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Tattoed character Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing colour
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper Dated and signed on the back In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...
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2010s Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite

Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Peach Tree
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & watercolour on marouflaged paper with wooden panel
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2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Acrylic, Paper, Watercolor, Wood Panel

Manifest 2 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Manifest 2 (Abstract Painting) Charcoal and water on paper. Unframed. Margaret Neill works for a time on a group of pieces in a series, using classic almost primal materials such a...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Le jour se lève
Located in Malmo, SE
Signed, titled and dated on the verso. Acquired directly from the artist. Free shipment worldwide. Working on a variety of perceptual levels, Philippe Huart lets one visit his intim...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pen, Graphite

I'm Still Here
Located in Westport, CT
Ayse Wilson is a Turkish-American artist who lives and lives and works in Connecticut. Her work draws from memory and emotion to remind viewers of youth, innocence and the timeless space we occupy when we are young. She creates lively and childlike characters, finding inspiration in the works of early Italian Renaissance masters such as Fra Angelico. Wilson graduated from Wellesley College in 1991, and pursued her education in Florence. She received her MFA at New York Academy of Art, and later worked as a painting assistant to Jeff Koons for two years. This current series employs the toile wallpaper samples that the artist had lying around her house during lockdown as a backdrop for ambiguous and complicated feelings toward quarantine and domestic confinement. In this work, she is hoping to narrate how fear of the pandemic unknown, coupled with household anxieties, and increased self-awareness contributed to the mixed emotions of security and hostility towards enforced domesticity within a masked world. The toile tradition represented a coincidental parallel with the COVID era rediscovery of old-fashioned pastoral lifestyles, and the embrace of self-reliant artisanal practices like cooking, gardening, sewing, and prescribed homeschooling. Her colorful inscriptions, some original, some appropriated, layer in our contemporary lifestyle, our modern methods of connectivity as well as our high-tech world. The punky playfulness of the neon and fluorescents contrasts with the backdrop of Fragonard-esque imagery and hopes to delivery her messages of love and connection, awareness and newness, hope and emotions, as well as the occasional glossily veiled hostility expressed in certain so-called “love” declarations. The phrases evolved from a previous series addressing the Me Too movement...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Night 02 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Night 02 (Abstract Painting) Acrylic and pigments on lacquered wood board - Unframed "Framed in an American box. Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France. ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Wood, Acrylic, Pigment

Reunifications (Ricongiungimenti) - Mixed Ink on Paper - 2017
Located in Roma, IT
Reunifications (Ricongiungimenti) is a beautiful artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva in the 2017. Colored mixed ink on paper. Hand signed by the artist. Title, date, techinique...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Architectural Design IV by Louis Osman FRIBA
Located in London, GB
Louis Osman was an English artist, architect, goldsmith, silversmith and medallist. He is notable for the gold coronet he designed and made for the investiture in 1969 of Charles, Pr...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Pencil

Dance - Drawing - 2017
Located in Roma, IT
Dance is a beautiful artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva in the 2017. Black and white ink on paper. Original title: Danza Hand signed by the artist. Author of numerous philosoph...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

59th Street Bridge, Pennsylvania Impressionist Watercolor Cityscape
Located in Doylestown, PA
"59th Street Bridge" is a 22" x 30" watercolor on paper cityscape of the Brooklyn Bridge and city skyline, painted by Pennsylvania Impressionist and...
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

L'île (Untitled 23042) (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
L'île (Untitled 23042) Ink on paper — Unframed. Martín Reyna is an Argentinian-born abstract painter living in Paris, France. His gestural abstract paintings delight the eye and act...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Love Affair 6 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Love Affair 6 (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...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mylar, Color Pencil

Informal III - Oil Paint on Canvas by Giorgio Lo Fermo - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Informal III is an original artwork realized by Giorgio Lo Fermo (b. 1947) in 2020. Oil on canvas. Hand signed and dated by the artist on the back. Hand signed and dated on the low...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Canvas, Oil

SWAN IN LOVE (TEOREMA 50)
Located in New York, NY
SWAN IN LOVE (TEOREMA 50), 2012  ink, watercolor, airbrush paint, graphite on paper  37.5 x 52 inches / 952 x 1320 mm unframed Christina McPhee’s expansive abstract paintings, drawings, photographs, and videos test or query how can we know, and who is we? Moving from within a matrix of measurement, observation and contingent effects, her work resists characterization as product, and continually accesses fields outside itself. For her, process equals trial. Her work emulates potential forms of life, in various systems and territories, from a perspective of the non-self– a world beyond identity. McPhee’s dynamic, performative, physical engagement with materials, in both her analogue and digital works, is a seduction into surface-skidding calligraphic gestures and mark-making. The tactics of living are in subterfuge, like the ‘dazzle ships...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Waterco...

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Without identity - Original Drawing - 2017
Located in Roma, IT
Without identity is a beautiful artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva in the 2017. Mixed colored ink on paper. Original title: Privi d'identità Hand signed by the artist. Title, d...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Chinese Contemporary Art by Xia FuNing - The Power of Nothingness
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on paper Xia Fu-Ning is a Chinese artist born in 1962 in Nanjing. He was a professor in the Department of Fine Arts during the 1980s at Tianjin Polytechnic University. He curren...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Oil

Red Flow II- Abstract contemporary painting on canvas, modern red flowing shape
Located in Dallas, TX
"Red Flow II" is a dramatic and contemporary abstract painting by French artist Emma Godebska. It is created using Acrylic and pigments on lacquered Capoverde canvas. Discover the ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Pigment

What a B***h? - Original Digital Photograph and Drawing on Plastic - 2011
Located in Roma, IT
What a B***h (Che stronzetta) is an original artwork realized by the Italian contemporary artist Nicolantonio Mucciaccia in 2011. Mixed media (drawing and digital photo) on plastic m...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Plastic, Rubber

"The Vagabond, " a Watercolor on Paper signed by W. Forester
By W. Forester
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Vagabond" is an original watercolor painting on paper signed in the lower left corner in red with 5/89 by the artist W. Forester. It depicts a large ship on a turbulent sea. 2...
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19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

She Stood with the Trees - Woods Watercolor Painting
Located in Boston, MA
She Stood with the Trees 72.0 x 36.0 x 2.0, 20.0 lbs Watercolor on wood Hand signed by the artist Artist's Commentary: "The large watercolor painting is a stunning depiction of a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Water...

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Watercolor

Signed Nude Pastel Drawing by Gerald Fairclough
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gerald Fairclough, American (1946 - ) Title: Nude Year: 1977 Medium: Pastel Drawing, signed and dated Size: 25 x 35 in. (63.5 x 88.9 cm) Frame Size: 33 x 43 inches
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1970s Expressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Tattoed character Geneviève Seillé Contemporary art outsider art drawing colour
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media drawing on paper Dated and signed on the back In the plastic work of Geneviève Seillé, the word, like a sign, reigns supreme. An object o...
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2010s Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite

Food Chain, Surrealist Pencil and Watercolor on Paper by James Meyer
By James Meyer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: James Meyer Title: Food Chain Year: 1990 Medium: Watercolor Tusche and Pencil on Paper, signed Size: 29.5 x 34.5 inches (74.93 x 87.63 cm) Frame: 38...
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1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

"Bee Gone" A large, framed, technically stunning drawing by Arminée Chahbazian
Located in Hollister, CA
Bee Gone Bee Gone is a poetic and visually arresting work by Arminée Chahbazian that speaks to the fragility of the natural world and the silent disappearance of vital species. Throu...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gold Leaf

Faerie No. 12
Located in Columbia, MO
John Selburg was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. He holds a BFA in Drawing, Sculpture, and Graphic Design from Bradley University (2006), and an MFA from the University of Misso...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paint...

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Manifest 2 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Manifest 2 (Abstract Painting) Charcoal and water on paper. Unframed. Margaret Neill works for a time on a group of pieces in a series, using classic almost primal materials such a...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink on Paper Drawing - Profile Notation 418.017
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Profile Notation 418.017 - Signed Feminist LGBTQ+ Colorful Ink, Color Pencil, and Graphite on Paper Drawing Profile Notation 418.017 is from Linda Stein's Profiles ser...
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2010s Feminist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Graphite, Color Pencil

Untitled, Colorful Abstract Watercolor Painting by Dom Mingolla
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dom Mingolla, American (1900 - 1980?) Title: Untitled Year: circa 1985 Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Signed l.r. Size: 22 x 30 inches Frame: 32 x 42 inches
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1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Donna Librea, Mixed Media Wall Hanging Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
American painter and author Alex Beard is best known for his elaborate wildlife compositions created in his signature style of gesturalpainting, which he has coined “Abstract Naturalism.” Raised in a family that fostered philanthropy, creativity and exploration, Alex has traveled extensively around the world. The diverse cultures, colors, and climates of Africa, India, China, the Americas, and Australia have profoundly influenced both his professional and artistic practice. While earning his BA from Tufts University, he studied painting and drawing at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In his early twenties Alex moved to New Orleans to continue his formal training at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. Fueled by curiosity about the cultures and wildlife he had been exposed to in his early years, Alex has spent much of his life traveling to the some of the world’s most remote wildlife outposts - paintbrush in hand. His time in nature enables him to continually hone his style – creating complex compositions in which abstraction and figuration collide, while exploring themes of cultural and environmental interconnectivity. Alex’s work figures prominently in several private and public collections and he has exhibited extensively throughout the United States, including solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and abroad in Hong Kong. An impassioned conservationist and philanthropist, in 2012 Alex established The Watering Hole Foundation – a public charity engaged in saving endangered wildlife and preserving their environments. His documentary, Drawing the Line, fused his artistic talent with his dedication to preservation, chronicling the plight of the endangered Wild African Elephant, as seen through the eyes of a conservationist artist. In addition to producing a series of short films, Alex has authored and illustrated a critically acclaimed trilogy of storybooks published by Abrams. The series, Tales from the Watering Hole, includes The Jungle Grapevine (2008), Monkey See Monkey Draw (2009), and Crocodile Tears (2010). Along with other New Orleans artists Raine Bedsole, Dr. Bob, George Dunbar, Mitchell Gaudet, Alan Gerson, Thomas Mann, Steve Martin, James Michalopoulos...
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1990s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Mixed Media

Destination (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Destination (Abstract drawing) Pastel on paper - Unframed. Margaret Neill works for a time on a group of pieces in a series, using classic almost primal materials such as graphite,...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel

1970 Sandra Blow abstract watercolour, signed
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sandra Blow (British, 1925-2006) Abstract, 1970 Watercolour Signed with estate stamp (lower left) 11 x 7 in. (28 x 18 cm.) The late British artist Sandra Betty Blow (1925-2006) came...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Lágrima de Nube. The memory of narcissus series Watercolor Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series of works stems from the reflection on the value attributed to objects (metals and precious stones), established culturally and historically by society. By means of the tw...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Cardboard

Jody Pinto, "Orange Leg Landscape, " Mixed Media Drawing, 1979
By Jody Pinto
Located in Long Island City, NY
This watercolor, gouache, graphite, and crayon drawing on paper was created by contemporary artist Jody Pinto (b. 1942). Pinto's large-scale architecture and small-scale design all h...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite

"Vermeer's Blue Delft Vase with Penny's Giant Hybrid Hibiscus, "
Located in Milwaukee, WI
" Vermeer's Blue Delft Vase with Penny's Giant Hybrid Hibiscus" is a mixed media collage and drawing (ink, watercolor, iridescent acrylic) signed lower righ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paint...

Materials

Mixed Media

The Inner Child at the Edge of Extinction, Surreal Drawing by Kevin Varner
Located in Long Island City, NY
Kevin Varner, American (1954 - 2019) - The Inner Child at the Edge of Extinction. Year: 1992, Medium: Color Pencil and Ink on Paper, signed and dated lower left, Size: 18 x 40.25 in...
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1990s Surrealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Color Pencil

Tui Be Or Not Tui Be, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Over 140 hours went into producing this painting! It is an original watercolor and ink painting of 2, Tui birds playing in a gorgeously colored interior. I choose these playful bird...
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2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Kyle Andrew Szpyrka - Learning to Fly, Drawing 2015
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sutra, a Sanskrit word meaning “thread”, is a word or small group of words that summarize an entire complex web of ideas, truths, wisdoms, or teachings all woven together into a sing...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Waterco...

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Paper, Foam Board, Pencil, Graphite

Spray Paint/Graffiti/Street Art/Pop_John "CRASH" Matos, Urban Odyssey
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
John CRASH Matos "Urban Odyssey (4 Panels)" Watercolor, Spray Paint and Ink on Arches Paper 34.5 x 85.5 inches, Framed Born John Matos in 1961, CRASH was raised in the Bronx, New Yo...
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2010s Street Art Mixed Media

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Watercolor

Going Down, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Pen, colored pencil, graphite, India ink on paper :: Drawing :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pen

Abstract Mixed Media Drawing on paper by Karl Fred Dahmen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Karl Fred Dahmen Title: Untitled 2 Year: 1980 Medium: Drawing with Mixed Media on Paper, signed verso Size: 33 x 41.5 in. (83.82 x 105.41 cm)
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media, Laid Paper

Chinese Contemporary Art by Xiong Longdeng - Magnolia
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Chinese paper Xiong Long-Deng is Chinese artist born in 1966 who lives & works in Qingzhen & Beijing, China. He is graduated from the Department of Oil Painting, College of ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Double Namaste, let us touch and unite, colorful yoga reference
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of humor and spiritual depth s...
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2010s Expressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Dovetail 1 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Dovetail 1 (Abstract drawing) Charcoal on paper - Unframed. Neill creates works on canvas, linen and paper using a variety of mediums, including graphite, colored pencil, charcoal a...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Untitled 02 - Contemporary Art, Abstract, Drawing on Canvas, Grey, Monochrome
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled 02 (Remains of the Remains), 2021 Graphite on canvas 78 37/50 H x 55 6/50 W in. 200 H x 140 W cm The new series of large-sized paintings, signed by Zsolt Berszán, created i...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Graphite

Baby Bumble Bee
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated
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2010s Old Masters Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, India Ink

HK1906YP (Abstract work on paper)
Located in London, GB
Ink, enamel, collage on paper - Unframed. This work is part of one of 4 on-going series of large works on paper. The name of this series, "Yappa...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Enamel

G_40 - 21st Century, Drawing, Black, White, Abstract, Minimalist
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
G_40, 2021 white ink on black cardboard (signed on reverse) 27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 W in. 70 H x 100 W cm Alina Aldea's drawings project all the possible forms which appear to disappear ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Cardboard

G_44 - Minimalist, Contemporary, Drawing, Black, White
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
G_44, 2021 white ink on black cardboard (signed on reverse) 27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 in. 70 H x 100 W cm Alina Aldea's drawings project all the possible forms which appear to disappear wi...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Cardboard

G_43 - Contemporary, Black, White, Drawing, Minimalist, Abstract, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
G_43, 2021 white ink on black cardboard (signed on reverse) 27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 W in. 70 H x 100 W cm Alina Aldea's drawings project all the possible forms which appear to disappear ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Cardboard

G_41 - 21st Century, Drawing, Contemporary, Black, White, Abstract
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
G_41, 2021 white ink on black cardboard (signed on reverse) 27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 W in. 70 H x 100 W cm Alina Aldea's drawings project all the possible forms which appear to disappear ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Cardboard

Dashing into the day 3 (Abstract work on paper)
Located in London, GB
Dashing into the day 3 (Abstract work on paper) Acrylics, ink and oil on paper - Unframed. This artwork is exclusive to IdeelArt. Knaut builds her compositions slowly over time, a...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Oil, Acrylic

Secret Garden 12 - 21st Century, Flower, White, Black, Contemporary Art
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Secret Garden 12, 2020 white ink on black cardboard 27 9/16 H x 39 3/8 W in. 70 H x 100 W cm The drawings signed by Alina Aldea show the meticulousness and perfection of microscopic...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Cardboard

"The First Bird with Egg, Duckling Abstraction, " Oil Pastel by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The First Bird with Egg, Duckling Abstraction" is an original oil pastel on board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist initialed the piece on the back. It features an abstracted duckling ...
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1980s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel, Board

Robin No.2
Located in Columbia, MO
Robin No. 2 2016 Charcoal on paper 41 x 22 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the intimacy of the cre...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Drawings and W...

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Charcoal

Fluidos. Painting From the series Plato’s Heaven. Charcoal on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The theory of Heaven is a novelty that Plato introduced to philosophy. Inspired by this concept, the artist proposes a series of works where I imagine and recreate possible worlds on...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Charcoal

Cielo de Platón 4. Painting From the series Plato’s Heaven
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The theory of Heaven is a novelty that Plato introduced to philosophy. Inspired by this concept, the artist proposes a series of works where I imagine and recreate possible worlds on...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Graphite

Cielo de Platón 1. Painting From the series Plato’s Heaven
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The theory of Heaven is a novelty that Plato introduced to philosophy. Inspired by this concept, the artist proposes a series of works where I imagine and recreate possible worlds on...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Graphite

Belmont Park c1920s Horse Race Game Board Custom Framed
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic Marks Brothers of Boston c1920s game board Belmont Park together with the patch label under seal on the verso Board Sz: 16 1/2"H x 46"W Frame Sz...
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1920s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Cardboard

Mouvement Spatiale, 1962 - crayon, 80x130 cm., framed.
Located in Nice, FR
He was born in Paris, the son of a conversation though open-minded middle-class family. His father runs the family business of optical equipment but he's also a theatre lover, an author and a poet. He gives his son a strict education and the boy will feel closer to his mother. Pierre De Maria will become a honest, straightforward man, uncompromising to himself and the others. He is very particular about his appearance and, as a child of the "Belle époque" takes up to a kind of dandysm. A cousin of his, Jacques Camoreyt (a pupil of Albert Maignan) teaches him how to master pictorial techniques along with the rather academic education in Arts he is going through. From 1907 to 1914 he is a student at the Lycée Condorcet, first graduates in science and languages, then at the Engineering College just before World War 1. The sight of atrocities will leave a deep scar in his memory. He has a miraculous escape from the war and finds a job in the family firm. He soon realizes he hates everything related to engineering and decides to launch on into painting. He works as a scene painter with Ronsin and Laverdet workshop and on stage with "avant-garde" drama companies. In the same time, he shows his work at the "Salon d'Automne" in 1923 an gets a honour prize in the modern painting department. In 1925 he takes up to boxing and creates some polychromatic facades with Djo Bourgeois, then gets into the Art Deco trend as an architect and a decorator. Henri-Pierre Roché, a writer (Jules et Jim) a painter and an art collector close to the cubists has already discovered talents ( Brancusi, Wols…) and takes an in interest in Pierre De Maria. Autoportrait Environ 1960 In 1926 (the "Années Folles "in Paris) Pierre De Maria meets Marcel Duchamp, Brancusi and the surrealist gang he enjoys but never joins. « They were friends and I was curious but I never liked the hint of complaisance I saw in their work. » He then starts some technical research an collages as shown in his first exhibition of "pasted gouaches" in Princess'Murat 's gallery in Paris. (« Fermé la nuit ») « I never thought I'd make money with my paintings. I took to painting as I would have taken holy orders » He works as a journalist for Marianne and Vu magazines (1932-1933) and writes a detailed report about the Maelström in Norway and the soviet Movies. He has the opportunity to meet Eisenstein and Poudovkine in Sovietic Russia and thinks of making a name for himself in the Movie industry. In 1939 Pierre De Maria meets Germaine Pellegrino who becomes his wife a year later. They'll have two sons : Jacques born 1942 and François born 1943. The family settle in Geneva at the end of 1943. During those years he writes an unpublished autobiographical novel («Tir à volonté») as well as a collection of thoughts about various topics such as war. He also writes poems and a play (as his father had done) «Cornelius'death», in a rather humorous manner. « He who conveys the opinion of fools makes certain to get the majority of votes ». In 1944 he is back in Paris, leaving his wife. He'll settle in Nice in 1953 and starts there his mechanical period with the recurrent theme of machinery in his painting. In 1958 he has his second exhibition in Paris (JC de Chaudun's gallery) and shows a series of lino-engravings done after some drawings of his: he then begins being acknowledged by his contemporaries, his fellow-painters and the Parisian artistic circle. Jacques Prévert even dedicated him a poem. («Les Machinoutis») Henri Pierre Roché, Henri-Pieyre de Mandiargues, Yves Taillandier contribute to the catalogue, well received by the press. In the meantime, he has his works exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, the Salon de Mai, and the Salon Comparaison. In 1963, Flemish wood-engraver Frans Masereel, and Professor Gowa, the curator of the Offenbach Fine Arts, both introduce Pierre De Maria successfully in Germany, allowing him to become famous abroad. The Homo Atomicus Exhibition gathers 45 paintings, recounting the artist'progress over the past ten years. He's then nicknamed the «Atomic age Hyperonymus Bosch» ! In 1964, Greek gallery owner Iris Clert finds him out and helps him into a new career. He is then 68. Iris Clert, as a specialist in Contemporary Art has contributed to the coming out of the New Realism movement through her most spectacular and mediatical exhibitions. She takes a fancy to Pierre De Maria 's work : « The visit of his studio turned my love at first sight into a cutainty : he uses the technique from the Ancients to express Future. » Afterwards, both get into intense collaboration so that the painter is allowed to use the gallery owner's european and international net. In 1966, his work's dedicated a research published in Connaissance des Arts Magazine n° 70 : » A foreground study of Pierre De Maria in this month issue ». Later an article in International Art. In 1969 he turns 73 and he can see his first retrospective exhibition in Nice at the Ponchettes Gallery (about 60 paintings). At 76, he meets artist Hélène Bottet, from then on allowing humour to take over violence in his art. Machines don't frighten him anymore, he's now able to mock them even through they remain at the core of his paintings, in spite of the mechanical Art...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon

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...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

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