Pastel Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Abstract composition is an original Pastel and tempera on Paper by an anonymous artist in the Mid-20th Century. Good conditions. The artwork represents an abstract composition in a...

Oil pastel on paper Original work 57 x 53 x 3 cm (framed)

Sotto Tarsia is an original Contemporary artwork realized by the italian artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original Colored pastel. Hand-signed and titled in pencil on the lower righ...

Composition is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the Late 20th Century by Dorothe Bircher. Original Drawing on paper. Hand-signed on the lower central margin in red pe...

Love is an original drawing in pastels, realized by Novella Parigini (1921-1993). In very good conditions. Hand-signed and the date "1958", on the l...

Symbolist abstract pastel drawing by artist Bentzion Ben Yosef Yakov in the style of Marc Chagall. The work features the first miracle performed by Jesus known as the feeding of the ...

Modern Fausto Pirandello Signed Abstract Watercolor Important work by one of the greatest artists of the Italian artistic avant-garde Fausto Pirandello It depicts one of his iconic ...

Souleymane Keita - Rainbow Field, Year: 1983, Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed and dated lower left, Size: 22.25 x 30 in. (56.52 x 76.2 cm), Descript...

"Untitled" Mid 20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Abstraction James Daugherty (1887 – 1974) Untitled 9 x 16 inches Initialed lower right Dated November 1, 1966 lower ...

Modern abstract blue and orange toned landscape drawing by American artist Jane Tate. The work features a majestic mountain landscape with houses dotting the...

Artist: Kazuhide Yamazaki (Japanese-American, 1951-2023) Title: "Banana" *Titled, signed, and dated by Yamazaki in pencil lower right Year: 1981 Medium: Original Graphite Pencil and ...

Well presented in a simple wood frame. Signed and inscribed to the reverse. With a label from the Ewart Johns Retrospective exhibition fixed to the reverse. On board.

Untitled 2003 (Abstract Painting) Pastel, acrylic and pencil on paper - Unframed. In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and ...

Black_XIII, 2017 pencil, white and black pastel on black cardboard 27.55 H x 19.68 W in. 70 H x 50 W cm Alina Aldea's drawings project all the possible forms which appear to rapidly...

Black_VIII, 2016 pencil, black pastel on black cardboard 27.55 H x 19.68 W in. 70 H x 50 W cm Alina Aldea's drawings project all the possible forms which appear to rapidly disappear...

Black_XIV, 2017 Pencil, black pastel on black cardboard 27.55 H x 19.68 W in. 70 H x 50 W cm Alina Aldea's drawing projects all the possible forms which appear to rapidly disappear,...

A brightly coloured and joyful abstract pastel work by Modern British artist Ewart Johns. Ewart Johns (British, 1923 – 2013) Red Garden Pastel Signed with initials and dated ‘EJ 87’...

André Masson (Balagny-sur-Therain 1896 – Parigi 1987 ), Feminaire de la rue saint Denis (1958) Pastello grasso su carta di cm 20 x 14, sul retro è presente l’etichetta dello Studio ...

A really eye-catching black and white figurative work by Modern British artist Ewart Johns (1923 - 2013) 'A Homage to Picasso' Ewart Johns (British, 1923 – 2013) Homage to Picasso P...

A really striking and original work by mid century Modern British artist, Ewart Johns (1923 - 2013). This eye-catching piece depicted in contrasting yellows and blues was executed i...

pastel on paper, signed lower right. Henri Bernard Goetz (September 29, 1909 – August 12, 1989) was a French American Surrealist painter and engraver. He is known for his artwork, a...

Untitled Pastel on paper, 1922 Signed with the artist's initials in pencil Provenance: Estate of the artist Francis M. Nauman (label) Private collection, NY A very early abstract/cubist work by Kelly. Created while the artist was studying with Arthur Carles in Philadelphia. Leon Kelly (October 21, 1901 – June 28, 1982) was an American artist born in Philadelphia, PA. He is most well known for his contributions to American Surrealism, but his work also encompassed styles such as Cubism, Social Realism, and Abstraction. Reclusive by nature, a character trait that became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be limited by the trends of his time. His large output of paintings is complemented by a prolific number of drawings that span his career of 50 years. Some of the collections where his work is represented are: The Metropolitan Museum in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Boston Public Library. Biography Kelly was born in 1901 at home at 1533 Newkirk Street, Philadelphia, PA. He was the only child of Elizabeth (née Stevenson) and Pantaleon L. Kelly. The family resided in Philadelphia where Pantaleon and two of his cousins owned Kelly Brothers, a successful tailoring business. The prosperity of the firm enabled his father to purchase a 144-acre farm in Bucks County PA in 1902, which he named "Rural Retreat" It was here that Pantaleon took Leon to spend every weekend away from the pressures of business and from the disappointments in his failing marriage. Idyllic and peaceful memories of the farm stayed with Leon and embued his work with a love of nature that emerged later in the Lunar Series, in Return and Departure, and in the insect imagery of his Surrealist work. "If anything," he once said,"I am a Pantheist and see a spirit in everything, the grass, the rocks, everything." At thirteen, Leon left school and began private painting lessons with Albert Jean Adolphe, a teacher at the School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) in Philadelphia. He learned technique by copying the works of the old masters and visiting the Philadelphia Zoo, where he would draw animals. Drawings done in 1916 and 1917 of elephants, snakes and antelope, as well as copies of old master paintings by Holbein and Michelangelo, heralded an impressive emerging talent. In 1917, he studied sculpture with Alexander Portnoff but his studies came to an abrupt halt with the start of World War I. Being too young to enlist, he joined the Quartermaster Corp at the Army Depot in Philadelphia, where he served for more than a year loading ships with supplies and, along with other artists, working on drawings for camouflage. By 1920, the family's fortunes drastically changed. His father's business had failed due to the introduction of ready made clothing and his marriage, unhappy from the beginning, dissolved. Broken by circumstance Pantaleon left Philadelphia to begin a wandering existence looking for work leaving Leon to support his mother and grandmother. He found a job in 1920 at the Freihofer Baking Company where he worked nights for the next four years. Under these circumstances Leon continued to develop his skills in drawing and painting and learned of the revolutionary developments in art that were taking place in Paris. During the day he was granted permission to study anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Osteopathy where he dissected a cadaver and perfected his knowledge of the human figure. He also met and studied etching with Earl Horter, a well known illustrator, who had amassed a significant collection of modern art which included work by Brancusi, Matisse, and Cubist works by Picasso and Braque. Among the artists around Horter was Arthur Carles, a charismatic and controversial painter who taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Leon enrolled in the Academy in 1922, becoming what Carles described as, "his best student". In the next three years Leon work ranged from academic studies of plaster casts, to pointillism, to landscapes of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, as well as a series of pastels showing influences from Matisse to Picasso. Clearly influenced by Earl Horter's collection and Arthur Carles he mastered analytical cubism in works such as The Three Pears, 1923 and 1925 experimented with Purism in Moon Behind the Italian House. In 1925 Kelly was awarded a Cresson Scholarship and on June 14 he left for Europe. Paris The first trip to Europe lasted for approximately three and a half months and introduced Kelly to a culture and place where he felt he belonged. Though he returned to the Academy in the Fall, he left for Europe again a few months later to begin a four-year stay in Paris. He moved into an apartment at 19 rue Daguerre in Paris and began an existence intellectually rich but in creature comforts, very poor. "I kept a cinderblock over the drain in the kitchen sink to keep the rats out of the apartment" he once explained. He frequented the cafes making acquaintances with Henry Miller, James Joyce and the critic Félix Fénéon as well as others. His days were split between copying old master paintings in the Louvre and pursuing modernist ideas that were swirling through the work of all the artists around him. The Lake, 1926 and Interior of the Studio, 1927, now in the Newark Museum. Patrons during this time were the police official Leon Zamaran, a collector of Courbets, Lautrecs and others, who began collecting Kelly's work. Another was Alfred Barnes of the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. In 1929 Kelly married a young French woman, Henriette D'Erfurth. She appears frequently in paintings and drawings done between 1928 and the early 1930s. Philadelphia The stock market crash of 1929 made it impossible to continue living in Paris and Kelly and Henriette returned to Philadelphia in 1930. He rented a studio on Thompson Street and began working and participating in shows in the city's galleries. Work from 1930 to 1940 showed continuing influences and experimentation with the themes and techniques acquired in Paris as well as a brief foray into Social Realism. The Little Gallery of Contemporary Art purchased the Absinthe Drinker...

Blue sky over the loch by Natalie Bird [2022] original Pastel Image size: H:36 cm x W:28 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:25 cm x W:20 cm x D:0.5cm Sold Unframed Please note tha...

Abstract Artwork (drawing or rubbing) laid on a New Years card. Provenance: Virginia Field, Arts administrator; New York, N.Y. Assistant director for Asia House gallery. (she was friends with John von Wicht, Ben Zion and Andy Warhol) During the summer of 1948 in the Cape Cod Massachusetts artists’ colony of Provincetown, Stillman’s experiments with such techniques led to a unique drawing process. Using an inkless pen, or some such tool, the artist impressed the paper with invisible scribbles, which only emerged as white lines when he rubbed a flat stick of charcoal or pastel across the surface. These evocative, subtly modulated, works on paper are sophisticated, yet little known, examples of Abstract Expressionist art. He imbued his abstractions with a glowing atmospheric quality that derives from both impressionism and the Old Testament concept of divine light. He subsequently adapted this technique to the graphic arts, experimenting in the early 1950s with color lithograph and woodcut print techniques. Ary...

Destination (Abstract drawing) Pastel on paper - Unframed. Margaret Neill works for a time on a group of pieces in a series, using classic almost primal materials such as graphite,...

Diana Kurz June Watercolor and pastels on board 17 x 23 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to Engl...

Artist: Beatrice Rubel (aka Betty Abbott) Title: Blue Symphony Year: circa 1948 Medium: Pastel on paper, signed verso Size: 12 in. x 18 in. (30.48 cm x 45.72 cm) Frame Size: 19.5 x 2...

This Vicente has a color glow akin to a Mark Rothko. Vicente explored parallel ideas to Rothko and others of the abstract expressionist and color field era. The pastel gives this w...

Diana Kurz Still Life, 1966 Signed and dated lower right Pastel on paper 19 3/4 x 25 1/2 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's f...

Untitled (Purple and Yellow) Pastel on paper, 1981 Signed and dated lower right Provenance: Collection of Jan Cowles Jan Cowles was married to Gardner Cowles owner of Cowles Media Company (1935–1998) which owned newspapers, magazines and information publishing company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. The company operated Cowles Business Media, Cowles Creative Publishing, and Cowles Enthusiast Media units. Owners of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune from 1935 to 1998, other newspapers owned at one time by Cowles Media and its affiliates included the Des Moines Register, the Buffalo Courier...

Artist: Chris Anderson Title: Small Clocks #68 Year: 2006 Medium: Acrylic and Pastel on Paper, Signed and titled in pencil Image Size: 24 x 25 inches Siz...

Diana Kurz Pink Green Study Pastel on paper 20 x 15 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England ...

Still life pastel drawing by unknown artist. Realistic pastel drawing depicting watermelon, lemons, and other fruits in the background. Signed by artist at bottom left. Double matted...

Angela A’Court’s narrative and still life drawings use a simple and direct vocabulary to show the relationship of experience to expression of beauty and the quirkiness of every day moments. With an eye toward balance, the artist moves towards abstraction in "Winnowing Basket...

Diana Kurz Light White Pastel on Paper 14 x 11 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England and t...

Deep blue and purple tonal figurative abstract pastel work. It is framed in a silver frame with a tan matte. Dimensions without Frame: H 11.5 in x W 15 in. Artist Biography: Helen...

"I don’t see shapes as much as I see the energy of elements interacting to move, stop, support or explode. I mostly use clean bright color to keep my world hot and alive. My painting...

"I don’t see shapes as much as I see the energy of elements interacting to move, stop, support or explode. I mostly use clean bright color to keep my world hot and alive. My painting...

"I don’t see shapes as much as I see the energy of elements interacting to move, stop, support or explode. I mostly use clean bright color to keep my world hot and alive. My painting...

Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design...

Untitled Pastel on paper, 1922 Initialed lower right (see photo) Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014. Condition: excellent Image size: 11 8 7/8 inches Frame size: 18 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist The Orange Chicken...

Renelio Marin is a visual artist with a diverse range of influences and styles. Born in Cuba, he received his graduate degree from the San Alejandro School of Fine Arts in Havana in ...

"Abstraction" Mid-20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Modernist James Daugherty (1887-1974) "Lascaux" 5 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches Pastel on paper Initialed lower left, titled lo...

This drawing by Austin Reavis is from a series of abstract works that build lines and forms, suggestive of construction elements, as a foreground to chan...

Each intuitive drawing has its own character, its own energy. If you tune in with it, it will give you a charge of vivacity and a bright mood! This work is made in the style of abstr...

"Talking Lines" This intuitive abstract drawing in chocolate tones is made with Chinese ink and pastel on thick kraft paper. It conveys an impulse born in the space of sensations. ...

"Talking Lines" This intuitive abstract drawing in chocolate tones is made with Chinese ink and pastel on thick kraft paper. It conveys an impulse born in the space of sensations. ...

"Talking Lines" This intuitive abstract drawing in chocolate tones is made with Chinese ink and pastel on thick kraft paper. It conveys an impulse born in the space of sensations. ...

"Lemon Accent" This intuitive abstract drawing is made with Chinese ink and pastel on watercolour paper. It conveys an impulse born in the space of sensations. "Every time I draw such abstract lines, a flow of energy moves my hand. For this to happen freely, I need to be calm and focused at the same time. I draw very quickly to keep expression and spontaneity. I never know what the result will be. The process of drawing like this is a kind of magic that turns an invisible impulse into a reflection on paper. Each drawing is unique and one of a kind." Sve Gri...

"Expressively Fast" This intuitive abstract drawing is made with Chinese ink and pastel on watercolour paper. It conveys an impulse born in the space of sensations. "Every time I draw such abstract lines, a flow of energy moves my hand. For this to happen freely, I need to be calm and focused at the same time. I draw very quickly to keep expression and spontaneity. I never know what the result will be. The process of drawing like this is a kind of magic that turns an invisible impulse into a reflection on paper. Each drawing is unique and one of a kind." Sve Gri...

Confident, bold, decisive, bright! This artwork conveys such a mood. This intuitive abstract drawing is made with Chinese ink, pastel and pencil on white paper. It conveys an impulse...

"The playful breeze seemed to fly into your room through the window. It brought with it a light, cheerful mood." This intuitive monochrome drawing is made with Chinese ink and pastel...

When I painted this intuitive drawing, I imagined my brush dancing in a white room. Golden sunlight pours from the window. A feeling of happiness is in the air. "Movement Pattern" is...

"Flying Brush" is an improvised expressive drawing conveys an impulse born in the space of sensations. Artwork is done in ink and blue pastel on white paper. "Every time I draw suc...

New Seeds No.3 (Abstract painting) Pastel on Paper - Unframed. Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt. Materiality and soul are essential to the work of Nashville-based multimedia artist Brooke Noel...

"Joyful Impulse" is an improvised impulsive drawing conveys an impulse born in the space of sensations. Artwork is done in ink and ocher pastel on thick white paper. "Every time ...

This expressive abstract drawing is made with Chinese ink and pastel on white paper. Looking at it you can feel the freshness of instant impulse and the charge of energy! Every ...

This expressive monochrome drawing is made with Chinese ink and pastel on heavy white paper. Looking at it you can feel the freshness of instant impulse and the charge of energy! ...

This calligraphic abstract drawing is made with Chinese ink and pastel on heavy white paper. Looking at it you can feel the freshness of instant impulse and the charge of cheerful en...

This calligraphic abstract drawing is made with Chinese ink and pastel on heavy white paper. Looking at it you can feel the freshness of instant impulse and the charge of cheerful en...