French School Mid 20th Century

Italian Coastal Mountain Seascape Modernist Watercolour on Handmade Paper

20th Century

**Title:** Sierra Nevada Spain Mountain Landscape Modernist Watercolour on Handmade Paper **Artist:** European School, 20th century **Medium:** Watercolour on handmade paper, unframed **Size:** 7.75 x 11.25 inches **Signature:** Unsigned **Stamped verso:** No stamp visible from the images provided **Provenance:** Private collection **Condition:** Fair to good vintage condition. The handmade paper shows age toning, surface marks, pinholes, creasing, handling wear and irregular deckled edges. There are visible losses, nicks and roughness to the lower edge, with further wear and small losses to the corners and outer margins. The painted image remains atmospheric, decorative and visually appealing. **Description:** A striking 20th century European School watercolour landscape, painted on textured handmade paper and inscribed verso **Sierra Nevada Spain**. The composition depicts a dramatic mountain range with snow-covered peaks, layered slopes and a dark band of distant cloud or sea beyond. The scene has a bold, simplified quality, combining the atmosphere of a travel study with the structure of a modernist landscape. The painting is particularly appealing for its graphic treatment of mountain forms. The artist reduces the Sierra Nevada view into broad planes of muted blue, grey, brown, ochre and cream, allowing the snowy ridges and angular slopes to stand out clearly against the darker background. The result is atmospheric yet design-led, with the mountain landscape arranged almost as a series of abstract colour fields. The handmade paper adds considerable character to the work. Its warm natural tone, visible fibres, pinholes and irregular deckled edges give the piece a tactile, artisanal quality, enhancing the sense of the painting as an original travel study or plein air-inspired work. The painted area sits within the sheet, leaving the surrounding handmade paper visible and giving the work a distinctive object-like presence. The verso inscription identifies the subject as **Sierra Nevada Spain**, giving the piece useful topographical and search appeal. The Sierra Nevada mountain range in southern Spain has long attracted artists and travellers for its dramatic peaks, changing light and contrast between high mountain scenery and warmer Mediterranean tones. This watercolour captures that sense of rugged landscape through a restrained but expressive palette. This original work would appeal to collectors of Spanish landscapes, Sierra Nevada paintings...

**Title:** Modernist Coastal Seascape Marsh Landscape Watercolour on Handmade Paper **Artist:** British School / European School, 20th century **Medium:** Watercolour on handmade paper, unframed **Size:** 7.75 x 11.25 inches **Signature:** Unsigned **Stamped verso:** Not shown / no stamp visible from the image provided **Provenance:** Private collection **Condition:** Fair to good vintage condition. The handmade paper shows age toning, surface marks, pinholes, handling wear, creasing and irregular deckled edges. There are small nicks, tears and areas of roughness to the outer edges and corners, consistent with age and the nature of the handmade sheet. The painted image remains atmospheric and decorative. **Description:** A subtle 20th century British School or European School watercolour landscape, painted on textured handmade paper and depicting a broad coastal seascape or marshland view. The composition is arranged in quiet horizontal bands of grey, blue, green and earthy brown, suggesting open water, tidal flats, low vegetation, distant land and a wide clouded sky. The painting is particularly appealing for its restrained modernist approach to landscape. The artist reduces the coastal scene into simplified strips of colour and tone, creating an impression of space, weather and atmosphere rather than a highly detailed topographical view. The pale grey sky dominates the upper half of the composition, while darker horizontal accents suggest a distant shoreline, reed beds, marsh edges or low coastal vegetation. The palette is muted and atmospheric, with soft blue-grey washes balanced by touches of green, brown and cream. These gentle tonal shifts give the work a calm, contemplative quality, evoking the quiet light of a coastal plain, estuary or wetland landscape. The simplified structure gives the piece a decorative modernist feel while still retaining the sense of an observed natural view. The handmade paper adds considerable character to the work. Its visible fibres, pinholes, warm natural tone and irregular edges give the piece a tactile, artisanal quality. The painted image sits within the sheet, leaving the surrounding paper visible and giving the work an attractive object-like presence. This original watercolour would appeal to collectors of coastal landscapes, seascapes, marshland paintings...

Aquarelle par Emmanuel Costa (1833-1921) Encadré: 41x55 cm Emmanuel Louis Costa naît à Menton, de Charles et de Hyacinthe Costa le 25 décembre 1833. Il semblerait que son père, scul...

Double-sided mid century watercolor of Pleasure Point Cove, Monterey Bay by listed artist Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). On verso is a beautiful botanical watercolor study....