Bidspirit auction | Van Kaouib Jr., Pines on

Van Kaouib Jr., Pines on the Dunes, Watercolor and Gouache - This watercolor and gouache landscape on paper is titled Pines on the Dunes and signed by the artist Van Kaouib Jr. The composition features two prominent windswept pine trees with gnarled, calligraphic branches set against a backdrop of rolling sand dunes and a hazy sky. The technique employs atmospheric washes for the background and more detailed, textured brushwork for the central trees. The work is signed in the lower right corner MEIENDEL / van KAOUIB JR. It is housed in a cream-colored wooden frame characterized by a stepped profile and a gilded inner lip. The reverse of the frame includes a typed title label and a depository label from Pyrkes Depository in Bromley, Kent, which is overstamped with the date 30-11-60 and the name C. W. Cooper, RN. A faded ink stamp for David G. Brown, a business based in London, is also visible on the backing board.