1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Travel to the East is an original drawing in china ink and white lead on brown paper realized by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in 1920s. In good conditions. Not signed. This artw...

Gate is a drawing in pencil on paper realized in 1925 by Werner Epstein. Hand-signed on the lower left and dated on the lower right in pencil. The state of preservation is very goo...

The London Conference is an original modern artwork realized in the 1933 by a Emile Hugon (1852 - 1913). Original Pen Drawing on tissue ivory paper. Hand-signed on the lower left co...

The Drinkers is an original modern artwork realized in the 1920s by a French artist. Original Pencil and Blue Pastel Drawing on tissue ivory paper. Passepartout is included (dime...

Horned Figures is an original modern artwork realized the 1920s by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Mixed Media. Original black china ink on paper and wat...

Figure is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Cazanove in 1922. Hand-signed on the lower right. In good conditions, with aged margins. Sheet dimension: 38 x 26...

Figure is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Raymond Cazanove in 1922. Hand-signed on the lower right. In good conditions, with aged margins. Sheet dimension:...

Glacier is an original drawing in watercolor on cardboard realized by the Italian artist Gino Spalmach in the early 1920s The state of preservation of the artwork is good and aged. ...

Village is an original drawing in watercolor and pen realized by the French artist Paul Albert Moras in 1926. Hand-signed on the lower right and dated. The state of preservation is very good. Included a Passepartut: 27.5 x 37.5 cm. The artwork represents a brilliant landscape, created through soft and precise strokes with poetical hatching which made the village picturesque, with delicate coloring and lighting. The artwork characterized by a well-balanced drawing of houses...

Woman laughing is an original artwork by Michel Simonidy. Mixed media, pastel drawing, and tempera on paper. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right. Includes passepartout. St...

Farm and Farmers is a charcoal drawing realized by Jean Chapin in the early XX century. Signature stamp of the artist on the lower right margin. The drawing is detached from a note...

Signature: Unsigned Illustration for Cosmopolitan Magazine, July 10, 1926

Pencil drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1928 ca. Hand signed in pencil lower right. Very good condition.

Watercolor on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1920s. Hand signed in pencil lower right. Very good condition except for a minor fold on top right edge.

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...

'Portrait of a Young Girl', pencil on art paper, by French artist, Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). An artist known for his exquisite drawings - many are sketches for his larger oil pa...

Signed verso, 'George Wilburton Colby' (American, 1859-1922) and dated 1920. George Colby was a member of the old Art League and a life member of the Chicago Art Institute. After hi...

Signed lower left, 'A. C. Wiboltt' for Aage Christian (Jack) Wiboltt (Danish-American, 1894-1952) and created circa 1925. Framed dimensions: 33.25 x 1.5 x 28 inches A substantial, e...

Woman in a Fur Wrap Pen and ink heightened with white, c. 1920 Signed in ink lower right (see photo) Estate stamp verso (see photo) Provenance: estate of the artist ...

Albert Marquet Boat in Tunisia, ca. 1920 Ink on paper 7 1/5 × 5 in 18.2 × 12.8 cm Hand-signed by the monogram lower right

Jean-Pierre Laurens (1875-1932) Study of a reading monk Pencil on paper 29.5 x 19 cm Stamp of the Jean-Pierre Laurens Estate on the lower right In quite good condition : crease and ...

William Henry Detlef Koerner: 1878-1938. Well listed American painter and illustrator. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in NY under Howard Pyle. He has auction results over $255,000. He is known for his Western and Indian themed paintings and illustrations for books from authors like Zane Grey...

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950) Portrait of a young woman Pastel on paper 38 x 28 cm (oval) Framed under glass in a vintage framing : 45 x 35 cm A label on the back "1928 Portrait de femme Etude au pastel de Guirand de Scévola" (see photographs please) Even more interestingly, we recognize the model for this portrait as Jeanne Marguerite Fournials. A painter herself (Gold Medal winner at the 1937 International Exhibition), she was a student of Guirand de Scévola. He painted her several times, including in a pastel now held in the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art. Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola ( 1871 – 1950) was a French painter. He was student of Fernand Cormon and Pierre Dupuis...

Claughton Pellew (1890-1966) 'Funeral Procession, Bavaria' ‍ Watercolour 31 x 34 cm, 51 x 54 cm (framed) Circa 1920 Unsigned Claughton Pellew was a ...

Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) Le Chateau de Tournon (The Castle of Tournon), 1928 signed, dated and titled on the lower right watercolor on paper 24 x 34 cm Framed : 49 x 58 cm Exhibition label on the reverse at the Galerie Charpentier...

Eccezionale disegno dei primi anni 20 stile Simbolista ,Orientalista Anche il Passepartout attorno all'opera è stato realizzato dall'artista. Louise JANIN nasce nel 1893, a Durham...

Passageway North Africa was executed during Walter’s extensive travels throughout Spain, Northern Africa, and the Dalmatian coast. These works are magnificent snapshots –pictorial po...

Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-6 Pencil on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size) 1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition) Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta. Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque. Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...

Amy Londoner Beach at Atlantic City, circa 1922 Signed lower right Pastel on paper Sight 23 x 18 inches Amy Londoner (April 12, 1875 – 1951) was an American painter who exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show. One of the first students of the Henri School of Art in 1909. Prior to the Armory Show of 1913, Amy Londoner and her classmates studied with "Ashcan" painter Robert Henri at the Henri School of Art in New York, N.Y. One notable oil painting, 'The Vase', was painted by both Henri and Londoner. Londoner was born in Lexington, Missouri on April 12, 1875. Her parents were Moses and Rebecca Londoner, who moved to Leadville, Colorado, by 1880. In 1899, Amy took responsibility for her father who had come to Los Angeles from Leadville and had mental issues. By 1900, Amy was living with her parents and sister, Blanche, in the vicinity of Leadville, Denver, Colorado. While little was written about her early life, Denver City directories indicated that nineteenth-century members of the family were merchants, with family ties to New York, N.Y. The family had a male servant. Londoner traveled with her mother to England in 1907 then shortly later, both returned to New York in 1909. Londoner was 34 years old at the time, and, according to standards of the day, should have married and raised a family long before. Instead, she enrolled as one of the first students at the Henri School of Art in 1909. At the Henri School, Londoner established friendships with Carl Sprinchorn (1887-1971), a young Swedish immigrant, and Edith Reynolds (1883-1964), daughter of wealthy industrialist family from Wilkes-Barre, PA. Londoner's correspondence, which often included references to Blanche, listed the sisters' primary address as the Hotel Endicott at 81st Street and Columbus Avenue, NYC. Other correspondence also reached Londoner in the city via Mrs. Theodore Bernstein at 252 West 74th Street; 102 West 73rd Street; and the Independent School of Art at 1947 Broadway. In 1911, Londoner vacationed at the Hotel Trexler in Atlantic City, NJ. As indicated by an undated photograph, Londoner also spent time with Edith Reynolds and Robert Henri at 'The Pines', the Reynolds family estate in Bear Creek, PA. Through her connections with the Henri School, Londoner entered progressive social and professional circles. Henri's admonition, phrased in the vocabulary of his historical time period, that one must become a "man" first and an artist second, attracted both male and female students to classes where development of unique personal styles, tailored to convey individual insights and experiences, was prized above the mastery of standardized, technical skill. Far from being dilettantes, women students at the Henri School were daring individuals willing to challenge tradition. As noted by former student Helen Appleton Read, "it was a mark of defiance,to join the radical Henri group." As Henri offered educational alternatives for women artists, he initiated exhibition opportunities for them as well. Troubled by the exclusion of work by younger artists from annual exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, Henri was instrumental in organizing the no-jury, no-prize Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910. About half of the 103 artists included in the exhibition were or had been Henri students, while twenty of the twenty-six women exhibiting had studied with Henri. Among the exhibition's 631 pieces, nine were by Amy Londoner, including the notorious 'Lady with a Headache'. Similarly, fourteen of Henri's women students exhibited in the groundbreaking Armory Show of 1913, forming about eight percent of the American exhibitors and one-third of American women exhibitors. Of the nine documented works submitted by Londoner, five were rejected, while four pastels of Atlantic City beach scenes, including 'The Beach Umbrellas' now in the Remington Collection, were displayed. Following Henri's example, Londoner served as an art instructor for younger students at the Modern School, whose only requirement was to genuinely draw what they pleased. The work of dancer Isadora Duncan, another artist devoted to the ideals of a liberal education, was also lauded by the Modern School. Henri, who long admired Duncan and invited members of her troupe to model for his classes, wrote an appreciation of her for the Modern School journal in 1915. She was also the subject of Londoner's pastel Isadora Duncan and the Children: Praise Ye the Lord with Dance. In 1914, Londoner traveled to France to spend summer abroad, living at 99 rue Notre Dames des Champs, Paris, France. As the tenets of European modernism spread throughout the United States, Londoner showed regularly at venues which a new generation of artists considered increasingly passe, including the annual Society of Independent Artists' exhibitions between 1918 and 1934, and the Salons of America exhibition in 1922. Londoner also exhibited at the Morton Gallery, Opportunity Gallery, Leonard Clayton Gallery and Brownell-Lambertson Galleries in NYC. Her painting of a 'Blond Girl' was one of two works included in the College Art Associations Traveling Exhibition of 1929, which toured colleges across the country to broad acclaim. Londoner later in life suffered from illnesses then suffered a stroke which resulted in medical bills significantly mounting over the years that her old friends from the Henri School, including Carl Sprinchorn, Florence Dreyfous, Florence Barley, and Josephine Nivison Hopper, scrambled to raise funds and find suitable long-term care facilities for Londoner. Londoner later joined Reynolds in Bear Creek, PA. Always known for her keen wit, Londoner retained her humor and concern for her works even during her illness, noting that "if anything happens to the Endicott, I guess they will just throw them out." Sprinchorn and Reynolds, however, did not allow this to happen. In 1960, Londoner's paintings 'Amsterdam Avenue at 74th Street' and 'The Builders' were loaned by Reynolds to a show commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910, presented at the Delaware Art Center, Wilmington, DE. In the late 80's, Francis William Remington, 'Bill Remington', of Bear Creek Village PA, along with his neighbor and artist Frances Anstett Brennan, both had profound admiration for Amy Londoner's art work and accomplishments as a woman who played a significant role in the Ashcan movement. Remington acquired a significant number of Londoner's artwork along with Frances Anstett Brenan that later was part of an exhibition of Londoner's artwork in April 15 of 2007, at the Hope Horn...

Artist: Guy Dollian (1887 - 1964) Title: L'Escalier Date: 1926 Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower left Image Size: 18.5 x 11.5 inches Frame Size: 27 x 19.5 inches

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950) A young naked woman standing Pastel on paper Signed lower right and dedicated, "à JM Fournol (?)" 63 x 40 cm In fairly good condition:...

Sumi ink drawing, c. 1928 Signed in the lower right corner (see detail) Original illustration for the novel "Gunmo" (Hoi Polloi or Blind and Foolish Masses), volume 4 in the "Complete Works of Burafu Nakamura." Nakamura, a popular Japanese novelist and playwright, lived from 1886-1949. Framed in acid free rag matting, OP3 Acrylic and a rounded corner metal leaf frame Sight size: 6-3/4 x 5-3/8" Frame size: 14-5/8 x 12-5/8 x 3/4" Shinsui Itō...

FRANK DOBSON, R.A. (1886-1963) Study Towards Cornucopia Unsigned Pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper Framed 51 by 35.5 cm., 20 by 14 in. (frame size 71 by 55 cm., 28 by 21 ½ ...

Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-3 Pen & Ink on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size) 1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition) Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta. Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque. Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...

Head of a Deco Woman (recto) Standing Male Model (verso) Graphite on paper, 1925 Signed with the artist's initials "PW" and dated 1925 Created while the artist was studying at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1925. This is a preliminary drawing to a series of class assignments. From a sketch book Image/Sheet size: 7 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches Condition: Excellent Slight syrface dirt Provenance: Estate of the Artist Winchell Heirs Paul H. Winchell (1903 – 1971) was a printmaker, illustrator, teacher, and gilder according to Crump, 2009 (Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900- 1945, Minnesota Historical Society Press). He was the son of Mrs. Looman Winchell of Shepherd Rd as noted in a 1937 newspaper article (Painsville, O. Telegraph). Winchell grew up in North Perry, Ohio and then studied and worked as an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. He studied with Leon Kroll (1884 – 1974), Boris...

Born in St. John’s Wood, London in 1874, landscape and animal painter William Brock studied at the Royal Academy and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Brock exhibited at the Royal Acade...

In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a dark, subtle view of two apples, still clinging to their leaves. Examples like this show the ability of Spicuzza to draw i...

Head of a Deco Woman (recto) Standing Male Model (verso) Graphite on paper, 1925 Signed with the artist's initials "PW" and dated 1925 Created while the artist was studying at the ...

Attributed to Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) A Provence landscape, watercolor on paper 24 x 32 cm (view) In a modern frame : 45 x 55.5 cm When unframed it appears the work is larger (...

Deco Dancing Hungarian Expressionism European Drawing Modernism Figurative Dance. 22 1/2 x 16 inches. Signed lower left. Framed. BIO Hugó Scheiber was born in Budapest in 1873. At the age of eight, he moved with his family from Budapest to Vienna. In 1898, to help support his family after they had returned to Budapest. He started working during the day, attending painting classes at the Commercial Art School in the evening. In 1900, he completed his studies. Scheiber showed an early interest in German Expressionism and Futurism. In 1915 he met Marinetti, who invited him to join the Futurist movement. Because Scheiber's paintings conflicted with academic style of the Hungarian art establishment, his work was virtually ignored in his own country. In 1919, he and his friend Béla Kádár held an exhibition organized by Hévesy in Vienna, which was a great success, so much so that the Budapest Art Museum purchased two of his drawings. In 1920, Scheiber returned to Vienna. A turning point in his career came in 1921 when Herwarth Walden, founder of Germany's leading avant-garde periodical, Der Sturm...

Hammond (British, fl. 1920s) Original artwork for brochure for Municipal Art School, Ford St, Coventry, England UK 21.5x14 cm Gouache, c. 1937 Sadly nothing is known of the life of ...

Two Studies of Henriette (Left: Head of the artist's wife, Right: The Artist's wife writing a letter) Watercolor and graphite on paper, 1928-1930 Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Image/sheet size: 9 3/8 x 11 inches Condition: Excellent Colors fresh and unfaded Provenance: Estate of the artist The Orange Chicken...

Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962) Paris, Les Bouquinistes sur les quais, (The booksellers on the banks) Signed and titled lower right Pencil on paper 17 x 27 cm In good condition, ...

Wotton-under-Edge by LUCIEN PISSARRO (1863-1944) Ink, watercolour and crayon on paper 14.6 x 18.5 cm (5 3⁄4 x 7 1⁄4 inches) Signed with monogram and dated lower left, 1920 Inscribed ...

Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929. Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne. Edition of 2...

FRANK WATKINS (1863-1929) Jack Escapes the Giant Pen and ink, unframed, in conservation mount only 24 by 29 cm., 9 ¾ by 11 ½ in. (mount size 40 by 44.5 cm., 15 ¾ by 17 ½ in.) Frank Henry Watkins was born in Lambeth, London and was the son of a bank clerk. He worked as a children’s book and comic illustrator in the early 20th century, drawing for many children’s stories including Dolly Twoshoes (1901); The Wonder and Dolly Daydream (1902); Illustrated Chips and Dick and Daisy (1919-1921) and also for Merry Moments. He provided book illustrations for The Man From the Moon by Philip Carmichael (1909); The Sun’s Babies by Edith Howes (1910); The King Who Never Died: Tales of King Arthur by Dorothy Senior (1910) and Fairy Rings...

Louis Fortuney (1878-1950), also known simply as “Fortuney”, was a French pastellist. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Toulouse and in Paris an...

Louise HERVIEU Alençon 1878 - Versailles 1954 The Magnificent Servant Circa 1925 Charcoal and black chalk Signed lower left 43 x 32 cm sheet 60 x 43 cm frame Provenanc...

BELA KADAR 1877-1956 Budapest 1877-1956 (Hungarian) Title: Nocturnal Encounter, ca. 1920's Technique: Original Charcoal Drawing on paper Not signed size: 25 x 35 cm / 9.8 x 13.8 i...

Original watercolor on archival paper of a mother and her children by the Japanese artist, Takashi Nakayama. Signed in watercolor lower left...

Bishop, Isabel (American 1902-1988). STUDY FOR "IN FRONT OF THE 42D STREET LIBRARY." Drawing, pencil on paper, circa 1927. Initialed in pencil, lower right. 3 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches (ima...

FRANK WATKINS (1863-1929) The Travellers Signed Pen and ink, unframed, in conservation mount only 17.5 by 26 cm., 7 by 10 ¼ in. (frame size 33.5 by 41 cm., 13 ¼ by 16 in.) Frank Henry Watkins was born in Lambeth, London and was the son of a bank clerk. He worked as a children’s book and comic illustrator in the early 20th century, drawing for many children’s stories including Dolly Twoshoes (1901); The Wonder and Dolly Daydream (1902); Illustrated Chips and Dick and Daisy (1919-1921) and also for Merry Moments. He provided book illustrations for The Man From the Moon by Philip Carmichael (1909); The Sun’s Babies by Edith Howes (1910); The King Who Never Died: Tales of King Arthur by Dorothy Senior (1910) and Fairy Rings...

Kuhn, Walt (American, 1877-1949). ORTHOPHONIC EVENING. Drawing, ink and watercolor, 1928. Titled, signed and dated within the image, in ink, and further inscribed with the copyright symbol (c in a circle) and signed and dated 1937, in pencil, presumably to preserve reproduction and publication rights. 9 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches, plus margins of about 1/2 inch. In excellent condition. The "Orthophonic Victrola," introduced in 1925, was the first electric record player sold commercially. In the drawing it is seen at the left, with the host changing a record. The rest of the drawing reveals that listening to music was not the primary activity of the "orthophonic evening." The following is quoted from The Pillips Collection's biography of Kuhn: Walt Kuhn is remembered as an early promoter of modern art in America. He was not only a well-known painter, but also a cartoonist, sculptor, printmaker, writer, teacher, and producer of vaudeville shows. Born in 1877, Kuhn grew up in Brooklyn, where he received his education in private schools until he was sixteen. In 1899 he ventured to San Francisco to work as a cartoonist for The Wasp, a political and literary weekly. In 1901 Kuhn traveled to Europe for formal art training at the Académie Colarossi in Paris and later at the Munich Academy. Returning to New York in 1903, he established a studio in Manhattan and helped arrange the 1910 Exhibition of Independent Artists. He was a founding member and officer of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, the organization responsible for mounting the Armory Show of 1913, and in this role traveled through Europe in 1912 looking at art and helping to select works to be exhibited. Seeing paintings by Cézanne, Derain, Dufy, Pascin, and the cubists affected his style, and throughout the teens and early twenties Kuhn experimented with fauve colors, using blocks of color akin to Cézanne and with cubist space, integrating abstracted forms into the space of the picture plane. Finally, he developed his own painting style characterized by solid, sculptural depictions of single figures. Kuhn had his first solo show in 1910 at the Madison Gallery...

Pencil drawing by Togores for Galerie Simon, 1923. It preserves the original label in the back. Hand signed by the artist. Framed with a mid XXth century wooden frame. A label o...

Cityscape is a pencilDrawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1927. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924...

Landscape is a china ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1926. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, ...

Portrait is a Pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1928. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a little paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16...

Black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper, 19cm x 15cm, (32cm x 27cm framed). First exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1904, Philpot was elected as an Academician in 1923. Like many artists of his generation, he enjoyed a comfortable income from portraiture, which enabled him to paint less commercially successful and perhaps more personal subjects. His interest in the male nude and portraits of...

Marsh, Reginald. ACROBATS. Ink, gouache, and pastel on paper, 1922. Signed, lower right. c. 18 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches; framed to 28 x 23 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches. In excellent condition.

Charcoal drawing on paper. Hand monogrammed in pencil. A sculptor of animals, Sirio Tofanari (Florence 1886 – Milan 1969) is not inclined to the school discipline, he decides to lear...