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Medium: Watercolor
Purple Roses
Located in Oslo, NO
"Purple Roses" is a truly exquisite and contemporary watercolor that captures the delicate, rare beauty of lavender and mauve roses. The painting deviates from traditional floral art...
Category
2010s Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Madame F.C. Byrne (1789-1876) - 20th Century Watercolour, Wild Flower
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.
Category
20th Century Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Acrobats - Drawing by Cecilia Ferro Caporilli - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Ink and watercolor on paper realized by Cecilia Ferro Caporilli in 1963.
Hand signed and dated .
Very good condition.
Category
1960s Contemporary Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Beneath the Birch Drawing by Swedish Artist Christian Berg (1893–1976)
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are proud to present an exquisite drawing by the renowned artist Christian Berg (1893-1976), executed around the 1920s. This captivating artwork port...
Category
1920s Naturalistic Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Pencil
Set of 2 French antique dog paintings 19th Century watercolour dog paintings
Located in AIGNAN, FR
An authentic pair of watercolours featuring hunting dogs in their original frames, untouched since the 1880's. Very delightful and expertly drawn. The first, larger painting is of ...
Category
1880s Art Nouveau Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$378 Sale Price
39% Off
Brittany Watercolor of Thatched Cottage and a Well in the Countryside
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Brittany Watercolor of Thatched Cottage and a Well in the Countryside
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper
Size: 11....
Category
Late 20th Century French School Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
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 Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$549 Sale Price
20% Off
“View of Bay of Naples”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed original gouache on archival paper of a group of figures on an overlook viewing the Bay of Naples by the Italian artist, Maria Ada Gianni...
Category
1920s Academic Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Planting (Spring Plowing) - Watercolor Landscape Painting with Figures, c. 1939
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Planting (Spring Plowing)", a vibrant watercolor and graphite on paper by Thomas Hart Benton, circa 1939-40, embodies the artist's signature Regionalist style. The work depicts a ru...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Portrait of Lois B. Murphy, Little Girl, Blue Dress, 1920s Portrait
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Elinor M. Barnard (English/American, 1871 - 1942)
Signed: Elinor M. Barnard 27 (Lower, Right)
Portrait of Lois B. Murphy, 1927
Watercolor on Paper
23" x 17"
Housed in a 2" Peri...
Category
Early 20th Century Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Still Life with Flowers by Isidor Rosenstock
By Isidore Rosenstock
Located in Pasadena, CA
ISIDOR Rosenstock, born in Strasbourg in 1880, died in 1956. 20th century
painter of landscapes and flowers, watercolor.
He exhibited in Paris at the Salon of French Artists, the...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$1,200 Sale Price
49% Off
Lone Cypress
, Carmel Seascape, California Plein Air, Pebble Beach, Monterey
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'James March Phillips' (American, 1913-1981) and painted circa 1965.
Born in California, James March Phillips first studied in San Francisco at the Turner Art Ac...
Category
1960s Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Modern British 20th Century Colourful Abstract Painting - Geometric shapes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition
British School, monogrammed/ dated lower corner
gouache painting on paper laid over card, unframed
actual painting: 22 x 15.5 inches
Superb - bold - and very co...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$437 Sale Price
20% Off
“Pauline Trigere”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an original watercolor and gouache with traces of acrylic paint fashion illustration by the world renowned fashion artist, Kenneth Paul Block. Painted ...
Category
1960s American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Acrylic
French Watercolor of Le Château de la Napoule with Coastal Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of Le Château de la Napoule with Coastal Scene
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper
Size: 9.75 x 1...
Category
Late 20th Century French School Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen, Watercolor
Fauvist Colour Field Landscape, Les Baux de Provence
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French Fauvist Colour Field gouache on paper landscape by G Ricard. The painting is signed bottom left and titled to the back of the paper, Les Baux de Provence.
A charming and ch...
Category
Late 20th Century Color-Field Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Clinton Hill, (Nude #1), 1951, drawing, figure/abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images, but figures are unusual in his work. This is from a very early period. In 1951 Hill studied at the Academie de la...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Robin Bird Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2025
Style: Classic Art
Title: Robin
Size: 12 x 16 inch, (30x4...
Category
2010s Realist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Queen Street, Exeter watercolour by Louis Osman FRIBA
By Louis Osman
Located in London, GB
Louis Osman was an English artist, architect, goldsmith, silversmith and medallist. He is notable for the gold coronet he designed and made for the investiture in 1969 of Charles, Pr...
Category
1930s Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Silent Winter Landscape with Snow-Laden Trees
Located in Stockholm, SE
Ferdinand Boberg (1860–1946)
Snow-Laden Trees
Ink and watercolor with black framing lines on cardboard
signed BOBERG.
18 x 13 cm (approx. 7.1 x 5.1 in)
frame: 40.5 x 35 cm (approx....
Category
1920s Realist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Pencil
Botanical Cyanotype, Blue Flower Bouquet, Large Wild Roses Cyanotype, Watercolor
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype of a gorgeous blue bouquet.
Details:
+ Title: Blue Flower Bouquet
+ Year: 2024
+ Edition Size: 100
+ Medium: Acrylic Pain...
Category
2010s Baroque Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Monoprint, Monotype
Chickadee, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
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Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Chickadee
Size: 12 x 16 inc...
Category
2010s Realist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mughal School, 18th century Emperor Jangahir on a pleasure boat with his harem a
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir depicted with his harem attendees aboard a pleasure cruise, the water filled with lotus blossoms; symbols of paradise itself.
Circa 1750. Gouache and ink with gold ...
Category
18th Century Rajput Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold
1920
s Historical Fashion Illustration of Lady in 17th Century Dress
Located in Soquel, CA
Finely detailed historical figurative fashion illustration painted in watercolor in 1921, of a lady in 17th century dress; complete with a full blac...
Category
1920s Realist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Female Portrait Study Expressionist Watercolour Gouache Figure Painting
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Abstract Female Portrait Study Expressionist Watercolour Gouache Figure Painting
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artist paper, unframed
Size (H x W...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Adrian Heath, British, Abstracted Life Study, pencil and watercolour
By Adrian Heath
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Adrian Heath (British, 1920–1992)
Abstracted Life Study
Pencil and watercolour
Signed with initials ‘AH’ (lower right)
8.5 x 10.625 in. (21.7 x 27 cm)
This intimate work on paper by...
Category
20th Century Abstract Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Yellow Bouqet, Impressionist Watercolor by Wayne Ensrud
By Wayne Ensrud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Yellow Bouqet, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed, Size: 32 x 22.5 in. (81.28 x 57.15 cm), Frame Size: 41.5 x 32 inches
Category
1980s Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Lounging V - Figurative Lounging Feminine Watercolor Portrait Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ama Liyanage, a contemporary artist and printmaker, creates whimsical paintings from her home studio in Ontario, Canada. Each piece holds minuscule painted details waiting to be disc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cy Twombly with pink chairs. From the Interiors series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
A new series inspired by architecture, décor and stylish personalities of the world of interior design.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are captured in the illustrati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Acrylic
View of the Canals of Venice - Drawing by Alcione Gubellini - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ink and watercolor on cardboard realized by Alcione Gubellini in the mid-20th century.
Hand signed.
Includes a wooden frame cm. 53x47.
Very good condition.
Category
1940s Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Jean Marais, Cocteau
s Muse, Master of Stage Design: Curtain for Sleeping Beauty
By Jean Marais
Located in Norwich, GB
Jean Marais (1913–1998) is immortalised as the face of French cinema's golden age—the hero of Beauty and the Beast, the swashbuckler of Le Bossu, and the muse of Jean Cocteau. Yet, t...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Machpela Cave Chevron 1967 Israeli Judaica Mixed Media Print Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Baruch Nachshon, was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1939, in the city of Haifa.
Nachshon began to paint in early childhood, and developed his relationship to art and to artists throu...
Category
1960s Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Venice Grand Canal Waterfront Study Signed Watercolour Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Venice Grand Canal Waterfront Study Signed Watercolour Painting
By Tony Herbert (1927-2024)
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Size: 11.75 inches (height) x 9.5 inches (width)
Condit...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Ynez Johnston Abstract Watercolor
Gouache Painting, 1985, 20th Century Modern
Located in Denver, CO
This striking 1985 abstract painting by celebrated Colorado Springs artist Ynez Johnston (American, 1920–2019) exemplifies her imaginative approach to modernist abstraction. Executed...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
“Model in Hooded Coat”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original mixed media fashion illustration by the well known American artist, Maning Obregon. Composed of watercolor, oil pastel and gouache on archival paper. Signed lower right “Ma...
Category
1970s Contemporary Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Cardboard, Gouache
Love Star Of David (original gouache on paper)
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Aventura, FL
Original gouache painting on paper. Hand signed lower front by Yaacov Agam. Image size 20.25 x 18.5 inches. Sheet size 29 x 22.2 inches. Frame size approx 33 x 31 inches.
Cert...
Category
1970s Abstract Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$47,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Half Dome in Pastel Colors, Yosemite National Park Fauvist Landscape Watercolor
By Karen Druker
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright Fauvist landscape of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, with beautiful use of color by Karen Druker (American, 1945). Signed "Druker" in the lower right corner. Presented in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
On the Top, People Crossing the Mountains, Montana Western Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
On the Top, Montana, 1952
Watercolor and gouache on board
Signed and dated lower right
22 x 30 inches
25.5 x 34 inches framed
Frank Nelso...
Category
1950s American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Beachside Village, Maine, 20th century landscape watercolor, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
George Gustav Adomeit (American, 1879-1967)
Beachside Village, Maine
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
10 x 14 inches
17.75 x 21.75 inches, framed
A major painter of American ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Scandinavian Landscape
Located in Oslo, NO
This expressive watercolor, titled "Scandinavian Landscape," captures the quiet, majestic beauty of the Finnish forest. The artist focuses on the intense textural contrast between th...
Category
2010s Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French Riviera Watercolor of Corniche d’Or
Estérel Coastline
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Riviera Watercolor of Corniche d’Or & Estérel Coastline
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor p...
Category
Late 20th Century French School Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Hunter in a Field
By Percival Leonard Rosseau
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Watercolor on paper, signed in the lower right. Listed measurements are for the full frame size 18.5" x 21.75".
(1859–1937) Percival Leonard Rosseau was born in Louisiana. He led a peripatetic life as cattle driver, cowboy, and commodities broker before going abroad...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Venice Street Scene With Figures Market Stalls Tower Original Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Venice Street Scene With Figures Market Stalls Tower Original Watercolour Painting
By Tony Herbert (1927-2024)
Signed: Bottom right corner
Medium: Watercolor on paper, unframe...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Gilbert
s Camp, Western Painting, Mid 20th Century, Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Gilbert's Camp, c. 1941
Watercolor on Whatman board
Signed lower right
22 x 30 inches
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," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer...
Category
1940s American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
William Matthison All Saints and Carfax in Evening Oxford University watercolour
Located in London, GB
To see our other views of Oxford and Cambridge, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Untitled" Hans Hofmann, circa 1943 Navy Blue Olive Green Early Abstract Work
By Hans Hofmann
Located in New York, NY
Hans Hofmann
Untitled, circa 1943
Signed lower right
Oil and watercolor on paper
22 1/4 x 30 3/4 inches
The only artist of the New York school to participate directly in European m...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Watercolor
Provence Landscape Mid 20th Century French Post Impressionist Signed Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provence
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) signed watercolour, mounted in a card frame
card frame: 12 x 15 inches
painting: 9 x 12 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
cond...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
High Pastures, Cattle Round Up, Wyoming, 20th Century Western Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
High Pastures, Cattle Round Up, Wyoming, 1937
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right, titled verso
15 x 20 inches
18.5 x 24 inche...
Category
1930s American Modern Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Fall Fog Approaching
. Contemporary Landscape Clouds Moody sky Blue Green Brown
Located in Penzance, GB
'Fall Fog, Approaching'. Contemporary landscape painting, Cornwall
Original Artwork, Unframed
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Heavy skies moving in over the autumnal landscape of West Cornwall: a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Snowy Owl" Delicate Paper and Watercolor Assemblage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Snowy Owl" is an original piece by Nayan and Venus made from watercolor on layered hand-cut paper. This piece measuures 11.75”h x 9.5”w x 1"d framed, and is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled 4 - Contemporary Expressive Abstract Painting, Conceptual Art
Located in Salzburg, AT
Urszula Wilk – artist statment:
I have always been interested in the idea of infiniteness of a painting and its opposite – that is the physical finiteness of the painting. This phys...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
French Market Scene Geometric Watercolour Study by Pierre Neveu
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Market Scene Geometric Watercolour Study by Pierre Neveu
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artist paper, unframed
Size (H x W): 6.75 x 8.5 inc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$372 Sale Price
35% Off
Provence Watercolor of Château des Baux
Sunlit Limestone Cliffs
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Provence Watercolor of Château des Baux & Sunlit Limestone Cliffs
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper
Size: 12.25 x...
Category
Late 20th Century French School Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
1930
s French Impressionist Painting - Young Girl in Blue Dress Rocky Coast Sea
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Title: Sur la Plage
Medium: watercolour on artists paper
Size: painting: 8 x 10 inches
Provenance: private collection, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sunset. After the Rain
Located in Oslo, NO
"Sunset. After the Rain" is a vibrant and compelling watercolor that captures the dramatic clarity and saturation of light unique to the Singaporean tropics immediately following a d...
Category
2010s Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Projet de Tissus - Fauvist Flowers Watercolor
Gouache by Raoul Dufy
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Botanical watercolour and gouache on paper circa 1920 by French fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. The work depicts flowers in red, blue and green. This work was executed by Dufy as a fabric design.
Dimensions:
Framed: 19.5"x19.5"
Unframed: 12"x12"
Provenance:
Private collection of works by Raoul Dufy for Bianchini Ferier
Bianchini Ferrier Collection - Christie's London - July 2001
SF Fall Show
Raoul Dufy was one of a family of nine children, including five sisters and a younger brother, Jean Dufy, also destined to become a painter. Their father was an accountant in the employ of a major company in Le Havre. The Dufy family was musically gifted: his father was an organist, as was his brother Léon, and his youngest brother Gaston was an accomplished flautist who later worked as a music critic in Paris. Raoul Dufy's studies were interrupted at the age of 14, when he had to contribute to the family income. He took a job with an importer of Brazilian coffee, but still found time from 1892 to attend evening courses in drawing and composition at the local college of fine arts under Charles Marie Lhullier, former teacher of Othon Friesz and Georges Braque. He spent his free time in museums, admiring the paintings of Eugène Boudin in Le Havre and The Justice of Trajan in Rouen. A municipal scholarship enabled him to leave for Paris in 1900, where he lodged initially with Othon Friesz. He was accepted by the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under Léon Bonnat, whose innate conservatism prompted Dufy to remark later that it was 'good to be at the Beaux-Arts providing one knew one could leave'.
And leave he did, four years later, embarking with friends and fellow students on the rounds of the major Paris galleries - Ambroise Vollard, Durand-Ruel, Eugène Blot and Berheim-Jeune. For Dufy and his contemporaries, Impressionism represented a rejection of sterile academism in favour of the open-air canvases of Manet, the light and bright colours of the Impressionists, and, beyond them, the daringly innovative work of Gauguin and Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Dufy was an out-and-out individualist, however, and was not tempted to imitate any of these artists. He produced, between 1935 and 1937, Fée Electricité (Spirit of Electricity), the emblem for the French utilities company Electricité de France (EDF).
Dufy visited the USA for the first time in 1937, as a member of the Carnegie Prize jury. In 1940, the outbreak of war (and his increasingly rheumatic condition) persuaded him to settle in Nice. When he eventually returned to Paris 10 years later, his rheumatism had become so debilitating that he immediately left for Boston to follow a course of pioneering anti-cortisone treatment. He continued working, however, spending time first in Harvard and then in New York City before moving to the drier climate of Tucson, Arizona. The cortisone treatment was by and large unsuccessful, although he did recover the use of his fingers. He returned to Paris in 1951 and decided to settle in Forcalquier, where the climate was more clement. Within a short time, however, he was wheelchair-bound. He died in Forcalquier in March 1953 and was buried in Cimiez.
Between 1895 and 1898, Raoul Dufy painted watercolours of landscapes near his native Le Havre and around Honfleur and Falaise. By the turn of the century, however, he was already painting certain subjects that were to become hallmarks of his work - flag-decked Parisian cityscapes, Normandy beaches teeming with visitors, regattas and the like, including one of his better-known early works, Landing Stage at Ste-Adresse. By 1905-1906 Friesz, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Van Dongen and Rouault were described collectively as Fauves (the wild beasts). What they had in common was a desire to innovate, but they felt constrained nonetheless to meet formally to set out the guiding principles of what promised to be a new 'movement'. Dufy quickly established that those principles were acceptable; moreover, he was most impressed by one particular painting by Henri Matisse ( Luxury, Calm and Voluptuousness) which, to Dufy, embodied both novelty and a sense of artistic freedom. Dufy promptly aligned himself with the Fauves. Together with Albert Marquet in particular, he spent his time travelling the Normandy coast and painting views similar...
Category
1920s Fauvist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Mid 20th Century, Ghent, Belgium Chateau des Comtes from Hoofdbrug
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Belgium. East Flanders - Ghent
by Leonard Machin Rowe (1880-1968)
signed in both front lower corners, inscribed and dated to the back
watercolour painting on artist's paper, unframe...
Category
1950s Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Small Boat and Bather in Dinard
By Jean Pons
Located in London, GB
'Small Boat and Bather in Dinard', gouache and charcoal on art paper, by French artist, Jean Pons (1961). Painted in a naïve style, the piece dep...
Category
1960s Expressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
$874 Sale Price
20% Off
SUMMER - female nude - by Paula Craioveanu - original sepia drawing
Located in Forest Hills, NY
SUMMER - female nude - by Paula Craioveanu - original sepia drawing. Sepia ink drawing on watercolor paper inspired by Matisse's nudes. Original, unique, not...
Category
2010s Contemporary Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Early 1900
s French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers"
by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century)
signed bottom right
watercolour on paper, unframed
painting: 7.25 x 9.5inches
Delightful early 20th century F...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Watercolor Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Watercolor drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Watercolor drawings and watercolor paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add drawings and watercolor paintings created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, green and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Mino Maccari, Alexander Warren Montel, David Barnett, and Leo Guida. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Abstract, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Watercolor drawings and watercolor paintings, so small editions measuring 5.63 inches across are also available Prices for drawings and watercolor paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $405 and tops out at $8,800, while the average work can sell for $2,260.
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