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Medium: Watercolor
L.A. pink stripes
Located in Fairfield, CT
Janet Jennings is known for her luminous oil & watercolor paintings. After working for Lawrence Rubin at Knoedler Contemporary Art, Jennings maintained a studio at Waverly Studios in New York City. She began as a Color Field painter, working on canvas and linen. Janet moved to Amagansett, NY in 1981 and switched her focus to landscape painting. Her career path led her to teach at The Parrish Art Museum, Guild Hall & The Victor D’amico Institute of Art. From 1993 to 1998, she was the Chair of the Andy Warhol Visual Arts Preserve Program. Jennings maintains ties to the art community as an educator and curator. She is a member of the East Hampton Arts Council, an advocacy group for performing and visual artists of East Hampton. Ms. Jennings maintains a painting studio in East Hampton and currently teaches oil and watercolor classes. In 1997, she was a founding member of CMEE, The Children’s Museum of the East End. Working with Lee Skolnick and JoAnn Secor, she was an exhibit designer and fabricator for “Time and Place, Light and Space”, the initial installation at Guild Hall, which launched CMEE. She was a lead designer for the permanent exhibition installation of CMEE, located in Bridgehampton, NY. Jennings received her BFA from the University of Dayton and attended The Dayton Art Institute, Antioch College and The Art Students League. Her paintings are in numerous corporate and private collections worldwide. She has exhibited at numerous galleries on Long Island and New York City including The New York Design Center, Hampton Road Gallery, Pamela Williams Gallery, Folioeast, Lizan-Tops Gallery, Chase Edwards Gallery...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Eye on Black Matter
Located in New York, NY
Apparently Dark Matter makes up over 95 of the stuff floating out there in the multiverse, yet we have never been able to see Dark Matter. "Eye on Dark Matter" is an aspirational tit...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media, Gouache, Rag Paper

Collage Watercolor Painting David Gilhooly California Funk Surrealism MixedMedia
Located in Surfside, FL
DAVID JAMES GILHOOLY (American, 1943-2013), Mixed media collage 6 x 4 inches, Hand signed and dated verso Napoleon from the back, with King Henry VIII holding a pastry. titled: "England cannot be conquered by a few French pastries" cut and pasted cardstock assemblage, collaged art. David Gilhooly RCA (1943 – 2013), was an American ceramicist, sculptor, painter, printmaker, and professor. He is best known for pioneering the Funk art movement. He made a series of ceramic frogs called FrogWorld, as well as ceramic food, planets, and other creatures. David James Gilhooly III was born on April 15, 1943, in Auburn, California. He was raised in Los Altos, California; Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands; and Humacao, Puerto Rico. He enrolled in University of California, Davis (UC Davis) initially studying biology, followed by anthropology, and ending with a focus on fine art. While attending UC Davis, Gilhooly served as artist Robert Arneson assistant starting in 1963. He graduated from UC Davis with a BA degree in 1965, and an MA degree in 1967. Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher, and Margaret Dodd, working together in TB-9 (temporary building 9) were what was later to be called, The Funk Ceramic...
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2010s Surrealist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Collage Watercolor Painting David Gilhooly California Funk Surrealism MixedMedia
Located in Surfside, FL
DAVID JAMES GILHOOLY (American, 1943-2013), Mixed media collage 6 x 4 inches, Hand signed and dated verso Napoleon from the back, holding a heart. cut and pasted cardstock assemblage, collaged art. David Gilhooly RCA (1943 – 2013), was an American ceramicist, sculptor, painter, printmaker, and professor. He is best known for pioneering the Funk art movement. He made a series of ceramic frogs called FrogWorld, as well as ceramic food, planets, and other creatures. David James Gilhooly III was born on April 15, 1943, in Auburn, California. He was raised in Los Altos, California; Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands; and Humacao, Puerto Rico. He enrolled in University of California, Davis (UC Davis) initially studying biology, followed by anthropology, and ending with a focus on fine art. While attending UC Davis, Gilhooly served as artist Robert Arneson assistant starting in 1963. He graduated from UC Davis with a BA degree in 1965, and an MA degree in 1967. Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher, and Margaret Dodd, working together in TB-9 (temporary building 9) were what was later to be called, The Funk Ceramic...
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2010s Surrealist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Vision I by Cheryl R. Riley, purple, gray, gold abstract geometric symbols
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Vision I by Cheryl R. Riley Metallic abstract geometric symbols, purple, yellow, gray, gold Gouache and metallic ink on 140# cold press watercolor paper Feminist Art and Contemporar...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gold Leaf

Dragonfly and Port Wine Magnolia, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Catherine McCargar displays a scarlet dragonfly landing on the branch of a magnolia bush. She captures the fleeting moment as it sips nectar from the flower. Its red wings match the fully bloomed magnolia, fittingly complementing the verdant green leaves. Catherine effectively uses organic curved lines to draw the viewer's eye through her intricate arrangement of buds, blooms, and leaves.


About the Artist
Impressionist Catherine McCargar expresses her deep admiration of nature through landscape paintings of Northern California...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Geometric Watercolor by David Novros, California School
Located in Larchmont, NY
David Novros (American, b. 1941) Untitled (Home Savings Study), 1986 Watercolor on paper Framed: 35 1/4 x 86 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. Each panel: 30 x 42 in. From Los Angeles and working fro...
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1980s Minimalist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

EMI (Spirit): Genesis
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
EMI (Spirit): Genesis Of The Religious was created using Watercolour on 300gsm paper Genesis is the origin or mode of formation of something. “ In the beginning, God created the hea...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Les chevaux de cirque, original gouache, lithograph
Located in Belgrade, MT
This piece is pencil signed by the artist, it is a very limited editions in very good condition. It is part of my private collection.( Guilde De La Gravure).
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Mid-19th Century Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Lithograph

Abstract watercolor (de-accessioned from Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), w/ label)
Located in New York, NY
Robert Duran Untitled #1 (with Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) label), 1974 Watercolor on paper Includes labels from the Museum of Modern Art rental gallery label and Donna Schneier Inc; the artist's name is written on the board, not signed 18 × 23 1/2 inches Unframed This work was removed from the original vintage frame but comes with the back board with the original labels from MOMA Rental Gallery in New York and Donna Schneier Gallery in Manhattan (and later Palm Beach) Robert Duran Biography (courtesy of KARMA): Robert Duran (b. 1938, Salinas, CA; d. 2005, New Jersey) found his way from San Francisco to New York City in the mid-1960s, where he became associated with a Minimalist cohort that included Brice Marden, David Novros, and Paul Mogensen...
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1970s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Textile Design
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 Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Gouache, Graphite

Mountain Reverie Series 11, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A breathtaking panorama of mountains emerges from the mist in artist Siyuan Ma's piece. The abstract imagery takes the viewer into a dr...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Earth Boobs 16x20 inch Watercolor Painting
Located in New York, NY
This is a new painting in the ongoing series of anthropomorphized shapes using the dispersed watercolor pigment technique. Painted on Arches Watercolor paper, this unique work is 1...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

In the Garden of the Hummingbirds, No. XVII
Located in Houston, TX
Michael Tracy In the Garden of the Hummingbirds, No XVII, 1992 22 1/2 x 30 in (57.2 x 76.2 cm), unframed 25 1/2 x 33 1/2 in (64.8 x 85.1 cm), framed JPHB 5649
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Late 20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache

Yayoi's Guitar unique signed work on paper by internationally renowned sculptor
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero Yayoi's Guitar, 1980 Ink wash drawing Signed and titled in red ink on the front Frame included (held in original vintage frame) Unique 1980 drawing by sculptor Mark di...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker, Mixed Media

20th Century Framed and Signed Abstract Watercolor Painting, Orange, Pink, Red
Located in Denver, CO
Pink, orange, and red abstract watercolor on paper by Lynn R. Wolfe (1917-2019). Signed by the artist in the lower left corner. Presented in a custom frame with all archival materials measuring 27 ½ x 34 ¼; image size is 22 ¼ x 30 inches. Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Lynn R. Wolfe Painting is in good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. About the Artist: Born 1917 Red Cloud, Nebraska Died 2019 Boulder, Colorado A versatile artist proficient in painting, sculpture, stained glass and mosaics, Wolfe grew up on his family’s dairy farm near Red Cloud, Nebraska. For much of his early life he was known as Bob until officially adopting the first name of Lynn in 1939. When he was six months old he contracted the "Spanish flu" in the 1918 influenza pandemic that stunted his growth, making him the smallest student in class. To compensate for his small stature, his family engaged a Black boxer to give him boxing lessons so he could always defend himself against any bullies he encountered at school. Before he started grade school in Red Cloud, one of his grandfathers - a Latin scholar - taught him how to read. His early connection with sculpture occurred when as a youngster he looked for clay in the sandpits near his home to mould figures, including a likeness of his older brother. Similarly, his adult interest in archaeology developed from their search for arrowheads brought to the surface after rainstorms on the family farm. As a teenager he read The Temple Warriors in Chichen Itza, Yucatan, by Earl and Ann Morris with illustrations by Jean Charlot. After World War II Charlot taught fresco painting and worked with Lawrence Barrett on several editions of lithographs at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. In 1947 Wolfe served as Charlot’s chauffeur when he came up to lecture at the University of Colorado in Boulder (CU), and in appreciation received one of the artist’s etchings personally inscribed to him. Following graduation as valedictorian of his high school class, Wolfe enrolled in 1935 as an undergraduate on scholarship at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, earning his B.A. degree in fine art in 1940. He studied art with Frederick Dwight Kirsch (himself a student of fellow Nebraska native Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York) who served as Chairman of the Art Department and Director of the University Art Galleries – now the Sheldon Museum - until 1950 when he became director of the Des Moines Art Center. In Nebraska Wolfe painted representational scenes of local buildings such as grain elevators in a landscape setting and small-town street scenes with automobiles. It took Wolfe five years to earn his undergraduate degree because he worked while going to school. In his final year he worked to pay the taxes on the family farm to avoid foreclosure during the Great Depression. While at the University, he prepared fossils and did low relief sculptures of prehistoric animals for the Nebraska State Museum located in Morrill Hall on campus. He also participated in Pleistocene fossil digs in Nebraska and Texas. One of his first jobs after graduation was supervising fossil preparation in Lincoln by twenty-nine workers employed in a Depression-era project sponsored by the federal government. In 1939 he met his future wife Arlene at a sock hop at the University of Nebraska. His first impression of her was a "stunning blond across the room" with whom he shared an interest in the arts and travel. During World War II when she was living and working in Omaha, he proposed to her from New Guinea where he was stationed in the South Pacific. He said that he would take her to Florida if she married him. He later took her and their family on a number of trips to most of Europe, and to Morocco, Algeria, Turkey, China, Japan and Fiji. During the last year of the war he taught photo intelligence in Orlando, Florida, while stationed at the local Air Force base. Prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into the war, he worked in the Engineer Corps doing color, texture and illusion. During the war he spent four years in the military, shipping out as a buck private and later advancing to the rank of captain. His classroom experience in Florida helped transition him at war’s end to the University of Nebraska where he taught art for two semesters to fellow intelligence officers studying there on the G.I. Bill. In the summer of 1946 he also was a visiting artist at the University of Alaska where he taught watercolor. In 1947 he relocated to CU in Boulder for his Master of Fine Arts degree on the G.I. Bill. As part of his application earning him a graduate fellowship, he included a photograph of his wife and himself in his captain’s uniform. He took painting and sculpture courses with Muriel Sibell Wolle...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor on wove paper. Signed and dated in ink, lower right recto.
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1960s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Textile Design
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1950s geometric textile design in brown, yellow and pink tones by notable stage and set 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 Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Graphite

Synesthesia original drawing on paper
By Michele Zuzalek
Located in Washington, DC
This is an original drawing in ink and mixed media in neutral tones. Expressive drawing with shades of grey and marks in graphite. This drawing comes matted in a white mat. 11x14 i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Graphite

"Untitled wp2" Abstract Painting 22" x 18" inch by Gayatri Gamuz
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled wp18" Abstract Painting 22" x 18" inch by Gayatri Gamuz Watercolor on archival paper In search of silence, in search of the self. Her work emerges from the silence within...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache abstract morden White Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Abstract Expressionist design. Sealed on the back with the design studio name and number . Ilegible signature We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this ...
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1970s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

"Blue & Brown Pattern, " Colored Pencil & Watercolor, Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Blue & Brown Pattern" is an original colored pencil and watercolor drawing by Tom Shelton. The artist signed the piece lower right. The artist says: “I wanted to see what kind of ...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Color Pencil

Ana Zanic "Reef W-2022-12-14" Abstract Watercolor on Paper Painting
Located in New York, NY
"My art practice is an exploration of the formal visual elements, as well as my personal feelings, through an intuitive, spontaneous process. Often reminiscent of imaginary landsca...
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2010s Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Orange and Yellow by Annemarie Ambrosoli, watercolor, abstract geometric
Located in Kiens, BZ
Orange and Yellow is a watercolor by contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli painted on 600 gsm Fabriano paperboard, measuring 39x50 cm. Cardboard surface: coarse grain. This painting is part of a series of watercolors painted between 2000 and 2015. The painting is signed in the lower right corner. In this watercolor painting Annemarie Ambrosoli made several sketches of the calla flower. Transparent color overlays give depth to the flower. It consists of three calla lilies of different colors and in the background the various shades of blue sky. The study of flowers and landscape have long been favorite themes of artist Annemarie Ambrosoli. The watercolor Orange and Yellow comes with a certificate of authenticity. About the artist Annemarie Ambrosoli is an award-winning artist, below are the latest awards: - Collectors Art...
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Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Textile Design
Located in Chicago, IL
A bright, geometric textile design (In red, white & blue) by stage and costume designer Andre Delfau.
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1950s American Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Gouache, Graphite

"Abstract Composition IV" Watercolor painting 10" x 14" in by Shaker El Maadawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition IV" Watercolor painting 10" x 14" in by Shaker El Maadawy signed & dated Shaker El Maadawy graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in painting in 1967 in his ...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Modern Abstract Orange & Green Organic Shaped Watercolor Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract orange and green toned abstract watercolor painting by native Houstonian, Dick Wray. The work features green toned curving organic shapes set against an orange toned ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Modern Abstract Blue & Orange Toned Organic Leaves Watercolor Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract blue and orange toned abstract watercolor painting by native Houstonian, Dick Wray. The work features orange toned curving organic...
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Early 2000s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Modern Abstract Blue and Orange Toned Organic Shaped Watercolor Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract blue and orange toned abstract watercolor painting by native Houstonian, Dick Wray. The work features blue toned curving organic s...
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Early 2000s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Modern Abstract Blue and Green Toned Organic Shaped Watercolor Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract blue and green toned abstract watercolor painting by native Houstonian, Dick Wray. The work features blue toned curving organic sh...
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Early 2000s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Modern Abstract Green, Yellow, & Blue Organic Shaped Watercolor Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract colorful abstract watercolor painting by native Houstonian, Dick Wray. The work features blue and green toned curving organic shapes set against an orange toned backg...
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Early 2000s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Modern Abstract Green, Blue, and Orange Toned Organic Shaped Watercolor Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract colorful abstract watercolor painting by native Houstonian, Dick Wray. The work features blue and green toned curving organic shapes set against an orange toned backg...
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Early 2000s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Modern Abstract Green & Tan Toned Organic Leaf Shaped Watercolor Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract green toned abstract watercolor painting by native Houstonian, Dick Wray. The work features green toned curving organic leaf shapes set against a tan toned background...
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Early 2000s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Ana Zanic "Blush Nebula W-2022-12-17" Abstract Watercolor on Paper Painting
Located in New York, NY
"My art practice is an exploration of the formal visual elements, as well as my personal feelings, through an intuitive, spontaneous process. Often reminiscent of imaginary landsca...
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2010s Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Calligraphy Abstract Panorama III - Japanese Calligraphy on Rice Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Calligraphy Abstract Panorama III - Japanese Calligraphy on Rice Paper Landscape and Calligraphy on rice paper by Michael Pauker (American, 20th c). Signed by the artist in the bottom right corner in red pencil, "X - 40 (artist's signature) 2007." Mat Size: 10"H x 20"W Paper Size: 5.63"H x 14.38"W “I’m driven by curiosity...where it comes from I can’t tell you; it’s just there. And early 20th-century modernist art is the thing that I keep returning to.” - Michael Pauker Bay Area artist and art educator Michael Pauker was born in New York in 1957, and knew he wanted to be an artist from the age of 15. He earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at SUNY Purchase in his native state of New York. In 1989, he went on to earn an M.F.A at Mills College in Oakland and was awarded the City of Oakland Artist Fellowship in Painting. He has been a Bay Area resident since 1988. His work has been exhibited widely across the U.S., as well as in Japan and Costa Rica, and is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Exhibitions include: 2007 Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica 2007 “The Ebay Art Project,” Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA 2003 “Found Imagery: The Art of Collage,” Fresno Art Museum,Fresno, CA 2003 “Cut, Copy, Paste,” De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA 2003 “20th Annual Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 2002 “40 by 40,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, N.Y., NY 2002 “Works on Paper,” Bryant St. Gallery, Palo Alto, CA 2002 Dolby Chadwick Gallery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor, Rice Paper

1957 Feminist Surrealist Israeli Colorful Watercolor Painting Myriam Bat Yosef
Located in Surfside, FL
Myriam Bat-Yosef Surrealist abstract painting in colorful abstract shapes and shades in the style of Joan Miro Hand signed and dated Tel Aviv, 1957. frame measures 10 X 5.5 sheet measures 2.5 X 7 inches The envelope of the Peter Buch poster is just for provenance and is not included in this sale. Myriam Bat-Yosef, whose real name is Marion Hellerman, born on January 31 , 1931 in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish family from Lithuania, she is an Israeli-Icelandic artist who paints on papers, paintings, fabrics, objects and human beings for performances. Myriam Bat-Yosef currently lives and works in Paris. In 1933, her family fleeing the Nazi Holocaust, Myriam Bat-Yosef emigrates to Palestine and settles in Jaffa. In 1936, she suffers a family tragedy, her father, militant Zionist, is called to fight, still recovering from an operation of appendicitis. The incision will become infected, antibiotics did not exist yet, and her father will die in the hospital after 9 months of suffering. Myriam and her mother leave Palestine to live in Paris for three years. French is Myriam's first school language. In 1939, still fleeing Nazism, she returned to Palestine, leaving France by the last boat from Marseille. She moved to Tel Aviv with her mother, aunt and maternal grandmother. In 1940, she began attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv and took her name as an artist, Bat-Yosef, which means Joseph's daughter in Hebrew, as a tribute to her father. In 1946, Myriam graduated as a kindergarten teacher but wanted to be an artist. Her mother enrolled her in an evening school to prepare a diploma of art teacher. At 19, she performs two years of military service in Israel. In 1952, with a pension of $50 a month that her mother allocated, she went to study at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. To survive, she has several activities while studying. In 1955, she had her first solo exhibition, at the Israeli Club on Wagram Avenue in Paris. Many artists, such as Yaacov Agam, Yehuda Neiman Avigdor Arikha, Raffi Kaiser, Dani Karavan and sculptors Achiam and Shlomo Selinger attended the opening . In 1956, she enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Florence. This is where she meets the painter Errô. They share an icy studio in winter. Myriam moves to Milan with friends. She organizes a joint exhibition with Erro, one room each, at the Montenapoleone gallery. Her works are admired by the sculptor Marino Marini and the painters Renato Birolli and Enrico Prampolini. Myriam and Erro exhibit in Rome, Milan, Florence and meet many personalities: Alain Jouffroy and his wife, the painter Manina, Roberto Matta and his wife Malitte, textile artist who was one of the founders of the Pompidou Center. Back in Paris, Myriam and Erro get married, which allows Myriam to avoid being called into the Israeli army during the Suez Canal War. In 1957, Myriam and her husband went to Iceland. Myriam works in a chocolate factory. Having enough money, she starts producing art again. She exhibited in Reykjavik's first art gallery. She meets the artist Sigridur Bjornsdottir, married to the Swiss painter Dieter Roth . In 1958, Myriam and her husband leave for Israel. They exhibit in Germany, then in Israel. Back in Paris, the couple became friends with artists of the surrealist movement, such as Victor Brauner, Hans Bellmer, the sculptor Philippe Hiquily, Liliane Lijn, future wife of Takis and photographer Nathalie Waag. Erro and Myriam have a daughter on March 15, 1960, named Tura, after the painter Cosmè Tura, but also close to the Icelandic Thora or the Hebrew Torah. Bat-Yosef’s complex trajectory throughout the 20th century is linked as much to the transnational history of what was for a time called the School of Paris as it is to a certain legacy of Surrealism. Her work features the same idea of resolving antinomies that also defined the spirit of surrealism, and is enhanced with her readings of the Kabbalah and her spiritual grounding in Taoism. However, while there are reasons for her approach to be associated with the process of the ready-made, it is important to consider the immediate intrication of these works with her practice of performance, during which the body itself is also painted – a feminist response to Yves Klein’s Anthropometries (1960) and an echo of the happenings which Jean-Jacques Lebel organised at the time in Paris. In 1963, Erró told Myriam that if she wants to be a painter, she can not be his wife. Myriam chose to be a painter and the couple divorced in 1964. Since that time, Myriam Bat-Yosef has exhibited in many countries: Europe, United States, Japan, etc. Although long in the shadows, the work of Myriam Bat-Yosef has been greeted by many artists and personalities: Anaïs Nin, Nancy Huston, André Pieyre of Mandiargues, José Pierre, René de Solier , Jacques Lacarrière, Alain Bosquet, Pierre Restany, Sarane Alexandrian and Surrealist André Breton who, after a visit to her studio, confided to having been intrigued by its phantasmagorical dimension. She was included in the book Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties by Mona Hadler and Kalliopi Minioudaki. Extract "World Citizen, Artist of the Pop Era Sarah Wilson; Why do we know so little of Myriam Bat-Yosef, the most important female Israeli artist of the Pop era? Issues of identity and sexuality feature constantly in her work. She exhibited internationally from Reykjavik to Tokyo; she had two shows at Arturo Schwarz’s famous Dada/surrealist gallery in Milan; she participated in feminist art events in Los Angeles. Above all, in 1971, she conceived Total Art, a Pop Gesamtkunstwerk inside and outside the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Painter, performer, and installation artist, she was also a lover, wife, and mother. Of Lithuanian-Jewish descent, she was close to the family of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. An émigré in Paris she would repudiate a national passport, participating in Garry Davis’s short-lived “World Citizens” movement. She continues the lineage of women surrealist artists: Valentine Hugo, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, Leonora Carrington, Unica Zürn, Jane Graverol, Toyen, Alice Rahon...
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1950s Surrealist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Abstract Composition (Robert Rauschenberg Foundation #88.D109)
Located in New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg Abstract Composition (Robert Rauschenberg Foundation #88.D109), 1988 Solvent transfer, watercolor, and gouache on Japanese dedication board Hand-signed by artist,...
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1980s Pop Art Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache, Board

"Dune" Watercolor on Paper Painting 10" x 12" in (1977) by Inji Efflatoun
Located in Culver City, CA
"Dune" Watercolor on Paper Painting 10" x 12" in (1977) by Inji Efflatoun signed & dated Inji Eflatoun pursued free studies in art. Since 1942, she has participated in the exhibiti...
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20th Century Post-War Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Watercolor

Untitled (Abstraction)
Located in Chicago, IL
A black and white, Surrealist watercolor on paper by artist Desmond McLean in a cerused black frame. McLean was born in Sligo, Ireland and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He was a professor...
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1950s Surrealist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

British Impressionist Painting Night At The Opera
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982) Signed original watercolour painting on board, unframed size: 10.5 x 14.5 inches condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is norma...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Watercolor and Gouache on Paper, by Charles Burchfield, circa 1925
Located in New York, NY
Charles Burchfield, 1893-1967 Wallpaper Design No.2, 1922-28 Watercolor and gouache on paper
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1920s Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Surrealist Abstract Watercolor by Mexican Artist Leonardo Nierman
Located in Larchmont, NY
Leonardo Nierman (Mexican, b. 1932) Springtime, 20th century Watercolor on paper 12 x 18 in. Framed: 19 1/2 x 25 1/3 in. Signed lower left: NIERMAN Provenance: Collection of Harry Glass, Long Island A leader in modern Mexican art...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

In the Garden of the Hummingbirds, No. XIX
Located in Houston, TX
Michael Tracy In the Garden of the Hummingbirds, No XIX, 1992 22 1/2 x 30 in (57.2 x 76.2 cm), unframed 25 1/2 x 33 1/2 in (64.8 x 85.1 cm), framed JPHB 5649
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Late 20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache

Strelizia by Annemarie Ambrosoli, watercolor, 34x46cm, abstract geometric
Located in Kiens, BZ
Strelizia is a watercolor by contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli painted on 600 gsm Fabriano paperboard, measuring 34 x 46 cm. Cardboard surface: coarse grain. The painting is pa...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

British Mid 20th Century Impressionist Painting Day At The Races
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982) signed original watercolour painting on artistic paper, unframed size: 10.75 x 14.75 inches condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Black & Gold Glyphs II by Cheryl R. Riley, metallic abstract geometric symbols
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Black & Gold Glyphs II by Cheryl R. Riley Metallic abstract geometric symbols Gouache and metallic ink on 140# cold press watercolor paper Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / G...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gold Leaf

Strelizia with Sun Reflections by Annemarie Ambrosoli, abstract geometric
Located in Kiens, BZ
Strelizia with Sun Reflections is a watercolor by contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli painted on 600 gsm Fabriano paperboard, measuring 34 x 46 cm....
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2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Calligraphy Abstract Panorama IV - Japanese Calligraphy on Rice Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Calligraphy Abstract Panorama IV - Japanese Calligraphy on Rice Paper Landscape and Calligraphy on rice paper by Michael Pauker (American, 20th c). Signed by the artist in the bottom right corner in red pencil, "V - 40 (artist's signature) 2007." Mat Size: 10"H x 20"W Paper Size: 5.63"H x 14.38"W “I’m driven by curiosity...where it comes from I can’t tell you; it’s just there. And early 20th-century modernist art is the thing that I keep returning to.” - Michael Pauker Bay Area artist and art educator Michael Pauker was born in New York in 1957, and knew he wanted to be an artist from the age of 15. He earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at SUNY Purchase in his native state of New York. In 1989, he went on to earn an M.F.A at Mills College in Oakland and was awarded the City of Oakland Artist Fellowship in Painting. He has been a Bay Area resident since 1988. His work has been exhibited widely across the U.S., as well as in Japan and Costa Rica, and is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Exhibitions include: 2007 Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica 2007 “The Ebay Art Project,” Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA 2003 “Found Imagery: The Art of Collage,” Fresno Art Museum,Fresno, CA 2003 “Cut, Copy, Paste,” De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA 2003 “20th Annual Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 2002 “40 by 40,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, N.Y., NY 2002 “Works on Paper,” Bryant St. Gallery, Palo Alto, CA 2002 Dolby Chadwick Gallery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Rice Paper

Impression of Autumn by Annemarie Ambrosoli, 50x30cm, abstract geometric
Located in Kiens, BZ
Impression of Autumn is a watercolor by contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli painted on 600 gsm Fabriano paperboard, measuring 50 x 30 cm. Cardboard surface: coarse grain. The pai...
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Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Untitled I -- Make an Offer!
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Interesting abstract watercolor with nicely matted with light colored suibstantial wood frame.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Your Own Heart" unique signed, colleague of Warhol, Haring, Basquiat & Scharf
Located in New York, NY
Ronnie Cutrone Your Own Heart, 1987 Watercolor and Silkscreen on Paper Signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 7, with each work being unique. 40 × 30 inches Fantastic vintage classic 1980s Ronnie Cutrone Watercolor and Screenprint on Paper. From an edition of 7 with each work being unique. There is a very slight pinhole to the top corners which will frame out, otherwise in very good condition Unframed Ronnie Cutrone (July 10, 1948 – July 21, 2013) was an American pop artist known for his large-scale paintings of some of America's favorite cartoon characters, such as Felix the Cat, Pink Panther, Woody Woodpecker and No Glove No Love. Cutrone's paintings are colorful, lively, and less challenging than those of his contemporaries. As Andy Warhol's assistant at the Factory atop the Decker Building from 1972 until 1980, Cutrone worked with Warhol on paintings, prints, films, and other concepts, eventually co-opting Warhol's earliest work (pre-1960) as well as works by Roy Lichtenstein and others, until finally distilling those myriad influences into the style a few critics eventually labeled "Post-Pop." He exhibited at the Niveau Gallery in 1979 with a Scottish artist called Mike Gall who showed paintings of Snoopy, Mickey and Minnie mouse, the Pink Panther and also a small series of Peter Rabbit paintings...
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1980s Pop Art Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Screen, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker

LET IT COME LET IT GO
Located in New York, NY
John Giorno LET IT COME LET IT GO, 2017 Watercolor on handmade paper Hand signed and dated by the artist on the back of the artwork. The frame features a die-cut window on the back t...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Untitled (Wasserzeichnung / Water drawing)
Located in New York, NY
In her 1980s series of 'Wasserzeichnungen' (Water Drawings), Heidi Bucher used gestural marks in gouache on paper to create what can be described as "wate...
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1980s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Black & Gold Glyphs III by Cheryl R. Riley, metallic abstract geometric symbols
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Black & Gold Glyphs III by Cheryl R. Riley Metallic abstract geometric symbols Gouache and metallic ink on 140# cold press watercolor paper Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gold Leaf

On the Way to Leonardo by Annemarie Ambrosoli, 41x51cm, abstract geometric
Located in Kiens, BZ
On the Way to Leonardo is a watercolor by contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli painted on 600 gsm Fabriano paperboard, measuring 41 x 51 cm. Cardboard surface: coarse grain. The p...
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Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Abstraction of a Castle by Annemarie Ambrosoli, 31x38cm, abstract geometric
Located in Kiens, BZ
Abstraction of a Castle is a watercolor by contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli painted on 600 gsm Fabriano paperboard, measuring 30.5 x 37.5 cm. Cardboard surface: coarse grain. ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

British Mid 20th Century Impressionist Painting Village And Canal Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982) signed original watercolour painting on card, unframed size: 5 x 7.5 inches condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Ana Zanic "Reef W-2022-12-15" Abstract Watercolor on Paper Painting
Located in New York, NY
"My art practice is an exploration of the formal visual elements, as well as my personal feelings, through an intuitive, spontaneous process. Often reminiscent of imaginary landsca...
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2010s Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

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