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“Untitled, 1946” New Hope Modernist Small Abstract Bucks County Lambertville NJ
By Louis Stone
Located in Yardley, PA
“Untitled, 1946” by Louis K. Stone (1902-1984).
A strong and charming example of mid-century American modernism by one of the most important artists working in New Hope, PA. This wa...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Untitled" Hans Hofmann, circa 1943 Navy Blue Olive Green Early Abstract Work
By Hans Hofmann
Located in New York, NY
Hans Hofmann
Untitled, circa 1943
Signed lower right
Oil and watercolor on paper
22 1/4 x 30 3/4 inches
The only artist of the New York school to participate directly in European m...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil, Watercolor
"Untitled" Minnie Evans, Mid-Century, Biomorphic Modernist Abstract Spirals
By Minnie Evans
Located in New York, NY
Minnie Evans
Untitled, 1947
Signed and dated lower right
Crayon and graphite on paper
8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches
Provenance
Luise Ross Gallery, New York
Privat...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Graphite
Charles Ragland Bunnell “Quitting Time” 1941 Black and Blue Abstract Painting
Located in Denver, CO
This original vintage painting by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968), titled Quitting Time from his Black and Blue Series (1941), exemplifies the artist’s signature Abstract Structu...
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American Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor
Agony, Motif - Drawing by Arshile Gorky - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Agony, Motif is a contemporary artwork realized by Arshile Gorky in 1946.
Ink, pen and wax crayon on paper.
Incudes frame: 41.5 x 38.5
Good conditions (little tears and shading of...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon, Ink, Pen
Autumn Forest - Mid Century Abstracted Fauvist Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century fauvist watercolor landscape with lush, vivid trees and distant houses by Emily Shotwell Goeller-Wood (American, 1887-1965). Presented in a rustic giltwood frame...
Category
Fauvist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,320 Sale Price
20% Off
A Colorful, 1948 Mid-Century Modern Abstract Watercolor by Hananiah Harari
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking, Colorful 1940s Mid-Century Modern Surrealist Abstract Watercolor by Notable New York Avant Garde Artist, Hannah Harari (Am. 1912-2000). The artwork is watercolor, pastel...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor
"Untitled" Perle Fine, Female Abstract Expressionist, Gray and Black Forms
By Perle Fine
Located in New York, NY
Perle Fine
Untitled, circa 1945
Estate stamped and numbered "#632" on the reverse
Gouache and pencil on Kraft paper
12 x 20 inches
Provenance
The artist
Estate of the artist
Thomas McCormick Gallery...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Pencil
Original 1940s Retrofuturism Gouache Painting
Birth of Mind
in Black
White
Located in Denver, CO
This vintage 1941 gouache painting on paper, titled Birth of Mind, signed and dated lower right, is a striking example of retrofuturism by Charles Ragland Bunnell, a prominent artist from the Broadmoor Academy...
Category
Futurist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
A Striking 1940s Cubist Still Life Drawing by Modern Artist Stanley Bielecky
By Stanley Bielecky
Located in Chicago, IL
A striking 1940s Modern cubist still life drawing by Notable Chicago and Michigan artist Stanley Bielecky. Image size: 4 x 5 inches. Archivally matted to 13 1/4 x 16 inches. Estate stamped and numbered 58, lower left.
Stanley Bielecky was an Indiana artist who painted the American Scene, from the industrial factories and workers around East Chicago to the pastoral settings of Mackinac Island...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Italian Abstract Work on Paper Color Field Non-Objective European Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
Italian Modern Abstract Work on Paper Color Field Non-Objective European Mid-Century - "Gonage"
Dorazio completed "Gonage" in 1949 when just after the artist had been awarded a stipend by the French government and admission to the Academy Beaux Arts. There he met George Braque who became great friends but also an influence on Dorazio, of which "Gonage" is a living testament.
"Gonage" actual size of the drawing measures 12 x 9 1/2 inches. It is signed on the lower right. The work is affixed to a 19 x 15 inch board which includes the artist's signature and date. There is a torn table on the lower left entitling the piece "Gonage".
Provenance follows this piece as a gift in 1950 to the artist-colleague Luigi Lucioni, who then gifted it in 1955 to his friend, the uncle of the current owner who has owned the work since 1988.
Bio
Born in Italy, Piero Dorazio studied architecture in Rome. At the same time his first abstract works were executed. In 1947 he received a scholarship from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he contacted Modern artists, who lived in Paris. He founded the galleries "Age d'Or" in Florence and Rome to represent avant-garde arts in Italy.
During a one year stay in the USA he got acquainted with leading artists of Abstract Expressionism such as Marc Rothko...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
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...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Untitled Abstraction
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Abstraction
Graphite on paper. c. 1946
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Inherited by his neighbor/caregiver
Condition: Staining at corners
...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Abstract Mid 20th Century WPA Non Objective American Modernism New Hope Modern
By Louis Stone
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Mid 20th Century WPA Non Objective American Modernism New Hope Modern.mixed media. 21 x 16 (sight). Housed in a hand carved frame.
Louis King Stone ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
Ceri Richards - Lyre Bird (Design for cover of Poetry London), 1943 mixed media
Located in New York, NY
Ceri Richards
Lyre Bird (Design for the cover of Poetry London), 1943
Ink, gouache and pastel on paper
Bears original Jonathan Clark
Co. label on the back of the frame
Unique
F...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Gouache, Mixed Media
Italy Goes to War
By Arthur Dove
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Italy Goes to War, 1941
Watercolor
3 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches (7.9 x 18.7 cm)
Signed lower center: Dove
Provenance
An American Place, New York;
World House Galleries, New York, 1953;
Private collection, New York;
Betty Krulik Fine Art, 2007;
Avery Galleries until present
Exhibitions
An American Place, New York, Exhibition of New Arthur G. Dove Paintings...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bauhaus . Untitled (French Barque under Staysail)
Located in Miami, FL
Bauhaus Iconic work by the master or Cubism and Expressionism
Dalzell Hatfield Gallery, Los Angeles
Bonhams,
Exhibited: Moller Fine Art, "Precision ...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Conflict, 1941 gouache by John Von Wicht
Located in Hudson, NY
Conflict (1941)
Gouache on paper
20" x 12"
27 ½" x 19 ¼" x 1 ½" framed
Signed "V. Wicht" lower right.
An important work from the artist's "Force" series, which were executed in hom...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Original 1940s Abstract Pen
Ink Drawing “The Chicken” by Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
This striking original pen and ink drawing, titled “The Chicken”, was created by celebrated 20th-century American modernist Edward Marecak (1919–1993) in the 1940s. A powerful exampl...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Second Theme" 1949 Abstract Mid 20th Century Geometric Non-Objective Hard Edge
Located in New York, NY
"Second Theme" 1949 Abstract Mid 20th Century Geometric Non-Objective Hard Edge
Burgoyne A. Diller (American, 1906-1965) "Second Theme" 1949. Pencil and crayon on paper. Signed and dated 'D. 49' (lower right). Image: 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York. David K. Anderson Grandchildren's Trust.
BURGOYNE DILLER (1906-1965) Recognized as the first American painter to embrace the tenets of Neo-Plasticism, Burgoyne Diller made an important contribution to the development of non-objective art in the United States. Working in a hard-edged geometric style, he produced paintings, drawings, and collages that paved the way for the development of American Minimalism during the 1960s and 70s.
Born in New York City in 1906, Diller began painting and drawing as a teenager growing up in Battle Creek, Michigan. Later, while attending Michigan State University in East Lansing on an athletic scholarship, he made weekend visits to the Art Institute of Chicago, where he familiarized himself with Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting. He was especially drawn to the landscapes and still lives of Paul Cézanne, who modeled color to create structure and volume.
In 1929, Diller moved to Manhattan and enrolled at the Art Students League, where his teachers included such progressive-minded painters as Jan Matulka, Hans Hofmann, and George Grosz. Hofmann's concept of the "push-pull" effect of form and color exerted a strong influence on his early work, as did his growing familiarity with Analytical and Synthetic Cubism, German Expressionism, and other vanguard European styles. Diller had the opportunity to see some of this work firsthand, but he also kept abreast of developments abroad by reading journals such as Cahiers d'Art.
Diller completed his studies at the League in 1933, the year he had his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Gallery in New York. It was around this time that his paintings began to show the influence of the reductive, pared-down geometric compositions of the Dutch Constructivist Piet Mondrian and the equally restrained compositions of Kasimir Malevich and El Lissitsky...
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil
"Country Haircut"
By Milton Avery
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this piece by Milton Avery (1885 – 1965).
Milton Avery was a prominent Modernist painter whose work combined abstraction and...
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American Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
Bauhaus . Untitled (French Barque under Staysail)
Located in Miami, FL
Bauhaus Iconic work by the master or Cubism and Expressionism
Dalzell Hatfield Gallery, Los Angeles
Bonhams,
Exhibited: Moller Fine Art, "Precision ...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
A Colorful, 1947 Modern Surrealist Abstract WC by Hananiah Harari, "Wings"
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking, Colorful 1940s Modern Surrealist Abstraction by Notable New York Avant Garde Artist, Hannah Harari (Am. 1912-2000). Titled "Wings", the artwork is watercolor, mixed medi...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Crayon, Watercolor
Masks
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Belgian artist Miette Braive(1916-2000), was classically trained in Belgium, before moving to Paris to pursue her art career as first a student and then a contemporary of the famed F...
Category
1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Abstract Composition
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Tempura on heavy paper, signed and dated 1945 lower left. The piece measures 23" x 30" including the frame and presents very well overall.
Provenance:
Willard Gallery, NYC
Brad...
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
A Colorful, 1942 Modern Surreal Abstract by Hananiah Harari "The Baroque Portal"
Located in Chicago, IL
A Striking, Colorful 1942 Modern Surrealist Abstraction by Notable New York Avant Garde Artist, Hannah Harari (Am. 1912-2000). Titled "The Baroque Portal", the artwork is mixed medi...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Mixed Media
Early California modernist drawing by a well-known San Francisco abstract artist
By Erle Loran
Located in Colfax, CA
This is an energetic, colorful modernist study of two female figures in an interior, presumably a beach house in the summer.
Erle Loran, (1905-1999), was an American painter and edu...
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American Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
Untitled
By Hans Hofmann
Located in New York, NY
Color crayons and ink on white wove paper. Initialed and dated "VI . 24 . 43" in ink, lower right recto, and annotated and dated in ink, verso.
This work is registered in the record...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Ink
$20,000
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...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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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Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Dynamic Abstract
, California San Francisco Bay Area Modernism, Thiebaud
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper left, 'Gilberg' for Robert George Gilberg (American, 1911-1970) and painted circa 1948.
A substantial, mid-century watercolor abstract comprising interrelated geometric...
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1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pen
Non-Objective abstract work on paper by well-known San Francisco Bay Area artist
By Erle Loran
Located in Colfax, CA
A great, and early, non-objective ab-ex study by Erle Loran, most likely created in the 1940s,
Erle Loran, (1905-1999), was an American painter and educator who painted for the enti...
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Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"Le combat des poissons "Pencil study with annotations , cm. 30 x 20 1940 ca
By André Masson
Located in Torino, IT
André Masson ( 1896-1987)
No signed
Pencil study with annotations on the right side, acquired by the previous owner from Luis Masson son of Andrè Masson
Category
Surrealist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
In the Countryside - Watercolor by Antonio Vangelli - 1944
Located in Roma, IT
In the Countryside is an original watercolor, realized by Antonio Vangelli in 1944.
Fair conditions with repaired riping.
The artwork is depicted skillfully through confident and s...
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Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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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Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Untitled. Still Life.
Located in New York, NY
This gouache painting by Werner Drewes was created in 1942. Signed with a pen in the lower right. Cypher and date are just under the signature. Painted to the papers edge - the pap...
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Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
1948 Black
White Abstraction by Woman Institute of Design Artist Lois Field
Located in Chicago, IL
A rare 1948 black & white drawing from woman artist, Lois Field, who studied at the New Bauhaus in Chicago. Artwork size: 3" x 4". Handsomely framed to 9" x 11".
In 1923, Lois F...
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Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
American modernist landscape drawing by a San Francisco Bay Area artist
By Erle Loran
Located in Colfax, CA
This is a ink drawing on paper, most likely a study created by the artist in the early 1940s.
Erle Loran, (1905-1999), was an American painter and educator who painted for the entir...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Untitled. Form in Space.
Located in New York, NY
Pencil drawing on paper from 1944. Signed and dated with cypher. Paper size 4 x 6" (10 x 15.1 cm).
Werner Drewes (1899-1985), painter, printmaker, educator and lecturer, was...
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Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
HANS HOFMANN Provincetown Drawing - Pen
Ink - 1942 - Massachusetts
By Hans Hofmann
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Title: "Provincetown Drawing"
Medium: pen and ink on paper
Dimensions: 14 x 16 3/4 inches
Signed: Initialed and dated 1942
Provenance: Manny Silverman Gallery...
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Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing
By Jean Xceron
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing.
A modernist artist who emigrated to America from Greece in 1904, when he was fourteen years old, Jean Xceron is described as having a reputation as an artist that has mysteriously fallen into obscurity---especially since he was reportedly quite prominent during his lifetime. However, a partial explanation of that omission is the fact that many of his papers and early records have been lost. He was a painter of biomorphic abstractions and did collages, which were influenced by Dadaism.
Xceron was active in New York City when modernism was gaining influence. Of him during this period, it was written that his artistic role was "a vital link between what is commonly termed as the first-generation (the Stieglitz group, the Synchromists, etc.) and second-generation, the American Abstract Artists, the Transcendental Painting...
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American Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Woman - Original Ink on Paper by Arturo Peyrot - 1943
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original drawing in brownish ink artwork realized by the artist Arturo Peyrot in 1943.
Good conditions, with small cutting on the margins and folding.
The artwork repre...
Category
1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Untitled Abstraction
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Abstraction
Graphite on paper, c. 1946
Signed with the estate stamp verso
Provenance: estate of the Artist
Inherited by his neighbor/caregiver
Conditio...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Pub-crawler. 1942, mixed media on paper, 30x23.3 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to publicity.
“I am 58, and in five Years my c...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
$1,722 Sale Price
20% Off
Sinner Magdalene inside interior. 1947, paper, mixed technique, 19.5x17.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to publicity.
“I am 58, and in five Years my c...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Cubist Abstract, Gouache Painting by Marcel Salinas
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1913 - 2010)
Title: Cubist Composition
Year: circa 1945
Medium: Gouache on Board, signed
Size: 29 in. x 40 in. (73.66 cm x 101.6 cm)
Frame S...
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Cubist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Blue Symphony, Abstract Geometric Pastel on Paper by Beatrice Rubel
By Beatrice Rubel
Located in Long Island City, NY
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...
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Cubist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Intimate views. 1949, paper, mixed technique, 13.5x12.7 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his artistic heritage to publicity.
“I am 58, and in five Years my c...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
$421 Sale Price
20% Off
"Barns" Watercolor Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Realism Excellent Provenance
By Arthur Dove
Located in New York, NY
"Barns" Watercolor Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Realism Excellent Provenance
Arthur Dove (1880-1946)
"Barns"
5 x 7 inches
Watercolor on paper, 19...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
American Abstract Expressionist painting by well-known SF Bay area artist
Located in Colfax, CA
An early abstract expressionist work on paper by American artist Felix Ruvolo.
Mystery revolves around the very beginnings of Felix Ruvolo’s life. Any biographical information to be found only lists a birth year for Felix, but no day or month. We know he was born in New York City in 1912, and was raised by his grandparents in Sicily until the age of 12. Why he was sent back to Italy remains a mystery as well. What we do know is that young Felix showed so much promise as an artist that the family hired a professional artist to work with Felix while he was being raised in Sicily.
In 1924, at the age of 12, Ruvolo was sent back to the United States to rejoin his parents, who were settling in Chicago.
In Chicago, Ruvolo continued his private art lessons, and later enrolled in the Chicago Art Institute.
By the 1930s, the young prodigy was exhibiting his work regularly in Chicago, and was invited to participate in an American Federation of Arts traveling exhibition. This exposure brought more attention to Ruvolo’s work and he was soon invited to exhibit at major American venues, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Carnegie Institute, and the Walker Art Center.
In 1945, Ruvolo took a position teaching at the Chicago Art Institute where he had studied just a few years prior.
With extensive exhibitions in the United States, international attention arose and Ruvolo was invited to show at the Sao Paulo Biennial in Brazil, and at the Galerie Creuse in Paris, France.
By this time, Felix’s works were being reproduced in national magazines and in anthologies published by the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and Albright Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum, in the American Encyclopedia, the Dictionaire de la Peinture Abstraite, and Il Giornale D'Italia, and museums and private individuals around the world were acquiring works by Ruvolo for their collections.
By 1950 Ruvolo was invited, by a unanimous vote of the staff, to join the faculty of the art department at University of California, Berkeley, which was a hotbed of modern art at the time. Ruvolo accepted the position at UC Berkeley and settled in Berkeley, CA where his home became a gathering place for many artists and intellectuals.
In 1951, Ruvolo’s work was included in the ground-breaking exhibition ‘Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America’ held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Ruvolo was so highly regarded and respected by his peers around the country. George McNeil, who had been the director of the Pratt Institute in New York, is known to have said that he accepted an invitation to come to UC Berkeley because Felix was there.
Ruvolo was deeply engrained in the art scene in the San Francisco Bay Area during it’s mercurial rise to a cultural mecca, and was an influence on many young artist in the area including Mark di Suvero, William Brown, Mary Snowden...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Untitled
By Augustin Lesage
Located in PARIS, FR
Augustin Lesage is a French painter attached to the movement of art brut. Jean Dubuffet included the paintings of Lesage in his collection in 1948, onl...
Category
Folk Art 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cobwebs and Rocks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cobwebs and Rocks
Watercolor, 1940
Signed, dated, and copyrighted lower right
Exhibited: Zimmerli Art Museum, Benjamin Benno: Retrospective Exhibition, 1988
Illustrated: Gustafson, Zimmerli Museum: Benjamin Benno: Retrospective Exhibition, 1988
Color Plate 14 copy copy of the catalog accompanies the watercolor
Condition: excellent
Image size: 14 3/4 x 21 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Ruth O...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Surreal Abstract Mid 20th Century American Modern Woman Artist Work on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Surreal Abstract Mid 20th Century American Modern Woman Artist Work on Paper
Juanita Guccione (1904 - 1999)
Surreal Abstract
18 x 11 3/4 inches
Watercolor and mixed media on paper
Signed lower left
Framed: 23 x 17 inches
Note. We are currently have listed a 1935 oil by Guccione, and in addition to this abstract drawing, we have several other works on paper, along with a major surrealist oil, none of which are currently listed. Inquiries are invited.
BIO
The following is from Djelloul (Del) Marbrook, son of the artist. Of signatures on paintings by his mother, Juanita first signed as Anita Rice, then as Juanita Rice, Juanita Rice Marbrook, Juanita Marbrook, and finally Juanita Guccione after marrying in the 1940s.
Juanita Guccione's life (June 20, 1904-December 18, 1999) spanned all but four years of the 20th Century. Cubist*, realist, surrealist*, automatist* and abstract strains are all to be found in her work, but by 1970 she was painting works in watercolor and acrylic that no longer included the human figure or the observed world. She was the younger sister of the abstract geometric* artist Irene Rice Pereira. The sisters were born in Chelsea, MA, but spent most of their working lives in Manhattan.
In the early 1930s, Guccione, then painting as Nita Rice, lived for four years among the Ouled Nail...
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Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Rag Paper
Early abstract drawing created for a historic, pioneering modern film
Located in Colfax, CA
A great piece of American modern art history.
This work is one of the drawings Dwinell Grant created for his pioneering stop motion film, Contrathemis , circa 1941.
Dwinell Grant ...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Biomorphic abstract nude by a California abstract artist circa 1938
By Erle Loran
Located in Colfax, CA
This work is a modernist study created by the artist in the 1940s. (possibly the 1930s).
Erle Loran, (1905-1999), was an American painter and educator who painted for the entirety ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
“Floating Forms”
Located in Southampton, NY
Mid century modern gouache on paper by the well known Canadian/American artist, Rolph Scarlett. Signed and dated in blue pen lower left, 1947. Condition: Good. Framed in thin black matte painted frame with acid free white mat. Not examined out of frame. Overall framed 14.25 by 17 inches.
ROLPH SCARLETT (1889-1984)
Rolph Scarlett was born 1889 in Guelph, Ontario. His long life as an artist began in his teens as a jewelry designer and fabricator. At the age of fourteen he began to design jewelry professionally, a craft which he continued off and on for the rest of his life.
His desire to learn more about art took him to New York in 1908, when American artists were just beginning to experience strong influences from major modern European artists of the day such as Cezanne and Picasso.
Throughout his long career he produced, oil paintings, many works on paper, unique sculptured jewelry, modernist style industrial and furniture designs. Currently there are over 800 of his designs at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Design Collection.
In 1928 he moved to Hollywood, California where he became a very successful stage and set designer. In the mid-1930s he met the director of the Museum of Non-objective Art in New York ( Hilla Rebay). He became her close associate and advisor in organizing and running the museum. He was Chief lecturer at the museum (1939 -1946) teaching the new modernism and abstraction to the new generation of artists in the New York art community. Hilla Rebay would introduce him as “Rolph Scarlett, my great find”. So considerable was her enthusiasm for Scarlett, that she and Solomon Guggenheim bought over sixty of his paintings and monotypes for the museum. After Kandinsky and Bauer, there was more of Scarlett’s work in the collection than any other artists.
He participated in many of the museum exhibitions and galleries and was regularly exhibiting his work in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Art Museum, the Art Institute in Chicago, the Modern Age Gallery in N.Y., the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. He studied for a time at the Art Student League with William Merrit...
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Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Billy the Brownie With Flowers #407" original tempera by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this painting, Sylvia Spicuzza demonstrates her skill as an illustration artist, representing the Milwaukee character Billie the Brownie with a pair of flowers. An illustration like this could grace the pages of a children's book or illustrated magazine, or as an advertisement for Schuster’s Department Store.
10 x 8 inches, artwork
17 x 13.13 inches, frame
stamped with artist signature lower left
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, Art Deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso, Kandinsky and Max Ernst in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic, Modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy.
Billie the Brownie was a multi-media star of Christmas in Milwaukee from the 1920s to the 1950s. Years earlier, the writer and artist Palmer Cox...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Fireworks at Night - Original Drawing - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Fireworks at night is an original artwork realized by an artist in 1940s.
Tempera and watercolor drawing on ivory cardboard.
Good conditions. On the back of the drawing there is a...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Tempera
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