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Period: 20th Century
Phyllis I. Hibbert (b.1903) - Early 20th Century Watercolour, Mixed Flowers
Located in Corsham, GB
This large study of a display of flowers incorporates lilies, roses, foxgloves, hyacinths and honeysuckle among other pretty flowers. The artist's delicate touch has created a harmon...
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20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

A Stylish, Early 1940s Woman s Fashion Study Featuring Elizabeth Arden Cosmetics
Located in Chicago, IL
A stylish, vintage early 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's accessories and Elizabeth Arden cosmetics. Artwork size: 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Archivally ma...
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Art Deco 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil, Watercolor

Still Life of Seashells
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Still Life of Seashells, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 20" H x 25.75" W. Provenance...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Trevor Frankland (1931-2011) - 20th Century Graphite Drawing, Vase of Flowers
Located in Corsham, GB
Well presented in a white card mount. Signed. On watercolour paper.
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20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

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: 9.75 x 14.75 inches Delightful early 20th centur...
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Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Projet de Tissus - Fauvist Still Life Study Gouache by Raoul Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Botanical gouache on paper circa 1920 by French fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. The work depicts a study of apples and pears. This work was executed by Dufy as a fabric design. Dimensio...
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Fauvist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Anthurium, Colorful Floral Painting by Amanda Watt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A happy and bright floral painting with artist-painted frame by Irish artist Amanda Watt. Anthurium Amanda Watt, Irish (1960) Date: 1991 Acrylic on Paper, signed l.r. Size: 48 x 60 i...
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Contemporary 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic

Flower Pot, Impressionist Gouache Painting by Eugene Baboulene
By Eugene Baboulene
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eugene Baboulene, French (1905 - 1994) Title: Flower Pot Year: circa 1960 Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed and dedicated l.r. Size: 20 in. x 13 in. ...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Still Life with Flowers and Platter, Pastel on Paper by Adela Smith Lintelmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Adela Smith Lintelmann, American (1902 - 1996) - Still Life with Flowers and Copper Platter, Medium: Pastel on Paper, Size: 19.5 in. x 25 in. (49.53 cm x 63.5 cm), Frame Size: 30 x ...
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Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Outside with Parents from Grown Ups, Pop Art Pastel Drawing by Daniel Fusaro
By Daniel Fusaro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Darrell Fusaro, American (1962 - ) Title: Outside with Parents from Grown Ups Year: circa 1990 Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed l.l. Size: 22 x 29.5 in. (55.88 x 74.93 cm) Fra...
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Pop Art 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Still Life of Red Geraniums
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Signed lower right: Henry B. Snell Provenance Private collection Born in Richmond, England, on September 29, 1858, Henry Bayley Snell was the son of Edward and Elizabeth Snell. At ...
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American Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Watercolor

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, England and had been part of an album of works assembled by the artist during the early 1900's. During the Victorian and Edwardian era in Britain, it was very fashionable for ladies of aristocratic and wealthy backgrounds to draw and paint still lifes of flowers and plants that they had picked or seen in gardens. Many were highly accomplished and extremely talented artists, who sadly were not encouraged to exhibit due to society frowning upon such activities. Artist/ School: Caroline Worsley...
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Victorian 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Autumn flowers 1995, paper, watercolor, 47x36 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Autumn flowers 1995, paper, watercolor, 47x36 cm "Autumn flowers" is a colorful still-life painting created in 1995. It was made on paper using watercolors and measures 47x36 cm in size. The painting depicts various types of flowers in rich, autumnal colors arranged in a vase. The composition is lively and vibrant, with the colors blending seamlessly to create a sense of warmth and beauty. Overall, it is a lovely depiction of the changing of seasons and the beauty of nature. Oskars Berzins (1940) Born on September 20, 1940 Education 1970 graduated from Art academy of Latvia Graphics department. Diploma work-holiday...
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Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Flowers
Located in Genève, GE
Works on paper
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Italian School 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon, Watercolor

Flowers. 1997. Canvas, oil, 59x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers. 1997. Canvas, oil, 59x40 cm
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Expressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Oil

Plum Branches and Flowers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plum Branches and Flowers watercolor on wove paper, 1985 Signed and dated in pencil lower right corner From the artist's 1985 sketchbook Inspired by O'Sickey's love of Japanese and Chinese art and calligraphy. Provenance: Estate of the artist Condition: Excellent Image/Sheet size: 13 5/8 x 17 inches Joseph B. O’Sickey, Painter 1974 CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE FOR VISUAL ARTS The title conferred on him by Plain Dealer art critic Steve Litt in a 1994 article, “the dean of painting in northeast Ohio,” must have pleased Joseph O'Sickey. It was more than 30 years since he had burst onto the local (and national) art scene. O’Sickey was already in his 40s in that spring of 1962 when he had his first one-man show at the Akron Art Museum and was signed by New York’s prestigious Seligmann Galleries, founded in 1888. In the decade and a half that followed, he would have seven one-man shows at Seligmann, which had showed the work of such trailblazing figures as Seurat, Vuilliard, Bonnard, Leger and Picasso, and appear in all of the group shows. O’Sickey took the Best Painting award in the 1962 May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). He and would capture the same honor in back-to-back May Shows in 1964 and ’65, and again in 1967. The remarkable thing, noted the Plain Dealer’s Helen Borsick, was that he accomplished this sweep in a variety of painterly styles, even using that most hackneyed of subjects, flowers. “The subject doesn’t matter,” he told her, “what the artist brings to it is the important thing.” O’Sickey’s garden and landscape paintings were big and bold, eschewing delicate detail in favor of vitality and impact. The great art collector and CMA benefactor Katherine C. White, standing before one of O’Sickey’s vivid garden paintings, compared the sensation to “being pelted with flowers.” Though he might represent an entire blossom with one or two smudged brush strokes or a stem with a simple sweep of green, O’Sickey rejected the moniker of Impressionist—or Pointillist or Abstract painter or Expressionist. “My work,” he said, “is a direct response to the subject. I believe in fervor and poetic metaphor. I try to make each color and shape visible and identifiable within the context of surrounding colors and shapes. A yellow must hold its unique quality from any another yellow or surrounding color, and yet read as a lemon or an object, by inference. It does not require shading or modeling—the poetic evocation is part of the whole.” “The subject,” O’Sickey used to tell his students at Kent State University, where he taught painting from 1964 to 1989, “has to be seen as a whole and the painting has to be structured to be seen as a whole.” He liked to think of it as “a process of controlled rapture.” When, in the 1960s, fond childhood memories drew him to the zoo, he found himself responding to the caged animals in their lonely dignity (or indignity) with sharp-edged, almost silhouette-like forms that evoked Matisse’s paintings and cut-paper assemblages. One observer was left with the impression that the artist had “looked at these animals, past daylight and into dusk when they lose their details in shadow and become pure shapes, with eyes that are seeing the viewer rather than the other way around. This is a world of shape and essence,” wrote Helen Borsick. “All is simplification.” O’Sickey attributed his ability to capture his subjects with just a few strokes—in an almost iconographic way—to a rigorous exercise he had imposed upon himself over a period of several months. Limiting his tools to a large No. 6 bristle brush and black ink, he set himself the task of drawing his pet parakeet and the other small objects in its cage (cuttlebone, feeding dish, tinkling bell) hundreds of times. The exercise gave him “invaluable insights into painting. . . . Because of the crudity of the medium, every part of these drawings had to be an invention and every mark had to have its room and clarity.” Then he began adding one color at a time—“still with the same brush and striving for the same clarity”—and headed off to the zoo where “the world opened up to me. I learned how little it took to express the subject.” Born in Detroit at the close of the First World War, O’Sickey grew up in St. Stanislaus parish near East 65th and Fleet on Cleveland’s southeast side. (The apostrophe was inserted into the family’s proud Polish name by a clerk at Ellis Island.) An early interest in drawing and painting may have been kindled by the presence on the walls of Charles Dickens Elementary School, one of only three grade schools in the district with a special focus on the arts, of masterful watercolors by such Cleveland masters as Paul Travis, Frank N. Wilcox and Bill Coombes. As a youngster O’Sickey took drawing classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and he and his brother spent hours copying famous paintings; while a student at East Tech High School in the mid-’30s, he attended free evening classes in life drawing with Travis and Ralph Stoll at the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Institute, and Saturday classes at the Cleveland School (later the Cleveland Institute) of Art, where he earned his degree in 1940 under the tutelage of Travis, Stoll and such other legendary figures as Henry Keller, Carl Gaertner, William Eastman, Kenneth Bates...
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Contemporary 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

untitled (Still Life with Apples and Vase of Flowers)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
[recto];untitled (Sketches for Still Unsigned 9 1/2 x 12 inches (24.2 x 30.6 cm.)
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20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Watch Gears, Ink Drawing
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arman Title: Watch Gears Year: circa 1979 Medium: Ink on Paper Drawing, signed l.r. Paper Size: 25 x 19 inches Frame Size: 34 x 27.5 inches
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Conceptual 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Jamie Nares -Original flower monotype (unique, hand signed) Framed, de-accession
Located in New York, NY
James Nares Untitled flower monotype, 1988 Monotype on hand made paper Pencil signed and dated by James Nares on the lower right front Frame included: floated in the original wood fr...
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Contemporary 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Handmade Paper, Monotype

British Modernist Vibrant Watercolor Painting of Flowers, Sir Jacob Epstein
Located in Surfside, FL
Sir Jacob Epstein KBE (10 November 1880 – 19 August 1959) was an American British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British subject in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged ideas on what was appropriate subject matter for public artworks. He also made paintings and drawings, and often exhibited his work. Epstein's parents were Polish Jewish refugees, living on New York's Lower East Side. He studied art in his native New York as a teenager, sketching the city, and joined the Art Students League of New York in 1900. For his livelihood, he worked in a bronze foundry by day, studying drawing and sculptural modelling at night. Epstein's first major commission was to illustrate Hutchins Hapgood's 1902 book Spirit of the Ghetto. Epstein used the money from the commission to move to Paris. Moving to Europe in 1902, he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts. He settled in London in 1905 and married Margaret Dunlop in 1906. Epstein became a British subject on 4 January 1911. Many of Epstein's works were sculpted at his two cottages in Loughton, Essex, where he lived first at number 49 then 50, Baldwin's Hill (there is a blue plaque on number 50). He served briefly in the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, known as the Jewish Legion during World War I; following a breakdown, he was discharged in 1918 without having left England. In London, Epstein involved himself with a bohemian and artistic crowd. Revolting against ornate, pretty art, he made bold, often harsh and massive forms of bronze or stone. His sculpture is distinguished by its vigorous rough-hewn realism. Avant-garde in concept and style, his works often shocked his audience. This was not only a result of their (often explicit) sexual content, but also because they deliberately abandoned the conventions of classical Greek sculpture favoured by European Academic sculptors to experiment instead with the aesthetics of art traditions as diverse as those of India, West Africa, and the Pacific Islands. Between 1913 and 1915, Epstein was associated with the short-lived Vorticism movement and produced one of his best known sculptures The Rock Drill. Between the late 1930s and the mid-1950s, numerous works by Epstein were exhibited in Blackpool. Adam, Consummatum Est, Jacob and the Angel and Genesis, and other works, were initially displayed in an old drapery shop surrounded by red velvet curtains. The crowds were ushered in at the cost of a shilling by a barker on the street. After a small tour of American fun fairs, the works were returned to Blackpool and were exhibited in the anatomical curiosities section of Louis Tussaud's waxworks. Bronze portrait sculpture formed one of Epstein's staple products, and perhaps the best known. These sculptures were often executed with roughly textured surfaces, expressively manipulating small surface planes and facial details. Some fine examples are in the National Portrait Gallery. He completed a bust of Winston Churchill...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Shoe
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This work is unique. Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance issued by Christie’s. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visua...
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Pop Art 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Gouache

Contemporary watercolor photorealist car closeup painting reflection signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Yellow Cadillac" is an original watercolor painting by Bruce McCombs. The artist signed the piece lower right. It reatures a shiny yellow car with its doors open sitting on a suburb...
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Photorealist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P6.30), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's lush sti...
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Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Fernando s Sleeve" Black and White Abstract Organic Shape Charcoal Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white abstract charcoal drawing by Houston artist Paul Forsythe. The work features a large, abstract, organic shape in the upper right corner of the composition. Currently ...
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Abstract 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal, Pencil

Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P6.47), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Comprised of various flow...
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Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Israeli Yosl Bergner Modernist Watercolor Painting Drawing Pots, Pans
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract Composition, Kitchen Utensils. Ink and watercolor of kitchen implements. Hand signed in Hebrew upper left. Dimensions: (Frame) H 25" x 18" (Sight) H 18.5" x W 11.75" Bergn...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Ink, Watercolor

Flowers still life study drawing by Gerald Mac Spink
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you ...
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Art Deco 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Pen

Springtime Floral Bouquet
Located in Surfside, FL
Pastel, circa 20th century
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil Pastel

"Baby s Tears", Hand Augmented 1970s Botanical Screenprint, 96/270
Located in Soquel, CA
Whimsical 1970's hand painted botanical silkscreen of baby's tears plant by Babette Joslyn Bauman Eddleston (American, 1922-1990). This limited edition screen print has splashes of color painted in by hand. The edition number 96/270 is written lower left. It is titled "Baby's Tears" and signed "Babette Eddleston...
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American Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Still Life - Paint by Sandro Trotti - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Outstanding tempera on hard paper realized by Sandro Trotti in 1970s. Hand signed in pencil. Excellent condition.
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Tempera

Illustration Framed on Canvas: Minute Maid
Located in New York, NY
The murder of John Lennon. The birth of my children. Nixon’s resignation. Brain surgery. Driven by the desire to express myself, and leave a physical record of my life and times, I’v...
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Contemporary 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Wood, Color Pencil, Mixed Media

Early 20th C French Watercolor, botanical flowers from an University collection
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful watercolor depicting a plant/flower. These were used at a Belgium University to teach the students about botany. Dating from the early 20th century. They are watercolor on ...
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Art Nouveau 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Early 20th C French Watercolor, botanical flowers from an University collection
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful watercolor depicting a plant/flower. These were used at a Belgium University to teach the students about botany. Dating from the early 20th century...
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Art Nouveau 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Still Life , Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA, Carmel, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Certification of authenticity stamped, verso, for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los...
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20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache, Graphite

Flowers in a vase
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers in a vase paper/pastel, 70x54 cm
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Realist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Fruit Bowl
Located in Indianapolis, IN
Marion Bryson was an artist of the Cleveland School and is known for her watercolors of landscapes, animals and flowers. She was awarded first prize in the watercolor category in the...
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20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Still Life - Watercolor by Sirio Pellegrini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1970s. Hand signed. Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist cm. 60x45 Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, o...
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Contemporary 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Red Flowers in Basket, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Red Flowers in Basket (P1.7), Year: 1957, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22.5 x 15 in. (57.15 x 38.1 cm), Description: Set agains...
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Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P6.23), Year: 1958, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 29 in. (55.88 x 73.66 cm), Description: This cropped still life ...
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Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Red Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Red Flowers (P5.38), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Held within a small r...
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Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Vase of Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Vase of Flowers (P3.19), Year: 1960, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 17 x 13 in. (43.18 x 33.02 cm), Description: This stunning di...
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Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P5.9), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Set on a small wooden tabl...
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Impressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Classic Cars, Streamlined Coupe Art Deco Vintage Car Automobilia
Located in Miami, FL
Automobile and industrial designer George Hildebrand creates a conceptual illustration of a streamlined coupé design that epitomizes the Art Deco style of the 1930s, with aerodynamic...
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Art Deco 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Lily, Flower
Located in New York, NY
Visually bright and dynamic work by expressive California artist Bengston. Colors are crisp and the oversize sheet and size mays for strong visual impact in a room. Newly framed in...
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Abstract 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Original Painting Published Fortune Mag Cover 1935 Jewels Jewelry Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Published Fortune Mag Cover 1935 Jewels Jewelry Illustration Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Fortune cover published, Decembe...
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American Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Board

"Biomorphic Flowers" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the 1960s, Sylvia Spicuzza made several watercolor abstractions with biomorphic qualities like the one presented here. This example takes on the appearance of a flower, while the ...
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Abstract 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

R. Mot - Double Sided Early 20th Century Watercolour, Vivid Still Life
Located in Corsham, GB
A sheet of woven boasts equally compelling watercolors on both sides. Both paintings' subjects focus on ceramic ware and are executed with beaming and vivid palettes. Unsigned. On w...
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20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): Bailey 1977
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Contemporary 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Sonia Delaunay - Original Watercolor on paper
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
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...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

late 20th century still life oil painting with flowers and fruit signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Grey Pitcher" is a pastel still life by American artist Warren Brandt created in 1986. Warren Brandt is known for his still-life paintings being especial...
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Contemporary 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Yellow Flowers Gelbe Blüten - German Expressionism
Located in London, GB
This watercolour is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Heckel 48" [1948] in the lower right image. It is also hand titled in pencil “Gelbe Blüten” [Yellow Flowers] in th...
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Expressionist 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk, Watercolor, Laid Paper

Small, Charming, Fauvist Painting Michel Henry French Modernist School of Paris
Located in Surfside, FL
Michel-Henry was born in Langres in 1928 and has shown strong passion for drawing since his childhood. Michel-Henry is acknowledged as an important painter in French contemporary a...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Art Nouveau "Brookweed" original floral watercolor by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Located in Palm Beach, FL
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Art Nouveau 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pencil

Pears (Holly Solomon Gallery Readers Digest Collection) Signed painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
Robert Kushner Pears, 1985 Acrylic Collage on Paper; Framed with Holly Solomon Gallery Label Reader's Digest Art Collection Label Signed and titled by the artist on the f...
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Abstract 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Dieren - Modernist Mid 20th Century Gouache, Still life with Red Spoons
Located in Corsham, GB
This still life composition features a dark pitcher, white bowl, small cup and saucer, and red spoons, all positioned on a wooden table with a rich burgundy cloth. Signed to the lowe...
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20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Two Wood Ducks on a Flowering Branch
Located in New York, NY
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 Italian immigrants from poverty-stricken Southern Italy. But Stella was not a child of poverty. His father was a notary and respected citizen in Muro Locano, a small town in the southern Appenines. The five Stella brothers were all properly educated in Naples. Stella’s older brother, Antonio, was the first of the family to come to America. Antonio Stella trained as a physician in Italy, and was a successful and respected doctor in the Italian community centered in Greenwich Village. He sponsored and supported his younger brother, Joseph, first sending him to medical school in New York, then to study pharmacology, and then sustaining him through the early days of his artistic career. Antonio Stella specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis and was active in social reform circles. His connections were instrumental in Joseph Stella’s early commissions for illustrations in reform journals. Joseph Stella, from the beginning, was an outsider. He was of the Italian-American community, but did not share its overwhelming poverty and general lack of education. He went back to Italy on several occasions, but was no longer an Italian. His art incorporated many influences. At various times his work echoed the concerns and techniques of the so-called Ashcan School, of New York Dada, of Futurism and, of Cubism, among others. These are all legitimate influences, but Stella never totally committed himself to any group. He was a convivial, but ultimately solitary figure, with a lifelong mistrust of any authority external to his own personal mandate. He was in Europe during the time that Alfred Stieglitz established his 291 Gallery. When Stella returned he joined the international coterie of artists who gathered at the West Side apartment of the art patron Conrad Arensberg. It was here that Stella became close friends with Marcel Duchamp. Stella was nineteen when he arrived in America and studied in the early years of the century at the Art Students League, and with William Merritt Chase, under whose tutelage he received rigorous training as a draftsman. His love of line, and his mastery of its techniques, is apparent early in his career in the illustrations he made for various social reform journals. Stella, whose later work as a colorist is breathtakingly lush, never felt obliged to choose between line and color. He drew throughout his career, and unlike other modernists, whose work evolved inexorably to more and more abstract form, Stella freely reverted to earlier realist modes of representation whenever it suited him. This was because, in fact, his “realist” work was not “true to nature,” but true to Stella’s own unique interpretation. Stella began to draw flowers, vegetables, butterflies, and birds in 1919, after he had finished the Brooklyn Bridge series of paintings, which are probably his best-known works. These drawings of flora and fauna were initially coincidental with his fantastical, nostalgic and spiritual vision of his native Italy which he called Tree of My Life (Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth Foundation and Windsor, Inc., St. Louis, illus. in Barbara Haskell, Joseph Stella, exh. cat. [New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994], p. 111 no. 133). Two Wood Ducks...
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American Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Color Pencil

Cactus Flower
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Silverpoint and crayon on paper 4 11/16 x 3 inches 11.9 x 7.6 cm Framed dimensions 8 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches Provenance The artist; By bequest to his nephew, Sergio Stella, 1946; By desc...
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American Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon

Modern British pastel study of Red Peonies by Bernard Myers
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Bernard Myers (British, 1925 – 2007) Red Peonies Pastel on paper Signed ‘B. Myers’ (lower left) 24 x 31.3/4 in. (61 x 80.7 cm.) (including frame) From the estate of Bernard Myers Be...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Vintage French Ink and Pastel - Tablescape
Located in Houston, TX
Light and airy pastel and ink still life of books and a candlestick by French artist Madeleine Scali (1911- 2000), circa 1960. Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on a...
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20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Oil Pastel, Paper

Still Life with Chrysanthemums in Glass Vase French Modern Floral Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Still Life with Chrysanthemums in Glass Vase French Modern Floral Oil Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Oil on artist paper, unframed Size: 25.5 x 19.75 inches (height ...
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Modern 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil

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