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.
Find original abstract paintings, sculptures, prints and other art on 1stDibs.
to
580
1,973
906
1,095
521
484
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
16
1,362
3,603
6
12
27
46
98
222
180
196
131
7,199
6,979
4,981
3,110
601
534
488
423
375
304
260
178
86
63
2,533
1,952
459
321
246
176
141
128
127
73
72
69
67
66
49
48
43
42
38
33
33
30
26
3,147
2,971
1,756
1,158
1,067
130
94
63
56
53
1,146
753
2,813
1,791
Style: Abstract
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 12.75 x 9.75 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Brown and Blue Shapes)
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Columbia, MO
Untitled (Brown and Blue Shapes)
Gouache and watercolor
18.25 x 11.62 inches
Framed: 32.5 x 26 inches
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Flow
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paula Valenzuela
Flow, 2025
Watercolor, alcohol and acrylic ink on paper
14 x 10 inches
This one-of-a-kind work on paper comes unframed and ships in a tube. External, visible frame ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary 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
Abstract Expressionist British Original Pastel Yellow Black and Red 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
Plate Six from Novecento (Mixed media lithograph with chalk pastel), Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
Nam June Paik
Untitled, Plate Six from Novecento, 1992
Mixed Media: Color offset lithograph with unique chalk pastel drawing
13 3/10 × 18 inches
Hand signed, Edition 104/130
Pencil numbered 104/130, hand signed in pastel chalk on the front
Edizioni Carte Segrete, Rome, Italy
Excellent condition; held in matting which can be easily removed
The matting measures 18" x 21"
This was part of a series of works produced for the Nam June Paik retrospective at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1992, Nam June Paik: Arti Elletroniche.
This is one of the editions which bears unique hand coloring with pastel chalk.
A comparable work sold at auction in 2015 for US $12,583. (see details below):
Nam June Paik
Title Novecento
Description Nam June PAI K
Novecento 1930-1940, 1992 Pastel sur offset en couleurs, épreuve signée et numérotée 104/130 Edizioni Carte Segrete, Rome 23,5 x 39,5 cm EH Oeuvre réalisée a l'occasion de la rétrospective Paik au Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 1992, Nam June Paik: Arti Elletroniche, cinema e Media Verso il XXI Secolo
Medium pastel
Year of Work 1992
Size Height 9.3 in.; Width 15.6 in. / Height 23.5 cm.; Width 39.5 cm.
Misc. Signed
Sale of Millon & Associés: Monday, June 22, 2015 [Lot 00090]
Design
Sold For 11,057 EUR Hammer
(12,583 USD)
Nam June Paik Biography
Nam June Paik was born in 1932 in Seoul. He received a BA in aesthetics from the University of Tokyo in 1956 where he also studied music and art history. After graduating, he studied for a year with composer Thrasybulus Georgiades Georgiades at the University of Munich and for two years with composer Woflgang Fortner at the International Music College in Freiburg. He attended the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt in 1957, when he met Karlheinz Stockhausen, and in 1958, when he met John Cage. Cage, and through him Marcel Duchamp, had a significant influence on Paik as he became a major force in the avant-garde through performances. In Hommage à John Cage (1959), Paik employed audiotape and performance to attack traditional musical instrumentation and compositional practices, splicing together piano playing, screaming, bits of classical music, and sound effects. Realizing that taped sound was not enough, he decided to move into performance, first by introducing performative actions into his audio works. In 1961 Paik performed Simple, Zen for Head and Étude Platonique No. 3, in which he became a volatile figure, thrashing about in unexpected patterns and sudden movements to his signature soundtracks. In 1962 Paik participated in the Fluxus International Festival of the New Music in Weisbaden. Paik's first exhibition, entitled Exposition of Music - Electronic Television, in 1963 at Galerie Parnass at Wuppertal, launched his transition from composer and performance artist to the inventor of a new art form: an engagement with the material site of television as an instrument. In the exhibition, thirteen televisions lay on their backs and sides with their reception altered; for example, Zen for TV (1963) reduced the television picture to a horizontal line and Kuba TV (1963) shrank and expanded the image on the television set according to the changing volume.
In 1964 Paik traveled to the US. He quickly settled in New York and became a leading innovator among an emerging generation of artists seeking new modes of artistic expression and distribution. That same year, Paik collaborated with Shuya Abe to create Robot K-456 (1964), a remote controlled robot that played audiotaped speeches by John F. Kennedy and defecated beans in Paik's Robot Opera (1964). In the interactive work Magnet TV (1965), Paik invited viewers to modify the television's output into swerving abstract lines through the movement of a magnet over the TV. In 1967 Paik and frequent collaborator Charlotte Moorman were arrested when Moorman performed Paik's Opera Sextronique (1967), a striptease as she played the cello at the Filmmakers' Cinematheque in New York. Paik's TV Bra for Living Sculpture (1969), which Moorman wore in performances, featured two television tubes...
Category
1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Offset, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Graphite, Lithograph
Green Roses - abstract nature inspired minimal collage of clay on paper
Located in New York, NY
The new works of Mylinh Nguyen designed from polymer resin, bring us into a nature whose refinement commands admiration. From the physiognomy of living or extinct plant species, the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Clay, Polymer
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 10 x 6.5 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we have...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Follow the Black rabbit - line drawing woman figure
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artwork were done with acrylic, ink and watercolor. The work are 11 by 15 inches in size.
This is the "Many thoughts, one head" series. The series sta...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
"Casper" Diana Kurz, New York Female Abstract Expressionist Gouache on Paper
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Casper
Gouache on paper
11 x 17 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England and then ...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Salinae - intricate white 3D abstract landscape drawing with pulled paper fiber
Located in New York, NY
Finesse and delicacy are what characterize best Antonin Anzil’s artistic practice. Paper as a medium seems incompatible with the idea of engraving or sculpturing; and yet. Using a sh...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
Warren St 18 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Warren St 18 (Abstract Painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano is a Philippines-born French-American abstract artist who divides his time b...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Doble Standard 17 and 14 Diptych. From The Doble Standard Series.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The more transcendental the representation, the more it tends to evoke it through its prodigies. Such is the case of the Double standard series in the words of the artist "It is a pr...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard
Chrysler Building No 1
Located in Burlingame, CA
Chrysler Building No 1 by Frederic Choisel. From a series of large scale urban-scape drawings in mixed media. Atwork is 60 x 42 inches: Mixed media includes graphite, charcoal, ink, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite, India Ink, Pastel
The Whisper - Drawing by Jean-Luis Forain - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Whisper is a drawing on paper realized by Jean-Luis Forain in the Late 19th Century.
Pencil drawing.
Monogrammed in pencil on the lower.
Good conditions.
Louis Henri Forain, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Manifest 2 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Manifest 2 (Abstract Painting)
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 a...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Castle Rock Trail, and Mt. Diablo, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Mt. Diablo has many faces," says artist Catherine McCargar. "It can be seen from afar and up close." In this painting, Catherine captured the scene by standi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Composition in Red
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Composition in Red
c. 1960
Gouache on paper
52.5 x 24.5 cms (20 11/16 x 9 11/16 ins)
SF14434
$125,000
Exhibited:
Bernard Jacobson Gall...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Lemons"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
I have worked on a new series of small oil paintings. This is the one of them. This series is dedicated to a summer period.
This artwork is done with oil paints on a heavy weight ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
$149 Sale Price
30% Off
"Biomorphic Flowers" original watercolor painting by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In the 1960s, Sylvia Spicuzza made several watercolor abstractions with biomorphic qualities like the one presented here. This example takes on the appearance of a flower, while the ...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Unique drawing Geometric Abstraction on franked card conceptual art, hand signed
By Sol LeWitt
Located in New York, NY
Sol LeWitt
Unique Geometric Abstraction on Postcard, 1982
Original drawing done on postcard from the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam), mailed, stamped and postmarked (franked) from Spolet...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Postcard, Mixed Media, Offset
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
"Vibrant spring colors" (contemporary abstract expressive acrylic floral)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In this abstract floral artwork I experience the world of nature through the bright colors of a spring period.
While painting, I sought to capture the beauty of spring flowers which...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Wave - abstract painting, made in ultramarine blue, grey color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in ultramarine blue and grey color on Yupo paper. The work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (gold or black) with a sty...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$304 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Fire Series', C. 1992 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
1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1988 pencil drawing by British 20th Century artist William Scott
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
William Scott (British, 1930 – 1989)
Lyrical
Pencil on paper
Signed ‘W Scott’ (lower right), further inscribed and dated ‘October 23 1988 / Lyrical… by William Scott’ (on the reverse...
Category
20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 12.5 x 7.15 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
Green Symphony, Abstract Expressionist Pastel Drawing by Souleymane Keita
Located in Long Island City, NY
Souleymane Keita, Senegalese (1947 -2014) - Green Symphony, Year: 1982, Medium: Pastel on J Perrigot Arches Special MBM, signed and dated in pencil ...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 13 x 10 inches Signed
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
series "Personal Contacts", 61 x 48 cm, acrylic on paper
By Tatiana Nega
Located in Yerevan, AM
series "Personal Contacts", 61 x 48 cm
The work is sold without a frame and mat
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$375 Sale Price
25% Off
1960s "Storm at Sea" Gouache and Oil Pastel Abstract SF Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Storm at Sea
1960s
Gouache and Oil Pastel on paper
35.75"x33.25 float mount black wood frame measures 38.5"x1.5"x36"
Gloria (Fischer) Dudfield
July 12, 1922 – May 27, 2015
Came from...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
$2,400 Sale Price
46% Off
Sonia Delaunay - Original Watercolor on paper
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Sonia Delaunay - Original Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 21 x 21 cm.
Authentified by her son Charles Delaunay on the back.
Sonia Delaunay was known for her vivid use of color and her bold, abstract patterns, breaking down traditional distinctions between the fine and applied arts as an artist, designer and printmaker.
Born Sarah Stern on November 14, 1885 in Gradizhsk, Ukraine, she was adopted in 1890 by her maternal uncle, Henri Terk, a lawyer in St. Petersburg, where she grew up, exposed to music and art, and learning several foreign languages. In 1903, she moved to Germany to study drawing with Ludwig Schmidt-Reutler (1863–1909) at the Karlsruhe academy of fine arts; Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), composer-to-be, was among her classmates there. In 1905, she traveled to Paris where she attended art classes at the Académie de la Palette, learned printmaking from Rudolf Grossman (1889–1941), and met Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966), André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974), and Jean-Louis Boussingault (1883–1943). Sonia spent much of her time at exhibitions and galleries in Paris, which showed works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard, as well as Les Fauves, Henri Matisse and André Derain. She did, however, maintain contact with Germany, exhibiting at the Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, in 1913, 1920 and 1921.
During her first year in Paris, Sonia met the German collector and art-dealer, Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), whom she married on December 5, 1908, and whose Montparnasse gallery, the Galerie Notre-Dame des Champs, showed her first solo exhibition. Through Uhde, Sonia encountered many painters, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Robert Delaunay (1885–1941). In 1910, Sonia divorced Uhde by mutual agreement, married Delaunay that same year, and gave birth to their son, Charles, in January 1911.
Together Sonia and Robert Delaunay pursued the study of color, influenced by theories of Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889). Sonia’s interest in simultaneous contrast, as evidenced in her early collages, book bindings, small painted boxes...
Category
1930s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Untitled 557 (Abstract painting)
By Clay Johnson
Located in London, GB
Untitled 557 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on paper - Unframed.
The technique Johnson employs is extremely rigorous, involving, as he says, “pushing paint around with palette knives ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Castello - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1988
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Castello is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1988 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original drawing in beautiful colored tempera on ivory-...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Cardboard
Weeping willow-abstract painting, made in green, gold, back, grey, olive color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in green, gold, black, olive color on Yupo paper. The work is 20 by 26 inches in size, framed in fine-quality solid wood...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$1,050 Sale Price
30% Off
Black White Abstraction 016 Painting by Anastasia Vasilyeva, 2020
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anastasia Vasilyeva - Black white abstraction 016 (2020)
Painting on high quality, acid free, high density paper. Conceptual minimalist abstract painting designed in calligraphic st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Ocean blue - abstract painting, made in blue color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in blue color on Yupo paper. The work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (gold or black) with a styrene face on a mat bo...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$304 Sale Price
20% Off
Rumors, Drawing, Charcoal on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Abstract charcoal work composed of shapes in black & white. Framed with glass and passepartout :: Drawing :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Morandi 12 (Abstract Cubist Still Life Painting Inspired by Morandi Bottles)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract cubist style still life graphite and acrylic painting inspired by Giorgio Morandi's bottle still life paintings
"Morandi 12” by Hudson Valley artist, David Dew Bruner, made...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Black White Abstraction 018 Painting by Anastasia Vasilyeva, 2020
Located in Zofingen, AG
Anastasia Vasilyeva - Black white abstraction 018 (2020)
Painting on high quality, acid free, high density paper. Conceptual minimalist abstract painting designed in calligraphic st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Wonderful floral glow"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In this abstract floral artwork I experience the world of nature through the bright colors of a summer period.
While painting, I sought to capture the beauty of summer flowers whic...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
$149 Sale Price
40% Off
Lilacs and Peonies, Mid Century Floral Still-Life with Pink & Purple
By Carolyn Tyson
Located in Soquel, CA
Lilacs and Peonies, Mid Century Floral Still-Life with Pink & Purple
Vibrant mid century floral still-life featuring lilacs and peonies by Carolyn Tyson (American, b-1941). This lov...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Enid Mildred Gear - 1980 Watercolour, Cumbrian Hill Farm
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful watercolour study depicting a Cumbrian farm nestled in a mountain landscape in the Lake District. Sheep graze in the foreground and a bare winter tree nicely frames the ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Shape 29 (2019)
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Shape 29 (2019) by Ryan Park of Shapes Only.
Abstract geometric art, acrylic on 300gsm archival paper. Abstract green shape innovated by the artist.
Fr...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
French Contemporary Art by Francine Ledieu - Landscape
Located in Paris, IDF
Gouache on craft paper
Francine Ledieu is a French artist born in 1931 who lives and works in Paris, France. In the 50s, she was a student of Maurice Rocher who specialized in Sacred art. In the ’80s, Francine was a student of Jean Bertholle from the Saint Roch Academy. The artist had personal exhibitions at Maison Mansart from 1989 to 1993 and at Étienne de Causans Gallery in 1997. In 1998 & 2009 she exhibited at La Petite Galerie. Francien Ledieu had three exhibitions at La Capitale Gallery in 2001, 2004, and 2007. She also showed her paintings at L’Oeil du Huit in 2011, 2013, 2016 & 2019. She participated in many group exhibitions as at Strasbourg Contemporary Art Fair in 2005. She exhibited also at Réalités Nouvelles in 2006, 2007, 2010 & 2011. She also worked in stained glass and mosaics in France. She achieved artworks in 1963 at Saint-Henri Pontoise chapel, Saint-Pierre des Louvrais church in Pontoise in 1969 & Mosaic in the same year at Jean Moulin...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Picos Tercio. From The No. 3 Series. Abstract Drawing on paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Rodrigo Spinel finds in drawing a way to explore the relevance of detail in the construction of images, objects and spaces. The repetition of tiny elements, such as the line in a dra...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Escape, mixed media on wood panel, abstraction, space, 84" x 60"
Located in New York, NY
Jongwang Lee's paintings challenge a dormant potential he believes lives within all humans. Inspired by Buddhist philosophies of space, Korean ideas of communication with the soul, a...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Sumi Ink, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Untitled 559 (Abstract painting)
By Clay Johnson
Located in London, GB
Untitled 559 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on paper - Unframed.
The technique Johnson employs is extremely rigorous, involving, as he says, “pushing paint around with palette knives ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
0103: contemporary abstract gestural painting w/ yellow, pink & blue lines
By Paula Cahill
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Paula Cahill's linear abstract compositions are often comprised of a single, luminous line that meanders, changes color, and seamlessly connects back to itself. The work is signed an...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Archival Paper
Tanga
Located in New York, NY
Friederike Oeser, a contemporary abstract painter, lives and works in Munich, Germany. For Oeser there is no hierarchy of visual value. It all has import—whether it be a trickle of w...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Blue Mother Drawing #3 (Geometric Abstract Watercolor Painting in Blue & Black)
Located in Hudson, NY
Blue Mother Drawing #3, by Jeanette Fintz in 2020
22 x 30 inches watercolor, gouache on Fabriano paper
Signed lower right corner
Framed: 32 x 39.5 inches, custom white frame, 8 ply w...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Sea Turtle, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Suren Nersisyan displays an impressionist portrait of a charming red sea turtle. He pictures the shelled reptilian swimming under the refreshing ocean. Blades of kelp float along the background creating points of light green complements. In its natural habitat, it appears beautiful and harmonic.
About the Artist
Suren is an impressionist painter eloquently capturing nature, landscapes, and cityscapes in paint. His body of work reflects several different stylistic approaches. Suren’s scenes in oil are inspired by Impressionist masters Monet and Van Gogh, while his watercolor series of flowers and birds are influenced by Eastern styles of painting and the colors of the Middle Eastern environment. Suren believes his role as an artist is to remind viewers that we all are part of the same natural universe.
Words that describe this painting: sea turtle, sea turtle gift, turtle lover gift, turtle artwork, turtle painting, children room, kids wall art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Signed ink wash painting by Abstract Expressionist sculptor COA signed by artist
Located in New York, NY
MARK DI SUVERO
Abstract Expressionist drawing with artist signed COA, ca. 1963
Pen and black ink and brush and black ink wash on paper.
Hand signed on the front.
Framed, with separa...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, India Ink, Mixed Media
Herbert Bayer. Stamp. Drawing on paper. From The Series Terms and Conditions
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The project is based in the contrast of the two images, the air waybill and the postage stamp, from different times but similar in their function. The artist seeks to enlighten the c...
Category
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
$291 Sale Price
30% Off
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 12.75 x 9.75 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 12.75 x 9.75 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
Herbert Ferber, Abstract Expressionist sculptural study signed framed Provenance
Located in New York, NY
Herbert Ferber
Untitled, 1968
Unique Ink and color wash on paper
Hand signed and dated by the artist on the front
Framed with original Knoedler Gallery label (under the respected dir...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Master American Contemporaries
By Alex Katz
Located in Wien, 9
The art work is signed in the print at the lower left and numbered in pencil: P.P. II/IV
This special art piece "Master American Contemporaries" by Alex Katz (*1927) is a colour lit...
Category
1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Abstract drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract drawings and watercolor paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add drawings and watercolor paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Martin Reyna , Mila Akopova, Jaanika Peerna, and Sumit Mehndiratta. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract drawings and watercolor paintings, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available. Prices for drawings and watercolor paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1 and tops out at $400,000, while the average work sells for $1,408.