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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.

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Style: Abstract
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Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Untitled No.75
Located in Paris, IDF
Indian ink on paper, limited edition of 20 - artwork can be shipped in a tube or framed in a crate
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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India Ink, Bamboo Paper

Maelstrom Series 68 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed. The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works. Starting from the center on a tilted table, she extends her fingers t...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mylar, Color Pencil

French Abstract Contemporary Art by Daniel Cayo - Untitled
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic paint on paper if framed 40 x 30 x 2 cm
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Paper

French Abstract Contemporary Art by Daniel Cayo - Untitled
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic paint on paper if framed 40 x 30 x 2 cm
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Paper

French Contemporary Art by Daniel Cayo - Untitled
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on paper if framed 40 x 30 x 3 cm
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Acrylic, Paper

Untitled (Study for Sculpture)
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Ashley John is proud to offer this artwork by: Burgoyne A Diller (1906 - 1965) Recognized as the first American painter to embrace the tenets of Neo-Plasticism, Burgoyne Diller mad...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Crayon, Graphite

Thaw 3 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Graphite and colored pencil on two layers of plastic paper. Unframed. Thaw Series is a new series of drawings where the artist continues her work touching upon environmental matter...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Plastic, Color Pencil, Graphite

"Colorful Meadow" Mixed Media Homage for Kandinsky signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Famous Artist Series: Homage to Wassily Kandinsky after 1911 "Colorful Meadow" (reversed) woodcut from Klange (Sounds) Ser." is an original mixed media watercolor on paper by David B...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media, Watercolor

"P4.13" Abstract Expressionist Handmade Paper Colorful Collage Gouache
Located in Wellesley, MA
P4.13, 2013, Gouache on Japanese Paper, 26 3/4 x 21 Inches. Jean Feinberg is a NY based artist whose works on paper (handmade paper, gouache, and collage) are closely linked to her ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Foot Musik.
Located in Malmo, SE
Pastel, gouache and coffee on paper. Artwork size: 58 x 56 cm. Frame size: 78 x 76 cm. Free shipment worldwide. Acquired directly from the artist. Archive number (P90/37) “The heart is an eye,” writes Nobel laureate Octavio Paz in an essay on Matta’s paintings. Matta creates a world coloured both by a sunny faith in the future and by visions of impending doom. Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Antonio Matta, who died aged 91 on 23 November 2002, was born in Santiago, Chile, on 11 November 1911 into a family with Spanish, French and Basque roots, and raised in an atmosphere of religiosity. By the age of 21 he had graduated and begun work as an architect, but his leisure time he devoted to sketching and painting. In 1933 he travelled to Europe for the first time, visiting Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries, and subsequently taking the initiative to collaborate with the architect, Le Corbusier. As time passed, however, Matta’s enthusiasm for a career in architecture waned, and he began to devote himself full-time to art, making early acquaintances with surrealists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, André Breton and others. Between 1939 and 1948 Matta, like many of his artistic contemporaries, lived in self-imposed exile in the USA, but, after almost 10 years’ absence from Europe, he returned to make first Rome and then, a few years later, Paris his home. Throughout most of the rest of his life Matta commuted between his studio in Paris and his creative refuge in the monastery outside Rome. And it is here, in Italy, that he produced his greatest paintings. Matta’s first retrospective in Sweden was organised in 1956 when his works were exhibited in what was then Galerie Colibri – run by, among others, the artist C O Hultén at number 36 Södra Förstadsgatan in Malmö, Sweden. This was also the time when Matta began to collaborate with poets and other artists in Sweden. He produced the illustrations for Lasse Söderberg’s first anthology of poems, Akrobaterna (“The Acrobats”), published in 1955, and was also responsible for the cover of the Swedish art and literary magazine Salamander. In 1959 the first museum exhibition of Matta’s work in Europe was arranged at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm. Held under the aegis of Pontus Hultén, it was entitled “Fifteen Forms of Doubt” and included 15 or so gigantic paintings...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media

ENSO CIRCLE
Located in Tulsa, OK
ENSO CIRCLE by Lisa Weiss is a Mixed Media on Bhutanese Paper measuring 12.00 X 9.00 in and is priced at $360.00. Lisa Weiss’ work is about mark making, patterning, spontaneous move...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media, Handmade Paper

French Contemporary Abstract Art - Untitled
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic paint on paper if framed 50 x 40 x 3 cm
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic

"Sound, " Mixed Media Woodcut Homage to Kandinsky signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Famous Artist Series: Homage to Wassily Kandinsky after 1911 "Sound" woodcut from Klange (Sounds) Ser." is an original mixed media watercolor on paper by David Barnett. The artist s...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media, Watercolor

"Improvisation 22-Varient 1, " Mixed Media Homage to Kandisky by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Famous Artist Series: Homage to Wassily Kandinsky after 1911 "Improvisation 22-Variant 1" (reversed) woodcut from Klange (Sounds) Ser." is an original mixed media watercolor on pape...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media, Watercolor

D – 1
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Claude Tousignant is one of those very few artists whose lives have been dedicated exclusively to their art. At school, the only classes that interested him were drawing and geometry...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

"For Beaver Lake Yacht Club Dinghy, " Original Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"For Beaver Lake Yacht Club Dinghy" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower left. This piece was designed for the yacht club's dinghy cover in 2003. ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Homage to Daniel Smith: Flowers at the Edge of the Pond, " by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Homage to Daniel Smith: Flowers at the Edge of the Pond" is an original watercolor and iridescent acrylic painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. This piece is an abst...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

"Beaver Lake with Reindeer Clouds, " Original Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Beaver Lake with Reindeer Clouds" is an original mixed media watercolor piece by David Barnett, signed in the lower right corner. The piece depicts Beaver Lake in the abstract, a bl...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

P10
Located in New York, NY
Julián Terán P10, 2008 Ink on paper 25.50h x 51w in 64.77h x 129.54w cm
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

P08
Located in New York, NY
Julián Terán P08, 2007 Ink on paper 27.50h x 39.25w in 69.85h x 99.69w cm
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Untitled (Ref 18067)
Located in London, GB
Ink on paper - Unframed. Martín Reyna is an Argentinian-born abstract painter living in Paris, France. His gestural abstract paintings delight the eye and activate the mind with the...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Sapoe 11
Located in Tulsa, OK
Pascal Pierme, SAPOE 11, Water Color, 11.00 X 11.00 in, $450.00, Abstract, Grey, White, vday Pascal Pierme does not “feel good” unless he is making. From an early age, his grandfath...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper

Abstract Collage Composition, 1994 - mixed media, 68x54 cm, framed
By André Pierre Arnal
Located in Nice, FR
Collage on paper and mixed media, signed lower right.
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1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media

"What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?" Original Mixed Media by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?" is an original watercolor and ink surrealist work by David Barnett, signed in the lower right corner. This piece pictures parts of the New...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

"Mountain, " Original Abstract Watercolor on Paper signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Mountain" is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed int he lower right corner. The piece is composed of minimal brushstrokes in green, yellow, blue, and red, formi...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"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, ...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Subway Topos #2
Located in Fairfield, CT
Bastienne Schmidt is a mixed media artist working with photography, painting and large scale drawings. She was born in Germany, raised in Greece and Italy and has lived in New York f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

"Leaves are Falling Over Beaver Lake, " Original Mixed Media by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Leaves Are Falling Over Beaver Lake" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett, signed in the bottom center. The piece shows a cartographic rendering of Beaver Lake with an ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media

"Floating Ginko Forest with Shooting Start Orchid, " Mixed Media by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Floating Ginko Forest with Shooting Star Orchid" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett, incorporating watercolor and collage. Three ginko tree leaves float on a cloudy b...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Other Medium, Mixed Media, Watercolor

"Cows Controversy over Chenequa, " Original Watercolor and Ink by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Cows Controversy Over Chenequa" is an original watercolor and ink piece by David Barnett, signed in the lower left. This miniature work contains gestural brushwork and stamped image...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor

Long Short Series 5
Located in Morton Grove, IL
pencil, conte, prismacolor, erasure, pencil shavings and smudge on 90# Stonehenge
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Conté, Pencil

Long Short Series 3
Located in Morton Grove, IL
pencil, conte, prismacolor, erasure, pencil shavings and smudge on 90# Stonehenge
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Conté, Pencil

Long Short Series 4
Located in Morton Grove, IL
pencil, conte, prismacolor, erasure, pencil shavings and smudge on 90# Stonehenge
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Conté, Pencil

Linescape 10
Located in New York, NY
Julián Terán Linescape 10, 2017 Ink on paper 16.5 x 35.5 in (41.91h x 90.17w cm)
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Microtelescopic Field of View, Halsey Chait, Abstract Drawing, Circle
Located in New York, NY
"Microtelescopic Field of View: Interwoven Neural Webs" by Halsey Chait Acrylic on Paper Halsey Chait's drawings develop according to the rules and mathematics that govern the growt...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic

Abstract composition JCI, 1960-65 - mixed media, 85x124 cm, framed
Located in Nice, FR
Mixed media, gouache and paper, signed . James Coignard est un peintre, graveur et sculpteur français, né le 15 septembre 1925 à Tours et mort le 7 mars 2008 à M...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Linescape 11
Located in New York, NY
Julián Terán Linescape 11 , 2017 Ink on Paper 16.5 x 35.5 in (41.91h x 90.17w cm)
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Eclipse Black and White
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Eclipse Black and White Abstract 59"x47" unframe Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid & exacting mediums of watercolor & ink. He has...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Archival Paper

Capacious Memory (XVII)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Robbie Cornelissen is one of the leading contemporary draughtsmen in the Netherlands. Cornelissen has established a reputation for the monumental, architectural drawings that he has ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Graphite

"Bird Disguised as Giacometti II, " Original Mixed Media signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Buddha Board Water Series Drawing #2: Bird Disguised as Giacometti II" is an original mixed media work by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. The black lines of this piece wer...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media, Watercolor

"Pond and Woods - Autumn, " Original Watercolor by David Barnett in Antique Frame
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Pond and Woods - Autumn" is an original miniature watercolor by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. The artist created this piece specifically for the antique frame it inhabits, an abstract...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Loggia
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Robbie Cornelissen is one of the leading contemporary draughtsmen in the Netherlands. Cornelissen has established a reputation for the monumental, architectural drawings that he has ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Graphite

untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unsigned Authenticated verso by the artist's nephew, Andrew Lowe Provenance: Estate of the Artist
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Violent delights, violent ends - Daniel Erban, 21st century, Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Ink on paper Signed Unique work
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1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Not yet 016
Located in London, GB
Pencil and acrylic on Canson-Montval paper - Unframed. This artwork conveys a color and emotional language and is inspired by the series Color as Adjective, a series of drawings and...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Pencil

"Dream, " a Pastel and Ink by Sue Bartfield
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dream" is a pastel and ink drawing by Sue Bartfield. It has blue and black forms. 25" x 25 1/4" art 28 1/4" x 26 1/8" framed Artist's Statement: "You might be surprised to know t...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Ink

Untitled (F221, G3) - soft pastel color blue yellow abstract geometric drawing
By David Brody
Located in New York, NY
DAVID BRODY Untitled (F221, G3), 2000 16.8 x 21.75 inches; framed in off white wood frame 20.1 x 25.1 inches graphite and colored pencil on isometric graph paper pencil signed and da...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite

Into the Sunset
Located in New York, NY
Andrei Petrov is an American artist of Russian origins. He is best known for his abstract oil paintings where calibrated stratifications of intense shades of colors are scraped to ex...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

P16
Located in New York, NY
Julián Terán P16, 2008 Ink on paper 19.7 x 27.6 in (50.04h x 70.1w cm)
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Untitled 06 - Contemporary, Abstract Drawing on Canvas, Organic, Minimalist
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled 06, 2016 Wax crayon on canvas (Signed on reverse) 78.74 H x 59.05 W in. 200 H x 150 W cm Zsolt Berszán treats the first layer of the drawing as a substrate, as a surface on...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Wax Crayon

Maelstrom Series 77 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Pigment pencil on Mylar - Unframed The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works. Starting from the center on a tilted table, she extends her fingers t...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mylar, Pencil, Pigment

Screech of ice series 43 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Colored pencil and graphite on plastic paper. Unframed. Screech of Ice is a new series of drawings made by holding a bunch of pencils in two hands and letting them to do the control...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Plastic, Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite

Nancy Baker, Crown, 2017, paint, paper, digital pigment print
Located in Darien, CT
Nancy Baker creates paper constructions by combining digitally printed, hand and laser cut geometric forms loosely based on machine parts. Over time, the hardware imagery has evolved...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paint, Paper, Digital Pigment

Entrance
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Robbie Cornelissen is one of the leading contemporary draughtsmen in the Netherlands. Cornelissen has established a reputation for the monumental, architectural drawings that he has ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Graphite

Sara Eichner, 32 Layers, 4 Colors, 2017, Ink, Pen
Located in Darien, CT
Sara Eichner wants to create a space where point of view cannot be fixed. Optical games stand in for her struggle to comprehend the complexities of seeing. Using simple drawing tools...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Pen

Untitled
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled, 2016 White silicone on paper 78 × 58 3/10 in 198 × 148 cm Signed on reverse Berszán depicts in his drawings and paintings the primary turmoil where the violence of the un...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Silicone, Paper

Sarah Irvin "Outbreak" - Abstract Painting on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Sarah Irvin Outbreak, 2015 ink on Yupo 26 x 40 in. This abstract ink painting on Yupo paper plays with transparency and color in shades blue and gray. "In this work I write cursive...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Paper

Untitled 01 - Abstract Art, Drawing, Organic, Contemporary, Graphite, Gray
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled 01, 2016 Graphite on paper (Signed on reverse) 77.95 H x 58.66 W in 198 H x 149 W cm Zsolt Berszán’s work speaks of repulsion and fascination a...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

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