Square Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

This piece titled "Oasis" is an original artwork by Heather Sundquist Hall, as part of the Paradigm's "Breaking Through" exhibition. The exhibition showcases each artist's individu...

Eduard Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978) What’s the Time? Pen and crayon, tondo Signed and dated ‘Kapp 75’ (in the centre) 8.1/2 x 8.1/2 in. (21.6 x 21.6 cm.) Edmond Kapp was born in Islington, London, on 5 November 1890, of American and German Jewish parentage. He gave himself the middle initial ‘X’ – sometimes said to stand for Xavier – to distinguish himself from his father Emil Kapp, who was a wine merchant. However, his parents called him ‘Eddie’ while his wife and friends knew him as ‘Peter’. During his early years, Kapp was continually ill and, while convalescing, entertained himself by drawing at home. As his health improved, he attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Islington (1903-10), with periods at Berlin University (1909) and L’Institut Français pour les Etrangers, Paris (1909). He then read Languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1910-13), though spent most of his time writing and drawing. Kapp took a studio in London, and worked intensively until the outbreak of the First World War, contributing to the Daily News, the Onlooker and other periodicals. During the war, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front, and then in Intelligence, rising to the position of Staff Captain on Haig’s Staff. Finally, he founded and directed the Neutral Press Counter-propaganda Section. In 1919, Kapp returned to London and, after abortive periods at three art schools, worked alone. In that year, he made his name with an exhibition of caricatures, held at Furst’s Gallery, London, and accompanied by a catalogue introduced by Max Beerbohm. This soon led to contracts with three London periodicals and a book of caricatures, Personalities, published by Martin Secker. Through the 1920s and 30s, his drawings of musicians and other personalities appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, most notably Time & Tide; were collected in further volumes; and were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. He considered himself to be a ‘character-portraitist’, producing images of psychological not satirical power, and disliking the term ‘caricature’. Between the wars, Kapp developed other aspects of his artistic talents, the desire to study and the search for subject matter often taking him abroad. For instance, work at the British Academy, Rome, under Antonio Sciortino...

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...

Elisabeth Condon’s Memorial Flowers series reimagines the still life as a meditation on memory, impermanence, and renewal. Using gouache and ink, she stages vibrant floral arrangemen...

Xiao Wen Xu is a Chinese-born Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada, Her artistic practice is deeply influenced by her profound appreciation for the natural world. In her series, ...

Xiao Wen Xu is a Chinese-born Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada, Her artistic practice is deeply influenced by her profound appreciation for the natural world. In her series, ...

Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s. Hand signed right. Excellent condition.

Xiao Wen Xu is a Chinese-born Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada, Her artistic practice is deeply influenced by her profound appreciation for the natural world. In her series, ...

Pear - sill life composition - exquisite highly contemporary still life oil and collage painting on wood panel, 48 x 48 inches. The work has a quiet overall presence. Artist signed, ...

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) set of 3 watercolour on paper, unframed Left: 8.25 x 5.5 inches, signed lower right Top Right: 3.5 x 5.25 inch...

"I make quiet paintings in a noisy world. My work is an intimate meditation on humble objects and the detritus of studio life. I aim to promote a reengagement with the mundane while ...

Very fine original antique English botanical watercolour paintings depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, Eng...

This work by Ingrida Irve makes us travel to Latvian fields around midsummer, where poppies are dominating the color palette. Ingrida Irbe (1969) Born 15th of June 1969 in Riga ...

"Clown Fish" (2020) by Dustin Panzino is a beautiful digital painting created in Procreate, which details a fantasy scene of a knighted version of a court's...

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) set of 2 watercolour on paper, unframed top painting : 5 x 7.75 inches, signed bottom right bottom painting: 5...

"I make quiet paintings in a noisy world. My work is an intimate meditation on humble objects and the detritus of studio life. I aim to promote a reengagement with the mundane while ...

Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers and still life. She is one of the most productive wate...

With watercolour detail. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.

This Art Print on recycled paper features a baseball image for the one's who love the game. The contemporary and timeless aesthetic makes it perfect for a child's room or sports room...

Vibrant watercolor of pears with surreal patterning by Kathy Garvey (American, b. 1949). Initialed "KG" in the lower right corner. Notes by the artist on verso, including date and ti...

Sally-Ann Johns’ striking work often depicts everyday birds and animals, sometimes portraits, displayed in a unique and exciting way. Set into a gold lined box, they conjure images o...

Xiao Wen Xu is a Chinese-born Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada, Her artistic practice is deeply influenced by her profound appreciation for the natural world. This artwork is...

Sonia Delaunay - Original Watercolor on paper Dimensions: 21 x 21 cm. Authentified by her son Charles Delaunay on the back. Sonia Delaunay was known for her vivid use of color and her bold, abstract patterns, breaking down traditional distinctions between the fine and applied arts as an artist, designer and printmaker. Born Sarah Stern on November 14, 1885 in Gradizhsk, Ukraine, she was adopted in 1890 by her maternal uncle, Henri Terk, a lawyer in St. Petersburg, where she grew up, exposed to music and art, and learning several foreign languages. In 1903, she moved to Germany to study drawing with Ludwig Schmidt-Reutler (1863–1909) at the Karlsruhe academy of fine arts; Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), composer-to-be, was among her classmates there. In 1905, she traveled to Paris where she attended art classes at the Académie de la Palette, learned printmaking from Rudolf Grossman (1889–1941), and met Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966), André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974), and Jean-Louis Boussingault (1883–1943). Sonia spent much of her time at exhibitions and galleries in Paris, which showed works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard, as well as Les Fauves, Henri Matisse and André Derain. She did, however, maintain contact with Germany, exhibiting at the Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, in 1913, 1920 and 1921. During her first year in Paris, Sonia met the German collector and art-dealer, Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), whom she married on December 5, 1908, and whose Montparnasse gallery, the Galerie Notre-Dame des Champs, showed her first solo exhibition. Through Uhde, Sonia encountered many painters, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Robert Delaunay (1885–1941). In 1910, Sonia divorced Uhde by mutual agreement, married Delaunay that same year, and gave birth to their son, Charles, in January 1911. Together Sonia and Robert Delaunay pursued the study of color, influenced by theories of Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889). Sonia’s interest in simultaneous contrast, as evidenced in her early collages, book bindings, small painted boxes...

On a warm spring day, the hens wander gracefully across their yard. Two proud roosters — eternal rivals — clash for supremacy: in strength, in honor, and in the heart of a charming l...

Artwork ''Hands of Childhood'' captures a warm, soul-soothing moment of childhood — when you simply can’t pass by a sunlit field without picking a dandelion that has already turned i...

Joseph Stella was a visionary artist who painted what he saw, an idiosyncratic and individual experience of his time and place. Stella arrived in New York in 1896, part of a wave of ...

'Big Candy Grid' features abstracted candy shapes with vivid and florescent colors within a dazzling contemporary "pop art" composition. Monotype ev edition...

A remarkable still life painting by the French Symbolist artist Edgard Maxence (1871-1954). The arrangement depicts a bold display of zinnias in an openwork creamware basket before t...

“Strawberry Hunt” captures the sweetest kind of hunt one can experience in a garden — gathering sun-ripened June strawberries. The artwork carries a sense of refreshing lightness: ti...

A very finely detailed botanical study of orchids in watercolour. The artist has signed and dated to the lower right and the painting has been presented in a simple gilt frame with c...

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) set of 2 watercolor on paper, unframed Top painting : 5 x 7.75 inches, signed bottom right bottom painting: 5 ...

"I make quiet paintings in a noisy world. My work is an intimate meditation on humble objects and the detritus of studio life. I aim to promote a reengagement with the mundane while ...

Xiao Wen Xu is a Chinese-born Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada, Her artistic practice is deeply influenced by her profound appreciation for the natural world. In her series, ...

Burak Ata Title: Same Shit Year: 2017 Medium: Watercolor on Paper Size: 25 x 25 cm Signed, dated and inscribed by the artist Burak Ata was born in Istanbul in 1989. He graduated fro...

The more transcendental the representation, the more it tends to evoke it through its prodigies. Such is the case of the Double standard series in the words of the artist "It is a pr...

This wall-hanging painting titled "Be Here Now" is an original artwork by Melissa Lomax made of acrylic paint & colored pencils on wood. This piece measure...

Stephan Hoffpauir’s photorealistic watercolors invite viewers to contemplate spaces that, while familiar, are largely ignored by those who fleetingly pass through them. Among his sub...

'Hydrangeas in White' Original Artwork, Unframed _________________ Sunlight dancing upon the hydrangeas, blooming in sumptuous summer fullness, giving the shadows depth and form. On...

Lowell Nesbitt Untitled Rose, 1983 Graphite on Lanaquarelle Watercolor Paper Signed and dated on the front Framed Unique, poignant, exquisitely rendered graphite drawing on watercolor paper with deckled edges. This work is framed and ready to hang; frame bears Alan Brown Gallery (Hartsdale) label verso. It was acquired from the Estate of Noel Frackman, renowned art historian, scholar, writer, and professor with a lifelong passion for 20th Century Art - and a close personal friend of Lowell Nesbitt. She earned a M.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in English Literature and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. She was an art critic for the Patent Trader Newspaper and the Scarsdale Inquirer, contributing editor for Arts Magazine, author of numerous catalogs including ''John Storrs'', for the Whitney Museum of American Art. For 19 years she was a faculty member at Purchase College, State University of New York. Measurements: Framed: 13 inches by 13 inches x .5 Artwork: approx. 10.5 inches by 10.5 inches Lowell Nesbitt Biography: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and sculptor, was born in Baltimore, Maryland on 4 October 1933. He studied at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Nesbitt worked in abstraction until Robert Indiana suggested in the early 1960s that he explore realism in his paintings. As subjects for his work he favored studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes, his Rottweiler, the Neo-Classical facades of 19th century cast iron buildings, and Manhattan's bridges. He was also famous for his enormous paintings and prints of roses, lilies, irises, and other flowers. In 1980, the United States Post Office issued...

Signed lower right, 'Laurence Bell' (British, died 1916) and painted circa 1910. Bell studied at the Bushey School of Art in Hertfordshire in England. His preferred subject was land...

'Oleander in a Tall Vase' watercolor on paper. Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and si...

This still-life drawing titled "Tell Your Ride" is an original artwork by James Oliver made of acrylic, graphite and color marker on canvas board. This piece measures 12" x 12" frame...

'Fancy Cake no. 2' original watercolor painted in 2023 by Cleveland-born and educated Gary Bukovnik who has lived in California for over 40 years. Bukovnik’s art conveys a monumental...

Perfect for sport lovers, this is a series of four Art Prints on recycled paper featuring, hockey, soccer, baseball and football. The contemporary and timeless aesthetic makes them s...

'Camellia Study no. 2' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and si...

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom watercolor on paper, unframed set of 3 Top painting: 5 x 8.25 inches Left painting: 4 x 3.75 in...

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom watercolor on paper, unframed set of 4 Left to right: 1: 3.75 x 2.5 inches 2 3.75 x 2.5 inches ...

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) Set of 3 Watercolour on paper, unframed Left: 7 x 5 inches Top Right: 2.75 x 2.5 inches, signed lower right Bo...

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) Set of 2 Watercolour on paper, unframed Measures: Top painting : 4.5 x 7 inches, signed bottom right Bottom pa...

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) set of 3 watercolour on paper, unframed Left: 8.25 x 5.5 inches, signed lower right Top Right: 3.5 x 5.25 inch...

Angela A’Court’s narrative and still life drawings use a simple and direct vocabulary to show the relationship of experience to expression of beauty and the quirkiness of every day m...

Otto Münch (German-American, 1885-1965) Design for Teacups, c. 1920 Watercolor on paper 9 1/8 in. diameter Frame: 16 7/8 x 16 7/8 x 1 in. Provenance: Chamberlin Gallery, New York ...

Xiao Wen Xu is a Chinese-born Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada, Her artistic practice is deeply influenced by her profound appreciation for the nat...