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Pauline Plummer (b.1933) - 20th Century Watercolour, Boy Seated
Located in Corsham, GB
A sensitive life study by the artist Pauline Plummer (b.1933). The artist has expertly captured the subject in a loose, sketchy style. Unsigned. On paper laid to card.
Category
20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
English tea Clipper ship in full sail at sea with the Sun rising
Located in Woodbury, CT
Very Well painted English Tea Clipper in full sail at sea during Sunrise.
Allan was a mid 20th century English marine painter.
This is a very fine exam...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$1,720 Sale Price
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French Pencil Drawing of Tree
Located in Houston, TX
French pencil drawing of tree, circa 1920. The artist's perspective lends a sense of upward movement to this piece, as the tree's branches seem t...
Category
1920s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Fallen Angel - Contemporary, Collage, Green, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Fallen Angel, 2019
collage on paper
15 3/4 H x 11 13/16 W in.
40 H x 30 W cm
The artist’s collages describe a series of characters composed of different materials – cardboards, text...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Motherhood Ahead / portrait head drawing, ink, pencil, watercolor, monochrome
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Motherhood Ahead is created with china crayon, ink wash on Yupo paper and comes matted and backed in a museum quality presentation mat. The pensive young woman's head is monochrome b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Mixed Media, Ink, Watercolor
Dreaming - Contemporary Ink Ecoline Painting, New Expression
Located in Salzburg, AT
Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and flora with the world of man, p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
A Windy Day ... Blackstone Edge /// British English Antique Watercolor Landscape
By Tom Whitehead
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Tom Whitehead (English, 1886-1959)
Title: "A Windy Day ... Blackstone Edge"
*Signed by Whitehead in green watercolor on verso
Circa: 1920
Medium: Original Watercolor on paper...
Category
1920s English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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Opéra in Paris - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1975/77.
Hand signed and dated lower right.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, die...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$502 Sale Price
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View of Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed lower left.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$460 Sale Price
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Games With The Vegetable Plot 1 - Contemporary Ink Painting, New Expression
Located in Salzburg, AT
Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Games With The Vegetable Plot 2 - Contemporary Ink Painting, New Expression
Located in Salzburg, AT
Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Original French Anatomical Study of Horse
s Pelvic Girdle
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original French Anatomical Study of Horse's Pelvic Girdle
Artist: Robert Ladou (French, 1929-2014)
Medium: Pencil on Paper
Size: 19.75 (Height) x 12.75 (Width)
Signed: No
Cond...
Category
20th Century Academic Animal Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Tandem. Watercolor on paper, Realistic, Landscape, Marine, Classic, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary watercolor painting on paper by Polish artist Wlodzimierz Karczmarzyk. The title is 'Tandem in Kolobrzeg (Poland)'. Main color is blue. Artwork's style is sketch-like bu...
Category
Early 2000s Other Art Style Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled 580, Gray Blue, Light Indigo, Eggplant Purple, Navy Leaf Patterns
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns and geometric shapes in indigo, navy blue and dark eggplant purple with delicate prismatic rainbow lines complement a soft grayish blue background. Signed ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Provence
Located in Houston, TX
Classic etching of Provence by French artist E. Roux-Fabre, circa 1930.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-sized frame. Archi...
Category
1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Etching
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Attente
Located in Houston, TX
Pen and ink drawing from French artist Jean-Baptiste Grancher, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-size frame. A...
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Untitled 579, Gray Blue, Light Indigo, Eggplant Purple, Navy Leaf Patterns
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns and geometric shapes in indigo, navy blue and dark eggplant purple with delicate prismatic rainbow lines complement a soft grayish blue background. Signed ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Original French Anatomical Pencil Study of a Horse
s Eye
s and Nose
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original French Anatomical Pencil Study of a Horse's Eye's and Nose
Artist: Robert Ladou (French, 1929-2014)
Medium: Pencil on Paper
Size: 20 (Height) x 13.75 (Width)
Signed: ...
Category
20th Century Academic Animal Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Original French Anatomical Study of a Horse
s Leg
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original French Anatomical Study of a Horse's Leg
Artist: Robert Ladou (French, 1929-2014)
Medium: Pen and Pencil on paper
Size: 20 (Height) x 13.25 (Width)
Signed: No
Conditi...
Category
20th Century Academic Animal Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Pen
Phantasmagoria - Contemporary Figurative Ink Painting, New Expression
Located in Salzburg, AT
Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Original French Anatomical Study of a Horse
s Shoulder
By Robert Ladou
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original French Anatomical Study of a Horse's Shoulder
Artist: Robert Ladou (French, 1929-2014)
Medium: Pencil on paper
Size: 20 (Height) x 13.5 ...
Category
20th Century Academic Animal Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Coastal Summer Sunset, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A silhouette of a single Monterey pine basks in the glow and soft light of the setting sun. The lavender surface of the ocean reflects the radiant sky. California-based artist Catherine McCargar loves taking painting trips to the coast. In this piece, she painted on Moonstone Beach in Cambria.
About the Artist
Impressionist Catherine McCargar expresses her deep admiration of nature through landscape paintings of Northern California. While she is well-versed in a range of media, her preferred medium for painting is watercolor. The fluidity of the paint allows her to capture the muted undertones and the fleeting light found in the natural world. While the backgrounds of her paintings are impressionistic, the foregrounds of her paintings are often highly detailed, showcasing her technical mastery over her medium.
Words that describe this painting: coastal, ocean, California, seaside, beach, path, sunset, tree, summer, sky, nature, grass, vacation, season, impressionism, nature, seascape, watercolor painting, blue
Coastal Summer Sunset...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist More Art
Materials
Watercolor
Plant-People Ginger - Contemporary Figurative Ink Painting, New Expression
Located in Salzburg, AT
Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Plant-People Tuber - Contemporary Figurative Ink Painting, New Expression
Located in Salzburg, AT
Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and flora with the world of man, p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Nude Woman with Legs Crossed
Located in Houston, TX
Modern pen and ink drawing of a female nude with her legs crossed and arm across her chest, 1990s.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival p...
Category
1990s Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
By the Bodhi Tree
Located in Zofingen, AG
“BY THE BODHI TREE.”
WATERCOLOR, PAPER, 40×50 CM.
SERIES "MANIFESTATIONS OF DIVINE."
In the city of Kalutara, near the majestic Bodhi tree on the island of Sri Lanka, stands the sac...
Category
2010s Aesthetic Movement Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Muse
, Mid-Century Modern, Dalzell Hatfield, Cleveland Ballet, Syracuse Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Sascha Brastoff' (American, 1918-1993) and dated 1960.
1918 - Sascha Brastoff was born Samuel Brostofsky in Cleveland, Ohio.
1935 - At age 17, Brastoff studies dance and joins the Cleveland Ballet.
1940 - Attends Western Reserve School of Art in Cleveland and, subsequently, works for Macy's in NYC.
1942 - Brastoff enters the Army Air Force. Initially designing posters, he joins the ATC road show.
1944 - Brastoff moves to California and signs a seven year contract with 20th Century Fox as a designer and entertainer.
1947 - Brastoff opens his first ceramic plant in Los Angeles producing hand painted earthenware.
1948 - Brastoff is awarded Best of Show for Pottery at the Syracuse Museum.
1952 - With backing from Winthrop Rockefeller, Brastoff opens a new, larger factory in Los Angeles. The factory is destroyed by fire shortly after.
1953 - A larger 35,000 sq. ft. factory and show-room opens and employs more than 100 people.
1960 - Brastoff's company begins to suffer from financial losses after years of success.
1962 - Brastoff has a nervous breakdow, his company continues to sell items...
Category
1960s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Fusion - abstract painting, made in turquoise, grey, black color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in turquoise, grey, black color on Yupo paper. The work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed black or gold with a styrene ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Juggler - Contemporary, Collage, Green, Yellow, Funny, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Juggler, 2019
collage on paper
15 3/4 H x 11 13/16 W in.
40 H x 30 W cm
The artist’s collages describe a series of faces composed of different materials – cardboards, textiles, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
The Astronaut - Contemporary Art, Collage on Paper, Mixed Media
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
The Astronaut, 2019
collage on paper
15 3/4 H x 11 13/16 W in.
40 H x 30 W cm
The artist’s collages describe a series of faces composed of different materials – cardboards, textiles...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
The Intellectual - Ink Drawing and Watercolor by J.J. Grandville
Located in Roma, IT
Hand-signed in black ink on the lower margin at the center.
A beautiful satiric illustration, from the volume 'Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux', published by Garner ...
Category
1840s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
$3,096 Sale Price
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Lanvin Of Paris Original Advertising Watercolor Christmas Artwork
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 14 1/2"H x 23"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Fashion illustrator for House of Lanvin Paris in the 1950s featured in Harper's Bazaar
Decking The Christmas Tree
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Bending Woodman Toy" Ink on Paper, Drawing by Jerry O
Day
Located in Pasadena, CA
This minimalist ink drawing by Jerry O’Day presents a stylized articulated figure in mid-motion, its body reduced to a sequence of geometric forms linked by fine, deliberate lines. T...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Nude - Original Watercolour by Jean Delpech - Mid 20th century
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in watercolor, realized in the Mid-20th Century by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
Good conditions.
Jean-Raymond Delpech (1988-1916) is a French painter,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Umbilical Filigree Ovum (drawing)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is an original India ink, graphite, chalk, and pen on paper drawing by Hunter Stabler measuring 14.25”h x 20.25”w framed. The piece ships in the pictured frame.
Hunter Stable...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Chalk, India Ink, Ballpoint Pen, Graphite
San Diego Bay, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"I wanted to capture the key elements of the bay in a highly impressionistic way, painting almost a la prima," shares artist James Nyika. In this quick but en...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Watercolor
Abstracted Hilltop Village with Cypress French Modernist Gouache by Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Abstracted Hilltop Village with Cypress French Modernist Gouache by Guy Nicod
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 18.75 inches (hei...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$311 Sale Price
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Dancing Couple in Evening Dress French Modernist Abstract Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Dancing Couple in Evening Dress French Modernist Abstract Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 19 inches (height x width)
Pr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Vintage French Watercolor Landscape - Madagascar Beach
Located in Houston, TX
Expertly rendered watercolor landscape of boats moored along a small beach in Madagascar Africa by French artist Stephane Magnard (1917-2010), circa 1950.
Original one-of-a-kind ar...
Category
1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Double Diddle Phlebotomy Movement #3" drawing and layered paper sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Original multicolored hand-cut paper and ink on illustration board layered paper sculpture by Charles Clary measuring 21"h x 16"w. This piece ships in the pictured black frame.
Cha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Paper, Ink, Illustration Board
Portrait - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1960s.
Hand signed lower right..
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died in Venice...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$460 Sale Price
30% Off
Floral Still Life With Red Amaryllis And Wine Bottles French Modernist Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Floral Still Life With Red Amaryllis And Wine Bottles French Modernist Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 19.25 x 15.5 inches (height x width)
Provenance: Artists estate, France
Condition: good overall, with light handling marks and minor age-related wear consistent with age
Description:
This bold and dynamic modernist gouache by French artist Guy Nicod (1923–2021) depicts a vibrant still life of red amaryllis flowers arranged alongside a cluster of wine bottles and fruit. The tall, vivid blooms dominate the composition, their scarlet petals set against a richly painted background of cobalt blue, deep burgundy, and emerald green. At the base of the composition, the dark verticals of bottles and the rounded form of fruit anchor the scene, creating a strong sense of balance and depth.
Nicod’s expressive use of gouache on paper brings an immediacy and energy to the piece. Bold brushstrokes and layered passages of colour merge figuration with abstraction, allowing the viewer to focus on the interplay of red, green, and yellow hues as much as on the floral subject itself. The painting captures not only the natural beauty of flowers, but also the celebratory atmosphere suggested by the presence of wine bottles, evoking themes of conviviality and abundance.
Rooted in the traditions of post-war French modernism, Nicod’s floral still lifes combine painterly freedom with structured arrangements. Here, the oversized flowers radiate across the surface with theatrical intensity, while the bottles and fruit add depth and contrast. The work is both decorative and expressive, making it an ideal choice for collectors of French floral painting...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Vibrant Floral Still Life With Red Gladiolus And Wine Bottles French Modernist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Vibrant Floral Still Life With Red Gladiolus And Wine Bottles French Modernist
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 19.25 x 13.75 inches (he...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Shower at Head of Valley, Colorado Western Landscape, Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Shower at Head of Valley, c. 1950
Watercolor on paper
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 painters". In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Daniel Brice "Water - Red" - Minimalist Abstract Watercolor Painting
By Daniel Brice
Located in New York, NY
Daniel Brice
Water - Red, 2020
watercolor on paper
16 x 25 in image size
21 x 29 in paper size
(brice142)
This original abstract watercolor painting on paper by Daniel Brice feature...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Double Diddle Phlebotomy Movement #2" drawing and layered paper sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Original multicolored hand-cut paper and ink on illustration board layered paper sculpture by Charles Clary measuring 16"h x 21"w. This piece ships in the pictured black frame.
Cha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Illustration Board
Domingo Alvarez Gómez (1942) - Desnudo femenino - Dibujo a pastel
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado en la parte inferior por el artista
Se presenta sin enmarcar la obra
Medidas obra: 46 cm. de altura x 55 cm. de ancho
Buen estado de conservación el de la obra
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Category
Late 20th Century Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Small Village Along the River - Original signed charcoals drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002)
Small Village Along the River
Original charcoal drawing
Signed in the bottom right
On drawing paper 52 x 43 cm (c 21 x 17 inch)
Excellent condition
G...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Notre Dame in Paris - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1971.
Hand signed.Hand signed, titled and dated also on rear.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on Sept...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$552 Sale Price
30% Off
Crymlyn Bog
Neath River Estuary Swansea Bay Framed Welsh Landscape Watercolor
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Cornelius Pearson b.1805 – d.1891 &
Thomas Francis Wainewright, b.1794 – d.1883
English
Crymlyn Bog And Neath River Estuary Swansea Bay, 1872
Watercolor. Signed & Dated 1872.
Image size 7.9 inches x 15.9 inches ( 20cm x 40.5cm ).
Frame size 15.2 inches x 23 inches ( 38.5cm x 58.5cm ).
Available for sale; this original painting is by Cornelius Pearson with a significant contribution by Thomas Francis Wainewright, and is dated 1872.
The watercolor is presented and supplied in a sympathetic pinned corner frame dating from the 1950s or 1960s (which is shown in these photographs), mounted and behind glass.
This antique painting is in very good condition whilst the frame is in a good condition, commensurate with age. It is ready to hang and display.
The watercolor is signed by both artists and dated 1872 lower left.
The mount is titled and attributed by hand.
Cornelius Pearson was an accomplished landscape artist. He was born in Boston, Lincolnshire but moved at an early age to London where he became apprenticed to a copper-plate engraver. He soon abandoned engraving however to devote himself to being a watercolor painter. Although he lived in London throughout his career, he travelled for his work to paint in Kent, Ireland, Wales, the Lake District, Scotland, on the Thames and Devon.
He was a regular exhibitor at the Suffolk Street Galleries, and also exhibited at the Royal Academy, the New Watercolor Society and elsewhere. He was one of the oldest members of the Langham...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Art Nouveau : Nude with Crystal Ball - Original Watercolor and Gouache, Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges BARBIER
Art Nouveau : Nude with Crystal Ball
Original India Ink, Watercolor and Gouache painting
Signed in the bottom middle
On paper 32 x 50 cm (c. 13 x 20 in)
Presented i...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
RECLINING NUDES, Signed Watercolor Drawing, Seated Women, Warm Gray, Graphite
By Chaim Gross
Located in Union City, NJ
RECLINING NUDES, Signed Original Watercolor Drawing
Chaim Gross (Austrian American, 1902-1991) Original mixed media - watercolor and graphite on paper, hand signed in pencil by Chaim Gross on lower right, very good condition, off-white cream archival acid-free mat, warm metallic pewter color wood frame.
Framed size - 20 x 23 in., 2.5 inch, Image area 12.5 x 16 in.
Frame is included.
About the artist -
Chaim Gross (1902-1991) was a modern American sculptor working in New York City from 1921 until his death in 1991. He was born in 1902 to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia. During World War I, Russian forces invaded Austria-Hungary; amidst the turmoil, the Grosses fled Kolomyia. They returned when Austria retook the town in 1915, refugees of the war. When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest, where Gross attended the city's art academy and studied with painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna shortly before immigrating to New York City in 1921.
In New York City, Gross's studies continued at the Educational Alliance Art School on the Lower East Side, led by Russian-American etcher Abbo Ostrowsky. Gross first began to exhibit his work as a student at the Alliance in 1922 (in the late 1920s, he joined their faculty). Gross also attended the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design from 1922-25, where he studied sculpture with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League in 1926, with sculptor Robert Laurent. In 1926, Gross began to exhibit his sculpture at the Jewish Art Center (then in the Bronx), and in 1927, at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries at 59th Street and Park Avenue. Beginning in 1928, he exhibited at the Whitney Studio Club at 10 West 8th Street (the precursor to the Whitney Museum of American Art), showing a watercolor "Circus" in their 13th Annual Exhibition of Paintings. In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition of sculpture at Gallery 144 in New York City. Also in 1932, Gross married Renee Nechin (1909-2005), and they had two children, Yehudah and Mimi (Mimi Gross is a New York-based artist, and was married to the artist Red Grooms from 1963-1976).
In 1933, Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration). Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures for schools and public colleges, and created works for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the 1937 Exposition universelle in Paris. Chaim Gross, Sculptor by Josef Vincent Lombardo, the first major book on Gross, came out in 1949 and included a catalogue raisonne of his sculpture.
In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Graphite
"Red Sun" - Original Oil Painting, Impressionist Nude Female Form
By Jacob Dhein
Located in Denver, CO
Jacob Dhein's "Red Sun," a 2023 original oil on panel, stands at 19.70 inches square. This artwork showcases Dhein's prowess in capturing the ephemeral beauty of light and form. The ...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Panel
Wood in Alsace - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1963.
Hand signed lower left. Dated on rear.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, di...
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$410 Sale Price
30% Off
FRAMED Nude on a Sofa original sepia ink watercolor by PAULA CRAIOVEANU
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Part of my "Nude in Interior" series.
Sepia Ink, Pencil and Graphite on Paper. Original sepia ink drawing on watercolor paper.
Size is 48x33cm /19x13in. Size in mat and framed 70x5...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Light Buttress, by Kenneth Draper, pastel, paper, framed, abstract, England
Located in Santa Fe, NM
frame size 27.5" x 25.5"
Light Buttress, by Kenneth Draper, pastel, paper, framed, abstract, England
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings a...
Materials
Oil Pastel
John Hassall RI (1868-1948) - 1902 Watercolour, Long Life, Health and Happiness
Located in Corsham, GB
Set against a dark background, an elderly woman with weathered features returns the viewer's gaze in this characterful watercolour portrait by the poster artist John Hassall. Signed ...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Village Harbour
Located in Surfside, FL
Katarzyna LIBROWICZ
Polish French painter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and arrived in France in 1937 .
She studied with André Lhote in Montparnasse Paris and exhibi...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Fragrance" (2024) By Bunyod Suvonov, Original Charcoal and Graphite Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
"Fragrance" (2024) by Bunyod Suvonov is original handmade drawing made with charcoal and graphite on toned paper. This piece depicts a portrait of a woman with long black hair smelli...
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20th Century Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
In the Wood - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1968.
Hand signed lower left. Dated on rear.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, di...
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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