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Woman in Flight /// Contemporary Fantasy Female Figurative Pastel Painting Lady
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Frank Rakoncay (American, 1936-1998) Title: "Woman in Flight" *Signed by Rakoncay in pencil lower left. It is also signed again lower right Circa: 1980 Medium: Original Oil P...
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Surrealist 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel, Pastel, Pencil, Graphite

Handwritten letter on American Indian Theme II card signed to CBS News cameraman
Located in New York, NY
Roy Lichtenstein Handwritten note on card ink on paper hand signed by Roy Lichtenstein The card reads "Thank you so much for the wonderful prints Very kind of you to send them to me Best regards, Roy Lichtenstein This card depicts Roy Lichtenstein's American Indian Theme II (from American Indian Theme Series), 1980, Woodcut in colors on Suzuki handmade paper Provenance: This card was acquired from Dan Pope, a longtime CBS photographer and cameraman, who had amassed a superb collection of autographs by visual artists over many decades. This work has been elegantly floated and framed in a museum quality wood frame under UV plexiglass. Measurements: Framed 14.75 inches vertical by 11.5 horizontal by 1.5 inches depth Card (image) Roy Lichtenstein Biography Roy Lichtenstein was one of the most influential and innovative artists of the second half of the twentieth century. He is preeminently identified with Pop Art, a movement he helped originate, and his first fully achieved paintings were based on imagery from comic strips and advertisements and rendered in a style mimicking the crude printing processes of newspaper reproduction. These paintings reinvigorated the American art scene and altered the history of modern art. Lichtenstein’s success was matched by his focus and energy, and after his initial triumph in the early 1960s, he went on to create an oeuvre of more than 5,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, murals and other objects celebrated for their wit and invention. Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, in New York City, the first of two children born to Milton and Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein. Milton Lichtenstein (1893–1946) was a successful real estate broker, and Beatrice Lichtenstein (1896–1991), a homemaker, had trained as a pianist, and she exposed Roy and his sister Rénee to museums, concerts and other aspects of New York culture. Roy showed artistic and musical ability early on: he drew, painted and sculpted as a teenager, and spent many hours in the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Modern Art. He played piano and clarinet, and developed an enduring love of jazz, frequenting the nightspots in Midtown to hear it. Lichtenstein attended the Franklin School for Boys, a private junior high and high school, and was graduated in 1940. That summer he studied painting and drawing from the model at the Art Students League of New York with Reginald Marsh. In September he entered Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus in the College of Education. His early artistic idols were Rembrandt, Daumier and Picasso, and he often said that Guernica (1937; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid), then on long-term loan to the Museum of Modern Art, was his favorite painting. Even as an undergraduate, Lichtenstein objected to the notion that one set of lines (one person’s drawings) “was considered brilliant, and somebody’s else’s, that may have looked better to you, was considered nothing by almost everyone.”i Lichtenstein’s questioning of accepted canons of taste was encouraged by Hoyt L. Sherman, a teacher whom he maintained was the person who showed him how to see and whose perception-based approach to art shaped his own. In February 1943, Lichtenstein was drafted, and he was sent to Europe in 1945. As part of the infantry, he saw action in France, Belgium and Germany. He made sketches throughout his time in Europe and, after peace was declared there, he intended to study at the Sorbonne. Lichtenstein arrived in Paris in October 1945 and enrolled in classes in French language and civilization, but soon learned that his father was gravely ill. He returned to New York in January 1946, a few weeks before Milton Lichtenstein died. In the spring of that year, Lichtenstein went back to OSU to complete his BFA and in the fall he was invited to join the faculty as an instructor. In June 1949, he married Isabel Wilson Sarisky (1921–80), who worked in a cooperative art gallery in Cleveland where Lichtenstein had exhibited his work. While he was teaching, Lichtenstein worked on his master’s degree, which he received in 1949. During his second stint at OSU, Lichtenstein became closer to Sherman, and began teaching his method on how to organize and unify a composition. Lichtenstein remained appreciative of Sherman’s impact on him. He gave his first son the middle name of “Hoyt,” and in 1994 he donated funds to endow the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center at OSU. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Lichtenstein began working in series and his iconography was drawn from printed images. His first sustained theme, intimate paintings and prints in the vein of Paul Klee that poked lyrical fun at medieval knights, castles and maidens, may well have been inspired by a book about the Bayeux Tapestry. Lichtenstein then took an ironic look at nineteenth-century American genre paintings he saw in history books, creating Cubist interpretations of cowboys and Indians spiked with a faux-primitive whimsy. As with his most celebrated Pop paintings of the 1960s, Lichtenstein gravitated toward what he would characterize as the “dumbest” or “worst” visual item he could find and then went on to alter or improve it. In the 1960s, commercial art was considered beneath contempt by the art world; in the early 1950s, with the rise of Abstract Expressionism, nineteenth-century American narrative and genre paintings were at the nadir of their reputation among critics and collectors. Paraphrasing, particularly the paraphrasing of despised images, became a paramount feature of Lichtenstein’s art. Well before finding his signature mode of expression in 1961, Lichtenstein called attention to the artifice of conventions and taste that permeated art and society. What others dismissed as trivial fascinated him as classic and idealized—in his words, “a purely American mythological subject matter.”ii Lichtenstein’s teaching contract at OSU was not renewed for the 1951–52 academic year, and in the autumn of 1951 he and Isabel moved to Cleveland. Isabel Lichtenstein became an interior decorator specializing in modern design, with a clientele drawn from wealthy Cleveland families. Whereas her career blossomed, Lichtenstein did not continue to teach at the university level. He had a series of part-time jobs, including industrial draftsman, furniture designer, window dresser and rendering mechanical dials for an electrical instrument company. In response to these experiences, he introduced quirkily rendered motors, valves and other mechanical elements into his paintings and prints. In 1954, the Lichtensteins’ first son, David, was born; two years later, their second child, Mitchell, followed. Despite the relative lack of interest in his work in Cleveland, Lichtenstein did place his work with New York dealers, which always mattered immensely to him. He had his first solo show at the Carlebach Gallery in New York in 1951, followed by representation with the John Heller Gallery from 1952 to 1957. To reclaim his academic career and get closer to New York, Lichtenstein accepted a position as an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Oswego, in the northern reaches of the state. He was hired to teach industrial design, beginning in September 1957. Oswego turned out to be more geographically and aesthetically isolated than Cleveland ever was, but the move was propitious, for both his art and his career. Lichtenstein broke away from representation to a fully abstract style, applying broad swaths of pigment to the canvas by dragging the paint across its surface with a rag wrapped around his arm. At the same time, Lichtenstein was embedding comic-book characters figures such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in brushy, expressionistic backgrounds. None of the proto-cartoon paintings from this period survive, but several pencil and pastel studies from that time, which he kept, document his intentions. Finally, when he was in Oswego, Lichtenstein met Reginald Neal, the new head of the art department at Douglass College, the women’s college of Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The school was strengthening and expanding its studio art program, and when Neal needed to add a faculty member to his department, Lichtenstein was invited to apply for the job. Lichtenstein was offered the position of assistant professor, and he began teaching at Douglass in September 1960. At Douglass, Lichtenstein was thrown into a maelstrom of artistic ferment. With New York museums and galleries an hour away, and colleagues Geoffrey Hendricks and Robert Watts at Douglass and Allan Kaprow and George Segal at Rutgers, the environment could not help but galvanize him. In June 1961, Lichtenstein returned to the idea he had fooled around with in Oswego, which was to combine cartoon characters from comic books with abstract backgrounds. But, as Lichtenstein said, “[I]t occurred to me to do it by mimicking the cartoon style without the paint texture, calligraphic line, modulation—all the things involved in expressionism.”iii Most famously, Lichtenstein appropriated the Benday dots, the minute mechanical patterning used in commercial engraving, to convey texture and gradations of color—a stylistic language synonymous with his subject matter. The dots became a trademark device forever identified with Lichtenstein and Pop Art. Lichtenstein may not have calibrated the depth of his breakthrough immediately but he did realize that the flat affect and deadpan presentation of the comic-strip panel blown up and reorganized in the Sherman-inflected way “was just so much more compelling”iv than the gestural abstraction he had been practicing. Among the first extant paintings in this new mode—based on comic strips and illustrations from advertisements—were Popeye and Look Mickey, which were swiftly followed by The Engagement Ring, Girl with Ball and Step-on Can with Leg. Kaprow recognized the energy and radicalism of these canvases and arranged for Lichtenstein to show them to Ivan Karp, director of the Leo Castelli Gallery. Castelli was New York’s leading dealer in contemporary art, and he had staged landmark exhibitions of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg in 1958 and Frank Stella in 1960. Karp was immediately attracted to Lichtenstein’s paintings, but Castelli was slower to make a decision, partly on account of the paintings’ plebeian roots in commercial art, but also because, unknown to Lichtenstein, two other artists had recently come to his attention—Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist—and Castelli was only ready for one of them. After some deliberation, Castelli chose to represent Lichtenstein, and the first exhibition of the comic-book paintings was held at the gallery from February 10 to March 3, 1962. The show sold out and made Lichtenstein notorious. By the time of Lichtenstein’s second solo exhibition at Castelli in September 1963, his work had been showcased in museums and galleries around the country. He was usually grouped with Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Rosenquist, Segal, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Indiana and Tom Wesselmann. Taken together, their work was viewed as a slap in the face to Abstract Expressionism and, indeed, the Pop artists shifted attention away from many members of the New York School. With the advent of critical and commercial success, Lichtenstein made significant changes in his life and continued to investigate new possibilities in his art. After separating from his wife, he moved from New Jersey to Manhattan in 1963; in 1964, he resigned from his teaching position at Douglass to concentrate exclusively on his work. The artist also ventured beyond comic book subjects, essaying paintings based on oils by Cézanne, Mondrian and Picasso, as well as still lifes and landscapes. Lichtenstein became a prolific printmaker and expanded into sculpture, which he had not attempted since the mid-1950s, and in both two- and three-dimensional pieces, he employed a host of industrial or “non-art” materials, and designed mass-produced editioned objects that were less expensive than traditional paintings and sculpture. Participating in one such project—the American Supermarket show in 1964 at the Paul Bianchini Gallery, for which he designed a shopping bag—Lichtenstein met Dorothy Herzka (b. 1939), a gallery employee, whom he married in 1968. The late 1960s also saw Lichtenstein’s first museum surveys: in 1967 the Pasadena Art Museum initiated a traveling retrospective, in 1968 the Stedelijk Musem in Amsterdam presented his first European retrospective, and in 1969 he had his first New York retrospective, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Wanting to grow, Lichtenstein turned away from the comic book subjects that had brought him prominence. In the late 1960s his work became less narrative and more abstract, as he continued to meditate on the nature of the art enterprise itself. He began to explore and deconstruct the notion of brushstrokes—the building blocks of Western painting. Brushstrokes are conventionally conceived as vehicles of expression, but Lichtenstein made them into a subject. Modern artists have typically maintained that the subject of a painting is painting itself. Lichtenstein took this idea one imaginative step further: a compositional element could serve as the subject matter of a work and make that bromide ring true. The search for new forms and sources was even more emphatic after 1970, when Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein bought property in Southampton, New York, and made it their primary residence. During the fertile decade of the 1970s, Lichtenstein probed an aspect of perception that had steadily preoccupied him: how easily the unreal is validated as the real because viewers have accepted so many visual conceptions that they don’t analyze what they see. In the Mirror series, he dealt with light and shadow upon glass, and in the Entablature series, he considered the same phenomena by abstracting such Beaux-Art architectural elements as cornices, dentils, capitals and columns. Similarly, Lichtenstein created pioneering painted bronze sculpture that subverted the medium’s conventional three-dimensionality and permanence. The bronze forms were as flat and thin as possible, more related to line than volume, and they portrayed the most fugitive sensations—curls of steam, rays of light and reflections on glass. The steam, the reflections and the shadow were signs for themselves that would immediately be recognized as such by any viewer. Another entire panoply of works produced during the 1970s were complex encounters with Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Surrealism and Expressionism. Lichtenstein expanded his palette beyond red, blue, yellow, black, white and green, and invented and combined forms. He was not merely isolating found images, but juxtaposing, overlapping, fragmenting and recomposing them. In the words of art historian Jack Cowart, Lichtenstein’s virtuosic compositions were “a rich dialogue of forms—all intuitively modified and released from their nominal sources.”v In the early 1980s, which coincided with re-establishing a studio in New York City, Lichtenstein was also at the apex of a busy mural career. In the 1960s and 1970s, he had completed four murals; between 1983 and 1990, he created five. He also completed major commissions for public sculptures in Miami Beach, Columbus, Minneapolis, Paris, Barcelona and Singapore. Lichtenstein created three major series in the 1990s, each emblematic of his ongoing interest in solving pictorial problems. The Interiors, mural-sized canvases inspired by a miniscule advertisement in an Italian telephone...
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Pop Art 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Postcard

Vintage Paris Fashion Drawing - Knit Overcoat, c. 1980
Located in Houston, TX
Charming ink and pencil fashion sketch of a long pink overcoat with clasp by Paris fashion house Création Corine Marie, circa 1980. Includes original fabric swatch and designer's sta...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Fabric, Ink, Pencil

Spring Bloom, Large Colorful Floral Watercolor by Gary Bukovnik
Located in Long Island City, NY
Gary Bukovnik, American (1947 -) - Spring Bloom, Year: 1983, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated in pencil lower right, Size: 45 x 71 in. (114.3 x 180.34 cm), Frame Size...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

View of Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1980. Hand signed lower left. Date on rear, Excellent condition.
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

'The Garden, Mandelieu-la-Napoule', Academy of Fine Arts of Rouen, Benezit, Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Picot' for Jean-Claude Picot (French, born 1933), and painted circa 1985; additionally titled, verso, on old label, 'L'escalier du Jardin (Mandelie '. From 1947,...
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Fauvist 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Oil

Monument - Original Pencil on Paper by Mino Maccari - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Monument is an original modern artwork realized the 1985 by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Original pencil drawing on Ivory paper. Hand-signed in penc...
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Modern 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

'Cap Ferrat', Academy of Fine Arts of Rouen, Mandelieu-la-Napoule, Benezit, Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Picot' for Jean-Claude Picot (French, born 1933), and painted circa 1985; additionally titled, verso, 'La Route Vers St Jean Cap Ferr'...
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Fauvist 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Oil

Landscape - Drawing by Michele Ricciuti - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a watercolor on paper realized by Michele Ricciuti in 1984. Hand signed and dated lower left. Very good condition. Includes a contemporary wooden frame.
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Modern 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Filipino Women and Children in a Pastoral Scene Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Pastoral pencil on paper sketch by a celebrated Filipino artist, Jose V. Blanco. The drawing depicts Filipino women and children sorting out mangoes...
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Realist 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pencil

Original handwritten Letter of thanks, hand signed by Keith Haring on letterhead
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring Original Handwritten, hand signed Letter, ca. 1987 Ink on Haring's Private letterhead Stationery, Hand written and hand signed by Keith...
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Pop Art 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker

Mixed media painting in monograph, Signed & inscribed to Museum Trustees, Framed
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney Hockney Paints the Stage (Signed and inscribed to Walker Museum trustees), 1983 Original acrylic, watercolor and ink painting done on title page of monograph (Signed an...
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Pop Art 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor

Figure - Drawing by Arturo Pagano - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is a modern artwork realized by Arturo Pagano in the 1980s. Watercolor drawings. Good conditions.
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Mary Frank Original Charcoal and Pastel 1984 Figure Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Mary Frank (British/American, b. 1933) Chant, 1984 Charcoal and pastel on paper 41 3/4 x 29 3/4 in. Framed: 46 1/2 x 34 1/4x 2 in. Signed and dated lower right: Mary Frank 84 Midtown Payson Galleries Label Verso Mary Frank is known for creating stoneware sculptures that have the appearance of terra cotta fragments dug up at an archaeological site. Sometimes a half-finished relief head...
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Modern 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

Bette Midler Legendary Film and Recording Star. Gay Icon. 20th Century Litho
Located in New York, NY
Bette Midler Legendary Film and Recording Star. Gay Icon. 20th Century Litho Al Hirschfeld (1903 - 2003) Bette Midler 15 x 11 inches (sight) Etching 22 x 18 inches Framed Signed an...
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Performance 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Board

Beverly Sills Opera Singer Diva Classical Music Grammys Caricature 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Beverly Sills Opera Singer Diva Classical Music Grammys Caricature 20th Century Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) Beverly Sills Lithograph on heavy paper, 1983 Sight: 11 1/2 x 14 inches Sig...
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Performance 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Lithograph

Portrait of a Boy - Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing in pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1982. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artist depicts a delicate...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Studio Figure, pastel drawing of female figure, nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These recently discovered 1984 oversize pastels on archival papers were created with a live model, working quickly, in pastel. The series shows the l...
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American Modern 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pastel

PLAYBOY BUNNY
Located in Aventura, FL
Synthetic polymer drawing on paper. Unsigned. Warhol Foundation stamp on verso. Sheet size 31.5 x 23.5 inches. Custom framed as pictured. Artwork is in excellent condition. Cert...
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Pop Art 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Polymer

"Three Ribbon Heads", Art Deco Hand Colored Lithograph by John Luke Eastman 1984
Located in Soquel, CA
"Three Ribbon Heads", Art Deco Female Figurative by John Luke Eastman. 1984 Beautiful mid-1980's hand colored Art Deco style lithograph by Southern California artist John Luke Eastman (American, b.1929). In this 1984 version of Eastman's "Three Ribbon Heads", a delicate flowing line drawing of three consecutive women's faces in profile are framed by ribbons in a circular composition. As in many of the artist's works, Eastman captions the piece with the following phrase: " In this life we have three lasting qualities...faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of them is love." Hand signed and dated in pencil lower right, "John L. Eastman 84" artists proof. Displayed in a light grey mat and new art deco-style giltwood frame. Paper size: 20"H x 16"W. Framed size: 19.5"H x 23.25"W x 1"D. John Luke Eastman is a Southern California artist with a unique style. A graduate of UCLA with a degree in graphic arts, he was successful fashion illustrator and art director for prestigious department store in L. A. before turning his full attention to fine art. Over the part decade he has created and mastered the unique style that is currently found in his limited edition silk-screen graphics. A versatile artist, who has illustrated many record and book covers he refers to his style as "the 5th dimension" or "beautiful distortion". The qualities he seeks to impart through his works are fluidity of movement, a feeling of spatiality, weightlessness and beautiful color. His artworks have been in a lot of shows across the country. He recently had show at Celux (Louis Vuitton membership...
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Art Deco 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Lithograph

Mermaid - Charcoal Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Mermaidt is a Charcoal Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1980s. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a white paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Jun...
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Modern 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal

Keith Haring, Untitled (Black ink drawing atop a Japanese Guardian Figure print)
Located in San Francisco, CA
In February 1983, Keith Haring made his first visit to Japan to host an exhibition of his work in Tokyo. Enthralled by the experience, he let loose his spray cans covering every inch...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink

Portrait of a Boy - Original Pencil Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artist want to define a w...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

'Mending', African American Woman Folk Artist, Houston, Dallas, Blues Museum Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, in fabrics bowl, 'Ruth Mae McCrane' (American, 1929-2002) and dated upper center, in calendar, February 1989. Ruth Mae McCrane taught...
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Folk Art 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Figure - Drawing by Arturo Pagano - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is a modern artwork realized by Arturo Pagano in the 1980s. Watercolor drawings. Good conditions.
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Two Women With Fans
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Chinese ink and acrylic on rice paper, stretched on canvas. Artist's stamp upper left. 71 x 38.25 in. 72.25...
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Post-War 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Rice Paper

Isle of the Blessed
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Joyce Wieland (1931-1998) was one of the most accomplished and versatile Canadian artists of the 20th century. Emerging on the Toronto art scene at the beginning of the 1960s, over t...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Figures - Drawing by Arturo Pagano - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is a modern artwork realized by Arturo Pagano in the 1980s. Watercolor drawings. Good conditions.
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Native Mexican Woman (Cuban Miami artist pastel)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Alex (Cuban, b.1949). Indigenous Mexican Woman, 1982. Pastel and charcoal on wove paper, sheet measures 23 x 33 inches. 31 x 40.5 inches on backing board...
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Modern 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Paper, Pastel

Nude Figurative Drawing in Pen on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Clean and confident sketch of a nude model by an unknown San Francisco Bay Area artist (20th Century). A woman is lying down on her back, with her arms above her head and legs up on ...
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American Impressionist 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pen, Laid Paper

Portrait of an Old Man
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of an old man done in charcoal by California artist Ralph Edward Joosten (American, 1928-2009). Signed "R. Joosten 82" lower right. Pre...
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American Impressionist 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

Portrait of a Boy - Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artwork represents a fresh and beautiful nude male portrait...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

'The Race for the Brass Ring', Carousel, Merry-Go-Round, Amusement Ride, Funfair
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'A. Dygert' for Audrey Dygert (American, 1922-2010) with artist seal and painted circa 1985. Born Audrey Harper of Albany, California, Audrey Dygert was a lifel...
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Other Art Style 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board

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...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

"Danielle" Nude Figurative Drawing in Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold nude pastel drawing by Albert Hutson (American, 1923-1994). A woman is reclined on a soft red surface, leaning up against a yellow pillow. The model is skillfully sketched, with quick but confident marks. Hutson has captured the character of the model in her expression and posture, both of which appear relaxed and natural. Al Hutson retired from military service in 1974, moved to San Francisco, and enrolled in art school at the California College of Arts and Crafts. In 1978 he earned his BFA degree with distinction in drawing and painting. His work as a figurative artist was in the medium of pastel drawing, and he had an intense and abiding affinity for works on paper. Signed, dated, and titled twice in the lower right corner ("Al Hutson Danielle 89") Presented in a new off-white mat with foamcore backing. Mat size: Paper size: 19.75"H x 25.5"W Albert L. Hutson (American, 1923-1994) had two careers: first as a professional military officer, and second as an artist and member of the Board of the Graphic Arts Council in San Francisco. He was born in 1923 in Portsmouth, Virginia, into a family with a long military tradition. His father and maternal grandfather were Annapolis graduates, and his paternal grandfather served in the Civil War. Colonel Hutson graduated from Staunton Military Academy in 1941 shortly after World War II began. He later earned an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Nebraska in the late 1960s. As a young second lieutenant in World War II, he served with the First Armored Division in the Italian Campaign, starting with the Battle of Anzio, and participated in the liberation of Rome. His interest in art began at this time when his commanding officer introduced him to Italian art. Al Hutson retired from military service in 1974, moved to San Francisco, and enrolled in art school at the California College of Arts and Crafts. In 1978 he earned his BFA degree with distinction in drawing and painting. His work as a figurative artist was in the medium of pastel drawing, and he had an intense and abiding affinity for works on paper. A graduate of the Fine Arts Museums docent [tour guide...
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American Impressionist 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

Don't Walk unique trial proof signed and inscribed by famed photorealist artist
Located in New York, NY
Robert Cottingham Don't Walk, 1985 Three color Linoleum Cut on Paper Pencil signed, inscribed to Bryan and annotated TP Published by Chip Elwell Fine Prints Trial Proof (unique) This is a Trial Proof that Robert Cottingham inscribed, annotated and gifted to Bryan Konefsky, his longtime studio assistant in both Newtown, CT and Santa Fe New Mexico. Only one other example - a variant - of this early print, exists and is in the collection of the Smithsonian. Due to the untimely death of printer Chip Elwell in October of 1986, only two proofs in the woodcut medium were pulled: the present work, which Cottingham gifted to his longtime studio assistant, and the one at the Smithsonian. Furthermore and in another interesting turn of events, Elwell's studio was burglarized shortly after his death and among the items stolen were the original wood blocks for DON'T WALK. This is an historic work; and the only one available on the market. Measurements: Framed: 15 inches x 13.5 inches x .3 inches Artwork 12 inches x 10.5 inches Robert Cottingham Biography Robert Cottingham (b.1935, Brooklyn, NY) is recognised for his Photorealist paintings of American urban landscapes, particularly his depictions of painted and neon shop signs...
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Photorealist 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Linocut

Rare Large Original British Illustration Art Watercolor Painting "Horse Races"
Located in Surfside, FL
Sue Macartney-Snape Watercolor painting (with highlights of gold metallic paint) titled on label "Goodwood Races" Signed with initials verso. Info on label verso Dimensions: H 38.75...
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Modern 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

View of Henningsvaer Lofoten - Watercolor by Armin Guther - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
View of Henningsvaer Lofoten is an Original Watercolor realized by Armin Guther in 1986. Good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (50x40 cm). Hand-signed and dated on...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Vibrant Alan Davie Scottish Colorful Surrealist British Pop Art Village Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Alan Davie, Scotland (1920-2014). Gouache painting with watercolor 'Village Myth' Hand signed ('with love') lower left, 1982 Dimensions: with frame 37.5"H x 30.25"W; image, 28"H x 22.5"W. James Alan Davie (1920 – 2014) was a Scottish painter and musician. Davie was born in Grangemouth, Scotland in 1920, the son of Elizabeth (née Turnbull) and James William Davie, an art teacher and painter who exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1925. During this formative period Davie discovered the poetry of Walt Whitman and T.S. Eliot, whose prose is echoed in letters home as well as his own verses. Alan Davie studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1937 to 1941. An early exhibition of his work came through the Society of Scottish Artists. After the Second World War, Davie played tenor saxophone in the Tommy Sampson Orchestra, which was based in Edinburgh and broadcast and toured in Europe. He also earned a living making jewellery during the postwar period. Davie began teaching basic design in the jewellery department at London’s Central School of Arts and Crafts led by the Scottish artist William Johnstone, where colleagues included artists Nigel Henderson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton and Patrick Heron. In 1961, Davie’s jewellery was featured in The International Exhibition of Modern Jewellery at London’s Goldsmith’s Hall, a milestone in the history of jewellery making in Britain where an impressive roster of international and British artists including Alexander Calder, Naum Gabo, Victor Pasmore and John McHale...
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Pop Art 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Teens at the Beach - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Teens at the beach is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artwork represents fre...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Flowers - Drawing by Arturo Pagano - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is a modern artwork realized by Arturo Pagano in the 1980s. Watercolor drawings. Good conditions.
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Portrait of a Boy - Pencil Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1980. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artist want to define a ...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

The Boy on the Motorcycle - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
The boy on the motorcycle is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1982. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The man is depicted ...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

The Boy at the Mirror - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
The boy at the mirror is an original drawing pen realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artist represents the figu...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pen

Modern Realistic Sepia Toned Ink Drawing Study of Nude Male and Female Figures
Located in Houston, TX
Modern realistic sepia toned drawing of nude figures by Texas artist Robert Levers. The work features a male figure with horns in an aggressive sta...
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Modern 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Teens at the beach - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1982
Located in Roma, IT
Teens at the beach is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1982. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The three boys are represe...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Original unique drawing of three parrots in monograph by renowned Chinese artist
Located in New York, NY
Walasse Ting 丁雄泉 Original three parrots drawing, 1984 Original parrots drawing done in ink with inscription held inside elegant hardback monograph with ...
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Modern 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset

Thinker Bengali Man Charcoal Paper, Black & White Paritosh Sen"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Paritosh Sen - Untitled - 30 x 22 inches (unframed size) Charcoal on paper Inclusive of shipment in a roll form.The work comes with a certificate signed by the artist himself. An il...
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Modern 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

1980 Fauno e Ninfa Faun and Nymph Pencil on Paper Figurative Drawing
Located in Brescia, IT
This delicate drawing of the dance between a Faun and the Nimph, looks following the Jean Cocteau clean line drawings. We can see in this scene, the grace and simplicity of the Neoc...
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Academic 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper

Seascape - Drawing by Michele Ricciuti - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Seascape is a watercolor on paper realized by Michele Ricciuti in 1980s. Hand signed in pencil lower left. In very good condition, it includes a wooden frame.
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Modern 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Study for Worlds Beyond - Surrealist graphite drawing, Ohio artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Study for Worlds Beyond, 1980 Graphite, collage and white heightening on illustration board Signed and dated lower right 10.75 x 4.5 in...
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American Modern 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Portrait of a boy - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981s. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artwork represents a fresh and beautiful nude male portrait...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

UNTITLED (TWO HEADS)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original conte crayon on paper. Dated "12.84" lower margin. Provenance: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York. Artwork size 12.5 x 9.5 inches. Fram...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Crayon

UNTITLED (TWO HEADS)
UNTITLED (TWO HEADS)
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Composition - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original contemporary artwork realized in 1970 ca. by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Included two original drawings in mixed on ivory-c...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Ink, Watercolor

The Running Man - Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
The Running Man is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The ...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Portrait of a Boy - Original Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artwork represents a fre...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Boy Lying Down - Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Boy lying down is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. I...
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Blind Mans Buff, British Couple walking in a landscape in Edwardian dress
Located in Woodbury, CT
John Strickland Goodall John Strickland Goodall was born in Heacham, Norfolk on 7 June 1908. He was the son of a famous heart specialist who boasted seven generations of medics, and...
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Victorian 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Sculpture Garden Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene figurative landscape of a sculpture garden full of plants and architectural elements by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in...
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American Impressionist 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

La Dimora delle Cose - Mixed Media - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Pencil and ink on paper. Certificate of authenticity by the Archive of Giuseppe Uncini.
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Contemporary 1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pencil

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