Boat Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Late 19th century drawing on paper of a French marine scene by noted French artist Georges Ricard-Cordingley. Carrying the atelier stamp to the bottom left and with full annotation and certification to the back of the paper. Provenance: This drawing came from the estate of the artist's daughter who had acquired it directly from her father. It is from his earliest period of drawing when his talents were first being recognised. A charming drawing capturing the scene of a paquebot, a small passenger ship, leaving the dock at Boulogne sur Mer. Cordingley has captured the majesty of the scene, the rolling waves, the force of nature. 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...

Sketches is an original Drawing on paper realized by the painter Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934). Drawing in Pencil. Good conditions except for aged margins. The artwork is re...

'Seaside Strollers in Cannes', watercolour on art paper, by Yves Brayer (circa 1970s). Even when not in summertime, passers-by and flâneurs in Cannes will find purpose and joy along ...

A beautiful watercolour by listed artist Walter J. Morgan depicting a Venetian woman standing before a canal. Presented in a titled gilt mount and ornat...

The Painter And His Work is a charcoal drawing on brown paper. Unsigned. Good conditions except for some folds and some rips on the corners. Prolific and eclectic, the Italian Gio Colucci (Florence, 1892 – Paris, 1974), also known in France as Geo Colucci, was a painter, engraver, illustrator, ceramist, and sculptor. From 1921, he exhibited his engravings in various salons. He worked with French publishers specialized in the illustrated books of high bibliophilia, and delivered series of remarkable prints for texts by Barbey d'Aurevilly, Pierre Loti, Guy Maupassant...