Marcel Bloch

Piano Lesson on a Snowing Day - Original handsigned watercolor - 1930

1930

Marcel BLOCH A Charming Unexpected Visit Original watercolor with gouache enhancement Handsigned bottom left c. 1930 On vellum 35 x 24 cm at view (c. 14 x 10 in) Information : This...

Marcel BLOCH Elegant Lovers at the Rink Original watercolor with gouache enhancement Handsigned bottom right c. 1930 On vellum 35 x 24 cm at view (c. 14 x 10 in) Information : This...

Marcel BLOCH 1920's Elegant Couple in the Snow Original watercolor with gouache enhancement Handsigned bottom left c. 1930 On vellum 35 x 24 cm at view (c. 14 x 10 in) Information ...

Marcel BLOCH A Galant Welcome Original watercolor with gouache enhancement Handsigned bottom right c. 1930 On vellum 35 x 24 cm at view (c. 14 x 10 in) Information : This drawing i...

Demetrios GALANIS (1879-1966) Child Picking Fruit Original pencil drawing Signed with the blue stamp signature of the artist On vellum 15 x 12.5 cm (c. 6 x 5") Very good cond...

Demetrios GALANIS (1879-1966) Romantic Angels Original ink and pencil drawing Signed with the blue stamp signature of the artist On vellum 16 x 15 cm (c. 6 x 6") Very good condit...

Four outrigger proa’s on the beach of Kusambe, Bali, 1937 Signed with initials, dated and described with location bottom left Pencil and ink on paper, 29.7 x 35 cm In ebonized frame with white mount WILLEM OTTO WIJNAND NIEUWENKAMP (1874-1950) Nieuwenkamp was born on July 27th 1874 in Amsterdam. His father owned sailing ships sailing to Indonesia and hearing the stories of the returning captains evoked in the young Nieuwenkamp an obsession for distant lands and adventure. After a failed attempt by his father to have his son make a career in his business, Nieuwenkamp attended the Academy for Decorative Art in Amsterdam. However, he left within one year to go his own way. He was an autodidact and a great experimenter with new techniques, particularly in the art of etching. Nieuwenkamp was a very focused man with the discipline of a scientist tempered by the sensitivity of an artist, a lust for adventure, a natural appreciation for ethnic arts and an enormous ambition to tread new paths. In 1898 he visited Indonesia for the first time and on his second visit in 1903-1904 he went on to Bali and became the first foreign artist to love Bali and the Balinese with a passion. Having secured agreements with several museums in the Netherlands to obtain Balinese art and objects for their collections, Nieuwenkamp immediately started to purchase and order a wide range of ethnographic art and objects from local artists and craftsmen. Through his drawings and books, he gave an excellent impression of Balinese art and culture at that time. Since 1854 Northern Bali was under Dutch...

Premises in North Bali, 1906 Signed with initials and titled bottom left and fully signed, bottom right Pencil and ink on paper, 10.5 x 18 cm Black ebonized frame with white mount ...

Weltevreden, Kebon Sirih, & Vlucht voor de bui (Fleeing the rain) Executed between February 20 and March 2, 1918 Double sided drawing in graphite pencil on paper Images: c. 33 x 5...

Statue of Vishnu Garuda, Bali, 1904 Signed with initials Pencil and ink on paper, 21.4 x 21.3 cm Literature: Bruce W. Carpenter, W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp. First European Artist in Bali,...

Incoming rain, Den Pasar, Bali 1937 Signed with initials, dated and titled, bottom right Black chalk and ink on paper, 42 by 46 cm Literature: Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbroek, W.O...

Stone statue in the temple at Madura, India, 1914 Signed with initials and dated, bottom left Pencil on paper, 25.4 x 16.7 cm Literature: Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbroek, W.O.J. ...