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Item Ships From: France
Etretat Cliff, Normandy - Original Signed Charcoals Drawing
By Gaston Coppens
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002)
Etretat Cliff, Normandy
Original charcoal drawing
Signed with the artist stamp on the bottom right of the sheet
Stamp of the artist's workshop on the ba...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
The Red Chair, Pop Art, Circle of David Hockney. Oil Pastel.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pastel and crayon on paper interior scene by Eileen Gore Sellon. The painting is signed bottom left and attributed and dated to the backboard. Presented in gilt wood frame with mount...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Pastel
$768 Sale Price
20% Off
1930s French Barbizon School Watercolour of a Church in a Lansdscape.
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Barbizon School watercolour on paper view of a church and its tower in a landscape by Henri Clamen. The painting is unsigned but was acquired from the artist's atelier with ot...
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Early 20th Century Barbizon School France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
$269 Sale Price
49% Off
Nude Woman - Original Drawing in Mixed Media on Paper - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is an original drawing in mixed media on paper, realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century, with a description at the top, left on the sheet in pencil.
The state o...
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20th Century Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Abstract Exploration " (contemporary abstract acrylic painting on paper)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This artwork makes part of my small collection of abstract paintings created in various soft neutral earth tones. Main colors of this collection are grey, brown, suede, black, white....
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
LE PAON Watercolor lavis ink Military scene castle bridge French 18th
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean-Baptiste LE PAON
Paris, 1738 – Paris, 1785
Military scene near a castle
Wash and ink on paper
25 x 31 cm (38 x 44 cm with frame)
Signed and dated lower right: “Le Paon / 1785”
C...
Category
1780s Baroque France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Lui A-T-Il Tout Vendu? - Etching by Philibert-Louis Debucourt - 1797
By Philibert-Louis Debucourt
Located in Roma, IT
Lui A-T-Il Tout Vendu? is an Original Etching Hand Watercolored series "Costumes Parisiens" published in 1797 by the Journald des Dames et des Modes"....
Category
19th Century Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
19th Century Academic Crayon on Paper Study by Follower of Jacques-Louis David
By Jacques-Louis David
Located in Cotignac, FR
A fine French academic study sketch on paper of a classical head. The work is unsigned but very much in the style of the period and its early exponents such as Jacques-Louis David.
...
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19th Century France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil, Chalk, Pastel
Le Menuet
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Attributed to Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin (Paris, 1724 – 1780)
Le Menuet, circa 1765–1770
Red chalk on paper
13 3/8 x 8 1/4 in (34 x 21 cm)
Verso: black chalk and red chalk
Unsi...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Laid Paper
$18,014
The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, near Rome
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean-François Joseph LECOINTE
Paris 1783 - Versailles 1858
The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, near Rome
Watercolor and brown ink
Signed and dated "Lecointe 1833" lower left
56 x 44 cm s...
Category
1830s French School France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Jardin du Luxembourg
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century sketch drawing on paper by the Dutch artist Wim Oepts for his painting Jardin du Luxembourg from 1948 (SK115 Monografie en Oeurvr...
Category
1940s Realist France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Watercolor Paper mid 19th Victor ADAM Zouaves French Infantry soldiers Military
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean-Victor ADAM known as Victor ADAM
Paris, 1801 – Viroflay, 1866
Watercolor on paper
14 x 18.5 cm (30.5 x 34.5 cm with frame)
Signed lower left “V. Adam”
Framed
Very beautiful wat...
Category
1830s Academic France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1930s French Impressionist Watercolour of Paris, Ducks at the Pond
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist watercolour on paper view of a park in a city, probably Paris, by Henri Clamen. The painting is unsigned but was acquired from the artists atelier with other sig...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$422 Sale Price
20% Off
Set of Four Butterflies. French Watercolours on Silk Laid on Handmade Paper.
By La Roche Laffitte
Located in Cotignac, FR
A set of four watercolours of butterflies on silk, applied to handmade paper, with hand cut edges, by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Two are signed by the artist to the bottom righ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Silk, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Carbon Pencil, Gouache
$3,074 Sale Price
36% Off
Bouquet of flowers in a vase "Love me tender" (impressionist painting on paper )
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
I have worked on a new series of small oil paintings. This is the one of them. This series is dedicated to the scenes of everyday life.
This painting of a bouquet of flowers in a v...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
An Impressionist Mediterranean Garden in Spring. Watercolor
Gouache on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century French watercolour of a Mediterranean garden. The painting is signed bottom right and mid right, Songa, and is presented under a hand coloured custom mount in a pl...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
1930
s French Barbizon School Landscape With Pampas Grass
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Barbizon School watercolour on paper view of a rural French country scene by Henri Clamen. The painting is signed and dated '40' and was acquired from the artist's atelier.
...
Category
Early 20th Century Barbizon School France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$384 Sale Price
33% Off
The Honest Man - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1975 ca.
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Pen drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1975 ca.
Hand signed.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Cat Family on a Couch - Handsigned Original Ink Drawing
By Laszlo Tibay
Located in Paris, IDF
Laszlo TIBAY
Cat Family On a Couch
Original India ink and lavish drawing
Handsigned
Bearing the stamp of the artist
On light board 40x 30cm (c. 14 x 11.8inch)
Excellent condition
Category
2010s Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
"Sunshine of emotions" ( abstract expressive acrylic painting on paper)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This vibrant expressive artwork makes part of my abstract paintings series dedicated to emotions and feelings. This one is called "Sunshine of emotions".
This abstract painting is r...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Room Perspective - Lithograph and Stencil
By (after) Paul Klee
Located in Paris, IDF
Paul KLEE (after)
Room Perspective
Lithograph and stencil (Jacomet process)
Printed signature in the plate
On canson vellum 50 x 38.2 cm (19.6 x 14.9 in)
INFORMATION : This lithogr...
Category
1960s Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
$600 Sale Price
23% Off
Scaramouche - Pierrette - Drawing by Erté - 1979
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Scaramouche - Pierrette is a contemporary artwork realized in 1979 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Titled an...
Category
1970s Art Deco France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Watercolor British school 19thcentury Diamond jubilee Portrait Queen Victoria
Located in PARIS, FR
English school from the end of the 19th century Watercolor and gouache 38 x 28 cm (60x49 cm with the frame) Very beautiful late 19th century frame in pitch pine wood. Very good condition
This watercolor was made for the diamond "jubilee" in 1897 of Queen Victoria, crowned on the 20 June 1837 Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. She was also Queen of Canada from 1867 and Empress of India from 1876. This watercolor represents two portraits of the Queen, one in 1837 and the other in 1897, as well as a beautiful diamond which reminds of the famous Indian diamond the Koh-i-Nor which was presented in 1850 to Queen Victoria, for the 250th anniversary of the English East India Company, and cut and mounted on a tiara with two thousand other diamonds in 1852. We also recognize in this watercolor the insignia of the Order of the Star of India...
Category
Late 19th Century English School France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$1,152 Sale Price
20% Off
1930s French Barbizon School Watercolour of a Church in a Lansdscape.
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Barbizon School watercolour on paper view of a church tower in a landscape by Henri Clamen. The painting is unsigned but was acquired from the artist's atelier with other sign...
Category
Early 20th Century Barbizon School France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Nude of Woman - Original Watercolor by Jean Delpech - 1930s
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
"Nude" is an original drawing in sanguine and watercolor on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
The state of preservation of the artwork is very good.
Included Passaport....
Category
1930s France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Expressionist Mid-Century Still Life of Flowers in a Vase.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century still life pastel on paper of a vase with flowers by French artist Andrée Ruy Petroff. Signed bottom right.
An enchanting and energetic render...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pastel, Carbon Pencil
1971 Original painting by french contemporary artist Yvon Taillandier
By Yvon Taillandier
Located in PARIS, FR
Mixed technique
French contemporary artist Yvon Taillandier is an emblematic figure on the art scene thanks to his major contribution to Figuration Libre. Born in 1946 in Nantes, Ta...
Category
1970s France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Paris : Moulin Rouge of Montmartre - Original watercolor
By Gaston Coppens
Located in Paris, IDF
Gaston COPPENS (1909 - 2002)
Paris : Moulin Rouge of Montmartre
Original watercolor and tempera
Bearing the artist stamp on the back
On drawing paper 42 x 53 cm (c. 17 x 21 inch)
E...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Nude of Woman - Charcoal Drawing by Gio Colucci - 20th Century
By Gio Colucci
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Of Woman is a charcoal drawing on brown paper. Unsigned. Good conditions except for some folds and some rips on the corners.
Prolific and eclectic, the Italian Gio Colucci (Florence, 1892 – Paris, 1974), also known in France as Geo Colucci, was a painter, engraver, illustrator, ceramist, and sculptor. From 1921, he exhibited his engravings in various salons. He worked with French publishers specialized in the illustrated books of high bibliophilia, and delivered series of remarkable prints for texts by Barbey d'Aurevilly, Pierre Loti, Guy Maupassant...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Abstract Composition - China ink Drawing by Michel Cadoret - Mid-20th Century
By Michel Cadoret
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition is an original artwork realized by Michel Cadoret.
China ink on paper.
The monogram of the artist is on the lower center. The bac...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
2006 original felt drawing by Yvon Taillandier - Pourquoi crient-ils?
By Yvon Taillandier
Located in PARIS, FR
Yvon Taillandier, a prominent French artist and writer, was born on March 28, 1926, in Paris. Known for his multifaceted contributions to the art world, Taillandier made a significan...
Category
Early 2000s France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Felt, Paper
La Chute - Etching by Philibert-Louis Debucourt - 1797
By Philibert-Louis Debucourt
Located in Roma, IT
La Chute is an Original Etching Hand Watercolored series "Costumes Parisiens" published in 1797 by the Journald des Dames et des Modes".
Costume Parisien - Model n. 20 is an original watercolored print realized in 1797.
The artwork is the plate n. 20 from the Journal des Dames et des Modes...
Category
19th Century Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
French 19th Century Romantic Period 1830s Parisian Lady Portrait Madame Seguin
By Adele Grasset
Located in Norwich, GB
A stunning portrait of a Parisian beauty from the romantic period by Adele Grasset (active ca 1830-1850). With her intelligent eyes and determined look, doesn't this lady bear great resemblance to Chopin's paramour George Sand?
The sitter is Jeanne Marie Vidal, wife of Claude Auguste Seguin, from a prominent family in Avignon, as the family tree attached to the back for the frame indicates. Research in old annals has also revealed that Madame Seguin was a modern and independent lady: she worked in lady's fashion in Paris, and patented wrapping mechanism that protected lady's hats during their transport!
As often with woman artists of the 18th and 19th century, there is little biographical information available on the artist, Adèle Grasset. We do know however, that she had studied with the highly prominent artist François Gérard (1770-1837) , known also as the Baron Gérard...
Category
1830s Academic France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The Deadly Kiss - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1945
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
China ink realized by Mino Maccari in 1945.
Hand signed and dated.
Very good condition.
Category
1940s Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Sketch for "The Nose" by Sostakovic - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1964
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Charcoal and watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1964 for "Il Maggio Fiorentino".
Skech for "The Nose" by Sostakovic.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
1960s Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1935 ca
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1935 ca.
Hand signed in ink lower right.
Good condition.
Category
1930s Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
The Couple - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
China ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1960s.
Hand signed in pencil lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
1960s Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris - Original drawing - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris is an original drawing in China ink and felt tip pen on cardboard realized in 1970 by an Anonymous artist of the XX century. Hand-signed and tit...
Category
1970s Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Felt Pen, Ink
Portrait of Felice Casorati - China Ink Drawing - 1921
By Francesco Cangiullo
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Felice Casorati is an original artwork realized by Francesco Cangiullo in 1921
The artwork is a very rare china ink drawing sketch depicting the painter Felice Casorati....
Category
1920s Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
"Dance.Dream.Dare" ( abstract word acrylic on paper art)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This vibrant expressive artwork makes part of my Abstract Word Art series dedicated to the expression of emotions and feelings. This one is called ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Paper
Raymonde Heudebert, Study of a sleeping Man, Pencil on paper, circa 1930
By Raymonde Heudebert
Located in PARIS, FR
Raymonde HEUDEBERT (1905-1991)
Study of a sleeping Man
Pencil on paper
On the back : various studies and annotations
Dimensions of the work : 24 x 16 cm
Small trace of fold in the up...
Category
Mid-20th Century France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Surrealist Gouache on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Watercolour and gouache on paper painting titled 'Siamese Slaves' by British artist Derek Carruthers, signed to the bottom right and to the reverse and dated 2008 and titled.
A colo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Female Nude, Pastel and Chalk Study for a Sculpture
By Marie-Jo Bourron
Located in Cotignac, FR
A chalk and crayon study for a scuplture by French female artist Marie-Josèphe Bourron. Presented in modern frame with mount under glass. Though not signed the drawing was acquired d...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Crayon, Pastel
English Judge by Cécile Bisciglia - Large ballpoint pen drawing on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Ballpoint pen, acrylic and posca on canvas, 200 x 200 cm (6 ft. 6 x 6 ft. 6)
With this series, French artist Cécile Bisciglia explores animality. Armed with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Ballpoint Pen
Dreamers #1 Caroline Veith Contemporary art drawing nature flora flower red
By Caroline Veith
Located in Paris, FR
Ink on tracing paper
Hand-signed and dated lower left
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Georgian Contemporary Art by Keti Tedoradze - Voices of the Crowd
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic
mixed media on paper
Keti Tedoradze is Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her paintings merge figurative and abstract styles, intert...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Go to the World
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic
watercolor on paper mounted on wood panel
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives
works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer
art direct...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Panel
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Jewel Rain 2
By Minako Asakura
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic
watercolor on paper mounted on wood panel
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives
works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer
art dire...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Panel
French Watercolor Impressionist Landscape, The City of Rouen.
Located in Cotignac, FR
An early 20th Century drawing and watercolour view of the city and riverscape at Rouen by French artist Georges Planes. The work is signed and dated bottom right in red ink. There is...
Category
Early 20th Century France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Abstract Expressionist CoBrA Style Anthropomorphic Bird. Chalk on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract expressionist CoBrA style chalk on paper of an imaginary bird by French artist, A Nuchy. Signed to the bottom right.
Highly colourful and inventi...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
$288 Sale Price
36% Off
Portrait - Drawing by Augusto Monari - Early-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a Drawing in pencil realized by Augusto Monari in the Early-20th Century.
Good conditions.
The artwork is depicted through confident stro...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Study of a peasant woman.
By Jules Pierre van Biesbroeck
Located in Paris, FR
Study of an peasant woman. Red pastel. Signed.
This work will be recorded in the catalogue raisonné of the work of the artist currently in preparation.
...
Category
1930s Realist France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Village - Charcoal Drawing by Jean Chapin - Early 1900
By Jean Chapin
Located in Roma, IT
The village is a charcoal drawing realized by Jean Chapin in the early XX century.
Signature stamp of the artist on the lower right margin. The drawing is detached from a notebook....
Category
Early 20th Century France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Violet Chocolate Vase - Watercolor by Armin Guther - 1969
By Armin Guther
Located in Roma, IT
Violet Chocolate Vase is a drawing in watercolor realized by Armin Guther in 1969.
Monogrammed on the lower.
Good conditions, aged margins.
The artwork is represented through harm...
Category
1980s Contemporary France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Woman - Drawing by Jean françois Raffaelli - Early-20th Century
By Jean Francois Raffaëlli
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is a drawing in Mixed Media realized by Jean françois Raffaelli in the Early-20th Century.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft expressive...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Mother Nature
, Lyrical Surrealist Abstract Watercolour on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century lyrical surrealist abstract watercolour on paper by French artist Jean Clerté, signed and dated bottom right. Presented in mid-century frame.
Jean Clerté , born in 1930 in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe in Vienne, is a French painter, engraver, draftsman, watercolourist and sculptor . This work is a great example of his more humorous and expressive work influenced by Alechinsky from the late 1960s onwards. There is a light playfulness and yet the watercolours are more vivid than his previous palette.
Jean Clerté works in series. His sequential narrations testify both to a youthful spontaneity and to a perfect mastery in the distribution of forms and images on the painted surface. The narration is not only an accumulation of juxtaposed fragments and symbols, it forms a whole, it takes on and gives meaning. In general, we can say of Clerté that he practices an “eco-art” that feeds on primary hungers: the feeling of being united with nature, the vegetable, the mineral, the aquatic. In his colourful canvases, his inks, his boxes, his objects, like a shaman on the path of his dreams, the painter Clerté mounts an assault on beasts and demons, elves and gnomes. From the Poitevin marshes to the tropical forests emerges a fauna caught in the meanders of a design that marvels at the appearance of these grotesque idols.
Jean Clerté began to draw and paint at a very young age, and at the age of 15 he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Poitiers. Then in 1949, curious about the capital, he moved to Paris. Having very few financial resources, he could not continue his studies at first, worked as a model to survive, and met other artists; he was then admitted to the studio of Ossip Zadkine and, from 1952, he was also able to study engraving at Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter, an English engraver and printer living in Paris associated in the 1930s with surrealism.
At the end of the 1960s, he worked alongside Pierre Alechinsky, founding member of the Cobra movement, engraving Alechinsky's originals, benefiting from his advice, and discovering acrylic as a medium.
From 1976, Jean Clerté became associate professor at Hayter. Clerté had taught previously, in 1971 at the Salzburg Summer University and in 1972 he gave courses at the Paris-Sorbonne University . In 1981, he was appointed professor at the School of Decorative Arts , where he had Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas as a student and, from 1983 to 1988, he was Alechinsky's assistant professor at the Paris School of Fine Arts.
His first works are part of the current of lyrical abstraction, and are nourished by impressions of nature (landscape motifs, e.g. forest fires, waterscapes), then around 1968, encouraged by Alechinsky, he rejects abstraction, and his work becomes more figurative with expressive and humorous elements. From this period his colours are more subdued, often with pastel tones, he works on series. Jean Clerté has created a world in a space where drawing, painting, objects participate in a playful figuration. From his drawings were born sculptures and sometimes mobiles (Le Moulin à dessin). If it is the artist who makes astonishing, polychrome, whimsical “toys”, it is the painter who appeals to adults through his caustic and satirical humour.
His first exhibitions in France took place at the Galerie Massol , then at the Galerie Pascal...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Trees in a French Country Landscape. Watercolor.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French watercolour on paper landscape by Roger Decaux. The work is signed and dated (as yet undeciphered) bottom right. Presented in a wood frame with cut card mount.
A fresh and charming view of trees in a landscape. Decaux has used simple, fluid but strong strokes for this composition. One can feel the influence of 'abstraction of form' that was a part of his later work. The eye is drawn from the trees to the surrounding fields, the touches of colour to the right and then to the silhouette of the hills beyond. The use of watercolour at its best.
Roger DECAUX was born in 1919 in Dombasle sur Meurthe in the Lorraine. He studied art in Paris with Gino Severini and Jan Brusselmans...
Category
Mid-20th Century France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$269 Sale Price
31% Off
Privacy Area by Cécile Bisciglia - Large ballpoint pen drawing on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Ballpoint pen, acrylic and posca on canvas, 200 x 200 cm (6 ft. 6 x 6 ft. 6)
With this series, French artist Cécile Bisciglia explores animality. Armed with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Ballpoint Pen
Landscape - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a black Marker Drawing and Watercolour realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a little white paper.
No signature, dated on the l...
Category
1970s Modern France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Art Nouveau : Nude with Crystal Ball - Original Watercolor and Gouache, Signed
By George Barbier
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges BARBIER
Art Nouveau : Nude with Crystal Ball
Original India Ink, Watercolor and Gouache painting
Signed in the bottom middle
On paper 32 x 50 cm (c. 13 x 20 in)
Presented i...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau France - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
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The revered artist created delightful caricatures of stage and screen performers for more than 75 years. This one is a prime example.
This Tempting Wayne Thiebaud Watercolor Is the Perfect Summer Treat
Although he also produced pensive portraits and idyllic landscapes, the artist’s best-known images are of ice cream, cakes and other colorful sweets.
In This Surreal Painting, the Pink Foot of Patriarchy Squashes a Pumpkin Worshipped by Women
In ‘Gourd,’ Isabel Rock creates a mythic scene that looks fresh and contemporary but feels as old as Eden.
Mid-Century Americans Didn’t Know Antonio Petruccelli’s Name, but They Sure Knew His Art
The New York artist created covers for the nation’s most illustrious magazines. Now, the originals are on display as fine art.
Cecilia Vicuña Merges Politics, Science and Spirituality in Her Poetic Art
The Chilean creator, who has been living in exile in New York for decades, is having a major moment, receiving the biggest exhibitions, commissions and awards an artist could dream of.
Who Are the Most Popular Artists on 1stDibs?
Learn the stories of some of the world's most recognizable artworks and their makers.
Shantell Martin Finds Wonder in Sharing the Creative Process
The visual artist completed a new work in front of a crowd at the 1stdibs Gallery.