Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

The Balance is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Danilo Bergamo (b.1938) in 1964. Original watercolor con paper. Hand-signed on the right margin by the artist in red pen...

Pierre MONTHEILLET (1923-2011) Composition in yellow Watercolor and gouache on paper Signed lower left Dimensions of the work: 50 x 65 cm Dimensions of the frame: 60 x 80 cm Pierre ...

"Abstract Composition" is an original drawing in pencil and watercolor on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Sheet ...

Woman is an original drawing in brownish ink artwork realized by the artist Arturo Peyrot in 1943. Good conditions, with small cutting on the margins and folding. The artwork repre...

Composition is an original drawing in marking china ink on paper realized by an unknown artist of the 20th Century. Monogrammed" A.R.H" on the lower left, with sign and title on th...

Minotaur is an original painting in watercolor realized by Sergio Barletta in 1946. Hand-signed. In fair conditions with some folding, stains, and tearing on the margins. The artw...

Composition in Pink and Viola is an original painting in tempera and oil on cardboard realized by a French anonymous artist of the 20th century. Mounted on a Passepartout: 19 x 16 cm...

Modern Fausto Pirandello Signed Abstract Watercolor Important work by one of the greatest artists of the Italian artistic avant-garde Fausto Pirandello It depicts one of his iconic ...

Figures is an original drawing in blue ballpoint pen on ivory paper realized by Danilo Bergamo in 1962. Not signed. Good conditions...

"The Airport" is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). The state of preservation of the artwork is good except for some small cutaway on ...

Diana Kurz Light White Pastel on Paper 14 x 11 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England and t...

Scottie Wilson (Scottish, 1888 – 1972, born Louis Freeman) Ducks paradise Signed ‘Scottie’ (lower right), further signed and inscribed with title on th...

Unknown Artist - Firenze, Year: 1966, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed lower left, titled and dated on verso, Image Size: 17.5 x 12.5 inches, Size: 19.25 x 13.5 in. (48.9 x 34.29 cm), D...

Abstract composition is an original artwork realized by Michel Cadoret. Penmarker on paper. The monogram of the artist is on the lower right corner. ...

Energetic abstract expressionist watercolor painting of large black and orange splatters done by Norman Bluhm in 1962. Signed and dated in lower left corner. Hung in a black and gold...

Lithograph with hand-cut central slash incision by Fontana limited edition, numbered as 57/150. paper size: 47 x 35 cm framed size: 67 x 65 cm very good conditions, with deep strong ...

This vintage 1938 ink drawing by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968) beautifully depicts a church nestled amid the dramatic Rocky Mountains of Georgetown, Colorado. Executed in bold ...

Artist: Roberto Matta Title: Sans Titre 2 Medium: Original pastel/drawing on paper Signed: Hand Signed Measurements: 20" x 25" Framed: 28" x 35" Authentication: Kajsa Westling N...

Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Still Life of a Waste Bin, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 25.75" H x 20" W. Provenan...

Untitled Abstraction Graphite on paper, c. 1950 Unsigned Signed with the estate stamp verso (see photo) Provenance: Estate of the artist Inherited by his neighb...

Mid-Century Modern abstracted landscape watercolor painting by American artist Toma Tovanovich (1931- 2016). Tovanovich's work is found in many public and private collections all...

Abstract Non-Objective Mid 20th Century Color Field Painting James Daugherty James Daugherty (1887 – 1974) "Unidentified Flying Object," 12 x 16 inche...

Edmond Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978) Toccata 23 Ink on paper Signed and dated ‘Kapp 76’ (lower right) 9.1/2 x 14 in. (24.3 x 35.5 cm.) Edmond Kapp was born in Islington, London, on 5 November 1890, of American and German Jewish parentage. He gave himself the middle initial ‘X’ – sometimes said to stand for Xavier – to distinguish himself from his father Emil Kapp, who was a wine merchant. However, his parents called him ‘Eddie’ while his wife and friends knew him as ‘Peter’. During his early years, Kapp was continually ill and, while convalescing, entertained himself by drawing at home. As his health improved, he attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Islington (1903-10), with periods at Berlin University (1909) and L’Institut Français pour les Etrangers, Paris (1909). He then read Languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1910-13), though spent most of his time writing and drawing. Kapp took a studio in London, and worked intensively until the outbreak of the First World War, contributing to the Daily News, the Onlooker and other periodicals. During the war, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front, and then in Intelligence, rising to the position of Staff Captain on Haig’s Staff. Finally, he founded and directed the Neutral Press Counter-propaganda Section. In 1919, Kapp returned to London and, after abortive periods at three art schools, worked alone. In that year, he made his name with an exhibition of caricatures, held at Furst’s Gallery, London, and accompanied by a catalogue introduced by Max Beerbohm. This soon led to contracts with three London periodicals and a book of caricatures, Personalities, published by Martin Secker. Through the 1920s and 30s, his drawings of musicians and other personalities appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, most notably Time & Tide; were collected in further volumes; and were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. He considered himself to be a ‘character-portraitist’, producing images of psychological not satirical power, and disliking the term ‘caricature’. Between the wars, Kapp developed other aspects of his artistic talents, the desire to study and the search for subject matter often taking him abroad. For instance, work at the British Academy, Rome, under Antonio Sciortino...

Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Beach Horizontal, Pastel on Paper, signed lower left, in mat, unframed. Image: 9.25" H x 6.5" W; sheet: 11" H x 8.25" W; mat: 17" H...

He was born in Paris, the son of a conversation though open-minded middle-class family. His father runs the family business of optical equipment but he's also a theatre lover, an author and a poet. He gives his son a strict education and the boy will feel closer to his mother. Pierre De Maria will become a honest, straightforward man, uncompromising to himself and the others. He is very particular about his appearance and, as a child of the "Belle époque" takes up to a kind of dandysm. A cousin of his, Jacques Camoreyt (a pupil of Albert Maignan) teaches him how to master pictorial techniques along with the rather academic education in Arts he is going through. From 1907 to 1914 he is a student at the Lycée Condorcet, first graduates in science and languages, then at the Engineering College just before World War 1. The sight of atrocities will leave a deep scar in his memory. He has a miraculous escape from the war and finds a job in the family firm. He soon realizes he hates everything related to engineering and decides to launch on into painting. He works as a scene painter with Ronsin and Laverdet workshop and on stage with "avant-garde" drama companies. In the same time, he shows his work at the "Salon d'Automne" in 1923 an gets a honour prize in the modern painting department. In 1925 he takes up to boxing and creates some polychromatic facades with Djo Bourgeois, then gets into the Art Deco trend as an architect and a decorator. Henri-Pierre Roché, a writer (Jules et Jim) a painter and an art collector close to the cubists has already discovered talents ( Brancusi, Wols…) and takes an in interest in Pierre De Maria. Autoportrait Environ 1960 In 1926 (the "Années Folles "in Paris) Pierre De Maria meets Marcel Duchamp, Brancusi and the surrealist gang he enjoys but never joins. « They were friends and I was curious but I never liked the hint of complaisance I saw in their work. » He then starts some technical research an collages as shown in his first exhibition of "pasted gouaches" in Princess'Murat 's gallery in Paris. (« Fermé la nuit ») « I never thought I'd make money with my paintings. I took to painting as I would have taken holy orders » He works as a journalist for Marianne and Vu magazines (1932-1933) and writes a detailed report about the Maelström in Norway and the soviet Movies. He has the opportunity to meet Eisenstein and Poudovkine in Sovietic Russia and thinks of making a name for himself in the Movie industry. In 1939 Pierre De Maria meets Germaine Pellegrino who becomes his wife a year later. They'll have two sons : Jacques born 1942 and François born 1943. The family settle in Geneva at the end of 1943. During those years he writes an unpublished autobiographical novel («Tir à volonté») as well as a collection of thoughts about various topics such as war. He also writes poems and a play (as his father had done) «Cornelius'death», in a rather humorous manner. « He who conveys the opinion of fools makes certain to get the majority of votes ». In 1944 he is back in Paris, leaving his wife. He'll settle in Nice in 1953 and starts there his mechanical period with the recurrent theme of machinery in his painting. In 1958 he has his second exhibition in Paris (JC de Chaudun's gallery) and shows a series of lino-engravings done after some drawings of his: he then begins being acknowledged by his contemporaries, his fellow-painters and the Parisian artistic circle. Jacques Prévert even dedicated him a poem. («Les Machinoutis») Henri Pierre Roché, Henri-Pieyre de Mandiargues, Yves Taillandier contribute to the catalogue, well received by the press. In the meantime, he has his works exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, the Salon de Mai, and the Salon Comparaison. In 1963, Flemish wood-engraver Frans Masereel, and Professor Gowa, the curator of the Offenbach Fine Arts, both introduce Pierre De Maria successfully in Germany, allowing him to become famous abroad. The Homo Atomicus Exhibition gathers 45 paintings, recounting the artist'progress over the past ten years. He's then nicknamed the «Atomic age Hyperonymus Bosch» ! In 1964, Greek gallery owner Iris Clert finds him out and helps him into a new career. He is then 68. Iris Clert, as a specialist in Contemporary Art has contributed to the coming out of the New Realism movement through her most spectacular and mediatical exhibitions. She takes a fancy to Pierre De Maria 's work : « The visit of his studio turned my love at first sight into a cutainty : he uses the technique from the Ancients to express Future. » Afterwards, both get into intense collaboration so that the painter is allowed to use the gallery owner's european and international net. In 1966, his work's dedicated a research published in Connaissance des Arts Magazine n° 70 : » A foreground study of Pierre De Maria in this month issue ». Later an article in International Art. In 1969 he turns 73 and he can see his first retrospective exhibition in Nice at the Ponchettes Gallery (about 60 paintings). At 76, he meets artist Hélène Bottet, from then on allowing humour to take over violence in his art. Machines don't frighten him anymore, he's now able to mock them even through they remain at the core of his paintings, in spite of the mechanical Art...

Joyce Treiman Ink on paper, framed under glass; signed in pencil lower right; Dimensions: 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches; 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches frame. Joyce Wahl Treiman was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and teacher. Her work ranged from "the impishly perverse and humorously paradoxical to the brilliant and profound." She was known as an excellent draftsperson throughout her career. She made several trips to Europe to study the old masters, and the human figure is central in her work. In her later paintings she is known to have inserted self-portraits. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and then studied at the State University of Iowa (today the University of Iowa) under the influential painter Philip Guston. During World War II she worked as a commercial artist but resigned when she began to have success with exhibitions of her work in Chicago and New York. In 1945 she married Kenneth Treiman, and son Donald, now an Architect, was born in 1950. The Treimans, along with Rene and Rose Wahl, moved to Los Angeles in 1960. She was in an exhibit of Tamarind prints...

"Harlequin’s Birthday" Mid 20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field James Daugherty (1887 – 1974) Harlequin’s Birthday 17 1/4 x 11 inches Pastel on paper, c. 1965 Titled lo...

Important work by one of the greatest artists of the Italian artistic avant-garde Fausto Pirandello It depicts one of his iconic subjects ‘Bathers’ with five characters depicted in ...

Michael Knigin Abstract 8 1967 Ink brush drawing, with acrylic paint on paper 10.5"x14" unframed $675 Signed and dated in ink lower left Came from ar...

Oil pastel on paper Original work 57 x 53 x 3 cm (framed)

Untitled Abstraction Pen and ink on paper, 1932 Signed and dated in ink lower center Condition: Excellent Sheet/Image size: 10 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches Frame size: 16 1/2 x 12 1/2" Provena...

Artist: Roberto Matta Title: Sans Titre 3 Medium: Original pastel/drawing on paper Signed: Hand Signed Measurements: 20" x 27" Framed: 28" x 35" Authentication: Kajsa Westling N...

The Pinks and the Blues Watercolor, pen and ink on paper, 1954 Signed and dated in ink lower left, titled in pencil verso. Provenance: Gift of the Artist Privat...

"Untitled" Mid 20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Abstraction James Daugherty (1887 – 1974) Untitled 15 x 21 ½ inches May 15, 1967 Pastel on paper Signed lower left ...

Charcoal, 1930 Handsigned by the artist in pencil LCD4087

Signed lower center edge Annotated verso: “5 Juin 1966 _____ et de soleil, de et d’oseille” Image: 6 3/4 x 4 5/8" Frame: 14 1/2 x 12 3/4" Finishe...

This unique abstract work is a watercolor by American artist Chris Ritter. The use of broad gestural movement and bold colors creates an engaging composit...

Watercolor painting of a street scene with two females and a man that appears to be a beggar. The work is signed by the artist. It is framed in a black frame with a yellow matte. Dim...

"Abstract With Clouds" is an original ink drawing on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza, stamped with her signature in the lower right. The drawing is done entirely in pink with a combination ...

Miniature Abstract Totem. Signed with initials. Provenance: Virginia Field, Arts administrator; New York, N.Y. Assistant director for Asia House gallery. (she was friends with John v...

Genre: Expressionist Subject: Landscape Medium: Watercolor Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions w/Frame: 16" x 28" Murray Hantman (1904–1999) was a painter, muralist, an...

Modern abstract figurative charcoal drawing of a woman by Texas-born artist Eugene Massin. The work features a central loosely rendered female figure seated in a high-backed peacock ...

"Constellations" is an original watercolor painting on textured paper by David Barnett, signed in the lower right corner. It is an abstract piece characterized by minimally-applied l...

Original felt pens on paper Unique piece Hand signed and dated in 1957 Rare piece from the Master

Unsigned. Labeled verso. Exhibited: Cleveland Museum of Art, 38th Annual May Show, 1956. Awarded first prize watercolor. Born in West Point, Ohio near the border of Pennsylvania,...

In the 1960s, Sylvia Spicuzza made several watercolor abstractions with biomorphic qualities like the one presented here. While being a playful abstraction, the watercolor also seeps...

The piece is mounted in an archival white mat, with an overall mat size of 30 x 24 inches. Fritz Bultman (1919-1985) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, sculptor, and co...

The piece is mounted in an archival white mat, with an overall mat size of 30 x 24 inches. Fritz Bultman (1919-1985) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, sculptor, and co...

Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982) original watercolour painting on board, unframed size: 10 x 12 inches condition: overall very good, minor wear to th...

Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982) Signed original watercolour painting on board, unframed size: 10.5 x 15 inches condition: overall very good, minor w...

Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982) original watercolour painting on board, unframed size: 11.5 x 14.5 inches condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for a...

Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982) signed original watercolour painting on board, unframed size: 7 x 9 inches condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for ...

Bowens (British, fl. mid 20th Century) Cambridge: Centre of Scientific Research Pye Group Records Pye - Nixa - Mercury - Vanguard - EmArcy c. mid-late 1950s Haig Road in Cambridge, where Pye had their factory, was subsumed into Elizabeth Way and was a long way from King's College chapel. However that iconic building is used to illustrate the Cambridge connection. EmArcy Records is a jazz record...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 12.75 x 9.75 inches condition: excellent pr...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 10.75 x 8.5 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we h...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 14.75 x 11 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we ha...

Provenance: Virginia Field, arts administrator; New York, N.Y. Assistant director for Asia House gallery. (she was friends with John von Wicht, Bernard Childs, John Ford and Andy War...

Untitled (Abstraction) Ink on textured paper, c. 1958 Signed lower right "Scarlett" (see photo) Condition: Excellent Archival framing with OP3 Acrylic Sheet size: 21 3/4 x 30 inches Frame size: 28 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches Note: A rare mid to late 1950s example of the artist's abstract expressionist style. Provenance: estate of the artist Private Collection, Hudson River Valley, New York Rolph Scarlett B. 1889, GUELPH, ONTARIO; D. 1984, WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK Born on June 13, 1889 in Guelph, Canada, and into an artistic family, Rolph Scarlett spent his teenage years as an apprentice in his uncle’s jewelry firm and briefly studied at the Art Students League, New York. While working in the jewelry industry, Scarlett found time to paint and design theatrical sets in his free time, including one for the 1928 world premiere of Eugene O’Neill’s drama Lazarus Laughed (1926). In 1923, while on a business trip to Switzerland, Scarlett had met the artist Paul Klee and soon after abandoned his figurative painting style in favor of an abstract language that suggested more universal, cosmic truths. In 1937, after permanently settling in New York, Scarlett became acquainted with the artist and curator Hilla Rebay, the first director of the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1952). Rebay provided Scarlett with a Guggenheim Foundation scholarship to paint full-time and obtained several of his paintings for the museum’s collection. From 1940 to 1946, Scarlett served as the museum’s chief lecturer, giving Sunday afternoon talks on art. Through Rebay, Scarlett became acquainted with the nonobjective works of Rudolf Bauer and Vasily Kandinsky and further refined his abstract style. Works from this era such as Yellow Bar (1942) are defined by overlapping geometric planes of bright, primary colors set against mute backgrounds. Scarlett avoided any reference to the outside world and believed that nonobjective painting was an act, in his words, of “pure creation.” During his lifetime, solo shows of his work were held at the Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York (1949); Sioux City Art Center, Iowa (1951); and Washburn Gallery...

Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) Untitled, 1940s ink on Japanese paper 16 1/2 x 21 1/4 in 41.9 x 54 cm

Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) Untitled, 1960s ink with graphite on Japanese paper 24 x 13 in 61 x 33 cm