Art by Medium: Ink

Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for ABC-TV Comedy `I`m Dickens, ...

We are excited to be offering this exemplary and impactful gouache on paper by one of Caviar20's favorite mid-century American artists: Jack Youngerman. This work is a striking exa...

Hand signed, located, and dated on the lower right.

Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1965 Broadway Comedy `All in Good Time` starring Donald Wolfit, Hazel Douglas, John Sharp...

Colored Conversions - Abstract Watercolor and Ink on Paper Abstract watercolor and ink painting depicting hues of yellow and orange, with a contrast of black paint in the center. Si...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY “Untitled” painted in India Ink of two heads was done during what has been call Lester Johnson’s Dark Paintings of the 1960s. In 2013 John Yau wrote with much insight about that period of Johnson’s work - “Lester Johnson (1919-2010) was an innovative figurative painter who has never quite fit into any of the accepted narratives of postwar American art, and that alone makes his work worthy of a longer look. The 1960s was an explosively turbulent era marked by assassinations, race riots, space flights, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Beatles’ and Rolling Stones’ first American tours, and the rapidly escalating Vietnam War. Everyone was wary and on edge. Meanwhile, in the New York art world, all eyes were fixated on the rise and triumph of Pop Art, Minimalism and Color Field painting. Johnson was one of the few artists that attuned to the dismay that everyone was feeling during the violent and schizophrenic time, the sense that it could all come crashing down. However, his work was never overtly political or didactic. While his dark, brooding, monochromatic paintings of anonymous men gained a small and loyal following, they also became part of that largely invisible history of a time when New York was a tough scary and exciting place to be. More than fifty years after they were made, Johnson’s Dark Paintings continue to retain a coarseness that we associate with gestural Abstract Expressionism and Jean Dubuffet’s anti-psychological, anti-personal portraits incorporating sand and gravel. One sees in them the antecedents of Joyce Pensato’s gestural exaggerations of Groucho Marx, Homer Simpson and Minnie Mouse. While Pensato brings an infectious humor to her work, Johnson was more somber. I cannot help but think that both these artists chose their bedraggled subjects out of empathy and a trace of identification.” Lester Johnson, was born in 1919 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended Minneapolis School of Art, where he studied under Alexander Masley who was a former student of Hans Hofmann. Johnson continued his artistic career in New York City where he opened his first studio on 6th and Avenue A. His neighbor there was fellow painter Wolf Kahn. During his time there he would share a loft with Larry Rivers and married the art historian Josephine Valenti. In 1961 he briefly taught at Ohio State University before returning to New York City to share a studio with Philip Pearlstein. Jack Tworkov would invite Johnson to teach at Yale, an offer that Lester Johnson would accept and spend the rest of his life in Connecticut. Johnson passed away in 2010. Johnson's work has been exhibited in the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Walker Art Center, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Museum of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This work has been framed inside of a custom frame with museum glass...

Leonor Fini Portrait, ca. 1960 Ink on paper 14.5 x 10 cm 5 1/2 x 4 in. 37.5 x 33 cm 14 1/2 x 13 in. (Frame included) Unique work Exhibition history: Leonor Fini: Small Faces, Apri...

Artist is an ink and watercolor Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989...

Unique mid century modern abstract limited edition serigraph titled "Poor Butterfly" by Madrid-based artist Mil Lubroth (American, 1925-2004). Lubroth uses a layering technique to build the fragmented form of the butterfly in neutral earth-tones, black and grey. Her serigraph “Poor Butterfly” was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum’s 13th Biennial National Print Exhibition in 1962. Signed "Mil Lubroth" lower right. Numbered 30/50 lower left and titled center. Displayed in a grey mat and metal frame with plexiglass. Image window: 19"H x 26"W. Paper size: 23.5"H x 32"W. Madrid artist...

Male Figurative Study - Original Lithograph on Paper Original lithograph on paper depicting a male nude in pose. The male figure is depicted sitting, ...

Myril Adler Untitled c.1960s Intaglio etching collage, ink on paper 3.75"x1.75" site unframed Signed in ink lower right Myril Adler, was born on September 22, 1920 in Vitebsk, Russi...

Three Figures - Black and White Illustration in Ink on Paper Bold illustration of three people by an unknown artist (20th Century). The figures are depicted in a tight cluster, as i...

"Birmingham School Girl" - Rare Signed Figurative Lithograph in Ink on Paper Bold lithograph by Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933). Rendered in a semi-abstracted style, a young, black school girl is distressed and crying on her knees with her books and lunch in hand. Titled, numbered, dated, and signed along the bottom edge: "Birmingham school girl litho #4 May 1963 Eugene Hawkins, Legend 412" Presented in a new black mat. Mat size: 18"H x 14"W Image size: 11.25"H x 8.75"W Eugene Hawkins (American, b. 1933) is a BIPOC artist...

Figures is a China ink and Watercolor Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition with some folding, and a small cut on the...

Signed lower left, 'E. Bischoff' for Elmer Nelson Bischoff (American, 1916-1991) and dated ''64'". Previously with: Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, California Framed Dimensions: 21.75 H x 18.5 W x .75 D Inches This work is accompanied by a First edition volume of 'Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint' by Susan Landauer & Bill Berkson, University of California Press, 2001. A key figure in the California Bay Area abstract and figurative movement following World War II, Elmer Bischoff graduated in 1939 from the University of California. As an art student there, he had been strongly influenced by Margaret Peterson...

Two Sketched Portraits  is a drawing on paper, realized around the Sixties by the great Italian artist and journalist,  Mino Maccari  (Siena, 1898 - 1989).  China ink (fountain pen)...

The hunt is an original moder artwork realized by Lars Bo in 1962. Watercolored china on paper. Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin. Hand wrtitten notes on the back I...

Myril Adler "Antique" portrait c.1960s Woodcut on tissue affixed to orange paper 3.5"x5.5" site unframed Signed and titled in ink Myril Adler, was born on...

Myril Adler "After Brueghel" c.1960s Intaglio etching, ink on paper 6"x4" site unframed Titled in pencil, estate stamp Myril Adler, was born on September ...

The Couple is a China ink and watercolor Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Jun...

Wonderful mid century abstracted figurative silkscreen in red and black. Titled "Starlet being made," numbered "2/10" and signed "Graham" with date "63" lower edge. Presented in new ...

Facsimile on paper, 1964 Printer : Daniel Jacomet (Paris) Dedication "For Alain Mazo, amicalement" and printed signature LCD4596

Provincetown (Sunbathing) Sepia ink on tan paper, 1966 Signed in ink lower center (see photo) Exhibited: Art from Lexington Homes, Lincoln Massachusetts, May 14-22, 1966 (see label) ...

The Jolly Couples is a China Ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 198...

Shipwrecks is a china ink and watercolor Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Jun...

Unknown Artist - Firenze, Year: 1966, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed lower left, titled and dated on verso, Image Size: 17.5 x 12.5 inches, Size: 19.25 x 13.5 in. (48.9 x 34.29 cm), D...

Dormer constructs a scene where two hybrid figures meet halfway between the organic and the mechanical. A threadlike, almost insectoid form on the left unfolds in a complex tangle o...

Indra Dugar - The Ganges in Varanasi - 10.5 x 8 inches (unframed size) A two-sided work with artist signatures on both sides. Now enjoy two paintings at the price of one. Ink on paper Inclusive of shipment in framed form, anywhere in the world. The Ganges in Varanasi, Exemplary rare drawings, Ink on paper by Shri Indra Dugar from the Note Book of Bengal’s much-lauded Master Artist, inspired by Master Artist Shri Nandalal Bose...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Riverview Nursing (P2.67), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Ink on Paper, Size: 7 x 11 in. (17.78 x 27.94 cm), Description: Plastered with t...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - R.H. Mills Coffee Roasters (P2.69), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Ink on Paper, Size: 7 x 11 in. (17.78 x 27.94 cm), Description: Eve Net...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Santander, Year: 1961, Medium: Ink on Paper, Size: 14 x 10 in. (35.56 x 25.4 cm), Description: Smiling at the viewer, Eve Nethercott'...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Water and Old Slip (P2.68), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Ink on Paper, Size: 11 x 7 in. (27.94 x 17.78 cm), Description: This ink drawin...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - European Neighbors (P2.71), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor and ink on Paper, Image Size: 9 x 6 inches, Size: 14 x 11 in. (35.56 ...

Greeting is a China Ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1986. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a little white paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Ro...

Sketch is an original artwork realized in 1963 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original china ink, watercolor and pencil drawing on ivory-colored paper,...

Hand signed with the artist's monogram. Ink and watercolor on cardboard. Passepartout included.

Facsimile on paper, 1964 Printer : Daniel Jacomet (Paris) Dedication "Per Violette i Josep Llorens Artigas, de tot cor" and printed signature LCD4599

Figures in The Frame is a China ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16,...

Figures is a China Ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1965. Hand signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, J...

Reader is a china ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1965s. Hand signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, J...

Old Fool (Il Rimbambito) is an original China inkand watercolour drawing on laid paper, realized in 1963 by the great Italian artist and journalist, Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - 1989...

Figures in the City is a Pen and Ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1962. Hand signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Mino Maccari (Siena...

Lover is a china ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1965. Hand signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a yellowed paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Jun...

Lovers is a china ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an ...

At the Bar is a China ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was ...

Pixie with Hat and Woman is a China Ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June ...

The Departure is a China ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) ...

Seductive Woman is an ink and watercolor Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good condition. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rom...

Ben Turpin Cameo - Vintage Pop-Art 1960's Psychedelic Figurative Print Bold and bright vintage psychedelic 1960's poster of Ben Turpin Cameo #3 by Peter Max (German, b. 1937). Image size, 38"H x 24"W. Unframed. Shipped Rolled in tube. One of the most famous of all living artist's, Peter Max is a pop culture icon. His bold colors, uplifting images and an uncommon artistic diversity have touched almost every phase of American culture and has inspired many generations. Peter Max has painted for six U.S. Presidents and his art is on display in Presidential Libraries and in U.S. Embassies. Max has painted our Lady Liberty annually since America's Bicentennial and in 2000 a collage of his Liberties adorned over 145 million Verizon phone books. Max has been named an official artist of the 2006 U.S. Olympic Team at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. He has also been Official Artist of 5 Super Bowls, World Cup USA, The World Series, The U.S. Open, The Indy 500, The NYC Marathon...

In Good Company is a china ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1960s. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a little yellowed paper. Mino Maccari (Sie...

The Capture of the Hippogriff is an enchanting drawing in watercolor and china ink realized by Fabrizio Clerici. Hand-signed on the lower margin. In excellent conditions. The artw...

Abstract, oil, watercolor, ink & pencil on paper by important Italian artist, Gastone Novelli. Signed & dated lower right "Novelli 68" Provenance: MILAN ART, Via Zara 18, Milano Fra...

These are Autographs Letter Signed by Nicolas Nabokov to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Paris, June 18th 1962 . On letterhead paper " Nicolas Nabokov , Paris" Rome, February 6th 1963. On letterhead paper " American Academy in Rome". In French. One page, sigle-sided. Excellent condition: As good as New. With original envelope included. The Russian-born composer never forgot to write to his mentor and patron of art A.L. Pecci Blunt, with each kind of request, mainly asking to meet her. Collect or present this unique pieces of the Russian master, as if it was a holy relic! Background: During the Fifties, Nicolas Nabokov became General Secretaryof the newly formed Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), backed by the CIA, and remained in the job for more than fifteen years, organizing music and cultural festivals, and was musical director of the American Academy in Rome (Villino Aurelia, Porta S. Pancrazio). Nicolas Nabokov (Russia 1903 –1978) The Russian-born composer and cultural figure, was the first cousin of the talented writer of "Speaks Memory", Vladimir Nabokov...

Lying nude is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the 1960s. Mixed media colored drawing (ink and watercolor) on paper. Hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the lowe...

Bold woodblock print by Byron Randall (American, 1918-1999). Titled "Schooner + Doryman", numbered "1st ed.", and signed and dated "Byron Randall '62" along the bottom edge. Small am...

These are Autographs by the legendary bullfighters Antonio Ordoñez, Manolo Vazquez (Sevilla, 1930-2005) and Juan José Rueda, with autograph notes by A. Ordoñez (Ronda, 1932 - Siviglia, 1998). Around 1960. A card addressed to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. In spanish. Original envelope included. Short sentence of greetings with the ending hope to see the Countess agains. "Millones de Gracias, esperamos poder corresponder en España". Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci - Blunt (Rome, 1885 - Marlia, 1971) Best-known as "Mimì" Pecci-Blunt , the Italian noblewoman was an art collector, patron and nephew of Pope Leo XIII. Extremely volcanic, she was very active in the cultural field, opening numerous lounges, galleries and theaters. In 1919 she married Cecil Blumenthal, later changed to Blunt, a wealthy Jewish banker from New York, heir to an important collection of nineteenth-century French painting. His Parisian and Roman salons was frequented by artists and intellectuals of the caliber of Salvador Dalì, Paul Valery, Poulenc, Paul Claudel...

Surrealist Composition is a fascinating drawing in China ink made by the Spanish Surrealist artist Jorge Castillo, dated around 1960. The artwork was drawn on a paper that presents, ...

This lot is composed of 2 items, 1960's by Gina Lollobrigida to Maria De Matteis: a Typewritten Letter Signed by Gina Lollobrigida to Maria De Matteis. Rome...