Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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...

Preliminary drawing for the sculpture Diadem Black Crayon on paper, 1957 Signed and dated lower left The preliminary drawing for the 1957 sculpture of the same name in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art...

Pierre-Antoine Menard combines different techniques assimilated with time and the exercise of his practice to question us on the veracity of poetry of reality. Strata, a jumble of co...

Pierre-Antoine Menard combines different techniques assimilated with time and the exercise of his practice to question us on the veracity of poetry of reality. Strata, a jumble of co...

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...

Circles And Lines (Abstract painting) Acrylic and Ink on Arches Paper — Unframed. Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic l...

I have worked on a new series of small oil paintings. This is the one of them. This series is dedicated to a summer period. This artwork is done with oil paints on a heavy weight ...

Pierre-Antoine Menard combines different techniques assimilated with time and the exercise of his practice to question us on the veracity of poetry of reality. Strata, a jumble of co...

A lovely signed pen drawing in three colours by Thilo Maatsch. Artist: Thilo Maatsch Date: 1966 Framed size: 49 x 37.5cm Signature: Signed in pencil: “TM 66” Mounting: Conservation-...

Pierre-Antoine Menard combines different techniques assimilated with time and the exercise of his practice to question us on the veracity of poetry of reality. Strata, a jumble of co...

Pierre-Antoine Menard combines different techniques assimilated with time and the exercise of his practice to question us on the veracity of poetry of reality. Strata, a jumble of co...

We are pleased to present this event, which will see the exclusive world premiere of Anna Pennati's works entitled The Black Series, that the artist reserved exclusively for 1stDibs ...

1stDibs Publishing Tracker 1stDibs Publishing Tracker 100% E5 Tilde 8.0 x 5.0 x 0.1, 3.0 lbs Graphite on paper Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "Tilde - is from a ser...

Pierre-Antoine Menard combines different techniques assimilated with time and the exercise of his practice to question us on the veracity of poetry of reality. Strata, a jumble of co...

Each intuitive drawing has its own character, its own energy. If you tune in with it, it will give you a charge of vivacity and a bright mood! This work is made in the style of abstr...

"Abstract Composition VII" Watercolor painting 14" x 10" in by Shaker El Maadawy signed & dated Shaker El Maadawy graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in painting in 1967 in his...

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...

Trapeze (Abstract painting) Acrylic and Ink on Handmade Wasli Paper — Unframed. Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic lin...

Very impressive gouache on paper by the french (nice) painter Gerard Seree in the scale of pink and green. Framed

Spheres (Abstract painting) Acrylic and Ink on Arches Paper — Unframed. Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic lines and o...

Screens (Abstract painting) Acrylic and Ink on Handmade Wasli Paper — Unframed. Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic lin...

Abstract gestural drawing "Bright Dynamics" Each intuitive art has its own character, its own energy. If you tune in with it, it will give you a charge of vivacity and a bright mood!...

Abstract Watercolor N.8 by Dmitry Samygin Minimalist and geometric paintings. Technique: Watercolor Color: Teal blue Size: H. 35.5 x 27.5 x 0.1 cm Dmitry Samygin is a Furniture a...

"Abstract Composition V" Watercolor painting 10" x 14" in by Shaker El Maadawy signed & dated Shaker El Maadawy graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in painting in 1967 in his n...

An exquisite work of geometric abstraction by this celebrated artist Winston Roeth Untitled, ca. 1996 Pastel on handmade paper Hand signed on the front Frame included: Floated and framed in the original wood frame with uv plexiglass Measurements: Framed: 13.5"h x 12.75"w Artwork: 10"h x 9"w More about Winston Roeth: At first glance Roeth’s painted panels of wood or slate appear very simple: flat planes of colour that look a certain way, but which shift in the changing light or as you move around them. They are exquisitely painted in layers of velvety pigment and reveal their secrets slowly: quiet combinations that play gentle tricks on the eye - simultaneously drawing the viewer into dense voids and bouncing the gaze back with a vibrant intensity. Roeth’s compositions are distilled to this apparent simplicity through the most minimal ingredients. Sometimes a picture is divided into grids, a geometric harmony of lines and colours, so that the matt expanse of paint is broken up by shimmeringly luminous lines in a perfect balance of light, depth and colour. Others combine planes of a single colour with a contradictory border: an edge on which the picture turns. In a world so accustomed to instant gratification Winston Roeth’s paintings require and reward an unusual level of contemplation. Roeth is based in Beacon, New York...

Porch (Abstract painting) Acrylic and Ink on Arches Paper — Unframed. Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic lines and org...

Slide (Abstract painting) Acrylic and Ink on Arches Paper — Unframed. Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic lines and org...

Bridge (Abstract painting) Acrylic and Ink on Arches Paper — Unframed. Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic lines and or...

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...

Dear art lover, This artwork makes part of my series dedicated to the scenes of a summer period. This floral painting called "Sweet memories" is done in an expressive impressionis...

Méditerranée (Abstract painting) Watercolor and colored pencil on paper — Unframed A composition that stayed in my mind afterwards having visited the Rayol gardens where the sea and...

Esquisse musicale III (Abstract painting) Collage, acrylic, watercolor — Unframed Marie de Lignerolles is an artist, designer, illustrator and colourist based in France whose work e...

Ecume (Abstract painting) Collage, acrylic, watercolor and colored pencil — Unframed The foam, the water and the earth. Space of a moment when we no longer know whether what we see ...

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...

Abstract cubist style still life graphite drawing inspired by Giorgio Morandi's bottle paintings "Morandi 22” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made in 2023 Graphite and ac...

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...

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...

I have worked on a new series of small oil paintings. This is the one of them. This series is dedicated to the scenes of a summer period. This painting is called "Colorful profusion...

Little Stories (Abstract painting) Acrylic on paper — Unframed Barcelona-based painter Nikolaos Schizas creates dynamic abstract paintings that radiate with vibrant splashes of colo...

When Things Go Well (Abstract painting) Acrylic on paper — Unframed Barcelona-based painter Nikolaos Schizas creates dynamic abstract paintings that radiate with vibrant splashes of...

Neige (Abstract painting) Collage, Gouache, acrylic and oil pastel on Arches paper — Unframed Marie de Lignerolles is an artist, designer, illustrator and colourist based in France ...

This series of drawings deals with memories. I use a somewhat random but purposeful fluidity to create these fantastical images that are partly derived from nature. I work intuitivel...

Orange terre (Abstract painting) Watercolor, acrylic and graphite lead on Bréhat paper — Unframed Paper's dimensons: 74.5 x 53.5 cm / 29.3 x 21 inch Image's dimensions: 60 x 42 cm /...

In this masterpiece Claudio Olivieri experimented with palette darkening, using a spray gun to distribute the oil and achieve an unprecedented result. In addition, this painting give...

James Siena "This is for Nadine", signed drawing, 2005 Original drawing done in black marker, bound in the title page of softcover PACE Gallery catalogue with stiff wraps hand signe...

One in a series of three abstract paintings made in 2023 by Amanda Andersen, initialed on the back. An array of loose geometric shapes: rectangles, triangles and circles converse wi...

This series of drawings deals with memories. I use a somewhat random but purposeful fluidity to create these fantastical images that are partly derived from nature. I work intuitivel...

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...

Signed lower center edge Annotated verso: “5 Juin 1966 _____ et de soleil, de et d’oseille” Image: 6 3/4 x 4 5/8" Frame: 14 1/2 x 12 3/4" Finishe...

This series of drawings deals with memories. I use a somewhat random but purposeful fluidity to create these fantastical images that are partly derived from nature. I work intuitivel...

"Talking Lines" This intuitive abstract drawing in chocolate tones is made with Chinese ink and pastel on thick kraft paper. It conveys an impulse born in the space of sensations. ...

One in a series of three abstract paintings made in 2023 by Amanda Andersen, initialed on the back. An array of loose geometric shapes: rectangles, triangles and circles converse wi...

This is one of a series we have posted on 1stDibs. The first got more clicks and saves on its first day than any of the many hundreds of artworks we have ever posted. If you search on "G. Campbell Lyman" on 1stDibs you can see others in this series. Here's a recent message from a 1stDibs buyer of a painting in this series, a seasoned collector: "Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old...

Paysages premiers VI (Abstract painting) Watercolor on Arches paper — Unframed Paper's dimensons: 41 x 31 cm / 16.1 x 12.2 inch Image's dimensions: 21 x 15 cm / 8.3 x 5.9 inch An...

Elizabeth Murray Crossing, 1999 Unique hand-colored paper assemblage with collage on Rives BFK on white Rising 4-ply museum support board Signed and dated in pencil 19 1/2 × 30 × 4 inches Framed: held in acrylic shadow box frame Unique hand-colored paper assemblage with collage on Rives BFK on white Rising 4-ply museum board support, signed and dated in pencil. This mixed media paper construction with hand coloring is housed in an acrylic box shadow frame, part of the "Crossing Series" of 33 works, each entirely unique, published by Gemini G.E.L., Catalogue Reference: Gemini 1776 Provenance: the Family Collection of Harry W. and Mary M. Anderson Artist Biography: Elizabeth Murray (b. 1940, Chicago, IL—d. 2007, Granville, NY) was an artist at the forefront of American painting for five decades and is considered one of the most important postmodern abstract artists of her time. Her drive and determination produced a singularly innovative body of work characterized by a Cubist-informed Minimalism and streetwise Surrealism. Throughout her career, she reveled in the physicality of paint and approached her work through the constructive vocabulary of sculpture, warping, twisting, splintering, and knotting her canvases. In her innovative and deeply imaginative body of work, Murray not only reclaimed the medium of paint as her own but shared personal evocations of birth and death, laughter and confusion, fullness and loss. From an early age, Murray wanted to be an artist—a cartoonist actually. With the support of her high-school art teacher, Elizabeth Stein, Murray enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with the aim of becoming a commercial artist. However, she would spend more time learning from the works on view in the museum than in the classroom, gravitating toward the paintings of El Greco, Francisco de Zurbarán, Georges Seurat, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Above all, it was the work of Paul Cézanne and Willem de Kooning that fueled her commitment to becoming a painter. After graduating in 1962, she went on to continue her studies at Mills College in Oakland, California. In 1967, she moved to New York City, where she would live and work until her death in 2007. Murray’s works from the 1960s reflect an irreverent embrace of the materiality of paint. Here, the artist experimented with elements of sculpture while maintaining allusions to the figure informed by her long-standing affinity for cartooning. Murray’s childhood love of Walt Disney and comics would underpin many aspects of her art throughout her career. During the 1970s, Murray dismantled—then rebuilt—many of the compositional strategies and theories associated with Minimalism. Using curved lines and complex shapes loosely informed by mathematical ideas, she introduced geometries that transform scale, shape, and form to her thickly painted and layered compositions. In the following decade, Murray introduced three-dimensionality to her canvases, bringing about a complete break from traditional, flat, rectilinear compositions. Muddied, moody, and gestural, the paintings of the 1980s blazed a course of international recognition and notoriety. In these works, interiors, tables, coffee cups, shoes, and other signature themes emerge from skeins of spray paint and graffiti-like markings. During the 1990s, Murray’s works became flatter while retaining a high degree of compositional elaboration and chromatic exuberance. In the final years of her career, the artist offered new visions of her characteristic motifs in vibrantly painted, multipaneled paintings. Throughout her stellar career, Murray was a much sought-after instructor, visiting artist, and lecturer. Appointments include instructor at Rosary Hill College (1965–67), visiting artist at Wayne State University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1973), instructor at Bard College (1974–77), visiting instructor at California Institute of the Arts (1975–76), lecturer at Princeton University (1977), instructor at Yale University (1977–80), instructor at School of Visual Arts in New York (1978–80), lecturer at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1979, 1985, and 1992), lecturer at Maryland Institute College of Art (1981), lecturer at New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (1987), guest curator of Artist’s Choice: Elizabeth Murray at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1995), visiting professor of studio arts at Bard College (1999–2003), and instructor at Brooklyn College (2003–07). Murray received numerous honors in recognition of her work, including the Walter M. Campana Award from The Art Institute of Chicago (1982), an award from American Academy of Arts and Letters (1984), Medal for Painting from Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1986), an honorary doctorate from School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1992), induction as an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (1992), Larry Aldrich Award (1993), an honorary degree from Rhode Island School of Design (1993), MacArthur Fellowship (1999), an honorary doctorate from The New School (2001), National Artist Award from Anderson Ranch Art Center (2002), Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement from College Art Association (2007), and an award from CITYarts (2007). Significant public commissions include two New York City Transit mural projects: Blooming (1996) at Lexington Avenue/59th Street and Stream (2001) at 23rd Street/Ely Avenue. Monographic institutional presentations include Elizabeth Murray: Drawings 1980–1986 at Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery (1986), Elizabeth Murray: Paintings and Drawings at Dallas Museum of Art (1987, traveled to List Visual Arts Center at MIT; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Des Moines Art Center; Walker Art Center; and Whitney Museum of American Art), Elizabeth Murray: New Work at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1988), Elizabeth Murray Prints: 1979–1990 at Barbara Krakow Gallery (1990, traveled to Bates College Museum of Art, David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, and Florida Gulf Coast Art Center), Elizabeth Murray: Recent Work at Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University (1991), Elizabeth Murray at Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College (1993), and Elizabeth Murray: Works on Paper, Virginia Commonwealth University (1998). In 2005, Murray earned the distinction of becoming only the fifth woman to receive a career retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, following Louise Bourgeois, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, and Jackie Winsor...

"Talking Lines" This intuitive abstract drawing in chocolate tones is made with Chinese ink and pastel on thick kraft paper. It conveys an impulse born in the space of sensations. ...

Dear art lover, This vibrant expressive artwork makes part of my Abstract Word Art series dedicated to the expression of emotions and feelings. This one is called "Life is bette...

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