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Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

POSTIMPRESSIONIST STYLE

In the revolutionary wake of Impressionism, artists like Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin advanced the style further while firmly rejecting its limitations. Although the artists now associated with Postimpressionist art did not work as part of a group, they collectively employed an approach to expressing moments in time that was even more abstract than that of the Impressionists, and they shared an interest in moving away from naturalistic depictions to more subjective uses of vivid colors and light in their paintings.

The eighth and final Impressionist exhibition was held in Paris in 1886, and Postimpressionism — also spelled Post-Impressionism — is usually dated between then and 1905. The term “Postimpressionism” was coined by British curator and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 at the “Manet and the Postimpressionists” exhibition in London that connected their practices to the pioneering modernist art of Édouard Manet. Many Postimpressionist artists — most of whom lived in France — utilized thickly applied, vibrant pigments that emphasized the brushstrokes on the canvas.

The Postimpressionist movement’s iconic works of art include van Gogh’s The Starry Night (1889) and Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884). Seurat’s approach reflected the experimental spirit of Postimpressionism, as he used Pointillist dots of color that were mixed by the eye of the viewer rather than the hand of the artist. Van Gogh, meanwhile, often based his paintings on observation, yet instilled them with an emotional and personal perspective in which colors and forms did not mirror reality. Alongside Mary Cassatt, Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Gauguin, the Dutch painter was a pupil of Camille Pissarro, the groundbreaking Impressionist artist who boldly organized the first independent painting exhibitions in late-19th-century Paris.

The boundary-expanding work of the Postimpressionist painters, which focused on real-life subject matter and featured a prioritization of geometric forms, would inspire the Nabis, German Expressionism, Cubism and other modern art movements to continue to explore abstraction and challenge expectations for art.

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Style: Post-Impressionist
Period: 1980s
"Two Villages" - Black and White Ink Landscape Drawing By Joan Carl Strauss
Located in Pasadena, CA
"Two Villages" is a black and white landscape ink drawing by Joan Carl Strauss that unfolds a narrative of hidden rivalry within a picturesque valley. In the heart of a flat-floore...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink

“Twilight Forest Lane”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil pastel twilight scene on Canson Mi-Teintes pastel paper of a tree lined country lane. Beautiful use of light and shadows. American School, post impressionist style. Init...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Archival Paper

Cadaques Spain watercolor spanish seascape mediterranean sea
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Cadaques - Watercolor Watercolor measurements 31x47 cm. Frame measurements 47x63 cm. Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Cata...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

'Cap Ferrat', Academy of Fine Arts of Rouen, Mandelieu-la-Napoule, Benezit, Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Picot' for Jean-Claude Picot (French, born 1933), and painted circa 1985; additionally titled, verso, 'La Route Vers St Jean Cap Ferr'...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

'The Garden, Mandelieu-la-Napoule', Academy of Fine Arts of Rouen, Benezit, Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Picot' for Jean-Claude Picot (French, born 1933), and painted circa 1985; additionally titled, verso, on old label, 'L'escalier du Jardin (Mandelie '. From 1947,...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

“The Pink Parasol”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed oil pastel on archival paper done in the style of the French Impressionists. Circa 1985. Condition is excellent. Illegible signed lower left. Possibly the arti...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper, Oil Pastel

Large Pastel Landscape Purple Mountains Landscape American Modernist Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
LARRY HOROWITZ (American b. 1956) "Purple Mountains," 1988, pastel on paper Hand signed and dated L/R, "Horowitz '88," Dimensions sight 19 1/2" x 23", framed, 26 1/2" x 30 1/2". Larry Horowitz is an American landscape painter. He was born in 1956 in New York City and graduated from SUNY Purchase and immediately won the prestigious and coveted position as apprentice to Wolf Kahn. Horowitz's work captures the beauty of the American landscape with expert use of texture and color that invites imagination and discovery. Although he paints en plein air, he has a firm grounding in abstract expressionism through his education with former students from the Bauhaus and Hans Hofmann school. He has combined both points of view to develop his unique language. His work follows in the tradition of great Modernist American landscape painters Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keefe and Charles Burchfield but with a more modern, Fauvist color palette. He was included in the show "In the Country, By the Sea" at Madelyn Jordan Gallery along with David Kimball Anderson, Stanley Boxer, Byron Browne, Derek Buckner, Richard Diebenkorn, Larry Kelsey, Gary Komarin, and Susan Wides. Horowitz has also shown at Images Gallery along with Gary Bukovnik, Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Horowitz, Alex Katz, Robert Motherwell, Don Nice, Philip Pearlstein, Joseph Raffael, Hunt Slonem, Carol Summers and Neil Welliver. Horowitz has exhibited extensively both in the US and Canada and is included in numerous private, corporate and public collections. LARRY HOROWITZ Born in 1956 in New York City EDUCATION 1971-76 Private study with Maxim Bugzester, New York, NY 1974 Art Students League, New York, NY 1974-78 B.F.A., State University of New York, Purchase, NY ART FAIRS 2019 Art New York Pier 94 presented by Art Miami, New York, NY 2017 Art Market SF, San Francisco, CA 2017 Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA 2015 Art Silicon Valley, CA 2014 Boston International Art Fair, Boston, MA ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2022 Franklin Bowles Galleries, New York, NY 2022 Hagan Fine Art, Charleston, SC 2021 Elder Gallery, Charlotte, NC 2021 Trinity Galleries, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada ​2020 Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 2020 Lorimer Gallery, Prince Edward Island, Canada 2019 Eisenhauer Gallery, Edgartown, MA 2018 Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art, Charlotte, NC 2016 Art Gallery at the Rockefeller Park Preserve, Pleasantville, NY 2015 Newbury Fine Art, Boston, MA ​2015 Chandon Winery Gallery, Yountville, CA 2013 Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX 2011 Munson Gallery, Chatham, MA 2010 Franklin Bowles Galleries, San Francisco, CA 2010 Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 2010 Aerie Art Gallery, Rehoboth Beach...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pastel

'Breaking Waves', National Watercolor Society, American Watercolor Society
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Michael Schlichting' (American, born 1954) and painted circa 1980. A substantial watercolor and gouache collage showing the turbulent breaking of a wave as it approaches a rocky shoreline. A dramatic and animated work by this signature member of the American Watercolor Society and Vice-President of the National Watercolor Society...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper

'Still Life', Chouinard Art School, Carmel Art Association, Santa Barbara Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Sam Colburn' for Samuel Colburn (American, 1909-1993) and dated 1982. A powerful, late work by this well-listed American regionalis...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Mulberry Paper

Vogue Magazine, Elegant Fashion Illustration for Adel Simpson
Located in Miami, FL
Vogue USA, Fashion Illustration. Meticulously drawn in a descriptive and yet creative way. Antonio's full mastery of his art is on full display. Signed lower right. The work is arch...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Watercolor, Pencil

'Pink Daisies', California Watercolor Society, SWA, Woman Artist, Zoltan Szabo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Beverly Fields' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985. This listed California artist has exhibited widely and with success and is the recipient of numerous medals and juried awards. Beverly Fields first studied with Zoltan Szabo and later with Charles Reid...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Laid Paper

Fauvist Watercolor Landscape with Weeping Willow Tree
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid, imaginative colors whirl and swirl together to form this whimsical Fauvist abstracted landscape watercolor, featuring a beautiful weeping willow tree, by Les Anderson (America...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

'Water Lilies', California Watercolor Society, SWA, Woman Artist, Zoltan Szabo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Beverly Fields' (American, 20th century) and dated 1988. Accompanied by a copy of the artist's poster from the same series. This listed California artist has exhibited widely and with success and is the recipient of numerous medals and juried awards. Beverly Fields first studied with Zoltan Szabo and later with Charles Reid...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Laid Paper

'Dog Roses in a Satsuma Vase', Japanese Decorative Arts, Lacquer Mirror
By Thomas Haight
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial and vibrant watercolor still-life showing a loose group of pink and red dog-roses informally arranged in an ivory-field, satsuma vase, set on a floral-pattern tableclot...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Board

Color in Motion - Pointillist Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed pointillist watercolor and ink drawing featuring dynamic form and color in motion by Ben Black (American, 1922-2003). Unframed. Signed "Ben Black" lower right. Image,...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Halston , Vogue Magazine Illustration, Italy
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: Published Vogue Italy Client Halston Double Signature Signed lower right Antonio Also signed Halston Graphic remarks were written in pencil by Halston. work is elegantly m...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

'Sailing Boat in Harbor', SFMOMA, Woman Artist, California Post-Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An attractive mid-century coastal scene showing a sailing boat resting in a calm berth on turquoise waters. Signed lower left "Jae Carmichael" (American, 1925-2005) and dated 1957. ...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

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