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Item Ships From: Continental Europe
Summer Siesta 1959 New Wave period large drawing relaxed young woman daydreaming
By Dany Lartigue
Located in Norwich, GB
All the sun and the joie de vivre of the mediterranean in one large drawing! Dated 1959, the work evokes Brigitte Bardot, the French Riviera and French New Wave Cinema.
The artist is Dany Lartigue, son of photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue, Dany was brought up between Paris and Saint Tropez, which was still a fisherman’s village at the time. Although as an artist Dany worked from Montmartre studio, the Cote d’Azur of his childhood remained his spiritual home, and he returned there often. In Saint Tropez, by then fashionable, he would meet his friends Juliette Greco...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Charcoal
Flying High - Female Nude in Interior - by Paula Craioveanu - original art
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Flying High - original unique female nude drawing.
Part of my Blue Nude series, inspired by Matisse. Ultramarine tempera on paper.
Shipped rolled in a tube, directly from the artist's studio. Shipping anywhere in the world, flat rate. Registered airmail.
Artist Statement
"I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now.
As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space.
My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair.
Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Juventus Football Player - Tribute to UEFA Champions League Victory, 1996
Located in Firenze, IT
Juventus Football Player - Tribute to UEFA Champions League Victory, 1996
Charcoal on paper, 50 x 36 cm
Signed lower right: Silombria '96
This dynamic drawing by Marco Silombria (19...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
END OF INNOCENCE by Paula Craioveanu Large Blue Nude inspired by Matisse
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"End of Innocence" Part of "Blue Nude" series, inspired by Matisse, works on paper. Female nude seen by a female artist - female gaze. Original large...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Paper
Still Life - Drawing by Sante Monachesi - 1939
By Sante Monachesi
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a modern artwork realized by Sante Monachesi in 1939.
Charcoal drawing on paper.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Includes frame.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
"Landscape BW" by Marilina Marchica (2022) Mineral Oxide on High-Quality
By Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
"Landscape BW" by Marilina Marchica (2022) Mineral Oxide on High-Quality Watercolor Paper – 75x55 cm – Unique Contemporary Art
📌 Title: Landscape BW
📌 Artist: Marilina Marchica
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Category
2010s Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pigment
DREAM - Female Nude - by Paula Craioveanu - original art
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Dream" - original unique female nude drawing. Part of Blue Nude series, inspired by Matisse. Ultramarine tempera on paper. Comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
A Space for Two original blue ultramarine nude by Paula Craioveanu
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"A Space for Two", Space for love and passion.
Part of "Nude in Interior" series. Original work on colored paper, with blue ultramarine tempera on red colored paper, inspired by Mat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Fragment by Franco Salas Borquez - Contemporary seascape painting, ocean, wave
By Franco Salas Borquez
Located in Paris, FR
Fragment is a unique graphite on Figueras paper drawing by contemporary artist Franco Salas Borquez, dimensions are 97 × 53 cm (38.2 × 20.9 in).
The artwork is signed, sold framed un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Ballpoint pen drawing female face
By José Luis Fuentetaja
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 44x35 cm.
Is born in Madrid on the 21st july 1951.
After attending primary school, he starts to grow an enormous tendency for drawing.
At the age of 14 he begins to work in advertising and attends to the Vallecas school of arts.
At the age of 14 he travels to Switzerland and in Geneve he gets intensly into painting and decides to dedicate himself only to it.
When he returns to Spain he enrolls Arts Studies, and at the begining of summer '66, he visits Sitges, where he'll come back year after year and where ultimately he'll set his home.
At this time he starts selling his painting in the flea market in Madrid and later in Sitges, setting himself on the street, thus completing his studies and making it economically.
While he's in Madrid he recives lessons by Pedro Mozas at Bellas Artes and starts to learn profoundly about painting.
In 1969 he starts painting portraits in the streets.
In Sitges he creates, with other friends, a great artistic atmosphere in the Paseo de la Ribera, by the sea, that today still exists.
He starts travelling through Europe, visiting and painting in Paris, London and Amsterdam.
In the middle of this bohemian epoque, he moves to the Cannary Islands during the winters for 5 years in a row, he moves in the Parque de Santa Catalina "Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" where he works and meet all sorts of people in the streets, which later would mark his pictoric line.
He becomes friend with Sidney Nagley in 1969, who organizes his first exhibition in Toronto, Canada.
Afterwards he'll leave his studies and start painting exclusively in his studio.
He gathers his first exhibition in the Ateneu of Barcelona in 1970.
He befriends with the art critic of La Vanguardia, Fernando Gutierrez and the Count of Caralt orders him a set of illustration for a new edition of Garcia Lorcas Romancero Gitano.
His first exhibition in a commercial gallery is done in the Majestic Gallery in Barcelona with a gorgeous collection of nudity drawings.
He achieves huge success and for some years he affords his painting thanks to those drawings.
During a period in Madrid, Mr Ponce de León...
Category
2010s Realist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
"Neptune boat" by Jacques Tornare - Watercolor 34x54 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Watercolor on paper sold with frame
Total size with frame 56x76 cm
Jacques Tornare is a contemporary artist born in Switzerland and watercolor specialist.
Category
1990s Realist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Landscape BW" Original Drawing , Abstract art made in Italy- Marilina Marchica
By Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape BW
Mineral Oxide on Paper
90x70 cm
framed Option
Original Art
Ready to Hang
The use of natural materials such as mineral oxide powder connects the work to a dimension o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pigment, Paper
Costume Design - Gouache by Erté - 1970
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Costume Design is an original modern artwork realized in 1970s by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on the lower m...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Early 19th Century, Portrait of a young man wearing glasses, gouache
Located in Paris, FR
Early 19th Century,
Portrait of a young man wearing glasses,
gouache on paper
13 x 10.5 cm oval view
In a vintage frame : 41.5 x 39 cm, accidents and lacks in the gilding but but...
Category
1820s Old Masters Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Posing Nudes - Charcoal Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1950
By Georges-Henri Tribout
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Nudes is a drawing realized by an Anonymous artist in the 1950s.
Charcoal on paper.
Good Conditions.
The artworks are represented through strong deft strokes and nudes whil...
Category
1950s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Leaning Nude Man (recto); Kneeling Man, Hands Tied Behind His Back (verso)
By Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Il Guercino)
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BARBIERI, known as GUERCINO
(1591-1666)
Leaning Nude Man (recto); Kneeling Man, Hands Tied Behind His Back (verso)
Black chalk heightened with white on light blu...
Category
1620s Old Masters Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal
In the yard. 1869, watercolor on paper, 30, 5 x 47, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
In the yard. 1869, watercolor on paper, 30, 5 x 47, 5 cm
C. J. W. Huns was born in the family of Estonian teacher, organ player and sacristan Karl Fridrich Huhn.
He studied in Rig...
Category
1860s Realist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Ballerina 2 - tempera on paper - by Paula Craioveanu - original art
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Ballerina 2 - original
Part of my Blue Nude series, inspired by Matisse. Ultramarine tempera on paper.
Shipped rolled in a tube, directly from the artist's studio. Shipping anywher...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
The Sea and the Pine Forest - Drawing by Romualdo Battaglia - 1978
Located in Roma, IT
Mixed media on paper realized by Romualdo Battaglia in 1978.
Mixed media on paper.
Includes a contemporary wooden frame cm. 42.5x49
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Tempera, Watercolor
Female Nude from the Back, around 1900 / - The contour of the Art Nouveau -
By Ludwig von Hofmann
Located in Berlin, DE
Ludwig von Hofmann (1861 Darmstadt - 1945 Pillnitz), Female nude from the back, around 1900. Red chalk drawing on watermarked drawing paper, 36 cm x 44 cm (sheet size). Artist's liga...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Landscape BW" Contemporary Drawing Framed, Large size by Marilina Marchica
By Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape
Black ad white abstract drawing
mineral oxide on paper ( Canson Montaval Paper 300 gr.)
large size 75x110
Frame Size 122 x91 cm
by Marilina Marchica
signed with certificate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Archival Paper
The Snake - Original Children Book Illustration Painting for "The man as he is"
Located in Salzburg, AT
Original Illustration for published children's book "The man as he is"" - "Czlowiek jaki jest" by Grazyna Rigall, signet by artist, It is in a plain ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Pencil
Blue Apollo original blue ultramarine Neo Mythology inspired by Andy Warhol
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Blue Apollo" Original work on colored paper, with blue ultramarine tempera on red colored paper, inspired by Matisse. Size is 27x19.5in / 70x50cm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Untitled - Watercolor - 1977
By Fausto Melotti
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an original Contemporary artwork realized by the Italian Contemporary artist Fausto Melotti (Rovereto, 1901 – Milan, 1986) in 1977.
Original Watercolor on paper.
Good conditions.
The certificate of authenticity on photo has been released by the Fausto Melotti Archive.
Exhibitions: “Fausto Melotti. Lo spazio inquieto”, marzo-maggio 2009, Rovereto Galleria Transarte
Reference: “Fausto Melotti. Lo spazio inquieto”, marzo-maggio 2009, Rovereto Galleria Transarte, cat. p. 110.
Refined mixed media and watercolor artwork on paper depicting an abstract composition realized by one of the most interesting artist of the XX Century in Italy in the end of the 1970s. His style and his poetics has changed over the years, always following his very personal research, aimed at articulating the space according to rhythms with a musical flavor. His work, and the sculptures in particular will have more and more a mental character and at the same time will undergo a synthesis, in the ways and in the materials: ceramics or plaster, but above all his very light steel sculptures, will be imbued with a surreal and ironic vein; up to the extreme consequences in the works following official recognition, which will only come in 1967, thanks to an exhibition in Milan.
Fausto Melotti was born in Rovereto (Trento) in 1901. In 1918 he enrolled in the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Pisa. During this period he studied the piano and took up studies of sculpture in Turin under the sculptor Pietro Canonica...
Category
1970s Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract Large Seascape Diptych of Low Tide, Nautical Cyanotype, Classic Blue
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
This beautiful diptych is titled "Low Tide in Northern Waters", and depicts abstract flowing ocean ripples at low tide.
...
Category
2010s Minimalist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Monotype
CLAES-THOBOIS Albert. Statue. Pastel. Signed and dated 1929.
By Albert Claes-Thobois
Located in Paris, FR
CLAES-THOBOIS Albert
Statue. Pastel. Signed and dated 1929.
Provenance : Collection of the mistress of the artist.
Born in Ixelles in 1883, Claes-Thobois studied at the Academy of Brussels under Constant Montald...
Category
1920s Cubist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Landscape with Trees and a Fisherman walking, a drawing by Jan Van Goyen
By Jan Josefsz Van Goyen
Located in PARIS, FR
No Dutch draughtsman ever captured the atmosphere of the rural countryside of Holland with the same atmospheric and engaging simplicity that Van Goyen achieved in drawings such as this. Indeed, his landscapes were seminal in the development of the genre. The present sketch conveys a striking sense of movement within the natural landscape, conveyed by the deftly applied strokes of chalk, from which the artist’s hand can be sensed. The composition is characteristic of his work, with the low horizon affording significance to the broad sky and the soaring birds within. This feeling of windswept motion powerfully evokes the expansive Dutch farmland with which he was evidently preoccupied.
1. Jan van Goyen...
Category
1650s Old Masters Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Ink, Laid Paper
Le Phare, Original Oil Pastel, Contemporary Landscape, Sea Scape, French coast
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Subject : Le Phare (Title - FR)
Work : New Original Drawing, Handmade artwork and Unique Work.
Medium : Oil Pastel and Oil pencils on archival Fine Art paper. The work has been tre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Oil Pastel
Julio Le Parc (1928) - screenprint on paper - 1973
By Julio Le Parc
Located in Varese, IT
Screenprint on paper, Edited in 1973
Limited Edition, numbered 44/100 in lower left corner
signed in pencil by artist
Publisher La Nuova Foglio, Pollenza di Macerata
Paper size : 34...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
C Print
Molière's imaginary patient
Located in Genève, GE
Work on watercolor paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
67.5 x 74 x 4.5 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Fontainebleau #15 by Yann Bagot - Ink drawing, forest, black & white, nature
Located in Paris, FR
Fontainebleau #15 is an India ink and salt on paper drawing by the French contemporary artist Yann Bagot, dimensions are 70 × 100 cm (27.6 × 39.4 in).
The artwork is signed, sold un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Henri Rapin, Gouache on Paper "Fructidor", 1924-1928
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
This gouache is a museal and historical piece. Gouache and charcoal on paper stuck on panel by Henri Rapin, France, 1924-1928. "Fructidor". With frame: 80x114x3 cm - 31.5x44.9x1.2, w...
Category
1920s Art Deco Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Modella" Matita cm. 50 x 70 1962
By Edgardo Corbelli
Located in Torino, IT
Disegno espressionista
Figura femminile
Artista Italiano che ha dedicato la vita all'arte
Edgardo CORBELLI (Torino, 1918 – 1989)
MUSEI
Orléans, Francia, Musée Collégiale Saint Pierre le Puellier
Salon de...
Category
1960s Expressionist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
CENTAUR and NYMPH Neo Mythology ink by Paula Craioveanu
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Centaur and Nymph". Part of "NeoMythology" series. Original work on colored paper.
Size is 27.5x19.5in / 70x50cm . Shipped rolled in a tube. Comes with a certificate of authenticity...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera, Ink
Trees by Ruth Horam - Gouache on paper A3 size
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on Japan paper
With frame. Total size with frame: 44x32x3 cm
Category
1980s Impressionist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Landscape, Original Black Drawing on Paper , Made in Italy By Marilina Marchica
By Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape BW
Original Drawing
Mineral Oxide on Fabriano Paper
50x70 cm
2024
hand-made drawing
one of a kind
not reproducible
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
Framing options available
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Selvas Negras n°4 by Calo Carratalá - Tropical forest landscape, work on paper
By Calo Carratalá
Located in Paris, FR
Selvas Negras n°4 is a unique pencil on Daler Rowney 1,4 mm paper painting by contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 120 × 81 cm (47.2 × 31.9 in). Dimensions of the frame...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
CLAES-THOBOIS ALBERT. Still life. Pastel. Signed and dated 1929.
By Albert Claes-Thobois
Located in Paris, FR
Born in Ixelles in 1883, Claes-Thobois studied at the Academy of Brussels under Constant Montald and Herman Richir. His career spanned an age of g...
Category
1920s Cubist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Landscape verso Forest interior / - Landscape as a space of imagination -
Located in Berlin, DE
Herbert Seidel (1906 Berlin - 1974 Rüdersdorf), Landscape verso Forest interior, around 1950. India ink on grained, bleached paper, 40.5 x 58 cm, signed “Herbert Seidel” in pencil on...
Category
1950s Abstract Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Portrait of an Old Lady, 1886
Located in Stockholm, SE
This small and delicate watercolor is believed to depict Madame Papillon, a subject also portrayed by Hanna Pauli in an oil painting dated 1886. The portrait was created during the s...
Category
1880s Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Colored Waves - Original handsigned watercolor and tempera
By Ervin Neuhaus
Located in Paris, IDF
Ervin NEUHAUS
Colored Waves
Original watercolor and tempera on heavy paper
Handsigned bottom right
Authenticated with the stamp of the Estate sale on the back
21 x 21 cm (c. 8 x 8 ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Young Ballerina
Located in Zofingen, AG
This captivating painting portrays a young ballerina, delicately adjusting her pointe shoes. Dressed in a ballet tutu, she exudes grace and discipline. Th...
Category
2010s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tingel-tangel II - XXI Century, Ink drawing, Abstraction, Black & white
By Leszek Rózga
Located in Warsaw, PL
LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015)
He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948, he began studies at the art school in Łódź (...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Three Studies of Mastaba of Ty - Saqqara, Egypt
Located in PARIS, FR
Lucienne Épron grew up in the Charente Maritime in France, and was awakened to art under the influence of her tutors Felix Lionnet and Victor Richard, painters from Nantes. She follo...
Category
1930s Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
On The Jetty ( Fishing ) - Modern Figurative Nature and Landscape Drawing
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is in simple white wood frames behind glass. The full signature is on the back of the drawing.
Hanna Banaszczyk is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting and Drawing at...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
"Irises in bloom" ( expressionist painting inspired by Van Gogh)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This painting featuring blooming irises in the garden is an exquisite example of expressive abstraction that immediately captivates the viewer with its dynamic brushstrokes and vivid...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Mandorla - Large Format Charcoal On Paper, Black White Drawing
By Krzysztof Gliszczyński
Located in Salzburg, AT
Krzysztof Gliszczyński is Professor for painting on Academy of fine arts Gdansk.
The artwork is unframed and will be shipped rolled in a tube
Artist Statement
In the 1990s I started collecting flakes of paint – leftovers from my work. I would put fresh ones in wooden formworks, dried ones in glass containers. They constituted layers of investigations into the field of painting, enclosed in dated and numbered cuboids measuring 47 × 10.5 × 10.5 cm. I called those objects Urns. In 2016, I displayed them at an exhibition, moulding a single object out of all the Urns. The Urns inspired me to redefine the status of my work as a painter. In order to do it, I performed a daunting task of placing the layers of paint not in an urn, but on a canvas, pressing each fresh bit of paint with my thumb. In the cycle of paintings Autoportret a’retour, the matter was transferred from painting to painting, expanding the area of each consecutive one. Together, the bits, the residua of paint, kept alive the memory of the previous works. It was a stage of the atomization of the painting matter and its alienation from the traditional concepts and aesthetic relations. Thus, the cycle of synergic paintings was created, as I called them, guided by the feeling evoked in me by the mutually intensifying flakes of paint. The final aesthetic result of the refining of the digested matter was a consequence of the automatism of the process of layering, thumb-pressing, and scraping off again. Just like in an archaeological excavation, attempts are made to unite and retrieve that which has been lost. This avant-garde concept consists in transferring into the area of painting of matter, virtually degraded and not belonging to the realm of art. And yet the matter re-enters it, acquiring a new meaning. The matter I created, building up like lava, became my new technique. I called it perpetuum pictura – self-perpetuated painting. Alchemical concepts allowed me to identify the process inherent in the emerging matter, to give it direction and meaning. In a way, I created matter which was introducing me into the pre-symbolic world – a world before form, unnamed. From this painterly magma, ideas sprung up, old theories of colour and the convoluted problem of squaring the circle manifested themselves again. Just like Harriot’s crystal refracted light in 1605, I tried to break up colour in the painting Iosis. Paintings were becoming symptoms, like in the work Pulp fiction, which at that time was a gesture of total fragmentation of matter and of transcending its boundaries, my dialogue with the works of Jackson Pollock and the freedom brought by his art. The painting Geometrica de physiologiam pictura contains a diagram in which I enter four colours that constitute an introduction to protopsychology, alchemical transmutation, and the ancient theory of colour. It this work I managed to present the identification of the essence of human physiology with art. But the essential aspect of my considerations in my most recent paintings is the analysis of abstraction, the study of its significance for the contemporary language of art and the search for the possibilities of creating a new message. For me, abstraction is not an end in itself, catering to the largely predicable expectations of the viewers. To study the boundary between visibility and invisibility, like in the work Unsichtbar, is to ask about the status of the possibilities of the language of abstraction. The moment of fluidity which I am able to attain results from the matter – matter...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Michel BRON said "Valentin", Valie, dream tent, 1966
Located in PARIS, FR
Michel BRON (1938-2010)
said VALENTIN
Valie, dream tent, 1966
Black stone and white gouache, black ink on cardboard
Signed lower left
Poem entitled “Valie!” written in pen on verso, ...
Category
1960s Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Theater : Sarah Bernhardt in Blue - Original Charcoal Drawing, Handsigned
By Georges Jules Victor Clairin
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges Clairin
Sarah Bernhardt in Yellow and Blue
Original charcoal drawing with tempera
Signed bottom right
On paper 42 x 26 cm at view (c. 17 x 10 ...
Category
1910s Art Deco Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Picasso's Dove, vibrant colorful and minimalist painting on paper
Located in Carballo, ES
Original drawing by the artist TUSET (1997, A Coruña), one of the young promises of contemporary Spanish painting. The work is original and includes a certificate of authenticity, it...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Felt Pen
Paris with Apples Neo Mythology by Paula Craioveanu
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Paris with Apples"
The original legend says Paris, prince of Troy had one golden apple, and had to choose between 3 goddesses.
Modern Paris has more than one apple, and he is depi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Tempera
"Woman in a green dress" (contemporary painting of a woman)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This compelling artwork "Woman in a green dress " is a striking example of modern expressionist portraiture.
Dominated by bold, purposeful brushstrokes, the painting depicts a soli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cat - Drawing by Novella Parigini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Cat is an artwork realized by Novella Parigini in 1970s.
Oil Pastels on Cardboard.
Handsigned in green in the lower right part.
74 x 54 cm.
Very good conditions!
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Red Sea - Contemporary, Drawing on Paper, Pink, Dreamlike, Figurative
By Raluca Arnăutu
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Red Sea, 2014
Collage, acrylic and colored fineliner on paper (Signed)
11.69 H x 16.53 W in
29.7 H x 42 W cm
Raluca Arnăutu creates a zoomorphic world,...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
River bay. 1987. Oil on cardboard, 44x58 cm
By Edgars Vinters
Located in Riga, LV
River bay. 1987. Oil on cardboard, 44x58 cm
Summer landscape by the river
Edgars Vinters (1919-2014)
Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints...
Category
1980s Impressionist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Chroessi Schnell - "Schizophrenic Landscape" - surrealist landscape drawing
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Chroessi Schnell - "Schizophrenic Landscape".
Surrealism, abstract forms, dream universe.
It is an extended version of the Alienations of the maps of "Münsterland" where my mother ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
My dreamy beach of the south of France ( contemporary seaside landscape )
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary seaside artwork "My dreamy beach of the south of France " celebrates my love for the beach, sea, sand and summer vacations spent in the south of France.
I explore ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Warm Evening with Tea
Located in Zofingen, AG
Warm Evening with Tea" is a painting permeated with soft light and the aroma of a summer garden. Lush flowers in a vase seem to whisper stories of quiet evenings, and a cup of tea s...
Category
2010s Modern Continental Europe - Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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