Works on paper |
Pancrace Bessa
1772 Paris - Écouen 1846
Prunes et abricots
Watercolour and gouache on paper; 1816.
Dated at the lower left: aout 1816, numbered at the upper right: 43., inscribed between the fruits: abricots pêche, 28. aout …6, Despalier, arbres au vent; bearing the numbers 29. and 30.
290 x 205 mm
SOLD
Giovanni Boldini
1842 Ferrara - Paris 1931
Bust of Francesco I d’Este, after Bernini
Brown and blue wash on paper; c.1890-1900.
Signed lower right: Boldini
455 x 304 mm
Sold to the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Pierre Bonnard
1867 Fontenay-aux-Roses – Le Cannet 1947
Nature morte à la table sur une terrasse
Gouache and watercolour over pencil on paper, c.1939.
Stamped lower right with the monogram (Lugt 3887).
175 x 282 mm
Lovis Corinth
1858 Tapiau, East Prussia - Zandvoort, Netherlands 1925
Self-Portrait
Black chalk on wove paper.
Signed and dated lower right: Januar 1924 Lovis Corinth.
500 x 310 mm
Maurice Denis
1870 Granville - Saint-Germaine-en-Laye 1943
Le Goûter sur la cale - soir / Le goûter au Pouldu
Pen and brown ink, black and grey wash, executed 1899-1900.
Inscribed and signed at the lower right: Dessin p. le catalogue, M. Denis.
198 x 237 mm
SOLD
Ernst Eitner
1867 - Hamburg - 1955
Toni
Bleistift; um 1897-1900.
Rechts unten monogrammiert: E. E., und bezeichnet: Toni.
225 x 305 mm.
FRIEDRICH HEINRICH FÜGER
1751 Heilbronn -Vienna 1818
A Cure for Nympholepsy
Pen and black ink with grey wash and white heightening, on light-blue paper; c.1801.
456 x 346 mm
SOLD
Anne-Louis Girodet
1767 Montargis - Paris 1824
Éole déchaîne les vents contre les vaisseaux troyens (Virgile, Énéide, I: 50-91)
Black chalk on paper; executed c.1811.
268 x 358 mm (image); 268 x 410 mm (sheet)
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Two recently discovered drawings
Albert Gleizes
1881 Paris - Avignon 1953
Cirque [Une écuyère de cirque]
Pen and brown ink, white gouache on brown paper, mounted on card; 1914.
Titled Cirque in pen and brown ink, signed and dated Alb. Gl. / 1914 in pencil lower right.
240 x 202 mm
Paul-César Helleu
1859 Vannes - Paris 1927
A Young Parisienne
Trois crayons (black, red and white chalk) on cream paper.
Signed in the lower left margin: Helleu, and bearing the number 5.
800 x 570 mm
Horst Janssen
1929 - Hamburg - 1995
Selbstbildnis
Bleistift auf weißem Karton; 1973..
Rechts unten signiert und datiert: Janssen 73, mit Widmung: zu Weihnachten für Joachim F(est). Gezeichnet auf einer alten Kartonmappe mit Tuschpinselzeichnung und gedruckten Schriftzeichen innen.
408 x 310 mm
Jacob Jordaens
1593 - Antwerp - 1678
Homage to the Poet
Red and black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour on paper; c.1660. The sheet enlarged by the artist on all four sides.
Inscribed above: Sinne beeld / de Poesie ofte den Poet gekroond met / Lauriere door Apollo / Mercurius hem inschenckende den Nektar / ofte den Ambrosiaen / de nimphem hem met sangen vereerende.
205 x 215 mm
Christen Schiellerup Købke
1810 – Copenhagen – 1848
Portrait of a Young Sailor with Folded Arms
Pencil on white paper; 1837.
175 x 140 mm
ALFRED KUBIN
1877 Leitmeritz, Bohemia – Zwickledt, Upper Austria 1959
Haus Usher [The House of Usher]
Pen and black ink over traces of black chalk, on cadastral paper. Circa 1909. Bearing the artist’s initials AK lower left in the image; signed in pencil Kubin lower right and titled Haus Usher I in the lower margin corners. On the verso with annotations in the lower margin.
314 x 259 mm
MAX LIEBERMANN
1847 - Berlin - 1935
Holländische Dünenlandschaft bei Sturm
Pastel on paper, c.1909.
Signed lower left: M. Liebermann
235 x 318 mm
Sold to the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
Johann Heinrich Lips
1758 Kloten – Zurich 1817
Ulysses, to the Doors of Hades, meets the Shades of Tiresias and Anticlea
Pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash.
Signed and dated lower left: Joh. H. Lips inv: e fec: Roma 1785.
454 x 670 mm
SOLD TO THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
Hans von Marées
1837 Elberfeld – 1887 Rome
Young Bacchus
Red chalk on laid paper; circa 1883.
In the margins with the numbers 6/67 and 9/67.
57.5 x 22.5-24.5 cm
John Martin
1789 Haydon Bridge, Northumberland - Douglas, Isle of Man 1854
The Thames at Twickenham
Watercolour, gouache and graphite with scratching-out on paper; executed in the mid-1840s.
280 x 699 mm
Adolph von Menzel
1815 Breslau – Berlin 1905
A Sheet of Various Studies, including Two Heads of Men, and Two Studies of Hands, one holding a Fan; with Test Marks of Watercolour (recto) – Various Test Marks of Watercolour (verso)
Carpenter’s pencil and watercolour (recto); watercolour (verso).
Marked with the artist’s estate stamp, in violet ink, upper left center, A. M.
170 x 130 mm
Adolph von Menzel
1815 Breslau - 1905 Berlin
Interior of a Farmhouse Loft
Carpenter’s pencil with stumping and scratching-out, on sturdy, rough-textured paper.
Executed in the second half of the 1870s.
Signed lower right: Ad. Menzel.
238 x 332 mm
Emil Orlik
1870 Prague - Berlin 1932
Street Scene with Strollers in front of an illuminated Window, Paris
Gouache, watercolour and pastel on cardboard. Probably executed c.1898.
Monogrammed in the lower right: EO.
335 x 483 mm
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
1824 Lyon - Paris 1898
Head of a Man in Profile, Study for ‘La Famille du pêcheur’
Charcoal and stomping, squared for transfer. Circa 1875.
Signed lower right: P. Puvis de Ch.; inscribed upper right with the name and address of the model: de Cioja / r. St Victor 45.
320 x 240 mm.
Sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Johann Elias Ridinger
1698 Ulm - Augsburg 1767
The Jump into a Wild Hog Preserve
Pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash over black chalk on paper with a Strasbourg Lily watermark. Signed and dated in brown ink in the lower margin: J. E. Ridinger fec. A[ugusta]. V[indelicum]. 1728 Jun: / in Sylva ad vivu[m] delineav[it], titled: Der Einsprung an einem Sau Garten and with a personal dedication: Honoratis: Amico / Dr: Will .
336 x 248 mm
Ker-Xavier Roussel
1867 Lorry-lès-Metz – L’Étang-la-Ville 1944
Self-Portrait
Pencil on Japan paper; c.1920.
Signed with the artist’s monogram lower right: K. X. R.
254 x 178 cm
Pere Santilari
Badalona 1959
Wunderkammer I: The Sound
Pencil on cardboard, 2021
Signed and dated on the lower left corner: P. Santilari 21
317 x 347 mm
Suzanne Valadon
1867 Bessines - Paris 1938
Nu assis
Black chalk and estompe on paper; 1894.
Signed and dated at the lower right: S. Valadon 94.
190 x 295 mm
SOLD
Louis Valtat
1869 Dieppe - Paris 1952
Au Moulin Rouge (recto); Scène de Café (verso)
Pastel (recto), pastel and watercolour (verso) on firm greyish-brown paper; 1895.
646 x 497 mm
SOLD
Anders Zorn
1860 - Mora - 1920
Reclining Nude Reading, Gulli Runeborg
Red pencil on tan paper. Signed lower right Zorn and inscribed Runeborg top left; c.1917.
240 x 350 mm