Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
ABSTRACT STYLE
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Style: Abstract
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Landscape BW Original Drawing Large Size , by Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Title: Black and white landscape
Artist: Marilina Marchica
Medium: Mineral oxide on Arches paper
Dimensions: 75 x 55 cm
certificate of authenticity included
Marchica's technique t...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pigment
August Watercolor painting Summer flowers
Located in Zofingen, AG
Watercolor painting with summer flowers is a delicate, refined watercolor, made in a charismatic technique without the use of clear graphic lines. Bright inflorescences of phlox in ...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
C - 8
Located in Milano, IT
A meditative suspended calm of color, recalling an iconic theme.
Painting through dynamic and oblique forms mixing western and oriental zen colors as the sides of the paintings expan...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Chalk, Pencil, Color Pencil
C - 1 (2023)
Located in Milano, IT
A meditative suspended calm of color, recalling an iconic theme.
Painting through dynamic and oblique forms mixing western and oriental zen colors as the sides of the paintings expan...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil, Color Pencil
Mid-Century "Green & Blue Nude II" Oil Pastel Drawing
By Jack Hooper
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper
"Green and Blue Nude II"
5/1963
Oil pastel on paper
8.5"x11" unframed
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
Jack Meredith Hooper (August 26, ...
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1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper
Opera
By Alex Corno
Located in Milano, IT
Opera
2019
Acrilico e matita su carta
CM 77x56
Con la mano e con fuoco, sul metallo. Con la mano e col pensiero sulla carta.
Il disegno è inscindibile dalla scultura e non può essere meno importante.
Alex Corno nei sui disegni su carta arriva all’estrema sintesi della sua ricerca artistica.
Gli elementi costitutivi della sua Scultura sono riportati in bi-dimensione in rapidi e istintivi segni/pennellate che riescono a testimoniare il suo rapporto con lo Spazio.
Elementi di natura e forma...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Untitled wp18" Abstract Painting 22" x 18" inch by Gayatri Gamuz
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled wp18" Abstract Painting 22" x 18" inch by Gayatri Gamuz
Watercolor on archival paper
In search of silence, in search of the self.
Her work em...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Abstract Composition Inspired by Bach, Framed Abstract Watercolor Painting, Pink
Located in Denver, CO
Original vintage watercolor painting by twentieth century San Francisco woman artist, Hildegarde Haas (1926-2002). "Bach - English Suite No.2 in A Minor...
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20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
composition 1 - gouache on paper, 95x70 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Very impressive gouache on paper by the french (nice) painter Gerard Seree in the scale of pink and green. Framed
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1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Abstraction (No. 6)
Located in Chicago, IL
A rare black & white drawing from a woman artist, Lois Field, that studied at the New Bauhaus in Chicago. Framed to 9" x 11".
In 1923, Lois Field was born as Lois Hossfield in Berw...
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1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
1971 Pat Douthwaite Charcoal drawing of a seated man, Scottish, abstract
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Pat Douthwaite (Scottish, 1939 – 2002)
Seated Man
Charcoal on paper
Indistinctly inscribed, signed and dated ‘Douthwaite 71’ (lower right)
25.1/2 x 18.1...
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20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Mystery - abstract painting, made in grey, blue color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcoholic ink in grey, blue color on Yupo paper. The work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (gold or black) with a styrene face on ...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Mississippi River
Located in New York, NY
A collage by New York artist Miranda Maher. Made with Ink, Indian marble paper and Japanese Chiyogami paper on handmade Japanese paper.
Miranda Maher’s ...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Porcupine Quill Jacket" Abstract Minimalist Portrait of a Man
By Lisa Qualls
Located in Houston, TX
Graphite and watercolor drawing on mylar of a figure dressed in a quill jacket made by the Cameroon grass fields people in Africa by Florida artist Lisa Qualls. Titled “Porcupine Quill Jacket,” the work was created as part of a series titled “Strawmen and Sugarbones” made for the "RAW" exhibition at O'Kane Gallery in 2009.
In her artist statement for this series Qualls states: “I have isolated pieces of costumes and placed them on a person who is naked in order to emphasize the relationship between the object and person, the materials and skin, the symbol and the living being. The garments and ritual objects relate to the body in specific ways and are used to explore gender roles, societal and cultural ideas, aesthetics and spirituality. The voyeuristic element of the audience to the subjects in the drawings further emphasizes the vulnerability of the figures and their introspective and intimate poses. The figures, part soft and vulnerable, part concealed and protected, live in these ambiguous spaces as they would in a vision.”
Dimensions Without Frame: H 36 in. x W 24 in.
Artist Biography: Lisa received her BFA and BA from the University of Texas at Austin. She continued her studies in Fine Art and Design at Parsons and FIT in New York, NY and CISIM in Ravenna, Italy. Her work is currently represented by Ann Connelly...
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Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Graphite
'Sunset Landscape', Hamburg, Rivne, Volhynia, Rivne Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'G. Kosmiadi' for Georg Kosmiadi (Ukranian-German, 1886-1967) and dated, '66'; additionally signed verso, 'Georg Kosmiadi', inscribed with serial number and dated, '20/9/66'.
Georg Kosmiadi was a resident of Rivne before moving to Hamburg in 1940 where he worked as an art teacher. Kosmiadi exhibited at the Rivne Regional Museum and a regional art...
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1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
20th century Belgium, Black and White Abstract pencil drawing, Etude
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding pencil on paper Abstract drawing.
Marcel Dumont was a Liège artist who painted in oils and gouache, also produced collages and was an illustrator and engraver, doing so in a number of different styles. Early on in his career, he tended to produce paintings displaying a poetic realism but this changed over time until, in 1957, he was employing geometric abstraction and later still, the influence of pop art could be discerned. His geometric style has strong linear structure which occasionally veers to expressionism and the effect of this is an interesting sense of detachment that the viewer of the work can feel and one engages with the subject on a different level than one would normally expect. A critic wrote of him," Sometimes expressionist, sometimes linear, the abstraction forms itself willingly, in Marcel Dumont's world, to leave the rectangular structure to connect to carefully prepared tones. He retains also, in his abundant output, a few poetic pop-art collages together with a number of drawings and engravings illustrating Stefan Zweig...
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1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Abstract Face - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media Piece by George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...
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1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media
"Witching Hour" Abstract Watercolor Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This original abstract watercolor painting by Nealy Hauschildt features a deep blue and magenta palette, with two large organic planes of washy color layered over one another for a b...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Cotton
Brinjal Shrine. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
*The coloured squares on the paper are watercolour tablets
therefore not mentioned as...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Wasted Love. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
*The coloured squares on the paper are watercolour tablets
therefore not mentioned as...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Orgasm
Located in London, GB
artist: Anastasia Kurakina
abstract expressionist colour pencil drawing on paper(very thick paper/cardboard)
one of a kind
hand signed
Anastasia dialogues with the chromatic materi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Tempera, Pencil
Ted
Located in London, GB
artist: Anastasia Kurakina
abstract expressionist colour pencil drawing on paper(very thick paper/cardboard)
one of a kind
hand signed
Anastasia dialogues with the chromatic materi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil, Color Pencil
Modern British drawing of abstract figures by Arthur Berridge, 1950
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Arthur Berridge (British, 1902-1957)
Abstracted figures #1 1950
Charcoal
14.1/2 x 21.1/2 in. (36.8 x 54.7 cm.)
Provenance: David Lay, Penzance
Born in Leicester in 1902, Berrid...
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20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
"Remembering My Arabesque" by Deborah Benedic
Located in Clinton Township, MI
This is a print of an original contour drawing. It is nicely matted and signed by the artist on the back. It is limited edition 1/1.
Shipping options are available.
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Modern British drawing of abstract figures by Arthur Berridge, 1950
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Arthur Berridge (British, 1902-1957)
Abstracted figures #2 1950
Blue crayon
14.1/2 x 21.1/2 in. (36.8 x 54.7 cm.)
Provenance: David Lay, Penzance
Born in Leicester in 1902, Ber...
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20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
True Story. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
*The coloured squares on the paper are watercolour tablets
therefore not mentioned as...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Spring- earth tone blue color circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Party- colorful bright color circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
The Four Seasons (Abstract Autumn), abstraction, Italian art, 1974
Located in Milano, IT
Antonio Calderara
The Four Seasons. Homage to Antonio Vivaldi (Abstract Autumn)
1974
Watercolor on paper
cm 21x 19,4
frame: 36 x 35 cm
Unique piece
Signed in pencil on front "A.C. 19...
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1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor
The four seasons (abstract), abstraction, Italian art, minimalism, 1974
Located in Milano, IT
Antonio Calderara
The Four Seasons. Homage to Antonio Vivaldi (Abstract)
1974
Watercolor on paper
cm 21x 19,4
frame: 36 x 35 cm
Unique piece
Signed in pencil on front "A.C. 1974"; Si...
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1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Villa V: modernist urban architectural city collage on monoprint, red, unframed
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is one-of-a-kind, unframed colored pencil & collage on archival pigment print. See image gallery for example of framing possibilities. These pieces work particularly well as a s...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Monoprint, Monotype
Evidence
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In this semi-abstract expressive artwork named "Evidence" I experience the world of nature through various colors such as purple, green, blue, red.
While painting, I sought to capt...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Drawing n°23 by Julien Dinou - Pastel A4 size
By Julien Dinou
Located in Geneva, CH
Abstract drawing on paper without frame
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
In silence Watercolor painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
"A watercolor painting for the interior on cotton paper measuring 38x56cm.
This interior painting with nature is about a warm summer evening by the Volga River, the pacification of n...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Tradition and the individual Talent. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
*The coloured squares on the paper are watercolour tablets
therefore not mentioned as...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Paper
When the glass is broken/What is good wine?. From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
*The coloured squares on the paper are watercolour tablets
therefore not mentioned as...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
XIV and XV Diptych. From The Red Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Set of 2 From The Red Series
Cotton wicks, watercolour pencil and acrylic on paper
Overall size:
Image size: 11.7 in H x 16.6 in W
Frame size: 12.5 in H x 19 in W x 1.5 in D
Individu...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pencil, Cotton
Abstracted Sleeping Figurative in Pastel on Paper
By Kelvin Curry
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Sleeping Female Figurative in Pastel on Paper
Vivid abstracted sleeping female figurative by Black Arts Bay Area artist, Kelvin Curry (American, 20th Century), circa 2000...
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Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Paper, Oil Pastel
Mod Abstract Expressionist Modernist Edward Avedisian Color Field Art Gouache
Located in Surfside, FL
Edward Avedisian Gouache Watercolor Abstract Painting on Arches paper. (notebook cover not included)
Unsigned, (bears name verso in pencil.)
Dimensions: 10" X 14"
Late 1970s, early ...
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1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Watercolor, Gouache
'Sardinia Bay ' signed mixed media circa 2004
Located in Frome, Somerset
Sardinian Bay'. Signed painting by Andy Gradwell. circa 2004.
watercolour and pastel on paper 25cm x 32cm
Glazed oak frame 43cm x 53cm.
A piece that expresses his return to Sardinia...
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Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract Geometric 1930s, Preparatory Sketch
Located in Cotignac, FR
1930s abstract geometric preparatory sketch in watercolour on paper by Auguste Herbin. Signed and dated 35 bottom right and presented in a wooden frame.
Auguste Herbin (29 April 188...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Bold Graphic Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media Painting Richard Snyder NYC Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Richard Snyder (American, born 1951)
Untitled
Mixed media painting including charcoal and watercolor
Hand signed to lower right
Dimensions: 30.0" W x 22.5" H x 0.1" D
Richard Snyder is particularly known for his large-scale abstract expressionist paintings exhibiting vibrant colors, often applied in an irregular manner with large gestural brushstrokes. He also was an accomplished sculptor and was amongst the downtown New York art-furniture scene spawned in the 1980s by the Soho gallery ‘Art et Industrie’ founded by Rick Kaufmann. Downtown New York, circa 1977-1980 was a hothouse of creative impulses that flew in the face of restrictions and ran headlong toward riotous expression. Punk, hip-hop, graffiti or neo-expressionism,
Kaufmann looked around for new talent that could create a new kind of art furniture. He felt the design of the day was so standardised, and he wanted to give voice to young artists and bring new ideas to market.
After receiving a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Snyder made his career in the fields of art and design, practicing sculpture, painting, furniture design and fabrication, interior design, cabinetmaking, construction and industrial design. Along with extensive experience in a wide variety of materials and processes, Snyder also possesses a wide range of visual and experiential vocabulary acquired in his many travels through the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Central and Southeast Asia. Snyder considers his objects to be not just about form, function, color, material and process, but rather to be fantasies with spirit, magic and story. During his seventeen years with the Art et Industrie gallery, Snyder participated in five solo shows and more than twenty group shows, which established him as a major player in the American Art Furniture movement. His pieces have appeared in numerous publications and media around the world; and they are included in numerous private collections worldwide as well as in the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago. Snyder guest-lectures at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, the New School in New York, and SUNY Purchase.
He was included in the seminal Magen H Gallery retrospective of Art et Industrie—a New York Movement. Art et Industrie was the first to exhibit Studio Alchemia, Shiro Takahama, and Ron Arad.
The retrospective included artists such as Forrest Myers, Terence Main...
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20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor, Gouache
Discovering the mountains of Provence
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This artwork makes part of my small collection of abstract paintings created in various vivid tones and dedicated to the scenes of a summer period.
This vibrant landscape called "Di...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Intimacy
Located in London, GB
29,5x42cm
original abstract painting on paper
hand signed
artist: Anastasia Kurakina
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera, Watercolor, Color Pencil
'Positano, Amalfi Coast, Italy' Original signed painting c2005
Located in Frome, Somerset
Positano, original signed painting by Andy Gradwell circa 2005
watercolour and pastel on paper 26cm x 36cm
white glazed frame 43cm x 53cm
An abstracted view of the coastal town and l...
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Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Watercolor Painting -- Abstract Landscape in Cerise
Located in Troy, NY
This is a stunning watercolor that makes quite an impression with its color blocks of cerise, brown, and blue-grey. The abstract composition is simple, but dynamic, as bands of color...
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1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
#45
By Alexandre Hogue
Located in Fairlawn, OH
#45
Ink on paper, 1970
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by the artist
One of a series of drawings, all made in 1970, which stemmed from Hogue's interest in Persian calligraphy. H...
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1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
Contrivance, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Contrivance" is colorful abstract grid of loose rectangle plots inspired by man-made, redundancies in suburban architecture and life. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes w...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Yellow, Gray and Pink)
By Gene Davis
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Yellow, Gray and Pink)
Pastel on paper, 1981
Signed and dated lower right
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 12 x 18 inches
Frame size: 15 x 21 inches
Provenance: Jan Cowles
...
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1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Phenomena Chinese Light Chalice 1989 Watercolor on paper, bright color, framed
By Paul Jenkins
Located in New York, NY
As a teen, Paul Jenkins worked with ceramicist James Weldon which led to a fascination with glazes; Jenkins cultivated and eventually achieved a similar effect in his paintings by mixing oil and enamel on canvas in the 50s. In 1937, Jenkins attended classes at the Kansas City Art Institute where he painted his first series of watercolors he called interior landscapes inspired by caves in the Ozarks. After serving in the US Naval Air Corps for 2 years, Jenkins moved to New York to study with Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor at the Art Students League from 1948 to 1952. During those years, Jenkins met Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman.
In 1953 left for Paris where he discovered and was struck by the color density and luminosity in abstract oil works termed ébauches by Gustave Moreau and pastels by Odilon Redon. He began to experiment with poured paints in various thicknesses on canvas and paper and found this technique achieved luminosity of color which in its own way was comparable to that of Moreau and Redon. The next year, Jenkins added Winsor Newton pigments and chrysochrome, a viscous enamel paint, into his poured paintings, further enriching their color density and incandescence. The next major development in technique came in 1959 when he began using an ivory knife to guide the flow of paint. That same year, he also began to title his paintings Phenomena followed by a key word or phrase. A film on Jenkins' technique titled The Ivory Knife: Paul Jenkins at Work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art and received the Golden Eagle Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1966.
In 1954 Jenkins had his first solo exhibition in Paris where he met Martha Jackson, whose New York gallery included Jenkins in a group show the following year. In 1956, Martha Jackson Gallery held a solo exhibition of Jenkins’ work at which Divining Rod...
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1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Black White Abstracted Landscape Charcoal Drawing
By Willard Ayer Nash
Located in Denver, CO
"Abstract" is a charcoal on paper drawing by Willard Ayers Nash (1898-1942) of an abstracted landscape scene. Presented in a custom black frame measuring 22 x 20 x ¾ inches. Image size measures 14 ½ x 12 ¾ inches.
Drawing is clean and in very good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report.
Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote.
About the Artist:
Willard Ayer Nash
Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1897
Died Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1942
Biography courtesy of Owings-Dewey Fine Art
Willard Nash was frequently referred to as “the American Cézanne”. Like the French Post-Impressionist Cézanne, Nash created form with color and did wonderful work with shadows. Prior to his arrival in New Mexico, Nash painted in a formal, academic style that he learned while studying at the Detroit School of Fine Arts. However, under the tutelage of Andrew Dasburg, a fellow Santa Fe...
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Early 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Bitter Times. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
*The coloured squares on the paper are watercolour tablets
therefore not mentioned as...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Papaya Republic. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From the covid diaries series
Watercolour on paper mix media
Size: 16 in H x 12 in W
Unframed
*The coloured squares on the paper are watercolour tablets
therefore not mentioned as...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Three Women with Earrings in Pastel on Paper
By Kelvin Curry
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Three Women with Earrings Figurative in Pastel on Paper
Vivid abstracted profiles of three women wearing earrings by Black Arts Bay Area artist, Kelvin Curry (American, 2...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Laid Paper
Sea cliff
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This artwork makes part of my small collection of abstract paintings created in various vivid tones.
This collection was created for contemporary interior decoration to bring a to...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Micro Gouache and Pencil Abstract Painting Bill Shields
Located in Arp, TX
Bill Shields
"Micro Gouache and Pencil Abstract"
1990's
Gouache and pencil on board
Site measures 4.5"x4"
Unsigned came from artist's estate
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2...
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1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Board, Pencil, Gouache
Black and White Abstract by Ned Schultz
Located in Pasadena, CA
The power of an image cannot be received at a glance. To understand it fully, we should interpret it, letting ourselves be lulled by its balance.
The architecture of his drawing be...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Abstract drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract drawings and watercolor paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add drawings and watercolor paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Martin Reyna , Mila Akopova, Jaanika Peerna, and Sumit Mehndiratta. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract drawings and watercolor paintings, so small editions measuring 0.5 inches across are also available. Prices for drawings and watercolor paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1 and tops out at $400,000, while the average work sells for $1,408.
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