George Ferdinand Of, Jnr. American 1876-1954- Landscape; coloured crayon, signed with initials, dedicated and dated 1919 in pencil, 13x17.5cm: together with a pencil and watercolour study of trees by the same artist, signed, dedicated a mon ami Pach and dated 1919, 13.2x23.5cm., (2) Provenance: Walter Pach (1883-1958), artist and art historian, long-standing friend and patron of the artist; Christie's South Kensington, 25th October 2011, lot 448 Note: These works are by the American artist George Ferdinand Of, and are typical of his landscapes in style. The use of bright colours and impressionistic markings recalls the larger oil paintings produced by the artist. The loose and sparing application of crayon creates a sense of the freshness and lightness of the countryside depicted by Of. This style places Of firmly in the rapidly-developing artistic landscape of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The artist's connection with the key players of the early twentieth century art scene is further reinforced by the fact that these works come from the collection of Of's friend and patron Walter Pach. Pach lived in Paris between 1907 and 1913, befriending some of the most significant and influential artists of the period, including Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Raoul Dufy and Jacques Villon, among many others. By selecting Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 for the 1913 Armory Show, which introduced radical Parisian artistic developments to an American audience, Pach personally had a huge influence on the shape of American art to follow. These works, therefore, can be connected to some of the most significant developments in twentieth-century art, both in Paris and the USA. Please refer to department for condition report