Europe - Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

A landscape view in a mountain valley with a figure passing through a gate in the foreground. Presented glazed in a white and beige double mount and a gilt frame with bead courses to...

This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. "Black Sea Rhythms" shows the peaceful, abstract, subtle ripples of ocean waters in movement. Details: + Title: Black Se...

Reflections on St. Martin’s Ln, Charing Cross, London By Max Panks [2021] original Watercolour on Paper Image size: H:24.5 cm x W:16.5 cm Complete Size of...

Hay stacks. 1981. Oil on cardboard, 22x30 cm

This work will be included in Volume II of the catalog of the works of Eugène Galien-Laloue, currently being prepared by Mr. Noé Willer. A certificate can be issued to the buyer. Ch...

Provenance: Family of the artist, studio sale. Framing options available upon request. Free US CONTINENTAL Shipping, incl Europe and Asia. Born in Paris, the French painter Paul Lec...

Original watercolor painting "Mountain Landscape" portrays a serene winter scene inspired by the majestic Nordic mountains. The composition features a prominent snow-covered mountain...

A fresh and vibrant watercolour which is signed and dated to circa 1890 by Frederick William Jackson - the Yorkshire Staithes Impressionist who travelled in Europe in the 19th century. It depicts fishing boats in Venice...

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Sailboat in the night. 1989. Oil on cardboard, 65x50 cm

Hill 1967, paper/watercolor, 30.5x43 cm Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978) Graphic, army officer. In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and many military cours...

Duncan MacDonald Johnson From the Sound of Arisaig, Winter Storm Original Landscape Painting Watercolour Paint on Paper Image Size: H 56cm x W 76cm The work is sold mounted but not ...

Italy. Paper, mixed media, 33х24 сm

Montrose Harbour Lock Gates (The Dutch Boat) by Douglas Swan, 1950s Circa Additional information: Medium: Gouache, Ink and Pastel 56.5 x 36.5 cm 22 1/4...

Themistokles von Eckenbrecher (1842 Athens - 1921 Goslar), Norwegian pine grove, 1901. Watercolor on blue-green paper, 30 x 22 cm. Signed, dated and inscribed in his own hand "TvE. Fagermes [i.e. Fagermes]. 26.6.[19]01." - Slight crease throughout at left margin, otherwise in good condition. About the artwork Themistokles von Eckenbrecher often traveled to Norway to study the nature that fascinated him there. On June 26, 1901, near the southern Norwegian town of Fagernes, in the summer evening sun, he saw a small pine grove, which he immediately captured in a watercolor. He exposed the trees growing on a small hill in front of the background, so that the pines completely define the picture and combine to form a tense motif. The tension comes from the contrast of form and color. The trunks, growing upward, form a vertical structure that is horizontally penetrated by the spreading branches and the pine needles, which are rendered as a plane. This structural tension is further intensified by the color contrast between the brown-reddish iridescent trunks and branches and the green-toned needlework. Themistokles von Eckenbrecher, however, does not use the observed natural scene as an inspiring model for a dance of color and form that detaches itself from the motif and thus treads the path of abstracting modernism. Its inner vitality is to be brought to light and made aesthetically accessible through the work of art. It is precisely in order to depict the inner vitality of nature that von Eckenbrecher chooses the technique of watercolor, in which the individual details, such as the needles, are not meticulously worked out, but rather a flowing movement is created that unites the contrasts. The trees seem to have formed the twisted trunks out of their own inner strength as they grew, creatingthose tense lineations that the artist has put into the picture. The inner strength continues in the branches and twigs, culminating in the upward growth of the needles. At the same time, the trunks, illuminated by the setting sun, seem to glow from within, adding an almost dramatic dimension to the growing movement. Through the artwork, nature itself is revealed as art. In order to make nature visible as art in the work, von Eckenbrecher exposes the group of trees so that they are bounded from the outside by an all-encompassing contour line and merge into an areal unity that enters into a figure-ground relationship with the blue-greenish watercolor paper. The figure-ground relationship emphasizes the ornamental quality of the natural work of art, which further enforces the artwork character of the group of trees. With the presentation of Themistokles von Eckenbrecher's artistic idea and its realization, it has become clear that the present watercolor is not a study of nature in the sense of a visual note by the artist, which might then be integrated into a larger work context, but a completely independent work of art. This is why von Eckenbrecher signed the watercolor. In addition, it is marked with a place and a date, which confirms that this work of nature presented itself to him in exactly this way at this place at this time. At the same time, the date and place make it clear that the natural work of art has been transferred into the sphere of art and thus removed from the time of the place of nature. About the artist Themistocles' parents instilled a life of travel in their son, who is said to have spoken eleven languages. His father, who was interested in ancient and oriental culture, was a doctor and had married Francesca Magdalena Danelon, an Italian, daughter of the British consul in Trieste. During a stay in Athens - Gustav von Eckenbrecher was a friend of Heinrich von Schliemann and is said to have given him crucial clues as to the location of Troy - Themistokles saw the light of day in 1842. After an interlude in Berlin, where Themistokles was educated at the English-American School, the journey began again. From 1850 to 1857 the family lived in Constantinople, after which the father opened a practice in Potsdam, where Themistokles, who wanted to become a painter, was taught by the court painter Carl Gustav Wegener. In 1861 the von Eckenbrechers left Potsdam and settled in Düsseldorf. There Themistokles received two years of private tuition from Oswald Aschenbach, who greatly admired the talented young artist. After his artistic training, he undertook extensive travels, often accompanied by Prince Peter zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, which took him to northern and eastern Europe, but above all to the Middle East and even to South America. The paintings that resulted from these journeys established his artistic reputation and led to his participation in large panoramas such as the 118 x 15 metre Entry of the Mecca Caravan into Cairo, painted for the City of Hamburg in 1882. 1882 was also the start of a total of 21 study trips to Scandinavia, most of them to Norway, and the unique Norwegian landscape with its rugged fjords became a central motif in his work. Along with Anders Askevold and Adelsteen Normann...

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An expressive depiction of a grand old olive tree, captured in oil bar pastels by contemporary artist Paul Deacon (b.1953). Well-presented in a solid oak frame with card mount. Signe...

HENRY ARTHUR PAYNE, RWS (1868-1940) Evening, Brimscombe Hill Signed and indistinctly dated l.l..: HENRY A PAYNE Watercolour Framed 20.5 by 24.5 cm.; 8 by 9 ...

French watercolour on paper view of a manor house or bastide in a rural landscape. The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a fine gilded wood frame with a hessian cloth ...

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Title: Historic Miniature Watercolor of St John the Baptist Church Chipping Sodbury by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed Measureme...

A charming scene depicting a market stall outside of Place St Jacques in Dieppe, France. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a dark wooden frame. On paper.

A finely executed watercolour landscape in the style of 19th century artist George Arthur Fripp (1813-1896). In the heart of the Alps near Tyrol, a cattle drover can be seen moving a...

Caught in a blaze of fire - This visual delight by Zoltan Hecht depicts a surreal city scene with an overwhelming Paleolithic impression. Geometric shapes and cylindrical forms have ...

This delightful winter scene shows a man carrying kindling across an icy bridge towards snow laden fields. The artist has used white gouache to depict the texture of the fresh snow a...

A charming watercolour painting by Leslie L. Hardy Moore (1907-1997) depicting a large white ship docked at Great Yarmouth Port. Well-presented in a smart wood veneer frame with card...

A charming watercolour painting by Frederick Tucker (1860-1935), depicting a large bail of straw scattered between two thatched cottages, with sleeping pig nestled within. Monogramme...

Blue sky over the loch by Natalie Bird [2022] original Pastel Image size: H:36 cm x W:28 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:25 cm x W:20 cm x D:0.5cm Sold Unframed Please note tha...

A charming watercolour scene by British artist Frederick William Booty (1840-1924), depicting the bustling streets of Rouen. Dominating the artist's paper is a detailed study of the Gros-Horloge. A 14th century astronomical clock...

Autumn Landscape. 1976. Oil on cardboard, 22x31 cm Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in different...

A delightful watercolour scene by Charles Parsons Knight (1829-1897), depicting a European farmer herding a small group of cattle down a scenic lakeside path. The watercolour has been monogrammed by the artist to the lower right. Well-presented in a rustic gilt...

Railway bridge. 1968. Paper, watercolor, 23.5x35 cm Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013) Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her stu...

This charming composition takes in views of an old working windmill, cottage and cattle, all on the distant horizon. In the foreground a mother and child can be seen approaching a st...

A delightful watercolour study depicting a harvest scene with farmers baling hay on the outskirts of a rural village. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame with foliat...

Birds. 2020. Watercolor, paper, 66 x 96 cm Seagulls over the sea Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 an...

A charming view of the Houses of Parliament from Whitehall Court at dusk. Inscribed with location to the lower right. Illegibly inscribed with signature. Presented in a gilt frame. O...

A wonderful 19th century watercolour study depicting a rural landscape with two figures. A small village is visible in the distance and a lake beyond. With delicate graphite detail. ...

Sunday on the Wye [2021] SOLD UNFRAMED Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look The artist comments "I painted 'Sunday on the Wye' after a day on the river canoeing with the family. It was a wonderful day meandering down stream near Symonds Yat. We turned the bend to see other boats congregated on the pebbles for a Sunday picnic. We beached our boat to take in the surroundings. The day was a great experience with sparkling light on the water and the sounds of the water over rocks. A few quick sketches and many photographs allowed me to then work at a large scale in the studio. It was painted with large brushes with watercolour. The chosen colours are blue and green. The painterly brush marks hold an energy and excitement of the days paddling." This work is sold unframed Artwork by artist Leigh Glover...

A fine pastoral landscape depicting a farm beside a ford. Two figures talk secretively over a fence to the right of the composition. Presented in a white double mount and a distresse...

In this finely executed pen and wash drawing, Jacobus Storck presents us with an imaginary view in an Italian port. The splendor of the buildings (the large sculpted fountain surmoun...

At sun. 1982, oil on cardboard, 29x34 cm Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I) His first professional education was at National University at studies to R.Suta, J. Bine and G. Sk...

A charming early 20th Century watercolour scene showing a milk maid, carrying a stick and pail, waiting for her cows, who have stopped for a drink at a small...

Johannes Friedrich Heinrich Hänsch (1875-1945), Red blooming war landscape with dead soldier, 1918. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 15 x 24.5 cm (image), 27 x 37 cm (sheet size / frame), monogrammed and dated "19JH18" at lower left. - Paper slightly darkened About the artwork Despite the relatively small format, the watercolor with an internal frame depicts a panoramic view of a flat landscape stretching to the horizon. As far as the eye can see, the poppies bloom in flaming red. The flowers are not rendered individually, however, creating an almost cohesive red surface. The bright red is interspersed with vegetal green. A complementary contrast that creates an intense color effect. In this color contrast, a white area breaks through from the middle ground, widening towards the foreground and surrounding a brown hole. Next to it, in blue, is the actual protagonist of the painting, the first thing that catches the eye: a dead soldier. Next to him is his helmet, revealing the empty interior. The brown, hollow shape corresponds to the hole in the ground. A shell funnel is surrounded by bright ash, which, like the inverted helmet, becomes a sign of death. The soldier's arms point to the funnel, while the empty helmet paraphrases the calotte of the skull and, like the funnel, thematizes the empty darkness of death. The soldier's body, however, is intact and not - as in Otto Dix's triptych "The War" - a dismembered corpse. Instead, Johannes Hänsch activates the landscape, especially the color, to illustrate a blooming landscape of death that extends from the shell funnel in the foreground to the rising column of smoke on the horizon. If the soldier's body is intact, the tangle of barbed wire emblematically placed over the empty helmet also appears tattered. On the right side of the picture, the barbed wire even seems to stretch its arms to the sky in horror. Against the background of this allegory, the content of the bright red also becomes clear: the landscape is drenched in blood, literally a sea of blood, and the single unknown soldier stands pars pro toto for all those who died on the battlefield. Dying in war is not dying in community, but in solitude. In order to emphasize the isolation in death, Johannes Hänsch has set the blue of the soldier in the axis given by his body in the middle ground of the picture into the red sea. A master of landscape painting, Hänsch succeeds in creating a natural-looking landscape allegory that illustrates the horror and death of war, without depicting the brutality of war itself. This singular 'war memorial' of the unknown soldier is the opposite of heroization and yet the dignity of the deceased soldier is preserved through the integrity of his body. About the artist As the son of the sculptor Adolf Haensch, the young Johannes received his first artistic training in his father's Berlin studio. However, he eventually decided to become a painter, and in 1897 he entered the Berlin Academy of Arts. He initially studied under Paul Vorgang and Eugen Bracht, and was particularly influenced by Bracht's increasingly colourful landscape painting. In 1901 he moved to the class of Friedrich Kallmorgen, with whom he spent several weeks on excursions into nature. In 1905 he became a master pupil of Albert Hertel, who taught him watercolour painting. From 1903 to 1933 he exhibited annually at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, the exhibitions of the Berlin Artists' Association and the Munich Glaspalast. In 1905 he was awarded the Carl Blechen...

Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a manor and a traveler Signed lower left Pencil on paper 27.5 x 44.5 cm Framed under glass : 43 x 59.5 cm This drawing shows more particularly...

Paul Emile Lecomte (1877-1950) A Landscape Signed lower left Watercolor on paper 22.5 x 30.5cm In good condition Framed: 37.5 x 46 cm Paul Emile Lecomte (1877– 1950). Painter of wat...

Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a fisherman, Signed lower right Pencil on paper 27.8 x 44 cm Framed under glass : 43 x 59.5 cm We find in this drawing everything that makes...

A well drawn study of a stone bridge by the artist John Mace. Completed with charcoal detail and touches of gouache. Signed to the lower right corner. On pap...

An impressionistic landscape with a leafy canopy of tall trees at the centre of the composition. Presented in a white mount and a distressed gilt-effect wooden frame with a bead cour...

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The Bawdy Wind that Kisses all it meets is an original watercolour and gouache painting by artist Rosie Phipps, sold mounted. Featuring her gestural and expressive use of mark making...

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This expressive pastel landscape shows fields near Polgigga, Cornwall. This drawing celebrates pattern and colour and offers us a scene that is overrun with nature. The drawing has b...

A fine traditional late 19th Century watercolour with delicate pen and ink detailing. The scene shows an expansive lake, surrounded by rolling green hills. The sun shines softly from...

A bustling street scene outside St Peter's Church in Leuven, Belgium, a Roman Catholic church built in the 15th century in the Brabantine Gothic style. Presented in a substantial dis...

A fine 19th century watercolour showing figures in the French streets of Rouen. The artist has included many architectural features within the composition, such as a medieval turret and church spire...