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

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

Maison dans la cour

Colour Lithograph on wove Paper, from the Series: Quelques aspects de la vie de Paris; 1899.
From the edition of 100.

Signed in pencil lower right: PBonnard; at the lower left corner inscribed: pl. 4.
34.5 x 25.5 cm (53.3 x 40 cm)

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

Ernst Eitner

1867 - Hamburg - 1955

Toni

Bleistift; um 1897-1900.
Rechts unten monogrammiert: E. E., und bezeichnet: Toni.
225 x 305 mm.

Ernst Fries

Heidelberg 1801 - 1833 Karlsruhe

Path between Trees near Ariccia

Pen and brush in greyish-black ink, sepia wash over pencil. On laid paper watermarked: C & I Honig.
Executed between 1824 and 1827.
Numbered III, 2 in pencil on the verso.

GAETANO GANDOLFI

1734 San Matteo della Decima - Bologna 1802

A Capriccio of Heads of Seven Young Women in Elaborate Headdress

Pen and brown and red ink on buff paper.
171 x 221 mm

SOLD

Alberto Giacometti

1901 Borgonovo - Chur 1966

La Mère de l’artiste

Pencil on paper, 1948. Signed and dated lower right: A Guttuso Alberto Giacometti 1948. Bearing a personal dedication to the artist Renato Guttuso inscribed Parigi. 1949. 460 x 348 mm

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

Jan Josefsz van Goyen

Leiden 1596 - 1656 The Hague

River Landscape with Figures and Cattle in a Ferryboat Approaching a Village

Black chalk and grey wash on paper. Signed with monogram and dated in black chalk, lower right: VG 1653. Inscribed in brown ink in the upper right margin: No=36, inscribed in graphite lower left: 314 and annotated lower right: van goojen.
207 x 303 mm

SOLD

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

Paul Klee

1879 Münchenbuchsee - Muralto 1940

Heimgartenanlage [Home Garden Plot / Allotment Estate]

Pen and black ink on paper, laid down with dabs of glue on the artist’s mount; 1921.
Signed: Klee lower left, dated upper right: 1921; on the artist’s mount inscribed with the work number: 1921/148 and title: Heimgartenanlage.
Image: 220 x 287 mm; artist’s mount: 340 x 395 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

JOHAN THOMAS LUNDBYE

1818 Kalundborg - Bedsted 1848

Asnæs Skov, Bay at Kalundborg Fjord

Pen and black ink, pencil and watercolour on paper; 1839. Signed in pen and black ink Johan Thomas Lundbye, dated Dec 1839 and inscribed: Landskab ved Kalundborg Fjord. Asnæs Skov., and in pen and brown ink 2/1 1840 tilf: Fuldmægtig Secher I Randers.
189 x 300 mm


Sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

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 Seated Woman Reading (Portrait of Emilie Fontane)

Watercolour and gouache on thin cardboard.
Extensively inscribed and dated 16 März 1872 by the artist on the verso.
112 x 73 mm.

Sold to the Theodor-Fontane-Archiv, Potsdam.

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

Achille-Etna Michallon

1796 - Paris - 1822

View of the Sistine Chapel from the Piazza del Forno, Rome

Brush and brown ink, brown wash over black chalk on Paper. Framing lines in pen and brown ink. Signed and dated in brown ink, lower right: Michallon 1819.
22.5 x 28.2 cm.

SOLD to the Kunsthalle Hamburg

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

George Romney

1734 Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire - Kendal, Cumbria 1802

Fight between two Classical Warriors on Horseback, watched by three standing Figures in a Cave

Pencil, pen and black ink, grey wash on wove paper.
410 x 549 mm.

SOLD to the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam

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

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, known as 'Goethe-Tischbein'

1751 Haina - Eutin 1829

A Leopard and a Leopardess with Two Cubs at the Entrance to a Cave

Black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour, heightened with opaque white, on paper, c.1810-20.
Original mount.
320 x 407 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

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