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Period: Mid-20th Century
Hopeless - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1930 ca
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Hopeless is a Colored lithograph realized on japan paper by Jean Cocteau (1889 -1963) in 1930 ca. French draftsman, poet, essayist, playwright, librettist, ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (Standing Male Nude Model)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, early 1930...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine 1930s Modern Drawing- Figure Study Sketch Class, Artists
Male Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Depicting an Artist's Sketch Class and a Seated Young Male Mode by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An excep...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
French Watercolor - Fishing Boats
Located in Houston, TX
French watercolor of quiet fishing village in Brittany, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-size frame. Archiva...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Fine Graphite Portrait of Beautiful Young Woman by R.G. Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fine Graphite Portrait of Beautiful Young Woman by R.G. Smith
Portrait dimensions 15.5" x 19.5".
The frame measures 17.5" x 21.5".
Signed in the lower right corner.
The portrait ...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
"Study for decoration Moscow metro station" Kievskaya Tempera, Real socialism
Located in Torino, IT
Real Socialism,Moscow,1970,Russia,Orange,Men at Work,Propaganda
VIKTOR A. KONOVALOV (Uidol, Vladimir region 1912 – Moscow 1995)
Russian painter and graphic designer. He was born in...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Grazing Cattle in Normandy
Located in London, GB
'Grazing Cattle in Normandy', watercolour on paper, by Genevieve Gallibert (circa 1930s). The artists captures a tranquil scene in Vallée d'Auge, Norman...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$308 Sale Price
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Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Fiery Sky
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Expressionist
Subject: Landscape
Medium: Watercolor
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
Dimensions w/Frame: 16" x 28"
Murray Hantman (1904–1999) was a painter, muralist, an...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Near and Far Acuity, Signed Mid Century Modern Op Art painting, historic exhibit
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Near and Far Acuity, 1957
Gouache and watercolor painting on board
Hand signed and dated 1957 by Richard Anuszkiewicz on the right front
Frame included
Anuszkie...
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Op Art Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache
Mid Century French Ink Sketches of Women in Elegant Attire
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Ink Sketches of Women in Elegant Attire
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Ink and Paper
Size: 10.5 (height) x 8.25 (width)
Stamped: Ver...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
$108 Sale Price
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John Dronsfield - 1930s British Theatre Set Design - watercolour
Located in London, GB
JOHN DRONSFIELD
(1900-1951)
Stage Set Design with Shields
Signed l.r.: Dronsfield
Watercolour and pencil
Unframed, in mount only
38 by 36 cm., 15 by 14 in.
(mount size 51 by 49 cm...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Flowers 2 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper and Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards...
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Folk Art Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century French Pastel Drawing of Garden with Olive Trees and Cottage
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Pastel Drawing of Garden with Olive Trees and Cottage
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper
Size: 19.75 (height) x ...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Mid Century French Portrait Seated Male Nude in a Meditative Pose
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seated Male Nude in a Meditative Pose
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: signed black pen/charcoal on artists paper stuck on board, glass covered
Size: 9.5 (h...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen, Charcoal
$164 Sale Price
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A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, early 1930...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
A Finely Drawn 1930s Modern Figure Study, Standing Male Nude Model, Back
Located in Chicago, IL
A Finely Drawn 1930s Modern Figure Study of a Standing Male Nude Model (Back) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An early charcoal drawing by Haydon showing ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Artist with her Portfolio
, Paris, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lyon, Young Woman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Ph. Noyer' for Philippe Henri Noyer (French, 1917-1985), inscribed, 'Paris' and dated 1959.
After a traditional education at the elite Ecole des Roches, Philipp...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
Still Life - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1960s.
Hand signed lower right.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Vintage 1950s Pastel
Charcoal Drawing of a Hockey Game by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
For your hockey enthusiast! A dynamic 1950s, pastel and charcoal on paper drawing of a hockey game by famed Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 9 x 12 inches. Matted to: 14 x 18 inches. Estate stamped on reverse. Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington and Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Woman Seated
, Paris, Louvre, Salon d
Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
An atmospheric and psychologically penetrating figural drawing, sho...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Mid Century French Original Pastel Drawing of Hillside View with Cypress Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Original Pastel Drawing of Hillside View with Cypress Trees
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper
Size: 19.75 (heig...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Horse
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon
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 Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Paris River Seine Bridge and Boats French Watercolour Cityscape by Pierre Neveu
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Paris River Seine Bridge and Boats French Watercolour Cityscape by Pierre Neveu
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on card, unframed
Size (H x W): 5.25 x...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century French Original Pastel Painting - Coastal View from the Hills
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Original Pastel Painting - Coastal View from the Hills
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper
Size: 19.25 (height) x...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 10 x 6.5 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we have...
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Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
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...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Mid Century French Original Pastel Painting of a Woman in a Lush Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Original Pastel Painting of a Woman in a Lush Landscape
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper
Size: 25.5 (height) x...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
1950s Vintage Charcoal Female Nude Study by Henry Woon
Located in Arp, TX
Henry Woon
Charcoal Female Nude 2
c. 1950's
Charcoal on Strathmore Charcoal Paper
25"x19 1/2"Unframed
Signed in ink H Woon lower right
His large portfolio of charcoal drawings was ...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Vintage French Watercolour Painting Scenic View of Monaco’s Coastline
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Monaco’s Coastline
Tony Minartz (French, 1873 - 1994)
signed watercolour on artist paper
painting : 12.5 x 17 inches
Provenance: private collection in the South of France,
Conditio...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$933 Sale Price
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Mid Century French Original Pastel Painting of Renoir
s House in Cagnes-sur-Mer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: "Mid Century French Original Pastel Painting of Renoir's House in Cagnes-sur-Mer"
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper
Size: 19.75 (h...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
In the Art Gallery, Early 20th Century Watercolor, Women Viewing Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Jules Andre Smith (American, 1880-1959)
In the Art Gallery, 1936
Watercolor and pen and ink
Signed Andre Smith, 1936 lower right
10.75 x 8.5 inches
20.25 x 17.25 inches, framed
Jule...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pen, Ink, Watercolor
The Boxer
Located in London, GB
Ink and wash on paper
Signed ‘Harry’ and dated (lower right)
58cm × 38cm (74cm × 54cm framed)
Henry Robertson Craig studied at the Dundee College of Art, where he met his lifelong p...
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Post-War Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Early Constructions no. 21
Located in London, GB
Toni LaSelle (1901–2002) was a pioneering American modernist and a key figure in shaping
modern art education in the United States. Strongly influenced by European movements such as ...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Ink
A 1940s Modern Surreal Abstract Drawing "Overseas" by Hananiah Harari
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking, 1940s Modern Surrealist Abstract Drawing, "Overseas" by Notable New York Avant Garde Artist, Hannah Harari (Am. 1912-2000). Graphite on yellow toned paper, dating from 1...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Graphite
Tranquil Mountain Lake and Hillside Landscape Watercolor
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Tranquil Mountain Lake and Hillside Landscape Watercolor
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on card unframed
Size (H x W): 14.75 x 7.75 inches
Signed low...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
$477 Sale Price
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Nude
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Nude" 1947 is a watercolor on paper by noted California (German/American) artist Ernst Stolz, 1901-1989. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist....
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Alfred Birdsey Bermuda watercolor
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alfred Birdsey: 1912-1996. Well listed artist who was born in England, but spent most of his adult life in Bermuda. He is almost exclusively known for his Bermuda watercolors such as...
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
1940
s Provence French Delicate Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
Signed and dated 46'
From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
meas...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Bouquet in vase
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Golden wooden frame
72 x 57.5 x 2.5 cm
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid 20th Century French Post Impressionist Signed Painting Golden Building Ruins
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) signed watercolour on card, unframed
painting: 18 x 22 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
condition: very good a...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Autumn Forest - Mid Century Abstracted Fauvist Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century fauvist watercolor landscape with lush, vivid trees and distant houses by Emily Shotwell Goeller-Wood (American, 1887-1965). Presented in a rustic giltwood frame...
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Fauvist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
$1,320 Sale Price
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French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on thick board
unframed: 8 x 8 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we have fo...
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Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
Riverside Houses Reflected in Water French Impressionist Landscape Watercolour
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Riverside Houses Reflected in Water French Impressionist Landscape Watercolour
Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929)
Medium: Watercolour on artist paper, unframed
Size (H x W):...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Bouquet of Flowers - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1960s.
Hand signed and dated lower left.
Excellent condition.
Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, died i...
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Contemporary Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Amate Bark Painting - People Working in a Village
Located in Soquel, CA
Amate Bark Painting - People Working in a Village by Manuel Remigio S.
In this scene, people are working in a village. Interspersed throughout th...
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Folk Art Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
$760 Sale Price
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A Very Finely Drawn 1930s Figure Study of a Young Male Nude Model (Torso Study)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Very Finely Drawn 1930s Figure Study of a Young Male Nude Model (Torso Study) by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An early charcoal drawing by Haydon...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Paul Brown Meadow Brook Steeple Chase At Ambrose Clark Estate Drypoint
Located in Bristol, CT
Meadow Brook Steeple Chase at Ambrose Clark Estate, Broad Hollow, Old Westbury, Long Island
Art Sz: 7 1/2"H x 11 1/4"W
Frame Sz: 15 1/4" H x 18 5/8"W
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Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Drypoint
Figure - Original Drawing - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing realized by Unknown Artist in mid-20th Century.
Beautiful watercolour drawing on brown-colored paper. Included passport (35 x 28 cm).
Good condition, ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
1950
s Modernist/ Cubist Painting - French Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
stamped verso
size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$288 Sale Price
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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...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
1951 Ink Drawing Still Life, Studio Interior by Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A highly finished, 1951 detailed ink drawing of a still-life and studio interior by notable Chicago Modern artist, Harold Haydon. A striking drawing completed on fine, hand-made pap...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink
A 1951 Ink on Paper Figure Study of a Conversation by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A ink on paper figure study by artist Harold Haydon depicting a conversation. Artwork size: 12" x 9 1/2". Archivally matted to 14" x 16". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Haro...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Paper
An Intimate 1930s Modern Charcoal Study of a Seated Young Male at a Lake House
Located in Chicago, IL
An Intimate, 1930s Modern Charcoal Study of a Seated Young Male Figure by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Most likely completed circa 1932 at a summer lake ho...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Stunning ca. 1950s Cubist Watercolor of Irises by Rita Duis (Astley-Bell)
Located in Chicago, IL
A stunning Modern Cubist watercolor on paper of purple irises by Chicago and New York artist Rita Duis (Astley-Bell). Signed and inscribed "Duis A.W.S." (American Watercolor Society...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Butterfly
Flowers 1 — Hopei Folk Art, Mid-Century Chinese Cut Paper Watercolor
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Butterfly & Flowers', Chinese Hopei Folk Art, 1956. Paper-cut with watercolor, mounted on cream, wove backing paper, with fresh, vivid colors, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 4 5/8 x 3 1/8 inches; sheet size 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches; mat size 14 x 11 inches.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Hopei or Hebei is a province of North East China, on the Gulf of Chihli near Beijing that is home to Chengde Mountain Resort, the imperial summer residence of the Qing-dynasty emperors. Chengde contains 18th-century palaces, gardens, and pagodas ringed...
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Folk Art Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1930s Surrealist Still Life with Profile and Hanger by Artist Jan Matulka
By Jan Matulka
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1930 graphite on pencil drawing of Surrealist still life of an egg beater by notable artist Jan Matulka. Image size: 8 1/2" x 11". Archivally matted to...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
"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 Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
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...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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