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Drawings and Watercolor Paintings For Sale
Portrait - Charcoal Drawing By Pierre Georges Jeanniot - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original Drawing on paper realized by the painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934).
Drawing in Pencil.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good conditions except for aged ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
'Theatre Du Chatelet, Paris' a framed gouache painting
Located in St. Albans, GB
Theatre Du Chatelet
A stunning gouache by one of France's premier artists specialising in Parisian scenes.
Eugene Galien LALOUE
(1854 - 1941)
Eugène Galien Laloue was particularly...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Some Twilight Land (Charcoal Landscape Painting of Country Forest & Sky)
By Sue Bryan
Located in Hudson, NY
Large, highly detailed charcoal and acrylic landscape featuring a lush country forest against a sunlit sky
"Some Twilight Land" by Sue Bryan
charcoal, acrylic, and pastel on canvas, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic, Canvas, Oil Pastel
In Bed - Original Watercolor by Jean Demelier - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
In Bed is original watercolor drawing realized by Jean Demelier in 1968.
Hand-signed at the top left.
Very good conditions.
Included a white Passepartout: 34 x 49 cm.
Delicate and en...
Category
1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Graham Nickson, Orvieto "Black Sun" original watercolor painting, Signed, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Graham Nickson
Orvieto "Black Sun", 2000
Watercolor painting on Lanaquarelle paper
Hand signed, titled and dated by Graham Nickson on the back
This exquisite watercolor painting dep...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Figure of a Woman - Original Pencil Drawing by Jean Bernard - 1910 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of a woman is a pencil drawing realized by Jean Bernard on 1910 ca.
In good condition, worn paper on the marginal line, and traces of old scotch on the back.
Atelier's stamp...
Category
1910s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Frida
Located in Zofingen, AG
The painting "Frida" explores the depths of the human soul through the image of the renowned Mexican artist. Inspired by Frida Kahlo's unique personality, this piece conveys her com...
Category
2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late 18th Century Watercolour, A Swiss Village, Circle of Claude-Louis Châtelet
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 18th or early 19th century watercolour view of a group of figures in a village square. Though not apparently signed the work is very competent and of high quality. It is frame...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Nude - Pen on Ivory Paper by Fausto Ghia - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pen on ivory paper realized by Fausto Ghia.
Hand-signed on the lower left with dedication.
The state of preservation is very good.
Included a Passep...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pen
The body of a slim young man. 1970s. Marco Silombria signed.
Located in Firenze, IT
The body of a slim young man. 1970s. Marco Silombria signed.
Marco Silombria, Italian advertising graphic designer, artist and ceramist.
charcoal and wax on paper.
Signed bottom righ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Wax Crayon
Untitled, Plate Six from Novecento (Mixed media lithograph with chalk pastel)
Located in New York, NY
Nam June Paik
Untitled, Plate Six from Novecento, 1992
Mixed Media: Color offset lithograph with unique chalk pastel drawing
13 3/10 × 18 inches
Edition 104/130
Pencil numbered 104/130, hand signed in pastel chalk on the front
Edizioni Carte Segrete, Rome, Italy
Excellent condition; held in matting which can be easily removed
The matting measures 18" x 21"
This was part of a series of works produced for the Nam June Paik retrospective at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1992, Nam June Paik: Arti Elletroniche.
This is one of the editions which bears unique hand coloring with pastel chalk.
A comparable work sold at auction in 2015 for US $12,583. (see details below):
Nam June Paik
Title Novecento
Description Nam June PAI K
Novecento 1930-1940, 1992 Pastel sur offset en couleurs, épreuve signée et numérotée 104/130 Edizioni Carte Segrete, Rome 23,5 x 39,5 cm EH Oeuvre réalisée a l'occasion de la rétrospective Paik au Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1992, Nam June Paik: Arti Elletroniche, cinema e Media Verso il XXI Secolo
Medium pastel
Year of Work 1992
Size Height 9.3 in.; Width 15.6 in. / Height 23.5 cm.; Width 39.5 cm.
Misc. Signed
Sale of Millon & Associés: Monday, June 22, 2015 [Lot 00090]
Design
Sold For 11,057 EUR Hammer
(12,583 USD)
Nam June Paik Biography
Nam June Paik was born in 1932 in Seoul. He received a BA in aesthetics from the University of Tokyo in 1956 where he also studied music and art history. After graduating, he studied for a year with composer Thrasybulus Georgiades Georgiades at the University of Munich and for two years with composer Woflgang Fortner at the International Music College in Freiburg. He attended the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt in 1957, when he met Karlheinz Stockhausen, and in 1958, when he met John Cage. Cage, and through him Marcel Duchamp, had a significant influence on Paik as he became a major force in the avant-garde through performances. In Hommage à John Cage (1959), Paik employed audiotape and performance to attack traditional musical instrumentation and compositional practices, splicing together piano playing, screaming, bits of classical music, and sound effects. Realizing that taped sound was not enough, he decided to move into performance, first by introducing performative actions into his audio works. In 1961 Paik performed Simple, Zen for Head and Étude Platonique No. 3, in which he became a volatile figure, thrashing about in unexpected patterns and sudden movements to his signature soundtracks. In 1962 Paik participated in the Fluxus International Festival of the New Music in Weisbaden. Paik's first exhibition, entitled Exposition of Music - Electronic Television, in 1963 at Galerie Parnass at Wuppertal, launched his transition from composer and performance artist to the inventor of a new art form: an engagement with the material site of television as an instrument. In the exhibition, thirteen televisions lay on their backs and sides with their reception altered; for example, Zen for TV (1963) reduced the television picture to a horizontal line and Kuba TV (1963) shrank and expanded the image on the television set according to the changing volume.
In 1964 Paik traveled to the US. He quickly settled in New York and became a leading innovator among an emerging generation of artists seeking new modes of artistic expression and distribution. That same year, Paik collaborated with Shuya Abe to create Robot K-456 (1964), a remote controlled robot that played audiotaped speeches by John F. Kennedy and defecated beans in Paik's Robot Opera (1964). In the interactive work Magnet TV (1965), Paik invited viewers to modify the television's output into swerving abstract lines through the movement of a magnet over the TV. In 1967 Paik and frequent collaborator Charlotte Moorman were arrested when Moorman performed Paik's Opera Sextronique (1967), a striptease as she played the cello at the Filmmakers' Cinematheque in New York. Paik's TV Bra for Living Sculpture (1969), which Moorman wore in performances, featured two television tubes...
Category
1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Offset, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Graphite, Lithograph
Original French Pencil Study of Riders and Horses in Misty Landscape
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original French Pencil Study of Riders and Horses in Misty Landscape
Artist: Robert Ladou (French, 1929-2014)
Medium: Pencil on paper
Size: 11.75 (Height) x 16.5 (Width)
Sign...
Category
20th Century Academic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 10.75 x 8.5 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
Infanta IV: Figurative Cubist Abstract Graphite Drawing with Antique Frame
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative abstract cubist style drawing inspired by the Infanta Margarita in an antique gold frame
“Infanta IV” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made in 2015
23 x 18 inch...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Vintage french art painting by Edouard Detaille - tempera on carton, signed.
Located in PARIS, FR
Tempera on cardboard mounted on an original canvas and original glass. 19th century.
Interesting and well accomplished study for Nature probably in eastern France. Dimensions with fr...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Cows Graze in a Meadow, Pencil, 1907
Located in Stockholm, SE
This drawing by Nils Kreuger, a Swedish artist born on October 11, 1858, in Kalmar and who passed away on May 11, 1930, in Stockholm, showcases a quintess...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"Landscape" Original Drawing , Abstract Drawing made in Italy Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Red Landscape
mineral oxide on papers ( Canson Paper 300gr)
Origial drawing ,one of a kind
50x70 cm
2025
The drawing is shipped flat inside a cardboard clip, it is possible to bu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Historic Miniature Watercolor of Wine Street Looking to Corn Street in Bristol
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Historic Miniature Watercolor of Wine Street Looking to Corn Street in Bristol
by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist
Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed
Measure...
Category
20th Century English School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Watercolor painting Winter berries
Located in Zofingen, AG
A watercolor painting with bright viburnum berries under snow caps. Saturated tones, multifaceted composition, large format (38x56cm) - the watercolor painting with berries under the...
Category
2010s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Spirit of Youth, Watercolor and Pastel Drawing by Will Barnet
By Will Barnet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Will Barnet, American (1911 - 2012)
Title: Spirit of Youth
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Watercolor and Pastel on Paper, signed and dedicated
Size: 11 in. x 7.5 in. (27.94 cm ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pastel
Original Fashion Design Illustration Watercolor Painting Laura Ashley Designer
By Roz Jennings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Original Fashion Design Illustration
by Roz Jennings, British
watercolor and ink on card, unframed
size: 12 x 8.25 inches
condition: very good
A beautifully colorful and characterfu...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Three Robbers - Original Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Three Robbers is an original drawing in watercolor on paper realized by Gabriele Galantara.
The state of preservation of the artwork is good.
Titled on the lower in Italian.
The a...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Framed Early Modern Black & White Abstract Surrealistic Animal Drawing Studies
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern black and white sketch by iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. Pulled from a collection of previously undiscovered sketchbooks, this work serves as a peak behind t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"Chromatic research and movement"abstract, yellow , orange, cm. 24 x 33 1954
Located in Torino, IT
abstract, yellow ,orange,grey,geometric,1954
Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989)
From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical and exp...
Category
1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Reclining Nude Study
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady
French School, circa 1960's
chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed
size: 12.5 x 19 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: priva...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Ink & Wash Drawing Roman Allegorical Africa
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Africa'
Italian School, 18th century
ink and wash drawing on paper, framed within a light oak wood frame (behind glass)
image size: 10.5 x 7 inches
overall framed: 17 x 13 inches
co...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Little witches 4
Located in Genève, GE
Erotic scene
Work on paper
Wooden frame with glass pane
49.5 x 41.5 x 1.3 cm
Category
1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Spiral Form Eight, Geometric Spirograph Drawing, Reddish Brown, Cream Paper
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This geometric drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. The ordered symmetry of the spirograph drawing in reddish brown is...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
1910's Art Deco Erte Gouache Painting Original Hand Signed Rare French Costume
By Erté
Located in Buffalo, NY
A rare original signed Art Deco gouache on paper by Erte (Romain de Tirtoff)
.
This stunning theatrical costume design is signed Erte at the lower right.
The piece is 20 by 18 fram...
Category
1910s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil
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 Irish Artist, D Hall
Art measures 8 x 6 inches
Frame measure...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Archival Paper
Rainbow Field, Abstract Expressionist Pastel on Paper by Souleymane Keita
Located in Long Island City, NY
Souleymane Keita - Rainbow Field, Year: 1983, Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed and dated lower left, Size: 22.25 x 30 in. (56.52 x 76.2 cm), Descript...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Winter Light
Located in THOMERY, FR
Winter Light by Linda Clerget is an evocative artwork that combines watercolor, ink, and pastels, measuring 65 x 50 cm. This piece captures the serene beauty of a winter landscape, w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Ink, India Ink, Watercolor
"Flower 1" Graphite Drawing
By Lindsay Payton
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white graphite drawing of a dropping flower. The artist signed the print and titled it. It is framed in a black frame with a white matte.
Dimensions without Frame: H 11 in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
18th C Italian Classical Grand Tour Ancient City Old Ruins & Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: The Italian City
Artist/ School: English/ Italian School, late 18th century; a Grand Tour work.
Medium: pencil drawing.
Size: 6.75 x 9.75 inches
Provenance: from a priva...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Modernist Original Watercolor Painting - Reclining Nude Female Figure Study
Located in Soquel, CA
Modernist Original Watercolor Painting - Reclining Nude Female Figure Study
Reclining nude female figure set on a low, moody horizon in sunset ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Design for Architectural Fantasy architectural drawing Mid Century Modern
Located in London, GB
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V A Hards (British, c. 1930-c. 2012)
An Architectur...
Category
1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Martin. 1936. Paper, pastel. 27.5x11.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Martin. 1936. Paper, pastel. 27.5x11.5 cm
Category
1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
HUBER Johann Kaspar. View of a city thought to be Antwerp. Wasked ink.
By HUBER JOHANN KASPAR
Located in Paris, FR
Johann Kaspar HUBER is a Swiss painter.
Category
Late 18th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Mid 19th Century Figurative Scene from "Great Exhibition of 1851", London
By Lowes Cato Dickinson
Located in Soquel, CA
Hand-colored steel engraving of a the Turkish section of the Great Exhibition of 1851 by Lowes Cato Dickinson (British, 1819-1908). On verso i...
Category
1850s Aesthetic Movement Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Animated Street, Mixed Technique Early Twentieth, Signature To Identify
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Busy street.
Mixed media on paper: ink wash and marker.
Signature to be identified lower right.
Framed and under glass.
Paper ripples.
Storm beasts under the glass.
Drawing (at sight...
Category
Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Mid Century French Pencil Drawing Study of a Dog in Various Poses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Pencil Drawing Study of a Dog in Various Poses
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil on paper
Size: 9.75 (height) x 6.75 (width)
Stamp...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
"Boys on Blue Bed II" Dark Blue Toned Sensual Homoerotic Figurative Watercolor
By Steve Louis
Located in Houston, TX
Dark blue toned homoerotic figurative watercolor painting by contemporary Houston, Texas artist Steve Louis. The work features two nude men stretched out o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Gold Flora Cornflowers - Metallic Botanical Cyanotype Painting Plants, 2021-'24
Located in Kent, CT
In this botanical cyanotype painting in watercolor, gouache, India ink, gold pigments and tea-toned cyanotype on cotton watercolor paper, meticulously detailed flowers, including cor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Tea
Surreal intimate scene, green and blue, boat and fashion magazine
Located in Carballo, ES
Ventura A. Pérez (1992) is one of the most seductive artists on the contemporary Spanish scene. After earning a doctorate in contemporary art from the University of Vigo, he moved to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
French Watercolor of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Rhône River with Fishing Boat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Rhône River with Fishing Boat
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, mou...
Category
Late 20th Century French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Mid Century French Portrait Study of a Seated Nude Woman with Hands in Hair
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seated Nude Woman
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black pen on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Dated 1946
Size: 11 (height) x 8.5 (width...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
Late 19th Century Watercolour - Angler at the Farm
Located in Corsham, GB
This scene sets place on the land of a small farm in late summer. In the foreground an angler casts his line into the river running between the small farm house and the wheat field. ...
Category
Late 19th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Illustration of a Village by the River - Amate Bark Drawing in Ink
Located in Soquel, CA
Illustration of a Village by the River - Amate Bark Drawing in Ink
Illustration with people in a village by Cristino Florez Medina (Mexican, 1937-2007). This piece is divided horizo...
Category
Late 20th Century Tribal Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Handmade Paper
"Through the Trees" Watercolor Mid-20th Century Modern Excellent Provenance
By Arthur Dove
Located in New York, NY
"Through the Trees" Watercolor Mid-20th Century Modern Excellent Provenance
Arthur Dove (1880-1946)
"Through the Trees"
5 x 7
Watercolor on paper, 1938
Singed lower center
Framed: 1...
Category
1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Frederick J Knowles (1874-1931) - Framed Watercolour, Drover on Horseback
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful depiction of a quiet country lane with young boy on horseback, driving sheep past rural cottages. The watercolour has been signed by the artist to the lower right. Beaut...
Category
Early 20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Detailed European Landscape in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed European Landscape in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
This finely detailed watercolor painting captures a serene countryside setting with an old stone church, a rustic hous...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Watercolor The Garden at Sickelsjö, 1883
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are delighted to present a stunning watercolor by the Swedish artist Albert Theodor Gellerstedt. This artwork, titled "Sickelsjö Trädgård" was created on June 8, 1883. The paintin...
Category
1880s Romantic Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cecil Beaton - Ballet Costume Design for Le Pavillon, 1936
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
SIR CECIL BEATON, CBE
(1904-1980)
Ballet Costume Design for Le Pavillon - 1936
Signed l.r.: Beaton
Watercolour, bodycolour and ink
49 by 39 cm., 19 ¼ by 15 ½ in.
(frame size 70.5 ...
Category
1930s Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Nude of Woman - Mixed Media by Achille Funi - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman nude is a modern artwork realized by Achille Funi in the early 20th Century.
Mixed media on plywood.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes frame.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Fauvist Shipyard
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright and bold shipyard by an unknown artist. Presented in a new cream mat. Paper size: 10.25"H x 14.25"W; Mat size: 13"H x 18"W
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
African American Woman artist Mailou Jones Cezannian Cote d'Azur cubist village
Located in Norwich, GB
If you are interested in African American Art and in Women in the Arts, I will certainly not need to introduce Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1988). Often associated with the Harlem Renaissance, her
work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection. I am proud to present an original watercolour painting by the artist which dates from the late 1940s or early 1950s.
Jones was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a father who became the first African-American to earn a law degree from Suffolk Law School. Jones's parents encouraged her to draw and paint using watercolors during her childhood. She held her first solo exhibition at the age of seventeen in Martha's Vineyard.
He career began in the 1930s and she continued to produce art work until her death in 1998 at the age of 92. Her style shifted and evolved multiple times in response to influences in her life, especially her extensive travels. She felt that her greatest contribution to the art world was "proof of the talent of black artists". Her work echoes her pride in her African roots and American ancestry.
In 1937, Jones received a fellowship to study in Paris at the Académie Julian, bringing her to France for the first time. The French were appreciative of her paintings and talent and Loïs Mailou Jones was thrilled at the country’s racial tolerance, so different from her reality in the United States.
She summered in France annually from 1945 to 1953, sharing studio with her lifelong friend Celine Marie Tabary in Cabris, France.
It was during one of these sojourns that the lovely work presented here was created.
Our painting depicts the village of Tourettes sur Loup, just north of Nice, in the Provence Cote d'Azur region, about 14 miles from Cabris.
Please note its similarities with her painting "Arreau, Hautes-Pyrénées" in the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Her portrayal of the picturesque village nestled in a valley evokes landscape paintings by Paul Cézanne, a stylistic influence she acknowledged.
Over the course of the following 10 years, Jones exhibited at the Phillips Collection, Seattle Art Museum, National Academy of Design, the Barnett-Aden Gallery, Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, Howard University, galleries in New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In 1952, the book Loïs Mailou Jones: Peintures 1937–1951 was published, reproducing more than one hundred of her art pieces completed in France.At the Barnett-Aden Gallery, Jones exhibited with a group of prominent black artists, such as Jacob Lawrence and Alma Thomas. These artists and others were known as the "Little Paris...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
King's College Cambridge River Cam 1920s Art Deco Jazz Age watercolour art
Located in London, GB
Anonymous
King's College Cambridge with the River Cam and Bridge to foreground
51x63.5cm
Watercolour
c. 1920s
A fine, and large, view of King's College. The...
Category
1920s Art Deco Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Forgotten Ranch House, Arizona
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Forgotten Ranch House, Arizona" c.1950 is a watercolor on paper by California artist James March Phillips, 1896-1977. It is signed at...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Drawings and Watercolor Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
Revitalize your interiors — introduce drawings and watercolor paintings to your home to evoke emotions, stir conversation and show off your personality and elevated taste.
Drawing is often considered one of the world’s oldest art forms, with historians pointing to cave art as evidence. In fact, a cave in South Africa, home to Stone Age–era artists, houses artwork that is believed to be around 73,000 years old. It has indeed been argued that cave walls were the canvases for early watercolorists as well as for landscape painters in general, who endeavor to depict and elevate natural scenery through their works of art. The supplies and methods used by artists and illustrators to create drawings and paintings have evolved over the years, and so too have the intentions. Artists can use their drawing and painting talents to observe and capture a moment, to explore or communicate ideas and convey or evoke emotion. No matter if an artist is working in charcoal or in watercolor and has chosen to portray the marvels of the pure human form, to create realistic depictions of animals in their natural habitats or perhaps to forge a new path that references the long history of abstract visual art, adding a drawing or watercolor painting to your living room or dining room that speaks to you will in turn speak to your guests and conjure stimulating energy in your space.
When you introduce a new piece of art into a common area of your home — a figurative painting by Italian watercolorist Mino Maccari or a colorful still life, such as a detailed botanical work by Deborah Eddy — you’re bringing in textures that can add visual weight to your interior design. You’ll also be creating a much-needed focal point that can instantly guide an eye toward a designated space, particularly in a room that sees a lot of foot traffic.
When you’re shopping for new visual art, whether it’s for your apartment or weekend house, remember to choose something that resonates. It doesn’t always need to make you happy, but you should at least enjoy its energy. On 1stDibs, browse a wide-ranging collection of drawings and watercolor paintings and find out how to arrange wall art when you’re ready to hang your new works.
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