Miniature Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
to
4,212
20,857
7,993
6,018
2,259
1,730
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
332
1,787
11,662
7,059
184
265
495
619
688
955
896
869
534
407
226
4,991
3,327
1,998
1,516
482
267
263
202
199
182
149
49
47
39
11,375
8,337
1,021
10,833
6,425
5,605
3,948
3,386
2,528
2,040
1,765
1,440
1,068
880
842
829
709
630
602
593
541
443
407
10,188
8,943
8,295
5,269
5,087
769
268
243
205
145
4,483
6,143
10,517
8,172
Size: Miniature
Linda Turner, Meditation Is Play, 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...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Watercolor, Pencil
"West Point from the East Bank of the Hudson" Antique Drawing on Paper Watkinson
Located in Soquel, CA
"West Point from the East Bank of the Hudson" Antique Drawing on Paper
Delicate and detailed drawing by Hartford, Connecticut artist Edward Watkins Wells (1819-1898) The viewer looks out past a gate at the Hudson River, with its characteristic mountain banks. A shepherd is driving a flock of sheep towards the gate and viewer. The scene appears to have been copied from a drawing book published in 1827, based on the inscription at the bottom edge.
Presented in white archival mat
Mat size: 12"H x 12"W
Paper size: 7.5"H x 9.25"W
Notes of interest on Edward Watkinson Wells
Our most significant acquisition this year came from a dealer in Philadelphia. It is a 450-page diary written over 10 years (1841-1851) by Hartford artist and dilettante Edward Watkinson Wells (1819-1898), one of the many nephews of our founder, David Watkinson (1778-1857).
Edward was immersed in Hartford’s cultural life in the 1840s, exhibited his works at local fairs and gave lessons to the locals. He portrays an active involvement with with his large extended family, which often crossed and re-crossed the other prominent families of Hartford (i.e., Barnard, Channing, Dexter, Ely, Gallaudet, Gill, Goodrich, Hudson, Rockwell, Silsbee, Tappan, Terry, Tracy, Trumbull, Van Renselaer, and Wadsworth).
Edward describes dancing and costume parties, soirees, teas, dinners, and receptions in private homes and public venues. He meets Charles Dickens and his wife when they come through Hartford in 1842, and describes brushes with other luminaries, such as Col. Thomas L. McKenney (who lectures on American Indians), and the Unitarian clergyman Rev. Henry Giles, who gave a pro-Irish speech.
Other entertainments included a balloon ascension, exhibitions of mesmerism and hypnotism, parades, and performances by well-known groups. He also chronicles the progression of the construction of the Wadsworth Atheneum, and touches on his father’s far-reaching interests in the business world–canals, railroads, factories, and real estate.
The cost of this valuable document of mid-19thC Hartford was generously underwritten entirely by a member of the Watkinson Trustees.
Trinity College and the Watkinson Virtual Library has content on Edward Watkinson Wells.
Yale College also:
Edward Watkinson Wells also kept a diary, of which three volumes are preserved (folder 32). He describes a trip by steamboat to Florida, ca. 1855-1860, and the social life and customs he observed there. The other two volumes detail his daily life in Hartford during 1856-1860, and record the deaths of his father and David Watkinson in 1857.
Other items contained in the William Wells...
Category
1830s Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Pencil
Untitled (de Kooning)
Located in New York, NY
Richard Prince
Untitled (de Kooning), 2008
Collage with color offset lithograph, hand-cutting, hand-painting and assemblage with extensive additions in graphite mounted on on inset board.
Hand signed and numbered with the letter L (from A-Z) by artist on the front
Frame Included
Richard Prince’s “de Kooning” series is a process of interaction and appropriation with the works of ground-breaking imagery of the Abstract Expressionist master, Willem de Kooning. The idea for these edgy, Oedipal works came to him when he was leafing through a catalogue of de Kooning’s "Women" series. Prince started sketching over the paintings, and, as time went on, he began applying fragments cut and pasted from catalogues and vintage porn...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Color Pencil, Graphite
Study of a Seated Satyr, Seen from Behind
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Domenico Maria Canuti (1625–1684)
Study of a Seated Satyr, Seen from Behind
Red chalk on laid paper with watermark
39 × 26 cm
Unsigned
Provenance:
Private Collection, France
Note...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Selfportrait - Crayon drawing, Figurative, Colourful, Woman, Nude
By Hanna Bakuła
Located in Warsaw, PL
HANNA BAKUŁA (born in 1950) Polish painter, stage designer and writer. Bakuła graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she studied under such polish maste...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Maxwell Armfield - 20th Century British Theatrical watercolour
Located in London, GB
MAXWELL ARMFIELD, RWS.
(British 1882-1972)
Costume Design for Geranos
Signed l.l.: MAXWELL ARMFIELD, inscribed u.l.: Costume, PHEONIX CEREMONY/ IAN (?) VALO as DAVID, and further i...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Fine Antique British Botanical Painting Red Erythrina Flower
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very fine original antique English botanical watercolour paintings depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, Eng...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Three hunters; two with a spear and dagger... Rajasthani School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and gouache with gold heightening on brown laid paper with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in black ink, 12 5/8 x 8 9/16 inches (320 x 217 mm). Toning, handling creases and minor sc...
Category
19th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Femmes Fatal
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Our Gallery acquired the estate of a Northern California artist, Thelma Terrell. Terrell lived in Oakland and was an illustrator and professional graphic artist.
"Femmes Fatal" is a...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Herony III - color pencil drawing of newly hatched Heron
Located in Chicago, IL
This color pencil drawing is reminiscent of a John James Audubon drawing with its precision and attention to detail, from the top of its downy head to its craggy feet. A baby heron...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil, Archival Paper
Brooklyn Bridge NYC American Scene Ashcan 20th Century Social Realism Modern
By John Marin
Located in New York, NY
Brooklyn Bridge NYC American Scene Ashcan 20th Century Social Realism Modern
John Marin (1870-1953)
Brooklyn Bridge
7 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches
Graphite on paper
Signed lower right, c. 1...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
15th C. Tibetan Tsakali: "High Lama Presenting a Ceremonial Scarf"
Located in SANTA FE, NM
15th C. Tibetan Tsakali
"High Lama Presenting a Ceremonial Scarf"
MIneral pigne
6 1/4 x 4 (16 x 13 3/4 frame) inches
Category
15th Century and Earlier Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
$1,488 Sale Price
20% Off
1950s Mid Century Abstract Contour Drawing 1
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry and Ruth Opper
Abstract Expressionism Contour Drawing 1
c.1950s
Ink and Pastel Contour Drawing
18" x 12", Unframed
Signed in ink lo...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pastel
"Fresh spring bouquet " (small acrylic expressionist floral artwork on paper)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary colorful artwork celebrating spring features a bouquet of fresh flowers of red, white and green colors.
This artwork belongs to my “Floral” series which is full ...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920) A Flowerbed, signed watercolor
By Paul Lecomte
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Lecomte (1842-1920)
A Flowerbed
signed lower left
Watercolor on paper,
15.5 x 23.5 cm
Framed : 25.5 x 33 cm
This is a particularly original work by Paul Lecomte. It shows his ...
Category
1880s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Fine Antique British Botannical Watercolour Painting, circa 1900's
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, England and had been part of an album of works assembled by the artist during the early 1900's.
During the Victorian and Edwardian era in Britain, it was very fashionable for ladies of aristocratic and wealthy backgrounds to draw and paint still lifes of flowers and plants that they had picked or seen in gardens. Many were highly accomplished and extremely talented artists, who sadly were not encouraged to exhibit due to society frowning upon such activities.
Artist/ School: Caroline Worsley...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Female Nude 1 - Contemporary Figurative Ink Painting, New Expression
Located in Salzburg, AT
Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and flora with the world of man, p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cernay Passage - Drawing by André Gallaud - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Ink and watercolor on cardboard realized by André Gallaud in 1959.
Titled, dated and signed in pencil in top right side.
Very good condition.
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
$358 Sale Price
25% Off
The General - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1940s.
Hand signed in pencil lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
View from Docks, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - View from Docks (P2.50), Year: 1947, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 7 x 9.5 in. (17.78 x 24.13 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Woman on blue sheets" (contemporary watercolor painting of a naked woman)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This artwork "Woman on blue sheets" presents a compelling and evocative depiction of a naked woman on blue sheets, characterized by its fluid and expressive use of watercolor. This ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bretagne II by Edouard Arthur - Watercolor 30x40 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Watercolor on paper sold with frame (wooden frame with glass)
Total size with frame 33x43 cm
Category
1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of young girl
By Henri Fehr
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Brown wooden frame with glass pane
48 x 39 x 1.5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Death March — Spanish Civil War, Anti-fascism
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Untitled (Death March)', brush and ink, c. 1936. Estate stamped, verso. A fine expressionist rendering, on cream wove drawing board, with margins (3/8 to 5/16 inch). Minor toning at the board edges, otherwise in very good condition. Image size 12 5/16 x 9 3/8 inches; sheet size 13 x 10 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
One of a series of powerful Anti-fascist brush and ink drawings created by the artist at the commencement of the Spanish Civil War...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Original Parisian Vintage Jewelry Design Art by Van Cleef & Boucheron Designer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Golden Harvest: Leaf and Wheat Motif Cuff Bracelet Jewelry Design
circa mid 20th century
by Paul Touzet (French b. 1917)
original gouache painting, with pencil on tracing paper
stuck...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Hibiscus blooming in a vase (contemporary oil floral art)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary floral artwork "Hibiscus blooming in a vase" celebrates the charm of summer garden blooming red hibiscus.
I explore the beauty of these beautiful flowers via the...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
$401 Sale Price
20% Off
Study of a Sleeping Girl in a Cap
By Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite on greenish gray wove paper. 15 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches (390 x 295 mm). Initialed "G. B." in pencil on the lower right recto. In generally good condition with some minor scattered surface soiling. Condition is consistent with age.
____
This drawing is closely related to two known mid 18th century oils...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Graphite
Toys - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor drawing on paper realized by Maccari in the mid-20th Century.
Hand signed lower left.
Very good condition except for a minor burn in the top left edge.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$429 Sale Price
25% Off
Georgia O'Keeffe's Studio & Fireplace, interiors, desert landscape, earth tones
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Georgia O'Keeffe's Studio & Fireplace"
2020
Work on paper by Japanese artist Miki Matsuyama, from her iconic artist studio study series featuring an interiors and desert landscape. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Head of a Monk – Preparatory Study, Atelier of Enrico Reffo
Located in Firenze, IT
Head of a Monk – Preparatory Study, Atelier of Enrico Reffo
Charcoal on paper with light watercolor wash
Size: 45 x 37.5 cm
Turin, late 19th – early 20th century
Sheet from the Turi...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Carbon Pencil
'Napoleonic Guard at the Cathedral of Uspensky Sobor', Moscow, French Militaria
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'C.H.' for Charles Constantine Hoffbauer (French, 1875-1957) and painted circa 1900.
Accompanied by the original artist-signed mat, original backing with inscription and newspaper clipping from Los Angeles Times' review of Hoffbauer's 1949 Legion of Honor Exhibition.
Mat dimensions: 12.75 x 13.5 Inches
An exceptionally fine and detailed, cabinet-sized gouache showing members of the Napoleonic guard relaxing in the courtyard of the Cathedral of Uspensky Sobor during France's brief occupation of Moscow during the fall of 1812.
Born in Paris in 1875, Charles Hoffbauer studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Fernand Cormon and Gustave Moreau and, during his studies, became acquainted with Matisse, Rouault, and Marquet. He was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including an Honorable Mention in the Salon of 1896, and prizes at the Salons of 1898 and 1899. He was awarded a bronze medal at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900 and, in the same year, a French government scholarship, the Prix National du Salon, that allowed him to travel and study in Italy, Greece and Egypt. In 1902, he won the Prix Rosa Bonheur. At the Salon of 1904, the French government purchased 'Champs de Bataille' for the Musée du Luxembourg and Hoffbauer was elected a member of the Legion of Honor.
Hoffbauer served in the French Army as an official war artist during the first world war, winning the Croix de Guerre and acting as liaison officer to the American camouflage section. On the recommendation of the mural painter, James Wall Finn, Hoffbauer received the 1935 commission to paint the murals for Battle Abbey, the Confederate memorial in Richmond, Virginia. He revisited America to accept a commission for the mural in the Missouri State Capitol, and was appointed to membership of the jury of the 1937 International Exposition. Two years later, he became an American citizen and settled in Rockport, Massachusetts. Charles Hoffbauer's work may be found in the permanent collections of numerous national museums including the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.
Reference:
Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, p. 1585; Thieme-Becker Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zu Gengenwart, Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 17/18, p. 246; E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 7, p. 105; Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers of the U.S.: Colonial to 2002, Bob Creps, Dealer’s Choice Books, Inc. 2002, Vol. 1, p. 643; Steen, James T. "The Story of a Painting," Carnegie Magazine 31/32 (February 1957): 57-59; Charles Hoffbauer (1875-1957). Drawings, Temperas & Oil Paintings. Exh. cat. Somerville, MA: Gropper Art Gallery, 1977; Glueck, Grace. New York: The Painted City. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books...
Category
1940s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Two Metamorphosed Women with a Mythological Creature
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is limited in edition artist signed lower right and is in very good condition. Walter Becker was a German artist. Another impress...
Category
Mid-19th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$580 Sale Price
38% Off
Study for a standing man
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Sir Anthony van Dyck
(Antwerp 1599 - 1641 London)
STUDY FOR A PORTRAIT OF A STANDING MAN
Black and white chalk on blue-green paper
25,4 by 13,5 cm
Provenance
Prof. Julius S. Held (...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
"Woman in a green dress" (contemporary painting of a woman)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This compelling artwork "Woman in a green dress " is a striking example of modern expressionist portraiture.
Dominated by bold, purposeful brushstrokes, the painting depicts a soli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$229 Sale Price
45% Off
Blanche Grambs, (Young Bird with Ferns)
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, whose career started with the WPA, was an extremely skilled draftsperson.
Her birds are masterful. This charming piece places the yooun...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century City Architectural Winter Scene
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: City Winter Scene
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
watercolour and gouache painting with charcoal on artist's paper, unframed
Sheet: 9.75 x 13.5 inches
Intriguing painting by the...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Charcoal
18th Century Old Master pencil study of cows by French artist Jean Baptiste Huet
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A rare and charming study of cows by 18th Century French painter, engraver and designer Jean-Baptiste Huet.
The details are:
Jean Baptiste Huet (French, 1745 – 1811)
Study of cows
P...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Cat - Original Drawing by Giselle Halff - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cat is a charcoal drawing realized by Giselle Halff (1899-1971).
Good conditions.
Giselle Halff (1899-1971) born in Hanoi, student of R.X. Prinet, R. Ménard, L. Simon, B. Boutet de...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Pair of 19th century English chalk drawing on paper of Cockerel
Located in Woodbury, CT
William Huggins was born in Liverpool, England on the 13th of May, 1820. His parents were Samuel and Elisabeth Huggins. He took his first drawing lessons from the Liverpool Mechanics...
Category
1870s Victorian Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$3,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Finely Detailed British Watercolor Topographical of a Tropical Poolside Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Medium: Watercolour on paper, unframed
Size: 10 inches (height) x 14 inches (width)
Signed: Yes
Condition: Sound condition, with some minor signs of foxing visible
Provenance: Privat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Male Nude with Hands on Waist)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Ink on paper
Signed and dated, l.l.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Dog", Contemporary painting on organic cotton, Art Povera, Earthworks, Land art
Located in Carballo, ES
Original painting made by TUSET (1997, A Coruña) one of the main artists of the renewal of millennial painting. Influenced by the Italian art of the second half of the 60's, Arte Povera, Land Art and Post Minimalism...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Arte Povera Figurative Paintings
Materials
Organic Material, Adhesive, Varnish, Cotton Canvas
Plate Six from Novecento (Mixed media lithograph with chalk pastel), Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
Nam June Paik
Untitled, Plate Six from Novecento, 1992
Mixed Media: Color offset lithograph with unique chalk pastel drawing
13 3/10 × 18 inches
Hand signed, Edition 104/130
Pencil numbered 104/130, hand signed in pastel chalk on the front
Edizioni Carte Segrete, Rome, Italy
Excellent condition; held in matting which can be easily removed
The matting measures 18" x 21"
This was part of a series of works produced for the Nam June Paik retrospective at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1992, Nam June Paik: Arti Elletroniche.
This is one of the editions which bears unique hand coloring with pastel chalk.
A comparable work sold at auction in 2015 for US $12,583. (see details below):
Nam June Paik
Title Novecento
Description Nam June PAI K
Novecento 1930-1940, 1992 Pastel sur offset en couleurs, épreuve signée et numérotée 104/130 Edizioni Carte Segrete, Rome 23,5 x 39,5 cm EH Oeuvre réalisée a l'occasion de la rétrospective Paik au Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1992, Nam June Paik: Arti Elletroniche, cinema e Media Verso il XXI Secolo
Medium pastel
Year of Work 1992
Size Height 9.3 in.; Width 15.6 in. / Height 23.5 cm.; Width 39.5 cm.
Misc. Signed
Sale of Millon & Associés: Monday, June 22, 2015 [Lot 00090]
Design
Sold For 11,057 EUR Hammer
(12,583 USD)
Nam June Paik Biography
Nam June Paik was born in 1932 in Seoul. He received a BA in aesthetics from the University of Tokyo in 1956 where he also studied music and art history. After graduating, he studied for a year with composer Thrasybulus Georgiades Georgiades at the University of Munich and for two years with composer Woflgang Fortner at the International Music College in Freiburg. He attended the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt in 1957, when he met Karlheinz Stockhausen, and in 1958, when he met John Cage. Cage, and through him Marcel Duchamp, had a significant influence on Paik as he became a major force in the avant-garde through performances. In Hommage à John Cage (1959), Paik employed audiotape and performance to attack traditional musical instrumentation and compositional practices, splicing together piano playing, screaming, bits of classical music, and sound effects. Realizing that taped sound was not enough, he decided to move into performance, first by introducing performative actions into his audio works. In 1961 Paik performed Simple, Zen for Head and Étude Platonique No. 3, in which he became a volatile figure, thrashing about in unexpected patterns and sudden movements to his signature soundtracks. In 1962 Paik participated in the Fluxus International Festival of the New Music in Weisbaden. Paik's first exhibition, entitled Exposition of Music - Electronic Television, in 1963 at Galerie Parnass at Wuppertal, launched his transition from composer and performance artist to the inventor of a new art form: an engagement with the material site of television as an instrument. In the exhibition, thirteen televisions lay on their backs and sides with their reception altered; for example, Zen for TV (1963) reduced the television picture to a horizontal line and Kuba TV (1963) shrank and expanded the image on the television set according to the changing volume.
In 1964 Paik traveled to the US. He quickly settled in New York and became a leading innovator among an emerging generation of artists seeking new modes of artistic expression and distribution. That same year, Paik collaborated with Shuya Abe to create Robot K-456 (1964), a remote controlled robot that played audiotaped speeches by John F. Kennedy and defecated beans in Paik's Robot Opera (1964). In the interactive work Magnet TV (1965), Paik invited viewers to modify the television's output into swerving abstract lines through the movement of a magnet over the TV. In 1967 Paik and frequent collaborator Charlotte Moorman were arrested when Moorman performed Paik's Opera Sextronique (1967), a striptease as she played the cello at the Filmmakers' Cinematheque in New York. Paik's TV Bra for Living Sculpture (1969), which Moorman wore in performances, featured two television tubes...
Category
1990s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Chalk, Offset, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Graphite, Lithograph
Leonardo da Vinci Illustrated Book Study - Renaissance Man
Located in Miami, FL
The present illustration by husband-and-wife team Alice and Martin Provensen is a study for Leonardo da Vinci's illustrated Book, executed c...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Picasso's Dove, vibrant colorful and minimalist painting on paper
Located in Carballo, ES
Original drawing by the artist TUSET (1997, A Coruña), one of the young promises of contemporary Spanish painting. The work is original and includes a certificate of authenticity, it...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Felt Pen
$811 Sale Price
20% Off
"Vibrant spring colors" (contemporary abstract expressive acrylic floral)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In this abstract floral artwork I experience the world of nature through the bright colors of a spring period.
While painting, I sought to capture the beauty of spring flowers which...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Expressionist Miniature Drawing Wheat Stalks American Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink drawing of wheat stalks
There is an inscription "Happy New Year" on verso
Hand signed
Framed it measures 7.75 X 5.75
The actual paper is 3 X 3.5
Born in 1897, Ben-...
Category
1950s Expressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Pose, 30 x 41 cm, Paper/Stamp ink
Located in Yerevan, AM
Pose, 30 x 41 cm, Paper/Stamp ink
Edition 1 piece
Category
2010s More Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
$262 Sale Price
25% Off
Drawing n°18 by Julien Dinou - Pastel A4 size
By Julien Dinou
Located in Geneva, CH
Abstract drawing on paper without frame
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$160 Sale Price
20% Off
Provence Riverside Village Landscape Post-Impressionist Signed 1962 Painting
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provence Landscape, Panoramic View of a Riverside Village
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
Signed lower right, dated 62 (1962)
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
measurements:...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Autumn Equinox I: abstract monotype print & painting on paper in orange & red
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"Autumn Equinox I" is collaborative work created by Deirdre Murphy (painter) & Agathe Bouton (printmaker). It is a mixed media original monotype print w...
Category
2010s Abstract Still-life Prints
Materials
Acrylic, Monoprint, Monotype, Archival Paper
Haystacks, Eragny by Lucien Pissarro - Landscape, Work on paper
Located in London, GB
Haystacks, Eragny by Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944)
Ink and coloured crayon on paper
11 x 19.5 cm (4 ³/₈ x 7 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed with the monogram and dated lower left, Eragny 1921
This...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Color Pencil
Malvern Pheasants in Winter, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Pheasants emerging after a heavy snowfall near the Herefordshire Beacon (British Camp Original watercolour 15 in x 11 in,presented in a double bevel cut mount 20 in x 16 in ,ready f...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Original Mid-Century Red Farmhouse Watercolor Landscape Painting
By Thelma Fike Rodehorst
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Mid-Century Red Farmhouse Watercolor Landscape Painting
Beautiful mid-century 1940's watercolor of a bucolic farmhouse scene - sunset, undul...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Norman Barr, Coney Island (large), 1940
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market.
In this period he was on the New Deal's Mural ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, India Ink
Portrait - Drawing by Jean Lasnier - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a drawing realized by Jean Lasnier in the Mid-20th Century.
Oil pastel and watercolor ink on paper.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork is realized through...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor
$358 Sale Price
25% Off
"Irises in bloom" ( expressionist painting inspired by Van Gogh)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This painting featuring blooming irises in the garden is an exquisite example of expressive abstraction that immediately captivates the viewer with its dynamic brushstrokes and vivid...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
$525 Sale Price
20% Off
"Red poppies and daisies in a vase" ( modern expressive floral painting)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This modern colorful floral artwork "Red poppies and daisies in a vase " is full of vivid colors ( red, yellow, green, blue, purple) which are my tools of expression.
I explore th...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Untitled
By George Condo
Located in Ottikon, CH
Provenienz:
-Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
-Galerie Gmurzynska Zürich
-Privatsammlung Schweiz
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
$18,000
Eagle, Bird, Watercolor on Paper, Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
321
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Eagle
Size: 12 x 16 inch, (...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Read More
This Tempting Wayne Thiebaud Watercolor Is the Perfect Summer Treat
Although he also produced pensive portraits and idyllic landscapes, the artist’s best-known images are of ice cream, cakes and other colorful sweets.
In This Surreal Painting, the Pink Foot of Patriarchy Squashes a Pumpkin Worshipped by Women
In ‘Gourd,’ Isabel Rock creates a mythic scene that looks fresh and contemporary but feels as old as Eden.
Mid-Century Americans Didn’t Know Antonio Petruccelli’s Name, but They Sure Knew His Art
The New York artist created covers for the nation’s most illustrious magazines. Now, the originals are on display as fine art.
Cecilia Vicuña Merges Politics, Science and Spirituality in Her Poetic Art
The Chilean creator, who has been living in exile in New York for decades, is having a major moment, receiving the biggest exhibitions, commissions and awards an artist could dream of.
Who Are the Most Popular Artists on 1stDibs?
Learn the stories of some of the world's most recognizable artworks and their makers.
Shantell Martin Finds Wonder in Sharing the Creative Process
The visual artist completed a new work in front of a crowd at the 1stdibs Gallery.
Recently Viewed
View AllMore Ways To Browse
19th Century Watercolor Historical Genre Scene
C C Mckim
Ces Graffiti
John Gielgud
Kuznetsov Porcelain
Alexander Drysdale
Female Art Deco Nude Corne Akkers
Oliver Messel
Ant Hill Art
Althea Amand
E Arnold Clark
Leo Gestel
M Alvarez
Philip Van Keuren
Stephen Sondheim
Alexander Dobkin
Drawings Of Colonial India
Joe Peters