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Medium: Pencil
"#224 – ABANDONED, SEPARATED", ink, pencil, gouache, found book, poetry, virus
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#224 – ABANDONED, SEPARATED" is from Amy Williams' series A Farewell to Arms – wherein the artist works directly onto page 224 of a found copy of Ernest ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Warren St 18 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Warren St 18 (Abstract Painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano is a Philippines-born French-American abstract artist who divides his time b...
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2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Untitled Abstraction
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Abstraction
Graphite on paper, c. 1946
Signed with the estate stamp verso
Provenance: estate of the Artist
Inherited by his neighbor/caregiver
Conditio...
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1940s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
I Am A Dog
By Olivia Gibb
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title : I Am A Dog
Materials : paste,ink,pencil,pen
Date : 2016
Dimensions : 8.5×11
Signed
COA provided
Art school took Olivia Gibb away from Oklahoma and up to Kansas City, which s...
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2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paste, Ink, Pen, Pencil
$498 Sale Price
42% Off
Pencil Drawing Bold Lines
By Hugo Esteban
Located in Houston, TX
Bold lines abstract pencil drawing by Spanish artist Hugo Esteban, circa 1960. Signed lower left.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a...
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1960s Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Summer Set 8, watercolor monoprint (unique) on Dieu Donne handmade paper, signed
By Arlene Shechet
Located in New York, NY
Arlene Shechet
Summer Set 8, 2005
Watercolor monoprint on dieu donné hand made paper
21 × 27 1/2 inches
Signed and dated in graphite on the front
Exquisite watercolor monoprint on di...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Mixed Media, Graphite
Post Street
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Midtown' 2012, is by Frederic Choisel. From a series of large scale urban-scape drawings in mixed media. Atwork is 60 x 42 inches: Mixed media includes graphite, charcoal, ink, past...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, India Ink, Graphite
1980's Cubist "Orange, Brown, Black" Soft Pastel Abstract Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
D. Tongen
"Orange, Brown, Black"
1980s
11.75"x10"
Soft pastel and pencil on paper
Signed in pencil lower right
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
"From Grief I Cannot Measure" - Collage Compostion
Located in Soquel, CA
Intricate and layered two-part composition by notable collage artist Graham Moody (American, b. 19XX). Two vertical panels are composed primarily of handwritten musical scores and notations, mounted on maps. Layered atop the sheet music art sections of technical illustrations, topographic maps, magazine cutouts, and books. Exhibited: “Two Decades of Collage” - Morris Graves Museum of Art - Eureka, California
Each piece is signed and dated "Moody 1990" in the lower right.
Titled "From Grief" and "I Cannot Measure" in the lower left of each piece.
Each piece measures: 25.75"H x 11"W
Graham Moody (American, b.1948) studied art history and political science at Humboldt State University, graduating in 1980. While maintaining a career as an artist, Moody also worked as the Art Program Director for Pelican Bay State Prison, bringing art instruction to incarcerated individuals. Moody lives and works in Eureka, California.
Moody’s artwork is held in various collections, including:
Hewlett Packard Corporation - Palo Alto, California
Fresno Museum of Art - Fresno, California
Morris Graves Museum of Art - Eureka, California
Boston Edison - Boston, Massachusetts
Intertael Books - Amsterdam, Holland
Kintetsu - Nara, Japan
Sun Bank - Jacksonville, Florida
Yokohama Royal Park Hotel - Yokohama, Japan
Four Seasons Hotel - Las Vegas, Nevada
Ontogeny - Potomac, Maryland
Fidelity Investments - Boston, Massachusetts
New Saint Andrews College - Moscow, Idaho
Ken Houldsworth Financial Planner - Arcata, California
Bank of America World Headquarters - San Francisco, California
Kaiser Permanente
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Chicago, Illinois
Hyatt Hotel - New York, New York
La Playa Beach Resort - Naples, Florida
Stanford University Hospital - Palo Alto, California
Selected Exhibitions:
“Two Decades of Collage” - Morris Graves Museum of Art - Eureka, California
“Celebration of the Arts” - Robert Allen Fine Art - San Francisco, California
Butters Gallery - Portland, Oregon
Art LA - Los Angeles, California
The Allrich Gallery - San Francisco, California
Theatres d'Ermont - Val d'Oise, France
Galerie Kunsthaar - Amsterdam, Nederlands
Galerie Yurn - Paris, France
Galerie Tagliana - Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Humboldt Cultural Center - Eureka, California
Group Shows:
Humboldt Arts Council - Eureka, California
“Collecting Ourselves: Works from the Permanent Collection” - Morris Graves Museum of Art - Eureka, California
“Persistence: Collage” - Butters Gallery - Portland, Oregon
Exposition 'Alcools' - Galerie L'Autre - Paris, France
Exposition 'Ars Longa...
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1990s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Magazine Paper, Pencil
Infanta XLVIII (Abstract Figurative Graphite Drawing in Antique Pewter Frame)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract graphite drawing on paper in vintage pewter frame
5.75 x 4.5 inches
This abstract figurative graphite drawing on paper was inspired by academic...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Flower Arrangement In Ochre Glazed Pot - Mixed Media Abstract Artwork on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Krisanne Souter weaves together elements of nature and ancient feminine archetypes, such as the Mother and the Mystic. Botanical themes, playful elements, and unexpected surprises ar...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Boston Expressionist Conte Pencil Drawing "Still Life with Flies" Hyman Bloom
By Hyman Bloom
Located in Surfside, FL
Hyman Bloom
"Still Life with Flies"
Frame: 18" X 16"
Image: 9.25" X 8.25"
Hand signed with his monogram initials
Provenance: bears exhibition label from Fuller Museum of Art
Hyman B...
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1990s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
My 80's Heart "Token 5" 2019, gouache, acrylic, graphite, panel, purple, green
Located in Jersey City, NJ
My 80's Hart "Token 5" 2019, gouache, acrylic, graphite, panel, purple, green, blue
Category
2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Panel, Wood Panel, Graphite
A Graphite on Paper Mural Study of a Rail Yard by Rudolph Weisenborn, ca. 1940
Located in Chicago, IL
A graphite on paper, untitled mural study, Cubist scene of a rail yard by important Chicago Modernist artist Rudolph Weisenborn, ca. 1940. Artwork size: 11 3/4" x 9 3/4". Archivally matted to 16" x 18". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Rudolph Weisenborn was born in Strassburg, Germany in 1881, but was orphaned at the age of nine. He was taken-in by Mid-Western farmer Thomas Westaby and spent his early years in Wisconsin, Iowa and North Dakota. Weisenborn first attended the University of North Dakota in 1898, then the Students School of Art in Denver. Various accounts have him working out west as a gold miner and cowboy.
Around 1912, he settled in Chicago and worked as a window designer for Marshall Field’s. Weisenborn is best known as the founder of the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists. The group was founded because many artists could not get their work accepted into the mainstream Art Institute shows. Weisenborn is quoted as saying that he harbored feelings of disdain for any jury and that his own paintings were frequently rejected by conservative jurors. He was also involved and helped found other radical artist’s groups such as the Salon des Refuses, Cor Ardens and Neo-Arlimusic. In 1936, he helped found the New York-based American Abstract Artist’s Group. He created the only abstract mural for the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago and also worked for the Federal Arts Project in the Easel Division. His WPA murals can be found in Crane Technical High School and Nettlehorst Elementary School in Chicago, IL. In 1945, Chicago businessman Herman Spertus...
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1940s Cubist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Tiger Moth
By Kiki Smith
Located in New York, NY
Kiki Smith
Tiger Moth, 2020
Ink and colored pencil on Twin Rocker hand made paper with deckled edges
Pencil signed and dated by Kiki Smith on the front
Fram...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Color Pencil, Handmade Paper
Brightly Colored 1950s Textile Design by Artist Andre Delfau
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 Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Graphite, Paper
Untitled
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Carroll Dunham (b. 1949) is a contemporary American artist best known for his distinctive fusion of abstraction and figuration. He rose to prominence in the early 1980s in New York C...
Category
1980s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Charcoal, Pencil
$41,500
"#71 – THEN IT'S HOPELESS?", ink, pencil, gouache, found vintage book, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#71 – THEN IT'S HOPELESS?" is from Amy Williams' series A Farewell to Arms – wherein the artist is working directly onto page 71 of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's WWII romance novel. The artist selects certain words and phrases from the page to isolate as a poem, and then draws, inks, redacts and paints the rest of the page according to the text of the poem. Here the poem reads: "Then it's hopeless? / But sometimes I cannot hope. / I cannot." Note the poem is outlined in dark red and purple radiating lines, while outside there are lighter violet, blue and white lines.
From Amy Williams – "My recent work is focused on making treated book pages using a found vintage...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
The Lovers "The Eyes Have It" Figurative Abstract Watercolor and Pencil on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
The Lovers "The Eyes Have It" Figurative Abstract Watercolor and Pencil on Paper
A whimsical figurative painting by California-based artist Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century...
Category
1980s Abstract Impressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Pencil
Dirty Fall - Blue Pink Botanical Flowers Pattern Drawing Shaped Paper, 2020
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary drawing on cut paper with carefully drawn dots and lines in soft shades of indigo blue with light pink flowers, the intricate composition is inspired by patterns...
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2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Linda Turner, Meditation Is Play, Collage, Pattern and Decoration, Automatism
Located in Darien, CT
Linda Turner, raised both in NYC and Northern Virginia, resides in Brooklyn, NY. She achieved a BFA in Surface Design/Textile Design from the Fashion Inst...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Watercolor, Pencil
Investigations (with Guggenheim Museum Exhibition Label)
Located in New York, NY
Robert Morris
Investigations (with Guggenheim Museum Labels), 1990
Graphite drawing on Mylar. Framed with the original Guggenheim Museum label (lent by Sonnabend), & Castelli Gallery...
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1990s Minimalist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mylar, Graphite
"Le combat des poissons "Pencil study with annotations , cm. 30 x 20 1940 ca
By André Masson
Located in Torino, IT
André Masson ( 1896-1987)
Pencil study with annotations on the right side, acquired by the previous owner from Luis Masson son of Andrè Masson
Category
1940s Surrealist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Double Sculpture, unique sculptural study, Brazilian American sculptor, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Saint Clair Cemin (Brazilian-American)
Double Sculpture, 1987
Graphite and watercolor on paper
Hand signed, dated and titled on the back of the sheet ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite, Pencil
Linda Turner, Art Meditation 7, Collage, Pattern and Decoration, Automatism
Located in Darien, CT
Linda Turner, raised both in NYC and Northern Virginia, resides in Brooklyn, NY. She achieved a BFA in Surface Design/Textile Design from the Fashion Inst...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Emotional Color Change 34 (Abstract painting)
By Kyong Lee
Located in London, GB
Emotional Color Change 34 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on canvas — Unframed.
Kyong Lee's series combines colour and language to visually represent the external environment. The proce...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
Wow Woah - Abstract Pattern Drawing Shaped Paper Blue Branches Droplets, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this meticulously detailed contemporary drawing in ink, watercolor, graphite and colored pencil on two pieces of cut paper, carefully drawn dots and lines in shades of blue with p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Riprap 2 (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Riprap 2 (Abstract Drawing)
Colour pencil and acrylic on paper. Unframed.
This fluid abstract work on paper is intuitively made with a coloured pencil and acrylic.
The intersectin...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Framed abstract Persian calligraphy ink drawing/painting on paper, black & white
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Nazanin Moghbeli's "Morghe Sahar 2" is framed in a white wood painted frame with white mat. It is wired with all hanging hardware, and is ready to install. Moghbeli is a Persian American artist with training in Persian calligraphy, miniature painting, and music. She borrows techniques from Iranian calligraphy to create abstract drawings with traditional bamboo “ghalams,” or quills. Rather than using these techniques to create religious objects as they were originally used, she explores the secular meaning of line in and of itself. She seeks the complete dissolution of words and prefers instead to create abstract images, her alternative to religious object making.
The poem that is collaged into this work is a historic Iranian ballad, entitled "Morghe Sahar" (Bird of Dawn), written by Mohammad-Taqi Bahar and put to music by Morteza Neidavoud in 1921. Some consider this song to be the unofficial anthem of freedom in Iran. The lyrics describe a caged nightingale, urging her to sing with passion and break free. It has been sung in different political contexts, from the constitutional revolution of 1921 through the dictatorship of Mohammad Reza...
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2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
German Expressionist drawing of abstracted figures by Carl Hofer
By Carl Hofer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Carl Hofer (German, 1875 – 1955)
Abstract figures
Pencil on paper
8.1/4 x 9 in. (21 x 23 cm.)
With studio stamp (on the reverse) and signature of the artist’s wife Elizabeth Hofer
Provenance: These works come from the artist’s second wife Elizabeth and from then by descent.
Carl Hofer was a German expressionist painter and the director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. One of the most important painters of the Expressionist movement, his work was among those that was considered degenerate art by the Nazis. He studied in Karlsruhe under Hans Thoma. He first visited Paris in 1899 making acquaintance with Julius Meier-Graefe. In 1902 he studied in Stuttgardt and became friends with the sculptor Hermann Haller...
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20th Century Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Magic Carpet Ride 3 - 9"x12" Original Art, Geometric Pattern, Black White Brown
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This detailed artwork on paper puts emphasis on design and composition. Using pencil, colour pencil and ink, a Navajo inspired rug motif is created using traditional design elements....
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2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pencil, Color Pencil, Ink
Dancing Motion.
Located in New York, NY
Drawing, 1938. Signed and dated with the artist cypher. Paper size 7 9/16 x 6 1/4" (19.3 x 15.8 cm).
Werner Drewes (1899-1985), painter, printmaker, educator and lecturer, wa...
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1930s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Dorothy Dehner, (Abstraction)
Located in New York, NY
This large scale drawing is signed and dated ink and closely relates to her sculptures of this period. The dimensions of 23 x 31 inches are the siz...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"#159 – SLEEP", ink, pencil, gouache, vintage book page, hemingway, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#159 – SLEEP" is from Amy Williams' series "A Farewell to Arms" – wherein the artist works directly onto page 159 of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's WWII romance novel. The artis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
"#56 – BOTH WOUNDED A LITTLE", ink, pencil, gouache, collage, found text, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#56 – BOTH WOUNDED A LITTLE" is from Amy Williams' series A Farewell to Arms – wherein the artist is working directly onto page 56 of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's WWII romance...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
1980s "Olive Green and Black" Soft Pastel Abstract Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
D. Tongen
"Olive Green and Black"
1980s
19.75"x12.5"
Soft pastel and pencil on paper
Initialed in pencil lower right
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
Trento - Bondone Corsa in Salita - Original Drawing by Fortunato Depero - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed lower right: “F. Depero”. Certificate of authenticity by the Archive of Fortunato Depero. There are different versions of drafts that the Italian artist Fortunato Depero realized before the final Collage poster...
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1920s Futurist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Gabriel’s Pavilion Variation II
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Gabriel’s Pavilion Variation II
Year: 1980
Medium: Pencil on Arches paper
Size: 29 x 41 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Fischbach Gallery, Ne...
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1980s Photorealist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$11,596 Sale Price
20% Off
For Finn, Small Works No. 69, green geometric abstraction, work on paper
Located in New York, NY
Between September 2018 and April 2019, I created 100 small paintings consecutively. I endeavored to make nothing else and viewed the project as an opportunity to experiment and solid...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Wood Panel, Color Pencil, Graphite
Flowers - Ink on Paper by Maurizio Gracceva - 2016
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a beautiful artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva in the 2016.
Mixed colored ink on paper.
Hand signed by the artist.
Original title: Fiori
Author of numerous philosop...
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2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Early Abstraction II
Located in London, GB
This soft and inviting work is the second in a series of abstractions by Walkowitz. Containing a central sequence of wavey lines and a singular circle, it evokes a feelings of joy in...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
BLUE JAY WAY
Located in New York, NY
BLUE JAY WAY, 2012
ink and graphite on Arches cold press paper
44.5 x 75 inches / 1130 x 1905 mm
unframed
Christina McPhee’s expansive abstract paintings, drawings, photographs, and videos test or query how can we know, and who is we? Moving from within a matrix of measurement, observation and contingent effects, her work resists characterization as product, and continually accesses fields outside itself. For her, process equals trial. Her work emulates potential forms of life, in various systems and territories, from a perspective of the non-self– a world beyond identity.
McPhee’s dynamic, performative, physical engagement with materials, in both her analogue and digital works, is a seduction into surface-skidding calligraphic gestures and mark-making. The tactics of living are in subterfuge, like the ‘dazzle ships...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
Surrealist Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Surrealist Composition, Mixed Media on Paper, stamped "Studio / Elfi Schuselka" to verso, unframed. 39.75" H x 29.75" W. Provenance: From the Coll...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil, Graphite, Paper
Non-Objective Drawing (Double sided composition)
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Non-Objective Drawing (Double sided composition)
Graphite on paper, 1938
Initialed "B" by the artist lower right corner
Created while the artist was imprisoned in a Gestapo Prison fo...
Category
1930s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Untitled. Form in Space.
Located in New York, NY
Pencil drawing on paper from 1944. Signed and dated with cypher. Paper size 4 x 6" (10 x 15.1 cm).
Werner Drewes (1899-1985), painter, printmaker, educator and lecturer, was...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Dancing Figurative Study of a Nude Woman
Located in Houston, TX
Figurative study of a dancing woman. The work is signed by Thierry Andre thought to be a French who was influenced by Edgar Degas. The paper is not fr...
Category
1960s Naturalistic Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
"#227 – I WAS AFRAID", ink, pencil, gouache, found book, poetry, coronavirus
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#227 – I WAS AFRAID" is from Amy Williams' series A Farewell to Arms – wherein the artist works directly onto pages of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's WWII romance novel. The art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
TWO BIRDS
Located in Portland, ME
Graves, Morris (American 1910-2001). TWO BIRDS. Brown Ink on tan
paper, not dated. Although signed in pencil, lower right, the signature proved fugitive dur...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$3,500
Time Warp
By Kelly Kozma
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fabric work titled "Time Warp" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery, colored pencil & acrylic paint on paper. The piece measures 15”h by 15”w framed.
K...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Thread, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
7-28-22, Impressionist, abstracted landscape drawing with colored pencil
Located in New York, NY
Sandy Litchfield brings her magical abstracted landscapes to a new medium in her recent colored pencil drawings. Loose, delicate lines scramble over one another, bringing a diffuse, ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Adjacent 6 (Abstract drawing)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Adjacent 6 (Abstract drawing)
Pencil and paint stick on paper.
This piece is one of a group of works on paper made with paint sticks and pencil on paper that has been primed with g...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper, Pencil
Two Wood Ducks on a Flowering Branch
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Stella was a visionary artist who painted what he saw, an idiosyncratic and individual experience of his time and place. Stella arrived in New York in 1896, part of a wave of Italian immigrants from poverty-stricken Southern Italy. But Stella was not a child of poverty. His father was a notary and respected citizen in Muro Locano, a small town in the southern Appenines. The five Stella brothers were all properly educated in Naples. Stella’s older brother, Antonio, was the first of the family to come to America. Antonio Stella trained as a physician in Italy, and was a successful and respected doctor in the Italian community centered in Greenwich Village. He sponsored and supported his younger brother, Joseph, first sending him to medical school in New York, then to study pharmacology, and then sustaining him through the early days of his artistic career. Antonio Stella specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis and was active in social reform circles. His connections were instrumental in Joseph Stella’s early commissions for illustrations in reform journals.
Joseph Stella, from the beginning, was an outsider. He was of the Italian-American community, but did not share its overwhelming poverty and general lack of education. He went back to Italy on several occasions, but was no longer an Italian. His art incorporated many influences. At various times his work echoed the concerns and techniques of the so-called Ashcan School, of New York Dada, of Futurism and, of Cubism, among others. These are all legitimate influences, but Stella never totally committed himself to any group. He was a convivial, but ultimately solitary figure, with a lifelong mistrust of any authority external to his own personal mandate. He was in Europe during the time that Alfred Stieglitz established his 291 Gallery. When Stella returned he joined the international coterie of artists who gathered at the West Side apartment of the art patron Conrad Arensberg. It was here that Stella became close friends with Marcel Duchamp.
Stella was nineteen when he arrived in America and studied in the early years of the century at the Art Students League, and with William Merritt Chase, under whose tutelage he received rigorous training as a draftsman. His love of line, and his mastery of its techniques, is apparent early in his career in the illustrations he made for various social reform journals. Stella, whose later work as a colorist is breathtakingly lush, never felt obliged to choose between line and color. He drew throughout his career, and unlike other modernists, whose work evolved inexorably to more and more abstract form, Stella freely reverted to earlier realist modes of representation whenever it suited him. This was because, in fact, his “realist” work was not “true to nature,” but true to Stella’s own unique interpretation.
Stella began to draw flowers, vegetables, butterflies, and birds in 1919, after he had finished the Brooklyn Bridge series of paintings, which are probably his best-known works. These drawings of flora and fauna were initially coincidental with his fantastical, nostalgic and spiritual vision of his native Italy which he called Tree of My Life (Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth Foundation and Windsor, Inc., St. Louis, illus. in Barbara Haskell, Joseph Stella, exh. cat. [New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994], p. 111 no. 133).
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1960s American Pop Art hyperrealist drawing Lucky Strike
Located in Norwich, GB
A striking pop art drawing, dating from the 1960s, featuring lettering and a packet of Lucky Strike cigarettes. Pop art as art movement emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 196...
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"Second Theme" 1949 Abstract Mid 20th Century Geometric Non-Objective Hard Edge
Located in New York, NY
"Second Theme" 1949 Abstract Mid 20th Century Geometric Non-Objective Hard Edge
Burgoyne A. Diller (American, 1906-1965) "Second Theme" 1949. Pencil and crayon on paper. Signed and dated 'D. 49' (lower right). Image: 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York. David K. Anderson Grandchildren's Trust.
BURGOYNE DILLER (1906-1965) Recognized as the first American painter to embrace the tenets of Neo-Plasticism, Burgoyne Diller made an important contribution to the development of non-objective art in the United States. Working in a hard-edged geometric style, he produced paintings, drawings, and collages that paved the way for the development of American Minimalism during the 1960s and 70s.
Born in New York City in 1906, Diller began painting and drawing as a teenager growing up in Battle Creek, Michigan. Later, while attending Michigan State University in East Lansing on an athletic scholarship, he made weekend visits to the Art Institute of Chicago, where he familiarized himself with Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting. He was especially drawn to the landscapes and still lives of Paul Cézanne, who modeled color to create structure and volume.
In 1929, Diller moved to Manhattan and enrolled at the Art Students League, where his teachers included such progressive-minded painters as Jan Matulka, Hans Hofmann, and George Grosz. Hofmann's concept of the "push-pull" effect of form and color exerted a strong influence on his early work, as did his growing familiarity with Analytical and Synthetic Cubism, German Expressionism, and other vanguard European styles. Diller had the opportunity to see some of this work firsthand, but he also kept abreast of developments abroad by reading journals such as Cahiers d'Art.
Diller completed his studies at the League in 1933, the year he had his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Gallery in New York. It was around this time that his paintings began to show the influence of the reductive, pared-down geometric compositions of the Dutch Constructivist Piet Mondrian and the equally restrained compositions of Kasimir Malevich and El Lissitsky...
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Jackson 4
Located in London, GB
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally ar...
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2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Big Blue Melt 14 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Big Blue Melt 14 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment, Color Pencil and Ice on Mylar. Unframed.
Big Blue Melt are works that have been created with pigment pencils and ice. Peerna starts th...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Plastic, Pigment, Color Pencil
Untitled, Small Works No. 51, green geometric abstraction, work on paper
Located in New York, NY
Between September 2018 and April 2019, I created 100 small paintings consecutively. I endeavored to make nothing else and viewed the project as an opportunity to experiment and solid...
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2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor, Wood Panel, Color Pencil, Graphite
Dennis Oppenheim Large Abstract Conceptual Sculpture Drawing for Ace Gallery LA
Located in Surfside, FL
Dennis Oppenheim (1938 - 2011)
Pencil and colored pencil drawing on paper,
'Memory Generator Receiver; Transmitter project for ACE Gallery Los Angeles'
(possibly with watercolor pai...
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1970s Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Sleeping Female Nude
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Oliveira's "Female Sleeping Nude" is a captivating artwork that elegantly combines style, technique, and layered interpretation, offering a rich and multifaceted experience to...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Graphite
Thaw 3 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Thaw 3 (Abstract drawing)
Graphite and colored pencil on two layers of plastic paper. Unframed.
Thaw Series is a new series of drawings where the artist continues her work touchin...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Plastic, Color Pencil, Graphite
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