Continental Europe - Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Interior is a drawing in pencil on paper realized by Jeanne Daour. The state of preservation is good except for some foxings and stains. Hand-signed and dated 1941, on the lower ri...

Interior is a drawing in pencil on paper realized by Jeanne Daour. The state of preservation is good except for some foxings and stains. Sheet dimension: 21.5 x 31.5 cm The artwor...

"Girl in a Room" is an original black China ink drawing on paper glued on ivory-colored cardboard, signed and dated by Burt Riley. In excellent conditions: as good as new. Sheet di...

Interior is an original drawing in ink and pencil on paper realized by Jeanne Daour. The state of preservation is good except for some foxings and stains. Sheet dimension: 36.5 x 2...

Nude is an original drawing in pen on paper realized by Jeanne Daour. The state of preservation is good except for some foxings and stains. Hand-signed and dated 1940 on the lower ...

Nude is an original drawing in pencil and watercolor on paper realized by Jeanne Daour. The state of preservation is good except for some foxings and stains. Sheet dimension: 42 x ...

Dancers is an original drawing in pen and pencil on paper realized by Jeanne Daour. The state of preservation is good except for some foldings and two rips on the right margin. Han...

Nude is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Jeanne Daour. The state of preservation is good except for some foxings and stains. Sheet dimension: 50 x 32.5cm On both...

Seated Woman is an original drawing in blue pencil on paper realized by Jeanne Daour. The state of preservation is good except for some foldings. Sheet dimension: 27.5 x 22 cm The...

Cat on the Chair is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Jeanne Daour. The state of preservation is good except for some foldings and stains. Hand-signed and dated 19...

Ritual is an original drawing in watercolor on cardboard realized by the Italian artist Enrico Sacchetti as scenography for a theatrical representatio...

Adolph Eduard Otto von Faber du Faur (1828 Ludwigsburg - 1901 Munich). Man sitting in the studio. Watercolour painting, 43 x 27 cm (visible size), 73 x 53 cm (frame), monogrammed at lower right, estate stamp. Upper right corner neatly repaired, small tear in the wall to the left of the sitter. - Thinking about art - About the artwork The sitter, an elderly man, is seated in a studio on a pedestal reminiscent of an academy hall. The earthy, dark tones give the scene a weighty quality. The lightest tones are found in the incarnate parts of the figure, which do not stand out from the other colours of the picture, but are linked to them. As a result, the sitter's face is both part of and the highlight of the colour references in the picture. The colour of the sitter's skin is reflected in his pink coat, while his white-grey hair matches the colour of the wall next to him. This almost monochrome wall surface, in turn, is connected across the portrait to the framed picture standing on the floor, which seems to have been erased by this correspondence with the empty wall surface. Through the palette, which is positioned directly behind the sitter's head, the reference to painting, which is already given by the studio space, is explicitly linked to the sitter, who thus seems to be contemplating the question of the meaning of art. This raises the question of whether Faber Du Faur, who had become lonely in his old age, might have painted a self-portrait here in his later years. In addition to the studio setting, the sitter's explicit reference to the palette and the fact that the picture was part of his estate, the only summary elaboration of the body suggests a self-portrait, while the representation of the face is concretised with the wide-open eyes typical of a self-portrait. This concentration on the face gives the impression of the artist's melancholy introspection, captured by the palette and related to the meaning of painting, whose dark character is reinforced by the concealment of the palette hanging on the right of the picture in the light tones so characteristic of Faber Du Faur. In the course of this resignation, Faber du Faur advises his son Hans, who has also become a painter: "Promise me one thing: never move to Munich, they'll kill you here!" Whoever the sitter may be, the references to painting make the portrait a resigned self-contemplation by Faber Du Faur, focused on art. About the artist After leaving school, Otto Faber du Faur entered the service of the Württemberg army, at the same time cultivating his artistic talent. In 1851, on the recommendation of his father Christian Wilhelm, who was himself a battle painter, he spent six months in Munich as an apprentice to Alexander von Kotzebue. In 1852 he was granted a year's leave of absence from military service to study battle painting in the studio of Adolphe Yvon...

Years of collecting books, travel archives and studying art in Europe, went hand in hand with visiting historical monuments and grand palaces, remnants of past golden eras. This nostalgic raking over the past encompasses these inspirational elements, weaved together with her own curiosity in loose charcoal lines depicting Baroque, whimsical and once decadent interiors. “The rooms in my paintings are small trips to the past. I look for an alternative reality through a fictional scenario, represented by a dystopian era of booms and declines.” Francisca Ahlers...

French School Of The First Half Of The XIXth Century" FRENCH SCHOOL OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE XIXTH CENTURY Ptolemy's system Drawing in pen, watercolor and wash signed Bonnechaux and ...

Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to publicity. “I am 58, and in five Years my c...

Scarlet sunset. Bilateral. 1966. Paper, watercolor, 26.5x35 cm Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013) Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she be...

In the park. Paper, watercolor, 42x29.5 cm Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013) Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In ...

Years of collecting books, travel archives and studying art in Europe, went hand in hand with visiting historical monuments and grand palaces, remnan...

Double-sided sketch for the "Sala delle Cariatidi" of the Royal Palace in Milan. The vibrant and intense brown ink sketch of these two female figures, executed by the Parma plastici...

Sails. Watercolor, paper, 18,5 x 23 cm Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private collections in Latvia, USA, Sweden...

Fairy tale. 1950. Paper, watercolor, 26,5x19,5 cm

Charcoal and acrylic on canvas Nostalgia for seemingly better times, or perhaps, simultaneously, a secret yearning for worse times to come, are woven into Francisca Ahlers’s scenes,...

Charcoal on paper Unique work Hand-signed by the artist

Years of collecting books, travel archives and studying art in Europe, went hand in hand with visiting historical monuments and grand palaces, remnants of past golden eras. This nostalgic raking over the past encompasses these inspirational elements, weaved together with her own curiosity in loose charcoal lines depicting Baroque, whimsical and once decadent interiors. “The rooms in my paintings are small trips to the past. I look for an alternative reality through a fictional scenario, represented by a dystopian era of booms and declines.” Francisca Ahlers...

Years of collecting books, travel archives and studying art in Europe, went hand in hand with visiting historical monuments and grand palaces, remnants of past golden eras. This nostalgic raking over the past encompasses these inspirational elements, weaved together with her own curiosity in loose charcoal lines depicting Baroque, whimsical and once decadent interiors. “The rooms in my paintings are small trips to the past. I look for an alternative reality through a fictional scenario, represented by a dystopian era of booms and declines.” Francisca Ahlers...

Years of collecting books, travel archives and studying art in Europe, went hand in hand with visiting historical monuments and grand palaces, remnants of past golden eras. This nostalgic raking over the past encompasses these inspirational elements, weaved together with her own curiosity in loose charcoal lines depicting Baroque, whimsical and once decadent interiors. “The rooms in my paintings are small trips to the past. I look for an alternative reality through a fictional scenario, represented by a dystopian era of booms and declines.” Francisca Ahlers has exhibited internationally with Villa del Arte Galleries...

Years of collecting books, travel archives and studying art in Europe, went hand in hand with visiting historical monuments and grand palaces, remnan...

Years of collecting books, travel archives and studying art in Europe, went hand in hand with visiting historical monuments and grand palaces, remnants of past golden eras. This nostalgic raking over the past encompasses these inspirational elements, weaved together with her own curiosity in loose charcoal lines depicting Baroque, whimsical and once decadent interiors. “The rooms in my paintings are small trips to the past. I look for an alternative reality through a fictional scenario, represented by a dystopian era of booms and declines.” Francisca Ahlers has exhibited internationally with Villa del Arte Galleries...