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Period: 20th Century
Black and White Cat
By Sam Spanier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Black and White Cat
Ink and watercolor on paper, c. 1970
Unsigned
Provenance:
Estate of the artist (Estate No. 737)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches
Sam Spanier (1925-2008)
Born in Brooklyn New York, Sam Spanier studied painting with Hans Hofmann (1949–50) and also at the Taos Valley Art School (1951). His formative years as a working artist were spent in Paris (1951–52), where he also became involved with the work of G. I. Gurdjieff, through his disciple, Mme. Jeanne de Salzmann.
By 1953, Spanier’s work had already begun to meet with critical acclaim. That year, he had his first solo gallery show, and was selected by Milton Avery and Hans Hofmann to receive the prestigious Lorian Fund Award. His second solo exhibition, in 1955, was curated by renowned museum director, Gordon Washburn. Spanier’s early work was reviewed by Dore Ashton, Donald Judd, Fairfield Porter, Stuart Preston, and Irving Sandler, among other significant critics of the period.
Spanier’s spiritual path increasingly became the central focus of both his life and his art. In 1960, he was introduced to the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, which led to visits to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, in 1962 and 1964, during which he was inspired to leave New York City and found Matagiri (in 1968)—a spiritual center in Woodstock, New York—with his lifelong partner, Eric Hughes. The work he embarked upon there bifurcates his life as an artist, separating him from New York’s art world, and radically altering the trajectory of his career. From that point forward, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to consider his artistic endeavor apart from the life of dedication he had undertaken, and to which he remained committed.
As early as 1954, Dore Ashton had recognized in Sam Spanier a “haptic visionary;” in 1960, Irving Sandler wrote that the people in Spanier’s paintings “seem to have witnessed some transfiguring event.” In his later paintings—usually worked in oil pastel on panel or paper—made during intermittent creative periods, from the mid-1970s to the final years of his life, the artist’s inner life remains always apparent in his subject matter; and from the portraits and abstract Buddha-like figures and heads, to the fantasy landscapes, the paintings are redolent with a rich intensity of color and light that can only be described as inspired.
Sam Spanier’s works are in the collections of the Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum. He received the Woodstock Artists Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Urban Gallery, New York (1954, 1955, 1956); Wittenborn Gallery, New York (1958); Gallery Mayer, New York (1958, 1959, 1960); Unison Gallery, New Paltz (1986, 1995, 2009); Limner Gallery, New York (1988); Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, New York (1999).
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Salon des Comparaisons, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France (1952); October Exhibition of Oil Paintings, New York City Center Gallery, New York (1954); Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris, Centre Culturel de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France (1954); Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1955); Les Plus Mauvais Tableaux, Galerie Prismes, Paris (1955);
Première Exposition Internationale de l’Art Plastique Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (1956); Recent Paintings USA: The Figure, The Museum of Modern Art (1960); Winter’s Work, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1985); Juried Group Show, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1986); Woodstock Artists, Self-Portraits, Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, Woodstock, New York (1988); Portraits, Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, New York (2003); The World We Live In, Upstate Art, Phoenicia, New York (2003); Show of Heads, Limner Gallery, Phoenicia, New York (2004).
Selected Writings on the Artist:
Dore Ashton, “Sam Spanier,” Art Digest (May 1, 1954) and “Sam Spanier,” The New York Times (March 16, 1960); Cassia Berman, “Sam Spanier: A Divine Calling,” Woodstock Times (February 7, 2008); Lawrence Campbell, “Sam Spanier: Exhibition of Paintings at Urban Gallery,” Art News...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Cats - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Cats is a Colour Maker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a sheet of notebook.
No Signature.
Reynold Arnould was born in Le Hav...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
View on Cherry Hill, Barbados
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: View on Cherry Hill, Barbados
Year: 1971
Medium: Pencil on heavy archival paper
Size: 29 x 41 inches
Condition: Good
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Category
Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Abstract Coposition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Coposition is a Black Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was bo...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Rare Leonard Baskin Watercolor Illustration "Five Scrolls" Judaica Hebrew
Located in Surfside, FL
Original Illustration for Five Scrolls.
Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Large Modernist Abstract Expressionist Gouache Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor or gouache 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. 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...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Dennis Oppenheim Large Abstract Conceptual Sculpture Drawing for Ace Gallery LA
Located in Surfside, FL
Dennis Oppenheim (1938 - 2011)
Pencil and colored pencil drawing on paper,
'Memory Generator Receiver; Transmitter project for ACE Gallery Los Angeles'
(possibly with watercolor pai...
Category
20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Abstract Composition - Watercolor - 1961
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a drawing in watercolor on paper realized by an Anonymous artist in the 1961.
Hand signed.
Good conditions.
The artwork is represented through organic and ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Evening Landscape' Bay Area Abstraction, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, CWS
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Gilberg' for Robert George Gilberg (American, 1911-1970) and painted circa 1965.
Born in Oakland, Robert George Gilberg first studied at the Oakland Art Center during the 1930s. Following service during WWII, he settled in Nevada City, California where he lived and painted until shortly before his death in San Francisco. Gilberg exhibited widely and with success and was the recipient of numerous medals, prizes and juried awards, including at the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Bird - Watercolor Drawing by Martin Bradley - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Bird is an artwork realized by the English artist Martin Bradley in 1971.
Watercolor on Japanese paper, titled "Bird" on the left corner, hand-signed and dated on the lower right c...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
View of Luxor - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
View of Luxor is a Colors Markers Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Paris 1980).
Good condition on a sheet of a notebook.
No signature,titled and dated on the ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Abstract Composition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a Charcoal Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a yellowed paper, included a white cardboard passpartout (3...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Seymour Lipton, Untitled sculptural study, signed charcoal drawing, framed
Located in New York, NY
SEYMOUR LIPTON
Untitled sculpture drawing, 1979
Charcoal on paper
Original drawing done in charcoal by renowned sculptor Seymour Lipton
Provenance: Michael and Alan Lipton, the artis...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Joseph Beuys, 1 Wirtschaftswert (Lötzinn) - Signed Readymade from 1977
By Joseph Beuys
Located in Hamburg, DE
Joseph Beuys (German, 1921-1986)
1 Wirtschaftswert (Lötzinn), 1977
medium: Pencil on paper bag, tin solder
Dimensions: 7 × 4 1/2 × 1/10 in (17.8 × 11.5 × 0.3 cm)
Frame dimensions: 14...
Category
Conceptual 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
A Poet - Drawing by Carlo Cego - 1966
Located in Roma, IT
A poet is a contemporary artwork realized by Carlo Cego in 1966.
Miched colored pencil and watercolor drawing on paper.
Includes frame: 52 x 2.5 x 72 cm
Hand signed and titled on ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Clown, 1998 - oil paint, 75x60 cm, framed
By Armand Avril
Located in Nice, FR
Gouache on paper, signed on the leg of the clown.
Armand Avril, né à Lyon en 1926, est un peintre vivant à Cotignac dans le Var. Il est surtout connu pour les assemblages qu'il a réalisés à partir de 1968. D'origine modeste, cependant très tôt intéressé par l'art et les musées où le poussait son père, il s'essaie d'abord à la peinture. Cependant, Avril ne commence à trouver son véritable style qu'à l'âge de quarante-deux ans.
Enfant, il est un habitué des musées de Lyon qu’il fréquente sur les conseils de son père. Adulte, sa passion pour la collection l’incite à se nourrir des arts premiers et d’artistes comme Gaston Chaissac...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Abstract Composition - Drawing - 1970s
By José Ortega
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a tempera and watercolor attributed to José Ortega oand realized in the 1970s.
The artwork is composed by two little arts on a cream colored cardboard passpa...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Tempera
Mid Century Abstract Vertical Sunset
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract watercolor fragment of a sunset over a field by Irene Pattinson (American, 20th Century). Tag on verso reads "Miller Fine Art / The Estate of Irene Pattinson". Unsigned. Acq...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Tissue Paper
"Transition, Series 1, No. 4" - Watercolor Figurative Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Subtly shaded abstract figurative illustration by Elsa Warnick (American, 1942-2013). Two adult and three baby figures are rendered with subtle tan shading, against an abstract background with geometric shapes and swirling ribbons. One of the two adult figures is laying down, while the other appears to be jumping or dancing. Notable is the skillful use of negative space to balance the composition.
Signed and dated "Warnick 1982" in the lower right corner.
Signed, titled, and dated with materials information on verso.
Presented in a silver aluminum frame.
Frame size: 23.5"H x 31.25"W
Paper size: 23.25"H x 31"W
Elsa Warnick (American, 1942-2013) was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. She moved to Portland to attend the Reed College/Museum Art School joint five year program. Warnick went on to create many works of art as well as teach art and illustration. She is mostly known for her watercolor paintings, including the illustration of several children's books. Some of her pieces are held in the Portland Art Museum’s collection.
Selected Exhibitions:
1974: University Center Gallery, Willamette University - Salem, OR
1978: Mayer Gallery...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Abstract American Modernism Mid-Century WPA Era Drawing Woodstock 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Abstract American Modernism Mid-Century WPA Era Drawing Woodstock 20th Century, Sight size is 16 x 12 inches. The drawing is currently at the framers. A photo will be posted asap.
A...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Abstract 1, 70's - gouache on paper glued on canvas, 75x110 cm.
Located in Nice, FR
gouache on paper maroufflé on canvas. not framed.
*Paul Rigoulet, peintre abstract français, né en 1924 à Samöens (Haute-Savoie). Il fait ses études à l'école nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, atelier Jean Souverbie...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Composition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a Black Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a sheet of a notebook.
No signatur...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Matin - Ink drawing and Chacography on Paper - 1978
By Michel Gigon
Located in Roma, IT
Matin is an original artwork realized by Michel Gigon in 1978.
Mixed media on cardboard (chalcography and ink). Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right.
Very good conditions e...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Pierre Montheillet, Composition in green and yellow, monotype on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre MONTHEILLET (1923-2011)
Composition in green and yellow
Mixed media on paper - monotype
Signed and dedicated “pour mes amis Sallaz” lower right
Dimensions of the work: 28.5 x ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Monotype
CURIOUS PHENOMENA Signed Oil Pastel on Grocery Bag, Abstract Landscape, Green
Located in Union City, NJ
CURIOUS PHENOMENA is an original oil pastel drawing on brown paper grocery bag by the self taught African American artist Reginald K. Gee, born April 28, 1964, in Milwaukee, Wisconsi...
Category
Neo-Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
20th century Belgium, Black and White Abstract pencil drawing, Etude
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding pencil on paper Abstract drawing.
Marcel Dumont was a Liège artist who painted in oils and gouache, also produced collages and was an illustrator and engraver, doing so in a number of different styles. Early on in his career, he tended to produce paintings displaying a poetic realism but this changed over time until, in 1957, he was employing geometric abstraction and later still, the influence of pop art could be discerned. His geometric style has strong linear structure which occasionally veers to expressionism and the effect of this is an interesting sense of detachment that the viewer of the work can feel and one engages with the subject on a different level than one would normally expect. A critic wrote of him," Sometimes expressionist, sometimes linear, the abstraction forms itself willingly, in Marcel Dumont's world, to leave the rectangular structure to connect to carefully prepared tones. He retains also, in his abundant output, a few poetic pop-art collages together with a number of drawings and engravings illustrating Stefan Zweig...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Post Soviet Nonconformist Avant Garde Russian Israeli Gouache Painting Grobman
Located in Surfside, FL
MIchail Grobman
Gouache and watercolor on paper
Hand signed Lower Left and Dated 1964.
Described inn Cyrillic Russian verso.
Dimensions: L:13.25" W: 11.75".
Michail Grobman (Russian: Михаил Гробман, Hebrew: מיכאיל גרובמן, born 1939) is an artist and a poet working in Israel and Russia. He is father to Hollywood producer Lati Grobman and Israeli architect Yasha Jacob Grobman.
Biography
1939 – Born in Moscow.
1960s – Active member of The Second Russian Avant-Garde movement in the Soviet Union.
1967 – Member of Moscow Artists Union.
1971 – Emigrates to Israel and settles in Jerusalem.
1975 – Founded the Leviathan group and art periodical (in Russian).
Since 1983, he lives and works mainly in Tel Aviv.
Awards
In 2001, Grobman was a co-recipient of the Dizengoff Prize for Painting.
Solo exhibitions
2007 – Last Skies, Loushy & Peter Art & Projects, Tel Aviv (cat. text: Marc Scheps)
2006 – Creation From Chaos to Cosmos, Bar-David Museum of Fine Art and Judaica, Kibbutz Baram (cat. text: Sorin Heller)
2002 – The Last Sky, installation, Tsveta Zuzoritch pavilion, Belgrad (cat. text: Irina Subotitch)
1999 – Mikhail Grobman: Works 1960–1998, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (cat. texts: Evgeniya Petrova, Marc Scheps, Lola Kantor-Kazovsky, Michail German)
Michail Grobman was born in Moscow. He grew up writing poetry, essays and literary prose. In the 1960s, he was active in the Second Russian Avant-garde movement in the Soviet Union. In 1971, he immigrated to Israel. In 1975, he established the Leviathan school together with Avraham Ofek and Shmuel Ackerman, seeking to combine symbolism, metaphysics and Judaism in an all-inclusive “national style.”
Grobman’s lithograph work employs images and symbols from Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah. His paintings incorporate texts in Russian and Hebrew. In addition to his artistic endeavors, he writes about art and aesthetics. The group combined conceptual art and "land art" with Jewish symbolism. Of the three of them Avraham Ofek had the deepest interest in sculpture and its relationship to religious symbolism and images. In one series of his works Ofek used mirrors to project Hebrew letters, words with religious or cabbalistic significance, and other images onto soil or man-made structures. In his work "Letters of Light" (1979), for example, the letters were projected onto people and fabrics and the soil of the Judean Desert. In another work Ofek screened the words "America", "Africa", and "Green card" on the walls of the Tel Hai courtyard during a symposium on sculpture
Part of the generation of emigre Russian artists, many Jewish, that included Yuri Kuper, Komar and Melamid, Eduard Steinberg, Erik Bulatov, Viktor Pivovarov, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Ilya Kabakov and Grisha Bruskin.
Date of Birth: 1939, Moscow
1960s Active member of The Second Russian Avant Garde
1967 Member of the Moscow Painters Association
1971 Immigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem
1975 Founded the Leviathan group and art periodical (in Russian)
Since 1983 Lives and works in Tel Aviv
.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2002 Pavilion Zveta Zuzovich, "The Last Sky", Belgrad (cat: Irena Subotitch)
1999 The State Russian Museum, ST. Petersburg
1998 "Picture = Symbol + Concept", Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya
1995 "Password and Image", University Gallery, Haifa University
1990 Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv
1989 "The Beautiful Sixties in Moscow", The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University (with llya Kabakov; cat. text: Mordechai Omer]
Spertus Museum, Chicago
Beit Rami and Uri Nechushtan, Ashdot Yaacov (leaflet)
1972 Nora Gallery, Jerusalem 1973 - Negev Museum, Beer Sheva
1971 Tel Aviv Museum of Art (cat. text: Haim Gamzu)
1966 Mos-lng-Projekt, Moscow
1965 Artist's House, Moscow
Energy Institute, Moscow
History Institute, Moscow
Usti-nad-Orlicy Theatre,Czechoslovakia (leaflet text: Dushan Konetchni)
1959 Mukhina Art Institute, Leningrad
.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2003 "Yes do yourself...", Regeneration of Judaism in Israeli art, Zman Omanut Tel Aviv (cat: Gideon Ofrat)
1999 "Russian post-war avantgarde", The Trajsman Collection in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Tretjakov National Gallery, Moscow (cat. text: Yevgenij Barabanov, John Bolt...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Marino Marini (1901-1980) - Orizzonte (1979) - Color lithograph on Arches paper
Located in Varese, IT
lithograph on Arches paper, edited between 1979-1980
Limited edition of 75 copies plus 50 in roman numbers
signed in blue crayon by artist in lower right corner and numbered XXIII/L ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Composition Original Drwaing Hand signed dated Unique piece
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original mixed media on paper
Pastel and color pencils
Hand signed lower right
Hand dated 1953
Unique piece
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Color Pencil
Iain Baxter& "Containing Landscape" Conceptual Monoprint Painting
By Iain Baxter
Located in Surfside, FL
Landscape with snow capped mountains in bright vibrant colors.
Iain Baxter& (the artist recently added the ampersand to his name) is recognized as Canada’s pioneering conceptual artist. For over forty years, Baxter& has continually produced works that question the role of art as commodity and as a medium for cultural commentary. Among his many innovations, Baxter& was the first artist to adopt a corporate persona: in 1966, he formed the N.E. Thing Company. NETCO output ranged from conceptual, satirical, vacuum-formed still lives to post-modern appropriations of famous artworks. His recent work includes neon signs, ‘animal preserves’, a grocery cart of ‘GMO’s’ (genetically modified organisms) and installations using obsolete technology.)
He is a painter, photographer, sculptor, mixed media artist, installationist, film & video maker, interventionist & performance artist who has been a forerunner of conceptual art in Canada. BAXTER& has been considered the Marshall McLuhan of Visual Arts in Canada. Continuous themes in his work include information technology, landscape, art as commodity, & environmental & ecological concerns. These prominent themes throughout BAXTER&‘s work are often met with wit, parody, satire & word-play. Through his art, teaching, and mentorship, BAXTER& has widely influenced Canadian art, creating new movements such as the Vancouver School of Photo-conceptualism and blurring the lines between private and public through his N.E. Thing Co. among many other impactful projects. He has also directly influenced major Canadian artists, including Stan Douglas, Ian Wallace, Jeff Wall, Roy Arden, Ken Lum and Rodney Graham.
BAXTER& has exhibited throughout Canada and internationally in the United States, China, Korea, Japan, and Europe including at the Guggenheim New York, The National Gallery of Canada & the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris, France, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York & the Tate Modern, London. In 2011, BAXTER&’s work was compiled into a major retrospective IAIN BAXTER&: 1958--‐2011, organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario & The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
His work can be found in collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Vancouver Art Gallery, the F.R.A.C Art Museum in Bretagne, France, the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, The Netherlands, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, & the Tate Modern, London.
He is a Member of the Royal Canadian Academy. His work was included in the seminal Made of Plastic show that included Abe Ajay...
Category
Conceptual 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Monoprint, Monotype
Slays in Cyclone, Modern Gouache Painting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Unknown Artist - Slays in Cyclone, Medium: Gouache on Japon Paper on linen backing, signe in pencil and titled on verso, Image Size: 15 x 10 inches, Size: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Abstract Composition - Watercolor Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a contemporary artwork realized the mid-20th century..
Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
The artwork is created through deft quick stro...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract Geometric Illusory Line Art in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Geometric Illusory Line Art in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
In this line abstract by Jerry O'Day (American, 1912), lines intersect and layer in straight and rounded ways giving a sense of movement to the piece. O'Day uses simple ink on paper and pure geometric form in the Minimalist style of the 1960s.
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Mat size: 39"H x 27"W
Paper size: 30"H x 20"W
Image size: 27"H x 16"W
Jerry O'Day is also known as Geraldine Heib. Born in Oakland, California, on June 17, 1912. Geraldine Heib assumed the name Jerry O'Day at an early age. She grew up in Washington and studied in Seattle at the Cornish School of Fine Arts. Upon moving to the San Francisco Bay area in 1938, she further studied with Bufano as a muralist for two years. O'Day wed sculptor David Lemon and had a gallery in a converted cod fishery in Belvedere from 1942 until 1963. At that time, the couple moved to a houseboat in Sausalito, where she remained until her demise on March 30, 1986.
Post War California artist, Jerry O'Day studied at the Cornish School of Fine Arts in Seattle; studied with Beniamino Bufano for two years. She lived in the artist's colony at the Cod fishery with artist David Lemon on Belvedere Island in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1942 - 1963.
Solo Exhibitions: City of Paris, Rotunda Gallery; Lucien Labaudt Gallery, 1963; Torrance Gallery, San Anselmo, 1955; Marin Art Gallery, Sausalito, 1956; Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1962; East & West Gallery, Fillmore Street, San Francisco; Landmarks Gallery, Marin County, 1991.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 65th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1945; Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963.
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David J Carlson...
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Figurative, Ink on Paper by Modern Indian Artist Sunil Das "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Untitled - 13.5 x 9 inches (unframed size)
Ink on paper
It will be delivered without Frame
Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian Artist from Bengal. Extreme...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Green and White Squares, Minimalist Gouache on Paper by Peter Pinchbeck
Located in Long Island City, NY
Peter Pinchbeck, English (1931 - 2000) - Green and White Squares, Year: 1982, Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed and dated in pencil on verso, Size: 22.25 x 30 in. (56.52 x 76.2 cm)
Category
Minimalist 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
La Rocca di Spoleto - Ink and Watercolor by Nevio De Zolt -20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"La Rocca di Spoleto" is an original watercolor drawing on ivory-colorated paper by Nevio De Zolt.
In very good conditions.
Sheet dimension: 32 x 24 cm.
T...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Abstract Composition in Red - Watercolor - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition in Red is an drawing on paper realized by an Anonymous artist in the 1970s.
Watercolor on paper.
Good conditions.
The artwork is represented through organic a...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract Landscape Mid 20th Century Work on Paper Hamptons, NY Drawing Pastel
By Robert Dash
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Landscape Mid 20th Century Work on Paper Hamptons, NY Drawing Pastel. Signed and dated '62 lower right. 9 x 12 inches (sight) and 15. 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches framed.
BIO
Robert Dash is known for his Hamptons paintings...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Song of Pink Warrior - Drawing by Parimah Avani - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Song of Pink Warrior is a drawing realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2023.
China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
Excellent conditions.
Presented in a Solo exhibition of "Calligraphy of Bodies" in Luoghi Comuni Turin 2023.
The artwork is expressively and poetically created, the well-applied dry and watery strokes represent gestural revolutionary figures in a minimalistic manner in a miniature style of composition. which makes this series unique: it is deeply behind the dynamic emotion of each gestural figure, four colors here have metaphorical features; pink as woman, yellow as hope, silvery as resistance, and red as blood. another aspect that stands out in this art is the vigorous and unbridled energy of brushstrokes. Her Series could be described as raw, spontaneous, and emotionally charged. Gestures are a powerful and thought-provoking commentary on social and political issues.
The panoramic lines inspired by Persian calligraphy, here have an exclusive sense of narration harmoniously. The style of Persian calligraphy and knowledge of poetry let her make a visual poem in an expressionistic style, congruent with the poetic title, the use of space and maintaining an empty background and foreground intentionally have been made to emphasize the solitude and loneliness of gestural figures and at the same time connect to oriental calligraphy.
Her artworks artwork has evident characteristics, firstly strongly inspired by Tachisme's “Abstraction lyrique" and artworks of Henri Michaux, and Hans Hurting secondly oriental Persian calligraphy of poems style is evident in her artworks, finally dynamic sensation of revolutionary art...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
The Church - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
The Church is a Pencil Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a white paper.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was born in Le Havre, Fr...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Gabriel’s Pavilion Variation II
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Gabriel’s Pavilion Variation II
Year: 1980
Medium: Pencil on Arches paper
Size: 29 x 41 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Fischbach Gallery, Ne...
Category
Photorealist 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Yellow, Blue & Red Abstract
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
A bold abstract watercolor with yellow and blue, contrasted with red accents by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed "Les Anderson" on verso. From the estate o...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Village in Tuscany', California Modernist woman artist, SFAA
By Dora Masters
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A semi-abstracted study of a Tuscan townscape with warm terra-cotta roofs and stucco hues of saffron and crimson.
Signed lower right, 'D. Masters' for Dora Masters (American, 1916-...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Early Drawing and Watercolor Painting Figurative Abstraction
By Mitch Becker
Located in Surfside, FL
Mitchell Mitch Becker, painter, born November 12, 1938, Chicago, Illinois. 1972, Emigrated to Israel.
Education
1961 - School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois. Bachelor of Art Education,
1971 - University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Master of Fine Arts,
Teaching
1968-1972 High School, Skokie, USA.
1973-1974 Thelma Yellin Art School, Givatayim
1974-1976 Institute of Visual Art, Beersheba
1977-1981 Art Teachers College, Ramat Hasharon
1981-1982 Bezalel, Jerusalem
Awards And Prizes
1958-61, Anna Tucson Scholarship, USA
Mitchell Becker emerged into the art world of late 1950s Chicago, between gestures of Abstract Expressionism and declarations about the "death of painting." The hot names of his youth, such as Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Larry Rivers, provided him with interest and challenges for years to come, and his awe for them is still evident in his voice to date, many years after drawing away from them. This work is reminiscent of the work of Saul Steinberg and Philip Guston.
Heroes - Past and Present, Yad Labanim Museum, Petach-Tikva
Artists: Shalom Moskowitz, (Shalom of Safed) Yohanan Simon, Boris Schatz, Motti Mizrachi, Hanan Milner, Mitchell Becker, Edith Samuel, Ludwig Schwerin, Igael Tumarkin, Talia Tokatly.
EDUCATION:
1971 Master of Fine Arts,University of Chicago, Illinois
1961 Bachelor of Art Education School...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract Composition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a Watercolor artwork realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980) in 1955.
Good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (35x49 cm).
H...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Red and Yellow Galaxy Abstract on Wrapper of Interview Magazine Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Red and Yellow Galaxy Abstract on Wrapper of Interview Magazine Acrylic on Paper
Saturated abstract composition by Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). Splashes of red, yello...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
20th century Belgium, Black and White Abstract pencil drawing, Etude
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding pencil on paper Abstract drawing.
Marcel Dumont was a Liège artist who painted in oils and gouache, also produced collages and was an illustrator and engraver, doing so in a number of different styles. Early on in his career, he tended to produce paintings displaying a poetic realism but this changed over time until, in 1957, he was employing geometric abstraction and later still, the influence of pop art could be discerned. His geometric style has strong linear structure which occasionally veers to expressionism and the effect of this is an interesting sense of detachment that the viewer of the work can feel and one engages with the subject on a different level than one would normally expect. A critic wrote of him," Sometimes expressionist, sometimes linear, the abstraction forms itself willingly, in Marcel Dumont's world, to leave the rectangular structure to connect to carefully prepared tones. He retains also, in his abundant output, a few poetic pop-art collages together with a number of drawings and engravings illustrating Stefan Zweig...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Watercolour squared abstract by Modern British artist Adrian Heath
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Adrian Heath (British, 1920 – 1992)
Squared abstract
Pencil, pastel, gouache and watercolour
Signed with Initials and dated `AH 78` (lower right)
8.3/4 x 7.3/4 in. (22 x 19.5 cm)
Ad...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Dusk Time - Original Drawing by Mario Surbone - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Dusk Time is an original contemporary artwork realized in 1986 by Mario Surbone.
Colored mixed media (watercolor and carchoal) on paper.
Hand signed b...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Trust Light - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Trust Light is a Black Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a sheet of a notebook.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was born ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Love - Drawing In Pastels - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Love is an original drawing in pastels, realized by Novella Parigini (1921-1993).
In very good conditions.
Hand-signed and the date "1958", on the l...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Composition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a Black Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a sheet of a notebook.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was born i...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Abstract Composition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a Black Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a sheet of a notebook.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Abstract Composition - Original Pencil by Ronaldo De Juan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Artistic Composition is an original pencil sketch realized by Ronaldo De juan (1930-1989).
Artist’s initials and date at the bottom of the left corner.
Hand-signed by the artist on...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Composition - Original Pencil and Watercolor by Aldo Turchiaro - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original drawing in watercolor on paper by Aldo Turchiaro in 1968s.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Good conditions.
The artwork represents an abstract compositi...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Abstract Composition - China ink Drawing by Michel Cadoret - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition is an original artwork realized by Michel Cadoret.
China ink on paper.
The monogram of the artist is on the lower center. The bac...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Abstract Composition CJ1
By Chaumard Jacques
Located in Nice, FR
Mixed media and gouache on collage, signed on the back
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Women in Purple and Shadow - Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Nun in the Shadows - Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper
A dark abstracted portrait by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). This piece is abst...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
