Paint Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Dimitri Petrov, American (1919 - 1986) - Nude with Necktie, Year: 1981, Medium: Watercolor, ink and colored pen, Size: 22.25 x 30 in. (56.52 x 76.2 cm)

Dimitri Petrov, American (1919 - 1986) - Untitled, Year: 1983, Medium: Watercolor and Pencil on Paper, signed, Size: 21 x 29 in. (53.34 x 73.66 cm), Frame Size: 23 x 31 inches

Dimitri Petrov, American (1919 - 1986) - Untitled, Year: 1980, Medium: Mixed ink, Colored Pencil and Watercolor, signed and dated in pen, Size: 23.5 x 30 in. (59.69 x 76.2 cm)

Dimitri Petrov, American (1919 - 1986) - Old and Faithful Dog, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper, signed lower right and titled verso, Size: 22.75 x 31 in. ...

Dimitri Petrov, American (1919 - 1986) - Eighteen and Twenty Six, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper, signed lower right and titled verso, Size: 22.75 x 31 i...

Pioneering female abstract artist Elsie Driggs paints stylized abstract organic forms in a warm palette of orange browns and tope. She merges abstraction with some figuration. A structured face composed of lines and tone emerges from an orange background. It's 1939, and even though Driggs is not well known, she is preceding many of the marquee names of abstraction by a decade. Although under the radar, this is a major work and is titled on the back stretcher is " Egyptian Gothic." It features the artist's inventiveness with her fine pencil lines incorporated in flat washes of color and collage elements. Signed lower right and inscribed on frame verso with title, artist and the date of 1939. Provenance, Christie's, Freemans. Framed under glass.. Elsie Driggs (1898 – July 12, 1992 in New York City) was an American painter known for her contributions to Precisionism, America's one indigenous modern-art movement before Abstract Expressionism, and for her later floral and figurative watercolors, pastels, and oils. She was the only female participant in the Precisionist movement, which in the 1920s and 1930s took a Cubist-inspired approach to painting the skyscrapers and factories that had come to define the new American landscape. Her works are in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Houston Museum of the Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the James A. Michener Art Museum in Pennsylvania, and the Columbus Museum of Art, among others. She was married to the American abstract artist Lee Gatch. Career Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Driggs grew up in New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City, in a family that was supportive of her artistic interests. After a summer spent painting with her sister in New Mexico in her late teens, she felt she had found her life's calling. At twenty, she enrolled in classes at the Art Students League of New York, where she studied under George Luks and Maurice Sterne, both of whom were charismatic, inspirational figures in her early life. She also attended the evening criticism classes held at the home of painter John Sloan. Driggs spent fourteen months in Europe from late 1922 to early 1924, drawing and studying Italian art. There she met Leo Stein, first in Paris and later in Florence, who became an important intellectual influence, and who urged her to study Cézanne. He also introduced her to the works of Piero della Francesca, the Renaissance artist for whom she felt throughout her life the greatest admiration.[1] Driggs eventually settled in New York City, where she found representation with the progressive Charles Daniel Gallery.[2] (Advised that the old-fashioned and misogynistic Daniel would be unlikely to take on a woman artist, she signed the works she left for his consideration simply "Driggs" and waited to meet him in person until he had expressed his eagerness to include her in his gallery.)[3] In sympathy with those artists Daniel represented who were part of the burgeoning Precisionist movement, such as Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, George Ault, Niles Spencer, and Preston Dickinson, she too painted "the modern landscape of factories, bridges, and skyscrapers with geometric precision and almost abstract spareness."Impressionism and academic or Ashcan realism represented the past, in Driggs' view, and she intended to be resolutely modern. She was an attractive and engaging woman, but her demeanor belied a strong ambition and a clear sense of what it would take to make her mark in the New York art world. Driggs was part of the pre-eminent first group of Precisionist painters, including Demuth and Sheeler, who exhibited at the Daniel Gallery in the 1920s. Although a later group of Precisionist painters, including Louis Lozowick, Ralston Crawford and others, came on the American Art scene during the 1930s, Driggs felt that the style came to an end with the 1929 stock market crash.[5] In 1926 she painted her most famous work, Pittsburgh, a dark and brooding picture now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which depicts the gargantuan smokestacks of the Jones & Laughlin steel mills in Pittsburgh. Its focus is an overpowering mass of black and gray smokestacks, thick piping, and crisscrossing wires with only clouds of smoke to relieve the severity of the image, yet it was an image in which she found an ironic beauty. She called the picture "my El Greco" and expressed surprise that viewers in later years interpreted the painting as a work of social criticism. Like the other Precisionists (e.g., Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Louis Lozowick, Stefan Hirsch), she was concerned with applying modernist techniques to renderings of the new industrial and urban landscape, not in commenting on potential dangers the overly mechanized modern world of 1920s America might present. If anything, Precisionism, like Futurism, was a celebration of man-made energy and technology. One year later, she painted Blast Furnaces, in a similar vein. As noted above, Piero della Francesca's mural depicting "The Story of the True Cross" in Arezzo, with its tubular, static and frozen forms was the major influence on Driggs' "Pittsburgh" (it may have been the major influence for "Blast Furnaces" as well).[7] After Pittsburgh, Driggs' most acclaimed work was probably Queensborough Bridge...

Billy Al Bengston Honolulu Watercolor, 1992 Watercolor on handmade paper with deckled edge in artist's hand made frame with studio label verso Signed, titled and dated in pencil lowe...

This is a beautiful expressionist style drawing by Juanjo Saez. Juanjo's pictorial work is an exploration of color, texture, and movement, creating vibrant compositions that capture ...

Acrylic on Cartridge paper Fabia Kleinpeter, a German self-taught multidisciplinary artist born in 2000 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She began her artistic journey in 20...

This piece titled "North Broad" is an original artwork made from pencil, marker, acrylic gouache collage on panel by Miriam Singer. This piece measures 6"h x 6"w and is signed on the...

Neerja Chandna Peters enjoys navigating harmony through the play of lines with their symmetrical synchrony and rhythmic interplay, manipulating the nuances, their saturation and thei...

Acrylic on Cartridge paper Fabia Kleinpeter, a German self-taught multidisciplinary artist born in 2000 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She began her artistic journey in 20...

Abstract painting on paper image: 18 x 24 inches paper size: 22 x 30 inches Contemporary minimalist abstract painting on a beautiful thick, creamy white Arches paper, unframed. Ins...

This artwork titled "Dedication" 1978 is an ink and watercolor on Fabriano paper by renown French artist Sacha Kolin, 1911-1981. It is hand signed and dated at the lower right corner...

Composition is an original ink and watercolor drawing on paper, realized by the artist Antoine Mayo (1905-1990) in the 1970s. Good conditions. Antoine M...

This artwork titled "A Third Thought" 1978 is an ink and watercolor on Fabriano paper by renown French artist Sacha Kolin, 1911-1981. It is hand signed and dated at the lower right c...

This artwork titled "Go Left and Right" 1977 is an ink and watercolor on Fabriano paper by renown French artist Sacha Kolin, 1911-1981. It is hand signed and dated at the lower right...

Dominika Krechowicz is a professor at the Gdansk GUT Institute The Art works from this series are painted with acrylic technique on fabriano watercolor paper. They were created from...

medium: watercolor on Arches paper 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 an...

In this meticulously detailed contemporary drawing in ink and watercolor on paper, carefully drawn dots and lines in yellow with violet blue, red and dark brown create an intricate c...

Original Fashion Design Illustration by Roz Jennings, British watercolor and ink on card, unframed size: 11.75 x 8.25 inches condition: very good A beautifully colorful and characte...

Interior design paintings. Part of the triptych “Does not see. Does not hear. Does not speak”. The artwork was done with watercolor on watercolor paper 360g. The works are 14 by 11 i...

Joanne Freeman Squares and Strokes (Yellow_22), 2025 gouache on handmade paper 28 x 20 in. image: 22 x 14 in. (freem246) My paintings and drawings incorporate elements found in arch...

Tortoise Wallapaper by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) pastel/watercolor on paper, unframed painting: 13 x 20 inches good condition provenance: from the artists estate, France Jos...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 7.5 x 7.5 inches condition: very good and impressive provenance: all the p...

Lyman Kipp Untitled Minimalist painting on paper, 1980 Color oil painting on paper done with ink paint roller Signed and dated on the front Unique Frame included Signed and dated 19...

The series Geometric Alphabet is part of my series Geometric Abstract, in which the abstract game is used in the form of asemic writing with geometric shapes. Here Peters recreates h...

Pointillist Abstract Design by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998) initialled lower right gouache painting on paper, unframed measurements: 8.75 x 6 inches (overall the sheet measures 11...

1970s fauvist watercolour of a forest glade by Belgian artist André Pierard. Not signed but acquired from his estate along with others of his works. A be...

"Interstellar I" is a work on paper that features hues of green, violet, blue, gold and yellow. Caroline Bullock is inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, Anish Kapoor, Katharina Gros...

This year, 2024, the artist Ruth Vidal (1998, Isla de Arousa) launches her latest research into painting and games. These works are based on the references that the artist draws from...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 12.75 x 10 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we ha...

California Sunset - Blue, Red & Yellow Modern Abstract Landscape Seascape Painting art on thick washi paper mounted behind glass in a silver leaf frame Art measures 30 x 23 inches ...

This year, 2024, the artist Ruth Vidal (1998, Isla de Arousa) launches her latest research into painting and games. These works are based on the references that the artist draws from...

The Anatomy of a Horse by Robert Ladou (French 1929-2014) original drawing stuck on card in blue folder/ thick paper, unframed drawing: 11.75 x 14.5 inches overall size: 19.75 x 12.7...

Antique American abstract watercolor painting by John O'Connell. Watercolor/gouache on paper board. Gorgeously framed in an antique french frame.. Signed and dated lower right. Measu...

Philippe Hiquily's original drawings from the early 1960s, housed in a private collection, are a distinctive showcase of the provocative Hiquilian style that defined this era. These ...

Joanne Freeman Squares and Strokes (Ultra Violet_16), 2025 gouache on handmade paper 28 x 20 in. image: 16 x 16 in. (freem239) My paintings and drawings incorporate elements found i...

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...

Abstract Composition (c.2022) by Robert Somerton, British, born 1972. dated 18 ink/ watercolor on art paper, unframed size: 9.5 x 12.5 inches condition: excellent

Vibrant Cubist Still Life Painting by A. Derek Ching (20th Century) Bold yet nuanced, this rare original gouache on paper, created by American artist A. Derek Ching (USA, 20th Centu...

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...

This layered paper collage and drawing artwork titled "Mass Study III" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of paper, charcoal, pastel, graphite, an...

"Grant Me Speed" is a contemporary abstraction with mixed media such as textile by artist Vivian Liddell. This is one of her smaller and more simplistic compositions but an impactful...

'Midsummer's Noon' Original Artwork. Unframed ________________________ With transitory beauty, the sunflower turns to face the brazen light of the solstice sun. 'Midsummer's Noon' ...

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...

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...

Artist : Kory Twaddle Title : Blue Springs Semi Upper Level Materials : Colored pencil, marker, tempera, gouache, stickers, tape, glitter glue, pastel, oil pastel, acrylic, graphite...

Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the third of five children in a cultured and educated family with roots going back to the Massachusetts Bay colony. His father, John Galen Howard, was an architect who had trained at M.I.T. and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and apprenticed in Boston with Henry Hobson Richardson. In New York, the elder Howard worked for McKim, Mead and White before establishing a successful private practice. Mary Robertson Bradbury Howard, Charles’s mother, had studied art before her marriage. John Galen Howard moved his household to California in 1902 to assume the position of supervising architect of the new University of California campus at Berkeley and to serve as Professor of Architecture and the first Dean of the School of Architecture (established in 1903). The four Howard boys grew up to be artists and all married artists, leaving a combined family legacy of art making in the San Francisco Bay area that endures to this day, most notably in design, murals, and reliefs at the Coit Tower and in buildings on the Berkeley campus. Charles Howard graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1921 as a journalism major and pursued graduate studies in English at Harvard and Columbia Universities before embarking on a two-year trip to Europe. Howard went to Europe as a would-be writer. But a near-religious experience, seeing a picture by Giorgione in a remote town outside of Venice, proved a life-altering epiphany. In his own words, “I cut the tour at once and hurried immediately back to Paris, to begin painting. I have been painting whenever I could ever since” (Charles Howard, “What Concerns Me,” Magazine of Art 39 [February 1946], p. 63). Giorgione’s achievement, in utilizing a structured and rational visual language of art to convey high emotion on canvas, instantly convinced Howard that painting, and not literature, offered the best vehicle to express what he wanted to say. Howard returned to the United States in 1925, confirmed in his intent to become an artist. Howard settled in New York and supported himself as a painter in the decorating workshop of Louis Bouché and Rudolph Guertler, where he specialized in mural painting. Devoting spare time to his own work, he lived in Greenwich Village and immersed himself in the downtown avant-garde cultural milieu. The late 1920s and early 1930s were the years of Howard’s art apprenticeship. He never pursued formal art instruction, but his keen eye, depth of feeling, and intense commitment to the process of art making, allowed him to assimilate elements of painting intuitively from the wide variety of art that interested him. He found inspiration in the modernist movements of the day, both for their adherence to abstract formal qualities and for the cosmopolitan, international nature of the movements themselves. Influenced deeply by Surrealism, Howard was part of a group of American and European Surrealists clustered around Julien Levy. Levy opened his eponymously-named gallery in 1931, and rose to fame in January 1932, when he organized and hosted Surrealisme, the first ever exhibition of Surrealism in America, which included one work by Howard. Levy remained the preeminent force in advocating for Surrealism in America until he closed his gallery in 1949. Howard’s association with Levy in the early 1930s confirms the artist’s place among the avant-garde community in New York at that time. In 1933, Howard left New York for London. It is likely that among the factors that led to the move were Howard’s desire to be a part of an international art community, as well as his marriage to English artist, Madge Knight...

The work was done with ink and watercolor on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size framed (black) with a styrene face on a mat board in white color with size 20 ...

Acrylic on Cartridge paper Fabia Kleinpeter, a German self-taught multidisciplinary artist born in 2000 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She began her artistic journey in 20...

This painting, executed in bright and rich shades, depicts a spiritual scene that reflects the key themes of my artistic practice. At the center of the composition is a radiant figur...

Abstract Composition (c.2022) by Robert Somerton, British, born 1972. ink/ watercolor on art paper, unframed size: 12.5 x 9.5 inches condition: excellent

Signed and dated lower right; inscribed, Dated and Signed on Verso Provenance: Ashley John Gallery

James Balla Untitled gouache painting, 1992 Mixed Media Oil on Linen Signed and dated on the front of the work; the verso of the frame bears the UFO (Albert Merola) gallery label. F...

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...

Modern abstract watercolor landscape painting by Texas based artist Michael Frary. The work features an abstract view of a tree line at the edge of a river or lake that is dotted by ...

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...

Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982) original watercolour painting on board, unframed size: 13.5 x 16.25 inches condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for...

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...