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Medium: Crayon
View of via di Panico, Rome - Mixed Media by Sirio Pellegrini - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1965. Hand signed in the lower left. Includes a wooden frame 32x37 cm. Very good condition. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March ...
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1960s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel, Watercolor

Contemporary colorful figurative art oil pastels painting of women on paper
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This colorful figurative painting "On the Beach," created by French artist Natalya Mougenot in 2022, is part of her Women series. In this vibrant artwork, two women in bathing suits ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Watercolor, Paper, Oil Pastel

Feeling of spring. Paper, pastel 21x23 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Feeling of spring. Paper, pastel 21x23 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painte...
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1990s Realist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Paper, Pastel

Wanderer's Pizza
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Wanderer's Pizza" is an original paper, enamel, pastel, inkjet prints, chain, wire, and tubing artwork by Drew Leshko measuring approx. 11.5"h x 7.25"w x 0.75"d. Drew Leshko is a P...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Enamel, Wire

Pedro Pablo, Figurative Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Pedro Pablo 1998, by Celso Castro Black crayon on archival paper Image size: 40 H in. x 48 in. W Sheet size: 45 H in. x 59 in. W Unframed ____________ U...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Crayon, Archival Paper

Janet A. Freeman - Framed 20th Century Pastel, Nude on Mauve Cloth
Located in Corsham, GB
Pastel on paper. Signed lower right. Presented in a painted wooden frame.
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20th Century Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel

Untitled #503, Mixed Media on Paper by Murray Duncan - Abstract Geometric Modern
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Untitled #503 by Murray Duncan, 2024 Mix media on paper Unframed Size: 32" x 40" Murray Duncan Studio: Murray Duncan, born in 1966, is a self-taught creative visionary celebrated f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Art by Medium: Crayon

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Glaze, Oil Crayon, Acrylic

Yaacov Agam, Midnight Light, Kinetic work, polymorph.
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Yaacov Agam, Midnight Light, polymorph, Kinetic art, Colored work, International artist, Israeli artist, Israeli art. Yaacov Agam’s polymorph is a unique example of geometric and kin...
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Late 20th Century Kinetic Art by Medium: Crayon

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Metal

"Cherry Trees in Bloom on the Seine" Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Cherry Trees in Bloom on the Seine (Cerisiers en Fleurs sur la Seine)" Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968) Pastel on paper, circa 1920s Signed l.l. Circa 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 ( 20 1/2 ...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel

Clouds Over the Jemez, unique painting new mexico landscape, clouds, mountains
Located in Santa Fe, NM
mixed media on canvas Clouds Over the Jemez, unique painting New Mexico landscape, clouds, mountains
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Oil Crayon, Acrylic

Simple Life
Located in Kansas City, MO
Katherine Bello Title: Simple Life Oil and Oils stick on canvas Year: 2021 Dimensions: 20"x20"x1.5" Signed by hand Canvas on stretcher frame - ready...
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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Crayon

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Oil, Canvas, Oil Pastel

INGRA. Mixed media Abstract painting on Canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
" The work resists framing in concepts, it overflows the contours and borders of the rational. It is through the presence of color, combined with an abstraction at times with express...
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2010s Abstract Art by Medium: Crayon

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Canvas, Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Antique Dog Portrait of "Mignonne" dated 1876 by Louis Eugène Bourgeois
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Painting of "Mignonne" dated 1876 Louis Eugène Bourgeois (French 1831-1878) Pastel on cardboard Signed lower left "E. Bourgeois" Inscribed upper right "Mignonne." Rever...
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1870s Realist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel, Cardboard

«Still Life with striped draperies» Original . Impressionistic painting .
Located in Oslo, NO
This striking still life artwork vividly captures an arrangement of everyday objects with a bold use of color and texture. A luscious bouquet of tulips in varied shades of red, white...
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2010s Impressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Canvas, Oil Pastel

Trees Against Brown Background, Wolf Kahn
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Wolf Kahn (1927) Title: Trees Against Brown Background Year: 2000 Medium: Pastel on paper Size: 8 x 10 inches (sheet); 16 x 18 inches (frame) Condition: Good Inscription: Sig...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel

Wavy Shell, Abstract Painting in Blue, Turquoise Gestures on Paper, Nautical
Located in Barcelona, ES
In this series, Perrine explores the profound relationship between light and color, both essential elements in her artistic expression. Without light, there would be no colors, and i...
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2010s Street Art Art by Medium: Crayon

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Paper, Oil Crayon, Acrylic

Abstracted Floral Still Life in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Floral Still Life in Acrylic on Canvas Vibrant still life of a bouquet by Ilana Ingber (American, b. 1984). Several pink and red flowers are shown against a pale pink and...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars, Pastel

Untitled, Figure Study
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled, Figure Study" is an abstract figurative Post War pastel on paper paintings by Hans Burkhardt in 1967. The artwork is 21 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches and, with the frame, is 28 3/4...
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20th Century Post-War Art by Medium: Crayon

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Paper, Pastel

The Pink Bonnet - Scottish art oil pastel portrait painting of artist's wife
Located in London, GB
This gorgeous Scottish 1930's soft focus and sensual pastel oil painting is by noted artist John Bulloch Souter. It was painted in 1931 and the sitter is the artist's beautiful wife...
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1930s Realist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Oil Pastel

At the Shore
Located in Atlanta, GA
"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain." --Thaddeus Radell
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Graphite

Abstract Diptych of Vibrant Yellow Strokes on Violet, Contemporary Painting
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Vibrant Strokes on Violet" is an abstract painting diptych by Spanish artist Natalia Roman. It is a beautiful series of rhythmic brushstrokes combined with subtle tones and unique s...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Rag Paper

Dark Green Field, Signed Pastel on Paper by Oliviero Masi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dark Green Field Oliviero Masi Italian (1948) Date: 1980 Pastel on paper, signed lower right Size: 17.5 x 17.5 in. (44.45 x 44.45 cm)
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1980s Modern Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel

A Walk in Fantasy, Abstract Figures and Plants, Surreal Painting in Vivid Tones
Located in Barcelona, ES
In this series, Perrine explores the profound relationship between light and color, both essential elements in her artistic expression. Without light, there would be no colors, and i...
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2010s Surrealist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Oil Crayon, Acrylic

Contemporary Impressionist Acrylic and Pastel. 'Forest In Lilac, Provence'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary mixed medium on paper of a forest scene in Provence, France by Belgian artist Francis Besson, signed bottom right. Presented in oak 'case' ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Paper, Acrylic, Pastel

French Impressionist Pointillist Pastel. 'La Garrigue', Provence.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary Impressionist pastel of a Provençal landscape by Belgian artist Francis Besson. Signed to the very bottom right. A whirl of colours and floral designs shape this gorge...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Paper, Pastel

Roses and the Vibration of Space
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Roses and the Vibration of Space" is an expressive semi-abstract painting depicting pink roses amidst lush greenery. Through the use of textures and blurred transitions, the flowers...
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2010s Impressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Canvas, Acrylic, Oil Pastel

1960's Original French Pastel Sketch Nude Female Figure Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady French School, circa 1960's signed and stamped chalk and pastel on artists paper, unframed size: 18.75 x 11 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoy...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Crayon

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Chalk, Pastel

A Colorful, Panoramic Mid-Century Modern View of Nazaré, Portugal by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Colorful, Panoramic Mid-Century Modern View of the famed fishing village (and renowned surfing locale) of Nazaré, Portugal by Rudolph Pen. Painted in the 1960s, this vivid waterco...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Art by Medium: Crayon

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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Watercolor

Large 1970's French Impressionist Pastel Figure In Côte d'Azur Nice Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape signed by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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1970s Impressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel, Wax Crayon

Mid-Century "Green & Blue Nude" Oil Pastel Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper "Green and Blue Nude I" 5/1963 Oil pastel on paper 8.5"x11" unframed Signed and dated in pencil lower right Jack Meredith Hooper (August 26, 1...
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1960s Abstract Art by Medium: Crayon

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Paper, Oil Pastel

Grace - Abstract Expressionist Contemporary Figurative Portrait Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Erin Hammond is a contemporary abstract expressionist artist whose free-form paintings capture the essence of her inner, subjective realities. With a vibrant palette and dynamic mark...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic

A Walk In The Grass - 5"x7", Artwork On Paper, Green, White Flowers, Landscape
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
A Walk In The Grass - This original artwork on watercolour paper captures a vibrant, expressive field of grass, where a few delicate white and pink flowers emerge. An array of lush g...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

All About The Bag
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: De La Nuez, Nelson Title: All About The Bag Date: 2024 Medium: Mixed Media Unframed Dimensions: 37" x 33.5" Framed Dimensions: 45.5" x 42" Signature: Signed Edition: ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Oil Pastel, Screen

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Garden Landscape with Yellow Tree
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Garden Landscape with Yellow Tree by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977) Signed: Yes Medium: Pastel on unframed paper Size: 10.5 i...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel

The sunrise by Franco Salas Borquez - Black & white painting, ocean waves, sea
Located in Paris, FR
The sunrise is a unique pigments, acrylics and pastel on canvas painting by contemporary artist Franco Salas Borquez, dimensions are 120 × 200 cm (47.2 × 78.7 in). The artwork is si...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel, Acrylic, Pigment

I've been going around. Abstract painting mixed media on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
I've been going around, 2022 by On Hansen Oil wax, acrylic, graphite, organic ink, and crayon on canvas. Image size: 36 in. H x 48 in. W Mounted on a stretch...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Canvas, Crayon, Ink, Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite

Mid-20th Century French Pastel Landscape of Forest Trees in Les Laudes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-20th Century French Pastel Landscape of Forest Trees in Les Laudes by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977) Medium: Pastel on unframed paper Size: 14.75 inches (hei...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel

Impressionist View of Villefranche, South of France, in the style of Turner.
Located in Cotignac, FR
19th century Impressionist view, in pastel, chalk and crayon, in the style of Turner, of Villefranche, South of France by British artist Hercules Brabazon Brabazon...
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Mid-19th Century Art by Medium: Crayon

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Paper, Crayon, Pastel

Mid-20th Century Pastel of Riverside Village and Boat in France
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-20th Century Pastel of Riverside Village and Boat in France by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977) Medium: Pastel on unframed paper Size: 10.5 inches (height) x 1...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel

Mid-20th Century Pastel of French Countryside Church with Bell Tower
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-20th Century Pastel of French Countryside Church with Bell Tower by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977) Medium: Pastel on unframed paper Size: 15.25 inches (heigh...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel

Mid-Century French Pastel Landscape of Birch Trees in Summer Light
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-Century French Pastel Landscape of Birch Trees in Summer Light by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977) Signed: Yes Medium: Pastel on unframed paper, mounted on pap...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel

Mid-20th Century Pastel of Coastal Scene with Village and Clifftop Church
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-20th Century Pastel of Coastal Scene with Village and Clifftop Church by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977) Medium: Pastel on unframed paper Size: 10.5 inches (h...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel

Mid-20th Century French Pastel Landscape of Trees in a Sunlit Public Garden
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-20th Century French Pastel Landscape of Trees in a Sunlit Public Garden by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977) Medium: Pastel on unframed paper Size: 15.25 inches...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel

Spanish Girl - Oil Pastel on Paper by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil pastel on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Very good condition. Includes a coeval wooden frame cm. 52x61.5. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abr...
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1960s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Paper, Oil Pastel

Portrait - Oil Pastel on Paper by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil pastel on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Includes a coeval wooden frame realized by the Artist cm. 59x68.5. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Ab...
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1960s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Paper, Oil Pastel

Dreamspace - Fantasy Coastal Garden Landscape Painting on Handmade Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Michaela Jean is an accomplished painter, devoted gardener, and mother from Southern California (USA). Her lifelong passion for art and nature began in childhood, inspired by her gra...
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2010s Impressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Oil Pastel, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Color Pencil

Women Trio Black and White
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kader Boly is known for painting pastoral and communal scenes from his life as a nomadic herder in the Fulani tribe, on the plains of West Africa. Kader’s w...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Clay, Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Pencil

sunny day, 90x90 cm, oil on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
My paintings are a reflection of my inner space, I will call it a garden. What is this garden like? It's a little chaotic, a little bright, a little abstract, a little orderly, a l...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic

Rise & Grind
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Magical Basquiat
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Canvas, Oil Crayon, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint

Banana (original drawing on paper)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original colored crayons and pastel drawing on paper. Hand signed and dated on front by David Hockney. Artwork size 16.75 x 14inches. Frame size approx 27 x 24 inches. Provenance: Annely Juda Fine Art; Richard Gray Gallery. Artwork in excellent condition. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the Artist: David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Perhaps best known for his serial paintings of swimming pools, portraits of friends, and verdant landscapes, the artist’s oeuvre ranges from collaged photography and opera posters to Cubist-inspired abstractions and plein-air paintings of the English countryside. Often returning to a certain motif again and again, he probes the manifold ways one can see an image or a space. Hockney’s exploration of photography’s effect on painting and everyday life is evinced in his hallmark work A Bigger Splash (1967). “In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time,” he has explained. Born on July 9, 1937 in Bradford, United Kingdom, Hockney attended the Royal College of Art in London alongside R.B. Kitaj. At school, he studied under both Francis Bacon and Peter Blake, but also credits Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse for influencing his distinctive and varied style. In 1963, the artist traveled to Southern California for the first time and fell in love with the bright sunshine and easygoing lifestyle. Since then, he has alternated living and working between Yorkshire, United Kingdom, and Los Angeles, CA. In November 2018, his 1972 painting...
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1980s Pop Art Art by Medium: Crayon

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Paper, Crayon, Pastel

Therapy Salon
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Therapy Salon" is original artwork made from paper, inkjet print, enamel, wire, chain, aluminum tube, and pastel by Drew Leshko. This piece measures 8"h x .75"w x ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Metal, Enamel, Wire

Green Symphony, Abstract Expressionist Pastel Drawing by Souleymane Keita
Located in Long Island City, NY
Souleymane Keita, Senegalese (1947 -2014) - Green Symphony, Year: 1982, Medium: Pastel on J Perrigot Arches Special MBM, signed and dated in pencil ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel

Twilight flowers
Located in Oslo, NO
In this oil pastel creation, I've infused my soul into every stroke, blending fine art with semi-abstract styles to capture an ethereal twilight embrace. The flowers—rendered with pa...
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2010s Other Art Style Art by Medium: Crayon

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Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Summer Sale Teal Old Schoolboard with math Science Art Collection Abstract Art
Located in Zofingen, AG
This artwork is painted in the form of a classical school board with math equations. It is a part of the Science Art Collection by Anastasia Vasilyeva. The painting's size is 100x100...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Passage and Holds the people together, Mixed media painting on Awagami paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Passage and Holds the people together Diptych, 2022 by On Hansen Oil wax, acrylic, graphite, organic ink, and crayon on Awagami paper Overall size: 35.03 in. H x 51 in. W Individual ...
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2010s Minimalist Art by Medium: Crayon

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Crayon, Ink, Wax, Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Graphite

Pink Tulips - 3"x5" - Small Artwork On Paper, Framed, Pastel Flower Landscape
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Pink Tulips - Small and intimate, this original artwork on watercolour paper captures a glimpse of pink tulips dancing in an open field. Layering of acrylic and oil pastel with intui...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

"Maisonettes" by Frida Willis - Bright City Apartments Constructivist Cityscape
Located in Carmel, CA
Frida Willis (Swedish, born 1971) "Maisonettes" 2024 Oil Pastel, Paper The artist signed the bottom right of the artwork. Frida Willis’ “Maisonettes” radiates charm and whimsy throu...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Crayon

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Paper, Oil Pastel

Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Pastel on paper, 1922 Signed with the artist's initials in pencil Provenance: Estate of the artist Francis M. Nauman (label) Private collection, NY A very early abstract/cubist work by Kelly. Created while the artist was studying with Arthur Carles in Philadelphia. Leon Kelly (October 21, 1901 – June 28, 1982) was an American artist born in Philadelphia, PA. He is most well known for his contributions to American Surrealism, but his work also encompassed styles such as Cubism, Social Realism, and Abstraction. Reclusive by nature, a character trait that became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be limited by the trends of his time. His large output of paintings is complemented by a prolific number of drawings that span his career of 50 years. Some of the collections where his work is represented are: The Metropolitan Museum in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Boston Public Library. Biography Kelly was born in 1901 at home at 1533 Newkirk Street, Philadelphia, PA. He was the only child of Elizabeth (née Stevenson) and Pantaleon L. Kelly. The family resided in Philadelphia where Pantaleon and two of his cousins owned Kelly Brothers, a successful tailoring business. The prosperity of the firm enabled his father to purchase a 144-acre farm in Bucks County PA in 1902, which he named "Rural Retreat" It was here that Pantaleon took Leon to spend every weekend away from the pressures of business and from the disappointments in his failing marriage. Idyllic and peaceful memories of the farm stayed with Leon and embued his work with a love of nature that emerged later in the Lunar Series, in Return and Departure, and in the insect imagery of his Surrealist work. "If anything," he once said,"I am a Pantheist and see a spirit in everything, the grass, the rocks, everything." At thirteen, Leon left school and began private painting lessons with Albert Jean Adolphe, a teacher at the School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) in Philadelphia. He learned technique by copying the works of the old masters and visiting the Philadelphia Zoo, where he would draw animals. Drawings done in 1916 and 1917 of elephants, snakes and antelope, as well as copies of old master paintings by Holbein and Michelangelo, heralded an impressive emerging talent. In 1917, he studied sculpture with Alexander Portnoff but his studies came to an abrupt halt with the start of World War I. Being too young to enlist, he joined the Quartermaster Corp at the Army Depot in Philadelphia, where he served for more than a year loading ships with supplies and, along with other artists, working on drawings for camouflage. By 1920, the family's fortunes drastically changed. His father's business had failed due to the introduction of ready made clothing and his marriage, unhappy from the beginning, dissolved. Broken by circumstance Pantaleon left Philadelphia to begin a wandering existence looking for work leaving Leon to support his mother and grandmother. He found a job in 1920 at the Freihofer Baking Company where he worked nights for the next four years. Under these circumstances Leon continued to develop his skills in drawing and painting and learned of the revolutionary developments in art that were taking place in Paris. During the day he was granted permission to study anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Osteopathy where he dissected a cadaver and perfected his knowledge of the human figure. He also met and studied etching with Earl Horter, a well known illustrator, who had amassed a significant collection of modern art which included work by Brancusi, Matisse, and Cubist works by Picasso and Braque. Among the artists around Horter was Arthur Carles, a charismatic and controversial painter who taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Leon enrolled in the Academy in 1922, becoming what Carles described as, "his best student". In the next three years Leon work ranged from academic studies of plaster casts, to pointillism, to landscapes of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, as well as a series of pastels showing influences from Matisse to Picasso. Clearly influenced by Earl Horter's collection and Arthur Carles he mastered analytical cubism in works such as The Three Pears, 1923 and 1925 experimented with Purism in Moon Behind the Italian House. In 1925 Kelly was awarded a Cresson Scholarship and on June 14 he left for Europe. Paris The first trip to Europe lasted for approximately three and a half months and introduced Kelly to a culture and place where he felt he belonged. Though he returned to the Academy in the Fall, he left for Europe again a few months later to begin a four-year stay in Paris. He moved into an apartment at 19 rue Daguerre in Paris and began an existence intellectually rich but in creature comforts, very poor. "I kept a cinderblock over the drain in the kitchen sink to keep the rats out of the apartment" he once explained. He frequented the cafes making acquaintances with Henry Miller, James Joyce and the critic Félix Fénéon as well as others. His days were split between copying old master paintings in the Louvre and pursuing modernist ideas that were swirling through the work of all the artists around him. The Lake, 1926 and Interior of the Studio, 1927, now in the Newark Museum. Patrons during this time were the police official Leon Zamaran, a collector of Courbets, Lautrecs and others, who began collecting Kelly's work. Another was Alfred Barnes of the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. In 1929 Kelly married a young French woman, Henriette D'Erfurth. She appears frequently in paintings and drawings done between 1928 and the early 1930s. Philadelphia The stock market crash of 1929 made it impossible to continue living in Paris and Kelly and Henriette returned to Philadelphia in 1930. He rented a studio on Thompson Street and began working and participating in shows in the city's galleries. Work from 1930 to 1940 showed continuing influences and experimentation with the themes and techniques acquired in Paris as well as a brief foray into Social Realism. The Little Gallery of Contemporary Art purchased the Absinthe Drinker...
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1920s Abstract Art by Medium: Crayon

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Pastel

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