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Period: 20th Century
Flowers on a Window Sill
, Royal Provenance, Russia, Queen Elizabeth II
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Olga' for Her Imperial Highness, Olga Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess of Russia (Russian, 1882-1960) and painted circa 1925.
Provenance: Formerly in the collection o...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Terrace
Located in London, GB
'The Terrace', watercolour on art paper, by Maurice Savin (circa 1950s). An inviting scene from the South of France depicts a quiet sun terrace on a balmy day with azure skies. The v...
Category
Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$618 Sale Price
40% Off
Botanical Studies, Watercolours on Silk on Handmade Paper, Set of Three Tulips.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A set of three fine hand painted botanical watercolour studies on silk of tulips by La Roche Laffitte. The works are signed bottom right. Some are titled and numbered (see photos) Th...
Category
20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Silk, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Gouache
$1,353 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine Antique British Botanical Painting Yellow Acacia Dealbata Flower
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very fine original antique English botanical watercolour paintings depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came t...
Category
Victorian 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Brown teapot surrounded by red onions on Yellow background
By Glenora Richards
Located in New Orleans, LA
Glenny created beautiful miniature watercolors, mostly still life. This image of a bronze teapot with red onions is a unique work of art.
Glenora Rich...
Category
Realist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pink Daisies
, California Watercolor Society, SWA, Woman Artist, Zoltan Szabo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Beverly Fields' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985.
This listed California artist has exhibited widely and with success and is the recipient of num...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Fine Antique British Botanical Painting Yellow Menziesia Pilosa
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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...
Category
Victorian 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Early 1900
s French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolours Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers"
by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century)
set of 2
watercolour on paper, unframed
top painting : 6 x 4.5 inches, signed bottom right
bottom painting: 5 ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Daffodils in Ceramic Pitcher"
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a beautiful watercolor still life on heavy paper by the German artist, E. Riehle. Signed and dated lower right, 1903. In good condition with it's orig...
Category
Academic 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$850 Sale Price
29% Off
André Lhote Cubist Composition Pen Drawing Painting, circa 1910
By André Lhote
Located in Atlanta, GA
This cubist black ink pen drawing by André Lhote (1885 - 1962), circa 1910, features a still-life composition, a bowl with fruits on a table with a cubist geometric design.
We added ...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Unique hand signed flower drawing on Michael Jackson
Bubbles print from SFMOMA
By Jeff Koons
Located in New York, NY
JEFF KOONS
Original Flower drawing on Michael Jackson and Bubbles poster (Hand Signed), 1992
Drawing done in marker on offset lithograph
25 × 39 inches
Hand signed and dated '92 in b...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Felt Pen, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
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: 4.5 x 6.25 inches.
Delightful early 20th century...
Category
20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Birds of Paradise
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant and detailed depiction of three bird of paradise flowers by unknown artist "Albright" (20th Century). Three flowers are shown with seve...
Category
Post-Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Abstract Still Life with Fruit and Flowers
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful still life with flowers and fruit by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned but was acquired from the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Unframed. Image; 14"H x 20"W.
Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson(American, 1928-2009) owned and operated the Bear Flag Gallery in San Juan Bautista, California for many years and was known for his plein air watercolor...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$223 Sale Price
20% Off
French Impressionist Interior Scene with Desk, Doll,
Sunflowers
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming and brightly colored French Impressionist watercolor, depicting an interior scene in great detail with an antique desk full of books, a bouquet of sunflowers, and a doll by ...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Nude Bathers by the River French Modern Oil Painting by Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Nude Bathers by the River French Modern Oil Painting by Guy Nicod
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Oil on artist paper attached to a board, unframed
Size: 16.5 x 19.75 inches (...
Category
Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
$677 Sale Price
40% Off
Figures in the Countryside - Drawing by Augustus Koopman - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures in the Countryside is an original artwork realized by Augustus Koopman (1869-1914) during the early 20th century.
Good condition apart some tear on the edge.
Pencil drawing.
Category
Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Sketch for L
Âne bleu, unique work, signed
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Sketch for L'Âne bleu
stamped with the signature 'Marc Chagall' (lower right)
pastel and charcoal on paper
18 7⁄8 x 24 in. (48 x 61 cm.)
Executed in 1954
...
Category
Symbolist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
Catherine Dean (1905-1983) - Framed 20th Century Watercolour, Potted Begonia
Located in Corsham, GB
Potted Begonia, Watercolour on paper. Signed and dated '82. Well presented in a large gilt-effect frame with linen mount.
Category
20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Study for the Chairlift (Anacapri) - Drawing by Ennio Calabria - 1965
Located in Roma, IT
Study for the chairlift (Anacapri) is a contemporary artwork realized by Ennio Calabria in 1965.
Mixed colored watercolor on paper.
Hand signed, dated and titled on the lower margi...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled Floral Still Life
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful floral still life by American artist Jane Piper (1916-1991) . Pastel, oil crayon and pencil on tracing paper. Image measuring 13 x 15.5 inches in ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Parchment Paper, Crayon, Pastel, Pencil
$1,200 Sale Price
40% Off
Botanical Studies, Pair of Watercolours on Silk on Handmade Paper, Anemones
Located in Cotignac, FR
A pair of fine hand painted botanical watercolour studies on silk of anemones by La Roche Laffitte. The works are signed bottom right. Both are titled. The silk has been mounted on h...
Category
20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Silk, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Gouache
Flower Bouquet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan)
Watercolor on paper, 12 x 9 ½ inches unframed sheet, 15 x 12 ½ inches framed, signed lower left
About the Artist:
Nan Watson...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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
Realist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Still Life Strings
Located in Houston, TX
Bright colors transcend the traditional still-life to animate this string instrument and opened book. Gouache by the French artist Madeleine Scali, circa 1970. Signed lower right.
...
Category
20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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
Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Modern British
What
s the Time?
by British German Kapp, 1975
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
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...
Category
Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Fine Antique British Botanical Painting White Flower Plant
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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...
Category
Victorian 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$384 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Fauvist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
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
Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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: 4.5 x 6.25 inches
Delightful early 20th century ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Feeling of spring. Paper, pastel 21x23 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Feeling of spring. Paper, pastel 21x23 cm
Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painte...
Category
Realist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$171 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid 20th Century French Painting Pink Poppies and Ferns In China Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Expressionist
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 16.75 x 15 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$324 Sale Price
76% Off
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: 5.5 x 8 inches
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The work is signed...
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Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Andy Warhol original offset drawing inscribed
Pecan Varieties
(in reverse)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Andy Warhol (American, 1928 – 1987)
Pecans, circa 1956
Ink offset drawing with some pencil detail
Inscribed in the reverse ‘Pecan varieties’ (mirror image)
Unsigned.
Estate of Andy ...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Tiger Lily - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of tiger lilies, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist De...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$319 Sale Price
20% Off
Roses Still Life Watercolor by M Boyer Cooper 1915
Located in Soquel, CA
Roses Still Life Watercolor by M Boyer Cooper 1915
Water of bouquet of Roses by California artist M Boyer Cooper circa 1915. (aunt of Opal Nelson Dean).
Signed lower right "M. Cooper...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Still Life - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1970s.
Hand signed right.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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 Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$248 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine Antique British Botannical Watercolour Painting, circa 1900
s Pink
Green
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, En...
Category
Victorian 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Original Parisian Vintage Jewelry Design Art by Van Cleef
Boucheron Designer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Teal and Amethyst Gemstone Twist RingJewelry Design
circa mid 20th century
by Paul Touzet (French b. 1917)
original gouache painting, with pencil on tracing paper
unframed
overall pa...
Category
French School 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Lemon Tree Branch Robert Freimark
Located in Surfside, FL
Robert Freimark (1922 - 2010),
Watercolor painting of a lemon tree branch
Hand signed and dated 1963 upper right,
Dimensions: 24.5 inches x 30.25 inches, image is 17 X 22.5
Robert...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Still Life with Wine and Fruit 4, Impressionist Painting by Charles Cobelle
Located in Long Island City, NY
A still-life painting of wine and fruit by Charles Cobelle. This piece features more muted and neutral colors than his other works and bears his signature in the lower right front co...
Category
20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, 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 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Pear Still Life, Modern Gouache Painting on paper by Robert Kulicke
Located in Long Island City, NY
Robert Kulicke, American (1924 - 2007) - Pear Still Life, Medium: Gouache on paper, monogramed on top in pencil, Image Size: 8 x 6.5 inches, Size: 8.5 x 7 in. (21.59 x 17.78 cm)
Category
Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Fleurs et Papillons - 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 and butterflies in blues, yellows, black and white. This work was executed by Dufy as a fabric design.
Dimensions:
Framed: 17"x27"
Unframed: 10"x20"
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
Fauvist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
View of Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1980.
Hand signed lower left. Date on rear,
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Old Reliable
, Early American Modernist, Jalopy, Model T Ford Flatbed Truck
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An American School watercolor showing an old Ford Model T flatbed truck backed up to a barn in a rural landscape.
A well-composed work painted in a harmonious palette by an accomplis...
Category
20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Fine Antique British Botannical Watercolour Painting, circa 1900
s
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A very fine original antique English botanical watercolor painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, Eng...
Category
Victorian 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Fine Antique British Botannical Watercolour Painting, circa 1900
s
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, En...
Category
Victorian 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
A Compelling, Surrealist 1946 Mid-Century Modern Still Life by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Compelling, Surrealist 1946 Mid-Century Modern Still Life Drawing by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A visually striking, finely executed charcoal drawing o...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Painter in the Jardin de Luxembourg, Paris
Located in London, GB
'Painter in the Jardin de Luxembourg, Paris', pastel on fine art paper, French School (1919). An intriguing depiction of a hatted-woman dressed in white at her easel in the park. A b...
Category
20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$581 Sale Price
50% Off
Fine Antique British Botannical Watercolour Painting, circa 1900
s
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, En...
Category
Victorian 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Fine Antique British Botannical Watercolour Painting, circa 1900
s Beautiful
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, En...
Category
Victorian 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Table for Four
, Paris, Rome, New York, Buenos Aires, Santa Maria di Leuca
By Aldo Riso
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Riso Aldo' for Aldo Riso (Italian, 1929-2008) and painted circa 1975.
Aldo Riso was born in 1927 in Santa Maria di Leuca, near Lecce. He graduated with a degree...
Category
20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
Still Life
, Birmingham, Alabama Fine Arts Museum, Huntsville Woman Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A delicately realized still-life showing a profusion of lilies and daisies informally arranged in a glass bowl and set upon round side table. Signed lower left, 'Beverly Bunn' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985.
Born to a family lineage of artists, Beverly Bunn received her bachelor of arts degree from Auburn University and, while at Auburn, she studied under Harry Lowe of the Smithsonian Institution. She served as the president of Huntsville Art League, vice president of the Alabama Art...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Rice Paper
Fine Antique British Botannical Watercolour Painting, circa 1900
s
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, En...
Category
Victorian 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled Floral Still Life
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful floral still life by American artist Jane Piper (1916-1991) .
Untitled. 1980.
Pastel, oil crayon and pencil on tracing paper. Image measuring 9 x 12 inches in original ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Parchment Paper, Crayon, Pastel, Pencil
$1,200 Sale Price
40% Off
Blue and Pink Composition : Surrealist Bouquet- Original Handsigned Pastel
Located in Paris, IDF
Claude GAVEAU
Blue and Pink Composition : Surrealist Bouquet (Silence in petals)
Original pastel drawing
Handsigned in pencil
Countersigned on the back (with another drawing on the ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
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