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Medium: Watercolor
Sleeping Female Nude
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Oliveira's "Female Sleeping Nude" is a captivating artwork that elegantly combines style, technique, and layered interpretation, offering a rich and multifaceted experience to...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Modern Orange, Brown, Yellow, and Black Geometric Abstract Pattern Painting
By John Little
Located in Houston, TX
Modern orange, brown, yellow, and black geometric abstract composition by textile designer John Little. The work was created as a proposed design for a wallpaper and features the original color codes in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a solid black frame with a large white margin.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 35.5 in. x W 33.5 in.
Artist Biography: A painter and textile designer, John Little is best known for gestural works filled with boldly explosive color that reflect the influences of his teacher Hans Hofmann and for his involvement in the Abstract Expressionist movement in East Hampton, where he moved in the late 1940s. In East Hampton Little congregated with Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and the other artists who were the leading innovators in the New York School.
John Little was born in Sanford, Alabama. He left home at the age of fourteen to become an artist, and moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1923. After spending a year working as a stevedore on the docks to save money, he enrolled at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and developed an interest in singing. In 1927 he moved to New York City where he continued his vocal work and studied operatic literature. He also became involved in textile design, opening his own store in 1920, called John Little Studios: Fabric and Wallpaper Design. He ran the store until 1950.
In 1933 John Little resumed his painting studies at the Art Students League in New York under the guidance of George Grosz (1893-1959). The following year he made his first visit to East Hampton, Long Island, which he would eventually call home. Later in the decade, he traveled to Paris where he became familiar with European modernism. On his return to America, he taught textile design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He hired Josephine Watkins to work for him; she later became his wife. Little's textile store and teaching job gave him a financial security that was rare during the Depression, and he never found it necessary to find employment with the Works Progress Administration. At the end of the decade, John Little studied with Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in New York and Provincetown. Little was greatly influenced by Hofmann, particularly by his views on color theory.
In 1942 John Little joined the Navy as an aerial photographer. In the late 1940s he purchased a rundown house on Three Mile Harbor...
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Early 20th Century Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
“Abstract in Black and White”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper by the American artist, Lloyd Raymond. Signed lower left by the artist and dated 1963. Condition is excellent. Presently unframed. Framing op...
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1960s Post-Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Composition in green and yellow, watercolor and gouache on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre MONTHEILLET (1923-2011)
Composition in green and yellow
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Signed lower left
Dimensions of the work: 50 x 65 cm
Dimensions of the frame: 60 x 80 c...
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1960s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Linda Turner, Art Meditation 12, Collage, Pattern and Decoration, Automatism
Located in Darien, CT
Linda Turner, raised both in NYC and Northern Virginia, resides in Brooklyn, NY. She achieved a BFA in Surface Design/Textile Design from the Fashion Inst...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Untitled
Located in Columbia, MO
Untitled
1957
Gouache
9.25 x 8.5 inches
Framed: 17 x 16 inches
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Abstract Turquoise & Red Flowers on Pink Background by British Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of Abstract Turquoise & Red Flowers on a Pink Background by British Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. This original is from the 'S...
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Early 2000s Abstract Impressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
Modern Tropical Abstract -- "Spires II"
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful abstract watercolor of imaginative shapes in a tropical setting with botanical landscape elements by Claire Wolf Krantz (American, b. 1938). Signed "Claire Wolf Krantz" lower right. Titled "Spires" lower center. Dated "11/18/77" and numbered "II" in a series lower left. Peach colored mat and bronze tone metal frame. Image, 14"H x 14"L.
Kranz is an artist and art critic living in Chicago, she uses fictional and real elements in her works. She is known for mixed media works layering photograph...
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1970s American Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cosmic Lavender Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
A softly colored watercolor abstract in lavender, blue and green by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned. From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, Califo...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Balancing Act 1 (Abstract painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Balancing Act 1 (Abstract painting)
Gouache, graphite and ink on Rives paper - Unframed
This work (unframed) incorporates graphite, ink, and gouache, and is a combination of intuit...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Gouache, Graphite
1950s Abstract Composition: Brown, Orange, Blue, Black Lines, Ink Watercolor Art
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating watercolor and ink abstract composition by Herbert Bayer (1900-1985) features dynamic shapes in brown, orange, and blue, framed by bold black parallel lines. The wor...
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1950s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Composition - Drawing by Maurizio Gracceva - 2010
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva (Roma, 1955) in 2010.
Good condition.
Hand-signed.
China ink and watercolor.
Aut...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
'Pointillist Abstract', Paris, Étretat, New York, Whitney Museum, MoMA, PAFA
By Manfred Schwartz
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamp, verso, for Manfred Schwartz (American, 1909-1970) and painted circa 1960.
Paper dimensions: 15 x 19.75 inches.
Born in Lodz, Poland, Manfred Schwartz immigrated to Am...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Pen
Mid Century Cornish gouache abstract painting by William Black 'Doorway'
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
William Black (British, Fl. 1963 – 69)
Doorway
Ink and watercolour on paper
Signed, inscribed and dated ‘Doorway William Black 64’ (lower edge)
7.1/2 x 4.7/8 in. (19.2 x 12.4 cm.) (to site edge)
William Black is a little known and underrated member of the St Ives artist group who, having worked as an architect after the Second World War, went on to work as an artist following the inheritance of money in the early 1950s.
He was a self taught artist, producing numerous deconstructivist sculptures in the 1960s. He moved to St Ives in Cornwall where he knew artists such as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo. There is a clear architectural element to the sculptures that he made . They illustrate an assemblage of fragmented shapes and forms of a deconstructivist nature.
William Black’s artwork is very much rooted in the time and Cornish School so one can see elements from those such as Wilhelmina Barns Graham...
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20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Karen Schiff, Word Snake G, 2014, Watercolor, Gouache, Rag Paper, Pencil
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Rag Paper, Pencil
Two Crosses
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Two Crosses" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right, "Calder 65”.
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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1960s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Early Abstract Painting Red Yellow Orange on White Background by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
A rare early career experimental abstract artwork using Red, Yellow & Orange on a White Background, by leading Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefie...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor, Cotton, Wood, Cotton Canvas
Geode, Modern Watercolor and Ink on Paper by G Sinclair
Located in Long Island City, NY
G Sinclair - Geode, Year: 1969, Medium: Watercolor and Ink on Paper, signed and dated in pencil, Size: 15.5 x 12 in. (39.37 x 30.48 cm)
Category
1960s Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Colourful Abstract Flowers on White Background by Contemporary British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Colourful Painting of Abstract Flowers on a White Background by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield. This original is from the 'Spring Burst' Interior Design Series. Framed...
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Early 2000s Abstract Impressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
La Casa delle Cose (House of the Things) - Watercolor on Paper - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
La casa delle cose is an original watercolor on paper realized by the Italian artist Giuseppe Uncini in 1980.
Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin.
Mixed colored waterco...
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1980s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract Composition
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Tempura on heavy paper, signed and dated 1945 lower left. The piece measures 23" x 30" including the frame and presents very well overall.
Provenance:
Willard Gallery, NYC
Brad...
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1940s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, 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, 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
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', c. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', C. 1997 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Stripes, Watercolor by Kenneth Noland circa 1965
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kenneth Noland, American (1924 - 2010)
Title: Stripes
Year: circa 1965
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 4.5 in. x 6.75 in. (11.43 cm x 17.15 cm)
Frame Size: 11.5 x 13.5 inches
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Orange Composition
Located in Wien, 9
Hermann Kremsmayer, born in Salzburg in 1954, lives and works in Vienna.
This work, entitled ‘Orange Composition’ by Hermann Kremsmayer, shows a play between colours, complementary ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Jan Stanley Hiller (b.1918) - Mid 20th Century Watercolour, Feeding the Birds
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed. On laid.
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Mid-20th Century Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Codicis Liber", Contemporary Monotype with Chine Colle and Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary abstract painting and collage composition of stamps, various types of paper, and watercolor by Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957), 2009. Titled "Codicis Liber", which is...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Outer orbit (planet) - line drawing woman figure with a turquoise planet
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artworks were done with watercolor and acrylic on black watercolor paper 300g. The works are 11,5 by 16,5 inches in size, framed (black) with a styrene...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
Fresh- colorful bright color circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
"Figura" by Enzio Wenk, 2020-2022 - Watercolor and Marker, Abstract Figure
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Figure"
Watercolor and marker on high-quality cotton paper, which is handmade in Italy.
This is part of an album.
It's been drawn in one go, with no erasure.
Th...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Ilot 13 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Ilot 13 (Abstract painting)
Collage, watercolor paper, gouache on Arches 600 gr. paper — Unframed
Marie de Lignerolles is an artist, designer, il...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'Untitled No. 1', Royal Society of Artists, Edinburgh Academy, Palo Alto
By Thomas Guise
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'T.G.M. Guise' for Thomas Gladstone Middleton Guise (Scottish, 1916-1984) and dated 1967.
Previously with: Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California.
Thomas Guise studied art at Edinburgh College of Art under Thomson Adam Bruce, RSA (1947-1949) before serving with the Royal Artillery between 1939 and 1946. After returning to Scotland, Guise began working professionally as an artist and commenced his fruitful association with the Featherhal Press. Over the course of his career, he was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including the Award for Life Drawing (1947). Guise exhibited internationally with success and was a member of the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolor among others.
Accompanied by an artist catalogue, 'T.G.M. Guise: Propinquity', Featherhall Press Limited, Edinburgh 1996.
Selected Group Shows 1948 - 1984:
RBA, RSA, RI, RSW, RGI, SSA, NEAC.
Arun Art Centre
The Bath Festival Exhibition
Selected Solo Shows:
1966 - Randolph Gallery, Edinburgh Festival
1967 - Encina Gallery Stanford University, California, United States
1968 - Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California, United States
1968 - Randolph Gallery Edinburgh Festival
1970 - Clarkson Gallery, Victoria Street...
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1960s Pointillist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen, Gouache
Composition - Drawing by Antoine Mayo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original ink and watercolor drawing on paper, realized by the artist Antoine Mayo (1905-1990) in the 1970s.
Good conditions.
Antoine M...
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1970s Surrealist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Composition - Watercolor Drawing on Paper by G. Singer - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original drawing in watercolor realized by Gustave Singer in 1962, and dedicated to Nesto Jacometti.
Hand signed and dated on the low...
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1960s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Wave - Side View - Watercolor Drawing by Antonietta Valente - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Wave - Side View is an original watercolor on paper 300g/m2 realized by Antonietta Valente in 2020.
Hand-signed and dated on the back. Perfect conditions. Certificate of authenticit...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract Composition - Drawing by Maurizio Gracceva - 2010
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva (Roma, 1955) in 2010.
Good condition.
Hand-signed.
China ink and watercolor.
Aut...
Category
2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture, C. 2005 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Brightly Colored 1950s Textile Design by Artist Andre Delfau
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful 1950s textile design (Black, yellow, blue, pink, red tones) by noted set and costume designer Andre Delfau.
Born in Paris, France in 1914, Andre Delfau became an internationally acclaimed stage, set and costume designer who worked world-wide from the 1930s to the 1980s. Delfau was a life long artist and painted independently of his noted design career. His artwork is recognized for it’s vibrant color and form, and a particularly keen use of line. He was highly influenced by the French Modern trends of Cubism and Surrealism, and his artwork is often infused with a dramatic sense of architecture and perspective.
Delfau created fashion designs for such major Paris couture houses as Balmain, Jean Patou and Balenciaga. He completed noteworthy set designs and costumes for numerous international operatic and ballet productions, including those at the Royal Danish Ballet, the Royal Ballet of Great Britain, the Paris Opera, the Dance Theater of Harlem, the Ruth Page International Ballet, the Civic Ballet of Chicago, the Chicago Opera Ballet and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, among others. Most notably, Delfau designed the elaborate stage sets and costumes for the 1986 PBS television production of the Viennese operetta, "Die Fledermaus...
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1950s American Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Graphite, Paper
1950s Original Signed Abstract Expressionist Watercolor in Soft Pastel Colors
Located in Denver, CO
This soft toned abstract expressionist watercolor painting, created by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968), is an exceptional example of his evolution as an artist. Featuring bold sw...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"An Accurate Account", Watercolor, Geometric Abstraction, Patterns
By Sophie Roach
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"An Accurate Account" is an original piece by Sophie Roach made from watercolor on paper. This piece measures 25.5"h x 19.5"w framed and is signed en recto.
Sophie Roach (b. 1988) i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bicep
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Dehner's legacy has been overshadowed by he...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Breath
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Breath" by Carolyn Coalson, watercolor, 10 X 10 inches (Framed size: 17.5 x 17.5)
“Every day brings a challenge. A new year is too big a chunk to deal with. So I’ll just do what ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Red Flowers Abstract Still Life
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted still life of a vase of red flowers and fruit blending into an abstract expressionist watercolor composition by Les Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed "Les Anderson" l...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. This one bears the influence of Sam Francis. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre (1903-2001), a Hungarian modernist painter. As a Denver, Colorado resident, Pavel Kontny exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States, Germany and Japan. There, he was inspired by frequent trips to Native American pueblos in the Southwest, as well as by the study of the Plains Indians of Montana and Wyoming. Over the years Kontny had a number of students and generously helped young artist by hosting exhibitions at his Cherry Hills home. For many years he generously donated his paintings to support charitable causes in Denver. Influences during his European years included German pastelist C.O. Muller, German Informel painter Karl Dahmen and Swiss artist, Hans Erni. In the early 1950s his painting style showed the influence of the Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905 who had a major impact on the evolution of modern art in the twentieth century in Germany. By the middle of the decade his style incorporated more referential abstraction and total abstraction, resulting in part from his study of Hans Hartung, a German artist based in Paris who exhibited his gestural abstract work in Germany. The American moon landing in 1969 inspired Paul Kontny...
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20th Century American Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Nell'Ovale - Artwork by Leo Guida - 1988
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Nell'ovale is a Contemporary artwork realized in 1988 by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original drawing in beautiful colored tempera and watercolor on...
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1980s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Towards the End of the Story - Ink and Watercolor Drawing - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Towards the end of the story a Contemporary artwork realized in the 1970s.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower margin. Unreadible signature.
Original ink and watercolor on pape...
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1970s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
ABSTRACT American Woman Abstract Non-objective Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing
Located in New York, NY
ABSTRACT American Woman Abstract Non-objective Mid 20th Century Modern Drawing
Irene Rice Pereira (1902-1971)
Abstract
8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
Watercolor, gouache, and ink on black paper
Signed lower right
Framed by Bark
BIO
rene Pereira was born in 1902 in Chelsea, Massachusetts and grew up in Great Barrington. She was strongly influenced by her mother who was an amateur artist. Irene began art lessons at the age of fifteen; she took a secretarial job because her father had died. She took art classes at the Art Students League in New York City. At the age of twenty-one she married the first of three husbands, Humberto Pereira, whose name she kept.
She traveled extensively in Europe and North Africa and was much inspired by the expansive vistas of the Sahara Desert. Returning to New York, she began incorporating these visions into her work, increasingly experimental in her styles and methods. At first she painted on canvas, then she devised a means of actually incorporating light into her works by painting on layers of glass and mounting the layers together.
In 1942 she married George Brown, an engineer, who helped her experiment with a variety of materials. By the 1950s she became more interested in writing poetry and, divorced from Brown in 1952, she married George Reavey, an Irish Poet...
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1950s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Place de la Bastille - China Ink and Watercolor - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Place de la Bastille is a really joyful original drawing on paper, realized around the first decades of XX century by the French artist Eliane Diverly (1914 - 2012).
Titled and date...
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1930s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Abstraction - XXI Century, Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Painting, Colorful
Located in Warsaw, PL
Tadeusz Czarnecki is a Polish artist born in 1960.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Clifford Ellis Mid-Century Abstract drawing Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
We acquired a series of paintings and drawings from Clifford and Rosemary Ellis's studio. To find more scroll down to "More from this Selle...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Pink & Purple Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Pink & purple abstract watercolor by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Sign...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Pompeii' original signed painting circa 2005.
Located in Frome, Somerset
'Pompeii', a study plein air. signed original work 2005.
watercolor on paper 45cm x 55cm.
Painted wood glazed frame 72cmx87cm
Gradwell focuses on been in the space and time and ma...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Abstract Splashes of Yellow, Red, and Purple
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted composition by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned, but acquired from the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Presented in a new grey...
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1980s American Modern Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Astract Composition - Mixed Media by Maurizio Gracceva - 2010
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva (Roma, 1955) in 2010.
China ink and watercolor, Hand-signed.
Good condition.
Author of numerous philosophical and ...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Hearts to One - Abstract Watercolor with Blue & Red Heart
Located in Soquel, CA
Brightly colored composition of blue and red hearts merging together by Dessie Wilcox (American, b. 1948). From her "Heart Wall" series, Wilcox has been creating heart painting to ra...
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Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1967 "Abstract 3 Blue and Purple" Mid Century Watercolor Abstract
Located in Arp, TX
Michael Knigin
Abstract 3 Blue and Purple
1967
Ink brush and watercolor on paper
8.25"x11" unframed $675
Signed and dated in ink lower right
Came from artist's estate
*Custom framing...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
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