Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors

From a series of paintings by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from thi...

From a series of paintings by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from thi...

From a series of paintings by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. To see them or our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from thi...

Cats is an original pencil drawing realized by Giselle Halff (1899-1971). Not signed and dated 1965 on the lower right margin. Good conditions. Giselle Halff (1899-1971) born in H...

"Seated Cat" is an original charcoal drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower right and wrote the title in charcoal lower left. This piece is a study of a b...

A stunning ensemble of fiour original mid century illustrations for Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" . Whilst sharing the modernist, stylis...

Gouache and watercolor on silk realized by chinese school in the early 20th Century. Includes a contemporary aluminium frame 123,5x152,5 cm with wide transparent matting. Good cond...

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Paired Studies of Lions in Profile 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed ove...

Paired Studies of Lions in Profile 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed ove...

Paired Studies of Lions in Profile 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed ove...

Paired Studies of Lions in Profile 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed ove...

Paired Studies of Lions in Profile 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed ove...

Patrick Procktor (British, 1936 – 2003) Seagull at the window Pencil and watercolour Signed and dated ‘Patrick Procktor 00’ (upper right) and further signed ‘Patrick Procktor’ (lower...

British-American painter and Female Illustrator artfully renders six different animals closely grouped on one page. They are seen as individuals, but silhouetted, not relating to one...

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Signed lower right, 'Murray' and painted circa 1990. A large and vibrant study of three colorful fishes shown stacked vertically.

A rare Walter Anderson of zebras in the Audubon zoo in New Orleans. Circa 1940 to 1950. One of a pair. They both have a slightly burned edge from when he tried to set his work on fir...

A rare Walter Anderson of zebras in the Audubon zoo in New Orleans. Circa 1940 to 1950. One of a pair. Framed size 17 5/8"x 20.1/425" Walter Inglis Anderson (1903-1965) is considere...

Walasse Ting 丁雄泉 Original three parrots drawing, 1984 Original parrots drawing done in ink with inscription held inside elegant hardback monograph with ...

Silverpoint and colored pencil on paper, 29 x 23 in. Signed (at lower right): Joseph Stella Executed about 1919 EXHIBITED: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, November 23, 1985–January 4, 1986, American Masterworks on Paper: Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints, pp. 6, 46 no. 47 illus. // (probably) Richard York Gallery, New York, October 5–November 17, 1990, Joseph Stella: 100 Works on Paper, no. 36 EX COLL.: [Dudensing Galleries, New York]; sale, Christie’s, New York, December 7, 1984, lot 324; [Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1984]; to private collection, 2006 until the present An independent-minded artist who adhered to the credo “Rules don’t exist,” Joseph Stella explored a range of styles, media, and themes, willfully ignoring the “barricades erected by ... [the] self-appointed dictators” of the art establishment (Joseph Stella, “On Painting,” Broom 11 [December 1921], pp. 122–23; Joseph Stella, “Discovery of America: Autobiographical Notes,” Art News 59 [November 1960], p. 41). By doing so, he produced a diverse and highly eclectic body of work, ranging from realist figure subjects, pulsating Futurist cityscapes, and modernist religious...

John Rattenbury Skeaping. English ( b.1901 - d.1980 ). A Three Horse Race, 1963. Gouache & Watercolor. Signed & Dated Lower Left. Image size 15.6 inches x 21.5 inches ( 39.5cm x 54...

Pencil drawing by Ernest Rouart, husband of Berthe Morisot's daughter Julie (Manet's niece). Very good condition. Not signed.

Pastel and pencil drawing on paper realized by Ludovico De Luigi in 1979. Hand signed and titled. Very good condition.

Black marker pen drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1952 ca. Hand monogrammed in lower right. Very good condition.

'Nature Love' by Paddy McCormack (Irish, contemporary) signed to the reverse watercolour/acrylic/oil on canvas 16 x 13 inches unframed provenance: private collector, UK The painting ...

This is a complicated drawing, even for Morris Graves (1910-2001), known as the Mystical Painter of Nature. Graves tried to be sensitive to the slightest tremor or breeze that a sma...

The Invitation is an Original drawing in pastel on paper realized by Giselle Halff in 1950 ca. Good conditions. The colorful abstract artwork is realized through harmony with vivid...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Sleeping Cat, 1929 Watercolor on paper Signed and dated upper right 15 x 19 inches 21.25 x 25.25 inches, framed Clarence Holbrook Car...

Colin Coots (b. 1944) In the Paddock, Saratoga Springs, Jerry Bailey up Signed and dated '87 watercolour and pencil 17 x 23 in Colin Coots (b. 1944) is a celebrated equestrian artis...

Laszlo TIBAY Blue Cat with Big Whiskers Original India ink and lavish drawing Handsigned Bearing the stamp of the artist On light board 25 x 40 cm (c. 9.8 x 15.8 inch) Excellent co...

Minou-Study of Head Charcoal and pencil on vellum, 1984 Signed and dated in pencil by the artist Minou was Barnet's feline companion throughout many of his most prolific years. It has been said that if you entered Barnet's studio and Minou did not like you Barnet lost interest and dismissed you almost immediately. Provenance: Susan Teller Gallery, prior to 2005 (one of Barnet's friends and dealers) Babcock Galleries, 2005-2008 This drawing is related to a similar composition reproduced in the Richard Boyle catalog for Babcock Galleries. References: Boyle, Will Barnet Drawings, related to works reproduced on pp. 21, 41 (see photo of page 41) Minou is the cat on the back right. Condition: Excellent Stray ink and paint consistent with a working studio drawing Archival framing with DEN Glass (see photo) Image size: 9 x 11 7/8 inches Frame size: 17 x 19 inches Will Barnet Born May 25, 1911, Beverly, Massachusetts, US Died November 13, 2012 (aged 101), New York City, US Will Barnet (May 25, 1911 – November 13, 2012) was an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds. Biography Born in 1911 in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet knew by the age of ten that he wanted to be an artist. As a student, he studied with Philip Leslie Hale at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and viewed first-hand John Singer Sargent at work on the murals of the Boston Public Library. In 1930, Barnet studied at the Art Students League of New York, with Stuart Davis and Charles Locke, beginning his long association with the school. Here he concentrated on painting as well as printmaking, and, in 1936, he became the official printer for the Art Students League. There, he later instructed students in the graphic arts at the school and taught alongside the likes of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Robert Beverly Hale and Richard Pousette-Dart. Barnet influenced a generation of artists, including James Rosenquist, Knox Martin, Emil Milan, Paul Jenkins, Ethel Fisher and Cy Twombly. Barnet continued his love of teaching with positions at the Cooper Union, at Yale University, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He was represented by the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York City. Barnet had three sons, Peter, Richard, and Todd Barnet, by his first wife Mary Sinclair. Barnet later married Elena Barnet, with whom he had a daughter, Ona Barnet. Death A longtime resident of the National Arts Club, Barnet died in New York City on November 13, 2012, at the age of 101. Works Barnett's works span the various "movements" of their era, from his early social realist work to his final signature style of clean lines and carefully placed volumes of solid color in a kind of minimalist representational approach. His work is concerned with humanity, yet at his core he always remained a formalist, cerebral in his approach to the elements that make up a good picture. In his interviews he articulated his well thought out principles regarding color use, composition and subject matter, in a professorial manner reflecting the theoretical acumen he brought to his teaching. Like many American painters of his generation he was digesting the evolving trends in Europe and integrating the new visual vocabulary into his American style while remaining universal, referencing his own personal history with images of his wife, his daughter, and their family pets. As James Thomas Flexner wrote, Barnet's work "makes us experience the interplay between the personal and the universal." While remaining representational, the simple elegance of the figures and their flat surfaces reflect his exploration with abstraction. Will's artistic output spans eighty years. Few artists, other than Picasso or Monet, can claim such a long continuous period of inspired art making, nor the logical progression of moving through artistic phases: in the 1930s he was a social realist, in the 1940s a Modernist, in the 1950s an Abstract Expressionist and in the 1960s and onward he settled on a representational minimalism honed from the refinement of his earlier explorations. His early work is decidedly social realist, with sullen portraits done in dark tonalities that suggest both the struggle of the depression era and the hope in the simple love of family life. He moves out of this phase with the improving economy and in the 1940s adds vibrant color and more abstract figures, suggesting a lifting of the depression era malaise. He was a key figure in the 1940s New York movement called Indian Space Painting, artists who based their abstract and semi-abstract work on Native American art; a striking movement which had a handful of practitioners (notably Steve Wheeler...

Michail Gorbman, Russian Born 1939. Watercolor on Green Paper, Black Fish with Yellow Dots. Hand signed Upper Left, Dated 1964. Signed verso and Described. Dimensions: 10 X 7.25 i...

This original pencil sketch, titled "Sleeping Cat," is a work by the renowned American artist William Zorach (1887-1966). Dated March 14, 1959, and inscribed "To Susan with Love" den...

Sunil Das - 8.5 x 9 inches (unframed size) Ink on Paper Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian Artist from Bengal. Extremely s...

Original China ink drawing on ivory colored cardboard, representing a big naked woman laying down on the grass. Other smaller people are resting leaning on her body. Hand-signed on t...

Dame Elisabeth Frink. English ( b.1930 - d.1993 ). Hawk, 1969. Watercolor. Signed & Dated Lower Right. Image size 25.4 inches x 19.5 inches ( 64.5cm x 49.5cm ). Frame size 34.4 inches x 28.1 inches ( 87.5cm x 71.5cm ). Available for sale; this original painting is by Dame Elisabeth Frink and is dated 1969. The painting is presented and supplied in a glazed frame and mount dating from June 1997. This vintage watercolor is in very good condition, commensurate with its age. The watercolor is signed and dated lower right. Previously with Beaux Arts, London and Bath in 1999. Dame Elisabeth Frink was one of Britain’s most important post-war sculptors, an accomplished draughtsman, illustrator and teacher. She was part of the post-war school of expressionist British sculptors dubbed the Geometry of Fear, and enjoyed a highly acclaimed career that was commercially successful, broke boundaries and contributed greatly to bringing wonderful sculpture to public places. She was born on 14 November 1930 in Thurlow, the daughter of a cavalry officer, and brought up in rural Suffolk near to an active airbase. She was brought up a Catholic and educated at the Convent of the Holy Family, Exmouth. She then studied at the Guildford School of Art from 1947-1949 under Willi Soukop and Henry Moore’s assistant, Bernard Meadows, and then at the Chelsea School in London 1949-1953. She taught at Chelsea School of Art 1951-61, St. Martin’s School of Art 1954-62 and was a visiting instructor at the Royal College of Art 1965-1967, after which she lived in France until 1973. Frink first came to the attention of the public in 1951 at an exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London. In 1952 she represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, being described by Herbert Read as “the most vital, the most brilliant and the most promising of the whole Biennale”. The same year the Tate bought its first work by her, and she began to enjoy commercial success. Thereafter she exhibited regularly and was for 27 years associated with Waddington’s, London. The subjects which Frink was most concerned with were man, dog and horses, with and without riders. Interestingly she seldom sculpted the female form, drawing on archetypes of masculine strength, struggle and aggression. Her work has the recurring themes of the vulnerable and the predatory, in the spirit of an authentic post-war artist. It has been said that she was more concerned with representing mankind that portraits of individuals. The appeal of her work lies in its directness, provoking a frank statement of feeling. The anatomy is often exaggerated or incorrect; the impact growing more out of her interest in the spirit of the subject. Her animals and birds may be drawn from nature but verge on the abstract, conveying raw emotion and character rather than a realistic depiction. Her unique style is characterised by a rough treatment of the surface which embeds each piece with vitality and her personal impression. In her later work even the distinction between human and bird figures becomes blurred. Commentators have noted that the often rugged, brutal and contorted surfaces of her work reflect the destruction and terror of the six-year world-wide conflict that she witnessed as a child. Frink was an active supporter of Amnesty International. In the 1960s and early 1970s Frink produced a notable series of falling figures and winged men. Later, living in France during the Algerian war, she began making heads, blinded by goggles which had a threatening facelessness. Frink produced many notable public commissions, including Wild Boar for Harlow New Town, Blind Beggar and Dog for Bethnal Green, Noble Horse and Rider for Piccadilly, London, a lectern for Coventry Cathedral, Shepherd for Paternoster Square beside St. Paul’s Cathedral and a Walking Madonna for Salisbury Cathedral. In the early 1980s she produced a set of three larger than life figures The Dorset Martyrs which stand on the edge of the old walled town of Dorchester on the site of the old gallows, as a memorial to those who had been executed there ‘for conscience sake’. Frink’s Canterbury Tales was a collection of 19 etchings drawn directly on to copper plates and etched by her. The ‘book’ was issued in three limited editions. Her illustrations have been praised as “amongst the most successful illustrations of the century, encompassing the mood of the text in concise delineations and disarmingly ribald humour”. She illustrated other books with colored lithographs or drawings. Frink was on the Board of Trustees, British Museum from 1976, and was a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission 1976-81. CBR (1969), DBE ((1982), Associate of the Royal Academy (1971), Royal Academy (1977). She was made a Companion of Honour in 1992. She died on 18 April 1993, but not before completing her last commission, a monumental but unusual figure of Christ for the front of the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool, unveiled a week before her death. For several decades Frink exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. In her later years she lived and worked in Dorset where her home and garden became an arena for her work. In 1985 she had a retrospective at the Royal Academy. She died on 18 April 1993, but not before completing her last commission, a monumental but unusual figure of Christ for the front of the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool, unveiled a week before her death. There was a memorial show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton Hall in 1994. Today Frink is venerated as one of the great twentieth century British sculptors. Her unique work is represented in the Tate Gallery and major public and private collections world-wide. © Big Sky Fine Art This original watercolor on paper painting of a hawk by Dame Elizabeth Frink...

Urban Landscape with Bulls is an original artwork, pencil and charcoal on paper. It is not signed and dated but we can attribute the period to middle 20th Century. The bulls are re...

John Rattenbury Skeaping. English ( b.1901 - d.1990 ). A Tight Finish, 1970. Gouache & Watercolor. Signed & Dated Lower Right. Image size 21.5 inches x 29.1 inches ( 54.5cm x 74...

Sunil Das - Horse - 11 X 9 inches (unframed size) Ink on Paper , 2005 Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian Artist from Bengal. Extremely successful right from his college days, Sunil Das has been extremely well lauded by art critics, the press, artists and the art and culture glitterati across the world. Sunil das was the youngest artist to have won the National Award - The Taj Shiromani Kala Puraskar Recipient of the much coveted Govt. of India's 4th Highest Civilian Award: The PadmaShree (2014). Highly talented Sunil Das has done shows all across the world, got fame as early as while he was still in college, youngest recipient of the Lalit Kala Academy Awards and received a scholarship to study at L’Ecole Nationale Superior des Beaux arts, Paris. “There are painters who transform the Sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into Sun" - Pablo Picasso. Sunil Das was exactly one such artist. Style : Sunil Das' style of work is very original and shows no specific influence. He had risen to fame like MF Hussain...

Patrick Procktor (British, 1936 – 2003) Misty Pencil and watercolour Signed and inscribed ‘Misty Patrick Procktor’ (lower edge) 9.1/2 x 6.3/4 in. (24.2 x 17 cm.) Rendered with grace...

Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Pappy (Study for Over and Above: Gorilla), c. 1973 Colored pencil on paper Signed and dated lower left 7 x 7 inches 20.75 x 19 inches, framed Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...

Sunil Das - Early Horses X - 34 x 20.75 inches (unframed size) Charcoal on paper ( Framed & Delivered ) Sunil Das was one of India's most important postmodernist painters and rose t...

Laszlo TIBAY Guitarist Cat Original India ink and lavish drawing Handsigned Bearing the stamp of the artist On light board 30 x 20cm (c. 11.8 x 7.8 inch) Excellent condition

Patrick Procktor (British, 1936 – 2003) The gift horse Pencil and watercolour Signed ‘Patrick Procktor’ (lower left) 9.1/2 x 6.3/4 in. (24.2 x 17 cm.) Rendered with graceful economy...

Neo Impressionist Dog in a Tent by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998) signed lower left gouache painting on paper, unframed measurements: 11.75 x 16.5 inches provenance: private collection of the artists work, Provence, France Condition report: very good, colour strong, very shallow crease to lower right corner of sheet Interesting Neo-Impressionist 1950's French painting of a rather lively dog at the entrance to brightly coloured canvas tents...

Morris Graves Offering, 1957 Signed and dated lower right Sumi ink wash and gold leaf on paper 18 x 13 3/8 inches Born in Fox Valley, Oregon in 1910, Morris Graves was a leading proponent of the Northwest School...

Sir Stanley Spencer (British, 1891–1959) Hilda Naming Butterflies Pencil on paper 15 3/8 x 10 3/8 in. (39 x 26.5 cm) Frame: 57.5 x 45 cm Provenance: The Collection of Julian Raffles ...

Doris Lee Michigan Farmyard, 1946 Signed lower right Gouache on paper 13 1/2 x 17 inches Provenance The artist The J.L. Hudson Company Collection, Detroit, Michigan A Public Institu...

'Forever Love'' by Paddy McCormack (Irish, contemporary) signed on front and to the reverse watercolour/acrylic/oil on canvas 15 x 18 inches unframed provenance: private collector, U...

Pencil drawing. Study for the drypoint of the same title, Appleby 20. 7 1/2 x 5 3/ (available on 1st dibs). Signed Blampied lower left. Housed in a 20 x 16-inch archival mat, suitable for framing. Edmund Blampied was a painter, etcher, lithographer and sculptor. Born in 1886 to a family of three boys in St. Martin, Jersey, Blampied became interested in drawing at an early age. After visiting the studio of John Helier Lander in 1899, Blampied decided to make a career as an artist. In 1903 he went to London to attend Lambeth Art School, where he studied etching under Walter Seymour. In 1905, he joined the Daily Chronicle as an artist. In that year he was awarded a scholarship to Bolt Court School of Photo-engraving and Lithography. In 1912 he left the Chronicle and established his own studio. He earned a living by illustrating novels and short stories. In 1913, he had his first exhibition at the Leicester Gallery in London. The following year he married Marianne Van Abbé. During the 1920's, he became a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. During the 1920s Blampied became a member of the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers and Engravers and exhibited in London to critical acclaim. He produced a folio of comic drawings in the 1930s which was published in New York in 1934 and another that was published in London in 1936. The Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum published a mongraph on his work. His London exhibitions were highly successful. In 1938, he moved to Bulwarks, St.Aubin in Jersey, but at the onset of the Occupation, had to relocate to Route Orange, St. Brelade. remained there throughout World War II during the German Occupation, despite the fact that his wife was Jewish. During the Occupation he designed bank...

The March Hare by Paddy McCormack (Irish, contemporary) signed to the reverse watercolour on artist paper 15 x 18 inches unframed provenance: private collec...

The March Hare by Paddy McCormack (Irish, contemporary) signed to the reverse watercolour on artist paper 15 x 18 inches unframed provenance: private collec...

Algerian Man is an original hand-colored lithograph on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XIX century, it represents a standing algerian in his traditional costume with tur...

"Cat Study" is an original drawing in tempera on paper, realized by an Anonymous Artist of the XX Century . The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Sheet dimension: ...

Laszlo TIBAY Cat Family On a Couch Original India ink and lavish drawing Handsigned Bearing the stamp of the artist On light board 40x 30cm (c. 14 x 11.8inch) Excellent condition

"Soldier on Horseback" is a pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper by Anonymous Artist of 19th Century. In very good conditions. Sheet dimensio...

Horses with Plough is an original watercolour realized by a French artist of the late 19th century. The artwork is in good conditions, mounted on a white cardboard passpartout (49x6...

The Fish is a beautiful drawing in pencil on paper realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1755 ca. Hand-signed and dated on the lower in pencil. In good condition, and aged. The artwo...

Crocodile is a drawing realized by Joseph Colin in the Mid-20th Century. Pencil on ivory-colored paper Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through deft exp...