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Period: 1980s
Woman in Flight /// Contemporary Fantasy Female Figurative Pastel Painting Lady
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Frank Rakoncay (American, 1936-1998) Title: "Woman in Flight" *Signed by Rakoncay in pencil lower left. It is also signed again lower right Circa: 1980 Medium: Original Oil P...
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Surrealist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Pastel, Pencil, Graphite

Charles Hinman, Minimalist Drawing, Mid-Century Modern Geometric Abstract Signed
Located in New York, NY
Charles Hinman Untitled Minimalist Drawing (Mid-Century Modern), 1980 Pastel on off-white wove paper Signed in pencil and dated by the artist on the lower-right front. Jeffrey Fuller...
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Minimalist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

17, Modern Abstract Acrylic on Paper Painting by Yasmin Brandolini
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large minimal abstract painting on paper by Yasmin Brandolini. Artist: Yasmin Brandolini d'Adda, South African/Italian (1929 - ) Title: 17 Year: 1986 Medium: 40 x 60 in. (101.6 ...
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Abstract Geometric 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Vintage 20th Century Painting of Lush Green Ireland Village by Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage 20th Century Painting of Lush Green Ireland Village by Irish Artist, Liam Reilly Art measures 24 x 18 inches Frame measures 28 x 22 inches This stunning painting captures t...
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Modern 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil

Vintage Paris Fashion Drawing - Knit Overcoat, c. 1980
Located in Houston, TX
Charming ink and pencil fashion sketch of a long pink overcoat with clasp by Paris fashion house Création Corine Marie, circa 1980. Includes original fabric swatch and designer's sta...
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Contemporary 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Fabric, Ink, Pencil

Framed Early Modern Black & White Abstract Drawing Studies of Animals and Birds
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern black and white sketch by iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. Pulled from a collection of previously undiscovered sketchbooks, this work serves as a peak behind t...
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Modern 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Pencil

Keith Haring Crawling Baby Drawing c.1983
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Crawling Baby drawing circa 1983: This rare original, early 1980s Keith Haring drawing was executed by the artist on printed material from ...
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Pop Art 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Lithograph, Offset, Ink

Image XII By Jean Dubuffet
Located in London, GB
Image XII By Jean Dubuffet 1984 Colored felt pen on paper Signed to lower left ‘J.D.’ 10 3/5 × 8 3/10 in 27 × 21 cm Provenance: Estate of the artist Waddington Fine Art, Ltd., L...
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Contemporary 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Felt Pen

Monument - Original Pencil on Paper by Mino Maccari - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Monument is an original modern artwork realized the 1985 by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Original pencil drawing on Ivory paper. Hand-signed in penc...
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Modern 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Original handwritten Letter of thanks, hand signed by Keith Haring on letterhead
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring Original Handwritten, hand signed Letter, ca. 1987 Ink on Haring's Private letterhead Stationery, Hand written and hand signed by Keith...
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Pop Art 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker

2 Unique Museum Works: Drawing of Cyclamen III, and collage for Conques, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Ellsworth Kelly Drawing of Cyclamen III, and collage for Conques (Untitled), exhibited at the Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1987 Graphite drawing, and mixed media collag...
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Minimalist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil, Graphite, Board

Mountain View of a Lush Green Valley in the English Lake District Vintage Oil
Located in Preston, GB
Mountain View of a Lush Green Valley in the English Lake District - Vintage Oil Painting by 20th Century Modern British Landscape Artist, Arthur Terry Blamires (b. 1930) Art measure...
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Land 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil, Board

Skyscapes Series - Large Scale Landscape in Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Skyscapes Series - Large Scale Landscape in Pastel on Paper Brightly colored Dry Pastel abstract landscape by Aleah Koury (American, b. 1959). ...
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American Impressionist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Iris - Botanical Study
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of a purple iris, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b.194...
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American Realist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Filipino Women and Children in a Pastoral Scene Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Pastoral pencil on paper sketch by a celebrated Filipino artist, Jose V. Blanco. The drawing depicts Filipino women and children sorting out mangoes...
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Realist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Mixed media painting in monograph, Signed & inscribed to Museum Trustees, Framed
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney Hockney Paints the Stage (Signed and inscribed to Walker Museum trustees), 1983 Original acrylic, watercolor and ink painting done on title page of monograph (Signed an...
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Pop Art 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor

Spring Bloom, Large Colorful Floral Watercolor by Gary Bukovnik
Located in Long Island City, NY
Gary Bukovnik, American (1947 -) - Spring Bloom, Year: 1983, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated in pencil lower right, Size: 45 x 71 in. (114.3 x 180.34 cm), Frame Size...
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Contemporary 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Horses at the Edge of the Pond
Located in London, GB
'Horses at the Edge of the Pond', pencil, ink and watercolour on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1980). Brayer loved the Camargue region of France and painted it widely. The Camargue is a vast, swampy delta near Arles, very exotic, with tall marsh grasses where pink flamingos, black bulls and white horses roam freely. This image depicts three horses in the Camargue near pond's edge. Although there are many horses that still run free in the area, there are cowboys — called gardians — who ride the white horses on the beaches...
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1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil

Blue & Yellow Abstract Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Blue & yellow abstract watercolor by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Signed on verso and unframed. Image...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Legendary Tony Bennett Original NYC "Chrysler Building" Contemporary Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Legendary Tony Bennett Original NYC "Chrysler Building" Contemporary Drawing Tony "Benedettto" Bennett (1926-2023) "The Chrysler Building" 12 x 9 inches marker on paper, c 1980 Titled and Signed by Tony Bennett at the upper right with his family name "Benedetto.". Framed: 18 x 15 inches Provenance: Tony Bennett Estate BIO Tony Bennett is known as a vocal musician, but he is also known as Anthony Dominick Benedetto, an American visual artist. Benedetto was born August 3, 1926. He is the son of Italian immigrants from the Astoria section of Queens, New York. At the age of five Anthony was drawing pictures. He attended public schools and The High School of Industrial Arts in Manhattan where he studied art and music. Art was his first passion. In the 19th century artists like Vincent van Gogh searched for an expressive balance in art and music, but Benedetto/Bennett makes an impressive balance in both forms of artistry. The family name Benedetto means, "Blessed one", and Benedetto is how his art is signed. His paintings are impressions of the beauty throughout the world from his many music tours and travels...
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Contemporary 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Permanent Marker

'Mending', African American Woman Folk Artist, Houston, Dallas, Blues Museum Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, in fabrics bowl, 'Ruth Mae McCrane' (American, 1929-2002) and dated upper center, in calendar, February 1989. Ruth Mae McCrane taught...
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Folk Art 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Moss Landing Marshland Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful landscape of Moss Landing marshland (just north of Carmel, California by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed lower left c...
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American Impressionist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Ducharme Beach
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Greg Curnoe (1936-1992) was a highly revered artist, bookmaker, and competitive cyclist based in London, Ontario, but beloved across the country. He represented Canada in the 1976 Ve...
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Realist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

Portrait of a Boy - Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing in pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1982. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artist depicts a delicate...
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Contemporary 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

'Sailing Boat in Harbor', SFMOMA, Woman Artist, California Post-Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An attractive mid-century coastal scene showing a sailing boat resting in a calm berth on turquoise waters. Signed lower left "Jae Carmichael" (American, 1925-2005) and dated 1957. ...
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Post-Impressionist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Keith Haring, Untitled (Black ink drawing atop a Japanese Guardian Figure print)
Located in San Francisco, CA
In February 1983, Keith Haring made his first visit to Japan to host an exhibition of his work in Tokyo. Enthralled by the experience, he let loose his spray cans covering every inch...
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Contemporary 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Steps of St. Peter's, Rome - Original Watercolor, Framed
Located in New Orleans, LA
Provenance: Ex. Wykeham Galleries, Stockbridge, England Dennis Page was a polymath, creating the Esso "Tiger" campaigns that ran around the world as an advertising star, while using...
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Impressionist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

View of Venice - Drawing by Carlo Ravagnan - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1980. Hand signed lower left. Date on rear, Excellent condition.
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Contemporary 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Norman Adams RA Abstract Modern British Watercolour The Sound of Scarp (c.1980)
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you want. Norman Adams...
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Modern 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

'The Garden, Mandelieu-la-Napoule', Academy of Fine Arts of Rouen, Benezit, Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Picot' for Jean-Claude Picot (French, born 1933), and painted circa 1985; additionally titled, verso, on old label, 'L'escalier du Jardin (Mandelie '. From 1947,...
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Fauvist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dark Green Field, Signed Pastel on Paper by Oliviero Masi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dark Green Field Oliviero Masi Italian (1948) Date: 1980 Pastel on paper, signed lower right Size: 17.5 x 17.5 in. (44.45 x 44.45 cm)
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Modern 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Surrealist Composition with Nude Males
Located in Exton, PA
A wonderful surrealist watercolor by the acclaimed Philadelphia Pennsylvania artist John Lear. This work was created in 1981 at the height of his artistic creativity. The work depict...
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Surrealist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

"Three Ribbon Heads", Art Deco Hand Colored Lithograph by John Luke Eastman 1984
Located in Soquel, CA
"Three Ribbon Heads", Art Deco Female Figurative by John Luke Eastman. 1984 Beautiful mid-1980's hand colored Art Deco style lithograph by Southern California artist John Luke Eastman (American, b.1929). In this 1984 version of Eastman's "Three Ribbon Heads", a delicate flowing line drawing of three consecutive women's faces in profile are framed by ribbons in a circular composition. As in many of the artist's works, Eastman captions the piece with the following phrase: " In this life we have three lasting qualities...faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of them is love." Hand signed and dated in pencil lower right, "John L. Eastman 84" artists proof. Displayed in a light grey mat and new art deco-style giltwood frame. Paper size: 20"H x 16"W. Framed size: 19.5"H x 23.25"W x 1"D. John Luke Eastman is a Southern California artist with a unique style. A graduate of UCLA with a degree in graphic arts, he was successful fashion illustrator and art director for prestigious department store in L. A. before turning his full attention to fine art. Over the part decade he has created and mastered the unique style that is currently found in his limited edition silk-screen graphics. A versatile artist, who has illustrated many record and book covers he refers to his style as "the 5th dimension" or "beautiful distortion". The qualities he seeks to impart through his works are fluidity of movement, a feeling of spatiality, weightlessness and beautiful color. His artworks have been in a lot of shows across the country. He recently had show at Celux (Louis Vuitton membership...
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Art Deco 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Lithograph

Banana (original drawing on paper)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original colored crayons and pastel drawing on paper. Hand signed and dated on front by David Hockney. Artwork size 16.75 x 14inches. Frame size approx 27 x 24 inches. Provenance: Annely Juda Fine Art; Richard Gray Gallery. Artwork in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the Artist: David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Perhaps best known for his serial paintings of swimming pools, portraits of friends, and verdant landscapes, the artist’s oeuvre ranges from collaged photography and opera posters to Cubist-inspired abstractions and plein-air paintings of the English countryside. Often returning to a certain motif again and again, he probes the manifold ways one can see an image or a space. Hockney’s exploration of photography’s effect on painting and everyday life is evinced in his hallmark work A Bigger Splash (1967). “In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time,” he has explained. Born on July 9, 1937 in Bradford, United Kingdom, Hockney attended the Royal College of Art in London alongside R.B. Kitaj. At school, he studied under both Francis Bacon and Peter Blake, but also credits Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse for influencing his distinctive and varied style. In 1963, the artist traveled to Southern California for the first time and fell in love with the bright sunshine and easygoing lifestyle. Since then, he has alternated living and working between Yorkshire, United Kingdom, and Los Angeles, CA. In November 2018, his 1972 painting...
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Pop Art 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Crayon, Pastel

Untitled Floral Still Life
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful floral still life by American artist Jane Piper (1916-1991) . Pastel, oil crayon and pencil on tracing paper. Image measuring 13 x 15.5 inches in ...
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Abstract 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Parchment Paper, Crayon, Pastel, Pencil

'Refracted Sunset, Coral and Ocean Blue', Seascape
By Nada Brahma
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Lower right "N.Brahma", inscribed verso "Nada Brahma" and titled "Refracted Sunset". A large watercolor seascape showing an abstracted view of jade and cobalt waves beneath a scarle...
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Abstract 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

Industrial Landscape Contemporary American Watercolor Magic Realism 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Landscape Contemporary American Watercolor Magic Realism 20th Century Henry Koerner (1915-1991) J&L Oxygen Plant 18 x 24 1/2 inches Watercolo...
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American Realist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Landscape - Drawing by Michele Ricciuti - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a watercolor on paper realized by Michele Ricciuti in 1984. Hand signed and dated lower left. Very good condition. Includes a contemporary wooden frame.
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Modern 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Nude Figurative Drawing in Pen on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Clean and confident sketch of a nude model by an unknown San Francisco Bay Area artist (20th Century). A woman is lying down on her back, with her arms above her head and legs up on ...
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American Impressionist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen, Laid Paper

Native Mexican Woman (Cuban Miami artist pastel)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Alex (Cuban, b.1949). Indigenous Mexican Woman, 1982. Pastel and charcoal on wove paper, sheet measures 23 x 33 inches. 31 x 40.5 inches on backing board...
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Modern 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Paper, Pastel

Green Symphony, Abstract Expressionist Pastel Drawing by Souleymane Keita
Located in Long Island City, NY
Souleymane Keita, Senegalese (1947 -2014) - Green Symphony, Year: 1982, Medium: Pastel on J Perrigot Arches Special MBM, signed and dated in pencil ...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Untitled Floral Still Life
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful floral still life by American artist Jane Piper (1916-1991) . Untitled. 1980. Pastel, oil crayon and pencil on tracing paper. Image measuring 9 x 12 inches in original ...
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Abstract 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Parchment Paper, Crayon, Pastel, Pencil

PLAYBOY BUNNY
Located in Aventura, FL
Synthetic polymer drawing on paper. Unsigned. Warhol Foundation stamp on verso. Sheet size 31.5 x 23.5 inches. Custom framed as pictured. Artwork is in excellent condition. Cert...
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Pop Art 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Polymer

Handwritten letter on American Indian Theme II card signed to CBS News cameraman
Located in New York, NY
Roy Lichtenstein Handwritten note on card ink on paper hand signed by Roy Lichtenstein The card reads "Thank you so much for the wonderful prints Very kind of you to send them to me Best regards, Roy Lichtenstein This card depicts Roy Lichtenstein's American Indian Theme II (from American Indian Theme Series), 1980, Woodcut in colors on Suzuki handmade paper Provenance: This card was acquired from Dan Pope, a longtime CBS photographer and cameraman, who had amassed a superb collection of autographs by visual artists over many decades. This work has been elegantly floated and framed in a museum quality wood frame under UV plexiglass. Measurements: Framed 14.75 inches vertical by 11.5 horizontal by 1.5 inches depth Card (image) Roy Lichtenstein Biography Roy Lichtenstein was one of the most influential and innovative artists of the second half of the twentieth century. He is preeminently identified with Pop Art, a movement he helped originate, and his first fully achieved paintings were based on imagery from comic strips and advertisements and rendered in a style mimicking the crude printing processes of newspaper reproduction. These paintings reinvigorated the American art scene and altered the history of modern art. Lichtenstein’s success was matched by his focus and energy, and after his initial triumph in the early 1960s, he went on to create an oeuvre of more than 5,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, murals and other objects celebrated for their wit and invention. Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, in New York City, the first of two children born to Milton and Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein. Milton Lichtenstein (1893–1946) was a successful real estate broker, and Beatrice Lichtenstein (1896–1991), a homemaker, had trained as a pianist, and she exposed Roy and his sister Rénee to museums, concerts and other aspects of New York culture. Roy showed artistic and musical ability early on: he drew, painted and sculpted as a teenager, and spent many hours in the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Modern Art. He played piano and clarinet, and developed an enduring love of jazz, frequenting the nightspots in Midtown to hear it. Lichtenstein attended the Franklin School for Boys, a private junior high and high school, and was graduated in 1940. That summer he studied painting and drawing from the model at the Art Students League of New York with Reginald Marsh. In September he entered Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus in the College of Education. His early artistic idols were Rembrandt, Daumier and Picasso, and he often said that Guernica (1937; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid), then on long-term loan to the Museum of Modern Art, was his favorite painting. Even as an undergraduate, Lichtenstein objected to the notion that one set of lines (one person’s drawings) “was considered brilliant, and somebody’s else’s, that may have looked better to you, was considered nothing by almost everyone.”i Lichtenstein’s questioning of accepted canons of taste was encouraged by Hoyt L. Sherman, a teacher whom he maintained was the person who showed him how to see and whose perception-based approach to art shaped his own. In February 1943, Lichtenstein was drafted, and he was sent to Europe in 1945. As part of the infantry, he saw action in France, Belgium and Germany. He made sketches throughout his time in Europe and, after peace was declared there, he intended to study at the Sorbonne. Lichtenstein arrived in Paris in October 1945 and enrolled in classes in French language and civilization, but soon learned that his father was gravely ill. He returned to New York in January 1946, a few weeks before Milton Lichtenstein died. In the spring of that year, Lichtenstein went back to OSU to complete his BFA and in the fall he was invited to join the faculty as an instructor. In June 1949, he married Isabel Wilson Sarisky (1921–80), who worked in a cooperative art gallery in Cleveland where Lichtenstein had exhibited his work. While he was teaching, Lichtenstein worked on his master’s degree, which he received in 1949. During his second stint at OSU, Lichtenstein became closer to Sherman, and began teaching his method on how to organize and unify a composition. Lichtenstein remained appreciative of Sherman’s impact on him. He gave his first son the middle name of “Hoyt,” and in 1994 he donated funds to endow the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center at OSU. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Lichtenstein began working in series and his iconography was drawn from printed images. His first sustained theme, intimate paintings and prints in the vein of Paul Klee that poked lyrical fun at medieval knights, castles and maidens, may well have been inspired by a book about the Bayeux Tapestry. Lichtenstein then took an ironic look at nineteenth-century American genre paintings he saw in history books, creating Cubist interpretations of cowboys and Indians spiked with a faux-primitive whimsy. As with his most celebrated Pop paintings of the 1960s, Lichtenstein gravitated toward what he would characterize as the “dumbest” or “worst” visual item he could find and then went on to alter or improve it. In the 1960s, commercial art was considered beneath contempt by the art world; in the early 1950s, with the rise of Abstract Expressionism, nineteenth-century American narrative and genre paintings were at the nadir of their reputation among critics and collectors. Paraphrasing, particularly the paraphrasing of despised images, became a paramount feature of Lichtenstein’s art. Well before finding his signature mode of expression in 1961, Lichtenstein called attention to the artifice of conventions and taste that permeated art and society. What others dismissed as trivial fascinated him as classic and idealized—in his words, “a purely American mythological subject matter.”ii Lichtenstein’s teaching contract at OSU was not renewed for the 1951–52 academic year, and in the autumn of 1951 he and Isabel moved to Cleveland. Isabel Lichtenstein became an interior decorator specializing in modern design, with a clientele drawn from wealthy Cleveland families. Whereas her career blossomed, Lichtenstein did not continue to teach at the university level. He had a series of part-time jobs, including industrial draftsman, furniture designer, window dresser and rendering mechanical dials for an electrical instrument company. In response to these experiences, he introduced quirkily rendered motors, valves and other mechanical elements into his paintings and prints. In 1954, the Lichtensteins’ first son, David, was born; two years later, their second child, Mitchell, followed. Despite the relative lack of interest in his work in Cleveland, Lichtenstein did place his work with New York dealers, which always mattered immensely to him. He had his first solo show at the Carlebach Gallery in New York in 1951, followed by representation with the John Heller Gallery from 1952 to 1957. To reclaim his academic career and get closer to New York, Lichtenstein accepted a position as an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Oswego, in the northern reaches of the state. He was hired to teach industrial design, beginning in September 1957. Oswego turned out to be more geographically and aesthetically isolated than Cleveland ever was, but the move was propitious, for both his art and his career. Lichtenstein broke away from representation to a fully abstract style, applying broad swaths of pigment to the canvas by dragging the paint across its surface with a rag wrapped around his arm. At the same time, Lichtenstein was embedding comic-book characters figures such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in brushy, expressionistic backgrounds. None of the proto-cartoon paintings from this period survive, but several pencil and pastel studies from that time, which he kept, document his intentions. Finally, when he was in Oswego, Lichtenstein met Reginald Neal, the new head of the art department at Douglass College, the women’s college of Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The school was strengthening and expanding its studio art program, and when Neal needed to add a faculty member to his department, Lichtenstein was invited to apply for the job. Lichtenstein was offered the position of assistant professor, and he began teaching at Douglass in September 1960. At Douglass, Lichtenstein was thrown into a maelstrom of artistic ferment. With New York museums and galleries an hour away, and colleagues Geoffrey Hendricks and Robert Watts at Douglass and Allan Kaprow and George Segal at Rutgers, the environment could not help but galvanize him. In June 1961, Lichtenstein returned to the idea he had fooled around with in Oswego, which was to combine cartoon characters from comic books with abstract backgrounds. But, as Lichtenstein said, “[I]t occurred to me to do it by mimicking the cartoon style without the paint texture, calligraphic line, modulation—all the things involved in expressionism.”iii Most famously, Lichtenstein appropriated the Benday dots, the minute mechanical patterning used in commercial engraving, to convey texture and gradations of color—a stylistic language synonymous with his subject matter. The dots became a trademark device forever identified with Lichtenstein and Pop Art. Lichtenstein may not have calibrated the depth of his breakthrough immediately but he did realize that the flat affect and deadpan presentation of the comic-strip panel blown up and reorganized in the Sherman-inflected way “was just so much more compelling”iv than the gestural abstraction he had been practicing. Among the first extant paintings in this new mode—based on comic strips and illustrations from advertisements—were Popeye and Look Mickey, which were swiftly followed by The Engagement Ring, Girl with Ball and Step-on Can with Leg. Kaprow recognized the energy and radicalism of these canvases and arranged for Lichtenstein to show them to Ivan Karp, director of the Leo Castelli Gallery. Castelli was New York’s leading dealer in contemporary art, and he had staged landmark exhibitions of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg in 1958 and Frank Stella in 1960. Karp was immediately attracted to Lichtenstein’s paintings, but Castelli was slower to make a decision, partly on account of the paintings’ plebeian roots in commercial art, but also because, unknown to Lichtenstein, two other artists had recently come to his attention—Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist—and Castelli was only ready for one of them. After some deliberation, Castelli chose to represent Lichtenstein, and the first exhibition of the comic-book paintings was held at the gallery from February 10 to March 3, 1962. The show sold out and made Lichtenstein notorious. By the time of Lichtenstein’s second solo exhibition at Castelli in September 1963, his work had been showcased in museums and galleries around the country. He was usually grouped with Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Rosenquist, Segal, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Indiana and Tom Wesselmann. Taken together, their work was viewed as a slap in the face to Abstract Expressionism and, indeed, the Pop artists shifted attention away from many members of the New York School. With the advent of critical and commercial success, Lichtenstein made significant changes in his life and continued to investigate new possibilities in his art. After separating from his wife, he moved from New Jersey to Manhattan in 1963; in 1964, he resigned from his teaching position at Douglass to concentrate exclusively on his work. The artist also ventured beyond comic book subjects, essaying paintings based on oils by Cézanne, Mondrian and Picasso, as well as still lifes and landscapes. Lichtenstein became a prolific printmaker and expanded into sculpture, which he had not attempted since the mid-1950s, and in both two- and three-dimensional pieces, he employed a host of industrial or “non-art” materials, and designed mass-produced editioned objects that were less expensive than traditional paintings and sculpture. Participating in one such project—the American Supermarket show in 1964 at the Paul Bianchini Gallery, for which he designed a shopping bag—Lichtenstein met Dorothy Herzka (b. 1939), a gallery employee, whom he married in 1968. The late 1960s also saw Lichtenstein’s first museum surveys: in 1967 the Pasadena Art Museum initiated a traveling retrospective, in 1968 the Stedelijk Musem in Amsterdam presented his first European retrospective, and in 1969 he had his first New York retrospective, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Wanting to grow, Lichtenstein turned away from the comic book subjects that had brought him prominence. In the late 1960s his work became less narrative and more abstract, as he continued to meditate on the nature of the art enterprise itself. He began to explore and deconstruct the notion of brushstrokes—the building blocks of Western painting. Brushstrokes are conventionally conceived as vehicles of expression, but Lichtenstein made them into a subject. Modern artists have typically maintained that the subject of a painting is painting itself. Lichtenstein took this idea one imaginative step further: a compositional element could serve as the subject matter of a work and make that bromide ring true. The search for new forms and sources was even more emphatic after 1970, when Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein bought property in Southampton, New York, and made it their primary residence. During the fertile decade of the 1970s, Lichtenstein probed an aspect of perception that had steadily preoccupied him: how easily the unreal is validated as the real because viewers have accepted so many visual conceptions that they don’t analyze what they see. In the Mirror series, he dealt with light and shadow upon glass, and in the Entablature series, he considered the same phenomena by abstracting such Beaux-Art architectural elements as cornices, dentils, capitals and columns. Similarly, Lichtenstein created pioneering painted bronze sculpture that subverted the medium’s conventional three-dimensionality and permanence. The bronze forms were as flat and thin as possible, more related to line than volume, and they portrayed the most fugitive sensations—curls of steam, rays of light and reflections on glass. The steam, the reflections and the shadow were signs for themselves that would immediately be recognized as such by any viewer. Another entire panoply of works produced during the 1970s were complex encounters with Cubism, Futurism, Purism, Surrealism and Expressionism. Lichtenstein expanded his palette beyond red, blue, yellow, black, white and green, and invented and combined forms. He was not merely isolating found images, but juxtaposing, overlapping, fragmenting and recomposing them. In the words of art historian Jack Cowart, Lichtenstein’s virtuosic compositions were “a rich dialogue of forms—all intuitively modified and released from their nominal sources.”v In the early 1980s, which coincided with re-establishing a studio in New York City, Lichtenstein was also at the apex of a busy mural career. In the 1960s and 1970s, he had completed four murals; between 1983 and 1990, he created five. He also completed major commissions for public sculptures in Miami Beach, Columbus, Minneapolis, Paris, Barcelona and Singapore. Lichtenstein created three major series in the 1990s, each emblematic of his ongoing interest in solving pictorial problems. The Interiors, mural-sized canvases inspired by a miniscule advertisement in an Italian telephone...
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Pop Art 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Postcard

Unique signed pastel & graphite work Geometric Abstraction Minimalist painting
Located in New York, NY
Charles Hinman Untitled Geometric Abstraction (Hand Signed), 1980 Pastel & Graphite painting on Paper Signed and dedicated to "Michael and Rene" in graphite by the artist on the fron...
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Abstract Geometric 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel, Pencil, Graphite

Legendary Tony Bennett "NYC Traffic" Original Contemporary Drawing Cityscape
Located in New York, NY
Legendary Tony Bennett "NYC Traffic" Original Contemporary Drawing Cityscape Tony Bennett (1926-2023) "New York City Traffic" 11 x 12 ¼ inches Scratchboard India Ink on Board, 1997 Signed “Benedetto” lower right Framed 18 x 15 inches Provenance: Tony Bennett Estate BIO Tony Bennett is known as a vocal musician, but he is also known as Anthony Dominick Benedetto, an American visual artist. Benedetto was born August 3, 1926. He is the son of Italian immigrants from the Astoria section of Queens, New York. At the age of five Anthony was drawing pictures. He attended public schools and The High School of Industrial Arts in Manhattan where he studied art and music. Art was his first passion. In the 19th century artists like Vincent van Gogh searched for an expressive balance in art and music, but Benedetto/Bennett makes an impressive balance in both forms of artistry. The family name Benedetto means, "Blessed one", and Benedetto is how his art is signed. His paintings are impressions of the beauty throughout the world from his many music tours and travels...
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Contemporary 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, India Ink

Untitled Geometric Abstraction - unique signed and inscribed work -framed
Located in New York, NY
Paul Pagk Untitled Geometric Abstraction, 1989 Gouache and watercolor on paper Signed, dated and inscribed "A Jacqueline". Frame included Excellent unique work on paper by contempora...
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Abstract Geometric 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil, Graphite

Artists in the Spotlight unique signed painting, SF Museum of Modern Art, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Tom Holland Artists in the Spotlight: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), 1985 Acrylic and mixed media with stencil on paper Signed and d...
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Contemporary 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Stencil

B, Modern Abstract Tempera Painting by Yasmin Brandolini
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large minimal abstract painting on paper by Yasmin Brandolini. Artist: Yasmin Brandolini d'Adda, South African/Italian (1929 - ) Title: B Year: 1984 Medium: Tempera on Paper, sig...
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Abstract Geometric 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Tempera

Rainbow
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original realist drawing by American female artist Catherine Koenig. This work is featured in the Draw Near exhibition currently on view at Benjaman Gallery.
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Realist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper, Pastel

Oil Painting of the English Lake District by Modern British Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of Glaramara and Combe Ghyll in the English Lake District by Modern British Landscape Artist Arthur Terry Blamires (b. 1930) Art measures 20 x 16 inches Frame measure 2...
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Realist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil, Board

UNTITLED (TORSO)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original photo transfer on acetate and colored paper mounted on paper. Hand signed on front by the artist. Authenticated by Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board...
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Pop Art 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Photographic Paper, Color

Bridge Contemporary African American Urban Landscape 20th Century Alvin Ailey NY
Located in New York, NY
"Bridge" Contemporary African American Urban Landscape 20th Century Alvin Ailey NYC ROMARE BEARDEN (American, 1914-1988) The Bridge, 1982 signed 'Romare Bearden' (upper left); with...
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Contemporary 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Signatures II, Minimalist Mixed Media Painting by Robyn Denny
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original painting on paper by British Modern artist Robyn Denny. It is signed and dated lower right and titled lower left. Framed to 44 x 32 inches.
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Minimalist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Chalk

"Two Faces"
Located in Warren, NJ
Peter Max original 1980 ink drawing on paper. Measurements: 19.5in x 17in In good condition some frame wear.
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1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Permanent Marker

1985 Original Abstract Watercolor Painting – Monochrome Black & White Modern Art
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating 1985 abstract painting by Colorado Springs artist Ynez Johnston masterfully combines watercolor and gouache on paper, creating a striking monochrome composition. Fea...
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Abstract Expressionist 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

"Let's Rodeo" Colorful Abstract Modern Cowboy Pastel Portrait Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful abstract modern pastel drawing of a cowboy by Texas artist Robert Sandman. The work features a man dressed in vibrant clothes holding a cowboy ...
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Modern 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

Portrait of a Boy - Drawing by Anthony Roaland - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a boy is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artwork represents a fresh and beautiful nude male portrait...
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Contemporary 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Modern Realistic Sepia Toned Ink Drawing Study of Nude Male and Female Figures
Located in Houston, TX
Modern realistic sepia toned drawing of nude figures by Texas artist Robert Levers. The work features a male figure with horns in an aggressive sta...
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Modern 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Eight of Hearts mixed media silkscreen hand applied acrylic, signed unique Frame
Located in New York, NY
Robert Petersen Eight of Hearts, 1989 Mixed media silkscreen with hand applied acrylic on paper with deckled edges Hand signed, numbered 6/21, dated, and inscribed on the front Uniqu...
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Contemporary 1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Acrylic, Pencil, Graphite, Screen, Mixed Media

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