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Sale Items
John Edmund Buckley, Victorian scene of maidens under an oak tree
Located in Harkstead, GB
An enchanting scene of maidens conversing under the shade of an oak tree with lovely detailing and good strong colour.
John Edmund Buckley ( 1824-1876)
Maidens under an oak tree
Sig...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Edward Ardizzone, Bar scene, original drawing
By Edward Ardizzone
Located in Harkstead, GB
A superb original illustration from one of the foremost illustrators of the 20th Century.
Edward Ardizzone (1900 - 1979)
The barmaid
Signed, gallery label verso
Pen, ink and waterco...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen, Paper, Watercolor
The Milkgirl, Rococo-Style, Unknown Artist, Pastel Drawing
Located in brussel, BE
Not only in the 17th century, but also in the 18th century, genre painting, where people are portrayed in their daily life, was successful. The theme of the milkmaid, which we all kn...
Category
18th Century Rococo Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Scenography - Pencil Drawing by Eugène Berman - 1950s
By Eugene Berman
Located in Roma, IT
Scenography is an original drawing in pencil on creamy paper, realized by Russian scenographer Eugène Berman in 1950s.
Monogrammed at the bottom: E.B.
In good conditions.
The artw...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Paris la Bourse
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Paris, la Bourse', gouache on paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). Created at the beginning of the 19th century by Napoleon, la Bourse, or the Stock Exchange, was intended to assert and encourage France’s prosperity in industry and trade. In 1826 the Stock Exchange was installed in the palace that the architect Brongniart had begun in 1808. Surrounded by a large peristyle of Corinthian columns, the rectangular structure reflects the official neo-classicism of the Empire Period. The artist, Génin, depicts a typically lively 1930s day in front of the building with cars of the period zooming by pedestrians on the walkway and others on the stairs leading to the entrance. He has an extremely charming, almost childlike style particularly the way he renders the people and the vehicles. The building, on the other hand, is accurate in its detail and more seriously presented. Our gallery has held and has sold over a dozen of Genin's paintings but this one stands out for its pure stylish appeal and ability to captivate while inducing a smile in the viewer. The artwork is in good overall condition - there are some minor blemishes not on the artwork itself but on the edges of the mount to which it is attached. The frame is in fair condition showing some nicks and scratches. Please enjoy the many photos accompanying the listing. Upon request a video can be provided. Signed by the artist in the lower right hand.
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...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Untitled_Body on the Field #8 - 21st Century, Drawing, Blue, Green, Yellow
By Zsolt Berszán
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #8, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of th...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Untitled_Body on the Field #5 - Contemporary, Green, 21st Century
By Zsolt Berszán
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #5, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of th...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Portrait of a Boy - Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing in pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1982. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
The artist depicts a delicate...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Untitled_Dead Body on the Field #1 - Red, Contemporary, 21st Century, Drawing
By Zsolt Berszán
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Dead Body on the Field #1, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Remains Body on the Field - Contemporary, 21st Century, Drawing
By Zsolt Berszán
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Remains Body on the Field #1, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissoluti...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Untitled 05 - Contemporary, Drawing, Purple, 21st Century, Organic
By Zsolt Berszán
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled 05, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body throu...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Man with Blossoms, 2021_America Martin_Ink on Paper_Figurative/Portrait/Floral
By America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Man with Blossoms"
Ink on Paper
33.5” x 31” Framed
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angeles. America is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Children Playing on the Beach /// British Watercolor Figurative Seascape Antique
By David Thomas Robertson
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: David Thomas Robertson (Scottish, 1879-1952)
Title: "Children Playing on the Beach"
*Signed by Robertson lower left, (the signature is faded)
Circa: 1935
Medium: Original Wat...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Guardian of the Mosque" Drawing 14" x 10" inch by MOUNIR CANAAN
Located in Culver City, CA
"Guardian of the Mosque" Drawing 14" x 10" inch by MOUNIR CANAAN
Signed and dated.
ABOUT:
Mounir Canaan (1919 – 1999) was a powerful artist whose body of work & style was always...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Gipsies with Horses in England Landscape Painting by 19th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Gipsies with Horses & Covered Wagons in the Wild Moorland Landscape of England. An Original Watercolour Painting by 19th Century British Artist, James Walter Gozzard (1888–1950)
Art...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paint, Board
"Rev. Gary Davis" - Figurative Watercolor of a Guitar Player on Paper
By Brian Rounds
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful watercolor of Reverend Gary Davis (aka "Blind Gary Davis") by Santa Cruz artist Brian Rounds (b. 1968). Set against a bright orange background, Dav...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Flowers in Hair_America Martin_Ink on Paper_Figurative/Portrait/Floral
By America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Flowers in Hair"
Ink on Paper
24.5” x 22.5”
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angeles. America is a paint...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Work from the series “Robinson Crusoe. A story of loneliness ” 71x80cm
By Viktoriya Kadesnikova
Located in Yerevan, AM
Work from the series “Robinson Crusoe. A story of loneliness ”
71x80 cm
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
Stairs & Streets_America Martin_Oil Pastel/Acrylic/Ink/Cotton Paper_Figurative
By America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Stairs & Streets"
Oil Pastel, Acrylic & Ink on Cotton Paper
26.5” x 40.5”
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in L...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
Native Mexican Woman (Cuban Miami artist pastel)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Alex (Cuban, b.1949). Indigenous Mexican Woman, 1982. Pastel and charcoal on wove paper, sheet measures 23 x 33 inches. 31.5 x 41 inches framed. Excellen...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
He will write to you
By Irina Yakovleva
Located in Yerevan, AM
He will write to you, 2021, 29,5x42 cm
Category
2010s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Spanish folk dance Jota pastel drawing
By Alfredo Opisso
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Alfredo Opisso Cardona (1907-1980) - Jota - Pastel
Measures work 46x36cm.
Frame measures 65x55 cm.
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Unicorn
Located in Yerevan, AM
Unicorn
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Study of a Man, Old Master Drawing, Figure, Roman Study, Lombard
Located in Greven, DE
Old Master Drawing by the Circle of Lambert Lombard. Drawing/ Study of a Man in Renaissance Style, later signed "F. Floris".
Study of a Man
Lombard li...
Category
16th Century Renaissance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper
Wind catcher
Located in Yerevan, AM
wind catcher
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Meeting
Located in Yerevan, AM
Meeting.
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Bridge - Drawing by Nazareno Gattamelata -1970s
By Nazareno Gattamenata
Located in Roma, IT
The Bridge is a mixed colored charcoal drawing realized by Nazareno Gattamelata in the 1970s.
Hand signed by the artist on the lower right margin...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
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...
Category
1930s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Interior During a Concert - Drawing - Early 20th century
By Hermine David
Located in Roma, IT
Interior During A Concert is an original drawing in pencil realized by Hermine David in the Early 20th Century.
In good condition with foxing.
The artwork is depicted skilfully thr...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Chicken Ranch
By Al Bates
Located in Houston, TX
Houston artist Al Bates (1931-...). Charcoal on a thin tracing paper. Signed lower right. Depicting the chicken ranch, with Bonnie and Clyde. Measures: 17 1/2" x 23 1/2". The custom-...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Sitges beach Barcelona Spain charcoal drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Francesc Ferret Farreras ”Bruno” (1921-2000) - Sitges Beach - charcoal
Measurements drawing 44x59 cm.
Frame measures 65x79 cm.
Category
1950s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Battle Scene, Spanish American War
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in Greenwich, CT
Francis Luis Mora was considered one of America's finest "sketchers". A collection of his Sketchbooks are at the Smithsonian and this work came out of one in the early 1990's from t...
Category
1890s Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Portraits - Drawing by Léon Morel-Fatio - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portraits is a drawing in pencil on paper realized by Léon Morel-Fatio in the 19th Century .
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced compos...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Nude back (1978) - Ink on paper 46x63 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
China Ink Signed H. Balslaecj (artist unknown from the gallery) and dated 1978
Pastel wooden frame with plexiglas
Total size with frame: 75x57x6 cm
Category
1970s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The Family - Ink and Watercolor Drawing - Early 20th Century
By Gustave Bourgogne
Located in Roma, IT
The Family is an original drawing in Ink, Watercolor realized by Gustave Bourgogne in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes and ha...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Kees Van Dongen, Sketch of an Ethnical woman sitting on a bed, signed litho
By Kees van Dongen
Located in brussel, BE
The lithography shows a ethnical woman sitting quite relax and with a smile on a bed. She’s wearing loose fitting robes and a tulle band wrapped around her head, the beaded necklace she is wearing is visible from afar. Her right foot is resting on the edge of the bed with her right hand resting nonchalant on her knee. The left foot is on the floor and still has the orange shoe...
Category
20th Century More Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Wheat Field Harvest, Early 20th Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th century Italian figurative landscape of a traditional wheat field harvest scene, by S. Frosini (Italian, 20th Century). This figurative landscape in gouache depicts in gre...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Illustration Board, Gouache
Madonna and Child - Colored Chalk Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Madonna and Child is a beautiful colored chalk low relief realized in the 19th Century by Anonymous Artist.
Frame included: 96x70 cm.
Good condition except some minor cracks and lo...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Paper
Sailboats in the Harbor, Early 20th Century Figurative Landscape Watercolor
By Frederick Leo Hunter
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully detailed early 20th century figurative landscape watercolor of sailboats docked on a bustling shore, surrounded by other boats, birds and men at work with carts, by Hudson Valley New York artist Frederick Leo Hunter (American, 1858-1943). The tall boats tower over two small figures, who wade into the water beside the vessels. In the background, a lighthouse and the hint of a skyline can be seen on the distant shore.
Signed "F. Leo Hunter" lower right.
Displayed in a gold mat and slender giltwood frame carved with a beautiful floral motif.
Image size: 7.5"H x 12"W.
Known for street scene paintings and etchings of New York...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Nude - Drawing by Mario Sironi - 1940s
By Mario Sironi
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a modern artwork realized by the Italian Artist Mario Sironi.
Charcoal drawing on paper.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes frame.
Good conditions but some ...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Elite Discourse - Drawing by Luigi Bompard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Elite Discourse is a watercolor and ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, in the 1920s realized by Luigi Bompard (1879-1953).
Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
In good conditio...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Portrait of a Noblewoman - Drawing by Hermann Paul - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a Noblewoman is a black market Drawing realized by Hermann Paul.
Hand signed on the lower left corner.
Good condition.
René Georges Hermann-Paul (27 December 1864 – 2...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Untitled #27-1997-22
By Ardeshir MOHASSES
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work was part of "Body Politics", the August/September 2022 exhibition marked the debut of this work in the region (New Orleans), and the first time any of these works have been...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Portrait of the Young Thinker - Drawing by Albert Decaris - Mid-20th Century
By Albert Decaris
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of the young thinker is an artwork, charcoal drawing on paper, realized by the French Artist Albert Decaris. It is not signed nor dated..
The artist represents a portrait...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape
Located in New York, NY
"Times Square" Mid 20th Century 1937 Modernism Broadway Drawing NYC Cityscape
Philip Goodwin (20th Century) "Times Square," 23 ½ x 17 ¼ inches. Gouache...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Original Watercolour of Farmhouse in the Northern Ireland Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Original Watercolour of Farmhouse in the Northern Ireland Countryside by 20th Century Artist
Art measures 8 x 6 inches
Frame measures 16 x 15 inches
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Archival Paper
Putti in a Landscape, Putti playing, flowers, Berchet, French Art, Old Master
By Pierre Berchet
Located in Greven, DE
Pierre Berchet, Drawing of Putti playing in a landscape,
Painter of decorative history subjects; trained under La Fosse; worked in France and during the 1690s...
Category
17th Century Baroque Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper
Rio della Misericordia, Venice.
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
Rio della Misericordia. October 1924. Watercolor. 14 x 8 3/4. McBey did a striking nocturnal view of the bridge in his 1926 drypoint, The Bridge by Night Carter 232. Signed and dated, lower right; titled verso. Housed in a French mat and a 22 x 16 1/2-inch gold leaf frame.
The Rio Della Misericordia ( from the Venetian to the Misericordia Canal ) is a canal from Venice in the sestiere of Cannaregio, Contrada San Marzillan in Italy.
The river runs along the old Servite convent. The canal is crossed by two bridges, from east to west:
the San Marziale spawning linking the campo of the same name with the Fondamenta de la Misericordia and
the dei dei Servi or Betania linking the Mensa di Betania to the Fondamenta de la Misericordia .
Born in Newburgh near Aberdeen, James McBey attended evening classes at Graydon's School of Art and taught himself etching, building his own press at the age of fifteen. He moved to London to prepare for a one-man show at Goupil's Gallery, and shortly after this highly successful first show, he traveled to Morocco with James Kerr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Gloucester Harbor Docking the Boat 1900 Two Masted Schooner
Located in Soquel, CA
Gloucester Harbor Docking the Boat 1900
Gloucester Harbor circa 1900 by C. Bailey Cora was a San Francisco artist in the 19th century. (American), 19th-20th C).
Image, 9.75"H x 14.5"...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Watercolor
The Little Prince and the Rose
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original drawing on paper
Handsigned
Unique piece
PINKHAS (né en 1975)
EXPOSITIONS SOLOS
2022
Galerie 55 TLV Tel Aviv Israël
2021
Galerie 55 TLV Tel Aviv Israël
2019
Expo Pinkhas / Galerie Kinor, Rue de Rivoli - PARIS, France
2018
Expo Pinkhas / Tiny Tiny Gallery - TEL AVIV, Israël
2018
Expo Pinkhas / Galerie Kinor, Rue de Rivoli - PARIS, France
2017
Expo Pinkhas / Maison d'exposition générale - Safed, Israël
2017
Expo Pinkhas / Centre Communautaire - Perpignan, France
2015
Expo Pinkhas / Galerie Zi Artifice, Rue Quincampoix - PARIS, France
2012
Expo Locaux Du Magazine Le P'tit Hebdo / Jérusalem, Talpiot - jerusalem, Israel
EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
2017
NEW YORK ART EXPO / PIER 92/94 711 12th Ave (55th Street & the West Side Highway) - New York, États-Unis
2014
Solutions en Lumière / PALAIS D'IENA - PARIS, France
2013
2ème Biennale internationale d'Art Naïf / Salla Polyvalente - OTTMARSHEIM, France
2013
Ecoles de la Paix / Espace Pierre Cardin - PARIS, France
2012
Salon d'Autome / Hangar 2, Port de Jaffa - Tel Aviv, Israël
2012
Festival International d'Art Naïf / Cinémathèque de Jérusalem - Jérusalem, France
2012
festival de la francophonie / Maison de France...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French School Figurative Drawings and Wate...
Materials
Paper, Ink, Felt Pen
The Butterfly /// Antique Victorian Watercolor Girl Lady Landscape Romantic Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jan Jacobus Matthijs Damschröder (Dutch, 1825-1905)
Title: "The Butterfly"
*Signed by Damschröder lower right
Circa: 1880
Medium: Original Gouache/Watercolor Painting on paper
Framing: Framed in a gold-leafed mat and Victorian gesso frame...
Category
1880s Victorian Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Gesso
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Brick Layers" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing Men Working
By David Fredenthal
Located in New York, NY
"Brick Layers" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing Men Working.
21 x 15 inches Watercolor on paper. c. 1938. Signed lower left.
BIO
David Fredenthal (1914 - 1958) was one ot America's most respected watercolor artists. He was famous for his bold, intensely vigorous and complex paintings and drawings that expressed his deep feeling for excitement with life and living. He was a draftsman with seemingly a special gift for catching anything, physically and emotionally on the spot, and he never went anywhere without three or four loaded pens and a sketchbook in his pocket. As part of the WPA project he executed a number of murals including the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World's Fair 1939. Some of his fresco and mural techniques were inspired by his friendship with Diego Rivera who had admired and encouraged him in the early 1930's. After he won a traveling scholarship to Europe from The Museum of Modern Art at age 19, he was the recipient of two Guggenheim grants in Painting. He had his first solo exhibition at the Downtown Gallery in New York in 1937 at age 23, and many others after that including the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1947. Because of Fredenthal's prodigious drawing gifts, he was chosen by Erskine Caldwell to illustrate his novel "Tobacco Road" in 1940. He was a War Artist Correspondent for both the State Department (the European and Asian fronts) and Life magazine from 1943 to 1946 and his work was featured in Life magazine regularly during the war and after until the end of his life. Also featured in Life in 1956 were drawings that Fredenthal had vividly recorded on his sketch pad, of the entire filming of the movie, The Pride and the Passion, starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, and Frank Sinatra, along the treacherous mountain passes of Spain. Though he was fiercely committed to an art that expressed deeply human social values and issues and was quite hostile to abstraction, he was friendly with a number of abstract artists such as David Smith, Ad Reinhardt, Philip Guston, Paul Feeley, and Herman Cherry.
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1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
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Signature stamp on the yellowed paper.
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Materials
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Hand-signed in pen on the lower margin.
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Category
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Materials
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Located in Roma, IT
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Category
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Materials
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Located in Roma, IT
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Hand signed on the lower right corner. Passpartout included cm 40.5x30.5
Good condition.
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Category
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Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
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