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
Fig. 8 BASE MORADO. From The Dibujar el Tiempo Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The project is a series of ink drawings on different surfaces, depicting the solstices and equinoxes of the year through the overlapping of shadows at various times of the day. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Ilot 10 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Ilot 10 (Abstract painting)
Collage, watercolor paper, Arches 600 gr. paper — Unframed
Deep blue is made with La Nouvelle Vague Couleurs watercolor.
Marie de Lignerolles...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache botanical style on White Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Abstract Expressionist design. Sealed on the back with the design studio name and number . Ilegible signature
We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this ...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Sapath II, Halsey Chait, Abstract Drawing, Geometric, Circle, Black, White
By Halsey Chait
Located in New York, NY
"Sapath II" by Halsey Chait
Acrylic on Paper
Halsey Chait's drawings develop according to the rules and mathematics that govern the growth processes of life forms and molecular stru...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Untitled No.87
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on archival paper, limited edition of 20 - artwork can be shipped in a tube or framed in a crate
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Archival Paper
Bicep
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Dehner's legacy has been overshadowed by he...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$18,500
"Glimpse of the Party, " Oil Pastel on Board signed on Back by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Glimpse of the Party" is an original oil pastel drawing on board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It features abstract marks on a blue background. Some a...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Board
"Luminosity"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In my art practice I love to use bright colors which boldly contrast with complementary colors so I could get unusual original compositions and structures.
The objective of this ar...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
$91 Sale Price
63% Off
Grasping At Shadows, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
By Karen Hansen
Located in Yardley, PA
Ethereal veils of color float across this luminous little piece that seems to glow within. This painting has been created with earth tone layers of transparent and translucent pigmen...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Sunshine of emotions" ( abstract expressive acrylic painting on paper)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This vibrant expressive artwork makes part of my abstract paintings series dedicated to emotions and feelings. This one is called "Sunshine of emotions".
This abstract painting is r...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Fig. 7 BASE NARANJA. From The Dibujar el Tiempo Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The project is a series of ink drawings on different surfaces, depicting the solstices and equinoxes of the year through the overlapping of shadows at various times of the day. These...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Fig. 7 BASE VERDE. From The Dibujar el Tiempo Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The project is a series of ink drawings on different surfaces, depicting the solstices and equinoxes of the year through the overlapping of shadows at various times of the day. These...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
First Floor Biogram
By Kory Twaddle
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title : First Floor Biogram
Materials : Acrylic, gouache, oil pastel, marker, charcoal, graphite, and conté crayon on paper
Date : 2018
Dimensions : 24 x 18 x .1 in.
Description : ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Permanent Marker, Oil Pastel, Paint, Graphite, Watercolor, Temper...
$599 Sale Price
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Psychic Garden (Protea) - botanical - cyanotype - ethereal - colorful
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is an abstract botanical work on paper featuring hues of blue, tan, pink, green and white in a simple white box frame behind UV Plexiglas.
Caroline Bullock is inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, Anish Kapoor, Katharina Grosse, Andy Goldsworthy and Lucy Dodd...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Donna Schuster “Nude Bathers” Watercolor, Pencil and Gouache
Located in LA, CA
Donna Schuster (1893-1953) “Nude Bathers” watercolor, pencil and gouache within a giltwood carved frame and protective glass. Signed ‘Donna Schuster’ (Lower Right), circa 1920-1930.
...
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Early 20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Clausen and Bavaria. Stamp, Diptych. From the series Terms and Conditions
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The project is based in the contrast of the two images, the air waybill and the postage stamp, from different times but similar in their function. The artist seeks to enlighten the c...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Untitled II - abstract painting, made in black, grey color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with india ink in black and grey color on Yupo paper. The work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed with a styrene face on a mat board in w...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Untitled 7 (Abstract painting)
By Jesús Perea
Located in London, GB
Untitled 7 (Abstract painting)
Ink and perforantions on indian paper — Unframed.
Fluctuating between illustration and expressionism, connecting the geometric and biomorphic worlds, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Blown Away 23" Abstract Expressionist Yellow Bright Colorful Mixed Media
By Nancy Berlin
Located in Wellesley, MA
Blown Away 23, 2010, Mixed Media on Paper, 17.5 x 14 Inches (Image), 29 x 22 Inches (Paper)
Playful geometric abstraction of multi-layered shapes and swirling linear elements in shades of yellow green, yellow, black, red and white. This is one of 6 works in this series
available which work well in conjunction with each other.
Nancy Berlin was born in New York City. After graduating from Barnard College, Berlin received her MA in painting and printmaking from Hunter College. She has received grants for her drawings from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Berkshire Taconic Foundation. She has had residencies at the American Academy in Rome, at Centrum in Port Townsend...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Josette Urso "Sea Stars" Water Color on Paper
By Josette Urso
Located in New York, NY
Josette Urso "Sea Stars" Water Color on Paper
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Does not see, does not hear, does not speak -line drawing figure with red gloves
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Does not see, does not hear, does not speak. The artwork was done with watercolor on watercolor paper 360g. The works are 15 by 11 inches in size, framed (...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Unique signed abstract painting on paper renowned artist, Albright Knox Gallery
By Jene Highstein
Located in New York, NY
Jene Highstein
Untitled, 1982
Pastel and Chalk on Paper
Hand signed and dated by artist on the front
32 × 40 inches
Frame included
Original hand signed pastel and chalk drawing, with...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pastel, Mixed Media
Let’s play- Line Drawing Woman Body with red “Playboy” Bunny mask
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Let’s play- Line Drawing Woman Body with red “Playboy” Bunny mask, 2025. Interior design paintings. The artwork was done with watercolor on watercolor paper 300g. The works are 15 by...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled 2310 (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 2310 (Abstract Drawing)
Oil on paper - Unframed.
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge wh...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Never Ending Story
Located in New York, NY
Philip Wittmann work is based on signs. Signs are for him an intermediary between abstraction and writing. He started painting 32 years ago, at the age...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper
An Interior Language IV
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Etching, Aquatint, Photographic Paper, Photogram
GUIA UPS Stamp and USPS Tracking, Diptych. From the series Terms and Conditions
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The project is based in the contrast of the two images, the air waybill and the postage stamp, from different times but similar in their function. The artist seeks to enlighten the c...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Golden Green 08 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Golden Green 08 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Hahnemühle paper - Unframed
Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France.
Her use of natural pigments, reflectiv...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Warren 85. 18 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Warren 85. 18 (Abstract Painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Sans titre
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique work
mixed media
H63 x W 78 cm (Framed)
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1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Oddballs #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 combined with charcoal, pencil...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Pencil
Farindola 3
Located in New York, NY
Friederike Oeser, a contemporary abstract painter, lives and works in Munich, Germany. For Oeser there is no hierarchy of visual value. It all has import—whether it be a trickle of w...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Oberkampf 2 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally ar...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Untitled (#2 Pri-Rain) (SF64-592)
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Untitled (#2 Pri-Rain) (SF64-592)
1964
Gouache on paper
57.2 x 75.6 cms (22 1/2 x 29 3/4 ins)
Frame size: 82.9 x 103.2 cms (32 5/8 x 40 5/8 ins)
SF14652
$300,000
Exhibit...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
"The Gathering" Theresa Bernstein, Abstracted Figures Ashcan School Artist
Located in New York, NY
Theresa Bernstein
The Gathering, circa 1990
Signed lower right
Mixed media on paper
9 x 10 3/4 inches
Theresa F. Bernstein was born in Philadelphia in 1895 to cultured, middle-clas...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Paris - Ober (Blue Tarp) (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally ar...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Tipping Point #7 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Tipping Point #7 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar - Unframed.
This work is from a series titled Tipping Point. This drawing has been created eyes closed. It captures an a...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
Karen Schiff, Field of Sorts III, 2014, Watercolor, Pencil, Graphite
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, 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...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Abstracted Nude Figurative in Pastel on Paper
By Kelvin Curry
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Nude Figurative in Pastel on Paper
Vivid abstracted figurative by Black Arts Bay Area artist, Kelvin Curry (American, 20th Century), circa 2000. A woman's profile of her face and her breasts and leg is shown in bold and playful colors of fluorescent purple, orange, pink and yellow. Black outlines of organic and tribal shapes creates even more contrast, making this piece read well from a distance. The tall and thin size of this piece makes this ideal for those difficult and odd sized walls
Unsigned
Presented "floating" on foam core with black mat surround.
Mat size: 38"H x 16"W
Paper size: 29"H x 10.75"W
Born in Oakland, California Kelvin Curry's creative destiny was clear early in life. Initially using black and white graphite as his medium and later expanding into mixed media to bring about multi-dimension; as well as a sense of rhythm and grace in the abstract female figure. Kelvin Curry studied fine arts at San Jose State University and has been making and exhibiting art all his life. Curry has a keen understanding of the arts, particularly the black arts movement in and around the Bay Area. Kelvin has exhibited his work in hundred of juried festivals, exhibits, and galleries throughout the country. Visitors from countries such as South Africa, Japan, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and China have chosen his work to adorn their homes in their native lands. Collectors include Randy Crawford, Nancy Wilson...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
$520 Sale Price
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Abstract Landscape Seascape Blue Yellow Purple Painting from British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Abstract Landscape Seascape 19 Blue Yellow Purple Painting from British Artist Margaret Francis, widow of famous Abstract Expressionist Artist, Sam Francis.
Margaret Francis received her Degree in Fine Art from Winchester Art...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Canvas, Cotton Canvas
"Back Stage" (FRAMED) Abstract Painting 30 x 56" inch by Yoram Katz
Located in Culver City, CA
"Back Stage" (FRAMED) Abstract Painting 30 x 56" inch by Yoram Katz
Medium: Pencil on Paper
Size framed: 33 x 57 inch
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Born in Israel.
Graduated from the Bazelel A...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Study 8, Russian protest art Unique signed gouache & ink with provenance, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Grisha Bruskin
Study 8, 1990
Ink and Gouache on paper
Hand signed and inscribed by the artist on the front
Original vintage frame with Marlborough Gallery label included
This work is...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 12.75 x 9.75 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
M377 (Abstract new media)
By Jesús Perea
Located in London, GB
M377 (Abstract new media)
Digital creation, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag de 308 gr - Unframed.
Fluctuating between illustration and expressionism, connecting the geometric and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Digital
"Glyphs III" Abstract Painting 14" x 15" inch by Ahmed Yousry
Located in Culver City, CA
"Glyphs III" Abstract Painting 14" x 15" inch by Ahmed Yousry
Medium: ecoline on paper
Ahmed Yousry was born in Alexandria in 1993. In 2017, he graduated from the Faculty of Fine A...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cosmic Web - Quantun Form
Located in New York, NY
Cosmology
"I am fascinated by abstract theories and hypothetical ideas in physics, especially in cosmology, which is the science of the universe’s origin, its evolution and its even...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Ocean - abstract painting in black, yellow, turquoise blue
By Lena Cher
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Abstraction art, made in yellow, black, white and turquoise blue. Can be positioned in horizontal or vertical mode.
Lena Chernyavskaya / LENA CHER
Born i...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Acrylic
Test Pattern 2 (Grey Study)
By Tom McGlynn
Located in London, GB
Ink, gouache and acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed.
Test Pattern series sets up a generic template as a poetic prompt to consider how behavioural responses to color and form stim...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache
Joyful, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
A nonrepresentational painting depicting joyful colors. Comes with a white mat ready to frame in a standard frame. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certi...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Urbana Series)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A drawing by Richard Diebenkorn. This Untitled work from the Urbana Series is an ink of paper, abstract drawing by Post War, Bay Area Figurat...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Abstract Expressionist British Original Watercolor Painting Shapes Patterns
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition (c.2022)
by Robert Somerton, British, born 1972.
ink/ watercolor on art paper, unframed
size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
condition: excellent
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Drawing No. 19, 2024 (Starlight Collection), Abstract Painting
By John Diehl
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
An equilateral triangle and clean lines create a minimalist yet bold aesthetic, reflecting artist John Diehl's mastery of geometric precision with freehand a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
GUIA FEDEX and DHL. Tracking, Diptych. From the series Terms and Conditions
Located in Miami Beach, FL
GUIA FEDEX and DHL. Tracking, Diptych by Rodrigo Spinel
From the series Terms and Conditions
Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g.
Overall Frame size: 52 cm H x 86 cm W x 4 cm D
Over...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
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...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Three Pyramids + Blue Ball
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Three Pyramids + Blue Ball" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right, "Calder 73”.
Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alexander Calder started his artistic career as an abstract painter, preferring to use gouache. What is gouache? Gouache is a water-soluble paint – a type of opaque watercolor.
As Calder returned to gouache painting towards the end of his life, he was now armed with a lifetime of experience as a sculptor. He explored the three-dimensional vocabulary of sculptural forms he had developed onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper. Certain shapes and colors recur throughout his gouaches and sculptures. Circles, ovals, and other geometric forms dominate the space. There is the same sense of energy and fluidity. The shapes do not sit on the surface but vibrate giving a feeling of movement in contrast to the static nature of painting.
Like his sculpture, Calder’s gouache...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
There is nobody here (Lady in red) - Line Drawing Woman Body in red dress
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
There is nobody here (Lady in red) - Line Drawing Woman Body in red dress, 2025. Interior design paintings. The artwork was done with watercolor on watercolor paper 300g. The works a...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Larry Zox "Teal Top" Drawing, 1966
By Larry Zox
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of 20th century abstraction in America.
Raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Zox studied at the University of Oklahoma and went on to work under the tutelage of modernist Georg Grosz at the Des Moines Art Centre. Zox moved to New York City and established his reputation by the mid 1960's. His studio was located on 20th Street and he was surrounded and inspired by a melting pot of jazz artists, bikers, and boxers.
Zox was one of the most successful practitioners of hard-edge or geometric abstraction and not surprisingly was championed by Frank Stella, amongst others.
By the mid 1960's, Zox arrived at his most recognized style, utilizing hard-edge shapes in bold colors to create geometric patterns, which were often realized on raw canvas.
Zox's hard-edge geometric creations from the late 1960's and early 1970's are arguably the most recognizable works from his oeuvre. Fittingly he had a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1973, that focused on such work. Today, numerous museums including the Whitney, the MoMA, the Tate and the Metropolitan all have examples of his work from this era in their permanent collections.
While Zox is not directly associated with the Op Art movement, many of his works by nature of their patterns and colors create visual illusions in dimensionality. In "Mosaic" the kelly green band that intersect the composition helps give the overall work an appearance of a slanted stair.
Frequently the artist seems to be inviting the viewer to find pattern within the work. In "Mosaic" we have both areas of synergy and dissonance. Can you find them?
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Teal Top...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
7.10.24 #12 - Colorful Abstract Watercolor Minimalist Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint in fluent b...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Chevron Collage, Signed, de-accessioned from the Honolulu Museum of Art, Framed
Located in New York, NY
KENNETH NOLAND
Untitled, for Trustees of the Honolulu Museum of Art, 1984
Mixed Media collage with silver and colored foil on board.
Signed on verso (back) with personal inscription. "for Twig and Laila" (Trustees of the Honolulu Museum of Art), Deaccessioned from the Honolulu Museum of Art Collection
Inscription done in black marker and reads: "A Little Exercise For Twig and Laila With Thanks For A Wonderful 3 Days At ' Cedar House' On The 'Big Island'... 1 Sept 1984 Honolulu Hawaii."
Frame included
Measurements
Framed:
12.5" x 12.5" x .3"
Artwork:
8.75" x 8.75"
This reflective Chevron collage was de-accessioned by the Honolulu Museum of Art. In 2018, it was exhibited in the show "On Black Mountain: The Bauhaus Legacy in America", April 5, 2019-April 27, 2019 at the Sager Braudis Gallery in Columbia, Missouri, and is reproduced in the exhibition catalogue.
Unique signed and dedicated mixed media collage with silver and colored foil on board by the important Color Field painter Kenneth Noland. It's quite a dazzling work, combining color field, geometric abstraction with Op Art, as the work changes appearance and color with the reflected and refracted light. - sometimes appearing light; sometimes darker. See the photos -- there's a light one and a darker one - and they both depict the same work. What's so impressive is that this work literally changes color depending on how the light reflects against it. The artist wrote a personal and heartfelt inscription on the verso to "Twig and Laila". (Twig (sic), which the artist deliberately misspells, is Thurston Twigg Smith, former publisher of The Honolulu Advertiser, who was married to New York philanthropist Laila Twigg Smith. Laila had lived in Hawaii since 1970, where she and her husband had put together a substantial collection of contemporary art. Unfortunately, the two divorced in 1996 and soon after she returned to New York. Two years later, in 1998, Laila died of liver failure at the young age of only 53. Laila was a major philanthropist and art collector who moved from Manhattan to Hawaii. She was a board member of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and a major donor the Honolulu Museum in Hawaii. Laila donated the present Ken Noland...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Foil
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