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The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Palazzo Farnese - Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo Farnese is an artwork of the 19th century. Watercolour on paper.  The evocative representation of a lodge in the garden of the palazzo Farnese in Rome, the artist depicts t...
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19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Lily - Drawing by Aurelio Mistruzzi - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
Lily is an Artwork realized by the Italian Artist Aurelio Mistruzzi in 1905. Pencil Drawing on paper . Good conditions. Aurelio Mistruzzi (1880-1960) studied at the Udine Art Scho...
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Early 1900s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

1964 San Francisco Construction Site Large Gouache and Pastel Landscape
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield Tractor at Work 6-10-64 Gouache and Oil Pastel on Paper 36"x32 1/2" Unframed Signed and dated lower right in crayon Very Good Condition - Minor wear consistent with ...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache

Jonquils - Drawing by Aurelio Mistruzzi - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
Jonquils is an Artwork realized by the Italian Artist Aurelio Mistruzzi in 1905. Pencil Drawing on paper . Good conditions. Aurelio Mistruzzi (1880-1960) studied at the Udine Art ...
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Early 1900s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Ideal Decoration - Drawing by Carlo Parisi - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
Ideal Decoration is an Artwork realized by the artist Carlo Parisi (1922-2007) in 1935. Black and white drawing on paper. Good conditions. Carlo Parisi...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Cafe Society: The Smoker, male portait Closerie des Lilas, Lost Generation Paris
By John Wentworth Russell
Located in Norwich, GB
A strong portrait, and a piece of history. It was confidently sketched in 1923, during the heyday of the "Lost Generation" in Paris, at the Closerie des Lilas - Ernest Hemingway's favourite haunt and home-from-home in the City. This historical café is where Hemingway first read The Great Gatsby with his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald and where he wrote most of The Sun Also Rises...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Graphite

Chiesa di S. Giovanni A. Maderno - Drawing by Aurelio Mistruzzi - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
Chiesa di S. Giovanni A. Maderno is an Artwork realized by the Italian Artist Aurelio Mistruzzi in 1905. Pencil Drawing on paper. Good conditions. Aurelio Mistruzzi (1880-1960) st...
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Early 1900s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Roman Landscape - Drawing - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Landscape is an artwork of the 19th century. Watercolour on paper. The artwork is attached on passepartout: 27.5 x 34.5 cm. The evocative representation of a scenic view of t...
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19th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Duomo di Bovino (Secolo XIV) - Drawing by Aurelio Mistruzzi - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
Duomo di Bovino (Secolo XIV) is an Artwork realized by the Italian Artist Aurelio Mistruzzi in 1905. Pencil Drawing on paper. Good conditions. Aurelio Mistruzzi (1880-1960) studie...
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Early 1900s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Dragon Fierce In Magical Metamorphosis 2021 watercolor painting - Chinese artist
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Huang Wei Born in 1985 in Baotou, Inner Mongolia; 2011,Graduated from The Department of Chinese Painting of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree; 2014,I graduated from Art College of Xizang University with a master's degree; Now he lives and works in Beijing T3 International Art District. After graduating from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Huang Wei chose to study in Xizang because he was unsatisfied with the procedural education mode. As an ideal and sacred place for many people, Tibet has also provided artistic inspiration for many artists. Huang Wei is not concerned with Tibetan folk customs or landscapes, but with Tibetan unique, faith-based artistic expression. The experience in Tibet was a rare retreat. He was willing to spend time in dialogue with nature as well as with his heart. Through painting, he established an inner field and objected to mountains, water and clouds with his mind. Huang Wei's brushwork does not move restlessly. The rich texture on the picture comes from the countless dots dyeing of the brush tip and rice paper. This technique, which originated from the Traditional Tibetan painting "Thangka", requires a state of extreme silence and numerous repetitions, approaching a state of meditation. This is the classical spirit from Tibet, and in keeping with the spiritual pursuits of the great achievers of the Himalayan region. As his mentor Li Jin...
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Laid Paper, Watercolor

Prof Sir Albert Richardson PRA Architect A Classical Building with Elegant Figs.
Located in London, GB
To see our other architectural drawings and 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 ...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Laurel (Lauro) - Drawing by Aurelio Mistruzzi - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
Laurel (Lauro)  is an Artwork realized by the Italian Artist Aurelio Mistruzzi in 1905. Pencil Drawing on paper, titled "Lauro" and stamp "P.M.F. Tiziano" on the left corner  . Goo...
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Early 1900s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Leaf - Drawing by Aurelio Mistruzzi - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
Leaf is an Artwork realized by the Italian Artist Aurelio Mistruzzi in 1905. Pencil Drawing on paper . Good conditions. Aurelio Mistruzzi (1880-1960) studied at the Udine Art Scho...
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Early 1900s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

POLITICAL CARTOONS - Vignette by Vauro Senesi, Italy 1970
Located in Napoli, IT
Vauro Senesi, known simply as Vauro (Pistoia, March 24, 1955), is an Italian cartoonist, editor, television personality and actor. He is among the best-known satirical cartoonists in...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, India Ink

Magical Metamorphosis - White Tara 2021 watercolor round painting Chinese artist
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Huang Wei Born in 1985 in Baotou, Inner Mongolia; 2011,Graduated from The Department of Chinese Painting of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree; 2014,I graduated from Art College of Xizang University with a master's degree; Now he lives and works in Beijing T3 International Art District. After graduating from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Huang Wei chose to study in Xizang because he was unsatisfied with the procedural education mode. As an ideal and sacred place for many people, Tibet has also provided artistic inspiration for many artists. Huang Wei is not concerned with Tibetan folk customs or landscapes, but with Tibetan unique, faith-based artistic expression. The experience in Tibet was a rare retreat. He was willing to spend time in dialogue with nature as well as with his heart. Through painting, he established an inner field and objected to mountains, water and clouds with his mind. Huang Wei's brushwork does not move restlessly. The rich texture on the picture comes from the countless dots dyeing of the brush tip and rice paper. This technique, which originated from the Traditional Tibetan painting "Thangka", requires a state of extreme silence and numerous repetitions, approaching a state of meditation. This is the classical spirit from Tibet, and in keeping with the spiritual pursuits of the great achievers of the Himalayan region. As his mentor Li Jin...
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Laid Paper, Watercolor

“Still Life with White Roses”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original watercolor by Jessie Harris Bone Charman. Signed lower right. Circa 1940. Condition is very good. Under glass. Beautifully matted and framed. Overall framed mea...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper, Watercolor

Rose - Drawing by Aurelio Mistruzzi - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
Rose is an Artwork realized by the Italian Artist Aurelio Mistruzzi in 1905. Drawing on paper. Good conditions. Aurelio Mistruzzi (1880-1960) studied at the Udine Art School, having classes with the Sculptor De Paoli...
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Early 1900s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Untitled (Fishermen and Sailboat)
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming Modernist watercolor by notable artist Flora Schofield, depicting fishermen and a sail boat. Archivally matted to 16" x 20". A painter, print maker and sculptor, Flora Schofield (Schoenfield), was born in Lanark, Illinois. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and taught Saturday classes there until 1904. Schoenfield also studied with Charles Hawthorne, B.J.O Nordfeldt and William Zorach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She studied with Albert Gleizes, Fernand Leger and Natalia Goncharova in Paris, France. In 1923, Schofield’s abstractions caused a split at the venerable Chicago Society of Artists. When her artwork was was accepted by the jury, the notable Impressionist painter Pauline Palmer and the notable Modernist painter Carl Hoeckner got into a row that ended-up splitting the group. The Impressionists then broke away into their own organization called the ”Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors”. Paintings by Flora Schofield have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Salon d’Automne and Salon de Independants, Paris; the Salons of America; the Society of Independent Artists, New York; the Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita; Gallery Carmine, Paris; the National Arts Club Galleries, New York; Marshall Fields Galleries...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

On the Road - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Per strada (On the Road)  is a drawing on paper, realized around the Seventies by the great Italian artist and journalist,  Mino Maccari  (Siena, 1898 - 1989). Black China ink (foun...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Rainfall at night
Located in Boxholm, SE
Jolanta Johnsson, experienced Polish artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PhD of fine arts, university teacher. She currently lives in Sweden. This is how she writ...
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic

American Veterans Remembrance Day Poster Study (National Poppy Day, Am. Legion)
Located in Chicago, IL
A wonderful study for an American Veterans Remembrance Day Poster Study (National Poppy Day, American Legion) by Elaine Jeanne Glickman (Ginsburg), created at Ferry Hall in Lake Fore...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Board, Watercolor

Landscape watercolor by Jeannine Wahl - 18x30 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Watercolor on paper Sold with frame Total size with frame 30x42 cm Jeannine Wahl was born in Geneva in 1930 into a family of papermakers who very early on passed on to her the lov...
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Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Cityscape Modern Dark Cold Tones Winter Urban Everyday Life Watercolor Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Free Press-Composition" is a watercolor street scene created by Joseph Ferrara. The street is dark, evoking the feeling of night and cold. There are white rings expanding from t...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

PINK BUG - Ink drawing by Robert Clarence, 1989
Located in Napoli, IT
Ink drawing Title "Pink Bug" made by Robert Clarence, framed signed and numbered.
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1980s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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India Ink

Nudes - Drawing by Paul Emile Colin - Early-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Nudes is a pencil drawing realized by Paul Emile Colin (1867-1949). Good condition. Stamped signature. Passepartout. Paul-Émile Colin born onAugust 16, 1867 in Lunéville ( Meurth...
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Early 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Dancing Animal Critters on a Top Hat, Bear, Frog, Owl, Crane Bird, Bee, Snail
Located in Miami, FL
Enter the whimsical world of famed children's book illustrators husband and wife team Alice and Martin Provensen. On top of a heavy tree trunk sits a...
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1980s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache

Chita Rivera BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Costume Drawing Tony Awards
Located in New York, NY
Chita Rivera BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Costume Drawing Tony Awards Miles White (1915 – 2000) ChITA RIVERA in BYE BYE BIRDIE 11 x 8 inches M...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil

Glamour Fashion Portrait of Model Sara Thom - Mid Century
By Richard Stone
Located in Miami, FL
Dick Stone was a top mid-century illustrator who worked for the most famous brands. He was an assignment artist hired by such esteemed Ad Agencies as BBDO ...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Casein, Board, Pen

Ringstead Bay and White Nothe. Dorset. Weymouth and Portland. Jurassic Coast.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Lionel Horsnell English ( b.1932 - d.2011 ). Ringstead Bay and White Nothe, Dorset Watercolour on Coloured Paper. Signed lower right. Image size 19.7 inches x 29.5 inches ( 50cm x 75cm ). Frame size 27.2 inches x 36.8 inches ( 69cm x 93.5cm ). Available for sale is this original watercolour is by the English artist Lionel Horsnell which dates from the 1960s. The painting is presented and supplied in a sympathetic contemporary frame (which is shown in these photographs), mounted using conservation materials and behind non-reflective Artglass AR 70™. This vintage painting is in good condition, it wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display. The watercolour is signed lower right. Lionel Horsnell was an English artist, born in Hertford in 1932. He studied art at the Harrogate School of Art and Leeds University. He specialised in watercolour paintings of the Home Counties and the south coast and exhibited in several galleries. He has been described as a Bohemian, and from the 1960s to the 1980s he liked to frequent Soho, where he drank in the Coach and Horses in Old Compton Street. He liked to travel by bicycle and often cycled around the countryside, exchanging paintings for bed and board. He died on 28 November 2011. Courtyard Arts, where he painted and socialised for many years was something of a ‘second home’ for him and held a retrospective exhibition of his works in 2012. His works have a relaxed mellow style that belies the skill and expertise invested in their execution. © Big Sky Fine Art This original painting by Lionel Horsnell is watercolour on coloured paper and heightened in white. It is signed in the lower right section and depicts Ringstead Bay on the famous Jurassic Coast...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Villa Giardino, 20th Century Charcoal Drawing by Cleveland School Female Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964) Villa Giardino Charcoal on paper Signed and titled verso 17.75 x 12.5 inches A graduate of the Cleveland School of Art in 1912, Clara Deike was pa...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Dame Elisabeth Frink. Hawk, 1969. Watercolor. A Representation of Destruction.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Dame Elisabeth Frink. English ( b.1930 - d.1993 ). Hawk, 1969. Watercolor. Image size 25.4 inches x 19.5 inches ( 64.5cm x 49.5cm ). Frame size 34.4 inches x 28.1 inches ( 87.5cm x 71.5cm ). Available for sale; this original painting is by Dame Elisabeth Frink and is dated 1969. The painting is presented and supplied in a glazed frame and mount dating from June 1997. This vintage watercolor is in very good condition, commensurate with its age. The watercolor is signed and dated lower right. Previously with Beaux Arts, London and Bath in 1999. Dame Elisabeth Frink was one of Britain’s most important post-war sculptors, an accomplished draughtsman, illustrator and teacher. She was part of the post-war school of expressionist British sculptors dubbed the Geometry of Fear, and enjoyed a highly acclaimed career that was commercially successful, broke boundaries and contributed greatly to bringing wonderful sculpture to public places. She was born on 14 November 1930 in Thurlow, the daughter of a cavalry officer, and brought up in rural Suffolk near to an active airbase. She was brought up a Catholic and educated at the Convent of the Holy Family, Exmouth. She then studied at the Guildford School of Art from 1947-1949 under Willi Soukop and Henry Moore’s assistant, Bernard Meadows, and then at the Chelsea School in London 1949-1953. She taught at Chelsea School of Art 1951-61, St. Martin’s School of Art 1954-62 and was a visiting instructor at the Royal College of Art 1965-1967, after which she lived in France until 1973. Frink first came to the attention of the public in 1951 at an exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London. In 1952 she represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, being described by Herbert Read as “the most vital, the most brilliant and the most promising of the whole Biennale”. The same year the Tate bought its first work by her, and she began to enjoy commercial success. Thereafter she exhibited regularly and was for 27 years associated with Waddington’s, London. The subjects which Frink was most concerned with were man, dog and horses, with and without riders. Interestingly she seldom sculpted the female form, drawing on archetypes of masculine strength, struggle and aggression. Her work has the recurring themes of the vulnerable and the predatory, in the spirit of an authentic post-war artist. It has been said that she was more concerned with representing mankind that portraits of individuals. The appeal of her work lies in its directness, provoking a frank statement of feeling. The anatomy is often exaggerated or incorrect; the impact growing more out of her interest in the spirit of the subject. Her animals and birds may be drawn from nature but verge on the abstract, conveying raw emotion and character rather than a realistic depiction. Her unique style is characterised by a rough treatment of the surface which embeds each piece with vitality and her personal impression. In her later work even the distinction between human and bird figures becomes blurred. Commentators have noted that the often rugged, brutal and contorted surfaces of her work reflect the destruction and terror of the six-year world-wide conflict that she witnessed as a child. Frink was an active supporter of Amnesty International. In the 1960s and early 1970s Frink produced a notable series of falling figures and winged men. Later, living in France during the Algerian war, she began making heads, blinded by goggles which had a threatening facelessness. Frink produced many notable public commissions, including Wild Boar for Harlow New Town, Blind Beggar and Dog for Bethnal Green, Noble Horse and Rider for Piccadilly, London, a lectern for Coventry Cathedral, Shepherd for Paternoster Square beside St. Paul’s Cathedral and a Walking Madonna for Salisbury Cathedral. In the early 1980s she produced a set of three larger than life figures The Dorset Martyrs which stand on the edge of the old walled town of Dorchester on the site of the old gallows, as a memorial to those who had been executed there ‘for conscience sake’. Frink’s Canterbury Tales was a collection of 19 etchings drawn directly on to copper plates and etched by her. The ‘book’ was issued in three limited editions. Her illustrations have been praised as “amongst the most successful illustrations of the century, encompassing the mood of the text in concise delineations and disarmingly ribald humour”. She illustrated other books with colored lithographs or drawings. Frink was on the Board of Trustees, British Museum from 1976, and was a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission 1976-81. CBR (1969), DBE ((1982), Associate of the Royal Academy (1971), Royal Academy (1977). She was made a Companion of Honour in 1992. She died on 18 April 1993, but not before completing her last commission, a monumental but unusual figure of Christ for the front of the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool, unveiled a week before her death. For several decades Frink exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. In her later years she lived and worked in Dorset where her home and garden became an arena for her work. In 1985 she had a retrospective at the Royal Academy. She died on 18 April 1993, but not before completing her last commission, a monumental but unusual figure of Christ for the front of the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool, unveiled a week before her death. There was a memorial show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton Hall in 1994. Today Frink is venerated as one of the great twentieth century British sculptors. Her unique work is represented in the Tate Gallery and major public and private collections world-wide. © Big Sky Fine Art This original watercolor on paper painting of a hawk by Dame Elizabeth Frink...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Die Moralische Eifersucht - Drawing by Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Die moralische Eifersucht  is a contemporary artwork realized by Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern in 1964. Pencil and colored chalks on Schoellershammer cardboard. Signed "F. S. SONN...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil, Chalk, Paper

At Long Last - Paint by Ryan Mendoza - 2009
Located in Roma, IT
At long last is a contemporary artwork realized by Ryan Mendoza in 2009. Oil painting on canvas. Hand signed and dated on the back. Provenance: Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia Born in 1971 in New York, Mendoza's personal story is subsequently intertwined with the two extremes of Europe, Naples and Berlin, the two cities in which he has lived and worked up to now. In his works he represents complex theatricality, models anatomies, doses colours, calibrates lights, draws on a rich archive of memories, confusing ancient pictorial wisdom and contemporary risks. The artist's attention is particularly focused on portraits in which he carries out distortions and alterations: he exhibits perspective disproportions, reveals anatomical dissonances, manifests dystonias between the characters in the foreground and the backgrounds. His characters appear "possessed", it is no coincidence that the title of the 2010 solo show at the Muse d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina in Naples is "The possessed...
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Early 2000s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Figures - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an Artwork realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in 1960. Watercolor on yellowed paper. Monogrammed on the lower right margin. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 192...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Reclining Nude — Mid-Century Modernism, African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Blackburn, Untitled (Reclining Nude), brush and ink, c. 1948, unsigned. A fine, spontaneous work, on cream wove paper. Slight toning to the sheet edges; otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 18 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches (476 x 597 mm). Provenance: Adrienne E. Wheeler Collection, acquired from the artist. ABOUT THE ARTIST Robert Blackburn (1920 - 2003) participated in the rich mix of art programs and creative groups available in Harlem as he grew up, including Charles Alston's Harlem Arts Workshop, the Harlem YMCA, and later the Harlem Artist's Guild. In 1937 he joined the WPA at the Harlem Community Art Center, the largest New York center for instruction in the arts. There he was exposed to Harlem's most prominent artists, Aaron Douglas, William Henry Johnson...
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Ryan - Drawing by Ryan Mendoza - 2000
Located in Roma, IT
Ryan is a contemporary artwork realized by Ryan Mendoza in 2000. Pencil and charcoal on paper. Hand signed on the lower margin. Provenance: Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia Born in 1971 in New York, Mendoza's personal story is subsequently intertwined with the two extremes of Europe, Naples and Berlin, the two cities in which he has lived and worked up to now. In his works he represents complex theatricality, models anatomies, doses colours, calibrates lights, draws on a rich archive of memories, confusing ancient pictorial wisdom and contemporary risks. The artist's attention is particularly focused on portraits in which he carries out distortions and alterations: he exhibits perspective disproportions, reveals anatomical dissonances, manifests dystonias between the characters in the foreground and the backgrounds. His characters appear "possessed", it is no coincidence that the title of the 2010 solo show at the Muse d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina in Naples is "The possessed...
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Early 2000s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal

Where the Fuck is Jimini? - Drawing by Ryan Mendoza - 2012
Located in Roma, IT
Where the fuck is Jimini? is a contemporary artwork realized by Mircea Suciu in 2012. Charcoal on drawing paper. Signed on the back – Origin Aeroplastics Brussels Mircea Suciu  Bo...
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Paper

Mural Study
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful, period mural study of an interior by artist Edgar Ewing.
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1940s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Airacuda Fighter Planes Art Deco Machine Age 20th Century American Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Airacuda Fighter Planes Art Deco Machine Age 20th Century American Modernism Arthur Rosenman Ross (1913 - 1981) Bell YFM-1 Airacuda Fighter Planes 17 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches Gouache, Airbrush and Ink on Illustration Board, 1938 Signed A. Ross lower right Provenance: Estate of the artist. BIO Arthur Rosenman Ross was a key figure in automotive design at General Motors during America's "Golden Age" of auto design, the 1930's through the 1950s. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago from age 17, exhibiting a special interest for automotive renderings and the female figure. In 1934, he changed his name from Rosenman to Ross, fearing his Jewish ancestry could prejudice his career prospects. At age 20, he turned down job offers from MGM Studios in Hollywood and Duesenberg to work at General Motors alongside the Legendary Harley Earl in 1935. He was hand picked by Mr. Earl and assigned to GM's War and Camouflage Division in 1937 through WW2. It was during this pivotal period in which he executed some extraordinary military aircraft artworks, likely used between GM and America's military aeronautics companies in design preparation for WW2. General Motors played an important role in helping America's aircraft manufacturers preceding and during the war. Just after the war in 1945, Mr. Ross was rewarded by GM, being made Chief Designer of Cadillac, then two years later becoming Chief at Oldsmobile until his retirement in 1959. He was in large part responsible for some of GM's classic Cadillac designs such as the Cadillac Sixty Special, Fleetwood, LaSalle and GM's first concept car, the extraordinary Buick Y-Job. Mr. Ross was an exceptionally charismatic and vivacious man who quite by chance, befriended His idol, Salvador Dali at GM in 1955. They talked about art, cars and girls late into the evening, according to his son, Carter Ross. He had a gift in rendering the erotic arts...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Gouache, Board

Vintage Watercolor “Steel Rocks” Palm Springs, California; Roy H. Collins 1929
Located in Baltimore, MD
Roy Huse Collins was a Midwestern artist associated with Chicago and Minnesota. Born in Saint Paul in 1884, he exhibited often at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) during the 1920’s and 30’s. He also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1925 and 1931. Collins was a painter and illustrator until he died in 1949. This watercolor includes (on the back) the original exhibition label from the AIC in 1929. The work is titled “Steel Rocks...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Women Nudes - Drawing by G. Riegler. - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Women Nudes is an Artwork  realized by  the Artist G. Riegler. Drawing in ink on paper, Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right corner. Th...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Nude #002, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Nude Woman Nude #002 Ink on 140 lb / 300 g paper (acid free). Certificate of authenticity provided. Will be shipped rolled in a tube. Keywords: body, woman, contemporary a...
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2010s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen

A Pair of Mid-Century, Pen & Ink Interior Drawings by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A pair of delightful, Mid-Century interior scenes in pen & ink by artist Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came to Chi...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen, Ink

Watercolour Design for 'Ave Maria' Stained Glass Window in a Church, Jane Gray
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of watercolour stained glass designs from Jane Gray's studio. To find more scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller." Jane Gray (b.1931) Stained Glass Design 'Ave Maria' Watercolour 8 x 7 cm Signed and dated verso Provenance: the artist's studio sale A rare example of Gray’s early work, this design shows a more traditional approach to stained glass window design, something that Gray came to eschew in favour of a more modern style in much of her later work. It’s intended location is unknown. Jane Gray A.R.C.A. (b.1931) is a British stained glass art...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Musical Costume Drawing Tony Award Elvis
Located in New York, NY
BYE BYE BIRDIE Original 1960 Broadway Musical Costume Drawing Tony Award Elvis Miles White (1915 – 2000) BYE BYE BIRDIE 11 x 8 inches Mixed Media on Paper Signed Lower Right Framed by Bark Affixed to the back are original gold lame fabric swatches. This drawing is available, along with two other original costume drawings from BIRDIE by Miles White, another of Conrad Birdie and one of Chita Rivera. Miles White, a leading Broadway and Hollywood costume designer for decades. created costumes for the original Broadway productions of OKLAHOMA CAROUSEL, BYE BYE BIRDIE and many others. In film he worked on "Around the World in 80 Days" and "The Greatest Show on Earth." He designed Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and the Ice Capades for many years. Miles was a close friend for the last 20 years of his life. We live with one of his two Tony Awards and a dozen drawings. BYE BYE BIRDIE is a stage musical with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams, based upon a book by Michael Stewart...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil

Trees Over the Vineyard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Trees Over the Vineyard Watercolor on heavy paper, c. 1930 Signed with the estate stamp verso (see photo) Sheet size: 16 1/2 x 19 1/8 inches Condition: Excellent Illustrated: Marbell...
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1930s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

A Lonely Angel - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Un Angelo solitario is a drawing on paper, realized around the Sixties by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari  (Siena, 1898 - 1989). Black ink drawing (watercolor)...
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1960s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Chicago Jewish Modernist Judaica Painting Simchat Torah WPA Artist Israeli Flags
Located in Surfside, FL
This has young ISraeli pioneers dancing with the flag as typical of works of the late British mandate Palestine era early state of Israel. Genre: Modern Subject: Figurative (stained glass style) Medium: Mixed media gouache on paper Hand signed lower left Alexander Raymond Katz, Hungarian / American (1895 – 1974) Alexander Raymond Katz was born in Kassa, Hungary, and came to the United States in 1909. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In the late 1920s, he worked as a director of the Poster Department at Paramount Studios. He was appointed the Director of Posters for the Chicago Civic Opera in 1930. During the Great Depression, notable architect Frank Lloyd Wright urged Katz to become a muralist. In 1933, he was commissioned to paint a mural for the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago. In 1936, he painted the mural History of the Immigrant for the Madison, Ill., post office. Katz’s works were included in various exhibitions and now are part of several museum collections, including those of the Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Jewish Museum, New York. His murals, bas-reliefs and stained glass designs adorn more than 200 Jewish synagogues in the United States. Katz and other Jewish artists in Chicago who expressed Jewish and Biblical themes were inspired by the artist Abel Pann (1883-1963). Pann, who is regarded as the leading painter of the Land of Israel, exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1920. Early in his career, Katz began to explore the artistic possibilities inherent in the characters of the Hebrew alphabet. He developed aesthetic and philosophical interpretations of each letter and became the leading innovator and pioneer in the field of Hebraic art. Katz applies this concept in the woodcut Moses and the Burning Bush. Hebrew letters appears in Moses’ head, his cane and inside the flame. The initial of Moses’ name crowns his head. The letter in the flame is the first letter of the name of God. A combination of images and Hebrew letters appeared commonly in illustrations of the scene Moses and the Burning Bush in the Haggadah, the book of Passover. The symbolism of the burning bush corresponds to the motifs of A Gift to Biro-Bidjan. Among the fourteen participating artists were notable Chicago modernists Todros Geller, Mitchell Siporin...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Bacchus - Original Pen and Watercolor on Paper by Mino Maccari -Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Bacchus is an original modern artwork realized by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Original drawing in pen and watercolor on paper, study for a small labe...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen, Watercolor, Paper

On the Gallops. 1976.Race Horses. Equine.Jockeys.Horse Racing. Racetrack.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
John Rattenbury Skeaping. English ( b.1901 - d.1990 ). On the Gallops, 1976. Gouache and Watercolor. Signed & Dated Lower Right. Image size 18.5 inches x 26.8 inches ( 47cm x 68cm )...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Fond Memories. Original Gordon King Watercolor. Modern British. Lady. Flowers.
By Gordon King
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Gordon King. English ( b.1939 ). Fond Memories. Watercolor. Signed. Image size 13.6 inches x 21 inches ( 34.5cm x 53.5cm ). Frame size 22.4 inches x 29.9 inches ( 57cm x 76cm ). Av...
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Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Beach Series, Ink on Paper by Modern Artist Prokash Karmakar "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Prakash Karmakar - Beach Series 14.5 x 11 inches (unframed size) Ink on Paper 2006 ( Framed and Delivered ) Style : Legendary master artist Lt. Prokash Karmakar from Bengal was sole...
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Early 2000s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Paper

1950's Modernist Watercolor Painting Israeli Bezalel School Bauhaus Style
Located in Surfside, FL
Louise (McClure) Schatz (1916 – 1997) Born in Vancouver, Canada, Louise Schatz moved with her family at age three to Minnesota. Her father, a stage director, was part of the local Bohemian culture and traveled the theater circuit around the U.S. She earned a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at the University of California, where she became a skilled water colorist. “My Japanese instructor showed me how to preserve several colors together on paper,” she noted. “Water colors can bleed into the paper, and the paper plays with the colors – some of which can even disappear. I have a great love of texture and what materials do to color. I was very excited to discover what happens to colors and how to achieve what I wanted.” Her interest in astronomy also led Louise to study science at the university. Louise joined the “California Seven” artists in 1945 and for the next three years created prints and textile patterns. During WWII, she earned her living as a sketch artist for ship builders in San Francisco Bay, and it was there she met her future husband, Bezalel. “Then, it was very avant-garde to hire women in ship-building,” she once recounted. “We used to take dimensions from engineers and make sketches. It was very trailblazing and exciting, and the ships were constructed very quickly and launched very quickly. Besides the fact that we contributed to the war effort, it was really beautiful art.” The Bohemian society developing in San Francisco at the time included the novelist Henry Miller, who was then married to Louise’s sister, Eve. “There was a group of artists in Big Sur, all of them poor,” according to Bezalel Schatz’s sister, Zohara. “They were a group of Beatniks before the hippy era of the 1960s. There were novelists, poets, and painters there who lived communally under primitive conditions and were close to nature.” Bezalel and Louise were married in 1948 and moved to Israel. There, together with Zohara, they founded the arts and crafts workshop, “Yad,” with the goal of creating and selling alternative art objects that differed in style from those of the Bezalel School of Art. The couple divided its time between the family home in Jerusalem and a residence in Ein Hod designed for them by the architect David Resnik. Despite her connection to the Schatz family and her active involvement in the Israeli art world at the time, Louise guarded her privacy and rarely granted interviews. As Henry Miller wrote, “Her paintings reflect and reveal the extent of her sensitivity, shyness, and gentleness…” Scenes of Israel were a source of inspiration for Louise, and, in addition to her abstract Bauhaus geometric works, she also painted landscapes, flowers, and other elements of the environment in which she worked. Louise worked mainly in water colors but also created collages, book illustrations, and applied art. Among her outstanding works are murals for Zim’s “Shalom” and “Theodore Herzl” ships (together with Bezalel), El Al’s London office, and Jerusalem’s tenth anniversary exhibition, as well as ceramic walls for Jerusalem’s Midreshet Amalia and Beit Ha’am Library. She was awarded the Silver Medal in 1954 at the tenth Triennale in Milan for her copper designs, and in 1952 she received the “Above Competition” prize for her textile designs at the Bezalel National Museum. She was also awarded the Shen Beit Haomanim Prize in 1970 and the Jerusalem Prize for painting in 1973. Louise took part in many art exhibitions in Israel and abroad. Her works are held by the Israel, Tel Aviv, and Haifa Museums, and in private collections in Israel, the U.S., England, Switzerland, France, and Italy. Following her husband’s death in 1978, Louise continued to live with her sister-in-law, Zohara, at the family home in Jerusalem on Schatz Street. Louise died in Jerusalem in 1997. She has been called in the pages of the Jerusalem Post " the greatest Schatz of all" and "Israel's finest watercolorist" Parts of her work summon up affinities with Paul Klee and Julius Bissier and occasionally even Joan Miro. But she never copied any of them. Her work also bears affinities for Lyonel Feininger and Wassily Kandinsky Between 1937 and 1951, Bezalel resided in the U.S. Near the end of WWII, he worked in a California shipyard, and it was there he met his future wife, Louise. He was also introduced to the novelist Henry Miller in California, and their friendship blossomed into a creative collaboration. The artist May Ray recorded his observations about the two, noting that “I have never encountered such smooth cooperation…” Bezalel produced silkscreen prints for Miller’s novel, Into the Night Life, an innovation for both the art and publishing worlds. In Florence, New Mexico, New York, San Francisco, and other locations, Bezalel exhibited his own work and participated in group shows with some of the greatest artists of his era – Picasso...
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1950s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

1964 Original Pastel Watercolor Drawing Construction Workers SF Red Green Black
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield Construction Workers and Red Truck 6-16-64 Pastel and Watercolor 41 1/2" x 36" unframed Signed and dated in pastel lower right Gloria (Fischer) Dudfield July 12, 192...
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Late 20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Pastel

San Tubisco (Season's Greetings) Holiday Drawing Artwork Poseidon Trident Bridge
Located in Surfside, FL
Gottfried Salzmann , born on 26 March 1943 In Saalfelden near Salzburg in Austria is an Austrian painter. He lives and works in France (between Paris and Vence) since 1965. He studi...
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1970s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Spielende Kinder vor Schönbrunn
Located in Wien, 9
Sergius Pauser (1896 - 1970) is recognized as a significant figure in the artistic movement known as "New Objectivity" and was a longstanding member of the Vienna Secession. Througho...
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20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Paper

Staten Island
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Staten Island Watercolor on paper, c. 1928 Signed with the Estate stamp lower left Sheet size: 19 1/8 x 23 7/8 inches Titled on verso Part of small series of watercolors done of the ...
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1920s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Modernist scene ink drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 43x37 cm. Frame with damage.
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Early 1900s Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

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