Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
NEO-EXPRESSIONIST STYLE
A resurgence of interest in Expressionism, Pop art, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and other movements gained steam among artists of the 1970s and ’80s, in part as a reaction to the austerity of the prevailing minimalism and Conceptual art of the era. A decadent, bold and brash art style called Neo-Expressionism saw painters returning to figural representation, creating highly textured works that were imbued with intensely personal narratives.
Neo-Expressionist paintings are sensuous in nature and highly subjective in meaning. Expressive brushwork, highly pigmented colors and layered forms and materials lent sculptural attributes to the work and were used to depict symbolic narratives from history, mythology and the artist’s personal experience.
Prominent figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat led the Neo-Expressionist movement in the United States with paintings and prints that were raw, emotional and often violent in nature. In Germany, Die Neuen Wilden (the “New Fauves”) was the name given to a group of postwar artists that included the likes of sculptor Georg Baselitz and Gerhard Richter, a painter and photographer who explored the possibilities of both abstraction and realism, sometimes in a single piece. The work of the New Fauves — labeled as such for its return to Fauvism’s textured brushwork and use of vibrant colors — shares commonalities with Neo-Expressionism, and Baselitz was a pioneer of the movement in Europe. In addition, Willem de Kooning’s pulsating action paintings and Julian Schnabel’s experimentation with the materiality of paintings also took shape during this period.
“I was trying to make paintings different from the paintings that I saw a lot of at the time, which were mostly minimal, and they were highbrow and alienating, and I wanted to make very direct paintings that most people would feel the emotion behind when they saw them,” said Basquiat.
Neo-Expressionism generated some polarizing opinions, with some celebrating the revival of personal subjectivity in art while others criticizing the movement for being too commercially driven and nostalgic. But most experts agree that Neo-Expressionism was a huge commercial success and culturally impactful, paving the way for the postmodern work of artists like Richter and Sigmar Polke.
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Style: Neo-Expressionist
"Personaggio con fiore" by E. Wenk, 2020-22 - Watercolor and Marker, Figure
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Character with flower"
Watercolor and marker on high-quality cotton paper, which is handmade in Italy.
This is part of an album.
It's been drawn in one go, with ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
"Figura" by Enzio Wenk, 2020-2022 - Watercolor and Marker, Abstract Figure
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Figure"
Watercolor and marker on high-quality cotton paper, which is handmade in Italy.
This is part of an album.
It's been drawn in one go, with no erasure.
Th...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
"Composizione" by E. Wenk, 2020-21 - Watercolor and Red Acrylic Paint, Abstract
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Composition".
Watercolor and acrylic paint on high-quality cotton paper, which is handmade in Italy.
This is part of an album.
The price refers to the single dr...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
"Uomo con Fiori" by E. Wenk, 2020-21 - Watercolor and Acrylic Paint, Figurative
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Man with flowers".
Watercolor on high-quality cotton paper, which is handmade in Italy.
This is part of an album.
The price refers to the single drawing.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Acrylic, Paper
"Magico momento" by E. Wenk, 2020-21 - Watercolor and Acrylic Paint, Figurative
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Complete title: "Magico momento, mi auguro di essere protetto da una donna"
Translated title: "Magic moment, I hope to be protected by a woman".
Watercolor and acrylic paint on high...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
"Maschera" by Enzio Wenk, 2022 - Gray Watercolor on Paper, Figurative Portrait
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Mask".
Watercolor on high-quality cotton paper, which is handmade in Italy.
This is part of an album.
The price refers to the single drawing.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Afro" by Enzio Wenk, 2022 - Black India Ink Drawing on Paper, Figurative
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
India ink on high-quality cotton paper, which is handmade in Italy.
This is part of an album.
The price refers to the single drawing.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
"Angelo ribelle" by Enzio Wenk, 2020 - Watercolor on Paper, Figurative Angel
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Rebel angel".
Watercolor on high-quality cotton paper, which is handmade in Italy.
This is part of an album.
The price refers to the single drawing.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Anime" by Enzio Wenk, 2020 - Blue Watercolor on Paper, Abstract Figurative
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Souls".
Watercolor on high-quality cotton paper, which is handmade in Italy.
This is part of an album.
The price refers to the single drawing.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Studio per scultura" by Enzio Wenk, 2020/2022 - Watercolor on Paper, Abstract
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Study for a sculpture".
Watercolor on high-quality cotton paper, which is handmade in Italy.
This is part of an album.
The price refers to the single drawing.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Studio per scultura" by Enzio Wenk, 2020/2022 - Watercolor on Paper, Figurative
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Study for a sculpture".
Watercolor on high-quality cotton paper, which is handmade in Italy.
This is part of an album.
The price refers to the single drawing.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Romantic Pastel Jester Clown Figure Nature Expressionism Female Artist Signed
By Della Wells
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Everybody Kisses a Fool Sometime" is a pastel signed by Della Wells. It depicts a black woman kissing a figure wearing a white mask and a comedia del'arte costume also known as the ...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Ontological I
Located in London, GB
Prepare to delve into the captivating allure of this ontological gem, a rare and unique find that traverses the realms of conceptual art, American folk art, and contemporary expressions. Through its remarkable fusion, the boundaries between these genres blur, creating an enthralling and elusive artistic experience.
Meticulously crafted on small brown cardstock, using meticulously hand-mixed watercolor paints in a mesmerizing blue oxide hue, this exceptional artwork defies conventional labels and redefines the very essence of artistic expression. Its intricate symbolism intricately weaves together the interplay of reality and imagination, captivating seasoned collectors and emerging enthusiasts alike.
As you embark on a journey through its depths, your senses will be immediately captivated by the enchanting presence of a human-like blue creature...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Ontological II
Located in London, GB
Embark on a journey through the captivating allure of "Ontological II" (2023), a small artwork that radiates a powerful presence. Blurring the boundaries between conceptual art, Amer...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
FAST FOOD BREAKFAST Signed Oil Pastel on Paper, Take Out Food Drive-Thru Window
Located in Union City, NJ
FAST FOOD BREAKFAST is an original oil pastel drawing on brown paper grocery bag by the self taught African American artist Reginald K. Gee, born April 28, 1964, in Milwaukee, Wiscon...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Israeli Judaica Watercolor Gouache Bar Mitzvah Boy Rabbi Painting Russian Artist
By Ben Zion Magal
Located in Surfside, FL
Ben Zion Magal (1908 - 1999)
Ben Zion Magal was born in 1908 in Kishinev - Russia and there, years later, graduated from the Art Academy. He arrived to Erertz Israel together with hi...
Category
1960s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Figure in White. Seated while suited male Figure on couch black and white tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a soft pastel on archival black toned paper signed and dated by the artist on the bottom right corner. This work requires framing under glass for long term preservation.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Untitled_Body on the Field #4 - Drawing, Blue, Red, Contemporary
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #4, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of t...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Dead Body on the Field #2 - Drawing, Blue, Orange, Contemporary
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Dead Body on the Field #2, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
"The Three Dollar Bill Network, " Oil Pastel on Cardboard signed by Reginald Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Three Dollar Bill Network" is an original oil pastel drawing mounted to cardboard by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It depicts abstract marks, small figures, and scenes separated by lines and space.
30" x 40" art
Reginald K. Gee was born in Milwaukee on April 28, 1964 to Native American and African American parents and spent most of his childhood on the northwest side of Milwaukee in the Havenwoods neighborhood. Gee has been creating art since 1982, and his professional art debut began in 1986 at an outdoor exhibition at Milwaukee’s Performing Arts Center. Like Prophet William J. Blackmon and Simon Sparrow...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Cardboard
"Sincerely Yours, " Oil Pastel mounted to Cardboard signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sincerely Yours" is an original oil pastel drawing mounted to cardboard. The artist, Reginald K. Gee, signed the piece on the back. This piece depicts four men looking out at the vi...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Cardboard
Untitled_Body on the Field #6
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #6, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of t...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Body on the Field #2 - Green, Red, Contemporary Art, Drawing
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #2, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of t...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Remains. The Dead Body on the Field
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Remains. The Dead Body on the Field, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán em...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Body on the Field #7
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #7, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of t...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Body on the Field #3 - Blue, Contemporary, Abstract, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #3, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of t...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Body Remains on the Field - Red, Contemporary, 21st Century, Landscape
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Body Remains on the Field, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
"America's Nightmares, " Original Pastel Drawing signed by Della Wells
By Della Wells
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"America's Nightmares" is an original pastel drawing on paper by Della Wells. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. The work depicts three African American figures...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Eyes Sees America
By Della Wells
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Eyes Sees America" is an original pastel drawing by Della Wells. The artist signed and dated the piece in the lower right. This work depicts a black woman in a blue dress sitting ne...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
"America, How Does Your Garden Grow?" Pastel signed by Della Wells
By Della Wells
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"America, How Does Your Garden Grow?' is an original pastel by Della Wells. It pictures a blond girl holding a black doll in a verdant garden-like setting with leaves and apples and ...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Untitled_Body on the Field #1 - 21st Century, Green, Blue, Sky, Contemporary
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #1, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of th...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Untitled_Dead Body on the Field #1 - Red, Contemporary, 21st Century, Drawing
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Dead Body on the Field #1, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Remains Body on the Field - Contemporary, 21st Century, Drawing
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Remains Body on the Field #1, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissoluti...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Untitled_Body on the Field #5 - Contemporary, Green, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #5, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of th...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Untitled_Body on the Field #8 - 21st Century, Drawing, Blue, Green, Yellow
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #8, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of th...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Untitled 05 - Contemporary, Drawing, Purple, 21st Century, Organic
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled 05, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body throu...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Not Enough Soup
Located in New York, NY
Oil pastel, wax crayon, and acrylic paint on paper.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Wax Crayon, Oil Pastel
Cardinal Rule surreal mythological narrative birds tree autumn color humor
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned heavyweight paper signed and dated bottom. Part of an ongoing series by the artist depicting humans and birds and various other creatures.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
'Spirit Not In Flight' original signed pastel
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Spirit Not in Flight," 1994, is a pastel work by Della Wells. The work depicts a nude black woman looking out from the picture, meeting the viewer's ...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Conquistador
Located in New York, NY
Oil Pastel drawing on collage from Calvin’s Commentaries from the series "On the Issues of Democracy and Bananas". The drawing is not framed.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Sleepwalking monochromatic, mysterious interior black/white w dramatic windows
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent of Lucien Freud, Edgar Degas and the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Elongated and blurry, the horse racing up a hill (Canter Fritz, 2002) and the sinister cat landing a leap (Chien Blanc, 1998) elicit a sense of foreboding enhanced by Bennett’s somber palette; his female figures too reflect a grim sense of humor with their distorted nude bodies. The face of Untitled Figure (1997), for example, is obscured by layers of dark paint. Classically trained as a painter, he initially worked in oil on canvas but discovered that monotype printing enabled him to “literally push the image around,” creating an essential element of motion. To overcome the limited scale of monotypes, however, he switched to painting on slick-surfaced plastic.
Tom Bennett’s practice is rooted in the classical tradition where painting and drawing from life is highly regarded. Bennett’s work is heavily influenced by Francis Bacon, Frank Auberbauch and foremost his father, Harry Bennett, who was also an artist. Tom’s time living abroad in Spain and traveling through Eastern Europe and Africa provided the artistic freedom to explore many of the techniques and subject matter that continue to define his practice. Bennett was born and raised in Connecticut.
His mediums include monotypes, oil on paper, canvas or styrene board. In a technique that Tom started over 4 years ago, several of his monotypes have been painted over with oil paint using a palette knife, brush, or his fingers to re-purpose the underlying image. These works are a testament to Bennett’s ability to quickly and concisely compose an image with expressive brush strokes, foreshortened figures and expertly rendered light.
Tom’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Bennett lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently represented by Tabla Rasa...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Monotype, Paper
Cuban Artist Pastel Drawing African American Emilio Cruz Bonnie & Clyde Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Emilio Cruz (1938-2004)
Bonnie and Clyde
Pastel on paper
Hand signed lower right
Dimensions Framed H 15-7/8" W 18-1/2", Sight H 13-1/2" W 16-1/8"
Emilio Antonio Cruz (1938 – 2004) was a Cuban American artist who lived most of his life in New York City. His work is held in several major museums in the United States.
Emilio Antonio Cruz was an American Artist of Cuban descent. He was born in the Bronx on March 15, 1938. He studied at the Art Students League of New York with Edwin Dickinson, George Grosz and Frank J. Reilly and at The New School in New York City, and finally at the Seong Moy School of Painting and Graphic Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts. As a young artist in the 1960s, Cruz was connected with other artists who were applying abstract expressionism concepts to figurative art such as Lester Johnson, Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, Bob Thompson and Jan Muller. He combined human and animal figures with imagery from archaeology and natural history to create disturbing, dreamlike paintings. Cruz received a John Hay Whitney Fellowship and awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
In the late 1968, Emilio and wife Patricia Cruz moved to St. Louis to work with Julius Hemphill and the Black Artists Group. He served as director for the visual arts program, which also included painters Oliver Jackson and Manuel Hughes. In addition to artistic contributions, the couple participated in city-wide civil rights protests and rent strikes.
Cruz moved to Chicago and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1970s, where he exhibited widely and was represented by the Walter Kelly Gallery. He wrote two plays, Homeostasis: Once More the Scorpion and The Absence Held Fast to Its Presence. These were first performed at the Open Eye Theater in New York in 1981, and later were included in the World Theater Festival in Nancy and Paris, France, and in Italy. In 1982 he returned to New York where he began to exhibit again. In the late 1980s he resumed teaching at the Pratt Institute and at New York University.
Harry Rand, Curator of 20th Century Painting and Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, described Emilio Cruz as one of the important pioneers of American Modernism of the 1960s for his fusion of Abstract Expressionist art with figuration. Geno Rodriguez, Curator and Executive Director of The Alternative Museum, wrote in 1985, "Emilio Cruz, is a brilliant and impassioned artist whose current paintings are monumental, imbued with intelligence, fury and an apt sense of irony. They reflect the turbulent world within which we live."
Geoffrey Jacques wrote in 1990, "Emilio Cruz paints humanity’s essence. Mythology and archeology are the foremost concerns of the painter Emilio Cruz. Dinosaurs, skeletal humans and fossil-like images are used in his work as metaphoric signposts in a consideration of the basic questions of existence." Art historian and curator Paul Staiti wrote in 1997, "Emilio Cruz's Homo sapiens series is a strange and haunting genealogy of the modern soul... What is at stake here more than biopolitical culture, is the remystification of the body and mapping of consciousness ... For all the trauma, explicit and implicit, Cruz's style is masterful, classical, even beautiful."
Exhibitions
Cruz held his first solo exhibition at the Zabriskie Gallery in New York in 1963. Afterwards his work was included in many group and solo exhibitions, including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in 1986 and 1991, museum exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1987, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1997. In 1994, Cruz's work was shown as part of the American contingent at the IV Bienal Internacional de Pintura en Cuenca, Ecuador. Other American artists exhibiting at this show were Donald Locke...
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20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
German Neo Expressionist Color Pencil Drawing Erwin Pfrang
Located in Surfside, FL
Erwin Pfrang, German (b. 1951)
Graphite, Colored Pencil on paper
Framed 20.5/8 X 16.5/8 sheet 6 X 7.75
Erwin Pfrang (born 1951, in Munich) is a German painter and printmaker.
Pfrang studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1974–79. Later he spent many years as an independent artist in Montepulciano, Val d’Orcia and Catania, Italy, interrupted by stays in Munich and Augsburg. He presently lives and works in Berlin. Erwin Pfrang is the grandson of the Munich folk comedian Konstantin Pfrang.
Carla Schulz-Hoffmann makes an attempt at characterising the painter: “An artist such as Erwin Pfrang inhabits an alternative world, a tiny microcosm of subjectivity, and lives that life uncompromisingly, with all the limitations and hardships that it entails. Among twentieth-century artists a comparable stance can be encountered perhaps in Jean Fautrier, but certainly in Otto Wols. His oeuvre relates in its figuration to Bosch or James Ensor and his oil painting to Lucian Freud in its painterly quality. Erwin Pfrang is represented by gallerists Fred Jahn, Munich (Exhibition: Don’t Forget Your Mask: Don’t (Part I: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Forget (Part II: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Your Mask (Part III: Don’t Forget Your Mask)Artists: Imi Knoebel, Barry Le Va, Karel Appel, Alexi Tsioris, William N. Copley, Isa Genzken...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
German Neo Expressionist Graphite Pencil Drawing Erwin Pfrang Nolan Gallery NYC
Located in Surfside, FL
Erwin Pfrang, German (b. 1951)
Graphite Pencil on paper
Framed 20 X 20.5, sheet 12.5 X 13
Hand signed lower left
Erwin Pfrang (born 1951, in Munich) is a German painter and printmaker.
Pfrang studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1974–79. Later he spent many years as an independent artist in Montepulciano, Val d’Orcia and Catania, Italy, interrupted by stays in Munich and Augsburg. He presently lives and works in Berlin. Erwin Pfrang is the grandson of the Munich folk comedian Konstantin Pfrang.
Carla Schulz-Hoffmann makes an attempt at characterising the painter: “An artist such as Erwin Pfrang inhabits an alternative world, a tiny microcosm of subjectivity, and lives that life uncompromisingly, with all the limitations and hardships that it entails. Among twentieth-century artists a comparable stance can be encountered perhaps in Jean Fautrier, but certainly in Otto Wols. His oeuvre relates in its figuration to Bosch or James Ensor and his oil painting to Lucian Freud in its painterly quality. Erwin Pfrang is represented by gallerists Fred Jahn, Munich (Exhibition: Don’t Forget Your Mask: Don’t (Part I: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Forget (Part II: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Your Mask (Part III: Don’t Forget Your Mask)Artists: Imi Knoebel, Barry Le Va, Karel Appel, Alexi Tsioris, William N. Copley, Isa Genzken...
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Early 2000s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
German Neo Expressionist Graphite Drawing Erwin Pfrang Nolan Eckman Gallery NYC
Located in Surfside, FL
Erwin Pfrang, German (b. 1951)
Graphite on paper
Partner Exchange (2001)
Framed 21 X 14.5 sheet 13.75 X 7.25
Erwin Pfrang (born 1951, in Munich) is a German painter and printmaker.
Pfrang studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1974–79. Later he spent many years as an independent artist in Montepulciano, Val d’Orcia and Catania, Italy, interrupted by stays in Munich and Augsburg. He presently lives and works in Berlin. Erwin Pfrang is the grandson of the Munich folk comedian Konstantin Pfrang.
Carla Schulz-Hoffmann makes an attempt at characterising the painter: “An artist such as Erwin Pfrang inhabits an alternative world, a tiny microcosm of subjectivity, and lives that life uncompromisingly, with all the limitations and hardships that it entails. Among twentieth-century artists a comparable stance can be encountered perhaps in Jean Fautrier, but certainly in Otto Wols. His oeuvre relates in its figuration to Bosch or James Ensor and his oil painting to Lucian Freud in its painterly quality. Erwin Pfrang is represented by gallerists Fred Jahn, Munich (Exhibition: Don’t Forget Your Mask: Don’t (Part I: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Forget (Part II: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Your Mask (Part III: Don’t Forget Your Mask)Artists: Imi Knoebel, Barry Le Va, Karel Appel, Alexi Tsioris, William N. Copley, Isa Genzken...
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Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper
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Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper
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Located in Brooklyn, NY
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Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
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Located in Surfside, FL
Painted faces, greenwich Village New york. Poetry, based on poem or song lyrics.
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, The...
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