Watercolor Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Louis Wolchonok, 'Rockport Harbor', gouache, c. 1950. Signed in ink, lower right. A fine, modernist work, with fresh colors, on cream wove drawing pape...

Title: Challenge Martini International French Modernist Sports Advertising Style Poster Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (...

Title: Martini and Rossi Bitter French Modernist Cocktail Advertising Style Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 11.75 x 15.75 inches (hei...

Title: Martini and Rossi Bitter French Modernist Cocktail Advertising Style Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (hei...

Title: Czechoslovak Ballet Dancers French Modernist Poster Style Dance Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (height x...

Title: Du Soleil Dans Un Verre Martini Advertising Design French Modernist Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (heigh...

Title: La Ville Ce Monstre Dévorant Urban Monster Poster Design French Modernist Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (height ...

Title: Martini Advertising Design Extra Dry Cocktail French Modernist Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (height x w...

Title: Challenge Martini International Fencing Poster Design French Modernist Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (he...

Title: Modernist Still Life With Wine Bottle Cake And Raspberries French Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 12.75 x 9.5 inches (height x ...

Title: Floral Still Life With Red Amaryllis And Wine Bottles French Modernist Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.25 x 15.5 inches (height x width) Provenance: Artists estate, France Condition: good overall, with light handling marks and minor age-related wear consistent with age Description: This bold and dynamic modernist gouache by French artist Guy Nicod (1923–2021) depicts a vibrant still life of red amaryllis flowers arranged alongside a cluster of wine bottles and fruit. The tall, vivid blooms dominate the composition, their scarlet petals set against a richly painted background of cobalt blue, deep burgundy, and emerald green. At the base of the composition, the dark verticals of bottles and the rounded form of fruit anchor the scene, creating a strong sense of balance and depth. Nicod’s expressive use of gouache on paper brings an immediacy and energy to the piece. Bold brushstrokes and layered passages of colour merge figuration with abstraction, allowing the viewer to focus on the interplay of red, green, and yellow hues as much as on the floral subject itself. The painting captures not only the natural beauty of flowers, but also the celebratory atmosphere suggested by the presence of wine bottles, evoking themes of conviviality and abundance. Rooted in the traditions of post-war French modernism, Nicod’s floral still lifes combine painterly freedom with structured arrangements. Here, the oversized flowers radiate across the surface with theatrical intensity, while the bottles and fruit add depth and contrast. The work is both decorative and expressive, making it an ideal choice for collectors of French floral painting...

Title: Vibrant Floral Still Life With Red Gladiolus And Wine Bottles French Modernist Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.25 x 13.75 inches (he...

Title: Modernist Still Life With Bowls Bottles And Fruit French Gouache Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 14 x 20.5 inches (height x wi...

Title: Vibrant Still Life With Fruit And Yellow Drapery French Modernist Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 20.5 x 14 inches (height x wi...

Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed. Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally ar...

Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed. Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally ar...

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 ...

Signed lower left, 'Carole Barnes AWS' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985. Carole Barnes has exhibited widely and with success and is the recipient of over 50 prizes, m...

Signed lower left, 'Hourian Hamid' (Iranian-American, 20th century) and dated 1985. A large, flowing abstract by the brother of the artist, Mohammed Hourian.

'Composition with Circles', gouache on paper, by James Pichette (circa 1970s). A dynamic, lively abstract composition by an artist known for such stunni...

Ink, gouache and acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed. Test Pattern series sets up a generic template as a poetic prompt to consider how behavioural responses to color and form stim...

Original watercolor on archival paper by the California artist, Edward Darrell Crisp. Signed by the artist in pencil lower right margin. Dated in penci...

Pioneering female abstract artist Elsie Driggs paints stylized abstract organic forms in a warm palette of orange browns and tope. She merges abstraction with some figuration. A structured face composed of lines and tone emerges from an orange background. It's 1939, and even though Driggs is not well known, she is preceding many of the marquee names of abstraction by a decade. Although under the radar, this is a major work and is titled on the back stretcher is " Egyptian Gothic." It features the artist's inventiveness with her fine pencil lines incorporated in flat washes of color and collage elements. Signed lower right and inscribed on frame verso with title, artist and the date of 1939. Provenance, Christie's, Freemans. Framed under glass.. Elsie Driggs (1898 – July 12, 1992 in New York City) was an American painter known for her contributions to Precisionism, America's one indigenous modern-art movement before Abstract Expressionism, and for her later floral and figurative watercolors, pastels, and oils. She was the only female participant in the Precisionist movement, which in the 1920s and 1930s took a Cubist-inspired approach to painting the skyscrapers and factories that had come to define the new American landscape. Her works are in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Houston Museum of the Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the James A. Michener Art Museum in Pennsylvania, and the Columbus Museum of Art, among others. She was married to the American abstract artist Lee Gatch. Career Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Driggs grew up in New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City, in a family that was supportive of her artistic interests. After a summer spent painting with her sister in New Mexico in her late teens, she felt she had found her life's calling. At twenty, she enrolled in classes at the Art Students League of New York, where she studied under George Luks and Maurice Sterne, both of whom were charismatic, inspirational figures in her early life. She also attended the evening criticism classes held at the home of painter John Sloan. Driggs spent fourteen months in Europe from late 1922 to early 1924, drawing and studying Italian art. There she met Leo Stein, first in Paris and later in Florence, who became an important intellectual influence, and who urged her to study Cézanne. He also introduced her to the works of Piero della Francesca, the Renaissance artist for whom she felt throughout her life the greatest admiration.[1] Driggs eventually settled in New York City, where she found representation with the progressive Charles Daniel Gallery.[2] (Advised that the old-fashioned and misogynistic Daniel would be unlikely to take on a woman artist, she signed the works she left for his consideration simply "Driggs" and waited to meet him in person until he had expressed his eagerness to include her in his gallery.)[3] In sympathy with those artists Daniel represented who were part of the burgeoning Precisionist movement, such as Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, George Ault, Niles Spencer, and Preston Dickinson, she too painted "the modern landscape of factories, bridges, and skyscrapers with geometric precision and almost abstract spareness."Impressionism and academic or Ashcan realism represented the past, in Driggs' view, and she intended to be resolutely modern. She was an attractive and engaging woman, but her demeanor belied a strong ambition and a clear sense of what it would take to make her mark in the New York art world. Driggs was part of the pre-eminent first group of Precisionist painters, including Demuth and Sheeler, who exhibited at the Daniel Gallery in the 1920s. Although a later group of Precisionist painters, including Louis Lozowick, Ralston Crawford and others, came on the American Art scene during the 1930s, Driggs felt that the style came to an end with the 1929 stock market crash.[5] In 1926 she painted her most famous work, Pittsburgh, a dark and brooding picture now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which depicts the gargantuan smokestacks of the Jones & Laughlin steel mills in Pittsburgh. Its focus is an overpowering mass of black and gray smokestacks, thick piping, and crisscrossing wires with only clouds of smoke to relieve the severity of the image, yet it was an image in which she found an ironic beauty. She called the picture "my El Greco" and expressed surprise that viewers in later years interpreted the painting as a work of social criticism. Like the other Precisionists (e.g., Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Louis Lozowick, Stefan Hirsch), she was concerned with applying modernist techniques to renderings of the new industrial and urban landscape, not in commenting on potential dangers the overly mechanized modern world of 1920s America might present. If anything, Precisionism, like Futurism, was a celebration of man-made energy and technology. One year later, she painted Blast Furnaces, in a similar vein. As noted above, Piero della Francesca's mural depicting "The Story of the True Cross" in Arezzo, with its tubular, static and frozen forms was the major influence on Driggs' "Pittsburgh" (it may have been the major influence for "Blast Furnaces" as well).[7] After Pittsburgh, Driggs' most acclaimed work was probably Queensborough Bridge...

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 ...

Betty Parsons Untitled, 1977 Signed and dated lower right Gouache on paper 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches Renowned as an esteemed and legendary art dealer who for more than three decades was...

In this meticulously detailed contemporary drawing in ink and watercolor on paper, carefully drawn dots and lines in blue, green, red, orange and pink create an intricate composition...

Alexander Aizenshtat is considered the founder of a new art movement called metaphysical expressionism. This painting can be described as a metaphysical exploration of perception, in...

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...

September Morning: The First Ferry. 1929. Watercolor. 10 1/8 x 13 (image and sheet). Provenance: The Fine Art Society, London. A misty, impressionist watercolor on French papier ved...

The work was done with ink and watercolor on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size framed (black) with a styrene face on a mat board in white color with size 20 ...

Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : Blue Springs Semi Upper Level Materials : Colored pencil, marker, tempera, gouache, stickers, tape, glitter glue, pastel, oil pastel, acrylic, graphite...

Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982) signed original watercolour painting on artistic paper, unframed size: 10 x 14 inches condition: overall very good, ...

ABBY GOLDSTEIN Untitled, 2012 8.0 x 11.3 inches; framed in white frame 13 x 16.1 inches watercolor and pencil on paper pencil signed recto American artist, Abby Goldstein has been f...

Joanne Freeman Squares and Strokes (Viridian_16), 2025 gouache on handmade paper 28 x 20 in. image: 16 x 16 in. (freem243) My paintings and drawings incorporate elements found in ar...

California Sunset - Blue, Red & Yellow Modern Abstract Landscape Seascape Painting art on thick washi paper mounted behind glass in a silver leaf frame Art measures 30 x 23 inches ...

Ina Kaur (b. 1980) is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptually driven work responds to imbalances and injustices within social, cultural, and ecological environments. Her practi...

Ina Kaur (b. 1980) is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptually driven work responds to imbalances and injustices within social, cultural, and ecological environments. Her practi...

Title: French Countryside Path With Tree And Cottage Watercolour Landscape Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Watercolour on artist paper, u...

Title: French Riverbank With Trees And Reflections Watercolour Landscape Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Watercolour on artist paper, unframed Size: 16.25 x 20.5 inches (hei...

Title: French Countryside Cottage With Trees And Wildflowers Gouache Landscape Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Watercolour on artist paper, unframed Size: 21 x 15.75 inches (height x...

Title: French River Landscape With Bare Winter Trees And Rowing Boat Watercolour Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Watercolour on artist paper, unframed Size: 16.25 x 20.5 inches (heig...

Title: Cubist Artist Studio With Sewing Mannequins Spools Of Thread And Surreal Mirror Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 15 x 21.5 inches (heigh...

Title: Cubist Gouache French Farmyard Scene With Animals Figures Wine Barrels And Tools Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 14.5 x 21.75 inches (h...

Title: Cubist Surreal Still Life With Flower Fruit Basket And Architectural Columns Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 18.75 x 26.25 inches (heig...

Title: Cubist Gouache Still Life With Bottles Glasses Table And Musical Instruments Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.25 x 26.25 inches (heig...

Title: Cubist Gouache French Village Landscape With Trees Houses And Church Tower Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches (height x...

Title: French Gouache Street Scene With Market Stalls Shops Figures And Architecture Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.75 x 25.5 inches (height x width) Provenance: Artists estate, France Condition: fair with age wear, surface creases, and fraying to the sheet edges Description: This atmospheric gouache by French modernist Guy Nicod captures the vibrancy of a bustling street market scene. Rendered with expressive brushwork and bold colour contrasts, the composition shows figures moving among market stalls, shopfronts, and delivery vehicles beneath the looming façades of Parisian-style architecture. On the right, a shop sign reading Fruits glows with yellow illumination, highlighting vendors and customers engaged in lively exchange. A truck and silhouetted figures traverse the centre, while the street recedes toward an archway in the distance, anchoring the scene in a distinctly urban setting. Nicod’s painterly approach here contrasts with his cubist abstractions, revealing his ability to capture movement and atmosphere with a modernist eye. The gouache medium lends a rich matte finish, with vivid blues, yellows, and reds creating striking tonal contrasts against the darker architecture and evening sky. The spontaneity of the brushwork evokes the immediacy of urban life, where commerce and community intersect in daily rhythm. This work is particularly search-friendly and appealing to collectors of French urban landscapes, market scenes, and Parisian street views. Keywords such as French market painting...

Title: Cubist French Abstract Interior Scene With Figures Table And Geometric Shapes Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.5 x 15.75 inches (heig...

Title: Cubist French Surreal Abstract Composition With Eyes Figures And Geometric Forms Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.25 x 22.75 inches (...

Title: Cubist French Abstract Composition With Geometric Shapes And Blue Sphere Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 18.75 x 26.25 inches (height x...

Title: Cubist French Abstract Composition With Figures Architecture And Red Background Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 23 x 19 inches (height ...

Title: Cubist French Abstract Figure With Geometric Shapes Red And Blue Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 26.25 x 19.25 inches (height x width) ...

Title: Cubist Gouache French Still Life With Fruit Vase Bowl And Geometric Shapes Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 26.25 x 19.25 inches (height...

Title: Cubist Gouache French Landscape With Yellow Path Trees Houses And Fields Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 18.25 x 23.75 inches (height x...

Title: Cubist French Village Landscape With Horses Church Trees And Hills Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches (height x...

Title: Cubist Gouache French Village Landscape With Deer Church Trees And Hills Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.75 x 25.25 inches (height x...

Watercolor on paper Fred Borghesi is an Italian artist born in 1987 who lives and works in London, UK. He is above all a multidisciplinary artist, constantly switching between mediu...

Title: Large Demijohn Bottle With Green Apples French Still Life Watercolour Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Watercolour on artist paper, unfra...

Title: Wine Bottles Wooden Crate And Red Wine Glasses French Still Life Watercolour Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Watercolour on artist paper, unframed Size: 18.75 x 25.25 inches (...

Title: French Modernist Still Life With Wine Bottles Glasses And Wooden Crate Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Watercolour on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.25 x 25.25 inches (height...