Palm Springs Modernism
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Study of a hand and landscape, on the back, study of cow legs and hooves
By Jean François Millet
Located in Barbizon, FR
Black pencil drawing, stamp from the widow’s sale in 1894 (Lugt L. 3728), dimensions 10.5x14.2cm. This is a detail study of the hand of the peasant holding a lunge rein, represented...
Category
19th Century Barbizon School Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Pencil
Le Sentier
By Paul Cézanne
Located in London, GB
Paul Cézanne
Le Sentier
ca. 1890
Watercolour and pencil on paper
34.6 x 51.5 cms (13 5/8 x 20 1/4 ins)
PC16325
Provenance:
Walther Halvorsen, Oslo
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Ju...
Category
19th Century Post-Impressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Kayaks, Original Painting
By Catherine McCargar
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Catherine McCargar finds inspiration from a row of colorful kayaks while on an outing to Tomales Bay in California. "I was captivated by the rainbow colo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract Wall Art Drawing #09222021, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil
By Michael Verlangieri
Located in Yardley, PA
Hand drawn one of a kind original on 100% cotton watercolor paper with gold foil Buddhist Prayer Papers :: Drawing :: Contemporary :: This piece comes ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Pencil
Margaret Macadam: Juggler, c. 1930 art deco watercolour drawing
By Margaret Macadam
Located in London, GB
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Category
1930s Modern Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. This one bears the influence of Sam Francis. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre (1903-2001), a Hungarian modernist painter. As a Denver, Colorado resident, Pavel Kontny exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States, Germany and Japan. There, he was inspired by frequent trips to Native American pueblos in the Southwest, as well as by the study of the Plains Indians of Montana and Wyoming. Over the years Kontny had a number of students and generously helped young artist by hosting exhibitions at his Cherry Hills home. For many years he generously donated his paintings to support charitable causes in Denver. Influences during his European years included German pastelist C.O. Muller, German Informel painter Karl Dahmen and Swiss artist, Hans Erni. In the early 1950s his painting style showed the influence of the Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905 who had a major impact on the evolution of modern art in the twentieth century in Germany. By the middle of the decade his style incorporated more referential abstraction and total abstraction, resulting in part from his study of Hans Hartung, a German artist based in Paris who exhibited his gestural abstract work in Germany. The American moon landing in 1969 inspired Paul Kontny...
Category
20th Century American Modern Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Morning at the Pantheon, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Bright as a light!" exclaims artist James Nyika. Taking inspiration from a quietly crowded pantheon in Rome, James captures the delightful scene brightly lit under the sun. "When I arrived at this location, I found the square and the sky so beautifully lit by the light of the day. And with very few people around, you could see a lot of the bases of the columns. I wanted to capture the warmth of the sun as it evaporates any lingering dew and 'crispness' of the air."
About the Artist
Artist James Nyika paints the glowing atmosphere of cities across the world. As a child growing up in Kenya, he found art materials at the student bookshop and also borrowed just about every art history volume from the British Council library in Nairobi. "I checked out the same books over and over just to stare at the art, to try and understand how it was created," says James. With family encouragement to study engineering, James moved to the U.S. and immersed himself in science studies at Boston University. Several years after embarking on a tech career, he set a goal to create at least one painting a week, never throwing away any works and learning as much as possible in his off hours. Today, James still balances his full-time career designing large software systems with his prolific output as a painter. "Painting is a great antidote to the regularity of a computing profession and I really value it for the uncertainty that it brings - something frowned upon when writing code."
Words that describe this painting: Pantheon, Rome, monument, columns, tourists, sunlit, sunlight, building, architecture, travel, facade, impressionism, paper, watercolor, architecture, impressionism, travel, watercolor painting, beige
Morning at the Pantheon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Watercolor
German Expressionist Watercolor Painting Jerusalem Landscape Bezalel Israeli Art
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a great Judaica Israel landscape. The Old City of Jerusalem during the British Mandate in Palestine.
24.5 x 31 image 16 x 22.5
Isidor Ascheim (איזידור אשהיים; 1891-1968) was a German-born Israeli painter and printmaker.
Isidor Ascheim was born in Margonin (present-day Poland) in 1891. He was raised in an Orthodox, Judaic, Jewish family and served during World War I. In 1919-23, Ascheim studied under the German Expressionist Otto Mueller in Breslau and was influenced by Erich Heckel of the Die Brücke (The Bridge) group. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1940 and settled in Jerusalem. He was married to the Israeli painter Margot Lange-Ascheim.
He taught at the Bezalel School of Art (amongst his students were David Palombo, David Rakia, Aharon Bezalel, Kopel Gurwin and more) and served as its director for several years. He also taught at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv along with Moshe Mokadi. Marcel Janco and Aaron Giladi. Ascheim's art is based on a direct impression of nature, life and the human form. His oeuvre represents a continuous connection with nature and the human figure, usually executed with a dark palette, the legacy of his German Expressionist roots. He was a contemporary of Jacob Steinhardt, Mordecai Ardon, Josef Budko and Hermann Struck.
Awards and recognition
In 1953, Ascheim was a co-recipient of the Dizengoff Prize for Painting.
In 1955, he received the Jerusalem Prize for Art.
In 1956, he participated in the Venice Biennale, Italy
Selected collections
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
References
Isidor Aschheim: Drawings & Prints [Izidor Ashhaim: rishumim ve-hedpesim] . Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1966.
Talpir, Gabriel. "100 Artists in Israel". Tel-Aviv: Gazith Art Publishing, 1971.
Isidor Ascheim was born in Margonin, Germany (in what is now Poland) in 1891. His father was a prosperous merchant. In spite of his family’s devoutness, Ascheim had both religious training at home and an education in a German school. In 1903 the family moved to Breslau, where he studied in the gymnasium. When War War I broke out, he was drafted into the German army. In 1918, when the war ended, he began studying art in Breslau, and then in Cracow. In 1939 he made Aliyah to the Land of Israel under the auspices of the Aliyah Bet program. He was caught by the British government and sent to the Atlit detention camp for about seven months. After he was released he settled in Jerusalem and found employment as a lecturer at the “New Bezalel.” In 1946 he married the painter Margot Lange Ascheim. From 1960-1961 he served as director of the “New Bezalel.”
Most of Ascheim’s work was in the field of prints. In the 1920s he also produced engravings. Later he specialized in stone printing (lithography), including Biblical subjects, landscapes, and expressionist subjects. In addition, he painted.
Education
1919-1923 Art Academy, Breslau, Germany, (now Wroclaw, Poland) with Otto Mueller, an important expressionist painter.
Art studies, Professor Pautsch, Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland
Teaching
1943 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, was director for some time.
1961-1960 Director, New Bezalel, Jerusalem
Collective Annual Exhibition by Palestinian Artists Art Gallery of the ''Habima'' Building, Tel Aviv1944
Artists: Hermann Struck,Moshe Ziffer...
Category
1940s Expressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Americana, Lawyer in Court, Politician, Gouache Painting WPA Art William Gropper
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
William Gropper Original Gouache on Paper
Hand signed lower right
33.5 x 27.5 image 26 x 20.5
The New-York born artist William Gropper was a painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on social concerns, and was actively engaged in support of the organized labor movement throughout his career. This original watercolor drawing is done in the iconic style of the artist's oeuvre.
Born to Harry and Jenny Gropper in 1897, William was raised in New York City's Lower East Side. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Romania and Ukraine, and young William grew up in relative poverty, watching his family struggle to achieve that sought-after American dream. His father, a bright and college-educated man, was unable to find employment that worthy of his intellect. His mother, meanwhile, worked as a seamstress from home. Coupled with the devastating loss of an aunt to the infamous Triangle Factory fire of 1911, significant childhood factors created the foundation that led to Gropper’s exploration of the American experience.
Early on, Gropper displayed an extraordinary, natural skill for art. By 1912, he was already studying under the instruction of George Bellows and Robert Henri at the Ferrer School in Greenwich Village. During his time at school, Gropper was also awarded a prestigious scholarship to study at the National Academy of Design. However, he refused to fit into convention and was swiftly expelled from the Academy. After his expulsion, Gropper returned home to help financially by assisting his mother and taking a shop position. However, he didn't abandon art academia and soon presented a portfolio to the New York School of Fine Art which earned him a scholarship for study.
Gropper obtained his first significant job as a cartoonist for the New York Tribune in 1917. While working as a staff cartoonist for the Tribune, he also contributed drawings to publications like Vanity Fair, New Masses, The Nation, and Freiheit. His interest in the welfare of the American worker, class inequality, and social injustice was central in his work. After publishing the graphic novel Alley Oop in 1930, Gropper's illustration career extended well into the decade. However, he was never exempt from controversy, and his 1935 Vanity Fair cartoon; prompted anger from the Japanese government.
As an involved labor organizer and Social Realist activist, Gropper continued to bring attention to his radical reputation with visits to the Soviet Union and Poland. However, his concern with European politics and U.S. social causes didn't slow down his artistic career, and by the late 1930s, he had produced significant murals for American cities like Washington D.C. His 1938 mural Construction of a Dam was commissioned for the Department of the Interior and represents the Social-Realism style that depicts experiences of the worker and everyday societal life. Measuring at a staggering 27ft by 87ft, the piece portrays muscular, robust American laborers scaling rocky hillsides, building infrastructure, and operating heavy machinery. The mural feels undeniably American with golden scenery, denim blues, and steely gray colors. Gropper fits perfectly into Social-Realism because the style exhibits an illustrative flair with strong lines and simple, bold hues.
The inspiration for Construction of a Dam sprang from his 1937 travels to the poverty-stricken Dust Bowl area. The trip was sponsored by a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and his drawings of the Grand Coulee and Boulder Dams...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nina Narimanishvili - Inside Out 4
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on handmade paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
SkipperΓÇÖs Smokehouse, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is about an iconic bar, restaurant, and live music venue in Tampa, Fl. Sadly, it closed in 2020 due to COVID-19. :: Painting :: Impressionist ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Watercolor
Chinese Contemporary Art by Xia FuNing - The Passage of Life
By Xia FuNing
Located in Paris, IDF
Description:
Xia Funing(B.1962)
The passage of life
80 x 110
oil on paper , framed
hand signed on the reverse side
Dated 2021
Xia FuNing was born on 09/01/ 1962 in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. In 1981, he studied in the department of Fine art of Su-Zhou university. He was once a professor in the Department of Fine Arts in 1985 in Tianjin Polytechnic University. Since 2020 , he has been invited specially as postgraduate tutor in the Department of Fine-arts of
Nanjing normal university, and currently lives and works in Song Zhuang Art Colony, Beijing, China.
Zhuangzi et Laozi’s philosophy has exercised a great influence on Xia’s artworks. In his oriental vision, Xia realized that “Qi (the character signi es the original reality, breath of life), the major component of life, is of great signi cance in painting.
Chinese people adopt the phrase “Qi-Xi (signifying breath, xi means the process of breathing) to perceive the intrinsic aspect of art in a more vivid and essential manner, displaying the origin and status of object existence. In his works, the artist arranges the daily intimate surroundings in “Qi-Xi(breathing) ”by means of his unique visual logic, surpasses the transient and restricted nature, retrieves the poetic and spiritual feature of their existence origin, thus attaining freedom and eternity.
His solo shows has staged at Yushan Contemporary Art Museum, Jiang Su , China (2018); 5 Art Center, 5 Art Center, Beijing, China (2014); Gallery Elements, Suzhou, China(2014); National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China( 2013). Major group exhibitions include: “ Contemporary Burgeoning of Oriental Heritage”Reality space, Beijing, China (2016); “New Enlightenment” cross-border exhiinitionn and reading, traditional arts gallery, Nanjing, Jiangsu , China (2016); “Sublimation” contemporary oil painting sketching...
Category
2010s Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Oil
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nina Narimanishvili - Pressure
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Chinese Contemporary Art by Xia FuNing - Not See, Not Know
By Xia FuNing
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on paper
Xia Fu-Ning is a Chinese artist born in 1962 in Nanjing. He was a professor in the Department of Fine Arts during the 1980s at Tianjin Polytechnic University. He curren...
Category
2010s Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Oil
Chinese Contemporary Art by Xia FuNing - The Unexpectations
By Xia FuNing
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on paper
Xia Fu-Ning is a Chinese artist born in 1962 in Nanjing. He was a professor in the Department of Fine Arts during the 1980s at Tianjin Polytechnic University. He curren...
Category
2010s Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Oil
Cactus
Located in London, GB
Summer study drawing
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Watercolor
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nina Narimanishvili - Woman from Metro
Located in Paris, IDF
Ofort on paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper
Georgian Contemporary Art by Nina Narimanishvili - Pigeon
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on paper
Category
2010s Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Amanda
By William Russell Flint
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Watercolour on paper
Paper size: 16 x 22 inches
Framed size: 30 x 26 inches
Signed lower left
Category
20th Century Impressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Green Parrot
By Ruth Bauer
Located in Lincoln, MA
Category
Palm Springs Modernism
Harvest Moon, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Dwight Smith paints a realistic still life with a touch of surrealist composition. "I grew up in Maryland and autumn or harvest time was my favorite time...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Watercolor
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre (1903-2001), a Hungarian modernist painter. As a Denver, Colorado resident, Pavel Kontny exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States, Germany and Japan. There, he was inspired by frequent trips to Native American pueblos in the Southwest, as well as by the study of the Plains Indians of Montana and Wyoming. Over the years Kontny had a number of students and generously helped young artist by hosting exhibitions at his Cherry Hills home. For many years he generously donated his paintings to support charitable causes in Denver. Influences during his European years included German pastelist C.O. Muller, German Informel painter Karl Dahmen and Swiss artist, Hans Erni. In the early 1950s his painting style showed the influence of the Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905 who had a major impact on the evolution of modern art in the twentieth century in Germany. By the middle of the decade his style incorporated more referential abstraction and total abstraction, resulting in part from his study of Hans Hartung, a German artist based in Paris who exhibited his gestural abstract work in Germany. His work also bears the influence of Sam Francis. The American moon landing in 1969 inspired Paul Kontny...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
At the Fair, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting won ΓÇ£Best of ShowΓÇ¥ in a group exhibition in 2009. The family looking at a den of alligators made a nice composition. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece come...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Watercolor
Red Rooster
By Sandy Scott
Located in Loveland, CO
Red Rooster by Sandy Scott
Wildlife Hand-colored Etching
14x11" image 24x20" framed, archival matte, under glass
circa 1970's, numbered 76/100, titled, si...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Glass, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Etching, Wood
Seated Mother and Child, 1 (executed 1982)
By Henry Moore
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Charcoal and gouache on paper
Paper size: 9x 11.5 inches
Framed size: 23.5 x 25.75 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Raymond Spencer Co.;
Galerie Dominion, Montreal, 1982;
Dr Max Stern, Montreal, 1982;
Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles;
Purchased by Haynes Fine Art...
Category
20th Century Abstract Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. This one bears the influence of Sam Francis. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre (1903-2001), a Hungarian modernist painter. As a Denver, Colorado resident, Pavel Kontny exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States, Germany and Japan. There, he was inspired by frequent trips to Native American pueblos in the Southwest, as well as by the study of the Plains Indians of Montana and Wyoming. Over the years Kontny had a number of students and generously helped young artist by hosting exhibitions at his Cherry Hills home. For many years he generously donated his paintings to support charitable causes in Denver. Influences during his European years included German pastelist C.O. Muller, German Informel painter Karl Dahmen and Swiss artist, Hans Erni. In the early 1950s his painting style showed the influence of the Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905 who had a major impact on the evolution of modern art in the twentieth century in Germany. By the middle of the decade his style incorporated more referential abstraction and total abstraction, resulting in part from his study of Hans Hartung, a German artist based in Paris who exhibited his gestural abstract work in Germany. The American moon landing in 1969 inspired Paul Kontny...
Category
20th Century American Modern Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Armenian Contemporary Art by Kamsar Ohanyan - In January
By Kamsar Ohanyan
Located in Paris, IDF
White pen on grey paper
Size without passe-partout: 23 x 17 cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Pen
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Drawing 327
By Sumit Mehndiratta
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on paper
Signed and numbered + certificate of authenticity
Symmetrical lines drawn on archival paper with Indian ink paper to reflect on the behaviour how sound waves travel. Ar...
Category
2010s Abstract Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Ink
Golfers
By Frederick Conway
Located in Missouri, MO
Golfers, 1928
Fred Conway (American, 1900-1973)
Signed and Dated Lower Right
18.5 x 24.5 inches
30.5 x 37 inches with frame
A member of the faculty of the Washington University Art ...
Category
1920s American Modern Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The French Rooster
By Raymond Debieve
Located in London, GB
'The French Rooster', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1960s). A Mid-Century modern depiction of the French coq, or rooster. The origin o...
Category
1960s Modern Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Untitled, Abstract Expressionist Outsider Art, Pastel on Black Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Abstract expressionist, pastel on black paper by English artist John McQuirk. Signed bottom right.
McQuirk's work is an example of outsider art or art brut.
Born in 1933, the arti...
Category
Late 20th Century Outsider Art Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Rainbowers I-XVI (Portfolio of 16 Drawings)
Located in London, GB
Rainbowers I-XVI, a portfolio of 16 watercolours created in 2022, pays homage to the rich tradition of American Visionary art and self-taught artists. Inspired by the works of influe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil, Mixed Media
Funeral by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Funeral by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
17.6 x 21.2 cm (6 ⁷/₈ x 8 ³/₈ inches)
S...
Category
Early 19th Century Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Les Danseuses by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Les Danseuses by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour ink on paper
18 x 25 c...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Le Petit Cheval by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Animal charcoal drawing
By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
SOLD UNFRAMED
Le Petit Cheval by Georges Manzana Pissarro
Charcoal and gold on paper
31 x 31 cm (12 ¼ x 12 ¼ inches)
Signed lower right, Manzana Pissarro
Executed circa 1920
Proven...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Gold
Carte de l'Europe by Paulémile Pissarro, 1972 - Graphite on paper
Located in London, GB
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Carte de l'Europe by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972)
Graphite on paper
12.9 x 20 cm (5 ¹/₈ x 7 ⁷/₈ inches)
Provenance
Estate of the Artist
Yvonne Pissa...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper
Study of a Dancer and a Lady by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Study of a Dancer and a Lady by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and pencil on paper
21 x 15.7 cm (8...
Category
Early 1900s Fauvist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
'Cabaret in an Asian Banquet Hall', French School
Located in London, GB
'Cabaret in an Asian Banquet Hall', pencil, gouache and metallic paint on card stock by an unnamed artist of the French School (20th Century). This is a fantastical port visit of the artist's imagination. It is a naive, but strangely compelling painting discovered in Paris. It depicts French sailors dancing with a cabaret performer in a Chinese-style banquet hall while onlookers enjoy the spectacle. On the left hand of the scene an Asian musician...
Category
20th Century Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Two Figures by the Sea, Work on paper by Georges Manzana Pissarro
By Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Two Figures by the Sea by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961)
Colour crayon and pencil on paper
20.3 x 26 cm (...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
Hommes Pagayant, Work on paper by Paulémile Pissarro - Drawing
Located in London, GB
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Hommes Pagayant, Painting by Paulémile Pissarro
Graphite and charcoal on paper
27 x 20.3 cm (10 ⁵...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Graphite
Moulin Vardon près Gournay, Graphite on Paper by Paulémile Pissarro, circa 1934
Located in London, GB
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Moulin Vardon près Gournay, Graphite on Paper by Paulémile Pissarro, 1934
Graphite on paper
32 x ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Graphite
5 Lines - 2 - Contemporary Minimalist Abstract Oil Pastel Painting, Framed
By Janusz Kokot
Located in Salzburg, AT
The art work is already framed.
The size of the unframed artwork: 45x45 cm, framed 47 x 47 cm
Janusz Kokot was born in Kalisz in 1960. He studied at the Pedagogical University in C...
Category
2010s Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
5 Lines - 3 - Contemporary Minimalist Abstract Oil Pastel Painting, Framed
By Janusz Kokot
Located in Salzburg, AT
The art work is already framed.
The size of the unframed artwork: 45x45 cm, framed 47 x 47 cm
Janusz Kokot was born in Kalisz in 1960. He studied at the Pedagogical University in C...
Category
2010s Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Design for Modernist Brutalist Institute I mid-century architectural drawing
Located in London, GB
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Category
1950s Modern Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Ink, Pen, Watercolor
'High Cirrus from the South West'. Framed landscape clouds blue yellow nature
By Sophia Milligan
Located in Penzance, GB
'Ebren ha Dor, High Cirrus from the South West, September'
Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang
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The dancing light and rapidly changing skies, hung high above the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink
Dam at Genetin - Impressionist Oil, Winter Riverscape by Armand Guillaumin
By Jean Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated impressionist landscape oil on canvas by French painter Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin. This simply stunning piece de...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Ebren Ha Dor, September, Softening'. Framed contemporary landscape, rural sky
By Sophia Milligan
Located in Penzance, GB
'Ebren Ha Dor, September, Softening'. Contemporary landscape painting, Cornwall
Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang
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The dancing light and rapidly changing skies,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Design for Modernist dental surgery mid-century architectural drawing
Located in London, GB
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V A Hards (British, c. 1930-c. 2012)
Design for Mod...
Category
1950s Modern Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Watercolor
5 Lines - 1 - Contemporary Minimalist Abstract Oil Pastel Painting, Framed
By Janusz Kokot
Located in Salzburg, AT
The art work is already framed.
The size of the unframed artwork: 45x45 cm, framed 47 x 47 cm
Janusz Kokot was born in Kalisz in 1960. He studied at the Pedagogical University in C...
Category
2010s Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Violet Hilda Drummond: Westminster Abbey watercolour mid 20th century
By Violet Hilda Drummond
Located in London, GB
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Violet Hilda Drummond (British, 1911-2000)
Westminster Abbey...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Watercolor
F F Hoyland Balliol College Oxford watercolour, 1880
Located in London, GB
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F F...
Category
1880s Realist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Watercolor
Mother Nature, Lyrical Surrealist Abstract Watercolour on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century lyrical surrealist abstract watercolour on paper by French artist Jean Clerté, signed and dated bottom right. Presented in mid-century frame.
Jean Clerté , born in 1930 in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe in Vienne, is a French painter, engraver, draftsman, watercolourist and sculptor . This work is a great example of his more humorous and expressive work influenced by Alechinsky from the late 1960s onwards. There is a light playfulness and yet the watercolours are more vivid than his previous palette.
Jean Clerté works in series. His sequential narrations testify both to a youthful spontaneity and to a perfect mastery in the distribution of forms and images on the painted surface. The narration is not only an accumulation of juxtaposed fragments and symbols, it forms a whole, it takes on and gives meaning. In general, we can say of Clerté that he practices an “eco-art” that feeds on primary hungers: the feeling of being united with nature, the vegetable, the mineral, the aquatic. In his colourful canvases, his inks, his boxes, his objects, like a shaman on the path of his dreams, the painter Clerté mounts an assault on beasts and demons, elves and gnomes. From the Poitevin marshes to the tropical forests emerges a fauna caught in the meanders of a design that marvels at the appearance of these grotesque idols.
Jean Clerté began to draw and paint at a very young age, and at the age of 15 he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Poitiers. Then in 1949, curious about the capital, he moved to Paris. Having very few financial resources, he could not continue his studies at first, worked as a model to survive, and met other artists; he was then admitted to the studio of Ossip Zadkine and, from 1952, he was also able to study engraving at Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter, an English engraver and printer living in Paris associated in the 1930s with surrealism.
At the end of the 1960s, he worked alongside Pierre Alechinsky, founding member of the Cobra movement, engraving Alechinsky's originals, benefiting from his advice, and discovering acrylic as a medium.
From 1976, Jean Clerté became associate professor at Hayter. Clerté had taught previously, in 1971 at the Salzburg Summer University and in 1972 he gave courses at the Paris-Sorbonne University . In 1981, he was appointed professor at the School of Decorative Arts , where he had Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas as a student and, from 1983 to 1988, he was Alechinsky's assistant professor at the Paris School of Fine Arts.
His first works are part of the current of lyrical abstraction, and are nourished by impressions of nature (landscape motifs, e.g. forest fires, waterscapes), then around 1968, encouraged by Alechinsky, he rejects abstraction, and his work becomes more figurative with expressive and humorous elements. From this period his colours are more subdued, often with pastel tones, he works on series. Jean Clerté has created a world in a space where drawing, painting, objects participate in a playful figuration. From his drawings were born sculptures and sometimes mobiles (Le Moulin à dessin). If it is the artist who makes astonishing, polychrome, whimsical “toys”, it is the painter who appeals to adults through his caustic and satirical humour.
His first exhibitions in France took place at the Galerie Massol , then at the Galerie Pascal...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Le Pont du Vey by Paulémile Pissarro - Charcoal drawing
By Paul Emile Pissarro
Located in London, GB
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Le Pont du Vey by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Charcoal on paper
24.5 x 31.5 cm (9 ⁵/₈ x 12 ³/₈ inches)
Signed ...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Back from India by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Watercolour
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Back from India by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Watercolour and ink on paper
21.5 x 18 cm (8 ¹/₂ x 7 ¹/₈ inches)
Initialled and titled lower left
Executed circa 1918
Provenance...
Category
1910s Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
La Rivière de Dotahn by Lélia Pissarro - Pastel on paper
By Lelia Pissarro
Located in London, GB
La Rivière de Dotahn by Lélia Pissarro (b. 1963)
Pastel on paper
12.5 x 19 cm (4 ⁷/₈ x 7 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed lower right, Lélia Pissarro
Executed in 2020
This work is accompanied by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Paper, Pastel
'International Bar', French School
Located in London, GB
'International Bar, pencil, ink and gouache on card stock by an unnamed artist of the French School (20th Century). This appears to be a fantastical port visit of the artist's imagination. It is very lively in colour and in subject. The artwork was discovered in Paris along with several others of the same character, most likely by the same person. It depicts the entryway of a brightly lit Asian bar...
Category
20th Century Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Pencil
'Cherry Blossoms in Japan', French School
Located in London, GB
'Cherry Blossoms in Japan', pencil, ink and gouache on card stock, French School (Mid 20th Century). Cherry blossoms (Sakura) symbolise springtime, a time of renewal and the fleeting...
Category
Mid-20th Century Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Pencil
'Chinatown San Francisco at Twilight', French School (circa 1950s)
Located in London, GB
'Chinatown San Francisco at Twilight', ink and gouache, diptych on card stock, French School (circa 1950s). This artwork was discovered in Paris, France. The unnamed artist skilfully captured that magical moment at dusk when light is at its most beautiful. The scene is Chinatown, San Francisco in the 1950s. The Far East Café, depicted in this artwork was established in 1920. It is the oldest banquet-style Chinese restaurant in the city. Of course, Chinese cuisine in large cities in America has since moved on from the chop suey...
Category
Mid-20th Century Palm Springs Modernism
Materials
Ink, Gouache
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