Category: Watercolor and Gouache
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Josep Tapiró y Baró
Josep Tapiró y Baró was a Catalan painter active in the late 19th and early 20th century. He spent the latter part of his life in Morocco, and his watercolor portraits of some of the people there — dressed in their most colorful traditional garb — were quite popular for a time with European and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Carl Larsson’s Karin by the Shore
Karin by the Shore, Carl Larsson; watercolor, 29 x 21″ (75 x 54 cm). Link is to para on Wikipedia which links to high-res image file. There is also a zoomable version on Google Art Project. Original is in the Malmö Art Museum. Another of Swedish artist Carl Larsson’s delightful scenes of domestic life. In…
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Eye Candy for Today: Carl Larsson domestic interior
When the Children have Gone to Bed, Carl Larsson, ink and watercolor, roughly 12 x 17 inches (32 x 43 cm). Link is to image page on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the NatinalMuseum, Stockholm. Another of Carl Larsson’s wonderful ink and watercolor domestic scenes. This was part of a series called “A Home”, based…
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Ella Du Cane
Ella Du Cane was a Victorian watercolorist known for her paintings of various parts of the world — in particular, her delicate watercolors that obviously carry the influence of the colorful Japanese woodblock prints that were becoming increasingly popular in Europe and the UK at the time. With her sister, Florence, Du Cane traveled to…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jean-Pierre Gibrat comics panel
Quai de Valmy, Flight of the Raven, Jean-Pierre Gibrat; ink, watercolor and gouache on paper; roughly 25 x 20 inches ( 65 x 51 cm). Link is to listing on Christie’s auction, where the original art sold for almost 44,000 Euros (roughly $46,000). The listing desctiption is in Franch; (Google Translate to English here). This…
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Joseph Zbukvic (update)
Joseph Zbukvic is a well known painter who is considered a modern master of watercolor, and I would add that within that discipline, he is also a master of suggestion. His paintings of urban scenes, rural landscapes, harbors, boats and many other subjects often appear rich with intricate detail, but on closer inspection reveal that…