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
San Cristobal bright color religious Saint blue water sky human condition
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned signed and dated bottom. Part of 4 works the artist has done on the subject of Saint Christopher who is depicted in art history carrying the Christ child on his...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Red Pepper #1 2022, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Watercolor work on archival quality paper. The painter likes to paint what whe will eat, in this case attracted by the colors and shape of a wonderful red pepper. :: Painting :: Expr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Attention, please!
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower right
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Frame size 37.3 x 28.7 x 4 cm
This work includes a certificate of authenticity
Felix Dolah...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Nude - XXI Century, Contemporary Charcoal Figurative Drawing, Sitting Female
By Marta Łebek
Located in Warsaw, PL
Marta Lebek is a Polish artist born in 1978. She currently lives and works in Spain.
She studied at the School of Fine Arts and specialized in the departm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Pair of Framed Mixed Media Nudes by Byron Randall
Located in Pasadena, CA
Pair of nude figure drawings done with a mix of pastels, and gouache. Signed and dated 1963.
Born in Tacoma, WA on Oct. 23, 1918. Randall was in Salem, OR during the 1930s. He create...
Category
1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache, Paper
Artist and Model, colorful nude male dog monoprint chine colle
By Jenny Toth
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Woodcut and hand-painted paper collage
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper, Archival Ink
'Dancing Musician', New York, Kinetic Figural, NYMOMA, LACMA, Whitney Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Mallory' for Ronald Mallory (American, 1932-2021) and dated 1975.
A dramatic, disjunct figural study of a man wearing a checked cap, shown dancing and playing ...
Category
1970s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
Les Fleurs Maladives
Located in London, GB
Signed lower right
This work includes a certificate of authenticity.
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Frame size 111 x 91 x 3 cm
Felix Dolah...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Nothing to be done
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower right
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core)
Frame size 54.1 x 42 x 2.5 cm
This work includes a certificate of authenticity
...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
The Port of Le Havre
By Fred Pailhès
Located in London, GB
'The Port of Le Havre', pencil on art paper, by French artist Fred Pailhès (circa 1950s). Le Havre was only a fishing village until 1517, when Francis I h...
Category
1950s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Tower of Glamour. Still life bright colors hats sunglasses and mirror subject
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pastel on toned paper suitable for framing.
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Singer, from the Wild Woman Series, bright green tones music theme
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Bright green tones, figurative, reminiscent of art nouveau
This painting is in a series called the Wild Woman which is also printed in a pocket sized book.
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists.
Janet Morgan...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Fliegen züchten
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower left
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Holder of Light, Wild Woman Series, bright color blue yellow
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting is in a series called the Wild Woman which is also printed in a pocket sized book.
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists.
Janet Morgan’s...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Jugged Hare, blue swimmer water 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...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Monotype
Le Silence des Yeux
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower left
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core)
Frame size 50 x 37.7 x 3 cm
This work includes a certificate of authenticity
Fe...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Fulton Street, Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015)
Title: Fulton Street (P5.31)
Year: 1961
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.88 cm)
Category
1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Gyöngyvér
Located in London, GB
Signed lower left
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Frame size 38.4 x 29.8 x 4 cm
This work includes a certificate o...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Neugestorben
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower right
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Frame size 38.5 x 29.8 x 3.5 cm
This work includes a ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Expressionist Miniature Drawing Wheat Stalks American Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink drawing of wheat stalks
There is an inscription "Happy New Year" on verso
Hand signed
Framed it measures 7.75 X 5.75
The actual paper is 3 X 3.5
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
Category
1950s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
"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...
Category
1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Past. Present. Future. Imperfect
Located in London, GB
Mixed media on Fabriano
Signed lower right
This work includes a certificate of authenticity.
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflect...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Interspecies Communication, colorful mythological swirling pattern orange tones
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists and metalic paints and old pastels.
For Octopus and cephalopod fans.
Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exu...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Dearly Beloved #37
Located in London, GB
Mixed media on Fabriano
Signed lower right
This work includes a certificate of authenticity.
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflect...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Energy Worker, bright colorful swirling patterns mystical yoga Wild Woman
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting is in a series called the Wild Woman which is also printed in a pocket sized book.
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists.
Janet Morgan’s...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Nude - XXI Century, Contemporary Gouache and Charcoal Figurative Drawing, Female
By Marta Łebek
Located in Warsaw, PL
Marta Lebek is a Polish artist born in 1978. She currently lives and works in Spain.
She studied at the School of Fine Arts and specialized in the departm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
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
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Pastel
A slight instant between life and death
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower left
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Frame size 38.5 x 29.6 x 3.3 cm
This work includes a c...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Ojemine
Located in London, GB
Signed lower left
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Frame size 37.2 x 29.8 x 4 cm
This work includes a certificate o...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Funambulist
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated lower right
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Frame size 38.4 x 29.6 x 3.3 cm
This work includes a ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Die Ganze Unwahrheit
Located in London, GB
Signed lower left
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Frame size 38.4 x 29.8 x 4 cm
This work includes a certificate o...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
The Few
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated upper right
Framed (matte black wooden frame, black raised float mount on foam core, UV anti-reflective glass)
Frame size 38.5 x 29.6 x 4 cm
This work includes a ce...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
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 paper is 7.5 X 5.5
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
Category
1950s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel, Ink
Acacia Beach
By Teri Brudnak
Located in Boston, MA
Artist commentary:
Summer in the Caribbean has lots of happy memories for me. The blue, blue water seen through a screen of leaves is a strong impressi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
The Final Stretch
By Maurice EMPI
Located in London, GB
'The Final Stretch', pastel on weighted art paper, by Maurice Empi (circa 1980s). One can almost feel the excitement of the horse race from this exuberant and colourful work of art. ...
Category
1980s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Church of Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet in Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'The Church of Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet, Paris', gouache on art paper by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). In Paris' 5th Arrondissement the site in which Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet is ...
Category
1930s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Contemporary Figurative Ink Portrait, "Half and Half"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original portrait ink drawing by San Diego artist, Charlene Mosley.
Its dimensions are 7.25 x 9.5. It comes in a black frame.
The artist has depicted a femin...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Sleepwalking #15, dark tones, monochromatic, mysterious
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstr...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Monotype, Paper
Hanging Woman, colorful, yoga reference, figure w abstract patterns
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...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
The Pompeii Room Nude with cat and pillows subject strong red color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on red toned paper signed and dated bottom left. Suitable for framing under glass
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Horned and Read, colorful mythological figure, spiritual, blue ground
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...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
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...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Garden Bloom
By Teri Brudnak
Located in Boston, MA
Artist commentary:
Nothing makes me happier than working in the garden and seeing plants bloom and bear fruit. We are more alike than we imagine.
Words that describe the piece: Gar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Abundance
By Teri Brudnak
Located in Boston, MA
Artist commentary:
Nature is always expressing abundance not scarcity.
Words that describe the piece: nature,plants,green
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
"Militair" Gray Toned Abstract Watercolor Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Gray toned abstract watercolor painting on paper titled "Militair." Back side of the paper has another painting depicting red, yellow, green, and blue abstract shapes with figurative...
Category
1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Hot Flash, figure, red colors, bright swirling patterns
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...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Abstract Expressionist Rabbi Watercolor Painting Jewish American Modernist WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Watercolor painting of standing prophet or Rabbi, Judaica artwork
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolf Gottlieb...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Circus
By Roland Dubuc
Located in London, GB
'The Circus', gouache on art paper, by Roland Dubuc (circa 1970s). Exploding in colour, this artwork presents a whimsical scene of one of the well known Parisian circuses. France has a long history of adoring and supporting circus troupes. Unknown to its many visitors, Paris hosts legendary circus companies complete with acrobats, clowns, trapeze artists, jugglers and animals. This artwork depicts clown musicians taking their final bows before calling it a night. For lovers of the excitement circuses generate this would be a wonderful addition to their home. Perhaps this art would be perfect for a child's room or the family den and games room. It is in good vintage condition and
It is signed by the artist in the lower right hand corner. Please view the many photos accompanying this listing. Upon request a video of the artwork may be provided.
About the Artist: Roland DuBuc (1924-1998), French artist, the sixth of 13 children and son of a construction worker. The very precariousness of the family's financial situation forced him to go to work at the age of 14. In extreme poverty, he moved to Rouen where he was lodged by the Salvation Army. During that time he struck up friendships with several artists who gave him advice and taught him techniques of drawing. He moved to other cities later where he met painters including, among others, Fred Pailhès...
Category
1970s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Three Fish - colorful Blue Green Lavender Purple White Orange
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Signed lower left.
Provenance: The Estate of the Artist
A letter of authenticity from the Artist's Estate will accompany this work of art.
Category
1920s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
Expressionist Ink, Pastel, Crayon Drawing Jewish American Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink and pastel crayon drawing of beans (carobs, flowers?) in pods
Hand signed.
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel, Ink
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
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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
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Watercolor, Pencil
David Smith Sulzer Engineering Works I Switzerland Watercolor Modern British Art
By David Smith
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you ...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Red Handbags strong red colors older female figure interior subject handbags
Located in Brooklyn, NY
soft pastel on toned paper framing under glass required
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Pastel
Atlas Cornice Drawings 2 —Vienna Secessionist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Two early 20th-century Vienna Secessionist, male nude cornice drawings. Graphite on pale blue/grey wove drawing paper, spot glued by the artist to ...
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1920s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pencil
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
Etching with Hand Watercolor Painting Jules Pascin Pencil Signed
By Jules Pascin
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: German Expressionist
Subject: Figures
Medium: etching, watercolor paint
Surface: Paper
This is hand signed lower right.. there does not seem to be an edition size although there is a handwritten number lower left
sheet measures 12.5 x 19.88. plate size about 9 x 13.5
Julius Mordecai Pincas (March 31, 1885 – June 5, 1930), known as Pascin Jules...
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Early 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor, Etching
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.
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Archival Paper, Pastel
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