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UNTITLED (INTERIOR OF A SYNAGOGUE)
By Ernst Oppler
Located in Los Angeles, CA
, landscapes and etchings in the early 20th century. His works are in the collections of many museums Germany
Category

1920s Art

Sketches - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketches is an original Pencil and Pastel realized by Charles Moulin in early-20th Century. Good
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Pencil

Sketch - Original Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch is an original drawing in red pencil realized in Early 20th Century . In good condition
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Man and Child - Ink, Pen and Pencil Drawing by G. Galantara - Early 20th Century
By Gabriele Galantara
Located in Roma, IT
Man and Child is an original drawing in mixed media and pencil realized by Gabriele Galantara, with
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Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pen, Pencil, Ink

Sleeping Couple - Pencil Drawing by J. Dreyfus-Stern - Early 20th Century
By Jean Dreyfus-Stern
Located in Roma, IT
decades of the XX Century. Pencil on paper. Hand signed by the artist in ink on the lower right corner
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Early 20th Century Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Sketches of a Woman - Original Drawing by Unknown - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sketches of a Woman is an Original Pencil Drawing realized by an Unknown artist in mid-20th century
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Nude from the Back - Original Pencil by Charles Lucien Moulin - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude from the Back is an original pencil drawing realized by Charles Lucien Moulin in the early
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Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Original Pencil Sketch Study of a Nude, circa 1920s
Located in Nantucket, MA
Original pencil sketch study of a nude, circa 1920s, a double sided page from an artist's
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Early 20th Century American Art Deco Drawings

Materials

Paper

"White Chair" Still-Life Gouache and Pencil Sketch by John Botz
Located in Pasadena, CA
composition. Working primarily in the latter half of the 20th century, Botz’s style aligns with a lineage of
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1980s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache, Pencil

Sketch of woman n°1
By Henri Fehr
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
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Early 20th Century Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

sketch of yelling man
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
A pencil sketch from artist's studio. It is pencil signed "Jackson Lee Nesbitt". The artist made
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Late 20th Century American Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Grotesque with Fighting Centaurs - Pencil and Watercolor by F. von Stuck
By Franz von Stuck
Located in Roma, IT
draughtsmen before the dissolution of form imposed by the avant-garde movements of the 20th century”, he was a
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Early 20th Century Symbolist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

Abstract Modern Geometric and Mechanical Surrealist Grayscale Pencil Drawing
By Béla Birkás
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract modern surrealist grayscale pencil drawing by Hungarian artist Bela Birkas. The sketch
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Early 20th Century French drawing of a nude by Paul Emile Chabas
By Paul Emile Chabas
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
reverse with a further sketch of a gentleman with pencil on the reverse 8.1/2 x 5.1/2 in. (21.6 x 14 cm
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Crayon

Male Subject Pencil Drawing by Bernard Sleigh RBSA (circa 1900-1920)
Located in London, GB
drawings of nudes from the early 20th century, executed masterfully. The sketch is newly framed and glazed
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Early 20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Untitled (Study of Two female Figures ) Jules Pascin Pencil, 1913
By Jules Pascin
Located in Surfside, FL
Paris becoming part of the great migration of artists to that city at the start of the 20th century. In
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1910s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pencil

Sketch of freshly caught fish hanging from a string. Italian school.
Located in Firenze, IT
the early 20th century. A straightforward, observational study—honest and unembellished. And that’s
Category

Mid-20th Century Italian School Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Early Modern Black White Abstract Drawing Study of a Man Playing the Flute
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern black and white sketch by iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. Pulled from a
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Etching with Hand Watercolor Painting Jules Pascin Pencil Signed
By Jules Pascin
Located in Surfside, FL
the family name being associated with these drawings, the 20-year-old artist adopted the pseudonym
Category

Early 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Etching

Etching with Hand Watercolor Painting Jules Pascin Pencil Signed
By Jules Pascin
Located in Surfside, FL
the family name being associated with these drawings, the 20-year-old artist adopted the pseudonym
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Early 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Etching

The Plant - Original Woodcut by Axel Salto - Early Mid 1900
Located in Roma, IT
The Plant is a beautiful woodcut realized by Axel Salto. The artwork is hand-signed in pencil on
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Mid-20th Century More Prints

Materials

Woodcut

"INDIAN PORTRAIT" NATIVE AMERICAN "Wind Talker"
Located in San Antonio, TX
Medium: Colored Pencil Sketch "Wind Talker" Joe Rader Roberts (1925-1982) Born in Lockhart, he found
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20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Color Pencil

Woman Inside a Frame by Tamara De Lempicka
By Tamara de Lempicka
Located in New Orleans, LA
. Born in Poland at the turn of the 20th century, Lempicka was forced to flee to France in 1918 after the
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20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Half-length Nude Woman Arranging Her Hair
By Armand Rassenfosse
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Rassenfosse was one of the major figures of the Belgian art scene at the turn of the 20th century. Born in
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Carbon Pencil

Portrait d homme à lunettes by Tamara De Lempicka
By Tamara de Lempicka
Located in New Orleans, LA
turn of the 20th century, Lempicka was forced to flee to France in 1918 after the beginning of the
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20th Century Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Portrait or Study for a Bust
By Chaim Gross
Located in New York, NY
the country in the early nineteenth century. As a result, his sculptures have been displayed in the
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Pencil

Original Art Deco gouache on paper fashion design by Russian, French artist Erte
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
immediately offered for him to work at his company, which in the early 20th century, was setting the standard
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20th Century Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache, Pencil

Joyce Wieland "Bunnies"
By Joyce Wieland
Located in Toronto, Ontario
20th century. Emerging on the Toronto art scene in the early 1960s, throughout her career Wieland would
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1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Color Pencil

Bosgezicht, Forest View.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century study on paper of a landscape by the Dutch artist Wim Oepts. Similar in style
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1930s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Head Of A Fisherman By Vincent Van Gogh
By Vincent van Gogh
Located in New Orleans, LA
his immense influence on Dutch art of the early 20th century, Bremmer was an avid collector of van
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19th Century Post-Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Modern Watercolour Published Indian Art Cartoonist Ganges River Delhi India
Located in Norfolk, GB
signed prints of India by leading early to mid 20th Century Newspaper artists who worked in the Sub
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1950s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

Jacob Lawrence Abstract Mixed Media Wall Art
By Wassily Kandinsky, Jacob Lawrence
Located in Fulton, CA
scenes with a pencil. He then filled in his sketches with a limited range of colors, working with only
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Wood, Masonite

"A FEW MORE STEPS" GRANVILLE BRUCE TEXAS WESTERN LANDSCAPE OIL
By Granville Bruce
Located in San Antonio, TX
beautiful sketches in pencil and charcoal of historic sites and genre scenes around San Antonio and nearby
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Winston FC Guest Shelburne Polo c.1935 Watercolor by Paul Desmond Brown
Located in Bristol, CT
popular books, varying from light sketches to finished pencil and ink illustrations.
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Early 20th Century Other Art Style Animal Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Oil Painting Portrait of Lord Edward Grenfell, 1st Baron St Just (1870-1941)
By Oswald Birley
Located in London, GB
always known) that, when a teenager and budding art student in his early 20s, he could never have enough
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Early 20th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Clear Creek Canyon I (Vintage 1933 Colorado Mountain Landscape, Black White)
By Ross Eugene Braught
Located in Denver, CO
in Carlisle, Pennsylania, Braught graduated Carlisle High School where his early drawings of trees
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20th Century Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Beauties and the Beast, Original Watercolour Study of Theatrical Characters
By Christian Bérard
Located in Cotignac, FR
many centuries. The sheet of paper has been torn from a sketch book, visible from the top margin. There
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Mid-20th Century Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

The Village Depot (Travelers wait by the depot stove with WWII posters on wall)
By Morris Henry Hobbs
Located in New Orleans, LA
illustrated in Albert Reese's "Prize Prints of the 20th Century" and is in the collection of the National
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Interior Prints

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of
Category

20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Large Modernist Abstract Expressionist Gouache Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor or gouache composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block
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20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of
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20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modernist Colorado Oil Painting Abstract Cityscape Harbor Scene Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Urban landscape of city harbor, marine scene, (North Africa?) bearing the influence of the earlier
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20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of
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20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of
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20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of
Category

20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Large Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Chaim Gross Judaica Jewish Watercolor Painting Rabbi Klezmer Music WPA Artist
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
work being carved from wood. Other direct carvers in early 20th-century American art include William
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Nude Figures in Landscape (Black White Modernist Composition)
By Ross Eugene Braught
Located in Denver, CO
20 x 27 ¾ inches. Painter, lithographer and draftsman, Ross Eugene Braught was called "the greatest
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20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Graphite, Archival Paper

Shokozan (The Chinese Island Xiaogushan)
By Hiroshi Yoshida
Located in Burbank, CA
brownish waters of the surrounding seas. Yoshida made three sketching trips to China in the early 20th
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1930s Showa Landscape Prints

Materials

Mulberry Paper, Woodcut

French Art Nouveau Etching, “Young man with greyhounds” Louis Icart
By Louis Icart
Located in Valladolid, ES
revolution, from the conservative designs of the 19th century to the simplicity of the early 20th century. He
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Vintage 1920s French Art Nouveau Drawings

Materials

Wood, Paper

De Slager, The Butcher
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century study drawing on paper by the Dutch artist Wim Oepts. A sketch for the painting
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1950s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Crayon

Le Corbusier ( 1887 – 1965 ) – Unité, Planche – hand-signed etching and aquatint
By Le Corbusier
Located in Varese, IT
-founded the early 20th-century Purist movement, which dictated that objects should be depicted in their
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Wenzel Tornøe, Study Of A Lake Wood
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This gentle early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Wenzel Tornøe (1844-1907) depicts a
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Early 1900s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

After Picasso Line Drawing Owl Set of 6 Butterfly Dog Horse Camel Flamingo Print
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
animals. Picasso was heavily influenced by the early 20th-century style of ancient art in the creation of
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Vintage 1980s Spanish Rustic Prints

Materials

Paper

Study for "La Bergerie" - 1957-1960 - a double-sided ink wash signed by Balthus
By Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola)
Located in PARIS, FR
stage in Balthus' life Balthus occupies a special place in 20th century art, which is often marked by
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1950s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

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