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Untitled (blue & red diamonds)
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Untitled (blue & red diamonds) Gouache on 1957 Encyclopedia page Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / Geometric Abstraction / Gestural Abstraction / ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Magazine Paper

Time (Measure & Passage Of)
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Time (Measure & Passage Of) Gouache and metallic ink on 1957 Encyclopedia page Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / Geometric Abstraction / Gestural Abstraction / Abstract Art ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Gouache, Magazine Paper

Abstract Portrait of a Woman in Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Portrait of a Woman in Gouache on Paper A vibrant abstract portrait of a woman with raven black hair accented in bold red and yellow, by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Paper

Composition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a Watercolour artwork realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980) in 1970. Good condition on a little paper. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower ri...
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1970s Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Geometría fractal 2. The memory of narcissus series . Watercolor Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Geometría fractal, 2019 by James Bonachea From The Series The memory of narcissus Watercolor on cardboard Image size: 70 cm H x 50 cm W Unframed This series of works stems from the...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Cardboard

La memoria de narciso 5. The memory of narcissus series Watercolor Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
La memoria de narciso 5, 2017 by James Bonachea From The Series The memory of narcissus Watercolor on cardboard Image size: 100 cm H x 70 cm W Unframed This series of works stems f...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Cardboard

A Poet - Drawing by Carlo Cego - 1966
Located in Roma, IT
A poet is a contemporary artwork realized by Carlo Cego in 1966. Miched colored pencil and watercolor drawing on paper. Includes frame: 52 x 2.5 x 72 cm Hand signed and titled on ...
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1960s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Pencil

Marilla Palmer "Flowers Like Fans" - Watercolor and Pressed Flowers on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Marilla Palmer Flowers Like Fans, 2022 watercolor, pressed petals, sequin, stitching, fabric on Arches Hot Press paper 15 x 11 in. (pal214) This original artwork by Marilla Palmer i...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Fabric, Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Doble Standard 6. From The Series Doble Standard Series. Watercolor Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Doble Standard 6, 2023 by James Bonachea From The Series Doble Standard Series Watercolor on cardboard Image size: 38 cm H x 26 cm W Unframed The more ...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Cardboard

Abstract Color Field Composition in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Color Field Composition in Watercolor on Paper Bold abstract composition by Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). Two rectangles of color sit vertically, with gray-pu...
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1980s Abstract Impressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Alexander Calder Yin Yang and Pinwheel 1969 Gouache on Canson Paper Signed
Located in Paris, FR
1969 Gouache and ink on paper, signed « Calder » and dated « 69 » lower right This artwork is recorded with the Calder Foundation as number A03085 75 x 110 cm ...
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1960s Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Untitled
By Dorothy Heller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Watercolor on paper, 1990 Signed lower left corner Provenance: Gift of the Artist to one of hr patrons Distinguished Midwest Private Collection Conditi...
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1990s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Center of power, yellow and green
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The gallery certificate is available, stamp signed lower right Pinajian.
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Follow the pink rabbit - line drawing woman figure
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artwork were done with oil, acrylic, ink and watercolor. The work are 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (black) with a styrene face on a mat board in whi...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Oil

Armenian Contemporary Art by Mariam Khachatryan - Regret
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor on paper, Framed 54 x 44 x 2 cm
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1990s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Composition in Red
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis Composition in Red c. 1960 Gouache on paper 52.5 x 24.5 cms (20 11/16 x 9 11/16 ins) SF14434 $125,000 Exhibited: Bernard Jacobson Gall...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Signal 12 - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Signal 12 is a contemporary artwork realized by Leo Guida in 1970s. Mixed colored ink and watercolor on paper. Hand signed, titled on the lower margin Includes frame: 63.5 x 49 cm...
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1970s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Ink

Geometric Color Grid - Op Art Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly precise op-art composition by an unknown artist. A grid of colored squares has been created with various colors, divided by occasional diagonal lines that give the feel of ove...
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21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

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 Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Abstract Composition - Original Drawing - Mid 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an Original Ink and Watercolor realized by an Unknown artist of mid-20th century. The artwork is in good condition on a cream colored cardboard. No Signature.
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Abstract Landscape #2, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
I like to paint atmospheric watercolors using lots of texture. This painting comes with a white mat ready for framing. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official ce...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Mid Century Abstract Vertical Sunset
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract watercolor fragment of a sunset over a field by Irene Pattinson (American, 20th Century). Tag on verso reads "Miller Fine Art / The Estate of Irene Pattinson". Unsigned. Acq...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Tissue Paper

Abstract Composition - Original Drawing by Maurice André - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original Ink and Watercolor drawing on paper applied realized by Maurice André in the Mid-20th Century. Good conditions. Han...
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1950s Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Watercolor

1950s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Composition by Charles Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
Abstract expressionist watercolor painting of blue, black, orange, and green signed by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968). Presented in a custom frame with all archival materials an...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Abstract with Cats, Original Signed Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Work
Located in Boston, MA
Abstract with Cats, Original Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Work, 2019 8" x 10" (HxW) Ink and Watercolor on Paper Hand-signed by the artist. An abstract expressionist work fill...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Dexter's Choice, State II
Located in New York, NY
Larry Zox Dexter's Choice, State II, ca. 1990 Mixed media, Watercolor pochoir, and Oil stick Wax, Water-Based Crayons, on heavy Arches museum watercolor rag paper with deckled edges ...
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1990s Color-Field Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil, Watercolor, Monoprint, Mixed Media, Crayon, Graphite

Watercolor 9, Work on Paper, Colorful, Organic Shapes, Natural, Moving, Cosmos
Located in Riverdale, NY
Watercolor 9 is a 22" x 17.5" , watercolor on paper, by Melinda Hacket. It is white framed to 25" x 20.25. It is filled with rich earthy colors and organic moving shapes. Melinda H...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Untitled, " Thiago Rocha Pitta, Brazilian Contemporary Grey Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Thiago Rocha Pitta Untitled, 2006 Watercolor on paper 30 x 23 inches Brazil-based artist Thiago Rocha Pitta’s (b. 1980) temporal and sensitive body of work depicts interventions wit...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Field of Flowers #2
Located in Bloomington, IL
"Field Of Flowers #2" is a unique watercolor monotype printed on Hanhnemühle Copperplate paper. The print is professionally framed: floated on museum board in lacquered maple, with a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Monotype

Abstract painting listed artist Royal Society Arts Pink Purple Yellow Green
Located in Norfolk, GB
Anthony Benjamin, 'Untitled', watercolour and acrylic on paper, image size 20 x 26cm, framed size, 33 cm x 40 cm, signed and dated 2000 Provenance: From the Artist Estate A Gallery Certificate accompanies the painting Anthony Benjamin was a 20th Century abstract precisionist artist. Born in London in 1931 he was active throughout the second half of the 20th century. Experimental, hugely talented and obsessive, Benjamin moved fluidly between mediums and refused to be tied to any practise. He trained with the best, amongst others with Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris and was recognised by the Royal Society of the Arts, his pier group and leading Galleries and Institutions who displayed and collected his work. Anthony Benjamin was also daring. At at time when the art-world was fixated with the St Ives Group of artists, Benjamin, who was part of this group, chose to leave. Although adept at making St Ives abstractionism it did not sit naturally with him. He did not see value in its art. Instead he sought to replicate abstraction in nature and was inspired by others who had also mastered this craft such as the Composer Brian Eno, with whom he later collaborated with and the Gnawa musicians of Morocco. A trained engineering draughtsman, Benjamin's formally perfect artworks are always infused with an air of technical experimentation and a poetic response to the natural world. The artist was inspired by pattern and obsessed with process. He was a sculptor, printmaker, painter, draughtsman and used collage, canvas, brass, perspex, steel, paper and anything that inspired him. Throughout his career, Benjamin made monumental paintings. In the studio he thought, pondered and considered every move. It was during these periods of contemplation that he would make warm up paintings that were beautifully loose, almost the antithesis in process to his large works. However it was in these smaller watercolour paintings...
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Early 2000s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

The Eiffel - Drawing in Watercolor by Yves Alix - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Eiffel in Colors is an Original drawing in watercolor realized by Yves Alix (1899-1971). Hand- signed on the lower left. Good conditions.
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Early 20th Century Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Warm & Golden (2020), surreal abstract dream-like landscape, garden, rainbow
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Warm & Golden (2020), surreal abstract dream-like landscape, skyscape, garden, rainbow, flowers "Warm & Golden" by Shamona Stokes portrays a playful, ...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel, Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Gouache

Rave Sister X
Located in London, GB
Rave Sister X, a vibrant watercolour painting on gessoed paper created in 2020, captures the essence of a dance trance in a mesmerizing and abstract manner. This monochromatic artwor...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gesso, Paper, Acrylic

Pions (Abstract work on paper)
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper - Unframed. Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt. French abstract artist Jérémie Iordanoff blends the visual languages of Western Modernist Abstraction with earlier, ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

American Modernist Abstract Mining Scene Watercolor Painting, Red Green Brown
By Frank Pancho Gates
Located in Denver, CO
1935 American Modernist watercolor on paper by Frank "Pancho" Gates (1904-1998). An abstract scene of a mining town in the mountains, completed in colors of red, green, yellow, and black. Presented in a custom frame with all archival materials, outside dimensions measure 14 ¼ x 17 ¼ inches. Image size measures 8 ¾ x 11 ¾ inches. Painting is clean and in good condition, has had restoration work - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: A Colorado modernist artist and theater set designer, he grew up in Edgewater, Colorado, near the Manhattan Beach Theater and the winter quarters of the Denver Post’s Sells-Floto Circus which he frequented as a youngster. These two places introduced him early on to the theater. Additionally, his father toured the United States in a wire walking act with the Barnum and Bailey Circus. Gates began his association with the theater in 1919 when just out of high school. He initially worked with scenic artist, Jack Stein, at the old Tabor Theater in the Tabor Grand Opera House (demolished in 1964) in downtown Denver. Soon after that, he became an assistant scenic artist to George Bradford Ashworth, a famous New York stage set designer, who during the summer designed sets for the Elitch Gardens Theater in northwest Denver. Gates later produced the sets there until 1928. He was offered a scholarship to Colorado A & M College (now Colorado State University) in Fort Collins but declined because of his growing commitment to the theater. He followed his tenure at Elitch’s with positions at the Denham Theater in Denver and the Palm Theater in Pueblo. Upon returning to Denver, he became a free-lance artist for studios producing scenery for stage shows at the city’s Tabor, Denver, Paramount, Alladin, Rivoli, Broadway, Orpheum and Empress Theaters. He moved to California, perfecting his craft at the Pasadena Playhouse, a training school for young actors and actresses pursuing stardom in the movies. Later associated with the Technicolor Corporation, he helped to produce the film used in early color movies such as Becky Sharp (1935) and the Garden of Allah...
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1930s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Kenneth Rowntree: 'Abstract Australian Landscape' watercolour Modern British Art
By Kenneth Rowntree
Located in London, GB
Kenneth Rowntree Abstract Australian Landscape Watercolour 27.5 x 33cm Signed (top left) and dated ‘Kenneth Rowntree ’85’ Provenance: Anderson & Garland Studio sale of Kenneth Rowntree lot 263 Tuesday 8 September 2009 For biographical details and other works by Rowntree click here. Rowntree visited Australia in 1984/85. In this painting he picks up various vignettes from the Australian landscape in six separate blocks. Two relate to the sky, with almost-unbroken blue skies stretching from horizon to horizon, three relate to desert areas, with a whole array of different textures, and one is a luscious green. In one of the desert scenes he has picked out two road signs, in typical Rowntree fashion, reducing them to their simplest form. In her essay Kenneth Rowntree: A Strange Simplicity (published in Kenneth Rowntree A Centenary Exhibition Published by Moore-Gwyn Fine Art and Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, on behalf of the artist’s estate, on the occasion of the centenary of Kenneth Rowntree’s birth) Alexandra Harris makes reference to this painting noting: "Later, in 1986, just when the young David Hockney was collaging the signs and road-markings of Route 138 in Pearblossom Highway, Rowntree was in Australia painting yellow diamond-shaped road-signs as bright icons in open country. Wherever he went, Rowntree captured both the unfamiliarity of places and their relationship to things he knew. Heading into the Australian outback, he painted a road-sign as he would paint a rail signal at Clare in Suffolk or nautical markers at Swansea." Hockney’s 1986 Pearblossom Highway may be seen in the Getty and it is worth noting that Rowntree was in fact painting the yellow sign in 1985, so a year before Hockney. Kenneth Rowntree (1915-1997) Rowntree was born in Scarborough and educated in York where his father managed the local department store. Young Kenneth’s work was displayed there and his first major commission arose from an advertisement at the store. After the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford he studied at the Slade School, meeting Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden and then moving to north Essex to work with them as members of the group of Great Bardfield Artists. Between 1940 and 1943 he was one of the team of over 60 artists engaged by the War Artists Advisory Committee for the ‘Recording Britain’ project, to record the face of England and Wales before wartime action – or development – changed it for ever. Rowntree’s keen sense of design, and fascination with the quirky and the vernacular made him an ideal candidate to interpret our built heritage’s more unusual aspects. In 1951 he painted murals in the Lion and Unicorn pavilion for the Festival of Britain, he decorated the route of the Queen’s Coronation procession (some of the works being acquired by Her Majesty). During a teaching job at the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford he was driven, perhaps by his experiences recording Britain, to record the decorated barges that belonged to the Oxford Colleges. These wooden Victorian ceremonial barges had belonged to the London livery companies, but were acquired in their later life by the Colleges to be used as changing rooms and clubhouses for the College boat clubs – depending on the size of the barge rowing eights were stored on board too. Part way through painting one of them Rowntree thought his drawing incorrect until he realised that it was the boat that was moving. It was in fact sinking. These days the Colleges have modern (but unromantic) boat houses; a handful of the barges remain – restored – in private hands. In 1959 he was appointed Professor of Fine Art at King’s College, Newcastle (latterly part of the University), which as British art schools went was one of the most progressive. The Master of Painting was the abstract constructionist Victor Passmore...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Abstract painting listed artist Royal Society Arts Green Blue Yellow Red Africa
Located in Norfolk, GB
Anthony Benjamin, 'Untitled', watercolour and acrylic on paper, image size 24cm x 31cm, framed size, 37.5cm x 44cm, signed and dated 2001 Provenance: From the Artist Estate A Gallery Certificate accompanies the painting Anthony Benjamin was a 20th Century abstract precisionist artist. Born in London in 1931 he was active throughout the second half of the 20th century. Experimental, hugely talented and obsessive, Benjamin moved fluidly between mediums and refused to be tied to any practise. He trained with the best, amongst others with Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris and was recognised by the Royal Society of the Arts, his pier group and leading Galleries and Institutions who displayed and collected his work. Anthony Benjamin was also daring. At at time when the art-world was fixated with the St Ives Group of artists, Benjamin, who was part of this group, chose to leave. Although adept at making St Ives abstractionism it did not sit naturally with him. He did not see value in its art. Instead he sought to replicate abstraction in nature and was inspired by others who had also mastered this craft such as the Composer Brian Eno, who he later collaborated with and Gnawa musicians of Morocco. A trained engineering draughtsmanship, Benjamins formally perfect artworks are always infused with an air of technical experimentation and a poetic response to the natural world. The artist was inspired by pattern and obsessed with process. He was a sculptor, printmaker, painter, draughtsman and used collage, canvas, brass, perspex, steel, paper and anything that inspired him. Throughout his career, Benjamin made monumental paintings. In the studio he thought, pondered and considered every move. It was during these periods of contemplation that he would make warm up paintings that were beautifully loose and almost the antithesis in process to his large works. However it was in these smaller watercolour paintings...
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Early 2000s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

"Hydrozoa Study", Watercolor, Abstract, Contemporary Art, Emerging Artist
Located in Houston, TX
"Hydrozoa Study", is a contemporary abstract painting made with watercolor on paper, and was painted by emerging artist from Houston, Texas, Grayson Chandler...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Abstract Composition - Drawing - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a tempera and watercolor attributed to José Ortega oand realized in the 1970s. The artwork is composed by two little arts on a cream colored cardboard passpa...
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1970s Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Tempera

Abstract Cityscape Mid 20th Century Modern Cubist Work on Paper Drawing Ariel
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Cityscape Mid 20th Century Modern Cubist Work on Paper Drawing Ariel 11 x 4 1/2 inches. Framed by Heydenryk. Provenance: Gary Snyder Fine Art B...
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1950s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Color is Life — Mid-Century Abstract Expressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ernest A. Dieringer, Untitled ('Color is Life'), watercolor, 1959. Initialed 'ED' and dated ' '59' in red pencil at the top and bottom sheet edges—the artist's indication that the work can be viewed from either side. Signed 'Dieringer' in pencil, in the bottom support board margin. A fine abstract expressionist work; watercolor on white wove paper, with fresh, bright colors; the image extending to the sheet edges, spot glued to the original cream wove backing board, in very good condition. Image size 9 x 10 15/16 inches; backing board size 13 1/2 x 16 3/4 inches. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. Provenance: ex. Collection Alexander Raydon. The collector/dealer's well-known 'Raydon Gallery' was established in 1962 on 82nd Street and Madison Avenue, New York City. ABOUT THE ARTIST Ernest Dieringer studied at the Art Institute of Chicago on a National Scholastic Scholarship, beginning his career with the Chicago-based Wells Street Gallery in 1957. He showed his work with other abstract artists, including Robert Natkin and John Chamberlain. The gallery was considered a vanguard space in Chicago for exhibiting emerging abstract artists from the surrounding area. Artists associated with the gallery eventually became known as the Wells Street Group. Due to the success of the gallery, Dieringer and other group members were invited by the Manhattan-based contemporary art dealer...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

1950s Abstract Composition in Brown, Orange and Blue with Black Parallel Lines
Located in Denver, CO
Watercolor and ink on paper of an abstract composition of brown, orange and blue shapes between black parallel lines throughout the the piece by Herbert Bayer (1900-1985). Presented in a custom black frame with all archival materials. Framed dimensions measure 17 ⅞ x 22 ⅝ x 1 inches. Image size is 10 ¼ x 15 ½ inches. Painting is clean and in very good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: Herbert Bayer enjoyed a versatile sixty-year career spanning Europe and America that included abstract and surrealist painting, sculpture, environmental art, industrial design, architecture, murals, graphic design, lithography, photography and tapestry. He was one of the few “total artists” of the twentieth century, producing works that “expressed the needs of an industrial age as well as mirroring the advanced tendencies of the avant-garde.” One of four children of a tax revenue officer growing up in a village in the Austrian Salzkammergut Lake region, Bayer developed a love of nature and a life-long attachment to the mountains. A devotee of the Vienna Secession and the Vienna Workshops (Wiener Werkstätte) whose style influenced Bauhaus craftsmen in the 1920s, his dream of studying at the Academy of Art in Vienna was dashed at age seventeen by his father’s premature death. In 1919 Bayer began an apprenticeship with architect and designer, Georg Schmidthamer, where he produced his first typographic works. Later that same year he moved to Darmstadt, Germany, to work at the Mathildenhöhe Artists’ Colony with architect Emanuel Josef Margold of the Viennese School. As his working apprentice, Bayer first learned about the design of packages – something entirely new at the time – as well as the design of interiors and graphics of a decorative expressionist style, all of which later figured in his professional career. While at Darmstadt, he came across Wassily Kandinsky’s book, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, and learned of the new art school, the Weimar Bauhaus, in which he enrolled in 1921. He initially attended Johannes Itten’s preliminary course, followed by Wassily Kandinsky’s workshop on mural painting. Bayer later recalled, “The early years at the Bauhaus in Weimar became the formative experience of my subsequent work.” Following graduation in 1925, he was appointed head of the newly-created workshop for print and advertising at the Dessau Bauhaus that also produced the school’s own print works. During this time he designed the “Universal” typeface emphasizing legibility by removing the ornaments from letterforms (serifs). Three years later he left the Bauhaus to focus more on his own artwork, moving to Berlin where he worked as a graphic designer in advertising and as an artistic director of the Dorland Studio advertising agency. (Forty years later he designed a vast traveling exhibition, catalog and poster -- 50 Jahre Bauhaus -- shown in Germany, South America, Japan, Canada and the United States.) In pre-World War II Berlin he also pursued the design of exhibitions, painting, photography and photomontage, and was art director of Vogue magazine in Paris. On account of his previous association with the Bauhaus, the German Nazis removed his paintings from German museums and included him among the artists in a large exhibition entitled Degenerate Art (Entartete Kunst) that toured German and Austrian museums in 1937. His inclusion in that exhibition and the worsening political conditions in Nazi Germany prompted him to travel to New York that year with Marcel Breuer, meeting with former Bauhaus colleagues, Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy to explore the possibilities of employment after immigration to the United States. In 1938 Bayer permanently relocated to the United States, settling in New York where he had a long and distinguished career in practically every aspect of the graphic arts, working for drug companies, magazines, department stores, and industrial corporations. In 1938 he arranged the exhibition, “Bauhaus 1919-1928” at the Museum of Modern Art, followed later by “Road to Victory” (1942, directed by Edward Steichen), “Airways to Peace” (1943) and “Art in Progress” (1944). Bayer’s designs for “Modern Art in Advertising” (1945), an exhibition of the Container Corporation of America (CAA) at the Art Institute of Chicago, earned him the support and friendship of Walter Paepcke, the corporation’s president and chairman of the board. Paepcke, whose embrace of modern currents and design changed the look of American advertising and industry, hired him to move to Aspen, Colorado, in 1946 as a design consultant transforming the moribund mountain town into a ski resort and a cultural center. Over the next twenty-eight years he became an influential catalyst in the community as a painter, graphic designer, architect and landscape designer, also serving as a design consultant for the Aspen Cultural Center. In the summer of 1949 Bayer promoted through poster design and other design work Paepcke’s Goethe Bicentennial Convocation attended by 2,000 visitors to Aspen and highlighted by the participation of Albert Schweitzer, Arthur Rubenstein, Jose Ortega y Gasset and Thornton Wilder. The celebration, held in a tent designed by Finnish architect Eero Saarinen, led to the establishment that same year of the world-famous Aspen Music Festival and School regarded as one of the top classical music venues in the United States, and the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies in (now the Aspen Institute), promoting in Paepcke’s words “the cross fertilization of men’s minds.” In 1946 Bayer completed his first architecture design project in Aspen, the Sundeck Ski Restaurant, at an elevation of 11,300 feet on Ajax Mountain. Three years later he built his first studio on Red Mountain, followed by a home which he sold in 1953 to Robert O. Anderson, founder of the Atlantic Richfield Company who became very active in the Aspen Institute. Bayer later designed Anderson’s terrace home in Aspen (1962) and a private chapel for the Anderson family in Valley Hondo, New Mexico (1963). Transplanting German Bauhaus design to the Colorado Rockies, Bayer created along with associate architect, Fredric Benedict, a series of buildings for the modern Aspen Institute complex: Koch Seminar Building (1952), Aspen Meadows guest chalets and Center Building (both 1954), Health Center and Aspen Meadows Restaurant (Copper Kettle, both 1955). For the grounds of the Aspen Institute in 1955 Bayer executed the Marble Garden and conceived the Grass Mound, the first recorded “earthwork” environment In 1973-74 he completed Anderson Park for the Institute, a continuation of his fascination with environmental earth art. In 1961 he designed the Walter Paepcke Auditorium and Memorial Building, completing three years later his most ambitious and original design project – the Musical Festival Tent for the Music Associates of Aspen. (In 2000 the tent was replaced with a design by Harry Teague.) One of Bayer’s ambitious plans from the 1950s, unrealized due to Paepcke’s death in 1960, was an architectural village on the outskirts of the Aspen Institute, featuring seventeen of the world’s most notable architects – Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, I.M. Pei, Minoru Yamasaki, Edward Durrell Stone and Phillip Johnson – who accepted his offer to design and build houses. Concurrent with Bayer’s design and consultant work while based in Aspen for almost thirty years, he continued painting, printmaking, and mural work. Shortly after relocating to Colorado, he further developed his “Mountains and Convolutions” series begun in Vermont in 1944, exploring nature’s fury and repose. Seeing mountains as “simplified forms reduced to sculptural surface in motion,” he executed in 1948 a series of seven two-color lithographs (edition of 90) for the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Colorado’s multi-planal typography similarly inspired Verdure, a large mural commissioned by Walter Gropius for the Harkness Commons Building at Harvard University (1950), and a large exterior sgraffito mural for the Koch Seminar Building at the Aspen Institute (1953). Having exhausted by that time the subject matter of “Mountains and Convulsions,” Bayer returned to geometric abstractions which he pursued over the next three decades. In 1954 he started the “Linear Structure” series containing a richly-colored balance format with bands of sticks of continuously modulated colors. That same year he did a small group of paintings, “Forces of Time,” expressionist abstractions exploring the temporal dimension of nature’s seasonal molting. He also debuted a “Moon and Structure” series in which constructed, architectural form served as the underpinning for the elaboration of color variations and transformations. Geometric abstraction likewise appeared his free-standing metal sculpture, Kaleidoscreen (1957), a large experimental project for ALCOA (Aluminum Corporation of America) installed as an outdoor space divider on the Aspen Meadows in the Aspen Institute complex. Composed of seven prefabricated, multi-colored and textured panels, they could be turned ninety degrees to intersect and form a continuous plane in which the panels recomposed like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. He similarly used prefabricated elements for Articulated Wall, a very tall free-standing sculpture commissioned for the Olympic Games in Mexico...
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1950s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Conversation by Annemarie Ambrosoli Watercolor on paper Pop Art
Located in Kiens, BZ
Conversation (2018), Watercolor on Paper Fabriano 600 g, cm 39x50 cm, by Italian contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli (ICA - International Certified Artist) This watercolor comes...
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2010s Pop Art Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Amazing by Annemarie Ambrosoli Watercolor on Paper Pop Art
Located in Kiens, BZ
Amazing (2018), Watercolor on Paper Fabriano 600 g, 44x64 cm, by Italian contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli (ICA - International Certified Artist) This watercolor comes directl...
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2010s Pop Art Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Friends Forever by Annemarie Ambrosoli Watercolor on Paper Pop Art
Located in Kiens, BZ
Friends Forever (2018), Watercolor Paper Fabriano 600 g, 42x58 cm, by Italian contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli (ICA - International Certified Artist) This watercolor comes di...
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2010s Pop Art Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Bobine
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Bobine" is a gouache and ink on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right "Calder 72". Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alexander Calder started his artistic career as an abstract painter, preferring to use gouache. What is gouache? Gouache is a water-soluble paint – a type of opaque watercolor. As Calder returned to gouache painting towards the end of his life, he was now armed with a lifetime of experience as a sculptor. He explored the three-dimensional vocabulary of sculptural forms he had developed onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper. Certain shapes and colors recur throughout his gouaches and sculptures. Circles, ovals, and other geometric forms dominate the space. There is the same sense of energy and fluidity. The shapes do not sit on the surface but vibrate giving a feeling of movement in contrast to the static nature of painting. Like his sculpture, Calder’s gouache...
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1970s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Paper, Ink

Abstract Composition - Painting by Lucian - 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an Original tempera and watercolor on Paper applied on wood realized by Lucian in the 20th century. Hand-signed , also the stamp of Atelier Montmartre.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Tempera, Watercolor

Gathering of Monarchs, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
hanging from the foliage in your hundreds repainting the leaves in bright shades of black and orange with your waterproof gossamer wings of four ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Bottichelli Sleeve, #2251" Horst P. Horst Homage, Mixed media Collage on Paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Botichelli Sleeve, #2251 by Natasha Zupan Collage on paper Measures: 12.6 in. H x 9.3 in. W One of a kind Signed lower right on recto by the artist 20...
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2010s Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

1950s "Abstract #4" Ink and Gouache Painting Univ of Paris
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy "Abstract #4" c.1950s Ink & Gouache on paper 10.5x19.5" brown, ripple, wood frame 11.5”x1”x20.75” Signed in pencil lower right with label on reverse Came from artist's e...
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Early 20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Gouache

'Migration: In Flux Pandemic Collection, ' by Peter Healy, Painting, 2020
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 27" x 37" watercolor painting by Irish artist, Peter Healy is from the 'In Flux' Pandemic Collection. The painting comes vibrantly alive as the...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Bronze capsule - line drawing figure with deep blue disk and stripes
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artwork were done with acrylic, ink and watercolor in bronze and deep blue color on watercolor paper 300g. The work are 11 by 15 inches in size, framed...
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2010s Minimalist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor

Daedalus
Located in Wien, 9
Markus Lüpertz was born in Reichenberg in 1941 and works as a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor. He lives and works in Berlin, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf and Florence and has hi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Clif McChesney, Abstract Expressionist, Watercolor
Located in Detroit, MI
The 16 in x 23 in watercolor displays striking and colorful qualities that influenced abstract expressionism for decades to come. In 2016 the Dennos Museum in Traverse City, Michigan, in homage to the very first exhibition in the Zimmerman Sculpture Court, installed the first two paintings by the former Michigan State University painting professor, Clif McChesney (1929-2011) on the Court walls, and the glass artistry of Dale Chihuly, featuring works from the Dennos Collection. In 1991, an exhibition of Dale Chihuly glass...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Cadaques No. 23, Surreal Nude Painting by Eduardo Arranz-Bravo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Spanish (1941 - ) Title: Cadaques No.23 Year: 1994 Medium: Mixed Media (Watercolor and Color pencil) on paper, signed and dated Size: 14 x 5 in. (35.56 ...
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1990s Surrealist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Color Pencil

Kopf (Head)
Located in Wien, 9
Markus Lüpertz was born in Reichenberg in 1941 and works as a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor. He lives and works in Berlin, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf and Florence and has hi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Little Gardens #4
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Little Gardens #4" 2001 is a watercolor with gold addition on heavy rag paper by American artist Phil Gallagher. It is hand signed,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Venice Watercolor
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Billy Al Bengston American (b. 1934) Venice Watercolor, 1975 Watercolor on paper 10 x 40 1/4 in. Initialed, inscribed and dated lower center: "B.A.B. / Venice 1975" Provenance: Bill...
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1970s Pop Art Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

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