Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
ABSTRACT STYLE
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
Find original abstract paintings, sculptures, prints and other art on 1stDibs.
Style: Abstract
Color: Blue
Untitled III
Located in Fairfield, CT
This series on paper, Topologies of Blue, possesses layers of delicate texture and structure in the blue tones, created through a process that combines inks, polymer paints, leaves, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Untitled
Located in København S, DK
Explore Mila Francesca Cali's abstract watercolors, inspired by her plein-air studies of space and nature. With echoes of modernist painting in a contemporary context, each piece res...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
"Stripe Drawing #10" Contemporary Original Abstract Drawing
Located in Roselle Park, NJ
My drawings and paintings are an examination of three major elements - color, surface and mark making. These nonrepresentational pieces give me the freedom to concentrate on and inve...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Oil Pastel
Mediterranean Blue Sea Waves, Handmade painting ink, Calming Ripples, Limited
Located in Carballo, ES
Blue Minimal Painting is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2020. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request.
The title of this works is "From the Apollonian pictori...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Odds 6 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Odds 6 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic and pigments on paper — Unframed.
Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France.
Her use of natural pigments, reflective of n...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pigment
Lines 4 - abstract geometric bright blue ink drawing on paper
By Dana Piazza
Located in New York, NY
Dana Piazza's creates abstract black and white and colorful drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highly obsessive ink drawings on paper ar...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
SHIZEN SERIES V
By Kim Fonder
Located in Tulsa, OK
Kim Fonder, SHIZEN SERIES V, Mixed Media on Handmade Paper with Plexi, 12.00 X 12.00 in, $600.00, Blue
Abstract, contemporary, White, mixed media, fine art
Kim Fonder loves texture ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Plexiglass, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
The Waters Above The Waters Below (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
The Waters Above The Waters Below (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas — Unframed.
Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Canvas, Acrylic
Hyper Cube Series
Located in Henderson, NV
Hyper Cube Series. Drawing. 1978. Gouache on Paper. Artist interpretation of a hyper cube.
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Azure - sky series
Located in Dubai, DU
The Azure series constitutes a collection of artworks that metaphorically suggests the nature of time, gradual and fleeting, akin to the serene monochromatic blues of the sky. Emplo...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Archival Ink
Mediterranean Blue Sea Waves, Handmade painting ink, Calming Ripples, Limited
Located in Carballo, ES
Blue Minimal Painting is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2020. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request.
The title of this works is "From the Apollonian pictori...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
The Blue Earth II, CoBrA movement, Mid-20th Century Danish Watercolor
By Carl-Henning Pedersen
Located in Beachwood, OH
Carl-Henning Pedersen (Denmark, 1913 - 2007)
The Blue Earth II, 1971
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right, signed, dated and titled verso
30.5 x 21.5 inches
Carl-Hennin...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Monotype of Abstract Rounded Type, Modern Shapes and Layers, Blue Tones
Located in Carballo, ES
Blue Minimal Painting is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2020. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request.
The title of this works is "From the Apollonian pictori...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Monotype of Abstract Rounded Type, Modern Shapes and Layers, Blue Tones
Located in Carballo, ES
Blue Minimal Painting is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2020. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request.
The title of this works is "From the Apollonian pictori...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
American (1917-2000) Abstract Drawing, Marker on Paper. Signed and Dated
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Aubrey Penny (1917 - 2000) Abstract, Marker on Paper. Signed and Dated 71, lower right. Size: 14 x 17
Titled: "Hyler Reflection" Series #5929, July 1971
Aubrey Penny (American 19...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Permanent Marker
Emotional Color Chart 176 (Abstract painting)
By Kyong Lee
Located in London, GB
Emotional Color Chart 176 (Abstract painting)
Pencil and Acrylic on Fabriano-Pittura paper - Unframed.
This series, started in 2016 conveys a color and emotional language and is ins...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
untitled-#2 red turquoise blue bold geometric shapes
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled painting/collage 2022
acrylic and mixed media - painted silkscreen mesh on 140 lb. cold press paper 30x22” unframed
blue, green, orange on bright red
irregular texture surfa...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Flushing #3
Located in Westport, CT
Selena Beaudry’s work is created by marking and cutting up drawings. This has led the artist to rediscovering her visual language. Her work consists of...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Linen, Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, Color Pencil
Opera
By Alex Corno
Located in Milano, IT
Opera
2019
Acrilico e matita su carta
CM 77x56
Con la mano e con fuoco, sul metallo. Con la mano e col pensiero sulla carta.
Il disegno è inscindibile dalla scultura e non può essere meno importante.
Alex Corno nei sui disegni su carta arriva all’estrema sintesi della sua ricerca artistica.
Gli elementi costitutivi della sua Scultura sono riportati in bi-dimensione in rapidi e istintivi segni/pennellate che riescono a testimoniare il suo rapporto con lo Spazio.
Elementi di natura e forma...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Abstract Non Objective Work on Paper Guggenheim Woman Artist Drawing 1940s w/c
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Non Objective Work on Paper Guggenheim Woman Artist 1940s Drawing w/c
HILLA REBAY (1890 - 1967, GERMAN/AMERICAN)
Abstract
Watercolor on paper, c. 1945. 8x9 inches.
Provenance: Estate of Hilla Rebay; Gary Snyder Fine Art, NY.
In March of 1996, Snyder Fine Art opened its exhibition, Museum of Non-Objective Painting: American Abstract Art. Gary Snyder acquired a large body of works from the Hilla Rebay Estate, many of the works on paper spent decades archivaly stored in flat files with fresh colors and immaculate paper.
BIO
A woman credited largely for the existence of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Hilla Rebay also was an accomplished artist in modernist styles that included collage and biogmorphic-linear oil paintings. She is remembered primarily for being the key person in first exposing the American public to avant-garde art and creating revolutionary museum environments for that art. To remind the public that Rebay was an artist in her own right, curators at the Guggenheim Museum held a retrospective of her work in the spring and summer of 2005.
Hilla Rebay (pronounced reh-bye) was born to minor nobility in Strasbourg, Alsace and had the full name of Baroness Hildegard Anna Augusta Elisabeth Rebay von Ehrenwiesen. Her father, a career army officer from Bavaria, and her mother encouraged her obvious childhood art talent. She studied locally and then enrolled in 1909 at the Academie Julian in Paris.
There she was much influenced by avant-garde movements especially theosophist artists and writers led by Wassily Kandinsky "who helped formulate her lifelong belief in the power of intuition in art-making and other areas of life" (Glueck). In 1910, she spent time in Munich where she was further exposed to modern art, and she returned to Paris in 1913, having exhibited work in Cologne and Munich. In Paris she studied at the Academie Julian.
By 1914, she was exhibiting with the Secession Group in Munich, the Salon des Independants in Paris, and the November Gruppe in Berlin--all rebelling against prevalent realism and traditional teaching methods. In Berlin, she associated with many modernist artists including Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Marc Chagall. In 1917, she med Rudolph Bauer...
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1940s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
untitled-#3, *abstract with suggestion of landscape, green, yellow, blue
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled painting/collage #3
2022
acrylic and painted silkscreen mesh on 140 lb. cold press paper 30x22” unframed
blue, green, yellow, white
irregular texture surface
abstract
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Ana Zanic "Reef (W-2022-5-2)" - Abstract Watercolor Painting on Paper
By Ana Zanic
Located in New York, NY
Ana Zanic
Reef (W-2022-5-2), 2022
watercolor and pencil on paper
30 x 22 in.
(zan255)
This contemporary abstract watercolor painting features intricate mark-making in pencil and lar...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A Conversation with Myself IX
Located in New York, NY
About the Series:
Gilliam began the series Life Lines in 2017 after recently coming into possession of MRI scans of her brain. The scans, which she spent hours pouring over, both fas...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Countersquare #4 : contemporary abstract work of art
Located in New York, NY
Drawn from her imagination, Paula Elliott’s modern abstract works of art depict mysterious objects. In her works pastel has become the principal medium c...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Pencil
1988 "Sacred Night" Abstract Landscape Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
Elaine Kaufman Feiner (1922-2018)
"Sacred Night"
1993
Oil pastel on paper
30"x40" unframed
Signed and dated in pencil lower right, signed, titled and dated on reverse
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1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Untitled, Kirsten Hawthorne
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Kirsten Hawthorne received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and she lives and works in New York City. Hawthorne is a master oil pastellist creating works on p...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Graphite
"Pastel Landscape in Blues 2" Original Impressionist Landscape Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
Edith Isaac-Rose
"Pastel Landscape in Blues 2"
c.1960
Pastel on paper
17"x15" unframed
Unsigned
Edith Isaac-Rose (1929-2018)
Born in Chicago in 1929, and neé Ganansky-Teitelbaum, she graduated from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1951 and moved to New York in 1959 where she lived ever since. Taking as her professional name her parents’ first names, Edith was a prolific artist working first as an abstract expressionist then turning in the 1980s to figurative, political work consisting of drawings, paintings, and embroideries which she called “Daily Rage”.
She had been represented by the Phyllis Kind Gallery and her work is in the Hirshhorn Museum as well as numerous private collections.
Edith, along with her partner of 35 years, Bea Kreloff, (1925-2016), founded Art Workshop International in 1981 where they held art and writing workshops in Assisi, Italy, Monhegan Island, Maine, and Puerto Escondido, Mexico.
Edith was a resident at the Westbeth Artist Housing in Greenwich Village and was actively involved with the anti-war movement, gay liberation...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Untitled, Kirsten Hawthorne
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Kirsten Hawthorne received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and she lives and works in New York City. Hawthorne is a master oil pastellist creating works on p...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Graphite
Drawing For 3 Horizontal Configurations 8 (Abstract painting)
By Kyong Lee
Located in London, GB
Drawing For 3 Horizontal Configurations 8 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on Fabriano-Terra paper - Unframed.
"This work is part of a series titled ""Drawing for 3 configurations', emp...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Acrylic
"Blue Stack" Abstract Painting on Paper, Minimal Outlines, Still Life Geometric
Located in Hamburg, HH
Geometric abstract painting made in 2020 by Amanda Andersen, initialed on the back. This piece is from a body of work inspired by ordinary object arrangements such as table-top still...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
"Wireframe Blue Cone" Minimal Abstract Painting on Paper, Blue Still Life Line
Located in Hamburg, HH
Geometric abstract painting made in 2020 by Amanda Andersen, initialed on the back. This piece is from a body of work inspired by ordinary object arrangements such as table-top still...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
William Jacobs "Chicago Skyline IV", original pastel on paper
Located in Glenview, IL
"Chicago Skyline IV" by noted Chicago painter William Jacobs (1897 - 1973) is a pastel on paper created in 1972. The artwork is signed in pencil by the...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Blue Candy" Abstract Painting Paper, Minimal Line Drawing, Still Life Geometric
Located in Hamburg, HH
Geometric abstract painting made in 2020 by Amanda Andersen, initialed on the back. This piece is from a body of work inspired by ordinary object arrangements such as table-top still...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
Clear Water 01 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Clear Water 01 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Hahnemühle paper - Unframed
Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France.
Her use of n...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Clear Water 03 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Clear Water 03 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Hahnemühle paper - Unframed
Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France.
Her use of natural pigments, reflective of nature itself, is in dialogue with diluted acrylic paint and performative expressions of unchoreographed, ritualistic movements. She describes her process as a visual Tai Chi...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Acrylic
Clear Water 01 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Clear Water 01 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Hahnemühle paper - Unframed
Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France.
Her use of...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Untitled 743 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 743 (Abstract Painting)
Watercolour on paper - Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
French abstract artist Jérémie Iordanoff blends the visual languages of Western Mo...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Fishtail' - organic abstraction - monotype - rainbow - Agnes Pelton
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Fishtail" is a monotype with colored pencil on kozo paper featuring hues of green, red, yellow, pink and blue. This work is framed in a gold frame measuring 18 by 16 inches.
Claire Whitehurst is inspired by the works of Ruth Asawa, Louise Bourgeois, Agnes Pelton...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph, Monotype
Night 1 - stylish contemporary nature blue abstract acrylic and pigment on board
Located in Dallas, TX
Emma's artwork is inspired by the Parisian luxury world of fashion, textures and pure colour. "Night 01" is a stylish and contemporary bright blue abstract painting. It is created us...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Lacquer, Acrylic, Board, Pigment
Aparejo #2. Gliceé Abstract painting on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Aparejo #2, 2022
From The Series Terms And Conditions 2.0.
Gliceé print and Chinese ink on canvas Hahnemule photo canvas 320gr.
Image size: 100 cm H x 70 cm W x 0.3 cm D.
Frame size:...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Giclée
U 164 - Tiffany blue abstract geometric minimalist 3D paper composition
Located in New York, NY
Anna Kruhelska is a visual artist and architect working across fields of art and design. She creates abstract, three-dimensional paper wall reliefs that startle in their intricacy an...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
Vibrant Abstract Composition with Teal and Orange
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant and playful abstract composition by Sherry Schrut (American, b. 1928). Soft yet bright shades of teal, orange, and purple create a filed of color...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Handmade Paper
31st of March, Oil Pastel Drawing by Ben Hancocks
By Ben Hancocks
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Hancocks
Title: 31st of March
Year: 1982
Medium: Oil Pastel on Paper, signed and dated
Paper Size: 34 x 15 inches [86.36 x 38.1 cm]
Image Size: 27.5 x 10 in. [69.85 x 25....
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1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Untitled, Kirsten Hawthorne
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Kirsten Hawthorne received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and she lives and works in New York City. Hawthorne is a master oil pastellist creating works on p...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Graphite
Untitled, Kirsten Hawthorne
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Kirsten Hawthorne received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and she lives and works in New York City. Hawthorne is a master oil pastellist creating works on p...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Graphite
White Sand - Watercolor Drawing by Antonietta Valente - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
White Sand is an original watercolor on paper 300g/m2 realized by Antonietta Valente in 2020.
Hand-signed and dated on the back. Perfect conditions. Certificate of authenticity prov...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Zero in
Located in New York, NY
Deep teal blue, baby blue geometric abstract painting.
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled, Kirsten Hawthorne
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Kirsten Hawthorne received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and she lives and works in New York City. Hawthorne is a master oil pastellist creating works on p...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Graphite
Ky Anderson "Three Lean" - Abstract Geometric Acrylic Painting on Paper
By Ky Anderson
Located in New York, NY
Ky Anderson
Three Lean, 2021
acrylic and ink on watercolor paper
30 x 22 in.
(and360)
This original acrylic and ink painting on watercolor paper by Ky Anderson features geometric sh...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Untitled, Kirsten Hawthorne
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Kirsten Hawthorne received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and she lives and works in New York City. Hawthorne is a master oil pastellist creating works on p...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Graphite
Fire and Water -- A Love Story
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Deborah Sipple, Fire and Water -- A Love Story, 2018, colored pencil on paper on board
Deborah Sipple trained and worked as a painter and sculptor for ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Lets Dance large statement art abstract painting on canvas blue pink lilac green
Located in COOMERA, QLD
In true abstract expressionist style 'What Dreams Are Made Of ' is an unforgettable, striking large scale abstract collection celebrating colour, light and life. Fill your room with ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Genetic Code Biological Information Series DNA Two Drawing
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Original drawing signed and dated by Aubrey Penny.
Aubrey Penny (American 1917-2000) was an innovative California abstract artist who worked in a variety of mediums. Owner of the No...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. This one is influenced by California Abstract Expressionist artist Sam Francis. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre (1903-2001), a Hungarian modernist painter. As a Denver, Colorado resident, Pavel Kontny exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States, Germany and Japan. There, he was inspired by frequent trips to Native American pueblos in the Southwest, as well as by the study of the Plains Indians of Montana and Wyoming. Over the years Kontny had a number of students and generously helped young artist by hosting exhibitions at his Cherry Hills home. For many years he generously donated his paintings to support charitable causes in Denver. Influences during his European years included German pastelist C.O. Muller, German Informel painter Karl Dahmen and Swiss artist, Hans Erni. In the early 1950s his painting style showed the influence of the Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905 who had a major impact on the evolution of modern art in the twentieth century in Germany. By the middle of the decade his style incorporated more referential abstraction and total abstraction, resulting in part from his study of Hans Hartung, a German artist based in Paris who exhibited his gestural abstract work in Germany. The American moon landing in 1969 inspired Paul Kontny...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Untitled, Kirsten Hawthorne
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Kirsten Hawthorne received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and she lives and works in New York City. Hawthorne is a master oil pastellist creating works on p...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Graphite
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Composition No. 387
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylics on Yupo paper
Sumit Mehndiratta is an Indian artist born in 1986 who lives & works in New Delhi, India. He has pursued Master of Scienc...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Beauty for Sale, monotype (unique) signed by contemporary abstract artist
By Andrea Belag
Located in New York, NY
Andrea Belag
Beauty for Sale, 1990
Monotype on cotton rag paper
42 1/2 × 30 inches
Unframed
Pencil signed, dated and titled on the front; bears publisher name and copyright on the back
Exquisite monotype; both gestural and minimalist. The title speaks for itself and defines the work.
American painter Andrea Belag creates lush and luminous abstractions inspired by the visual and spiritual principles of Zen, as well as artists such as Mary Heilmann, Bernard Frize...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph, Graphite, Monotype, Pencil, Mixed Media
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Composition No. 385
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylics on Yupo paper
Sumit Mehndiratta is an Indian artist born in 1986 who lives & works in New Delhi, India. He has pursued Master of Scienc...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
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Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract abstract drawings and watercolors available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add abstract drawings and watercolors created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Martin Reyna , Mila Akopova, Jaanika Peerna, and Sumit Mehndiratta. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract abstract drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available. Prices for abstract drawings and watercolors made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1 and tops out at $400,000, while the average work sells for $1,502.
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