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Nell Blaine Abstract Gouache, Pen and Ink Drawing on Paper, USA, 1940s
By Nell Blaine
Located in New York, NY
abstract, inspired by Mondrian, Leger and Jean Helion. At one time she was the youngest member of the
Category

Vintage 1940s American Paintings

Materials

Paper

Antique American Modernist Abstract Framed Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
. Although he is best known for his watercolor paintings, Blair also worked in sculpture, oils, pen and ink
Category

1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Lovers and Others (unique mid century modern painting) - double sided artwork
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in New York, NY
unframed, but we recommend framing with an open back, so the painting can be reversed! Two Gouache
Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Antique American Modernist Abstract Framed Lake Erie Summer Seascape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
. Although he is best known for his watercolor paintings, Blair also worked in sculpture, oils, pen and ink
Category

1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Untitled
By Jack Youngerman
Located in Toronto, Ontario
We are excited to be offering this exemplary and impactful gouache on paper by one of Caviar20's
Category

1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Gouache

L' Envolee
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "L'Envolee" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Red Petals, Blue Moon
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "Red and Black Spiral" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Mickey Mouse
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "Mickey Mouse" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

The Forest
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "The Forest" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Tracks
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "Tracks" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on paper
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Tracks
Tracks
H 29.375 in W 41.125 in
Colonial Organisms
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "Colonial Organisms" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Directions
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "Directions" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Vive
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "Vive" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on paper in
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Vive
Vive
H 30 in W 43.375 in
Cercles
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An artwork by Alexander Calder. "Cercles" is an abstract painting, gouache and ink on paper in bold
Category

Late 20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Cercles
H 30.75 in W 22.5 in
The Oval Spiral
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "The Oval Spiral" is a Post-War, geometric abstract painting
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Zigzag Sun and Crags
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "Zigzag Sun and Crags" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Antique American Modernist Wild Horses Western Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
. Although he is best known for his watercolor paintings, Blair also worked in sculpture, oils, pen and ink
Category

1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
fauvism. "1920-1940’S FRENCH TEXTILE DESIGNS BY ATELIER ARTHUR LITT A prominent French textile designer
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1920s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
, fusing the recent art movements of art deco, art nouveau, cubism and fauvism. "1920-1940’S FRENCH
Category

1930s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
different, fusing the recent art movements of art deco, art nouveau, cubism and fauvism. "1920-1940’S
Category

1930s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
different, fusing the recent art movements of art deco, art nouveau, cubism and fauvism. "1920-1940’S
Category

1930s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
, fusing the recent art movements of art deco, art nouveau, cubism and fauvism. "1920-1940’S FRENCH
Category

1930s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
different, fusing the recent art movements of art deco, art nouveau, cubism and fauvism. "1920-1940’S
Category

1930s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

Pierre Montheillet, Composition in green and yellow, monotype on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
definitively to non- figurative painting in the late 1940s. This is a pictorial tendency that distinguishes
Category

1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Monotype

Tornado in Space
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A drawing by Alexander Calder. "Tornado in Space" is a Post-War abstract drawing, ink on paper in
Category

Early 20th Century Post-War Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Floating Images
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Margaret Koscielny (b.1940). Floating Images, 1974. Plexiglass sculpture. !0 x 10 x 10 images
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Plexiglass

Still Life with Flowers
By August Mosca
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Still Life with Flowers, 1962. Gouache and ink on paper, 16.25 x 22 inches. Signed and dated center
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

The Triangles and Spiral
By Alexander Calder
Located in Missouri, MO
published his first book, Animal Sketches, illustrated in brush and ink. He produced oil paintings of city
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Color, Lithograph

Adolf Dehn, Haitian Scene A, signed painting, Associated American Artists, 1950s
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in New York, NY
.75 Painting 4.5 inches by 6 inches Watercolor gouache, hand signed; framed with AAA Gallery label
Category

1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Board

Early 20th C. Bertha De Hellebranth Painting of Budapest Castle (Hungary)
Located in Round Top, TX
Shepherd".

Bertha and Elena became American citizens in the 1940's, but as Elena remarked, "While we are
Category

Early 20th Century Hungarian Art Deco Paintings

Materials

Metal

The Black Line
By Alexander Calder
Located in Miami, FL
production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings were marketed, and deluxe editions
Category

1960s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Good Health Week" American Scene Modern Social Realism Double Sided WPA Era
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
continuously. Moving from realism in the ‘20’s, he developed a highly personal, cubism based, abstract style
Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Gouache

WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH HOUSES Signed Watercolor, Trees, African American Artist
Located in Union City, NJ
Artists’ Guild to the New York World’s Fair (1939-1940). Joseph’s early oil paintings were influenced by
Category

1950s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Mixed Media, Watercolor, Ink

Lithograph - Flowers
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
law office. PAINTING: BEGINNINGS Matisse’s discovery of his true profession came about in an unusual
Category

1940s Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Pumpkin and Flowers
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
law office. PAINTING: BEGINNINGS Matisse’s discovery of his true profession came about in an unusual
Category

1940s Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Flowers
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
law office. PAINTING: BEGINNINGS Matisse’s discovery of his true profession came about in an unusual
Category

1940s Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Pumpkin and Flowers
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
law office. PAINTING: BEGINNINGS Matisse’s discovery of his true profession came about in an unusual
Category

1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Flowers
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
more practical man, arranged for his son to obtain a clerking position at a law office. PAINTING
Category

1940s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Woman with Flowers in Her Hair
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
more practical man, arranged for his son to obtain a clerking position at a law office. PAINTING
Category

1940s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Guillaume Apollinaire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
law office. PAINTING: BEGINNINGS Matisse’s discovery of his true profession came about in an unusual
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Original Lithograph - Henri Matisse - Apollinaire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
law office. PAINTING: BEGINNINGS Matisse’s discovery of his true profession came about in an unusual
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

Original Lithograph - Henri Matisse - Apollinaire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
law office. PAINTING: BEGINNINGS Matisse’s discovery of his true profession came about in an unusual
Category

1930s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Linocut

Creole Dancer
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
much more practical man, arranged for his son to obtain a clerking position at a law office. PAINTING
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Creole Dancer
Creole Dancer
H 31.5 in W 23.63 in D 0.04 in
Ralph Scarlett Untitled Geometric Abstract
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Hudson, NY
A miniature geometric abstraction of mixed-media including gouache and ink on paper. Framed under
Category

Vintage 1940s Mid-Century Modern Paintings

A Small Incantation, 1940s Abstracted Figural Watercolor and Ink Painting
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
"A Small Incantation", is a watercolor and ink on paper by Denver artist Edward Marecak (1919-1993
Category

1940s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Indian Modernist Master "Two Figures" Mixed Media Watercolor Gouache Painting
By Paritosh Sen
Located in Surfside, FL
illusion of voluptuousness. His drawings and paintings are noted for their strong lines and bold, stylised
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1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, India Ink, Gouache

Indian Modernist Master "Two Figures" Mixed Media Watercolor Gouache Painting
By Paritosh Sen
Located in Surfside, FL
illusion of voluptuousness. His drawings and paintings are noted for their strong lines and bold, stylised
Category

1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, India Ink, Gouache

John Piper, Abstract, Landscape, Tetbury, 1957, Watercolor, Gouache, Pastel
By John Piper
Located in Eversholt, Bedfordshire
in the UK abstract painting movement inspired by the work of Paris-based painters, in particular
Category

1950s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache

“Abstract in Blue, Black and Green”
By Lloyd Raymond Ney
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor, gouache and ink abstract on archival paper by the well known New Hope
Category

1960s Post-Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper, Ink, Gouache

"New Yorker" Modern Minimal Blue & Tan Abstract Painting of Museum of Modern Art
By John Little
Located in Houston, TX
reflect the influences of his teacher Hans Hofmann and for his involvement in the Abstract Expressionist
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Interior Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache, Ink

"Delaware River Near Lambertville, New Jersey, " Mid-century Modern American
By John Marin
Located in New York, NY
: New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., John Marin: Paintings and Watercolors 1940 to 1953, November 4 - 25
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1950s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pen, Pencil

John Piper, Tetbury, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pastel, 20th Century, Abstract
By John Piper
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
John Piper, Tetbury, ink, watercolour, gouache, pastel, 20th century, abstract John Piper
Category

Vintage 1950s Drawings

Materials

Paper

UNTITLED (ABSTRACT ISRAELI MARKET TOWN SCENE)
By David Hendler
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Other Subject: Abstract Medium: Ink Surface: Paper Country: Israel Dimensions w/Frame: 18
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Montmartre, Le Soir
By Georges Maurice Cloud 1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Surindépendant Movement from 1940 until 1957. This entailed his participation in the movement's exhibitions and
Category

1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Pastel

"LEGGETT'S" (FAMOUS NEW JERSEY RESTAURANT)
By John Rutherford Boyd
Located in Los Angeles, CA
paintings and watercolors widely, but today is chiefly remembered for his abstract sculpture. Born John
Category

1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache

John Piper, Abstract, Landscape, Tetbury, 1957, Watercolor, Gouache, Pastel
By John Piper
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
1960. Tetbury (Christie's, 21 November 2003) The present work is executed mainly in gouache and ink
Category

Vintage 1950s Modern Drawings

Materials

Paper

Indian Artist Surreal Modern Etching Eroticism Rural Figurative Animals
Located in Norfolk, GB
India. He works in variety of mediums including etching, gouache, pastel, sculpture, and glass painting
Category

1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

Indian Artist Surreal Modern Etching Eroticism Rural Figurative Animals
Located in Norfolk, GB
on to study mural painting and printmaking at M.S. University in Baroda, from 1963 to 1965. He has
Category

1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in Surfside, FL
Mixed Media painting and drawing on paper. Lawrence Kupferman had a long and illustrious career as
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in Surfside, FL
Mixed Media painting and drawing on paper. Lawrence Kupferman had a long and illustrious career as
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

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How Much are 1940s Abstract Ink Gouache Paintings?

1940s abstract ink gouache paintings can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $1,640, while the lowest priced sells for $295 and the highest can go for as much as $230,000.