Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
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Style: Contemporary
Smug
By Olivia Gibb
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title : Smug
Materials : Stamp,xerox transfer,pastel,ink
Date : 2015
Dimensions : 8×9″
COA provided
Art school took Olivia Gibb away from Oklahoma and up to Kansas City, which she h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Pencil
$498 Sale Price
47% Off
An August Resaissance / 2018 - framed nude
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Blue nude is swirling abstracted water figurative painting from Kim Frohsin's "Emergence" series from 2018. Frohsin, third generation Bay Area Figurative artist—from the movement tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Tempera, Gouache, Color Pencil
Stalemate
Located in Kansas City, MO
Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, our gallery will donate 10% of our commission from this sale to the Kansas City Artists Coalition, which has been supporting local Kansas City Artists for the past 40 years. The Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC), is a non-profit, artist-centered, artist-run alternative space, supporting artists at every level in their career through exhibitions, continuing education and artist studios.
Artist: Joseph Broghammer
Title: “Stalemate”
Materials : Chalk pastel and pencil on Arches Paper
Date : 2018
Dimensions : 7 x 11 ft.
Omaha based artist Joseph Broghammer is as much of a storyteller as he is an artist. His one-of-a-kind pastel drawings in “Animals” are chronicles of his life. The creatures Broghammer creates are vehicles to uncover the varying characteristics of the artist’s personal identity.
Hence, Broghammer’s “Animals” translates as a flowing stream of consciousness. The different birds and livestock staring back at the viewer are ornamented with iconographic symbols – small surprises along the way. These trinkets are keys to understanding the stories Broghammer is sharing.
Broghammer began mastering his “dry painting” technique during his B.F.A. in Visual Art at the University of South Dakota. He graduated in 1986 and a year later went on to study his M.F.A. at the University of Wisconsin. In 2009, he studied at Creative Capital in Omaha, Nebraska.
As storytellers often do, Broghammer later went on to become an educator himself, teaching at WhyArts? and becoming an Artist Assistant at Vera Mercer in Omaha – both of which he still practices at today.
It’s apparent that Broghammer’s work has resonated with so many people around the world. Only a few years after his formal education, he began exhibiting his work through various International group shows in Italy, Germany, Holland, Mexico, and even Kansas City.
Although Broghammer’s portraits depict downy creatures, his work is very much about the human experience. They are honest and full of life, evoking a sincere exchange between artist and viewer. “Animals” is for the animal lovers, students, teachers, collectors, writers, the young or old, and art historians alike.
Dry Painting, Pastel, Drawing, Chalk Pastel, Oil Pastel, Painting, Contemporary Drawing, Contemporary Painting, Animal Drawings, Animal Paintings, colored pencil, pencil, large-scale drawings, portrait, portrait drawing, contemporary art, contemporary artists, Joan Miro, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, Vladimir Kush...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
$8,900 Sale Price
57% Off
The Song of Fire and Freedom - Paint by Parimah Avani - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
The Song of Fire and Freedom is realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2023.
Sumi, Persian ink, and acrylic on kraft paper.
Hand-signed and dated.
Excellent conditions.
From the series "Resistance and Alchemical Metals"
The artwork is expressively poetic, with an exclusive title that refers to the socio-political context, and the application of limited color of metals" various copper, gold, silver, bronze" have metaphorical features of alchemy. In this series artist took positions, and gestures of revolutionary and rebellious bodies on the battlefield of revolution and transformed them dynamically into precious sources of resistance by spiritual transitions of colors akin to alchemy, meat, and blood found their symbolic meaning through colors and expressive brushstrokes, metals here refer to bodies of freedom seekers, shapable, flexible, shiny and a source of strength, that highlights how a body becomes a battlefield, a golden source of sacrifice, a silver font of resistance, copper as blood and women fighting for freedom.
What makes this series unique: it is deeply behind the dynamic emotion of each gestural figure, in a minimalistic manner, and the vigorous and unbridled energy of brushstrokes, is raw, spontaneous, and emotionally charged.
Her works in this series challenge oppression and gender-related issues by applying oriental brushstrokes of calligraphy in ink as a primary tool, to fragile subjects.
Parimah Avani, born in 1988 in Tehran, Iran, is a multidisciplinary artist and a recognized figure in contemporary hermetic Persian literature and the avant-garde "Other" movement. Her book, "Magic Verses of Antalus," was a finalist for the prestigious "Shamlou" Award. Her most recent achievement is winning an art competition for a scholarship from Werkstatt Plettenberg in Germany, culminating in a solo exhibition held at the Gallery of the German Bank of Sparkasse. Avani's artistic journey began with travels to China and Russia during her formative years, oriental philosophies, particularly Zen and Buddhism, and folk arts ignited her passion for comparative mythology evident in her archaic style. In 2009, she moved to Rome, Italy to study multimedia art, and gained a Master’s in painting at the Fine Art Academy of Rome. Immersed in cultural parallels between East and West, mythological themes transcend boundaries in art, exploring magic and ancient scripts inspired by the scholarly insights of Frazer and Eliade on rituals. Her anthropological view culminated in a Ph.D. in the history of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Acrylic
Surrealist Composition - Watercolor on Paper by J.-R. Delpech - 1960s
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
"Surrealist Composition" is an original drawing in mixed media on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
The state of preservation of the artwork is very good.
Sheet dimensio...
Category
1960s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sleeping Man, Nude Male Figure Curled on the Floor, Charcoal Drawing
By Shuta Ruelas
Located in Chicago, IL
This male nude charcoal drawing is beautifully rendered in splendid detail, down to the individual hairs on his legs. The viewer begs the question of why the subject is here. We are not given answers yet perhaps something lies just beyond the edge of the frame where an unexplained light source illuminates the subject's feet. This large scale drawing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
The Couple - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1930s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
The Couple is a pen Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1935 ca.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good condition.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was a...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ballpoint Pen
"Cleromancy I" . Ink On 19th Century Paper
Located in Brecon, Powys
Ink on 19th Century Paper
If painting, like any other language, can be considered an abstract system of signs, there must be a pictorial vocabulary and syntactical rules which commu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Archival Paper
Romy Schneider (2013), Drawing, Pastels on Other
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Romy Schneider (2013) A cubistic prestudy for an oil painting. Pastel drawing on Hahnemühle velours paper (50 x 70 x 0.1 cm) Artist: Corné Akkers :: Drawing :: Contemporar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Loneliness in Paris - Pen Drawing by S. Goldberg - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Loneliness is an original drawing in pen, pencil and charcoal on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985).
The state of preservation is very good.
Sheet dimension:19.5x14 cm.
The artwork represents a lonely man...
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Winter Reflections, black and white charcoal drawing of trees and lake
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal on paper drawing by Toronto-based artist Katherine Curci. Framed.
Katherine Curci began this series of charcoal drawings, premiered in This L...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Fabrizio Ravanelli - Celebrating the Football Goal in the UEFA Final 1995-96
Located in Firenze, IT
Fabrizio Ravanelli - Celebrating the Opening Goal in the UEFA Champions League Final 1995-1996
Technique: Charcoal on paper, Signed and dated ’96
Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 19...
Category
1990s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Pencil, Paper, Charcoal
Lands End 2001 No 4 / watercolor, beautifully framed
Located in Burlingame, CA
Glorious electric green Land's end watercolor from William Stanisich, whose provocative Land’s End series was painted over a 40-year span with a force and directness that reflects the artist’s search for the essence of light through the medium of watercolor and oil. In this watercolor that was recently framed for a retrospective exhibition where it is being shown for hte first time, there is green and yellow and blue. Stunning, fresh and unique nature scene. Perfect on its own or paited with another watercolor from the series. The watercolor is 28 x 20 inches. Professionally framed in a museum quality ebonized black walnut...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Roundism – 17-07-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 17-07-18 Another session with my model and I used an unusual point of view: above her and it took the challenge to capture the foreshortened shapes of her body. Lucki...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
View of the Pantheon - Drawing - 1995
Located in Roma, IT
View of the Pantheon is an original drawing in china ink and watercolor, realized by an unknwon artist in 1995.
The status of preservation Good.
The art...
Category
1990s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
The Myrtle Tree's Sweet Tenant
Located in Columbia, MO
John Selburg was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. He holds a BFA in Drawing, Sculpture, and Graphic Design from Bradley University (2006), and an MFA from the University of Misso...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Ink
Moonlit Musings by Judith Williams black and white ballerina on paper
Located in Atlanta, GA
Judith Williams’ Moonlit Musings evokes a dreamlike moment of introspection. This charcoal drawing features soft shadows and flowing lines that suggest movement, memory, and quiet th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Rabbit&Jewel
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on paper with frame
Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. As graphic designer & art director, she was involved for more than ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Standing Nude
Located in Columbia, MO
Standing Nude
2003
Pastel on paper
22.5 x 17.5 inches
Framed: 32 x 24 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Ship of Cools (#1318)
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
Full title: "Ship of Cools, or, A Jolly Load of Boatmen Flat-Out Crossing the Mainstream, Some Being Kings, and Some Being 'Vagabonds' (We Await Your Applause) (#1318)"
Watercolor, acrylic, and ink on paper (Diptych)
Signed in black ink, l.l.
This artwork references George Caleb Bingham’s 1846 painting “The Jolly Flatboatmen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
Landscape Black and White - Original Paint - Large Size Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape B/W
Mineral oxide on Fabriano Rosaspina Paper
57x76 cm
Original Art
Framing Option Available
Marilina Marchica, born in 1984, was born in Agrigento, where she lives and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
$1,373 Sale Price
29% Off
Yugpurush, Buddha, Mixed Media on Paper, Red Brown by Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sanatan Dinda - Yugpurush - 28 x 20 inches (unframed size)
Mixed Media on Paper
Shipment in roll form.
Style : Sanatan Dinda discovers the beautiful amidst the ruins of a dilapidate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Charcoal, Acrylic
Landscape - Original Ink and Watercolor on Paper - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a beautiful drawing in ink and watercolor on paper realized by the Russian artist Angelina Beloff (1879 - 1969)
Good conditions except fo...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
"Codicis Liber", Contemporary Monotype with Chine Colle and Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary abstract painting and collage composition of stamps, various types of paper, and watercolor by Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957), 2009. Titled "Codicis Liber", which is...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Patio in Bloom - Watercolor on Heavy Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright floral landscape by Jean Harney (American, 20th Century). An interior courtyard is full of plants and flowers in bloom. There is a lush vine climbing over an archway, with blossoms in shades of pink and orange. Several other potted plants are displayed nearby.
Signed "Jean Harney" in the lower left corner.
Presented in a wood frame with a new cream mat.
Frame size: 21.25"H x 17.25"W
Image size: 13"H x 10"W
Jean Harney (American, 20th Century) is an artist and illustrator from Ulen, Minnesota. Harney graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash., with a major in Education and a minor in Art. After graduation, she moved to Arizona to take a teaching position. Since that time, she has taken art classes in Arizona at A.S.U., Scottsdale Community College, and privately. In the beginning, she painted in oils on canvas or masonite, then taking an interest in screen printing. Several years later she discovered acrylic paints and loved the quick drying properties of them. Eventually, she switched from painting in acrylics on canvas to painting on paper and gradually worked into painting in watercolor, which is now her medium of choice. Harney founded the Garden Art Show in 1965, which has been running yearly since that time. She has also been a participant in the Phelps Mill Festival for over two decades, as well as Phoenix’s Artist’s Studio Tour. She is a member of the Art of the Lakes Art...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Kukla
Located in Kansas City, MO
Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, our gallery will donate 10% of our commission from this sale to the Kansas City Artists Coalition, which has been supporting local Kansas City Artists for the past 40 years. The Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC), is a non-profit, artist-centered, artist-run alternative space, supporting artists at every level in their career through exhibitions, continuing education and artist studios.
Artist: Joseph Broghammer
Title: “Kukla”
Materials : Chalk pastel and pencil on Arches Paper
Date : 2019
Dimensions : 42 x 43 in.
Omaha based artist Joseph Broghammer is as much of a storyteller as he is an artist. His one-of-a-kind pastel drawings in “Animals” are chronicles of his life. The creatures Broghammer creates are vehicles to uncover the varying characteristics of the artist’s personal identity.
Hence, Broghammer’s “Animals” translates as a flowing stream of consciousness. The different birds and livestock staring back at the viewer are ornamented with iconographic symbols – small surprises along the way. These trinkets are keys to understanding the stories Broghammer is sharing.
Broghammer began mastering his “dry painting” technique during his B.F.A. in Visual Art at the University of South Dakota. He graduated in 1986 and a year later went on to study his M.F.A. at the University of Wisconsin. In 2009, he studied at Creative Capital in Omaha, Nebraska.
As storytellers often do, Broghammer later went on to become an educator himself, teaching at WhyArts? and becoming an Artist Assistant at Vera Mercer in Omaha – both of which he still practices at today.
It’s apparent that Broghammer’s work has resonated with so many people around the world. Only a few years after his formal education, he began exhibiting his work through various International group shows in Italy, Germany, Holland, Mexico, and even Kansas City.
Although Broghammer’s portraits depict downy creatures, his work is very much about the human experience. They are honest and full of life, evoking a sincere exchange between artist and viewer. “Animals” is for the animal lovers, students, teachers, collectors, writers, the young or old, and art historians alike.
Dry Painting, Pastel, Drawing, Chalk Pastel, Oil Pastel, Painting, Contemporary Drawing, Contemporary Painting, Animal Drawings, Animal Paintings, colored pencil, pencil, large-scale drawings, portrait, portrait drawing, contemporary art, contemporary artists, Joan Miro, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, Vladimir Kush...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
$4,900 Sale Price
57% Off
Untitled Zahra Zeinali Contemporary art portrait Iranian artist drawing black
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Untitled Zahra Zeinali Contemporary art portrait Iranian artist drawing black
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
The feather Zahra Zeinali Contemporary art portrait Iranian artist drawing black
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Osgood
Located in Columbia, MO
John Selburg was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. He holds a BFA in Drawing, Sculpture, and Graphic Design from Bradley University (2006), and an MFA from the University of Misso...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Christine With Her Hair Up. charcoal on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Such a beautiful work in charcoal. Angela has the most distinctive way of presenting figurative drawings, she usually works in a range of colours so this is an unusual piece from her...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Mixed Media
Pretenders - Mixed Media by M. Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Pretenders is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the 1960's.
Watercolor and pastel drawing.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower margin.
Includes frame (80.5 x 3.5...
Category
1960s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor, Tempera
Ky Anderson "Funnel 22.1" Acrylic Painting on Paper
By Ky Anderson
Located in New York, NY
"My work falls somewhere between abstraction, formalism and narrative painting. I see the content and story when I look at my work, but shape and color are equally important, along w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Portrait - Original Mixed Media Artwork by Maurice Lourday - 1927
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original pencil, pastel and watercolor drawing on creamy cardboard, realized in 1927 by Maurice Lourday (1860-1934).
Titled on the lower.
In very good conditions, ex...
Category
1920s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Pastel, Watercolor, Cardboard
Bonitas Canciones 8726
By Nancy Charak
Located in Kansas City, MO
Nancy Charak
Title: Bonitas Canciones 8726
Materials: Drawing on 90# Stonehenge
Date: 2017
Dimensions: 11"x30"
Nancy Charak makes paintings and drawings in her studio in Tucson, whe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Color Pencil
$640 Sale Price
20% Off
"It Flows Through Her" - Original Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"It Flows Through Her" - Original Ink on Watercolor Paper
This raw ink drawing by California artist, Angela Stone (American, b. 1983), shows a woman's profile reflection in raven b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$440 Sale Price
20% Off
Big Turquoise Bug - Gyotaku Lobster Painting in Blue on Marbled Mulberry Paper
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
Locals know them as "bugs". A small bug is a one pound lobster. Artist Jeff Conroy was able to print this "bug" - a behemoth weighing in at almost 8 pounds aptly named "Big Bug". ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
It's All In The Bag #1 - 9.75"x11.5", Art Print, Black And White, Dress, Fashion
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This art print on paper features a strong yet minimalist figurative composition. Expressive pencil work balances the contrast between dark and light. The art print exudes a contempor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Angels of Canova - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1950s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Angels of Canova is a pencil drawing on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the mid-20th century.
Good conditions with slight folding.
Category
1950s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Israeli Surrealist Painting Female Circus Performer Acrobat with Cat
By Haya Graetz Ran
Located in Surfside, FL
Voluptuous, ala Fernando Botero, female circus performer with spectators and cat. Haya Ran was born in Holon, Israel in 1948 on the same date as the State of Israel was founded. From 1968 to 1973 Ran lived on Kibbutz Sasa. After her stay on the Kibbutz, she took courses on Graphics at The Technion 1975-1978. Tel Hai Institute
Ran paints with water colors, using a multilayer method, which creates an illusion of tempera. Ran came up with this technique herself, influenced medieval painters. Ran says that the reds, browns, and golds in most of her feminist works are inspired by the performing arts: the circus, clowns, acrobats, dancers, and the fantastic. Haya Ran doesn’t identify today with any particular artistic school. Her works are born out of personal experiences and feelings. They come from the remembrances of her past, of her life and her experiences as a child, and from the fantasies she entertains about them. Her subjects emanate from her private, inner world. Haya Ran focuses on the world of the female. Her women are a peculiar lot. Their dimensions are offer wide, distorted, and grotesque, yet their poses and settings are as enticing and charming as they are sexually arousing. Others of Haya Ran’s women remain attached to elements of a lost childish innocence; dolls, wooden horses, masks, and wooden birds. Her works are executed with watercolors on paper. Her technique resembles that of Renaissance tempera. She superimposes strata and blends them together to create the impression of a past era. She creates not by putting down on paper her sudden impulses, but by devoting painstaking attention to the smallest details over countless hours.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
“Izraeliyot” / Dwek Gallery, Adenauer Conference Center, Mishkenot Sha’ananim,
“Plowing” / Gerstein Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Ora Krauss.
“Suricattas” / Seemann Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curated by Hagai Segev.
“Encrypting” / The Israeli Artists Gallery, Kabri. Curated by Drora Dekel.
Tokyo, Japan Museum of Art “O”
“Calligraphy” / HaGalleria, Moshav Shoevah. Curated by Tirtzah Yallon Kolton.
ESPACE RACHI, Paris, France. Curated by Hana Landau.
Brucke Gallery, Braunschweig, Germany
Gallery Vandorn, Paris, France
Goldman Gallery, Haifa, Israel
Grafica 3 Gallery, Haifa, Israel
Select Group Exhibitions:
Group Exhibitions
The Second Biennale for Israeli Ceramics Eretz Israel Museum, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv
Stern Gallery, Tel Aviv
Artists:Reuven Rubin, Chaya Graetz Ran, Dorit Feldman, Anna Ticho, Abraham Hadad.
Israeli Portrait Wilfrid Israel Museum, Oriental Art and Studies, Kibbutz Hazorea
Artists: Shoshana Heimann,Genia Berger, Avraham Ofek, Jean David, Jakob Steinhardt, David Sharir, Ruth Schloss Ruth Zarfati Rudi Lehmann and others
With this Ring - Wedding Ceremonies in Contemporary Art Beit Hatfutsot, Tel Aviv
Artists: Nelly Agassi, Lital Dotan, Shai Azoulay,
Avraham Baron Gallery, Beer Sheva
Artists: Miki Kratsman, Adi Nes...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled, Mixed Media on Paper, Black, Yellow by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
By Sekhar Kar
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sekhar Kar - Untitled, Mixed media on Paper
22 x 28 inches, 2020 (Unframed)
** Free shipping ** Delivered in parcel form mounted but not framed .
Style : Sekhar Kar's paintings de...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Pareidolia II . Ink On 19th Century Paper
Located in Brecon, Powys
Ink on 19th Century Paper
If painting, like any other language, can be considered an abstract system of signs, there must be a pictorial vocabulary and syntactical rules which commu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Archival Paper
Tutto Sospeso - Mixed Media by Maurizio Gracceva - 2021
Located in Roma, IT
Tutto sospeso is a beautiful artwork realized by Maurizio Gracceva in the 2021.
Ink on paper.
Hand signed by the artist.
Title, date, techinique on the back.
Author of numerou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Ink
Anatomy Lesson - Mixed Media by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Anatomy Lesson is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the 1960s.
Mixed media colored drawing.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower mar...
Category
1960s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Snow Globe, limited edition print,
Located in Deddington, GB
Snow Globe by Rebecca Denton [2019]
limited_edition
Etching and aquatint
Edition number /40
Image size: H:20.5 cm x W:25.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Red Goat Abstract Collage
By Karen Druker
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative abstract collage with goats and other media layered to form an interesting visual texture by Karen Druker (American, 1945). Signed "Druker" in the lower right corner. Pres...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Cardboard, Pen
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
Animal Painting Surrealist Royal College of Art LGBTQ+ artist King Prawn Pink
By Isabel Rock
Located in Norfolk, GB
Isabel Rock is a creator of contemporary fairy tales. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, her work is an explosion of strange occurrences while a surreal narrative take...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Pen
Landscape Black and White - Original Drawing -Large Size
Located in Agrigento, AG
landscape
mineral oxide on papers ( Canson Paper 300gr)
Origial drawing ,one of a kind
55x75 cm
frame option as in photo
2022
Marilina Marchica, born in Agrigento, where she works ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
$1,600 Sale Price
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Untitled
Located in Wien, 9
> wax-chalk drawing on Ingres with gold paint
> signed and dated lower right
Barbara Szüts was born in Bad Bleiberg in Carinthia (AUSTRIA) in 1952. She studied painting with Carl Un...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Chalk, Wax
Same Shit
By Burak Ata
Located in Kansas City, MO
Burak Ata
Title: Same Shit
Year: 2017
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 25 x 25 cm
Signed, dated and inscribed by the artist
Burak Ata was born in Istanbul in 1989. He graduated fro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$149 Sale Price
50% Off
Six Goats, Modernist Goat Animal Portrait Series
By Karen Druker
Located in Soquel, CA
Playful portraits of six goats, a series arranged in panels, by Karen Druker (American, 1945). Signed "Druker" in the lower right corner. Presented in an off-white mat. No frame. Ima...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
Bright Sunny Day, Original Painting
By Posey Gaines
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A bright day in the high desert plains. Pastel yellow, pink and blue balanced with the earthy tones of the landscape. "Landscapes when viewed in the open plai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Other Voices" drawing by Hiroshi Hayakawa
Located in Chicago, IL
Framed Dimensions: 18.5h x 16.5w inches
Hiroshi Hayakawa was born and raised in Japan. He earned a BA in French Literature from Keio University in To...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
"Edge Event XXVII", Figurative, Graphite, Drawing, Canvas, Horses, Realism
Located in St. Louis, MO
Joseph Piccillo’s meticulous charcoal and graphite drawings and paintings reveal an exquisite draftsmanship tempered by emotional sensitivity. Piccillo presents an action-based assem...
Category
1980s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Graphite
Nude - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1970
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original artwork realized in 1970 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper, glued on cardboard (50 x ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Dawn, 24x30 cm, mixed media/canvas
Located in Riga, LV
Liga Kalnina
Artist Liga Kalnina(1990) is born in Riga, Latvia.
Her artist interests is mainly realistically based -landscapes, architecture, portraits, still life's, collages, ass...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas
Reclined Nude - Drawings by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Reclined Nude is an original artwork realized in the 1970s by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original drawings in Black Marker pen on paper.
Good condit...
Category
1970s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Permanent Marker
Nude - Original Pastel drawing by Emile Deschler - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 49 x 32.5 cm.
Nude is an original artwork realized by Emile Deschler in 1986.
Pastel on paper glued on cardboard. Hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the lower...
Category
1980s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Creeping Blue Ring - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
A small octopus is inked in the Japanese style of Gyo-Taku print making. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, the artist then embellishes it with colored pencil to convey an extra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
Memorial to Mr. Morris / woman's head study - drawing painting
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Memorial to Mr. Morris' is created with stabilo pencil, ink, gouache, walnut ink and charcoal on paper. Comes in an archival crystal clear storage sleeve. The young woman's head wit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Color Pencil
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