Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
ABSTRACT STYLE
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Style: Abstract
Untitled 2 - Original China Ink and Watercolor by F. Canovas - 2002
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled 02 is a superb original color China ink on paper, realized in 2002 by the French-Argentine artist Fernando Canovas (Buenos Aires, 1960).
Signed by the artist on front and o...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Big Candy Grid
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Big Candy Grid' features abstracted candy shapes with vivid and florescent colors within a dazzling contemporary "pop art" composition. Monotype ev edition...
Category
1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Monotype
At sunset. Abstract composition. 2021. Paper, mixed media, 70x48 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Māris Abiļevs (born 23 April 1956 in Kazakhstan) is a Latvian graphic artist and printer, brother of graphic artist Andris Abiļevs. He works in etching, lithography and various mixed...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Pierre Montheillet, Composition in green and yellow, monotype on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre MONTHEILLET (1923-2011)
Composition in green and yellow
Mixed media on paper - monotype
Signed and dedicated “pour mes amis Sallaz” lower right
Dimensions of the work: 28.5 x ...
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1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Monotype
Plane, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
marker, India ink, colored pencil, pen, rubber stamps on paper :: Drawing :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready t...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Gray with Blue, Green
By Irene Zweig
Located in Burlingame, CA
Geometric and serene in its complexity - abstract contemporary painting created with impeccable attention to detail by deconstructing original watercolors—based largely on landscape,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Ink
Gray with Red and Blue
By Irene Zweig
Located in Burlingame, CA
Geometric and serene in its complexity - abstract contemporary painting created with impeccable attention to detail by deconstructing original watercolors—based largely on landscape,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Wood, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
1971 Pat Douthwaite Charcoal drawing of a seated man, Scottish, abstract
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Pat Douthwaite (Scottish, 1939 – 2002)
Seated Man
Charcoal on paper
Indistinctly inscribed, signed and dated ‘Douthwaite 71’ (lower right)
25.1/2 x 18.1...
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20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
0218-10
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Wax, Pigment
Hors Cadre I (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Hors Cadre I (Abstract painting)
Watercolor, color pencil and oil pastel on paper — Unframed
Marie de Lignerolles is an artist, designer, illustr...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Color Pencil
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Light Box No. 2605 - electric light emanating wall or table sculpture
Located in Burlingame, CA
Electric, remote controlled wall or table sculpture created with mixed media: LED's, Mi-Ttentes paper & plexiglass from abstract light installation and mixed media artist Sophia Dixo...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Metal
The Light of Freedom - Drawing by Parimah Avani - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
The Light 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 " representing revolutionary figures in a minimalistic manner and in poetic style.
What 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...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
Geologies Series 9048
By Nancy Charak
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nancy Charak
Title: Geologies Series 9048
Materials: Drawing on 140# Fabriano Artistico
Date: 2018
Dimensions: 30"x22"
Nancy Charak makes paintings and drawings in her studio in Tuc...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Color Pencil
M288 (Abstract new media)
By Jesús Perea
Located in London, GB
M288 (Abstract new media)
Digital creation, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag de 308 gr - Unframed.
Fluctuating between illustration and expressionism, connecting the geometric and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Digital
Red and Yellow Galaxy Abstract on Wrapper of Interview Magazine Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Red and Yellow Galaxy Abstract on Wrapper of Interview Magazine Acrylic on Paper
Saturated abstract composition by Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). Splashes of red, yello...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
Contemporary Abstract Painting with Chine Colle and Watercolor, Collage
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful contemporary painting (Monotype) in primarily grey and black, with found object collage composition of stamps, money, various types of paper, and watercolor by Michael Pauk...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Geologies Series 9042
By Nancy Charak
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nancy Charak
Title: Geologies Series 9042
Materials: Drawing on 140# Fabriano Artistico
Date: 2018
Dimensions: 22"x30"
Nancy Charak makes paintings and drawings in her studio in Tuc...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Color Pencil
The Silvery Song of Resistance - Drawing by Parimah Avani - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
The Silvery Song of Resistance 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.
Excelle...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
WINDOW V - Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media Painting, shadow, curtains, blue
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
WINDOW V captures the soft patterned shadow of the trees veiled by a sheer curtain. This painting is is part of an on-going series that explores the light and landscape in Tennessee....
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Polyester, Oil, Acrylic, Gouache, Mesh
Composition- India Ink and Watercolor by Maurizio Gracceva - 2010
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva (Roma, 1955) in 2010.
Good condition.
Hand-signed.
China ink.
Author of numerous philosophical and literary essay...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
20th century Belgium, Black and White Abstract pencil drawing, Etude
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding pencil on paper Abstract drawing.
Marcel Dumont was a Liège artist who painted in oils and gouache, also produced collages and was an illustrator and engraver, doing so in a number of different styles. Early on in his career, he tended to produce paintings displaying a poetic realism but this changed over time until, in 1957, he was employing geometric abstraction and later still, the influence of pop art could be discerned. His geometric style has strong linear structure which occasionally veers to expressionism and the effect of this is an interesting sense of detachment that the viewer of the work can feel and one engages with the subject on a different level than one would normally expect. A critic wrote of him," Sometimes expressionist, sometimes linear, the abstraction forms itself willingly, in Marcel Dumont's world, to leave the rectangular structure to connect to carefully prepared tones. He retains also, in his abundant output, a few poetic pop-art collages together with a number of drawings and engravings illustrating Stefan Zweig...
Category
1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"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...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
Morgan O'Hara, Movement of the Hands of Anthony Auerbach, Drawing, March 2000
Located in Darien, CT
Live Transmission
Morgan O'Hara's conceptually based performative drawing researches the vital movement of living beings, the human experience of time and space. It is culturally co...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Flat Top Mountain - Abstract Geometric Landscape
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous burst of blue behind a flat top mountain with splashes of orange in this abstract geometric landscape by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999). Signed and dated lower right "Erle...
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Rag Paper
Abstract Geometric Illusory Line Art in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Geometric Illusory Line Art in Ink on Paper by Geraldine Heib
In this line abstract by Jerry O'Day (American, 1912), lines intersect and layer in straight and rounded ways giving a sense of movement to the piece. O'Day uses simple ink on paper and pure geometric form in the Minimalist style of the 1960s.
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Mat size: 39"H x 27"W
Paper size: 30"H x 20"W
Image size: 27"H x 16"W
Jerry O'Day is also known as Geraldine Heib. Born in Oakland, California, on June 17, 1912. Geraldine Heib assumed the name Jerry O'Day at an early age. She grew up in Washington and studied in Seattle at the Cornish School of Fine Arts. Upon moving to the San Francisco Bay area in 1938, she further studied with Bufano as a muralist for two years. O'Day wed sculptor David Lemon and had a gallery in a converted cod fishery in Belvedere from 1942 until 1963. At that time, the couple moved to a houseboat in Sausalito, where she remained until her demise on March 30, 1986.
Post War California artist, Jerry O'Day studied at the Cornish School of Fine Arts in Seattle; studied with Beniamino Bufano for two years. She lived in the artist's colony at the Cod fishery with artist David Lemon on Belvedere Island in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1942 - 1963.
Solo Exhibitions: City of Paris, Rotunda Gallery; Lucien Labaudt Gallery, 1963; Torrance Gallery, San Anselmo, 1955; Marin Art Gallery, Sausalito, 1956; Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1962; East & West Gallery, Fillmore Street, San Francisco; Landmarks Gallery, Marin County, 1991.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 65th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1945; Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1963.
Source:
David J Carlson...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
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...
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
Ecume (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Ecume (Abstract painting)
Collage, acrylic, watercolor and colored pencil — Unframed
The foam, the water and the earth. Space of a moment when we no longer know whether what we see ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Jack Roth "Firenzie" Original Abstract Watercolor c.1981
By Jack Roth
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jack Roth "Firenzie" Original Abstract Watercolor c.1981
Jack Roth 1927-2004
Original abstract watercolor.
Dimensions 15" wide x 11" high.
The simple frame measures 15.75" wide x...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Reg Butler Abstract Figurative Signed "Manipulator"
By Reg Butler
Located in Detroit, MI
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"Manipulator" is an abstracted figurative drawing in charcoal and graphite. The figure seems to be "manipulating" some object it holds without visual clarity as what that object is leaving it up to the viewer to fantasize about its intent. The drawing has a monumentality to it that speaks of Butler’s influence by Henry Moore, for whom he worked at one time, and echoes the style of the sculptures that Butler created. Butler most often used the female figure in his sculptures and drawings and although it is not certain, this drawing may be of a female figure engaged in some hand work with perhaps a mechanical toy that resembles a bird.
Butler trained as an architect and worked as a blacksmith before becoming Henry Moore’s assistant and developing his own talent as a sculptor. His first solo exhibition was held in 1949 at the Hanover Gallery in London. In 1952 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale and in the same year won a much publicized competition for a Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner which, however, was never made. After winning the 'Unknown Political Prisoner' competition in 1953 he became one of the best known sculptors during the 1950s and 1960s, and also taught at the Slade School of Art.
Reginald Cotterell Butler (28 April 1913 – 23 October 1981) was an English sculptor born at Bridgefoot House, Buntingford, Hertfordshire to Frederick William Butler, formerly a police constable, and Edith Barltrop. His parents were the Master and Matron of the Buntingford Union Workhouse. His father was a relative of the poet William Butler Yeats; Edith was of Anglo-French descent.
Butler studied and lectured at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London from 1937 to 1939. He was a conscientious objector during the Second World War, being exempted from military service conditional upon setting up a small blacksmith business repairing farm implements. Butler's later work consists of lifelike models of female figures, such as Girl on a Round Base, that have something in common with Hans Bellmer and the sculpture of Allen Jones and prefigure the work of Ron Mueck...
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1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Charcoal
NYC School Abstract Expressionist Russian-American Painter Pastel Drawing
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract Artwork (drawing or rubbing) laid on a New Years card.
Provenance: Virginia Field, Arts administrator; New York, N.Y. Assistant director for Asia House gallery. (she was friends with John von Wicht, Ben Zion and Andy Warhol)
During the summer of 1948 in the Cape Cod Massachusetts artists’ colony of Provincetown, Stillman’s experiments with such techniques led to a unique drawing process. Using an inkless pen, or some such tool, the artist impressed the paper with invisible scribbles, which only emerged as white lines when he rubbed a flat stick of charcoal or pastel across the surface. These evocative, subtly modulated, works on paper are sophisticated, yet little known, examples of Abstract Expressionist art. He imbued his abstractions with a glowing atmospheric quality that derives from both impressionism and the Old Testament concept of divine light. He subsequently adapted this technique to the graphic arts, experimenting in the early 1950s with color lithograph and woodcut print techniques.
Ary...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Pastel
Composition - Watercolor by G. Schneider - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original watercolor on paper, realized in 1963 by Gérard Ernest Schneider
Hand signed and dated by the artist on lower margin.
Provenance: Carlo Pellizzari Colle...
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1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Chicken, 1940s Abstract Geometric Pen & Ink Drawing in Brown, Black, Cream
Located in Denver, CO
This original pen and ink drawing titled "The Chicken" was created by renowned 20th-century artist Edward Marecak (1919-1993) in the 1940s. This abstract geometric depiction features...
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1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Abstract Composition - Watercolor Drawing - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a contemporary artwork realized the mid-20th century..
Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
The artwork is created through deft quick stro...
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1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Open Loop II, graphic geometric abstract painting on paper, with blue & gold
Located in Dallas, TX
"Open Loop II" is a bright graphic abstract geometric original work on paper with patterns and shapes. The colors used are blue, gold and black. It is part of Kazaan Viveiros' series...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Colorful Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract watercolor with bold, dynamic colors by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Unsigned and unframed. ...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Because You Are Dead - Drawing by Parimah Avani - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Because You Are Dead is a drawing realised by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022.
China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-signe...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract 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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Long Island City, NY
Anne Youkeles' work blurs the line between painting and sculpture. Her works on paper, like this one, are made with several folded pieces of paper, cut, colored, and placed together ...
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1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Spring- earth tone blue color circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Woods (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Gina Werfel
Located in London, GB
Woods (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Acrylic and mixed media on paper - Unframed.
Werfel employs expressive, lyrical gestures that create b...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
1950s British black and white abstract by Norman Edgar Hubert
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Norman Edgar Hubert (British, 1906 – 1985)
Geometric abstract in black and white
Signed and dated ‘E Hubert 55’ (on the reverse)
Gouache on black paper
25.3/8 x 20.3/4 in. (64.3 x 53 cm.)
Abstract painter, born Norman Edgar Hubert in Billingshurst, Sussex, and one of the mysterious curiosities of modern British painting. He was at school at Sherborne, and after studying art at University of Reading, 1924–6, was at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1926–9 (gaining a certificate for drawing, 1926–7). Henry Tonks was among his teachers and he shared rooms with William Townsend, in whose journals he appears. Although he socialized with such painters as Geoffrey Tibble, William Coldstream and Rodrigo Moynihan...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Exterior- earth tone green color circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Sardinia - Watercolor Drawing by Antonietta Valente - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Sardinia is an original watercolor on paper 300g/m2 realized by Antonietta Valente in 2020.
Hand-signed and dated on the back. Perfect conditions. Certificate of authenticity provid...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Modern British Art abstract sculpture design by William Black
Located in London, GB
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William Black
Design for Sculpture (1966)
Watercolour
18 x 16 cm
Signed and dated lower right.
A design for a metal sculpture, on a blue- and grey-toned background.
William Black was a St Ives artist who began his career as an architect. In the 1950s he came into money and ran away to St Ives to become a professional artist, studying under Joh Tunnard and associating with other artists like Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. Black rarely put up work for sale during his lifetime and is known for his architectural and deconstructivist sculptures which espoused the modernist spirit of the St Ives group...
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1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Francesca 8: abstract painting w/ natural materials on black artist's paper
By Nancy Agati
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This painted work-on-paper is an abstract geometric design that references colors, shapes, and aesthetics that artist Nancy Agati encountered in Italy. The densely layered compositio...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Slate
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Pigment, Color Pencil
Modern British drawing of abstract figures by Arthur Berridge, 1950
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Arthur Berridge (British, 1902-1957)
Abstracted figures #1 1950
Charcoal
14.1/2 x 21.1/2 in. (36.8 x 54.7 cm.)
Provenance: David Lay, Penzance
Born in Leicester in 1902, Berrid...
Category
20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Angular Rhythm
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American multidisciplinary artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Despite her artistic cont...
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1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Manifest 1 (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Manifest 1 (Abstract Drawing)
Charcoal and water on paper. Unframed.
Margaret Neill works for a time on a group of pieces in a series, using classic almost primal materials such as...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Tingel-tangel - XXI Century, Mixed media drawing, Abstraction, Colorful
By Leszek Rózga
Located in Warsaw, PL
LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015)
He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948, he began studies at the art school in Łódź (later: Academy of Fine Arts)...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Ink
20th century Belgium, Black and White Abstract pencil drawing, Etude
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding pencil on paper Abstract drawing.
Marcel Dumont was a Liège artist who painted in oils and gouache, also produced collages and was an illustrator and engraver, doing so in a number of different styles. Early on in his career, he tended to produce paintings displaying a poetic realism but this changed over time until, in 1957, he was employing geometric abstraction and later still, the influence of pop art could be discerned. His geometric style has strong linear structure which occasionally veers to expressionism and the effect of this is an interesting sense of detachment that the viewer of the work can feel and one engages with the subject on a different level than one would normally expect. A critic wrote of him," Sometimes expressionist, sometimes linear, the abstraction forms itself willingly, in Marcel Dumont's world, to leave the rectangular structure to connect to carefully prepared tones. He retains also, in his abundant output, a few poetic pop-art collages together with a number of drawings and engravings illustrating Stefan Zweig...
Category
1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Blue and Bronze Kimono - Hand Augmented Collotype
Located in Soquel, CA
Hand-augmented collotype by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Signed "Patricia A. Pearce" in the lower right corner. There are embossed wavy lines running horizontally, with ri...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Color Pencil
1980s "Brown DNA" Abstract Marker Drawing
By John Peters
Located in Arp, TX
John Peters 1927-2019
"Brown DNA"
1980s
Marker on paper
8"x10" brown wood frame float mount over linen mat 11"x12.75
Unsigned, came from a portfolio of the artist's work
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Permanent Marker
Lemon Juice - Watercolor Drawing by Antonietta Valente - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Lemon Juice is an original watercolor on paper 300g/m2 realized by Antonietta Valente in 2020.
Hand-signed and dated on the back. Perfect conditions. Cer...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
John Weston - Framed Mid 20th Century Watercolour, Barges at Teddington Lock
Located in Corsham, GB
Original watercolour. Presented in a narrow oak frame. Signed to the lower left. Labelled verso. On watercolour paper.
Category
20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Large Assemblage Collage 2 Sided Painting Outsider Art
By Paul Shimon
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in New York, Paul Shimon (1919 - 2011) was both an accomplished artist and composer.
Considered by some to be an Early Outsider artist, Shimon studied at the Art Students Leag...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
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