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Affinities
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American multidisciplinary artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture.
Despite her artistic cont...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
untitled-#2 red turquoise blue bold geometric shapes
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled painting/collage 2022
acrylic and mixed media - painted silkscreen mesh on 140 lb. cold press paper 30x22” unframed
blue, green, orange on bright red
irregular texture surfa...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Mixed Media
Foot Musik.
Located in Malmo, SE
Pastel, gouache and coffee on paper.
Artwork size: 58 x 56 cm.
Frame size: 78 x 76 cm.
Free shipment worldwide.
Acquired directly from the artist.
Archive number (P90/37)
“The heart is an eye,” writes Nobel laureate Octavio Paz in an essay on Matta’s paintings. Matta creates a world coloured both by a sunny faith in the future and by visions of impending doom.
Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Antonio Matta, who died aged 91 on 23 November 2002, was born in Santiago, Chile, on 11 November 1911 into a family with Spanish, French and Basque roots, and raised in an atmosphere of religiosity. By the age of 21 he had graduated and begun work as an architect, but his leisure time he devoted to sketching and painting. In 1933 he travelled to Europe for the first time, visiting Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries, and subsequently taking the initiative to collaborate with the architect, Le Corbusier. As time passed, however, Matta’s enthusiasm for a career in architecture waned, and he began to devote himself full-time to art, making early acquaintances with surrealists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, André Breton and others.
Between 1939 and 1948 Matta, like many of his artistic contemporaries, lived in self-imposed exile in the USA, but, after almost 10 years’ absence from Europe, he returned to make first Rome and then, a few years later, Paris his home. Throughout most of the rest of his life Matta commuted between his studio in Paris and his creative refuge in the monastery outside Rome. And it is here, in Italy, that he produced his greatest paintings.
Matta’s first retrospective in Sweden was organised in 1956 when his works were exhibited in what was then Galerie Colibri – run by, among others, the artist C O Hultén at number 36 Södra Förstadsgatan in Malmö, Sweden. This was also the time when Matta began to collaborate with poets and other artists in Sweden. He produced the illustrations for Lasse Söderberg’s first anthology of poems, Akrobaterna (“The Acrobats”), published in 1955, and was also responsible for the cover of the Swedish art and literary magazine Salamander.
In 1959 the first museum exhibition of Matta’s work in Europe was arranged at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm. Held under the aegis of Pontus Hultén, it was entitled “Fifteen Forms of Doubt” and included 15 or so gigantic paintings...
Category
1990s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Athirst III
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ina Kaur (b. 1980) is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptually driven work responds to imbalances and injustices within social, cultural, and ecological environments. Her practi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Abstract Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Maurice Sievan (American, 1898-1981), Untitled, Mixed Media on Paper, 1970, crayon and watercolor, signed and dated "'70" to lower left and inscribed to verso, in a white mat, unfram...
Category
1970s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor
Untitled 24 - Series 2019, Contemporary Abstract Painting, Textile Lightness
Located in Salzburg, AT
About Prymon’s Exhibition Dopaminum and his paintings:
”Dopaminum” - Tomasz Prymon
Dopamine – colloquially referred to as the hormone of love and happiness. Why is this organic che...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Untitled
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Untitled," Abstraction, Pop Sensibility, Flashe and Charcoal on Paper, 30 x 22 Inches. Framed in White Wood.
This painting on paper has a very sophisticated sensibility in th...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Abstract Composition in Blue
Located in Astoria, NY
Robert O'Meara (American, 1957-2024), Abstract Composition in Blue, Oil Pastel on Paper, signed lower center, wood frame. Image: 12" H x 10" W; frame: 20.5" H x 16.5" W. Provenance: ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper
Living Roots
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paula Valenzuela
Living Roots, 2025
Watercolor and acrylic inks on translucent Yupo paper
12 x 9 inches
This one-of-a-kind work on translucent paper comes unframed and ships in a tu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Interior Scene
Located in Astoria, NY
Robert O'Meara (American, 1957-2024), Interior Scene, Pastel on Paper, depicting doorway and chair, signed lower left, white painted wood frame. Image: 27" H x 21.25" W; frame: 30" H...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Wayfinding (No. 1) Forest-Inspired Abstract Work on Paper by Katherine Filice
Located in Hollister, CA
In Wayfinding No. 1, Katherine Filice invites the viewer into a fluid, intuitive search for orientation—a quiet mapping of the soul through subtle, luminous gesture. This intimate wo...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, ABS
"Soft Departure Pt. 1", Geometric Abstracted Glyphs by Sophie Roach
By Sophie Roach
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Soft Departure Pt. 1" is an original piece by Sophie Roach made from watercolor on paper with a wax seal. This piece measures 13”h x 10”w framed and is signed en recto.
Sophie Roac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Roundism – 17-03-18, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Roundism – 17-03-18 Eroticism and art is as old as the Venus of Millendorf but always has been shunned and embraced at the same time. We all love sex, eroticism, nudity and the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
"Two Elephants, " Ink Drawing on Paper initialed by Miguel Castro Lenero
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Two Elephants" by Latin American artist Miguel-Castro Lenero is an ink drawing on handmade Amate paper. Executed in 1992, it is initialed lower right.
23 3/8" x 15 3/8" art
31 3/4" x 25 5/8" framed
Miguel Castro Lenero is one of four brothers...
Category
1990s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Untitled 1513 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 1513 (Abstract painting)
Pastel on paper - Unframed.
In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerg...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Blade Graffiti drawings: set of 2 works (Blade king of graffiti)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
BLADE graffiti drawings: set of 2 works:
A set of 2 rare drawings from Blade - King of Graffiti circa late 1980’s or early 1990’s. Here the artist playfully fakes his own death, ‘RIP...
Category
1990s Street Art Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
French Abstract Contemporary Art by Daniel Cayo - Untitled No.12
By Daniel Cayo
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on paper, framed
18 x 24 cm - 30 x 40 cm with white mat passe-partout
Unique copy
Signed on the front
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Athirst VI
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ina Kaur (b. 1980) is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptually driven work responds to imbalances and injustices within social, cultural, and ecological environments. Her practi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
$3,600
Going Down, Drawing, Pen
Ink on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Pen, colored pencil, graphite, India ink on paper :: Drawing :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
"Landscape B/W" Minimalist Paint on Paper Large size Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape BW
Mineral Oxide on Paper ( Canson Paper 300gr)
55x75 cm frame size 88x68 x3.4 cm
2022
one of a kind
the painting can be shipped with the frame ready to hang,
or on a rigi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Italian Contemporary Art by Fred Borghesi - Silent Shout
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor on paper
Fred Borghesi is an Italian artist born in 1987 who lives and works in London, UK. He is above all a multidisciplinary artist, const...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Italian Contemporary Art by Fred Borghesi - Okinawo
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, Ink and collage on paper
Fred Borghesi is an Italian artist born in 1987 who lives and works in London, UK. He is above all a multidisciplin...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Abstract Cityscape Mid 20th Century Modern Cubist Work on Paper Drawing Ariel
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Cityscape Mid 20th Century Modern Cubist Work on Paper Drawing Ariel
11 x 4 1/2 inches. Framed by Heydenryk.
Provenance: Gary Snyder Fine Art
B...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Italian Contemporary Art by Fred Borghesi - Franco
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor and Ink on paper
Fred Borghesi is an Italian artist born in 1987 who lives and works in London, UK. He is above all a multidisciplinary artis...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Italian Contemporary Art by Fred Borghesi - Domenica D
Agosto
Located in Paris, IDF
Drypoint etching hand printed and watercolor
Fred Borghesi is an Italian artist born in 1987 who lives and works in London, UK. He is above all a multidisciplinary artist, constantl...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Drypoint
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 2
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g.
Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
"Landscape BW" Contemporary Drawing Framed, Large size by Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape is a large, original black and white abstract drawing by Italian artist Marilina Marchica, created using mineral oxide on Canson Montval 300 gsm paper. The work embodies th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Archival Paper
Abstract Geometric Interior French Modernist Watercolour Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Abstract Geometric Interior French Modernist Watercolour Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 11...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Untitled No.76
Located in Paris, IDF
Indian ink on paper, limited edition of 20 - artwork can be shipped in a tube or framed in a crate
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Archival Paper
Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969) - Composition rouge, carmin et jaune - Lithograph
Located in Varese, IT
Rare color lithograph on Rives paper
, built in 1958
Limited edition of 125 copies
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist
Numbered specimen: 111/125
Sheet size: 76 x 56 cm
Plate...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract Compositions, 2
Located in Astoria, NY
Robert O'Meara (American, 1957-2024), Two Abstract Compositions, Charcoal on Paper, signed lower right wood frame.
Image: 13" H x 10" W; frame: 20.75" H x 16.5" W.
Provenance: From...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Celestial Tondo Pointillist Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Celestial Tondo, Pointillist Composition, Gouache on Paper, apparently unsigned, artist estate stamp to verso, with red dot sticker...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Psychic Garden (Protea) - botanical - cyanotype - ethereal - colorful
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is an abstract botanical work on paper featuring hues of blue, tan, pink, green and white in a simple white box frame behind UV Plexiglas.
Caroline Bullock is inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, Anish Kapoor, Katharina Grosse, Andy Goldsworthy and Lucy Dodd...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Paul COLIN (1892 – 1986), cubist composition
By Paul Colin
Located in Paris, FR
Paul Colin (1892–1986), a painter, illustrator, set designer, and major poster artist of the 20th century, is renowned for his influence on Art Deco. He grew up in Nancy, a hub of av...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Eclipse - line drawing woman figure with planet
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artwork were done with spray acrylic, fineliner on black watercolor paper 360g. The work are 12 by 16.5 inches in size, framed (black) with sizes 16 by...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Spray Paint
Untitled 16 - Series 2019, Contemporary Abstract Painting, Textile Lightness
Located in Salzburg, AT
About Prymon’s Exhibition Dopaminum and his paintings:
”Dopaminum” - Tomasz Prymon
Dopamine – colloquially referred to as the hormone of love and happiness. Why is this organic che...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Untitled 22 - Series 2019, Contemporary Abstract Painting, Textile Lightness
Located in Salzburg, AT
About Prymon’s Exhibition Dopaminum and his paintings:
”Dopaminum” - Tomasz Prymon
Dopamine – colloquially referred to as the hormone of love and happiness. Why is this organic che...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
PASAGE
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Aventura, FL
Original watercolor on paper. Hand signed on front by the artist.
Additional images are available upon request. Certificate of Authenticity is included. Please do not hesitate to ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$14,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Wayfinding (No. 4) Forest-Inspired Grey Blue
Pink Painting by Katherine Filice
Located in Hollister, CA
Wayfinding (No. 4) is a 16.5 x 11.5-inch unframed painting with ink and pastel drawing on paper featuring grey, blue and pink elements that captures the spirit of searching—physicall...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pastel, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Let’s play- Line Drawing Woman Body with red “Playboy” Bunny mask
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Let’s play- Line Drawing Woman Body with red “Playboy” Bunny mask, 2025. Interior design paintings. The artwork was done with watercolor on watercolor paper 300g. The works are 15 by...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Raw Minimalist Textured Paper Composition in White, 2024 -
Carte Mute II
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Silvia De Marchi (b. 1967, Melzo, Italy) is an Italian painter currently based in Italy and represented by the Grège Gallery. Her artistic practice reflects a deep exploration of mat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Glue, Ink, Mixed Media
Vintage French Modernist Advertising Poster Design Martini and Rossi Cocktail
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Vintage French Modernist Advertising Poster Design Martini and Rossi Cocktail
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (hei...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Chinese Contemporary Art by Xia FuNing - The Unexpectations
By Xia FuNing
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on paper
Xia Fu-Ning is a Chinese artist born in 1962 in Nanjing. He was a professor in the Department of Fine Arts during the 1980s at Tianjin Polytechnic University. He curren...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Third Eye Chakra #6
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Third Eye Chakra #6
Mixed Media on archival paper.
Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid & exacting mediums of watercolor and ink. He ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Living Heart
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paula Valenzuela
Living Heart, 2025
Watercolor and acrylic inks on paper
12 x 9 inches
This one-of-a-kind work on paper comes unframed and ships in a tube. External, visible frame a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled 12
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor on Hahnemuhle paper - artwork unframed for $300
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Morph Dog Series: Kachina, " Original Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Morph Dog Series: Kachina," is an original watercolor painting by David Barnett, signed along the lower center edge. This image depicts a Kachina, an ancestral spirit in Pueblo reli...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Lounging Reader" Oil Pastel Portrait on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Lounging Reader" is an original oil pastel drawing on a Safeway grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right and signed & dated it on the verso. This piec...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
"Exploration 2" Abstract Expressionist Modern Contemporary Green Mixed Media
By Nancy Berlin
Located in Wellesley, MA
Exploration 2, 2016, Mixed Media on Paper, 17 x 10.5 Inches (Image), 22 x 15 Inches (Paper). This painting on paper is unframed.
Geometric abstraction of multi-textured ground and...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Chinese Contemporary Art by Xia FuNing - Without Boundary
By Xia FuNing
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on paper
Xia Fu-Ning is a Chinese artist born in 1962 in Nanjing. He was a professor in the Department of Fine Arts during the 1980s at Tianjin Polytechnic University. He curren...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
The unity of opposites. Abstract mixed media painting on Awagami paper
By On Hansen
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Traces of lived experiences appear in On Hansen's works, exploring the possibilities of formal abstraction and seeking an organic experience between space and time through painting a...
Category
2010s Minimalist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Ink, Wax, Acrylic, Graphite
Untitled
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Untitled," Flashe on Paper, 30 x 22 Inches
A highly sophisticated series of large and small paintings, drawings and monoprints by Margo Margolis, NY artist who recently retired as ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Other Medium
Untitled 2 - Contemporary Abstract Large Format Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork will be shipped rolled up in a cardboard tube
Aleksandra Batura (b. 1982 in Augustów) a Warsaw based artist. She earned a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Mountains - Contemporary Abstract Large Format Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork will be shipped rolled up in a cardboard tube
Aleksandra Batura (b. 1982 in Augustów) a Warsaw based artist. She earned a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Academy of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Scribble, Flowing Abstract Collage of Photographic Elements, 17 x 14 in
Located in New York, NY
Heather Cox works across sculpture, installation, collage, and photography to explore memory, loss, and the afterlife of images. She trained in book arts and photography at Mills Col...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Photographic Paper
Two Wood Ducks on a Flowering Branch
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Stella was a visionary artist who painted what he saw, an idiosyncratic and individual experience of his time and place. Stella arrived in New York in 1896, part of a wave of Italian immigrants from poverty-stricken Southern Italy. But Stella was not a child of poverty. His father was a notary and respected citizen in Muro Locano, a small town in the southern Appenines. The five Stella brothers were all properly educated in Naples. Stella’s older brother, Antonio, was the first of the family to come to America. Antonio Stella trained as a physician in Italy, and was a successful and respected doctor in the Italian community centered in Greenwich Village. He sponsored and supported his younger brother, Joseph, first sending him to medical school in New York, then to study pharmacology, and then sustaining him through the early days of his artistic career. Antonio Stella specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis and was active in social reform circles. His connections were instrumental in Joseph Stella’s early commissions for illustrations in reform journals.
Joseph Stella, from the beginning, was an outsider. He was of the Italian-American community, but did not share its overwhelming poverty and general lack of education. He went back to Italy on several occasions, but was no longer an Italian. His art incorporated many influences. At various times his work echoed the concerns and techniques of the so-called Ashcan School, of New York Dada, of Futurism and, of Cubism, among others. These are all legitimate influences, but Stella never totally committed himself to any group. He was a convivial, but ultimately solitary figure, with a lifelong mistrust of any authority external to his own personal mandate. He was in Europe during the time that Alfred Stieglitz established his 291 Gallery. When Stella returned he joined the international coterie of artists who gathered at the West Side apartment of the art patron Conrad Arensberg. It was here that Stella became close friends with Marcel Duchamp.
Stella was nineteen when he arrived in America and studied in the early years of the century at the Art Students League, and with William Merritt Chase, under whose tutelage he received rigorous training as a draftsman. His love of line, and his mastery of its techniques, is apparent early in his career in the illustrations he made for various social reform journals. Stella, whose later work as a colorist is breathtakingly lush, never felt obliged to choose between line and color. He drew throughout his career, and unlike other modernists, whose work evolved inexorably to more and more abstract form, Stella freely reverted to earlier realist modes of representation whenever it suited him. This was because, in fact, his “realist” work was not “true to nature,” but true to Stella’s own unique interpretation.
Stella began to draw flowers, vegetables, butterflies, and birds in 1919, after he had finished the Brooklyn Bridge series of paintings, which are probably his best-known works. These drawings of flora and fauna were initially coincidental with his fantastical, nostalgic and spiritual vision of his native Italy which he called Tree of My Life (Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth Foundation and Windsor, Inc., St. Louis, illus. in Barbara Haskell, Joseph Stella, exh. cat. [New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994], p. 111 no. 133).
Two Wood Ducks...
Category
20th Century American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Surrealist Composition with Figures and Geometric Forms French Modern Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Surrealist Composition with Figures and Geometric Forms French Modern Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 21.5 x 9.75 inches (heigh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Earth River Flowing (Surrealist Black Philadelphia Artist)
By Roland Ayers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roland Ayers (1932-2014).
Earth River Flowing, 1979-86.
Ink on paper, 22 ¾ x 15 7/8 inches; measuring 22 × 28 inches in matting.
Signed and dated.
Exhibition History: Roland Ay...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
A Colorful,
37 Modern Surrealist Abstraction by Hananiah Harari "Signal Set Up"
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking, Colorful 1930s Modern Surrealist Abstraction by Notable New York Avant Garde Artist, Hannah Harari (Am. 1912-2000). Titled "Signal Set Up", the artwork is colored pencil...
Category
1930s Surrealist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
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