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...
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1950s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Blue and Bronze Kimono - Hand Augmented Collotype
Located in Soquel, CA
Hand-augmented collotype by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Signed "Patricia A. Pearce" in the lower right corner. There are embossed wavy lines running horizontally, with ri...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen, Color Pencil, Paper
Leda and the Swan
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Reuben Nakian
Title: Leda and the Swan
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed l.l.
Size: 14 x 16.5 inches
Frame Size: 23 x 25....
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1970s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Paper
"Modern Woman"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Joseph Meierhans (1890 - 1980)
Joseph Meierhans is one of the most important modernist painters associated with Bucks Count...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
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...
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1950s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'Girl with Sun, Bicycle and Car' original watercolor signed by Joseph Rozman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present painting is an excellent example of Joseph Rozman's pictographic style. The composition is dominated by abstracted vignettes: A fashionable woman beneath the sun, a car, ...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Tingel-tangel III - XXI Century, Mixed media drawing, Abstraction, Colorful
By Leszek Rózga
Located in Warsaw, PL
LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015)
He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948, he began studies at the art school in Łódź (later: Academy of Fine Arts)...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Ink, Paper
Colors - Figurative Abstract
By Kelvin Curry
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful abstract work by Bay Area artist Kelvin Curry (American, 20th Century). Signed "Kelvin Curry" lower left. Unframed. Image size, 15"H x 11.25"W.
Born in Oakland, California ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Infanta XLVIII (Abstract Figurative Graphite Drawing in Antique Pewter Frame)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract graphite drawing on paper in vintage pewter frame
5.75 x 4.5 inches
This abstract figurative graphite drawing on paper was inspired by academic...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
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'...
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1950s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
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
Figurative Abstract in Purple and Blue Tones
By Helen Orman
Located in Houston, TX
Deep blue and purple tonal figurative abstract pastel work. It is framed in a silver frame with a tan matte.
Dimensions without Frame: H 11.5 in x W 15 in.
Artist Biography: Helen...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
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
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Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Figurative Abstract - Blue Face
By Kelvin Curry
Located in Soquel, CA
Street art style figurative abstract of blue face by Bay Area artist, Kelvin Curry (American, 20th Century). Signed "Kelvin Curry" lower right. Unframed. Ima...
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Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Behold, Halsey Chait, Large Abstract India Ink Drawing on Paper, Circle
By Halsey Chait
Located in New York, NY
"Behold" by Halsey Chait
India Ink on 250 Lenox 100 Cotton Rag Paper
Halsey Chait's drawings develop according to the rules and mathematics that govern the growth processes of life ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, India Ink, Rag Paper
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
Materials
Watercolor
St. George and the Dragon, Abstract Expressionist Painting by Alfred van Loen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alfred van Loen, Dutch/American (1924 - 1994)
Title: St. George and the Dragon
Year: 1947
Medium: Watercolor, signed and dated
Size: 15 x 20.5 inches
Frame Size: 18 x 24.5 ...
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1940s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Woman's Portrait
By Kirk Mangus
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Kirk Mangus's Woman's portrait is an original woodcut print. Mangus is widely known for his ceramics.
Mangus’s work is held in numerous collections including the Cleveland Museum of ...
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1990s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Woodcut
Young Woman Expressionist Watercolor
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Young Woman 1971
Size: 17x13.5 framed 24x20x1
Rosenborg began the study of painting in 1929 at the School Art League, American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and studied privately with Henriette Reiss from 1930 to 1933. Ralph Rosenborg won a scholarship while still in high school to Saturday art classes at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. After classes ended, he continued to study privately with his teacher there, Henriette Reiss, who provided not only exacting technical training, but broad-based instruction in music, literature, and art history. More significantly, Reiss had worked with Kandinsky earlier in her career and introduced her young protege to the vast arena of vanguard European ideas.
Ralph Rosenborg exhibited his artworks since as a teenager when he made dress patterns...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Microtelescopic Field of View I, Halsey Chait, Abstract Drawing, Circle
By Halsey Chait
Located in New York, NY
"Microtelescopic Field of View I: Reflecting Neural Pools of Living Shadows Echoing Through Every Depth of Field" by Halsey Chait
Acrylic on Paper
Halsey Chait's drawings develop ac...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Microtelescopic Field of View, Halsey Chait, Abstract Drawing, Circle
By Halsey Chait
Located in New York, NY
"Microtelescopic Field of View: Interwoven Neural Webs" by Halsey Chait
Acrylic on Paper
Halsey Chait's drawings develop according to the rules and mathematics that govern the growt...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Homage to Chagall: David & Bathsheba Sunrise Celebration, " by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Homage to Chagall: David & Bathsheba Sunrise Celebration" is an original mixed media piece that incorporates collage, watercolor, and iridescent acr...
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Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
Microtelescopic Slide, Halsey Chait, Large Abstract Drawing, Illustration
By Halsey Chait
Located in New York, NY
"Microtelescopic Slide" by Halsey Chait
Acrylic & Enamel on Canvas
Halsey Chait's drawings develop according to the rules and mathematics that govern the growth processes of life fo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Enamel
Wild Horse, Framed Ink and Pastel 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
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Ink
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
Untitled: Portrait of a Woman
By Pier Canosa
Located in New York, NY
Pier Canosa (Italian, b. 1940), "Untitled: Portrait of a Woman", Abstract Figurative/ Portrait Charcoal Drawing Signed and Dated on Paper, 24.50 x 18.50, Late 20th Century, 1969
Col...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
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
BREAKING DOWN THE FORMS
Located in Aventura, FL
Original pastel on paper. Hand signed on front and authenticated on verso by the artist. Framed. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonab...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Pastel
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...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
"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...
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1990s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Handmade Paper
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
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
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...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
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
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Ink, Pen
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
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...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Opel
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: Opel
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic, with silver and gold embellishment
Paper: Wove
Size image: 29.5 x 39.5 ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Un Dios Tres
Located in New York, NY
Martin Palottini
Un Dios Tres, 2017
Graphite on paper
22h x 22w in
55.88h x 55.88w cm
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Untitled Baseball Player
Located in New York, NY
Unknown Artist, "Untitled Baseball Player", Figurative Charcoal Drawing, 17.50 x 23.50 (In Frame 25.50 x 31), Late 20th Century
Colors: Blac...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Charcoal
Freedom Ink On Paper
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Freedom
Butterfly ink watercolor
Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid & exacting mediums of watercolor & ink. He has honed his skill...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
'Abstract Figure, Ebony and Cream'
By G. Distefano
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed bottom right 'G. Distefano' and dated 1965.
An exploration of tonality using airbrush techniques and negative space, sweeping lines define a figure.
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, India Ink
Underworld (2a)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Robbie Cornelissen is one of the leading contemporary draughtsmen in the Netherlands. Cornelissen has established a reputation for the monumental, architectural drawings that he has ...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
"#11 Mountain Oxen Series" Chinese abstract ink on paper
By Quan Handong
Located in Edgartown, MA
Ink on Paper by Chinese artist
The Eisenhauer Gallery has 25 years of experience shipping artwork around the world.
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1990s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
"#10 Mountain Oxen Series" Chinese abstract ink on paper drawing of oxen
By Quan Handong
Located in Edgartown, MA
Ink on Paper by Chinese artist
The Eisenhauer Gallery has experience shipping artwork around the world.
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1990s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
"#9 Mountain Oxen Series" Chinese abstract ink on paper work of figure and oxen
By Quan Handong
Located in Edgartown, MA
Ink on Paper by Chinese artist
The Eisenhauer Gallery has experience shipping artwork around the world.
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1990s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
Feeding the Birds, Colourful 20th Century Oil Painting, Female Artist
By Lena Gurr
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed verso
Image size: 40 1/4 x 29 inches (102.25 x 73.5 cm)
Hand made contemporary style frame
Here we see a smartly dressed woman sat on a park bench, feeding a group of pigeons that surround her. Lena Gurr had a prolific career in which she painted landscape scenes and still lifes but her most noted works are ones such as these, showing everyday city scenes that were laced with social commentary. Indeed, Gurr noted that her artwork always aimed to show "the joys and sorrows of everyday life."
During the course of her career Gurr's compositions retained emotional content as they evolved from a naturalistic to a semi-abstract cubist style. Discussing this trend, she once told an interviewer that as her work tended toward increasing abstraction she believed it nonetheless "must have some kind of human depth to it."
Lena Gurr
Lena Gurr, born in Brooklyn in 1897, studied at the Brooklyn Training School for Teachers, the Educational Alliance Art School, the Arts Students League with John Sloan, and with Maurice Sterne in Paris as well as in Mentone and Nice, France.
Gurr was a member of the Artists League of America, the National Association of Women Artists, the New York Society of Women Artists, the Brooklyn Society of Artists, Audubon Artists and the American Artists Congress. She exhibited in numerous exhibitions held by these organizations as well as the Whitney Studio Club, National Academy of Design, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, and the 1939 World's Fair.
Her work is included in the collections of the Biro-Bidjan Museum, Russia and the Library of Congress, where she has been selected as a "Curator's Choice" in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. In addition to her career as a painter, lithographer and serigrapher, she also taught art in the New York City public school system. She had three solo exhibitions at the ACA Gallery in 1935, 1939 and 1945, and a retrospective in 1963.
Notable among Gurr's colleagues - many of them WPA artists - were Mary Cecil Allen...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Board
"Reclining Woman with Fish" Watercolor painting 11 x 14.5in by Shaker El Maadawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Reclining Woman with Fish" Watercolor painting 11 x 14.5in 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
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Watercolor, Paper
Untitled
By Mark Tobey
Located in New York, NY
Tobey's work resembles Abstract Expressionism and Asian calligraphy.
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1920s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
John Altoon's work crosses a hybrid between abstract and figurative, influenced by Abstract Impressionism. Altoon used color and line movement to connect sociopolitical messages with...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"Arabian Nights" Painting 9" x 12" inch (1997) by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Arabian Nights" Painting 9" x 12" inch (1997) by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Emancipation, 1991
Ink on Paper.
Signed & dated
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Abd Elmalak’s diverse portfolio exemplifies not only his versatility, but perhaps even more importantly his unique ability to blend the conventional and unconventional in thoughtful harmony, which esteemed Modernist and author Hussein Bicar (1913-2002) deemed a “highly intelligent duality between the kinetics of the universe and its stillness.”
The selection of Abd Elmalak’s drawings is reflective of a compositional method that is based on free-flowing and distinct lines and contours that he uses to amalgamate caricature-Esque female figures with monuments and landmarks from his travels, script, animals, and natural elements into interconnected and unified tapestries. His selected paintings explore themes of entrapment, companionship, oppression, emancipation, and faith, which he explores and animate through his demure and virtuous women subjects...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Ink
Sutherland Project X: Cubist Abstract Graphite Drawing with Antique White Frame
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative abstract cubist style drawing in an antique wood frame, inspired by artwork by Graham Sutherland
“Sutherland Project X” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made in...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Graphite
"Nubia" Blue-Toned Abstract Figurative Historical African Landscape
By John Biggers
Located in Houston, TX
Blue and purple abstract figurative original print by Houston, TX artist John T. Biggers and Harvey Johnson. Seen painted as a mural at Texas Southern U...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Digital Pigment
"Head of Christ" Large Black Figurative Enamel Painting of Jesus Christ's Face
Located in Houston, TX
Large abstract figurative painting by Houston, TX artist Frank Dolejska. The painting depicts the face of Jesus Christ in black drawn on a brown board. ...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Enamel
Two-Faced Man - Original handsigned gouache
Located in Paris, FR
Georges Hugnet (1906-1974)
Two-Faced Man
Gouache on paper
Signed in the lower right corner
Dimensions 37,5 x 15,5 cm (15 x 6")
Excellent condition
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1970s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Abstract figurative drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract figurative drawings and watercolors available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative drawings and watercolors created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, green, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Zsolt Berszán, Nino Eliashvili , Antoni Janusz Pastwa, and David Dew Bruner. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract figurative drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 3 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative drawings and watercolors made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $121 and tops out at $90,000, while the average work sells for $1,150.