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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings For Sale
Period: 1930s
Period: 1920s
Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Railroad Worker Industrial WPA American Scene Mid Century Modern Social Realism
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Railroad worker
36 ¼ x 27 inches
Oil on paper c. 1930s
S...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Noel Leaver Original Watercolor, circa 1920's, Orientalist Subject
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Watercolor by British artist Noel Leaver (1889-1951).
Beautiful Orientalist subject in excellent condition - framed.
Measures: 11" H x 15" W. Frame: 19 3/4...
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint
Pastel Portrait of a Woman, Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post
By Guy Hoff
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original magazine cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, published January 24, 1931.
Pastel portrait features a fashionable young woman
Artwork Dimensions: 39" x 30"
Me...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Sculpture project by Fausto Melotti, 1936
Located in Milan, IT
Pencil on watermarked paper. Signed lower left. The drawing is accompanied by an authentication on photo from the Fausto Melotti Archive, with code DIS 36 015, showing the data of th...
Category
1930s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Bedford Park, LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO - Watercolour, Town Scene, 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Bedford Park by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952)
Watercolour on paper
24.5 x 38 cm (9 ⅝ x 15 inches)
Signed, inscribed and dated lower left, Bedford Park 1928 Ludovic Rodo
Painted ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
William Henry Barribal - 1920s British watercolour of a Girl in a Fancy Bonnet
Located in London, GB
WILLIAM HENRY BARRIBAL
(1873-1956)
Her Best Bonnet
Watercolour and bodycolour over traces of pencil
Framed
23.5 by 18.5 cm., 9 ¼ by 7 ¼ in.
(frame size 42 by 36 cm., 16 ½ by 14 ¼...
Category
1920s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude
Monotype in colors, 1936
Signed, dated, and inscribed in pencil (see photo)
Annotated: "Orig. Monotype," dated Munchen 8 Sept. 1936"
Condition: Excellent
Image/plate size: 12 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches
Sheet size: 20 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches
Provenance: Frederick Baker, Inc., Chicago
Hans Hermann...
Category
1930s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Monotype
Island in the San Francisco Bay, Mid Century Landscape by Alexander Nepote
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Island in the San Francisco Bay Landscape by Alexander Nepote
Lovely late 1930's Impressionist watercolor of a Bay Area island by listed California artist Alexander Nepo...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Study For "The Land Of Enchantment"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Image Dimensions: Image 9" x 19"
Sheet Dimensions: 15" x 20.25"
Medium: Watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper laid to board
This is an unsigned study for the 38" H x 75" W oil pain...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Board, Graphite
Nude Drawing on Gray Paper
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Standing Nude drawing on gray paper
Pencil signed and dated April 8, 21.
Printmaker, painter and illustrator, George Kenneth Hartwell was born in Fitchburg 1891-1949, Massachusetts. He studied at the Art Students' League in New York City under Kenneth Hayes Miller, Edward Hopper, and George Bellows.
His work was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1923), the Society of Independent Artists (1923), Salons of America (1928 and 1934), Library of Congress (1944-46), the Laguna Beach Art...
Category
1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Paper
Modern American Industrial Drawing Factory Graphite Framed Black and White
Located in Buffalo, NY
A fantastic industrial drawing dated 1935, which depicts the former Plymouth Motor Company's Powerhouse in Buffalo, NY.
Housed in a contemporary frame presentation this unique work ...
Category
1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Aereopittura su pagina di libro , Tecnica mista cm. 13 x 19 1930 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Poesia su carta di pagina di libro, Aereo in volo
Futurismo
L'opera viene venduta con certificato di autenticità dell'archivio Falanga
Michele FALANGA (Bagnara Calabra, RC 1865 – ...
Category
1930s Futurist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Easter, Saturday Evening Post Cover April 19, 1930
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post Cover, April 19, 1930
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Painter" 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Working Man Modern WPA Era
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
"Painter" 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Working Man Modern WPA Era
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Painter
41 ½ x 36 3/4 inches (sight)
Gouache on paper c. 1930s
Signed lower rig...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Female Sexual Nude
Located in Miami, FL
Sotheby's New York . work is elegantly matted and framed with the Sotheby's sticker on verso
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary
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 ...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Jean Cocteau - The Fight - Original Signed Drawing
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - The Fight - Original Signed Drawing
1923
28 x 22 cm
Signed
This drawing was made as a frontispiece of the book Dessins publishe...
Category
1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Watercolor Painting by William Zorach, Titled "Redwoods, Yosemite Valley", 1920
Located in New York, NY
William Zorach, 1887-1966
Redwoods, Yosemite Valley, 1920
Watercolor and pencil
15 ¾ x 13 ⅜ inches
Signed (at lower right): William Zorach
WZorach-7
Provenance:
Estate of William Zorach
Exhibited:
William Zorach, 1887-1996, Sculpture, Drawings and Watercolors, Zabriskie Gallery, New
York; Feb. 10 – March 14, 1998.
William Zorach was born in Lithuania in 1889, and immigrated to the United States with his
family in 1893. Settling in Cleveland with his parents, he worked as a lithographer from 1902-
1908, making enough money to study painting with Henry G. Keller at the School of Art. In
1910, Zorach traveled to Paris to study in La Palette, where he was encouraged to develop his
own unique style rather than adhere to traditional teachings. Zorach once said, “I began to be
conscious of the various modern influences that were invading the art world…I was disturbed
and confused, and yet I felt that I was a very young man entering a new age. The forces creating
modern art seemed more alive to me than anything I had known or anything being done in
America.” 1 Together with his wife Marguerite, William Zorach produced a number of Cubist-
style paintings for the American Armory Show of 1913, and the Forum Exhibition in New York
in 1916.
Around 1917, Zorach followed the lead of cubist artist Pablo Picasso and began experimenting
with wood and stone carvings. By 1922, he devoted himself entirely to sculpture, and like
Picasso, became fascinated in “primitive art”—the ritual objects and sculpture pieces of Oceanic,
Native American and African tribes. Zorach’s work developed in its use of block-like forms with
progressive suppression of detail—drawing elements from sources as disparate as the
contemporary cubist and modernist movements, and combining them with forms seen in early
African sculpture. Though the forms of his sculpture were often abstract, Zorach primarily
focused upon a traditional subject matter, producing such well-known sculptures as Young Girl,
now in the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Mother and Child, in the collection of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Today, William Zorach is known as one of the earliest and most
influential American artists dedicated to direct carving. Zorach also made an impression as a
teacher and writer, facilitating a major change in the aesthetic philosophy and technique of
sculpture in the United States.
During the summers from 1913 to 1922, Zorach and his wife Marguerite painted...
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Chemists American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism WPA Science Mural
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Chemists American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism WPA Science Mural
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Chemists
40 ½ x 31 ¾ inches
Oil on paper, c. 1930s
Signed lower right
49 x 40 ...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Isadora Duncan (Blue), " Pen, Ink, & Watercolor signed by Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Isadora Duncan (Blue)" is an original mixed media drawing created by Abraham Walkowitz. It is made with pen & ink, graphite, and watercolor piece on cream paper. The artist signed t...
Category
1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
Cherry Dancer
Located in Miami, FL
Cherry Dancer
Marcel Vertes
French, 1895-1961
Beautiful girl juggling cherries
Work is round but is shown in a square frame and some of the artworks edge is exposed
Description: ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Cubist Landscape/Cityscape of Capri, Italy, Early 20th Century Woman Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1965)
Capri, 1927
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right
11 x 10 inches
14.25 x 13.25 inches, framed
A graduate of the Cleveland School of Art ...
Category
1920s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Place Pigalle
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Place Pigalle', oil and gouache on art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). Pigalle is well known to tourists who want to experience "Paris by night". It is home to some of Paris' most famous cabarets such as the Moulin Rouge which was immortalised by artist Toulouse-Lautrec. Lautrec's studio was here as was Picasso's, Vincent Van Gogh's and that of Andre Breton. In 1928 Josephine Baker opened her first nightclub next door to Breton's apartment. It is certainly a historical landmark of Paris and well known to so many visitors of this beautiful city. Génin painted Paris and Parisians and this is another one of his charming works among many held by this gallery. Please feel free to peruse them all on this platform. In good overall condition. Newly framed and glazed with anti-reflective glass. 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...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Gouache
Tiger, Lion, Panther, Wolf, Bear, Cat Predator Silhouette Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Woman Illustrator Margery Stocking Hart draws a pen-and-ink story depicting a round table of predators encircling a vulnerable bunny rabbit. ...
Category
1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Original Painting New Yorker Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Santa's Feet
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting New Yorker Cover Proposal American Scene Modern Santa's Feet
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Santas Feet At Midnight
New Yorker c...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Moroccan - Original Pencil and Ink by Helen Vogt - 1930
By Helen Vogt
Located in Roma, IT
Moroccan is an original pencil and china ink drawing realized by Helen Vogt in 1930.
The state of preservation is very good.
Not signed.
Stamp of the ...
Category
1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Ink
Costume for Aida - Tempera and Watercolor - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Costume for Aida is a drawing in tempera and watercolor on brownish paper realized in 1920 ca. by an Anonymous Italian artist of the early 20th Century.
In very good condition.
The...
Category
1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Tempera
Mandolin - Unique Drawing Pencil on Paper Hand Signed Surrealism, 1930
Located in New York, NY
Salvador Dalí
Mandolin, ca. 1930
Graphite on paper
6 × 8 in l 15.2 × 20.3 cm
Frame included - 11 x 13 in l 28 x 33 cm
The authenticity of this artwork has been confirmed by Mr. Desc...
Category
1930s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Aereopittura tecnica mista cm. 13 x 19
Located in Torino, IT
Aereopittura su carta spolvero di Michele Falanga
Futurista siciliano anni 30
L'opera viene venduta con certificato di autenticità dell'archivio Falanga
Category
1930s Futurist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Studies of Man with Arms Raised
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper, 56cm x 38cm, (79cm x 60cm framed). Provenance: The Artist’s sister.
From the mid-1940s to the early 1950s Colquhoun was considered one of the leading artists of his generation. Along with that of Robert MacBryde, another artist and Colquhoun’s partner, his work was regularly shown at the Lefevre Gallery in London. This early work is likely to be a drawing from when Colquhoun was at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1930s.
Known as the ‘Two Roberts’, Colquhoun and MacBryde met at the Glasgow School of Art in 1932 and lived together until Colquhoun’s death in 1962. The pair also exhibited in several group shows at the Lefevre Gallery, including one in February 1946, alongside Ben Nicholson, Graham Sutherland, Bacon and Freud. Works were bought by the Arts Council, the British Council, the Contemporary Art Society and the Imperial War Museum. Major art patrons added their work to their collections, including Sir Kenneth Clark...
Category
1930s Post-War Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Executed in 1930, this abstract yet representational biomorphic charcoal work by African American Artist Charles Henry Alston prefigures his ...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
SMITHEREENS
Located in Portland, ME
Anonymous. "SMITHEREENS" ORIGINAL ART FOR AN ALFRED E. SMITH CAMPAIGN POSTER. Circa 1920. Ink drawing with white highlighting. 20 x 22 inches, in an early fra...
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Poupee Espagnole
Located in New York, NY
Poupee Espagnole. Costume design for the entertainer Mistinguette for her production at the Moulin Rouge in Paris. Watercolor. Signed Zig. Ca 1928, . Framed.
Provenance: Nephew of M...
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Grand National Steeplechase c1930s Drypoint Vignette By Paul Brown
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 9 1/4"H x 14"W
Frame Sz: 17 1/4"H x 22"W
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Drypoint
Paul Brown Color Lithograph "The Water - Aintree" from The Grand National
Located in Bristol, CT
Paul Brown (New York/ Minnesota; 1893 – 1958)
The Water – Aintree, 1931
Color lithograph on paper
Signed to lower right margin; signed in plate
Print Sz: 9 3/4"H x 18"W
Frame Sz: 1...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Gentlemen's Apparel c1923 Watercolour Vignette by Herbert Fell Sharp (1880-1972)
Located in Bristol, CT
Stylish & dapper watercolour 'decoupage' vignette by 'Fell' 1923
Featuring seven English gents sporting various styles of bespoke apparel
Image Sz: 17"H x 12 3/4"W
Frame Sz: 23 1/4"H x 18 3/4"W
(4/14/1880- 11/1972)
Herbert Fell Sharp was a British comic artist/illustrator born in London, United Kingdom in the district of Islington, son of Charles Sharp and Catherine née Fell. He immigrated to United States by 1910 married Ruth Sheriff in 1916 in Westchester, New York.
He lived at 31 Poplar Street, Brooklyn and served as a former president to the New Rochelle Art Association in Westchester County, New York, an organization that included J.C. Leyendecker as a prominent member during the 1950's. Sources suggest that Fell Sharp began his career as a comic artist, composing illustrations for the Amalgamated Press comics circa 1900 and "The Jester and Wonder" in 1905.
Mr. Sharp possesses an artistic technique that is easy to identify and yet unique. The people featured in his artwork show details of pointed noises. Sharp's career, like his contemporaries, explored a diversity of avenues in which to market his craft. For example, he sketched artwork that consisted of war themes. As you will see, his art signatures feature his middle name on most prints, but sometimes may include middle and last names together coupled with the year of its completion.
There are some websites that happen to confuse Sharp's work with Laurence Fellows...
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Giuseppe Casciaro, Ischia, 1929
Located in New York, NY
Giuseppe Casciaro, Ischia, 1929. Giuseppe Casciaro (1861-1941) Amalfi coast landscape with watchtower on the island of Ischia. Pastel and gouache on card. Signed and dated 19 Feb VII...
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Léa LAFUGIE (1890-1972), gouache of a Burmese dancer
Located in Paris, FR
Léa Lafugie is a painter who has travelled extensively throughout Asia. She is renowned for her portraits. She studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, then at the Ecole de...
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Lanvin of Paris c1920s Original Fashion Illustration in Gouache
Located in Bristol, CT
9 3/4"H x 6 3/4"W
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Untitled Senza Titolo, Italian Futurism, Drawing
Located in London, GB
MINO DELLE SITE 1914-1996
[Domenico Delle Site]
Lecce 1914-1996 Rome (Italian)
Title: Untitled Senza Titolo, 1935
Technique: Signed and Dated Crayon...
Category
1930s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Pencil
Estes Park Colorado American Modernist Watercolor Landscape Painting, WPA 1930s
By James Russell Sherman
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage 1930s watercolor and ink painting of Estes Park, Colorado, by American artist James Russell Sherman (1906-1989). This captivating work features a detailed view of storefronts...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Boating on the Morin River"
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Pen, ink, watercolor and wash on paper by André Dunoyer de Segonzac, France, 1922-1924. Boating on the Morin River. Measurements : with frame: 52.5x65x2 cm - 20.7x25.6x0.8 inches / w...
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1920s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Sonia Delaunay - Original Watercolor on paper
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Sonia Delaunay - Original Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 21 x 21 cm.
Authentified by her son Charles Delaunay on the back.
Sonia Delaunay was known for her vivid use of color and her bold, abstract patterns, breaking down traditional distinctions between the fine and applied arts as an artist, designer and printmaker.
Born Sarah Stern on November 14, 1885 in Gradizhsk, Ukraine, she was adopted in 1890 by her maternal uncle, Henri Terk, a lawyer in St. Petersburg, where she grew up, exposed to music and art, and learning several foreign languages. In 1903, she moved to Germany to study drawing with Ludwig Schmidt-Reutler (1863–1909) at the Karlsruhe academy of fine arts; Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), composer-to-be, was among her classmates there. In 1905, she traveled to Paris where she attended art classes at the Académie de la Palette, learned printmaking from Rudolf Grossman (1889–1941), and met Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966), André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974), and Jean-Louis Boussingault (1883–1943). Sonia spent much of her time at exhibitions and galleries in Paris, which showed works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard, as well as Les Fauves, Henri Matisse and André Derain. She did, however, maintain contact with Germany, exhibiting at the Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, in 1913, 1920 and 1921.
During her first year in Paris, Sonia met the German collector and art-dealer, Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), whom she married on December 5, 1908, and whose Montparnasse gallery, the Galerie Notre-Dame des Champs, showed her first solo exhibition. Through Uhde, Sonia encountered many painters, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Robert Delaunay (1885–1941). In 1910, Sonia divorced Uhde by mutual agreement, married Delaunay that same year, and gave birth to their son, Charles, in January 1911.
Together Sonia and Robert Delaunay pursued the study of color, influenced by theories of Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889). Sonia’s interest in simultaneous contrast, as evidenced in her early collages, book bindings, small painted boxes...
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1930s Abstract Geometric Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
STUDY OF A MAN WITH A HAT AND OVERCOAT
Located in Portland, ME
Stella, Joseph. STUDY OF A MAN WITH A HAT AND OVERCOAT. Blue, red and black crayon on tan wove paper, c. 1920. 6 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 173 x 120 mm. Signe...
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1920s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
New York Street Movement and Figure - Architecture
By John Marin
Located in Miami, FL
This work by John Marin depicts an image of lower Manhattan which was Marin's more iconic subject matter. The work has a stellar provenance as well.
Provenance:
Kennedy Galleries
Richard York Gallery
ACA Galleries...
Category
1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
Chaim Gross Watercolor Painting, Nude Figures
By Chaim Gross
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Chaim Gross (American, 1902-1991)
Marking(s); notes: signed; 1928
Materials: pencil and watercolor on paper
Dimensions (H, W, D): 9"h, 6.5"w; 17"h, 13"...
Category
1920s Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Lanvin of Paris c1920s Original Fashion Illustration in Gouache
Located in Bristol, CT
9 3/4"H x 6 3/4"W
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
'St. Astruell, England' — British Post-Impressionism
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hailey Lever, 'St. Astruell, England', watercolor, 1910. Signed in pencil, lower right. Titled and dated on the original inside mat. A fine spontaneous work, with fresh colors, on cr...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sitting Nude exudes sexuality
Located in Miami, FL
The key element to this work is that it is much larger that most of the other works on paper by Lachaise and somewhat more delineated and refined . The figure exudes sexuality has a...
Category
1920s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Old charcoal drawing on paper " nude lady with cigarette " Italian school 2Oth
Located in Gavere, BE
Old charcoal drawing on paper " nude lady with cigarette " Italian school 2Oth
This exceptionally beautiful charcoal drawing sits in a brand new frame, and sealed under the authenti...
Category
1930s Italian School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Lanvin of Paris c1920s Original Fashion Illustration in Gouache
Located in Bristol, CT
9 3/4"H x 6 3/4"W
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Watercolor and Gouache on Paper, by Charles Burchfield, circa 1925
Located in New York, NY
Charles Burchfield, 1893-1967
Wallpaper Design No.2, 1922-28
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Category
1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Scène de rivière, près de Lyons-la-Forêt by Paulémile Pissarro - Watercolour
Located in London, GB
Scène de rivière, près de Lyons-la-Forêt by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Watercolour and crayon on paper
31.5 x 48.3 cm (12 ³/₈ x 19 inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile - Pissarro...
Category
1920s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor
Beach of Kusambe, Bali 1937
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Four outrigger proa’s on the beach of Kusambe, Bali, 1937
Signed with initials, dated and described with location bottom left
Pencil and ink on paper, 29.7 x 35 cm
In ebonized frame with white mount
WILLEM OTTO WIJNAND NIEUWENKAMP
(1874-1950)
Nieuwenkamp was born on July 27th 1874 in Amsterdam. His father owned sailing ships sailing to Indonesia and hearing the stories of the returning captains evoked in the young Nieuwenkamp an obsession for distant lands and adventure. After a failed attempt by his father to have his son make a career in his business, Nieuwenkamp attended the Academy for Decorative Art in Amsterdam. However, he left within one year to go his own way.
He was an autodidact and a great experimenter with new techniques, particularly in the art of etching. Nieuwenkamp was a very focused man with the discipline of a scientist tempered by the sensitivity of an artist, a lust for adventure, a natural appreciation for ethnic arts and an enormous ambition to tread new paths.
In 1898 he visited Indonesia for the first time and on his second visit in 1903-1904 he went on to Bali and became the first foreign artist to love Bali and the Balinese with a passion. Having secured agreements with several museums in the Netherlands to obtain Balinese art and objects for their collections, Nieuwenkamp immediately started to purchase and order a wide range of ethnographic art and objects from local artists and craftsmen.
Through his drawings and books, he gave an excellent impression of Balinese art and culture at that time. Since 1854 Northern Bali was under Dutch...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Paper, Pencil
"Sculpture Model" Abstract American Drawing Modernism Mid 20th Century Cubism
Located in New York, NY
"Sculpture Model" Abstract American Drawing Modernism Mid 20th Century Cubism
Charles Biederman (American, 1906-2004)
Sculpture Model
Ink and gouache on Arches paper
Sight: 18 x 1...
Category
1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Paysage, Watercolour on Paper Painting by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro, circa 1920
Located in London, GB
Paysage by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878 - 1952)
Watercolour on paper
28 x 36 cm (11 x 14 ⅛ inches)
Signed lower right, Ludovic Rodo
Executed circa 1920
This work is accompanied by a...
Category
1920s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Stevedores, Ohio River, Early 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Stevedores, Ohio River, c. 1920
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
21.5 x 29. 5 inches
"The trip Otto Ege and I made from Pittsburgh to Marietta by riverboat and then by train to Mammoth Cave, was the next high spot in my artistic explorations. We saw something of the Old Southern river life on the way - the roustabouts, the showboat and river town life at Point Pleasant, and then to the sombre tonal mysteries of the Cave. These sights added much to my pictorial vocabulary..." - Frank Wilcox
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School...
Category
1920s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
LA PRINCESSE LOINTAINE: LES FEMMES DE MILISSINDE
By Erté
Located in Aventura, FL
Original on Gouache on paper. Hand signed on front; signed, titled, dated with dedication on verso. Stamped "Composition originale". Frame size 30.5 x 26.5 inches.
Artwork is in e...
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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