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Medium: Graphite
Generación espontánea
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Mauricio Sandoval
(Aguascalientes, México, 1960) Lives and works in Mexico City
Mauricio Sandoval is an abstract painter, one of the best ever in Mexico; he creates his own pictoria...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Graphite
Sitting Pretty 2
Located in Boston, MA
Venerate “to hold in high regard”
What we value shapes how we have come to look at ourselves.
Artist statement: Youth, health, strength and beauty; these are things most Americans ...
Category
2010s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic, Graphite
Contemporary, sentimental painting of a red Dachshund with graphite drawings
Located in Charleston, US
"Almost Dachshund" a sentimental dog painting by Robert Zakanitch a founder of the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970's believes in painting subjects of beauty with delicate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite
Finding a Way...Like Water, abstract geometric painting, dots
Located in New York, NY
Gouache and graphite on handmade paper. 24 x 18 inches unframed. 28 x 22.25 inches framed.
Artist Statement:
“As an artist, I find endless possibilities overwhelming and use self-imposed boundaries to focus my work. This often includes some combination of: a literal grid or graphite border, employment of barbecue skewers or wooden chopsticks in lieu of paintbrushes for mark making, use of a monochromatic or limited color palette, and a reliance on shape and pattern to tell a story. Limiting the elements at play adds a measure of gravity to each decision, and every detail about the paper, the viscosity of the paint, micro variations in hues, and even the sharpness of the point on a skewer matters.
I’ve found that the more restrictions I put in place when I paint, the freer my work has become, allowing a tension to form between the organic and prescribed. Rather than sketch before starting a new piece, I spend time with the paper and begin to visualize possibilities. From there, I can expand the work incrementally. Whether I’m working in an adapted form of pointillism, playing with opacity and hue, or building patterns through repeating shape, the work evolves in its own time. It is an intentionally open process of discovery that seeks to uncover the greatest potential of the basest elements we have at our disposal”. - Kate Snow
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Fright Bites - colorful circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Pink Elephant
Located in London, GB
Tim Fowler’s Pink Elephant is a striking, vibrant painting that explores bold contrasts and fluid abstraction within botanical forms. The composition features large, expressive leave...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Graphite
Ellen Hackl Fagan, ColorSoundGrammar_ASOG, 2010, Enamel, Latex, Ink, Graphite
Located in Darien, CT
Inviting the accidental while painting, the artist's materials continue to reveal limitless possibilities for improvisation, like jazz music. Influenced by scientific theories-both real and imagined, kitsch, music, decorative art and indigenous textiles, Fagan's abstract paintings and interactive performance build connections between color and surface to sound.
This exploration has led to creating a series of interactive games with viewers, the most recent being The Alphabet Game. To play, viewers select, from colored squares, the color(s) that best represent each note in the familiar ABC Song melody. Through these playful interventions their thoughts about color and music are explored in-depth. Documenting their responses in the form of photographs and notes in journals, Fagan has compiled the results of fifteen artists who played the Alphabet Game during a lecture on color where the artist was the guest presenter in order to create this particular painting.
Fagan distilled the data gathered and painted this visualization of a color/sound alphabet based on the colors selected by this artist's group. These alphabet paintings introduce a wonderful completion to this pseudo-scientific investigation and celebrate painting...
Category
2010s Conceptual Graphite Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Pink Study, 1960s Abstract Mixed Media Painting Pink & Blue, Mid-Century Modern
Located in Denver, CO
This original vintage 1960 abstract painting by Hilaire Hiler (1898-1966) showcases the artist's structuralist style, created in the mid-20th century while Hiler was based in New Mexico. Signed lower right, this striking piece is painted in soothing tones of pink and blue, capturing the essence of Hiler’s unique modernist approach. The framed dimensions measure 15 ½ x 18 ¾ inches, with the image size measuring 14 x 17 ½ inches.
About the Artist:
Hilaire Hiler was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, where he began his art education at the Rhode Island School of Design. His artistic journey led him to study at several prestigious institutions, including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, and the University of Paris in 1919.
In Paris, from 1919-1934, Hiler supported himself as a jazz musician and pianist for The Jockey Club, all while immersing himself in the European art scene. After returning to the U.S. in 1934, Hiler made San Francisco his home, where he was commissioned by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to paint murals in the Aquatic Park...
Category
1960s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite
Divine Wind
Located in Columbia, MO
Joel D. Sager (b. 1980) is a contemporary American painter of landscapes, still-life and portraiture. Often drawing on such standard subject matter with economy and singularity— a so...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
On His Way to the Top
Located in Columbia, MO
Marie Gardeski grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and currently lives i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
Xavi Carbonell, Untitled 2024, Abstract, Mixed media on canvas
Located in New York, NY
Xavi Carbonell (b. 1971) is a Spanish artist celebrated for his playful, childlike creations that ignite the imagination and encourage personal interpretation. By leaving his works u...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Permanent Marker, Graphite
Azalea Light, large abstract painting on canvas, textured with bright colors
By Liz Barber
Located in Dallas, TX
“Azalea Light” - Oil, Acrylic, and Ink on Canvas, 36 x 72 inches
“Azalea Light” radiates with a lush vibrancy, where soft magenta blooms and golden hues blend effortlessly with tran...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Edith's Diary
Located in Columbia, MO
Marie Gardeski grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and currently lives i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Harbor 9
By Liz Barber
Located in Napa, CA
Liz Barber pursued painting while obtaining her degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Moore College of Art. She currently resides in Marietta, Georgia. Barber’s paintings ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
$6,900
Abstract Barnstable Painting by Joseph Conrad-Ferm, Acrylic Mixed Media Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Barnstable by Joseph Conrad-Ferm, Mixed Media on Canvas, REP by Tuleste Factory
Abstract painting by Joseph Conrad-Ferm. The dynamic composition includes muted strokes of gray and p...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Color Pencil, Graphite
Contemporary, sentimental painting of a Shit Tzu with graphite drawings
Located in Charleston, US
"Shih Tzu" a sentimental dog painting by Robert Zakanitch a founder of the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970's believes in painting subjects of beauty with delicate patterns as well as animals. This Shih Tzu dog charms along with Zakanitch's graphite drawings depicting the dog in different positions. Zakanitch was an original exhibitor at Holly Solomon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite
Sitting Pretty
Located in Boston, MA
Venerate “to hold in high regard”
What we value shapes how we have come to look at ourselves.
Artist statement: Youth, health, strength and beauty; these are things most Americans ...
Category
2010s Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic, Graphite
Ethereal
Located in Boston, MA
"Etheral" is part of the ongoing series Garden Narratives. Dexheimer, while consistent in her focus on shape, color, texture and form works simultaneously on several projects investi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
Generous, Abstract, Oil, Graphite, Wood Panel, Yellow, Black, White
By Rose Umerlik
Located in Riverdale, NY
Generous by Rose Umerlik is an abstract painting, Oil and Graphite on wood panel, 48 x 36. This is part of a new 2022 series. According to Umerlik, " I became a mother this past ye...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Graphite
Loser #7 - Colorful Figurative Modern Cultural Commentary Original Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers a new outlook on an otherwise ordinary urban scene. His artworks represent an auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite
$1,540 Sale Price
20% Off
Joseph Piccillo Dancer Hyperrealism Black and White (Dancer with Chick) Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original graphite, oil paint and collage on canvas by American contemporary artist Joseph Piccillo.
Category
2010s Photorealist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Graphite
Rose Vine, large abstract painting on canvas, textured with bright colors
By Liz Barber
Located in Dallas, TX
“Rose Vine” - Oil, Acrylic, and Ink on Canvas, 36 x 72 inches
“Rose Vine” radiates with a lush vibrancy, where soft magenta blooms and golden hues blend effortlessly with translucen...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Water Blooms 8, large abstract painting on canvas, layered with monotone colors
By Liz Barber
Located in Dallas, TX
“Water Blooms 8” — Oil, Acrylic, and Ink on Canvas, 48 x 72 inches
"Water Blooms 8" is a monotone abstract painting with richly layered tones of black, greys and bright whites, inks...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
$8,400 Sale Price
20% Off
'Woman in Green' Louvre, Académie Chaumière, Paris, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Woman in Green' Louvre, Académie Chaumière, Paris, LACMA
Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) estate stamp, verso, and painted circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Graphite
Contemporary Layered 3D Abstract Fire Painting American Large Orange Blue Grey
By Kyle Butler
Located in Buffalo, NY
A captivating abstract painting by contemporary American artist Kyle Butler.
The panel is covered with graphite and then layers of paint which are striped away in strategic areas. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Graphite
Balancing Act 1 (Abstract painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Balancing Act 1 (Abstract painting)
Gouache, graphite and ink on Rives paper - Unframed
This work (unframed) incorporates graphite, ink, and gouache, and is a combination of intuit...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Gouache, Graphite
"First Fall", Contemporary, Chickadee, Bird, White, Oil, Acrylic, Painting, 2017
Located in Natick, MA
Sargent Walker's "First Fall" is a soft black, white and gray painting in oil, acrylic, birch bark and graphite. Softly falling snowflakes are collaged in birch bark. An upright hand in graphite summons, or sends, a small chickadee bird...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Birch, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Graphite
Magic Realism Figurative Artwork, "Honey and Bees" by Evgeniya Golik
Located in San Diego, CA
An 18” x 18” Magic Realism Figurative Artwork by artist Evgeniya Golik. A certificate of authenticity will accompany the piece upon its purchase or delivery.
Evgeniya Golik (also k...
Category
2010s Surrealist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Color Pencil, Graphite
View from a Great Height, abstract geometric painting, dots
Located in New York, NY
Gouache and graphite on handmade paper. 24 x 18 inches unframed, 28 x 22.25 inches framed.
Artist Statement:
“As an artist, I find endless possibilities overwhelming and use self-imposed boundaries to focus my work. This often includes some combination of: a literal grid or graphite border, employment of barbecue skewers or wooden chopsticks in lieu of paintbrushes for mark making, use of a monochromatic or limited color palette, and a reliance on shape and pattern to tell a story. Limiting the elements at play adds a measure of gravity to each decision, and every detail about the paper, the viscosity of the paint, micro variations in hues, and even the sharpness of the point on a skewer matters.
I’ve found that the more restrictions I put in place when I paint, the freer my work has become, allowing a tension to form between the organic and prescribed. Rather than sketch before starting a new piece, I spend time with the paper and begin to visualize possibilities. From there, I can expand the work incrementally. Whether I’m working in an adapted form of pointillism, playing with opacity and hue, or building patterns through repeating shape, the work evolves in its own time. It is an intentionally open process of discovery that seeks to uncover the greatest potential of the basest elements we have at our disposal”. - Kate Snow
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Handmade Paper, Graphite
'Still Life', Louvre, California Post-Impressionist, LACMA, Académie Chaumière
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamp, verso, for Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and t...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Graphite
"where were you?", Contemporary, Flowers, Pink, Purple, Acrylic Painting, 2018
By Sandra Cohen
Located in Natick, MA
Sandra Cohen’s “where were you?” is an 8 x 8 x 1 inch acrylic painting on cradled wood. Flowers outlined in fine graphite seem to weep in front of a vibrant patterned background of p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel, Graphite
Monochromatic Series – Nr 1 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Monochromatic Series – Nr 1 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic, charcoal, graphite and oil pastel on (white) canvas - Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
This artwork will be shippe...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Graphite
Balancing act 2 (Abstract Painting)
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Balancing act 2 (Abstract Painting)
Gouache, graphite and ink on Rives paper. Unframed.
Balancing Act 2 is part of a series of works on paper started in 2016.
They are created in the evenings and aptly named after busy days of teaching and other responsibilities.
The artist establishes parameters involving the use of a particular palette, certain mark-making gestures and amount of time spent on each drawing.
This work incorporates graphite, ink, and gouache, and is a combination of intuition-based and planned execution.
Tracey Adams is an American abstract painter and printmaker. Her artworks reflect a strong interest in musical patterns, rhythms, lyrical compositional elements and what she calls a sense of performance. She lives and works in Carmel, California.
Work by Adams is part of the permanent collections of several museums, including the Bakersfield Art Museum, the Monterey Museum of Art, the Fresno Art Museum, the Tucson Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Graphite
Screech of ice series 41 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Colored pencil and graphite on plastic paper. Unframed.
Screech of Ice is a new series of drawings made by holding a bunch of pencils in two hands and letting them to do the control...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Waterlilies 3 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Waterlilies 3 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic, oil bar, oil pastel and graphite on canvas - Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resi...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
Aequor Infinitum - Blue, turquoise, white and silver striped abstract painting
Located in East Quogue, NY
Blue and white striped abstract painting - Acrylic and graphite on canvas in artist frame. Signed on back by the artist.
Mark Zimmermann's work is based on the fusion of meditative ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite
Prana
Located in Austin, TX
"Prana" is an abstract expressionist painting by Rebecca Sobin executed in oil, cold wax medium, and graphite on a cradled wood panel; measuring 36 x 36 inches.
Titled "Prana" the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil, Wood Panel, Graphite
$3,200
Waterlilies 3 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Waterlilies 3 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic, oil bar, oil pastel and graphite on canvas - Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resi...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
Rise 3 (Abstract Painting)
By Holly Miller
Located in London, GB
Rise 3 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic, graphite and thread on canvas - Unframed
The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecting...
Category
2010s Minimalist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Thread, Acrylic, Graphite
Mod Abstract Expressionist Modernist Oil Painting Dog Drawing Edward Avedisian
Located in Surfside, FL
Edward Avedisian ( 1936-2007 )
7.5 X 5.75
Oil paint on wood panel
This is not signed on front. It bears his name verso.
Provenance: Hudson, N.Y. estate of noted Art Collector Albert...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Graphite
"Cronus Dining" David Hare, Yellow & White Mythological Surrealist Composition
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare
Cronus Dining, 1968
Graphite, acrylic, paper collage on board
44 x 34 inches
“Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and what we are most afraid of.” No one could accuse David Hare of possessing such fear. Blithely unconcerned with the critics’ judgments, Hare flitted through most of the major art developments of the mid-twentieth century in the United States. He changed mediums several times; just when his fame as a sculptor had reached its apogee about 1960, he switched over to painting. Yet he remained attached to surrealism long after it had fallen out of official favor. “I can’t change what I do in order to fit what would make me popular,” he said. “Not because of moral reasons, but just because I can’t do it; I’m not interested in it.”
Hare was born in New York City in 1917; his family was both wealthy and familiar with the world of modern art. Meredith (1870-1932), his father, was a prominent corporate attorney. His mother, Elizabeth Sage Goodwin (1878-1948) was an art collector, a financial backer of the 1913 Armory Show, and a friend of artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Walt Kuhn, and Marcel Duchamp.
In the 1920s, the entire family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and later to Colorado Springs, in the hope that the change in altitude and climate would help to heal Meredith’s tuberculosis. In Colorado Springs, Elizabeth founded the Fountain Valley School where David attended high school after his father died in 1932. In the western United States, Hare developed a fascination for kachina dolls and other aspects of Native American culture that would become a recurring source of inspiration in his career.
After high school, Hare briefly attended Bard College (1936-37) in Annandale-on-Hudson. At a loss as to what to do next, he parlayed his mother’s contacts into opening a commercial photography studio and began dabbling in color photography, still a rarity at the time [Kodachrome was introduced in 1935]. At age 22, Hare had his first solo exhibition at Walker Gallery in New York City; his 30 color photographs included one of President Franklin Roosevelt.
As a photographer, Hare experimented with an automatist technique called “heatage” (or “melted negatives”) in which he heated the negative in order to distort the image. Hare described them as “antagonisms of matter.” The final products were usually abstractions tending towards surrealism and similar to processes used by Man Ray, Raoul Ubac, and Wolfgang Paalen.
In 1940, Hare moved to Roxbury, CT, where he fraternized with neighboring artists such as Alexander Calder and Arshile Gorky, as well as Yves Tanguy who was married to Hare’s cousin Kay Sage, and the art dealer Julian Levy. The same year, Hare received a commission from the American Museum of Natural History to document the Pueblo Indians. He traveled to Santa Fe and, for several months, he took portrait photographs of members of the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni tribes that were published in book form in 1941.
World War II turned Hare’s life upside down. He became a conduit in the exchange of artistic and intellectual ideas between U.S. artists and the surrealist émigrés fleeing Europe. In 1942, Hare befriended Andre Breton, the principal theorist of surrealism. When Breton wanted to publish a magazine to promote the movement in the United States, he could not serve as an editor because he was a foreign national. Instead, Breton selected Hare to edit the journal, entitled VVV [shorth for “Victory, Victory, Victory”], which ran for four issues (the second and third issues were printed as a single volume) from June 1942 to February 1944. Each edition of VVV focused on “poetry, plastic arts, anthropology, sociology, (and) psychology,” and was extensively illustrated by surrealist artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Roberto Matta, and Yves Tanguy; Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp served as editorial advisors.
At the suggestion of Jacqueline Lamba...
Category
1960s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Graphite
Diptych Bridge to Intimacy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The two sides in Diptych Bridge to Intimacy---monoprints, graphite and wooden fabric stamps on paper---- talk to each other. They each have a part in les...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Graphite
Vintage Expressive Multimedia Portrait of a Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Expressive Multimedia Portrait of a Woman
Portrait of a Woman by Irvin Nahan (American b. 1927.)
Elegant portrait of a woman looking off into the distance. She has her head t...
Category
1970s Abstract Impressionist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paint, Graphite, Canvas
Disintegrating (with a Measure of Grace), abstract geometric painting, dots
Located in New York, NY
Gouache and graphite on handmade paper. 24 x 18 inches unframed. 28 x 22.25 inches framed.
Artist Statement:
“As an artist, I find endless possibilities overwhelming and use self-imposed boundaries to focus my work. This often includes some combination of: a literal grid or graphite border, employment of barbecue skewers or wooden chopsticks in lieu of paintbrushes for mark making, use of a monochromatic or limited color palette, and a reliance on shape and pattern to tell a story. Limiting the elements at play adds a measure of gravity to each decision, and every detail about the paper, the viscosity of the paint, micro variations in hues, and even the sharpness of the point on a skewer matters.
I’ve found that the more restrictions I put in place when I paint, the freer my work has become, allowing a tension to form between the organic and prescribed. Rather than sketch before starting a new piece, I spend time with the paper and begin to visualize possibilities. From there, I can expand the work incrementally. Whether I’m working in an adapted form of pointillism, playing with opacity and hue, or building patterns through repeating shape, the work evolves in its own time. It is an intentionally open process of discovery that seeks to uncover the greatest potential of the basest elements we have at our disposal”. - Kate Snow
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Untitled (Study for Līnea)
Located in Washington, DC
Poured beeswax work by Mary Early from her "Study for Līnea" series.
"The production, or “pouring,” of beeswax elements has become a meditative process that is integral to my art practice, serving as an observation of time, materials, and space. The raw beeswax I use has taken its form at the end of a long series of natural processes followed by a manufacturing process, and once it is in my hands, the studio becomes a factory. I apply my own methods of transforming the material by casting the beeswax into three-dimensional forms. Once I have fixed both a place and a time in the future for a potential installation, I begin to determine how the beeswax lines will take their aggregated shape in that space and, simultaneously, how many lines might be manufactured for that particular space in the amount of time available."
Mary Early (born 1975, Washington, DC) lives and works in Washington, DC. She studied visual art, film, and video at Bennington College, and her work has been exhibited at the United States Botanic Garden, Washington Project for the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington DC,) the Austrian Cultural Forum (Washington DC), Galerie Im Ersten (Vienna, Austria), Kloster Schloss Salem (Salem, Germany), Kunstlerbund Tubingen (Tubingen, Germany), and the American University Museum (Washington DC) among other regional and national galleries.
Her early work incorporated formed concrete, tarpaper and paraffin wax, fabricated wood structures, and, increasingly over the years, surfaces coated with wax as a method of preserving or concealing an object within. Recent works have relied solely on solid forms cast in wax, abandoning the use of any permanent armature. Temporary installations are guided by schematic drawings and plans, which then serve as a permanent record.
In 2014 she exhibited her first large-scale installation of wax lines at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA, followed by temporary installations in response to various historical sites in Salem, Germany (2016) and Tubingen Germany (2017). In 2017 she participated in the exhibition “Twist-Layer-Pour” at the American University Museum, which included Untitled [Curve], an installation of thousands of beeswax lines assembled on the floor of the museum. In spring 2018 she was commissioned to create a temporary installation at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley Idaho. This work took the form of two intersecting curtains of hanging beeswax lines bisecting a 12’ foot x 18’ foot room, providing an immersive and enclosed viewing space.
Early’s work is included in the collections of the US Department of State/Embassy of Panama, Kimpton Hotels, and the District of Columbia Art Bank among other public and private collections. She is a recipient of the Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities, Washington DC (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007).
Early is the director of HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC, and serves on the boards of Hamiltonian Artists and Washington Sculptors Group. She handles the work of contemporary artists and artist estates, including the work of William Christenberry, Colby Caldwell, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Linling Lu, Mingering Mike, Robin Rose, Renée Stout...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Graphite Paintings
Materials
Wax Crayon, Sumi Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
Xavi Carbonell, Untitled 2024, Abstract, Mixed media on canvas
Located in New York, NY
Xavi Carbonell (b. 1971) is a Spanish artist celebrated for his playful, childlike creations that spark imagination and invite personal interpretation. By leaving all of his works un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Permanent Marker, Graphite
Green Bricks, abstract geometric painting, grid
Located in New York, NY
Gouache and graphite on handmade paper. 18 x 12 inches unframed, 23.25 x 17.25 inches framed.
Artist Statement:
“As an artist, I find endless possibilities overwhelming and use self-imposed boundaries to focus my work. This often includes some combination of: a literal grid or graphite border, employment of barbecue skewers or wooden chopsticks in lieu of paintbrushes for mark making, use of a monochromatic or limited color palette, and a reliance on shape and pattern to tell a story. Limiting the elements at play adds a measure of gravity to each decision, and every detail about the paper, the viscosity of the paint, micro variations in hues, and even the sharpness of the point on a skewer matters.
I’ve found that the more restrictions I put in place when I paint, the freer my work has become, allowing a tension to form between the organic and prescribed. Rather than sketch before starting a new piece, I spend time with the paper and begin to visualize possibilities. From there, I can expand the work incrementally. Whether I’m working in an adapted form of pointillism, playing with opacity and hue, or building patterns through repeating shape, the work evolves in its own time. It is an intentionally open process of discovery that seeks to uncover the greatest potential of the basest elements we have at our disposal”. - Kate Snow
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Handmade Paper, Graphite
2022 Contemporary Original Abstract Still Life Oil Pastel-Still Life Coral Ochre
Located in Bristol, GB
STILL LIFE CORAL OCHRE
Graphite and oil pastel on paper
Size: 39 x 46.5 cm (including frame)
An engaging and powerful abstract composition by British contemporary artist Lloyd Durli...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Graphite
Santa Cruz Market - Framed Original Urban Colorful Authentic Environment Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers a new outlook on an otherwise ordinary urban scene. His artworks represent an auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Graphite
River 4
By Liz Barber
Located in Napa, CA
Liz Barber pursued painting while obtaining her degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Moore College of Art. She currently resides in Marietta, Georgia. Barber’s paintings ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
$7,200
Watercolor Leftovers
By Kory Twaddle
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kory Twaddle
"Watercolor Leftovers"
Watercolor on paper
Year: 2015
Size: 10 x 12 inches
COA provided
"I hope to use all the materials in my studio and waste nothing, so emptying out...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Acrylic, Tempera, Watercolor, Graphite
2022 Contemporary Original Abstract Oil Pastel - Still Life Antique White
Located in Bristol, GB
STILL LIFE ANTIQUE WHITE
Graphite and oil pastel on paper
Size: 39 x 46.5 cm (including frame)
An engaging and powerful abstract composition by British contemporary artist Lloyd Dur...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Graphite
'Can Hats Favor Fire? Can a Hat Aspire to Higher Things?, ' by Mark Gilmore
By Mark Gilmore
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
The full frontal female figure is suspended in mid-air with both arms in motion, seemingly about to jump off the canvas. The blurred figure is set against a clear, graphic backdrop of reds, black and other dark tones with a turquoise rectangular box framing the torso of the figure. A simple black wooden frame frames the work.
"I have been active in telling stories with images for over 45 years. My fascination with shapes and textures are my earliest memories and everything I have done in my adult life has revolved around these interests. I learned a lot about color, composition and story telling by stripping all sentimentality from these elements and using them for more than 25 years as a designer. Although I enjoy the challenge and variety of commissions, my own work is very personal. My work has always been about expressing the otherness and mystery just underneath everyday life. Reacting to the ephemeral nature of life and mortality. All of my personal paintings are just different ways of expressing one moment, one feeling. I’m describing a place I’ve never been with a language I’ve never spoken but I’ve spent my whole life trying to get there because its my home." -- Mark Gilmore...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Graphite, Pigment
$4,320 Sale Price
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HAVANA Cuba Mid Century Surreal Male Nude Graphic Painting, Gay Interest
Located in New York, NY
Here we have a Surreal Male Nude by a famous Cuban artist Carlos Macia (1951-1994).
*** please excuse the photos, it is under glass and there are reflections of a yellow light. I’v...
Category
1980s Surrealist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite
A landscape drawing by Claude Lorrain, with a preliminary sketch on the verso
Located in PARIS, FR
This study presents a typical Roman countryside landscape: an ancient mausoleum in front of which a cart is passing by followed by two peasants. If the technique (a pen drawing on graphite lines, completed with a wash of brown and grey inks) and the signature inevitably evoke the art of Lorrain, we find on the verso of this drawing additional evidences that lead us to consider this unpublished drawing as a work by the master.
The motif of the mausoleum has been taken up in pen on the verso in a technique that can be found in several other drawings by Lorrain. There is also a study of three characters, which can be considered as preparatory to Lorrain’s painting entitled The Port of Ostia with the Embarkation of Saint Paula, leading us to claim this attribution with a dating of around 1639.
1. Claude Lorrain or the perfection of classical landscape in Rome in the 17th century
Claude Gellée was born in 1600 in Chamagne in Lorraine. Orphaned at the age of twelve, he spent a year with his brother in Freiburg, where the latter was a woodcarver. Claude Gellée then probably arrived in Rome in 1613, where he joined the workshop of Agostino Tassi (1580 - 1644) in 1617. Between 1619 and 1620 he studied for two years in Naples in the workshop of Goffredi Wals (who was himself a former pupil of Tassi).
In 1625 he returned to Lorraine for two years where he worked alongside Claude Deruet. He then returned to Rome, a city he never left for the rest of his life (except for short trips to the surrounding countryside).
From 1627 to 1650 he lived in Via Margutta. From 1635 onwards he became a renowned painter and commissions started to pour in. Considered during his lifetime as the most accomplished of the classical landscape painters, his reputation never faded.
Between 1629 and 1635 Le Lorrain often went to the Roman countryside to draw with his friend Joachim von Sandrart (1606 - 1686). He became a member of the Academy of Saint Luke in 1633, while being closely acquainted with the Bentvueghels, this guild which brought together the young Nordic painters active in Rome. In 1643 he joined the Congregation of the Virtuosi. In 1650 he moved to Via Paolina where he lived until his death.
Little is known of his intimate life. He seems to have had a daughter, Agnes, from an ancillary love affair. In 1657/ 1658 she moved in with him. Stricken with gout in 1663, he died in 1682.
2. Description of the drawing; the technique of nature studies
Two peasants are walking behind a horse-drawn cart on a road that winds through ancient tombs. While a rectangular tomb with a columned facade can be seen in the distance, the cart passes an important ancient building. It has a circular shape and its partially ruined façade is decorated with columns. The start of a second floor can...
Category
1630s Old Masters Graphite Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen, Graphite
Futurist Vision - Mid-Century New York Skyline - Industrial Progress
Located in Miami, FL
Rarely do you come across a work of art that is vastly different than just about anything you see. This work is undeniably brilliant and a sheer pleasure to behold. Alexander Leydenfrost...
Category
1950s Art Deco Graphite Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Graphite, Charcoal
Ville by LÉOPOLD SURVAGE - art, colourful cubist oil painting by Modern master
Located in London, GB
Ville by LÉOPOLD SURVAGE (1879-1968)
Oil and graphite on canvas
73.4 x 60 cm (28 ⁷/₈ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated lower right, Survage 24
This work is an early 1924 painting...
Category
1920s Cubist Graphite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Graphite
2022 Contemporary Original Abstract Still Life Oil Pastel- Three Painted Forms I
Located in Bristol, GB
THREE PAINTED FORMS II
Graphite and oil pastel on paper
Size: 32 x 39 cm (including frame)
An engaging and powerful abstract composition by British contemporary artist Lloyd Durling...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Graphite
Black Beauty 11 - Minimalist Figurative Framed Original Ink Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bettina Mauel expresses vitality and sensuality in her abstract and figurative paintings. “I paint what I experience,” she articulates. “This includes landscapes, dancers, and people...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Graphite Paintings
Materials
Linen, Ink, Mixed Media, Graphite
Not Long
By Kim Dorland
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Kim Dorland (b. 1974) is among the most accomplished and collected Canadian artists of his generation. He is celebrated for his inimitable painting style, with its thick impasto and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
$30,500
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