Europe - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

A colourful interior study of a jazz lounge, packed with evening guest enjoying the resident band. The composition has been signed by the artist to the lower right. Well-presented in...

Woman is a modern artwork realized by the French artist,  Jules Marie Auguste Leroux  ( Paris 1871-1954) painter and illustrator. A pencil ...

[ANON.] Collection of Watercolour Designs for Silverware. South Germany, [Late 19th century]. A series of 9 watercolours, each framed and glazed, ...

MARIE PALMER-SMITH (1899-1997) Fabric Inspirations Signed and inscribed with title; bears artist’s studio stamp on the reverse Gouache on pen and ink on tinted paper Unframed in mo...

Landscape is a drawing realized by Juan André Perroud in the mid-20th century. Watercolor on paper. Stamped on the lower right. Good conditions. The artwork is realized through b...

Portrait is a Colour Market Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980). Good condition on a sheet of notebook. No Signature. Reynold Arnould was born in Le...

Untitled is a drawing realized by Ossip Zadkine (1890 - 1967), in 1946. Mixed media on paper. 45.50 x 61.70 cm. Signature and year lower right. Work archived at The Zadkine Resea...

Costume di Castellone is an original watercolour on ivory-colored paper made by the old master Michela De Vito in 1820 ca. Hand-titled "Costume di Castellone", with an autograph ca...

The Gentleman is an original Drawing in pen on creamy-colored paper realized by Mino Maccari in mid 20th Century. Hand-signed on the lower in pencil. Good conditions. Mino Maccari...

Sole Tree is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century. The State of preservation is very good with the traces of time and some small...

CARLO URBINO (Crema 1525 - after 1585) Draped Woman Holding a Branch Pencil and brown ink on laid paper 13.6 x 7.7 cm 16th century Mounted on 20th-century paper Handwritten inscri...

Houses is a drawing realized by Lacones Lestnille  in the Mid-20th Century. Ink and watercolor on paper. Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft e...

Peter Kuhfeld was born in Cheltenham 1952 and studied painting at Leicester College of Art and The Royal Academy Schools under Peter Greenham. He was created Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Painters/Stainers 1978. He has won a number of art prizes including the David Murray Landscape Prize 1978-79, Royal Academy Silver...

Landscape is an original drawing in watercolor realize by Armin Guther in 1991. Hand signed. Good conditions. The artwork is represented through soft pencil strokes.

The Torture is an original Pastel drawing on paper realized by Gabriel Ferrier (1847-1914) in the 19th Century. Stamped on the lower on the rear.. Go...

Seated Nude is a Charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century. Good condition on a yellowed paper, one little missing corner on the paper. Hand-signed by the artis...

Contemporary acrylic painting on paper by Polish artist Wlodzimierz Karczmarzyk. The title is 'Venice. Gondolas in a wind whirl'. Main colors are blue, red and yellow. Artwork's styl...

Figure is a drawing in pencil realized by an Anonymous artist active in the 1900 century. Sheet dimension: 32 x 24cm. The state of preservation: aged and there different rip and di...

JOLANTA JOHNSSON (born 1955) Polish painter. She studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the years 1984-1989, in the graphic studios of prof. Ha...

Portrait of Molière is a drawing realized by Karl Hanny in the Late-19th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper. Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized throug...

William Heath Robinson (British, 1872 - 1944) 'Boring The First Tunnel With An Early Type Of Rotary Excavator, And The Red Flag', circa 1935 (railway ribaldry was published in this year) The former signed 'W. Heath Robinson (lower left) and inscribed with title (lower left and right) The former to mount 14 X 10.1/4in. (35.5 X 26cm.) The latter 1.1/2 X 8.1/2in. (3.8 X 21.6 cm.) Literature: Railway Ribaldry, first published by the Great Western Railway, Paddington, 1935. William Heath Robinson was an English cartoonist and illustrator best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines for achieving simple objectives. During the First World War, he drew large numbers of cartoons, depicting ever-more unlikely secret weapons being used by the combatants. In the UK the term "Heath Robinson" entered popular language during this time as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance. Its continuing popularity was undoubtedly linked to Second World War Britain's shortages and the need to "make do and mend". In the course of his work, Robinson also wrote and illustrated three childrens books including The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (1902) which is regarded as the genesis of his depiction of unlikely machines. The inventions he drew were frequently powered by steam boilers or kettles, heated by candles or a spirit lamp and usually kept running by balding, bespectacled men in overalls. There would be complex pulley arrangements, threaded by lengths of knotted string. One of his most famous series of illustrations accompanied the first Professor Branestawm book written by Norman Hunter. The stories provided a perfect backdrop for Robinson's drawings. One of the automatic analysis machines built for Bletchley Park during the Second World War to assist in the decryption of German message traffic was named "Heath Robinson" in his honour. He died in September 1944 during the Second World War and is buried in East Finchley Cemetery. The Heath Robinson Museum in Pinner opened in October 2016 to house a collection of nearly 1,000 original artworks owned by The William Heath Robinson Trust. In the Wallace and Gromit...

Stromboli is an artwork realized by Pedro Cano, 1980s.  Pastel and watercolor on paper.  h 72 x 92.5 cm with frame ; Sheet 49 x 70 cm. Hand signed and ti...

Fishing boats at Saint Etienne. Signed 'E. A. Hare' to the lower left and inscribed 'Paul Marny, Saint Etienne' to the lower right. Presented in a gilt fram...

Scene with figures and carriages is a modern artwork realized by an Artist of the early 20th century. Mixed colored oil painting. Includes frame. Hand signed by the artist on the ...

Very atmospheric night scene of Lahore. painted circa 2003 Watercolour and partel on paper. well framed Framed 26.5" x 34.5". Image 21" x 29" Signed and titled verso Throughout the 1990s Robert Macdonald lived in an isolated cottage with no road access high in the hills overlooking the Usk Valley. His work became a meditation on the landscape, the farming life and also the legends of the Brecon Beacons area. Three years ago he became the first elected president of the Royal Watercolour Society of Wales and he is a past chair of the Welsh Group, the senior association of artists in Wales, and a director of the Swansea Print Workshop. Before coming to Brecon he worked and painted for many years in London and his move to Wales, prompted by his Welsh-born wife Annie, was in a way a return to his own rural roots. Born in 1935, much of his early life was spent in rural communities, not in Wales but as a war-time evacuee on Somerset farms and, from the age of 10, in the New Zealand back country. His family emigrated to New Zealand in 1945 and lived on the Northland Peninsula where there was a considerable Maori presence. Maori carving...

The Reading is a beautiful etching print artwork realized by Pio Joris in the early 20th Century. In very good condition. Included a Passepartout: 49 x 34 cm. Pio Joris (1843–19...

Walpole Champneys (British, 1879 – 1961) A musical idyll; and The masked ball (a pair) The former signed and dated ‘W.CHAMPNEYS /.28.’ Pencil and watercolour and gouache on paper The...

Architectures in Vendôme is a original pencil drawing on paper, realized around 1960s by the French artist André Roland Brudieux (1921-1999). Monogrammed in pencil "ARB“ on the lowe...

Grassland is a drawing realized by Odette Verdier (1871-1948) in the Early 20th century. Pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper. Good conditions. The artwork realized through beauti...

Albero is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1973 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original print. Aquatint and etching. Hand-signed , date...

Costume di Napoli (Neapolitan Costume) is an original gouache drawing on paper realized by Michela De Vito, Naples. Hand-signed, on the bottom center. Good conditions.

Charcoal, Gouache, Pastel on paper. In this mixed media drawing, a balled headed human figure is sitting on the ground in a meditative posture appearing to...

Naked Woman is an artwork, realized in early 20th Century, by the French Artist André Meaux Saint-Marc (1885-1941). Drawing pencil on paper. Hand Signed on back. The artist wants t...

Erotic Scene is a Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989...

Figures is an original pen drawing realized by Leo Longanesi in the mid-20th Century. Fair conditions with foxings. Leo Longanesi, born Leopoldo Longan...

Otto Günther-Naumburg (1856-1941), The Ruins of St. Clement's Church in Visby, Sweden. Watercolor and ink, heightened with white, on sand-colored paper, mounted on cardboard, 33 x 24...

Marcel BLOCH Piano Lesson on a Snowing Day Original watercolor with gouache enhancement Handsigned bottom right c. 1930 On vellum 35 x 24 cm at view (c. ...

Thomas Barclay Hennell (1903-1945) Gathering potatoes, Inscribed, "Gathering potatoes/ Folkestone/ Sept 30 1931", Pencil with pen highlights, 11 x 17½ inches 18 x 24 inches with the...

Subject : Fenêtre sur lac - Variation VI (Title - FR) This captivating work depicts an interior scene that opens onto an enchanting landscape, creating a harmonious juxtaposition be...

WŁODZIMIERZ KARCZMARZYK (born in 1930) Painter and an architect. He studied at KUL in Lublin, Academy of Fine Arts and University of Technology in Warsaw. Long-term professor of draw...

Christ talk is a Drawing on paper realized by Gustave Bourgogne in the Mid-20th Century. Ink and watercolor on paper. Good conditions. 

Portrait of Anna is an original artwork realized by Madeleine Sellier. In good conditions. Watercolour technique. Glued on a paper 33x25 cm. Hand Signed on the lower side of the art...

Men of Power is a modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th century. Two drawings attached to Cardbard artwork have been realized in ink on paper. Included...

Austrian Soldier is an original Modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in 1905. Original China ink on cardboard. Excellent conditions. T...

Still Life with Pots is a contemporary artwork realized by Pierre Jacquelin (1944) in 1980s/90s. Watercolor on paper. Hand-signed on the lower left. Good conditions. The artwork ...

A very finely wrought charcoal drawing of a christening in a Catholic church. The interior of the church is filled with an atmospheric darkness which contrasts with the luminosity of...

Gazing on Nude is a modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th century. The artwork has been realized in ink and white lead on paper. Good conditions and ag...

Figures is a china ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Good conditions with slight foxing. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June...

PAULINA MAKSJAN (born in 1982) She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk under the guidance of prof. Maciej Świeszewski at the Faculty of Painting and prof. Maria Targońska a...

War is a china ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Good conditions with slight foxing. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16,...

"Coreano" (Asia) is an original hand-watercolored lithograph on ivory paper by Anonymous Artist of XIX Century, in 1854s. In excellent conditions. Not signed. Titled on the lower ...

Man and Donkey is a modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th century. The artwork was realized in mixed media of ink and white lead on paper. Included a P...

Ernest Lessieux (1848 - 1925) The sea in calm weather, signed lower left watercolor on paper 16.5 x 24 cm Framed : 35 x 41 cm This rather atypical work is a remarkable addition to...

Meeting is a charcoal drawing realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Good conditions with slight foxing. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June ...

Bernard BOUTET de MONVEL (1881-1949) Study of erotic scene, c. 1940 Pencil on paper Studio stamp lower right 47.5 x 31.2 cm Provenance: artist's family Painter, engraver, illustrat...

HARRY CARLETON ATTWOOD (1907-1985) Plenty - Design for Eltham Palace Chalks Framed 20.5 by 12 cm., 8 by 4 ¾ in. (frame size 39.5 by 31.5 cm., 15 ½ by 12 ½ in.) Attwood was born i...

Arthur Kampf (1864 Aachen - 1950 Castorp-Rauxel), Study to an allegory of victory, around 1900. Pencil on paper, 21 cm x 18 cm, signed lower left "A. Kampf". - slightly darkened, otherwise in good condition - A virtuoso victory - About the artwork The vertical-format sketch illustrates a plateau to which a staircase leads up from the right. Arthur Kampf thus takes up a typical baroque disposition for the depiction of allegories. And indeed, a female figure climbs the steps to hand the palm of victory to a figure that is probably also female. Other persons standing on the plateau pay homage to her, whereby the figure on the left edge of the picture may represent a warrior. The scene is framed by an ornamentally decorated arch field, which additionally emphasizes the allegorical-historical content of the depiction. An arch can also be seen under the staircase, suggesting that this may be a design for a supraport. The sheet could have been created in the wake of Arthur Kampf's appointment in 1899 as head of the studio for history painting at the Berlin Art Academy. The drawing style, which only outlines the idea of the picture and yet is determined by concise lines, corresponds to the sketchiness of the Baroque and testifies to Arthur Kampfs intensive study of this heyday of history painting. About the artist Arthur Kampf was the son of the Aachen painter and imperial court photographer August Kampf. His older brother Eugen and his son Herbert were also painters. Arthur Kampf studied at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art from 1879 under Eduard von Gebhardt and Peter Janssen the Elder, whose master pupil he was from 1883 to 1891. Influenced by the naturalistic paintings of Jules Bastien-Lepage, which Kampf saw on a trip to Paris in 1885, he created the painting "The Last Statement" in 1886, which was based on a personal experience. It shows a man mortally wounded by knife wounds. The oppressive drasticness of the almost life-size depiction caused a sensation and controversial criticism. The first successes were achieved: At the Berlin Jubilee Exhibition of 1886, Kampf received an honorable mention, and at the Munich Annual Exhibition of 1890, he was awarded a gold medal. Between 1886 and 1936, Kampf participated in all the major German exhibitions. In 1887 the artist painted his first fresco, which was the beginning of a series of monumental compositions. With the highly successful painting "The Burial of the Corpse of Kaiser Wilhelm I in the Berlin Cathedral" (1888), Kampf established himself as a painter of contemporary history, following in the footsteps of Adolph von Menzel, whose oeuvre he immediately took up with the painting "Speech by Frederick the Great to His Generals in Koeben" (1893). The pictures of his Liberation War cycle were included in school textbooks and distributed in large editions as postcards. As for his academic career, Kampf became an assistant professor at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art in 1887, and in 1894 he was appointed professor of the class for antiquities and nature, and in 1897 he became head of the painting class. In 1899 Kampf was appointed director of the history painting studio at the Berlin Academy of Art. In 1901 he became a full member of the academy and was its president from 1907 to 1912. As Anton von Werner's successor, Kampf directed the Academy of Fine Arts in Charlottenburg from 1915 to 1925. Among his monumental works is the painting of the assembly hall of the Aachen town hall, done between 1898 and 1902. It focuses on the social welfare of the state and the work of the people. Important subsequent commissions include the painting of the reading room of the new Royal Library in Berlin and the new auditorium of the University of Berlin with "Fichte's Speech to the German Nation". During World War I, at the request of General Ewald von Lochow, Kampf traveled to the Western theaters of war, including Warsaw in 1916. In addition to painting, Kampf was also intensively involved in printmaking and, together with his brother Eugen and artist friends such as Alexander Frenz and Olof Jernberg, was considered an innovator of lithography in Düsseldorf. From 1913 on, he worked continuously as an illustrator of historical works and literary classics such as Shakespeare and Goethe. Kampf remained a recognized artist after 1933. On the occasion of the retrospective of his complete works at the "Great German Art Exhibition", he was awarded the "Eagle Shield of the German Reich". During the final phase of World War II, Kampf was placed on Hitler's "Gottbegnadetenliste," which protected him from military service. After World War II, Kampf, whose work was largely destroyed, fell into obscurity. Arthur Kampf belonged to numerous artists' associations. He was a member of the "Rheinisch-Westfälischer Künstlerbund", the "Society of German Watercolorists", the "Association of German Illustrators", the "Malkasten", the "Künstlerclub St. Lucas", the "Düsseldorfer Künstlerbund", the "Freie Vereinigung Düsseldorfer Künstler" and the "Berliner Künstlerbund". Arthur Kampf's sister was married to the painter Alexander Frenz. "Kampf's public recognition in the German Empire later led to his being one-sidedly labeled as a history painter and representative of the Wilhelmine era. This classification does not do justice to the artist's oeuvre as a whole. His early talent did not experience a rapid development later on, but it reached an ever greater mastery in the sense of an impressively relaxed realism and extended thematically beyond history. Kampf was also an excellent draughtsman, etcher and lithographer. Many of his works have been destroyed or lost, and some lead a shadowy existence in museum storerooms." - Otto Zirk "His importance as a Wilhelminian painter and cultural politician has been forgotten in favor of an exaggerated reception of his work during the Third Reich. - Andreas Schroyen Selection of public collections that own works by Arthur Kampf: Altonaer Museum Hamburg, Berlinische Galerie, Burg Frankenberg Aachen, Busch-Reisinger Museum Cambridge/Mass., Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, Government Art Collection London, Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Van der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal. Selected Bibliography Hans W...

The Letter F is a drawing artwork realized by Alexandre Lagrant in the early 20th Century Watercolor drawing on paper. The state of preservation is good.