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Style: Modern
Medium: 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
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Paper, Ink, Pencil
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
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Ink, Paper
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
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
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
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
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
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Paper, Ink
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
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
Abstraction
By Jan Matulka
Located in Chicago, IL
A handsome black & white abstraction by artist Jan Matulka.
Jan Matulka was an important Modernist that worked with artist Stuart Davis in creating a new form of Cubism, that was ba...
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1950s American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Graphite
Textile Design
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful 1950s textile design (Black, yellow, blue, pink, red tones) by noted set and costume designer Andre Delfau.
Born in Paris, France in 1914, Andre Delfau became an internationally acclaimed stage, set and costume designer who worked world-wide from the 1930s to the 1980s. Delfau was a life long artist and painted independently of his noted design career. His artwork is recognized for it’s vibrant color and form, and a particularly keen use of line. He was highly influenced by the French Modern trends of Cubism and Surrealism, and his artwork is often infused with a dramatic sense of architecture and perspective.
Delfau created fashion designs for such major Paris couture houses as Balmain, Jean Patou and Balenciaga. He completed noteworthy set designs and costumes for numerous international operatic and ballet productions, including those at the Royal Danish Ballet, the Royal Ballet of Great Britain, the Paris Opera, the Dance Theater of Harlem, the Ruth Page International Ballet, the Civic Ballet of Chicago, the Chicago Opera Ballet and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, among others. Most notably, Delfau designed the elaborate stage sets and costumes for the 1986 PBS television production of the Viennese operetta, "Die Fledermaus...
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1950s American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Graphite
Textile Design
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A bright, geometric textile design (In red, white & blue) by stage and costume designer Andre Delfau.
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1950s American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Graphite
Textile Design
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A textile design in black and brown ochre tones with wedge star pattern by noted set and costume designer Andre Delfau.
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1950s American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Graphite
Textile Design
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful textile design (with blue, green, yellow & red tones) by notable set and costume designer Andre Delfau.
Born in Paris, France in 1914, Andre Delfau became an internationally acclaimed stage, set and costume designer who worked world-wide from the 1930s to the 1980s. Delfau was a life long artist and painted independently of his noted design career. His artwork is recognized for it’s vibrant color and form, and a particularly keen use of line. He was highly influenced by the French Modern trends of Cubism and Surrealism, and his artwork is often infused with a dramatic sense of architecture and perspective.
Delfau created fashion designs for such major Paris couture houses as Balmain, Jean Patou and Balenciaga. He completed noteworthy set designs and costumes for numerous international operatic and ballet productions, including those at the Royal Danish Ballet, the Royal Ballet of Great Britain, the Paris Opera, the Dance Theater of Harlem, the Ruth Page International Ballet, the Civic Ballet of Chicago, the Chicago Opera Ballet and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, among others. Most notably, Delfau designed the elaborate stage sets and costumes for the 1986 PBS television production of the Viennese operetta, "Die Fledermaus...
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1950s American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Graphite
Textile Design
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful textile design in orange, blue, red and yellow tones depicting an abstract polychrome Wedge Star pattern by set and costume designer Andre Delfau.
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1950s American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Graphite
Original California Figurative Abstract Still Life Ink Drawing Joyce Treiman
By Joyce Treiman
Located in Surfside, FL
Joyce Treiman
Ink on paper, framed under glass; signed in pencil lower right;
Dimensions: 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches; 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches frame.
Joyce Wahl Treiman was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and teacher. Her work ranged from "the impishly perverse and humorously paradoxical to the brilliant and profound." She was known as an excellent draftsperson throughout her career. She made several trips to Europe to study the old masters, and the human figure is central in her work. In her later paintings she is known to have inserted self-portraits. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and then studied at the State University of Iowa (today the University of Iowa) under the influential painter Philip Guston. During World War II she worked as a commercial artist but resigned when she began to have success with exhibitions of her work in Chicago and New York.
In 1945 she married Kenneth Treiman, and son Donald, now an Architect, was born in 1950. The Treimans, along with Rene and Rose Wahl, moved to Los Angeles in 1960. She was in an exhibit of Tamarind prints...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Paper
Leonard Baskin Watercolor Ink Illustration Painting Darkened Man, Nude with Bird
Located in Surfside, FL
Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) ink and gouache drawing on paper titled "Darkened Man", signed lower right, circa 1957.
Provenance: Grace Borgenicht gallery, Jeffrey M. Kaplan collection. bears label verso
Art: 31" H x 22" W; Frame: 36" H x 27" W.
Leonard Baskin was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.
Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960).
The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.
His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums.
The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin.
He was included in the MoMA show, Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism along with Alexander Archipenko, Francis Bacon, Balthus, Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Eugene Berman, Reg Butler, Lovis Corinth, Andre Derain, Otto Dix, Raoul Dufy, Max Ernst, Lucian Freud, George Grosz, Alexei Jawlensky, Oskar Kokoschka, Roberto Matta, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and more. In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover, Edmond Casarella, Vincent Longo, and Nicholas Krushenick were frequent exhibitors. the gallery has represented many well-known artists, including Richard Anuszkiewicz, Robert Blackburn, Lois Dodd, William King, Chaim and Dorothy Koppelman, Roy Lichtenstein, Harold Krisel...
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1950s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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India Ink, Watercolor
Black and White Abstract Figurative Drawing of Nude Female
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white figurative drawing by Texas artist William Anzalone. The drawing depicts nude women dressing up. Signed by the artist at the bottom right. Framed in a beautiful black modern frame.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 16.63 in. x W 21.5 in.
Artist Biography: William Anzalone was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1935. He was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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Late 20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen, Pencil
Composition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a China Ink Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a white paper.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was born in Le Havre...
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1970s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
Canadian Art Mixed Media Collage Assemblage Painting Hebrew Canada Stamp
Located in Surfside, FL
Canadian artist, designer, teacher and writer Stephen James Andrews was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1922. Studied art at Winnipeg School of Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Camberwell School of Arts, London, England, privately with Martin Bloch in London, England, at the Académie Julian, Paris, France, and the Scuola del Mosaics, Ravenna, Italy. Died in Spain in 1995. A collage may sometimes include magazine and newspaper clippings, ribbons, paint, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas. This is more of a photomontage. Modernist collage began with Cubist painters Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. Many artists have used the technique including Enrico Baj, Joseph Cornell, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Mimmo Rotella and Kurt Schwitters. Drawings made by Stephen Andrews...
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20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
1950s Mid Century Abstract Contour Drawing 1
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry and Ruth Opper
Abstract Expressionism Contour Drawing 1
c.1950s
Ink and Pastel Contour Drawing
18" x 12", Unframed
Signed in ink lo...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink, Pastel
Modern Abstract Neutral-Toned Watercolor Landscape of a Spacious House
By Bertha Davis
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract watercolor drawing of a house by Texas artist Bertha Davis. The work features a loosely rendered neutral-toned depiction of a spacio...
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1970s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"People" - Mid-Century Ovoid Geometrical Abstract Black & White Drawing
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
People, 1964
Ink and crayon on paper
Signed and dated upper right
36.5 x 24 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of nation...
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1960s American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Crayon, Ink
1950s Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry and Ruth Opper
Abstract Expressionism Drawing
c.1950s
Ink and Pastel Drawing
18" x 12" Unframed
Unsigned
*Custom framing available ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink
"I Think I Will" Modern Oval Drawing of a Nude Woman with Wings and Boots
Located in Houston, TX
Modern oval figurative drawing of a nude, tattooed woman with wings and cowboy boots by Houston, TX artist Charles Pebworth. Signed by the artist next to the figure's right hip. Hung...
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1970s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Pen
Black and White Abstract Figurative Mixed Media Drawing of a Female Nude
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white figurative drawing by Texas artist William Anzalone. The drawing depicts a nude woman in solitude taking off her ro...
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Late 20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen, Pencil
Witness
By Thomas Guise
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Thomas Guise – Scottish (1916- 1984)
Title: Witness
Year: 1965
Medium: Watercolor, pen
Size: 14.75 x 17.75 inches
Signature: Signed, dated lower right. Titled en verso
Condition: Good
Frame: Unframed
This watercolor and ink painting is by the noted Scottish artist, Thomas Gladstone Middleton (TGM) Guise (1916-1984). He received instruction at the Edinburgh Academy and went on to study art at Edinburgh College of Art under Thomson Adam Bruce, Royal Scottish Academy (1947-1949). Guise also traveled and exhibited in the U.S. This particular work was exhibited at the Los Robles Gallery in Palo Alto, CA in 1968. The painting is unframed on artist's board. It is in very good condition with no flaws to note.
Biography
1916 - Born on Davidston Farm near Cromarty, Black Isle, Ross-shire, Scotland.
1921 - 1938 Educated Inverness and Edinburgh, Scotland.
1939 - 1946 Served with the Royal Artillery.
1946 - 1980 Worked in painting, process engraving, printing, lithography and commercial art with Featherhal Press.
1947 - Award for Life Drawing.
1984 - Died, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Mixed Shows 1948 - 1984
RBA, RSA, RI, RSW, RGI, SSA, NEAC.
Trends
Arun Art Centre
The Bath Festival Exhibition by FPS (Modern Art)
Solo Shows
1966 - Randolph Gallery, Edinburgh Festival
1967 - Encina Gallery Stanford University, California, United States
1968 - Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California, United States
1968 - Randolph Gallery Edinburgh Festival
1970 - Clarkson Gallery, Victoria Street...
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1960s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Modern Abstract Figurative Drawing of a Nude Woman with Tattoos and Wings
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract figurative drawing of a nude, tattooed woman with wings by Houston, TX artist Charles Pebworth. Signed by the artist on the figure's left hip. Hung behind glass in a ...
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1970s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Pen
Untitled, Design, Ink on Paper by Modern Artist Jogen Chowdhury "In Stock
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jogen Chowdhury - Untitled - 12 x 16 inches (unframed size)
Ink on Paper, 2022
Signed in Bengali
Style : He has immense contribution in inspiring young artists of India. Jogen Chowdhury had developed his individual style after his return from Paris. His most famous paintings are in ink, watercolor and pastel. He has painted in oil medium as well.
In Chowdhury’s more recent works the sensory experiences of cloth, bolsters, sofas and the human body are cross-projected to produce an uncanny world of tran-substantiated tumescence and flaccidness.
Jogen Chowdhury has been widely acknowledged to be, the master of the unbroken line. Like Léger, Chowdhury has been stirred by the linear Kalighat pat tradition, but his lines are emotive and used to express and suggest the character of a person. This is done by, distorting the form without breaking the line and in the world of young, contemporary art; distortion has been Jogen Chowdhury’s most significant impact. Perhaps, because of this, a common observation of his work is that his “people” are caricatures. The person feels familiar to the viewer but it is far more individualised – the face is imaginary but the psyche or characteristics are real. The power and beauty of his technique and line is this play between the known and unknown. In Jogen Chowdhury’s work, the figure is always in the foreground, it is primary, it conveys everything. He uses colour to give volume to his figures and the fluidity of his lines bring a sensual aspect to his forms.
About the Artist and his work :
Born : Born 1939 in Daharpara Village, Faridpur, Bangladesh. Jogen Chowdhury is an eminent Indian painter and considered an important painter of 21st century India.
Family Background :
His father Pramatnath Chowdhury was a Brahmin zamindar. Both his parents took interest in art, Jogen Chowdhury’s father Pramatnath Chowdhury painted several mythological scenes from the village theatres and also sculpted various Hindu icons. Whereas his mother was an expert in Alpana drawings.
1939-47 Jogen Chowdhury lived in a village atmosphere. And after partition in 1948, the whole family shifted. Till 1951 the whole family stayed at the police department quarter of his uncle, where on the walls Jogen Chowdhury painted his first painting, 1962 Jogen Chowdhury was employed as Designer in the Handloom Board.
Education :
1955-60: Studied at the Government College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata.
1965 : He went to paris to study in Ecole des Beaux Arts, in William Hayter’s Atelier 17.
Professional Experience :
1968-72 : He worked as an Art-Designer, Madras Handloom Board, Madras.
1970 : A collection of his poems were published, titled ‘Hridoy Train Beje Othey’.
1987 : Joined Kala Bhavan , Santiniketan as a professor of painting.
Selected Exhibitions :
1972, 1975 & 1978 respectively : I, III, IV Triennales at New Delhi.
1979: The Sao Paolo Biennale.
1980: The exhibitions at the Fukuoka Museum, Japan.
1982: The Royal Academy, London.
1982: The Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
1986: The II Havana Biennale.
1989: ‘Festival of India’, in Geneva.
2002: Saffron...
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2010s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen, Permanent Marker, Paper
Big Moss 3 color Blue Black Orange
Located in Lafayette, LA
This multicolor ink study is made with archival ink on bristol board. On the reverse it reads: #1012022 ( artist stock number) Big Moss Blue Black Orange ...
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2010s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
1940s American Modernist Abstracted Industrial Watercolor Ink Charcoal Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Charles Bunnell original vintage 1941 signed painting from the artist's Black and Blue Series, Abstract Structure style. Watercolor, Ink and Charcoal on paper in colors of black, wh...
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1940s American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor
Composition - Original drawing in Ink and Watercolor by Vedan - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original drawing in Ink and watercolor by Vedan in the mid 20th century.
Good condition
Hand-signed.
The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balan...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Sketch for 'The X & Its Tails'. 1967
Located in Palo Alto, CA
This work is registered as an authentic work by Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976) in the archives of the Calder Foundation (NY), under application number A.24492. Created in 1967, this original pen and red ink drawing on paper is initialed ‘CA’ in blue ink in the lower right by Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976) with a handwritten dedication, also in blue ink, ‘To Alvin Lane’ along the lower center.
The Sketch for ‘The X & Its Tails’ is an original study and preliminary drawing made by Calder preceding his large-scale sculpture for the Detroit Institute of Arts. Sketches for models and sculptures are rare and this is no exception; according to Alvin S. Lane, collector and friend to Calder, “To the best of my knowledge there were very few, if any, preliminary drawings done by Calder that were on the market, but he was good enough when he did two for commissions to send the drawings to me as a present [including this Sketch for ‘The X & Its Tails’]. I included one of them here to show that although his drawings usually have a flowing steady line, his preliminary drawings are sloppy scribbles” (23).
Provenance:
~ Gift of artist
~ Private Collection (Riverdale, NJ)
Catalogue Raisonné and COA:
Sketch for 'The X & Its Tails,' 1967 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work).
1. Registered with the Calder Foundation, NY under application number A.24492.
2. Elvehjem Museum of Art. The Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection...
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1960s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Georgetown (Church in the Mountains, Colorado), Modernist Landscape Ink Drawing
Located in Denver, CO
Georgetown, Colorado, vintage 1938 WPA era ink drawing/painting on paper of a church set in a rocky mountain landscape by Charles Bunnell (1897-1968). Black on a creamy white paper, signed and dated lower right, titled lower left. Presented in a custom frame with all archival materials, outer dimensions measure 16 ¼ x 14 ½ x 1¼ inches. Image size is 7 ¾ x 5 ¾ inches.
Drawing is clean and in good vintage condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report.
Provenance: Estate of Charles Ragland Bunnell
Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote.
About the Artist:
Charles Bunnell developed a love for art as a child in Kansas City, Missouri. Around 1915, Bunnell moved with his family to Colorado Springs, Colorado.
He served in World War I and later used his GI Training to study at the Broadmoor Art Academy (later renamed the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center) during 1922 and 1923. In 1922, he married fellow student, Laura Palmer...
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1930s American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Archival Paper
1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting Floral Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Floral Abstract
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed
size: 12 x 9 inches
condition: very good and ready to be e...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
"Christ of Auschwitz, Salvador de Auschwitz" - Ink drawing on paper.
By Mathias Goeritz
Located in Miami, FL
Mathias Goeritz is a famous sculptor, painter, poet, of German origin, his concepts have to do with “emotional architecture”, he was a collaborator of...
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20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Her beautiful vagina. 2009, ink on paper, 26x17 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Her beautiful vagina. 2009, ink on paper, 26x17 cm
Erotic ink drawing in black and white colors
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Early 2000s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
1950s Mid Century Abstract Contour Drawing 3
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry and Ruth Opper
Abstract Expressionism Contour Drawing 3
c.1950s
Abstract Expressionism
Ink and Pastel Contour Drawing
18" x 12" Unf...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink
Spring Mountain 1978 Modern Chinese WC Sumi Painting blue green contemporary
By Kan Tai-Keung
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
This painting is illustrated in color in the the book, "PAINTINGS BY KAN
TAI-KEUNG 1970-1979" page 51. Published by S S Design & Production, Hong
Kong, 1980.
A copy of this book will accompany the painting.
Born in Panyu, Guangdong, in 1942, Kan Tai-Keung was deeply influenced by his grandfather, Yao Sheung, and became passionate about painting from childhood on. He moved to Hong Kong in 1957, and worked as an apprentice tailor there for ten years. In 1964, Kan started to learn watercolour painting and sketching with his uncle Han May-Tin. Later he took a Chinese ink painting course from Lui Shou-kwan and an applied design course from Wucius Wong...
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1970s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper
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
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Composition I
Located in Kansas City, MO
"Composition I", 1984
(India) ink
Signed and dated by hand
Edition: Unique
Size: 15.2 × 21.5 on 18.7 × 25.2 inches
COA provided
*Black Frame made from Composite Wood WITHOUT plex inc...
Category
1980s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
"You Owe Me" Circular Drawling of Woman with Wings
Located in Houston, TX
Seated women with wings drawn on a circular sheet of paper. Signed. Matted on a silver reflective matting.
Artist Biography: Charles Pebworth is known for his metal artmaking. He a...
Category
1970s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Lucifer Mephistopheles - Drawing by Maurice Walter Edmond de Lambert - 1900s
Located in Roma, IT
Lucifer Mephistopheles is an original drawing in China ink on paper realized by Maurice Walter Edmond de Lambert.
Good conditions.
The artwork represents figures through deft and q...
Category
20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Polish French Judaica Watercolor Gouache Painting Original Bauhaus Yiddish Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Bahelfer BAGEL (1908-1995)
Moses Bagel (born Moshe Bahelfer) was a Polish-born Jewish artist and graphic designer associated with the original Bauhaus and then the School of Paris (Ecole de Paris)
Moshe Bagelferyches was born on June 29 , 1908 in Vilnius, (Vilna, Poland) then part of the Russian Empire. He took up painting from at an early age, later going on to work as an apprentice at a local vocational school in Vilno while taking classes at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Bagelferyches also joined Yungvilno, a group formed by young Jewish artists, poets and writers in the city, who hosted exhibitions. In 1927, he left for Germany where he joined the Bauhaus arts and architecture school in Dessau. From 1928 to 1932, he studied under Joost Schmidt, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, and Wassily Kandinsky. His painting was close to pure abstract art. He maintained close bonds with former students of the Bauhaus school who lived in Paris, Joseph Weinfeld, Jean Leppien...
Category
20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, ABS
Lucifer Mephistopheles - Drawing by Maurice Walter Edmond de Lambert - 1900s
Located in Roma, IT
Lucifer Mephistopheles is an original drawing in China ink on paper realized by Maurice Walter Edmond de Lambert.
Monogrammed on the lower right.
Good conditions.
The artwork repr...
Category
20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Sculpture Motives
By Henry Moore
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A drawing by Henry Moore. "Sculpture Motives" is a semi-abstract, figurative drawing, ink, watercolor, and wax crayon on paper in beige, white, and black platte by British modern art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon, Ink, Watercolor
La Rocca di Spoleto - Ink and Watercolor by Nevio De Zolt -20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"La Rocca di Spoleto" is an original watercolor drawing on ivory-colorated paper by Nevio De Zolt.
In very good conditions.
Sheet dimension: 32 x 24 cm.
T...
Category
20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Polish French Judaica Watercolor Gouache Painting Original Bauhaus Yiddish Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Bahelfer BAGEL (1908-1995)
Moses Bagel (born Moshe Bahelfer) was a Polish-born Jewish artist and graphic designer associated with the original Bauhaus and then the School of Paris (Ecole de Paris)
Moshe Bagelferyches was born on June 29 , 1908 in Vilnius, (Vilna, Poland) then part of the Russian Empire. He took up painting from at an early age, later going on to work as an apprentice at a local vocational school in Vilno while taking classes at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Bagelferyches also joined Yungvilno, a group formed by young Jewish artists, poets and writers in the city, who hosted exhibitions. In 1927, he left for Germany where he joined the Bauhaus arts and architecture school in Dessau. From 1928 to 1932, he studied under Joost Schmidt, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, and Wassily Kandinsky. His painting was close to pure abstract art. He maintained close bonds with former students of the Bauhaus school who lived in Paris, Joseph Weinfeld, Jean Leppien...
Category
20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, ABS
Untitled
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): Louisa Chase
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Untitled
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): Louisa Chase 1989
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
1967 "Abstract 4 Pink, Blue and Yellow" Mid Century Watercolor Abstract
Located in Arp, TX
Michael Knigin
Abstract 4 Pink, Blue and Yellow
1967
Ink brush and watercolor on paper
8.25"x11" unframed $675
Signed and dated in ink lower right
Came from artist's estate
*Custom f...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
'Evening Landscape' Bay Area Abstraction, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, CWS
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Gilberg' for Robert George Gilberg (American, 1911-1970) and painted circa 1965.
Born in Oakland, Robert George Gilberg first studied at the Oakland Art Center during the 1930s. Following service during WWII, he settled in Nevada City, California where he lived and painted until shortly before his death in San Francisco. Gilberg exhibited widely and with success and was the recipient of numerous medals, prizes and juried awards, including at the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts...
Category
1960s American Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Polish French Judaica Watercolor Gouache Painting Original Bauhaus Yiddish Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Bahelfer BAGEL (1908-1995)
Moses Bagel (born Moshe Bahelfer) was a Polish-born Jewish artist and graphic designer associated with the original Bauhaus and then the School of Paris (Ecole de Paris)
Moshe Bagelferyches was born on June 29 , 1908 in Vilnius, (Vilna, Poland) then part of the Russian Empire. He took up painting from at an early age, later going on to work as an apprentice at a local vocational school in Vilno while taking classes at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Bagelferyches also joined Yungvilno, a group formed by young Jewish artists, poets and writers in the city, who hosted exhibitions. In 1927, he left for Germany where he joined the Bauhaus arts and architecture school in Dessau. From 1928 to 1932, he studied under Joost Schmidt, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, and Wassily Kandinsky. His painting was close to pure abstract art. He maintained close bonds with former students of the Bauhaus school who lived in Paris, Joseph Weinfeld, Jean Leppien...
Category
20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, ABS
Benoît Gilsoul "Mind Puzzle", original ink and watercolor on paper
Located in Glenview, IL
"Mind Puzzle (Le Casse Tête)" by Belgian artist Benoît Gilsoul a watercolor and ink on paper representing a human figure bent over and holding his head...
Category
1960s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Polish French Judaica Watercolor Gouache Painting Original Bauhaus Yiddish Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Bahelfer BAGEL (1908-1995)
Moses Bagel (born Moshe Bahelfer) was a Polish-born Jewish artist and graphic designer associated with the original Bauhaus and then the School of Paris (Ecole de Paris)
Moshe Bagelferyches was born on June 29 , 1908 in Vilnius, (Vilna, Poland) then part of the Russian Empire. He took up painting from at an early age, later going on to work as an apprentice at a local vocational school in Vilno while taking classes at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Bagelferyches also joined Yungvilno, a group formed by young Jewish artists, poets and writers in the city, who hosted exhibitions. In 1927, he left for Germany where he joined the Bauhaus arts and architecture school in Dessau. From 1928 to 1932, he studied under Joost Schmidt, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, and Wassily Kandinsky. His painting was close to pure abstract art. He maintained close bonds with former students of the Bauhaus school who lived in Paris, Joseph Weinfeld, Jean Leppien...
Category
20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, ABS
Polish French Judaica Watercolor Gouache Painting Original Bauhaus Yiddish Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Bahelfer BAGEL (1908-1995)
Moses Bagel (born Moshe Bahelfer) was a Polish-born Jewish artist and graphic designer associated with the original Bauhaus and then the School of Paris (Ecole de Paris)
Moshe Bagelferyches was born on June 29 , 1908 in Vilnius, (Vilna, Poland) then part of the Russian Empire. He took up painting from at an early age, later going on to work as an apprentice at a local vocational school in Vilno while taking classes at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Bagelferyches also joined Yungvilno, a group formed by young Jewish artists, poets and writers in the city, who hosted exhibitions. In 1927, he left for Germany where he joined the Bauhaus arts and architecture school in Dessau. From 1928 to 1932, he studied under Joost Schmidt, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, and Wassily Kandinsky. His painting was close to pure abstract art. He maintained close bonds with former students of the Bauhaus school who lived in Paris, Joseph Weinfeld, Jean Leppien...
Category
20th Century Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, ABS
Matin - Ink drawing and Chacography on Paper - 1978
By Michel Gigon
Located in Roma, IT
Matin is an original artwork realized by Michel Gigon in 1978.
Mixed media on cardboard (chalcography and ink). Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right.
Very good conditions e...
Category
1970s Modern Ink Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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