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Medium: Pencil
Castello (Castle) signed unique painting abstract expressionist mid century art
Located in New York, NY
Remo Farruggio
Castello (Castle), ca. 1958
Oil on paper painting (hand signed twice by the artist)
Hand signed twice by the artist on the lower front (center and right), and titled "...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Graphite
Pre-War Abstraction - Modernism - Tan Bronze Tope - Nonrepresentational
By Elsie Driggs
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering female abstract artist Elsie Driggs paints stylized abstract organic forms in a warm palette of orange browns and tope. She merges abstraction with some figuration. A structured face composed of lines and tone emerges from an orange background. It's 1939, and even though Driggs is not well known, she is preceding many of the marquee names of abstraction by a decade. Although under the radar, this is a major work and is titled on the back stretcher is " Egyptian Gothic." It features the artist's inventiveness with her fine pencil lines incorporated in flat washes of color and collage elements. Signed lower right and inscribed on frame verso with title, artist and the date of 1939. Provenance, Christie's, Freemans. Framed under glass..
Elsie Driggs (1898 – July 12, 1992 in New York City) was an American painter known for her contributions to Precisionism, America's one indigenous modern-art movement before Abstract Expressionism, and for her later floral and figurative watercolors, pastels, and oils. She was the only female participant in the Precisionist movement, which in the 1920s and 1930s took a Cubist-inspired approach to painting the skyscrapers and factories that had come to define the new American landscape. Her works are in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Houston Museum of the Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the James A. Michener Art Museum in Pennsylvania, and the Columbus Museum of Art, among others. She was married to the American abstract artist Lee Gatch.
Career
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Driggs grew up in New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City, in a family that was supportive of her artistic interests. After a summer spent painting with her sister in New Mexico in her late teens, she felt she had found her life's calling. At twenty, she enrolled in classes at the Art Students League of New York, where she studied under George Luks and Maurice Sterne, both of whom were charismatic, inspirational figures in her early life. She also attended the evening criticism classes held at the home of painter John Sloan. Driggs spent fourteen months in Europe from late 1922 to early 1924, drawing and studying Italian art. There she met Leo Stein, first in Paris and later in Florence, who became an important intellectual influence, and who urged her to study Cézanne. He also introduced her to the works of Piero della Francesca, the Renaissance artist for whom she felt throughout her life the greatest admiration.[1]
Driggs eventually settled in New York City, where she found representation with the progressive Charles Daniel Gallery.[2] (Advised that the old-fashioned and misogynistic Daniel would be unlikely to take on a woman artist, she signed the works she left for his consideration simply "Driggs" and waited to meet him in person until he had expressed his eagerness to include her in his gallery.)[3] In sympathy with those artists Daniel represented who were part of the burgeoning Precisionist movement, such as Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, George Ault, Niles Spencer, and Preston Dickinson, she too painted "the modern landscape of factories, bridges, and skyscrapers with geometric precision and almost abstract spareness."Impressionism and academic or Ashcan realism represented the past, in Driggs' view, and she intended to be resolutely modern. She was an attractive and engaging woman, but her demeanor belied a strong ambition and a clear sense of what it would take to make her mark in the New York art world. Driggs was part of the pre-eminent first group of Precisionist painters, including Demuth and Sheeler, who exhibited at the Daniel Gallery in the 1920s. Although a later group of Precisionist painters, including Louis Lozowick, Ralston Crawford and others, came on the American Art scene during the 1930s, Driggs felt that the style came to an end with the 1929 stock market crash.[5]
In 1926 she painted her most famous work, Pittsburgh, a dark and brooding picture now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which depicts the gargantuan smokestacks of the Jones & Laughlin steel mills in Pittsburgh. Its focus is an overpowering mass of black and gray smokestacks, thick piping, and crisscrossing wires with only clouds of smoke to relieve the severity of the image, yet it was an image in which she found an ironic beauty. She called the picture "my El Greco" and expressed surprise that viewers in later years interpreted the painting as a work of social criticism. Like the other Precisionists (e.g., Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Louis Lozowick, Stefan Hirsch), she was concerned with applying modernist techniques to renderings of the new industrial and urban landscape, not in commenting on potential dangers the overly mechanized modern world of 1920s America might present. If anything, Precisionism, like Futurism, was a celebration of man-made energy and technology. One year later, she painted Blast Furnaces, in a similar vein. As noted above, Piero della Francesca's mural depicting "The Story of the True Cross" in Arezzo, with its tubular, static and frozen forms was the major influence on Driggs' "Pittsburgh" (it may have been the major influence for "Blast Furnaces" as well).[7]
After Pittsburgh, Driggs' most acclaimed work was probably Queensborough Bridge...
Category
1930s Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Untitled Chevron Collage, de-accessioned from the Honolulu Museum of Art
Located in New York, NY
KENNETH NOLAND
Untitled, for Trustees of the Honolulu Museum of Art, 1984
Mixed Media collage with silver and colored foil on board.
Signed on verso (back) with personal inscription. "for Twig and Laila" (Trustees of the Honolulu Museum of Art), Deaccessioned from the Honolulu Museum of Art Collection
Inscription done in black marker and reads: "A Little Exercise For Twig and Laila With Thanks For A Wonderful 3 Days At ' Cedar House' On The 'Big Island'... 1 Sept 1984 Honolulu Hawaii."
Frame included
Measurements
Framed:
12.5" x 12.5" x .3"
Artwork:
8.75" x 8.75"
This reflective Chevron collage was de-accessioned by the Honolulu Museum of Art. In 2018, it was exhibited in the show "On Black Mountain: The Bauhaus Legacy in America", April 5, 2019-April 27, 2019 at the Sager Braudis Gallery in Columbia, Missouri, and is reproduced in the exhibition catalogue.
Unique signed and dedicated mixed media collage with silver and colored foil on board by the important Color Field painter Kenneth Noland. It's quite a dazzling work, combining color field, geometric abstraction with Op Art, as the work changes appearance and color with the reflected and refracted light. - sometimes appearing light; sometimes darker. See the photos -- there's a light one and a darker one - and they both depict the same work. What's so impressive is that this work literally changes color depending on how the light reflects against it. The artist wrote a personal and heartfelt inscription on the verso to "Twig and Laila". (Twig (sic), which the artist deliberately misspells, is Thurston Twigg Smith, former publisher of The Honolulu Advertiser, who was married to New York philanthropist Laila Twigg Smith. Laila had lived in Hawaii since 1970, where she and her husband had put together a substantial collection of contemporary art. Unfortunately, the two divorced in 1996 and soon after she returned to New York. Two years later, in 1998, Laila died of liver failure at the young age of only 53. Laila was a major philanthropist and art collector who moved from Manhattan to Hawaii. She was a board member of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and a major donor the Honolulu Museum in Hawaii. Laila donated the present Ken Noland...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Foil
Honolulu Watercolor (unique signed heart watercolor by West Coast Pop art star)
Located in New York, NY
Billy Al Bengston
Honolulu Watercolor, 1992
Watercolor on handmade paper with deckled edge in artist's hand made frame with studio label verso
Signed, titled and dated in pencil lowe...
Category
1990s Pop Art Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Power Are My Words #16 Contemporary Original Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Power Are My Words
This series looks at the emotion around words. The way we use words can be uplifting or hurtful, empowering or degrading. Words have always been a tool to suppres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pencil
Le jour se lève
Located in Malmo, SE
Signed, titled and dated on the verso.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Free shipment worldwide.
Working on a variety of perceptual levels, Philippe Huart lets one visit his intim...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen, Graphite
Venn Diagram Drawing on Paper Color Pencil modern organic asymmetric ovals
Located in Hamburg, HH
This colored pencil drawing on delicate dark-grey colored paper was made in 2023 by Amanda Andersen.
Large asymmetrical forms typical in the artists work, connect a group of shapes ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Morandi 19 (Abstract, Cubist Still Life Drawing Inspired by Morandi Bottle)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract cubist style still life graphite drawing inspired by Giorgio Morandi's bottle paintings
"Morandi 19” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made in 2023
Graphite on pap...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Au bout, la lumière
Located in Malmo, SE
Artwork size: 100x70 cm
Frame size 116x86 cm
Signed, titled and dated on the verso.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Free shipment worldwide.
Working on a variety of perceptual ...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen, Graphite
Power Are My Words #19 Contemporary Original Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Power Are My Words
This series looks at the emotion around words. The way we use words can be uplifting or hurtful, empowering or degrading. Words have always been a tool to suppres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pencil
Power Are My Words #15 Contemporary Original Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Power Are My Words
This series looks at the emotion around words. The way we use words can be uplifting or hurtful, empowering or degrading. Words have always been a tool to suppres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pencil
Power Are My Words #5 Contemporary Original Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Power Are My Words
This series looks at the emotion around words. The way we use words can be uplifting or hurtful, empowering or degrading. Words have always been a tool to suppres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pencil
Venn Diagram Drawing on Paper Color Pencil blue Wabi-Sabi assymettric shapes
Located in Hamburg, HH
This colored pencil drawing on delicate light-grey colored paper was made in 2023 by Amanda Andersen.
Large asymmetrical forms typical in the artists work, connect a group of shapes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Power Are My Words #11 Contemporary Original Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Power Are My Words
This series looks at the emotion around words. The way we use words can be uplifting or hurtful, empowering or degrading. Words have always been a tool to suppres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pencil
Power Are My Words #6 Contemporary Original Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Power Are My Words
This series looks at the emotion around words. The way we use words can be uplifting or hurtful, empowering or degrading. Words have always been a tool to suppres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pencil
Power Are My Words #12 Contemporary Original Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Power Are My Words
This series looks at the emotion around words. The way we use words can be uplifting or hurtful, empowering or degrading. Words have always been a tool to suppres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pencil
Power Are My Words #2 Contemporary Original Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Power Are My Words
This series looks at the emotion around words. The way we use words can be uplifting or hurtful, empowering or degrading. Words have always been a tool to suppres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pencil
Power Are My Words #3 Contemporary Original Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Power Are My Words
This series looks at the emotion around words. The way we use words can be uplifting or hurtful, empowering or degrading. Words have always been a tool to suppres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pencil
Linda Turner, Art Meditation 18, Collage, Pattern and Decoration, Automatism
Located in Darien, CT
Linda Turner, raised both in NYC and Northern Virginia, resides in Brooklyn, NY. She achieved a BFA in Surface Design/Textile Design from the Fashion Inst...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
"Untitled" Acrylics, Pencil, Oil Pastels on Paper in Hues of Black and White
Located in New York, NY
"Untitled" 2019, 28" x 22" horizontal drawing on paper by Argentine-born artist Karina Gentinetta (featured in Elle Decor, the New York Times, Tradi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glaze, Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Carbon Pencil
Power Are My Words #8 Contemporary Original Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Power Are My Words
This series looks at the emotion around words. The way we use words can be uplifting or hurtful, empowering or degrading. Words have always been a tool to suppres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pencil
Sound Art Drawing 02 based on the electronic work Alien Bog by Pauline Oliveros
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This work is from The Sound Art Drawings, a series by New York City-based artist Christopher Stout, whose pronouns are he/him or the inclusive they/t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Graphite, Ink
Power Are My Words #4 Contemporary Original Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Power Are My Words
This series looks at the emotion around words. The way we use words can be uplifting or hurtful, empowering or degrading. Words have always been a tool to suppres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pencil
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Learning to Fly
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sutra, a Sanskrit word meaning “thread”, is a word or small group of words that summarize an entire complex web of ideas, truths, wisdoms, or teachings all woven together into a sing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Foam Board, Pencil, Graphite
Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Lotus
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sutra, a Sanskrit word meaning “thread”, is a word or small group of words that summarize an entire complex web of ideas, truths, wisdoms, or teachings all woven together into a sing...
Category
2010s Surrealist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Linda Turner, Meditation Is Play, Collage, Pattern and Decoration, Automatism
Located in Darien, CT
Linda Turner, raised both in NYC and Northern Virginia, resides in Brooklyn, NY. She achieved a BFA in Surface Design/Textile Design from the Fashion Inst...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Archival Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Linda Turner, Art Meditation 12, Collage, Pattern and Decoration, Automatism
Located in Darien, CT
Linda Turner, raised both in NYC and Northern Virginia, resides in Brooklyn, NY. She achieved a BFA in Surface Design/Textile Design from the Fashion Inst...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Power Are My Words #1 Contemporary Original Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
Power Are My Words
This series looks at the emotion around words. The way we use words can be uplifting or hurtful, empowering or degrading. Words have always been a tool to suppres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pencil
Linda Turner, Art Meditation 7, Collage, Pattern and Decoration, Automatism
Located in Darien, CT
Linda Turner, raised both in NYC and Northern Virginia, resides in Brooklyn, NY. She achieved a BFA in Surface Design/Textile Design from the Fashion Inst...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Nashville is an Enigma
Located in New York, NY
Katherine Porter
Country Music (Nashville is an Enigma), 1986
Mixed media; colored pencil, gouache, and graphite on paper, uniquely signed and inscribed with Nashville dateline
Hand ...
Category
1980s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Color Pencil, Graphite
Surrealist Geometric Variation Colors Drawings on Tracing Paper, France 1960s
Located in Atlanta, GA
These stunning original project drawings, hand-painted with colored pencil on translucent tracing paper, were designed by a French artist circa the 1960s. The two paintings feature a...
Category
1960s Surrealist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Morandi 12 (Abstract Cubist Still Life Painting Inspired by Morandi Bottles)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract cubist style still life graphite and acrylic painting inspired by Giorgio Morandi's bottle still life paintings
"Morandi 12” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Expressive Monochrome Drawing. Abstract Gesture. Non-objective
Located in Zofingen, AG
This expressive monochrome drawing is made with Chinese ink and pastel on heavy white paper. Looking at it you can feel the freshness of instant impulse and the charge of energy!
...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Pencil
Crystal Ball by Annemarie Ambrosoli, color pencil, 21x21 cm, Abstract
Located in Kiens, BZ
Crystal Ball (2019), cm 21x21, by contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli, is a colored drawing with color pencil on a black cardboard framed with a black frame, that measures 41,5x4...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Preliminary drawing for the painting entitled Trapezoids
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ink, graphite and colored pencil on graph paper
The final composition measured 28 x 28 inches
Annotated #615 in the lower right corner of the sheet
Provenance: Francine Seders Galler...
Category
1950s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
6/21/96.9 (hand signed and dated original graphite drawing; unique)
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
PETER HALLEY
6/21/96.9, 1998
Graphite and ink drawing
Hand-signed by artist, signed and dated in graphite lower right front; lower left front bears title: 6/21/96.9
Frame included: e...
Category
1990s Abstract Geometric Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Graphite
Morandi 17: Abstract Cubist Style Morandi Bottle Still Life Pencil Drawing
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract cubist style still life graphite drawing inspired by Giorgio Morandi's bottle paintings
"Morandi 17” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made in 2023
Graphite on pap...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Geometric Abstraction (abstract expressionist) painting on paper
Located in New York, NY
Katherine Porter
Geometric Abstraction, 1971
Watercolor and graphite on graph paper
Signed and dated "Katherine Porter 1971" in pencil on the front
Held in original vintage 1970s met...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
"Untitled" Acrylics, Pencils, Oil Pastels on Paper in Neutral Hues of Taupe
Located in New York, NY
"Untitled" 2019, 25" x 31" horizontal drawing on paper by Argentine-born artist Karina Gentinetta (featured in Elle Decor, the New York Times, Tradi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glaze, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Carbon Pencil
Linda Turner, Art Meditation 5, Collage, Pattern and Decoration, Automatism
Located in Darien, CT
Linda Turner, raised both in NYC and Northern Virginia, resides in Brooklyn, NY. She achieved a BFA in Surface Design/Textile Design from the Fashion Inst...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
"Linear Landscape" Landscape Drawing Large size Made inItaly
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape
mixed media on vintage paper
97x37 cm
2019
the artwork have a frame
50x110 cm
Ready to hang
Original Art
The major creative focus of Marilina Marchica has always been w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper, Graphite
'Sunset Abstract Collage', Orange County Art Association, Moraga, Nancy Moure
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Marianne K. Brown' (American, 20th century); additionally signed, verso, with certification of authenticity and dated 1987.
Brown has taught watercolor and des...
Category
1980s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper, Graphite
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Graphite on paper, 1930
Signed and dated upper right (see photo)
Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014. (label)
C...
Category
1920s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Snowflakes 125 Oneness, Planets, Crescent Moon, Patterns Mandala Pencil Drawing
Located in Kent, CT
A meticulously detailed mandala containing tiny vignettes of celestial bodies, planets and miniature landscapes with endless horizons is depicted in carefully applied graphite on pap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
After A Rain #2 unique abstract signed collage on paper with orig Castelli label
Located in New York, NY
Robert Petersen
After A Rain #2, 1987
Collage on Paper: Pencil, Oil, Acrylic and Cloth
Hand signed, dated and titled on lower front with Castelli Graphics label on the back
Frame Inc...
Category
1980s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Textile, Oil, Acrylic, Pencil
Abstract organic drawing titled “Drift”
By Michele Zuzalek
Located in Washington, DC
An expressive watercolor and mixed media painting with bold brush strokes and earth tone colors. It is signed on the front and back and coated with a semi gloss archival varnish for ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
Landing, Cobalt Blue, Burgundy, Yellow, Green, Pink, Gray Detailed Drawing, Tree
Located in Kent, CT
In carefully drawn dots and lines in deep shades of cobalt and indigo blue with teal, yellow and dusty rose pink details, this intricate composition is inspired by patterns in nature...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Exquisite Corpse, Cadavre Exquis, Spanish Surrealist Drawing 3 Artists
By Xisco Mensua
Located in Surfside, FL
Provenance: This piece was deaccessioned from the Bass museum in Miami Beach florida.
This piece is a good museum example of Exquisite corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver (from the original French term cadavre exquis), A method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. This example is by Manuel Saez, Xisco Mensua and Guillermo Paneque.
Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule or by being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed. The technique was invented by surrealists. Surrealism principal founder André Breton reported that it started in fun, but became playful and eventually enriching. In the beginning were Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert, Benjamin Péret, Pierre Reverdy, and André Breton. Other participants probably included Max Morise, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Simone Collinet, Tristan Tzara, Georges Hugnet, René Char, and Paul and Nusch Éluard. Henry Miller often partook of the game to pass time in French cafés during the 1930s.
Manuel Sáez (born 6 March 1961) is a Spanish, self-taught artist. Since 1984, he has been living and working in Valencia.
The Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada Europeo-Americana describes Manuel Sáez as among the most important painters of the turn of the 21st century owing to his simultaneously sensual and psychological approach to the world of objects, landscapes, figures and portraits.
As a resident fellow of the Spanish Fine Arts Academy in Rome in 1990, Sáez elaborated a series of portraits called Biografia no autorizada In 1991 Sáez held his first important show at the Fundació La Caixa. in Valencia In 1996 he presented his first retrospective, Colección Exclusiva 1984-1995, in the Club Diario Levante of Valencia, as well as the Madrid Circle of Fine Arts, the Salas Verónicas of Murcia, the Castellón Delegation and the Brocense of Cáceres. In 2000 Sáez exhibited in Mexico City's Museo Rufino Tamayo and in the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM) in Valencia. In 2008 Sáez's work could be seen at the Sala Parpalló in Valencia.
In 2003-04, Dispersions was exhibited at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami. In 2007, Sáez's work is featured in the Valencian Institute of Modern Art's (IVAM) El Pop Art en la Colección del IVAM ("Pop Art in the IVAM Collection") in Valencia.[12]
Xisco Mensua
Initially studied at Escuelas Virtèlia, but followed an atypical school career due to illness. Began to paint in 1978. Took a course in painting at the Escola d’Arts i Oficis (Valencia), where he had lived since the age of eight. Lived in Barcelona from 1982 to 1987, studying art at the Escola Eina for the first two years. Returned to Valencia and began exhibiting in 1990. Produced works in co-operation with Fernando Ros and Mim Juncà, as well as designing stage sets for the theatre. Now forms part of the Jacques Moran collective. Through drawing, Mensua creates a fictional world in an exercise in which he transfigures common references, whether intimate or biographic, political or social.
Guillermo Paneque
Seville, 1963 Spanish painter.
He completed his artistic training at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Seville, Director and founder, along with Rafael Agredano and José Espaliú, of the magazine Figura in 1984. It is in the mid-eighties when his work is made known within the Andalusian artistic scene, through the production of small format paintings populated with references and symbols from the religious and everyday environment that the author mixes with a playful sense and with erotic characters that reveal a clear rejection of the Andalusian artistic tradition. His work evolves towards a formal synthesis and an iconographic cleansing in the line of conceptual art. He has starred in numerous solo exhibitions and participated in important collectives, among which include: Aperto 86 at the Venice Biennial (1986), Spain 87. Dynamiques and Interrogations (1987) at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris, Spanish natures...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
Synesthesia original drawing on paper
By Michele Zuzalek
Located in Washington, DC
This is an original drawing in ink and mixed media in neutral tones. Expressive drawing with shades of grey and marks in graphite.
This drawing comes matted in a white mat.
11x14 i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Textile Design
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful 1950s textile design (Black, yellow, blue, pink, red tones) by noted set and costume designer Andre Delfau.
Born in Paris, France in 1914, Andre Delfau became an internationally acclaimed stage, set and costume designer who worked world-wide from the 1930s to the 1980s. Delfau was a life long artist and painted independently of his noted design career. His artwork is recognized for it’s vibrant color and form, and a particularly keen use of line. He was highly influenced by the French Modern trends of Cubism and Surrealism, and his artwork is often infused with a dramatic sense of architecture and perspective.
Delfau created fashion designs for such major Paris couture houses as Balmain, Jean Patou and Balenciaga. He completed noteworthy set designs and costumes for numerous international operatic and ballet productions, including those at the Royal Danish Ballet, the Royal Ballet of Great Britain, the Paris Opera, the Dance Theater of Harlem, the Ruth Page International Ballet, the Civic Ballet of Chicago, the Chicago Opera Ballet and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, among others. Most notably, Delfau designed the elaborate stage sets and costumes for the 1986 PBS television production of the Viennese operetta, "Die Fledermaus...
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1950s American Modern Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Gouache, Graphite
UNIQUE Drawings on Everything is Shit Except You Love (How We Met is Our Story)
Located in New York, NY
Stephen Powers
Everything is Shit Except You Love (How We Met is Our Story), with unique drawings, 2017
Original graphite drawings on screen print in four colors on 335 gsm Coventry ...
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2010s Street Art Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite, Screen, Pencil
Modern Black and White Abstract Figurative Pencil Drawing Study of a Seated Man
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white pencil drawing sketch of an abstract male figure by Cuba-born artist Alberto Godoy. The work features Godoy's iconic robust figure. The d...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Brightness by Annemarie Ambrosoli, color pencil, 21x21cm, Abstract
Located in Kiens, BZ
Brightness (2019) cm 21x21, by Italian artist Annemarie Ambrosoli, is a colored drawing with color pencil on a black cardboard, that measures 29x27 cm.
This work is a one-of-a-kind p...
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2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
"Blue & Brown Pattern, " Colored Pencil & Watercolor, Signed
By Tom Shelton
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Blue & Brown Pattern" is an original colored pencil and watercolor drawing by Tom Shelton. The artist signed the piece lower right. The artist says:
“I wanted to see what kind of ...
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2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Color Pencil
Shining by Annemarie Ambrosoli, color pencil, 21x21cm, Abstract
Located in Kiens, BZ
Shining (2023) cm 21x21, by Italian artist Annemarie Ambrosoli, is a colored drawing with color pencil on a black cardboard, that measures 29x26,5 cm.
This work is a one-of-a-kind pi...
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2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Color Pencil
Joyfully by Annemarie Ambrosoli Color Pencil Abstract Expressionist
Located in Kiens, BZ
Joyfully (2023) cm 21x21, by Italian artist Annemarie Ambrosoli, is a colored drawing with color pencil on a black cardboard, that measures 29x26,5 cm.
This work is a one-of-a-kind p...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Moonlight by Annemarie Ambrosoli Color Pencil Abstract Expressionist
Located in Kiens, BZ
Moonlight (2019) 21x22 cm, by Italian artist Annemarie Ambrosoli, is a colored pencil drawing framed with a black passepartout, that measures 29x27 cm
©Annemarie Ambrosoli
This wor...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Love is in the Air by Annemarie Ambrosoli Color Pencil Abstract Expressionist
Located in Kiens, BZ
Love is in the Air (2019) cm 21x21,5, by Italian artist Annemarie Ambrosoli, is a colored drawing with color pencil on a black cardboard, that measures 29x27 cm.
This work is a one-o...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
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