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Medium: Archival Paper
“The Gesturing Man”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a gesturing old man by the well known American artist Benjamin Stahl. Condition is very good. Two spots of foxing or staining to the left of the figure. Very slight wrinkling of paper. Otherwise, no other issues. Circa 1970. Gallery wide linen matted and framed with a thin silver leaf frame. Overall framed measurements are 19.5 by 20 inches. Provenance: A Nokomis, Florida collector.
Ben Stahl
Biography
Born in Chicago in 1910, Ben Stahl was introduced to the world of art by his grandmother. She took him on visits to the Chicago Art Institute and other galleries beginning when he was six years old and continuing until he was fifteen. After these adventures she would buy him oilcloth, brushes, and paints, and he would create “masterpieces” on the front porch of the family home.
Stahl also read voraciously, which did not translate into academic excellence. However, when he was in seventh grade, he received a scholarship to attend Saturday morning lectures at the Chicago Art Institute. He would spend his Saturday afternoons drawing live animals at the Lincoln Park Zoo and the stuffed variety at the Field Museum, honing his knowledge of animal anatomy.
After high school, Stahl got a job as an apprentice at a commercial art studio. One of the partners, realizing Stahl was ambitious and talented, encouraged him to draw and paint to create a portfolio. It was the contents of this portfolio that landed him a job at Chicago’s most prestigious art studio. During his time there and at other studios, plus a stint as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News, Stahl continued to develop a unique style, influenced by the Impressionists, which he felt would carry the mood and the emotional impact of commercial illustrations.
Ironically, Stahl’s first assignment for The Saturday Evening Post was to illustrate a sea story – this for an artist who had never seen either the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans! The editors liked his work, and there followed four years of marine-themed assignments. Eventually Stahl asked for a change, so his next assignment was set in the desert – which he had also never seen.
He was being noticed, however, and eventually he decided to move to New York and become a freelance illustrator. He illustrated over 750 stories for the Post along with a number of other magazines, and he continued to explore new approaches in his easel painting.
In 1951, Stahl was commissioned to paint "The 14 Stations of the Cross...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Accabonac Harbor, East Hampton”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of Accabonac Harbor in East Hampton, Long Island by the regional artist Susan Deutscher. Signed lower left. Circa 1985. Condition is excellent. Professionally matted and framed in a thin natural birch wood frame. Overall framed measurements are 18 by 24...
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1980s Post-Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$875 Sale Price
30% Off
Snowflakes 154 Inward Harmony, Mandala Drawing, Nature, Ram Head, OM, Aries
Located in Kent, CT
The meticulously rendered symbol for OM and the Ram's head are prominent features of this mandala. In many ancient societies, the ram was a long held symbol of: determination, action...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
contemporary figurative black and white charcoal drawing pop art interior female
Located in New York, NY
This is a hand drawn original artwork on heavyweight paper by internet sensation mad charcoal
He is represented by Krause Gallery NYC
Ships rolled in a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Laid Back, Colorful Geometric Abstract Watercolor with Layers and Vivid Shapes
Located in New York, NY
This vibrant watercolor by Sarah Brenneman features an intricate composition of layered, angular forms that seem to recede into a portal-like space. Using bold, saturated colors—rang...
Category
2010s Abstract Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Pencil
Soul Flowers 60 Eternal City, Spiral, Staircase, Black and White Flower Pattern
Located in Kent, CT
A surreal scene with spirals, floral shapes and meticulously rendered black and white patterns. This drawing is entirely hand-drawn using only pen and paper.
Framed in a solid black...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Pen
1940's California Hills Landscape
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Substantial and period mid-century modern American Scene watercolor of the Oakland, California countryside by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999), 1944. Signed lower right "Earl Loran...
Category
1940s American Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
$3,250 Sale Price
35% Off
Lake Ling
Located in New York, NY
Sandy Litchfield’s "Lake Ling" reflects her signature approach of transforming landscapes into lyrical, abstracted visions. Drawing from memory, walking, and direct observation, Litc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
“Untitled #3”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper by the California artist, Edward Darrell Crisp. Signed in pencil lower right margin. Dated in pencil lower left m...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
T #6- intricate beige 3D abstract aerial landscape pulled paper fiber drawing
Located in New York, NY
Finesse and delicateness are what best characterize Antonin Anzil’s artistic practice. Using a sharp tool to carefully pull the fiber of the paper from the front, the artist gives bi...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
Soul Flowers 47 Floating Land, Forest Life, Tree, Roots, Windows Black and White
Located in Kent, CT
Through a window, a small outlined figure can be seen walking up a staircase in a meticulously rendered tree with tiny leaves and windows and doorway portals peeking out from the bra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Pen
Bakery
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Bakery, 2022' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 24 x 18 inches and 33 x 27 inches professionally fra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. This one is influenced by California Abstract Expressionist artist Sam Francis. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Soul Flowers 61 The Plan, Spiral, Staircase, Black and White Flower Pattern
Located in Kent, CT
A surreal scene with spirals, floral shapes and meticulously rendered black and white patterns. This drawing is entirely hand-drawn using only pen and paper.
Framed in a solid black...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Pen
“A Peruvian Village”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original, vibrant watercolor on archival paper of a quaint Peruvian village nestled in the foothills of a large mountain. Two figures, a woman and young child are seen walking down t...
Category
1990s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
Prussian Blue Water
Located in New York, NY
Prussian Blue Water is painted on special Japanese paper I purchased in Tokyo on a trip last year sponsored by The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. From that t...
Category
2010s Abstract Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Watercolor Painting American Modern Painting Bridge Harbor Female Artist 1950
Located in Buffalo, NY
Dorothy Rivo
Untitled (Bridge Tower), c. 1960s–70s
Acrylic on paper, floated in a mat
Framed dimensions: 30 in. H × 24 in. W
Contemporary walnut or black wood frame with white archiv...
Category
1940s American Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Acrylic
Dead King 25 [15th Century Sapa Inca]
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This wall-hanging artwork titled "Dead King 25 [15th Century Sapa Inca]" is an original artwork by Kate Glasheen made of pen and ink on archival paper. This ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Ink, Pen
![Dead King 25 [15th Century Sapa Inca]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_1882/a_74138821611432839505/Dead_King_25_15th_Century_Sapa_Inca_web_master.jpg?width=240 "sapa inca drawing")
Animal Capers (Black Surrealist Artist)
By Roland Ayers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Surrealist proto-Afropunk drawing by African-American artist, Roland Ayers (1932-2014).
Animal Capers, ca. 1970 .
Ink on illustration board, image measures 20 inches. inches; illustration panel measures 21.5 inches. Unsigned.
Minor staining evident in detail photos
Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only child of Alice and Lorenzo Ayers, and grew up in the Germantown district of Philadelphia. Ayers served in the US Army (stationed in Germany) before studying at the Philadelphia College of Art (currently University of the Arts). He graduated with a BFA in Art Education, 1954. He traveled Europe 1966-67, spending time in Amsterdam and Greece in particular. During this period, he drifted away from painting to focus on linear figurative drawings of a surreal nature. His return home inaugurated the artist’s most prolific and inspired period (1968-1975). Shorty before his second major trip abroad in 1971-72 to West Africa, Ayers began to focus on African themes, and African American figures populated his work almost exclusively.
In spite of Ayers’ travel and exploration of the world, he gravitated back to his beloved Germantown, a place he endowed with mythological qualities in his work and literature. His auto-biographical writing focuses on the importance of place during his childhood. Ayers’ journals meticulously document the ethnic and cultural make-up of Germantown, and tell a compelling story of class marginalization that brought together poor families despite racial differences. The distinctive look and design of Germantown inform Ayers’ visual vocabulary. It is a setting with distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and haunting natural beauty. These characteristics are translated and recur in the artist’s imagery.
During his childhood, one of the only books in the Ayers household was an illustrated Bible. The images within had a profound effect on the themes and subjects that would appear in his adult work. Figures in an Ayers’ drawing often seem trapped in a narrative of loss and redemption. Powerful women loom large in the drawings: they suggest the female role models his journals record in early life. The drawings can sometimes convey a strong sense of conflict, and at other times, harmony. Nature and architecture seem to have an antagonistic relationship that is, ironically, symbiotic.
A critical turning point in the artist’s career came in 1971 when he was included in the extremely controversial Whitney Museum show, Contemporary Black Artists in America. The exhibition gave Ayers an international audience and served as a calling card for introductions he would soon make in Europe.
Ayers is a particularly compelling figure in a period when black artists struggled with the idea of authenticity. A questioned often asked was “Is your work too black, or not black enough?” Abstractionists were considered by some peers to be sell-outs, frauds or worse. Figurative* work was accused of being either sentimental or politically radical depending on the critical source. Ayers made the choice early on to be a figurative artist, but considered his work devoid of political content.
Organizations such as Chicago’ s Afri-Cobra in the late 1960‘s asserted that the only true black art of any relevance must depict the black man and woman...
Category
1970s Surrealist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
"Truer Than True" ballpoint pen, figurative portrait
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Original drawing by Lauren Rinaldi float mounted in the pictured simple white frame measuring 17in x 14in.
Lauren Rinaldi works using unbiased portraits of women’s bodies as a veh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen, Archival Paper, Graphite, Oil Pastel
Tree
Located in New York, NY
Olive trees and olive groves are often the main subject of Tzannes paintings.
An American painter of Greek origins, Tzannes visited the Greek island of Kythera in his twenties. Since that time, the island has become the major reference of his creativity. The choice of using black and white to represent this landscape gives the mighty hundred-years old olive trees a monumental presence. The viewer is drawn into the timeless, spiritual quality of the Greek landscape. Despite the absence of color, Tzannes' mastery of drawing creates a tangible effect of the Greek light...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Monotype
Para Celso, Nude drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Para Celso, 1984 by Enrique Grau
Graphite on paper
Image size: 23 in H x 18 in W
Signed in the lower right corner. Great condition with flaws.
Provenance...
Category
1980s Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Shape 26 (2019) - Abstract shape, minimalist gestural, black & white on paper
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Shape 26 (2019) by Ryan Park of Shapes Only
Abstract, nonobjective, gestural, geometric art, acrylic on 300GSM archival paper. Abstract shape innovated by the artist. Neutral pal...
Category
2010s Abstract Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Figure 8s.1- abstract geometric black and white ink drawing on paper
By Dana Piazza
Located in New York, NY
Dana Piazza's creates abstract black and white drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highl...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Many Wonderful, Colorful Geometric Abstraction with Bold Overlapping Shapes
Located in New York, NY
This vibrant watercolor by Sarah Brenneman features bold, interlocking geometric forms in bright hues of yellow, red, blue, green, and pink, all outlined with a sense of sculptural d...
Category
2010s Abstract Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Pencil
Faded
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Faded" is an original oil pastel, ballpoint pen, and graphite on arches paper work by Lauren Rinaldi. This piece ships float-mounted in the pictured white frame. The paper measure...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper, Ballpoint Pen, Graphite
Los Cuatro Elementos De La Naturaleza (The Four Elements of Nature)
Located in Atlanta, GA
Porcelain (Edition is limited to sixty numbered pieces plus six artist’s proofs numbered EA; measures 17” x 10.25”). This one is numbered 17/60.
“Los Cuatro Elementos De La Natur...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
FAMILY AT THE BEACH
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Watercolor on paper, signed in the lower right corner, signed verso, in decorative frame, overall 21" x 25".
Category
1950s Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$1,100 Sale Price
26% Off
'Tall Tulips' bespoke watercolor
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Tall Tulips' original watercolor painted in 2021 in subtle shades of pink with hints of yellow in a clear blue vase from Cleveland-born and educated Gary Bukovnik who has lived in California for over 40 years. Bukovnik’s art conveys a monumental quality. Primarily using the mediums of watercolor, monotype, and lithograph, Bukovnik fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations, creating floral images of great depth and intensity.
The paper is 40 x 20 inches. Ships flat and unframed. Although professional framing is available upon request. This is a stunning and wonderful work of art from Gary Bukovnik.
In 2003 and 2005, the American Academy in Rome invited Bukovnik to
attend the academy as a Visiting Artist and provided him with a room and studio for six weeks. In 2001, he was selected to create a poster for the prestigious List Collection, which creates posters to commemorate programs at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. Lincoln Center past contributors have included Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Murray, and Donald Sultan.
Solo exhibitions include Caldwell Snyder Gallery in San Francisco and in St.
Helena, CA; Trajan Gallery in Carmel, CA; Campton Gallery in New York City; Concept Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA; Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery and A.C.T. Gallery in San Francisco, the Bonfoey Gallery in Cleveland and the Erickson Fine Art Gallery in Healdsburg. Other recent exhibitions have been organized by the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Paula Brown Gallery, Toledo, Neuhoff Gallery, New York; Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis; Irving Galleries, Palm Beach; Galerie Kutter, Luxembourg; the Southern Alleghenies.
Museum of Art, Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Chin Show Cultural Center, Taipei; Takashimaya, Tokyo; the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; and Brevard Museum of Art, Melbourne, Florida. Among the artwork displayed at the Brevard Museum of Art was a tapestry based on a Bukovnik watercolor and hand-woven in Aubusson, France by Atelier Raymond Picaud, weavers since the eventeenth century. Atelier Raymond Picaud has been at the forefront of progressive tapestry firms since the 1930s, focusing on images of modern artists such as Alexander Calder, Georges Braque, and Helen Frankenthaler.
Bukovnik’s watercolors and monotypes are the subject of Flowers: Gary Bukovnik Watercolors & Monotypes, published by Harry N. Abrams, New York. This book includes a foreword by James J. White, curator at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation; an interview with the artist
by Robert Flynn Johnson, curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and an essay about Bukovnik and the depiction of flowers in art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
“Woman in Blue”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an original watercolor and gouache fashion illustration by the world renowned fashion artist, Kenneth Paul Block. Presently unframed. Signed with initi...
Category
1960s American Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Sweet Gum (Contemporary Still Life, Graphic Hand-Painted Leaf on Paper)
By Joy Taylor
Located in Hudson, NY
"Sweet Gum" painted by Joy Taylor in 2022
28 x 22 inches, 37 x 29 inches framed
acrylic on paper
Custom Frame with White Wood Molding, Window Mat and Tru Vu AR Glass
Joy Taylor’s paintings transform botany into a personal vision. Her recent series on canvas, playfully titled the “Boo-K” paintings, defy traditional still life depictions that often seek to tame and order the objects of the world. On the contrary, Taylor’s subjects are never still. Her floral forms have the crisp, clean qualities of cut paper; sharp, decisive lines slice through blocks of pure pigment to create defined edges of leaves, vines and blossoms. The colors are constructed as well as the form. Her exuberant palette of oranges, blues, magenta and green echo the complimentary colors favored by the Fauvists. Color is an element in and of itself in her work. This balance of sparkling color and form is irrepressible, at times disconcerting and even dangerous in its boldness.
In a series of original paintings on paper, Joy pairs down the form by focusing on a single bloom or leaf.
As a specimen under a microscope, Taylor dives into the crevices and details of each leaflet on this bright green Sweet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee and Abstract Expressionist master Sam Francis.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Art dealerd Jeffrey Deitch Protected by His Angels Warhol and Basquiat
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Category
2010s Pop Art Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper
The wedding of Teresa Martini and John Oliver in Rome in 1929. Watercolor
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. This one bears the influence of Sam Francis. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre...
Category
20th Century American Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Fragment, Drawing, Original Art Ready to Hang By Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
i remember Family House
Title: Fragment
Artist: Marilina Marchica
Dimensions:
Artwork: 72x56 cm
Frame:43x60 cm
Description:
This is an original, non-reproducible piece by Marilina M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal
$1,495 Sale Price
20% Off
'Lily in Charcoal no.2' abstract expressionism photography edition of 10
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Lily in Charcoal no.2' 2023
From raw energy to sublime. 'Lily in Charcoal No.2' is an expression piece combining an abstract charcoal drawing with a live lily emerging from a gash....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Untitled Blue (Gestural Abstract Painting on Paper in Richly Pigmented Color)
By Bruce Murphy
Located in Hudson, NY
Gestural abstract expressionist painting on canvas in colorful hues blue, pink, and green on a silver background
"Untitled Blue", 2022 by Bruce Murphy
40.5 x 40.5 inches, enamel pai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Enamel
“Abstract Face”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a well executed original watercolor and gouache abstract on archival paper by the New Hope, Pennsylvania artist, Lloyd Ney. Ney was considered to be a...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
$1,920 Sale Price
20% Off
Witch Hunt Inner Guts
Located in Columbia, MO
Metra Mitchell holds a BFA in Painting and minor in Art History from Western Kentucky University and an MFA in Painting from Fontbonne University. She h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Wax Crayon
“Untitled #1”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper by the California artist, Edward Darrell Crisp. Signed by the artist in pencil lower right margin. Dated in penci...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
Snowflakes 125 Oneness, Planets, Crescent Moon, Patterns Mandala Pencil Drawing
Located in Kent, CT
A meticulously detailed mandala containing tiny vignettes of celestial bodies, planets and miniature landscapes with endless horizons is depicted in carefully applied graphite on pap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
'Lilly in Charcoal' abstract expressionism photography edition of 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Lilly in Charcoal' 2023
Abstract expressionism black and white photography of Charcoal abstract drawing and Lilly.
Photograph shot using mid-century large format film camera Linhof...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Citation - black, white, abstracted figurative, brushed ink on paper
By Andrew Lui
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Brushed ink in grey and black leads the eye up the picture plane in this 55-inch tall painting on paper. The intense movement suggestive of rearing horses in this painterly work is in keeping with Lui's theme of pilgrimage in which he explores the idea of "self-inflicted happiness" as a deliberate response to the melancholy and complexity of life. This painting is floated and framed. Framed Size: 60 × 35 inches
Born in Guangzhou, China, Lui participated in the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a member of the Red Guard 1968-70 and then escaped to Hong Kong by swimming. Making his way to Toronto he studied at the Ontario College of Art and became a citizen in the late 1970s. He continued studies in the UK, and Italy where he was drawn to the dynamic Uccello's Battle of San Romano...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Fragment, Drawing, Original Art Ready to Hang By Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
i remember Family House
Title: Fragment
Artist: Marilina Marchica
Dimensions:
Artwork: 72x56 cm
Frame:43x60 cm
Description:
This is an original, non-reproducible piece by Marilina M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
$1,495 Sale Price
20% Off
Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at Tiffany's. Hollywood actress and Fashion Icon
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
02H20: blue & white abstract expressionism painting/drawing on paper, framed
By Paula Cahill
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an abstract framed work on paper with blue and white gestural, expressive lines. The work itself measures 10" x 13" and is framed with white mat and simple, contemporary whit...
Category
2010s Abstract Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
Undulating Flowering Ovum
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Undulating Flowering Ovum" by Hunter Stabler is an original ink and graphite on hand-cut paper mounted to plexiglass piece of artwork. The piece ships in the pictured wood frame an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
"Dragonfly Mother" (2023) By Babs Webb and Timothy Von Rueden
Located in Denver, CO
"Dragonfly Mother" is a beautiful collaboration between fantasy masters Babs Webb and Timothy Von Rueden, done with graphite on mixed media paper, and measuring at 14 x 11 in. in its...
Category
2010s Surrealist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Graphite
'Lily in Charcoal no.3' abstract expressionism photography edition of 10
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Lily in Charcoal no.3' 2023
From raw energy to sublime. 'Lily in Charcoal No.3' is an expression piece combining an abstract charcoal drawing with a live lily emerging from a gash....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
'Lily in Charcoal' abstract expressionism photography edition of 10
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
'Lily in Charcoal' 2023
From raw energy to sublime. 'Lily in Charcoal' is an expression piece combining an abstract charcoal drawing with a live lily...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Photographic Film, Charcoal, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
“Cape Cod Dunes”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a very finely executed watercolor by the New England artist, John Cuthbert Hare of the dunes of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Condit...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Lisa Day Night
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Kim Frohsin, Third generation Bay Area Figurative artist began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was included with Nathan Olivera, Manuel Neri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil, Acrylic, Gouache
“1960’s Style”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an original mixed media fashion illustration by the world renowned fashion artist, Kenneth Paul Block. Signed with initials bottom right. Presently unf...
Category
1960s American Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
$1,440 Sale Price
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“Showgirl”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a well executed mixed media painting composed of India ink and watercolor wash of a beautiful showgirl Signed lower left and dated 1980. Condition is excellent. Recently professionally re matted and housed in it original brass thin gallery frame. Overall framed measurements are 23 by 20 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector.
As a child, growing up in the '30s and '40s, Earl Linderman was fascinated by the comic strips and Saturday matinees. He would spend countless hours drawing these characters, forming the foundation of his future as an artist of extraordinary imagination and execution. By the time he was in high school, Linderman was creating his own art, featuring heroes involved in adventurous dramas. Things have not changed much for the man who, since the early '70s, has been exciting art aficionados with his series, The True and Incredible Adventures of Doktor Thrill...
Category
1980s Post-Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
$960 Sale Price
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“Untitled #4”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper by the California artist, Edward Darrell Crisp. Signed in pencil lower right margin. Dated in pencil lower left m...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
Marie Reaches
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Kim Frohsin, Third generation Bay Area Figurative artist began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil
Untitled (F221, G3) - soft pastel color blue yellow abstract geometric drawing
By David Brody
Located in New York, NY
DAVID BRODY
Untitled (F221, G3), 2000
16.8 x 21.75 inches; framed in off white wood frame 20.1 x 25.1 inches
graphite and colored pencil on isometric graph paper
pencil signed and da...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
“Cape Neddick Light”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of the Cape Neddick Lighthouse in York, Maine. Signed lower right. Circa 1950. Condition is very good. Several tiny spots of foxing. The wa...
Category
1950s Academic Archival Paper Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
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Find a wide variety of authentic Archival Paper drawings and watercolor paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Ian Hornak, Renato Garza Cervera, Howard Tangye, and Robbie Cornelissen. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Archival Paper drawings and watercolor paintings, so small editions measuring 8 inches across are also available Prices for drawings and watercolor paintings 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 $700 and tops out at $1,200, while the average work can sell for $1,200.
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