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Colby 12 (Abstract painting)
By Peter Soriano
Located in London, GB
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally ar...
Category
2010s Conceptual Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Signature #XIIII
By Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: Signature #14
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size image: 30 x 22.5 inches
Size paper: 30 x 22.5 in...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Piccolo VI
By Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: Piccolo VI
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic and collage on black paper
Paper: Wove black
Size image: 12.5 x ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
EC 15 - textural abstract circle shape nature inspired white sculpted paper
Located in New York, NY
Anne-Charlotte Saliba's artistic universe is largely inspired by nature, its abyssal dimension as well as its vegetal or mineral forms. Her sculpted artworks are a confrontation of smooth and grainy texture on the same linear paper. A cloud of small perforations, incisions, and punches which play on the elasticity of the paper, to create a topographic relief. A controlled wandering of dotted lines, scales and bumps are drawn following the movement of her hand on the paper. The flow is both free and thoughtfully planned, allowing unexpected movements and completely abandoning set patterns at times.
Saliba sees herself more like an artisan than an artist in the sense that she is working with texture and touch to create unique intricate sculpted artworks.
Playing with light and shadow, each in her own way ennobles a seemingly banal material with a genuine concern for ethics. Like modern-day memento mori, Saliba’s works transport us into dreamlike worlds in which the evanescence of paper echoes the transience of life, subtly reminding us to enjoy the present moment.
Anne-Charlotte Saliba works and lives near Lyon, France. Her work has reviewed in numerous publications and has won the prestigious price for Jeune Creation de Métiers d’Art in 2020. She is now represented by the Muriel Guépin Gallery...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
Dolphin Dance 30
By Ellen Priest
Located in London, GB
Gouache on rag tracing vellum - Unframed.
This work on paper is part of a series of collaged paintings titled “Jazz: Herbieʼs ʻDolphin Danceʼ #1-22”.
Those brush paintings are Pri...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Vellum
Automatic (blue, yellow, white)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon
Abstract Bubbles and Patterns
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful abstract in lavender, blue, and pink with a bubble-like pattern that creates a delicate lattice effect by Marianne K. Brown (American, 1928-2019). Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of Brown's work. Presented in a new cream mat with foamcore backing. Image size: 18"H x 22"W
Marianne K. Brown (American, 1928-2019) has taught watercolor and design for thirty years. Her work has been shown in many art magazines, including Watercolor Magic and The International Artist Magazine, and several books on watercolor painting. She was elected secretary of Orange County Art Association in 1964. Listed in the National Watercolor Society.
Author, Watercolor by Design
Member, East Bay Watercolor Society
1964 - 3rd Place, non-figurative exhibit of Orange County Art Association
1978 - Honorable Mention, Central California Art...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Acrylic
$760 Sale Price
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Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Bilbouquet sporting painting
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor paintings based ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
CDV 8 - earth tone geometric abstract circle with burn holes on paper
By Nathalie Palomino
Located in New York, NY
Nathalie Palomino is a French self-taught artist practicing pyrography on paper. Her perpetual quest for light and transparency in her works pushes her to multiply the perforations o...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
"Untitled #2", Abstract Geometric Vertical Pastel with Purple & Green
By Renee Harwin
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold abstract composition with sweeping purple and green pastel tones in organic flowing forms, by Renee Harwin (Austrian, b. 1924). Tag on verso with name, date, title, and dimensions. Presented in a white plexiglass frame with plexiglass covering. Image size: 31.75"H x 44.5"W
As a young Viennese woman, Renee Harwin found her artistic development interrupted by Hitler's arrival to her city. Soon after, Renee and her family left and moved to the United States. Harwin says that while "one can drawn his or her own conclusions from my work, I believe that the tremendous impact of change from Nazism to free America has left deep impressions on me that are played out on these canvases."
Her work combines the influence of Midwest painters such as Clyfford Still and San Francisco Art Institute instructor Jack...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Japanese Iris Still Life
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant Japanese Irises Still Life by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Signed twice "Les Anderson" lower ...
Category
1980s American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Pink & Blue Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Pink and blue mix abstract with linear shapes and dots by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Signed "Les An...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$223 Sale Price
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Green & Yellow Abstract
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract watercolor with layered green and yellow tones by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Signed verso ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$223 Sale Price
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Classroom Figurative
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Classroom interior scene by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Signed in the lower right corner and unframe...
Category
1980s American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Farindola 10
Located in New York, NY
Friederike Oeser, a contemporary abstract painter, lives and works in Munich, Germany. For Oeser there is no hierarchy of visual value. It all has import—whether it be a trickle of w...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Farindola 4
Located in New York, NY
Friederike Oeser, a contemporary abstract painter, lives and works in Munich, Germany. For Oeser there is no hierarchy of visual value. It all has import—whether it be a trickle of w...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Farindola 2
Located in New York, NY
Friederike Oeser, a contemporary abstract painter, lives and works in Munich, Germany. For Oeser there is no hierarchy of visual value. It all has import—whether it be a trickle of w...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Zurich at a Glance
Located in New York, NY
Friederike Oeser, a contemporary abstract painter, lives and works in Munich, Germany. For Oeser there is no hierarchy of visual value. It all has import—whether it be a trickle of w...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Ice blossoms
By Anya Spielman
Located in London, GB
Oil on paper - Unframed
Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving between them as each begins to form...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Polish French Judaica Watercolor Gouache Painting Original Bauhaus Yiddish Art
By Moses Bagel Bahelfer
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Bahelfer BAGEL (1908-1995)
Moses Bagel (born Moshe Bahelfer) was a Polish-born Jewish artist and graphic designer associated with the original Bauhaus and then the School of Pa...
Category
20th Century Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, ABS
The Thing is Suite 9 #4 : contemporary abstract work of art
Located in New York, NY
Drawn from her imagination, Paula Elliott’s modern abstract works of art depict mysterious objects. In her works pastel has become the principal medium combined with charcoal, pencil...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Pencil
P5.15
By Jean Feinberg
Located in London, GB
Collage and gouache on Japanese papers. Unframed.
This gouache paint with collage on Japanese paper is a result of working with the accidental arrangements of found colored papers t...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$1,615
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', C. 1995 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"nothing more, nothing less 2 of 6" - earth pigment, texture, marble, soft
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work on paper features deep hues of pink, orange and yellow. The unframed piece measures 25 by 19 inches.
Lizzy Storm is an Atlanta-based Artist and educator creating weathered...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
'Pointillist Still Life', Royal Society of Artists, Edinburgh Academy, Palo Alto
By Thomas Guise
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'T.G.M. Guise' for Thomas Gladstone Middleton Guise (Scottish, 1916-1984) and dated 1966.
Thomas Guise studied art at Edinburgh College of Art under Thomson Adam Bruce, RSA (1947-1949) before serving with the Royal Artillery between 1939 and 1946. After returning to Scotland, Guise began working professionally as an artist and commenced his fruitful association with the Featherhal Press. Over the course of his career, he was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including the Award for Life Drawing (1947). Guise exhibited internationally with success and was a member of the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolor among others.
Selected Mixed Shows 1948 - 1984:
RBA, RSA, RI, RSW, RGI, SSA, NEAC.
Arun Art Centre
The Bath Festival Exhibition
Selected Solo Shows:
1966 - Randolph Gallery, Edinburgh Festival
1967 - Encina Gallery Stanford University, California, United States
1968 - Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California, United States
1968 - Randolph Gallery Edinburgh Festival
1970 - Clarkson Gallery, Victoria Street...
Category
1960s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Abstract 2
By Jorge Yances
Located in Nashville, TN
Award-winning artist Jorge Yances reflects the Latin literary tradition of Magical realism with his ability to blend fantasy and reality in his artwork.
Yances was born in Cartagena...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Abstract Watercolor Painting, 'Design for Sculpture', C. 2005 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Iceberg Painting in Acrylic, Colored Pencil and Watercolor on Paper, 2020
Located in Orange, CA
Iceberg, 2020
Additional information:
Medium: Acrylic, colored pencil and watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 9 x 12 in
Todd Hebert (b. 1972 in Valley City, ND)
North Dakota-based art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Paper, Watercolor
Warren St 18 (Abstract Painting)
By Peter Soriano
Located in London, GB
Warren St 18 (Abstract Painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano is a Philippines-born French-American abstract artist who divides his time b...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Gabriel’s Pavilion Variation II
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Gabriel’s Pavilion Variation II
Year: 1980
Medium: Pencil on Arches paper
Size: 29 x 41 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Fischbach Gallery, Ne...
Category
1980s Photorealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$11,596 Sale Price
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Conference of the birds no 40 (Abstract painting)
By Yari Ostovany
Located in London, GB
Oil on paper. Unframed.
Natural and mystical processes inspire Ostovany. Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate and yet comple...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Tangle No. 1
Located in Columbia, MO
Lita Kenyon was born in Marinette, Wisconsin. She attended Columbia College for her BFA, and earned her MA from Northern Illinois University 1982. She’s been featured in Empty Mirror...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Untitled (Blue Orange)
By Anna Kunz
Located in San Francisco, CA
Anna Kunz was born in Chicago, Illinois, where she continues to live and work. After receiving her BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, Kunz went on to complete her MFA at Northwes...
Category
2010s Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Gouache
"doorway moment i" - niche, paleolithic, rock formation, abstract, earthy, stone
Located in Atlanta, GA
This work on paper features deep hues of pink, orange and brown. The unframed piece measures 25 by 19.5 inches.
Lizzy Storm is an Atlanta-based Artist and educator creating weathere...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
SHIZEN SERIES I
By Kim Fonder
Located in Tulsa, OK
Kim Fonder, SHIZEN SERIES I, Mixed Media on Handmade Paper with Plexi, 12.00 X 12.00 in, $600.00, Blue
White, Abstract, works on paper
Kim Fonder loves texture and touch. Her painti...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Plexiglass, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
Greenwich Village Bar. The Pickup
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor paintings b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"ROAD TO PARADISE", egg tempera, trees, fruit, blossoms, geometry, flora pattern
By Fleur Thesmar
Located in Toronto, Ontario
ROAD TO PARADISE is an egg tempera on Ampersand panel by Fleur Thesmar. The artwork measures 24x18x1" and is unvarnished (as many artists prefer). Against a grid of gentle reds, yellows and cream...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Egg Tempera, Panel
Modernist Watercolor Painting Peter Goldman American Filmmaker Neo Expressionist
By Peter Emanuel Goldman
Located in Surfside, FL
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman.
Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
#8- intricate beige 3D abstract aerial landscape drawing with pulled paper fiber
Located in New York, NY
Finesse and delicateness are what best characterize Antonin Anzil’s artistic practice. Using a sharp tool to carefully pull the fiber of the paper from the front, the artist gives bi...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
Small Maelstrom (Ref 854) (Abstract drawing)
By Jaanika Peerna
Located in London, GB
Small Maelstrom (Ref 854) (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works.
Starting from the cente...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Do America a Favor - Conceptual Abstract Mixed Media Work on Paper Red and Black
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Do America a Favor," Is a highly conceptual mixed media abstraction by artist Vivian Liddell. With impressive yarn work mixed with the paint go cohesively coincide with the text filing the piece with detail and precision. Liddell often walks the line between contemporary art and craft. Working to bring materials that are traditionally labeled as "craft" and lesser into the contemporary conversation. Mixing craft with one of the most respected and oldest forms of fine art, painting, really encourages the viewer to view the two on the same playing field. The idea of craft is settled into these gestural, layered works, constantly critiquing contemporary culture. This piece is currently unframed, but framing options are available. For more works follow our storefront at Gallery 1202.
"As a painter, I often work on large, raw canvas. My abstract paintings merge formal painting and “bad” craft to challenge the high-low separation of materials (and related gender hierarchies) that have traditionally been present in the art world. The monotypes are like a calligraphic practice. I use them as a warm up to allow me to feel confident with a gesture before committing it to a larger scale. I work in layers, often sewing or incorporating fabric into the finished piece, and incorporate chance into each stage of my process. The text/titles often come from song lyrics, local radio commercials, and news headlines. I edit these snippets and piece them together to reflect my interpretation of current politics and social norms, especially as they relate to gender.
Vivian Liddell is an interdisciplinary artist in Athens, Georgia who works with painting, fiber and craft techniques, sculpture, printmaking, photography, animation and sound. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, she received her BFA from the University of Georgia and her MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Liddell’s work has been featured in solo and curated exhibitions throughout the United States, including at the Wiregrass Museum of Art, the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, and Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn. In 2019 she had two solo exhibitions of her “Men” series at the Versa Gallery in Chattanooga and 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, with a review of the Versa exhibition in BURNAWAY and was recently picked by Berlin curator Tina Sauerlaender as a featured artist on Foundwork. Liddell hosts a podcast (Peachy Keen) as an extension of her art practice, interviewing women on art and the South. She is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of North Georgia...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Spray Paint, Monotype, Thread, Yarn
"Colorful Geometric Abstraction, " Simon Samsonian, Armenian Artist
Located in New York, NY
Simon Samsonian (1912 - 2003)
Colorful Geometric Abstraction, 1981
Oil on paper
16 x 22 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
This survivor of the Armenian genocide wound up in a Cairo orphanage in 1927. He rose to fame as one of Egypt’s great modernists, but after moving to Long Island late in life he withdrew into anonymity. Now his compelling story is being told. Art historians are finally beginning to realize that the power of abstraction in its early years was a zeitgeist not limited to the major European centers of the avant-garde — Paris, Munich, and Moscow — but one that quickly rippled to major cities throughout the world. Within a few decades that original shock of a new vision had inspired thousands of artists from different cultures — particularly those the Middle East — whose translations were not slavish imitations of works by seminal figures like Picasso, Braque, Malevich, and Kandinsky but creative variants colored by their respective cultures.
This essay focuses on an extraordinary Armenian artist, his harrowing survival of the genocide, his rise to fame in Cairo, and his creation of a unique style of abstraction. Art historians have typically formed a chorus that teaches the history of abstraction like this: Just before and during the World War I era, several avant-garde artists emerged to create shockingly different new forms by which artists could express themselves. In Paris, Picasso and Braque broke out with cubism, quickly followed by Mondrian. In Moscow, Malevich created Suprematism, the ultimate hard-edge geometric abstraction. And in Munich, Kandinsky emerged as the father of Abstract Expressionism. Within these few short years a zeitgeist was sensed throughout the art world. American pioneers, too — particularly Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell — felt this explosive freedom of expression. When Europe was recovering after World War I it became clear that Paris would retain its title as capitol of the art world, lasting through the Roaring Twenties and even through the Great Depression. But the end of World War II changed everything. A parallel war had been won by a group of irascible young Abstract Expressionists in New York — led by Pollock, Rothko, DeKooning, and Kline. No sooner had Paris been liberated from the Germans than Picasso, Matisse, Breton, and Duchamp surrendered to the Americans. From that point on New York would be the epicenter of the art world.
But a lens that focuses myopically on the war between the avant-garde of Paris and New York misses the wider narrative of multiple aesthetic modernities that developed in the several decades following World War I. For Armenian artists the matter is even more complex owing to the genocide of 1915 where more than 1.5 million people — seventy-five percent of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire — were massacred. Those not shot on the spot were sent on death marches through the Mesopotamian desert without food or water. Frequently, the marchers were stripped and forced to walk naked under the scorching sun until they dropped dead.
As a child Samsonian witnessed the murder of his parents and most of the members of his family. Soon thereafter, his older sister, Anahid, quickly shepherded him into a line of children being rescued by Greek nuns. But they became separated and he lost her, too. He was sent to a Greek orphanage in Smyrna (now Izmir), on Turkey’s west coast. Because he only knew his first name, the orphanage gave him a last name based on the place where they found him — Samsun — a major port on Turkey’s north coast on the Black Sea. His birth date was unknown, too. According to Samsonian’s vague recollections he assumed he was about three or four years old at the onset of the genocide, which would place his birth year in 1911 or 1912. In 1922, when Samsonian was about 10, the Turks ended their war with the Greeks by putting Smyrna to the torch in what has been called the “Catastrophe of Smyrna.” Once again, the child was on the run, escaping the fire and slaughter. He found temporary refuge in Constantinople, but within a year that major port would fall to the Turks, too, and become renamed as Istanbul. This time, Samsonian was whisked away to an orphanage in Greece founded by the American charity, Near East Relief — which is credited with saving so many Armenian orphans that the American historian Howard M. Sachar said it “quite literally kept an entire nation alive.
Any understanding of Samsonian’s approach to modernism requires careful consideration of the impact of his early years because his art is inseparable from the anguish he experienced. In 1927, when he was a teenager, he was transferred to Cairo, Egypt, then a cosmopolitan city hosting a sizable portion of the Armenian diaspora. There he lived with thirty-two other children on the top floor of the Kalousdian Armenian School. Upon graduating in 1932 he won a scholarship to attend the Leonardo da Vinci Art Institute — an Italian art school in Cairo — where he won first prize in final examinations among one hundred students. He found work with an Armenian lithographic printer and he returned to the Kalousdian Armenian School to teach drawing. In 1939 he married one of his students, Lucy Guendimian.
The Cairo in which Samsonian matured as an artist was home to many prominent art collectors after World War I. In this receptive environment Samsonian exhibited widely and won many awards. Beginning in 1937 and for the next thirty years he exhibited annually at the prestigious Le Salon du Caire hosted by the Société les Amis de l’Art (founded in 1921). After World War II he hit his stride as a modernist in Cairo, counting among his peers other artists of the Armenian diaspora such as Onnig Avedissian, Achod Zorian, Gregoire Meguerdichian, Hagop Hagopian...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
4.4 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Jill Moser
Located in London, GB
4.4 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Gouache on paper - Unframed.
Jill Moser is an American abstract artist whose work explores the intersection of “painting, writing and the anim...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Fanny (Abstract painting)
By Anya Spielman
Located in London, GB
Fanny (Abstract painting)
Oil on paper - Framed
The work is framed, dimensions incl. frame: 50 x 45 cm / 19.6 x 17.7 inch
Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in vario...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
"SV XV, Knife Drawing" Superficially Hand Cut Patterns on Watercolor
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled SV XV, Knife Drawing is an original artwork by Lucha Rodríguez made of watercolor and manipulated paper
This piece measures 34"h x 26.5"w framed and is shipped in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"SV XIII, Knife Drawing" Pink Watercolor With Hand Scored Paper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled SV XIII, Knife Drawing is an original artwork by Lucha Rodríguez made of watercolor and manipulated paper
This piece measures 34"h x 26.5"w framed and is shipped ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
SV X, Knife Drawing
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled SV X, Knife Drawing is an original artwork by Lucha Rodríguez made of watercolor and manipulated paper
This piece measures 34"h x 26.5"w framed and is shipped in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
SV XII, Knife Drawing
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled SV XII, Knife Drawing is an original artwork by Lucha Rodríguez made of watercolor and manipulated paper
This piece measures 34"h x 26.5"w framed and is shipped i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
SV XVIII, Knife Drawing
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled SV XVIII, Knife Drawing is an original artwork by Lucha Rodríguez made of watercolor and manipulated paper
This piece measures 13"h x 13"w framed and is shipped i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
SV VIII, Knife Drawing
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled SV VIII, Knife Drawing is an original artwork by Lucha Rodríguez made of watercolor and manipulated paper
This piece measures 34"h x 26.5"w framed and is shipped ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
SV IV, Knife Drawing
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled SV IV, Knife Drawing is an original artwork by Lucha Rodríguez made of watercolor and manipulated paper
This piece measures 34"h x 26.5"w framed and is shipped in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
SV VI, Knife Drawing
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled SV VI, Knife Drawing is an original artwork by Lucha Rodríguez made of watercolor and manipulated paper
This piece measures 34"h x 26.5"w framed and is shipped in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
SV V, Knife Drawing
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled SV V, Knife Drawing is an original artwork by Lucha Rodríguez made of watercolor and manipulated paper
This piece measures 34"h x 26.5"w framed and is shipped in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
SV XIX, Knife Drawing
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled SV XIX, Knife Drawing is an original artwork by Lucha Rodríguez made of watercolor and manipulated paper
This piece measures 6"h x 8"w framed and is shipped in th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
SV XX, Knife Drawing
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled SV XX, Knife Drawing is an original artwork by Lucha Rodríguez made of watercolor and manipulated paper
This piece measures 6"h x 8"w framed and is shipped in the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
SV XXIII, Knife Drawing
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled SV XXIII, Knife Drawing is an original artwork by Lucha Rodríguez made of watercolor and manipulated paper
This piece measures 6"h x 8"w framed and is shipped in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mid Century "Neon Comet" Gouache and Oil Pastel Abstract Bay Area Female Artist
By Gloria Dudfield
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield
Neon Comet Abstract Expressionism
1960s
Oil Pastel and Gouache on Paper
36"x25.5" unframed $1600
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
'Rainbow Abstract', San Francisco Bay Area, Abstract Expressionist Watercolor
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Hourian Hamid' (Iranian-American, 20th century) and dated 1985.
A large, flowing abstract by the brother of the artist, Mohammed Hourian.
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Birdwalk', Royal Society of Artists, Edinburgh Academy, Scotland, Palo Alto
By Thomas Guise
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'T.G.M. Guise' for Thomas Gladstone Middleton Guise (Scottish, 1916-1984) and dated 1963; titled verso, 'Birdwalk'.
Thomas Guise studied art at Edinburgh College...
Category
1960s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
$3,120 Sale Price
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"City Lights" original pastel drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
By Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Examples like this of Sylvia Spicuzza's work offer a chance to see a musical composition, with repeating curvilinear lines and patters dancing across the image like Jazz music though...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
