Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
NEO-EXPRESSIONIST STYLE
A resurgence of interest in Expressionism, Pop art, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and other movements gained steam among artists of the 1970s and ’80s, in part as a reaction to the austerity of the prevailing minimalism and Conceptual art of the era. A decadent, bold and brash art style called Neo-Expressionism saw painters returning to figural representation, creating highly textured works that were imbued with intensely personal narratives.
Neo-Expressionist paintings are sensuous in nature and highly subjective in meaning. Expressive brushwork, highly pigmented colors and layered forms and materials lent sculptural attributes to the work and were used to depict symbolic narratives from history, mythology and the artist’s personal experience.
Prominent figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat led the Neo-Expressionist movement in the United States with paintings and prints that were raw, emotional and often violent in nature. In Germany, Die Neuen Wilden (the “New Fauves”) was the name given to a group of postwar artists that included the likes of sculptor Georg Baselitz and Gerhard Richter, a painter and photographer who explored the possibilities of both abstraction and realism, sometimes in a single piece. The work of the New Fauves — labeled as such for its return to Fauvism’s textured brushwork and use of vibrant colors — shares commonalities with Neo-Expressionism, and Baselitz was a pioneer of the movement in Europe. In addition, Willem de Kooning’s pulsating action paintings and Julian Schnabel’s experimentation with the materiality of paintings also took shape during this period.
“I was trying to make paintings different from the paintings that I saw a lot of at the time, which were mostly minimal, and they were highbrow and alienating, and I wanted to make very direct paintings that most people would feel the emotion behind when they saw them,” said Basquiat.
Neo-Expressionism generated some polarizing opinions, with some celebrating the revival of personal subjectivity in art while others criticizing the movement for being too commercially driven and nostalgic. But most experts agree that Neo-Expressionism was a huge commercial success and culturally impactful, paving the way for the postmodern work of artists like Richter and Sigmar Polke.
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Style: Neo-Expressionist
Las Ratas
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Gouche on hand made paper
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Glaze
FAST FOOD BREAKFAST Signed Oil Pastel on Paper, Take Out Food Drive-Thru Window
Located in Union City, NJ
FAST FOOD BREAKFAST is an original oil pastel drawing on brown paper grocery bag by the self taught African American artist Reginald K. Gee, born April 28, 1964, in Milwaukee, Wiscon...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Black painting, water and plants, fractals, organic landscape, golden spiral
Located in Carballo, ES
Black Neoexpressionist Painting. This is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2018. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request. The dimensions of the painting are 65 x ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Water drops, sea, green, signed, neo-expressionist painting
Located in Carballo, ES
Green Neoexpressionist Painting. This is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2018. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request. The dimensions of the painting are 42 x ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Swimming jellyfish, fractal painting, naturalistic trompe l'oeil, water animals
Located in Carballo, ES
Black Neoexpressionist Painting. This is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2018. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request. The dimensions of the painting are 65 x ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Romantic Pastel Jester Clown Figure Nature Expressionism Female Artist Signed
By Della Wells
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Everybody Kisses a Fool Sometime" is a pastel signed by Della Wells. It depicts a black woman kissing a figure wearing a white mask and a comedia del'arte costume also known as the ...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Painting on paper, lyrical abstraction, contemporary, music score
Located in Carballo, ES
Blue Minimal Painting. This is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2019. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request. The dimensions of the painting are 41 x 29,5 cm. W...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
Located in Columbus, OH
Original ink, gouache and oil pastel figure painting by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of nude woman standing in washes of neon pink,...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil Pastel, Ink
Original ink on Paper, Contemporary Abstract Expressionist
Located in Carballo, ES
Black And White Minimal Painting is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2020. The painting is unframed, we can frame it in natural wood or black on request.
The title of this w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Ontological I
Located in London, GB
Prepare to delve into the captivating allure of this ontological gem, a rare and unique find that traverses the realms of conceptual art, American folk art, and contemporary expressions. Through its remarkable fusion, the boundaries between these genres blur, creating an enthralling and elusive artistic experience.
Meticulously crafted on small brown cardstock, using meticulously hand-mixed watercolor paints in a mesmerizing blue oxide hue, this exceptional artwork defies conventional labels and redefines the very essence of artistic expression. Its intricate symbolism intricately weaves together the interplay of reality and imagination, captivating seasoned collectors and emerging enthusiasts alike.
As you embark on a journey through its depths, your senses will be immediately captivated by the enchanting presence of a human-like blue creature...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Original ink on Paper, Contemporary Abstract Expressionist
Located in Carballo, ES
Black And White Minimal Painting is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2020. The painting is unframed, we can frame it in natural wood or black on request.
The title of this w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Ontological II
Located in London, GB
Embark on a journey through the captivating allure of "Ontological II" (2023), a small artwork that radiates a powerful presence. Blurring the boundaries between conceptual art, Amer...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Neoxpressionist / Brown pigment on raw canvas, pine wood, signed, one of a kind.
Located in Carballo, ES
This series by the multidisciplinary artist TUSET (1997, A Coruña, Spain) titled "Land paintings (or what painting is not)", is a series of paintings that the artist had buried in th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Organic Material, Varnish, Canvas, Wood
Neoxpressionist / Organic painting, Soil on Hahnemühle paper, Brown.
Located in Carballo, ES
This series by the multidisciplinary artist TUSET (1997, A Coruña, Spain) titled "Land paintings (or what painting is not)", is a series of paintings that the artist had buried in th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Organic Material, Varnish, Paper
Neoxpressionist / Organic painting, Soil on Hahnemühle paper, Brown.
Located in Carballo, ES
This series by the multidisciplinary artist TUSET (1997, A Coruña, Spain) titled "Land paintings (or what painting is not)", is a series of paintings that the artist had buried in th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Organic Material, Paper, Varnish
Neoxpressionist / Brown pigment on raw canvas, pine wood, signed, one of a kind.
Located in Carballo, ES
This series by the multidisciplinary artist TUSET (1997, A Coruña, Spain) titled "Land paintings (or what painting is not)", is a series of paintings that the artist had buried in th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Organic Material, Wood, Varnish
Holy Fire, Abstract Expressionist Figurative Pastel
Located in Soquel, CA
A unique abstract expressionist pastel drawing by an unknown artist. Depicting a mans face as the focal point with what appears to be chu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Cardboard
Israeli Judaica Watercolor Gouache Bar Mitzvah Boy Rabbi Painting Russian Artist
By Ben Zion Magal
Located in Surfside, FL
Ben Zion Magal (1908 - 1999)
Ben Zion Magal was born in 1908 in Kishinev - Russia and there, years later, graduated from the Art Academy. He arrived to Erertz Israel together with hi...
Category
1960s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
"Abstract Portrait, " Oil Pastel on Paper signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This pastel drawing, 'Abstract Portrait,' demonstrates Reggie K Gee's love of color and love of abstraction. In the image, the form of a head is marked by a black contour; however, a...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil Pastel
Figure in White. Seated while suited male Figure on couch black and white tones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a soft pastel on archival black toned paper signed and dated by the artist on the bottom right corner. This work requires framing under glass for long term preservation.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Black and White Charcoal Portrait of a Woman by Max Turner
Located in Pasadena, CA
In this drawing, the background is deliberately neutral to accentuate the prominence of the face. Charcoal is a "free" drawing medium known for its expressive qualities, requiring artists to work within its unique constraints. As an experienced figure work instructor at the California Art Institute, Max Turner...
Category
1960s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
"Nude, with Foot on Chair, " Original Charcoal Drawing, Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Nude, with Foot on Chair" is a charcoal figure drawing by Estherly Allen. The artist signed the piece. It depicts a nude woman lounging on a cushion with her foot on a chair.
26" ...
Category
1970s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Tower of Glamour fanciful still life hats mirror and colorful sunglasses
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This pastel is part of an ongoing series referred to restless still life in which the artist embodies inanimate objects with a life of their own. It is signed and dated on the bottom...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Untitled_Dead Body on the Field #2 - Drawing, Blue, Orange, Contemporary
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Dead Body on the Field #2, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Body on the Field #4 - Drawing, Blue, Red, Contemporary
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #4, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of t...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
"The Three Dollar Bill Network, " Oil Pastel on Cardboard signed by Reginald Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Three Dollar Bill Network" is an original oil pastel drawing mounted to cardboard by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It depicts abstract marks, small figures, and scenes separated by lines and space.
30" x 40" art
Reginald K. Gee was born in Milwaukee on April 28, 1964 to Native American and African American parents and spent most of his childhood on the northwest side of Milwaukee in the Havenwoods neighborhood. Gee has been creating art since 1982, and his professional art debut began in 1986 at an outdoor exhibition at Milwaukee’s Performing Arts Center. Like Prophet William J. Blackmon and Simon Sparrow...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Cardboard
"Sincerely Yours, " Oil Pastel mounted to Cardboard signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sincerely Yours" is an original oil pastel drawing mounted to cardboard. The artist, Reginald K. Gee, signed the piece on the back. This piece depicts four men looking out at the vi...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Cardboard
"Brunch Break, " Oil Pastel signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Brunch Break" is an original oil pastel drawing on rag board by Reginald K. Gee. This piece is an abstract amalgamation of many different colors and markmaking techniques.
40" x 3...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Rag Paper
Untitled_Body on the Field #6
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #6, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of t...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Body on the Field #2 - Green, Red, Contemporary Art, Drawing
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #2, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of t...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Remains. The Dead Body on the Field
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Remains. The Dead Body on the Field, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán em...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Body on the Field #7
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #7, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of t...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
"America's Nightmares, " Original Pastel Drawing signed by Della Wells
By Della Wells
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"America's Nightmares" is an original pastel drawing on paper by Della Wells. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. The work depicts three African American figures...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Untitled (7) Figural Expressionist Nude Charcoal Drawing
By Steven Harvey
Located in Surfside, FL
Subject: Figures
Medium: Other, Charcoal
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
Dimensions w/Frame: 27 1/4" x 20 1/4"
without frame 15.25" X22.75"
EDUCATION
New York Studio School of Painting , Drawing & Sculpture 1973
Empire State College, B.A., Painting and Curatorial Studies 1999
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Mirrors, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, N.Y. 1999
Figures, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, N.Y. 1997
Sexual Monochromes, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, N.Y. 1992
"Paintings", 17th Street Gallery, New York, N.Y. 1976
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Family Line- drawings and paintings by Anne Harvey, Jason Harvey
and Steven Harvey, New York Studio School, New York, NY 2002
Steven Harvey- Paintings and Bruce Gagnier - Sculpture,
Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY 2000
Woman, Gallery Schlesinger, New York, N.Y. 1999
Water and Light, Mary Gearhart Gallery, New York, N.Y. 1997
Contemporary Figures, M B Modern Gallery 1997
On Air, St. PeterÃs Church, N.Y. 1997
People , Places and Things: An Exploration of the Portrait, 1996-97
New York Studio School
Cafe El Maroc, Jamaica Arts Center 1994
Paintings, Schlesinger Gallery 1993
WFMU Benefit Auction, Germans Van Eck Gallery 1992
Night, Trenkmann Gallery 1991
ACT UP Benefit Auction, Paula Cooper Gallery 1990
Figuring Eros, Director's Annual, Snug Harbor
Cultural Center, Staten Island, N.Y. 1990
Erotic America, Galerie Antoine Candeau, Paris, France 1989
Of Another Nature, Loughelton Gallery, N.Y.C. 1988
New Territories in Art: Europe/America, curated by
Achille Bonito Oliva, Francavilla Al Mare, Italy 1987
Spatial FX, Annina Nosei Gallery 1987
Paint/Film, Bess Cutler Gallery 1987
Melancholy, Anne Plumb Gallery 1987
Group Invitational, Schlesinger Gallery 1986
Thought Objects, Cash/Newhouse Gallery 1985
Saloon/Salon, Bill Rice Gallery 1985
Steven Harvey has worked as an art advisor, art dealer, curator, and writer for over 25 years. He is the director of Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in NYC, a gallery focused on contemporary painting, which he founded in 2007. SHFAP moved to the lower east side in 2011. It exhibits contemporary artists including Susanna Coffey, Kurt Knobelsdorf, Sangram Majumdar, Stuart Shils, Gideon Bok, Eleanor Ray...
Category
Early 2000s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Eyes Sees America
By Della Wells
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Eyes Sees America" is an original pastel drawing by Della Wells. The artist signed and dated the piece in the lower right. This work depicts a black woman in a blue dress sitting ne...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
"America, How Does Your Garden Grow?" Pastel signed by Della Wells
By Della Wells
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"America, How Does Your Garden Grow?' is an original pastel by Della Wells. It pictures a blond girl holding a black doll in a verdant garden-like setting with leaves and apples and ...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Untitled 05 - Contemporary, Drawing, Purple, 21st Century, Organic
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled 05, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body throu...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Untitled_Body on the Field #3 - Blue, Contemporary, Abstract, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #3, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of t...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
"The Drowning of Brother Tony, " Original Pastel Drawing signed
By Della Wells
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Drowning of Brother Tony" is an original pastel drawing on paper by Della Wells. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. In this pastel, an alligator-like creature with an African American child's head thrashes about in the water, upsetting the tiny boat pictured at left and causing the black figure on the lower right to drown. Another female black figure, straddling the alligator's tail, attempts to save Tony, but to no avail. Two open eyes appear in the picture: the alligator seems to clutch one and the other appears on the boat's sail. The alligator holds a pice of melon in his mouth and colorful fish populate the water and sky. Alligators reference Jim Crow caricatures in which black children are chased and eaten by alligators. The alligators are menacing and point to a deeply racist pictorial and real world. The eye represents the all-seeing eye of God...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Les bonshommes 2021 - Pastel contemporary drawing
Located in PARIS, FR
Oeuvres papier de l'artiste française Camille Cottier.
Ses “bonhommes”, aux visages honnêtes, sont le reflet de sentiments universels: la solitude, l’amour, l’attente, le rêve
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Untitled_Body Remains on the Field - Red, Contemporary, 21st Century, Landscape
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Body Remains on the Field, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Body on the Field #8 - 21st Century, Drawing, Blue, Green, Yellow
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #8, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of th...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Body on the Field #1 - 21st Century, Green, Blue, Sky, Contemporary
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #1, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of th...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Cardinal Rule surreal mythological narrative birds tree autumn color humor
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soft pastel on toned heavyweight paper signed and dated bottom. Part of an ongoing series by the artist depicting humans and birds and various other creatures.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Not Enough Soup
Located in New York, NY
Oil pastel, wax crayon, and acrylic paint on paper.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wax Crayon, Oil Pastel
Untitled_Remains Body on the Field - Contemporary, 21st Century, Drawing
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Remains Body on the Field #1, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissoluti...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Dead Body on the Field #1 - Red, Contemporary, 21st Century, Drawing
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Dead Body on the Field #1, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Untitled_Body on the Field #5 - Contemporary, Green, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Untitled_Body on the Field #5, 2022
coloured pencils on paper
39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W inches
100 H x 70 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of th...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Neo-Expressionist Linear Geometric Abstract #2 - In the Style of Basquiat
By Peter Costello
Located in Soquel, CA
Neo-Expressionist Linear Geometric Abstract #2 - In the Style of Basquiat
Dynamic contemporary Neo-Expressionist abstract composition in red...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
'Spirit Not In Flight' original signed pastel
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Spirit Not in Flight," 1994, is a pastel work by Della Wells. The work depicts a nude black woman looking out from the picture, meeting the viewer's ...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
"Pre-show briefing" by Luc Michel Schüpfer - Pastel on paper
Located in Geneva, CH
Pastel work on paper without frame
Category
1950s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Cuban Artist Pastel Drawing African American Emilio Cruz Bonnie & Clyde Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Emilio Cruz (1938-2004)
Bonnie and Clyde
Pastel on paper
Hand signed lower right
Dimensions Framed H 15-7/8" W 18-1/2", Sight H 13-1/2" W 16-1/8"
Emilio Antonio Cruz (1938 – 2004) was a Cuban American artist who lived most of his life in New York City. His work is held in several major museums in the United States.
Emilio Antonio Cruz was an American Artist of Cuban descent. He was born in the Bronx on March 15, 1938. He studied at the Art Students League of New York with Edwin Dickinson, George Grosz and Frank J. Reilly and at The New School in New York City, and finally at the Seong Moy School of Painting and Graphic Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts. As a young artist in the 1960s, Cruz was connected with other artists who were applying abstract expressionism concepts to figurative art such as Lester Johnson, Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, Bob Thompson and Jan Muller. He combined human and animal figures with imagery from archaeology and natural history to create disturbing, dreamlike paintings. Cruz received a John Hay Whitney Fellowship and awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
In the late 1968, Emilio and wife Patricia Cruz moved to St. Louis to work with Julius Hemphill and the Black Artists Group. He served as director for the visual arts program, which also included painters Oliver Jackson and Manuel Hughes. In addition to artistic contributions, the couple participated in city-wide civil rights protests and rent strikes.
Cruz moved to Chicago and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago during the 1970s, where he exhibited widely and was represented by the Walter Kelly Gallery. He wrote two plays, Homeostasis: Once More the Scorpion and The Absence Held Fast to Its Presence. These were first performed at the Open Eye Theater in New York in 1981, and later were included in the World Theater Festival in Nancy and Paris, France, and in Italy. In 1982 he returned to New York where he began to exhibit again. In the late 1980s he resumed teaching at the Pratt Institute and at New York University.
Harry Rand, Curator of 20th Century Painting and Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, described Emilio Cruz as one of the important pioneers of American Modernism of the 1960s for his fusion of Abstract Expressionist art with figuration. Geno Rodriguez, Curator and Executive Director of The Alternative Museum, wrote in 1985, "Emilio Cruz, is a brilliant and impassioned artist whose current paintings are monumental, imbued with intelligence, fury and an apt sense of irony. They reflect the turbulent world within which we live."
Geoffrey Jacques wrote in 1990, "Emilio Cruz paints humanity’s essence. Mythology and archeology are the foremost concerns of the painter Emilio Cruz. Dinosaurs, skeletal humans and fossil-like images are used in his work as metaphoric signposts in a consideration of the basic questions of existence." Art historian and curator Paul Staiti wrote in 1997, "Emilio Cruz's Homo sapiens series is a strange and haunting genealogy of the modern soul... What is at stake here more than biopolitical culture, is the remystification of the body and mapping of consciousness ... For all the trauma, explicit and implicit, Cruz's style is masterful, classical, even beautiful."
Exhibitions
Cruz held his first solo exhibition at the Zabriskie Gallery in New York in 1963. Afterwards his work was included in many group and solo exhibitions, including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in 1986 and 1991, museum exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1987, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1997. In 1994, Cruz's work was shown as part of the American contingent at the IV Bienal Internacional de Pintura en Cuenca, Ecuador. Other American artists exhibiting at this show were Donald Locke...
Category
20th Century Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Conquistador
Located in New York, NY
Oil Pastel drawing on collage from Calvin’s Commentaries from the series "On the Issues of Democracy and Bananas". The drawing is not framed.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
German Neo Expressionist Color Pencil Drawing Erwin Pfrang
Located in Surfside, FL
Erwin Pfrang, German (b. 1951)
Graphite, Colored Pencil on paper
Framed 20.5/8 X 16.5/8 sheet 6 X 7.75
Erwin Pfrang (born 1951, in Munich) is a German painter and printmaker.
Pfrang studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1974–79. Later he spent many years as an independent artist in Montepulciano, Val d’Orcia and Catania, Italy, interrupted by stays in Munich and Augsburg. He presently lives and works in Berlin. Erwin Pfrang is the grandson of the Munich folk comedian Konstantin Pfrang.
Carla Schulz-Hoffmann makes an attempt at characterising the painter: “An artist such as Erwin Pfrang inhabits an alternative world, a tiny microcosm of subjectivity, and lives that life uncompromisingly, with all the limitations and hardships that it entails. Among twentieth-century artists a comparable stance can be encountered perhaps in Jean Fautrier, but certainly in Otto Wols. His oeuvre relates in its figuration to Bosch or James Ensor and his oil painting to Lucian Freud in its painterly quality. Erwin Pfrang is represented by gallerists Fred Jahn, Munich (Exhibition: Don’t Forget Your Mask: Don’t (Part I: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Forget (Part II: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Your Mask (Part III: Don’t Forget Your Mask)Artists: Imi Knoebel, Barry Le Va, Karel Appel, Alexi Tsioris, William N. Copley, Isa Genzken...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
German Neo Expressionist Graphite Drawing Erwin Pfrang Nolan Eckman Gallery NYC
Located in Surfside, FL
Erwin Pfrang, German (b. 1951)
Graphite on paper
Partner Exchange (2001)
Framed 21 X 14.5 sheet 13.75 X 7.25
Erwin Pfrang (born 1951, in Munich) is a German painter and printmaker.
Pfrang studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1974–79. Later he spent many years as an independent artist in Montepulciano, Val d’Orcia and Catania, Italy, interrupted by stays in Munich and Augsburg. He presently lives and works in Berlin. Erwin Pfrang is the grandson of the Munich folk comedian Konstantin Pfrang.
Carla Schulz-Hoffmann makes an attempt at characterising the painter: “An artist such as Erwin Pfrang inhabits an alternative world, a tiny microcosm of subjectivity, and lives that life uncompromisingly, with all the limitations and hardships that it entails. Among twentieth-century artists a comparable stance can be encountered perhaps in Jean Fautrier, but certainly in Otto Wols. His oeuvre relates in its figuration to Bosch or James Ensor and his oil painting to Lucian Freud in its painterly quality. Erwin Pfrang is represented by gallerists Fred Jahn, Munich (Exhibition: Don’t Forget Your Mask: Don’t (Part I: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Forget (Part II: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Your Mask (Part III: Don’t Forget Your Mask)Artists: Imi Knoebel, Barry Le Va, Karel Appel, Alexi Tsioris, William N. Copley, Isa Genzken...
Category
Early 2000s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
German Neo Expressionist Graphite Pencil Drawing Erwin Pfrang Nolan Gallery NYC
Located in Surfside, FL
Erwin Pfrang, German (b. 1951)
Graphite Pencil on paper
Framed 20 X 20.5, sheet 12.5 X 13
Hand signed lower left
Erwin Pfrang (born 1951, in Munich) is a German painter and printmaker.
Pfrang studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1974–79. Later he spent many years as an independent artist in Montepulciano, Val d’Orcia and Catania, Italy, interrupted by stays in Munich and Augsburg. He presently lives and works in Berlin. Erwin Pfrang is the grandson of the Munich folk comedian Konstantin Pfrang.
Carla Schulz-Hoffmann makes an attempt at characterising the painter: “An artist such as Erwin Pfrang inhabits an alternative world, a tiny microcosm of subjectivity, and lives that life uncompromisingly, with all the limitations and hardships that it entails. Among twentieth-century artists a comparable stance can be encountered perhaps in Jean Fautrier, but certainly in Otto Wols. His oeuvre relates in its figuration to Bosch or James Ensor and his oil painting to Lucian Freud in its painterly quality. Erwin Pfrang is represented by gallerists Fred Jahn, Munich (Exhibition: Don’t Forget Your Mask: Don’t (Part I: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Forget (Part II: Don’t Forget Your Mask), Your Mask (Part III: Don’t Forget Your Mask)Artists: Imi Knoebel, Barry Le Va, Karel Appel, Alexi Tsioris, William N. Copley, Isa Genzken...
Category
Early 2000s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Graphite
Sleepwalking monochromatic, mysterious interior black/white w dramatic windows
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 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 Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Klimt Tattoo, disrupted realism charcoal acrylic on Strathmore paper red, tan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Charcoal, acrylic mixed media
As a feminist artist, Audrey Anastasi's first commitment is to painting other women, the human face, and figure. Whether working with figurative descri...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Charcoal
Neo-expressionist drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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