With WOP, acronym for Works on Paper, we mean all those works of art, old, modern or contemporary, which have as their only common denominator their support: paper (of every possible kind; from parchment, albeit improperly, as it is not paper but it is often confused with it, to the most modern and ductile cardboard, from sheets made by hand with rags, cotton or vegetable fibres, up to the most recent products of the paper industry).
Since ancient times, paper has been the main mean for transmitting information, messages, documents and missives, sometimes accompanied by more or less finished sketches and drawings, so as to add images to an otherwise simply written text. At hand in modern times and ready for use (unlike a canvas which must be prepared), since its appearance paper has been the favorite medium of artists of every school; first, as a support for their exercises, often from life, i.e. from models or even en plein-air; then, having understood and tested the practicality of the new support (light to carry and, as time passed, increasingly modest in cost), it became the favorite medium for generations of artists, up to the present day.
On paper are also manuscripts, miniatures, books, autographs, musical scores, engravings and prints of every possible technique (which are innumerable and the list would be long) and even daguerreotypes and photographs which, if worthy and by known artists, could be taken into consideration for WOP auctions.
Our WOP experts are available to anyone who wants to propose old or modern works on paper, for a free and confidential valuation.
Since ancient times, paper has been the main mean for transmitting information, messages, documents and missives, sometimes accompanied by more or less finished sketches and drawings, so as to add images to an otherwise simply written text. At hand in modern times and ready for use (unlike a canvas which must be prepared), since its appearance paper has been the favorite medium of artists of every school; first, as a support for their exercises, often from life, i.e. from models or even en plein-air; then, having understood and tested the practicality of the new support (light to carry and, as time passed, increasingly modest in cost), it became the favorite medium for generations of artists, up to the present day.
On paper are also manuscripts, miniatures, books, autographs, musical scores, engravings and prints of every possible technique (which are innumerable and the list would be long) and even daguerreotypes and photographs which, if worthy and by known artists, could be taken into consideration for WOP auctions.
Our WOP experts are available to anyone who wants to propose old or modern works on paper, for a free and confidential valuation.
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€ 363.800
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Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
(Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869 - Nice 195 [..]
€ 137.500
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Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
(Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869 – Ni [..]
€ 118.750
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Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne
(Aix-en-Provence 1839 - 1906)
&n [..]
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Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro
(Charlotte Amalie 1830 - Paris 1903)
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€ 106.250
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Tibaldi, Pellegrino
(Puria di Valsolda 1527 – Milan [..]
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De Vecchi, Giovanni
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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
(Venezia 1683 – 1753)
[..]
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Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani
(Livorno 1884 - Paris 1920)
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Stefano Buonsignori (disegnatore)
(morto a Firenze nel 15 [..]
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Giorgio Morandi
Giorgio Morandi
(Bologna 1890 – 1964)
GRANDE N [..]
€ 42.500
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DAS WERK VON GUSTAV KLIMT
DAS WERK VON GUSTAV KLIMT
Hugo Heller. Vienna 1918.
[..]
€ 42.500
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Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
(Paris 1834 - 1917)
FEMME S& [..]
€ 40.000
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Morandi, Giorgio
Morandi, Giorgio
(Bologna 1890 – 1964)
GRANDE [..]
€ 38.750
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Munch, Edvard
Munch, Edvard
(Løten 1863 – Oslo 1944)
[..]
€ 37.500
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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
(Mogliano Veneto 1720 – [..]
€ 37.500
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Francesco Guardi
Francesco Guardi
(Venezia, 1712 – 1793)
SOTTOP [..]
€ 37.500
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LES MAÎTRES DE L’AFFICHE. 1895/1900
LES MAÎTRES DE L’AFFICHE. 1895/1900
Raccolta [..]
€ 36.250
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David, Giovanni
David, Giovanni
(Cabella Ligure 1743 – Genova 1790) [..]
€ 31.250
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Degas, Edgar
Degas, Edgar (Parigi 1834 – 1917) STUDIO DI NU [..]
€ 28.750
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Artista del sec. XVII
Artista del sec. XVII
NATURA MORTA CON GATTO
tempera [..]
€ 26.000
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Callot, Jacques
Callot, Jacques
(Nancy 1592 – 1635)
Bosse, Ab [..]
€ 25.000
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Rossini, Luigi
Rossini, Luigi
(Ravenna 1790 – Roma 1857)
I SE [..]
€ 25.000
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Paul Klee
Paul Klee
(Münchenbuchsee 1879 – Muralto 1940) [..]
€ 25.000
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Balla, Giacomo
Balla, Giacomo
(Torino 1871 – Roma 1958)
MOTIVO [..]
€ 25.000
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Eugène Pierre François Giraud
Eugène Pierre François Giraud
(Parigi, 1806 [..]
€ 23.940
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Bilivert, Giovanni
Bilivert, Giovanni
(Firenze 1585 – 1644)
STUDI [..]
€ 21.250
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Dürer, Albrecht
Dürer, Albrecht
(Norimberga 1471 – 1528)
LA [..]
€ 20.000
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Morandi, Giorgio
Morandi, Giorgio
(Bologna 1890 – 1964)
GRANDE NA [..]
€ 18.750
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Morandi, Giorgio
Morandi, Giorgio
(Bologna 1890 – 1964)
NATURA MO [..]
€ 17.500
Sold
Department Auctions
1398
WORKS ON PAPER
tue 18 November 2025
1395
WORKS ON PAPER: BOOKS, PRINTS AND DRAWINGS
mon 17 - mon 24 November 2025
1323
WORKS ON PAPER
tue 12 - tue 19 November 2024
1321
WORKS ON PAPER
wed 13 November 2024
1253
BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS
thu 9 - thu 16 November 2023
1206
PRINTS AND DRAWINGS FROM 15TH TO 19TH CENTURY
wed 24 May 2023
1156
TIMED AUCTION | WORKSONPAPER: DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS AND PRINTS
sat 25 June - mon 4 July 2022
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