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
Across the Line
By Garth Bayley
Located in Deddington, GB
Across the line – Horse racing painting – Garth Bayley [2022]
original
Pen and Ink
Image size: H:24 cm x W:32 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:24 cm x ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Study for Marbles, Original Drawing by Francisco Zuniga 1962
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Francisco Zuniga, Costa Rican / Mexican (1912 - 1998)
Title: Study for Marbles
Year: 1962
Medium: Ink on Paper, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 17.5 x 21.5 inches
Frame: 26....
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1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
"Luisa on the sofa" Watercolor and black ink cm. 33 x 46 1965
Located in Torino, IT
woman, , Italian painter,Red,Black
Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989)
From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical and expressive re...
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1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink, Watercolor
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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
Materials
Lithograph
Pastel, Ink Drawing Rocks And Cloud Landscape Jewish American Modernist WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Miniature Landscape
Provenance: Virginia Field, Arts administrator; New York, N.Y. Assistant director for Asia House gallery. (she was friends with John von Wicht and Andy Warhol)
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Ink, Watercolor
Blue Roses Bouquet. Watercolour by Lada Kholosho
Located in Zofingen, AG
This is a medium-sized handcrafted watercolor painting, titled "Blue Roses Bouquet", by Lada Kholosho.
The work features a bouquet of flowers in a cool ...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Isolation Blues contemporary social realism dark humor topical art man cat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
pastel on toned paper signed bottom left
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Double Namaste, let us touch and unite, colorful yoga reference
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 humor and spiritual depth s...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Clown, 1998 - oil paint, 75x60 cm, framed
By Armand Avril
Located in Nice, FR
Gouache on paper, signed on the leg of the clown.
Armand Avril, né à Lyon en 1926, est un peintre vivant à Cotignac dans le Var. Il est surtout connu pour les assemblages qu'il a réalisés à partir de 1968. D'origine modeste, cependant très tôt intéressé par l'art et les musées où le poussait son père, il s'essaie d'abord à la peinture. Cependant, Avril ne commence à trouver son véritable style qu'à l'âge de quarante-deux ans.
Enfant, il est un habitué des musées de Lyon qu’il fréquente sur les conseils de son père. Adulte, sa passion pour la collection l’incite à se nourrir des arts premiers et d’artistes comme Gaston Chaissac...
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1990s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
Adjusting the Radar, powerful image of trying to get it right, bold color
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists, meditation and yoga references.
Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance
and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sen...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
backlit, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
By Marko Fenske
Located in Yardley, PA
Painte plein air in North Brandenburg. :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Sign...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
German expressionist drawing of a Bull Elephant by Carl Hofer
By Carl Hofer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Carl Hofer (German, 1875 – 1955)
Elefantenbulle (Bull elephant)
Pencil on paper
Signed with monogram ‘CH’ (lower right)
15.3/4 x 13.3/8 in. (40 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...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Large Watercolor Painting Israeli Modernist Judaica Two Rabbis
By Moshe Gat
Located in Surfside, FL
A large watercolor painting.
Moshe Gat was born in Haifa in 1935.
in 1952 he began his studies at the Bezalel School, in Jerusalem.
In 1955...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sitter Watching, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Ink on Indian handmade paper. This work was done in a live model session of quick poses. One of my favourite ways of painting. Quick poses gives one no time to think about what is ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
The Wine Merchant female figure with large black wine bottles vibrant color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned sanded archival paper suitable for framing under glass.
Signed by artist
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are rom...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Middletown ..Cafe scene standing woman between two plants warm red color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imaginat...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper, Pen
"In der Loge" [In the Lodge]
By George Grosz
Located in Astoria, NY
George Grosz (German, 1893-1959), "In der Loge" [In the Lodge], Pen and Ink on Paper, circa 1913, signed in pencil "Grosz" and titled lower lower left, Achim Moeller, Ltd. label to v...
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1910s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
!["In der Loge" [In the Lodge]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_28452/1748465947797/109976_1_master.jpg?width=240 "George Grosz - \"In der Loge\" [In the Lodge]")
Bauhaus . Untitled (French Barque under Staysail)
Located in Miami, FL
Bauhaus Iconic work by the master or Cubism and Expressionism
Dalzell Hatfield Gallery, Los Angeles
Bonhams,
Exhibited: Moller Fine Art, "Precision ...
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1940s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Post Soviet Avant Garde Russian Woodcut Print With Hand Watercolor Painting
By Ilya Shenker
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts a feast style celebration 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
'Sardinian Cove, Evening Light' original painting c2003 signed
Located in Frome, Somerset
Sardinian Cove in evening light, Costa Smeralda by Andy Gradwell circa 2003.
Mixed media on paper 31cm x 32cm
Silver giltwood glazed frame by Academy Framers ( Royal College of Arts, London) 52cm x56cm.
'Water and Dreams' .A semi abstracted romanticised view of a bay on the Mediterranean Island using expressive color..
Fluid lyrical forms and line work expessive of the flora and mountainous backdrop and ocean...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Lying on red armchair, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
My paintings and drawings 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 portra...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
German Expressionist drawing by Carl Hofer of a mother and child
By Carl Hofer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Carl Hofer (German, 1875 – 1955)
Mother and son
Black crayon on paper
10.1/2 x 7.3/4 in. (26.7 x 20 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...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
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
Signed Nude Pastel Drawing by Gerald Fairclough
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gerald Fairclough, American (1946 - )
Title: Nude
Year: 1977
Medium: Pastel Drawing, signed and dated
Size: 25 x 35 in. (63.5 x 88.9 cm)
Frame Size: 33 x 43 inches
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1970s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Lonely dreamers. 1992, paper, etching, watercolor, 22x14 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Roman Lapp (1961. 24. VII Moscow) – painter
Artist learned drawing to M. Zuhovickis.
He graduated Art Academy of Latvia, department of monumental painting (1988) with diploma work ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Etching
Seated woman with black skirt, 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,...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
The audience - closer. 1948, paper, mixed technique, 17.2x14.4 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to publicity.
“I am 58, and in five Years my c...
Category
1940s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Abstract Drawing Watercolor Painting Totem Column Jewish American Modernist WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Miniature Abstract Totem. Signed with initials.
Provenance: Virginia Field, Arts administrator; New York, N.Y. Assistant director for Asia House gallery. (she was friends with John v...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Theater history VI. 1992. Paper, etching, colored pencils 24.5x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Roman Lapp (1961. 24. VII Moscow) – painter
Artist learned drawing to M. Zuhovickis.
He graduated Art Academy of Latvia, department of monumental painting (1988) with diploma work...
Category
1990s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Etching
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...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
'Amalfi , Italy, View of the Bay' signed original painting circa 2005.
Located in Frome, Somerset
'Amalfi, view of the bay' circa 2005 signed original painting by Andy Gradwel b.1968.
mixed media on paper (current site size) 27cm x 36cm
glazed and mounted frame47cm x 56cm
Eveni...
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Early 2000s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Jerusalem Old City Landscape, Expressionist Judaica Israeli Painting II
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
German expressionist drawing of bathers by Carl Hofer 'Die Badegasten'
By Carl Hofer
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Carl Hofer (German, 1875 – 1955)
Die Badegaste II (The bathers)
Black crayon on paper
19.1/4 x 15 in. (49 x 38 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...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Playing girl, 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,...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Bird on a Basket, Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - )
Title: Bird on a Basket (P6.25)
Year: 1957
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 22.5 x 29.5 in. (57.15 x 74.93 cm)
Category
1940s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Expressionist Figurative Painting, "Alone"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original expressionist figurative drawing by Southern California artist, Lenore Simon. It is framed as pictured. Its framed dimensions are 26.45" x 30.6". A c...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Conté, Charcoal
Woman with Red Jacket, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - )
Title: Woman with Red Jacket (P6.52)
Year: 1948
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm)
Category
1940s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Girl on the chair, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
My paintings and drawings 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 portra...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
woman, 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,...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Good night, Drawing, Pen & Ink on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
My drawings25, 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...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pen
Yellow Nude with Blackbirds standing female nude black tree and bird background
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An early work on a series of nude figures that have been part of the artist's extensive body of work. The pastel colors are strong and vibrant with extensive reworking . It i
s signe...
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1980s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
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 5 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
Expressionist Figure Study
By Sigmund Menkes
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Expressionist
Subject: Figures
Medium: Ink
Surface: Paper
Dimensions w/Frame: 14 1/4" x 12 1/4"
Zygmunt (Sigmund) Menkes
born in Lviv (Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire) Polish painter of Jewish origin, born in 1896 in Lvov, died in 1986 in Riverdale, New York. Member of the École de Paris group in the 1920s and 1930s. From the beginning of 1935 he lived and worked in the United States; he was a representative of the Expressionist Colorism movement.
Menkes began his artistic studies in 1912 at the Industrial School in Lviv. At the same time he worked as a restorer of rural churches. Between 1919 and 1922 he supplemented his studies at Krakow's Academy of Fine Arts and in 1922 expanded on this education and broadened his artistic skills in the private studio of Alexander Archipenko in Berlin. In 1923 Menkes settled in Paris, where he became a member of the École de Paris - a community that was primarily made up of artists hailing from Central and Eastern Europe who rented inexpensive studios in the "La Ruche" building in the Montparnasse district. Menkes developed close friendships with Eugeniusz Zak and Marc Chagall. Two years later, Menkes made the decision to settle permanently in France. He participated in a series of the city's salons, including the Salon d'Automne (1924, 1925, 1927), the Salon des Independants (1925-1928), and Tuileries Salon (1928, 1929, 1931, 1938). He presented his works in a number of Parisian galleries, among them, the Bernheim, de France, and Le Portique. In 1930 the artist traveled to the United States to present his work in Cleveland and New York. He also exhibited his paintings in Canada and England. He visited Poland frequently, spent time in Berlin in 1928, and toured Spain with Artur Nacht-Samborski in 1935, moving to the United States the same year.
In 1936 Menkes had his first solo exhibition in New York at the Sullivan Gallery on 57th Street. He also worked with the Associated American Artists Gallery and the French Art Gallery, and for years was a lecturer at the Art Students League. Solo exhibitions of his work were organized by the Galerie Le Portique in Paris (1928), the Friends of Fine Arts Society in Lviv (1930), and at the Jewish Society for Support of the Fine Arts in Warsaw (1931). In Poland the artist was a member of groups with a Coloristic orientation, including Nowa Generacja (New Generation) and Zwornik (Keystone), participating in their exhibitions in Lviv (1932, 1935) and Warsaw (1935, 1938). Menkes received a series of important distinctions for his work, including the Carol H. Beck Medal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Philadelphia, 1943), the Gold Medal of the Corcoran Gallery (Washington, D.C., 1947), the Andrew Carnegie...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Two Angels double depiction of female nudes soft red tones against black
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a richly colored pastel on red toned paper with bits of the primer flickering throughout the work. Signed and dated bottom left.
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Archival Paper, Gouache
Portrait with hand on chest, 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,...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Portrait of a Japanese Woman, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - )
Title: Portrait (63)
Year: 1961
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 22 in. x 15 in. (55.88 cm x 38.1 cm)
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1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Help From Friends, colorful blues, purples, spiritual figure abstract watercolor
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists.
This piece is very much about the energy of the body and breath. We are just rediscovering the power of the breath to increase energy and general well being.
This work is so important as our society gets more disembodied and broken, we need to come home to our bodies and realize the sacredness of ourselves and every being on the planet. Janet has both shown and taught with Alex Grey...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Bouquet of Flowers I, Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015)
Title: Bouquet of Flowers I
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Watercolor
Size: 20 in. x 13 in. (50.8 cm x 33.02 cm)
Signed in pencil by artist.
Category
1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Large Watercolor Painting Israeli Modernist Judaica Rabbi with Children, Bezalel
By Moshe Gat
Located in Surfside, FL
A large watercolor painting.
Moshe Gat was born in Haifa in 1935.
in 1952 he began his studies at the Bezalel School, in Jerusalem.
In 1955 he returned to Haifa, where he taught dra...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
In Good Hands, swirling colorful spiritual abstracted goddess figure
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 humor and spiritual depth s...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Algerian French Vibrant Colorful Expressionist Beach Scene Oil Pastel Drawing
By Armand Henri Nakache
Located in Surfside, FL
Armand Nakache was the foremost champion of Expressionism in France, an area unfairly shunned by a society more attracted to the charms of classical painting, Impressionism, Post-Imp...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Pastel
Sitting woman VI, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
I use my photos as a starting point. I change them up significantly to get a final composition that best conveys my sense of a work. :: Drawing :: Expressionism :: This piece comes w...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Corner of 9th and de Chirico surreal urban landscape warm black Grey and red
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on Grey toned archival paper signed and dated. This is a large pastel painting suitable for framing under glass. The artist is reminded of the great Italian painter after...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Archival Paper
Man and Dionysus Heimrad Prem German Expressionist Watercolor Painting Art Brut
By Heimrad Prem
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Expressionist
Subject: Figures
Medium: Watercolor
Surface: Paper
Country: Austria
Dimensions w/Frame: 21" x 26 3/4" Heimrad Prem (1934 – 1978) was a German painter born in Roding, Oberpfalz. From 1949–1952 he studied decorative painting at Schwandorf and then studied painting with Josef Oberberger and sculpture with Toni Stadler at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich until 1956. While studying painting with Ernst Emil Schumacher at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, he formed Gruppe SPUR with Lothar Fischer, Helmut Sturm, and Hans-Peter Zimmer. After meeting Asger Jorn, SPUR joined the Situationist International. He was influenced by the Cobra artists Karel Appel and Otmar Alt.
In 1960 he won a scholarship of the Kulturpreises im Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie, Cologne. From 1960–1962 he co-edited the magazine SPUR. In 1961 he visited Oerkelljunga, Sweden with Sturm, Zimmer and Dieter Kunzelmann staying with Jørgen Nash...
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1970s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Nude
Located in New York, NY
This watercolor has a photo certificate signed by the artist and will be included in his future catalogue raisonne. This has a complete subject compared to other drawings
consisting...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$9,200 Sale Price
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Painting the Town Red urban narrative warm southwestern color female figure
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned archival paper signed and dated bottom left. Surrealistic expressionist with humorous undertones
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Prize Blade 1, abstract male nude, expressionist brushwork, dark, monochromatic
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent of Lucien Freud, Edgar Degas and the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Elongated and blurry, the horse racing up a hill (Canter Fritz, 2002) and the sinister cat landing a leap (Chien Blanc, 1998) elicit a sense of foreboding enhanced by Bennett’s somber palette; his female figures too reflect a grim sense of humor with their distorted nude bodies. The face of Untitled Figure (1997), for example, is obscured by layers of dark paint. Classically trained as a painter, he initially worked in oil on canvas but discovered that monotype printing enabled him to “literally push the image around,” creating an essential element of motion. To overcome the limited scale of monotypes, however, he switched to painting on slick-surfaced plastic.
Tom Bennett’s practice is rooted in the classical tradition where painting and drawing from life is highly regarded. Bennett’s work is heavily influenced by Francis Bacon, Frank Auberbauch and foremost his father, Harry Bennett, who was also an artist. Tom’s time living abroad in Spain and traveling through Eastern Europe and Africa provided the artistic freedom to explore many of the techniques and subject matter that continue to define his practice. Bennett was born and raised in Connecticut.
His mediums include monotypes, oil on paper, canvas or styrene board. In a technique that Tom started over 4 years ago, several of his monotypes have been painted over with oil paint using a palette knife, brush, or his fingers to re-purpose the underlying image. These works are a testament to Bennett’s ability to quickly and concisely compose an image with expressive brush strokes, foreshortened figures and expertly rendered light.
Tom’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Bennett lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently represented by Tabla Rasa...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Monotype, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Cliffhanger Nudes female nude grouping nudes in nature warm colors
Located in Brooklyn, NY
soft pastel on toned archival heavyweight toned paper. suitable for framing under glass. this is one of the artists ongoing series titled Nudes With Attitude.
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Standing nude, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
My paintings and drawings 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 portra...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Sweet Energy, colorful red swirling abstract mystical mixed media
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
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