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
Set of 6 Watercolour on paper from the Battle Series.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Battle Series. Set of 6
Watercolor on paper
Overall size: 32 in H x 36 in W
Individual size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
These sets of drawings have been like Covid diaries of a wom...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Dog and The Bone. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
*The coloured squares on the paper are watercolour tablets
therefore not mentioned as...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Wasted Love. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
*The coloured squares on the paper are watercolour tablets
therefore not mentioned as...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
March to June, Covid Nights, and July Triptych. From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Overall size: 16 in H x 36 in W
Individual size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
*The coloured squares on the paper are wate...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Bitter Times. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
*The coloured squares on the paper are watercolour tablets
therefore not mentioned as...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Set of 2 Drawings. From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Overall size: 16 in H x 24 in W
Individual size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Set of 2:
- Tradition and the individual Talent
- Wa...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
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...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
'No Way Back #3, ' by Josette Simon-Gestin, Mixed Media Pastel Drawing
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
In this 16" x 20" ink and pastel drawing on paper, Simon-Gestin depicts what appears to be a young woman isolated within the darkened archway of an architectural setting. The smiling face of a larger female figure looks on from the left margin of the work - a possible 'guardian' or 'protector' of the younger girl. The ground of geometric shapes surrounding the figures are filled with organic shapes and contouring lines in warm tones or dark line.
This work is from Simon-Gestin's "No Way Back...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paint, Paper, Ink
To Dye or Not To Die. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
*The coloured squares on the paper are watercolour tablets
therefore not mentioned as...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Brinjal Shrine. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
*The coloured squares on the paper are watercolour tablets
therefore not mentioned as...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Tradition and the individual Talent. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
*The coloured squares on the paper are watercolour tablets
therefore not mentioned as...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Papaya Republic. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
*The coloured squares on the paper are watercolour tablets
therefore not mentioned as...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Water Color Abstract - Figures at the Table
Located in Houston, TX
French painting in bright green, blue and yellow tones of someone sitting at a table by artist Jean-Charles Lauthe, 1971. Signed and dated lower right.
Original artwork on paper dis...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Charcoal Drawing
By John Haley
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful abstract expressionist drawing in shades and tones of grays and black by John Haley (American, 1905-1991), c.1956-7. Signed lower left corner. Presented in 3" mat. Condition: Very good: some edge wear consistent with age. Image size: 25"H x 19"W.
A feature of the artwork of John Charles...
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1950s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite, Paper
Bicycle drawing
By Arman
Located in New York, NY
Arman
Bicycle Drawing, 1991
Original bicycle drawing done on fold-out invitation "Archeology of the Future"
Arman's signature within the drawing in bla...
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1990s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
Covid Nights, Neruda. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
*The coloured squares on the paper are watercolour tablets
therefore not mentioned as ...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Mixed Media
Sea Creatures Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant and fun figurative abstract of creatures on the ocean floor by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. U...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Body in the Field #11 - Landscape, Coloured Pencil, 21st Century, Red, Blue
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #11, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of ...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
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
George Goodwin Kilburne (1839-1924) - 1867 Watercolour, Mother and Baby
Located in Corsham, GB
A touching scene depicting a mother sitting with her baby outside a cottage. Signed and dated in the lower left. Presented in a gilt frame with a beaded running pattern. On paper.
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Mid-19th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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
Landscape #II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Merton Clivette (American, 1868-1931)
Title: Landscape II
Year: Circa 1925
Medium: Gouache
Paper: Watercolor
Size image: 17.35 x 22.65 inches
Size paper: 17.35 x 22.65 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
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
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Graphite
Remains (Body in the Field 18) - Contemporary, Blue, Purple, Monochrome
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 18), 2022
oil on paper (signed on reverse)
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 bo...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Remains (Body in the Field 13) - 21st Century, Green, Blue, Oil
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 13), 2022
oil on paper (signed on reverse)
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 bod...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Paper
Remains (Body in the Field 15) - Contemporary, Abstract, Green, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 15), 2022
oil on paper (signed on reverse)
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 bo...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Remains (Body in the Field 9) - 21st Century, Green, Blue, Contemporary
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 9), 2022
oil on paper (signed on reverse)
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...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
'Figures on Horseback', Los Angeles County Museum, Laguna Beach California
By Ben Abril
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Ben Abril' (American, 1923-1995) and painted circa 1955.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Ben Abril is known for his equestrian paintings, primarily in watercol...
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1950s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper
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 ...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
EMI (Spirit): Genesis
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
EMI (Spirit): Genesis Of The Religious was created using Watercolour on 300gsm paper
Genesis is the origin or mode of formation of something.
“ In the beginning, God created the hea...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
Large Assemblage Collage 2 Sided Painting Outsider Art
By Paul Shimon
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in New York, Paul Shimon (1919 - 2011) was both an accomplished artist and composer.
Considered by some to be an Early Outsider artist, Shimon studied at the Art Students Leag...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
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
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Paper, Watercolor
Ink Drawing on Card signed " Marc Chagall ", dated 1921
By Marc Chagall
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
Attributed to Marc Chagall – “L’Homme à la Lampe” Ink Drawing on paper/ card
Documented History - Christie’s South Kensington Ltd Auction Estimate: £4,000 in April 2001
L’Homme à...
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1920s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink
Follower of Rosetti - 1874 Watercolour, The Loot
Located in Corsham, GB
This evocative watercolour and pencil work, inspired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, depicts a soldier and maiden exploring a chest within an atmospheric, arched interior. The artist's us...
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Late 19th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Pink Rope Kimono
Located in Soquel, CA
Multi-layered collotype by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of other Pearce work. No frame.
Patricia Pearce (Americ...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Lithograph
EMI (Spirit): Divinity
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This painting depicts a state or quality of being divine, a higher state/ consciousness only obtained by mastering true duality within the divine.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Watercolor
"nothing more, nothing less 3 of 6" - earth pigment, texture, marble, soft
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work on paper features deep hues of pink, orange and yellow. The unframed piece measures 25 by 19 inches.
Lizzy Storm is an Atlanta-based Artist and educator creating weathered...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Archival Paper, Pigment
Charles Pulsford ARSA 'Monochrome Landscape' watercolour Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Wax Crayon, Watercolor
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...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pencil
Abstracted Sleeping Figurative in Pastel on Paper
By Kelvin Curry
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Sleeping Female Figurative in Pastel on Paper
Vivid abstracted sleeping female figurative by Black Arts Bay Area artist, Kelvin Curry (American, 20th Century), circa 2000. A woman's sleeping on her side is shown in bold and playful colors of fluorescent purple, orange, pink and yellow. Black outlines of organic and tribal shapes creates even more contrast, making this piece read well from a distance. The tall and thin size of this piece makes this ideal for those difficult and odd sized walls
Unsigned
Presented "floating" on foam core with black mat surround.
Mat size: 38"H x 16"W
Paper size: 29"H x 10.75"W
Born in Oakland, California Kelvin Curry's creative destiny was clear early in life. Initially using black and white graphite as his medium and later expanding into mixed media to bring about multi-dimension; as well as a sense of rhythm and grace in the abstract female figure. Kelvin Curry studied fine arts at San Jose State University and has been making and exhibiting art all his life. Curry has a keen understanding of the arts, particularly the black arts movement in and around the Bay Area. Kelvin has exhibited his work in hundred of juried festivals, exhibits, and galleries throughout the country. Visitors from countries such as South Africa, Japan, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and China have chosen his work to adorn their homes in their native lands. Collectors include Randy Crawford, Nancy Wilson...
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Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Oil Pastel
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
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Paper, Watercolor
Reclining Nude Male Figure, figural expressionist New York artist ink drawing
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph Glasco (American, 1925-1996)
Reclining Male Figure (For Nick)
1971
India ink on paper
Inscribed, signed and dated
10.25 x 14 inches
Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, O...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink
Colorful Watercolor Portrait of Seated Female in White Shirt and Striped Hat
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful watercolor portrait of seated female in a white shirt and striped hat by Mexican artist, Nadine Mayes. Signed by the artist in the bottom right ...
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Late 19th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pen
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...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Untitled, Flowers
By Charlotte Britton
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled, Flowers" is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Charlotte Britton, American, b.1938. It is signed at the middle left side by the artist. The artw...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
double-sided marker drawing spanish abstract expressionism
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
One side signed. Lower right corner slightly bent.
Measures 29x20. Frameless.
Ignacio Gil Sala, was a painter, bohemian character, adventurous and intrepid traveler who knew how to ...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
Untitled: Portrait of a Woman 2
By Pier Canosa
Located in New York, NY
Pier Canosa (Italian, b. 1940), "Untitled: Portrait of a Woman 2", Abstract Figurative/ Portrait Charcoal Drawing signed and dated on Paper, 25.25 x 18.25, Late 20th Century, 1969
C...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
The Blue Earth II, CoBrA movement, Mid-20th Century Danish Watercolor
By Carl-Henning Pedersen
Located in Beachwood, OH
Carl-Henning Pedersen (Denmark, 1913 - 2007)
The Blue Earth II, 1971
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right, signed, dated and titled verso
30.5 x 21.5 inches
Carl-Henning Pedersen was born in Copenhagen in 1913. At an early age he began taking part in politics, first in the youth association of social democrats and later in the youth association of communists, which better suited his revolutionary activist nature against fascism. In 1933, he attended the public high school of Humblebaek where he met the painter Else Alfelt, who he would marry in 1934 and with whom he would have two daughters. For many years the family divided its time between Copenhagen and the city of Bovbjerg, located on the North Sea, where Carl and Else had a studio. Between 1935 and 1940, Pedersen started to sketch and paint.
He exhibited for the first time, together with his wife, in “Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling” (The Artists' Fall Exhibition) in Copenhagen in 1936. Pedersen associated with the young painters close to abstract movements, and like them, worked under difficult conditions. He went to Paris in 1939, where he encountered the work of Picasso, Matisse and Chagall.
Between 1940 and 1945, he contributed to the journal Helhesten. In the same journal, Pedersen published the text "Arte astratta o arte immaginaria," that supplied the most complete and precise definition, up to that point, of the work principles of the young generation of painters, of which he was a part. This definition, in many ways, was close to that which would be the program of the group Cobra. Between 1945 and 1960, the Danish artists went abroad and, along with Dutch and Belgian artists, founded the group Cobra, which was active between 1948 and 1951. During this period in 1948, Pedersen participated in the Biennial of Venice. He exhibited extensively with Cobra in shows such as its first important show which was held at the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam in 1949, “International Experimental Art.” Afterwords, Pedersen distanced himself from the group and began to travel frequently. His destinations included Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, Norway, Lapland, Iceland, Turkey, Nepal, and Jerusalem.
He received the Eckersberg Award in 1950 from the Royal Danish Academy of Art. In 1952, he participated in “Contemporary Drawings from 12 Countries, 1945/1952,” an exhibition held at the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio, the exhibition also traveled to other museums in the United States, while in 1955, he took part in the group exhibition “Expressionism 1900/1955,” at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (also a traveling exhibition throughout the United States).
He participated in the 1952, 1955, 1958, 1961, 1964, and 1967 editions of “The Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture” at the Museum of Art of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. The same museum also honored him with solo exhibitions in 1961 and 1968. In 1966, he exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of New York in the show “European Drawings” that also traveled to Hawaii, Canada, Argentina, and Germany. In 1967, he showed at the “2. Internationale der Zeichnung” in Darmstadt, and then in 1968, he participated in the Premio Marzotto and the “Exhibition of Expressionist Art after 1950” at the Kunstmuseum of Lucerne, which then toured in Romania, Australia, Belgium, and Finland.
Pedersen received the medal of Prince Eugen in 1980, and he participated in the exhibition “Danish Artists, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Else Alfelt, Egil Jacobsen...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Shell 1 (Abstract Black and White Mixed Media Grid Collage with Graphic Shell)
Located in Hudson, NY
Graphic Abstract mixed media collage of black and white shells with pops of peach, yellow, and marbled paper
"Shell 1", by David Dew Bruner, 2020
Mixed Media on paper in a white pain...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Mixed Media
Modernist Abstract Nude Figurative Painting in India Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern abstracted nude figurative study in bold black ink by Louis Nadalini (American, 1927-1995). Signed in the top left corner under the mat, "L Nadalini"...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Bathers
Located in New York, NY
Stanley Boxer
Bathers, 1967
Mixed Media watercolor & ink wash drawing
Hand signed by the artist on lower right hand corner on the front
8 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches
Unframed
This is a uniqu...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Untitled No. 15 (Abstract Black & Grey Charcoal Drawing with Mat & Black Frame)
By Ralph Stout
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract black and grey charcoal drawing on thick, high quality Arches paper
Vertical drawing, 25 x 20 inch image on 30.5 x 22.5 inch Arches paper
35 x 28.5 inches in black frame wi...
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Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Untitled (Woman In Dress)
Located in New York, NY
J.Rennell, "Untitled: Woman in Dress", Figurative Pen and Ink Drawing signed on Paper, 6 x 4 (13.50 x 10.50 Framed), Mid to Late 20th C...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
"Still Life" Diana Kurz, Expressionist Still Life With Skull Pastel on Paper
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Still Life, 1966
Signed and dated lower right
Pastel on paper
19 3/4 x 25 1/2 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's f...
Category
1960s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Fashion show. 1958, paper, mixed technique, 21.2x14.2 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to publicity.
“I am 58, and in five Years my c...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
1950s Charcoal Female Nude Drawing Bay Area Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Henry Woon
Female Nude Statue
c. 1950's
Charcoal on Strathmore Charcoal Paper
19 1/2"x25"Unframed
Unsigned
His large portfolio of charcoal drawings was acquired on the island of Ala...
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1950s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Charles Pulsford ARSA Abstract Figure Stained Glass Design Gouache Scottish Art
Located in London, GB
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Charles...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
"Sleeping Figures" Watercolor Abstract Painting 10" x 14"in by Shaker El Maadawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Sleeping Figures" Watercolor 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...
Category
20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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