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Medium: Pencil
BP18, BORINGCAPITALIST, 2019 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
BP18, BORINGCAPITALIST, 2019 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic, graphite on paper - Unframed.
Daniel Gottin's interest and concept are to examine the subject...
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2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Graphite
$2,877 Sale Price
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Emotional color chart 092
By Kyong Lee
Located in London, GB
Pencil and acrylic on Fabriano-pittura paper - Unframed.
This series, started in 2016 conveys a color and emotional language and is inspired by the series Color as Adjective, a seri...
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2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
Roundism – 13-02-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 13-02-18 In my ever quest for roundism I was attracted to the female body’s position showing diagonals and triangles. I tried to counterbalance them by throwing in ...
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2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Untitled (Rose) Unique original signed graphite drawing from MOCA Detroit Framed
Located in New York, NY
Donald Baechler
Untitled (Rose), 2015
Original Graphite drawing on archival bond paper. Framed, with museum provenance
Signed and dated in graphite pencil on the front
Provenance: Do...
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2010s Pop Art Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil, Graphite
Diptych Edge of Whimsy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint with water-soluble Art Graf and graphite heightens the directness of marking in this diptych series on paper. Art Graf comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into th...
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2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Emotional color chart 098
By Kyong Lee
Located in London, GB
Pencil and acrylic on Fabriano-pittura paper - Unframed.
This series, started in 2016 conveys a color and emotional language and is inspired by the series Color as Adjective, a seri...
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2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
Abstract Drawing, "Graphite Study for Playground Jupiter"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original abstract graphite drawing on paper by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 24"x 18"x 1.5". It is framed. A certificate of ...
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2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
'Piercing Shafts'. Botanical nature tropical green blue leaf sky abstract
Located in Penzance, GB
'Piercing Shafts'
Original artwork, framed ready to hang
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Yucca leaves: lances and swords, flashing shafts of sunlight through the piercing forms, a dance of loyalt...
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2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil, Photogram
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
Infrapaisaje (infra-Landscape)
Located in Bozeman, MT
Humberto Ramirez was born in Guadalajara, México, 1982. Lives and works in Guadalajara. His recent work explores human behavior from primitive perspective...
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2010s Minimalist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Chapter Fine Focus - Contemporary Pencil Drawing Moths on Braid of Hair, 2017
By Francine Fox
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary pencil drawing by Francine Fox of two meticulously detailed moths on a knotted braid of hair is inspired by the mystical animal and natural world. At 6 x 4 inches, ...
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2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
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...
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1960s Naturalistic Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Iceberg & Bottle Painting in Acrylic, Colored Pencil, Watercolor on Paper, 2021
Located in Orange, CA
Iceberg and Bottle, 2021
Additional information:
Medium: Acrylic, colored pencil, gouache, and watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 12 3/4 in
Todd Hebert (b. 1972 in Valley Cit...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Realistic Pencil Drawing of Man Using a Flying Contraption from Brewster McCloud
Located in Houston, TX
Realistic pencil drawing of a man using a flying contraption. Inspired by Robert Altman's 1970 dark comedy film Brewster McCloud. The film follows a young recluse (Bud Cort, as the t...
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1970s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Gamut - Graphite Wave Drawing on Canvas Undulating Line Waves Pattern, 2018
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary artwork in graphite and acrylic on canvas with layered undulations in shades of gray on a white background, Margaret Neill investigates the properties of abstrac...
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2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Theater and stage forms, red, blue, and yellow, Bauhaus on canvas
Located in Carballo, ES
Vítor Mejuto introduces a geometric synthesis that breaks down painting into its most structural essence. His work, in which line, stain and shape establish a precise chromatic balan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Constructivist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Natural East Indian painting, turmeric yellow and graphite on canvas
Located in Carballo, ES
This new series by Danish artist Peter Kramer (1959, Roskilde, DK) based in Spain shows us a new way of working with natural and exotic elements. In this case, he uses the turmeric r...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton, Organic Material, Tissue Paper, Graphite
Waiting to Peek
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The materials are acrylic paint, and simple marking implements of graphite and Art Graf. Art Graf is a water-soluble media that comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into the han...
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2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mulberry Paper, Graphite
Looking Together
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
On paper, acrylic paint and marking implements; graphite and Art Graf, a water-soluble kinetic media in tailor’s squares that easily fits into the hand to use the edges or the flat s...
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2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite, Tissue Paper
Low Reservoir, colorful Abstract Impressionist landscape gouache
Located in New York, NY
Sandy Litchfield found peace and inspiration in regular solitary walks through nature throughout the pandemic. Her most recent body of work diaristically documents her constitutional...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Color Pencil
Owl Flower Potted Plant - Original Radiant Abstract Botanical Painting 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
Santi Moix, Brazilian artist, Consilience, unique signed work on paper, Framed
By Santi Moix
Located in New York, NY
Santi Moix
Consilience, 2009
Crayon and pencil on paper
Signed and dated 2009 in crayon on the front
Unique
Frame included
Provenance: the Artist and Kasmin Gallery
This exquisite, u...
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Early 2000s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Pencil, Color Pencil
A Potted Succulent and a Rhizome - Original Vibrant Abstract Botanical Painting
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
Flushing #4
Located in Westport, CT
Selena Beaudry’s work is created by marking and cutting up drawings. This has led the artist to rediscovering her visual language. Her work consists of...
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2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Linen, Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, 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
Russian Contemporary Art by Anna Kazmina - Transformation. The Life of Elephants
Located in Paris, IDF
Pastel & pencils on paper
Anna Kazmina is a Russian artist born in 1987 who lives between Moscow, Russia and Beijing, China. She was graduated from Department of Art, Moscow State U...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
Sculpture project by Fausto Melotti, 1936
Located in Milan, IT
Pencil on watermarked paper. Signed lower left. The drawing is accompanied by an authentication on photo from the Fausto Melotti Archive, with code DIS 36 015, showing the data of th...
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1930s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$3,977 Sale Price
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Original Abstract Portrait in Mixed Media on Paper I (1987)
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Abstract Portrait in Mixed Media on Paper I (1987)
Example of 1980s vintage Latin American School abstract expressionist art of a minimalist portrait by California-based La...
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1980s Post-War Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pastel, Watercolor, Pencil
DYAD 11 -Tint and Prismacolor on linen - Red, Yellow Gradient with White Line
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This abstract painting by Linda King Ferguson is part of a series painted for her show, "The Waiting Room," at Channel to Channel. In this particular painting, a curved, carefully re...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Linen, Ink, Color Pencil
Walter Darby Bannard, Ammersee #2 signed painting by renowned Color Field artist
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 Color-Field Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite
"Surrealist Texas Oil Rig, " Original Watercolor & Ink signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Surrealist Texas Oil Rig" is an original, double-sided watercolor and ink piece by David Barnett, signed and dated in the lower right. It is framed with a w...
Category
1960s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, 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
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Renelio Marin
Untitled, 2018
28 x 22 inches
Acrylic and colored pencil on paper
Renelio Marin is a visual artist with a diverse range of influences and styles and the co-owner of AM...
Category
2010s Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil
$1,600 Sale Price
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'Untitled', By Haley Prestifilippo, Graphite Drawing on Paper
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 7.75" x 7.75" graphite on paper framed drawing is by Haley Prestifilippo. This graphite work presents a striking contrast between detailed and abstract elements. In the upper le...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
UNTITLED
By Richard Filipowski
Located in Portland, ME
Filipowski, Richard (American, born Poland, 1923-2008). UNTITLED. Graphite and colored pencils on illustration board, 1947. Signed and dated, lower right. 19 1/2 x14 1/2 inches. 495x368 mm. Framed to 26 x 22 inches. Provenance: Private Collection, Illinois; Gary Snyder...
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1940s Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Color Pencil
Emotional abstraction, vibrant colors, organic shapes, opera formal synthesis
Located in Carballo, ES
Vítor Mejuto introduces a geometric synthesis that breaks down painting into its most structural essence. His work, in which line, stain and shape establish a precise chromatic balan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Constructivist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Belarusian Contemporary Art by Dasha Buben - Conversations with my Inner Child
Located in Paris, IDF
Color pencils on paper
Framed 40 x 50 cm
Dasha Buben is a Belarusian artist born in 1982 who lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. She graduated from the Belarusi...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Orage terre (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Orange terre (Abstract painting)
Watercolor, acrylic and graphite lead on Bréhat paper — Unframed
Paper's dimensons: 74.5 x 53.5 cm / 29.3 x 21 inch
Image's dimensions: 60 x 42 cm /...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite
After Ingres Drawing
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"After Ingres Drawing" is a figurative Modern pencil and watercolor on paper work by Paul Wunderlich in 1973. The artwork is 26 1/8 x 19 inches and 35 1/4 x 28 1/2 x 2 inches with th...
Category
20th Century Modern Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Watercolor
Honolulu Watercolor, unique signed work on paper by famed LA Pop Artist, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Billy Al Bengston
Honolulu Watercolor, 1992
Watercolor on handmade paper with deckled edge in artist's hand made frame with studio label verso
Signed, titled and dated in pencil lowe...
Category
1990s Pop Art Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Emotional color chart 098 (Abstract painting)
By Kyong Lee
Located in London, GB
Emotional color chart 098 (Abstract painting)
Pencil and acrylic on Fabriano-pittura paper - Unframed.
This series, started in 2016 conveys a color and emotional language and is in...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
Rocio Rodriguez "3-Dec-11" Abstract Oil Pastel on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Rocio Rodriguez
December 3, 2011, 2011
pastel, oil pastel and charcoal on paper
18 x 24 in.
This original oil oil pastel drawing on paper by Rocio Rodriguez features abstracted rect...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper, Pastel, Pencil
Not yet 012 (Abstract painting)
By Kyong Lee
Located in London, GB
Pencil and acrylic on Canson-Montval paper - Unframed.
This artwork conveys a color and emotional language and is inspired by the series Color as Adjective, a series of drawings and...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the third of five children in a cultured and educated family with roots going back to the Massachusetts Bay colony. His father, John Galen Howard, was an architect who had trained at M.I.T. and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and apprenticed in Boston with Henry Hobson Richardson. In New York, the elder Howard worked for McKim, Mead and White before establishing a successful private practice. Mary Robertson Bradbury Howard, Charles’s mother, had studied art before her marriage. John Galen Howard moved his household to California in 1902 to assume the position of supervising architect of the new University of California campus at Berkeley and to serve as Professor of Architecture and the first Dean of the School of Architecture (established in 1903). The four Howard boys grew up to be artists and all married artists, leaving a combined family legacy of art making in the San Francisco Bay area that endures to this day, most notably in design, murals, and reliefs at the Coit Tower and in buildings on the Berkeley campus.
Charles Howard graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1921 as a journalism major and pursued graduate studies in English at Harvard and Columbia Universities before embarking on a two-year trip to Europe. Howard went to Europe as a would-be writer. But a near-religious experience, seeing a picture by Giorgione in a remote town outside of Venice, proved a life-altering epiphany. In his own words, “I cut the tour at once and hurried immediately back to Paris, to begin painting. I have been painting whenever I could ever since” (Charles Howard, “What Concerns Me,” Magazine of Art 39 [February 1946], p. 63). Giorgione’s achievement, in utilizing a structured and rational visual language of art to convey high emotion on canvas, instantly convinced Howard that painting, and not literature, offered the best vehicle to express what he wanted to say. Howard returned to the United States in 1925, confirmed in his intent to become an artist.
Howard settled in New York and supported himself as a painter in the decorating workshop of Louis Bouché and Rudolph Guertler, where he specialized in mural painting. Devoting spare time to his own work, he lived in Greenwich Village and immersed himself in the downtown avant-garde cultural milieu. The late 1920s and early 1930s were the years of Howard’s art apprenticeship. He never pursued formal art instruction, but his keen eye, depth of feeling, and intense commitment to the process of art making, allowed him to assimilate elements of painting intuitively from the wide variety of art that interested him. He found inspiration in the modernist movements of the day, both for their adherence to abstract formal qualities and for the cosmopolitan, international nature of the movements themselves. Influenced deeply by Surrealism, Howard was part of a group of American and European Surrealists clustered around Julien Levy. Levy opened his eponymously-named gallery in 1931, and rose to fame in January 1932, when he organized and hosted Surrealisme, the first ever exhibition of Surrealism in America, which included one work by Howard. Levy remained the preeminent force in advocating for Surrealism in America until he closed his gallery in 1949. Howard’s association with Levy in the early 1930s confirms the artist’s place among the avant-garde community in New York at that time.
In 1933, Howard left New York for London. It is likely that among the factors that led to the move were Howard’s desire to be a part of an international art community, as well as his marriage to English artist, Madge Knight...
Category
20th Century American Modern Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Graphite
The Thing is Suite 8 #4
Located in New York, NY
Abstract work of art. Charcoal, pencil, pastel, and acrylic on paper.
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Pencil
"Friendly Reminder" 2024 ink and colored pencil on paper
By Maeve D'Arcy
Located in New York, NY
Maeve D'Arcy
Friendly Reminder, 2024
ink and colored pencil on paper
22 x 30 in.
(dar147)
Category
2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Color Pencil
Étoile de Moment - Black China Ink and Pencil Drawing - 1952
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
"Étoile de Moment" is a black China ink and pencil drawing on paper glued on ivory-colored cardboard, signed and dated by Flor David (1891-1958).
The artwork represents an Étoile de...
Category
1950s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pencil
$443 Sale Price
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Hors Cadre I (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Hors Cadre I (Abstract painting)
Watercolor, color pencil and oil pastel on paper — Unframed
Marie de Lignerolles is an artist, designer, illustr...
Category
2010s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Early Modern Black & White Abstract Figurative Elegant Woman Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern black and white sketch by iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. Pulled from a collection of previously undiscovered sketchbooks, this work serves as a peak behind t...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
untitled
Located in New York, US
Nikolai Suetin (Russian: Николай Суетин; 25 October 1897 – 22 January 1954) was a Russian Suprematist artist. He worked as a graphic artist, a designer, and a ceramics painter.
Suet...
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1920s Suprematist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Synthesized musical harp, poetic abstraction, blue and garnet canvas
Located in Carballo, ES
Vítor Mejuto introduces a geometric synthesis that breaks down painting into its most structural essence. His work, in which line, stain and shape establish a precise chromatic balan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Constructivist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Unspoken Rule, A Vibrant Small Geometric Abstract Watercolor on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Sarah Brenneman’s Unspoken Rule (2024) is a delicate yet assertive watercolor on paper measuring 14 × 11 in. In this intimate abstraction, Brenneman begins with a central gesture—a v...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
2 STUDIES FOR REVOLUTION II (Grosvenor School Color Linocut)
By Cyril Power
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CYRIL POWER (British 1872-1951)
STUDIES FOR THE COLOR LINOCUT REVOLUTION II, 1931
Pencil on thin wove paper. Unsigned. Consists of two 3 inch square pencil drawings on one sheet of thin wove paper 10 x 7 3/8 inches. Preliminary studies for Power's Grosvenor School...
Category
1930s Futurist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$1,240 Sale Price
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A Cheerful 1950s Textile Design by Artist Andre Delfau
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 ...
Category
1950s American Modern Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Graphite, Paper
$385 Sale Price
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Original Triptych-Drawing Time-Gladiolus-PleinAir-Brit Award Artist-ink on paper
Located in London, GB
The Summer Bloom Series is an ongoing project that Shizico Yi returns to each summer, painting en plein air in her garden. She began gardening in 2015 to create a healing space for h...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Gouache, Graphite
Flag Icon unique signed pastel collage on paper by renowned female artist Framed
Located in New York, NY
Sonia Gechtoff
Flag Icon, 1963
Pastel, graphite and collage
Frame included: elegantly framed in hand made wood frame with UV plexiglass
Evocative mixed media mid century modern work...
Category
1960s Abstract Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Mixed Media, Graphite
Pre-War Abstraction - Modernism - Tan Bronze Tope - Nonrepresentational
By Elsie Driggs
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering female abstract artist Elsie Driggs paints stylized abstract organic forms in a warm palette of orange browns and tope. She merges abstraction with some figuration. A structured face composed of lines and tone emerges from an orange background. It's 1939, and even though Driggs is not well known, she is preceding many of the marquee names of abstraction by a decade. Although under the radar, this is a major work and is titled on the back stretcher is " Egyptian Gothic." It features the artist's inventiveness with her fine pencil lines incorporated in flat washes of color and collage elements. Signed lower right and inscribed on frame verso with title, artist and the date of 1939. Provenance, Christie's, Freemans. Framed under glass..
Elsie Driggs (1898 – July 12, 1992 in New York City) was an American painter known for her contributions to Precisionism, America's one indigenous modern-art movement before Abstract Expressionism, and for her later floral and figurative watercolors, pastels, and oils. She was the only female participant in the Precisionist movement, which in the 1920s and 1930s took a Cubist-inspired approach to painting the skyscrapers and factories that had come to define the new American landscape. Her works are in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Houston Museum of the Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the James A. Michener Art Museum in Pennsylvania, and the Columbus Museum of Art, among others. She was married to the American abstract artist Lee Gatch.
Career
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Driggs grew up in New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City, in a family that was supportive of her artistic interests. After a summer spent painting with her sister in New Mexico in her late teens, she felt she had found her life's calling. At twenty, she enrolled in classes at the Art Students League of New York, where she studied under George Luks and Maurice Sterne, both of whom were charismatic, inspirational figures in her early life. She also attended the evening criticism classes held at the home of painter John Sloan. Driggs spent fourteen months in Europe from late 1922 to early 1924, drawing and studying Italian art. There she met Leo Stein, first in Paris and later in Florence, who became an important intellectual influence, and who urged her to study Cézanne. He also introduced her to the works of Piero della Francesca, the Renaissance artist for whom she felt throughout her life the greatest admiration.[1]
Driggs eventually settled in New York City, where she found representation with the progressive Charles Daniel Gallery.[2] (Advised that the old-fashioned and misogynistic Daniel would be unlikely to take on a woman artist, she signed the works she left for his consideration simply "Driggs" and waited to meet him in person until he had expressed his eagerness to include her in his gallery.)[3] In sympathy with those artists Daniel represented who were part of the burgeoning Precisionist movement, such as Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, George Ault, Niles Spencer, and Preston Dickinson, she too painted "the modern landscape of factories, bridges, and skyscrapers with geometric precision and almost abstract spareness."Impressionism and academic or Ashcan realism represented the past, in Driggs' view, and she intended to be resolutely modern. She was an attractive and engaging woman, but her demeanor belied a strong ambition and a clear sense of what it would take to make her mark in the New York art world. Driggs was part of the pre-eminent first group of Precisionist painters, including Demuth and Sheeler, who exhibited at the Daniel Gallery in the 1920s. Although a later group of Precisionist painters, including Louis Lozowick, Ralston Crawford and others, came on the American Art scene during the 1930s, Driggs felt that the style came to an end with the 1929 stock market crash.[5]
In 1926 she painted her most famous work, Pittsburgh, a dark and brooding picture now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which depicts the gargantuan smokestacks of the Jones & Laughlin steel mills in Pittsburgh. Its focus is an overpowering mass of black and gray smokestacks, thick piping, and crisscrossing wires with only clouds of smoke to relieve the severity of the image, yet it was an image in which she found an ironic beauty. She called the picture "my El Greco" and expressed surprise that viewers in later years interpreted the painting as a work of social criticism. Like the other Precisionists (e.g., Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Louis Lozowick, Stefan Hirsch), she was concerned with applying modernist techniques to renderings of the new industrial and urban landscape, not in commenting on potential dangers the overly mechanized modern world of 1920s America might present. If anything, Precisionism, like Futurism, was a celebration of man-made energy and technology. One year later, she painted Blast Furnaces, in a similar vein. As noted above, Piero della Francesca's mural depicting "The Story of the True Cross" in Arezzo, with its tubular, static and frozen forms was the major influence on Driggs' "Pittsburgh" (it may have been the major influence for "Blast Furnaces" as well).[7]
After Pittsburgh, Driggs' most acclaimed work was probably Queensborough Bridge...
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1930s Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Geometric Colorist Project Surrealist Drawings on Tracing Paper, France 1960s
Located in Atlanta, GA
Stunning, rare original project drawings, hand-painted with colored pencil on translucent tracing paper by a French artist, circa the 1960s. The two paintings feature a geometric stu...
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1960s Modern Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Surrealist Geometric Colorist Project Drawings on Tracing Paper, circa 1960
Located in Atlanta, GA
Stunning original project drawings, hand-painted with colored pencil on translucent tracing paper by a French artist, circa 1960. The two paintings feature a geometric study in color...
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1960s Modern Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Geometric Abstract Collage Flat Color "Old Lady with Spring Hat "
Located in Miami, FL
Famed graphic designer Ivan Chermayeff creates a portrait made from cut paper and magazine clippings. Chermayeff names it "Old Lady with Spring Hat " and as one views it "charming"...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Pencil Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Magazine Paper, Pencil
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