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Flying Bird
Located in San Francisco, CA
We're pleased to showcase Mexican Master Rufino Tamayo's work on paper. Flying Bird portrays a bird flying over the mountains. Rufino Tamayo created this modernist and minimalist dra...
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1960s Minimalist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Crayon, Graphite

Avec moi-même - Planche 8
Located in New York, US
Plate 8 from the 10-subject album "Avec moi-même" ("With Myself") On Arches wove paper. A beautiful plate, a small edition of 75, a demanding technique: etching and aquatint, and an...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Etching, Aquatint

I Don´t Eat Fish
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Work signed on front and back It is sent in a tube
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Enamel

Mandorla - Large Format Charcoal On Paper, Black White Drawing
Located in Salzburg, AT
Krzysztof Gliszczyński is Professor for painting on Academy of fine arts Gdansk. The artwork is unframed and will be shipped rolled in a tube Artist Statement In the 1990s I started collecting flakes of paint – leftovers from my work. I would put fresh ones in wooden formworks, dried ones in glass containers. They constituted layers of investigations into the field of painting, enclosed in dated and numbered cuboids measuring 47 × 10.5 × 10.5 cm. I called those objects Urns. In 2016, I displayed them at an exhibition, moulding a single object out of all the Urns. The Urns inspired me to redefine the status of my work as a painter. In order to do it, I performed a daunting task of placing the layers of paint not in an urn, but on a canvas, pressing each fresh bit of paint with my thumb. In the cycle of paintings Autoportret a’retour, the matter was transferred from painting to painting, expanding the area of each consecutive one. Together, the bits, the residua of paint, kept alive the memory of the previous works. It was a stage of the atomization of the painting matter and its alienation from the traditional concepts and aesthetic relations. Thus, the cycle of synergic paintings was created, as I called them, guided by the feeling evoked in me by the mutually intensifying flakes of paint. The final aesthetic result of the refining of the digested matter was a consequence of the automatism of the process of layering, thumb-pressing, and scraping off again. Just like in an archaeological excavation, attempts are made to unite and retrieve that which has been lost. This avant-garde concept consists in transferring into the area of painting of matter, virtually degraded and not belonging to the realm of art. And yet the matter re-enters it, acquiring a new meaning. The matter I created, building up like lava, became my new technique. I called it perpetuum pictura – self-perpetuated painting. Alchemical concepts allowed me to identify the process inherent in the emerging matter, to give it direction and meaning. In a way, I created matter which was introducing me into the pre-symbolic world – a world before form, unnamed. From this painterly magma, ideas sprung up, old theories of colour and the convoluted problem of squaring the circle manifested themselves again. Just like Harriot’s crystal refracted light in 1605, I tried to break up colour in the painting Iosis. Paintings were becoming symptoms, like in the work Pulp fiction, which at that time was a gesture of total fragmentation of matter and of transcending its boundaries, my dialogue with the works of Jackson Pollock and the freedom brought by his art. The painting Geometrica de physiologiam pictura contains a diagram in which I enter four colours that constitute an introduction to protopsychology, alchemical transmutation, and the ancient theory of colour. It this work I managed to present the identification of the essence of human physiology with art. But the essential aspect of my considerations in my most recent paintings is the analysis of abstraction, the study of its significance for the contemporary language of art and the search for the possibilities of creating a new message. For me, abstraction is not an end in itself, catering to the largely predicable expectations of the viewers. To study the boundary between visibility and invisibility, like in the work Unsichtbar, is to ask about the status of the possibilities of the language of abstraction. The moment of fluidity which I am able to attain results from the matter – matter...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Ink Drawing on Card signed " Marc Chagall ", dated 1921
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
Attributed to Marc Chagall – “L’Homme à la Lampe” Ink Drawing on paper/ card Documented History - Christie’s South Kensington Ltd Auction Estimate: £4,000 in April 2001 L’Homme à...
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1920s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Ocean blue - abstract painting, made in blue color
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in blue color on Yupo paper. The work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (gold or black) with a styrene face on a mat bo...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Circle Spiral 02, Mandala Drawing, Cream, Brown, Abstract, Pattern, Monochrome
Located in Kent, CT
This reddish brown pigment drawing has was made with a perforated stencil laid on ivory rag paper, pounced with a sack of powdered pigment. The ordered symmetry of the shape in sienn...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Rag Paper, Pigment, Stencil

Cosmos, Abstract Painting by Eduardo Arranz-Bravo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Spanish (1941 - ) Title: Cosmos 4 Year: 2003 Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper, signed and dated Paper Size: 15.5 x...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) - Elijah - Hand colored drypoint etching - 1975
Located in Varese, IT
Hand colored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper limited edition, numbered in lower left corner HC (horse commerce) signed in pencil by artist paper size: 57 x 77 cm ( ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Etching

Artists in the Spotlight unique signed painting, SF Museum of Modern Art, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Tom Holland Artists in the Spotlight: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), 1985 Acrylic and mixed media with stencil on paper Signed and d...
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Stencil

Untitled Abstraction
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Abstraction Graphite on paper, c. 1946 Signed with the estate stamp verso Provenance: estate of the Artist Inherited by his neighbor/caregiver Conditio...
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1940s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Watercolor 9, Work on Paper, Colorful, Organic Shapes, Natural, Moving, Cosmos
Located in Riverdale, NY
Watercolor 9 is a 22" x 17.5" , watercolor on paper, by Melinda Hacket. It is white framed to 25" x 20.25. It is filled with rich earthy colors and organic moving shapes. Melinda H...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Notations P" Abstract Expressionist Blue Colorful Playful Mixed Media
Located in Wellesley, MA
Notations P, 2007, Mixed Media on Paper, 17.5 x 14 Inches (Image), 29 x 22 Inches (Paper). This painting on paper is unframed. Playful geometric abstraction of swirling linear ele...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media

Cote D'Azur- abstraction art, made in pale pink, turquoise color
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The triptych is made with alcoholic ink in pale pink, turquoise color on Yupo paper. Each work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (gold or black) with a s...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

French Abstract Contemporary Art by Daniel Cayo - Untitled No.17
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on paper, framed 10 x 15 cm - 18 x 24 cm with white mat passe-partout Unique copy Signed on the front
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media

Bold Abstract and Figurative Composition in Blue and red Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold Abstract and Figurative Composition in Blue and red Acrylic on Paper Bright and colorful abstracted figural painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Bra...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

No title 2 and 3, Diptych. Abstract Watercolor
Located in Miami Beach, FL
No title 2 and 3, Diptych, 2018 by Rodrigo Zampol Black ink on paper Overall size: 67 cm H x 100 cm W Individual size: 67 cm H x 50 cm W Unframed Unique piece Signed on back The pi...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Contemporary Mid Century Inspired Blue & Green Toned Neighborhood Aerial Pastel
Located in Houston, TX
Mid century inspired aerial landscape pastel drawing by contemporary artist R. Michael Wommack. The work features a birds eye view of a planned neighborhood at night with glowing swi...
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2010s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

American Contemporary Art by Michael Alan - Hot Mess
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on archival paper Michael Alan is an American artist born in 1977 who lives & works in New York, USA. As a multidisciplinary artist. His work has been featured in many ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media

Arcs VI (Graphic, Abstract Drawing on Paper in Antique Wood Frame)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract drawing on paper of graphic bold lines in an antique wood frame with gold detail Graphite and pale blue colored pencil 28 x 21 inches framed This vertical, black, white and light blue graphite and acrylic drawing was inspired by the Russian Constructivist art movement. The work is drawn in an abstracted cubist style where the artist composes bold white overlapping arcs on a black background with cross hatching details of light blue acrylic. Through the continuous layering of the graphite pencil and acrylic the artist makes interesting thick, shard like shapes. The pale blue acrylic is concentrated at the center of the drawing and radiates outward, creating interesting depth and textural effects. The artist fit the original drawing to a mid century modern wood frame, measuring 28 x 21 inches. The frame exhibits some wear consistent with age, which is an intentional decision made by the artist. About the artist: A recent visit to David Dew Bruner’s train depot converted artist studio in Valatie, NY confirmed that the man does not sleep. Nor has he entirely put to rest the various series of graphite drawings on paper presented in a stunning array of mid-century and antique frames that were exhibited at the gallery last year. The still lives and figures inspired by artists like Velasquez, Morandi, and Lindner are morphing on a continuum of brilliance; the highly graphic influences of the Italian futurists like Giacomo Balla and Marcel du Champs, as well as the more obscure English Vortex movement have taken hold of Bruner’s intuitive approach to design as he channels it into his own drawings. The series of Infanta figures are emboldened with a new perspective and scaled up in size. A recent series of Arcs reference the gestural abstract shapes prevalent in the aesthetic of the Russian Constructivists. These works explore depth, movement, space and repetition that is more about design than reference. Bruner tastefully pairs drawings with a vintage frame from his collection, refashioning mirror frames from the 1960s or hand painting an antique Italian frame...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Color Pencil, Graphite

Shape 19 (2019) - Abstract shape, work on paper, geometric, minimalist, orange
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Shape 19 (2019) by Ryan Park of Shapes Only Abstract, nonobjective, geometric art, acrylic on 300gsm archival paper. Abstract shape innovated by the artist. Orange on white. Min...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Archival Paper

French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 10 x 6.5 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we have...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil

A Cubist, Untitled Mural Study of a City Scene by Artist Rudolph Weisenborn
Located in Chicago, IL
A graphite on paper, untitled mural study, Cubist city scene by important Chicago Modernist artist Rudolph Weisenborn, ca. 1940. Artwork size: 9 3/4" x 11 3/4". Archivally matted to 16" x 18". Provenance: Estate of the artist. Rudolph Weisenborn was born in Strassburg, Germany in 1881, but was orphaned at the age of nine. He was taken-in by Mid-Western farmer Thomas Westaby and spent his early years in Wisconsin, Iowa and North Dakota. Weisenborn first attended the University of North Dakota in 1898, then the Students School of Art in Denver. Various accounts have him working out west as a gold miner and cowboy. Around 1912, he settled in Chicago and worked as a window designer for Marshall Field’s. Weisenborn is best known as the founder of the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists. The group was founded because many artists could not get their work accepted into the mainstream Art Institute shows. Weisenborn is quoted as saying that he harbored feelings of disdain for any jury and that his own paintings were frequently rejected by conservative jurors. He was also involved and helped found other radical artist’s groups such as the Salon des Refuses, Cor Ardens and Neo-Arlimusic. In 1936, he helped found the New York-based American Abstract Artist’s Group. He created the only abstract mural for the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago and also worked for the Federal Arts Project in the Easel Division. His WPA murals can be found in Crane Technical High School and Nettlehorst Elementary School in Chicago, IL. In 1945, Chicago businessman Herman Spertus...
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1940s Cubist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

Morgan O'Hara, Movement of the Hands Seiji Shimoda, Drawing, March 2004
Located in Darien, CT
Live Transmission Morgan O'Hara's conceptually based performative drawing researches the vital movement of living beings, the human experience of time and space. It is culturally co...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

1960s Abstract Painting by New Mexico Modernist Artist - Vibrant Yellow, Orange
Located in Denver, CO
This vintage 1960s abstract painting by renowned New Mexico modernist artist Ward Lockwood (1894–1963) is an exceptional example of mid-century modern art. The original artwork, crea...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media, Ink, Gouache

Roberto Burle Marx, Stamp. Drawing From The Series Terms And Conditions
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Roberto Burle Marx, 2021 (Framed) by Rodrigo Spinel From The Series Terms And Conditions Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g. Frame size: 46 cm H x 38 cm W x 6 cm D Image size: 32 ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink

"fear not, all will be revealed" - paleolithic, rock formation, abstract, earthy
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work on paper features deep hues of pink, orange, yellow and brown. The unframed piece measures 25 by 19 inches. Lizzy Storm is an Atlanta-based Artist and educator creating we...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Pigment

Agony, Motif - Drawing by Arshile Gorky - 1946
By Arshile Gorky
Located in Roma, IT
Agony, Motif is a contemporary artwork realized by Arshile Gorky in 1946. Ink, pen and wax crayon on paper. Incudes frame: 41.5 x 38.5 Good conditions (little tears and shading of...
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1940s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Wax Crayon, Ink, Pen

Halloween- earth tone color circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite

Andy Warhol Soup Can Drawing
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) Marking(s); notes: signed; 1975 Materials: marker on paper Dimensions (H, W, D): 7.5"h, 5"w; 15.5"h, 13"w mat Additional Information: Signed drawing is done on a half title from Andy Warhol's book, "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again." Andy Warhol’s Soup...
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1970s Pop Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper

Light, Series Drawing From Israel - Large Format, Charcoal On Paper
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is unframed and will be shipped rolled in a tube Krzysztof Gliszczyński is Professor for painting on Academy of fine arts Gdansk. Krzysztof Gliszczyński born in Miastko in 1962. Graduated from the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in 1987 in the studio of Prof. Kazimierz Ostrowski. Between 1995 and 2002 founder and co-manager of Koło Gallery in Gdańsk. lnitiator of the Kazimierz Ostrowski Award, con-ferred by the Union of Polish Artists and Designers (ZPAP), Gdańsk Chapter. Dean of the Painting Faculty of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in the years 2008-2012. Vice Rector for Development and Cooperation of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in the years 2012-2016. Obtained a professorship in 2011. Currently head of the Third Painting Studio of the Painting Faculty of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts. He has taken part in a few dozen exhibitions in Poland and abroad. He has received countless prizes and awards for his artistic work. He is active in the field of painting, drawing, objects, and video. Artist Statement In the 1990s I started collecting flakes of paint – leftovers from my work. I would put fresh ones in wooden formworks, dried ones in glass containers. They constituted layers of investigations into the field of painting, enclosed in dated and numbered cuboids measuring 47 × 10.5 × 10.5 cm. I called those objects Urns. In 2016, I displayed them at an exhibition, moulding a single object out of all the Urns. The Urns inspired me to redefine the status of my work as a painter. In order to do it, I performed a daunting task of placing the layers of paint not in an urn, but on a canvas, pressing each fresh bit of paint with my thumb. In the cycle of paintings Autoportret a’retour, the matter was transferred from painting to painting, expanding the area of each consecutive one. Together, the bits, the residua of paint, kept alive the memory of the previous works. It was a stage of the atomization of the painting matter and its alienation from the traditional concepts and aesthetic relations. Thus, the cycle of synergic paintings was created, as I called them, guided by the feeling evoked in me by the mutually intensifying flakes of paint. The final aesthetic result of the refining of the digested matter was a consequence of the automatism of the process of layering, thumb-pressing, and scraping off again. Just like in an archaeological excavation, attempts are made to unite and retrieve that which has been lost. This avant-garde concept consists in transferring into the area of painting of matter, virtually degraded and not belonging to the realm of art. And yet the matter re-enters it, acquiring a new meaning. The matter I created, building up like lava, became my new technique. I called it perpetuum pictura – self-perpetuated painting. Alchemical concepts allowed me to identify the process inherent in the emerging matter, to give it direction and meaning. In a way, I created matter which was introducing me into the pre-symbolic world – a world before form, unnamed. From this painterly magma, ideas sprung up, old theories of colour and the convoluted problem of squaring the circle manifested themselves again. Just like Harriot’s crystal refracted light in 1605, I tried to break up colour in the painting Iosis. Paintings were becoming symptoms, like in the work Pulp fiction, which at that time was a gesture of total fragmentation of matter and of transcending its boundaries, my dialogue with the works of Jackson Pollock and the freedom brought by his art. The painting Geometrica de physiologiam pictura contains a diagram in which I enter four colours that constitute an introduction to protopsychology, alchemical transmutation, and the ancient theory of colour. It this work I managed to present the identification of the essence of human physiology with art. But the essential aspect of my considerations in my most recent paintings is the analysis of abstraction, the study of its significance for the contemporary language of art and the search for the possibilities of creating a new message. For me, abstraction is not an end in itself, catering to the largely predicable expectations of the viewers. To study the boundary between visibility and invisibility, like in the work Unsichtbar, is to ask about the status of the possibilities of the language of abstraction. The moment of fluidity which I am able to attain results from the matter – matter...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Soul Flowers 26 My Axis - Tree Roots Figure Sunflower Black and White, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
A small outlined figure floats in midair beneath the roots of a suspended tree. This contemporary drawing is entirely hand-drawn using only pen and paper. Framed in a solid black wo...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Pen

Thunderbolts - Contemporary Drawing Lightning Snowflake Branches Pattern, 2022
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary drawing in ink, colored pencil and graphite on archival Fabriano Artistico Paper, carefully drawn dots and lines in soft shades of indigo blue with yellow, teal ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite

Pillar of Zen #124, unique signed gouache painting Andre Zarre Gallery, 1959
Located in New York, NY
Charmion von Wiegand Pillar of Zen #124, 1959 Gouache on paper painting Hand signed, titled and dated on the front Unique Provenance: Andre Zarre Gallery, with label verso (Estate of renowned gallerist Andre Zarre, ne Andre Sowulewski) Measurements: Framed 26.5 inches vertical by 25.5 horizontal by 2 inches Artwork: 21 inches vertical by 22 inches horizontal Mid century modern, geometric, spiritual abstraction, mystical The Estate of the celebrated artist Charmion Von Wiegand has been represented exclusively by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery since 1998. From March 3 to August 13, 2023, Charmion Von Wiegand was the subject of an acclaimed retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Basel, and she has received major attention in the price, including a June, 2023 ArtNews feature entitled, "Who Was Charmion von Wiegand and Why Is She Important?". Her work was also featured in a solo presentation by Rosenfeld Gallery at the New York Art Show held at the Park Avenue Armory, which also received critical acclaim. Artists Biography - courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: Known for her vibrant, geometric paintings that originate a deeply personal language of spiritual enlightenment expressed through a constructivist mode of abstraction, Charmion von Wiegand (1896–1983) was born in Chicago but spent much of her childhood traveling. The daughter of a journalist for Hearst, von Wiegand eventually settled in New York in 1915 to attend Barnard College and Columbia University, where she took classes at the School of Journalism while nurturing a growing interest in art history. In 1925, von Wiegand realized that she wanted to be an artist and set up a studio in Greenwich Village, teaching herself how to paint while pursuing a career as a journalist. In 1929, she secured a position in Moscow as a foreign correspondent for Hearst, the only woman at the desk at the time. In 1932, von Wiegand returned to New York and married Russian émigré Joseph Freeman, who co-founded and edited the leftist journal New Masses. Von Wiegand began writing art criticism for New Masses as well as for other publications, including New Theatre, ARTnews, and Arts Magazine. When the Abstract American Artists (AAA) held their inaugural exhibition, von Wiegand reviewed it. An early champion of abstract art, von Wiegand became close friends with AAA founder Carl Holty. In 1941, Holty introduced von Wiegand to Piet Mondrian, who would have a profound impact on her art. Fascinated by Mondrian’s artistic philosophy, von Wiegand played a key role in the introduction of his work to American audiences, translating many of the Dutch artist’s writings into English and assisting in the composition of his influential article “Toward the True Vision of Reality” (1941). Through her friendship with Mondrian, von Wiegand re-kindled her interest in Theosophy (a religion established in the late 19th century that combines aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism, occultism, and esotericism) and embarked on an extended study of neoplasticism. In her artwork, she incorporated Mondrian’s iconic grid but rejected the constraints of pure neoplasticism and embraced a wide range of influences including surrealism and German expressionism. In 1942, von Wiegand became a member of the AAA, exhibiting regularly with the group and eventually serving as its president from 1951 to 1953. In the late 1940s, sculptor and fellow AAA member Ibram Lassaw gave her a translation of The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life, which inspired von Wiegand to immerse herself in a study of Buddhist art. She began incorporating Buddhist motifs such as stupas and mandalas into her paintings, and her spiritual practice steadily intensified throughout the 1950s. In 1953, her husband gifted her a copy of the Taoist I Ching Book of Changes, a guide for divining meaning from randomly derived numbers arranged in a hexagram—a form the artist readily incorporated into her painting. Von Wiegand’s study of Theosophy also intensified over these years, bolstered by her increased access to the religion’s primary sources composed by the religion’s founders and their successors at the New York Theosophical Society’s library. Von Wiegand’s search for the sacred and transcendent ultimately led her to Tibetan Buddhism and, in 1967, von Wiegand met Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, a Gelugpa monk who had recently arrived in New York, who would mentor her spiritual study in the tradition of Mahayana Buddhism until her death. Her travels in the 1960s and 1970s took her to Tibet and India, where she had an audience with the Dalai Lama, who was living in exile in Dharamsala. Many works from these decades incorporate symbols and schematics drawn from Theosophical prismatic color charts, Chinese astrology and tantric yoga. In 1978, she was the subject of a PBS documentary titled The Circle of Charmion von Wiegand, which was scored by Philip Glass. In 1980, von Wiegand was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1982, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach (FL) organized her first retrospective exhibition. She died the following year in New York, bequeathing her estate to Khyongla Rato and the Tibet Center of New York. In 1998, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery became the sole representative of her estate and has presented her work in four solo and multiple group exhibitions. Recent notable exhibitions that have included her work are The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, 2009) and Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America (Newark Museum, NJ, 2010). In March 2023, the Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland) opened the first comprehensive museum retrospective of von Wiegand’s work in Europe. Von Wiegand’s work is represented in numerous museum collections including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy (Andover, MA); Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY); Arithmeum, University of Bonn (Germany); Birmingham Museum of Art (Alabama); Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin; Brooklyn Museum (NY); Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA); The Cleveland Museum of Art (OH); Indianapolis Museum of Art (IN); Fondazione Marguerite Arp (Locarno, Switzerland); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Massachusetts); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY); The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); Newark Museum of Art (New Jersey); Seattle Art Museum (WA); Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC); Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN); Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College (Clinton, NY); Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY); and Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT). More about gallerist Andre Zarre A tribute in the New Criterion: Dispatch August 11, 2020 Andre Zarre, 1942–2020 by Dana Gordon On the late New York gallery pioneer. Art should never be aggressively explained; art should be felt. —Andre Zarre, 1977 Often, in the starlit New York cultural mecca, a longtime important figure fades away through the penumbra and dies without notice. Such was the fate of Andre Zarre, the contemporary art dealer, who passed away a few weeks ago. Andy, as he wanted friends to call him, opened his eponymous gallery in 1974 just off Madison Avenue on Sixty-ninth Street. He soon moved it to the omphalos of the art world in that era, 41 East Fifty-seventh Street, the Fuller Building. Over the years he moved to SoHo and then to Chelsea, as fashion and real estate prices pushed the art souk hither and thither. To understand his importance, all you need do is take a look at a list of artists who had solo shows at the Andre Zarre Gallery. This includes such names, from an early generation, as Sonia Delaunay, Nassos Daphnis, Sari Dienes, and Perle Fine. Among a subsequent generation are Pat Lipsky, Jay Milder, Thornton Willis, and Kes Zapkus.1 And this list does not include the many knowns and unknowns who were in his lively group shows. Zarre had a real “eye” and was a champion of abstract art from the moment he founded his gallery—even among the gathering storms of conceptual and political art, which he eschewed. He showed a good deal of figurative art as well. His galleries were always spacious and unpretentious, oriented simply to show the art. In the words of Dee Shapiro, who showed with the Zarre gallery many times, “He had a photographic memory and knew a lot about art and was always interested in the artist’s life.” Reliable biographical information on Zarre is scarce, but he said of his background that he was born in Poland in 1942 and that his parents were a diplomat and a socialite. He left home for the United States at the age of fifteen. During his decades as an art dealer in New York, Zarre did not appear to accumulate wealth, though he acquired a collection and lived on Park Avenue. “He was not personally aggressive in that way. People had to come to him,” Dee Shapiro said. He was honest in his financial dealings with artists, which not all art dealers are. For a long time while running the gallery he had a second job as a supervisor in an airline office and he kept little to no additional staff in the gallery. He supported a brother who remained in Poland. Among artists, Zarre was known to be quite ornery. After my show at his gallery in 1997, I refused to enter it for seventeen years. Then I ran into him in Chelsea and he offered me another show, an opportunity I gladly accepted, but he remained just as disagreeable. He showed the work of many women, probably more than any other gallery, save those devoted to showing only women. Collectors, curators, and writers found him mostly friendly. As Peter Reginato put it, Zarre was a “strange guy but I liked him. I think he was a dealer who was more interested in the art than in making money, but somehow he lasted forty-plus years.” Zarre is not known to have kept extensive or extant records of his gallery’s long history, though these may emerge in time. Scouring the Internet, one may compile a partial list of more than eighty artists who had solo shows at the Andre Zarre Gallery:Nancy Azara, Ellen Banks, Mary Barnes, Tony Bechara, Juan Bernal, Stephanie Bernheim, Randy Bloom, Elena Borstein, Michael Boyd, Fritz Bultman, Ed Buonagurio, Yoan Capote, Sonia Delaunay, Nassos Daphnis, Cathy Diamond, Sari Dienes, Joseph Dolinsky, Beata Drozd, Ronnie Elliot, William Fares, Perle Fine, Lynne Frehm, Ben Georgia, Mikel Glass, Dana Gordon, Juanita Guccione, Fred Gutzeit, Don Hazlitt, Amy Hill, Clinton Hill, Monroe Hodder, Budd Hopkins, Arlan Huang, Richard Hunt, Rhia Hurt, Buffie Johnson, Alexander Kaletski, Robert Kaupelis...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

"Abstract Cityscape" NYC Early 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Ashcan
Located in New York, NY
"Abstract Cityscape" NYC Early 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Ashcan Abraham Walkowitz (American, 1878-1965) Abstract Cityscape Sight: 6 1/4' x 8 1/2 inches Mixed media...
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1910s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media

Calm Before - Text Based Contemporary Abstraction, Red and Black
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Calm Before," is a text based contemporary abstraction by artist Vivian Liddell. This piece is built with washes of ink layered up leaving detailed forms through the piece inviting viewers to take it in up close. Liddell often walks the line between contemporary art and craft. Working to bring materials that are traditionally labeled as "craft" and lesser into the contemporary conversation. Mixing craft with one of the most respected and oldest forms of fine art, painting, really encourages the viewer to view the two on the same playing field. The idea of craft is settled into these gestural, layered works, constantly critiquing contemporary culture. This piece is currently unframed, but framing options are available. For more works follow our storefront at Gallery 1202. "As a painter, I often work on large, raw canvas. My abstract paintings merge formal painting and “bad” craft to challenge the high-low separation of materials (and related gender hierarchies) that have traditionally been present in the art world. The monotypes are like a calligraphic practice. I use them as a warm up to allow me to feel confident with a gesture before committing it to a larger scale. I work in layers, often sewing or incorporating fabric into the finished piece, and incorporate chance into each stage of my process. The text/titles often come from song lyrics, local radio commercials, and news headlines. I edit these snippets and piece them together to reflect my interpretation of current politics and social norms, especially as they relate to gender. Liddell often walks the line between contemporary art and craft. Working to bring materials that are traditionally labeled as "craft" and lesser into the contemporary conversation. Mixing craft with one of the most respected and oldest forms of fine art, painting, really encourages the viewer to view the two on the same playing field. The idea of craft is settled into these gestural, layered works, constantly critiquing contemporary culture. Vivian Liddell is an interdisciplinary artist in Athens, Georgia who works with painting, fiber and craft techniques, sculpture, printmaking, photography, animation and sound. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, she received her BFA from the University of Georgia and her MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Liddell’s work has been featured in solo and curated exhibitions throughout the United States, including at the Wiregrass Museum of Art, the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, and Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn. In 2019 she had two solo exhibitions of her “Men” series at the Versa Gallery in Chattanooga and 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, with a review of the Versa exhibition in BURNAWAY and was recently picked by Berlin curator Tina Sauerlaender as a featured artist on Foundwork. Liddell hosts a podcast (Peachy Keen) as an extension of her art practice, interviewing women on art and the South. She is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of North Georgia...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Spray Paint, Ink, Monotype

Holy Fire, Abstract Expressionist Figurative Pastel
Located in Soquel, CA
A unique abstract expressionist pastel drawing by an unknown artist. Depicting a mans face as the focal point with what appears to be chu...
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Mid-20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel, Cardboard

Sleeping Female Nude
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Oliveira's "Female Sleeping Nude" is a captivating artwork that elegantly combines style, technique, and layered interpretation, offering a rich and multifaceted experience to...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Graphite

Happy hotel, Amboise
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper This captivating work reveals an interior scene rich in detail and texture. At the heart of the composition, a figure draped in flowing fabrics stands by a blazing fire...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Bridge Contemporary African American Urban Landscape 20th Century Alvin Ailey NY
Located in New York, NY
"Bridge" Contemporary African American Urban Landscape 20th Century Alvin Ailey NYC ROMARE BEARDEN (American, 1914-1988) The Bridge, 1982 signed 'Romare Bearden' (upper left); with...
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Lyrical geometric abstraction, plays in painting, fiction and colour perspective
Located in Carballo, ES
Vítor Mejuto introduces a geometric synthesis that breaks down painting into its most structural essence. His work, in which line, stain and shape establish a precise chromatic balan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Constructivist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite

Now, where was I?. Abstract mixed media painting on Awagami paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Now, where was I? 2022 by On Hansen Oil wax, acrylic, graphite, organic ink, and crayon on Awagami paper Image size: 35.03 in. H x 25.59 in. W Unframed ___...
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2010s Minimalist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon, Ink, Wax, Acrylic, Washi Paper

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...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Archival Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Watercolor, Pencil

Pouring My Heart Out II
Located in New York, NY
About the Series: “Sensitive Material” In this Work on Paper Series, started in 2020, Claire Gilliam continues her exploration of Visual Language. She uses a common motif, the Latin ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Wood, Paper, Ink

Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Panel', C. 1994 by David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Vintage French Mid-Century Abstract
By D. Wargon
Located in Houston, TX
Mid-century oil pastel abstract incorporating a vast array of color and unique shapes by artist D. Wargon, circa 1950. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a...
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1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel, Paper

Adjacent 6 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Adjacent 6 (Abstract drawing) Pencil and paint stick on paper. This piece is one of a group of works on paper made with paint sticks and pencil on paper that has been primed with g...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paint, Paper, Pencil

Untitled
Located in Surfside, FL
30X21.25 without the frame. Mixed Media painting and drawing on paper. Lawrence Kupferman had a long and illustrious career as an artist and educator. His work has been exhibited at ...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media

Challenge - line drawing figure with red gloves
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artwork was done with watercolor on watercolor paper 360g. The works are 14 by 11 inches in size, framed (black) with a styrene face on a mat board in ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Untitled (Interior)
Located in Dallas, TX
"Behind my canvases, collages, and drawings lies a singular proposition: places are not inert; they are repositories for all that passes through them. My work is an inquiry into the ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic

Kalahari Sun, Moroccan inspired unique graphic abstract mocha painting on paper
Located in Dallas, TX
"Kalahari Sun" is an earthy and mocha coffee toned original painting on paper by Kazaan Viveiros. It is an abstract geometric original work on paper with uplifting patterns and shape...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Archival Paper

Whispers of the Wind
Located in THOMERY, FR
Watercolor and ink on watercolor paper, 40 x 60 cm In this captivating piece, branches intertwine like fleeting thoughts carried by the wind. A dance of ink and watercolor reveals a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

India Ink, Watercolor

Untitled Geometric Abstraction - unique signed and inscribed work -framed
Located in New York, NY
Paul Pagk Untitled Geometric Abstraction, 1989 Gouache and watercolor on paper Signed, dated and inscribed "A Jacqueline". Frame included Excellent unique work on paper by contempora...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil, Graphite

Abstract Expressionist British Original Watercolor Painting Provence France
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition (c.2022) by Robert Somerton, British, born 1972. ink/ watercolor on art paper, unframed size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches condition: excellent
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Art Deco "Woman and Window" Pen & Ink Drawing on Paper signed Erté
Located in New York, NY
This original pen and ink drawing on paper, titled “Woman and Window,” is a rare and captivating example of Erté’s (Romain de Tirtoff’s) early work, showcasing his signature elegance...
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1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Does not speak - line drawing figure with red gloves
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Part of the triptych “Does not see. Does not hear. Does not speak”. The artwork was done with watercolor on watercolor paper 360g. The works are 14 by 11 i...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Set of 4 Abstract Drawings. From the series Illusions of the Line
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the series Illusions of the Line Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g. 1. Línea Bloques 2. Línea Cubos 3. Línea Aparejo and 4. Línea Estructura Overall size: Image size: 38 c...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink

Untitled
Located in London, GB
'Untitled' abstract composition, mixed media on soft board, Japanese ink, oil, pencil and gouache by Erez Yardeni (2018). Beautifully balanced, stunningly...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Oil, Gouache, Board, Pencil

Untitled
Untitled
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'Omvetya III'. Blue white shore ocean beach cottage abstract nature drawing
Located in Penzance, GB
'Omvetya III (Sea Carrots, Sennen)' Original Artwork. Unframed ______________ The evening light is drawing low soft shadows in the dunes at the salted edge of the Atlantic. 'Omvety...
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2010s Naturalistic Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Conté, Mixed Media, Pencil, Carbon Pencil, Photogram

Composition with Circles II
Located in London, GB
'Composition with Circles II', gouache on art paper, by James Pichette. A dynamic, lively abstract composition by an artist known for such stunning, viv...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Gouache

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