A PAIR of detailed ink drawings, one titled "The Cottage", featuring a tidy home in the English countryside, the other a dated 1911 detailed look at a Gothic church's walls and entrance portal. Affixed to the crumbling old backing is a label for "The Cottage", showing it apparently won the "John J. Burnet Prize" for Alex Nicolson, who was evidently a student in "Club No. 129". So Nicolson was evidently a talented young artist...
Richard Faralla american artist 1916-1996 1992 black ink Petaluma CA 1990 Many original works by this artist are in the SF Museum of Modern art. Matted sight 7.5" by 10" frame 15.75" by 13.25"
Landscape drawing by George Stout, Presented to George Carver in 1927. Original Untouched Condition!!! Rare Drawing by the most important member of the Monuments men. 13 1/2" X 11 1/4"
John Singer Sargent attributed portrait of Moffit Anderson 1879, pastel on paper 32x28. Drawn in Savannah Georgia in 1879
Pencil on paper drawing of two men who appear to be having a serious disagreement, the top hatted figure at left about to swing his cane into the other, all while a woman in bonnet watches from rear left in horror. It's a whimsical, humorous piece, measuring 8 3/4" by 7 1/4" inside the mat, 16" by 15" framed. The paper is very thin and delicate, and has acquired a few noticeable folds and creases in its more than 150 years, as shown. The paper is NOT laid down...
Elizabeth Fisher Washington “Resting”,Chartres,Fr. 9x10” Pastel on paper 1871-1953
Washington was the great-grandniece of President George Washington and a highly regarded miniaturist and portrait painter. She studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Hugh Breckenridge and Fred Wagner. There she won the Cresson Traveling Scholarship in 1912. Elizabeth also a member of the Plastic Club...
An Italian Old Master red chalk drawing of a putto, 8 3/4" by 6", 12 3/4" by 11 1/4" nicely framed with inner gold fillet and quality frame from Munn in Los Angeles. The work is unsigned and unattributed. Likely early 18th century. There is some soiling at top left, right center and near the lower portion, two vertical folds and more light folds at upper left, and a small abrasion of paper, seen as white area, near nose area, all as seen in photos.
Original signed nude sketch by Sabina Teichman (American, 1905-1983) in fine condition, offered framed. This drawing measures roughly 15" by 10" and is signed l.l. Sabina Teichman is extremely well listed, exhibited, and represented in museum collections.
Richard Faralla american artist 1916-1996 1992 colored ink Petaluma CA 1992 Many original works by this artist are in the SF Museum of Modern art. Matted sight 7.5" by 10" matt 12.25" by 14.75"
Chinese Ink Painting Nude Figure, signed lower left by Xiao Po, Framed Ink wash on Paper, Frame Size 35 x 28".
A beautiful signed in pencil and numbered hand colored lithograph by Bernard Buffet measures 26”x17” Toreador number 100 of an edition of 150, Frame size 41x32 inches Bernard Buffet 10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor .
He produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative...
Original charcoal drawing by Jean Hippolyte Marchand (French, 1883-1940). Initialed JHM l.r. Also with a gallery label verso from Crane Kalman Gallery, 178 Brompton Rd. London, which gives the name of the artist, the title of the work, and the name of the purchaser in 1967. Crane Kalman Gallery handled the estate of the artist and held a number of exhibitions of his work, including a retrospective exhibition in 1967.
One of three works by this artist currently available.
Fine old master style sepia ink drawing on paper, with some pencil underneath, 10" by 15 1/2" inside the mat, 15 1/2" by 20 1/2" in modern day frame, signed at lower right "Furstenburg", the locale identified at bottom center apparently by the artist as "View of the Rhine from Bacharach Aug 17". This could well refer to the year 1817 as the work has sufficient age. On the reverse is written in pencil "Germany $3.75"...
Magnificent set of Eleven Lomonosov. Imperial Russian Porcelain Cups & Saucer Sets each depicting a different scene. Each priced at $50 per set of cup and matching saucer (Quillen)
One of dozens of drawings by this artist that I recently acquired, (ask to see others, not shown in my shop), this is a fine image in charcoal on paper, 13 3/4" by 16 1/2" as inexpensively framed without mat, signed at lower right by California and Massachusetts listed artist DAISY MARGUERITE HUGHES (1882-1968). Hughes was born and died in Los Angeles but in between she spent much time in the Provincetown art colony on Cape Cod...
John Wilkes, Esq,. by William Hogarth, drawn from life and etched in Aquafortis, 1969 Parliament.
William Hogarth, (born November 10, 1697, London, England—died October 26, 1764, London), the first great English-born artist to attract admiration abroad, best known for his moral and satirical engravings and paintings—e.g., A Rake’s Progress (eight scenes,1733)...
Mixed media drawing, likely charcoal and ink, titled at bottom center "Teton Mountains", and signed at lower left by the well listed California artist PAUL LAURITZ (1889-1975). The drawing measures 11" by 15", the entire unframed sheet 15" by 19 1/2". Lauritz is considered one of the important plein air painters, a number of works having exceeded $25,000 at auction...
Ink drawing "Wooded Road", measuring 11" by 16", unframed, circa 1930's or 1940's, signed at lower right by listed American artist ISOLDE THERESE GILBERT (1907-1986). There are two labels, discovered when the piece was opened up (frame is low quality and worn). One red-bordered label gives the artist name, work's title, and size; another, of The City Library Association, Springfield (MA) Museum of Fine Arts, again provides title/artist name...