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Style: Abstract Expressionist
Veiled Series XX , Abstract Expressionist Organic Drawing Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Dorothy Gillespie (June 29, 1920 – September 30, 2012) was an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures. Gillespie became best known for the aluminum sculptures she started to produce at the end of the 1970s. She would paint sheets of the metal, cut them into strips and connect the strips together to resemble cascades or starbursts of bright colored ribbon. The New York Times once summarized her work as “topsy-turvy, merrymaking fantasy,” and in another review declared, “The artist’s exuberant sculptures of colorful aluminum strips have earned her an international reputation.Her works are featured at her alma mater (Radford University) in Virginia, where she later returned to teach, as well as in New York (where she was artist in residence for the feminist Women's Interart Center), Wilmington, North Carolina and Florida.
She enrolled both at Radford University near her hometown, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The director of the Maryland Institute, Hans Schuler, helped foster her career in fine art.
On June 5, 1943, aged 23, Gillespie moved to New York City. There she took a job at the B. Altman department store as assistant art director. She also joined the Art Students League where she was exposed to new ideas about techniques, materials, and marketing. She also created works at Atelier 17 printmaking studio, where Stanley William Hayter encouraged to experiment with her own ideas.
She and her husband, Bernard Israel, opened a restaurant and night club in Greenwich Village to support their family. She returned to making art in 1957, and worked at art full-time after they sold the nightclub in the 1970.
In 1977 Gillespie gave her first lecture series at the New School for Social Research, and she would give others there until 1982. She taught at her alma mater as a Visiting Artist (1981-1983) and gave Radford University some of her work to begin its permanent art collection. Gillespie then served as Woodrow Wilson visiting Fellow (1985-1994), visiting many small private colleges to give public lectures and teach young artists. She returned to Radnor University to teach as Distinguished Professor of Art (1997–99).[8] She also hosted a radio program, the Dorothy Gillespie Show on Radio Station WHBI in New York from 1967-1973.
Gillespie began moving away from realism and into the abstraction that marked her career. Gillespie returned to New York City in 1963 to continue her career. She maintained a studio through the 70s and advocate worked towards feminist goals in the art industry, picketing the Whitney Museum, helping to organize the Women's Interart Center, curating exhibitions of women's art, and writing articles raising awareness of her cause. Gillespie numbered among her acquaintances such art-world luminaries as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson and Georgia O’Keeffe. “She had amazing stories that unfortunately are gone,” her son said.
During the 1960s, she built multimedia art installations that made political statements, such as 1965’s “Made in the USA,” that used blinking colored lights, mirrors, shadow boxes, rotating figures and tape recordings to convey a chaotic look at American commercial fads. The floor was strewn with real dollar bills, which visitors assumed were fake.
By the 1980s, Gillespie's work had come to be known internationally. She completed many commissions for sculptures in public places, including Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center and Walt Disney World Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Her work is in many collections across the United States, including the Delaware Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her sculptures can also be found in the Frankfurt Museum in Germany and the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel.
Group Shows Conceived and Curated by Dorothy Gillespie
Women's Interart Center, New York, NY 1974 included: Betty Parsons, Elsie Asher, Alice Baber, Minna Citron, Nancy Spero, Seena Donneson, Alice Neel, Natalie Edgar, Dorothy Gillespie, and Anita Steckel...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Red Song of Blood - Drawing by Parimah Avani - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Red Song of Blood is a Drawing realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022.
China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
Excellent conditi...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
$325 Sale Price
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Don´t Talk To Me About Valentines Day, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
By Gesa Reuter
Located in Yardley, PA
This powerful emotional abstract watercolor painting was done on Valentine´s day! What's your opinion on this day? Watermarks and lines, scratches and other watercolor effects ar...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
There Is More, Painting, Watercolor on MDF Panel
By Gesa Reuter
Located in Yardley, PA
This is a special watercolor on board painting - watercolors on a museum quality acid free clay on wood panel. This means that the painting can be framed without glass just like a no...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Such A Rainy Day, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
By Gesa Reuter
Located in Yardley, PA
This powerful emotional abstract watercolor painting is exploring storm, rain, sea, light.... and so is a metaphor for feelings and emotions and the light behind it all. Watermark...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Facing It, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
By Gesa Reuter
Located in Yardley, PA
This powerful emotional abstract watercolor painting is exploring thoughts, emotions.... Watermarks and lines, scratches and other watercolor effects are important to my work and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Please Call Dr. Horder"Sylvia Plath's last Notes- Drawing by Parimah Avani-2022
Located in Roma, IT
"Please Call Dr. Horder", Sylvia Plath's last Note is an original painting realized by Iranian artist and poet Parimah Avani in 2022.
China ink and acryl...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
Watercolour squared abstract by Modern British artist Adrian Heath
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Adrian Heath (British, 1920 – 1992)
Squared abstract
Pencil, pastel, gouache and watercolour
Signed with Initials and dated `AH 78` (lower right)
8.3/4 x 7.3/4 in. (22 x 19.5 cm)
Ad...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Because You Are Dead - Drawing by Parimah Avani - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
"Because You Are Dead" is a Drawing realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022.
China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
Excellent co...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
United with Victorious Rose - Drawing by Parimah Avani - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
United with Victorious Rose is a Drawing realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022.
China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored paper.
Ha...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
Bloody Roses Of Street - Drawing by Parimah Avani - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Bloody Roses Of Street is a Drawing realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022.
China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
Excellent condit...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
$334 Sale Price
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The Blossom of Freedom - Drawing by Parimah Avani - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
The Blossom of Freedom is a drawing realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022.
China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
Excellent conditions.
Presented in a Personal exhibition of "le Poesie Di Lutto e Di Lotta " (The Poems of Struggle and Mourning) curated by Leda Bartolucci in Turin, Italy, Bagni Pubblici, 2022.
The artwork is poetically created through expressionistic brush strokes, the well-applied dry and watery strokes from the series “The Poems of Struggle and Mourning " in poetic style representing revolutionary figures in a minimalistic manner.
The various layer is made perfectly by the expression of brushes, which makes this series unique: is deeply behind the dynamic emotion of each figure and abstract form, four colors here have metaphorical features; pink as woman, yellow as hope, silvery as resistance, and red as blood.
Inspired by Persian calligraphy...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
$527 Sale Price
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Mid Century Abstract Vertical Sunset
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract watercolor fragment of a sunset over a field by Irene Pattinson (American, 20th Century). Tag on verso reads "Miller Fine Art / The Estate of Irene Pattinson". Unsigned. Acq...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Tissue Paper
$380 Sale Price
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Study after Big Bang
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Carroll Dunham (1949 - )
Title: Study after Big Bang
Date: 2016
Medium: Pencil on paper, signed and dated upper left
Size: 18.25 x 13.87 in. (46.36 x 35.23 cm)
Frame Size: 27...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Mid Century Modern East Bay Abstracted Landscape
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the East Bay California landscape by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999), circa 1950. From a collection of esta...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
$760 Sale Price
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Yellow, Blue & Red Abstract
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
A bold abstract watercolor with yellow and blue, contrasted with red accents by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed "Les Anderson" on verso. From the estate o...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$300 Sale Price
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Jody Pinto, "Orange Leg Landscape, " Mixed Media Drawing, 1979
By Jody Pinto
Located in Long Island City, NY
This watercolor, gouache, graphite, and crayon drawing on paper was created by contemporary artist Jody Pinto (b. 1942). Pinto's large-scale architecture and small-scale design all h...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
'Avon Walk, no 12', mixed media , signed original painting
Located in Frome, Somerset
Avon Walk No 12, mixed media on paper. Signed original work.
Painting 28 x 45cm
Glazed oak frame 48cm x 65cm.
Part of Gradwell's painting subjects around the River Avon in Wiltshire ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Yaddo A (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Located in London, GB
Yaddo A (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Watercolour on 100% rag hot press paper. Unframed.
Melissa Meyer is an American abstract painter and printmaker. Her energetic, colorful c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
0118.5 (Abstract painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
0118.5 (Abstract painting)
Pigmented wax and ink on Shikoku paper - Unframed
Working on paper has always been an important part of Tracey Adams daily practice.
For almost thirty ye...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Wax
Red Swash (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Red Swash (Abstract painting)
Oil on gessoed Arches paper. Unframed.
For Russinof, everything begins with color. She begins a painting by applying color in lyrical, gestural marks....
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee and Abstract Expressionist master Sam Francis.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre (1903-2001), a Hungarian modernist painter. As a Denver, Colorado resident, Pavel Kontny exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States, Germany and Japan. There, he was inspired by frequent trips to Native American pueblos in the Southwest, as well as by the study of the Plains Indians of Montana and Wyoming. Over the years Kontny had a number of students and generously helped young artist by hosting exhibitions at his Cherry Hills home. For many years he generously donated his paintings to support charitable causes in Denver. Influences during his European years included German pastelist C.O. Muller, German Informel painter Karl Dahmen and Swiss artist, Hans Erni. In the early 1950s his painting style showed the influence of the Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905 who had a major impact on the evolution of modern art in the twentieth century in Germany. By the middle of the decade his style incorporated more referential abstraction and total abstraction, resulting in part from his study of Hans Hartung, a German artist based in Paris who exhibited his gestural abstract work in Germany. The American moon landing in 1969 inspired Paul Kontny...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Informal III - Oil Paint on Canvas by Giorgio Lo Fermo - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Informal III is an original artwork realized by Giorgio Lo Fermo (b. 1947) in 2020.
Oil on canvas.
Hand signed and dated by the artist on the back. Hand signed and dated on the low...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,671 Sale Price
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Mid Century Modern East Bay V Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern East Bay V Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
Dynamic abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the East Bay California landscape by Erle L...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
$760 Sale Price
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Lightbulb Moment Abstract - "Bright Idea"
Located in Soquel, CA
Lightbulb Moment Abstract - "Bright Idea"
A vibrant abstract painting of a lightbulb in reds accented in yellow and white chalk, by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor, Gouache
$680 Sale Price
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In Arizona, Abstract Expressionist Gouahce on paper by Robert Andrew Parker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Robert Andrew Parker, American (1927 - 2024) - In Arizona, Year: 1961, Medium: Gouahce on paper, signed and dated top left, Size: 18.75 x 23.75 in. (47.63 x 60.33 cm)
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Yellow & Pink Abstract
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract composition with bold pink and yellow forms by Les Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed lower left. Acquired from the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. No fr...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$300 Sale Price
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Vintage Purple & Yellow Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage abstract watercolor with purple lines and yellow forms bleeding together by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed "Les Anderson" on verso. From the esta...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$319 Sale Price
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0118.15
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Pigmented wax and ink on Shikoku paper - Unframed
Working on paper has always been an important part of Tracey Adams daily practice.
For almost thirty years, drawing has provided a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Wax
Schist 9 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Casein on paper - Unframed
Anne Russinof often does paintings on paper to loosen up for the larger canvas works. The point is to free her hand.
For her, everything begins with col...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Casein
Orange & Blue Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Orange & blue 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...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$223 Sale Price
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Untitled #2 - Emmanuelle Messika, 21st Century, Abstract drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Coloured inks and pastel on paper
Signed
Gestural abstraction
Outsider art
Artist’s statement :
"Painting, for me, is an expressive endeavor in which one depicts the evolution of the various facets of the artistic self. There is, on each canvas, a tension where violence and stillness naturally coexist. By playing with different materials, I seek to establish a sort of unexpected dialogue between these states, and aspire to express this tension through profusion of color.
The canvas is the stage that allows me to unite narration with the action of painting the fantastic—even the outrageous---and the everyday. I develop scenarios borrowed from the imagination, which join fantasy, even fables, with the everyday. Pulling threads from each domain, I bring together the mythical and the quotidian, so that the worlds of reality and fantasy merge.
I rely on “creatures,” improbable little characters that could exist in some other realm or dimension. They materialize, issuing forth from the surprising, unbelievable and wondrous world of childhood. Human or animal, both find themselves entangled in inextricable and melancholic situations. These inextricable situations create distance; the humor comes through this breach. It is the absurdity of their predicaments that manifests the humor in the work.
In each of my paintings, the sentiments are heightened by an intentional, provocative tone that transforms the work. An Otherness is attributed to objects; objects become personified, and by their very presence, they become witnesses or guinea pigs torn between and bound to their dilemma.
The titles of my paintings, whether invented or quotations taken out of context, come from literature, theater, or song lyrics.
Accident and chance are often major actors in my work.”
Emmanuelle Messika
BIOGRAPHY :
Emmanuelle Messika was born in France in 1979.
She works and lives in Paris.
STUDIES
1999-2005
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Diplômée en Juin 2005
2004
Échange universitaire à Hunter College, New York NY, USA
1993-1999
Ateliers des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Montparnasse
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS :
2019
Claire Corcia Gallery, Paris
2018
Claire Corcia Gallery, Paris
Outsider Art Fair, Paris
2012
Art Contemporain Sèvres, "La Chartreuse", Sèvres
2011
Espace Seven, Galerie De Vos, Paris
2010
Les Trois Baudets, Paris
Galerie Mariska Hammoudi, Paris
Galerie Crous -Beaux-Arts, Paris
L'Apparemment Café, Paris
2009
Espace Rachi, Paris
2008
Galerie Console, Paris
2007
Exposition Place du Québec, Mairie du sixième, Paris
2006
Galerie Eonnet-Dupuis, Paris
2005
Galerie Crous Beaux Arts, Paris
2004
The Mark Bar, "Bring your own flashlight", Brooklin, New York
2003
Le Glaz’art, Paris
2002
9 rue Dauphine, Paris
2001
Galerie Gauche, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris
2000
La grosse caisse, Paris
La liberté, Paris
GROUP SHOWS
2011
Chic Art Fair, Galerie Mariska Hammoudi
Galerie De Vos, Espace Seven
2010
Galerie Mariska Hammoudi, Paris
Chic Dessin, avec Cherry Gallery...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink
Pink Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Pink abstract watercolor by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Sign...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$223 Sale Price
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0118.2
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Pigmented wax and ink on Shikoku paper - Unframed
Working on paper has always been an important part of Tracey Adams daily practice.
For almost thirty years, drawing has provided a...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Wax
$1,781
Excursions . No 5.' Original signed work circa 2020/2021.
Located in Frome, Somerset
Recent piece by Gradwell. Fine Minimal immediate reaction to his current philosophy. in paint.
'Excursions' circa 2020/21 .
Original mixed media on paper. . Signed in pencil by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Mid Century Modern East Bay II Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern East Bay II Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
Dynamic mid century abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the East Bay California lands...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
$760 Sale Price
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Purple & Red Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Purple & red abstract watercolor by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Unsigned and unframed. Image 10"H x ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$223 Sale Price
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Mid Century Modern East Bay I Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern East Bay I Abstracted Landscape by Erle Loran
Dynamic mid century abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the East Bay California landscape by Erle Loran (Ameri...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
$760 Sale Price
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Pink & Purple Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract watercolor with soft pinks and purples by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Signed on verso and u...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$223 Sale Price
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Green & Yellow Abstract
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract watercolor with layered green and yellow tones by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Signed verso ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$223 Sale Price
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Opel
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: Opel
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic, with silver and gold embellishment
Paper: Wove
Size image: 29.5 x 39.5 ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Signature #XV
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: Signature #15
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size image: 30 x 22.5 inches
Size paper: 30 x 22.5 in...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Conference of the birds no 40 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Oil on paper. Unframed.
Natural and mystical processes inspire Ostovany. Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate and yet comple...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Piccolo VI
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: Piccolo VI
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic and collage on black paper
Paper: Wove black
Size image: 12.5 x ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
0118.5 (Abstract Painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
0118.5 (Abstract Painting)
Pigmented wax and ink on Shikoku paper - Unframed
Working on paper has always been an important part of Tracey Adams daily practice.
For almost thirty ye...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Wax
Untitled 8 (Abstract painting)
By Claude Tétot
Located in London, GB
Untitled 8 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic and oil on paper. Unframed.
Claude Tétot is a French abstract artist whose work expresses harmony in disharmony...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Acrylic
Army Green, Black, & Blue Chine Colle Watercolor with Found Object Collage
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful abstract expressionist collage by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). Composed of two contrasting sections; army green with orange and warm neutral found obj...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Watercolor
Signature #XIII
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: Signature #13
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size image: 30 x 22.5 inches
Size paper: 30 x 22.5 in...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Big Blue Melt 14 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Big Blue Melt 14 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment, Color Pencil and Ice on Mylar. Unframed.
Big Blue Melt are works that have been created with pigment pencils and ice. Peerna starts th...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Pigment, Color Pencil
Veiled Series X , Abstract Expressionist Organic Drawing Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Dorothy Gillespie (June 29, 1920 – September 30, 2012) was an American artist and sculptor who became known for her large and colorful abstract metal sculptures. Gillespie became best known for the aluminum sculptures she started to produce at the end of the 1970s. She would paint sheets of the metal, cut them into strips and connect the strips together to resemble cascades or starbursts of bright colored ribbon. The New York Times once summarized her work as “topsy-turvy, merrymaking fantasy,” and in another review declared, “The artist’s exuberant sculptures of colorful aluminum strips have earned her an international reputation.Her works are featured at her alma mater (Radford University) in Virginia, where she later returned to teach, as well as in New York (where she was artist in residence for the feminist Women's Interart Center), Wilmington, North Carolina and Florida.
She enrolled both at Radford University near her hometown, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. The director of the Maryland Institute, Hans Schuler, helped foster her career in fine art.
On June 5, 1943, aged 23, Gillespie moved to New York City. There she took a job at the B. Altman department store as assistant art director. She also joined the Art Students League where she was exposed to new ideas about techniques, materials, and marketing. She also created works at Atelier 17 printmaking studio, where Stanley William Hayter encouraged to experiment with her own ideas.
She and her husband, Bernard Israel, opened a restaurant and night club in Greenwich Village to support their family. She returned to making art in 1957, and worked at art full-time after they sold the nightclub in the 1970.
In 1977 Gillespie gave her first lecture series at the New School for Social Research, and she would give others there until 1982. She taught at her alma mater as a Visiting Artist (1981-1983) and gave Radford University some of her work to begin its permanent art collection. Gillespie then served as Woodrow Wilson visiting Fellow (1985-1994), visiting many small private colleges to give public lectures and teach young artists. She returned to Radnor University to teach as Distinguished Professor of Art (1997–99).[8] She also hosted a radio program, the Dorothy Gillespie Show on Radio Station WHBI in New York from 1967-1973.
Gillespie began moving away from realism and into the abstraction that marked her career. Gillespie returned to New York City in 1963 to continue her career. She maintained a studio through the 70s and advocate worked towards feminist goals in the art industry, picketing the Whitney Museum, helping to organize the Women's Interart Center, curating exhibitions of women's art, and writing articles raising awareness of her cause. Gillespie numbered among her acquaintances such art-world luminaries as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson and Georgia O’Keeffe. “She had amazing stories that unfortunately are gone,” her son said.
During the 1960s, she built multimedia art installations that made political statements, such as 1965’s “Made in the USA,” that used blinking colored lights, mirrors, shadow boxes, rotating figures and tape recordings to convey a chaotic look at American commercial fads. The floor was strewn with real dollar bills, which visitors assumed were fake.
By the 1980s, Gillespie's work had come to be known internationally. She completed many commissions for sculptures in public places, including Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center and Walt Disney World Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Her work is in many collections across the United States, including the Delaware Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her sculptures can also be found in the Frankfurt Museum in Germany and the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel.
Group Shows Conceived and Curated by Dorothy Gillespie
Women's Interart Center, New York, NY 1974 included: Betty Parsons, Elsie Asher, Alice Baber, Minna Citron, Nancy Spero, Seena Donneson, Alice Neel, Natalie Edgar, Dorothy Gillespie, and Anita Steckel...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Thaw 3 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Thaw 3 (Abstract drawing)
Graphite and colored pencil on two layers of plastic paper. Unframed.
Thaw Series is a new series of drawings where the artist continues her work touchin...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Abstract Pastel Crayon Drawing Color Abstract, Seasonal Letter John Von Wicht
Located in Surfside, FL
Provenance: Virginia Field, arts administrator; New York, N.Y. Assistant director for Asia House gallery. (she was friends with John von Wicht, Bernard Childs, John Ford and Andy War...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Pastel
Breeze (Fire Island)
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American multidisciplinary artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Dehner's legacy has been ...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Remains (Body in the Field 2) - Contemporary, Green, Blue, Beige, Grey
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 2), 2022
oil on paper
16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in.
42 H x 30 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Pink & Blue Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Pink and blue mix abstract with linear shapes and dots by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Signed "Les An...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$223 Sale Price
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Blue & Yellow Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
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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1980s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$223 Sale Price
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Purple and Green Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract watercolor composition with soft purple and green tones, accented with red by Les Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned, but was acquired from the estate of Les Anderson ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$380 Sale Price
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Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink & watercolor on paper
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the w...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Flutter (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Flutter (Abstract Painting)
Oil on paper - Unframed
Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving betwee...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Modernist Abstract Nude Pastel Cyan Figure Study
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern abstracted nude figurative study on a bold cyan background by Louis Nadalini (American, 1927-1995), 1987. Signed and dated "L Nadalini 87" in the low...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
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