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Medium: Oil Crayon
Colorful painting on paper, Unique piece, Abstract Expressionist
Located in Carballo, ES
TUSET (1997, A Coruña, España)
Mixed media painting on paper
Ready to frame
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
Includes certificate of authenticity
2021
65 x 50 cm.
It belongs to the ser...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil
Preliminary drawing for the sculpture Catacombs
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary drawing for the sculpture Catacombs
Black crayon on paper, 1971
Signed and dated lower right (see photos)
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Michael and Alan Lipton (sons)
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1970s Abstract Geometric Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
Bleu Océanique, Oil Pastel, Impressionist French seascape, Landscape
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Subject : Bleu Océanique (Title - FR) / Ocean Blue (Title - EN)
Work : Original Drawing, Handmade artwork and Unique Work.
Medium : Oil Pastel and Oil pencils on Hahnemühle Fine Art ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper, Oil Crayon
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
Litho crayons on illustrator’s board, c. 1932
Signed: Adolf Dehn (VED) lower right corner (signed by Virginia Dehn, the artist’s widow)
Tilted along the upper edge of the recto in pencil by the artist
Verso inscriptions: “VF 3168.D” in a circle, also annotated in red pencil “32” in a circle and “699
Provenance:
Mary Ryan Gallery, exhibition entitled Adolf Dehn Lithographs, 1927-1940, Nov. 16 to Dec. 12, 1982. The original exhibition notice us affixed to the backing board of the frame
Note: A drawing intended or used in the publication Vanity Fair, for whom Dehn worked in the mid 1920’s to the 1930’s.
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
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1930s American Modern Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
At the Shore
Located in Atlanta, GA
"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment.
A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain."
--Thaddeus Radell
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Israeli Judaica Original Painting King David and Angel Polish Artist Arie Dubi
Located in Surfside, FL
Dubi Arie (born Poland, 1939)
"A Song in the Garden"
Original mixed media on paper painting,
Hand signed and dated lower left.
This piece depicts people dancing, including a King ...
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20th Century Post-Modern Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Les Andelys in the Seine Valley France Pastel Art by 20th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Les Andelys in the Seine Valley France Landscape Pastel Art. A fine example of the beautiful work of British 20th Century Artist, Lionel Aggett (1938-2009). Signed front and rear, fr...
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1990s Realist Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Board
Expressionist Color Drawing Cobalt Glass Vintage Frame Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink and pastel crayon drawing of flowers in vase.
Framed in a vintage cobalt blue glass original frame
Hand signed and dated
Framed it measures 13.5 X 10.5
The actual ...
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1950s Expressionist Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel, Ink
Study for Scissors Jack Series, colored ink drawing hand signed geometric framed
By Larry Zox
Located in New York, NY
Larry Zox
Study for Scissors Jack Series, 1965
Mixed media and colored ink drawing on draft paper
Hand signed and dated on lower right recto (front). Bears Forager House Collection s...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Ink, Color Pencil
David Kimball Anderson Large Oil Stick Pastel Abstract Flowers Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
Large bright vivid drawing done in oil crayon or oil pastel. Abstract floral drawing.
David Kimball Anderson’s work is bold and graceful, respectful and spiritual. A practicing Bud...
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1970s Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel
Dream
Located in Atlanta, GA
"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment.
A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain."
--Thaddeus Radell
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Dancing. Contemporary Mixed Media on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela brings vibrant immediacy to her figurative paintings. She uses a depth of colour and bright outlines of her figures to emphasize shape and contours. In all her works Angela gi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil
Fenêtre sur lac V6. Original Pastel. Colorful Vintage Interior, Contemporary art
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Subject : Fenêtre sur lac - Variation VI (Title - FR)
This captivating work depicts an interior scene that opens onto an enchanting landscape, creating a harmonious juxtaposition be...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Pastel, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Through The Landscape Of Another World, Part C
By NTEL
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Collage, oil stick, vinyl, enamel, spray paint and glass
Collage or other Work on Paper
Hand-signed by artist
Frame: Included
This work includes a certificate of authenticity.
Category
2010s Street Art Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Glass, Adhesive, Oil Crayon, Acrylic, Magazine Paper
Gardens & Galaxies: Blue Flower 24"x42" bright colors, abstract, nature
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Medium: Oil stick, wax pencil, graphite, archival pigment print on 100% Hahnemuhle cotton-rag paper.
PLEASE NOTE ACTUAL Paper Size: 24” h x 42” w
Image Size: 20” x 37” includes a 2”...
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2010s New Media Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Wax, Archival Paper, Graphite, Archival Pigment
Loin des villes, Oil Pastel, Seaside, Beach, Trees, Clouds
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Subject : Loin des villes (Title - FR) / Far from Cities (Title - EN)
Work : Original Handmade artwork, Unique Work.
Medium : Oil Pastel and Oil pencils on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel
"American Bald Eagle Flying Through Silver Clouds Between..." by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"American Bald Eagle Flying Through Silver Clouds Between Heaven and Earth" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett, signed on the lower left center. It incorporates watercolor, ink, iridescent acrylic, rubber stamps, collage, and oil pencil. This piece depicts a surrealist landscape. A cow with an cowl perched on its back stands in the lower left corner, and tracks lead away from it across the bottom of the picture. A small turtle approaches a pond in the lower right. In the center register of the image, two leaves have been collaged into an abstractly-drawn forest. The eagle of the title is shown in several stages of its flight through the blue and yellow sky.
Art size: 7 15/16" x 9 1/2"
Frame size: 15 1/4" x 16 1/8"
David Barnett, an artist, collector, appraiser and gallerist has been passionate about art from the early age of five. David’s career as an art dealer began at age nineteen when, as a fine arts student, he sponsored an exhibition of work by fellow student artists. In 1966, he opened his first gallery in a converted basement apartment at Wisconsin Avenue and 21st Street. David’s talents for recognizing undervalued artists and for meeting the needs of art lovers, art collectors and artists have created a vibrant, flourishing gallery and collection of over 6,000 works of art.
David was born and raised in Wisconsin. He has been painting in watercolors, acrylics, oil pastels as well as fine art photography. David has more than 10 different series he has developed over the years. They include Abstract, Surrealism, Morph Dog, Up North Birch Bark, Impressions of Mexico City, Southwest, Fireworks, Famous Artist Paying Homage and Garden Panorama. Influential artists include Vermeer, Miro, Kandinsky, Chagall, Nolde and Klee. David has been featured in many magazines, newspapers and public television programs regarding his beautiful gallery, collection and knowledge and passion of fine art. David also has work in the permanent collection Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona.
Exhibits
“Morph Dog Series”, David Barnett Gallery, 1996
“Renewal", Art Escape Gallery, Thiensville, WI, 2003
“Recent Watercolors", David Barnett Gallery, 2003,
Lora D. Art Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2004
“Group Show”, Broden Gallery Ltd., Madison, WI, May-June 2004
"Homage to Kandinsky", David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2014
Collections Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Private collections throughout the United States and around the world including collections in Wisconsin, Maryland, New York, Washington D.C., Arizona, Illinois, Florida, Kentucky. International collections in Brazil, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Articles Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Barnett Gives His Work an Exhibit" by James Auer, November 1996 Exclusively Yours...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Other Medium
Ascendent Dreams, Abstract Expressionist, Color Crayon, Childlike Drawing, Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a beautiful expressionist style drawing by Juanjo Saez. Juanjo's pictorial work is an exploration of color, texture, and movement, creating vibrant compositions that capture ...
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2010s Expressionist Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon
Untitled (magenta and orange)
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon
Asleep. Contemporary Mixed Media on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela brings vibrant immediacy to her figurative paintings. She uses a depth of colour and bright outlines of her figures to emphasize shape and contours. In all her works Angela gi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Karagoto of the Chojiya, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga Series I (Nº1)
Title: Karagoto of The Chojiya
Head and bust portrait of the beautiful courtesan Karagoto, of the Chojiya House, who appears looking to her left while drying her right ear with the sleeve of her yukata (a fine summer garment, normally made of cotton that was normally used after bathing). The wide sleeve falls from her ear covering her right breast and leaving the left one uncovered.
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
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2010s Edo Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Slumber. Contemporary Mixed Media on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela brings vibrant immediacy to her figurative paintings. She uses a depth of colour and bright outlines of her figures to emphasize shape and contours. In all her works Angela gi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil
Nude Woman Drying Her Hair
Located in London, GB
'Nude Woman Drying Her Hair', crayon and pencil on fine paper (1967), by Raymond Debiève (1931 - 2011). A shapely woman has just finished bathing and is drying her hair in the privac...
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1960s Modern Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Leftovers No. 3
Located in Columbia, MO
Grace Ramsey (American, b. 1985)
Grace Ramsey is a self-taught painter based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before establishing herself as a visual artist, she spent over a decade as ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
Leftovers No. 2
Located in Columbia, MO
Grace Ramsey (American, b. 1985)
Grace Ramsey is a self-taught painter based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before establishing herself as a visual artist, she spent over a decade as ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
Abstract composition - acrylic on paper in beige, gray, pink salmon color, 2023
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with acrylic in beige, pink salmon and grey color on a paper. Each work is 24 by 18 inches in size, framed (gold).
Mila Akopova is New Y...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
Leftovers No. 4
Located in Columbia, MO
Grace Ramsey (American, b. 1985)
Grace Ramsey is a self-taught painter based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before establishing herself as a visual artist, she spent over a decade as ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
Original LARGE flower still life English pastel painting by BERNARD MYERS
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Bernard Myers (1925-2007) British
TITLE: "Still Life Of Chrysanthemums"
MEDIUM: pastel on paper
SIZE: 92cm x 75cm inc frame
CONDITION: excellent
NOTES: Painter, printmake...
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Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Pastel
Leftovers No. 5
Located in Columbia, MO
Grace Ramsey (American, b. 1985)
Grace Ramsey is a self-taught painter based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before establishing herself as a visual artist, she spent over a decade as ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
Plage des Jaunais, Original Drawing Landscape, Sea Scape, French coast
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Subject : Plage des Jaunais (Title - FR)
Work : New Original Drawing, Handmade artwork and Unique Work.
Medium : Oil pencils on archival Fine Art paper. The work has been treated w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Archival Paper
Sleeping Man. Contemporary Mixed Media on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela brings vibrant immediacy to her figurative paintings. She uses a depth of colour and bright outlines of her figures to emphasize shape and contours. In all her works Angela gi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil
Orange Woman. Contemporary Mixed Media on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela brings vibrant immediacy to her figurative paintings. She uses a depth of colour and bright outlines of her figures to emphasize shape and contours. In all her works Angela gi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil
The Apartment Building /// Contemporary Drawing City Scene Scape Black and White
By Dan May
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-)
Title: "The Apartment Building"
*Signed by May lower left and dated lower right
Year: 2001
Medium: Original Oil Pastel ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Screen, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel
Lady In Red. Contemporary Mixed Media on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela brings vibrant immediacy to her figurative paintings. She uses a depth of colour and bright outlines of her figures to emphasize shape and contours. In all her works Angela gi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil
Expressionist Ink, Pastel, Crayon Drawing Jewish American Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink and pastel crayon drawing of beans (carobs, flowers?) in pods
Hand signed.
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual wo...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel, Ink
Earthslide 565
By Susan Moss
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil and oil crayon on paper.
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Oil
$8,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Through The Landscape Of Another World, Part D
By NTEL
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Collage, oil stick, vinyl, enamel, spray paint and glass
Collage or other Work on Paper
Hand-signed by artist
Frame: Included
This work includes a certificate of authenticity.
Category
2010s Street Art Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Glass, Adhesive, Oil Crayon, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Magazine Paper
Israeli Judaica Original Painting "The Lovers" in Garden Polish Artist Arie Dubi
Located in Surfside, FL
Dubi Arie (born Poland, 1939)
"The Lovers"
Image: 11 3/4" x 10"
Original mixed media on paper painting,
Hand signed and dated lower right and signed and titled on reverse. depictin...
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20th Century Post-Modern Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Orange Woman. Contemporary Mixed Media on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela brings vibrant immediacy to her figurative paintings. She uses a depth of colour and bright outlines of her figures to emphasize shape and contours. In all her works Angela gi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil
Man In Sarong. Contemporary Mixed Media on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela brings vibrant immediacy to her figurative paintings. She uses a depth of colour and bright outlines of her figures to emphasize shape and contours. In all her works Angela gi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil
Chorus Line
By Sam Spanier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chorus Line
Oil pastel on paper, c. 1960's
Signed (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Estate of the artist (Estate No. 745)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 5 3/4 x 4 inches
Sam Spanier (1925-2008)
Born in Brooklyn New York, Sam Spanier studied painting with Hans Hofmann (1949–50) and also at the Taos Valley Art School (1951). His formative years as a working artist were spent in Paris (1951–52), where he also became involved with the work of G. I. Gurdjieff, through his disciple, Mme. Jeanne de Salzmann.
By 1953, Spanier’s work had already begun to meet with critical acclaim. That year, he had his first solo gallery show, and was selected by Milton Avery and Hans Hofmann to receive the prestigious Lorian Fund Award. His second solo exhibition, in 1955, was curated by renowned museum director, Gordon Washburn. Spanier’s early work was reviewed by Dore Ashton, Donald Judd, Fairfield Porter, Stuart Preston, and Irving Sandler, among other significant critics of the period.
Spanier’s spiritual path increasingly became the central focus of both his life and his art. In 1960, he was introduced to the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, which led to visits to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, in 1962 and 1964, during which he was inspired to leave New York City and found Matagiri (in 1968)—a spiritual center in Woodstock, New York—with his lifelong partner, Eric Hughes. The work he embarked upon there bifurcates his life as an artist, separating him from New York’s art world, and radically altering the trajectory of his career. From that point forward, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to consider his artistic endeavor apart from the life of dedication he had undertaken, and to which he remained committed.
As early as 1954, Dore Ashton had recognized in Sam Spanier a “haptic visionary;” in 1960, Irving Sandler wrote that the people in Spanier’s paintings “seem to have witnessed some transfiguring event.” In his later paintings—usually worked in oil pastel on panel or paper—made during intermittent creative periods, from the mid-1970s to the final years of his life, the artist’s inner life remains always apparent in his subject matter; and from the portraits and abstract Buddha-like figures and heads, to the fantasy landscapes, the paintings are redolent with a rich intensity of color and light that can only be described as inspired.
Sam Spanier’s works are in the collections of the Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum. He received the Woodstock Artists Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Urban Gallery, New York (1954, 1955, 1956); Wittenborn Gallery, New York (1958); Gallery Mayer, New York (1958, 1959, 1960); Unison Gallery, New Paltz (1986, 1995, 2009); Limner Gallery, New York (1988); Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, New York (1999).
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Salon des Comparaisons, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France (1952); October Exhibition of Oil Paintings, New York City Center Gallery, New York (1954); Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris, Centre Culturel de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France (1954); Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1955); Les Plus Mauvais Tableaux, Galerie Prismes, Paris (1955);
Première Exposition Internationale de l’Art Plastique Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (1956); Recent Paintings USA: The Figure, The Museum of Modern Art (1960); Winter’s Work, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1985); Juried Group Show, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1986); Woodstock Artists, Self-Portraits, Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, Woodstock, New York (1988); Portraits, Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, New York (2003); The World We Live In, Upstate Art, Phoenicia, New York (2003); Show of Heads, Limner Gallery, Phoenicia, New York (2004).
Selected Writings on the Artist:
Dore Ashton, “Sam Spanier,” Art Digest (May 1, 1954) and “Sam Spanier,” The New York Times (March 16, 1960); Cassia Berman, “Sam Spanier: A Divine Calling,” Woodstock Times (February 7, 2008); Lawrence Campbell, “Sam Spanier: Exhibition of Paintings at Urban Gallery,” Art News (April 1, 1954); Sam Feinstein...
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1960s Abstract Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
"Drawing of Fire" - Figurative oil drawing on paper
Located in East Quogue, NY
"Drawing on Fire" by Paul Sierra, Oil stick on paper. Sold with frame. Frame size: 22 x 14 inches.
Hand-signed by the artist. Signature and title on lower front right corner of paper.
At sixteen, Havana-born Paul Sierra moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Art Institute. Although a longtime resident of the Windy City, Sierra's tropical palette is based on childhood memories of Cuba. His trademark vibrant colors provide what has been called a "cultural corridor" between his turbulent Cuban heritage and his adopted country.
Sierra has had more than sixty solo exhibitions in the USA. His work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Contemporary Art and Mary and Leigh Block...
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1990s Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon
$680 Sale Price
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Seated Man. Contemporary Mixed Media on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela brings vibrant immediacy to her figurative paintings. She uses a depth of colour and bright outlines of her figures to emphasize shape and contours. In all her works Angela gi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil
Remembering Florida. Unique signed abstract mixed media painting on paper Framed
Located in New York, NY
David Humphrey
Remembering Florida, 1992
Oil Stick, Enamel on Handmade Paper (Contemporary Art Center of Cincinnati label verso of frame)
Signed on the back
29 × 43 1/2 × 1 inches
Unframed
This is an abstract, mixed media work by David Humphrey. It has a "Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati" label on the verso.
In a vintage mahogany box...
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1990s Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Oil
Earthslide 528
By Susan Moss
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil and oil crayon on paper.
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Oil
$6,880 Sale Price
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Men Working on Kibbutz Palestine, Israeli Judaica Pastel Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
From The British mandate Pre State of Israel Palestine Period.
Eliahu Sigad (Eliyahu Sigard), painter, born 1901, Lithuania. Founder of Israeli Painters' Association. Educated in Eur...
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1940s Fauvist Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel
Drawings from Mt Gretna, III
Located in Atlanta, GA
"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment.
A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Drawings from Mt Gretna XXIX
Located in Atlanta, GA
"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment.
A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain."
--Thaddeus Radell
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2010s Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Prodigal Son (VIII)
Located in Atlanta, GA
"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment.
A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Next Door Neighbor
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Next Door Neighbor
Oil pastel and ink on handmade paper, 2012
Signed vertically lower left in image (see photo)
Series: 99%
Exhibited: Swarthmore College, List Gallery, Hiden in Pla...
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2010s Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
Drawing 02-02-16
By Jun Kaneko
Located in Phoenix, AZ
sumi ink and oil stick on Korean paper (72 x 61.5 x 1.5 inches, framed)
b. 1942, Nagoya, Japan
Jun Kaneko’s most recognized sculptural form is the boldly glazed, monumental dango (...
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Early 2000s Abstract Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Crayon, Sumi Ink, Handmade Paper
Israeli Judaica Original Painting, "Temptation" Dancing Polish Artist Arie Dubi
Located in Surfside, FL
Dubi Arie (born Poland, 1939)
"The Temptation"
Image: 11 3/4" x 10"
Original mixed media on paper painting,
Hand signed and dated lower right and signed and titled on reverse. depi...
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20th Century Post-Modern Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Manhattan from the River - Dutch 1920's art oil crayon drawing New York city
Located in Hagley, England
This fantastic 1920's oil crayon drawing is by Dutch artist Adriaan Lubbers. It shows a birds eye view of New York. The view is of the river and boats towards Manhattan. A really ic...
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1920s Realist Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Crayon
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative painting, Reflective Love, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijing-Ga Series XII (Nº 12)
Title: Reflective Love.
Lovely portrait of a beauty looking over her shoulder.
In Reflective Love (from the Utamaro...
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2010s Edo Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Untitled III
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Oil Crayon
Colored Drawing with Ceramics and Horse Pop Folk Art 1980s
Located in Surfside, FL
Michael Lucero (born 1953) is an American sculptor. His work has been exhibited in the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Mint Museum. Lucero works with multiple mediums and usually work...
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1980s Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Crayon, Wax Crayon
Chorus Line
By Sam Spanier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chorus Line
Oil pastel on paper, c. 1960's
Signed (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Estate of the artist (Estate No. 745)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 5 3/4 x 4 inches
Sam Spanier (1925-2008)
Born in Brooklyn New York, Sam Spanier studied painting with Hans Hofmann (1949–50) and also at the Taos Valley Art School (1951). His formative years as a working artist were spent in Paris (1951–52), where he also became involved with the work of G. I. Gurdjieff, through his disciple, Mme. Jeanne de Salzmann.
By 1953, Spanier’s work had already begun to meet with critical acclaim. That year, he had his first solo gallery show, and was selected by Milton Avery and Hans Hofmann to receive the prestigious Lorian Fund Award. His second solo exhibition, in 1955, was curated by renowned museum director, Gordon Washburn. Spanier’s early work was reviewed by Dore Ashton, Donald Judd, Fairfield Porter, Stuart Preston, and Irving Sandler, among other significant critics of the period.
Spanier’s spiritual path increasingly became the central focus of both his life and his art. In 1960, he was introduced to the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, which led to visits to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, in 1962 and 1964, during which he was inspired to leave New York City and found Matagiri (in 1968)—a spiritual center in Woodstock, New York—with his lifelong partner, Eric Hughes. The work he embarked upon there bifurcates his life as an artist, separating him from New York’s art world, and radically altering the trajectory of his career. From that point forward, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to consider his artistic endeavor apart from the life of dedication he had undertaken, and to which he remained committed.
As early as 1954, Dore Ashton had recognized in Sam Spanier a “haptic visionary;” in 1960, Irving Sandler wrote that the people in Spanier’s paintings “seem to have witnessed some transfiguring event.” In his later paintings—usually worked in oil pastel on panel or paper—made during intermittent creative periods, from the mid-1970s to the final years of his life, the artist’s inner life remains always apparent in his subject matter; and from the portraits and abstract Buddha-like figures and heads, to the fantasy landscapes, the paintings are redolent with a rich intensity of color and light that can only be described as inspired.
Sam Spanier’s works are in the collections of the Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum. He received the Woodstock Artists Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Urban Gallery, New York (1954, 1955, 1956); Wittenborn Gallery, New York (1958); Gallery Mayer, New York (1958, 1959, 1960); Unison Gallery, New Paltz (1986, 1995, 2009); Limner Gallery, New York (1988); Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, New York (1999).
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Salon des Comparaisons, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France (1952); October Exhibition of Oil Paintings, New York City Center Gallery, New York (1954); Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris, Centre Culturel de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France (1954); Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1955); Les Plus Mauvais Tableaux, Galerie Prismes, Paris (1955);
Première Exposition Internationale de l’Art Plastique Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (1956); Recent Paintings USA: The Figure, The Museum of Modern Art (1960); Winter’s Work, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1985); Juried Group Show, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1986); Woodstock Artists, Self-Portraits, Historical Society of Woodstock Museum, Woodstock, New York (1988); Portraits, Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, New York (2003); The World We Live In, Upstate Art, Phoenicia, New York (2003); Show of Heads, Limner Gallery, Phoenicia, New York (2004).
Selected Writings on the Artist:
Dore Ashton, “Sam Spanier,” Art Digest (May 1, 1954) and “Sam Spanier,” The New York Times (March 16, 1960); Cassia Berman, “Sam Spanier: A Divine Calling,” Woodstock Times (February 7, 2008); Lawrence Campbell, “Sam Spanier: Exhibition of Paintings at Urban Gallery,” Art News (April 1, 1954); Sam Feinstein, “Sam Spanier: Exhibition of Paintings at Urban Gallery,” Art Digest (March 1, 1955); Pat Horner, “Big Heart, Timeless Art —Sam Spanier Retrospective at Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock Times (July 1, 1999); Donald Judd, “In the Galleries: Sam Spanier,” Arts Magazine (April 1960); Liam Nelson, “Human Force...
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1960s Abstract Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Crayon
Untitled (Encyclopedia)
Located in Miami, FL
For these works on paper, he’s combining paintings of objects and collected ephemera with texts and graphics from other sources. He’s superimposing th...
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2010s Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Oil Crayon, Oil
FRAGS
By Yulia Pinkusevich
Located in Pine Plains, NY
Based in the Bay Area following studies at Stanford University, Pinkusevich works as a painter and multidisciplinary artist. Born and raised in the USSR, her understanding of rules, ...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Crayon
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Tatsumi Roko, Edo Period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga series XXVIII (Nº 28)
Title: Tatsumi Roko
Portrait of Tatsumi Roko, a geisha of the pleasure quarters in the Edo period. The image belongs to the series Renowed Beauties Likened to the Six Inmortal Poets.
The popular top-class geishas of the day , known as “oiran”, were depicted in this type of print. In ukiyo-e woodblock prints, this close-up portrait view of the upper body is known as an okubi-e (bust portrait).
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
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2010s Edo Oil Crayon Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
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