Returning dealer Mia Weiner of Old Master Drawings in Connecticut says, “The tenth anniversary of MASTER DRAWINGS NEW YORK is a tremendous achievement. Dealers work hard to bring the best drawings they can muster and present them in an atmosphere conducive to their particular exhibition styles. That each show is unique in material as well as gallery design has been a delight for countless collectors and museum curators/directors.” Weiner is bringing a group of stunning watercolors from the late 19th century including one of its greatest proponents, Giacinto Gigante, with two differing examples of his prowess; as well as two extraordinarily detailed watercolors by Luigi Bazzani, of Pompei.

Didier Aaron has titled its MASTER DRAWINGS week show “Master Drawings 1600-1875.” Among featured artworks is Francois Hippolyte Lalaisse (1810-1884) pen and ink “Two Male Ėcorché Figures.” Christopher Bishop is featuring a Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (1762-1844) pen and ink titled “The holy Family.”

Dealer Monroe Warshaw is staging a show titled Drawn to Mythology with a collection that goes beyond the best known Greek and Roman examples, and dates from the 16th to 20th centuries. Warshaw has also chosen to feature artworks by Jost Amman, George Barbier, Domenico Campagnola, Master of the Egmont Albums, John Flaxman, Ubaldo Gandolfi, Jean Jacques Lagrenée, and Nicolas Poussin.

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art of London will be exhibiting twelve Italian views by Edward Lear (1812-1888) at Master Drawings New York in January 2016 with eleven of them dating from his time in Rome in the 1830s and 1840s. Lear arrived in Rome on his first major overseas tour in December 1837 and he remained there for the next ten years apart from two brief visits to England. The earliest of the group is a view looking over Capri from Massa Lubrense near Naples dated August 1838. Nine of the group originate from the collection of the biographer John Scandrett Harford (1787-1866) and remained in his family until 2015. They are on-the-spot sketches dating from 1843 and 1844 some of which were preliminary sketches for Lear’s Illustrated Excursions in Italy published in 1846. Lear’s style evolved considerably while he was in Italy from his early black and white chalk drawings influenced by James Duffield Harding to the confident watercolours for which he is best known. The only later watercolour in the exhibition is a view taken at Varenna on Lake Como dating from 1878 when he lived in San Remo near the Italian border with France. He moved to San Remo in 1871 and remained there for the rest of his life.

Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art will feature “Drawings by the Muralists” a group of watercolors and sketches by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Rufino Tamayo, Leonora Carrington, Jean Charlot and Elena Climent. A highlight of this show is Orozco’s “Five Heads (Beggars)” a gouache from 1940 that came from the Estate of the American playwright, Elmer Rice, and has been in a private collection for almost 50 years.

Mark Murray Fine Paintings is showing a selection of fine works on paper in its new location at 159 East 63rd Street. Works on view include a select group of earlier works including an unusual pencil study of a Clothesline by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and Fano on the Adriatic, an early J.M.W. Turner watercolor after Robert Cozens. A major highlight is a group of works on paper and select oils by American painter Walter Gay, and a strikingly beautiful portrait in colored chalk by Walter Gay’s good friend Paul César Helleu of Winaretta Singer, daughter of Singer sewing machine magnate Isaac Singer and wife of Prince Edmond de Polignac. Other European artists on view include Antoine-Louis Barye, Fritz Gärtner, Henri Joseph Harpignies, Sir Alfred Munnings, Sir Edward Poynter, and David Roberts. Works on paper by American artists Lockwood DeForest, Edwin Lord Weeks, John Whorf, and Reginald Marsh will also be featured in the exhibition.

Laura Pecheur show is titled “European masters from 16th century to 1900, Toulouse Lautrec circle and symbolism” These include European artists working in Paris during the same time as Toulouse Lautrec such as Steinlein with a pastel showing a woman in a theater with an illuminated face. Featured works include Herman Saftleven “The Weerdpoort, Utecht,” and Louis Legrand “Elegant with a fan.”

For its third year exhibiting at MASTER DRAWINGS week Italian dealers Mattia & Maria Novella Romano will show a Selection of Master Drawings, mostly by Italian artists, from the 16th to the 20th century including a newly discovered and previously unpublished Francesco Vanni (1564-1610) Study for “The Madonna of the Rosary and Saints” and a second previously unpublished study by Luigi Vanvitelli for a section of an Umbrella Vault, both from prestigious private collections in Italy. Other highlights are drawings by Carlo Alberto Baratta, Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Simone Cantarini, Pier Dandini, Francesco Fontebasso, Carlo Maratta, and Pseudo Pacchia. Two French drawings by Jean Lepautre and Paul Delvaux are also being shown.