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Period: Mid-20th Century
Improversation #3 - Early Abstraction
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated lower right;
inscribed, Dated and Signed on Verso
Provenance: Ashley John Gallery
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
DESSIN
Located in PARIS, FR
Philippe Hiquily's original drawings from the early 1960s, housed in a private collection, are a distinctive showcase of the provocative Hiquilian style that defined this era. These ...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Biomorphic Abstraction" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
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...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Biomorphic Abstraction" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
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...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Ebb and Flow" original pastel drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this pastel drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a rhythmic view resembling waves and rolling hills. The colors of the repeating patterns and softness of the undulati...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Petie (Duck)" conte crayon drawing signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a duck in a watery landscape, rendered in her elegant modernist style. Other forms in the drawing appear to shoot up like le...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté
"Grand Display, " Original Abstract Watercolor on Paper signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Grand Display" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right corner. The piece is composed of minimal brushstrokes in green, yellow, blue, and red, ...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Land, Sea, & Sky, " Original Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Land, Sea & Sky" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. This gestural, abstract piece features two lightly washed color fields: yellow on th...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Bird, " Original Early Pencil Drawing signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bird" is an original pencil drawing by David Barnett, signed along the bottom edge. The entire work is about the size of a postage stamp and includes an abstract representation of a...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
"Orbiting the Earth, " Original Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Orbiting the Earth" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed and dated in the lower right. This abstract piece is almost abstract expressionist in style with free...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Orbit, " Abstract Watercolor & Tempera Painting signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Orbit" is an original watercolor and tempera painting by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece lower left. This artwork features abstract and expressionist marks in gray, black...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
"Space Odyssey, " Original Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Space Odyssey" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece. This artwork features abstract marks and brushstrokes in blue, purple, gray, yellow,...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Visage Interplanetaires" Original Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Visage Interplanetaires" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece. This watercolor features abstract lines and marks in black, red, green, an...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"What, Water, Color, Sky, " Surreal Abstract Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Whale, Water, Color, Sky" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed and dated in the lower right. This surreal, abstract work is composed of expressive brush strok...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Surrealist Sea, " Original Watercolor on Paper signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Surrealist Sea" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed and dated in the lower right. This work is a burst of colors with soft blac...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Art Deco Abstract, " Conte Crayon in Black & Sepia signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this drawing,"Art Deco Abstract," Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with abstracted biomorphic forms in her elegant modernist style. Dominant in the image are two lilies, their ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté
Hecuba
Located in Greenwich, CT
Abstract black and ink wash on paper drawing.
The powerful legacy of Reuben Nakian has earned him a coveted place in the history of American art. No other sculptor of the twentieth ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Abstract Figure - Czech Art
Located in London, GB
The work is hand signed in ink by the artist "b.ost" in the lower right corner, and hand dated "36" next to the signature.
The drawing was created in 1936.
Provenance: Collection So...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Larry Zox "Diamond Drill Series" Drawing
By Larry Zox
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of abstraction in American art of the 20th century.
Raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Zox studied at the University of Oklaho...
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
DESSIN
Located in PARIS, FR
Philippe Hiquily's original drawings from the early 1960s, housed in a private collection, are a distinctive showcase of the provocative Hiquilian style that defined this era. These ...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
DESSIN
Located in PARIS, FR
Philippe Hiquily's original drawings from the early 1960s, housed in a private collection, are a distinctive showcase of the provocative Hiquilian style that defined this era. These ...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Volcano"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Joseph Meierhans (1890 - 1980)
Joseph Meierhans is one of the most important modernist painters associated with Bucks Coun...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Searching the Car - Desaturated Colors Muted Warm Yellows and Grey
Located in Miami, FL
This Harry Beckhoff illustration is masterfully rendered and intricately designed in line and wash. It's as abstract as it's representational with its graphic style, clean lines, and flat patterning. Every element in the composition works in harmony without a line out of place. The flat and abstract nature of the work rivals that of the great modernist painters of the 1930s.
Perhaps this was done for a major newsstand magazine like Collier's.
Although he studied with Dean Cornwell and Harvey Dunn, he didn't pursue the style of painterly brushstrokes and impastos. Instead, he defined his forms with flat shapes, whose internal forms are defined by thin lines. The emphasis is more on silhouette and line than it is on texture and lighting. Beckhoff also described his work as having been influenced by illustrators like Pierre Brissaud...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
Improversation #3
Located in Miami, FL
Gallery tags on verso. Work is frame an in very good condition.
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Sans titre
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique work
mixed media
signed on bottom
H75 x W 57 cm (framed)
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
"Machinery"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Lloyd R. Ney (1893 – 1964)
Called “Bill” by his friends, Lloyd Ney was one of the pioneers of Modernist art in New Hope. Ne...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Sans titre
Located in PARIS, FR
Oil pastels and acrylics on paper
unique piece
H 61.5 x L 76 x P 3 cm (framed)
7900
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
"Delaware Water Gap"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Lloyd R. Ney (1893 – 1964)
Called “Bill” by his friends, Lloyd Ney was one of the pioneers of Modernist art in New Hope. Ne...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
"Blue Black & Green"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Lloyd R. Ney (1893 – 1964)
Called “Bill” by his friends, Lloyd Ney was one of the pioneers of Modernist art in New Hope. Ne...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Delaware Water Gap #2"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Lloyd R. Ney (1893 – 1964)
Called “Bill” by his friends, Lloyd Ney was one of the pioneers of Modernist art in New Hope. Ne...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Kathedraal, 1959
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL
Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon
CATHEDRAL
1959
Gouache on paper
64 x 52 cm.
Signed and dated: lower right ‘Quirijn van Tiel 59’
Provenance: Formal collection P.A. Regna...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Gouache and Graphite Drawing on Board by Lois Field, Dated 1947
Located in New York, NY
Lois Field (Am. 1923 - 2010)
Untitled
Gouache and graphite on board, 1947
11 3/4” x 9”
Signed and dated Lois Field ‘47, lower left
Provenance
The artist, Webster Groves, MO (ca. 200...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
DESSIN
Located in PARIS, FR
Philippe Hiquily's original drawings from the early 1960s, housed in a private collection, are a distinctive showcase of the provocative Hiquilian style that defined this era. These ...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Energy"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Lloyd R. Ney (1893 – 1964)
Called “Bill” by his friends, Lloyd Ney was one of the pioneers of Modernist art in New Hope. Ne...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Wind"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Lloyd R. Ney (1893 – 1964)
Called “Bill” by his friends, Lloyd Ney was one of the pioneers of Modernist art in New Hope. Ne...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Structural Constellation" - Abstract, Drawing, Geometric, Black, White
By Josef Albers
Located in Köln, DE
Ink drawing "Structural Costellation" by Josef Albers from 1958.
Josef Albers' works “Structural Constellations” were created from 1949 onwards. They demonstrate spatial perception...
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Untitled
By Augustin Lesage
Located in PARIS, FR
Augustin Lesage is a French painter attached to the movement of art brut. Jean Dubuffet included the paintings of Lesage in his collection in 1948, onl...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Velleda
By André Masson
Located in New York, NY
La Velleda, circa 1947, by Andre Masson (1896-1987)
Pastel on paper
35 ½ in x 28 ¾ inches unframed (90.17 x 73.03 cm)
50 ¼ x 42 ¾ inches framed (127.64 x 108.59 cm)
Signed lower righ...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Untitled (Abstraction IV Geometric)
By Arthur Dove
Located in London, GB
Dove uses ink to render angular and rounded shapes, he then fills in these shapes with gouache using loose brush marks which create a sensitive textural landscape. The transparency o...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Pink Garden" Gerome Kamrowski, American Surrealist 1947 Expressive Abstraction
Located in New York, NY
Gerome Kamrowski
Pink Garden, 1947
Signed lower left
Watercolor on paper
22 x 30 inches
Gerome Kamrowski was born in Warren, Minnesota, on January 19, 1914. In 1932 he enrolled in ...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled - Still Life 2, Cubist Ink on Paper by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - Still Life 2
Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980)
Date: 1936
Ink on paper, signed and dated
Size: 3.63 x 5.25 in. (9.21 x 13.34 cm)
Frame Size: 10.75 x 12.25 inches
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Untitled - Child Sleeping on Desk, Cubist Gouache on Paper by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled - Child Sleeping on Desk
Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980)
Date: circa 1930
Gouache On Paper
Size: 13.75 x 10.63 in. (34.93 x 26.99 cm)
Frame Size: 18.75 x 16 inches
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Fetiche 4, Cubist Ink and Crayon Drawing on Paper by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
Set against a deep green background of layered paint and wavy lines, Benjamin Benno’s textured composition features an array of unidentifiable figures of varying sizes and shapes. Th...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Ink
Birth, Cubist Ink Drawing on Paper by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
Colored ink drawing of an abstract blue shape by British born American artist Benjamin Benno.
Birth
Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980)
Date: 1938
Colored ink on paper, signed lowe...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Atlas, Cubist Painting on Paper by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
Cubist artist Benjamin Benno depicts the famed Greek figure Atlas supporting on his shoulders a more angular version of our world. On his face is a strai...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Abstract Composition 2, Cubist Painting on Paper by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
Abstract Composition 2
Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980)
Date: 1934
Gouache on paper, signed and dated
Size: 11 x 8 in. (27.94 x 20.32 cm)
Frame Size: 19.5 x 16.25 inches
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Study for a Neon Sculpture, Conceptual Art Watercolor by Chryssa
Located in Long Island City, NY
This is a unique watercolor study by Greek neon artist Chryssa. Although it does not closely resemble any of her known completed works, the forms are similar to her series "Analysis ...
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Early Modern Colorful Red, Blue, Yellow, & Green Geometric Abstract Line Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract geometric drawing by early Houston. TX artist Robert Preusser. The work features bursts of lines and colors that create movement throughout the composition. Signed and date...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Casein
Untitled
By Hans Hofmann
Located in New York, NY
Color crayons and ink on white wove paper. Initialed and dated "VI . 24 . 43" in ink, lower right recto, and annotated and dated in ink, verso.
This work is registered in the record...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Ink
Lady with the Military Medals, Watercolor and Ink on Paper by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lady with the Military Medals
Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980)
Date: 1940
Watercolor and ink on paper, signed and dated
Size: 24 x 14.38 in. (60.96 x 36.51 cm)
Frame Size: 27 x 2...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Untitled 7, Colored Ink drawing by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Amazon
Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980)
Date: circa 1940
Colored ink on paper
Size: 14.75 x 21 in. (37.47 x 53.34 cm)
Frame Size: 22 x 28 inches
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Still Life with Fruit Bowl and Water Jug, Crayon on Paper by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
Still Life with Fruit Bowl and Water Jug
Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980)
Date: 1940
Crayon on paper, signed and dated
Size: 13 x 17.13 in. (33.02 x 43.5 cm)
Frame Size: 24.5 x 2...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Odalisque, Surrealist Charcoal on Paper Drawing by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
A black and white charcoal drawing on paper by cubist and surrealist artist Benjamin Benno.Rather than depicting fruit or flowers on a table like a tra...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Automatism No. 11
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Automatism No. 11
1965
Ink and oil on paper
67.3 x 61.6 cms (26 1/2 x 24 1/4 ins)
Part of the Beside the Sea series, a series of oil paintings influenced by Mother...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Oil
Untitled (13-J1)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The piece is mounted in an archival white mat, with an overall mat size of 30 x 24 inches.
Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously o...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Untitled (12-P1)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The piece is mounted in an archival white mat, with an overall mat size of 30 x 24 inches.
Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously o...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Untitled (9-Q1)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The piece is mounted in an archival white mat, with an overall mat size of 30 x 24 inches.
Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously o...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Untitled (8-L1)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The piece is mounted in an archival white mat, with an overall mat size of 30 x 24 inches.
Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously o...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
