Gouache Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Gouache on paper Signed and dated lower left "Kijno '59" Ladislas Kijno was born on 21 June 1921, in Warsaw, Poland, and in 1925 came to France. Between 1942 and 1946 he studied Phi...

This stunning gouache and ink drawing was realized by the celebrated actor, comedian and artist Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel (February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977), circa 1955...

JOHN PIPER (British,1903-1992) : Tetbury Signed 'John Piper' (lower right) Ink, watercolor, gouache and pastel Executed in 1957 PROVENANCE : Save & Prosper collection, deaccessio...

Peter Lanyon (British, 1918-1964) Winter Landscape, Anticoli Corrado Signed 'Lanyon' and dated 'Jan 53' (lower left), Further signed, Inscribed and dated...

John Marin (1870 - 1953) Delaware River Near Lambertville, New Jersey, No. 3, 1950 Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper 9 3/4 x 14 inches Signed and dated lower right: Marin 50' Prov...

John Marin (1870 - 1953) Delaware River Near Lambertville, New Jersey, No. 3, 1950 Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper 9 3/4 x 14 inches Signed and dated lower right: Marin 50' Prov...

This item is located in our New York City warehouse. Wonderful early work by George Morrison. Nicely framed and ready to hang. Signed and Dated - 1957...

DOROTHY BROWDY KUSHNER "FUTURIST TOWNSCAPE" GOUACHE, SIGNED AMERICAN, C.1950 28 X 20 INCHES Dorothy Browdy Kushner 1909-2000 Color, light and place were paramount. The dramatic landscape of Southern California, where she produced most of her paintings, prints, and sculpture from the 1940s through 1990s, was a continual source of inspiration. Building on her formal artistic training in New York and the Midwest, her greatest achievement was her synthesis of Modernism with the local subjects and visual character of her environment. Dorothy Ruth Browdy was born in 1909 to Russian immigrants in Kansas City, Missouri, the eldest of five children. She became interested in art after winning first prize at a state high school competition. In 1928, after attending Kansas City Teachers College and starting a job as an elementary school teacher, Browdy continued at the Kansas City Art Institute, where she studied with Thomas Hart Benton. During summer vacations, she traveled with her sister Esther Browdy (Selikoff), also a teacher and an artist. They took painting road trips to New Mexico, California, and Mexico, where they saw first-hand both pre-Colombian monuments and the frescoes then being painted by the Mexican muralists. Other summers, Browdy studied at the Chicago Art Institute, the University of Wisconsin, and New York’s Art Students League, where she worked with Reginald Marsh. In 1937-38, Browdy moved to New York City to pursue a Masters Degree in Education at Columbia University Teachers College. She returned to Kansas City and taught high school for two more years before moving to New York and taking a job teaching High School in Queens. During this time she painted a variety of figurative compositions and watercolor cityscapes influenced by the Ashcan school, and produced Art Deco-inspired graphic design and children’s book illustrations. In 1946 Browdy married Joseph Kushner and moved to Altadena, California, where she gave birth to their son, Robert. This change of scenery and lifestyle precipitated the most significant change in her work. Living for the first time outside of an urban setting, the artist was taken by the physical beauty of her new environment. She began experimenting with modernist styles to paint this light-infused world, and in the subsequent decades created her largest body of work. On moving to California, Kushner studied with some of the watercolorists, such as James Couper Wright who specialized in a large scale, free and open expression of the technique. However, in frequent visits to the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum of Art) Kushner also became interested in its significant collection of German Expressionist paintings and prints. In particular, Lyonel Feininger’s geometricized approach to landscape and cityscape prompted her to move away from realism and to focus instead on a full fledged Modernism that resulted in a series she referred to as Prismatics. The Museum also introduced her to the works of Alexej Jawlensky...

Painter, born 1896, Tochow, Poland. Emigrated to Germany, 1919; immigrated to Israel, 1933. Lived in Paris and Jerusalem. Participated in Venice Biennale, 1968. Died in Jerusalem, 1992. Beginning in the 1950s Mordechai Ardon adopted a complex system of images in his paintings, taken from the Jewish...

Signed in ink lower right "de Diego," dated '50 Provenance: Estate of the artist By descent to the artist's daughter Kiriki Metzo References And Exhibitions: A combina...