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Item Ships From: France
Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962) Paris, Les Bouquinistes, original drawing
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962)
Paris, Les Bouquinistes sur les quais, (The booksellers on the banks)
Signed and titled lower right
Pencil on paper
17 x 27 cm
In good condition, ...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Portraits - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Portraits is a Charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Ruins Of Baalbek, Lebanon, Watercolor Signed Carbonnier 1924
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Ruins of Baalbek, Lebanon. Watercolor signed Carbonnier 1924. Partially glued on cardboard. A scratch on the top right, small foxing 25 x 17.5 cm.
Category
1920s France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Russian Family Attacked By Wolves, Travel Watercolor, 19th Century
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
A Russian village, Russian family attacked by wolves. Watercolors, 19th century. Small foxing and small folds in the margins. 31.5 x 21.5 cm.
Category
19th Century France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Saint Sophia Mosque, Travel Watercolor, 19th Century
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Mosque of Saint Sophia. Watercolor, 19th century. Good condition. 30 x 22 cm
Category
19th Century France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Jerusalem, Travel Watercolors, 19th Century
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Religious guarding the Holy Sepulchre, Chapel of the Flagellation. Watercolors, mounted on paper. Small stains, old restoration on paper at the bottom. 30.5 x 22 cm
Category
19th Century France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
homme rouge (red man) - gouache on paper, 49x34 cm., framed
By Albert Chubac
Located in Nice, FR
gouache on paper. Stamped and signed. Not framed.
Last painter of the school of Nice. This is an important painter, the first school in nice to have exhibited in New York at the G...
Category
1950s Abstract France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Polyamorous - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Polyamorous is a charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was...
Category
1960s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Large Drawing, Study Of Dancers
Located in PARIS, FR
Henri ROYER
Nancy 1869 - 1938 Paris
Study of dancers
Sanguine pastel and charcoal on cream white paper
Circa 1900-1910
Unsigned
47 x 62.5 cm sheet
67 x 83 cm cm frame
Provenance: Es...
Category
Early 20th Century French School France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media
Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch for a Portrait is a drawing on paper realized in the Mid-20th Century by Flor David.
Pencil on Creamy-colored paper.
Good conditions.
Flor David (1891-1958) ): pseudonym of...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch for a Portrait is a drawing on paper realized in the Mid-20th Century by Flor David.
Pencil on Creamy-colored paper.
Good conditions.
Flor David (1891-1958) ): pseudonym of...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch for a Portrait is a drawing on paper realized in the Mid-20th Century by Flor David.
Pencil on Creamy-colored paper.
Good conditions.
Flor David (1891-1958) ): pseudonym of...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Woman - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - 1905
By Gabriele Galantara
Located in Roma, IT
The Woman is an artwork realized by Gabriele Galantara in 1905 Century.
Drawing in tempera, ink, and watercolor.
Monogrammed RL.
The status of preservation is good, aged.
Gabriel...
Category
Early 1900s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Pen
Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch for a Portrait is a drawing on paper realized in the Mid-20th Century by Flor David.
Good conditions.
Flor David (1891-1958) ): pseudonym of David Florence. Pastel painter....
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Sketch for a Portrait - Drawing by Flor David - Mid 20th Century
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch for a Portrait is a drawing on paper realized in the Mid-20th Century by Flor David.
Good conditions.
Flor David (1891-1958) ): pseudonym of David Florence. Pastel painter...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Attributed to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) La famille heureuse, watercolor
By Eugene Deveria
Located in Paris, FR
Attribuetd to Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
La Famille heureuse (The Happy Family)
Watercolor on paper
23 x 18 cm
In quite good condition : a small tear i...
Category
1840s Romantic France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled - Parmis Sayous 21st Century drawing, Iranian contemporary painter
By Parmis Sayous
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on paper
Created in 2019 in Paris, France
Unique work
Signed by the artist
Parmis Sayous was born in 1982 in Teheran, Iran.
Since 2015, She has lived and worked in Paris and ded...
Category
2010s Expressionist France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Romantic school, Woman and Infant with guards, watercolor signed dated 1847
Located in Paris, FR
Romantic school, mid 19th century
Antique Scene, Woman and Infant surrounded by guards
watercolor, pen and black ink and heightenings of white gouache on...
Category
1840s Romantic France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Judith and Salome, a pair of oil paintings on canvas by Francesco Conti
Located in PARIS, FR
This widely referenced pair of paintings is one of Francesco Conti’s most successful productions. Francesco Conti is one of the finest painters of 18th-century Florence. In the shimmering colors typical of his best work, he represents two opposite characters from the Bible: the virtuous Judith, whose courage saves her people by cutting off the head of the invader Holofernes, and the depraved Salome, who under the influence of her mother becomes responsible for the beheading of the prophet John the Baptist.
The artist's talent lies in his ability to treat these two macabre subjects with a light touch, presenting us with two attractive women who seem to twirl with glee amidst the severed heads...
1. Francesco Conti, the “Florentine Tiepolo”
Francesco Conti is a major painter of the Florentine school of the 18th century; he can even probably be considered, along with Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (1692-1768), as one of the two main painters of the second quarter of the Florentine 18th century.
Born in Florence in 1682, Francesco Conti began his apprenticeship in the workshop of Simone Pignoni (1611 - 1698), a disciple of Francesco Furini; he was also influenced by the Venetian Sebastiano Ricci. A protégé of Marquis Riccardi, he accompanied him to Rome between 1699 and 1705, where he frequented Carlo Maratta's studio. He settled permanently in Florence in 1705.
Painted exclusively on canvas, the majority of his work consists of religious subjects, altarpieces or private devotional works. It is likely that Conti himself was a devout churchgoer, as evidenced by his affiliation, in the third decade of the eighteenth century, to the Society of the Disciples of Saint-John-the-Baptist, and his entry, at the end of his life, into the fraternity of the Venerable Society of the Holy Trinity.
In Florence, Conti worked for the Grand Duchy's major patrons, including the last Medici - in particular Giangastone and Annamaria Luisa, Electress Palatine - and confirmed his role as a reference painter under the Lorraine Regency, as master of the Public Drawing School, which was closely linked to the institute responsible for the manufacture of semi-precious stone mosaics, then located in the Uffizi complex.
Matteo Marangoni, an art critic of the early 20th century, praised his "brushwork full of elegance and true spirit of the 18th century", pointing out that Conti was "probably one of the best colorists" of the Florentine school of his time. These two characteristics led the art historian Paolo dal Poggetto to nickname him the "Florentine Tiepolo".
2. Judith and Salome, two biblical characters opposing each other
These two paintings form a pair presenting two biblical episodes, which have in common the depiction of a "heroine" carrying the severed head of a man.
While the Salome episode might at first appear to be an echo of the Old Testament story of Judith, each character is the exact opposite of the other. Judith, whose story is told in the Book of Judith, is a beautiful young widow from Bethulia who, accompanied by her maid, went into the camp of the invading Assyrians and won the confidence of Holofernes, the general commanding the enemy army. Invited to a great feast on the fourth evening, she took advantage of Holofernes' drunkenness to cut off his head. “She went up to the bedpost near Holofernes’ head, and took down his sword that hung there. She came close to his bed, took hold of the hair of his head, and said, “Give me strength today, O Lord God of Israel!” Then she struck his neck twice with all her might, and cut off his head. Next she rolled his body off the bed and pulled down the canopy from the posts. Soon afterward she went out and gave Holofernes’ head to her maid, who placed it in her food bag...
Category
1710s Old Masters France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Watercolour and Gouache, The Harlequins
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pencil, chalk and watercolour on card depiction of a group of harlequins by French artist Jean Ducel. The work is signed and dated bottom right.
This vivid artwork showcases an ener...
Category
Late 20th Century Outsider Art France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
Jazz Panel #5 - gouache, 111x283 cm.
By Paul de Cayeux
Located in Nice, FR
This is a panel painted with gouache on paper that was painted by Paul de Cayeux. He was a french painter and decorator. This suite comes from an old restaurant and ball room in Nice...
Category
1950s Art Deco France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929.
Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne.
Edition of 2...
Category
1920s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nina Narimanishvili - Kiss
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink & acrylic on paper
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Ink, Paper
Landscape - Charcoal Drawing on Paper by R. Santerne-Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a beautiful original drawing on paper realized by Robert Santerne between the 1930s and 1940s.
Stamped on the rear "Atelier R.Santerne"
Aged conditions with repaired r...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Landscape - Pencil Drawing by J. P. Verdussen - Mid-18th Century
By Jan Peeter Verdussen
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a beautiful drawing in pencil on ivory-colored paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen.
The artwork has some folds and foxings. The artwork represents a landscape.
Inclu...
Category
Mid-18th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Dancer - Drawing by Michel Estèbe - 1980s
By Michel Estebe
Located in Roma, IT
Dancer is a China ink realized by Michel Estèbe in the Second half 20th Century
Hand signed on the lower right margin.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Michel Estèbe is a Frenc...
Category
1980s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Model - Original Drawing in Pencil and Ink on Paper by Lise Fleuroy - 1900
By Lise Fleuroy
Located in Roma, IT
Model is an original drawing in pencil and ink on paper realized by Lise Fleuroy.
Hand-signed on the lower left
The state of preservation is very good.
The artwork represents a model woman happily stands with a big fashionable hat...
Category
20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
House in the Countryside - Original Pencil Drawing by A. R. Brudieux - 1960s
By André Roland Brudieux
Located in Roma, IT
House in the Countryside - L'Oise is a original pencil drawing on paper, realized around 1960s by the French artist André Roland Brudieux (1921-1999).
Monogrammed in pencil "AB“ on ...
Category
1960s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Couple - Original Mixed Media - 1940 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Couple is an original drawing in mixed media realized in 1940 ca. by an unknown artist of the 20 Century.
Very good conditions.
The artwork represents a hugging lover expressed th...
Category
1940s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Smoker - Original Pencil Drawing by S. Goldberg - Mid 20th Century
By Simon Goldberg
Located in Roma, IT
Smoker is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right, with sketches on the rear.
The state of preservati...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Cellist - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Pencil drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1960s.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition except for an ink stain lower left.
Category
1960s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Sunset - Original Watercolor - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
"Sunset" is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by anonymous artist of the XX century. date in 1951, hand-signed not readable.
The state of preservation of the artw...
Category
1950s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - In the Field
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache, pastel & oil on paper
Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi St...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper, Oil, Gouache
Flore - Drawing by Marcel Dupont - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Flore is a beautiful drawing on paper, realized by the French artist Marcel Dupont (1898-1974).
Hand-signed on back.
The artwork represents a minimalistic, clean design, through p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
The Virgin and Child, Saint Anne and St John the Baptist after Leonardo da Vinci
By Leonardo da Vinci
Located in Cotignac, FR
A pencil, chalk and crayon drawing of the Virgin and Child with St Anne inspired by the 'cartoon' of Leonard da Vinci currently held in the National Gallery London.
An elegant and c...
Category
Late 20th Century Outsider Art France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Crayon, Pencil, Paper
The Infamous - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1930s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Charcoal and Watercolor on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1930s.
Hand signed lower right.
Good condition except for a minor part of the lower left edge missing.
Category
1930s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The Arab - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1930s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1930s.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
1930s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Theatrical Costumes - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1950s.
Hand signed in pencil lower right.
Some minor folds, otherwise ver good condition.
Category
1950s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Ova
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenager. It was the beau...
Category
2010s Romantic France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - In the Field
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache, pastel & oil on paper
Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi St...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper, Oil, Gouache
Korean Contemporary Art by Shin Seung-Hun - Healing Greenland, Chunja-Go
By Shin Seung-Hun
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylics, oil pastel on canvas
Shin Seung-Hun is a South-Korean artist born in 1979 who lives & works in Jeju Island, Korea. He is considered by critics as the new Korean Takashi Mu...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Georgian Contemporary Art by Maria Vanishvili - N555
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic, watercolour, marker & ink on paper
Maria Vanishvili is a Georgian artist born in 2004 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She signa her...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Ephemeral
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenager. It was the beau...
Category
2010s Romantic France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
German School 19th Century, Portrait of a boy, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
German School 19th Century,
Portrait of a boy,
pencil on paper
25.7 x 16 cm (view)
Framed : 41.8 x 31.5 cm
The style and execution are v...
Category
1850s Romantic France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
French Contemporary Art by Francine Ledieu - Plateau d’Assy
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on paper
Francine Ledieu is a French artist born in 1931 who lives and works in Paris, France. In the 50s, she was a student of Maurice Rocher who specialized in Sacred art. In the ’80s, Francine was a student of Jean Bertholle from the Saint Roch Academy. The artist had personal exhibitions at Maison Mansart from 1989 to 1993 and at Étienne de Causans Gallery in 1997. In 1998 & 2009 she exhibited at La Petite Galerie...
Category
1960s Abstract France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Paper
Rituals #1 Hélène Duclos, 21st Century Contemporary figurative art, orange green
By Hélène Duclos
Located in Paris, FR
Gouache, color pencil and graphite on paper
Signed lower right
Unique work
1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement
“Questioning the human condition and the position of being ali...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Color Pencil, Graphite
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nina Narimanishvili - I Found the Flower
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink & pencil on paper
Nina Narimanishvili is a Georgian artist born in 1999 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Nina has been painting since childhood and over time her interes...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Nudes - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1934 ca.
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Pencil and pastel drawing realized by Mino Maccari, on recto and verso of the sheet, in 1934 ca.
Hand signed.
Very good condition.
Category
1930s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Pastel
French Contemporary Art by Francine Ledieu - Vacances à Tramery
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on paper
Francine Ledieu is a French artist born in 1931 who lives and works in Paris, France. In the 50s, she was a student of Maurice Rocher who specialized in Sacred art. In the ’80s, Francine was a student of Jean Bertholle from the Saint Roch Academy. The artist had personal exhibitions at Maison Mansart from 1989 to 1993 and at Étienne de Causans Gallery in 1997. In 1998 & 2009 she exhibited at La Petite Galerie...
Category
1960s Abstract France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Paper
Air, light, matter (Abbaye de La Cambre #34) by Yann Bagot - Ink drawing, forest
Located in Paris, FR
Air, light, matter (Abbaye de La Cambre #34) is an India ink and salt on paper drawing by the French contemporary artist Yann Bagot, dimensions are 100 × 70 cm (39.4 × 27.6 in).
The...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Canadian Contemporary Art by Christian Frederiksen - Medusa 2
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolour on paper
Christian Frederiksen is a Georgian artist born in 1989 who lives and works in Calgary, Canada. He loves to experiment with...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Japanese Contemporary Drawing by Tomo Sakurai - Peony
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencils on paper mounted on panel
Tomo Sakurai is a Japanese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. She had an awakening of her talent in pencil drawing as a teenage...
Category
2010s Romantic France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Study of a Fate at mid-body, a red chalk attributed to Giovanni da San Giovanni
Located in PARIS, FR
This spectacular red chalk drawing depicts an elderly woman, her eyes bulging, her hand stretched out towards the sky. This disturbing character, who seems close to dementia, and the elongation of her arm with its Mannerist overtones, plunge us into the Florentine artistic milieu of the first half of the 17th century. The proximity of this drawing to some characters in the fresco in the Pitti Palace representing The Muses, Poets and Philosophers chased from Parnassus, the last masterpiece of Giovanni da San Giovanni, leads us to propose an attribution to this artist and a dating of around 1635-1636.
1. Giovanni da San Giovanni, the painter of contradiction
We take here the title of the monography dedicated to the artist by Anna Banti in 1977, which remains the reference book for this artist. The son of a notary, Giovanni Mannozzi, known as Giovanni da San Giovanni, abandoned his studies to go to Florence at the age of sixteen, where he entered the studio of Matteo Rosselli (1578 - 1650) around 1609 and enrolled in the Academy of Drawing Arts in 1612. Around 1615 he produced his first known works, mainly frescoes for the city's tabernacles. He became famous in Florence for his originality, combining an obsessive application to the study of drawing and the reading of poetry and history with a disheveled appearance. Between 1619 and 1620 he decorated the facade of the Antella Palace in Piazza Santa Croce, a decoration that still partly survives today.
The death of Cosimo II in 1621 put an end to the Florentine building activity and Giovanni da San Giovanni left for Rome to find other sponsors with the painter Francesco Furini...
Category
17th Century Old Masters France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Léa LAFUGIE (1890-1972), gouache of a Burmese dancer
Located in Paris, FR
Léa Lafugie is a painter who has travelled extensively throughout Asia. She is renowned for her portraits. She studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, then at the Ecole de...
Category
1920s Art Deco France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Elegant Lovers at the Rink - Original handsigned watercolor - 1930
By Marcel Bloch
Located in Paris, IDF
Marcel BLOCH
Elegant Lovers at the Rink
Original watercolor with gouache enhancement
Handsigned bottom right
c. 1930
On vellum 35 x 24 cm at view (c. 14 x 10 in)
Information : This...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
French Contemporary Art by Liubov Juravliova - Création de Mode
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolour, ink on paper
Liubov Juravliova is a French painter born in Chisinau, Moldova in 1963 who lives and works in Argenteuil, near Paris, France She has been listed at Drouot...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Moby Dick 4 original mid century illustrations for Herman Melville's masterpiece
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Norwich, GB
A stunning ensemble of fiour original mid century illustrations for Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" . Whilst sharing the modernist, stylis...
Category
1940s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
French 19th Century Romantic Period 1830s Parisian Lady Portrait Madame Seguin
By Adele Grasset
Located in Norwich, GB
A stunning portrait of a Parisian beauty from the romantic period by Adele Grasset (active ca 1830-1850). With her intelligent eyes and determined look, doesn't this lady bear great resemblance to Chopin's paramour George Sand?
The sitter is Jeanne Marie Vidal, wife of Claude Auguste Seguin, from a prominent family in Avignon, as the family tree attached to the back for the frame indicates. Research in old annals has also revealed that Madame Seguin was a modern and independent lady: she worked in lady's fashion in Paris, and patented wrapping mechanism that protected lady's hats during their transport!
As often with woman artists of the 18th and 19th century, there is little biographical information available on the artist, Adèle Grasset. We do know however, that she had studied with the highly prominent artist François Gérard (1770-1837) , known also as the Baron Gérard...
Category
1830s Academic France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Mid-Century French Feutre on Paper. In the Stables..
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid Century French feutre drawing on paper of a Provençal stable with horses by Jean Arène. Signed and dated bottom left and presented in a wooden frame under glass.
This evocative...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen
View of the Canals of Venice - Drawing by Alcione Gubellini - Mid-20th Century
By Alcione Gubellini
Located in Roma, IT
Ink and watercolor on cardboard realized by Alcione Gubellini in the mid-20th century.
Hand signed.
Includes a wooden frame cm. 53x47.
Very good condition.
Category
1940s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
