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"The Adventure, " Archival Ink on Canvas, 2019
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens uses his work as a means of processing the incomprehensible. Navigating the relationship between algorithmic abstraction and the tangible qualities of pattern and color, Fokkens meditates on how we as viewers negotiate our realities. Entitled "The Adventure," this vibrant drawing depicts a still from the Italian classic film...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

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Archival Ink, Canvas

Clouds over Narrows (Lake Champlain)
Located in New York, NY
Ellen Phelan Clouds over Narrows (Lake Champlain), 1998 Watercolor and gouache on paper 15 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (sheet) 21 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches (frame) Si...
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1990s Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

'Saint Jean No.5' Contemporary Fauvist Pastel.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary abstract expressionist drawing in pastel of a Provençal landscape by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed and dated to the bottom right and presented in a black c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Sans titre
Located in PARIS, FR
Oil pastels and acrylics on paper unique piece H 61.5 x L 76 x P 3 cm (framed) 7900
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1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel, Acrylic

Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache abstract morden White Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Abstract Expressionist design. Sealed on the back with the design studio name and number . Ilegible signature We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Les Voiles by Léopold Survage - Abstract watercolour, Landscape, Modern
Located in London, GB
Les Voiles by Léopold Survage (1987-1968) Watercolour on paper 23 x 38 cm (9 x 15 inches) Monogrammed, stamped and dated lower right Executed in 1945 Provenance Private collection, ...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Surrealist composition by José Gerson n°5 - Drawing 37x60 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Color Pencil

Black and White III and II, Line Drawing, Diptych. Abstract Works on Paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Clemens Wolf declares himself a champion of sensuality: 'I'm really interested in the process of transforming something trivial into a sensual object. The guided coincidence plays a ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Epoxy Resin, Paper

Watercolor 6
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: watercolor on Arches paper Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native an...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Connecticut Hills
Located in Miami, FL
Executed in 1950 during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism and non-representational art, Feininger reduces a landscape to the bare minimums of lines and wash. Moeller Fine Art
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1950s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pencil

Beyond the Veil, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Color and energy flow together in this mesmerizing alcohol ink painting, evoking a sense of movement beyond the physical world. Swirling layers of deep indigos,...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache Red Girl&forest on White Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Abstract Expressionist design. Sealed on the back with the design studio name and number . Ilegible signature We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Dinosaur Me & Baby
Located in London, GB
'Dinosaur Me & Baby' abstract composition, mixed media on soft board, Japanese ink, oil, pencil and gouache by Erez Yardeni (2018). The scribblings of a c...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Oil, Gouache, Board, Pencil

Connecticut Hills
Located in Miami, FL
This later work by Lyonel Feininger approaches almost full abstraction. It was executed in 1950 at a crucial moment in American art history. Abstract Expressionism and non-representational art were in full gear and taking the world by storm. Yet Feininger who was associated with the German expressionist groups: Die Brücke...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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India Ink, Watercolor

Sans Titre 3 Original Pastel/Drawing on Paper
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Roberto Matta Title: Sans Titre 3 Medium: Original pastel/drawing on paper Signed: Hand Signed Measurements: 20" x 27" Framed: 28" x 35" Authentication: Kajsa Westling N...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper

Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache botanical Style on White Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Abstract Expressionist design. Sealed on the back with the design studio name and number . Ilegible signature We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Untitled (#2 Pri-Rain) (SF64-592)
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis Untitled (#2 Pri-Rain) (SF64-592) 1964 Gouache on paper 57.2 x 75.6 cms (22 1/2 x 29 3/4 ins) Frame size: 82.9 x 103.2 cms (32 5/8 x 40 5/8 ins) SF14652 $300,000 Exhibit...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Original two sided signed Minimalist Conceptual drawing by renowned sculptor
Located in New York, NY
CARL ANDRE Untitled Drawing, 1984 Felt tip pen, marker and stamp on Postmarked (franked) card to Lynn Charles Foster 3 3/5 × 6 1/10 inches Hand-sig...
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1980s Minimalist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Felt Pen

Georgian Contemporary Art by Dali Nazarishvili - Lake
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolour on French paper Framed, 50 x 60.5 x 1 cm, paper frame Dali Nazarishvili is a Georgian female artist born in 1958 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Since 2001, she...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Georgian Contemporary Art by Dali Nazarishvili - Sunset
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolour on paper Framed, 39 x 51.5 x 1.5 cm (Plastic brown frame with gold) Dali Nazarishvili is a Georgian female artist born in 1958 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. S...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Drawing No. 421
Located in Paris, IDF
Indian ink and acrylic paint on archival paper, artwork will be shipped rolled up in a tube Sumit Mehndiratta is an Indian artist born in 1986 who lives & works in New Delhi, India....
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, India Ink, Archival Paper

Large 80s Vibrant Dynamic Drawing/Painting Memphis Milano Era
Located in Surfside, FL
it is currently unframed and will be sold thus. Similar in style to the 80s work of Elizabeth Murray. A bright, colorful expressive piece signed (labels are not included as it is un...
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1980s 85 New Wave Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Conté, Charcoal, Gouache, Rag Paper, Graphite

Seated Mother and Child, 1 (executed 1982)
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Charcoal and gouache on paper Paper size: 9x 11.5 inches Framed size: 23.5 x 25.75 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Raymond Spencer Co.; Galerie Dominion, Montreal, 1982; Dr Max Stern, Montreal, 1982; Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles; Purchased by Haynes Fine Art...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal, Gouache

Composition in Orange and Red
Located in London, GB
'Composition in Orange and Red', gouache on paper, by James Pichette (circa 1970s). A dynamic, lively abstract composition by an artist known for such s...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Rainbowland Blooms #2 - Colorful Abstract Floral Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Xiao Wen Xu is a Chinese-born Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada, Her artistic practice is deeply influenced by her profound appreciation for the natural world. In her series, ...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Bloques Huecos 3, Isodomo Bloques, Picos Tercio Triptych. Abstract Drawings
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Set of 3 drawings by Rodrigo Spinel From The Series Illusions of the Line Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g. 1. Bloques Huecos 3, 2019 2. Isodomo Bloques, 2020 3. Picos Tercio, 2...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink

Untitled Abstract in Beige (Pastel Drawing)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Barbara Keidel Untitled Abstract in Beige Pastel Drawing on Paper 1995 Signed and dated in pencil Size: 6.25 x 7.5 inches (15.875 x 19.05 cm) COA provided *Framing options avail...
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1990s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

ALPSPITZE #3 (with Zabriskie Gallery Label), original pencil drawing of Bavaria
Located in New York, NY
Marsden Hartley ALPSPITZE #3 (with Zabriskie Gallery Label), 1933 Pencil on cream wove paper. In original vintage frame with Zabriskie Gallery label Sticker label, framed with Zabris...
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1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Bedtime Story
Located in New York, NY
Colored marker on heavy paper
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Permanent Marker

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the third of five children in a cultured and educated family with roots going back to the Massachusetts Bay colony. His father, John Galen Howard, was an architect who had trained at M.I.T. and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and apprenticed in Boston with Henry Hobson Richardson. In New York, the elder Howard worked for McKim, Mead and White before establishing a successful private practice. Mary Robertson Bradbury Howard, Charles’s mother, had studied art before her marriage. John Galen Howard moved his household to California in 1902 to assume the position of supervising architect of the new University of California campus at Berkeley and to serve as Professor of Architecture and the first Dean of the School of Architecture (established in 1903). The four Howard boys grew up to be artists and all married artists, leaving a combined family legacy of art making in the San Francisco Bay area that endures to this day, most notably in design, murals, and reliefs at the Coit Tower and in buildings on the Berkeley campus. Charles Howard graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1921 as a journalism major and pursued graduate studies in English at Harvard and Columbia Universities before embarking on a two-year trip to Europe. Howard went to Europe as a would-be writer. But a near-religious experience, seeing a picture by Giorgione in a remote town outside of Venice, proved a life-altering epiphany. In his own words, “I cut the tour at once and hurried immediately back to Paris, to begin painting. I have been painting whenever I could ever since” (Charles Howard, “What Concerns Me,” Magazine of Art 39 [February 1946], p. 63). Giorgione’s achievement, in utilizing a structured and rational visual language of art to convey high emotion on canvas, instantly convinced Howard that painting, and not literature, offered the best vehicle to express what he wanted to say. Howard returned to the United States in 1925, confirmed in his intent to become an artist. Howard settled in New York and supported himself as a painter in the decorating workshop of Louis Bouché and Rudolph Guertler, where he specialized in mural painting. Devoting spare time to his own work, he lived in Greenwich Village and immersed himself in the downtown avant-garde cultural milieu. The late 1920s and early 1930s were the years of Howard’s art apprenticeship. He never pursued formal art instruction, but his keen eye, depth of feeling, and intense commitment to the process of art making, allowed him to assimilate elements of painting intuitively from the wide variety of art that interested him. He found inspiration in the modernist movements of the day, both for their adherence to abstract formal qualities and for the cosmopolitan, international nature of the movements themselves. Influenced deeply by Surrealism, Howard was part of a group of American and European Surrealists clustered around Julien Levy. Levy opened his eponymously-named gallery in 1931, and rose to fame in January 1932, when he organized and hosted Surrealisme, the first ever exhibition of Surrealism in America, which included one work by Howard. Levy remained the preeminent force in advocating for Surrealism in America until he closed his gallery in 1949. Howard’s association with Levy in the early 1930s confirms the artist’s place among the avant-garde community in New York at that time. In 1933, Howard left New York for London. It is likely that among the factors that led to the move were Howard’s desire to be a part of an international art community, as well as his marriage to English artist, Madge Knight...
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20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache, Graphite

'Mother Nature', Lyrical Surrealist Abstract Watercolour on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century lyrical surrealist abstract watercolour on paper by French artist Jean Clerté, signed and dated bottom right. Presented in mid-century frame. Jean Clerté , born in 1930 in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe in Vienne, is a French painter, engraver, draftsman, watercolourist and sculptor . This work is a great example of his more humorous and expressive work influenced by Alechinsky from the late 1960s onwards. There is a light playfulness and yet the watercolours are more vivid than his previous palette. Jean Clerté works in series. His sequential narrations testify both to a youthful spontaneity and to a perfect mastery in the distribution of forms and images on the painted surface. The narration is not only an accumulation of juxtaposed fragments and symbols, it forms a whole, it takes on and gives meaning. In general, we can say of Clerté that he practices an “eco-art” that feeds on primary hungers: the feeling of being united with nature, the vegetable, the mineral, the aquatic. In his colourful canvases, his inks, his boxes, his objects, like a shaman on the path of his dreams, the painter Clerté mounts an assault on beasts and demons, elves and gnomes. From the Poitevin marshes to the tropical forests emerges a fauna caught in the meanders of a design that marvels at the appearance of these grotesque idols. Jean Clerté began to draw and paint at a very young age, and at the age of 15 he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Poitiers. Then in 1949, curious about the capital, he moved to Paris. Having very few financial resources, he could not continue his studies at first, worked as a model to survive, and met other artists; he was then admitted to the studio of Ossip Zadkine and, from 1952, he was also able to study engraving at Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter, an English engraver and printer living in Paris associated in the 1930s with surrealism. At the end of the 1960s, he worked alongside Pierre Alechinsky, founding member of the Cobra movement, engraving Alechinsky's originals, benefiting from his advice, and discovering acrylic as a medium. From 1976, Jean Clerté became associate professor at Hayter. Clerté had taught previously, in 1971 at the Salzburg Summer University and in 1972 he gave courses at the Paris-Sorbonne University . In 1981, he was appointed professor at the School of Decorative Arts , where he had Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas as a student and, from 1983 to 1988, he was Alechinsky's assistant professor at the Paris School of Fine Arts. His first works are part of the current of lyrical abstraction, and are nourished by impressions of nature (landscape motifs, e.g. forest fires, waterscapes), then around 1968, encouraged by Alechinsky, he rejects abstraction, and his work becomes more figurative with expressive and humorous elements. From this period his colours are more subdued, often with pastel tones, he works on series. Jean Clerté has created a world in a space where drawing, painting, objects participate in a playful figuration. From his drawings were born sculptures and sometimes mobiles (Le Moulin à dessin). If it is the artist who makes astonishing, polychrome, whimsical “toys”, it is the painter who appeals to adults through his caustic and satirical humour. His first exhibitions in France took place at the Galerie Massol , then at the Galerie Pascal...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache botanical style on White Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Abstract Expressionist design. Sealed on the back with the design studio name and number . Ilegible signature We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache abstract morden White Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Abstract Expressionist design. Sealed on the back with the design studio name and number . Ilegible signature We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache abstract morden White Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Abstract Expressionist design. Sealed on the back with the design studio name and number . Ilegible signature We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Abstract composition - acrylic on paper in beige, gray, pink salmon color, 2023
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with acrylic in beige, pink salmon and grey color on a paper. Each work is 24 by 18 inches in size, framed (gold). Mila Akopova is New Y...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Oil Crayon, Acrylic

Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache botanical style White Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Abstract Expressionist design. Sealed on the back with the design studio name and number . Ilegible signature We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Composition No. 388
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylics on Yupo paper Sumit Mehndiratta is an Indian artist born in 1986 who lives & works in New Delhi, India. He has pursued Master of Scienc...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic

Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Composition No. 385
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylics on Yupo paper Sumit Mehndiratta is an Indian artist born in 1986 who lives & works in New Delhi, India. He has pursued Master of Scienc...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic

Abstract, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Abstract (P1.35), Year: circa 1957, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 18.5 x 23 in. (46.99 x 58.42 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott'...
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1950s Impressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

U 185 - white abstract geometric minimalist 3D composition with folded paper
Located in New York, NY
Anna Kruhelska is a visual artist and architect working across fields of art and design. She creates abstract, three-dimensional paper wall reliefs that...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper

Rolph Scarlett Original Watercolor Dated 1952, Geometric Abstraction
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Abstract watercolor by Rolph Scarlett, signed lower left. A great example by Scarlett. Measures: 19" H x 21" W image size. New modernist custom-made frame. Size: 24 1/4" H x 26 3/4" ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper

Study for Traffic Painting
Located in Fairfield, CT
Excerpt from Mark Segal, "An Artist at the Mercy of Her Subjects," The East Hampton Star, May 14, 2015 "Ms. Lynch paints recognizable things, and she alway...
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Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil, Paper

Geometric Abstraction (unique, signed graphite drawing gifted to fellow artist)
Located in New York, NY
Peter Halley Untitled Geometric Abstraction, ca. 1990 Graphite and Ink Signed in graphite pencil by Peter Halley; lower right front Frame included: floated and framed in wood frame U...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Graphite

"This Place is a Dream (Haystack)" - botanical - cyanotype - flowers - grasses
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is an abstract botanical work on paper featuring hues of yellow and light green. It is framed in a simple white box frame behind UV Plexiglas. The unframed work measures 4...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Archival Paper

New York City 8 original work on Japanese paper color pastel collage charcoal
Located in Miami, FL
Bernardo Navarro Tomas (Cuba, 1977) 'Untitled', 2017 mixed media on japanese paper 12.3 x 17 in. (31 x 43 cm.) ID: NAA-308 Hand-signed by author
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Pencil

Pre-War Abstraction - Modernism - Tan Bronze Tope - Nonrepresentational
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...
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1930s Mixed Media

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Lost Pets IV : Abstract artwork on paper
Located in New York, NY
Abstract artwork on paper by a Bulgarian/American artist Iliyan Ivanov. Ivanov continues to treat color in a multilayered approach, introducing a wider palette with brighter and bol...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Wyoming Mountains, Modern Abstract Geometric Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Wyoming Mountains, Modern Abstract Geometric Landscape Watercolor Energetic modern abstract watercolor in blue and orange hues, by Erle Loran (Ame...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Sin título, rhythm, pins,
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana in 1969), one of the most recognized conceptual artists in Cuba, studied from the elementary level to the ISA (Superior Institute of Art), graduating in...
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2010s Conceptual Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Pins

Manuel Facal, Etching on paper, "Fondo VII" (Original, 1985)
Located in Carballo, ES
Esta obra se trata de un grabado original del famoso artista Manuel Facal (A Coruña, 1943), perteneciente al grupo Atlantica, el grupo de artistas mas fam...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Etching

She Said Wow
Located in Westport, CT
This very large framed work by Selena Beaudry is created by marking and cutting up drawings. This has led the artist to rediscovering her visual langua...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Linen, Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, Color Pencil

Watercolor Painting -- Abstract Landscape in Cerise
Located in Troy, NY
This is a stunning watercolor that makes quite an impression with its color blocks of cerise, brown, and blue-grey. The abstract composition is simple, but dynamic, as bands of color...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

"THE WIND" Abstract Ink Painting 11" x 14" inch by Khoren Keshishyan
Located in Culver City, CA
"THE WIND" Abstract Ink Painting 11" x 14" inch by Khoren Keshishyan Medium: Indian Ink on Board Khoren Keshishyan is a celebrated American-Armenian painter and artist whose unique...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Waterco...

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Board, Ink

Larry Zox "Teal Top" Drawing, 1966
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of 20th century abstraction in America. Raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Zox studied at the University of Oklahoma and went on to work under the tutelage of modernist Georg Grosz at the Des Moines Art Centre. Zox moved to New York City and established his reputation by the mid 1960's. His studio was located on 20th Street and he was surrounded and inspired by a melting pot of jazz artists, bikers, and boxers. Zox was one of the most successful practitioners of hard-edge or geometric abstraction and not surprisingly was championed by Frank Stella, amongst others. By the mid 1960's, Zox arrived at his most recognized style, utilizing hard-edge shapes in bold colors to create geometric patterns, which were often realized on raw canvas. Zox's hard-edge geometric creations from the late 1960's and early 1970's are arguably the most recognizable works from his oeuvre. Fittingly he had a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1973, that focused on such work. Today, numerous museums including the Whitney, the MoMA, the Tate and the Metropolitan all have examples of his work from this era in their permanent collections. While Zox is not directly associated with the Op Art movement, many of his works by nature of their patterns and colors create visual illusions in dimensionality. In "Mosaic" the kelly green band that intersect the composition helps give the overall work an appearance of a slanted stair. Frequently the artist seems to be inviting the viewer to find pattern within the work. In "Mosaic" we have both areas of synergy and dissonance. Can you find them? Questions about this piece? Contact us! Teal Top...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media

Untitled [Biplane] Senza titolo [Biplano], Drawing, Italian Futurism
Located in London, GB
ENZO BENEDETTO 1905-1993 Reggio Calabria 1905-1993 Rome (Italian) Title: Untitled [Biplane] Senza titolo [Biplano], 1925/26 Technique: Signed Waterco...
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1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil

"Colorful Geometric Abstraction, " Simon Samsonian, Armenian Artist
Located in New York, NY
Simon Samsonian (1912 - 2003) Colorful Geometric Abstraction, 1981 Oil on paper 16 x 22 inches Signed and dated lower right Provenance: Estate of the artist This survivor of the Armenian genocide wound up in a Cairo orphanage in 1927. He rose to fame as one of Egypt’s great modernists, but after moving to Long Island late in life he withdrew into anonymity. Now his compelling story is being told. Art historians are finally beginning to realize that the power of abstraction in its early years was a zeitgeist not limited to the major European centers of the avant-garde — Paris, Munich, and Moscow — but one that quickly rippled to major cities throughout the world. Within a few decades that original shock of a new vision had inspired thousands of artists from different cultures — particularly those the Middle East — whose translations were not slavish imitations of works by seminal figures like Picasso, Braque, Malevich, and Kandinsky but creative variants colored by their respective cultures. This essay focuses on an extraordinary Armenian artist, his harrowing survival of the genocide, his rise to fame in Cairo, and his creation of a unique style of abstraction. Art historians have typically formed a chorus that teaches the history of abstraction like this: Just before and during the World War I era, several avant-garde artists emerged to create shockingly different new forms by which artists could express themselves. In Paris, Picasso and Braque broke out with cubism, quickly followed by Mondrian. In Moscow, Malevich created Suprematism, the ultimate hard-edge geometric abstraction. And in Munich, Kandinsky emerged as the father of Abstract Expressionism. Within these few short years a zeitgeist was sensed throughout the art world. American pioneers, too — particularly Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell — felt this explosive freedom of expression. When Europe was recovering after World War I it became clear that Paris would retain its title as capitol of the art world, lasting through the Roaring Twenties and even through the Great Depression. But the end of World War II changed everything. A parallel war had been won by a group of irascible young Abstract Expressionists in New York — led by Pollock, Rothko, DeKooning, and Kline. No sooner had Paris been liberated from the Germans than Picasso, Matisse, Breton, and Duchamp surrendered to the Americans. From that point on New York would be the epicenter of the art world. But a lens that focuses myopically on the war between the avant-garde of Paris and New York misses the wider narrative of multiple aesthetic modernities that developed in the several decades following World War I. For Armenian artists the matter is even more complex owing to the genocide of 1915 where more than 1.5 million people — seventy-five percent of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire — were massacred. Those not shot on the spot were sent on death marches through the Mesopotamian desert without food or water. Frequently, the marchers were stripped and forced to walk naked under the scorching sun until they dropped dead. As a child Samsonian witnessed the murder of his parents and most of the members of his family. Soon thereafter, his older sister, Anahid, quickly shepherded him into a line of children being rescued by Greek nuns. But they became separated and he lost her, too. He was sent to a Greek orphanage in Smyrna (now Izmir), on Turkey’s west coast. Because he only knew his first name, the orphanage gave him a last name based on the place where they found him — Samsun — a major port on Turkey’s north coast on the Black Sea. His birth date was unknown, too. According to Samsonian’s vague recollections he assumed he was about three or four years old at the onset of the genocide, which would place his birth year in 1911 or 1912. In 1922, when Samsonian was about 10, the Turks ended their war with the Greeks by putting Smyrna to the torch in what has been called the “Catastrophe of Smyrna.” Once again, the child was on the run, escaping the fire and slaughter. He found temporary refuge in Constantinople, but within a year that major port would fall to the Turks, too, and become renamed as Istanbul. This time, Samsonian was whisked away to an orphanage in Greece founded by the American charity, Near East Relief — which is credited with saving so many Armenian orphans that the American historian Howard M. Sachar said it “quite literally kept an entire nation alive. Any understanding of Samsonian’s approach to modernism requires careful consideration of the impact of his early years because his art is inseparable from the anguish he experienced. In 1927, when he was a teenager, he was transferred to Cairo, Egypt, then a cosmopolitan city hosting a sizable portion of the Armenian diaspora. There he lived with thirty-two other children on the top floor of the Kalousdian Armenian School. Upon graduating in 1932 he won a scholarship to attend the Leonardo da Vinci Art Institute — an Italian art school in Cairo — where he won first prize in final examinations among one hundred students. He found work with an Armenian lithographic printer and he returned to the Kalousdian Armenian School to teach drawing. In 1939 he married one of his students, Lucy Guendimian. The Cairo in which Samsonian matured as an artist was home to many prominent art collectors after World War I. In this receptive environment Samsonian exhibited widely and won many awards. Beginning in 1937 and for the next thirty years he exhibited annually at the prestigious Le Salon du Caire hosted by the Société les Amis de l’Art (founded in 1921). After World War II he hit his stride as a modernist in Cairo, counting among his peers other artists of the Armenian diaspora such as Onnig Avedissian, Achod Zorian, Gregoire Meguerdichian, Hagop Hagopian...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Frenzy, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Believe it or not, most of the inspirations for this drawing were ordinary objects such as wood grain and shadows. No preparatory sketches were used for the figures and shapes in the...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Montoya Drawing Lady With Open Mouth Looking Front
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
Renowned for his stunning ability to capture the essence of Mexican culture, Gustavo Montoya’s drawings offer a powerful narrative through minimalistic yet emotive lines. His works, ...
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20th Century Realist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Carbon Pencil

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