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Item Ships From: Europe
French Gouache Painting of Native American Mustang Hunt in Nevada
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Native American Mustang Hunt in Nevada
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
S...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Berthomme Saint-André, The Nap, Watercolor, 1925
By Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Watercolor by Louis Berthommé Saint-André, France, circa 1925
This exquisite watercolor by Louis Berthommé Saint-André, dating from around 1925, exemplifies the artist's mastery in ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
" Visage Poisson" Unique prototype
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889 - 1963 )
" Visage poisson " circa 1962 .
signé Jean Cocteau ( Bon à tirer )
framed : 60 x45 cm
image : 46 x32 cm
Category
1960s Art Deco Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
Study of a horse lying on its right side seen from the front
By Adam Frans van der Meulen
Located in Stockholm, SE
Provenance:
Jean-Marc Du Pan (1785–1838), Geneva (L. 1440), passed to his brother
Alexandre-Louis Du Pan (1787–1846);
his sale, Geneva, March 26–28, 1840, included in lots 913–917;
...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Mid Century French Stylish Woman Posed at the Bar
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 13 (height) x 10 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Pr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
1950's Big Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Figures Gathered
By Bernard Labbe
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on paper mounted on card
size: 18.75 x 24 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Vibrant French Gouache Painting of Navajo Jewelry Makers in Albuquerque
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Vibrant French Gouache Painting of Navajo Jewelry Makers in Albuquerque
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed p...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Mid Century French Pencil Sketch Fashionable Sketches of Figures and Accessories
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal /watercolour on artists paper, double sided
Size: 9.5 height) x 6.25 (width)
Stamped Verso
Con...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil, Watercolor
French Gouache Painting of Native American Antelope Hunt in Utah
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Native American Antelope Hunt in Utah
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
Si...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Rare on the Art Market, A Drawing by Moitte, A Fashionable Couple, 1766
Located in Stockholm, SE
Pierre Etienne Moitte studied in Paris under Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet and Pierre-François Beaumont (1719–1769). In 1771, he was accepted (agréé) by the Académie Royale de Peinture e...
Category
1760s Old Masters Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Devant le Chateau - China Ink Drawing by Salvador Dalì - 1945
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Devant le Chateau une Carrosse Passait is a modern artwork realized by Salvador Dalì in 1945.
China Ink drawing on paper.
Signed and dated on the lower right recto.
Outstanding dr...
Category
1940s Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
African American Woman artist Mailou Jones Cezannian Cote d'Azur cubist village
Located in Norwich, GB
If you are interested in African American Art and in Women in the Arts, I will certainly not need to introduce Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1988). Often associated with the Harlem Renaissance, her
work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection. I am proud to present an original watercolour painting by the artist which dates from the late 1940s or early 1950s.
Jones was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a father who became the first African-American to earn a law degree from Suffolk Law School. Jones's parents encouraged her to draw and paint using watercolors during her childhood. She held her first solo exhibition at the age of seventeen in Martha's Vineyard.
He career began in the 1930s and she continued to produce art work until her death in 1998 at the age of 92. Her style shifted and evolved multiple times in response to influences in her life, especially her extensive travels. She felt that her greatest contribution to the art world was "proof of the talent of black artists". Her work echoes her pride in her African roots and American ancestry.
In 1937, Jones received a fellowship to study in Paris at the Académie Julian, bringing her to France for the first time. The French were appreciative of her paintings and talent and Loïs Mailou Jones was thrilled at the country’s racial tolerance, so different from her reality in the United States.
She summered in France annually from 1945 to 1953, sharing studio with her lifelong friend Celine Marie Tabary in Cabris, France.
It was during one of these sojourns that the lovely work presented here was created.
Our painting depicts the village of Tourettes sur Loup, just north of Nice, in the Provence Cote d'Azur region, about 14 miles from Cabris.
Please note its similarities with her painting "Arreau, Hautes-Pyrénées" in the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Her portrayal of the picturesque village nestled in a valley evokes landscape paintings by Paul Cézanne, a stylistic influence she acknowledged.
Over the course of the following 10 years, Jones exhibited at the Phillips Collection, Seattle Art Museum, National Academy of Design, the Barnett-Aden Gallery, Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, Howard University, galleries in New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In 1952, the book Loïs Mailou Jones: Peintures 1937–1951 was published, reproducing more than one hundred of her art pieces completed in France.At the Barnett-Aden Gallery, Jones exhibited with a group of prominent black artists, such as Jacob Lawrence and Alma Thomas. These artists and others were known as the "Little Paris...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Vintage French Watercolor Painting Nice Old Town South of France Lively Street
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Old Town, Nice France
Tony Minartz (French 1873 - 1994)
watercolor on artist paper, unframed
painting : 17 x 12.75 inches
Provenance: private collection in the South of France
Co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
" 1er d' Atelier" De Yves Saint Laurent
By Yves Saint Laurent
Located in CANNES, FR
Yves Saint Laurent
" 1er d'Atelier " est un dessin aquarelle , feutre, gouache et crayon de couleur
ce dessin a été réalisé pour le départ à la retraite en 1991 de Monsieur Georg...
Category
1990s Art Deco Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen, Color Pencil
1950's Big Modernist/ Cubist Painting - French Building
By Bernard Labbe
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, mounted in a card frame
size: 25.5 x 21 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Couple of Deers - Original Pencil Drawing by Ernest Rouart - Early 1900
By Ernest Rouart
Located in Roma, IT
Couple of Deers is an original drawing realized by Ernest Rouart in the early XX Century. Pencil on paper; signed on the lower right margin. The back of the artwork is sketched in pencil. Passepartout included (49 x 34 cm). Very good conditions.
Very nice sketch representing a couple of little cute deers. The softness and the elegance of the contour lines reflect the great talent of Rouart, especially in the representation of animals. The proportions of the bodies are precise, clear, and simple. The artist realized many different sketches with deers and other animals in different poses.
Ernest Rouart (Paris, 1874 – Paris, 1942) was a French painter, illustrator, engraver, and art collector.
He was the son of Henri Rouart...
Category
Early 20th Century Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
1950's Big Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Peaceful Backstreets Of French Village
By Bernard Labbe
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on paper mounted in a card frame
size: 25.5 x 21 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed - wi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Mid Century French Black Haired Nude Figure Bowed Into Her Knees
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Signed by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal/ink on artists paper, double sided
Size: 9 (height) x 6.75 (width)
Stamped Verso
Con...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil, Ink
L V Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950) A Man writing at his desk , Signed pastel
By Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola
Located in Paris, FR
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950)
A Man writing at his desk, 18th century interior scene
Pastel on paper
Signed upper right
20.5 x 15.8 cm
Framed under glass : 37 x 31.5 cm
It is known that Guirand de Scevola was very interested in the Palace of Versailles and its Old Regime atmosphere, that he often painted it and that he participated in the Versailles Revival movement at the beginning of the century. This probably led him to paint scenes in the 18th century style, for which he was particularly well known and which are still sought after.
What is striking is the modernity of the execution of our pastel, which obviously contrasts with its subject in the style of the 18th century. Guirand de Scevoal is a great colourist and he proves it here with eclat, by building up his composition with white pastel highlights, contrasting with brown and black. There is something of the northern painters in this treatment of light. All this, as always with him, is very subtle. The light radiating from the window is almost an abstract notation, but it gives meaning to this interior scene.
Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola ( 1871 – 1950) was a French painter.
He was student of Fernand Cormon and Pierre Dupuis...
Category
1920s Art Deco Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
French Gouache Painting of Sioux Scalp Dance Ritual in South Dakota
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Sioux Scalp Dance Ritual in South Dakota
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Mid Century French Pencil Study Portrait Chic Mother and her Children Sketch
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 8 (height) x 7 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Prov...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Rudolf Schlichter, Shirtless man, shouting, circa 1920, black ink on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Rudolf SCHLICHTER (1890-1955)
Shirtless man, shouting, circa 1920
India black ink on paper
43,2 x 28,4 cm
provenance : artist's family
Rudolf Schlichter was born in Calw in 1890. He...
Category
Early 20th Century Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
" la Voix Humaine " . certified .
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889-1963 )
" la voix Humaine " . 1939 .
dessin original de jean Cocteau . signé . avec l'étoile .
19 x 12 cm .
encadrement : 39 x 32 cm.
certificat de Madame Annie...
Category
1930s Art Deco Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
Sur la plage de Deauville - Impressionist Figurative Watercolor by Eugene Boudin
By Eugène Louis Boudin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed watercolour on paper landscape circa 1865 by French impressionist painter Eugene Boudin. This work depicts an artist painting a portrait of an elegant couple on the beach at D...
Category
1860s Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Buongiorno Professore! - Mixed Media by Sirio Pellegrini - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Pastel and watercolor drawing on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Very good condition. Hand signed in pencil lower right.
Includes a contemporary wooden frame 108.5x84....
Category
1960s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
Allegory of Water - Original Lithograph by Ferdinand Bac - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Allegory of Water is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922.
Signed and dated on plate on the lower central margin (...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Elizabeth Reading, circa 1940 - 20th Century Interior Watercolour Painting
By Rowland Suddaby
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Rowland Suddaby was a painter and illustrator, mainly of landscapes. Suddaby was born in Kimberworth, Yorkshire, and studied at Sheffield College of Art from 1926, winning a scholars...
Category
Mid-20th Century Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Napoleon at the Head of His Grande Armée, His Generals and the Prussian Hussars
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pencil, chalk and watercolour depiction of Napoleon at the head of his generals by French artist Jean Ducel. The work is signed bottom right.
A bold and graphic depiction of Napoleo...
Category
Late 20th Century Outsider Art Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Crayon, Cardboard, Pencil, Watercolor
Figure - Original Pen on Paper - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original modern drawing in pen on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower right, illegible.
Good conditions, except for...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Valley View with Pines and Distant Peaks, Sierra Nevada (Possibly Yosemite)
By Carl Oscar Borg
Located in Stockholm, SE
This luminous gouache captures a majestic mountain vista, likely set in California’s Sierra Nevada (possibly Yosemite). Two broad granite peaks with sunlit faces dominate the backgro...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Study of a Man's Shoulder
By Glyn Philpot
Located in London, GB
Black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper, 19cm x 15cm, (32cm x 27cm framed).
First exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1904, Philpot was elected as an Academician in 1923. Like many artists of his generation, he enjoyed a comfortable income from portraiture, which enabled him to paint less commercially successful and perhaps more personal subjects. His interest in the male nude and portraits of...
Category
1920s Art Deco Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Mid Century French Portrait Drawing of a Seated Man in Thought
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Drawing of a Seated Man in Thought
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black pen on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Dated 1946
Size: 12 (hei...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
French Gouache Painting of Pueblo Bread Baking in Taos New Mexico
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Pueblo Bread Baking in Taos New Mexico
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
S...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Mid Century French Expressive Ink Illustration of a Man Standing
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Expressive Ink Illustration of a Man Standing
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Ink and Paper on paper
Size: 7 (height) x 5.25 (width)
S...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Mid Century French Ink Portrait of a Man in Profile
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Ink Portrait of a Woman
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Ink on paper
Size: 11 (height) x 7.5 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condition: Good
P...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Mid Century French Pencil Study of a Male Nude
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Pencil Study of a Male Nude
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil and Paper
Size: 10.75 (height) x 8.25 (width)
Stamped: No
Condition...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Young man in a toga elegant man Latin American hyperrealist Hockney style
By Claudio Bravo
Located in Norwich, GB
Superb original drawing in coloured conté pencils, heightened with white on oatmeal coloured vergé paper by Claudio Bravo. The work was created during the artist's Moroccan period, a...
Category
1970s Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Laid Paper, Color Pencil
Saint Tropez - Watercolor Drawing by Paul Signac - 1900 ca.
By Paul Signac
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 11x15.2 cm.
Saint-Tropez is a wonderful and important original watercolor drawing realized by Paul Signac in 1900 ca..
A marine view with sailing ships is incred...
Category
Early 1900s Pointillist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Whispers and Porcelain, Aquarel by Hector Caffieri
Located in Gent, VOV
In Whispers and Porcelain, Hector Caffieri unveils an intimate world of silence, beauty, and refinement. Two young women inhabit a richly decorated interior, surrounded by houseplant...
Category
19th Century Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Forest
Located in Riga, LV
Karlis Miesnieks (1887.31.I – 1977.25.X)
Studied in the studio of J. Madernieks (1910), in Petersburg society of Imperial art promotion school (1911) and he graduated class of theat...
Category
1940s Realist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Etching
H F Gravelot (1699-1773) Two Allegories, Faith and Vigilance, Pen and Ink
By Hubert-François Gravelot
Located in Paris, FR
Hubert-François Gravelot (1699-1773)
Two Allegories : Vigilance and Faith
Pen, black Ink, and black wash on paper
7.9 x 4.8 each one
Framed 22 x 26 cm
Old framing that needs to be...
Category
1760s Old Masters Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Dancing Couple
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Attributed to Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger (Paris, 1715 – 1790)
Dancing Couple
Circa 1765–1770
Red chalk on cream paper; verso in black and red chalk
34 × 21 cm
Provenance:
...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Mid Century French Portrait Seated Figures with Hat and Loose Shirt
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seated figure
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black pen on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Size: 12 (height) x 8.5 (width)
Condition: G...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Mid Century French Portrait Seated Male Nude in a Meditative Pose
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seated Male Nude in a Meditative Pose
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black pen/charcoal on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Size: 9.5 (h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen, Charcoal
'Views of Madagascar', French School
Located in London, GB
'Views of Madagascar', gouache on paper, French School (circa 1960s). The artist depicts two views of Madagascar in a charming and naive style. The first, a farm and its fields with a significant verdant elevation in the background. The second, a villager sitting in front of his home watching...
Category
1960s Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Pénélope : Greek Woman's costume - Original watercolor drawing
By Suzanne Lalique
Located in Paris, IDF
Suzanne LALIQUE
Pénélope : Greek Woman's costume
Original India ink and watercolor drawing
Signed with the stamp of atelier on the back
On vellum 30.5 x ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912) Soldiers, a study, ink on wood
By Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
Soldiers, a study
Black ink on a wood panel
12.5 x 13 cm
Framed : 20 x 20.5 cm
On the back of the panel a label inscribed "Dessin à la plume par Detaill...
Category
1880s Academic Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Home VI - Family With A Dog - Modern Figurative Nature and Landscape Drawing
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is in simple wooden black frames behind glass.
The full signature is on the back of the drawing.
Hanna Banaszczyk is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting and Drawing ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a black Marker Drawing and Watercolour realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a little white paper.
No signature, dated on the l...
Category
1970s Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Drawing 14, Series Drawing - Large Format, Charcoal On Paper Panting
By Krzysztof Gliszczyński
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is unframed and will be shipped rolled in a tube
Krzysztof Gliszczyński is Professor for painting on Academy of fine arts Gdansk.
Krzysztof Gliszczyński born in Miastko in 1962. Graduated from the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in 1987 in the studio of Prof. Kazimierz Ostrowski. Between 1995 and 2002 founder and co-manager of Koło Gallery in Gdańsk. lnitiator of the Kazimierz Ostrowski Award, con-ferred by the Union of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP), Gdańsk Chapter. Dean of the Painting Faculty of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in the years 2008-2012. Vice Rector for Development and Cooperation of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in the years 2012-2016. Obtained a professorship in 2011. Currently head of the Third Painting Studio of the Painting Faculty of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts. He has taken part in a few dozen exhibitions in Poland and abroad. He has received countless prizes and awards for his artistic work. He is active in the field of painting, drawing, objects, and video.
Artist Statement
In the 1990s I started collecting flakes of paint – leftovers from my work. I would put fresh ones in wooden formworks, dried ones in glass containers. They constituted layers of investigations into the field of painting, enclosed in dated and numbered cuboids measuring 47 × 10.5 × 10.5 cm. I called those objects Urns. In 2016, I displayed them at an exhibition, moulding a single object out of all the Urns. The Urns inspired me to redefine the status of my work as a painter. In order to do it, I performed a daunting task of placing the layers of paint not in an urn, but on a canvas, pressing each fresh bit of paint with my thumb. In the cycle of paintings Autoportret a’retour, the matter was transferred from painting to painting, expanding the area of each consecutive one. Together, the bits, the residua of paint, kept alive the memory of the previous works. It was a stage of the atomization of the painting matter and its alienation from the traditional concepts and aesthetic relations. Thus, the cycle of synergic paintings was created, as I called them, guided by the feeling evoked in me by the mutually intensifying flakes of paint. The final aesthetic result of the refining of the digested matter was a consequence of the automatism of the process of layering, thumb-pressing, and scraping off again. Just like in an archaeological excavation, attempts are made to unite and retrieve that which has been lost. This avant-garde concept consists in transferring into the area of painting of matter, virtually degraded and not belonging to the realm of art. And yet the matter re-enters it, acquiring a new meaning. The matter I created, building up like lava, became my new technique. I called it perpetuum pictura – self-perpetuated painting. Alchemical concepts allowed me to identify the process inherent in the emerging matter, to give it direction and meaning. In a way, I created matter which was introducing me into the pre-symbolic world – a world before form, unnamed. From this painterly magma, ideas sprung up, old theories of colour and the convoluted problem of squaring the circle manifested themselves again. Just like Harriot’s crystal refracted light in 1605, I tried to break up colour in the painting Iosis. Paintings were becoming symptoms, like in the work Pulp fiction, which at that time was a gesture of total fragmentation of matter and of transcending its boundaries, my dialogue with the works of Jackson Pollock and the freedom brought by his art. The painting Geometrica de physiologiam pictura contains a diagram in which I enter four colours that constitute an introduction to protopsychology, alchemical transmutation, and the ancient theory of colour. It this work I managed to present the identification of the essence of human physiology with art. But the essential aspect of my considerations in my most recent paintings is the analysis of abstraction, the study of its significance for the contemporary language of art and the search for the possibilities of creating a new message. For me, abstraction is not an end in itself, catering to the largely predicable expectations of the viewers. To study the boundary between visibility and invisibility, like in the work Unsichtbar, is to ask about the status of the possibilities of the language of abstraction. The moment of fluidity which I am able to attain results from the matter – matter...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Woman - Drawing by Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th Century
By Pierre Georges Jeanniot
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is a Pencil drawing realized by Pierre Georges Jeanniot in the Early 20th Century.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed.
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934) wa...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Gouache and Watercolor.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French gouache on paper portrait of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza by Jean Paul Ducel. The painting is signed to the back where there is another painting of a clown.
A strong and co...
Category
Late 20th Century Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Drawing with Flowers, signed and dedicated to Max Brun
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall's Drawing with Flowers (1969), signed and dedicated to Max Brun, is an intimate testament to their close friendship. This unique pen drawing, measuring 32 x 24 cm, holds...
Category
1960s Symbolist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Gel Pen
Torso
By Claudio Bravo
Located in London, GB
Claudio Bravo, (Chilean 1936-2011), Torso, 1978, Screenprint on paper, signed and dated (lower right) and numbered '28/50' (lower left), 18cm x 30cm (image size), 34cm x 46cm (sheet ...
Category
1970s Post-War Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Screen
Mid Century French Pencil Study of Various Animals
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Pencil Study of Various Animals
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil and Paper
Size: 6.25 (height) x 9.75 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Con...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Mid Century French Drawing of a Classical Bald Male Bust
By Josine Vignon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Male Bust
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper
Size: 19 (height) x 12.5 (width)
Stamped: Verso
Condition:...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a Watercolor Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (70x51 cm).
Hand-signed on the l...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Edouard Detaille (1848 1912) An officer of the Gendarmerie Impériale, drawing
By Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
Located in Paris, FR
Edouard Detaille (1848-1912)
An officer of the Gendarmerie Impériale, viewed of the back
bears the monogram ED but it is not visible because it is hidden by the mounting of the frame...
Category
1880s Academic Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
