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Period: 20th Century
Medium: Ink
Robert Motherwell 1965 Abstract Ink
Located in San Francisco, CA
Robert Motherwell: 1915-1991. One of the most important and well listed American abstract painters of the 20th century. He has Auction records well into the millions of dollars for h...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
'Still Life with Strings', Italian School (circa 1940s)
Located in London, GB
'Still Life with Strings', ink and pencil on paper, from the Italian School of artists (circa 1940s). This gallery acquired this artwork with two similar works for which this one may...
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1940s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Ammersee #2
Located in New York, NY
Walter Darby Bannard
Ammersee #2, 1975
Watercolor and acrylic painting on paper
Signed, titled and dated lower recto
This is a unique work
Frame included: elegantly floated and frame...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite
Handwritten, signed letter
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Calder
Handwritten, signed letter, 1956
Ink on paper: 2 page handwritten and hand signed letter
Hand signed by Calder at the end of the letter on the second page.
Unique
11...
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1950s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Cteno Drawings set of ten abstract ink drawings by David Knudsvig
Located in New York, NY
David Knudsvig
Cteno Drawings 1989
Set of ten ink drawings
33 x 26 in. / 83.8 x 66 cm
The artist and sculptor David Knudsvig (1947-1993) was a prominent AIDS activist and was the partner of artist David Nelson...
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1980s Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, 1950
Ink on paper
10 1/4 x 13 3/8 in. (26 x 34 cm)
Unique
Signed and dated
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1950s Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Composition in Blue (mid century modern Abstract Expressionist signed/N, Unique
By Hans Hofmann
Located in New York, NY
Hans Hofmann
Composition in Blue, 1952
Color silkscreen with unique hand painted gouache additions
Hand signed and numbered 76/120 on the front in ink
(each example is a unique varia...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Screen, Graphite
“Abstract in Blue, Black and Green”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor, gouache and ink abstract on archival paper by the well known New Hope, Pennsylvania artist, Lloyd Raymond Ney. Signed and dated lower left, 1961. Condition is very good. Strong, vibrant colors. Presently unframed. The artwork was mounted by the artist onto Nelson show card board. Provenance: A Pennsylvania estate..
Lloyd Raymond Ney was an American non-objective artist. Known as Bill Ney, he was born in Friedenburg, Pennsylvania March 8th, 1893, the son of William W. Ney and Sadie Maidenford. He studied at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 1918 he won a Cresson Fellowship to study in Europe.
In the 1920's Ney traveled to France where he studied and painted in Paris among the vital European modernist community. He lived at the Hotel de Versailles, 60 Boulevard Montparnasse. During this period Ney created his major work, "The Drinkers," Later, the artist wrote extensively about the process of developing this work and the transforming experience of integrating the Modernist ideal he had witnessed in Paris.
After returning to the United States, Ney settled in New Hope, PA, an established art community between New York and Philadelphia. Unlike more New Hope artists who followed impressionism in the early 20th century, Ney embraced a more expressive contemporary style including non-objective works. He was among a group of artist known as the "Independents," who challenged the traditional subject matter of regional artists. They formed a new exhibition group. Ney was part of the "New Hope Modernist...
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1960s Post-Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Ink, Gouache
“Abstract in Black and Yellow”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and ink on paper abstract by the well known American artist,. Lloyd Raymond Ney. Signed and dated lower left, 1962. Strong, vibrant colors. Condition is very good. Presently unframed. The artwork was mounted by the artist onto Nelson show card board. Provenance: A Pennsylvania estate.
Lloyd Raymond Ney was an American non-objective artist. Known as Bill Ney, he was born in Friedenburg, Pennsylvania March 8th, 1893, the son of William W. Ney and Sadie Maidenford. He studied at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 1918 he won a Cresson Fellowship to study in Europe.
In the 1920's Ney traveled to France where he studied and painted in Paris among the vital European modernist community. He lived at the Hotel de Versailles, 60 Boulevard Montparnasse. During this period Ney created his major work, "The Drinkers," Later, the artist wrote extensively about the process of developing this work and the transforming experience of integrating the Modernist ideal he had witnessed in Paris.
After returning to the United States, Ney settled in New Hope, PA, an established art community between New York and Philadelphia. Unlike more New Hope artists who followed impressionism in the early 20th century, Ney embraced a more expressive contemporary style including non-objective works. He was among a group of artist known as the "Independents," who challenged the traditional subject matter of regional artists. They formed a new exhibition group. Ney was part of the "New Hope Modernist...
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1960s Post-Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Blade Graffiti drawings: set of 2 works (Blade king of graffiti)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
BLADE graffiti drawings: set of 2 works:
A set of 2 rare drawings from Blade - King of Graffiti circa late 1980’s or early 1990’s. Here the artist playfully fakes his own death, ‘RIP...
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1990s Street Art Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
'The Holy Grail', Last Supper, Egyptian Iconography, Seattle Art Museum, Surreal
By Leo Kenney
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'Leo Kenney' (American, 1925-2001) and dated 1947.
A seminal figure in the second generation of Northwest School artists, Leo Kenney was, like many of his conte...
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1940s Surrealist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
Musiciens Sur Fond Multicolore By Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in New Orleans, LA
Marc Chagall
1887-1985 Russian
Musiciens sur fond multicolore
(Musicians on a multicolored background)
Signed 'Chag' (on the sleeve of the right figure); stamped with the signature 'Marc Chagall' (lower right)
Tempera, gouache, colored ink and India ink and pastel on paper
“The fact that I made use of cows, milkmaids, roosters and provincial Russian architecture as my source forms is because they are part of the environment from which I spring and which undoubtedly left the deepest impression on my visual memory of the experiences I have." - Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall’s 1981...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, India Ink, Tempera, Gouache
"Costume teatrale costruttivista" acquerello e china cm. 26 x 38 1920 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Bellissimo studio costruttivista per costume teatrale
Kostantin Vialov
Pittore, grafico, scenografo, artista di arti decorative e applicate. Uno dei principali artisti sovietici deg...
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1920s Constructivist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Abstraction (No. 6)
Located in Chicago, IL
A rare black & white drawing from a woman artist, Lois Field, that studied at the New Bauhaus in Chicago. Framed to 9" x 11".
In 1923, Lois Field was born as Lois Hossfield in Berw...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Original handwritten Letter of thanks, hand signed by Keith Haring on letterhead
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring
Original Handwritten, hand signed Letter, ca. 1987
Ink on Haring's Private letterhead Stationery, Hand written and hand signed by Keith...
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1980s Pop Art Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker
Unique SIGNED Abstract Expressionist drawing major WPA artist, Estate issued COA
Located in New York, NY
WILLIAM BAZIOTES
Untitled Abstract Expressionist Mid Century Modern ink drawing with Estate COA, ca. 1955
Ink Drawing on Paper
Signed lower right recto. Accompanied by letter of authenticity from Estate.
Unique
Measurements:
Framed:
14.5 inches by 17.5 inches. x .5 inches
Artwork
8.5 x 11 inches
This work is by the American painter William Baziotes. Baziotes graduated from the National Academy of Design in New York. His interest in the surrealism movement can be seen in the lyrical compositions that comprise a large portion of his work. Baziotes, along with David Hare, Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko, founded the Subjects of the Artist School. Baziotes was also one of the first New York artists to experiment with the surrealist technique, automatic drawing.
Framed 14.5 inches by 17.5 inches. This work was acquired from the famous Pennypacker auction of the Baziotes Estate, and is accompanied by a letter of authenticity and provenance from the artist's widow Ethel Baziotes.
William Baziotes Biography:
B. 1912, PITTSBURGH; D. 1963, NEW YORK
William Baziotes was born on June 11, 1912, in Pittsburgh, to parents of Greek origin. He grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he worked at the Case Glass company from 1931 to 1933, antiquing glass and running errands. At this time, he took evening sketch classes and met the poet Byron Vazakas, who became a lifelong friend. Vazakas introduced Baziotes to the work of Charles Baudelaire and the Symbolist poets. In 1931, Baziotes saw the Henri Matisse exhibition...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
UNTITLED COMPOSITION
Located in Portland, ME
Margules, De Hirsh. UNTITLED COMPOSITION, Ink on paper, 1962. Inscribed and signed in pencil within the image. 28 x 37 inches, 711 x 940 mm. In very good condition.
Margules (1899-1...
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1960s Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Untitled (P95.93) White Brown abstract
By Caio Fonseca
Located in Greenwich, CT
From his most desirable period, this restrained in color palette Fonseca is for a collector and room where sophistication is key. Long held that his works on heavy paper are the mos...
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1990s Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Black and White, Abstract Work on Paper by Geri Taper
Located in Long Island City, NY
A graceful movement of black ink across a white paper background. This simple abstraction by Geri Taper is signed, titled, and dated in pencil.
Black and White
Geri Taper, American ...
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Late 20th Century Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Dancing Thorns, Abstract Work on Paper by Geri Taper
Located in Long Island City, NY
A unique Abstract Expressionist watercolor by Geri Taper. The bold blue and purple splashes give way ever so slightly to streaks of red. This piece is signed, titled, and dated in pe...
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Late 20th Century Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Soaring Storm, Abstract Work on Paper by Geri Taper
Located in Long Island City, NY
Several bold streaks of ink rush across the page as if dripping off the wings of a bird in flight. This unique watercolor by Geri Taper is signed and titled by the artist.
Soaring S...
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Late 20th Century Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Stream, Abstract Work on Paper by Geri Taper
Located in Long Island City, NY
An abstract green and blue swipe of color across the horizontal axis of a page. This ink on paper piece by Geri Taper is stamped and signed on the verso.
Stream
Geri Taper, American...
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Late 20th Century Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Miami, FL
Wifredo Lam
“Untitled” 1970
Ink on paper
19 x 26 in
Signed by the artist at the right bottom corner.
Certificate of Authenticity by Eskil Lam, Lam Foundation, Paris.
Wifredo Lam wa...
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20th Century Surrealist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
This refined ink on paper work was realized by the renowned American artist Alexander Markovich circa 1985, which the scholar Svetlana Rakic called "The most dispersed and energy-cha...
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1980s Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Unique painting on paper done with paint roller by Minimalist pioneer Lyman Kipp
Located in New York, NY
Lyman Kipp
Unique painting on paper done with paint roller, 1970
Ink roller painting on paper
Signed and dated in ink by Lyman Kipp on the lower right
Frame included: elegantly framed in a museum quality wood frame with UV plexiglass
This is a unique color oil painting created in 1970 with his signature technique of using a roller, by pioneering Minimalist artist Lyman Kipp, one of the founders of Construct Gallery., which included sculptors Kenneth Snelson and Mark di Suvero.
Measurements:
Frame:
17.5 x 15.25 x 1.75 inches
Artwork:
11 x 8.5 inches
About Lyman Kipp:
The large, powerful sculptures of Lyman Kipp were part of the Primary Structures movement in the 1960s, that transformed the way sculptors worked, and the way in which sculpture was viewed in America. The Constructivism movement, that began in Moscow in the 1920s, espoused the idea that art should be created for the benefit of society and that artists should be involved in industrial design and construction. It viewed the artist as a creator, designer and constructor.
The simplicity of design of the Constructivists had a profound effect on the De Stijl movement in the Netherlands and the Bauhaus movement in Germany during the 1920s and ‘30s. Artists in the United States were slowly embracing the ideas of constructivism and minimalism, but it took a group of artists, including Kipp, to change the way artists, and the public, create and view art.
Kipp was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York in 1929. He studied at Pratt Institute in New York and then went on the study and teach at the Cranbook Academy in Michigan. He began making large, steel and aluminum sculptures in the 1960s, that had to be transported and welded together on site. He worked in spare, geometric shapes and primary colors.
In 1966, the Jewish Museum in New York organized the Primary Structures exhibit, showing large, minimal style works by young American and British sculptors. The show was a huge success, and got rave reviews by art critics, including those of Time and Newsweek. In an effort to get continued recognition, a group of American sculptors, including Lyman Kipp, founded an artist-owned gallery called, ConStruct. They organized exhibitions throughout the United States to promote their large-scale sculptures.
The pieces we have in our gallery are maquettes, preliminary models that Kipp made before he built and assembled his huge, finished sculptures. In addition to painting and creating sculptures for public spaces, Kipp dedicated his life to art education. He taught at Bennington College in Vermont, Hunter College in New York and became the chairman of the art department at Lehman College in New York.
Kipp’s works are part of the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Lyman Kipp died in Bonita Springs, Florida on March 30, 2014, leaving a legacy of his work in parks and public spaces around Florida and other states throughout the U.S.
Courtesy of Vertu Fine Art
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1970s Minimalist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Mid Century Modern British 'Toccata 23' by British German illustrator Kapp, 1976
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Edmond Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978)
Toccata 23
Ink on paper
Signed and dated ‘Kapp 76’ (lower right)
9.1/2 x 14 in. (24.3 x 35.5 cm.)
Edmond Kapp was born in Islington, London, on 5 November 1890, of American and German Jewish parentage. He gave himself the middle initial ‘X’ – sometimes said to stand for Xavier – to distinguish himself from his father Emil Kapp, who was a wine merchant. However, his parents called him ‘Eddie’ while his wife and friends knew him as ‘Peter’.
During his early years, Kapp was continually ill and, while convalescing, entertained himself by drawing at home. As his health improved, he attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Islington (1903-10), with periods at Berlin University (1909) and L’Institut Français pour les Etrangers, Paris (1909). He then read Languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1910-13), though spent most of his time writing and drawing.
Kapp took a studio in London, and worked intensively until the outbreak of the First World War, contributing to the Daily News, the Onlooker and other periodicals. During the war, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front, and then in Intelligence, rising to the position of Staff Captain on Haig’s Staff. Finally, he founded and directed the Neutral Press Counter-propaganda Section.
In 1919, Kapp returned to London and, after abortive periods at three art schools, worked alone. In that year, he made his name with an exhibition of caricatures, held at Furst’s Gallery, London, and accompanied by a catalogue introduced by Max Beerbohm. This soon led to contracts with three London periodicals and a book of caricatures, Personalities, published by Martin Secker. Through the 1920s and 30s, his drawings of musicians and other personalities appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, most notably Time & Tide; were collected in further volumes; and were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. He considered himself to be a ‘character-portraitist’, producing images of psychological not satirical power, and disliking the term ‘caricature’.
Between the wars, Kapp developed other aspects of his artistic talents, the desire to study and the search for subject matter often taking him abroad. For instance, work at the British Academy, Rome, under Antonio Sciortino...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Study for "Man and Woman in the Cathedral"
By David Smith
Located in New York, NY
Felt-tip pen and ink and pencil on paper. Dated and extensively annotated in ink on recto.
Study for the same-titled steel sculpture, 1956, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
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1950s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Felt Pen
Large Ink Drawing Abstract Expressionist Rooster Woman Artist
By Judith Brown
Located in Surfside, FL
Judith Brown (December 17, 1931 – May 11, 1992) was a dancer and a sculptor who was drawn to images of the body in motion and its effect on the cloth surrounding it. She welded crushed automobile scrap metal into energetic moving torsos, horses, and flying draperies.
Brown attended Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York (B.A., 1954), where she learned to weld from her teacher, Theodore Roszak, a pioneering abstract expressionist sculptor. This is done in a style similar to Leonard Baskin.
Select Commissions
Mural Sculpture, Lobby, Louisville Radio Station WAVE
Fountain, commissioned by Architectural Interiors, New York City
Model, designed and executed for Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy
Sculpture, designed for Electra Film Productions, NYC
Noah's Ark, exhibited at Bronx Zoo, New York City, at Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, New York, and at Hopkins Center, Hanover, New Hampshire
Store Windows, executed Tiffany & Company Windows, New York City, Christmas 1957, 1959, 1962, October 1969, Spring 1979, and October 1980
Wall Sculptures: for Youngstown Research Center (1963-4), commissioned by Youngstown Steel Company, Youngstown, Ohio; for Hecht and Company, Landmark Shopping Center, Alexandria, Virginia, Daniel Schwartzman, Architect; for Lobby, 570 Seventh Avenue, New York City, Giorgio Cavaglieri, Architect; for Lobby, Cities Service Company's New Research Center, Cranbury, New Jersey; for Ottauquechee Health Center, Woodstock, Vermont
Eternal Lights: for Congregation Beth-El, South Orange, New Jersey; for Congregation Sharey Tefilo, East Orange, New Jersey
Menorahs: commissioned by Architect Fritz Nathan for the Permanent Collection of the Jewish Museum, New York City; commissioned by Smith College for the Helen Hill Chapel, Northampton, Massachusetts; commissioned by Jules Scherman, of Wisteria Press, Inc., New York City
Altar Cross, commissioned by Smith College for the Helen Hill Chapel, Northampton, Massachusetts
Landscape, Memorial Piece for Gustave Heller, YM-YWCA, Essex County, New Jersey
Memorial Plaque for Robert A. Ferguson, Westchester County Airport, Purchase, New York
Sculpture for Vice President's office, Atlantic Richfield Company, New York City
Bronze Relief Sculpture for Gymnasium Lobby, South Richmond High School, Staten Island, New York, Daniel Schwartzman, Architect
Poster, Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton, Vermont
Medallion, commissioned by Brandeis University National Women's Committee, New York City
Model for Fountain for the Plaza at Windsor, Vermont
Bronze Sculpture, commissioned by Intramural, Inc. for Building Lobby, N/E Cor. 79th Street and Second Avenue, New York City
Presentation Piece, commissioned by Graphic Arts Associates of Delaware Valley, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Wall Mural, Noah's Ark, Roosevelt Hospital, New York City
1977: Designed and executed Hanes Hosiery "Million Dollar Award"; Designed and executed "Old Spice" Smart Ship Award
1978: Commissioned to design and execute the "Walter White Award" for the NAACP for presentation to Hubert Humphrey; Commissioned to design and execute the Award for the Honorees of the National Board YWCA's First Tribute to Women in International Industry
1979: Designed and executed Jewelry for the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Designed and executed limited edition of Mazuzas for Brandeis University-National Women's Committee, New York City
1980: Bronze Cross commissioned for St. James Episcopal Church, Woodstock, Vermont
1982: Eubie Award, New York Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
1985: Two Sculptures, Marriott Hotel, Orlando, Florida
1986: Two large Sculptures for indoor reflecting pools, Palm Desert Hotel, Palm Springs, California; John Portman, Eight Sculptures for Peachtree Plaza Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia; John Portman, Beach House, Sea Island, Georgia
1987: Loan Installation, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
1988: Eleven foot outdoor Sculpture for Front Plaza, River Court, Charles River, East Cambridge, Massachusetts, H. J. Davis Development Corp.; Tomie dePaola...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Handmade Paper
1967 "Abstract 7" Ink Brush Drawing NYC Artist Michael Knigin Mid Century
Located in Arp, TX
Michael Knigin
Abstract 7
1967
Ink brush drawing on paper
10.5"x14" unframed $675
Signed and dated in ink lower left
Came from artist's estate
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing time between 3-5 weeks.
Michael Knigin, painter, printmaker, muralist, photographer, and teacher, was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 9, 1942. He received his BFA in 1966 from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia. In 1964 he was awarded a Ford Foundation Grant, which enabled him to study printmaking at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop and collaborate with Rufino Tamayo. Knigin was a full professor at the Pratt Graphic Center in Manhattan between 1967 and 2003. From 1968 through 1972, he also co-owned and directed the Chiron Press where he worked with Andy Warhol, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Larry Poons, and Tom Wesselman. In 1974, he served as Art and Technical Director of the Burston Graphics Art Centre in Jerusalem.
In 1988, Knigin was appointed to the NASA Art Team and was sent to the Kennedy Space Center...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
The Gift
Located in Columbia, MO
ARTHUR KRAFT
The Gift
Watercolor and ink on paper
21 x 27.5 inches
Framed: 25 x 31.75 inches
Category
20th Century Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Abstract Geometric Illusory Line Art in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Geometric Illusory Line Art in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
In this line abstract by Jerry O'Day (American, 1912), lines intersect and layer in straight and rounded ways giving a sense of movement to the piece. O'Day uses simple ink on paper and pure geometric form in the Minimalist style of the 1960s.
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Mat size: 39"H x 27"W
Paper size: 30"H x 20"W
Image size: 27"H x 16"W
Jerry O'Day is also known as Geraldine Heib. Born in Oakland, California, on June 17, 1912. Geraldine Heib assumed the name Jerry O'Day at an early age. She grew up in Washington and studied in Seattle at the Cornish School of Fine Arts. Upon moving to the San Francisco Bay area in 1938, she further studied with Bufano as a muralist for two years. O'Day wed sculptor David Lemon and had a gallery in a converted cod fishery in Belvedere from 1942 until 1963. At that time, the couple moved to a houseboat in Sausalito, where she remained until her demise on March 30, 1986.
Post War California artist, Jerry O'Day studied at the Cornish School of Fine Arts in Seattle; studied with Beniamino Bufano for two years. She lived in the artist's colony at the Cod fishery with artist David Lemon on Belvedere Island in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1942 - 1963.
Solo Exhibitions: City of Paris, Rotunda Gallery; Lucien Labaudt Gallery, 1963; Torrance Gallery, San Anselmo, 1955; Marin Art Gallery, Sausalito, 1956; Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1962; East & West Gallery, Fillmore Street, San Francisco; Landmarks Gallery, Marin County, 1991.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 65th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1945; Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963.
Source:
David J Carlson...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Black and White Cat
By Sam Spanier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Black and White Cat
Ink and watercolor on paper, c. 1970
Unsigned
Provenance:
Estate of the artist (Estate No. 737)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches
Sam Spanier (1925-2008)
Born in Brooklyn New York, Sam Spanier studied painting with Hans Hofmann (1949–50) and also at the Taos Valley Art School (1951). His formative years as a working artist were spent in Paris (1951–52), where he also became involved with the work of G. I. Gurdjieff, through his disciple, Mme. Jeanne de Salzmann.
By 1953, Spanier’s work had already begun to meet with critical acclaim. That year, he had his first solo gallery show, and was selected by Milton Avery and Hans Hofmann to receive the prestigious Lorian Fund Award. His second solo exhibition, in 1955, was curated by renowned museum director, Gordon Washburn. Spanier’s early work was reviewed by Dore Ashton, Donald Judd, Fairfield Porter, Stuart Preston, and Irving Sandler, among other significant critics of the period.
Spanier’s spiritual path increasingly became the central focus of both his life and his art. In 1960, he was introduced to the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, which led to visits to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, in 1962 and 1964, during which he was inspired to leave New York City and found Matagiri (in 1968)—a spiritual center in Woodstock, New York—with his lifelong partner, Eric Hughes. The work he embarked upon there bifurcates his life as an artist, separating him from New York’s art world, and radically altering the trajectory of his career. From that point forward, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to consider his artistic endeavor apart from the life of dedication he had undertaken, and to which he remained committed.
As early as 1954, Dore Ashton had recognized in Sam Spanier a “haptic visionary;” in 1960, Irving Sandler wrote that the people in Spanier’s paintings “seem to have witnessed some transfiguring event.” In his later paintings—usually worked in oil pastel on panel or paper—made during intermittent creative periods, from the mid-1970s to the final years of his life, the artist’s inner life remains always apparent in his subject matter; and from the portraits and abstract Buddha-like figures and heads, to the fantasy landscapes, the paintings are redolent with a rich intensity of color and light that can only be described as inspired.
Sam Spanier’s works are in the collections of the Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum. He received the Woodstock Artists Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Urban Gallery, New York (1954, 1955, 1956); Wittenborn Gallery, New York (1958); Gallery Mayer, New York (1958, 1959, 1960); Unison Gallery, New Paltz (1986, 1995, 2009); Limner Gallery, New York (1988); Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, New York (1999).
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Salon des Comparaisons, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France (1952); October Exhibition of Oil Paintings, New York City Center Gallery, New York (1954); Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris, Centre Culturel de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France (1954); Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1955); Les Plus Mauvais Tableaux, Galerie Prismes, Paris (1955);
Première Exposition Internationale de l’Art Plastique Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (1956); Recent Paintings USA: The Figure, The Museum of Modern Art (1960); Winter’s Work, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1985); Juried Group Show, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1986); Woodstock Artists, Self-Portraits, Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, Woodstock, New York (1988); Portraits, Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, New York (2003); The World We Live In, Upstate Art, Phoenicia, New York (2003); Show of Heads, Limner Gallery, Phoenicia, New York (2004).
Selected Writings on the Artist:
Dore Ashton, “Sam Spanier,” Art Digest (May 1, 1954) and “Sam Spanier,” The New York Times (March 16, 1960); Cassia Berman, “Sam Spanier: A Divine Calling,” Woodstock Times (February 7, 2008); Lawrence Campbell, “Sam Spanier: Exhibition of Paintings at Urban Gallery,” Art News...
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1970s Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Watercolor
Abstract Figure - Czech Art
Located in London, GB
The work is hand signed in ink by the artist "b.ost" in the lower right corner, and hand dated "36" next to the signature.
The drawing was created in 1936.
Provenance: Collection So...
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1930s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
Synchromist Abstraction watercolor by Jay Van Everen
Located in Hudson, NY
Jay Van Everen was a pioneering early American abstractionist known for his affiliation with the Synchromists. His abstract color studies would take him to the forefront of the Ameri...
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1920s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Modern British, 1971 abstract ink on paper by Edmond Kapp, caricaturist, reds
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Edmond Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978)
No Question!
Ink on paper
Signed and dated ‘Kapp ‘71’ (lower left), titled on the reverse
14.3/4 x 11.7/8 in. (37.5 x 30.3 cm.)
Edmond Kapp was born in Islington, London, on 5 November 1890, of American and German Jewish parentage. He gave himself the middle initial ‘X’ – sometimes said to stand for Xavier – to distinguish himself from his father Emil Kapp, who was a wine merchant. However, his parents called him ‘Eddie’ while his wife and friends knew him as ‘Peter’.
During his early years, Kapp was continually ill and, while convalescing, entertained himself by drawing at home. As his health improved, he attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Islington (1903-10), with periods at Berlin University (1909) and L’Institut Français pour les Etrangers, Paris (1909). He then read Languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1910-13), though spent most of his time writing and drawing.
Kapp took a studio in London, and worked intensively until the outbreak of the First World War, contributing to the Daily News, the Onlooker and other periodicals. During the war, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front, and then in Intelligence, rising to the position of Staff Captain on Haig’s Staff. Finally, he founded and directed the Neutral Press Counter-propaganda Section.
In 1919, Kapp returned to London and, after abortive periods at three art schools, worked alone. In that year, he made his name with an exhibition of caricatures, held at Furst’s Gallery, London, and accompanied by a catalogue introduced by Max Beerbohm. This soon led to contracts with three London periodicals and a book of caricatures, Personalities, published by Martin Secker. Through the 1920s and 30s, his drawings of musicians...
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20th Century Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist painting on paper by renowned artist
By Ron Gorchov
Located in New York, NY
Ron Gorchov
Untitled early 1960s Abstract Expressionist work, 1962
Ink and watercolor painting on paper
Signed and dated in black ink lower left recto
Frame included:
elegantly floa...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Watercolor
Original Radiant Baby drawing (hand signed and inscribed by Keith Haring)
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring
Untitled drawing inscribed to David, 1988
Original drawing on paper bound in historic monograph, inscribed to David Copley
Boldly signed, inscribed and dated in black marker above the drawing
This is a unique work
Iconic, unique radiant baby drawing...
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1980s Pop Art Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Permanent Marker, Offset
Abstraction
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated in ink lower center
Provenance:
Charlotte Bergman, noted collector and patron of Walkowitz. See photo for additional information.
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1930s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Pen
Two Drawings
By Louis Valtat
Located in New York, NY
Group of two drawings. "Femme assise sur une Chaise," circa 1910. Brush and ink on wove paper, 8 1/2x8 inches. With the artist's initials ink stamp, lower right recto.
"Femme avec ...
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1910s Fauvist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Abstract "Tree Landscape" Ink Line Drawing 1981 American Modernist Jack Hooper
By Jack Hooper
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper
"Tree Landscape"
1981
Ink on glossy paper
11"x7" unframed
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
Embrace the serene beauty of nature through this abstract line drawing b...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Study for Scissors Jack Series
By Larry Zox
Located in New York, NY
Larry Zox
Study for Scissors Jack Series, 1965
Mixed media and colored ink drawing on draft paper
Hand signed and dated on lower right recto (front). Bears Forager House Collection s...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Crayon, Ink, Color Pencil
Abstract Face - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media Piece by George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...
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1950s Abstract Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media
Untitled Art Nouveau Rondelle
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown Artist, France, late 19th century
Anonymous c. 1900 Rondelle on antique laid paper
Ink, Watercolor and or Gouache
Unsigned
An Art Nouveau preliminary design for a decorative ...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pigment
Rowing Sculling Team Regatta, Life Magazine - African American Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
E. Simms Campbell was the first African-American illustrator/ cartoonist published in nationally distributed, slick magazines, he created Esky, the familiar pop-eyed mascot of Esquire. This early work of 1930 was done on assignment for an interior page of Life Magazine. It features two Rowing teams engaged in spirited competition with cheering onlookers. This is a highly stylized black-and-white illustration and is masterfully executed. The work is composed of two illustrations, 6 x 9 inches and 2-3/4 x 2 inches respectively. It is initialed center bottow ESC. unframed
Campbell left the University of Chicago and transferred to and received his degree from the Chicago Art Institute.[3]
Professional career
During a job as a railroad dining-car waiter, Campbell sometimes drew caricatures of the train passengers, and one of those, impressed by Campbell's talent, gave him a job in a St. Louis art studio, Triad Studios.
He spent two years at Triad Studios before moving to New York City in 1929. A month afterward, he found work with the small advertising firm, Munig Studios, and began taking classes at the National Academy of Design.During this time, he contributed to various magazines, notably Life, & Judge
Following the suggestion of cartoonist Russell Patterson to focus on good girl art, Campbell created his "Harem Girls", a series of watercolor cartoons that attracted attention in the first issue of Esquire, debuting in 1933. Campbell's artwork was in almost every issue of Esquire from 1933 to 1958 and he was the creator of its continuing mascot, the cartoon character in a silk top hat.
He also contributed to The Chicagoan, Cosmopolitan, Ebony, The New Yorker, Playboy, Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, Pictorial Review, and Redbook.
His commercial artwork for advertising included illustrations for Barbasol, Springmaid, and Hart Schaffner...
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1930s Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Gouache, Pencil, Ink, Illustration Board
Abstract Composition - Drawing by Jean Criton - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a drawing realized by Jean Criton in 1957.
Watercolor, ink on paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
Good conditions.
The artwork is realized poetically through b...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Arcadia XIII
Located in Boston, MA
Labeled verso: "Arcadia XIII / paper & ink on rag board / 26 x 20""; signed lower center: "Ruth Eckstein". From the estate of the artist.
Ruth Eckstein has received national and int...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Board, Rag Paper, Paper, Ink
Une Danse, Original Work on Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Acrylic, Ink, Pastel and collage on paper - Original Work on Paper.
The work is in very good condition and is signed lower Right "Patricia R.".
Unfortunately we have no further info...
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1990s Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Ink, Acrylic
Original two sided signed Minimalist Conceptual drawing by renowned sculptor
By Carl Andre
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 Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Felt Pen
Mer De Sable By Alexander Calder
Located in New Orleans, LA
Alexander Calder
1898 – 1976 American
Mer de sable
(Sea of sand)
Gouache and ink on paper
Signed and dated with artist’s monogram “CA and ‘75” (lower right)
This vibrant gouache ...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink, Gouache
6/21/96.9 (hand signed and dated original graphite drawing; unique)
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
PETER HALLEY
6/21/96.9, 1998
Graphite and ink drawing
Hand-signed by artist, signed and dated in graphite lower right front; lower left front bears title: 6/21/96.9
Frame included: e...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Graphite
Black and White Abstract Drawing by Joan Strauss Carl
Located in Pasadena, CA
Presenting a drawing by Joan Strauss Carl, which served as a preparatory study for one of her three-dimensional sculptures. Joan Strauss Carl’s artistic j...
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Mid-20th Century Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
Cubist Nude 37
By Michael Loew
Located in Lawrence, NY
India Ink on paper; Provenance: Estate of artist, Vincent Vallarino Gallery
Lawrence Fine Art is pleased to present a suite of early, cubist-inspired nudes by first generation abst...
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1950s Cubist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink
Golf Bags, Caddy with Golf Bag on His Back
Located in Missouri, MO
Framed Size: approx 17 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches
Fred Conway (1900-1973)
"Golf Bags, Caddy with Golf Bag on His Back"
Pen/Ink/Watercolor on Paper
Site Size: approx. 10 x 13 inches
Framed Size: approx. 17 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches
A member of the faculty of the Washington University Art School from 1929 to 1970, Frederick Conway...
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1960s American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Cubist Nude 52
By Michael Loew
Located in Lawrence, NY
India Ink on paper; Provenance: Estate of artist, Vincent Vallarino Gallery
Lawrence Fine Art is pleased to present a suite of early, cubist-inspired nudes by first generation abst...
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1950s Cubist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink
Cubist Nude 80
By Michael Loew
Located in Lawrence, NY
India Ink on paper; Provenance: Estate of artist, Vincent Vallarino Gallery
Lawrence Fine Art is pleased to present a suite of early, cubist-inspired nudes by first generation abst...
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1950s Cubist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink
Yayoi's Guitar unique signed work on paper by internationally renowned sculptor
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero
Yayoi's Guitar, 1980
Ink wash drawing
Signed and titled in red ink on the front
Frame included (held in original vintage frame)
Unique 1980 drawing by sculptor Mark di...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Mixed Media
Original Dora Maar, (Picasso's muse) fine ink drawing of abstract forms, 1998
By Dora Maar
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
This is a beautiful and fine avant-garde finished drawing of abstract forms by the French female artist, Dora Maar. Dora Maar was a distinctive artist in her own right marked by str...
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20th Century Surrealist Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Original (unique) Self portrait drawing
Located in New York, NY
Al Hirschfeld
Original (unique) Self portrait drawing, 1976
Hand signed ink drawing, on typewritten letter with envelope
Hand signed in Hirschfel...
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1970s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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