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Medium: Pen
"Sea Fan" - Abstracted Oceanic Still Life in Pen & Ink on Cardstock
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed patterned abstract composition by Patricia "Patti" Omori Shepp (American, b. 1954). This piece has a repeating pattern across the width, reflected on itself. Texture ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Postcard, Pen
Evening Moon Fruit, Original Contemporary Abstract Nautical Mixed Media Work
By Jenny Brown
Located in Boston, MA
Evening Moon Fruit, Original Contemporary Abstract Nautical Mixed Media Work, 2018
11" x 8.5" (HxW) Collage and Pen on Paper
With clear inspiration from natural botanicals and oceanic life, artist Jenny Brown combines found imagery and her own mark making to create delicate yet bold designs. This work features an nature-inspired creature taking shape from a combination of paper ephemera on a charcoal colored piece of paper. Fine white lines and small dots in white, purple, and pink emerge and scatter around the composition, bringing the work to life, like glittering stars in the night sky.
Artist Commentary:
Evening Moon Fruit is a burst of color in the night sky, perhaps the light of another galaxy or interstellar nebula? Existing between constellations and planets, lush with roses and pink apples, this work is inspired by our dreamscapes and fascination with science fiction. Original is comprised of pen, ink, acrylic paint, & antique collage clippings.
About the Artist:
Jenny Brown is a visual artist living and working in Providence, Rhode Island, whose primary mediums are drawing, collage, and works on paper. Her work brings to life a mythical world of sea creatures and celestial beings, realized through her love of paper ephemera. Jenny studied art at Bennington College and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2005. In addition to working with galleries in New York, Providence, and metro Boston, Jenny has collaborated with brands such as Hudson-Chatham Winery, Sheaffer Pens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Pen
Celestial Mirabelle, Original Contemporary Abstract Nautical Mixed Media Work
By Jenny Brown
Located in Boston, MA
Celestial Mirabelle, Original Contemporary Abstract Nautical Mixed Media Work, 2018
11" x 8.5" (HxW) Collage and Pen on Paper
With clear inspiration from natural botanicals and oceanic life, artist Jenny Brown combines found imagery and her own mark making to create delicate yet bold designs. This work features an nature-inspired creature taking shape from a combination of colorful paper ephemera on a soft lilac colored piece of paper. Fine white lines and small white dots emerge and scatter around the composition, bringing the work to life.
Images with frames are examples only; this work comes unframed.
Artist Commentary:
A curious bouquet, blossoming in a lavender nebula. This piece was created using antique collage and pen on paper.
About the Artist:
Jenny Brown is a visual artist living and working in Providence, Rhode Island, whose primary mediums are drawing, collage, and works on paper. Her work brings to life a mythical world of sea creatures and celestial beings, realized through her love of paper ephemera. Jenny studied art at Bennington College and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2005. In addition to working with galleries in New York, Providence, and metro Boston, Jenny has collaborated with brands such as Hudson-Chatham Winery, Sheaffer Pens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Pen
'Birds in Futuristic Urban Landscape' abstract black marker on cream sketchbook
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 9-1/2"x12-1/2"
Frame: 17-1/4"x 20-1/4"
Abstract black marker on cream sketchbook paper.
Signed Sylvania lower right.
Silk lined matting and glazed in UV Clear Glass that filte...
Category
1950s Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
Stardust Cephalopod, Original Contemporary Abstract Nautical Mixed Media Work
By Jenny Brown
Located in Boston, MA
Stardust Cephalopod, Original Contemporary Abstract Nautical Mixed Media Work, 2015
11" x 8.5" (HxW) Collage and Pen on Paper
With clear inspiration from natural botanicals and oceanic life, artist Jenny Brown combines found imagery and her own mark making to create delicate yet bold designs. This work features a gray background that allows a colorful combination of paper ephemera melded together into a fantastical creature. Fine white lines emerge like tentacles, and small white dots scatter around the composition, bringing the work to life.
Images with frames are examples only; this work comes unframed.
Artist Commentary:
Stardust Cephalopod is a bioluminescent flowering squid, existing both in the depths of the sea and the far reaches of the Milky Way Galaxy. She melds together the sciences of the oceans and the stars, linking the two natural spaces as one beautiful entity. Stardust Cephalopod is a mixed media work created with pen, ink, & collage.
About the Artist:
Jenny Brown is a visual artist living and working in Providence, Rhode Island, whose primary mediums are drawing, collage, and works on paper. Her work brings to life a mythical world of sea creatures and celestial beings, realized through her love of paper ephemera. Jenny studied art at Bennington College and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2005. In addition to working with galleries in New York, Providence, and metro Boston, Jenny has collaborated with brands such as Hudson-Chatham Winery, Sheaffer Pens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Pen
Constellation, Dazzling unique signed geometric abstraction painting, 1970s art
Located in New York, NY
Allan D'Arcangelo
Constellation, 1971
Acrylic on paper, mounted to canvas
Hand sgned and dated 1971 lower front
Frame included
Measurements:
Framed:
23.75 x 23.75 x 1.25 inches
Artwo...
Category
1970s Pop Art Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Laid Paper, Permanent Marker
Ruckus Rodeo (unique acrylic painting by famed Pop artist w/ Marlborough label)
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
Red Grooms
Ruckus Rodeo, 1975
Acrylic and felt tip pen on paper
Signed and dated in black felt marker
Unique work
Provenance: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, with original label verso
Frame included: in museum frame with UV plexiglass
Measurements:
22.75 inches vertical by 19.75 inches horizontal by 1.5 inches
Work
16.5 inches vertical by 13.5 inches horizontal
This work on paper, Ruckus Rodeo, is a unique study by Red Grooms for one of the most popular works of art in the Museum of Modern Art, Ft. Worth, Texas's collection. Ruckus Rodeo is an immense, walk-through work of art that covers 1,237 square feet of gallery space. It consists of painted two-dimensional surfaces and sculptural three-dimensional figures that re-create the Fort Worth rodeo. Grooms has referred to this work as a "sculpto-pictorama." Sculpture wire, canvas, burlap, acrylic paint, and a fiberglass compound known as celastic were used to construct the work’s Texas-sized, larger-than-life, three-dimensional caricatures of rodeo archetypes, which include the rodeo queen and her steed, a bucking bronc, playful rodeo clowns, and a giant yellow bull named Butter.
Ruckus Rodeo was commissioned for the Museum's 1976 exhibition The Great American Rodeo. Grooms was one of eleven artists invited to create a work for this show. In preparation, he attended every rodeo performance during Fort Worth's 1975 Stock Show and made many sketches. From these studies, Grooms drew a panoramic rodeo scene spanning more than seven feet, which served as the basis for Ruckus Rodeo's design. Grooms returned to his studio in New York to fabricate the work's major figures. In 1976, he returned to Fort Worth with the talented fifteen-member group of painters, sculptors, engineers, and carpenters known as the "Ruckus Construction Co.," who helped in the final assembly of Grooms's robust tableau.
Associate Curator Andrea Karnes commented, "Ruckus Rodeo portrays the chaos, entertainment, and danger of the Fort Worth rodeo. Grooms's engaging work is characterized by a grand sense of spectacle, encompassing the ritual, pageantry, and disorderly commotion of a real rodeo event. The artist's interest in naive and primitive objects, such as folk art puppets and toys, is easily seen in this work. His rich, arbitrary use of bold and unmodulated colors combined with angular contours creates a loud, brash ambience. Despite the work's cartoonish flair, it is clearly inflected with an urban sensibility. The characters' outfits, for example, are more like the vibrant apparel of the urban cowboy...
Category
1970s Pop Art Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Felt Pen
Mother and child, hand signed painting (unique), Hammer Galleries
Located in New York, NY
Gloria Vanderbilt
Mother and child, ca. 1968
Gouache on paper painting
Hand signed by Gloria Vanderbilt lower right recto
Unique
Frame included
Measurements:
Framed 37 Vertical by 31 inches.
Painting 27 Vertical by 21.5 inches
This unique, poignant poignant portrait was done by the legendary Gloria Vanderbilt. It is signed on the front. As this work was done in the mid 1960s, it is believed to be a self portrait depicting the artist, and likely her son, Anderson Cooper. Held loosely in the original damaged vintage Heydenryk frame used by Hammer Galleries...
Category
1960s Modern Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Permanent Marker, Mixed Media
Surrealist Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ Women artist Chicken Love
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
Category
2010s Surrealist Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pen
Black and White Abstract Figurative Mixed Media Drawing of a Female Nude
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white figurative drawing by Texas artist William Anzalone. The drawing depicts a nude woman in solitude taking off her ro...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen, Pencil
"Shares" - Abstract Geometric Outsider Art in Pen on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract patterned work by Geanna Shattuc (American, b. 1963). Consisting of overlapping rectangular shapes, this piece is simultaneously repetitive and...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Felt Pen
Surrealist Painting Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist Blue Fountain Pink Poodle
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative takes the audience on a journey into the imagination.
In October 2023 Isabel won the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing; part of the prize is a solo show at Hastings Contemporary, scheduled for 2024.
Whilst Isabel always has a tale to tell for each of her images, you may or may not choose to go on the journey with her or you may indeed have a different story, one of your own that jumps off the page at you and you decide to follow.
Artwork Details:
Isabel Rock , 'Just another Day in Paradise', mixed media on best archival paper, 85cm x 140cm, unframed, 2022
In Rock's own words,
'It was just another day in Paradise for the Pink Poodle People of the Everlasting Fountain of Eternal Joy.
Since every day was Paradise it was just another normal day filled with love, ecstasy and wonder.
It started slowly at first, things began to appear in paradise, strange objects that the Pink Poodle People did not know what to do with. Some had sharp edges, others were so and smelt strange, bad strange. Some things glittered and shone. Every day more of these objects would arrive in Paradise.
' If this happens every day then soon Paradise will be full of these strange objects. Some of them are nice but many are bad and smelly. One day there will be no Paradise, only bad, sharp and smelly things.'
But the Pink Poodle People did not know what to do with the objects and every day more arrived.'
Artwork Provenance: from the Artist Studio
A certificate of authentication comes from Gallery Art 1821
photo credits, Isabel working, black and white shots, James Brown
About Isabel Rock and her work:
Taking inspiration from Japanese woodblock prints and Indian miniature painting Rock has developed a unique collage technique that combines bold structures with large-scale woodblock prints and intricate detailing. The subject is a grand mixture of humour, drama, hidden morals, fanciful characters, modern culture, mythical beings and fantastical situations.
Rock creates a world that pulls you in and demands your attention. Quality of line is paramount, the drawings are created using a dipping pen and acrylic ink. An essential tool is a squirrel...
Category
2010s Surrealist Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
Aubrey Penny Laws of Chance Structure Series Drawing
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Original abstract signed and dated by Aubrey Penny.
Aubrey Penny (American 1917-2000) was an innovative California abstract artist who worked in a variety of mediums. Owner of the N...
Category
1960s Abstract Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Permanent Marker
No title
By Jonone
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original drawing with black felt pen on paper
Handsigned , dated and dedicated
Unique piece
Mint condition
Category
2010s Street Art Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
The Sketch Class, Figurative Study Line Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive line drawing figure study featuring a group of figures in a classroom by David Rosen (Canadian, 1912-2004). Unsigned, but was acquire...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen, Watercolor
Original, unique signed Study for sculpture Motu Viget (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Study for Motu Viget, ca. 1977
Ink wash on notebook paper. Hand signed in black marker
14 × 11 1/4 inches
Boldly signed in black marker o...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, India Ink, Permanent Marker
Witness
By Thomas Guise
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Thomas Guise – Scottish (1916- 1984)
Title: Witness
Year: 1965
Medium: Watercolor, pen
Size: 14.75 x 17.75 inches
Signature: Signed, dated lower right. Titled en verso
Condition: Good
Frame: Unframed
This watercolor and ink painting is by the noted Scottish artist, Thomas Gladstone Middleton (TGM) Guise (1916-1984). He received instruction at the Edinburgh Academy and went on to study art at Edinburgh College of Art under Thomson Adam Bruce, Royal Scottish Academy (1947-1949). Guise also traveled and exhibited in the U.S. This particular work was exhibited at the Los Robles Gallery in Palo Alto, CA in 1968. The painting is unframed on artist's board. It is in very good condition with no flaws to note.
Biography
1916 - Born on Davidston Farm near Cromarty, Black Isle, Ross-shire, Scotland.
1921 - 1938 Educated Inverness and Edinburgh, Scotland.
1939 - 1946 Served with the Royal Artillery.
1946 - 1980 Worked in painting, process engraving, printing, lithography and commercial art with Featherhal Press.
1947 - Award for Life Drawing.
1984 - Died, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Mixed Shows 1948 - 1984
RBA, RSA, RI, RSW, RGI, SSA, NEAC.
Trends
Arun Art Centre
The Bath Festival Exhibition by FPS (Modern Art)
Solo Shows
1966 - Randolph Gallery, Edinburgh Festival
1967 - Encina Gallery Stanford University, California, United States
1968 - Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California, United States
1968 - Randolph Gallery Edinburgh Festival
1970 - Clarkson Gallery, Victoria Street...
Category
1960s Modern Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Where the End Starts (original hand signed drawing created for museum employee)
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
KAWS
Where the End Starts, 2016
Original Ink on paper drawing on offset lithograph
Hand signed and dated by KAWS lower front
Accompanied by hand signed letter of provenance from the Modern Art Museum, Ft. Worth staffer who received this work as a gift from KAWS
Unique work
Frame included: matted with gold matting and a white frame with UV plexiglass
This is a very special work with superb provenance: A unique, signed drawing done by KAWS, which he created exclusively for a staff member at the Modern Art Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas. on the occasion of KAWS monumental exhibition. The drawing was done on the museum's publication for KAWS 2016...
Category
2010s Street Art Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Offset, Lithograph, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
In Real Time, unique signed Abstract Expressionist painting compared to Matisse
Located in New York, NY
Steven Sorman
In Real Time, 2003
Acrylic, gouache, gel medium, oil and beeswax collage painting on paper
48 × 34 inches
Signed and dated 2003; The frame also bears the original label...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Gouache, Gel Pen, Graphite
Untitled 2
By Danielle Hacche
Located in Phoenix, AZ
pastel and micro pen on paper
b. 1979, Poole, Dorset, UK
Danielle Hacche was born in Poole, Dorset in the Southwest of the United Kingdom. After moving to the United States with he...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pen
"I Think I Will" Modern Oval Drawing of a Nude Woman with Wings and Boots
Located in Houston, TX
Modern oval figurative drawing of a nude, tattooed woman with wings and cowboy boots by Houston, TX artist Charles Pebworth. Signed by the artist next to the figure's right hip. Hung...
Category
1970s Modern Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Modern Abstract Figurative Drawing of a Nude Woman with Tattoos and Wings
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract figurative drawing of a nude, tattooed woman with wings by Houston, TX artist Charles Pebworth. Signed by the artist on the figure's left hip. Hung behind glass in a ...
Category
1970s Modern Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Untitled, Design, Ink on Paper by Modern Artist Jogen Chowdhury "In Stock
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jogen Chowdhury - Untitled - 12 x 16 inches (unframed size)
Ink on Paper, 2022
Signed in Bengali
Style : He has immense contribution in inspiring young artists of India. Jogen Chowdhury had developed his individual style after his return from Paris. His most famous paintings are in ink, watercolor and pastel. He has painted in oil medium as well.
In Chowdhury’s more recent works the sensory experiences of cloth, bolsters, sofas and the human body are cross-projected to produce an uncanny world of tran-substantiated tumescence and flaccidness.
Jogen Chowdhury has been widely acknowledged to be, the master of the unbroken line. Like Léger, Chowdhury has been stirred by the linear Kalighat pat tradition, but his lines are emotive and used to express and suggest the character of a person. This is done by, distorting the form without breaking the line and in the world of young, contemporary art; distortion has been Jogen Chowdhury’s most significant impact. Perhaps, because of this, a common observation of his work is that his “people” are caricatures. The person feels familiar to the viewer but it is far more individualised – the face is imaginary but the psyche or characteristics are real. The power and beauty of his technique and line is this play between the known and unknown. In Jogen Chowdhury’s work, the figure is always in the foreground, it is primary, it conveys everything. He uses colour to give volume to his figures and the fluidity of his lines bring a sensual aspect to his forms.
About the Artist and his work :
Born : Born 1939 in Daharpara Village, Faridpur, Bangladesh. Jogen Chowdhury is an eminent Indian painter and considered an important painter of 21st century India.
Family Background :
His father Pramatnath Chowdhury was a Brahmin zamindar. Both his parents took interest in art, Jogen Chowdhury’s father Pramatnath Chowdhury painted several mythological scenes from the village theatres and also sculpted various Hindu icons. Whereas his mother was an expert in Alpana drawings.
1939-47 Jogen Chowdhury lived in a village atmosphere. And after partition in 1948, the whole family shifted. Till 1951 the whole family stayed at the police department quarter of his uncle, where on the walls Jogen Chowdhury painted his first painting, 1962 Jogen Chowdhury was employed as Designer in the Handloom Board.
Education :
1955-60: Studied at the Government College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata.
1965 : He went to paris to study in Ecole des Beaux Arts, in William Hayter’s Atelier 17.
Professional Experience :
1968-72 : He worked as an Art-Designer, Madras Handloom Board, Madras.
1970 : A collection of his poems were published, titled ‘Hridoy Train Beje Othey’.
1987 : Joined Kala Bhavan , Santiniketan as a professor of painting.
Selected Exhibitions :
1972, 1975 & 1978 respectively : I, III, IV Triennales at New Delhi.
1979: The Sao Paolo Biennale.
1980: The exhibitions at the Fukuoka Museum, Japan.
1982: The Royal Academy, London.
1982: The Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
1986: The II Havana Biennale.
1989: ‘Festival of India’, in Geneva.
2002: Saffron...
Category
2010s Modern Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen, Permanent Marker, Paper
Blackhearts Rave
Located in London, GB
Blackheart's Rave, 2019, Collage, Mixed media: Marker, Pencil, Drawing, Acrylic and Watercolour on gessoed shopping bag mounted on archival museum board in a Street Art styled bespoke oak wood frame. , 93.2 x 63.2 . 3.5 centimetres total dimension
This Rave Dance club-inspired artwork takes the energy found in New York City's nightlife.
Rafael Melendez - July 2022
Rafael Melendez (b.1970, USA) renders motifs from high past art with self-taught experimental techniques to produce an unexpected and highly unique visual language riddled with esoteric symbolism. The figures that inhabit his paintings are born from a desire to understand 'abnormal' worldviews, such as Outsider Art, transgressive fiction, and metaphysics. In a constantly evolving practice encompassing drawing, collage, and painting, Melendez strives to visualize/express a moment of unity between beauty and that which doesn't make sense.
Melendez starts out as an installation and video artist in 1990s San Francisco. As a student for internationally acclaimed writer Kathy Acker and conceptual artist Nayland Blake...
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2010s Contemporary Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Pencil
"A Long Time Ago" Modern Figurative Abstract Drawing of a Woman in Blue Lingerie
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract figurative drawing of a woman by Houston, TX artist Charles Pebworth. The work features a central female figure with red hair and dressed in blue lingerie. Signed by ...
Category
1970s Modern Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Watercolor
1970s Two Figures, Black Pen Ink Drawing , American Modern Semi-Abstract Figures
Located in Denver, CO
Untitled (Two Figures) is a pen on paper drawing by Edgar Britton (1901-1982). Presented in a custom black frame, outer dimensions measure 13 ⅝ x 16 ⅝ x 1 inches. Image size is 9 x 1...
Category
20th Century Abstract Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Memory Incubator
Located in London, GB
Introducing "Memory Incubator" by Rafael Melendez - A Captivating Fusion of Artistic Styles and Symbolism
Step into the mesmerizing realm of "Memory Incubator," a thought-provoking ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pen, Permanent Marker
Sketch for 'The X & Its Tails'. 1967
Located in Palo Alto, CA
This work is registered as an authentic work by Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976) in the archives of the Calder Foundation (NY), under application number A.24492. Created in 1967, this original pen and red ink drawing on paper is initialed ‘CA’ in blue ink in the lower right by Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976) with a handwritten dedication, also in blue ink, ‘To Alvin Lane’ along the lower center.
The Sketch for ‘The X & Its Tails’ is an original study and preliminary drawing made by Calder preceding his large-scale sculpture for the Detroit Institute of Arts. Sketches for models and sculptures are rare and this is no exception; according to Alvin S. Lane, collector and friend to Calder, “To the best of my knowledge there were very few, if any, preliminary drawings done by Calder that were on the market, but he was good enough when he did two for commissions to send the drawings to me as a present [including this Sketch for ‘The X & Its Tails’]. I included one of them here to show that although his drawings usually have a flowing steady line, his preliminary drawings are sloppy scribbles” (23).
Provenance:
~ Gift of artist
~ Private Collection (Riverdale, NJ)
Catalogue Raisonné and COA:
Sketch for 'The X & Its Tails,' 1967 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work).
1. Registered with the Calder Foundation, NY under application number A.24492.
2. Elvehjem Museum of Art. The Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection...
Category
1960s Modern Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
My Stomach - Ink and Oil Pastel on Canvas by KEZIAT - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
My Stomach is a beautiful ink and oil pastel on canvas realized by the Italian artist KEZIAT in 2020.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower left.
Perfect conditions.
Certificate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Pen
Eden's Rave
Located in London, GB
"Eden's Rave" by Rafael Melendez is a captivating hybrid artwork that combines drawings, painting, and sculpture to create a visually stimulating and thought-provoking composition. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Pencil
Confrontation - line drawing women figures with white dandelions
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artwork was done with acrylic, watercolor and white felt pen on black watercolor paper 360g. The works are 11,5 by 16,5 inches in size, framed (black) ...
Category
2010s Abstract Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Felt Pen
Dawn. Abstract composition. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 48x71 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Māris Abiļevs (born 23 April 1956 in Kazakhstan) is a Latvian graphic artist and printer, brother of graphic artist Andris Abiļevs. He works in etching, lithography and various mixed...
Category
2010s Abstract Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
At sunset. Abstract composition. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 70x48 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Māris Abiļevs (born 23 April 1956 in Kazakhstan) is a Latvian graphic artist and printer, brother of graphic artist Andris Abiļevs. He works in etching, lithography and various mixed...
Category
2010s Abstract Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker, Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
First Floor Biogram
By Kory Twaddle
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title : First Floor Biogram
Materials : Acrylic, gouache, oil pastel, marker, charcoal, graphite, and conté crayon on paper
Date : 2018
Dimensions : 24 x 18 x .1 in.
Description : ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Permanent Marker, Oil Pastel, Paint, Graphite, Watercolor, Temper...
'Pointillist Abstract', Paris, Étretat, New York, Whitney Museum, MoMA, PAFA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamp, verso, for Manfred Schwartz (American, 1909-1970) and painted circa 1960.
Paper dimensions: 15 x 19.75 inches.
Born in Lodz, Poland, Manfred Schwartz immigrated to Am...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Pen
Morning. Abstract composition. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 70x47 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Māris Abiļevs (born 23 April 1956 in Kazakhstan) is a Latvian graphic artist and printer, brother of graphic artist Andris Abiļevs. He works in etching, lithography and various mixed...
Category
2010s Abstract Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Untitled, 2014 (Id. 383) (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Untitled, 2014 (Id. 383) (Abstract Drawing)
Ballpoint pen and inkjet on paper. Unframed.
Caldicott has always had a habit of working serially; his works on paper are rapidly produced and large in quantity. His drawings have a minimal esthetic, an architectural character, created with only one or two lines. Pastel tones, softened colors, and a formal composition generate a feeling of austerity and sophistication.
Richard Caldicott is an English artist who explores abstract photography and creates abstract compositions on paper. He lives and works in London.
As an interdisciplinary artist, Caldicott comes across materials and techniques, including drawing, photography, and sculpture. His works on paper, made with ballpoint pen and inkjet printing, reveal a bare sophistication whether it be with minimal drawings...
Category
2010s Minimalist Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen, Inkjet
Untitled, 2014 (Id. 382) (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Untitled, 2014 (Id. 382) (Abstract Drawing)
Ballpoint pen and inkjet on paper.
Caldicott has always had a habit of working serially; his works on paper are rapidly produced and lar...
Category
2010s Minimalist Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen, Inkjet
13.1.16 (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
13.1.16 (Abstract Drawing)
Pen and inkjet on paper - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott drawings have a minimal esthetic, an architectural character, created with only one or two lines. P...
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2010s Abstract Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink, Pen
Black and White Fantastical Figure Abstract Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white pen and ink abstract figurative drawing depicting a fantasy animal skull-like shape. Framed and matted in a silver frame. Previously with DuBose Gallery, a leading na...
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20th Century Abstract Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
American American Art by Michael Alan - Positivy
By Michael Alan
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink, marker & colored pencil on paper
Michael Alan is an American artist born in 1977 who lives & works in New York, USA. As a multidisciplin...
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2010s Contemporary Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Color Pencil
19.6.17 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
19.6.17 (Abstract drawing)
Pen and inkjet on paper - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott drawings have a minimal esthetic, an architectural character, created with only one or two lines. P...
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2010s Abstract Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Untitled, 2014 (Id. 388) (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Untitled, 2014 (Id. 388) (Abstract Drawing)
Ballpoint pen and inkjet on paper. Unframed.
Caldicott has always had a habit of working serially; his works on paper are rapidly produ...
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2010s Minimalist Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen, Inkjet
Lucey " Computer Illustration Painting "
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. 20th Century
Lucey " Computer illustration Painting " ( Signed & Marked 9/80 )
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20th Century Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Acrobat - Original Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Acrobat is an original Drawing in Color Markers realized by an anonymous artist in the 20th Century.
Good Conditions except for a cutaway on the low-left.
The artwork is depicted t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
Untitled 2014 (Id. 386) (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 2014 (Id. 386) (Abstract Drawing)
Ballpoint pen and inkjet on paper - Unframed
Caldicott has always had a habit of working serially; his works on paper are rapidly produce...
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2010s Minimalist Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen, Inkjet
Francis Newton Souza, Indian 20th Century artist, nude drawing
By F.N. Souza
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Francis Newton Souza (Indian, 1924 – 2002)
Odalisque II
Pen on paper
15.3/4 x 9.7/8 in. (40 x 25 cm.)
Provenance: The artist’s wife Maria, Nee Figueiredo, gifted to her nephew
We h...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Untitled 2006 (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 2006 (Abstract Drawing)
Pen on tracing paper - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott drawings have a minimal esthetic, an architectural character, created with only one or two lines...
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Early 2000s Abstract Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Francis Newton Souza, Indian 20th Century artist, nude abstract drawing
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Francis Newton Souza (Indian, 1924 – 2002)
Odalisque
Pen on paper
15.3/4 x 9.7/8 in. (40 x 25 cm.)
Provenance: The artist’s wife Maria, Nee Figueiredo, gifted to her nephew
We have 5 other similar examples by this artist all of the same size. Please go to Ottocento's storefront on 1st dibs for further information.
These examples were saved from being burnt on a bonfire by the artist’s nephew. Maria, Souza’ wife was sick and tired of Souza’s affairs and was burning many of his studies in the garden when her nephew intervened. These studies are from those. Others saved at the same time were executed in 1952 and is highly likely that these are from the same period.
Layered, dynamic, brutally humanistic, the paintings of Francis Newton Souza reveal an artist who never stopped experimenting throughout his six-decade career, perpetually seeking new modes and languages of painterly expression. A founder of the inestimably important Progressive Artists’ Group in Mumbai, he wrote the group’s manifesto and was a crucial intellect in the group’s formation and articulation—as, indeed, he was for Modern Indian art on the whole. He holds an unshakable place among India’s most important and influential Modern painters.
Despite the vast sweep of painting styles encompassed by his oeuvre, Souza’s work is unified by an overt sensuality, sometimes violent, sometimes sexual, but devoted above all to the human body as a wild, fragile, noble and corruptible object. He is hardly the first Catholic-raised artist to fixate on the body. Nudes...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pen
Structure - Drawing by Nicola Carrino - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Structure is an interesting drawing in pen on paper realized by the artist Nicola Carrino in 1964.
The state of preservation is very good.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right ...
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1960s Abstract Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Abstract Composition - Original Pencil and Pen - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original drawing artwork in pencil and pen realized by an anonymous Italian artist in 1974.
Hand-signed and dated in pencil on the lower right.
Good cond...
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Late 19th Century Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen, Pencil
American American Art by Michael Alan - Ghost
By Michael Alan
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink, marker & colored pencil on paper
Michael Alan is an American artist born in 1977 who lives & works in New York, USA. As a multidisciplin...
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2010s Contemporary Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Color Pencil
Souza, Indian 20th Century artist, drawing of two nudes
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Francis Newton Souza (Indian, 1924 – 2002)
Lovers
Pen on paper
15.3/4 x 9.7/8 in. (40 x 25 cm.)
Provenance: The artist’s wife Maria, Nee Figueiredo, gifted to her nephew
There are ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Untitled, 2014 (Id. 383) (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Untitled, 2014 (Id. 383) (Abstract Drawing)
Ballpoint pen and inkjet on paper. Unframed.
Caldicott has always had a habit of working serially; his works on paper are rapidly produc...
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2010s Minimalist Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen, Inkjet
Untitled, 2014 (Id. 382) (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Untitled, 2014 (Id. 382) (Abstract Drawing)
Ballpoint pen and inkjet on paper.
Caldicott has always had a habit of working serially; his works on paper are rapidly produced and lar...
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2010s Minimalist Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen, Inkjet
Benoît Gilsoul, "Untitled" original felt pen drawing on Fabriano cotton paper
Located in Glenview, IL
"Untitled" by Belgian artist Benoît Gilsoul is an original abstract drawing on Fabriano cotton paper created sometime in the late '60's.
Born in Namur in 1914, Belgian artist Benoî...
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1960s Modern Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Felt Pen
"Indian Dance", Multicolor Abstract Geometric Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright and colorful abstract geometric watercolor with multicolor connected forms cascading in a dynamic vertical composition by Ellwood Graham (American, 1911-2007). Signed "GRAHAM" in the upper right corner, and "Ellwood Graham" on verso. Circa 1961-1966. The title "Indian Dance...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor, Pen, Pencil
Pen Drawing - Pen Drawing by Leo Longanesi - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Pen Drawing is an original pen drawing realized by Leo Longanesi in 1937.
The drawing is in good conditions, no signature.
Leo Longanesi, born Leopoldo...
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1930s Modern Pen Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
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