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Item Ships From: London
Watercolour artwork by Ludovic Rodo Pissarro titled 'Le Moulin de la Galette'
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Le Moulin de la Galette by Ludovic Rodo Pissarro (1878 - 1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
21 x 15.7 cm (8 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp and inscribed Elisabeth lower ri...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
Three Figures
Located in London, GB
Watercolour and pencil on paper, 76cm x 51cm, (87cm x 61cm framed).
Born in London to his renowned artist mother Elisabeth Frink RA and a French architect father, Michel Jammet, Ja...
Category
1990s Post-War London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
La Suisse Normande en Automne by Paulémile Pissarro - Watercolour on paper
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
La Suisse Normande en Automne by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Watercolour and pencil on paper
28 x 20 cm (11 x 7 ⁷/₈ inches)
Signed and inscribed lower left, Paulémile - Pissarro -...
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1930s London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Bernard, Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
English School
Bernard, Self Portrait
1950s
Pencil and sepia chalk on paper
Image size: 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (24 x 34.3 cm)
Handmade contemporary frame
This imaginative self-portra...
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1950s London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
Les Captives by Paul Delvaux - Nudes, Work on paper, Ink
By Paul Delvaux
Located in London, GB
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Les Captives by Paul Delvaux (1897-1994)
Pen, Indian ink and wash on paper
35 x 43.5 cm (13 ³/₄ x 17 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed and dated lower right, P. Delvaux 1955
Inscribed on the reverse
Provenance: Christie's London, 2010
Private collection, London, acquired from the above
Artist biography:
Belgian artist Paul Delvaux was born in Liège in eastern Belgium. Despite Delvaux’s desire to become an artist, his lawyer father encouraged him to train as an architect at the prestigious Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
Thanks to private art tuition undertaken alongside his architectural studies, in 1925 Delvaux gained his first solo exhibition in Brussels. Heavily influenced by contemporary Expressionism and Surrealism, Delvaux was soon drawn to the ‘metaphysical’ paintings of Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico. On a chance visit to a museum of medical curiosities...
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1950s Surrealist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Pen
Portrait of a Lady in a White Dress - 18th Century Watercolour
By John Downman
Located in London, GB
John Downman
1750-1824
Portrait of a Lady in a White Dress
Pencil, stump and watercolour, heightened with white chalk, signed and dated 1784
Imag...
Category
18th Century London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Male Torso
By John Koch
Located in London, GB
Pencil, coloured pencil and chalk on paper, titled (lower left), signed (lower right), 31cm x 46cm, (51cm x 68cm framed).
John Koch was an American painter and teacher, and an impo...
Category
1950s American Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil, Color Pencil
La Promenade by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Drawing, Pastel, Charcoal, Landscape
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
La Promenade by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Charcoal and pastel on paper
49.5 x 63.5 cm (19 ⅜ x 25 inches)
Signed lower left, Manzana
Executed circa 1920
This work is accom...
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1920s Art Deco London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
Dans La Loge
By Dimitri Bouchene
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper, signed (lower left), 63cm x 49cm (framed 75cm x 60cm).
Bouchéne was a Russian artist and costume and set designer for theatre, opera and ballet. Primarily working ...
Category
1920s Art Deco London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Les Tilleuls de L'Avenue de la Mer by H. Claude Pissarro - Post-Impressionism
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Les Tilleuls de L'Avenue de la Mer by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Sketch of Three Figures
Located in London, GB
Benjamin Robert Haydon
1786 - 1846
Sketch of Three Figures
Pen and ink on paper,
Image size: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (25 x 20 cm)
Acid Free mount, original frame
Provenance
Private Col...
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18th Century English School London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Study of a Man's Shoulder
By Glyn Philpot
Located in London, GB
Black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper, 19cm x 15cm, (32cm x 27cm framed).
First exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1904, Philpot was elected as an Academician in 1923. Like many artists of his generation, he enjoyed a comfortable income from portraiture, which enabled him to paint less commercially successful and perhaps more personal subjects. His interest in the male nude and portraits of...
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1920s Art Deco London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Charcoal
Untitled 2310 (Abstract Drawing)
By Fieroza Doorsen
Located in London, GB
Untitled 2310 (Abstract Drawing)
Oil on paper - Unframed.
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge wh...
Category
2010s Abstract London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
C 20th Portrait of Female Nude by Hollywood favourite Vargas: 'Reclining Nude'
By Alberto Vargas
Located in London, GB
Alberto Vargas was a Peruvian artist best known for his drawings and paintings of pin-up girls that were featured in many notable publications in the 20th century including Esquire a...
Category
Late 20th Century London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Drawing of a captive woman
By Henry Fuseli
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Sir Thomas Lawrence, who acquired the contents of Fuseli’s studio;
Susan, Countess of Guilford, née Coutts (1771-1837), acquired from the Lawrence estate;
Susan, Baroness North (1797-1884), daughter of the above;
Mrs A. M. Jaffé, acquired in France, c. 1950 to 2016.
Black chalks, on buff-coloured paper
Stamped verso: ‘Baroness Norths Collection / of Drawings by H Fuseli Esq.’
Framed dimensions: 26.38 x 20.63 inches
This boldly drawn sheet depicting a seated figure was made by Fuseli at an important and highly productive moment in his career. The monumental drawing is closely related to another sheet by Fuseli in the British Museum which Schiff published as subject unknown. Both drawings were made when Fuseli was designing his most important sequence of historical works, including scenes from Shakespeare and Milton, The Nightmare and The Death of Dido which was exhibited at the Royal Academy to great critical acclaim in 1781. The present drawing does not relate directly to any of Fuseli’s finished historical paintings of the period, but evidently the image of a slightly menacing, seated and covered old woman was precisely the sort of motif he was playing with. It is notable that the same figure reappears later in Fuseli’s work as the witch from Ben Jonson’s Witch’s Song which Fuseli produced as both a painting and engraving in 1812.
Fuseli returned to London in 1779 from a highly creative and productive period in Rome and established himself as one of the leading history painters of the period. Fuseli re-established contact with his old mentor Sir Joshua Reynolds, becoming a regular guest at his dinner table and visitor to his studio. The earliest and most striking manifestation of this strategy was Fuseli's Death of Dido, exhibited in 1781 at the Royal Academy. Executed on the same scale as Reynolds's version (Royal Collection), Fuseli's vertically oriented picture was hung directly opposite Reynolds's with its horizontal orientation, inevitably inviting comparison between the two works and garnering Fuseli much publicity and favourable reviews in the newspapers.
The present, previously unpublished sheet, relates closely to a drawing now in the British Museum. That sheet shows the same seated old woman, drawn on a smaller scale and more schematic in design, seated next to an anatomical drawing of a man. The pose of this figure is related to the pose of Dido in his Death of Dido; the foreshortened torso, arrangement of head, oblique view of Dido’s features and arms all suggest that the study can be viewed as an initial thought for the composition. Fuseli may have initially thought of including the figure of the hunched and covered old woman. Drawn on identical paper to the British Museum sheet, our study is an enlarged depiction of the same figure, more elaborately delineated and developed. The presence of a chain to the right of the figure, suggests that the iconography was related in some way to a scene of imprisonment.
Fuseli had first explored the motif of the hooded old woman in an early Roman drawing, 'The Venus Seller'. The idea of a grotesque old woman, hooded and with angular nose and projecting chin seen in profile was most spectacularly used by Fuseli in his sequence of paintings depicting The Three Witches from Macbeth. Fuseli seems to have kept the present sheet and may have returned to it when preparing a painting of The Witch and the Mandrake from Ben Jonson’s Witch’s Song from his Masque of Queens in 1812. Here the same seated figure looks out from under her hood and picks a mandrake by moonlight. Jonson’s drama had been performed at the court of James I in 1609, inspired the subject. To throw the nobility of the queens into relief, the poet added a coven of witches, one of whom declares: ‘I last night lay all alone, On the ground, to hear the mandrake groan; And plucked him up, though he grew full low, And, as I had done, the cock did crow.’ The figure was reversed in the associated etching which was published in 1812. It seems likely that the present drawing remained as part of Fuseli’s working archive of figure studies.
The present drawing was presumably purchased with the bulk of Fuseli’s drawings after the artist’s death by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Lawrence’s large group of Fuseli drawings were then acquired by Susan, Countess of Guildford (1771-1837). Lady Guildford was the eldest daughter of the banker Thomas Coutts (1735-1822), who himself had supported Fuseli’s journey to Rome in the 1770s and had remained one of the artist’s key...
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18th Century Old Masters London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Cricket: Defending the Wicket, 1930s vintage poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Defending the Wicket
Airbrush and pen
13 x 13 cm
c.1930
Signed to the bottom right
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a Bri...
Category
1930s Realist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Paysage de l'Aven by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour, Coastal scene
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Paysage de l'Aven by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and pencil on paper
27 x 38 cm (10 ⅝ x 15 inches)
Signed lower right, Ludovic Rodo
Executed circa 1904
This work ...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
18th century portrait drawing of the Rev. William Atkinson
By George Romney
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1882-1950);
Private collection, UK to 2019
Framed dimensions: 14.50 x 15.38 inches
This drawing is one of only two known portrait drawings by Romney (as opposed to preliminary studies for portraits) and is dated by Alex Kidson as being executed no later than 1769. It is likely that the present drawing was originally part of a sketchbook, now largely dismembered (Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal), which Kidson notes, contained some of Romney’s most beautiful early drawings. This drawing, and a second sheet formerly with Andrew Wyld, have been identifying as depicting the Rev. William Atkinson...
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18th Century Old Masters London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Le Pont Neuf
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Le Pont Neuf', gouache on fine art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BC, the birthplace of Paris. It is called 'The New Bridge' because at the time of its inauguration (built 1578-1607), it embodied a very modern look compared to other bridges which spanned the Seine. Lucien Génin has captured its beauty in this lively depiction from the 1930s. Just before the bridge is a 'Bateau Mouche' an open excursion boat that provides visitors with a view of the city from along the river. The artwork is in good overall condition commensurate with age and medium used. It has been newly frame with anti-reflective glass. Please enjoy the photos accompanying this listing. Signed by the artist in the lower left hand. Upon request a video may be provided.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...
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1930s Expressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'Lily in Charcoal no.3' abstract expressionism photography edition of 10
Located in London, GB
'Lily in Charcoal no.3' 2023
From raw energy to sublime. 'Lily in Charcoal No.3' is an expression piece combining an abstract charcoal drawing with a live lily emerging from a gash....
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
La Rivière de Dotahn by Lélia Pissarro - Pastel on paper
By Lelia Pissarro
Located in London, GB
La Rivière de Dotahn by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963)
Pastel on paper
12.5 x 19 cm (4 ⁷/₈ x 7 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed lower right, Lélia Pissarro
Executed in 2020
This work is accompanied by ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Cockspur Street - contemporary watercolor painting London street architecture
By David Walker
Located in London, GB
Award winning artist David Walker works in both oil paints and watercolours. Before concentrating on illustration and fine art painting David trained and practiced as an architect. A...
Category
2010s Contemporary London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Las Ramblas Barcelona
Located in London, GB
'Las Ramblas Barcelona', watercolour on art paper, by Spanish artist, Josè Goday (1984). A wonderful snippet of the magical street in Barcelona called Las ...
Category
1980s London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Moroccan Woman with Girl by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Work on paper
By Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Moroccan Woman with Girl, Pastel with Gold and Silver on Paper
Pastel with gold and silver on paper
47 x 62cm (18 ½ x 24 ⅜ inches)
Signed lower right, Manzana Pissarro
Painted circa ...
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1940s Art Deco London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Les Jardins de Monte-Carlo by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel, Post-Impressionist
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Les Jardins de Monte-Carlo by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⁵/₈ x 20 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower right, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a ce...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Cutting Wheat, 20th Century British Watercolour Landscape Painting
By Charles Tunnicliffe
Located in London, GB
CHARLES TUNNICLIFFE
1901-1979
Cutting Wheat
Watercolour with body colour
Image size: 9 ½ x 7 inches (25 x 18 cm)
Gilt frame
Category
20th Century London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Smithfield Cattle Show, 1930s art deco poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987)
Smithfield Cattle Show
Airbrush and gouache
26 x 33 cm
c.1930
Provenance: Family of the artist
A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist, illustra...
Category
1930s Realist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
The Death of Attis, 18th Century French Red Chalk Drawing, Greek Mythology
Located in London, GB
Red chalk on paper
Image size: 9 x 7 inches (23 x 17.75 cm)
Acid free mount
The Greek god Attis was the spouse of Cybele, the fertility goddess. He was from Phrygia, a kingdom in c...
Category
18th Century French School London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Marseille by H. Claude Pissarro - Pastel on Card
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Marseille by H. Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
37 x 51 cm (14 ⅝ x 20 ⅛ inches)
Signed lower left, H. Claude Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authentic...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of Lady, 18th Century English Pen and Ink
By Ozias Humphry
Located in London, GB
Ozias Humphry
1742-1810
Portrait of Frances Abington
Pen and brown ink on paper
Image size: 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches
Giltwood frame
The actress Frances (Fanny) Barton, better known as M...
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18th Century London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
John Stanton Ward: St John's College, Cambridge watercolour
By John Stanton Ward
Located in London, GB
John Stanton Ward CBE (1917 - 2007)
St John's College, Cambridge
Watercolour
30 x 47 cm
John Stanton Ward CBE was an English portrait artist, landscape painter and illustrator. This...
Category
20th Century Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Raining in Formosa on the Tamsui River' by Ran In-Ting (Lan Yinding, 藍蔭鼎)
Located in London, GB
'Raining in Formosa on the Tamsui River' by Taiwanese artist, Ran In-Ting (Lan Yinding, 藍蔭鼎) (1956-59). Although elements of landscapes often appear in paintings produced by various cultures, before the 17th century in the West they were only peripheral. In 5th century China, shan shui or landscape painting developed, expressing harmony and natural beauty. These were among the first paintings to make landscape their subject (ref: 'The Short Story of Art...
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1950s London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
HUMAN ATMOSPHERE Retro-study 1 - contemporary artwork, emerging artist
By Michael Pemberton
Located in London, GB
In this collection, British painter Michael Pemberton (b. 1974) suggests we each have a personal HUMAN ATMOSPHERE. An ether where we truly exist, unseen by the naked eye but as real ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
Untitled (SF64-121)
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Untitled (SF64-121)
1964
Gouache and oil on paper
69.9 x 104.4 cms (27 1/2 x 41 1/8 ins)
SF14605
Exhibited:
New York, 'Chamberlain/Francis', Van Doren Waxter, July 11- ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Baigneuse dans un cours d'eau by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Gouache on paper
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Baigneuse dans un cours d'eau by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Gouache on paper
49.5 x 36 cm (19 ¹/₂ x 14 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, manzana - Pissarro
This work is accom...
Category
1910s London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Snow scene by Hughes Claude Pissarro, Cantepie, Sous la Neige
By Hughes Claude Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Cantepie, Sous la Neige by Hughes Claude Pissarro (b. 1935)
Pastel on card
51 x 37 cm (20 ¹/₈ x 14 ⁵/₈ inches)
S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Regency portrait drawing of Arabella Graham-Clarke
By John Downman
Located in London, GB
Collections:
The sitter, and by descent;
Christie's, 19th March 1928, lot 6;
Private collection to 2019
Literature:
G.C. Williamson, John Downman, A.R.A., his Life and Works, Lon...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
The Blitz: A Civil Defence Firefighter before St Paul's Cathedral, London 1940
Located in London, GB
To see our other World War Two art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller."
The Blitz: A Civil Defence Firefighter In Action before St Paul's Cathedral with Search Lights...
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1940s Realist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Running Men
Located in London, GB
Graphite and coloured pencil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 36cm x 44cm, (45cm x 53cm framed). The picture is behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass.
Throughout h...
Category
1990s Contemporary London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil
Oscar Andreae: Gardens drawing
By Oscar Andreae
Located in London, GB
This is from a series of Andreae's sketches of European tourist destinations from the 1860s, to see some others, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all...
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1860s Impressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Flower Gardens at Generalife, Granada
By Ernest Arthur Rowe
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed bottom left
Image size: 13 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (35 x 24 cm)
Mounted and framed
The Generalife was a summer palace and country estate of the Nasrid rulers...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Artists and their muses
Located in London, GB
Playboy School, 20th Century
Artists and their muses: Titian and Violante; Sir Peter Lely and Nell Gwyn; Francois Boucher and Louise O’Murphy; Hogarth, Nell...
Category
1980s Romantic London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Portrait of a Young Man Original Charcoal and Pastel French 18th Century
Located in London, GB
French School
18th Century
Portrait of a Young Man
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Image size: 11 x 7 inches
Contemporary gilt frame
Category
18th Century Rococo London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Portrait of a Lady, Charcoal Drawing, 20th Century Russian
Located in London, GB
Charcoal , signed lower right and dated 'Paris 1935'
Image size: 25 x 19 inches (63.5 x 48 cm)
Original oak frame
An accomplished example of Russian art from the mid 20th century.
...
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1930s Art Deco London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Brockenhurst Gardens
By Ernest Arthur Rowe
Located in London, GB
Brockenhurst Gardens
Ernest Arthur Rowe
Watercolour, signed lower left and dated 1900 bottom left
Image Size: 12 x 18 3/4 inches (46 x 30.5 cm)
Original Victorian frame
Provenance
Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell
The collection of C. Buttersworth
Sale, Bonhams, London, 10th June 1998, lot 63
Exhibited
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, as 'Relics of the Civil Wars, Compton Wynyates', no.1
This watercolour is one of Rowe's few pictures of Brockenhurst park garden in the New Forest, Hampshire. Here Rowe exemplifies the garden's splendour through his deliberate low positioning within the composition. As well as the scenes mirrored...
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20th Century Post-War London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Paysage à Chippenfield by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Landscape watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Paysage à Chippenfield by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
23 x 33 cm (9 x 13 inche...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
20th century British Drawing - Les Deux Landaises (Evening)
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in London, GB
Pencil on paper
Signed 'G.L. Brockhurst’ (lower right)
Drawn c.1920
Collections:
The Fine Art Society, London, 1981;
Mr & Mrs Alan Fortunoff, acquired from the above;
Private col...
Category
20th Century London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Untitled (ID 1276)
By Fieroza Doorsen
Located in London, GB
Oil and pastel on paper - Unframed
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge when structure meets intui...
Category
2010s Abstract London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil
Portrait Study of a Young Girl, Signed 19th Century Victorian Sketch
By Augustus Leopold Egg
Located in London, GB
Pencil and coloured chalk on paper, signed bottom right
Image size: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (3.75 x 3 cm)
Mounted and framed
Provenance
Studio sale, Christies 18th May 1863
The Artis...
Category
Mid-19th Century London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
Study for Batavia (The Woodcutters)
By Serge Ferat (Sergei Nicolaevitch Comte de Jastrebtsov)
Located in London, GB
SERGE FERAT 1881-1958
(Le Comte Sergueï Yastrebzov) Moscow 1881-1958 Paris (Russian/French)
Title: Study for Batavia (The Woodcutters), circa 1926
Technique: Original Pencil D...
Category
1920s Cubist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The Diggers in Ashford by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Ink on paper
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
The Diggers in Ashford by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Ink on paper
22.6 x 17.3 cm (8 ⅞ x 6 ¾ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower left
Inscribed and dated 191...
Category
1910s London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
St Nicholas Cole Abbey and St Mary Somerset Church, London, The Blitz
Located in London, GB
This drawing records the destruction that was endured by London during the Blitz. The building in the foreground is St Nicholas Cole Abbey, situated in the city of London. Whilst a church was recorded on this site from the twelfth century, this church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London so the remnants of the church that we see here is one that was built by Sir Christopher Wren...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
River Eure, Lyons la Forêt by Paulémile Pissarro - Landscape watercolour
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
River Eure, Lyons la Forêt by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Watercolour and crayon on paper
31.5 x 48.5 cm (12 ³/₈ x 19 ¹/₈ inches)
Titlted, signed and dated lower left, Lyons la Fo...
Category
1920s Impressionist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor
18th century pastel portrait of Lady Augusta Corbett and her son, Stuart
By Daniel Gardner
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Commissioned by Andrew Corbett, husband of the sitter;
The Venerable Stuart Corbett;
Sir Stuart Corbett;
By descent to 2002;
Sotheby’s, London 21 March 2002, lot.104;
Lowell Libson...
Category
18th Century Old Masters London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
Port de Honfleur by Paulémile Pissarro - Watercolour
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Port de Honfleur by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Watercolour and crayon on paper
31.5 x 47.7 cm (12 ³/₈ x 18 ³/₄ inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile Pissarro
Executed circa 1925
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Category
1920s London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor
18th century portrait of the Royal Academy model George White
By John Russell
Located in London, GB
Collections:
Russell sale, Christie’s, 14 February, 1807: ‘John Russell, Esq., R.A. deceased, crayon painter to His Majesty, the Prince of Wales, and Duke of York; and brought from his late Dwelling in Newman Street’, lot 92, ‘St Peter’, bt. Thompson (£1.13s);
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 25th September 1980, lot 113;
Private collection, UK, 2016.
Literature:
Martin Postle, 'Patriarchs, prophets and paviours: Reynolds's images of old age', The Burlington Magazine, vol. cxxx, no. 1027, October 1988, pp. 739-40, fig. 9;
Martin Postle, Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Subject Pictures, Cambridge, 1995, p.136, repr.;
Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online edition, J.64.2928.
Signed and dated: J Russell/ fecit 1772 (lower right)
Framed dimensions: 25 x 31 inches
John Russell was admitted to the Royal Academy in March 1770, at the same time as Daniel Gardner. The nascent Academy Schools were still establishing their teaching structures, but central to the syllabus were the twin components of drawing after the antique and from life models. By 1772 Russell had already been awarded a silver medal and progressed to the life academy, where he produced this remarkable pastel study of George White. White was the most famous model employed by the Royal Academy and prominent artists in the second half of the eighteenth century. A paviour – or street mender –by profession White had been discovered by Joshua Reynolds, who in turn introduced him to the Academy. Russell’s striking head study demonstrates his abilities as a portraitist and pastellist, at the same time showing his interest in the Academy’s preoccupation with promoting history painting.
George White was one of the most celebrated models in eighteenth-century London. According to the painter Joseph Moser:
'Old George…owed the ease in which he passed his latter days, in a great measure to Sir Joshua Reynolds, who found him exerting himself in the laborious employment of thumping down stones in the street; and observing not only the grand and majestic traits of his countenance, but the dignity of his muscular figure, took him out of a situation to which his strength was by no means equal, clothed, fed, and had him, first as a model in his own painting room, then introduced him as a subject for the students of the Royal Academy.'
As Martin Postle has pointed out, whilst characterful studies of old men posed as biblical figures, prophets or saints by Continental old masters were readily available on the art market – Reynolds himself had copied a head of Joab by Federico Bencovich in the collection of his friend and patron, Lord Palmerston - finding a model in Britain from whom to execute a painting was more difficult.
White therefore offered a rare opportunity for artists to combine portraiture and history painting, by painting a model in the guise of an historical or literary character. In 1771 Reynolds showed at the Royal Academy a picture of White entitled Resignation. It was engraved in 1772 and accompanied by a stanza from Oliver Goldsmith’s Deserted Village, implying a literary context to what is essentially a portrait. In his annotated Royal Academy catalogue, Horace Walpole noted: ‘This was an old beggar, who had so fine a head that Sir Joshua chose him for the father in his picture from Dante, and painted him several times, as did others in imitation of Reynolds. There were even cameos and busts of him.’ White sat to, amongst others Johan Zoffany, John Sanders, Nathaniel Hone and the sculptor John Bacon...
Category
18th Century Old Masters London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Miami - Ecole de Paris Miami
By Hermine David
Located in London, GB
This watercolour drawing by the French artist Hermine David is signed by the artist in black ink “Hermine David” at the lower left corner.
It is also titled and dated in black ink b...
Category
1910s London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Grand Arbre dans la Sente by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Grand Arbre dans la Sente by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
28 x 38 cm (11 x 15 inches)
Signed lower right, Ludovic Rodo
Inscribed lower left, Grand A...
Category
1910s Fauvist London - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
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