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Watercolour Estuary Landscape Victorian
Located in Eversholt, Bedfordshire
just purchased more information to follow
Cypher lower right
Within a grey mount, 14cm high, 28cm long
The gilded cavetto moulded frame 28 cm high, 41 cm long, 3.5cm deep
Category
1850s Victorian Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Downtown Blue - 21st Century, Contemporary, Landscape, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this traditional medium. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Fragments – Triptych of Abstract Drawings on Vellum Paper (Framed )
Located in Agrigento, AG
Fragments is a striking triptych by Italian artist Marilina Marchica. Each original, non-reproducible drawing is made on delicate vegetal (vellum) paper and individually framed in cu...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
$2,845 Sale Price
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(Two Panel) Quince Branch No. 65
By Emily Farish
Located in New Orleans, LA
Emily Farish’s work explores the connection between organic forms and human intervention through her charcoal drawings of flowers. She meticulously renders each flower’s nuanced impe...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
A Fine Watercolor and Pencil "Mexican Shark Fisherman" within a Pine Frame
By Francis De Erdely 2
Located in LA, CA
Francis De Erdely (Hungarian/American, 1904-1959) “Mexican Shark Fishermen” water color and Pencil on Paper within a pine frame and protective glass, circa 1930.
Signed: ‘De Erdely’...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood, Paper, Glass, Pencil
"Plumbers" Post Cover, Pencil Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pencil Drawing
Signature: Signed & Inscribed Lower Right
Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 2, 1951
Category
1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
"Marsh Rising" - Abstract Landscape Cyanotype - Kapoor
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Marsh Rising" is a work on paper that features hues of green, blue, gold, pink, yellow and orange.
Caroline Bullock is inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, Anish Kapoor, Katharina ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Spring Composition no. 1
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Spring Composition no. 1' watercolor on paper. Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sense- a unique ink on paper painting
Located in New York, NY
Ink on paper, Acrylic and / or watercolor, signed in the front, framed in a thin blond wood frame, glass.
Philip Wittmann work is based on signs. Sign...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Composition with Tumbling Vases - Screen I
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Composition with Tumbling Vases - Screen I', by Gary Bukovnik. Watercolor on mulberry, 28 1/2 x 68 inches, 2019. Hand painted folding screen created with watercolor on mulberry pape...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Assemblage of inflatable paint islands silkscreen printing on paper, tapestry
Located in Carballo, ES
Work belonging to the latest exhibition of the Manolo Eirin contemporary art gallery in A Coruña, Spain.
The work is a drawing made by the artist for the exhibition using the assemb...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Wa...
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Printer's Ink, Archival Paper
Frammento – Original Abstract Wall Art, Charcoal & Pure Pigment on Canvas, large
Located in Agrigento, AG
Artist: Marilina Marchica (b. 1984, Italy)
Title: Frammento
Year: 2024
Medium: Charcoal and pure mineral pigment on cotton canvas
Size: 60 × 130 cm (23.6 × 51.2 in)
Signature: Signed...
Category
2010s Abstract Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Pigment, Carbon Pigment
"Percy II"
Located in Astoria, NY
Domenick Capobianco (American, b. 1928), "Percy II", Mixed Media on Paper, 1983, pastels, abstract composition, titled lower left, signed and dated lower right, unframed. 45.25" H x ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Mixed Media
Bay with Boats Color Monotype unique signed abstract color field landscape frame
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn
Bay with Boats, 1987
Color monotype on Somerset white wove paper
Hand signed and dated by Wolf Kahn on the lower right front, bears labels on the back
Frame Included: matte...
Category
1980s Color-Field Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Monotype
$6,500 Sale Price
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"Hearts"
Located in Astoria, NY
Domenick Capobianco (American, b. 1928), "Hearts", Mixed Media on Paper, unsigned, titled to verso. 43.25" H x 45.25" W. Provenance: From the Collection of the artist. Note: Domenick...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Mixed Media
Mountains - Contemporary Abstract Large Format Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork will be shipped rolled up in a cardboard tube
Aleksandra Batura (b. 1982 in Augustów) a Warsaw based artist. She earned a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Sea - Contemporary Abstract Large Format Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork will be shipped rolled up in a cardboard tube
Aleksandra Batura (b. 1982 in Augustów) a Warsaw based artist. She earned a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Otredad [Triptych] (1/5)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This is a triptych: there are three individually framed acrylic on canvas panels in this artwork. Each framed panel is 35.4 x 23.6 inches.
Rocca Luis César (b. 1986, Guadalajara, Me...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
![Otredad [Triptych] (1/5)](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/rocca-luis-csar-paintings-otredad-triptych-1-5-for-sale/a_27562/1723573020719/otredad_master.jpeg?width=240 "luis rocca")
Fig. 9 BASE VERDE, NARANJA and BASE, Triptych. From The Dibujar el Tiempo Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The project is a series of ink drawings on different surfaces, depicting the solstices and equinoxes of the year through the overlapping of shadows at various times of the day. These...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Never Ending Story
Located in New York, NY
Philip Wittmann work is based on signs. Signs are for him an intermediary between abstraction and writing. He started painting 32 years ago, at the age...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nino Devdariani - Bad Dream
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media, acrylic and ink on paper
Nino Devdariani is a Georgian artist born in 1970 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her inspiration is the perception of positive and ne...
Category
2010s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Le Chat
Located in PARIS, FR
Pencil on paper mounted on cardboard
138 x 107.5 cm 148.4 x 117 cm (cadre)
Category
20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
$18,379
Tipping Point #7 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Tipping Point #7 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar - Unframed.
This work is from a series titled Tipping Point. This drawing has been created eyes closed. It captures an a...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil
'Untitled Sketch Men with Oxen' by Harold Stevenson, Pencil Drawing on Paper
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 45" x 31" work was drawn by Harold Stevenson in 1983 and is presented in a multi-matted black frame. The drawing depicts three standing figures, each adorned in classical-style ...
Category
1980s Minimalist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Black and White III and II, Line Drawing, Diptych. Abstract Works on Paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Clemens Wolf declares himself a champion of sensuality: 'I'm really interested in the process of transforming something trivial into a sensual object. The guided coincidence plays a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Paper
Beaches in Cap Skiring No.2 by Calo Carratalá - Pencil, Senegal, trees, river
Located in Paris, FR
Beaches in Cap Skiring No.2 is a unique oil pencil on cardboard, glued on wooden frame drawing by contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 80 × 139 × 4 cm (31.5 × 54.7 × 1....
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wood Panel, Cardboard, Pencil
Large Abstract Expressionist Painting of Head, 20th Century New York Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph Glasco (American, 1925–1996)
Head
1970
Ink on paper
Signed and dated lower right
39.5 x 30 inches
43 x 32.25 inches, framed
Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, Oklahoma...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink
The Surrounding Water XII
Located in Greenwich, CT
Cuban, b. 1974
Antonio Espinosa is a Cuban Postwar & Contemporary artist born in Manzanillo, Cuba in 1974. He graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (University of Arts of Cu...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Untitled 1 - Contemporary Abstract Large Format Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork will be shipped rolled up in a cardboard tube
Aleksandra Batura (b. 1982 in Augustów) a Warsaw based artist. She earned a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Wax
Connecticut Hills
Located in Miami, FL
This later work by Lyonel Feininger approaches almost full abstraction. It was executed in 1950 at a crucial moment in American art history. Abstract Expressionism and non-representational art were in full gear and taking the world by storm. Yet Feininger who was associated with the German expressionist groups: Die Brücke...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
01/17/2023, 9:36 am by Calo Carratalá - Large vertical painting, baobab, Africa
Located in Paris, FR
01/17/2023, 9:36 am is a unique sanguine pencil on wooden board fixed with varnish drawing by Spanish contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 310 × 172 cm (122 × 67.7 in)....
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Varnish, Wood Panel, Pencil
"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...
Category
19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Los Puertos de Barcelona - 21st Cent, Contemporary, Landscape, Watercolor, Paper
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Watercolor on paper, Diptych
Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Crash" Large Scale Watercolor on paper
Located in New York, NY
watercolor on paper, 51"x72" This large scale watercolor on paper depicts a crystal chandelier that appears to have crashed to the floor. Smal...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
36A, Modern Abstract Acrylic on Paper Painting by Yasmin Brandolini
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large minimal abstract painting on paper by Yasmin Brandolini.
Artist: Yasmin Brandolini d'Adda, South African/Italian (1929 - )
Title: 36A
Year: 1986
Medium: Acrylic on Paper, Mo...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Contact problem.Welcome to NATO, canvas/oil, 80x150 cm, 1976
Located in Riga, LV
Contact problem.Welcome to NATO, canvas/oil, 80x150 cm, 1976
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wigwam rouge et jaune
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Wigwam rouge et jaune" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The unique work is signed in the lower right, “Calder 65”.
Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
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...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Untitled, Colorful Abstract Watercolor Painting by Dom Mingolla
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
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Drawing 1 & 2 - black & white, minimalist, gestural, abstract, acrylic on paper
By Lynne Fernie
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Toronto artist Lynne Fernie prefers working in black and white. She enjoys the pure pleasure of drawing, the first art form she began to work in. Drawing 1 & 2, two panels of jet bla...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Ink, Latex
Large Photo Realist Pop Art Watercolor Painting Children's Toys Teddy Bear Block
By Michael Beck
Located in Surfside, FL
Michael Beck (American, b. 1943)
Watercolor painting on paper, 1986
"First Fruits",
Hand signed, dated and titled along lower margins
Gallery label verso,
Matted and framed under...
Category
1980s Photorealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Tranquil Water Patterns, Abstract Nautical Diptych in Blue, Handmade Seascape
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
This beautiful diptych is titled "Tranquil Water Patterns", and depicts calming ocean ripples at low tide.
Details:
+ ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Emulsion, Lithograph, Monotype, Paper
Cabeza nuclear. From the series The memory of narcissus. 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...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Canvas, Graphite
Hazy Landscape 4 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Landscape, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Watercolor on paper
Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bobine
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Bobine" is a gouache and ink on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right "Calder 72".
A12922
Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alexander Calder started his artistic career as an abstract painter, preferring to use gouache. What is gouache? Gouache is a water-soluble paint – a type of opaque watercolor.
As Calder returned to gouache painting towards the end of his life, he was now armed with a lifetime of experience as a sculptor. He explored the three-dimensional vocabulary of sculptural forms he had developed onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper. Certain shapes and colors recur throughout his gouaches and sculptures. Circles, ovals, and other geometric forms dominate the space. There is the same sense of energy and fluidity. The shapes do not sit on the surface but vibrate giving a feeling of movement in contrast to the static nature of painting.
Like his sculpture, Calder’s gouache...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
$180,000
"Nesting Swan" Contemporary Surrealist, Large scale Watercolor painting
Located in New York, NY
large scale contemporary surrealist watercolor painting depicting a graceful white swan on a green leather armchair, with a stack of books piled high to its side. A silver designer mid-century modern pole...
Category
2010s Surrealist Animal Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Hazy Landscape 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Landscape, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Watercolor on paper
Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Flame Vine Screen
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Flame Vine Screen', by Gary Bukovnik. Watercolor on mulberry, 14 1/4 x 68 inches, 2019. Hand painted folding screen created with watercolor on mulberry paper within a minimal dark w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Chinese Contemporary Art by Xia FuNing - Without Boundary
By Xia FuNing
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Vagues 'Wave' by TOSHIMITSU IMAÏ - Abstract Art, 20th-Century Japanese Artist
Located in London, GB
Vagues “Wave” by TOSHIMITSU ÏMAI (1928-2002)
Acrylic on paper
127 x 95 cm (50 x 37 3⁄8 inches)
Signed in Japanese and English lower right, inscribed and dated 1992 on the reverse
Provenance:
Studio of the artist
Dr Jean-Paul Coussy (Director of MCAP Museum, France), acquired directly from the artist, March 15th 1998
Dr Giorgio Tosetti, Italy, acquired from the above
Exhibitions:
Paris, Galerie Chozo Yoshii, Hommage à André Malraux - Les voix du Silence, September - November 1997
Literature
G. C. Calza, Imaï, Electa, Milan, 1998 (Onde/Waves series)
Artist biography:
Born in Kyoto, Japan in 1928 Imai was part of the 20th century Japanese avant-garde. He began his formal education at the Tokyo State Art Academy where he took up painting. His early works are characterised by colourful abstractions, reminiscent of Favuism. In 1951 Imai was awarded the Kansai-Shinseisaku Prize and in 1952 the prize for the best new artist at the 15th Shinseisaku Salon.
Imai relocated to Paris in 1953, the same and subsequent year he exhibited at the Salon de L’Art Sacré. Meanwhile, he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Sorbonne to read medieval history and philosophy. In 1955, Imai completely abandoned representational art in favour of abstraction. After meeting the art critic Michel Tapié via the artist Sam Francis, Imai was the first Japanese artist to join the Art Informel movement.
In 1956 Imai was called upon by the Japanese artist Taro Okamoto to curate an exhibition entitled The World: Today’s Art in Tokyo. Artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Lucio Fontana, and Karel Appel gained important exposure in Japan. It was also in 1957, when Imai arranged for Tapié and the artists Georges Mathieu and Sam Francis to travel to Japan, that a connection between Art Informel and Gutai occurred. The Ashiya-based Gutai Art Association formed in 1954 was proclaimed a kindred spirit by Tapié which he subsequently promoted internationally. Founding members included Yoshihara Jiro, Kanayma Akira, Murakami Saburo, Shiraga Kazuo and Shozo...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Gamut - Graphite Wave Drawing on Canvas Undulating Line Waves Pattern, 2018
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary artwork in graphite and acrylic on canvas with layered undulations in shades of gray on a white background, Margaret Neill investigates the properties of abstrac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Cool August - Abstract Pattern Lines Drawing Fruit Blue Green, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this meticulously detailed contemporary drawing in ink and watercolor on paper, carefully drawn dots and lines in blue, green, red, orange and pink create an intricate composition...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Orchids, Calla Lilly and Hydrangeas, Triptych. Watercolor on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
A new series inspired by architecture, décor and stylish personalities of the world of interior design.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are captured in the illustrati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Interior Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
The Mekong River : abstract work of art on paper
Located in New York, NY
A collage by New York artist Miranda Maher. Made with Ink, Indian marble paper and Japanese Chiyogami paper on handmade Japanese paper.
Miranda Maher’s ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Mandorla - Large Format Charcoal On Paper, Black White Drawing
Located in Salzburg, AT
Krzysztof Gliszczyński is Professor for painting on Academy of fine arts Gdansk.
The artwork is unframed and will be shipped rolled in a tube
Artist Statement
In the 1990s I started collecting flakes of paint – leftovers from my work. I would put fresh ones in wooden formworks, dried ones in glass containers. They constituted layers of investigations into the field of painting, enclosed in dated and numbered cuboids measuring 47 × 10.5 × 10.5 cm. I called those objects Urns. In 2016, I displayed them at an exhibition, moulding a single object out of all the Urns. The Urns inspired me to redefine the status of my work as a painter. In order to do it, I performed a daunting task of placing the layers of paint not in an urn, but on a canvas, pressing each fresh bit of paint with my thumb. In the cycle of paintings Autoportret a’retour, the matter was transferred from painting to painting, expanding the area of each consecutive one. Together, the bits, the residua of paint, kept alive the memory of the previous works. It was a stage of the atomization of the painting matter and its alienation from the traditional concepts and aesthetic relations. Thus, the cycle of synergic paintings was created, as I called them, guided by the feeling evoked in me by the mutually intensifying flakes of paint. The final aesthetic result of the refining of the digested matter was a consequence of the automatism of the process of layering, thumb-pressing, and scraping off again. Just like in an archaeological excavation, attempts are made to unite and retrieve that which has been lost. This avant-garde concept consists in transferring into the area of painting of matter, virtually degraded and not belonging to the realm of art. And yet the matter re-enters it, acquiring a new meaning. The matter I created, building up like lava, became my new technique. I called it perpetuum pictura – self-perpetuated painting. Alchemical concepts allowed me to identify the process inherent in the emerging matter, to give it direction and meaning. In a way, I created matter which was introducing me into the pre-symbolic world – a world before form, unnamed. From this painterly magma, ideas sprung up, old theories of colour and the convoluted problem of squaring the circle manifested themselves again. Just like Harriot’s crystal refracted light in 1605, I tried to break up colour in the painting Iosis. Paintings were becoming symptoms, like in the work Pulp fiction, which at that time was a gesture of total fragmentation of matter and of transcending its boundaries, my dialogue with the works of Jackson Pollock and the freedom brought by his art. The painting Geometrica de physiologiam pictura contains a diagram in which I enter four colours that constitute an introduction to protopsychology, alchemical transmutation, and the ancient theory of colour. It this work I managed to present the identification of the essence of human physiology with art. But the essential aspect of my considerations in my most recent paintings is the analysis of abstraction, the study of its significance for the contemporary language of art and the search for the possibilities of creating a new message. For me, abstraction is not an end in itself, catering to the largely predicable expectations of the viewers. To study the boundary between visibility and invisibility, like in the work Unsichtbar, is to ask about the status of the possibilities of the language of abstraction. The moment of fluidity which I am able to attain results from the matter – matter...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Untitled No.87
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on archival paper, limited edition of 20 - artwork can be shipped in a tube or framed in a crate
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Archival Paper
Demonstration #1 Hélène Duclos, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative art blue
Located in Paris, FR
Gouache, coloured pencil and graphite on paper
Signed lower right
Unique work
1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement
“Questioning the human condition and the position of being ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Spring Afternoon before the Drought
By Steven Kozar
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Watercolor on paper, signed and dated "Steven Robert Kozar 1988" to bottom right corner, linen mat under plexiglass with silvered wood frame, overall 54 ⅛" x 25 ⅜".
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$4,000 Sale Price
33% Off
Dreamers #1 Caroline Veith Contemporary art drawing nature flora flower red
Located in Paris, FR
Ink on tracing paper
Hand-signed and dated lower left
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Earthslide 565
By Susan Moss
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil and oil crayon on paper.
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Oil
$8,800 Sale Price
20% Off
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