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
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...
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20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Crayon
Untitled Jean-Claude Desmerges Contemporay art drawing African art colour
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal and ink on paper
Signed by the artist
Unique work
Jean-Claude Desmerges is a French artist and researcher born in 1957 who combines his skills as a visual artist and resear...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink
Untitled Jean-Claude Desmerges Contemporary art drawing African art colour anima
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal and ink on paper
Signed by the artist
Unique work
Jean-Claude Desmerges is a French artist and researcher born in 1957 who combines his skills as a visual artist and resear...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink
Seyni Camara's portrait Jean-Claude Desmerges Contemporary art drawing colour
Located in Paris, FR
Seyni Camara's portrait
Charcoal and ink on paper
Signed by the artist
Unique work
Jean-Claude Desmerges is a French artist and researcher born in 1957 who combines his skills as a ...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink
Kalao Jean-Claude Demerges Contemporary art drawing African art bird colour
Located in Paris, FR
Kalao
Charcoal and ink on paper
Signed by the artist
Unique work
Jean-Claude Desmerges is a French artist and researcher born in 1957 who combines his skills as a visual artist and ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink
Untitled Jean-Claude Desmerges Contemporary art drawing african art colour
Located in Paris, FR
Charcoal and ink on paper
Signed by the artist
Unique work
Jean-Claude Desmerges is a French artist and researcher born in 1957 who combines his skills as a visual artist and resear...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink
Double portrait Jean-Claude Desmerges Contemporary art drawing Seyni Camara
Located in Paris, FR
Double portrait : Seyni Camara and Jean-Claude Desmerges
Charcoal and ink on paper
Signed by the artist
Unique work
Jean-Claude Desmerges is a French artist and researcher born in 1...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Charcoal, Ink
"Fish" Watercolor cm. 18 x 14 1937
Located in Torino, IT
Fish,red,yellow,sea, animals
Italian 1937
Giulio DA MILANO (Nizza, 1895 - Torino, 1990)
Giulio Da Milano was a Giacomo Grosso's disciple and he was very close to the artists that...
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1930s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
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
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
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Hampton Bays, Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015)
Title: Hampton Bays (P6.24)
Year: 1958
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
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1950s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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, ...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Seated Pair, Framed Pastel on Paper by Francisco Zuniga
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Francisco Zuniga, Costa Rican / Mexican (1912 - 1998)
Title: Seated Pair
Year: 1964
Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 15.5 x 25 inches
Frame: 24 x 33 inche...
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1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel
"Modella" Matita cm. 50 x 70 1962
Located in Torino, IT
Disegno espressionista
Figura femminile
Artista Italiano che ha dedicato la vita all'arte
Edgardo CORBELLI (Torino, 1918 – 1989)
MUSEI
Orléans, Francia, Musée Collégiale Saint Pierre le Puellier
Salon de...
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1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
$993 Sale Price
58% Off
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
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
Landscape 1927, By German Expressionist, Watercolor, Pupil Of Ferdinand Hodler
By Hans Brasch
Located in Eltville am Rhein, DE
Hans Brasch
Karlsruhe 1882 – 1973 Murrhardt
"Landscape, 1928"
Watercolor on Japanese paper
Signed lower left and dated "1927"
Image: 62.5 x 86 cm
Frame: 80 x 104 cm
Good condition,...
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1920s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
Sunrise 1927, By German Expressionist, Watercolor, Pupil Of Ferdinand Hodler
By Hans Brasch
Located in Eltville am Rhein, DE
Hans Brasch
Karlsruhe 1882 – 1973 Murrhardt
"Landscape, 1927"
Watercolor on Japanese paper
Signed lower left and dated "1927"
Image: 62.5 x 85.5 cm
Frame: 80 x 104 cm
Good conditi...
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1920s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
To Fly High and Often, from the Wild Woman Series, a colorful powerful woman
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Colorful image of a powerful woman encouraging us to go beyond our limits.
This painting is in a series called the Wild Woman which is also printed in a pocket sized book.
Watercol...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Mixed Media
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...
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20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Pastel
Colorado Summer
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil pastel and watercolor on paper. Signed and dated to lower right edge 'Vaclav Vytlacil 1953'. Signed and dated to lower left edge 'Vytlacil 1953'. It is also titled on reverse. Pa...
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1950s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Oil Pastel
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
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
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)
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1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Woodblock Print Polish Israeli Artist Azriel Awret Rainy Street Jerusalem Israel
By Irene Awret
Located in Surfside, FL
Awret, Azriel (Polish Israeli, 1910-2010),
Rainy Street in Jerusalem,
Woodblock print, 9.75 x 7.5 inches, pencil hand signed and numbered 35/60, framed measuring 19.5 x 14.25 inches.
Azriel Awret was born in Lodz, Poland, and moved to Belgium where he lived in Brussels. He married an Aryan woman, Anna Louisa Bonhiere, which saved him from deportation. But in January 1943 he was interned in Malines camp. Awret was an engineer, so he was given employment as an electrician. While in Malines he met Irène Spicker, who was working in the Mahlerstube (art workshop). They married after the war and moved to Israel, settling in Safed and continuing their artistic activity. Today they divide their time between Israel and the United States.
The Beit Lohamei Haghetaot (The Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum) art collection includes works by Awret from his time in Malines. These works depict various aspects of life in Malines, including figures of internees. They were donated by the artist.
He collaborated with his wife in a naif, folk art style.
Irène Awret...
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1950s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Woodcut
Garcon pres d'une Table et une Nue
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Boris Zaborov, Belarusian (1935 - )
Title: Garcon pres d'une Table et une Nue
Year: 1996
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper, signed l.r.
Size: 24.5 x 7...
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1990s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Mixed Media
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
Large Israeli Watercolor Gouache Painting Jerusalem Landscape Moshe Gat
By Moshe Gat
Located in Surfside, FL
A signed watercolor gouache painting in frame.
Framed: 26.5 X 32.5
Image: 19 X 25
Moshe Gat was born in Haifa in 1935.
in 1952 he began his studies at the Bezalel School, in Jeru...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
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 ...
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1990s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Etching
$416 Sale Price
20% Off
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
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Pastel, Ink, Watercolor
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...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
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
British 20th Century watercolour on paper 'Adam and Eve'
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Derrick Latimer Sayer (British, 1917 – 1992)
Adam and Eve
Ink and watercolour/ gouache on paper
Signed ‘DEK Sayer 12/44’ (lower right)
13.5/8 x 10.1/2 in. (34.7 x 26.5 cm.)
Sayer st...
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20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink, Watercolor, 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". This is framed in a black frame.
The artist has depicte...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Ink
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...
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20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Mid 20th Century Dutch Expressionist painting of a masked figure
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Gabriel Van Schnell (Dutch fl. 1908/1947)
The Masked Figure in Abstract
Signed, ‘SCHNELL’ (lower left)
13. 3/4 x 10 in. (35 x 25 cm.)
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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
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...
Category
1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
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...
Category
1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
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
Two Standing Nudes/ Four Figures - Double-Sided Drawing German Expressionism
Located in London, GB
This double-sided ink and pencil drawing is by the German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
The work is unsigned. It was created between 1932-34 and was part of one of the artist’s sketc...
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1930s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Ink, 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
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Watercolor
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...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Blue Period artist as subject humorous observation coll blue and Grey tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on archival toned paper signed and dated top left. Part of an ongoing series by the artist of artist and model subject matter
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
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
Carousel humorous dreamlike narrative story expressive human condition greys
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel and charcoal on toned archival toned paper signed and dated bottom left . On view at the table Rasa Gallery in Brooklyn NY.
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
British 20th C painting of a moody seascape by maritime artist Trenaman Back
By Robert Trenaman Back
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Robert Trenaman Back (British, 1922 – 2004)
A moody coastal scene
Gouache on paper with gum arabic
9.3/4 x 18.1/4 in. (24.5 x 46.5 cm.)
Robert Trenaman Back is best known as a marit...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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
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
Mushroom Woman, colorful deep blue figurative mushroom hat
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
Battle Station. colorful food medley of eggplants and leeks on kitchen table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This part of a series titled Restless Still Lie by the artist depicting everyday objects engaged in some particular drama hence the title.
It is soft pastel on toned archival sanded...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Lothar Malskat – Nocturnal Landscape with Moonlight, Signed, Watercolor
Located in Berlin, DE
Expressive watercolor and gouache on paper by Lothar Malskat (German, 1913–1988), signed lower right.
The composition shows a dramatic nocturnal landscape under a luminous full moon,...
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20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
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
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
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
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
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
Materials
Watercolor
British expressive, mid century watercolour 'A classical allegory' Basil Town
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Norman Basil Town (British, 1915 – 1987)
A classical allegory
Pen and ink
6.3/4 x 9.1/4 in. (17.2 x 23.3 cm.)
Norman Basil Town (1905–1984) was a British artist known for his evocat...
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20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Abstract Dark Toned Italian Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Dark tonal Italian landscape with hits of yellow greens and reds. The pastel image is framed in a natural wooden frame with a white matte. Artist signed the work in the bottom right ...
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20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Oil Pastel
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
Materials
Charcoal
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