Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Style: Contemporary
Spring Iris, floral art, landscape drawing, still-life, affordable art
Located in Deddington, GB
Spring Iris by Ellen Williams [2022]
original
Coloured pencil on 150gsm paper
Image size: H:29.7 cm x W:21 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:29.7 cm x W:21 cm x D:0.01cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
This drawing is one in a series of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Coffee Peloton XXXI
Located in Deddington, GB
Coffee Peloton XXXI by Eliza Southwood [2022]
original
Coffee on Paper
Image size: H:59.5 cm x W:42.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:59.5 cm x ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Coffee
Coffee Espresso #8
Located in Deddington, GB
Coffee Espresso #8 by Eliza Southwood [2022]
original
Coffee on Paper
Image size: H:59.5 cm x W:42.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:59.5 cm x W:42.5 cm x D:0.1cm
Sold Unfra...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Coffee
Wild Poppies II
Located in Deddington, GB
Wild Poppies II [2022]
original
Coloured pencil on 150gsm paper
Image size: H:29.7 cm x W:21 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:29.7 cm x W:21 cm x D:0.01cm
Sold Unframed
Please n...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Paper, Color Pencil
In Another World (red and 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 m...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper, Pastel
Butterflies & Exuberant Flowers_America Martin_Ink on Paper_Floral/Still Life
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Butterflies and Exuberant Flowers"
Ink on Paper
33.75” x 28” Framed
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based in Los Ang...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
White Eggplant on Black Table
Located in New York, NY
"White Eggplant on Black Table" is a color pencil drawing by artist Emilio Sanchez, circa 1995. It is drawn to the paper edge and initialed "ES" in the lower right. The "Emilio Sanch...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Baggage Claim, Bags #2
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed "Rhonda V" in memory of the artist's mother
From the series: Baggage Claim, inspired by the death of the artist's mother. The reference to "Baggage" is symbolic to all the emotion and hurt one accumulates through life and how the accumulations weights down on the spirit.
Watercolor on Yupo paper...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Baggage Claim (Bags #1)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Created in 2017 this series, Baggage Claim, speaks to the symbolic emotional weight one accumulates through life and how the accumulations weigh down the spirit. The artist used handbags...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Study for the Box)
By Ricardo Maffei
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A pastel on paper executed in deep blues, tans and reds by contemporary artist Ricardo Maffei. Signed upper left, "Ricardo Maffei, 1997."
Provenance:
General Electric Corporate C...
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1990s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Marin
By Echo Eggebrecht
Located in New York, NY
Echo Eggebrecht
Marin, 2005
Watercolor on paper
11 x 17 inches (image)
16 x 23 inches (sheet)
17 x 24 inches (frame)
Signed on back
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
North Sea - Watercolor with Single Peach Colored Bloom, Blue Vase & Wayward Seas
Located in Chicago, IL
"North Sea", by Christina Haglid, is a meticulously detailed watercolor. The single bloom suspended above the vase has translucent water droplets covering its soft peach colored pet...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Archival Paper
ELKHORN FERN - Still Life Drawing / Plant / Green Thumb
Located in New York, NY
Original drawing by Elizabeth McGhee
Elizabeth McGhee (b. 1985, Southern California) completed her BFA in 2009 at the Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, CA. She continu...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Thread 3
Located in New York, NY
15"x15" ink and watercolor on paper
ink and watercolor on paper, 42"x 42" available framed
This painting is from as series of ink and watercolor paintings that...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Watercolor
Large Scale Watercolor "The Thread" framed (goose, birds, books)
Located in New York, NY
watercolor on paper, 39"x40" (artwork size) 43" x 43.75"x2" framed size
This beautifully painted watercolor depicts a Canada goose standing atop a modernist chair with the natural c...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Large black and white drawing titled 'Waves' by French artist Yvon Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Waves by Yvon Pissarro (b. 1937)
Conté chalk on paper
70 x 100 (27 ¹/₂ x 39 ³/₈ inches)
Signed and dated Yvon Pissarro 1986
Provenance
Studio of the ar...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Conté
ink on paper "Lost and Found #18"
Located in New York, NY
11"x14" pen and ink painting on paper with depicting a flower and vines with planks of wood with nails and a defined wood grain. This drawing pairs elemen...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Celestial Navigation
Located in New York, NY
watercolor on paper
available unframed
Broadbent has shown extensively throughout the U.S. as well as internationally. Broadbent’s numerous solo exhibitions include the Visual Ar...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Illustration Framed on Canvas: 'Minute Maid'
Located in New York, NY
The murder of John Lennon. The birth of my children. Nixon’s resignation. Brain surgery.
Driven by the desire to express myself, and leave a physical record of my life and times, I’v...
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Color Pencil, Mixed Media
Floor
Located in New York, NY
floor, 2014,
Graphite on paper
15.75 x 20.1 inches / 40 x 51 cm (framed)
Nikos Kanarelis was born in Athens, Greece in 1975 where he now lives and works. Βetween 1999 and 2004 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
The Telephone
Located in New York, NY
The Telephone, 2014
Graphite on paper
15.75 x 20.1 inches / 40 x 51 cm (framed)
Nikos Kanarelis was born in Athens, Greece in 1975 where he now lives and works. Βetween 1999 and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
The Quest
Located in New York, NY
the quest, 2014
Graphite on paper
15.75 x 20.1 inches / 40 x 51 cm (framed)
Nikos Kanarelis was born in Athens, Greece in 1975 where he now lives and wo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Frame
Located in New York, NY
Frame, 2014
Graphite on paper
15.75 x 20.1 inches / 40 x 51 cm
Nikos Kanarelis was born in Athens, Greece in 1975 where he now lives and works. Βetween 1999 and 2004 he studied ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
"Shield, Kiowa, Central Plains c. 1850 (small version), " signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Shield, Kiowa, Central Plains c. 1850 (small version)" is an watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. It is an illustration of a painted shield from the Kiow...
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1990s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Sunlit Tropical Orchids, " Original Mixed Media signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sunlit Tropical Orchids" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett, signed in the lower right. The expressive brush strokes come together to create brilliant red orchids on...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor
Contemporary watercolor landscape city seascape canal boats water signed
By Craig Lueck
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Venice - Produce Market" is an original watercolor on Holbein watercolor paper by Craig Lueck. These petite watercolors that make up Lueck's portfolio serve as windows into the arti...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Dreamers #2 Caroline Veith Contemporary art drawing nature flora flower red
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint and ink on tracing paper
Hand-signed and dated lower right
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Dreamers #1 Caroline Veith Contemporary art drawing nature flora flower red
Located in Paris, FR
Ink on tracing paper
Hand-signed and dated lower left
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Perfect World
Located in Gloucester, MA
Gabrielle Barzaghi's drawing "Perfect World" is part of a series also called "Perfect World," which engage with themes of utopia and dystopia.
This work is unframed. Though we can provide a good frame at reasonable cost, safely shipping larger works on paper...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
ink on paper "Lost and Found #16"
Located in New York, NY
11"x14" pen and ink painting on paper with depicting long stemmed flowers and planks of wood with a defined wood grain. This drawing pairs elements of man...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Hope (30) : Common Bladder Senna – Cloutea arborescens : Botanical drawing
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful realistic drawing on a botanical subject by Laura Fantini.
Laura Fantini is an Italian artist living in New York, known for her hyper-realistic minimalist colored pencil s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Board, Color Pencil
Hope (38) : Carolina Silverbell - Halesia tetraptera : Botanical drawing
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful colored drawing on a botanical subject by Laura Fantini.
Laura Fantini is an Italian artist living in New York, known for her hyper-realistic minimalist colored pencil s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Board, Color Pencil
Hope (40) : European Bladdernut - Staphylea Pinnata : Botanical drawing
Located in New York, NY
Colored drawing on a botanical subject by Laura Fantini.
Laura Fantini is an Italian artist living in New York, known for her hyper-realistic minimalist colored pencil still life d...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Board, Color Pencil
Phobos
Located in New York, NY
watercolor on paper, available framed in a natural wood, shadowbox frame. Signed on reverse
This painting depicts Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. Masterfully painted in watercol...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cubby
Located in New York, NY
ink and watercolor on paper, 30"x 26"
This painting is from as series of ink and watercolor paintings that depict ad-hoc structures, similar to tree houses or forts. The ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Watercolor
School Days #27
Located in New York, NY
Available unframed
ink on paper, 8"x10"
Jesse Lambert was born in Hudson, NY and grew up in rural New Hampshire and New York City. Jesse received a BFA from Cooper Union and a MF...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
School Days #26
Located in New York, NY
Available unframed
ink on paper, 8"x10"
Jesse Lambert was born in Hudson, NY and grew up in rural New Hampshire and New York City. Jesse received a BFA from Cooper Union and a MF...
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Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Nicolas V. Sanchez - Aperture 14, Drawing 2018
Located in Greenwich, CT
Chacoal on paper
14” H x 17” W
Nicolas V. Sanchez received his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. While at...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Nicolas V. Sanchez - First Gen, Drawing 2024
Located in Greenwich, CT
Color ballpoint pen on paper
8" x 8"
Nicolas V. Sanchez received his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Whi...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen
Nicolas V. Sanchez - First Gen, Drawing 2024
Located in Greenwich, CT
Color ballpoint pen on paper
8" x 8"
Nicolas V. Sanchez received his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Whi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen
Nicolas V. Sanchez - Bridgeman Place, Drawing 2024
Located in Greenwich, CT
Color ballpoint pen on paper
8" x 15"
Nicolas V. Sanchez received his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Wh...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen
Nicolas V. Sanchez - Totem, Drawing 2024
Located in Greenwich, CT
Color ballpoint pen on paper
11" x 16.5"
Nicolas V. Sanchez received his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art....
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen
The Plant I Keep Forgetting to Water
Located in New York, NY
R.F. Alvarez
The Plant I Keep Forgetting to Water
Signed, l.r.
Colored pencil on paper
8.25 x 5.5 inches
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Nicolas V. Sanchez - Ola Arrolladora, Painting 2025
Located in Greenwich, CT
Oil on Canvas
8 x 12 feet
Ola Arrolladora (translated as “sweeping wave”) is a monumental oil painting on canvas measuring 8 x 12 feet recently exhibited at Art on Paper 2024 New Yo...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Six Dick Jokes
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Donelle Woolford
Six Dick Jokes, 2012
Bic pen and archival inkjet on Hähnemuhle German Etching paper, in six parts
33 3/4 x 32 6/10 inches (85.73 x 82.87 cm) in six parts, each she...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Ballpoint Pen
Ream
By Tom Friedman
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Tom Friedman
Ream, 2006
Mixed media on A4 paper
10 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches (26 x 32.4 cm)
Edition 20/29
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Memo
By Tom Friedman
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Tom Friedman
Memo, 2007
Colored pencil on memo pad sheet
8 1/2 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Untitled
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Alexander Ross
Untitled, 2007
Watercolor, colored pencil, gouache and graphite on paper
Framed Dimensions: 28 x 25.5 inches (71.1 x 64.8 cm)
Image Dimensions: 23 x 22 inches (58.4 ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Original Untitled Plant and Vase Drawing by Jonas Wood
By Jonas Wood
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Untitled Plant and Vase Drawing
(Inv # JBRW0021.01.87)
Ink on paper, framed
9 x 6 3/8 inches" paper size
2015
signed and dated on back
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Eviction: A Room Once Empty
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title : Eviction: A Room Once Empty
Materials : pencil on paper
Date : 2016
Dimensions : 7 inches X 12 inches
Description : drawing with cutouts and layers
Walker's work is about us...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Eviction: Room Collapsing in on Itself
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title : Eviction: Room Collapsing in on Itself
Materials : Pencil on Paper
Date : 2016
Dimensions : 9 inches X 10 inches
Description : drawing in frame with cutout and layers
Walker...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Colt Type 10
Located in New York, NY
Colt Type 10, 2016
Mixed media on hand-collaged paper
10 1/2 × 8 in
26.7 × 20.3 cm
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper, Permanent Marker
Conjugation of a Greek Word
Located in New York, NY
Leandros Pigades
Conjugation of a Greek Word, 2015
graphite on paper
36 x 28 cm
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Tea Bowls
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
St. Ives in Cornwall, England is synonymous with art of various forms. In the Tea Bowl series Berlin captures the essence of this ancient form in a high classical style representatio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Hereldic Symbols 1-10
Located in New York, NY
Hereldic Symbols 1-10
Andreev’s paintings and installations draw the viewer into post-revolutionary landscapes containing unidentified flying objects su...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Untitled (Mom)
Located in Lincoln, MA
pencil, watercolor, acrylic and gouache on paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Contemporary still-life drawings and watercolors for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary still-life drawings and watercolors available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add still-life drawings and watercolors created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, orange, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Gary Bukovnik, David Barnett, Manuel Santelices, and Fleur Thesmar. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary still-life drawings and watercolors, so small editions measuring 0.79 inches across are also available. Prices for still-life drawings and watercolors made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $121 and tops out at $65,000, while the average work sells for $1,501.