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Korean Contemporary Art by Shin Seung-Hun - Healing Greenland, Skydiving Chunja
By Shin Seung-Hun
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylics, oil pastel on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Deschmacker, Young Woman Lying By The Sea, Watercolor
By Paul Alex Deschmacker
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Watercolor by Paul-Alex Deschmacker, France, 1920s. This watercolor is in the classical period populated by mythological characters of Paul-Alex Deschmacker, itself becoming part of ...
Category
1920s Art Deco France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Go through the trials #7 Hélène Duclos 21st Century drawing art landscape red
By Hélène Duclos
Located in Paris, FR
This drawing is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris.
The liquid mountain is populated by living be...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Graphite
French Modern Drawing by Jean Hélion - Veil Homme
By Jean Hélion
Located in Paris, IDF
Veil Homme
1947
drawing
26,9 x 21 x 0,1 cm
Registered on the catalogue raisonné with inventory number : N°0252 cat. B
sold without frame
about Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904 – October ...
Category
1960s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Episodic disturbances #2 Hélène Duclos 21st Century drawing art landscape red
By Hélène Duclos
Located in Paris, FR
This drawing is part of the current exhibition entitled "The fantastic story of the liquid mountain" at Claire Corcia Gallery in Paris.
The liquid mountain is populated by living be...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Graphite
Chinese Contemporary Art by Li Qing-Yan - Giraffe Drinking Water
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on handmade paper
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink
Watercolor Interpretation of the The Raft of the Medusa After Théodore Géricault
Located in Cotignac, FR
Watercolour on paper interpretation of the Raft of the Medusa by English artist Derek Carruthers. The work is signed and titled to the back of the paper.
A vivid and engaging interp...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865) The Children of the painter Drawing
By Eugene Deveria
Located in Paris, FR
Eugène Devéria (1805-1865)
The children of the painter
Portrait in an oval, study for a portrait
Black pencil on paper
23 x 19 cm
Stamp of the worksh...
Category
1840s Romantic France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a manor and a traveler, signed drawing
By Jules Noel
Located in Paris, FR
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...
Category
1860s Romantic France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Wolf, are you there #1 ? Hélène Duclos Contemporary art drawing green nature
By Hélène Duclos
Located in Paris, FR
Gouache and pencil on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed and entitled lower right by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Pencil
"La sentinelle de Thérèse", c. 1914-1918, drawing and gouache, signed
By René Georges Hermann-Paul
Located in PARIS, FR
"La sentinelle de Thérèse" (The Sentinel of Therese), two soldiers discussing, bears a handwritten note at the bottom "if you feel like sneezing, you will go under the window of the ...
Category
1910s French School France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Carbon Pencil
Rue St Rustique, Montmartre and Sacré-Coeur Basilica, Paris. Watercolor and Ink.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century drawing and watercolour of Rue St Rustique in Paris. The drawing is titled and signed bottom left but the signature is as yet undeciphered. Unframed but with a cut card mount.
A charming view of one of the oldest streets in Montmartre and Paris leading up to the iconic Sacré-Coeur Basilica. The artist has captured all the charm of this treasured view. They have shown a mastery of their art and wonderful handling of the drawing and watercolour. A lovely evocative painting that would grace any collection or interior.
This street in the old village of Montmartre, which existed before the eleventh century as a path, later became an alley that served as a boundary between the seigneuries of Saint-Denis and Montmartre.
Called "rue Notre-Dame" around 1516, it is indicated on the map of Jouvin de Rochefort of 1672 as a road.
It was classified as part of the Parisian road network by a decree of 23 May...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Soldier begging for Mercy a preparatory study by Jean-Marc Nattier (1685 - 1766)
By Jean-Marc Nattier
Located in PARIS, FR
This rare drawing by Nattier is part of a set of preparatory studies executed in 1717 for one of the painter's first commissions, the painting commissioned by Tsar Peter I of Russia ...
Category
1710s Old Masters France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Portrait - Drawing By Gabriel Zendel - Mid-20th Century
By Gabriel Zendel
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an artwork realized by Gabriel Zendel in the Mid 20th Century.
Ink drawing.
In good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Demonstration #1 Hélène Duclos, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative art blue
By Hélène Duclos
Located in Paris, FR
Gouache, coloured 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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Le Chat
Located in PARIS, FR
Pencil on paper mounted on cardboard
138 x 107.5 cm 148.4 x 117 cm (cadre)
Category
20th Century Abstract France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
$18,441
Cityscape - Pencil Drawing - Mid 20th Century
By Albert Decaris
Located in Roma, IT
Surreal Scene is a drawing in Pencil realized by he french painter Albert Decaris in the mid-20th Century.
Good Conditions.
The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Accordion Player - Drawing - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
The Accordion Player is a drawing artwork realized by a French Artist in mid-20th century.
Pencil on paper
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Jazz Panel #2 - gouache, 102x186 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
Jazz Panel #3 - gouache, 102x186 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
The Couple - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Couples is a Pen and watercolor Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s.
Hand-signed at the top margin.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Jun...
Category
20th Century Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pen
View of Rome, the Aurelian Wall, Gateway at the Market Place
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid century watercolour view of a gateway into the ancient walls of Rome, Italy, by G Tosy. The painting is signed bottom left and presented in a plain wood frame with a hand cut mou...
Category
Mid-20th Century France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Warm-up - Drawing in Pencil By Norbert Meyre - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Warm-up is an original drawing in pencil, on creamy-colored paper realized by Norbert Meyre in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions except for foxings.
The artwork is depicted ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Windsurfing With An Audience, Day at the Beach, Attributed to Raymond Moretti
By Raymond Moretti
Located in Cotignac, FR
Watercolour on paper of a group of ladies looking on to two windsurfers with a harbour beyond. The painting is not signed but is similar to the works of Raymond Moretti. Presented in...
Category
20th Century France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Berthomme Saint-André, Before Bathing, 1926
By Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Watercolor by Louis BERTHOMME SAINT-ANDRE, France, 1926. Befor bathing. With frame: 74x63.5 cm - 29.1x25 inches ; without frame, just the watercolor: 50x36 cm - 19.7x14.2 inches. Si...
Category
1920s Art Deco France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Military Drawing 19th Ink on paper Souvenir barrack officers 1830 July Monarchy
By Richard de Querelle
Located in PARIS, FR
Richard de QUERELLES Neuviller (Bas-Rhin), 1808 - Paris, 1846
Drawing Pen and ink 17.5 x 19 cm (28 x 37.5 cm with the frame) Signed "R. de Querelles ” and untitled“ Barraque ”
Henri...
Category
1830s French School France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Hand VI Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing tree tattoo write
By Geneviève Seillé
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper
Dated and signed on the back
In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object of fascination, only its visual a...
Category
2010s Outsider Art France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Posing Nude - Drawing by Jean Chapin- 1950s
By Jean Chapin
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Nude is a charcoal drawing realized by Jean Chapin in the 1950s.
Good condition and aged with slight folding on the margins.
Jean Chapin is a French painter and lithographer...
Category
1950s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Dreamers #1 Caroline Veith Contemporary art drawing nature flora flower red
By Caroline Veith
Located in Paris, FR
Ink on tracing paper
Hand-signed and dated lower left
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Early 20th Century French Gouache on Paper, The Frog and The Fisherman
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century French gouache and watercolour on paper of a fisherman by Louis Henri Magnat, The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a carved and gilt wood frame und...
Category
Early 20th Century France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1979
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a China Ink Drawing and Watercolour realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a cream colored paper.
...
Category
1970s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Mid-Century French Feutre on Paper. Tea time In the Kitchen.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late Mid Century French feutre drawing on paper of a Provençal lady sitting in her kitchen by Jean Arène. Signed and dated bottom left.
This artwork is a striking pen-and-ink drawing that vividly captures a cluttered interior scene filled with an assortment of teapots and household objects. The central figure, an elderly lady with an expressive face, sits at a table surrounded by an overwhelming array of details. The artist uses bold, dynamic lines to convey a sense of chaos and charm, creating an atmosphere of cozy clutter. The composition’s intricacy draws the viewer's eye around the room, showcasing...
Category
1960s Expressionist France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen
Bicycle - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Bicycle is a marker realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Monogrammed.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an Italian writ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
homme grenouille (frog 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
German Contemporary Art by Juliane Hundertmark - Pool
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas,
Juliane Hundertmark is a German artist born in 1971 who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She is considered one of Berlin's most original and inventive emerging pai...
Category
2010s France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Orientalist - gouache on paper, 65x50 cm., framed
By Albert Chubac
Located in Nice, FR
Gouache on paper. Stamped. Frame dimensions: 63x78 cm
Last painter of the school of Nice. This is an important painter, the first school in nice to have exhibited in New York at t...
Category
1950s Abstract France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967) A woman seated, drawing signed
By Octave Guillonnet
Located in Paris, FR
Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872 - 1967)
A young woman seated
signed lower leftt
Charcoal, red and white chalks on thin paper transfered on cardboard
49 x 39 cm
Framed : 55.5 x ...
Category
1930s Art Deco France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Untitled - Pencil Drawing by André MeauxSaint-Marc - 1920s
By André Meaux Saint-Marc
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a drawing, realized in 1920s , by the French Artist André Meaux-Saint-Marc (1885-1941)
Black and white pencil on paper. Hand Signed on back.
The artist wants to de...
Category
1920s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
"We Two", Trees Inhabited by Human in Nature, Drawing with Pigments on Paper
By Frank Girard
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This drawing by Frank Girard is created with pigments and ink, on 300g/m2 neutral white paper. It is not framed.
Through drawings, the masterful French a...
Category
2010s Realist France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pigment
Dessin « helmeted man 3 » pour la NASA - Raymond Loewy et William Snaith
By Raymond Loewy
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Helmeted man 3" drawing for NASA - Raymond Loewy and William Snaith
Apollo orbital workshop - Habitability study
India ink on cardboard
Signed and dated Raymond Loewy's initials
1...
Category
1960s France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Woman and Taurus - Lajos Szalay, 20th Century, Figurative drawing
By Lajos Szalay
Located in Paris, FR
Ink on paper
Signed lower right by the artist
Unique work
Framed
This work was executed by the Hungarian artist circa 1970.
Pablo Picasso said about Lajos Szalay : "He is the best ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Justice - Original Pen on Paper by Bertrand Mogniat-Duclos - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Justice is an original drawing in pen on ivory-colored paper, realized by the French painter Bertrand Mogniat-Duclos.
In very good conditions.
This artwork is a very beautiful draw...
Category
1950s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Lamp and Decoration - Original Watercolor - 1890s
Located in Roma, IT
"Lamp and Decoration" 1890s is an original watercolor drawing on ivory-colorated paper by Anonymous Artist of XIX Century.
In very good condition.
Not signed.
Category
1890s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Study of lion - Original Pencil Drawing by Wilhelm Lorenz - 1933
By Wilhelm Lorenz
Located in Roma, IT
Study of lion is a beautiful original drawing on ivory-colored paper realized in 1932 by the German artist Wilhelm Lorenz, also known as Willi Lorenz.
Hand-signed on the lower left...
Category
1930s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Naked Woman on the Rocks - Drawing by G. Lallich - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Naked Woman on the Rocks is an original modern artwork realized by Giuseppe Lallich (1867-1953) in the early 20th Century.
Mixed colored watercolor.
Hand-Signed by the artist
Inc...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract figurative woman painting on paper "There is freedom within us"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This vibrant artwork called 'Freedom within us " showcases a bold and abstract representation of the human form, employing a striking palette of vivid colors and dynamic brushwork. T...
Category
2010s Abstract France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Boatman - Original Pen Drawing by S. Goldberg - Mid 20th Century
By Simon Goldberg
Located in Roma, IT
Boatman is an original drawing in pen on paper realized by Simon Goldberg(1913-1985). with the stamp of “Atelier Simon Goldberg, Delavenne Lafarge”
The state of preservation is very...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Neoclassical School 19th Century - Esther Fainting In Front Of Ahasuerus
Located in PARIS, FR
Neoclassical French school of the 19th century
Esther's fainting in front of Ahasuerus
Brown ink over black pencil lines with highlight in white gouache
31.5 x 42.3 cm (48.6 x ...
Category
19th Century France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Firemen of the Communism - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Firemen of the Communism is a Pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good condition with slight folding.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 19...
Category
1960s Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Contemporary figurative art acrylic painting of a woman on paper
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This artwork presents a striking and abstract portrayal of a seated woman rendered with bold and expressive brushstrokes. This painting makes part of the series dedicated to "Women"....
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
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Frieze of antique figures, a drawing by the sculptor Antoine-Denis Chaudet
Located in PARIS, FR
Faithful to the neo-classical taste, sculptor Antoine-Denis Chaudet presents us with a frieze of antique figures executed in gray wash over pencil strokes, which is likely inspired b...
Category
Early 1800s Old Masters France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Ink
A Charming Unexpected Visit - Original handsigned watercolor - 1930
By Marcel Bloch
Located in Paris, IDF
Marcel BLOCH
A Charming Unexpected Visit
Original watercolor with gouache enhancement
Handsigned bottom left
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
Pauline and Severus (Illustration for the Part II, Scene II of Polyeucte)
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert MAIGNAN
(Beaumont-sur-Sarthe, 1845 – Saint-Prix, 1908)
Pauline and Severus (Illustration for the Part II, Scene II of Polyeucte)
Ink, grey wash
Signed lower left
51 x 35 cm
Exhibition: French Watercolour Society, 11th exhibition, Galerie Georges Petit, 8, rue de Sèze, Paris. Catalogue number: 125
This classic drawing but tinted with symbolism is an excellent example of the talents of illustrator of Albert Maignan, a facet of his art that he developed significantly from 1883.
It is one of five watercolours in “black ivory” created by Maignan to illustrate the Polyeucte from Cornelius, a book specially published by Mame Editions (for which Maignan worked a lot) for the Universal Exhibition of 1889. These watercolours were exhibited in 1889 at the famous Galerie Georges Petit (which hosted the 11th exhibition of the French Water Color Society) under No. 124/125/126/127/128 (Maignan exposed another illustrative drawing for “Boileau” under No. 129).
Each drawing illustrating an episode of all five acts of the tragedy.
Our work represents the moment when Pauline (daughter of Felix, Roman senator and governor of the province of Armenia) regains his former suitor Severus (a noble Roman general) and explains that she is now married to Polyeucte (a lord of Armenia) and she can see him again. The scene is set in a garden with a small temple of Vesta, where Pauline has filed an offering; the Pauline confidante named Stratonice, stands at his side, while Severus was accompanied by his servant Fabian. The drawing is captioned by Pauline words to Severus: “Yes I love Severus, and not doing as an excuse”
The book was printed in 800 copies, containing compositions from Maignan etched by Emile Boivin...
Category
Late 19th Century French School France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Landscape - Drawing by Camille Adrien Paris - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a modern artwork realized by Camille Adrien Paris.
Pencil drawing.
Includes frame.
Camille Adrien Paris (1834-1901) Born in Paris, died in Barbizon. Student of Ary S...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
'Mother Nature', Lyrical Surrealist Abstract Watercolour on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century lyrical surrealist abstract watercolour on paper by French artist Jean Clerté, signed and dated bottom right. Presented in mid-century frame.
Jean Clerté , born in 1930 in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe in Vienne, is a French painter, engraver, draftsman, watercolourist and sculptor . This work is a great example of his more humorous and expressive work influenced by Alechinsky from the late 1960s onwards. There is a light playfulness and yet the watercolours are more vivid than his previous palette.
Jean Clerté works in series. His sequential narrations testify both to a youthful spontaneity and to a perfect mastery in the distribution of forms and images on the painted surface. The narration is not only an accumulation of juxtaposed fragments and symbols, it forms a whole, it takes on and gives meaning. In general, we can say of Clerté that he practices an “eco-art” that feeds on primary hungers: the feeling of being united with nature, the vegetable, the mineral, the aquatic. In his colourful canvases, his inks, his boxes, his objects, like a shaman on the path of his dreams, the painter Clerté mounts an assault on beasts and demons, elves and gnomes. From the Poitevin marshes to the tropical forests emerges a fauna caught in the meanders of a design that marvels at the appearance of these grotesque idols.
Jean Clerté began to draw and paint at a very young age, and at the age of 15 he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Poitiers. Then in 1949, curious about the capital, he moved to Paris. Having very few financial resources, he could not continue his studies at first, worked as a model to survive, and met other artists; he was then admitted to the studio of Ossip Zadkine and, from 1952, he was also able to study engraving at Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter, an English engraver and printer living in Paris associated in the 1930s with surrealism.
At the end of the 1960s, he worked alongside Pierre Alechinsky, founding member of the Cobra movement, engraving Alechinsky's originals, benefiting from his advice, and discovering acrylic as a medium.
From 1976, Jean Clerté became associate professor at Hayter. Clerté had taught previously, in 1971 at the Salzburg Summer University and in 1972 he gave courses at the Paris-Sorbonne University . In 1981, he was appointed professor at the School of Decorative Arts , where he had Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas as a student and, from 1983 to 1988, he was Alechinsky's assistant professor at the Paris School of Fine Arts.
His first works are part of the current of lyrical abstraction, and are nourished by impressions of nature (landscape motifs, e.g. forest fires, waterscapes), then around 1968, encouraged by Alechinsky, he rejects abstraction, and his work becomes more figurative with expressive and humorous elements. From this period his colours are more subdued, often with pastel tones, he works on series. Jean Clerté has created a world in a space where drawing, painting, objects participate in a playful figuration. From his drawings were born sculptures and sometimes mobiles (Le Moulin à dessin). If it is the artist who makes astonishing, polychrome, whimsical “toys”, it is the painter who appeals to adults through his caustic and satirical humour.
His first exhibitions in France took place at the Galerie Massol , then at the Galerie Pascal...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Woman in thought and Child: the page boy intriguing 19th Century Master drawing
By Gustave Jean Jacquet
Located in Norwich, GB
A virtuoso charcoal sketch by the Frech 19th Century master Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846-1904). It depicts a thoughtful woman (or woman in thought?) with her face resting on her hand...
Category
Late 19th Century French School France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
Chateau Fort - 19th Century - Horace Vernet - Drawing - Old Master
By Émile Jean-Horace Vernet
Located in Roma, IT
Chateau fort is an original pencil drawing on paper by Horace Vernet realized in XIX century. Certified by Paul Proutè. Very good conditions, except for a very little rip on the lef...
Category
19th Century Old Masters France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Watercolor figurative woman painting on paper "What the future holds for me"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This vibrant artwork, "What the Future Holds for Me", showcases a powerful and abstract representation of a woman seated in contemplation, wearing a flowing blue gown as she sits on ...
Category
2010s Impressionist France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Pair of French Mid Century Drawings, 'Ligne Claire' after Hergé, Grasse and Nice
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pair of French mid 20th Century drawing in the style of Georges Remi, dit Hergé. The works are not signed but both are titled and dated. Presented in modern frames under glass.
The first is a charming street view of Cannes on the Cote D'Azur in the south of France, an area now internationally famous for its annual film festival. The artist has captured the imposing nature of the fine stone buildings with their blue and green shutters towering over the scene. Next to it fine trees so characteristic of French streets are just coming in to leaf. Two men go about their business, one is walking towards a cafe. Cars and a red delivery truck animate the scene.
The second an equally charming view of the chapel at the Nice Chateau cemetery on the Cote D'Azur in the south of France. The artist has captured the imposing nature of the fine colourful stone buildings with their arches, cupolas and finials. Surrounding the buildings are trees and bushes and to the foreground cars of typical 1960s design. The style of the artist is clearly inspired by the animations of Georges Remi, dit Hergé which were so popular at this period.
Georges Remi, more commonly known as Hergé created his own clean, expressive style of drawings known as ligne claire...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
"Freedom", Orange and Black Three-Masted Schooner Ink Drawing
By Philippe Mallet
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This artwork depicts a three-masted schooner named Freedom, hailing from New-York. The boat has brown booms, masts, keel and bow, and black and orange hull...
Category
2010s Other Art Style France - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
