Art by Medium: Charcoal

Alexander O. Levy was a painter, illustrator, printmaker and designer who was born in 1881 in Bonn, Germany. He died in 1946 in Buffalo, New York. At age three, he was brought to ...

In the weeds ink bloom #2 (Abstract painting) Charcoal & Oilstick on paper - Unframed. Baribeau constructs his paintings layer upon layer, building color, form and texture into vis...

Charcoal on archival quality Ingres paper. I love working with charcoal. It creates wonderful velvety blacks. I set this composition one day when making some origami figures for my s...

14x11.5 image size , 22.5x17.5 backing size The New-York born artist William Gropper was a painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on social concerns, and was ac...

Yuvraj Patil - Monk Charcoal on Canvas, 18 x 36 inches, 2018 Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Born : 16th April, 1980 Kolhapur A young contemporary artist.Master in charcol work...

(NOTE: if you enter "Gridish" into the 1stDibs search field you can view other paintings in this series) Artist’s Statement: “As I often do, I chose a very simple form to work with ...

Artist’s Statement: “I have been an abstract painter for over 30 years, and I can't exactly say what caused me to one night go to the studio and paint flowers, of all things. But of ...

My black greyhound (Abstract painting) Acrylic, oil pastel and charcoal on canvas Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt. This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube. This...

Refreshed #1 by Christine Evans [2021] original acrylic and graphite on board Image size: H:15 cm x W:15 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:15 cm x ...

"Galactic Noticing No. 8" is a large-scale work on paper using graphite, charcoal and ink. This artwork is unframed. In her latest series titled "Galactic Noticing," Heather Lancast...

"Galactic Noticing No. 5" is a large-scale work on paper using graphite, charcoal and ink. This artwork is framed in a simple white box frame behind UV Plexiglas measuring 66 by 46 i...

Paper paint charcoal collage These collages were created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone in the studio, furio...

Artist's Statement: "Part a new series of paintings I have been working on that I am really excited about. I am incorporating a lot of media I have been exploring over the years -- ...

An original pastel-on-paper drawing by British artist Charlie Mackesy - Mackesy's clever work and style here, provide us with a glimpse into this atmospheric depiction of a Jazz Trio...

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Princewill Aruo...

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Princewill Aruo...

Holly Addi, living and working in Salt Lake City, UT, USA is an abstract painter using acrylic and charcoal on canvas. Her gesture and surface quality is reminiscent of the Abstract ...

"I have been painting seriously for somewhere around 35 years, but have only ever sold regionally - most recently, through my gallery on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Through 1stDi...

Kamal Mitra - Untitled - 36 x 48 inches (unframed size) Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas Inclusive of shipment in a roll form. About Kamal Mitra’s Works : While pursuing his Bachelors ...

(Comes framed in a deep-profile maple or black floater frame, ready to hang.) Artist's Statement: "This painting harkens back to my 'Gridish' series but with more negative space, a broader array of media and more complexity to the oval forms. I have tried to create tension between these iconic forms through the divergence of dissonant and unusual materials, colors and textures. These ovals keep reappearing in my work; they seem almost like groups of silent but sentient beings to me." “Lyman’s work evolves restlessly, with the common elements generally being deft and unusual color choices that balance assonance and dissonance, and vestiges of the hand and facture purposely left in the paintings. The negative space is often so meticulously worked that it’s almost as if the objects – usually simple shapes – are there as much to complement the background as vice versa. Despite the often bold colors there is an elegance about his paintings that prevents them from being either loud or decorative. " Artbeit Zeitschrift “His paintings are a refreshing departure from the current abstract art world’s seemingly endless parade of fields of color with scribbles providing form, a style that is easily mimicked and has become a sort of “safe,” accessible go-to. There are confident decisions in these paintings appearing as commitments of strongly delineated forms and unexpected collisions of color that give the work a visceral, confident and playful soul, increasingly missing from contemporary expressionist abstraction. They are the paintings of a real painter rather than a decorative artist.” ArtSeen, 2018 (from a collector): "Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...

Artist’s Statement: “I have been an abstract painter for over 30 years, and I can't exactly say what caused me to one night go to the studio and paint flowers, of all things. But of ...

Kamal Mitra , Puzzled , 36 x 48 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on canvas Inclusive of shipment in a roll form. About the Artist : Born in Kolkata 1964. QUALIFICATION : 1989-Gra...

Erotic Scene is a charcaol Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1970s. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a little cardboard. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-...

charcoal and graphite on paper and canvas

Manifest 1 (Abstract Drawing) Charcoal and water on paper. Unframed. Margaret Neill works for a time on a group of pieces in a series, using classic almost primal materials such as...

Sukanta Das - Untitled - 36 x 24 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on canvas Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : Juxtaposing the mundane with the exotic, Das’ work is usually ...

Charcoal Coastline #5 (Abstract painting) Charcoal on paper - Unframed. Baribeau constructs his paintings layer upon layer, building color, form and texture into viscous, impasto compositions, on supports that are themselves often thick, and even sculptural. He scratches and scrawls across his surfaces, infusing visceral emotion and energy into the work. His imagery is so layered and dimensional that even his works on paper convey a sense of texture and depth. Critics have connected Baribeau to a range of aesthetic positions, including everything from Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art to the 19th century Hudson River School, and compared him variously to the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, and Willem de Kooning. In truth, Baribeau employs a distinctive aesthetic voice that is personal and instantly recognizable, despite its multiplicity. His visual world is one where primordial, organic nature collides with the geometric, manufactured world, and where certain signature visual cues, such as black and white stripes, checkerboards, dots, and flashes of neon color appear and disappear. His work is included in several institutional collections, including those of the Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; Morgan Stanley...

Lightbulb Moment Abstract - "Bright Idea" A vibrant abstract painting of a lightbulb in reds accented in yellow and white chalk, by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva...

Sunil Das - Early Horses VIII - 18.5 x 29 inches (unframed size) Charcoal on Paper Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Sunil Das was one of India's most important postmoder...

Landscape is a large, original black and white abstract drawing by Italian artist Marilina Marchica, created using mineral oxide on Canson Montval 300 gsm paper. The work embodies th...

Deconstructing the icon: A raw, subversive take on pop culture. In 'Behind Hello Kitty', Diego Tirigall strips away the sweetness to reveal an exhausted figure amidst graffiti and ch...

Anything You Lose Comes Round in a Different Form (Abstract painting) Collage, Encaustic, Charcoal and Ink on panel - Unframed. Adams works on panel and paper, using a mixture of p...

Like The Wings of A Dove kicks off 2023 with a bold arrangement of colors smathered across a tan background, inspired by the beaches of Palm Beach, Florida. This piece is part of a series by Alysha Marko featuring other works like Treasure At The Beach as well as Fun Crowd: small abstract paintings that serve to document the very present feelings of the artist as she paints with immediacy. The bright magenta and blue contrast the soft brown and white colors. The bright colors realize the glam and vibrancy of the Palm Beach social scene, surrounded by warm sands and foamy waters on the oceanfront, giving off vacation vibes. The title of the pieces is inspired by the iconic Stevie Nicks song. The colors are reminiscent of Nick's bold vocals thundering through the track, contrasted by the soothing imagery of a white dove cooing. Alysha Marko Like The Wings of A Dove, 2023 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 11 x 9 in Artist biography: Born in Central Jersey, Alysha Grace Marko...

Young Model Expressionist Portrait Rutsch is always "scribbling and scrabbling." He is an artist of the purest breed—an artist who has no choice but to paint. He is a chosen traveler of the depths of existence; a man who follows a longing to explore his inner self and relate his findings with the energy and identity of the universe. The celebrated Austrian artist approaches painting and sculpture as he lives life—with the eyes of a child and the hand of a poet. Constantly in the quest for rhythms of form and vibrations of color, he catches those "sparks in the shadow" and evidences their fullest reality and beauty in his creations. Each of his paintings is a careful construction as it is a spontaneous act of love. While he might attribute certain artistic expressions to "coincidence," his inspiration comes from such diverse sources as: memories, dreams, sounds, numbers, telephone poles and drift wood. Rutsch has an affinity to vibrant colors, strong contours and rich brush strokes which are apparent in his oils, mixed media works and ink drawings. He has a sensitivity to the unusual, the discarded and a fondness for the ugly as well as the chaotic. These, he often transforms into poignant welded steel abstractions. Rutsch has an aversion to politics, citing dates and expounding upon honors achieved. There is no talk about 'profound symbolism' in his work and as Carlo McCormick writes in the introduction to Rutsch's monograph, "Meaning is not a seed that Rutsch plants, nurtures and then harvests. It is what grows wild in a volcanic swamp of fossilized, decaying and new-born fancies—as an afterthought and aftershock." Alexander Rutsch is not concerned with interpretations; he is, however, passionate about the process of making art and surrenders his entire being as an instrument to the act of creation. The geometry of his imagination overflows with figures, profiles and penetrating strong eyes—windows to a deeper place. Their vitality and sensuality pulsate through the "dreamscapes" of Rutsch's created worlds. At times romantic, yet always wild with energy, human forms and experiences are essential to the artist's vocabulary. The son of opera singers and a singer himself, Rutsch speaks of "the art of painting as the art of silence" and the job of the painter "to dedicate himself to the silence." He adds though, "that this silence is the greatest existing sound in the universe." One wonders why then, if painting is "the art of silence," that Rutsch's paintings scream with sound. Sometimes melancholy, sometimes sensual, sometimes dissonant and sometimes whispering, the rhythms are always rich in the celebration of life and our shared humanity. Painter, sculptor and poet, Rutsch's oeuvre over the past four decades is tremendous. Celebrated and collected especially in Vienna, Paris, Brussels and New York, he studied with renowned teachers like Boeckl and Dorowsky and collaborated with such geniuses as Salvador Dali. Having left Vienna in the fifties, Rutsch moved to Paris and took the city's art scene by storm. There, Picasso was so enthralled with a portrait Rutsch has done of him that, in a state of great excitement, he countersigned it. Biography Alexander Rutsch was born in Russia in 1916 but raised in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. After studying voice in Austria he became an opera singer like his parents, but after WWII, Rutsch's love for visual expression propelled him to change careers. He was a painter, sculptor, philosopher, musician, singer and poet. His life as a romantic is reflected in his work, as he sought to perfect his soul and humanity, "I paint my dreams," said Rutsch. "My dreams are color and life. They soar in my head like millions of symphonies. I can never stop building dreams." In 1952, after studying under Josef Dobrowsky, Josef Hoffmann and Herbert Boeckl at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, Alexander Rutsch received a scholarship to study in France. There he made contacts and began collaborations with his contemporaries, Picasso and Dali. Rutsch said of his experiences with Picasso, "Picasso played a short but important moment in my life in Paris that affected my entire artistic future. I learned from him that it is not important if art is not aesthetically finished. It can be raw, uncooked, rough. If an artist feels he has said it—it is not important to polish or finish it. Because of Picasso, I learned that if I don't feel the need to finish—I don't have to." In 1954 he exhibited his work at the Salon Artistique International de Saceux and won first prize for abstract painting, the first of may awards received during his prolific career. During the 13 years he lived in Paris, Rutsch exhibited in many prominent galleries there and throughout Europe. In 1958, The City of Paris awarded him the prestigious Arts, Science and Letters Silver Medal. In 1966, Jean Desvilles presented his prize winning film "Le Monde de Rutsch" at the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Biennial. In 1968 Rutsch moved to Pelham, New York where he continued to work in his studio and exhibit in galleries and museums worldwide. Rutsch's work, as seen through his mastery of many art forms—sculpture, painting, print-making, and drawing, and a wide variety of other media has been described as "vibrating showers of lines, bold geometries, wounded anatomically rambling scrap-wood skeletons...

Rosanna Gaddoni (Italian artist) A Walk 20 x 20 cm ( framed in wood frame with museum glass) Measurement with included frame: 30 x 30 x 3 cm Charcoal on Paper The Italian artist Ros...

Sukanta Das - Untitled - 30 x 30 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on canvas Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : Juxtaposing the mundane with the exotic, Das’ work is usually ...

"Suspension (East Sky) VIII" by Peter Roux - Oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches Peter Roux masterfully merges the languages of landscape painting and abstraction. A monumental cloud mass...

Unknown School. Second half of the mid-20th Century. Charcoal, Oil Paint & Spray Paint On Plywood Panel. Signed Indistinctly. Image size 26.8 inches x 21.7 inches ( 68cm x 55c...

Anything You Lose Comes Round in a Different Form (Abstract painting) Collage, Encaustic, Charcoal and Ink on panel - Unframed. Adams works on panel and paper, using a mixture of p...

Original advertisement for Cream of Wheat, published 1909. Literature Dave Stivers, Nabisco Brands Collection of Cream of Wheat Advertising...

Figurative seated nude study of a woman draping fabric around herself. The work is signed by Thierry Andre thought to be a French who was influenced by Edgar Degas. The paper is not ...

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I am a Gippsland-based artist, whose creative process is ever-evolving, with the constant being my subject matter. Native Australian flora and fauna are commonly depicted in my works...

Rosanna Gaddoni (Italian artist) Story of a sheep 65 x 50 cm ( framed in wood frame with museum glass) Measurement with included frame: 76 x 60 x 3 cm Charcoal on Paper The Italian ...

Artist's Statement: "A tribute to Donald Sultan, who influenced me long ago (along with Sam Gummelt, Michael Whitehead and others) to incorporate industrial and 'homely' materials i...

Paper paint charcoal collage fabric These collages were created first in the presence of a live model, working quickly, in charcoal and pastel, and again, later, alone in the studio...

Original Mixed Media Figurative Painting by Cuban Painter Hector Frank. International acclaim as one Cuba’s foremost living artists, Havana born Hector Frank. Now, in his artistic p...

She sits quietly, almost inaudibly, as if afraid to frighten her own fairy tale. Her red polka-dot dress flows in soft folds like poppy petals in the wind, and her bare feet barely t...

Charcoal drawing of a bust of a nude man by Otis Huband in 1972. Signed and dated by artist. Artist Biography: Otis Huband was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1933. He began st...

Lux on the 5th (Abstract painting) Acrylic, charcoal and graphite on paper - Unframed. Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt. Adrienn Krahl’s paintings expre...

Balance (Abstract painting) Ink, oil pastel and charcoal on paper - Unframed. Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt. Adrienn Krahl’s paintings express a profound sense of drama and emoti...

Ingenuity (Abstract painting) Ink, oil pastel and charcoal on paper - Unframed. Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt. Adrienn Krahl’s paintings express a profound sense of drama and emot...

Christmas greeting card is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the 1970's. Colored watercolor and charcoal drawing on cardboard. Initials of the artist on the lower mar...

Lux on the 5th (Abstract painting) Acrylic, charcoal and graphite on paper - Unframed. Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt. Adrienn Krahl’s paintings express a profound sense of drama ...

Ink, oil pastel and charcoal on paper - Unframed. Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt. Adrienn Krahl’s paintings express a profound sense of drama and emotional weight. Krahl works in a...

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Drawn on warm sepia-gray paper with a sanded tooth that holds rich, velvety blacks, this portrait reveals a striking interplay of light and shadow. White flower...

A stunning ensemble of fiour original mid century illustrations for Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" . Whilst sharing the modernist, stylis...

🔸 _Title: Geppetto’s GPT Awakening 🔸 _Artist: Diego Tirigall 🔸 _Year of Creation: 2023 🔸 _Dimensions: 97 W x 130 H x 2.5 D cm 🔸 _Medium: Acrylic, ...

Perfect for any hockey enthusiast! A dynamic 1950s pastel and charcoal on paper drawing of a hockey game by artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 9 x 12 inches; Matted size: 14 x 18 inches. Estate stamped on reverse. Provenance: Estate of the Artist. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington and Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...

The Tree is an original drawing in pencil, realized by an anonymous artist of the XX century. Image Dimension: 21 x 30 cm Included a Passepartout. In good conditions. Here the a...