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Style: Contemporary
Medium: Pastel
"The Meanderer" House Turret Tower in Wood, Acrylic and Paper Sculpture
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece, titled "The Meanderer" is an original free-standing sculpture by Seth Clark as part of his newest solo exhibition, "Passing Through". Clark's deteriorating structures h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
"Wanderer 17" Collaged Papers with Pastel, Acrylic and Graphite on Wood
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece, titled "Wanderer 17" is an original artwork by Seth Clark as part of his newest solo exhibition, "Passing Through". made of collage, charcoal, pastel, acrylic, and graphi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Tribute to Michelangelo III by Zhang Hongyu - Contemporary portrait painting
By Zhang Hongyu
Located in Paris, FR
Tribute to Michelangelo III is a unique painting by contemporary artist Hongyu Zhang. The painting is made with Indian ink, pastel, acrylic, engraving and collage on cardboard mounte...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Pastel, Ink, Acrylic, Cardboard, Engraving
"Frammenti" Original Drawing Large Size- Art by Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Title: Fragments
Artist: Marilina Marchica (1984, Agrigento – Italy)
Year: 2024
Medium: Charcoal on high-quality Fabriano paper
Size: 50 x 70 cm
Frame: Custom handmade frame availabl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Paper
$1,321 Sale Price
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Landscape, Paint on Canvas , Made in Italy By Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape (80x100 cm) is an original, one-of-a-kind abstract painting by Italian contemporary artist Marilina Marchica. The work belongs to her ongoing research on architecture, memo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Oil
$2,832 Sale Price
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"Wanderer 10" Architectural Assemblage in Collage Paper Textures and Paint Drips
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece, titled "Wanderer 10" is an original artwork by Seth Clark as part of his newest solo exhibition, "Passing Through" is made of collage, charcoal, pastel, acrylic, and gra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Acrylic, Pastel, Charcoal, Wood
"Wanderer 16" Architectural Composition in Collage, Acrylic and Graphite
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece, titled "Wanderer 16" is an original artwork by Seth Clark as part of his newest solo exhibition, "Passing Through". made of collage, charcoal, pastel, acrylic, and graphi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Wood, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
"Wanderer 13"
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece, titled "Wanderer 13" is an original artwork by Seth Clark as part of his newest solo exhibition, "Passing Through", made of collage, charcoal, pastel, acrylic, and graph...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Wood, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Pensando & recordando a Luis Caballero, Nude Watercolor on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents.
Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor, Paper, Ink
"Roots Run Deep" Contemporary Neutral Tan & Black Abstract Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary neutral toned abstract landscape painting by Houston-based artist Kristen Anton. The work features tan and white planes of color accented with hints of tree branches and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
"Ice Box, " Miniature, Architecture, Sculpture
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sculpture titled "Ice Box" is an original artwork by Drew Leshko made of variety of paper, acrylic, wire, pastel. This piece measures approximately 4”h x 3”w x 2.5”d.
Drew Lesh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Wire
Gorgeous Georgia - Original Animal Painting - Happy Pop Art Red Cow Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swiss artist Fredi Gertsch creates lively colorful pop-folk art paintings with one inexhaustible element: the Emmentaler cow. Humor and optimism are essential traits of the artist: "...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Beautiful Manta" Abstract Geometric Grid in Pastel Colors
By Kevin Snipes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Beautiful Manta" is an original piece by Kevin Snipes made from ink, gouache, pastel, and acrylic on paper. This piece measures 8.25”h x 6”w and is signed en verso.
Kevin Snipes (h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Pastel
Two male Nudes. Painting.Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Paper, Pastel, Ink
Night Snake
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey is internationally known for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers and animals in a series called Small Deaths published in 2001 by University of Texas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
"Abstract Landscape" - Original Oil and Pastel Painting on Canvas, Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Title: Abstract Landscape
Artist: Marilina Marchica
Made In Itlay
Year: 2025
Technique: Oil and pastel on canvas
Dimensions: 80x100x3.8 cm
Original, one-of-a-kind artwork, accompani...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Oil
Leopard Moth
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
"Wanderer 11" Collapsing Houses in Ink Wash, Acrylic, and Collage by Seth Clark
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece, titled "Wanderer 11" is an original artwork by Seth Clark as part of his newest solo exhibition, "Passing Through" and is made of collage, charcoal, pastel, acrylic, and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Acrylic, Pastel, Charcoal, Wood
"Neighborling Maquette 26" Personified House Turret Tower Sculpture
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece, titled "Neighborling Maquette 26" s an original free-standing sculpture by Seth Clark as part of his newest solo exhibition, "Passing Through". Clark's deteriorating stru...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Yellow Nude. Portrait. Painting Pastel, pencil, ink on archival paper mounted
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Carbon Pencil, Paper, Pastel, Ink
Summer still life, 61x43cm, gouache, paper
Located in Yerevan, AM
Summer still life
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
$750 Sale Price
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Still life , 65x50cm, paper/ pastel/ gouache
Located in Yerevan, AM
Still life
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
$750 Sale Price
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Painting Large Abstract Figures Animal Nature Soulful Earthy Calm Modern Bold
By Karnish Art
Located in Pretoria, Gauteng
Title: The Guardians of Vision
Painting Abstract Figurative Giraffe Nature Blue Earthy Calm Modern Bold Soulful Invest Large Unique One-of-a-kind
LARGE ARTWORK
This work is part of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars, Mixed Media, Pastel, Oil
Abstracted Floral Still Life in Acrylic on Canvas
By Ilana Ingber
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars, Pastel
"Wanderer 9" House Composition in Motion in Paint, Paper, and Charcoal
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece, titled "Wanderer 9" is an original artwork by Seth Clark as part of his newest solo exhibition, "Passing Through" and made of collage, charcoal, pastel, acrylic, and gra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Acrylic, Pastel, Charcoal, Wood
Tribute to Michelangelo IV by Zhang Hongyu - mixed media and engraving, blue
By Zhang Hongyu
Located in Paris, FR
Tribute to Michelangelo IV is a painting by Paris-based Chinese contemporary artist ZHANG Hongyu which represents the famous David by Michelangelo, exhibited at the Galleria dell’Aca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Ink, Acrylic, Cardboard, Engraving
Yvonne Jacquette 'Chinatown I, San Francisco, 1983' Signed Pastel on Paper
Located in San Rafael, CA
An original work by
Yvonne Jacquette (1934-2023)
Chinatown I, San Francisco, 1983
Pastel on paper
Signed lower right: Jacquette
Titled verso
Sight: 19.5 x 23 inches
Framed: 27 x 30....
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Pastel
Jason
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Signed and titled (lower right)
84cm × 60cm (87cm × 62cm framed)
Cayford, now retired, was a graphic designer and illustrator working in London in the postwar period...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Jose el velezolano, Sabado 25 de junio. Figurative Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Crayon, Pastel, Cardboard
Duchándome, June 5th, Watercolor Nude, Pastel and Ink on Archival Paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents.
Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Paper, Pastel
Pool , 35x25cm, paper/ pastel
Located in Yerevan, AM
Pool , 35x25cm, paper/ pastel
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$337 Sale Price
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Seated Nude
Located in London, GB
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Signed and titled (lower right)
51cm × 38cm (63cm × 49cm framed)
Cayford, now retired, was a graphic designer and illustrator working in London in the p...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Duchándome. Nude watercolor on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, and others are sketches of moments he documents.
Throughout his artistic career, Castro has exalted the figure and genitality of the Latin American man, putting into tension the limits imposed by the sex/gender system that are part of an unquestionable patriarchal and phallocentric order. The majority of those portrayed are inhabitants of the Colombian coast, also constructing alternative ways of conceiving Latin American identity. By breaking taboos about corporality and male sexuality, his work has been censored on numerous occasions due to public accusations of immorality and pornography. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Paper, Pastel
Untitled (Standing Male Nude with Ropes and Arm Band)
Located in New York, NY
James Childs (1945-2020)
Untitled (Standing Male Nude with Ropes and Arm Band)
2010
Signed and dated, l.l.
Graphite and pastel crayon on paper
30.5 x 22 inches
$3,125
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Graphite
Poncho viernes 27 de mayo, Figurative Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Crayon, Pastel, Paper
Portrait of Nude Female Figure on Paper, Woman With Knees Up by America Martin
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Woman With Knees Up"
Pastel & Ink on Paper
24” x 18”
34" x 31" inches framed
AMERICA MARTIN is an internationally represented Colombian-American fine artist based...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Pastel, Ink
Leaving Orange Pt. 1 (2020) Oil on panel sunrise sunset cityscape urban skyscape
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Leaving Orange Pt. 1" (2020)
by Francesca Reyes
Oil painting on wood panel, urban skyscape, sunrise or sunset
Figurative Art / Representations of Architecture / Cityscapes and City Scenes / Dark Colors
Small scale vertical contemporary landscape, cityscape. Moody color tones of a Philadelphia...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Pastel, Oil, Wood Panel, Graphite
Lucky Restaurant
By Drew Leshko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Lucky Restaurant" is original artwork made from paper, inkjet print, enamel, wire, chain, aluminum tube, and pastel by Drew Leshko. This piece measures 10"h x 0.75...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Wire, Metal
"Neighborling Maquette 22" Personified House Turret Tabletop Sculpture
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece, titled "Neighborling Maquette 23" is an original free-standing sculpture by Seth Clark as part of his newest solo exhibition, "Passing Through". Clark's deteriorating st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
"Signs" Minimal Abstract Paint , large Size - Original Art made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Signs
mixed media on canvas
original artwork
Original Created:2019
Subjects:Landscape
Materials: Canvas
Styles: #Abstract #AbstractExpressionism #Minimalism #Modern #Expressionism...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Pastel, Oil, Canvas
$2,832 Sale Price
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Untitled - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Women Hair
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Olu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic, Pastel
Ben
Located in London, GB
Pastel on paper
Signed and titled (lower right)
49cm × 69cm (61cm × 81cm framed)
Cayford, now retired, was a graphic designer and illustrator working in London in the postwar period...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$3,355
Rattlesnake
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
White Swan
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Still Life 024
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic, coffee, ink, pumic, soft pastel, transfer on paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Coffee, Pastel, Ink
$560 Sale Price
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Latent
Located in New York, NY
Sandy Litchfield’s "Latent" reflects her signature approach of transforming landscapes into lyrical, abstracted visions. Drawing from memory, walking, and direct observation, Litchfi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Pastel, Gouache, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Fragments I
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is an original paper, charcoal, pastel, graphite, and acrylic on wood panel artwork by Seth Clark measuring 42”h x 33”w.
Seth Clark grew up in Seekonk, Massachusetts and studi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Wood, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Graphite
Jose antonio, Martes 7 de julio, Figurative painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Pastel, Paper, Crayon
Untitled IV and III, Diptych. From The Balance Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
With Balance the artist starts exploring more deeply the boundaries of the photographic media by mixing it with different techniques on a very traditional subject (classic sculptures...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Pigment
Quarantine (LARGE!! 6'x5' - 183 x 152cm)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Ryan Wilks
Title: Quarantine
Medium: India ink, chalk pastel, graphite on canvas.
Year: 2020
Size: 60W" x 72H"
Description : This response to Covid...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Canvas, Chalk, Pastel, India Ink, Graphite
$7,777 Sale Price
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Horny Toad
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
"Yanggen un tånom, siempre dokko", Contemporary, Butterfly, Daffodils, Pastel
By Fu'una
Located in Franklin, MA
Fu’una’s “Yanggen un tånom, siempre dokko’ (If you plant it, it will grow)” is a contemporary pastel depicting a black swallowtail butterfly landing on artificially colored pink daff...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Little Prayer
Located in New York, NY
ink and pastel on paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink
$320 Sale Price
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"Mass Study XX (diptych)", Layered Paper and Drawing Collage, Architectural
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This drawing and layered paper collage titled "Mass Study XX" is an original diptych by Seth Clark. This piece is a mix of collage, charcoal, pastel, acrylic, and graphite on two woo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Graphite
My Sister's White Cat
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Ghosts of Love
If love took form, if we could see it, and if so watch, as it faded, or got lost, or just gave up, slowly softly, disappeared, disillusioned, dejected, I think I saw it, as a tree in the woods, as a pale moth, a boat upturned on a shore, moonlight on ocean, a feather, drifting down, discarded, I looked and, love was everywhere, sighing, trembling, shimmering, fluttering, tender, as it departed, and as I watched...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment
Lois Dodd, Landscape painting by renowned female artist (signed and inscribed)
Located in New York, NY
Lois Dodd
Untitled Landscape, 1990
Colored chalk on grey wove paper
Signed, dated and inscribed "For Beverly & Howard", lower right.
Original artist's frame included
This unique work...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Graphite, Mixed Media, Pastel, Chalk
Window over the Lake, Contemporary Landscape Drawing, Modern Interior
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Subject : Fenêtre sur lac - Variation VI (Title - FR)
"Window over the Lake" (series) is an original drawing by contemporary artist Gabriel Riesnert, blending modern interior calm w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Pastel, Color Pencil, Archival Paper, Oil Crayon
Almazan Bicycle Still-Life Acrylic Painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Almazan Realistic Still Life Acrylic Painting
MIQUEL was an artist focused on the art of realism. His structured works on his great mastery of drawing, are romantic and translates ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Pastel
20th century landscape pastel drawing colorful grass path hills sky signed
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Study for Connecticut at Putney' is an original pastel drawing by American artist Wolf Kahn. The landscape is an exploration of color and light: it is rendered in cool blues and purples with fields of subtle yellow, the pastels treated with the same gesture as Kahn's paintbrush on a canvas. Indeed, this pastel was a study executed en plein air for a painting – the painting now sometimes called 'Bend in the River' – that he later created in the studio. This process of creating studies, selecting the best of the studies, and then recreating them as paintings was typical of Kahn's studio process and makes this pastel a significant example of the artist's creative output.
9 x 11 inches, artwork
15.5 x 18.13 inches, frame
Signed 'W. Kahn' lower right
Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting. Housed in a gold finish wood moulding.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Wolf Kahn, the youngest of four siblings, was born into a well-to-do artistic family. His father was the conductor of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Symphony, and his mother came from a family of art collectors.(1) During 1938, Kahn took his first art lessons, but most of his initial drawings were of military or historical events. The next year Kahn was sent to England for safety following the ascendancy of Hitler to power, and in 1940, he immigrated to the United States.
In 1942, he entered New York's High School of Music and Art, and while there, he was employed by a commercial art firm doing illustrations. After a stint in the Navy, Kahn entered Hans Hofmann's school, and among his fellow students were Neil Blaine, Jane Freilicher, Allan Kaprow and Larry Rivers. His initial results were done with a dark palette and abstracted forms, and although Hofmann's style of teaching was difficult, Kahn has consistently praised him for teaching him the value of control and understanding.(2)
Kahn's first exhibition was a 1951 group show in a loft with several other artists in lower Manhattan. From this impromptu show, a group effort evolved called the Hansa Gallery Cooperative.(3) In 1953, Wolf Kahn had a one-man show at this gallery, which was reviewed by Fairfield Porter, and at this same time bolder, more vivid colors began to appear in his work. By the mid-1950's, on a summer trip to Provincetown, Kahn's paintings indicated a new direction of softening warm colors in the manner of Bonnard. He was included in Meyer Shapiro's seminal exhibition, The New York School: The Second Generation at the Jewish Museum, and by the end of the 1950s, he had developed his abstracted landscape style for which he is best known.
In 1966, he made his first "barn" painting on Martha's Vineyard that reduced the complexities of detail of the architecture to a more basic shape, a stylistic convention that is evident in the Museum's painting. Kahn has since commented frequently on his use of color as a unique and specific component of each work as the situation demands, where the gradual buildup of the colors resembles the beauty and translucent nature of pastels.(4) Since then Kahn has had one-person exhibitions at the Kansas City Art Institute, Chrysler Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums throughout the United States.
Footnotes:
1. Much of the biographical information is drawn from Justin Spring, Wolf Kahn (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996).
2. Spring, 21. Wolf Kahn draws this from a 1973 address to the College Art Association.
3. This group included Jane Wilson...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Pastel, Paper
$13,520 Sale Price
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1540 and 2877, Diptych. From The ONE Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Although photography remains Arnone's primary form of expression, the artist begins to see certain limitations in this medium when it comes to adequately depicting his altered and of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Pastel
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Mixed Media, Archival Pigment
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