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Medium: Pastel
Boulevard parisino - Dibujo a pastel
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado por el artista en la parte inferior Se presenta bien enmarcada la obra (no hay cristal para evitar posibles roturas del cristal en el transporte) y comentar que el marco pre...
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Late 20th Century Academic Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

One Peony, interior still life scene, green work on paper
Located in New York, NY
A’Court begins each painting with a broad, color plane—red, blue, pink or yellow—which acts as a table for the artist’s still life vocabulary. This practice allows her to contain the...
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2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

ACROBATS
Located in Portland, ME
Marsh, Reginald. ACROBATS. Ink, gouache, and pastel on paper, 1922. Signed, lower right. c. 18 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches; framed to 28 x 23 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches. In excellent condition.
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1920s Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Ink, Gouache

Modern Abstract Blue and Orange Toned Mountainous Village Landscape Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract blue and orange toned landscape drawing by American artist Jane Tate. The work features a majestic mountain landscape with houses dotting the...
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Early 2000s Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Pencil, Color Pencil

Small Clocks #68, Abstract Painting by Chris Anderson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chris Anderson Title: Small Clocks #68 Year: 2006 Medium: Acrylic and Pastel on Paper, Signed and titled in pencil Image Size: 24 x 25 inches Siz...
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Early 2000s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Acrylic

Shady Lady seated female figure warm pastel autumn tones sunglass fashion
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a soft pastel painting on tones sanded archival paper signed and dated by the artist. It is suitable for framing under glass to protect the pastel medium. The work is part of...
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2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Pastel on paper, 1922 Initialed lower right (see photo) Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014. Condition: Excell...
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20th Century American Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Algerian French Vibrant Colorful Expressionist Beach Scene Oil Pastel Drawing
By Armand Henri Nakache
Located in Surfside, FL
Armand Nakache was the foremost champion of Expressionism in France, an area unfairly shunned by a society more attracted to the charms of classical painting, Impressionism, Post-Imp...
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20th Century Expressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Pastel

Moored Barges - Arts & Crafts British pastel by Bernard Sleigh
Located in London, GB
BERNARD SLEIGH (1872-1954) Moored Boats Pastel Framed 24 by 22 cm., 9 ½ by 8 ½ in. (frame size ) At the age of 14 Sleigh was apprenticed to a wood e...
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Early 20th Century Realist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

"New York City Harbor" Leon Dolice, Downtown Skyline, East and Hudson River
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960) New York Harbor Skyline at Twilight (Searching), circa 1930-40 Pastel on paper 12 x 19 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Spanierman Gallery, New York The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the young man who was someday to be spoken of as showing promise of becoming "one of the greatest etchers of all time". Leon Dolice, born in Vienna on August 14, 1892, even as a young boy, preferred the lure of painting to the scholastic studies which his early years had expected of him. His father was a machinist, which exposed the boy to welding and metal crafts. However, his interest in art led him to abandon a secure future in the family business, and he spent most of his late teens and early twenties traveling through the capital cities of Europe studying the works of the Masters. As with many itinerant artists, he made his way in a variety of fashions metalworker, chef, designer somehow always managing to give vent to his creative instincts. Lured by the adventure of crossing the great Atlantic and by the freedoms of the New World, he came to America in 1920. There he was greeted by the turbulence of New York in the Roaring Twenties. Finding a retreat in the European Bohemianism of Greenwich Village, he picked the streets of this landmark neighborhood as his first subjects. With the encouragement of new found friends and artists such as George Luks and Herb Roth, he soon ventured out and devoted all his time to chronicling the architecture, back streets, dock scenes and other nostalgia that was fast disappearing from the face of Manhattan, mainly in copperplate etchings. A favorite subject for him was the Third Avenue El near one of his New York City studios on Third Avenue. He won accolades for his work, and although he traveled the East Coast recording landmarks in other cities including Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia, he always returned to his new home Manhattan. A decline in popular favor for etchings led him to put aside his plates in the late 1930's and devote some ten years to pastels, linocuts and painting. His subject matter was almost exclusively New York City street scenes, but figurative works, country scenes and even experiments with Abstract Expressionism at the height of its new found favor in the 1940's punctuated his career. In 1953, after learning of the forthcoming demise of the Third Avenue El, in the shadow of which he had maintained his studio for over a decade, he once again took to his plates and press and created a final series of Third Avenue and or other New York City landmarks that were then threatened with extinction. His work brings to light aspects of nostalgic New York that survives today only in small part, whether in architecture or in spirit. Dolice's works are in a number of notable museums and private collections, including the Museum of the City of New York; The New York Public Library Print Collection; The New York Historical Society; Georgetown University Lauinger Library; The Print Club of Philadelphia and others. In the past few years, his work has been exhibited at Hofstra Museum, Long Island, NY; with the Montauk...
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1930s American Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

red stocking nude, sexy female figure semi nude colorful
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Animal Farm from Grown Ups, Pastel on Paper Drawing by Darrell Fusaro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Darrell Fusaro, American (1962 - ) Title: Animal Farm from Grown-Ups Year: circa 1990 Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed l.l. Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
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1990s Pop Art Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Middletown ..Cafe scene standing woman between two plants warm red color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imaginat...
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2010s Expressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper, Pen

Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Pastel on paper, 1922 Initialed lower right (see photo) Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014. Condition: excellent Image size: 11 8 7/8 inches Frame size: 18 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist The Orange Chicken...
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1920s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

"Feeding the Multitude" Pastel Toned Abstract Figurative Symbolist Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Symbolist abstract pastel drawing by artist Bentzion Ben Yosef Yakov in the style of Marc Chagall. The work features the first miracle performed by Jesus known as the feeding of the ...
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Early 2000s Symbolist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Big Fruit Nude, colorful, imaginative nude with fruit on pastel on toned paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
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2010s Surrealist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

late 20th century still life oil painting with flowers and fruit signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Grey Pitcher" is a pastel still life by American artist Warren Brandt created in 1986. Warren Brandt is known for his still-life paintings being especial...
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1980s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Surrealist Orange Tonal Abstract Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Orange tonal surrealist portrait drawing. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner and is not currently framed. Artist Biography: Eyes are a recurring motif in the work of American artist Stanley Clark...
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Late 20th Century Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Pastel

Abstract Composition HG , 1980 - pastel, 82x122 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
pastel on paper, signed lower right. Henri Bernard Goetz (September 29, 1909 – August 12, 1989) was a French American Surrealist painter and engraver. He is known for his artwork, a...
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1970s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

UNTITLED (lake)
Located in New York, NY
pastel drawing on paper of a lake with trees in brown frame
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1980s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

the sculptor, charcoal and pastel
Located in Brooklyn, NY
narrative depiction of sculptor at work Pastel and charcoal on toned paper unframed *ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet ...
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2010s Expressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Pastel, Archival Paper

One Car
Located in Denver, CO
Still life featuring brightly colored car and toys
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2010s Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Dancer
Located in Genève, GE
Work on tracing paper Workshop stamp on the back of the work
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20th Century Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Crayon, Pastel, Gouache

"Musical Conductor" Amy Londoner, Ashcan School, Figurative Concert Scene
Located in New York, NY
Amy Londoner Musical Conductor, 1922 Signed and dated lower right Pastel on paper Sight 18 x 23 inches Amy Londoner (April 12, 1875 – 1951) was an American painter who exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show. One of the first students of the Henri School of Art in 1909. Prior to the Armory Show of 1913, Amy Londoner and her classmates studied with "Ashcan" painter Robert Henri at the Henri School of Art in New York, N.Y. One notable oil painting, 'The Vase', was painted by both Henri and Londoner. Londoner was born in Lexington, Missouri on April 12, 1875. Her parents were Moses and Rebecca Londoner, who moved to Leadville, Colorado, by 1880. In 1899, Amy took responsibility for her father who had come to Los Angeles from Leadville and had mental issues. By 1900, Amy was living with her parents and sister, Blanche, in the vicinity of Leadville, Denver, Colorado. While little was written about her early life, Denver City directories indicated that nineteenth-century members of the family were merchants, with family ties to New York, N.Y. The family had a male servant. Londoner traveled with her mother to England in 1907 then shortly later, both returned to New York in 1909. Londoner was 34 years old at the time, and, according to standards of the day, should have married and raised a family long before. Instead, she enrolled as one of the first students at the Henri School of Art in 1909. At the Henri School, Londoner established friendships with Carl Sprinchorn (1887-1971), a young Swedish immigrant, and Edith Reynolds (1883-1964), daughter of wealthy industrialist family from Wilkes-Barre, PA. Londoner's correspondence, which often included references to Blanche, listed the sisters' primary address as the Hotel Endicott at 81st Street and Columbus Avenue, NYC. Other correspondence also reached Londoner in the city via Mrs. Theodore Bernstein at 252 West 74th Street; 102 West 73rd Street; and the Independent School of Art at 1947 Broadway. In 1911, Londoner vacationed at the Hotel Trexler in Atlantic City, NJ. As indicated by an undated photograph, Londoner also spent time with Edith Reynolds and Robert Henri at 'The Pines', the Reynolds family estate in Bear Creek, PA. Through her connections with the Henri School, Londoner entered progressive social and professional circles. Henri's admonition, phrased in the vocabulary of his historical time period, that one must become a "man" first and an artist second, attracted both male and female students to classes where development of unique personal styles, tailored to convey individual insights and experiences, was prized above the mastery of standardized, technical skill. Far from being dilettantes, women students at the Henri School were daring individuals willing to challenge tradition. As noted by former student Helen Appleton Read, "it was a mark of defiance,to join the radical Henri group." As Henri offered educational alternatives for women artists, he initiated exhibition opportunities for them as well. Troubled by the exclusion of work by younger artists from annual exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, Henri was instrumental in organizing the no-jury, no-prize Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910. About half of the 103 artists included in the exhibition were or had been Henri students, while twenty of the twenty-six women exhibiting had studied with Henri. Among the exhibition's 631 pieces, nine were by Amy Londoner, including the notorious 'Lady with a Headache'. Similarly, fourteen of Henri's women students exhibited in the groundbreaking Armory Show of 1913, forming about eight percent of the American exhibitors and one-third of American women exhibitors. Of the nine documented works submitted by Londoner, five were rejected, while four pastels of Atlantic City beach scenes, including 'The Beach Umbrellas' now in the Remington Collection, were displayed. Following Henri's example, Londoner served as an art instructor for younger students at the Modern School, whose only requirement was to genuinely draw what they pleased. The work of dancer Isadora Duncan, another artist devoted to the ideals of a liberal education, was also lauded by the Modern School. Henri, who long admired Duncan and invited members of her troupe to model for his classes, wrote an appreciation of her for the Modern School journal in 1915. She was also the subject of Londoner's pastel Isadora Duncan and the Children: Praise Ye the Lord with Dance. In 1914, Londoner traveled to France to spend summer abroad, living at 99 rue Notre Dames des Champs, Paris, France. As the tenets of European modernism spread throughout the United States, Londoner showed regularly at venues which a new generation of artists considered increasingly passe, including the annual Society of Independent Artists' exhibitions between 1918 and 1934, and the Salons of America exhibition in 1922. Londoner also exhibited at the Morton Gallery, Opportunity Gallery, Leonard Clayton Gallery and Brownell-Lambertson Galleries in NYC. Her painting of a 'Blond Girl' was one of two works included in the College Art Associations Traveling Exhibition of 1929, which toured colleges across the country to broad acclaim. Londoner later in life suffered from illnesses then suffered a stroke which resulted in medical bills significantly mounting over the years that her old friends from the Henri School, including Carl Sprinchorn, Florence Dreyfous, Florence Barley, and Josephine Nivison Hopper, scrambled to raise funds and find suitable long-term care facilities for Londoner. Londoner later joined Reynolds in Bear Creek, PA. Always known for her keen wit, Londoner retained her humor and concern for her works even during her illness, noting that "if anything happens to the Endicott, I guess they will just throw them out." Sprinchorn and Reynolds, however, did not allow this to happen. In 1960, Londoner's paintings 'Amsterdam Avenue at 74th Street' and 'The Builders' were loaned by Reynolds to a show commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910, presented at the Delaware Art Center, Wilmington, DE. In the late 80's, Francis William Remington, 'Bill Remington', of Bear Creek Village PA, along with his neighbor and artist Frances Anstett Brennan, both had profound admiration for Amy Londoner's art work and accomplishments as a woman who played a significant role in the Ashcan movement. Remington acquired a significant number of Londoner's artwork along with Frances Anstett Brenan that later was part of an exhibition of Londoner's artwork in April 15 of 2007, at the Hope Horn...
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1920s Ashcan School Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Cliffhanger Nudes female nude grouping nudes in nature warm colors
Located in Brooklyn, NY
soft pastel on toned archival heavyweight toned paper. suitable for framing under glass. this is one of the artists ongoing series titled Nudes With Attitude.
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2010s Expressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Portrait of a young woman, 19th Century Pastel
Located in London, GB
John Raphael Smith 1751 - 1812 Portrait of a Young Lady Pastel on paper on canvas stretcher Image size: 9 x 7 inches (23 x 18 cm) Gilt frame
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Early 1800s Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Abstract Policeman in Village - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media by George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...
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1950s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media

Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Balavadze - In the Field
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache, pastel & oil on paper Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi St...
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2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Oil, Gouache

Untitled II (blue), pastel on paper, 20 x 16 inches. Bold colors
Located in New York, NY
"I don’t see shapes as much as I see the energy of elements interacting to move, stop, support or explode. I mostly use clean bright color to keep my world hot and alive. My painting...
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1970s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Pop Art Realistic Painting, "Vader Upgrade"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original pop art acrylic painting by San Diego artist, Daniel Jaimes. It is unframed. Its dimensions are 36"x24"x1.5". A certificate of authenticity will foll...
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2010s Pop Art Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Masked Woman soft green and black colors touch of crimson
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a soft pastel on toned archival paper signed on bottom left. It depicts a masked Woman in a courtyard during a masquerade event. Note the jeweled necklace and scar on her upp...
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Early 2000s Other Art Style Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Red, Green, Orange & Purple Chalk Pastel by Mark Lancaster, circa 1960s
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Red, Green, Orange and Purple, Chalk Pastel Painting by Mark Lancaster 1938-2021, circa 1960s Additional information: Medium: Chalk pastel 22.9 x 30.5 cm 9 x 12 in Mark Lancaster w...
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20th Century Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Paper

Untitled II (multi), 1979, pastel on paper, 20 x 16 inches. Soft abstraction
Located in New York, NY
"I don’t see shapes as much as I see the energy of elements interacting to move, stop, support or explode. I mostly use clean bright color to keep my world hot and alive. My painting...
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1970s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Secret Garden, Portal, colorful pastel on paper, abstracted flower pattern
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper. These works have a have a "stained glass" quality of light coming through the dark paper Ms. Morgan says: During 2020 we discovered a small garden next to a church in our neighborhood in Brooklyn that was well taken care of and always open. We brought our ground chairs...
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2010s Expressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Portrait of Nude Female Figure, Woman in Purple, Yellow & Blue by America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin "Woman in Purple, Yellow & Blue" Pastel & Ink on Paper 40” x 26” AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Angeles...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Pastel

Original Pastel Drawing Flowers, Wallpaper Pattern and Decoration Pop Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Joanne Seltzer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Charleston, West Virginia. After having majored in journalism at Northwestern University (she graduated in 1963), she gained her fine arts degree at the University of Michigan. Ms. Seltzer has also attended the New School for Social Research, the Pratt Institute and New York University, at Which she gained invaluable experience in photography, silkscreen and design. In Addition, Ms. Seltzer has lectured at several institutions, including the school of Visual Arts in New York, the University of Virginia and the University of Iowa. she is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art and has showed at Un jardin secret - Collection Monique Dorsel et Emile Lanc - Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée, La Louvière along with Jean Tinguely, Francois Morellet, Georg Baselitz, Berto Lardera...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Landscape - Drawing by Jaques Hesvalle - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is a Pastel and Charcoal drawing realized by Jaques Hesvalle in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Good conditions with slight foxing.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Pastel

Figure - Drawing by Edouard de Beaumont - Late-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is a Pastel and pencil drawing realized by  Edouard de Beaumont  in Late-19th Century. The Artwork id represented through strong strokes. Good conditions with slight foxing.
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Late 19th Century Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Pencil

Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Pastel on paper, 1922 Signed with the artist's initials in pencil Provenance: Estate of the artist Francis M. Nauman (label) Private collection, NY A very early abstract/cubist work by Kelly. Created while the artist was studying with Arthur Carles in Philadelphia. Leon Kelly (October 21, 1901 – June 28, 1982) was an American artist born in Philadelphia, PA. He is most well known for his contributions to American Surrealism, but his work also encompassed styles such as Cubism, Social Realism, and Abstraction. Reclusive by nature, a character trait that became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be limited by the trends of his time. His large output of paintings is complemented by a prolific number of drawings that span his career of 50 years. Some of the collections where his work is represented are: The Metropolitan Museum in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Boston Public Library. Biography Kelly was born in 1901 at home at 1533 Newkirk Street, Philadelphia, PA. He was the only child of Elizabeth (née Stevenson) and Pantaleon L. Kelly. The family resided in Philadelphia where Pantaleon and two of his cousins owned Kelly Brothers, a successful tailoring business. The prosperity of the firm enabled his father to purchase a 144-acre farm in Bucks County PA in 1902, which he named "Rural Retreat" It was here that Pantaleon took Leon to spend every weekend away from the pressures of business and from the disappointments in his failing marriage. Idyllic and peaceful memories of the farm stayed with Leon and embued his work with a love of nature that emerged later in the Lunar Series, in Return and Departure, and in the insect imagery of his Surrealist work. "If anything," he once said,"I am a Pantheist and see a spirit in everything, the grass, the rocks, everything." At thirteen, Leon left school and began private painting lessons with Albert Jean Adolphe, a teacher at the School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) in Philadelphia. He learned technique by copying the works of the old masters and visiting the Philadelphia Zoo, where he would draw animals. Drawings done in 1916 and 1917 of elephants, snakes and antelope, as well as copies of old master paintings by Holbein and Michelangelo, heralded an impressive emerging talent. In 1917, he studied sculpture with Alexander Portnoff but his studies came to an abrupt halt with the start of World War I. Being too young to enlist, he joined the Quartermaster Corp at the Army Depot in Philadelphia, where he served for more than a year loading ships with supplies and, along with other artists, working on drawings for camouflage. By 1920, the family's fortunes drastically changed. His father's business had failed due to the introduction of ready made clothing and his marriage, unhappy from the beginning, dissolved. Broken by circumstance Pantaleon left Philadelphia to begin a wandering existence looking for work leaving Leon to support his mother and grandmother. He found a job in 1920 at the Freihofer Baking Company where he worked nights for the next four years. Under these circumstances Leon continued to develop his skills in drawing and painting and learned of the revolutionary developments in art that were taking place in Paris. During the day he was granted permission to study anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Osteopathy where he dissected a cadaver and perfected his knowledge of the human figure. He also met and studied etching with Earl Horter, a well known illustrator, who had amassed a significant collection of modern art which included work by Brancusi, Matisse, and Cubist works by Picasso and Braque. Among the artists around Horter was Arthur Carles, a charismatic and controversial painter who taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Leon enrolled in the Academy in 1922, becoming what Carles described as, "his best student". In the next three years Leon work ranged from academic studies of plaster casts, to pointillism, to landscapes of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, as well as a series of pastels showing influences from Matisse to Picasso. Clearly influenced by Earl Horter's collection and Arthur Carles he mastered analytical cubism in works such as The Three Pears, 1923 and 1925 experimented with Purism in Moon Behind the Italian House. In 1925 Kelly was awarded a Cresson Scholarship and on June 14 he left for Europe. Paris The first trip to Europe lasted for approximately three and a half months and introduced Kelly to a culture and place where he felt he belonged. Though he returned to the Academy in the Fall, he left for Europe again a few months later to begin a four-year stay in Paris. He moved into an apartment at 19 rue Daguerre in Paris and began an existence intellectually rich but in creature comforts, very poor. "I kept a cinderblock over the drain in the kitchen sink to keep the rats out of the apartment" he once explained. He frequented the cafes making acquaintances with Henry Miller, James Joyce and the critic Félix Fénéon as well as others. His days were split between copying old master paintings in the Louvre and pursuing modernist ideas that were swirling through the work of all the artists around him. The Lake, 1926 and Interior of the Studio, 1927, now in the Newark Museum. Patrons during this time were the police official Leon Zamaran, a collector of Courbets, Lautrecs and others, who began collecting Kelly's work. Another was Alfred Barnes of the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. In 1929 Kelly married a young French woman, Henriette D'Erfurth. She appears frequently in paintings and drawings done between 1928 and the early 1930s. Philadelphia The stock market crash of 1929 made it impossible to continue living in Paris and Kelly and Henriette returned to Philadelphia in 1930. He rented a studio on Thompson Street and began working and participating in shows in the city's galleries. Work from 1930 to 1940 showed continuing influences and experimentation with the themes and techniques acquired in Paris as well as a brief foray into Social Realism. The Little Gallery of Contemporary Art purchased the Absinthe Drinker...
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1920s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Pastel on paper, 1922 Initialed and dated lower right (see photo) Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014. Provenance: Estate of the Artist The Orange Chicken...
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1920s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

The Mirror - Drawing by Henri Guydo - Early-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Mirror is a drawing realized Henri Guydo in the early 20th Century. Pen and pastel  ivory-colored paper. Good conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is realized through de...
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Early 20th Century Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

PLUM ISLAND GRASS
Located in New York, NY
pastel on paper landscape brown wood frame
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1980s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Finding Space II, soft pastel on paper, still life, neutral and green flowers
Located in New York, NY
Couple / Pair / Lovers / Love / Wedding / Romance / Flowers / Bouquet / Still life Angela A’Court’s narrative and still life drawings use a simple and direct vocabulary to show the ...
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2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

A street in Naples, Large pastel
Located in PARIS, FR
Giuseppe CASCIARO Ortelle 1861 - Naples 1941 A street in Naples Pastel on strong paper 1906 Signed and dated lower left Studio stamp on the back 67 x 43 cm sheet 84 x 60 cm frame Fr...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Warm Toned Colorful Realistic Watermelon and Lemon Still Life Fruit Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Still life pastel drawing by unknown artist. Realistic pastel drawing depicting watermelon, lemons, and other fruits in the background. Signed by artist at bottom left. Double matted...
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20th Century Realist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Untitled II (green yellow), pastel on paper, 20 x 16 inches. Bright colors
Located in New York, NY
"I don’t see shapes as much as I see the energy of elements interacting to move, stop, support or explode. I mostly use clean bright color to keep my world hot and alive. My painting...
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1970s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

erotica al fresco, narrative architectural fantasy w female nudes
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned paper
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2010s Surrealist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Secret Garden, Iris, colorful abstracted floral pastel on dark paper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on black paper. These works have a have a "stained glass" quality of light coming through the dark paper Ms. Morgan says: During 2020 we discovered a small garden next to a church in our neighborhood in Brooklyn that was well taken care of and always open. We brought our ground chairs...
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2010s Expressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Winnowing Basket (neutral patterned print)
Located in New York, NY
Angela A’Court’s narrative and still life drawings use a simple and direct vocabulary to show the relationship of experience to expression of beauty and the quirkiness of every day moments. With an eye toward balance, the artist moves towards abstraction in "Winnowing Basket...
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2010s Contemporary Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Paper, Pastel

Mind Field 25
Located in Phoenix, AZ
b. 1979, Poole, Dorset, UK Danielle Hacche was born in Poole, Dorset in the Southwest of the United Kingdom. After moving to the United States with her family in 1993, Hacche attend...
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2010s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Woman on a Patio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman on a Patio Pastel on paper, c. 1915 Unsigned Provenance: Gift of the artist to his wife, Mary Hess Buehr By decent to the artist's niece, daughter of Will Hess David Saltzman Robert Henry Adams Fine Art Thomas French Fine Art Ronald C. Sloter, Columbus, Ohio Columbus College of Art and Design (de-accessed) Exhibited at Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, 1994, the first exhibition at the North Franklin Street Gallery. One of the early Chicago artists to adopt Impressionism, Karl Buehr became a figure and landscape painter. As a figure painter, his specialty became "gorgeously colored images of young women on porches overlooking brilliant summertime gardens." (Kennedy 98) His later work often showed a female figure with serious expression engaging the viewer with a direct stare. In his landscapes, he was noted for his strong coloration. In a December 1896 student exhibition at the Art Institute, a reviewer for the "Chicago Times Herald" described Buehr's landscapes as "blithe and joyous" with "country roads brilliant in sunlight . . . fields rich in summer verdure, under soft skies painted in a high, musical key." (Gerdts 68) Buehr was born as one of seven sons to a prosperous German family who immigrated to America and settled in Chicago in 1869. He was first exposed to his signature style of Impressionism in 1888 when he enrolled in night classes at the Art Institute while working in the shipping department of a lithographic firm near the Institute. He remained a student there until 1897 and was recognized in a "Chicago Times Herald" editorial of June 13, 1897 as one of the Institute's most outstanding pupils. The next year, his art career was temporarily put on hold when he briefly enlisted with the U.S. Army in the Spanish American War. In 1899, he resumed his art studies, this time with Frank Duveneck. He exhibited a painting at the Paris Salon of 1900. In 1905, thanks to a wealthy Chicago patron, Buehr and his family moved to France. They spent the following year in Taormina, Sicily, and spent time in Venice as well. In Paris, Buehr studied at the Academy Julian with Raphael Collin for two years. Then he went to England, enrolling in the London Art School but had returned to Paris by 1908. During this time, he began painting at Giverny, the home of Impressionist leader Claude Monet (1840-1926, and by 1912, Buehr was listing that village as his home address. One of his good friends and associates at Giverny was Frederick Frieseke. One of Buehr's paintings from that time, "News from Home", was exhibited in 1913 at the French Salon in Paris and at the annual exhibit of the Chicago Art Institute. It shows a woman in floral dress sitting on a porch with a background with potted flowers and lush greenery background. Of his painting done at Giverny, Buehr wrote in 1912 to William Macbeth of Macbeth Galleries in New York: "My figures painted in and around Giverny are costumed and in appropriate out door settings." (Gerdts 68) In 1914, he returned to the United States and took a teaching position in Chicago at the Art Institute, which he held for the remainder of his life. He was married to Mary Hess, a painter of miniatures and decorative works. In 1928-29, he was a guest artist at Stanford University. Courtesy, AskArt “Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952) was a painter born in Germany. Buehr was born in Feuerbach - near Stuttgart. He was the son of Frederick Buehr and Henrietta Doh (Dohna?). He moved to Chicago with his parents and siblings in the 1880s. In Chicago, young Karl worked at various jobs until he was employed by a lithograph company near the Art Institute of Chicago. Introduced to art at work, Karl paid regular visits to the Art Institute, where he found part-time employment, enabling him to enroll in night classes. Later, working at the Institute as a night watchman, he had a unique opportunity to study the masters and actually posted sketchings that blended in favorably with student's work. Having studied under John H. Vanderpoel, Buehr graduated with honors, while his work aroused such admiration that he was offered a teaching post there, which he maintained for many years thereafter. He graduated from the Art Inst. of Chicago and served in the IL Cav in the Spanish–American War. Mary Hess became Karl's wife—she was a student of his and an accomplished artist in her own right. In 1922, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member. Art Studies in Europe In 1904, Buehr received a bronze medal at the St. Louis Universal Exposition, then, in 1905, Buehr and his family moved to France, thanks to a wealthy Chicago patron, and they spent the following year in Taormina, Sicily, where the artist painted local subjects, executing both genre subjects and landscapes as well as time in Venice. Buehr spent at least some time in Paris, where he worked with Raphaël Collin at the Académie Julian. Giverny and American Impressionism Prior to this time, Buehr had developed a quasi-impressionistic style, but after 1909, when he began spending summers near Monet in Giverny, his work became decidedly characteristic of that plein-air style but he began focusing on female subjects posed out-of-doors. He remained for some time in Giverny, and here he became well-acquainted with other well known expatriate America impressionists such as Richard Miller, Theodore Earl Butler, Frederick Frieseke, and Lawton Parker. It seems likely that Buehr met Monet, since his own daughter Kathleen and Monet’s granddaughter, Lili Butler, were playmates, according to George Buehr, the painter’s son. His other daughter Lydia died before adulthood due to diabetes. He returned to Chicago at the onset of World War I and taught at The Art Inst for many years. One of his noted pupils at the Art Institute was Archibald Motley...
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1910s Abstract Impressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Marine Still Life - Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Marine Still life is a modern artwork realized in the half of 20th century. Mixed colored tempera and watercolor on cardboard. Fair conditions.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Woman in a Bonnet - Early 20th Century British Theatrical Portrait
Located in London, GB
BRITISH SCHOOL (20th Century) Woman in a Bonnet Pastel, unframed, in conservation mount 5 ½ by 3 ¼ in., 14 by 8 cm. This drawing is one of a group of similar theatrical portrai...
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Early 20th Century Realist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Figurative Abstract in Purple and Blue Tones
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 Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Attic Nude female nude soft sensual colors humorous subject
Located in Brooklyn, NY
pastel on toned archival paper . this pastel comes matted on black archival foam board. it is part of the artists ongoing series Nudes With Attitude
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Early 2000s Expressionist Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Archival Paper

Tutto Sospeso - Painting by Maurizio Gracceva - 2014
Located in Roma, IT
Tutto sospeso is a beautiful artwork realized by  Maurizio Gracceva   in the 2014. Colored acrylic on plywood Title, date, techinique and sign on the back. Author of numerous phil...
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2010s Abstract Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Plywood, Pastel, Acrylic

The Prison - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1960 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
The Prison is an Artwork realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in 1960 ca. Hand Signed on the top left. Good conditions with some short-cutting and folding on the margins. Mino Ma...
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1960s Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Tempera

Colorful Cottage - Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Colorful Cottage is a drawing realized by an anonymous in the mid-20th century. Pastel on paper. Fair condition with a cutting on the left.  The artwork is created through deft st...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Pastel Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

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