Fauvist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

A French Impressionist Fauvist Colour-Field watercolour and pastel on paper landscape by G Ricard. The painting is signed and dated bottom right. Presented in a fine period wood fram...

Watercolor and gouache on archival paper by French artist, Henri Grenier. Signed lower right. Circa 1925. Condition is excellent. The artwork is housed in its original ornate carv...

Contemporary Impressionist pastel on paper of an approach to a woodland scene by Belgian artist Francis Besson. Presented in a custom made contemporary tray frame with green gold hig...

A French Fauvist gouache and watercolour landscape on paper by Georges Ricard-Cordingley. The painting is signed bottom left and is presented in a wood frame with satinwood stringing under glass. A very charming and atmospheric painting of a road winding through a mountain landscape with trees and orchards, under a moody sky. A rarer work for Cordingley as he loved capturing the sea and coastline, this work seems experimental for him, very much influenced by the work of the Fauves at the beginning of the 20th century. The medium of watercolour and colour palette has given him a freedom of composition. He has played with the perspective and this very much draws the viewer in to the painting. Provenance: This drawing came from the estate of the artist's daughter who had acquired it directly from her father. It may date from his travels in Australia in the early 1900s. Georges Ricard was born on January 30, 1873 in Lyon, son of Prosper Louis Ricard and Georgina Marie Cordingley. He spent part of his childhood in Lyon and Boulogne-sur-Mer. He displayed early gifts for drawing. He lost his father in 1885. He began his training around 1887, becoming a pupil of Jean-Charles Cazin, a landscape painter from Pas-de-Calais and the Côte d'Opale. He then joined the School of Fine Arts in Lyon and remained there from 1888 to 1889. He moved to Paris in 1890, where he studied at the Académie Julian as a pupil of Benjamin Constant, Louis Martinet and Jules Lefebvre. He lost his mother around 1892, went to England to his maternal family and added his mother's name to his name. He embarked for the North Sea with the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen and carried out his first studies. In 1894, he met with great success at the court of Queen Victoria. He embarked a second time, in 1895, still for the North Sea and produced numerous studies of waves of clouds, of the port and of portraits of fishermen...

A French Fauvist gouache and watercolour landscape on paper by Georges Ricard-Cordingley. The painting carries the atelier stamp bottom right and is presented in a plain wood frame with a cut card mount. A very charming and colourful painting of trees in a mountain landscape. A rarer work for Cordingley as he loved capturing the sea and coastline, this work seems experimental for him, very much influenced by the work of the Fauves at the beginning of the 20th century. The medium of watercolour and colour palette has given him a freedom of composition. Provenance: This drawing came from the estate of the artist's daughter who had acquired it directly from her father. It may date from his travels in Australia in the early 1900s. Georges Ricard was born on January 30, 1873 in Lyon, son of Prosper Louis Ricard and Georgina Marie Cordingley. He spent part of his childhood in Lyon and Boulogne-sur-Mer. He displayed early gifts for drawing. He lost his father in 1885. He began his training around 1887, becoming a pupil of Jean-Charles Cazin, a landscape painter from Pas-de-Calais and the Côte d'Opale. He then joined the School of Fine Arts in Lyon and remained there from 1888 to 1889. He moved to Paris in 1890, where he studied at the Académie Julian as a pupil of Benjamin Constant, Louis Martinet and Jules Lefebvre. He lost his mother around 1892, went to England to his maternal family and added his mother's name to his name. He embarked for the North Sea with the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen and carried out his first studies. In 1894, he met with great success at the court of Queen Victoria. He embarked a second time, in 1895, still for the North Sea and produced numerous studies of waves of clouds, of the port and of portraits of fishermen which he exhibited in Paris and London. He embarked a third time, around 1896, in the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean with the Société des Travaux de Mer and was shipwrecked in Newfoundland. In 1901, he set up his studio in Boulogne-sur-Mer. He divided his time between London, Paris and Boulogne-sur-Mer and painted portraits and seascapes. He realized the decoration of the casino of Wimereux. He travelled to Australia, where he exhibited from 1909 to 1910. In 1911, he married Suzanne Giraud-Teulon, the daughter of historian Alexis Giraud-Teulon, and had three children, Éliane, Louis and Gabrielle. During the First World War, he was assigned to Lyon as a stretcher...

Sailboats at Shore Charles Levier, French (1920–2003) Date: circa 1965 Watercolor on Paper, signed l.r. Image Size: 11 x 16 inches Size: 19.5 x 25 in. (49.53 x 63.5 cm)

Woman on Shore by Sailboats Charles Levier, French (1920–2003) Date: circa 1965 Watercolor on Paper, signed l.r. Image Size: 11 x 16 inches Size: 19.5 x 25 in. (49.53 x 63.5 cm)

Paris Boulanger by Charles Cobelle, French (1902–1994) circa 1960 Ink, Watercolor and Pencil on Paper, signed l.r. Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)

Signed lower right, 'J. Picot' for Jean-Claude Picot (French, born 1933), and painted circa 1975; additionally titled, verso, 'Paysage a Mandelieu'. Paper dimensions: 15 x 19 inches....

Early 20th Century French pastel drawing of a beach scene in the South of France by noted fauvist artist Auguste Chabaud. Carrying the stamped atelier signature, possibly from his 'Blue Period'. Auguste CHABAUD was born in Nîmes on October 3, 1882. At the age of fourteen Chabaud joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Avignon. In 1899 he went to Paris to continue his artistic training at the Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. There he met Henri Matisse and André Derain. In 1900 he returned to his parents' vineyard in southern France briefly before returning to Paris. In 1901, he was forced to leave Paris again in order to secure his livelihood. He worked on a ship and got to know the West African coast. Upon his return in 1907 and in the following years, he became acquainted with and captured in his paintings the excitement of the Parisian nightlife. In the Paris neighbourhood Montmartre, where he had his studio, he painted various scenes of Parisian life and cafe society. At the same time, he continued to paint Provence and took part in the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne, where he exhibited with the Fauves. Chabaud's Cubist phase began in 1911, where he also began sculpting. In the following years he had many exhibitions, including 1913 in New York, where his works were exhibited alongside those of artists such as Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck and Picasso. After his return from the first World War Chabaud settled down in Graveson. From 1920 he had his "blue period". He used the Prussian Blue as the only colour in his works. From then, he focused exclusively on the south of France. He painted scenes of rural life, the farmers, and the hills and trails of the Alpilles. A very important retrospective exhibition of his work took place in Paris in 1952, which gave him the opportunity to return to Paris, which he had left in 1914. Another retrospective exhibition in Paris took place in 1965 commemorating the tenth anniversary of his death. He died in 1955 in Graveson. In 1966, he was represented at the exhibition “Le Fauvisme français et les débuts de l’impressionnisme Allemand” (French Fauvism...

Vibrant minimalist landscape by Sharon Bearce (American, b. 1943). Signed "S. Bearce" in the lower left corner. Title, artist's name, and date written on verso ("Pink Sky #1 Sharon...

Brightly colored vertical landscape of Yosemite by Karen Druker (American, 1945). Signed "Druker" in the lower right corner. Presented in an off white mat. No frame. Image size: 30"H...