Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
EXPRESSIONIST STYLE
While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared.
Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.
Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.
Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.
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Style: Expressionist
Colourful Abstract Sunset Sky, French Expressionist Original Painting
By Akos Biro
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002)
watercolor/ gouache
size: 7.5 x 10.5 inches
Beautifully colourful, original painting by the very popular and highly regarded Hungarian/ French painte...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sunset over the Sea, French Expressionist Original Painting
By Akos Biro
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002)
watercolor/gouache
size: 7.75 x 11 inches
Beautifully colorful, original painting by the very popular and highly regarded Hungarian/ French painter, ...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
To Dance and Dance, green blue Wild Woman Series, colorful powerful woman
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Colorful image of a powerful woman enjoying the dance.
This painting is in a series called the Wild Woman which is also printed in a pocket sized book.
Watercolor, mixed media, usi...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Expressionist Color Drawing Cobalt Glass Vintage Frame Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink and pastel crayon drawing of flowers in vase.
Framed in a vintage cobalt blue glass original frame
Hand signed and dated
Framed it measures 13.5 X 10.5
The actual ...
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1950s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel, Ink
German Expressionist drawing by Carl Hofer of lovers
By Carl Hofer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Carl Hofer (German, 1875 – 1955)
Die Liebenden (The lovers)
Black ink and remnants of crayon on paper
Signed with monogram ‘CH’ (lower right)
13.3/4 x 9.3/4 in. (35 x 24.8 cm.)
P...
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20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Crayon, Ink
Dreamy girl, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
My paintings are very personal, they capture my everyday life, my reaction to things I experienced, either yesterday, in my childhood or even events I imagine. My portraits pick up o...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Haiti Beach, Impressionist Watercolor by James Amos Porter
By James Amos Porter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: James Amos Porter, American (1905 - 1970)
Title: Haiti Beach
Year: circa 1965
Medium: Watercolor, signed l.r.
Size: 15 in. x 12 in. (38.1 cm x 30.48 cm)
Frame Size: 22 x 18 i...
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1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
German Expressionist drawing of an abstracted form by Carl Hofer
By Carl Hofer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Carl Hofer (German, 1875 – 1955)
Abstracted form
Pencil and pen and ink on paper
Signed with monogram ‘CH’ (lower right)
11.3/8 x 7.1/2 in. (28.8 x 19 cm.)
Provenance: These works c...
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Early 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Pencil
Drawing, Pastel, Ink And Colored Pencils. "Free Spirits"
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Pastel, Pencil, petal flowers, Color and Ink on Paper.
The base of this drawing is Fabriano paper of 120g /m2. I use natural dyes of flowers, herbs, leaves, bark of trees as the fir...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Pencil, Color Pencil
Iris No. 195, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Original watercolor painting on 140 lb cold press paper :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Flying Hawk, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Original watercolor painting on 140 lb cold pressed paper :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready ...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
PROFIL DE FEMME
Located in Aventura, FL
Original pencil and crayon drawing on paper. Hand signed and dated on front by the artist. Visible image size 25.6 x 19.7 in. Frame size approx 32.25 x 27 in. Artwork is in excellen...
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1950s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
$37,125 Sale Price
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Caribbean Mermaid soft tropical color Mermaid and angel fish mythical subject
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned sanded archival paper suitable for framing under glass. Signed and dated bottom. Part of an ongoing series of mermaids by the artist
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Vaulted Bridge, French Landscape Oil on Masonite Painting by Vincent Mazzocchini
Located in Atlanta, GA
Vincent Mazzocchini, French Landscape with Medieval Bridge – Oil on Wood
This captivating original oil painting created by French artist Vincent Mazzocchini (20th Century) is a rare...
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1940s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paint
Nude Study Black and Blue Pencil Drawing by Russian School Pavlovitch Chem
By Alexandre Pavlovitch Chemetoff
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exquisite carbon and blue pencil drawing on paper is a masterful nude study by Russian-French artist Alexandre Pavlovitch Chemetoff—also known as Chemetov or Chem. With an econo...
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1940s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Carbon Pencil
Black and Blue Cat Woman. Charcoal three quarter drawing of large Lady with cats
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Seen here is a charcoal drawing of a large Lady with cats. The unique work of Stephen Basso is wildly imaginative. While he is also a brilliant colorist, the monochromatic charcoal...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
20th Century German Expressionist drawing by Carl Hofer
By Carl Hofer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Carl Hofer (German, 1875 – 1955)
Der Traum (The dream)
pencil on paper
Signed with monogram ‘CH’ (lower right)
13 x 13 in. (33 x 33 cm.)
Provenance: These works come from the artist’s second wife Elizabeth and from then by descent.
Carl Hofer was a German expressionist painter and the director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. One of the most important painters of the Expressionist movement, his work was among those that was considered degenerate art by the Nazis. He studied in Karlsruhe under Hans Thoma. He first visited Paris in 1899 making acquaintance with Julius Meier-Graefe. In 1902 he studied in Stuttgardt and became friends with the sculptor Hermann Haller...
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20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman
Located in Surfside, FL
Actual Lithograph without matte is 16" X 12".
BENJAMIN KOPMAN (1887 - 1965)
Painter, Illustrator and printmaker Benjamin Kopman was born in Vitebsk, Russia and emigrated to the Unit...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Lithograph
Flowers. 1997. Canvas, oil, 59x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers. 1997. Canvas, oil, 59x40 cm
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1990s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$662 Sale Price
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German Expressionist drawing of abstracted figures by Carl Hofer
By Carl Hofer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Carl Hofer (German, 1875 – 1955)
Abstract figures
Pencil on paper
8.1/4 x 9 in. (21 x 23 cm.)
With studio stamp (on the reverse) and signature of the artist’s wife Elizabeth Hofer
Provenance: These works come from the artist’s second wife Elizabeth and from then by descent.
Carl Hofer was a German expressionist painter and the director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. One of the most important painters of the Expressionist movement, his work was among those that was considered degenerate art by the Nazis. He studied in Karlsruhe under Hans Thoma. He first visited Paris in 1899 making acquaintance with Julius Meier-Graefe. In 1902 he studied in Stuttgardt and became friends with the sculptor Hermann Haller...
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20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pencil
Back of Nude, Signed Pastel Drawing by Gerald Fairclough
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gerald Fairclough
Title: Nude
Year: circa 1977
Medium: Pastel Drawing, signed
Size: 36 x 26 in. (91.44 x 66.04 cm)
Frame Size: 43 x 33 inches
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1970s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Woman in blue, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
In my pictures I try to combine the visual and the conceptual. For me, drawing is a medium of knowledge which, beyond direct expression, makes visible material and immaterial forces,...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
German expressionist drawing by Carl Hofer' Whispering'
By Carl Hofer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Carl Hofer (German, 1875 – 1955)
Einflusterung (Whispering)
Charcoal and pencil on paper
Signed and inscribed ‘Einflusterung’ (lower middle)
17.1/4 x 13.3/8 in. (43.8 x 34 cm.)
Provenance: These works come from the artist’s second wife Elizabeth and from then by descent.
Carl Hofer was a German expressionist painter and the director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. One of the most important painters of the Expressionist movement, his work was among those that was considered degenerate art by the Nazis. He studied in Karlsruhe under Hans Thoma. He first visited Paris in 1899 making acquaintance with Julius Meier-Graefe. In 1902 he studied in Stuttgardt and became friends with the sculptor Hermann Haller...
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20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Original Signed & Dated Female Nude Drawing African American Expressionist
Located in Portland, OR
An early drawing of a female nude by the celebrated African American artist Robert Colescott (1925-2009), shown at the Smith Tower Gallery, Seattle, in 1960, signed & dated.
The dra...
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1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Charcoal
"Whew!" oil pastel signed landscape motorcycle fun adventure lake mountains bold
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Whew!" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. It depicts a man on a motorcycle doing a wheelie on a be...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Pastel, Found Objects
Ascendent Dreams, Abstract Expressionist, Color Crayon, Childlike Drawing, Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a beautiful expressionist style drawing by Juanjo Saez. Juanjo's pictorial work is an exploration of color, texture, and movement, creating vibrant compositions that capture ...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon
Easy, godlike figure, water, reflection, mystical images, blues, greens
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists.
Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance
and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Plage Normande (Normandy Beach)
Located in Chicago, IL
Studio stamp of Gromaire, lower center
Provenance:
Atelier of the artist
Notes:
A typical Normandy beach scene, perhaps near Deauville or Trouville.
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1920s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Black dog, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
In my pictures I try to combine the visual and the conceptual. For me, drawing is a medium of knowledge which, beyond direct expression, makes visible material and immaterial forces,...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Ben ZIon Expressionist Judaica Rabbi Watercolor Painting Jewish Modernist WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Frame measures 13.5 X 11.5
Paper measures 6.5 X 4 inches
Hand signed lower right
Watercolor painting of prophet or Rabbi, Judaica artwork
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated h...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract expressionist portrait of a colorful face by Berkeley artist Howard Margolis (American, 1927-2015). Unsigned, with “Howard Margolis” on verso. Presented unframed, in a paste...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
$680 Sale Price
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Post Soviet Avant Garde Russian Woodcut Print With Hand Watercolor Painting
By Ilya Shenker
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts a wedding scene in a style of German Expressionism. hand signed and hand painted in watercolor.
Ilya Shenker, Russian/American (1922 - )
As a soldier in World War II, he survived where millions perished. Upon returning to his home town of Odessa, felt abandoned and alone. He studied Art and Architecture in Odessa, but, one of a number of Russian Jewish artists allowed to emigrate, he left for America when the opportunity arose. He settled in New York City, a choice that has forever impacted his oeuvre. Many of his pictures depict New York cityscapes and lifestyle; however, they remain typically Russian. His subject matter often comes from memory and includes the life that he left behind, family, and friends. Drawing upon his Jewish heritage for inspiration, Shenker also paints historical events, such as "On the Eve of the Assault" in which he portrayed the last night before the destruction of Jerusalem. He has also illustrated a number of classics of Russian literature including Alexander Pushkin. His use of imagination also applies to the figures in his expressionist paintings—fictional characters such as the Spanish literary character Don Quixote make appearances in his work. He has also placed figures such as Rembrandt and Picasso in modern settings: in "Rembrandt Visiting our Family," Shenker sits his most favored artist at his family table, in a tribute to someone he describes as a "peoples artist." He is one in a long line of great Soviet Russian Judaica Jewish artists beginning with Yehuda Pen, who founded Russia's first art school for Jews in Vitebsk in 1897 continuing with his students, including Marc Chagall and El Lissitzky, Natan Altman, Leon Bakst and Robert Falk...
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1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Untitled - Parmis Sayous 21st Century drawing, Iranian contemporary painter
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on paper
Created in 2019 in Paris, France
Unique work
Signed by the artist
Parmis Sayous was born in 1982 in Teheran, Iran.
Since 2015, She has lived and worked in Paris and ded...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Oil
Iris No. 196, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Original watercolor painting on 140 lb cold pressed paper :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready ...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Mermaid &Tonic mythical sea creatures humor soft light color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Part of an ongoing series of mermaids by the artist on toned archival paper signed and dated on bottom
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel, Archival Paper
Woman in the Street, Expressionist Painting by Irma Stern 1923
By Irma Stern
Located in Long Island City, NY
Woman in the Street by Irma Stern, South African (1894–1966)
Date: 1923
Gouache on Paper, signed and dated lower right
Size: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
Frame Size: 26.5 x 22 inches
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1920s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Gouache
Buttercream Acrobats circus performers humorous subject male female dynamic
Located in Brooklyn, NY
this is a soft pastel on red toned heavyweight archival paper , framing under glass recommended for display.
full figured women like Botero
theme: circus, food, cake, relationships,...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel, Archival Paper
Row of Plane Trees In Winter - Maussane-les-Alpilles
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Row of Plane Trees In Winter - Maussane-les-Alpilles', Provence, watercolour and pencil on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1946). A line of Plane trees greets visitors to almost every vi...
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1940s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
$2,086 Sale Price
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Expressionist Mid-Century Still Life of Flowers in a Vase.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century still life pastel on paper of a vase with flowers by French artist Andrée Ruy Petroff. Signed bottom right.
An enchanting and energetic render...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Crayon, Pastel, Carbon Pencil
Gouache Painting Jules Pascin Hand Signed Woman in Boudoir German Expressionism
By Jules Pascin
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: German Expressionist
Subject: Woman
Medium: gouache paint
Surface: Paper board
This is hand signed lower right.
Framed it measures 17.25 X 15.5, sheet 12 X 10
This came from ...
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Early 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Gouache, Cardboard
Gouache Watercolor Painting, Nantucket Harbor Boats American Deaf Modernist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract harbor scene with boats, in bold, vivid colors on heavy mould made paper.
Hand signed and dated, 1980
22 X 30 not frame
Robert Freiman, deaf from birth, was born in March ...
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1980s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Portrait of Young Girl Gouache Painting by Max Moreau, circa 1950
By Max Moreau
Located in Atlanta, GA
1950s Portrait in Gouache by Belgian Artist Max Moreau (1902–1992)
A beautifully executed mid-century portrait depicting a young girl with gentle features and a serene expression, ev...
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1950s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Gouache
Mid-Century French Feutre on Paper. In the Stables..
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid Century French feutre drawing on paper of a Provençal stable with horses by Jean Arène. Signed and dated bottom left and presented in a wooden frame under glass.
This evocative...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Felt Pen
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Series The Horse Whisper No.2-25
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang
Series The Horse Whisper No.2-25
Dimension: 29 x 36 cm
Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper
Date: 2013
Artist B...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
POMERAT French pastel 1920s 20th Expressionnist A cabaret in Marseille 1920
Located in PARIS, FR
Georges Pomerat Le Pouzin (Ardèche), 1870 - Arles, 1948 Pastel Signed lower right "G. Pomerat" 53 x 49 cm (65 x 60 cm with frame) Excellent condition
This is an interresting interior of a cabaret in Marseille in the 1920s. Several "Montmartois" artistic cabarets settled in Marseille in the 1920s such as le Pupu's, le Chat rieur, La Lune rousse...
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1920s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Series The Horse Whisper No.2-24
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang
Series The Horse Whisper No.2-24
Dimension: 29 x 36 cm
Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper
Date: 2013
Artist Bi...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Quebec City, Fauve Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
Wonderful Fauve Landscape with blocky areas of punchy bold reds and yellows. This was done the same year of the Armory Show in which both William Zor...
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Early 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Luckiness
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang
Title: Luckiness
Dimension: 29 x 36 cm
Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper
D...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Watercolor on paper Italian expressionist figurative nude second quarter 1900
Located in Florence, IT
The work is titled "The Bathers" and is signed at the lower right "CARENA. "The scene depicts a natural setting in which two naked maidens are chatting as they are about to bathe; be...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
SHRIVELING DAHLIAS, IN GLASS JAR, 10.19.16
Located in New York, NY
Colored Pencil on Museum Board
Signed and Dated; Impressed with artist's stamp lower right
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Board, Color Pencil
"Narrow is the Way Which Leads, " Watercolor Landscape signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Narrow is the Way Which Leads" is an original watercolor on paper by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. It depicts a forest in fall.
11" x 15" art
Co...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Charcoal Portrait Drawing of a Woman in Period Outfit
Located in Pasadena, CA
The identity of the artist who created this excellent charcoal study remains unknown. The model's outfit and the arrangement of her hair suggest a bygone era, possibly a study for a ...
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Early 19th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Charcoal
$550 Sale Price
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Mid-Century French Feutre on Paper. Tea time In the Kitchen.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late Mid Century French feutre drawing on paper of a Provençal lady sitting in her kitchen by Jean Arène. Signed and dated bottom left.
This artwork is a striking pen-and-ink drawing that vividly captures a cluttered interior scene filled with an assortment of teapots and household objects. The central figure, an elderly lady with an expressive face, sits at a table surrounded by an overwhelming array of details. The artist uses bold, dynamic lines to convey a sense of chaos and charm, creating an atmosphere of cozy clutter. The composition’s intricacy draws the viewer's eye around the room, showcasing...
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1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Felt Pen
Le Pont Neuf
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Le Pont Neuf', gouache on fine art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BC, the birthplace of Paris. It is called 'The New Bridge' because at the time of its inauguration (built 1578-1607), it embodied a very modern look compared to other bridges which spanned the Seine. Lucien Génin has captured its beauty in this lively depiction from the 1930s. Just before the bridge is a 'Bateau Mouche' an open excursion boat that provides visitors with a view of the city from along the river. The artwork is in good overall condition commensurate with age and medium used. It has been newly frame with anti-reflective glass. Please enjoy the photos accompanying this listing. Signed by the artist in the lower left hand. Upon request a video may be provided.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...
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1930s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Gouache
$1,131 Sale Price
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Yellow Flowers Gelbe Blüten - German Expressionism
By Erich Heckel
Located in London, GB
This watercolour is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Heckel 48" [1948] in the lower right image.
It is also hand titled in pencil “Gelbe Blüten” [Yellow Flowers] in th...
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1940s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Chalk, Watercolor, Laid Paper
Red Roses In Red Glass Beaker 4.13.09
Located in New York, NY
Colored Pencil on Museum Board
Signed and Dated; Impressed with artist's stamp lower right
Archivally framed with black float mount and bleached maple surround.
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Board, Color Pencil
Jerusalem Old City Landscape, Expressionist Judaica Israeli Painting
By Andre Elbaz
Located in Surfside, FL
In this painting the artist uses gestural brushstrokes, which causes distortion and exaggeration for emotional effect. Andre Elbaz uses as his subject figures walking in old city Jerusalem.
André Elbaz (born April 26, 1934, El Jadida, Morocco) is a famous Moroccan painter and filmmaker.
Elbaz studied art and theatre in Rabat and Paris from 1950 to 1961. He started painting only at the age of 21, until which age he had been interested mainly in theatre. A few years later, he managed to combine his two passions into a new approach in art-therapy, inventing together with his wife, a psychiatrist, the Pictodrame, which brought him world recognition.
His first exhibition, which was very successful, took place in Casablanca in 1961 and earned him an appointment as Professor at the Beaux-Arts school in Casablanca. Years later, in 1976, he exhibited his paintings at the Tel-Aviv Museum.
In parallel to his career as a painter, Elbaz is also known as a filmmaker. He produced several short films in France, Canada and the United States. One of them, La nuit n'est jamais complète (The night is never complete), won a prize at the "5th Biennale de Paris in 1967". Among the themes chosen for the many films he produced, there was a short one about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, as well as a series of drawings entitled Seuls (Alone), with texts written by both Elie Wiesel...
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20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Gladiator
By Rainer Küchenmeister
Located in Norwich, GB
An exquisite watercolour and paint painting on paper by German resistance fighter and concentration camp survivor Rainer Küchenmeister (1926-2010)...
Category
1970s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Mother Nature', Lyrical Surrealist Abstract Watercolour on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century lyrical surrealist abstract watercolour on paper by French artist Jean Clerté, signed and dated bottom right. Presented in mid-century frame.
Jean Clerté , born in 1930 in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe in Vienne, is a French painter, engraver, draftsman, watercolourist and sculptor . This work is a great example of his more humorous and expressive work influenced by Alechinsky from the late 1960s onwards. There is a light playfulness and yet the watercolours are more vivid than his previous palette.
Jean Clerté works in series. His sequential narrations testify both to a youthful spontaneity and to a perfect mastery in the distribution of forms and images on the painted surface. The narration is not only an accumulation of juxtaposed fragments and symbols, it forms a whole, it takes on and gives meaning. In general, we can say of Clerté that he practices an “eco-art” that feeds on primary hungers: the feeling of being united with nature, the vegetable, the mineral, the aquatic. In his colourful canvases, his inks, his boxes, his objects, like a shaman on the path of his dreams, the painter Clerté mounts an assault on beasts and demons, elves and gnomes. From the Poitevin marshes to the tropical forests emerges a fauna caught in the meanders of a design that marvels at the appearance of these grotesque idols.
Jean Clerté began to draw and paint at a very young age, and at the age of 15 he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Poitiers. Then in 1949, curious about the capital, he moved to Paris. Having very few financial resources, he could not continue his studies at first, worked as a model to survive, and met other artists; he was then admitted to the studio of Ossip Zadkine and, from 1952, he was also able to study engraving at Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter, an English engraver and printer living in Paris associated in the 1930s with surrealism.
At the end of the 1960s, he worked alongside Pierre Alechinsky, founding member of the Cobra movement, engraving Alechinsky's originals, benefiting from his advice, and discovering acrylic as a medium.
From 1976, Jean Clerté became associate professor at Hayter. Clerté had taught previously, in 1971 at the Salzburg Summer University and in 1972 he gave courses at the Paris-Sorbonne University . In 1981, he was appointed professor at the School of Decorative Arts , where he had Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas as a student and, from 1983 to 1988, he was Alechinsky's assistant professor at the Paris School of Fine Arts.
His first works are part of the current of lyrical abstraction, and are nourished by impressions of nature (landscape motifs, e.g. forest fires, waterscapes), then around 1968, encouraged by Alechinsky, he rejects abstraction, and his work becomes more figurative with expressive and humorous elements. From this period his colours are more subdued, often with pastel tones, he works on series. Jean Clerté has created a world in a space where drawing, painting, objects participate in a playful figuration. From his drawings were born sculptures and sometimes mobiles (Le Moulin à dessin). If it is the artist who makes astonishing, polychrome, whimsical “toys”, it is the painter who appeals to adults through his caustic and satirical humour.
His first exhibitions in France took place at the Galerie Massol , then at the Galerie Pascal...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Two Clouds, Expressionist Drawing on Watercolor Paper, Skyscape, Naïf Landscape
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a beautiful expressionist style drawing by Juanjo Saez. Juanjo's pictorial work is an exploration of color, texture, and movement, creating vibrant compositions that capture ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Wax Crayon, Watercolor
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