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Large Surrealist Painting Royal College Art Women LGBTQ+ Pink Blue Tiger Palms
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences whi...
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2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings

Materials

Pen, Archival Paper, Paint, Mixed Media

Wander
By Fernando Reyes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Black conte drawing of a male nude, part of ongoing series of drawings of the human form. Featuring a rear view and feet. Reyes attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

Notre Dame de Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Notre Dame de Paris', gouache on paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). An absolutely charming and now, historic depiction from the 1930s, of the most famous cathedral in France. It is one of the most widely recognised symbols of the city of Paris and the French nation. As the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Paris, Notre-Dame contains the cathedra of the Archbishop of Paris. Approximately 12 million people visit Notre-Dame annually, making it the most visited monument in Paris. While undergoing renovation and restoration, the roof of Notre-Dame caught fire on the evening of 15 April 2019. Burning for around 15 hours, the cathedral sustained serious damage. The government of France hopes the reconstruction can be completed by Spring 2024, in time for the opening of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Unlike the actual cathedral, this artwork is in good condition, is newly framed and glazed and signed by the artist in the lower left hand corner. 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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache

On the Hunt - Early 20th Century Figurative Drawing with Dogs
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative ink and wash drawing of beagles and a terrier leading the hunter to the quarry by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned. Displayed in a rustic black and bro...
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1930s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Paper, Watercolor

"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary
By David Fredenthal
Located in New York, NY
"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 19 1/4 x 11 1/2 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by ...
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1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Antilope by Jean Poulain
By Jean Poulain
Located in Pasadena, CA
Jean Poulain 1884-1967 Jean Poulain was born in 1884 in Katanga (formerly Belgian Congo). The self-taught artist from an early age, he will be in search of all the emotions and beau...
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1940s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Carbon Pencil

Portrait of Woman - Original Drawing by Véronique Veron - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Woman is an original artwork realized by Véronique Veron in about 1950. Pencil Drawing. Hand signed in pencil on the lower right margin. Passpartout cm 65x50. Good Conditions. Véronique Veron (1927) was born in Budapest on May 10, 1927. As a painter, she belongs to the Ecole Lyonnaise. She attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Member of the Salon d'Automne and the Independents and the drawing and watercolor painting fair, she participated in the young Mediterranean painting...
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Men In The Outdoor - Original Drawing by Alfred Grevin - Late 19th Century
By Alfred Grevin
Located in Roma, IT
Men In The Outdoor is an original drawing in Pencil realized by Alfred Grévin in the Late-19 Century. Applied on a Passepartout: 50 x 33 cm. In good conditions. Alfred Grévin (18...
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Blinded and Dumbed II
Located in Miami, FL
Realism Portrait Drawing
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2010s Photorealist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Archival Paper, Pencil

Untitled, South of France
By Martha Walter
Located in Lawrence, NY
Martha Walter was a second generation American Impressionist painter. She devoted her long and successful career to painting life as she saw it with overtones of Impressionism and Mo...
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1920s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Drawing n°18 by Julien Dinou - Pastel A4 size
By Julien Dinou
Located in Geneva, CH
Abstract drawing on paper without frame
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1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Pastel

Dog - Original Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Dog is an original Pencil Drawing realized by an unknown artist in mid-20th century. Good condition except for some spoiled paper margins. No signature.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - 24.40
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink, pen & pigment 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 State...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pen, Pigment, Ink

Woman Dreaming On The Water - Original Pencil Drawing by Achille Devezie - 1830s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman Dreaming On The Water is an original drawing in pencil and watercolor on cardboard realized by Achille Devezie (1802--1857) in the 1830s. In good conditions. The artwork is d...
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1830s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Chinese Contemporary Drawing by He Jinshi - The Broken Space
Located in Paris, IDF
Chinese ink on paper, possible to have a frame upon simple request
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - 24.40
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink, pen & pigment 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...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Pen, Pigment

City View - Original Drawing by Helen Vogt - Mid-20th Century
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
City view is an original drawing realized by Helen Vogt in the Mid-20th Century. China ink drawing on paper. Fair conditions. Dry stamp of the Atelier Vogt on the lower right margi...
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil, Ink

Bouquet of Flowers with Vanitas
By Louis Latapie
Located in London, GB
'Bouquet of Flowers with Vanitas', wax crayon on paper, by French artist, Louis Latapie (circa 1930s). A vanitas painting contains collections of objects symbolic of the inevitabilit...
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1930s Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paper, Wax Crayon

Portraits - Original Drawing by Alfred Grevin - Late 19th Century
By Alfred Grevin
Located in Roma, IT
Portraits is an original drawing in Pencil and watercolor realized by Alfred Grévin in the Late-19 Century. Applied on a Passeprtout:36 x 26 cm. With the stamp of atelier "Grevin" ...
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - Two World
Located in Paris, IDF
Coal 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 State Academy of Ar...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Paper

Mid Century Country House Landscape
By Rene Weaver
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid watercolor of a country house and grove of trees in a rural landscape of rolling green hills, with farm animals in the distance, by California artist Rene Weaver (American, 189...
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Fiery Sunset Over the Lake - Abstracted Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant depiction of a sunset by Adele Marks. The sun appears to burn white-hot in the center of this piece, radiating warm colors into the sky above and water below. Surrounding the...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Composition - Original Drawing by Vedan - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original drawing in watercolor by Vedan in the mid 20th century. Good condition Hand-signed. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced comp...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

The Roman Bath
Located in London, GB
'The Roman Bath', pencil on art paper (circa 1960s), School of Rome. Three broad-shouldered men make their way through the sultry corridors of the Hammam in...
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1960s Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - 24.40
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink, pen & pigment 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 State...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Pen, Pigment

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - 24.40
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink, pen & pigment 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...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Pen, Pigment

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - 24.40
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink, pen & pigment 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 State...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Pen, Pigment

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - 24.40
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink, pen & pigment 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...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Pen, Pigment

"Staircases Falling Out, " Adrianne Wortzel, Blue and Gold Abstract Op Art
By Adrianne Wortzel
Located in New York, NY
Adrianne Wortzel (American, b. 1941) Staircases Falling Out, 1987 Acrylic on paper 22 x 30 inches Signed and titled on the reverse Provenance: Webb & Parsons, New Canaan, Connecticu...
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1980s Op Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic

'Pointillist Abstract', Paris, Étretat, New York, Whitney Museum, MoMA, PAFA
By Manfred Schwartz
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamp, verso, for Manfred Schwartz (American, 1909-1970) and painted circa 1960. Paper dimensions: 15 x 19.75 inches. Born in Lodz, Poland, Manfred Schwartz immigrated to Am...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache, Pen

Drawing n°19 by Julien Dinou - A4 size
By Julien Dinou
Located in Geneva, CH
Abstract drawing on paper without frame
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1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Pastel

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - 24.40
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink, pen & pigment 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...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Pen, Pigment

Autumn - Original Drawing by Jean-Raymond Delpech - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Autumn is an original is an original drawing in watercolor on cardboard realized by Jean-Raymond Delpech (1916-1988) in 1958. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. The state of...
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1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Portrait - Original Drawing in Pencil - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original drawing in Pencil realized in the Early 20th Century. Good conditions except for a stain and consumed margins. The Artwork is depicted through soft strokes ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Original Broadway Set Design Mid 20th Century American
By Jo Mielziner
Located in New York, NY
Jo Mielziner (1901 – 1976) "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," 7 ½ x 11 ½ inches. Pencil on paper. Label verso from Richard Stoddard, Dated June 18. 1996. Mr. Joe W...
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1950s Performance Interior Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Paper

Young Shepherd plays the Lyre - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Young Shepherd plays the Lyre is an original drawing on paper. Is not signed and dated but we can attribute the period early 20th Century. The artist represents, under an intimate ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper

Young Woman with a Parasol and a Bouquet of Flowers- attr to R. Tissot-1950/60s
Located in Roma, IT
Young woman with a parasol and a bouquet of flowers is an original contemporary artwork realized by Roland Tissot in the 1950s/60s. Oil on Canvas. Signed Tissot on the lower right ...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil

Death praying for life
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Pastel on paper. Artwork is 25.5 x 19.7 in., framed it is 31 x 25 in.
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2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Paper

Windy, Impressionist Watercolor Painting by Erik Freyman
By Erik Freyman
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Art Deco painting of a Fashionable Lady watching her sailor raise his sail by contemporary artist Erik Freyman. Watercolor on Paper, signed 13 x 16 in. (33.02 x 40.64 cm)
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1990s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Landscape - Original Drawing by Paulette Humbert - 1940
By Paulette Humbert
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an Original drawing in Pen and China Ink realized in 1940 by Paulette Humbert. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced composi...
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Ink

'Study of a Woman', Danish Modernist Grisaille, Greek Mythology, Roskilde
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Peter Brandes' (Danish, born 1944), dated 1969 and stamped, lower right, with the artist's chop mark. Bearing artist dedication to 'K...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Abstract drawing n°8 by Julien Dinou - A4 size
By Julien Dinou
Located in Geneva, CH
Drawing on paper without frame Size A4
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1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Pastel

" double face " original drawing by Jean Cocteau . certified
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
original drawing by Jean Cocteau , certified and signed . exceptionnel "Oedipe " drawing 27,7 x 22, 6 cm .
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1930s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

A la Guerre - Original China Ink Drawing by Bernard Bécan - Mid-20th Century
By Bernard Bécan
Located in Roma, IT
A la Guerre is an Original China Ink Drawing realized by Bernard Becan in the Mid-20 Century. The artwork is in good condition except for being aged. The artwork is depicted with s...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Landscape by Henri Fehr - Drawing 20x30 cm
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
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20th Century Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Crayon

Serving The Chinese Khan - Original Drawing by Bernard Bécan - mid 20th Century
By Bernard Bécan
Located in Roma, IT
Serving The Chinese Khan is an original drawing in China ink realized in the mid-20th Century by Bernard Bécan (1890-1943). Hand-signed on the lower left. In good conditions, excep...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Black Flower - Original Charcoal and Watercolor by Mario Surbone - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
Black flower is an original contemporary artwork realized in 1987 by Mario Surbone. Colored mixed media (watercolor and carchoal) on paper. Hand signe...
Category

1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Charcoal

Portrait - Original Pencil Drawing by A. Grevin - Late 19 Century
By Alfred Grevin
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original drawing in Pencil realized by Alfred Grévin in the Late-19 Century. Applied on a Passeprtout:49x 32 cm. With the stamp of atelier "Grevin" on the lower righ...
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Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Election Day - Original China Ink by Bernard Bécan - Early 20th Century
By Bernard Bécan
Located in Roma, IT
Election Day is an original drawing in China ink realized in the early 20th Century by Bernard Bécan (1890-1943), applied on a white Passepartout. Monogrammed on the lower right. I...
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

"From Grief I Cannot Measure" - Collage Compostion
Located in Soquel, CA
Intricate and layered two-part composition by notable collage artist Graham Moody (American, b. 19XX). Two vertical panels are composed primarily of handwritten musical scores and notations, mounted on maps. Layered atop the sheet music art sections of technical illustrations, topographic maps, magazine cutouts, and books. Exhibited: “Two Decades of Collage” - Morris Graves Museum of Art - Eureka, California Each piece is signed and dated "Moody 1990" in the lower right. Titled "From Grief" and "I Cannot Measure" in the lower left of each piece. Each piece measures: 25.75"H x 11"W Graham Moody (American, b.1948) studied art history and political science at Humboldt State University, graduating in 1980. While maintaining a career as an artist, Moody also worked as the Art Program Director for Pelican Bay State Prison, bringing art instruction to incarcerated individuals. Moody lives and works in Eureka, California. Moody’s artwork is held in various collections, including: Hewlett Packard Corporation - Palo Alto, California Fresno Museum of Art - Fresno, California Morris Graves Museum of Art - Eureka, California Boston Edison - Boston, Massachusetts Intertael Books - Amsterdam, Holland Kintetsu - Nara, Japan Sun Bank - Jacksonville, Florida Yokohama Royal Park Hotel - Yokohama, Japan Four Seasons Hotel - Las Vegas, Nevada Ontogeny - Potomac, Maryland Fidelity Investments - Boston, Massachusetts New Saint Andrews College - Moscow, Idaho Ken Houldsworth Financial Planner - Arcata, California Bank of America World Headquarters - San Francisco, California Kaiser Permanente Hyatt Regency Hotel Chicago, Illinois Hyatt Hotel - New York, New York La Playa Beach Resort - Naples, Florida Stanford University Hospital - Palo Alto, California Selected Exhibitions: “Two Decades of Collage” - Morris Graves Museum of Art - Eureka, California “Celebration of the Arts” - Robert Allen Fine Art - San Francisco, California Butters Gallery - Portland, Oregon Art LA - Los Angeles, California The Allrich Gallery - San Francisco, California Theatres d'Ermont - Val d'Oise, France Galerie Kunsthaar - Amsterdam, Nederlands Galerie Yurn - Paris, France Galerie Tagliana - Auvers-sur-Oise, France Humboldt Cultural Center - Eureka, California Group Shows: Humboldt Arts Council - Eureka, California “Collecting Ourselves: Works from the Permanent Collection” - Morris Graves Museum of Art - Eureka, California “Persistence: Collage” - Butters Gallery - Portland, Oregon Exposition 'Alcools' - Galerie L'Autre - Paris, France Exposition 'Ars Longa...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Magazine Paper, Pencil

Chinese Contemporary Drawing by He Jinshi - The Fragrance of Flowers and Plants
Located in Paris, IDF
Chinese ink on paper, possible to have a frame upon simple request
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Chinese Contemporary Drawing by He Jinshi - The Passing Clouds
Located in Paris, IDF
Chinese ink on paper, possible to have a frame upon simple request
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Chinese Contemporary Drawing by He Jinshi - The Chill of Winter
Located in Paris, IDF
Chinese ink on paper, possible to have a frame upon simple request
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Futurist, Novecento Italiano, Mid Century Italian Painting, Figures at the Baths
By Anselmo Bucci
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century Italian Futurist, Novecento Italiano, work on paper, signed bottom right and with dedication top right (see photos). The subject is bathers enjoying the delights of a spa and sauna with colourful tiling to the background. The classical figures languorously positioned in repose but the central 'white' figure in stark contrast. The play on colours gives the work a vibrancy. The drawing is possibly a preparatory sketch for a larger work or mural. A vibrant, exciting and colourful work incorporating the styles of Futurism and the Novecento Italiano movement and with the influences or artists such as Anselmo Bucci, Adami, Jean Helion, Maryan, Achille Funi and Ugo Guidi. Anselmo Bucci was born in 1887 in Fossombrone in the district of Pesaro. Even though he studied Classics, right from a tender age he showed a talent for drawing and, when his parents moved near to Florence, he was taught by the artist Francesco Salvini. In 1904 the family settled in Monza and so the boy was able to study for a year at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, but he did not follow up this educational experience and in 1906 he left Italy for Paris where he came into contact with the Parisian avant-garde, met fellow Italian artists such as Severini and Modigliani, and made friends with Picasso, Utrillo and Apollinaire. In 1907 he showed a painting at the Salon, but these Parisian years were most important for his love of engraving techniques – etching and dry point that enabled him to fully develop his themes characterised by movement. On the outbreak of war in 1915 he returned to Italy and he enlisted in the same battalion as several Futurist artists such as Martinetti, Boccioni, Sant’Elia and Carlo Erba. In 1914 he won the silver medal at the Mostra dell’Incisione (Exhibition of Engravings) at Florence. In 1917 in Paris he published pictures of war scenes entitled “Croquis du Front Italien”. In 1919 he printed twelve lithographs entitled “Finis Austriae” again showing events from the war. At the end of the war he lived between Milan and Paris and he dedicated his time completely to his art with personal exhibitions, exhibiting at all the most important Italian and French shows, in Belgium, Holland and England. In 1922, he established the group “Movimento del Novecento”, (Novecento Italiano), (20th century Movement) a joint venture with the artists Sironi, Funi, Oppi, Malerba, Dudreville and Marussig. Their aim was to return to figurative art in contrast with the growing extremism of the Avant-gardists. In 1925 he worked on the illustration of the first edition of Kipling’s The Jungle Book producing eight dry point plates. In the early 30’s he lived in Bucci, Trieste, where he worked on the furnishing of the steamships for the Trieste Navigazione Libera, at the same time he continued to work on many book illustrations. During the second European war he adapted to being a war artist recording the events of the war as he had done previously. Indeed the engravings depicting battles of the Marines and the Air Force belong to this period. In 1945, following the bombing of his house in Milan, he returned to Monza to his father’s home where he remained until his death. Futurism was an Italian art movement of the early twentieth century that aimed to capture in art the dynamism and energy of the modern world. Futurism was launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909. On 20 February he published his Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. Among modernist movements futurism was exceptionally vehement in its denunciation of the past. This was because in Italy the weight of past culture was felt as particularly oppressive. In the Manifesto, Marinetti asserted that ‘we will free Italy from her innumerable museums which cover her like countless cemeteries’. What the futurists proposed instead was an art that celebrated the modern world of industry and technology: We declare…a new beauty, the beauty of speed. A racing motor car…is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace. (A celebrated ancient Greek sculpture in the Louvre museum in Paris.) Futurist painting used elements of neo-impressionism and cubism to create compositions that expressed the idea of the dynamism, the energy and movement, of modern life. Chief artists associated with futurism were Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini. After the brutality of the first world war, many artists rejected the avant-garde notions of futurism and other pre-war movements, by using more traditional and reassuring approaches, a phenomenon described as the ‘return to order’. Novecento Italiano was founded by Anselmo Bucci (1887–1955), Leonardo Dudreville (1885–1975), Achille Funi, Gian Emilio Malerba (1880–1926), Pietro Marussig, Ubaldo Oppi, and Mario Sironi. Motivated by a post-war "call to order", they were brought together by Lino Pesaro, a gallery owner interested in modern art, and Margherita Sarfatti, a writer and art critic who worked on Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's newspaper, The People of Italy (Il Popolo d'Italia). Sarfatti was also Mussolini's mistress. The movement was officially launched in 1923 at an exhibition in Milan, with Mussolini as one of the speakers. The group was represented at the Venice Biennale of 1924 in a gallery of its own, with the exception of Oppi, who exhibited in a separate gallery. Oppi's defection caused him to be ejected from the group, which subsequently split and was reformed. The new Novecento Italiano staged its first group exhibition in Milan in 1926. Several of the artists were war veterans; Sarfatti had lost a son in the war. The group wished to take on the Italian establishment and create an art associated with the rhetoric of fascism. The artists supported the fascist regime and their work became associated with the state propaganda department, although Mussolini reprimanded Sarfatti for using his name and the name of fascism to promote Novecento. The name of the movement (which means 1900s) was a deliberate reference to great periods of Italian art in the past, the Quattrocento and Cinquecento (1400s and 1500s). The group rejected European avant garde art and wished to revive the tradition of large format history painting in the classical manner. It lacked a precise artistic programme and included artists of different styles and temperament, for example, Carrà and Marini. It aimed to promote a renewed yet traditional Italian art. Sironi said, “if we look at the painters of the second half of the 19th century, we find that only the revolutionary were great and that the greatest were the most revolutionary”; the artists of Novecento Italiano “would not imitate the world created by God but would be inspired by it”. Despite official patronage, Novecento art did not always have an easy ride in Fascist Italy. Mussolini was personally uninterested in art and divided official support among various groups so as to keep artists on the side of the regime. Opening the exhibition of Novecento art in 1923 he declared that “it is far from my idea to encourage anything like a state art. Art belongs to the domain of the individual. The state has only one duty: not to undermine art, to provide humane conditions for artists, to encourage them from the artistic and national point of view." The movement was in competition with other pro-Fascist movements, especially Futurism and the regionalist Strapaese movement. Novecento Italiano also met outright opposition. Achille Starace, the General Secretary of the Fascist Party, attacked it in the Fascist daily press and there was virulent criticism of its “un-Italian" qualities by artists and critics. In the 1930s, a group of professors and students at the Accademia di Brera established an opposition group to Novecento Italiano. Among them was the director of the academy Aldo Carpi, and students Afro, Aldo Badoli, Aldo Bergolli, Renato Birolli, Bruno Cassinari, Cherchi, Alfredo Chighine, Grosso, Renato Guttuso, Dino Lanaro, Giuseppe Migneco, Mantica, Ennio Morlotti, Aligi Sassu, Ernesto Treccani, Italo Valenti, and Emilio Vedova (and later Giuseppe Ajmone...
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Mid-20th Century Futurist Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Crayon, Pencil

Swiss Contemporary Art by Zdenka Palkovic - Brave New World
Located in Paris, IDF
Pastel on paper Framed 85 x 65 cm
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paste, Paper

Swiss Contemporary Art by Zdenka Palkovic - Winter Mood
Located in Paris, IDF
Pastel on paper Framed 85 x 65 cm
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paste, Paper

Chinese Contemporary Drawing by He Jinshi - The Nostalgia
Located in Paris, IDF
Chinese ink on paper, possible to have a frame upon simple request
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

Chinese Contemporary Drawing by He Jinshi - The Lonely Passenger
Located in Paris, IDF
Chinese ink on paper, possible to have a frame upon simple request
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

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