma Engel Grabhorn (American, 1908-2003...

'Girl in Red' by Carlo Maria Mariani, 1959. Guggenheim, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Rome, Academy of Fine Arts, Venice Biennale ----- Signed upper right, 'C. Mariani' for Carlo Maria Mariani (Italian, 1931-2021) and dated 1959. Framed dimensions: 22.5 x 1.5 x 17.5 inches A native of Rome, Carlo Mariani first studied there at the Academy of Fine Arts where he was influenced by the prevailing styles of Hyper-Realism and Conceptualism. In 1994, he moved to New York City where he began to paint figural landscapes in a traditional, neo-classical style. The 1990s brought Mariani wide recognition and numerous honors, as he represented Italy three times at the Venice Biennale. Additionally, in 1998, he received the prestigious Antonio Feltrinelli Award for lifetime achievement in painting. Mariani continues to be best known for his refined and painterly, Renaissance technique. He was a central figure in Rome’s avant-garde in the 1970s and is widely regarded as an influential forerunner of 1980's Postmodernism. He achieved an international reputation, beginning in the early 1980s, for his arcane and, often, controversial paintings...

'Midcentury Biomorphic Abstract' by Emilio Rodríguez Larraín, 1964. NYMoMA, Paris, XXXII Venice Biennale, Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima, Peru ----- Signed, lower right, 'E.R. Larrain' for Emilio Rodríguez Larraín (Peruvian, 1928-2015), and inscribed 'Roma, Nov 1963, Enero 1964'. (Rome, Nov 1963-January 1964). Verso titled, "L'Homme C'est Sujet à Errer" (Man Tends to Wander), and bearing the artist's self-portrait in india ink and wash. Exhibited: XXXII Venice Biennale, 1964. (original exhibition label verso) Previously with Staempfli Galleries, New York. This painting is registered in the Archives of American Art as 'Staempfli Gallery, inventory #775'. A monumental and historically distinguished work by this groundbreaking Peruvian Modernist who drew inspiration from Peruvian indigenous and pre-colonial culture. The paintings of Emilio Rodríguez Larraín are held in the permanent collections of museums worldwide including the Musée de la Ville de Paris, Peru's Museo de Arte de Lima and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This painting was selected by the Peruvian Government for exhibition at the XXXII Venice Biennale in 1964 and is the largest single recorded work by the artist. Emilio Rodríguez Larraín received his Bachelors of Architecture in 1949 from Peru's Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería and held his first solo exhibition in Lima after visiting Europe in 1950. In 1951, he returned to Europe in the company of the artists Alfredo Ruiz Rosas and Joaquín Roca Rey...

'The Agony in the Garden' by Jais Nielsen, 1938. Paris, Salon d’Automne, Section d'Or, Gethsemane ----- Signed lower left, 'Jais' for Johannes Knud Ove Jais-Nielsen (Danish, 1885-19...