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"#71 – THEN IT'S HOPELESS?", ink, pencil, gouache, found vintage book, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#71 – THEN IT'S HOPELESS?" is from Amy Williams' series A Farewell to Arms – wherein the artist is working directly onto page 71 of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's WWII romance novel. The artist selects certain words and phrases from the page to isolate as a poem, and then draws, inks, redacts and paints the rest of the page according to the text of the poem. Here the poem reads: "Then it's hopeless? / But sometimes I cannot hope. / I cannot." Note the poem is outlined in dark red and purple radiating lines, while outside there are lighter violet, blue and white lines.
From Amy Williams – "My recent work is focused on making treated book pages using a found vintage...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Untitled: Seated Lady
By John LaGatta
Located in New York, NY
John LaGatta (American 1894-1977), "Untitled: Seated Lady", Signed Figurative Pencil Drawing on Paper, 17.38 x 11.38, Early to Mid 20th Century
Colors: Bl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Untitled #3
By Jerry Opper
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled #3" c.1970 is a colors pastel and crayon on thick paper by American artist Jerry Opper, 1924-2014. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist. The image size is 21.75 x 16.75 inches, sheet size is 24 x 19 inches. It is in excellent condition, there are pastel marks on the margin all around the artwork and also on the back, see picture #1.
About the artist:
Jerry Opper was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 5, 1924. He moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1933. After graduating from Hollywood High School, he worked in movie studios and attended art classes at Chouinard Art Institute. In May 1942, Opper was drafted into the army and was then able to study at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center while his outfit was stationed in Colorado. Later he was sent to Guam and was discharged in December 1945.
Opper returned to Chouinard and his work in movie studios until 1947, when he moved to San Francisco. He enrolled as a full-time student at the California School of Fine Arts (now SFAI) and received his diploma in June of 1950. In 1948, Opper met his wife Gertrud Ruth Friedmann, daughter of artist Gustav Friedmann, whose works are also in the Lost Art Salon collection. It was love at first sight and a few weeks after their first encounter at the Black Cat in San Francisco's North Beach, they got married and enjoyed a passionate, life-long romance.
Shortly after he finished school, Opper worked briefly as a decorator’s assistant and then started his career as a commercial artist, working for several firms such as Fibreboard, Beatrix Food and Precision. Working full-time and dedicating himself to having a rich family life occupied most of Opper's time, but he continued to be creative. He was above all a family man with the pride of having raised two exceptional daughters, Erika and Jody. Year after year, Opper would painstakingly craft their Halloween costumes...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
End of lunch or Portrait of a young woman seated at a table
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN LOUIS FORAIN
(Reims 1852 - 1931 Paris)
End of lunch or Portrait of a young woman seated at a table, in front of a cup of coffee, probably Portrait of Marguerite Ch...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Sea Anemone- made in beige, pale rose, sand color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with acrylic in light rose, sand color on Yupo paper. The work is 20 by 26 inches in size, framed in fine-quality solid wood with a styre...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$504 Sale Price
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The Condor - Original Pencil Drawing - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Condor is an original contemporary artwork realized by a French artist in the middle of the XX Century.
Original drawing pencil on cardboard.
A signature is present on the low...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Through The Landscape Of Another World, Part C
By NTEL
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Collage, oil stick, vinyl, enamel, spray paint and glass
Collage or other Work on Paper
Hand-signed by artist
Frame: Included
This work includes a certificate of authenticity.
Category
2010s Street Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Glass, Adhesive, Oil Crayon, Acrylic, Magazine Paper
Male Portrait Sketched - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Male portrait Sketched is an original drawing on paper, realized around the 1960s by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989).
Black fountain pen ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Pink dreams II - abstraction art, made in gray, pink, fuchsia color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work is made with alcoholic ink in pink, grey - blue color on Yupo paper.
It is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (gold) with styrene face on a double m...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Barnyard Chat
By John B. Lear
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
13.5 x 10.5 inches, sheet
21.25 x 17.25 inches, frame
This drawing is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
John Lear is an America...
Category
1990s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
The Woman's Face - Drawing by L. B. Saint-André - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Woman's face is a drawing, realized in Mid 20th Century, by the French post-impressionist painter and illustrator Louis André Berthommé Saint-André (1905-1977).
Black and wh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Drongo
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite miniature painting by Dina Brodsky captures the striking presence of a Drongo bird, rendered in gouache and watercolor on authentic calf parchment. Known for her metic...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Parchment Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
$1,800
The poet
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Support size
22 x 22 x 0.4 cm
Category
20th Century Italian School Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
Renaissance Male and Female Nude Figure Study, 1963, Ian Hornak — Drawing
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Renaissance Male and Female Nude Study
Year: circa 1963
Medium: Original drawing on vélin Strathmore paper
Size: 23 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
...
Category
1960s Renaissance Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
$1,880 Sale Price
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Spurious
Located in Buffalo, NY
This large scale charcoal on paper is from the artist's series "These fragile truths". This body of work explores the limitations and aesthetics of human memory through portraiture...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal
Heartfelt, Drawing, Charcoal on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Original charcoal drawing on paper by James Shipton My works are heavily influenced by the art work of Degas and Gustav Klimt. My desire is to capture the beauty of the female huma...
Category
2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Portrait - Original Drawing in Mixed Media - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original drawing in mixed media on paper, realized by Frick Mueller (XX-XXI).
Sheet dimension: 29.3 x 19.3 cm.
The artwork represents a portrait, skillfully created...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Christmas Winter English watercolor of two blue tits on a snow covered tree
By Ella Bruce
Located in Woodbury, CT
An outstanding painting by author and painter Ella Bruce. This watercolor is of the finest quality and shows the skill of the painter to the full. A vibrant and unique piece. The white highlights are painted in gouache or body color, which gives the piece great depth and an added level of quality.
This and the others from the collection were I'm sure painted for Christmas or Holiday cards...
Category
1970s Victorian Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Figure - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is a Watercolour artwork realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Paris 1980).
Good condition on white paper.
No Signature.
Reynold Arnould was born in Le Havre, Fra...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Jon Anderson
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Jon Anderson
Signed in pencil, u.l.
Color crayon on paper
23 x 17 inches (58.4 x 43.2 cm)
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
1970s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Chinese ink painting made with thousands of numbers, natural black, brown
Located in Carballo, ES
Obsessive, meticulous, almost monastic, Kramer immerses us in a universe of graphic and sculptural repetitions. His drawings on kraft paper glued with rabbit glue recall both ancient...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Sarah-Jane, Pink: Contemporary Mixed Media Figurative Painting by John Emanuel
By John Emanuel
Located in Brecon, Powys
John Emanuel embarking on a series of works using new life models. Unusual for a artist who has over the last 40 years only had 3 previous sitters. Now working with Sarah Jane...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Composition - Drawing by Henry Wormser - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a drawing realized by Henry Wormser in the Mid-20th Century.
Watercolor.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through deft expressive strokes.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mermaid - Charcoal Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1980
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Mermaidt is a Charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1980s.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good condition on a white paper.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Jun...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Framed 19th Century Watercolour - Gentleman with White Cravat
Located in Corsham, GB
A finely painted watercolour portrait of a 19th century gentleman wearing a tailored black suit with white cravat. Presented in a gilt frame with bead course. Unsigned. On paper.
Category
19th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$401 Sale Price
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Mystery - abstract painting, made in black, grey, green color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with india ink and alcoholic ink in black, grey and green color on Yupo paper. The work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed with a styrene...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, India Ink
$304 Sale Price
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"Blind Chicken" Pen & Ink Illustration of Chicken with Blindfold by Sean 9 Lugo
By Sean 9 Lugo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Blind Chicken" is an original piece by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his murals and street art. The piece is made from acrylic and ink on mixed media panel and was debuted in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Red Wig
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Kim Frohsin, Third generation Bay Area Figurative artist began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was included with Nathan Olivera, Manuel Neri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil
Untitled - Watercolor - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an original Contemporary artwork realized by the Italian Contemporary artist Fausto Melotti (Rovereto, 1901 – Milan, 1986) in 1977.
Original Watercolor on paper.
Good conditions.
The certificate of authenticity on photo has been released by the Fausto Melotti Archive.
Exhibitions: “Fausto Melotti. Lo spazio inquieto”, marzo-maggio 2009, Rovereto Galleria Transarte
Reference: “Fausto Melotti. Lo spazio inquieto”, marzo-maggio 2009, Rovereto Galleria Transarte, cat. p. 110.
Refined mixed media and watercolor artwork on paper depicting an abstract composition realized by one of the most interesting artist of the XX Century in Italy in the end of the 1970s. His style and his poetics has changed over the years, always following his very personal research, aimed at articulating the space according to rhythms with a musical flavor. His work, and the sculptures in particular will have more and more a mental character and at the same time will undergo a synthesis, in the ways and in the materials: ceramics or plaster, but above all his very light steel sculptures, will be imbued with a surreal and ironic vein; up to the extreme consequences in the works following official recognition, which will only come in 1967, thanks to an exhibition in Milan.
Fausto Melotti was born in Rovereto (Trento) in 1901. In 1918 he enrolled in the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Pisa. During this period he studied the piano and took up studies of sculpture in Turin under the sculptor Pietro Canonica...
Category
1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Interior with Daffodils and Blue Chair
By Bruce Cohen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Bruce Cohen is known for engaging his viewers with intriguing interiors in his distinctive, crisp, realist style. Influenced by Dutch still-life painting and Surrealism he orchestrat...
Category
2010s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Le Croates - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Le Croates is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines i...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Danse Macabré - Paint by Parimah Avani - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Danse Macabré is a drawing realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2023.
Sumi and Persian ink, and acrylic on traditional Lokta Hymalian paper "Nepali Kagaj".
Hand-si...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Sumi Ink, Acrylic
Brady Creek Ranch, First Look
Located in Dallas, TX
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Marie Reaches
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Kim Frohsin, Third generation Bay Area Figurative artist began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil
Early Abstract Painting Red Yellow Orange on White Background by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
A rare early career experimental abstract artwork using Red, Yellow & Orange on a White Background, by leading Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefie...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor, Cotton, Wood, Cotton Canvas
La Marguerite
By Erté
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork is an original gouache on Canson Mongolfier paper titled "La Marguerite," by Russian/French Artist Erte, Romain De Tirtoff, 1892-1990. It is...
Category
1950s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
"Medieval Thoughts, Prague, " Alphonse Mucha, Czech Art Nouveau Illustration
Located in New York, NY
Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860 - 1939)
Medieval Thoughts, circa 1890
Wash, ink, and watercolor on paper
11 x 9 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Phillips New York, 19th and 20th ce...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Narcissus - line drawing woman figure with flower
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with ink and watercolor on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size.
This is the "Many thoughts, one head" series. The...
Category
2010s Minimalist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Hummingbird IX
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Hummingbird IX 40x26 unframed
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid & exacting mediums of watercolor & ink. He has honed his skills, clarified his vision, experimented, explored and expanded his expression steadily over the years, the results of which thus far culminate here. Clearly, Keith’s extensive travels have roots in the luminous quality of his work, eminently holding the utmost possibilities of beauty and significance.
Keith’s most recent paintings explore a spiritual path, he integrates them with transformative healing energies and infuses his enthusiasm into these dynamic pieces that you see here today.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Renata Fine Arts, Hudson, New York
2013 @60″ New York, NY
2012 @60″ New York, NY curated sale with Harry Heisman
2011 KL/Karen Lynne Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida & Beverly Hills, California
2003 Dupont Gallery, Milwaukee Wisconsin
1994 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1994 The Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Ambassador Galleries, New York, NY
1992 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
1983 Manor House Gallery, Rhinebeck, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 & 2015, 2010: C. Bell, Palm Beach, Florida
1995: Luxe Energy Aesthetics, West Palm Beach, Florida
1991: Time Warner Publishing, New York, NY
1990: Imperial Hotel Gallery, Chestertown, Maryland
1988 & 1987: National Symphony Show House, Washington, DC
1986: International Jumping Derby, Jockey Club, Newport, Rhode Island Elijah Locke House, Rye Beach, New Hampshire
1984: Washington Design Center, Washington, D.C.
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Bovis Inc., New York, NY
The Kiplinger Collection, Washington, D.C.
The International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C. Hopkins & Sutter, Washington, D.C.
McKenna, Conner, & Cuneo, Washington, D.C. Oliver T. Carr Company, Alexandria, Virginia
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
RuPaul, Beverly Hills, California
Kelly Klein, New York, NY
Governor & Mrs. Bruce Sundlun, Providence, Rhode Island Mr. & Mrs. William Aylward...
Category
2010s Minimalist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Untitled (Two Standing Nudes, one seated nude)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Two Standing Nudes, one seated nude)
Graphite on wove paper, heightened with color, c. 1930
Unsigned
From a sketchbook created while the artist was working in Paris
Conditi...
Category
1930s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Girl on float, Drawing, Charcoal on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Original graphite, oil pastel and charcoal drawing on Strathmore toned gray paper 80 lb. Signed front and certificate of authenticity. Spray graphite varnish. 27,9 x 35,6 cm. 1...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Portrait of a Woman in a White Dress - Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Woman in a White Dress - Pastel on Paper
Delicate drawing of a woman in a white dress by Palo Alto artist Marilyn Thompson (American, 1927-2015). Acquired with a colle...
Category
1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Sleeping Boy - Drawing by Giovanni Fontana - 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Sleeping Boy is an original modern artwork realized in the 16th century by Giovanni Fontana.
Ivory colored sheet attached on an ivory colored cardboard (...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$3,624 Sale Price
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Infanta Madre Tierra (Mother Earth)
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Infanta Madre Tierra (Mother Earth)' features the face of a young woman with flora motif (top) and series of birds and flora motif (bottom) representing ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Nude - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid 20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original Charcoal and Watercolour Drawing realized by Mino Maccari in mid-20th century.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand-signed by the artist with pencil.
Mino ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Portrait Of A Young Girl In A Lilac Dress With A Black Bow. Circa 1860. SIgned.
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait of a young girl in a lilac dress with a black bow.
Circa 1860.
Signature below right, partially visible.
Size with frame 59cm x 49cm
Size without frame 33cm x 24cm
The portrait depicts a young girl with an elegant hairstyle, her hair carefully tied back. Dressed in the fashion of the 1860s, her light lilac dress reflects the synthetic aniline colors, a novelty in fashion at the time.
A black bow at the neck and slightly black straps accentuate her attire.
Represented at mid-length, with a mysterious and melancholic gaze, suggesting a mourning endured over a year ago.
The portrait, executed in pastels, chalks, and charcoals on paper, highlights the mastery and speed of the artist's execution.
Framed in a vintage oval frame...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Crayon, Carbon Pencil
$321 Sale Price
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Joy Three
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Kim Frohsin, Third generation Bay Area Figurative artist began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was included with Nathan Olivera, Manuel Neri and Stephen De...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil
Sovek - 1949 Watercolour, Girl With The Red Bow
Located in Corsham, GB
With ink details. Signed and dated to the lower right. Well presented in an oak frame and cotton mount. On paper.
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$313 Sale Price
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UNTITLED (FAMILY ON SAILBOAT)
Located in Portland, ME
Mora, F. Luis (Americn, born Uruguay, 1874-1940). UNTITLED (FAMILY ON SAILBOAT). Drawing, pencil on paper. Not dated, but circa 1890-1910. Signed, and with the artist's address in p...
Category
Late 19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
SF 89-153.
By Sam Francis
Located in Malmo, SE
Artwork size: 67 x 51 cm.
Frame size: 112 x 97 cm.
Free shipment worldwide.
Archive number SF 89-153 in the Sam Francis Foundation.
Stamped with the Sam Francis Estate logo and stamped signature on verso.
Sam Francis’s paintings are a journey into a dream, a voyage into the landscapes of the soul where colours are lights on fire.
Alongside names such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, Sam Francis is an artist who has succeeded in demonstrating a total mastery of abstract expressionism’s impassioned and spontaneous genre.
The explosions of colour – red, blue, green and yellow – the streaks, strokes and bold lines of his pictures are the physical synthesis of the deepest crevices of the soul. His colours create rhythmical motifs that, characteristically enough, can be called the “musicality” of his paintings.
The work of Sam Francis provides a visible meeting place for the conscious and the unconscious. His pictures are the cross-fertilisation of what has already been experienced with what exists still only as desire, a struggle between melancholy and merrymaking.
Influenced by C.G. Jung, the father of psychoanalysis, Sam Francis spent a large portion of his life exploring the premise that dreams, instincts and intuition provide, the keys which unlock the mysteries and meaning of our inner lives. He was also fascinated by the four ancient elements – earth, water, air and fire – which developed into a leitmotif in his work.
Sam Francis was born in San Mateo in California, USA in 1923. After starting to paint at the age of around twenty, he soon found himself increasingly consumed by the power of art.
He spent much of the 1950s in Paris, from where he not only made frequent excursions to a number of European cities, but also embarked on many journeys to South America and Asia.
He continued to move from place to place, primarily in the USA and Japan, right up until his death in 1994.
Sam Francis’s first...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$101,344
Figure - Original Pencil on Paper by Charles Landelle - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is a pencil drawing on brown paper by Charles Landelle (1812-1908).
The state of preservation is good. The sheet is mounted on a cardboard pas...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Sahar Silhouette
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Kim Frohsin, Third generation Bay Area Figurative artist began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil
Achille Devéria (1800-1857) A galant scene Original Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Achille Devéria (1800-1857)
A galant scene
pencil on paper
Some stains (see photographs please)
Bears the stamp of the Achille Deveria Estate Sale o...
Category
1850s Romantic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Carbon Pencil
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Model, Young Man
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Seated Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed early 1930s charco...
Category
1930s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
'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...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
$824 Sale Price
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Jim Dine New York SIGNED poster "Gilbert and Sullivan" hand painted pink copper
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This radiant purple pink poster was designed by Jim Dine for a production of Gilbert and Sullivan at New York City Center in 1968. The stripe down...
Category
1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Gouache, Offset
Mode Drawing : Elegant Short Dresses - Original watercolor & Gouache drawing
Located in Paris, IDF
Rosy ANDREASI-VERDIER (1934-2015)
Mode drawing : Elegant Short Dresses
Original gouache and watercolor drawing
Bears the "Rosy Andreasi Verdier" Archives stamp bottom left...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Camellia no. 1
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Camellia no. 1' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...
Materials
Watercolor
1950s Pastel Drawing of a Young Boy by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1950s pastel drawing of a young boy by artist Francis Chapin. Provenance: Estate of the artist. Image size: 16" x 15". Artwork is not matt...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Board
La Nature, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
La Nature Nature is beautiful nature is fun love it or hate it nature is something to love nature is god's gift to us Nature Nature we love wate and feed nature Nature w...
Category
2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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