Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
ABSTRACT STYLE
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Style: Abstract
homme rouge (red man) - gouache on paper, 49x34 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
gouache on paper. Stamped and signed. Not framed.
Last painter of the school of Nice. This is an important painter, the first school in nice to have exhibited in New York at the G...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Abstract Composition VI" Watercolor painting 10" x 14" in by Shaker El Maadawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition VI" Watercolor painting 10" x 14" in by Shaker El Maadawy
signed & dated
Shaker El Maadawy graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in painting in 1967 in his ...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Standing Figure, figural abstract expressionist ink drawing, 20th century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph Glasco (American, 1925-1996)
Figure
1955
Ink on paper
Signed and dated lower center
12 x 9 inches
15.5 x 12 inches, framed
Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, Oklahoma a...
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1950s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Reclining Nude - Blue Abstract Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract figurative reclining nude by Louis Nadalini (American, 1927-1995). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of Nadalini work. Unframed (First image shows w...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
$671 Sale Price
25% Off
French Contemporary Art by Francine Ledieu - Plateau d’Assy
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on paper
Francine Ledieu is a French artist born in 1931 who lives and works in Paris, France. In the 50s, she was a student of Maurice Rocher who specialized in Sacred art. In the ’80s, Francine was a student of Jean Bertholle from the Saint Roch Academy. The artist had personal exhibitions at Maison Mansart from 1989 to 1993 and at Étienne de Causans Gallery in 1997. In 1998 & 2009 she exhibited at La Petite Galerie...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Paper
1.0 M (DETECTIVE COMICS), 3.2 M (ACTION COMICS) and 1.2M BAT MAN, Triptych
Located in Miami Beach, FL
1.0 M (DETECTIVE COMICS), 3.2 M (ACTION COMICS) and 1.2M BAT MAN, Triptych, 2023 by Rodrigo Spinel
From the series Currency
Chinese ink on Fabriano pap...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Study 8, Russian protest art Unique signed gouache & ink with provenance, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Grisha Bruskin
Study 8, 1990
Ink and Gouache on paper
Hand signed and inscribed by the artist on the front
Original vintage frame with Marlborough Gallery label included
This work is...
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1990s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Chinese Contemporary Art by Wu You - Half Memory Half Expectation
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink & colour on paper - The artwork comes with COA
Framed 171 x 51 x 4 cm
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
"Woman Milking a Cow" Ink on Handmade Amate Paper signed by Miguel Castro Leñero
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Woman Milking a Cow" is an original ink painting/drawing on handmade amate paper by Miguel Castro Leñero. The artist wrote his initials lower right. The piece depicts a seated figur...
Category
1990s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
"Abstract Composition VII" Watercolor painting 14" x 10" in by Shaker El Maadawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition VII" Watercolor painting 14" x 10" in by Shaker El Maadawy
signed & dated
Shaker El Maadawy graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in painting in 1967 in his...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Guardian of the Mosque" Drawing 14" x 10" inch by MOUNIR CANAAN
Located in Culver City, CA
"Guardian of the Mosque" Drawing 14" x 10" inch by MOUNIR CANAAN
Signed and dated.
ABOUT:
Mounir Canaan (1919 – 1999) was a powerful artist whose body of work & style was always...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
$6,800 Sale Price
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"Abstract Composition II" Watercolor painting 10" x 14" in by Shaker El Maadawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition II" Watercolor painting 10" x 14" in by Shaker El Maadawy
signed & dated
Shaker El Maadawy graduated from the Faculty of Fine...
Category
20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled-048 nude pastel by Hans Burkhardt
Located in Hudson, NY
Hans Burkhardt regularly created pastels from life models, and this is a lovely example of that. He regularly maintained an interest in figural work throughout his long and diverse c...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Seated Mother and Child, 1 (executed 1982)
By Henry Moore
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Charcoal and gouache on paper
Paper size: 9x 11.5 inches
Framed size: 23.5 x 25.75 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Raymond Spencer Co.;
Galerie Dominion, Montreal, 1982;
Dr Max Stern, Montreal, 1982;
Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles;
Purchased by Haynes Fine Art...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
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
$18,505
"Abstract Composition III" Watercolor painting 10" x 14" in by Shaker El Maadawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition III" Watercolor painting 10" x 14" in by Shaker El Maadawy
signed & dated
Shaker El Maadawy graduated from the Faculty of Fin...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Merton Clivette (American, 1868-1931)
Title: Landscape
Year: Circa 1925
Medium: Gouache
Paper: Heavy Bristol type
Size image: 22.75 x 28 inches
Paper size: 22.75 x 28 inches
Signature: Signed lower left by the artist
Condition: Excellent
Frame: Unframed
About the artist.
Clivette was born in Portage, Wisconsin, in 1868 as Merton Clive Cook, the youngest of five (four sons and one daughter). His father was a retired British sea captain, and his mother was an American of French, Scottish and Iroquois Indian stock.
He stayed with a circus for about five years, traveling all over the Western United States, Canada and Mexico. They did shows for the army forts, for railroad workers and on Indian Reservations.
Clivette settled in San Francisco in 1886, when he was offered a job as a reporter and theatrical writer for the San Francisco Call. He met Frederic Remington during this period. He was the first serious artist Clivette had met and he was an inspiration to him.
Clivette had done some drawing and painting on the road during his vaudeville years, he had a natural facility for it, and he had had some formal art training as well. He had had some training in Europe and was aware of the modern art movement in Europe. Later in New York he participated in symposiums and workshops at the Art Students League. Around 1910 he gave up his stage career and began to paint full time. He was about 40 years old and was to continue to paint vigorously and prolifically for the remaining 22 years of his life, His style can be identified with the Expressionist Movement, His subjects include portraits (some quite realistic, others more generalized) Indians and horsemen, laborers, gentlemen and vamps, jungle animals and birds, fish, seascapes and landscapes.
He was an active participant in the art world of New York. He was a member of the Society of Independent Artists. In 1923 he showed at the Ainslee Art Gallery at 677 Fifth Ave., in 1925 at the Spanish Society in Brooklyn and in 1927 he had a solo show at the New Gallery, 600 Madison Ave. That same year there was also a solo show of his work in Paris at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, which included a catalogue. In 1929 he exhibited at the Art Center of the Roerich Museum in a group show of work from the collection of George Hellman. In 1930 he was in a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, "Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans" which also included the work of Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, William Glackens, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, George Luks and Mark Tobey and sculptors Gaston Lachaise and William Zorach among others. A description and critical analysis of his work in included in the book by Henry Rankin Poore...
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Early 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
homme grenouille (frog man) - gouache on paper, 49x34 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
gouache on paper. Stamped and signed. Not framed.
Last painter of the school of Nice. This is an important painter, the first school in nice to have exhibited in New York at the G...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Orientalist - gouache on paper, 65x50 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Gouache on paper. Stamped. Frame dimensions: 63x78 cm
Last painter of the school of Nice. This is an important painter, the first school in nice to have exhibited in New York at t...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
137 paper/mixed media, 79x58 cm, 1991 cm
Located in Riga, LV
137
paper/mixed media, 79x58 cm, 1991 cm
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1990s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Afternoon
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: Afternoon
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Paper: Thick wove
Size, image: 29.5 x 39.5 inches
Size, pape...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Saved moments
Located in Zofingen, AG
This picture embodies the fragile beauty of nature, while reflecting its complexity and depth. Flower petals, made in rich shades of purple and pink, remind us of the changeability a...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,146 Sale Price
20% Off
1.0 M (DETECTIVE COMICS) and 1.2M BAT MAN, Diptych. Drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
1.0 M (DETECTIVE COMICS) and 1.2M BAT MAN, Diptych, 2023 by Rodrigo Spinel
From the series Currency
Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g.
Overall Frame size: 43 cm H x 68 cm W x 3 c...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Untitled (Figures in a park)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Figures in a park)
Watercolor on paper, 1991
Signed lower right of image (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 10 3/16 x 14 1/16 inches
Provenance: David Anderson Ga...
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1990s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
29.4M. CRYPTO PUNK AND 15M RINGERS. Diptych Drawings on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
As a reflection on the value we give to objects, this series exposes examples of objects that we use daily and for different reasons end up gaining very high prices. By redrawing the...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
"Abstract Composition IX" Abstract Painting 10" x 14" in by Shaker El Maadawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition IX" Abstract Painting 10" x 14" in by Shaker El Maadawy
signed & dated
Shaker El Maadawy graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in painting in 1967 in his na...
Category
20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Two Metamorphosed Women with a Mythological Creature
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is limited in edition artist signed lower right and is in very good condition. Walter Becker was a German artist. Another impress...
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Mid-19th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
$580 Sale Price
38% Off
Tradition and the individual Talent. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This set of drawings has been like a Covid-19 diary of one woman and her domestic realm. Simone de Beauvoir, the century's most iconic feminist scholar, called the burden of women's ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Mixed Media
Signed and dated watercolour painting by Henry Moore, 1981 'Four ideas'
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Henry Moore O.M., C.H. (British, 1898-1986)
Four Ideas for Sculpture
Signed and dated ‘Moore/81’ (lower right)
Pencil, watercolour, crayon, charcoal and ball point pen on paper
24.5 ...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil
Nashville is an Enigma, mixed media painting by renowned female artist, signed
Located in New York, NY
Katherine Porter
Country Music (Nashville is an Enigma), 1986
Mixed media; colored pencil, gouache, and graphite on paper, uniquely signed and inscribed with Nashville dateline
Hand ...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Color Pencil, Graphite
State of Grace
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: State of Grace
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Paper: Thick wove
Size, image: 29.5 x 39.5 inches
Size, ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Abstract figurative woman painting on paper "There is freedom within us"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This vibrant artwork called 'Freedom within us " showcases a bold and abstract representation of the human form, employing a striking palette of vivid colors and dynamic brushwork. T...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Dog and The Bone. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This set of drawings has been like a Covid-19 diary of one woman and her domestic realm. Simone de Beauvoir, the century's most iconic feminist scholar, called the burden of women's ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
1M 1 CENT POSTAGE DUE. Drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
1M 1 CENT POSTAGE DUE, 2023
From the series Currency
Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g.
Frame size: 43 cm H x 43 cm W x 3 cm D
Image size: 30 cm H x 30 cm W
Unique
Tinted popped ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
"The Gathering" Theresa Bernstein, Abstracted Figures Ashcan School Artist
Located in New York, NY
Theresa Bernstein
The Gathering, circa 1990
Signed lower right
Mixed media on paper
9 x 10 3/4 inches
Theresa F. Bernstein was born in Philadelphia in 1895 to cultured, middle-clas...
Category
1990s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Legacy of time. Breath of the lily
Located in Zofingen, AG
This artwork powerfully depicts a scarlet lily, its velvet petals shining in the sunlight against a dark background. The embroidered insert adds depth and symbolizes the hidden struc...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,146 Sale Price
20% Off
Oak Tress #1
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: Oak Trees #1
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Paper: Thick wove
Size, image: 29.5 x 39.5 inches
Size, p...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Feels Like
Located in Columbia, MO
Feels Like
Ink, graphite and oil pastel on paper
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Graphite
Wild Horse, Framed Ink and Pastel Equestrian Drawing
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown
Title: Wild Horse
Medium: Pastel and ink on paper, signed lower right
Image Size: 19 x 25 inches
Frame Size: 28.5 x 34.5 inches
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Ink
EMI (Spirit): Mother Earth
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
EMI (Spirit): Mother Earth was created using Watercolour on 300gsm paper
MOTHER-EARTH is considered a living being and the provider of all that is on Earth.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$920 Sale Price
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Inheritance of Patterns
Located in Zofingen, AG
Title: "Inheritance of Patterns" Description of the picture:** This painting depicts embroidery, where each stitch reflects the richness of Ukrainian culture. The embroidery is made ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,193 Sale Price
20% Off
Circle Lime
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: Circle Lime
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Paper: Thick wove
Size, image: 29.5 x 39.5 inches
Size, pap...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Reclining Nude Male Figure, figural expressionist New York artist ink drawing
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph Glasco (American, 1925-1996)
Reclining Figure, facing right (Nikos)
1971
India ink on paper
Signed and dated middle right
26 x 38.25 inches
In original frame.
Joseph Glasco ...
Category
1970s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Untitled - Contemporary pencil drawing, Figurative, Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANTONI JANUSZ PASTWA (b. 1944)
Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture. Obtained his diploma in 1970. Between 1974-1981 he was an assistant at profe...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Signature #XV
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: Signature #15
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size image: 30 x 22.5 inches
Size paper: 30 x 22.5 in...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Pat Douthwaite Charcoal drawing 'Totem' Scottish, abstract
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Pat Douthwaite (Scottish, 1939 – 2002)
Seated Man
Charcoal on paper
Indistinctly inscribed, signed and dated ‘Douthwaite 71’ (lower right)
25.1/2 x 18.1...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Remains (Body in the Field 11) - Contemporary Art, 21st Century, Yellow, Blue
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 11), 2022
oil on paper
16 17/32 h x 11 13/16 w in.
42 H x 30 W cm
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Trapped In The Mind Of The Religious
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Trapped In The Mind Of The Religious was created using Watercolour on 300gsm paper
This painting depicts the story of a girl going through a spiritual journey toward enlightenment b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,080 Sale Price
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Along the Avenue
Located in Storrs, CT
Ruben Gelardi's depiction of a yellow tram in Copenhagen. Pastel on paper measures 15 7/8 x 20; frame dimensions measure 22 1/4 x 26 3/4 x 1 1/4. Artist'...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Marusza and horse. Mixed media drawing, Black and white, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
ZOFIA ANNA MISIAK
Zofia Anna Misiak is a contemporary painter from an artistic family. Her parents are Janina Żylińska and Stanisław Misiak. Zofia Anna Misiak graduated from the Acad...
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Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Ink
Geometric Watercolor Depicting a Scene from Shakespeare by ID Artist Eugene Dana
Located in Chicago, IL
A brilliant blue, Geometric watercolor depicting a scene from Shakespeare by Institute of Design Artist Eugene Dana. Titled, "Ariel (From Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”)". Artwork siz...
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1990s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Remains (Body in the Field 20) - Contemporary, Blue, Work On Paper, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 20), 2022
oil on paper
16 17/32 h x 11 13/16 w in.
42 H x 30 W cm
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
CAT (original drawing)
By Walasse Ting
Located in New York, NY
Walasse Ting 丁雄泉
CAT (original drawing), 1985
Original Ink and Marker on offset lithograph held in hardback monograph
Hand signed and inscribed by the artist
This is an absolutely gorgeous drawing of a cat by the pioneering Chinese-American-European artist Walasse Ting, who famously collaborated with Sam Francis and many other Ab Ex, Pop and COBRA artists. (He was the brainchild behind the legendary One Cent Life portfolio). Ting was also, famously, a cat lover, and is renowned for his expressive, colorful and gorgeous drawings of cats...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Offset, Permanent Marker
Cell 06 - Contemporary Art, Abstract, White, Black, Organic, Minimalist, Drawing
By Alina Aldea
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Cell 06, 2021
black ink on white paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 w cm
100 H x 70 W cm
The drawings signed by Alina Aldea show the meticulousness and perfection of microscopic observation....
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
A nude. Pencil drawing, Minimalistic, Figurative, Monochromatic, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative nude drawing on paper by Polish artist Antoni Janusz Pastwa. Artwork is minimalistic with parts that are more realistic and part that are simplified. Drawing ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
Untitled (Rabbi Scholar)
Located in New York, NY
Seymour Rosenthal (American 1921-2007) "Untitled: Rabbi Scholar", Figurative Pen/Watercolor on Paper signed in bottom right hand corner, 10.50 x 8 (24 x 20.50 In Frame), Late 20th Ce...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Bring it on. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This set of drawings has been like a Covid-19 diary of one woman and her domestic realm. Simone de Beauvoir, the century's most iconic feminist scholar, called the burden of women's ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Untitled (Woman working in the fields)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Woman working in the fields)
Graphite on wove paper
Unsigned
Exhibited: Spanierman Galleries, In Praise of Women, Oct. 21-Nov. 20, 2010
Illustrated: Lisa N. Peters, In Praise of Women, Spanierman Galleries (see catalog entry in photos)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size (sight): 14 1//2 x 10 5/16 inches
Provenance: Spanierman Galleries, New York
The young woman is a known model for Knight. She is depicted in numerous paintings. The striped skirt and wooden shoes she wears also is repeated in Knight's oeuvre.
"Daniel Ridgway Knight was born in Philadelphia to a Quaker family and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1858 to 1861, the year he became a founding member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club. He went to Paris and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from 1861 to 1863 with Charles Gleyre (1808-1874) and Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), and attended the Accademia di San Lucca, then in Venice, in 1863. Knight returned to Philadelphia that year, married, and served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He went back to France in 1871 and lived there for the remainder of his long and successful career. He settled in Seine-et-Oise near Poissy to study with the noted academic painter Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891) in 1873, and the two artists became close friends. Influenced by his French contemporaries Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884) and Jules- Adolphe-Aimé-Louis Breton...
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1890s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Abstract Geometric Illusory Line Art in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Geometric Illusory Line Art in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
In this line abstract by Jerry O'Day (American, 1912), lines intersect and layer in straight and rounded ways giving a sense of movement to the piece. O'Day uses simple ink on paper and pure geometric form in the Minimalist style of the 1960s.
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Mat size: 39"H x 27"W
Paper size: 30"H x 20"W
Image size: 27"H x 16"W
Jerry O'Day is also known as Geraldine Heib. Born in Oakland, California, on June 17, 1912. Geraldine Heib assumed the name Jerry O'Day at an early age. She grew up in Washington and studied in Seattle at the Cornish School of Fine Arts. Upon moving to the San Francisco Bay area in 1938, she further studied with Bufano as a muralist for two years. O'Day wed sculptor David Lemon and had a gallery in a converted cod fishery in Belvedere from 1942 until 1963. At that time, the couple moved to a houseboat in Sausalito, where she remained until her demise on March 30, 1986.
Post War California artist, Jerry O'Day studied at the Cornish School of Fine Arts in Seattle; studied with Beniamino Bufano for two years. She lived in the artist's colony at the Cod fishery with artist David Lemon on Belvedere Island in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1942 - 1963.
Solo Exhibitions: City of Paris, Rotunda Gallery; Lucien Labaudt Gallery, 1963; Torrance Gallery, San Anselmo, 1955; Marin Art Gallery, Sausalito, 1956; Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1962; East & West Gallery, Fillmore Street, San Francisco; Landmarks Gallery, Marin County, 1991.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 65th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1945; Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963.
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