Works on paper |
François Boucher
1703 - Paris - 1773
Hercules and Omphale
Black chalk, touches of black pastel crayon on paper; executed c.1745.
Signed (?) in pen and brown ink lower left outside the framing line: f. Boucher
200 x 150 mm
Kees van Dongen
1877 Delfshaven, near Rotterdam - Monte Carlo 1968
Nu couché aux bas rouges [Reclining Nude with Red Stockings]
Gouache on paper; executed circa 1910.
Signed in the lower centre: van Dongen.
246 x 337 mm
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
1783 Blåkrog - Copenhagen 1853
View from the Battery towards the City
Pen and black ink, pencil and grey wash on paper.
Signed and dated: Eckersberg fec. 1836 and inscribed on the back: Eckersberg 7 Sept. 1836. 185 x 315 mm.
See our current catalogue:
'The Danish Golden Age', no. 6.
Chrostoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
1783 Blåkrog - Copenhagen 1853
Viewing the Solar Eclipse of 28th July 1851
Pen and black ink, brown wash over pencil on white paper.
Dated and inscribed by the artist 28 Juli 1851. Solformørkelse.
Bearing a number 535 in pencil lower right.
250 x160 mm
See our current catalogue:
'The Danish Golden Age', no. 8
Johann Heinrich Füssli / John Henry Fuseli R.A.
1741 Zurich - London 1825
Woman with a Fantastical Hair Style
Pencil on laid paper.
Inscribed in Greek: παιδολέτειρα (Paidoleteira) and dated: June 4 21. / P. H. [Putney Hill].
132 x 187 mm
GERMAN SCHOOL
around 1550
An Elk Goblet and Cover
Body colour, watercolour, heightened with white and gold. On two attached sheets of paper, cut out in parts. Watermarked: Lion [Nuremberg, c.1540-50].
Bearing an anonymous collector’s mark: A shield with a coat of arms (German eagle with a small shield) on the finial. Collector’s stamp of Peter Vischer (Lugt 2115) lower left on the mount; annotated in brown ink lower right: No. 8. (number deleted) / No. 1. Hans Holbein. 1008 x 242 mm
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
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
François-Marius Granet
1775 Aix-en-Provence – Malvalat, nr. Aix 1849
An Incantation Ceremony
Pen and brown ink with sepia wash, on laid paper,
laid down on an old album page.
Bearing a sign on the lower right corner.
113 x 96 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
Francesco Guardi
1712 - Venice - 1793
Capriccio with Antique Ruins, a Pyramid and two Figures
Black chalk, pen and brown bistre ink, brown and grey wash on laid paper; on its old mount; executed in the 1760s or 1770s. Inscribed by a later hand in brown ink on the mount: 'Francesko Guardi'
298 x 222 mm
Jakob Philipp Hackert
1737 Prenzlau - Florence 1807
A Pine near Genzano
Black chalk, heightened with white, on light brown paper.
Signed and dated lower left: J. Philipp Hackert f. 1769 in Genzano. Annotated on the verso (by another hand): Charlotte Clive / Bought at Naples of Mr Hacket / 19 March 1787.
542 x 401 mm
Paul-César Helleu
1859 Vannes - Paris 1927
Nu endormi
Red, white and black chalk on buff paper; executed after 1900.
Signed in red chalk at the lower left: Helleu. Bearing the number 89 in pen and brown ink in the upper right corner.
461 x 355 cm
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R. B. Kitaj, R.A.
1932 Cleveland – Los Angeles 2007
Portrait of Philip Roth
Charcoal on paper; executed 1985.
775 x 570 mm
Georg Kolbe
Waldheim 1877 - 1947 Berlin
Kneeling Nude
Pen and brush and light brown sepia ink on firm wove; early 1920s.
Signed with the artist’s monogram lower right in sepia: G K.
494 x345 mm
Max Liebermann
1847 - Berlin - 1935
Boys Bathing near Bad Kösen
Watercolour and gouache on paper; c. 1895.
Signed lower left in pen and ink: M. Liebermann.
500 x 652 mm
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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
Berthe Morisot
1841 Bourges - Paris 1895
Jeune fille cueillant des cerises
Red chalk on laid paper with watermark: MB / ARCHES; executed c.1891
558 x 432 mm
Ben Nicholson
1894 Denham, Bucks. - London 1982
August 27, 1954 (View of St Ives)
Oil wash and pencil on paper, in the artist’s frame, executed on August 27, 1954.
Signed, titled and dated on back of paper: NICHOLSON / St Ives / aug 27 - 54 .
320 x 500 mm
Johannes Niessen
1821 - Cologne - 1910
Study of the Head of a Young Roman (Giacomo Orlandi di Subiaco)
Charcoal on paper; 1847.
Inscribed and dated lower right: Rom 1847.
Titled by the artist: Giacomo Orlandi di Subiaco.
292 x 225 mm
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Johann Elias Ridinger
1698 Ulm - Augsburg 1767
The Huntsman Content with his Bag
Pen and brush in grey-black, grey-brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk; on paper with a Lily watermark. On the verso rubbed with red chalk for transfer to a copper printing plate.
348 x 432 mm
Hubert Robert
1733 - Paris - 1808
Two Roman Soldiers Resting in Front of a Ruined Monument
Red chalk on laid paper; executed c.1767.
369 x 289 mm
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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.
Thomas Rowlandson
1756 - London - 1827
The rustic Courtship
Pen and grey ink and watercolour.
Executed probably after 1780.
174 x 233 mm
Léon Spilliaert
1881 Ostend - Brussels 1946
Tasse, réchaud et casserole (Cup, small stove and saucepan)
Indian ink, wash, brush on paper; 1908.
Signed lower left: L. Spilliaert; on the verso from another hand dated and inscribed: 1908?/3/1.
220 x 292 mm
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Léon Spilliaert
1881 Ostend - Brussels 1946
Landscape with a Grange, Trees and a Wall
Pen, brush and black ink, coloured crayons.
Signed with initials and dated with pen and black ink in the lower right margin: L. S. 1917; signed and
dated with pencil in the lower left margin: L. Spilliaert 1917.
501 x 503 mm
Félix Vallotton
1865 Lausanne - Paris 1925
Portrait de Vuillard (Study for Les cinq peintres)
Pencil on paper; c.1902-03.
Monogrammed lower right: FV and signed by the sitter: Ed. Vuillard.
260 x 200 mm