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
Spring Whispers
Located in THOMERY, FR
Spring Whispers captures the fleeting magic of a blooming garden in motion. Painted from life in a moment of deep connection with nature, this expressive watercolour evokes the joyfu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Aerial #2" Vivid abstraction in white, red, electric chartreuse, orange, blue
By Susan Sharp
Located in Wellesley, MA
Aerial #2, Gouache on Watercolor Paper, 22 x 29 3/4 Inches.
Vivid abstraction in white, bright orange, shades of blue, electric chartreuse, yellow ochre, black, and yellow/green.
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Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Undertow", abstract, botanical, turquoises, blues, watercolor, painting
Located in Natick, MA
In "Undertow" by Sarah Alexander, vibrant turquoises and blues meander throughout this 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch abstract botanical watercolor on canvas. T...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor
"Untitled" Mid 20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Abstraction
Located in New York, NY
"Untitled" Mid 20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Abstraction
James Daugherty (1887 – 1974)
Untitled
12 ¼ x 15 ¼ inches
Initialed and dated February 21, 1966 lower ri...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Balancing act 2 (Abstract Painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Balancing act 2 (Abstract Painting)
Gouache, graphite and ink on Rives paper. Unframed.
Balancing Act 2 is part of a series of works on paper started in 2016.
They are created in the evenings and aptly named after busy days of teaching and other responsibilities.
The artist establishes parameters involving the use of a particular palette, certain mark-making gestures and amount of time spent on each drawing.
This work incorporates graphite, ink, and gouache, and is a combination of intuition-based and planned execution.
Tracey Adams is an American abstract painter and printmaker. Her artworks reflect a strong interest in musical patterns, rhythms, lyrical compositional elements and what she calls a sense of performance. She lives and works in Carmel, California.
Work by Adams is part of the permanent collections of several museums, including the Bakersfield Art Museum, the Monterey Museum of Art, the Fresno Art Museum, the Tucson Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Graphite
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) - Elijah - Hand colored drypoint etching - 1975
Located in Varese, IT
Hand colored drypoint etching on extremely fine Japanese paper
limited edition, numbered in lower left corner HC (horse commerce)
signed in pencil by artist
paper size: 57 x 77 cm ( ...
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Etching
7.10.24 #20 - Colorful Abstract Watercolor Minimalist Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint in fluent b...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil
"My lovely Provence in summer" (contemporary impressionist landscape)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In this vibrant and expressive landscape "My lovely Provence in summer" painting, the artist employs bold, impasto brushstrokes to bring the scene to life. Energetic swirls of vivid ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
7.10.24 #12 - Colorful Abstract Watercolor Minimalist Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint in fluent b...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Original-Drawing Time Series-Gladiolus PleinAir-Brit Awarded Artist-Ink on paper
Located in London, GB
The Summer Bloom Series is an ongoing project that Shizico Yi returns to each summer, painting en plein air in her garden. She began gardening in 2015 to create a healing space for h...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Graphite, Gouache
Truly Madly Deeply (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Truly Madly Deeply (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on paper - Unframed.
This artwork is on un-stretched canvas as per the artist's aesthetic's choice and does not need to be stretched ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Abstract Expressionist British Original Pastel Red Yellow and Blue Solid Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition (c.2022)
by Robert Somerton, British, born 1972.
pastel on art paper, unframed
size: 12.5 x 9.5 inches
condition: excellent
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', C. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Towards the sea, gouache on paper by British female artist Rachel Fenner
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Rachel Fenner ARCA (British, b.1939)
Towards the sea, Porth Y Rhaw
Gouache on paper
Signed ‘Rachel Fenner’ (lower right)
11.3/8 x 14.7/8 in. (29 x 37.7 cm.)
Provenance: Duncan Campbe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Clinton Hill, FL (Florence, Italy), 1952, gouache drawing, an abstraction
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill, who lived in SoHo, New York, was a frequent Gallery visitor. Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, he joined the US Navy during World War II and became a command...
Category
1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Armenian Contemporary Art by Mariam Khachatryan - La Passe
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor on paper, Framed 54 x 44 x 2 cm
Category
1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Work on Paper by Clay Johnson, Untitled (#721)
By Clay Johnson
Located in White Plains, NY
'Untitled (#721)' 2023 by American artist, Clay Johnson. Acrylic on Arches paper, 20 x 16 in. This colorful abstract painting features bands of colors in red, yellow beige, white, an...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
'Dreamscape', Bolivia, Brazil, California, Sao Paulo Biennale, UNESCO
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Mario Cespedes' (Bolivian-American, born 1942) and created circa 1985.
Matted dimensions: 24 H x 18 W x .25 D inches.
Born in Bolivia, Mario Cespedes immigrated...
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1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Post-Impressionist French Watercolour Painting View of Cap Ferrat From Hillside
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed lower left, Inscribed Verso.
watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed
8.25 x 14.25 inches
Very good condition.
Provenance: from the ar...
Category
20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Elizabeth (Seated Figure with Cat)
By Franz Kline
Located in New York, NY
EX COLL.: the artist; to I. David Orr (1904–1997), Long Island, New York; to his estate, 1997 until the present
Originally trained as a figurative painter, Kline was an exceptional ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink
LOVE STAR OF DAVID
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Aventura, FL
Original gouache painting on paper. Hand signed lower front by Yaacov Agam. Image size 20.25 x 18.5 inches. Sheet size 29 x 22.2 inches. Frame size approx 33 x 31 inches.
Cert...
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Large Ink Drawing Abstract Expressionist Rooster Woman Artist
By Judith Brown
Located in Surfside, FL
Judith Brown (December 17, 1931 – May 11, 1992) was a dancer and a sculptor who was drawn to images of the body in motion and its effect on the cloth surrounding it. She welded crushed automobile scrap metal into energetic moving torsos, horses, and flying draperies.
Brown attended Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York (B.A., 1954), where she learned to weld from her teacher, Theodore Roszak, a pioneering abstract expressionist sculptor. This is done in a style similar to Leonard Baskin.
Select Commissions
Mural Sculpture, Lobby, Louisville Radio Station WAVE
Fountain, commissioned by Architectural Interiors, New York City
Model, designed and executed for Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy
Sculpture, designed for Electra Film Productions, NYC
Noah's Ark, exhibited at Bronx Zoo, New York City, at Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, New York, and at Hopkins Center, Hanover, New Hampshire
Store Windows, executed Tiffany & Company Windows, New York City, Christmas 1957, 1959, 1962, October 1969, Spring 1979, and October 1980
Wall Sculptures: for Youngstown Research Center (1963-4), commissioned by Youngstown Steel Company, Youngstown, Ohio; for Hecht and Company, Landmark Shopping Center, Alexandria, Virginia, Daniel Schwartzman, Architect; for Lobby, 570 Seventh Avenue, New York City, Giorgio Cavaglieri, Architect; for Lobby, Cities Service Company's New Research Center, Cranbury, New Jersey; for Ottauquechee Health Center, Woodstock, Vermont
Eternal Lights: for Congregation Beth-El, South Orange, New Jersey; for Congregation Sharey Tefilo, East Orange, New Jersey
Menorahs: commissioned by Architect Fritz Nathan for the Permanent Collection of the Jewish Museum, New York City; commissioned by Smith College for the Helen Hill Chapel, Northampton, Massachusetts; commissioned by Jules Scherman, of Wisteria Press, Inc., New York City
Altar Cross, commissioned by Smith College for the Helen Hill Chapel, Northampton, Massachusetts
Landscape, Memorial Piece for Gustave Heller, YM-YWCA, Essex County, New Jersey
Memorial Plaque for Robert A. Ferguson, Westchester County Airport, Purchase, New York
Sculpture for Vice President's office, Atlantic Richfield Company, New York City
Bronze Relief Sculpture for Gymnasium Lobby, South Richmond High School, Staten Island, New York, Daniel Schwartzman, Architect
Poster, Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton, Vermont
Medallion, commissioned by Brandeis University National Women's Committee, New York City
Model for Fountain for the Plaza at Windsor, Vermont
Bronze Sculpture, commissioned by Intramural, Inc. for Building Lobby, N/E Cor. 79th Street and Second Avenue, New York City
Presentation Piece, commissioned by Graphic Arts Associates of Delaware Valley, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Wall Mural, Noah's Ark, Roosevelt Hospital, New York City
1977: Designed and executed Hanes Hosiery "Million Dollar Award"; Designed and executed "Old Spice" Smart Ship Award
1978: Commissioned to design and execute the "Walter White Award" for the NAACP for presentation to Hubert Humphrey; Commissioned to design and execute the Award for the Honorees of the National Board YWCA's First Tribute to Women in International Industry
1979: Designed and executed Jewelry for the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Designed and executed limited edition of Mazuzas for Brandeis University-National Women's Committee, New York City
1980: Bronze Cross commissioned for St. James Episcopal Church, Woodstock, Vermont
1982: Eubie Award, New York Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
1985: Two Sculptures, Marriott Hotel, Orlando, Florida
1986: Two large Sculptures for indoor reflecting pools, Palm Desert Hotel, Palm Springs, California; John Portman, Eight Sculptures for Peachtree Plaza Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia; John Portman, Beach House, Sea Island, Georgia
1987: Loan Installation, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
1988: Eleven foot outdoor Sculpture for Front Plaza, River Court, Charles River, East Cambridge, Massachusetts, H. J. Davis Development Corp.; Tomie dePaola...
Category
1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Handmade Paper
7.10.24 #22 - Jewel Tone Emerald Peridot Watercolor Minimalist Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Delicate strokes and natural hues shape Shiri Phillips' watercolor, ink, and colored pencil artworks, showcasing her exploration of minimalism and organic forms. Departing from her u...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Original-Drawing Time Series-Gladiolus-PleinAir-Brit Awarded Artist-Ink on paper
Located in London, GB
The Summer Bloom Series is an ongoing project that Shizico Yi returns to each summer, painting en plein air in her garden. She began gardening in 2015 to create a healing space for h...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Graphite, Gouache
Portrait of Young Woman, Raoul Dupoux
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Raoul Dupoux (1906-1988)
Title: Untitled
Year: circa 1965
Medium: Watercolor and pastel on wove paper
Size: 26 x 27 inches
Condition: Good
Inscrip...
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1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
Lines 5 - abstract geometric black ink drawing on paper
By Dana Piazza
Located in New York, NY
Dana Piazza's creates abstract black and white and colorful drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highly obsessive ink drawings on paper ar...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Rhythm Hut #17: framed abstract ink painting on art paper in red & black w/ moon
By Antonio Puri
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a framed mixed media ink painting (sumi inks, India inks, and walnut inks) on paper in red, black, and earth tones. It is framed in a white painted wood shadowbox frame. Orga...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Walnut, Paper, Sumi Ink, India Ink
Geometric Abstraction, signed and inscribed to designer Robert Vogele, Framed
By Ron Gorchov
Located in New York, NY
Ron Gorchov
Untitled, inscribed to Robert Vogele, 1978
Watercolor and etching on paper with 2 deckled edges.
Hand signed in pencil and inscribed on lower front. Inscription reads as ...
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Etching
Abstract Color Field Gradient Painting California Minimalism Shingo Francis
Located in Surfside, FL
Francis, Shingo (Japanese/American, born 1969),
W3 , 1999
Encaustic and watercolor painting on Arches paper,
23.5 x 22.5 inches,
Hand signed and dated verso
Provenance: Garner T...
Category
1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
"This Place is a Dream (Nightshade)" - botanical - cyanotype - flowers - moody
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is an abstract botanical work on paper featuring hues of dark blue, grey and tan. It is framed in a simple white box frame behind UV Plexiglas. The unframed work measures ...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Series "Shells", 42 x 30 cm, acrylic on paper
By Tatiana Nega
Located in Yerevan, AM
Series "Shells", 42 x 30 cm
The work is sold without a frame and mat
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Building VI: modernist city architecture collage on monoprint in red, unframed
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is one-of-a-kind, unframed colored pencil & collage on archival pigment print. See image gallery for example of framing possibilities. These pieces work particularly well as a s...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype
Julio Le Parc (1928) - screenprint on paper - 1973
Located in Varese, IT
Screenprint on paper, Edited in 1973
Limited Edition, numbered 44/100 in lower left corner
signed in pencil by artist
Publisher La Nuova Foglio, Pollenza di Macerata
Paper size : 34...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
C Print
7.10.24 #10 - Jewel Tone Emerald Watercolor Minimalist Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Delicate strokes and natural hues shape Shiri Phillips' watercolor, ink, and colored pencil artworks, showcasing her exploration of minimalism and organic forms. Departing from her u...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Mid Century French Illustration Sketches - blue square
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed
pastel/watercolor on paper, unframed
painting: 13 x 19.5 inches
good condition
provenance: from the artists estate, France
Josin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor
Mod Abstract Expressionist Modernist Edward Avedisian Color Field Art Gouache
Located in Surfside, FL
Edward Avedisian Gouache Watercolor Abstract Painting on Arches paper. (notebook cover not included)
Unsigned, (bears name verso in pencil.)
Dimensions: 10" X 14"
Late 1970s, early ...
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Paysage en Expansion - Paint by Eugene de Kermadec - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
"Paysage en expansion is an contemporary artwork realized by Eugene de Kermadec in 1972
Mixed colored oil on canvas
Signed lower left
Provenance: Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (lab...
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nancy Cohen "Make Visible" Paper Pulp and Handmade Paper
By Nancy Cohen
Located in New York, NY
Line is the operative formal element in the work shown here, but there are many other lines in play. Pieces walk a line between drawings that might be tapestries or sculptures or pa...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper
Autumn Biogram of the Nelson
By Kory Twaddle
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Kory Twaddle
"Autumn Biogram of the Nelson"
Newsprint, graphite, conté crayon pastel, charcoal, beeswax, cardboard, paper, gingko leaves, stickers, and Mixed Media on drawi...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Conté, Charcoal, India Ink, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, ...
"Supplication to the Takpo Kagyu" mixed media
Located in New York, NY
Meg Hitchcock
Supplication to the Takpo Kagyu, 2021
Text from The Aeneid, acrylic, embroidery thread, graphite
14 x 11 in.
frame size: 17.75 x 14.75 in.
(Hit004)
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Thread, Ink, Acrylic, Color Pencil, Graphite
"The Secret Behind Fragile Petals"
Located in Zofingen, AG
The painting is ready to hang, the painting has no decorative frame.
The Secret Behind Fragile Petals is a multilayered composition where behind the visible fragility lies powerful ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Bloques, Cubos Huecos, Picos Intercalados 2. Abstract Drawing on paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Set of 3 drawings, 2017-2018 by Rodrigo Spinel
From the series Illusions of the Line
Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g.
Overall size:
Image size: 25 cm H x 64.6 cm W
Frame size: ...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Abstract painting with shapes and forms "Dialogue"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary abstract artwork makes part of my small collection of abstract paintings created in various soft neutral earth tones. Main colors of this collection are grey, brown...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
The Rooster, Charcoal Drawing by Etienne Poirier
Located in Atlanta, GA
French artist Etienne Poirier (1919-2002) designed this stunning modernist drawing. This artwork is a proud rooster drawn in charcoal on paper. Because...
Category
1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
'Horizon Rise', American Figurative Abstraction, Native American
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'V. Vigil' for Veloy Vigil (American, 1931-1997).
Previously with: Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California
Born in Denver, Colorado,...
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Roberto Burle Marx, Stamp. Drawing From The Series Terms And Conditions
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Roberto Burle Marx, 2021 (Framed) by Rodrigo Spinel
From The Series Terms And Conditions
Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g.
Frame size: 46 cm H x 38 cm W x 6 cm D
Image size: 32 ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Villa V: modernist urban architectural city collage on monoprint, red, unframed
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is one-of-a-kind, unframed colored pencil & collage on archival pigment print. See image gallery for example of framing possibilities. These pieces work particularly well as a s...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype
French Abstract Contemporary Art by Daniel Cayo - Untitled No.28
By Daniel Cayo
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on paper, framed
10 x 15 cm - 18 x 24 cm with white mat passe-partout
Unique copy
Signed on the front
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Psychic Garden (Golden Hour) - botanical - cyanotype - ethereal - colorful
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is an abstract botanical work on paper featuring hues of blue, tan, pink, green and white in a simple white box frame behind UV Plexiglas. Frame dimensions are 50.75 by 36...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Lux on the 5th (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Lux on the 5th (Abstract painting)
Acrylic, charcoal and graphite on paper - Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Adrienn Krahl’s paintings express a profound sense of drama ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Acrylic, Graphite
Set of 4 Abstract Drawings. From the series Illusions of the Line
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the series Illusions of the Line
Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g.
1. Línea Bloques
2. Línea Cubos
3. Línea Aparejo and
4. Línea Estructura
Overall size:
Image size: 38 c...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
"The French Mediterranean coast" (contemporary seaside landscape painting)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This acrylic painting makes part of my series dedicated to the scenes of a summer period.
I was inspired by my summer vacations spent in the department of Pyrenees-Orientales in the...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', 2004 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Karen Schiff, Word Snake, 2014, Gouache, Rag Paper, Graphite
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Rag Paper, Graphite
Abstract landscape, watercolour by Colin Fifield
Located in London, GB
Colin Fifield (1940-2022)
Abstract landscape
Watercolour
26 x 36 cm
Colin Fifield was a British artist specialising in painting and pottery. He trained at the Camberwell School of ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Pensiero rosa" Tecnica mista su carta cm.30 x 23 1950
By Dora Maar
Located in Torino, IT
Pensiero Rosa, splendida cornice nera 1930
Opera astratta di Dora Maar periodo dopo Picasso,queste opere descrivono gli stati d'animo e paesaggi mentali dell'artista
Dora MAAR (Pari...
Category
1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Light', c. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Staro. 2019. acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 50x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
This abstract work represents artist's perception of the starry night, where the sky is an absorbing darkness with no limits. Expressive lines coming from the center radiate the ener...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Sorbet" Abstract Watercolor Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This original abstract watercolor painting by Nealy Hauschildt features a warm pink, orange, and lavender palette, with three large organic planes of washy color layered over one ano...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Paper, Watercolor
1.0 M (DETECTIVE COMICS) and 1.2M BAT MAN, Diptych. Drawing on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
1.0 M (DETECTIVE COMICS) and 1.2M BAT MAN, Diptych, 2023 by Rodrigo Spinel
From the series Currency
Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g.
Overall Frame size: 43 cm H x 68 cm W x 3 c...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Peter Halley, Hand signed & dated original ink & graphite drawing; unique Framed
By Peter Halley
Located in New York, NY
PETER HALLEY
6/21/96.9, 1998
Graphite and ink drawing
Hand-signed by artist, signed and dated in graphite lower right front; lower left front bears title: 6/21/96.9
Frame included: elegantly matted and framed in a hand made museum frame with UV plexiglass
signed and dated in graphite lower right front; lower left front bears title: 6/21/96.9
This is a unique work
Frame included: elegantly floated and framed in a museum quality hand made white wood frame under UV plexiglass
Measurements:
Framed
16.5 inches vertical by 13 inches horizontal by 1.5 inches
Artwork (visible)
10 inches vertical by 8 inches horizontal
Peter Halley Biography
Peter Halley was born in 1953 in New York. He began his formal training at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, from which he graduated in 1971. During that time, Halley read Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color (1981), which would influence him throughout his career. From 1973 to 1974 Halley lived in New Orleans, where he absorbed the vibrant cultural influences of the city, began using commercial materials in his art, and first became acquainted with the writings of earthwork artist Robert Smithson. In 1975 the artist graduated from Yale University, New Haven, with a degree in art history. After Yale, Halley returned to New Orleans, where he received an MFA in painting from the University of New Orleans in 1978. He had his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, that same year.
In 1978 Halley spent a semester teaching art at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. He has continued to teach throughout his career. In 1980, Halley moved back to New York and had his first solo exhibition in the city at PS122 Gallery. At this time, Halley was drawn to the pop themes and social issues addressed in New Wave music. Inspired by New York’s intense urban environment, Halley set out to use the language of geometric abstraction to describe the actual geometricized space around him. He also began his iconic use of fluorescent Day-Glo paint.
In 1984, Halley started to exhibit with the International With Monument gallery, becoming closely associated with the organization and its artists, who exhibited conceptually rigorous work in a market-savvy, coolly presented space that stood in stark contrast to the bohemian, Neo-Expressionist flair of the East Village art scene at the time. In 1986, an exhibition of four artists from International With Monument at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York heralded the group’s growing success. By the late 1980s, Halley was exhibiting with prominent galleries in the United States and Europe. In 1989, an exhibition of his paintings traveled to the Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany; Maison de la culture et de la communication de Saint-Étienne, France; and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. From 1991 to 1992, a retrospective toured Europe, with presentations at the CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France; Musée d’art contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museo nacional centro de arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. In 1992, the Des Moines Art Center hosted his first solo exhibition at a U.S. museum.
While developing his visual language, Halley became interested in French post-structuralist writers, including Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord, Michel Foucault, and Paul Virillio, all of whom shared his concern with the character of social spaces in a post-industrial society. In 1981, he published his first essay “Beat, Minimalism, New Wave, and Robert Smithson” in Arts, a New York–based magazine that would publish eight of his essays before the decade’s end. Halley’s writings became the basis for Neo-Geometric Conceptualism (also known as Neo-Geo), the offshoot of Neo-Conceptualism associated with the work of Ashley Bickerton, Halley, and Jeff Koons. In 1988, the artist’s writings were anthologized in Collected Essays, 1981–1987, and again in 1997 in a second anthology, Recent Essays, 1990–1996.
In the mid-1990s, Halley began to produce site-specific installations for museums, galleries, and public spaces. These characteristically brought together a range of imagery and mediums, including paintings, wall-size flowcharts, and digitally generated wallpaper prints. Halley has executed permanent installations at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. In 2011, his installation of digital prints Judgment Day...
Category
1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Graphite
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Ink, chalk & mica on sculpted paper
Framed 26 x 22.75 x 1 in, white wood frame
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Located in Geneva, CH
Drawing on paper without frame
Size A4
Category
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Materials
Oil Pastel
Untitled
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"Untitled," Flashe on Paper, 30 x 22 Inches
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Materials
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Ink on paper
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Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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'Avon Walk no 14' c 2009 signed original mixed media painting.
Located in Frome, Somerset
'Avon Walk no 14 , ' signed original mixed media painting circa 2009.
painting: 34cm x 50cm
Glazed oak frame 52x 61cm.
Part of a series of paintings made in Wiltshire and Somerset du...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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Category
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Materials
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"Platonic Solids...
Category
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Materials
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Materials
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Shells , 2021, 50x35 cm, acrylic on paper
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Located in Yerevan, AM
Shells , 2021, 50x35 cm
The work is sold without a frame and mat
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
Two Metamorphosed Women with a Mythological Creature
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Category
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Materials
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Category
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Materials
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Untitled
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Materials
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