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Period: 1940s
1940
s Americana WPA Modernist Watercolor Painting Catskill Mountains Bungalow
Located in Surfside, FL
Bungalow (fauvist painting of New York scene) 1940's.
image is 10X 11.5 inches. Hand signed lower right
Watercolor painting on paper board
Country Scene
Samuel Grunvald was a Hunga...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Board
“Untitled, 1946” New Hope Modernist Small Abstract Bucks County Lambertville NJ
By Louis Stone
Located in Yardley, PA
“Untitled, 1946” by Louis K. Stone (1902-1984).
A strong and charming example of mid-century American modernism by one of the most important artists working in New Hope, PA. This wa...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Stunning, Finely Drawn 1940s Modern Female Figure Study, Standing Nude
Located in Chicago, IL
A Stunning, Finely Drawn 1940s Modern Female Nude Figure Study by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). The drawing is ink on sepia toned paper and dates from 1946....
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Swiss Mountain by Karl Speglitz - Watercolor 13x17 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Dimension with pass
31.7 x 24 cm
Category
Expressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$136 Sale Price
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“Strolling along the Seine, Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
The artwork is double matted with an antique style contemporary gold leaf gallery frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 24 by 31 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector.
Guy de Neyrac was born in France in 1900 and is widely known for his impressionistic watercolor and pen drawings of Paris...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,280 Sale Price
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A ca. 1940s Graphite on Paper Mural Study of a City Scene by Rudolph Weisenborn
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1940s graphite on paper mural study of a Chicago city scene by notable Modern artist Rudolph Weisenborn. Artwork size: 12 1/2" x 9 1/4". Archivally matted to 18" x 16". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Rudolph Weisenborn was born in Strassburg, Germany in 1881, but was orphaned at the age of nine. He was taken-in by Mid-Western farmer Thomas Westaby and spent his early years in Wisconsin, Iowa and North Dakota. Weisenborn first attended the University of North Dakota in 1898, then the Students School of Art in Denver. Various accounts have him working out west as a gold miner and cowboy.
Around 1912, he settled in Chicago and worked as a window designer for Marshall Field’s. Weisenborn is best known as the founder of the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists. The group was founded because many artists could not get their work accepted into the mainstream Art Institute shows. Weisenborn is quoted as saying that he harbored feelings of disdain for any jury and that his own paintings were frequently rejected by conservative jurors. He was also involved and helped found other radical artist’s groups such as the Salon des Refuses, Cor Ardens and Neo-Arlimusic. In 1936, he helped found the New York-based American Abstract Artist’s Group. He created the only abstract mural for the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago and also worked for the Federal Arts Project in the Easel Division. His WPA murals can be found in Crane Technical High School and Nettlehorst Elementary School in Chicago, IL. In 1945, Chicago businessman Herman Spertus...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The Red Shoes (Erotic), Ink and Watercolor Painting by George Grosz
By George Grosz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Grosz, German (1893 - 1959)
Title: Sex Scene in Red Shoes (Erotic)
Year: circa 1940
Medium: Watercolor, Pen and Ink on Paper, signed
Size: 17...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Watercolor Painting American Modern Painting Bridge Harbor Female Artist 1950
Located in Buffalo, NY
Dorothy Rivo
Untitled (Bridge Tower), c. 1960s–70s
Acrylic on paper, floated in a mat
Framed dimensions: 30 in. H × 24 in. W
Contemporary walnut or black wood frame with white archiv...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Acrylic
Nude I (Female Nude) pastel circa 1949 NATALIE GRAUER
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
This pastel on paper NUDE I by Natalie Eynon Grauer offers a striking view into mid century American modernism and the enduring power of the human figure as a vehicle for abstraction...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Mediterranean Coast
Located in Houston, TX
Dazzling watercolor landscape painting of a small town lining the sparkling mediterranean coast by artist Stephane Magnard, circa 1950.
Original ...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
untitled (Maine Landscape near Mt. Desert Island)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Maine Landscape near Mt. Desert Island)
Watercolor on paper, c. 1945-1955
Signed by the artist lower left (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Excellent
...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Que Font Ces Gens - Ink Drawing by Salvador Dalì - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
Que font ces gens is a beautiful modern artwork realized by Salvador Dalì in 1945.
China Ink Drawing on paper.
Original outstanding drawing realized to illustrate the book "The Labyrinth" by Maurice Sandoz, published in 1945.
Signed and dated on the lower right recto.
Executed on thick cream wove paper, not laid down and taped to the mount along the upper edge. The upper, right and lower edges are slightly unevenly cut. There are two pinholes towards the upper right and upper left corners. The sheet is time stained and there is a spot of foxing beneath the lower edge of the drawing. There are some remnants from previous mounting at the upper two corners not visible when framed. There are handling marks to the perimeter of the sheet. The ink is strong and well preserved.
The artwork is accompanied by authentication of Robert P. Descharnes, Paris 2003, reference archive: D-3461.
Prov. Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Sale...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Boats - Original Pencil on Paper - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Paris is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by an anonymous artist of the XX century.
The State of preservation is very good.
Sheet dime...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
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
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, 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
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Watercolor
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman
s Fashion Study, Design for a Formal Evening Gown
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring an elegant design for a woman's evening gown.
Artwork size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Archivally matted to 16 x 12 inches. Provenance: ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Charles Ragland Bunnell “Quitting Time” 1941 Black and Blue Abstract Painting
Located in Denver, CO
This original vintage painting by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), titled Quitting Time from his Black and Blue Series (1941), exemplifies the artist’s signature Abstract Structu...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor
1940s Netting the Catch
By Walter P. Taylor
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive watercolor figurative of fisherman pulling in the nets by Walter P. Taylor (American, 20th Century). Signed "W.P. Taylor U.S.N.R.'45 (for United States Naval Reserve)" low...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Male Nude Original drawing by Duval Eliot
By Duval Eliot
Located in Pasadena, CA
A view of historical and evocative watercolor landscapes of early California and the Southwest, portraits and figurative work from the 1930’s and 1940’s throughout her prolific 57 ye...
Category
Post-Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
Ecole de Paris, Mid 20th Century, Three Paris Scenes Eiffel Tower
Parks
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: A Collection of Three Paintings of Paris Scenes
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
the Eiffel Tower painting is signed front lower right and also inscribed to the back, the Versailles painting...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
$1,316 Sale Price
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Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century Place du Tertre and Sacre Coeur
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: Place du Tertre and Sacre Coeur, the Roman Catholic Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
signed lower right
watercolour and gouache painting on ar...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
$630 Sale Price
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St Mark
s Square, Venice
, Paris, Post-Impressionist, Charlottenborg Palace
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'V. Isbrand' for Victor Isbrand (Danish, 1897-1989) and titled, 'Venedig' (Venice).
Precocious as a child, Victor Isbrand painted professionally from a young age...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
ORIGINAL INK LOUIS VALTAT UNIQUE PIECE
By Louis Valtat
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
ORIGINAL INK ON PAPER
SIGNED WITH THE ESTATE INITIALS STAMP
Unique piece
Category
French School 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
The Talking Cards - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1948
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Talking Cardws is a Watercolour Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1948s.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Good condition on a little paper.
Mino Maccari (Siena,...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Charming 1940s Watercolor of Mexico w/ Cathedral and Rooftops by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming 1940s Watercolor of Mexico with Cathedral and Rooftops by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Most likely completed during the artist's trip to Mexico in 1944 after rec...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Provencal Plane Trees in Winter
Located in London, GB
'Provencal Plane Trees in Winter', gouache on art paper, by Max Escalon de Fonton (1946). The plane trees found in Provence in the South of France are a hybrid of the Asian and Ameri...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$603 Sale Price
20% Off
"Untitled" Minnie Evans, Mid-Century, Biomorphic Modernist Abstract Spirals
By Minnie Evans
Located in New York, NY
Minnie Evans
Untitled, 1947
Signed and dated lower right
Crayon and graphite on paper
8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches
Provenance
Luise Ross Gallery, New York
Privat...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Graphite
A Colorful, 1948 Mid-Century Modern Abstract Watercolor by Hananiah Harari
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking, Colorful 1940s Mid-Century Modern Surrealist Abstract Watercolor by Notable New York Avant Garde Artist, Hannah Harari (Am. 1912-2000). The artwork is watercolor, pastel...
Category
Abstract 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
Seaside, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Seaside (P5.6), Year: 1947, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 13 x 20 in. (33.02 x 50.8 cm), Description: The versatility of Eve Net...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Jeanne d
Arc - China Ink and Watercolor on Paper - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Jeanne d'Arc is a modern artwork realized in the 1940s ca by a French Artist.
Original China ink and Watercolors on paper.
Passepartout is included (dimensions: 38 x 0.1 x 30 cm)....
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
1940
s American WPA Modernist New York City Watercolor Painting Tenement Market
Located in Surfside, FL
The Market, (fauvist painting of NYC scene) 1940's.
image is 10X 11.5 inches. Hand signed lower right
Lower East Side Tenements Pushcart Market
Watercolor on paper board.
Samuel G...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Paper
Vaulted Bridge, French Landscape Oil on Masonite Painting by Vincent Mazzocchini
Located in Atlanta, GA
Vincent Mazzocchini, French Landscape with Medieval Bridge – Oil on Wood
This captivating original oil painting created by French artist Vincent Mazzocchini (20th Century) is a rare...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
Ecole de Paris, Mid-20th Century, Parisian Scene River Seine Pont
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris, France
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
Signed
Watercolour and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed.
Sheet 9.5 x 12.5 inches.
Nicely executed study over the River Seine i...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
“Montmartre”
By Fernand Guignier
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautifully executed original watercolor by French artist Fernand Guignier of a street scene in Montmartre, Paris. Signed lower right and dated 1949. Titled lower left, “Montmartre”. Fernand Guignier was a student of the sculptors Emil Derré and Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris . Between 1926 and 1960 he took part in the Salon des Artistes Français in the Palais de Tokyo. The watercolor is housed in its original off white wood frame. Under glass. Condition is very good. Overall framed measurements are 18.25 by 16.5 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector.
Fernand Guignier
Born: 1902
Died: 1972
Known for: Paris street scene watercolor...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$716 Sale Price
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Italian Abstract Work on Paper Color Field Non-Objective European Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
Italian Modern Abstract Work on Paper Color Field Non-Objective European Mid-Century - "Gonage"
Dorazio completed "Gonage" in 1949 when just after the artist had been awarded a stipend by the French government and admission to the Academy Beaux Arts. There he met George Braque who became great friends but also an influence on Dorazio, of which "Gonage" is a living testament.
"Gonage" actual size of the drawing measures 12 x 9 1/2 inches. It is signed on the lower right. The work is affixed to a 19 x 15 inch board which includes the artist's signature and date. There is a torn table on the lower left entitling the piece "Gonage".
Provenance follows this piece as a gift in 1950 to the artist-colleague Luigi Lucioni, who then gifted it in 1955 to his friend, the uncle of the current owner who has owned the work since 1988.
Bio
Born in Italy, Piero Dorazio studied architecture in Rome. At the same time his first abstract works were executed. In 1947 he received a scholarship from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he contacted Modern artists, who lived in Paris. He founded the galleries "Age d'Or" in Florence and Rome to represent avant-garde arts in Italy.
During a one year stay in the USA he got acquainted with leading artists of Abstract Expressionism such as Marc Rothko...
Category
Abstract 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Corn Kachina, by Riley Sunrise, Quoyavema, Hopi, Kachina, Dancer, painting
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Corn Kachina, by Riley Sunrise, Quoyavema, Hopi, Kachina, Dancer, painting
Artist Signature - Riley Sunrise (1914-2006) Quoyavema “Another of the earlier Hopi artists, Riley Sunrise (Quoyavema) worked with Fred Kabotie and Waldo Mootzka in illustrating John Louw Nelson’s Rhythm for Rain. He is also known as Quoyavema or Kwayeshva, according to Nelson. His paintings are comparable to Fred Kabotie’s, with some of them showing more action and most of them revealing less detail. Sunrise is represented in the collections of the Denver Art Museum, Gilcrease Institute (Tulsa), and the Southwest Museum. The Museum of the American Indian in New York has an extensive collection of his paintings of native Hopi dances.” (Clara Lee Tanner: Southwest Indian...
Category
Tribal 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
A 1940s Modern, American Scene Study of a Seated Man at a Table by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming, 1940s American Scene study of a Man Seated at a Table by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A delightful sketch ("Dinner at the Windermere Hot...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
Row of Plane Trees In Winter - Maussane-les-Alpilles
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Row of Plane Trees In Winter - Maussane-les-Alpilles', Provence, watercolour and pencil on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1946). A line of Plane trees greets visitors to almost every vi...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
$2,111 Sale Price
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Blizzard in Woods
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blizzard in Woods
Graphite on paper, c. 1945-1963
Unsigned
Provenance: Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York
Annotated with notes for completing the drawing. Deutsch Gallery has handled Bur...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Woman Seated
, Paris, Louvre, Carmel, California Post-Impressionist, LACMA SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Post-Impressionist, pastel figural showing a young woman in a cobalt dress seated in an olive green chair and holding a flower, beside a table bearin...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Ink
Rockport, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P5.48), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 17 x 20 in. (43.18 x 50.8 cm), Description: This view of Rockport, M...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sea Shells – Blue
Gold
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sea Shells – Blue & Gold, c. 1940s, watercolor on paper, signed upper left, 15 x 19 ¼ inches (image); title and artist’s name and address inscribed verso, presented in a newer glazed...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century, A City Street Scene
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris, France: A City Street Scene
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
unsigned
watercolour and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed
sheet 9.75 x 12.25 inches
Very nicely execu...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
$493 Sale Price
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Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century City Architectural Winter Scene
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: City Winter Scene
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
watercolour and gouache painting with charcoal on artist's paper, unframed
Sheet: 9.75 x 13.5 inches
Intriguing painting by the...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Charcoal
$477 Sale Price
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Taos Yard
, New Mexico, ASL NY, Paris, Ac.Chaumière, LACMA, Woman Artist, CSFA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'A. K. Skeele' for Anna Katharine Skeele (American, 1896-1963); titled, verso, 'Taos Yard' (visible from front, lower left) and painted circa 1945.
Born in Ohio ...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Original 1940s Retrofuturism Gouache Painting
Birth of Mind
in Black
White
Located in Denver, CO
This vintage 1941 gouache painting on paper, titled Birth of Mind, signed and dated lower right, is a striking example of retrofuturism by Charles Ragland Bunnell, a prominent artist from the Broadmoor Academy...
Category
Futurist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
Untitled (Children Sleeping)
By Amalia Polleri
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Amalia Polleri, 'Untitled (Sleeping Children)', Conté crayon on cream wove drawing paper, signed and dated '43 in ink beneath the image, lower right; with 1/4 margins all around. Arc...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté
Matador
By Julian Levi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Born in New York, Julian Levi spent his early years in Philadelphia. He began his art studies art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Arthur B. Carles, Daniel Garber, and Henry McCarter. On graduation, Levi was awarded a scholarship which he used to travel to Italy and Paris. During his stay in Europe, which lasted five years, from 1920 to 1925, Levi was influenced by Cubism. He was especially drawn to the art of Juan Gris, adopting the gentle color harmonies and precise linear treatments of forms found in Gris's works. In 1924, Levi participated in an important show of Philadelphia modern artists which included works by Charles Demuth, Hugh Breckinridge, Franklin Watkins...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Agony, Motif - Drawing by Arshile Gorky - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Agony, Motif is a contemporary artwork realized by Arshile Gorky in 1946.
Ink, pen and wax crayon on paper.
Incudes frame: 41.5 x 38.5
Good conditions (little tears and shading of...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wax Crayon, Ink, Pen
Nude - Original India Ink Drawing by Herta Hausmann - 1940 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in China ink realized in 1940 ca, by Herta Hausmann.
With the stamp of the artist's atelier on the rear.
Very good conditi...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII
Located in New York, NY
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII. 18 x 24 inches Watercolor on paper. c. 1940s. Signed lower right.
BIO
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Category
American Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Napoleonic Guard at the Cathedral of Uspensky Sobor
, Moscow, French Militaria
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'C.H.' for Charles Constantine Hoffbauer (French, 1875-1957) and painted circa 1900.
Accompanied by the original artist-signed mat, original backing with inscr...
Category
Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Rockport, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P3.28), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 11 x 16.5 in. (27.94 x 41.91 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's wate...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Young Man
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Outstanding male portrait by 20th-century American artist, Vito Tomasello.
Portrait of a young man, c.1950. Charcoal and pastel on paper, sheet measures an impressive 11 x14 inches...
Category
Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Torre Annunziata, Italy - Mid Century Marine Seascape with Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous watercolor depiction of the Liberty Class Dry Cargo Ship "Charles Scribner" docked in Torre Annunziata, Italy, with a portrait of a man in pencil in the upper left corner, by Giovanni Gallo...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
$1,200 Sale Price
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"Second Theme" 1949 Abstract Mid 20th Century Geometric Non-Objective Hard Edge
Located in New York, NY
"Second Theme" 1949 Abstract Mid 20th Century Geometric Non-Objective Hard Edge
Burgoyne A. Diller (American, 1906-1965) "Second Theme" 1949. Pencil and crayon on paper. Signed and dated 'D. 49' (lower right). Image: 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York. David K. Anderson Grandchildren's Trust.
BURGOYNE DILLER (1906-1965) Recognized as the first American painter to embrace the tenets of Neo-Plasticism, Burgoyne Diller made an important contribution to the development of non-objective art in the United States. Working in a hard-edged geometric style, he produced paintings, drawings, and collages that paved the way for the development of American Minimalism during the 1960s and 70s.
Born in New York City in 1906, Diller began painting and drawing as a teenager growing up in Battle Creek, Michigan. Later, while attending Michigan State University in East Lansing on an athletic scholarship, he made weekend visits to the Art Institute of Chicago, where he familiarized himself with Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting. He was especially drawn to the landscapes and still lives of Paul Cézanne, who modeled color to create structure and volume.
In 1929, Diller moved to Manhattan and enrolled at the Art Students League, where his teachers included such progressive-minded painters as Jan Matulka, Hans Hofmann, and George Grosz. Hofmann's concept of the "push-pull" effect of form and color exerted a strong influence on his early work, as did his growing familiarity with Analytical and Synthetic Cubism, German Expressionism, and other vanguard European styles. Diller had the opportunity to see some of this work firsthand, but he also kept abreast of developments abroad by reading journals such as Cahiers d'Art.
Diller completed his studies at the League in 1933, the year he had his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Gallery in New York. It was around this time that his paintings began to show the influence of the reductive, pared-down geometric compositions of the Dutch Constructivist Piet Mondrian and the equally restrained compositions of Kasimir Malevich and El Lissitsky...
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Abstract 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
Iris Numerata
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Eduard Houbolt (Hof van Delft, 1885 – The Hague, 1954)
Iris Numerata
Signed, dated and inscribed “Eduard Houbolt / fecit. ad vivum / 10. Juni. 1947 / IRIS N...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of Young Man
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Outstanding male portrait by 20th-century American artist, Vito Tomasello.
Portrait of a young man, c.1950. Pencil on paper, sheet measures 14 x 17 inches.
Excellent condition. S...
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Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Navajo Family
, Santa Fe, Modernism, Corcoran, Whitney, PAFA, AIC, WPA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'by Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966), dedicated lower center, 'for Ruth' and painted circa 1945. Additionally signed and titled verso 'Navajo Fa...
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Art Deco 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
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