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
Bindi Yantra Painting, Painting, Watercolor on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The ½ inch by ¼ inch rectangles in this yantra are dotted with three dots. The sacred number three symbolizes the third eye, the bindi, the bindu. Born of ancient Indian tantric...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Stern Installation 1, 1994" Contemporary Blue & Red Expressionist Abstract
Located in Houston, TX
Modern muted blue and red expressionist abstract painting by contemporary artist Doyle Gertjejansen. The work features an abstract, surrealist view of a painting hanging on a wall overlaid with expressive black strokes. Signed and dated in the front lower right corner. Currently hung in thick grey frame.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 18 in. x W 24 in.
Artist Biography:
Doyle Gertjejansen received his MFA degree with a major in painting and minor in art history from the University of Minnesota. He has resided in New Orleans for most of his professional career, teaching and serving as chair, graduate coordinator, gallery director, and other academic positions and duties at the University of New Orleans. In New Orleans his work has been represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery, Galerie Simonne Stern, and currently, Callan Contemporary...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Emily Berger, Wellfleet #3, 2014, Paper, ink
By Emily Berger
Located in Darien, CT
These paintings and drawings are based on a structure of repetitive and deliberate gesture that is intuitive but carefully considered. Emily Berger brushes, wipes, rubs, and scrapes,...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Polarity #3 - unique, signed watercolor on paper abstract geometric color field
Located in New York, NY
Jay Rosenblum
Polarity #3, 1981
Acrylic on paper
6 × 9 1/2 inches
Signed and titled in graphite pencil on the front
Unframed
This gem of a work is an acrylic painting on paper by ren...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
#45
Located in Fairlawn, OH
#45
Ink on paper, 1970
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by the artist
One of a series of drawings, all made in 1970, which stemmed from Hogue's interest in Persian calligraphy. H...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
$2,750
20th century Belgium, Black and White Abstract pencil drawing, Etude
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding pencil on paper Abstract drawing.
Marcel Dumont was a Liège artist who painted in oils and gouache, also produced collages and was an illustrator and engraver, doing so in a number of different styles. Early on in his career, he tended to produce paintings displaying a poetic realism but this changed over time until, in 1957, he was employing geometric abstraction and later still, the influence of pop art could be discerned. His geometric style has strong linear structure which occasionally veers to expressionism and the effect of this is an interesting sense of detachment that the viewer of the work can feel and one engages with the subject on a different level than one would normally expect. A critic wrote of him," Sometimes expressionist, sometimes linear, the abstraction forms itself willingly, in Marcel Dumont's world, to leave the rectangular structure to connect to carefully prepared tones. He retains also, in his abundant output, a few poetic pop-art collages together with a number of drawings and engravings illustrating Stefan Zweig...
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1940s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Composition- Ink and Watercolor by Maurizio Gracceva - 2010
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva (Roma, 1955) in 2010.
China ink drawing on paper.
Hand signed.
Author of numerous philosophical and literary essay...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Josette Urso "Two Two Two Two" - Abstract Watercolor Painting on Paper
By Josette Urso
Located in New York, NY
Josette Urso
Two Two Two Two, 2022
watercolor on paper
30 x 22 in.
(urso236)
Josette Urso’s paintings are driven by a sense of urgency. Working from her observations of her surround...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Linda Turner, Art Meditation 18, Collage, Pattern and Decoration, Automatism
Located in Darien, CT
Linda Turner, raised both in NYC and Northern Virginia, resides in Brooklyn, NY. She achieved a BFA in Surface Design/Textile Design from the Fashion Inst...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Pink Red & Orange Abstract Expressionist Painting by Contemporary British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Abstract Expressionist Painting by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield, using rich pink, red, orange and black.
Art measures 24 x 24 inches
Frame measures 29 x 29 inches
...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Abstraction - XXI Century, Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Painting, Colorful
Located in Warsaw, PL
Tadeusz Czarnecki is a Polish artist born in 1960.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Three Women with Earrings in Pastel on Paper
By Kelvin Curry
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Three Women with Earrings Figurative in Pastel on Paper
Vivid abstracted profiles of three women wearing earrings by Black Arts Bay Area artist, Kelvin Curry (American, 20th Century), circa 2000. Three women's profile in in bold cobalt blue and playful colors of fluorescent red and yellow. Black outlines and tribal designs 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
Signed lower left corner
Presented in new, acid-free black mat.
Mat size: 38"H x 16"W
Paper size: 30"H x 11"W
Image size: 28.50"H x 9.50"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, Laid Paper
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
ocean, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
By Jane Ferrari
Located in Yardley, PA
Watercolor - printer ink on photographic paper :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: S...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled
Located in Houston, TX
Jack Davidson
Untitled, 2008
Gouache on paper
22.5 x 15 in (57.2 x 38.1 cm)
JPHB 5682
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Biogram of the Kansas City Zoo
By Kory Twaddle
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Kory Twaddle
Title : Biogram of the Kansas City Zoo
Materials : Pastel, oil pastel, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, tempera, glitter glue, foam stickers, paper, marker, color...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...
Geologies Series 9042
By Nancy Charak
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nancy Charak
Title: Geologies Series 9042
Materials: Drawing on 140# Fabriano Artistico
Date: 2018
Dimensions: 22"x30"
Nancy Charak makes paintings and drawings in her studio in Tuc...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Color Pencil
A.103-013- abstract geometric black ink drawing on mylar
Located in New York, NY
abstract geometric black and white ink drawing on mylar framed in white frame
For over twenty years now Patrick Carrara has lived in Brooklyn, where he has maintained a studio and s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mylar, Archival Ink
Max Epstein, Signed Abstract Watercolor Painting on Paper, 1973
By Max Epstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bright and colorful Abstract Expressionist watercolor painting by Canadian artist Max Epstein (b. 1932). Epstein's oeuvre is characterize...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Surreal Abstract Mid 20th Century American Modern Woman Artist Work on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Surreal Abstract Mid 20th Century American Modern Woman Artist Work on Paper
Juanita Guccione (1904 - 1999)
Surreal Abstract
18 x 11 3/4 inches
Watercolor and mixed media on paper
Signed lower left
Framed: 23 x 17 inches
Note. We are currently have listed a 1935 oil by Guccione, and in addition to this abstract drawing, we have several other works on paper, along with a major surrealist oil, none of which are currently listed. Inquiries are invited.
BIO
The following is from Djelloul (Del) Marbrook, son of the artist. Of signatures on paintings by his mother, Juanita first signed as Anita Rice, then as Juanita Rice, Juanita Rice Marbrook, Juanita Marbrook, and finally Juanita Guccione after marrying in the 1940s.
Juanita Guccione's life (June 20, 1904-December 18, 1999) spanned all but four years of the 20th Century. Cubist*, realist, surrealist*, automatist* and abstract strains are all to be found in her work, but by 1970 she was painting works in watercolor and acrylic that no longer included the human figure or the observed world. She was the younger sister of the abstract geometric* artist Irene Rice Pereira. The sisters were born in Chelsea, MA, but spent most of their working lives in Manhattan.
In the early 1930s, Guccione, then painting as Nita Rice, lived for four years among the Ouled Nail...
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1940s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Rag Paper
Abstract Expressionist Gouache Painting by Sid Gross 1959
By Sidney Gross
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Abstract expressionist gouache painting by American artist, Sid Gross.
Date: 1959
Gouache on paper, signed and dated lower right
Image Size: 18.5 x 12 inches
Frame Size: 28 x 22 ...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Abstract Composition - Drawing by Maurizio Gracceva - 2010
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva (Roma, 1955) in 2010.
China ink.
Good condition.
Hand-signed.
Author of numerous philosophical and liter...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
#1, So don't be a like a feather in the wind, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise.
Located in Burlingame, CA
#1 ,So don't be a like a feather in the wind, The Divine Comedy, The Paradise. monotype with hand coloring in ink. Unique.
From a new series of 7 monoprints with hand coloring inspi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Monoprint
'Net, ' by David Mladjovic, Abstract Screen Print
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 39.5" x 27.75" screen print (#1 of 6) by Serbian artist David Mladjovic depicts an abstract composition of dynamic lines and shapes in a palette of mauve, black, green, and gray...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Screen
$824 Sale Price
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Series "Shells", 42 x 30 cm, acrylic on paper
By Tatiana Nega
Located in Yerevan, AM
Series "Shells", 42 x 30 cm
The work is sold without a frame and mat
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$375 Sale Price
25% Off
Vintage Purple & Yellow Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage abstract watercolor with purple lines and yellow forms bleeding together by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed "Les Anderson" on verso. From the esta...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Quantum, a highly detailed geometric black ink drawing on clay-coated panel
By Jenifer Kent
Located in New York, NY
This mesmerizing ink drawing on clay-coated panel by Jenifer Kent shows off the artist's meditative process as she hand-draws, without assistance from a straight edge, a network of l...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Wood Panel
Monument
By André Masson
Located in Paris, FR
Ink , 1960
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
30.00 cm. x 24.00 cm. 11.81 in. x 9.45 in. (paper)
A drawing in Indian ink and wash by the French artist singled out for his architec...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
'Within, ' by Lisa Miceli, Watercolor Painting
By Lisa Miceli
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 10" x 11" watercolor on paper painting by Lisa Miceli depicts an imaginative abstracted landscape and is part of the latticeWorks series. The use of c...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
$480 Sale Price
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Colorful Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract watercolor with bold, dynamic colors by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Unsigned and unframed. ...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$223 Sale Price
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Mid 20th Century Cornish Abstract gouache painting by William Black 'Landscape'
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
William Black (British, Fl. 1963 – 69)
Landscape abstraction
Watercolour and ink on paper
Signed, inscribed and dated ‘Landscape abstraction William Black 63’ (lower edge)
8 x 11.1/4 in. (20.3 x 28.3 cm.)
William Black is a little known and underrated member of the St Ives artist group who, having worked as an architect after the Second World War, went on to work as an artist following the inheritance of money in the early 1950s.
He was a self taught artist, producing numerous deconstructivist sculptures in the 1960s. He moved to St Ives in Cornwall where he knew artists such as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo. There is a clear architectural element to the sculptures that he made . They illustrate an assemblage of fragmented shapes and forms of a deconstructivist nature.
William Black’s artwork is very much rooted in the time and Cornish School so one can see elements from those such as Wilhelmina Barns Graham...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Calligraphy Abstract Panorama IV - Japanese Calligraphy on Rice Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Calligraphy Abstract Panorama IV - Japanese Calligraphy on Rice Paper
Landscape and Calligraphy on rice paper by Michael Pauker (American, 20th c).
Signed by the artist in the bottom right corner in red pencil, "V - 40 (artist's signature) 2007."
Mat Size: 10"H x 20"W
Paper Size: 5.63"H x 14.38"W
“I’m driven by curiosity...where it comes from I can’t tell you; it’s just there. And early 20th-century modernist art is the thing that I keep returning to.” - Michael Pauker
Bay Area artist and art educator Michael Pauker was born in New York in 1957, and knew he wanted to be an artist from the age of 15. He earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at SUNY Purchase in his native state of New York. In 1989, he went on to earn an M.F.A at Mills College in Oakland and was awarded the City of Oakland Artist Fellowship in Painting. He has been a Bay Area resident since 1988. His work has been exhibited widely across the U.S., as well as in Japan and Costa Rica, and is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Exhibitions include:
2007 Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica
2007 “The Ebay Art Project,” Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
2003 “Found Imagery: The Art of Collage,” Fresno Art Museum,Fresno, CA
2003 “Cut, Copy, Paste,” De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2003 “20th Annual Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2002 “40 by 40,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, N.Y., NY
2002 “Works on Paper,” Bryant St. Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2002 Dolby Chadwick Gallery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Rice Paper
Off On A Tangent (Abstract painting)
By Jessica Snow
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on paper. Unframed.
As a multidisciplinary artist, Snow uses different mediums and supports. Each work results from preliminary studies drawn with pen or pencil and which so...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) - King and Queen - Etching on Japan paper - 1968
Located in Varese, IT
etching on Japan paper , Edited in 1968,
second state (of two)
Limited edition of 30 copies for each state ,
numbered 8/30 in lower left
Hand signed in pencil by artist in the lower ...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Etching
Passing By (Dark) - Abstract Expressionist Acrylic Painting by Stephen Greene
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stephen Greene, American (1917 - 1999)
Title: Untitled
Year: 1986
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 40 x 30 inches
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1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Because You Are Dead - Drawing by Parimah Avani - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
"Because You Are Dead" is a Drawing realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022.
China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
Excellent co...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
"This is for Nadine": hand signed unique marker drawing in exhibition catalogue
By James Siena
Located in New York, NY
James Siena
"This is for Nadine", signed drawing, 2005
Original drawing done in black marker, bound in the title page of softcover PACE Gallery catalogue with stiff wraps
hand signe...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset, Felt Pen
Abstracted Nude Figure Drawing, Signed Shapiro
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, c. 20th Century
Acrylic on paper
20 x 16 1/4 in.
Matte: 24 x 20 in.
Signed center: Shapiro
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Laid Paper
Lagoon, Small Abstract Watercolor Linear Art Drawing in blue, aqua, silver
By Axel Getz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This charming study by artist Axel Getz translates a dynamic, flowing energy into a captivating linear abstraction. Flowing, horizontal waves of sparkling color animate the piece, st...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Light Box No. 2605 - electric light emanating wall or table sculpture
Located in Burlingame, CA
Electric, remote controlled wall or table sculpture created with mixed media: LED's, Mi-Ttentes paper & plexiglass from abstract light installation and mixed media artist Sophia Dixo...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Metal
Untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Circles)
Graphite on wove paper, 2007
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Condition: Excellent
Sheet/Image size: 16 15/16 x 14 inches
Peter Marks (1935 -2010)
Pete...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Karen Schiff, Word Snake, 2014, Watercolor, Rag Paper, 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, Rag Paper, Graphite
Road Less Traveled, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
I like to delve into the abstract using the influence of nature that surrounds me. This watercolor is painted on 140lb Arches hot pressed paper using artist quality watercolors. It c...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Dead Tiger
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Dead Tiger
Ink and watercolor on paper, 1955
Signed and dated in ink (see photo)
Condition: Aging to the entire sheet (it's 78 years old)
Image/Sheet size: 18 1/4 x 23 inches
On...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Red Song of Blood - Drawing by Parimah Avani - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Red Song of Blood is a Drawing realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022.
China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
Excellent conditi...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
Karen Schiff, Word Snake E, 2014, Watercolor, 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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
#8- intricate beige 3D abstract aerial landscape drawing with pulled paper fiber
Located in New York, NY
Finesse and delicateness are what best characterize Antonin Anzil’s artistic practice. Using a sharp tool to carefully pull the fiber of the paper from the front, the artist gives bi...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
untitled-#1 blue, green, transparent yellow on bright red
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled painting/collage 2022
acrylic and painted silkscreen mesh on 140 lb. cold press paper 30x22” unframed
blue, green, transparent yellow on bright red
irregular texture surface...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Factory XIV: modernist urban architectural collage on monoprint in red, unframed
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is one-of-a-kind, unframed colored pencil & collage on archival pigment print. See image gallery for example of framing possibilities. These pieces work particularly well as a s...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype
Love Affair 9 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Love Affair 9 (Abstract drawing)
Colour pencil on two layers of Mylar — Unframed.
Love Affairs" is a series of drawings on two layers of thin, translucent paper resembling ice. Each...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mylar, Color Pencil
Abstract With Yellow
By Norman Bluhm
Located in New York, NY
Abstract With Yellow, 1987, by Norman Bluhm (1921-1999)
Watercolor on paper
22 ¼ x 30 inches unframed (56.515 x 76.2 cm)
23 ¾ x 31 ½ inches framed (60.325 x 80.01 cm)
Signed and date...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
ORIGINAL INK UNIQUE PIECE GEORGES MATHIEU MANUFACTURE DES GOBELINS
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original ink on paper
Hand signed
Unique piece
Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Abstract Composition - Original Mixed Media by Jean Delpech -Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original drawing in mixed media on ivory-colored paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
The state of preservation of the artwork is good. Not signe...
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Early 20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Mid Century "Neon Comet" Gouache and Oil Pastel Abstract Bay Area Female Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield
Neon Comet Abstract Expressionism
1960s
Oil Pastel and Gouache on Paper
36"x25.5" unframed $1600
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framin...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
Chorus Line
By Sam Spanier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chorus Line
Oil pastel on paper, c. 1960's
Signed (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Estate of the artist (Estate No. 745)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 5 3/4 x 4 inches
Sam Spanier (1925-2008)
Born in Brooklyn New York, Sam Spanier studied painting with Hans Hofmann (1949–50) and also at the Taos Valley Art School (1951). His formative years as a working artist were spent in Paris (1951–52), where he also became involved with the work of G. I. Gurdjieff, through his disciple, Mme. Jeanne de Salzmann.
By 1953, Spanier’s work had already begun to meet with critical acclaim. That year, he had his first solo gallery show, and was selected by Milton Avery and Hans Hofmann to receive the prestigious Lorian Fund Award. His second solo exhibition, in 1955, was curated by renowned museum director, Gordon Washburn. Spanier’s early work was reviewed by Dore Ashton, Donald Judd, Fairfield Porter, Stuart Preston, and Irving Sandler, among other significant critics of the period.
Spanier’s spiritual path increasingly became the central focus of both his life and his art. In 1960, he was introduced to the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, which led to visits to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, in 1962 and 1964, during which he was inspired to leave New York City and found Matagiri (in 1968)—a spiritual center in Woodstock, New York—with his lifelong partner, Eric Hughes. The work he embarked upon there bifurcates his life as an artist, separating him from New York’s art world, and radically altering the trajectory of his career. From that point forward, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to consider his artistic endeavor apart from the life of dedication he had undertaken, and to which he remained committed.
As early as 1954, Dore Ashton had recognized in Sam Spanier a “haptic visionary;” in 1960, Irving Sandler wrote that the people in Spanier’s paintings “seem to have witnessed some transfiguring event.” In his later paintings—usually worked in oil pastel on panel or paper—made during intermittent creative periods, from the mid-1970s to the final years of his life, the artist’s inner life remains always apparent in his subject matter; and from the portraits and abstract Buddha-like figures and heads, to the fantasy landscapes, the paintings are redolent with a rich intensity of color and light that can only be described as inspired.
Sam Spanier’s works are in the collections of the Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum. He received the Woodstock Artists Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Urban Gallery, New York (1954, 1955, 1956); Wittenborn Gallery, New York (1958); Gallery Mayer, New York (1958, 1959, 1960); Unison Gallery, New Paltz (1986, 1995, 2009); Limner Gallery, New York (1988); Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, New York (1999).
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Salon des Comparaisons, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France (1952); October Exhibition of Oil Paintings, New York City Center Gallery, New York (1954); Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris, Centre Culturel de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France (1954); Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1955); Les Plus Mauvais Tableaux, Galerie Prismes, Paris (1955);
Première Exposition Internationale de l’Art Plastique Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (1956); Recent Paintings USA: The Figure, The Museum of Modern Art (1960); Winter’s Work, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1985); Juried Group Show, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1986); Woodstock Artists, Self-Portraits, Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, Woodstock, New York (1988); Portraits, Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, New York (2003); The World We Live In, Upstate Art, Phoenicia, New York (2003); Show of Heads, Limner Gallery, Phoenicia, New York (2004).
Selected Writings on the Artist:
Dore Ashton, “Sam Spanier,” Art Digest (May 1, 1954) and “Sam Spanier,” The New York Times (March 16, 1960); Cassia Berman, “Sam Spanier: A Divine Calling,” Woodstock Times (February 7, 2008); Lawrence Campbell, “Sam Spanier: Exhibition of Paintings at Urban Gallery,” Art News (April 1, 1954); Sam Feinstein...
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