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French Watercolor - Fishing Boats

Circa 1950

Stunning watercolor of the flood at the Porte de Bercy in Paris by French artist E. Fournier, 1910. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a g...

Peaceful watercolor landscape painting of a country farm scene with hay stacks by artist Evelyn Coombe, 1906. Signed and dated lower left Original artwork ...

Delightful French watercolor of a tranquil river lined with trees making its way through a sunlit valley, circa 1960. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold ...

French mid-century watercolor of olive trees adorning the valley floor with a sunny town overlooking from the hill above, circa 1960. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white ...

Serene watercolor painting of early spring trees and barn buildings by French artist J. Houébon, 1965. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat ...

Charming watercolor painting of arch over city street by French artist Genin, circa 1930. Signed lower left. Original artwork on paper displayed on a w...

At over 11 feet in length, Broadbent’s “Andromeda” galaxy watercolor painting captures the spectacle and wonder one feels when looking at the stars in the night sky. In this large sc...

87"x149" multi-panel installation. This watercolor painting installation is created on 36 paper panels and is inspired by a view of the moon. The dee...

New Mexico Mountain Scene by Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953) Watercolor on paper 15 ¾ x 19 ½ inches unframed (40.005 x 49.53 cm) 23 x 26 ¾ inches framed...

Estate stamp lower right

"Three Pyramids + Blue Ball" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right, "Calder 73”. Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alexander Calder started his artistic career as an abstract painter, preferring to use gouache. What is gouache? Gouache is a water-soluble paint – a type of opaque watercolor. As Calder returned to gouache painting towards the end of his life, he was now armed with a lifetime of experience as a sculptor. He explored the three-dimensional vocabulary of sculptural forms he had developed onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper. Certain shapes and colors recur throughout his gouaches and sculptures. Circles, ovals, and other geometric forms dominate the space. There is the same sense of energy and fluidity. The shapes do not sit on the surface but vibrate giving a feeling of movement in contrast to the static nature of painting. Like his sculpture, Calder’s gouache...

FRANÇOIS MATHURIN ADALBERT, BARON DE COURCY (1805-1839) 'Le Negrito à l’ancre. Dans le port de la havanne' Indistinctly signed lower left Titled on the mount Pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, on paper, 24.8 x 34.6 cm Literature: The present watercolour will be illustrated in: - Prof. Manuel Garcia’s projected book on the disease and the slave trade provisionally titled “Fighting the Yellow Demon of Fever: The Struggle against Disease in the Illegal Slave Trade”. - Prof. Micael Zeuske’s forthcoming Global history of slave trade. Exhibited: Mexico City, 1998, Palacio Virreinal, El Barón de Courcy, illustrationes de un viaje, 1831-1833, no. 108 Note: Baron de Courcy was in the Caribbean in late 1832 and early 1833, following his tour of Mexico in 1832, on the last leg of his “Grand Voyage...