Late 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Original Abstract Portrait in Mixed Media on Paper II (1987) Robert Azensky Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this gorgeous example of 1980...

Bill Shields "Micro Biomorphic Abstract Drawing II" 1990's Pastel, pencil charcoal on illustration board Site measures 3.5"x2.5" silver wood frame 10.5"x10.5" Unsigned came from arti...

Black Abstract is an original artwork realized by Paul Peters in the second half of the XX Century. Original Black ink on cardboard. Hand-signed on rge l...

This geometric abstract by David Segel presents an interplay of form and color, rendered in a restrained palette of charcoal gray, black, ochre yellow, and deep red. The composition ...

"Abstract Tree" is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the 1970s by Leo Guida. Mixed Media. Watercolors, pastel, collage and pencil on paper. ...

Georges Hugnet (1906-1974) Yellow Dress Gouache on paper Signed in the lower right corner Dimensions 37,5 x 15,5 cm (15 x 6") Excellent condition

This artwork "Untitled #5" c.1970 is a colors pastel and crayon on thick paper by American artist Jerry Opper, 1924-2014. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist. The image size is 22 x 17 inches, sheet size is 24 x 19 inches. It is in excellent condition, there are pastel marks on the margin all around the artwork and also on the back, see picture #1. About the artist: Jerry Opper was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 5, 1924. He moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1933. After graduating from Hollywood High School, he worked in movie studios and attended art classes at Chouinard Art Institute. In May 1942, Opper was drafted into the army and was then able to study at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center while his outfit was stationed in Colorado. Later he was sent to Guam and was discharged in December 1945. Opper returned to Chouinard and his work in movie studios until 1947, when he moved to San Francisco. He enrolled as a full-time student at the California School of Fine Arts (now SFAI) and received his diploma in June of 1950. In 1948, Opper met his wife Gertrud Ruth Friedmann, daughter of artist Gustav Friedmann, whose works are also in the Lost Art Salon collection. It was love at first sight and a few weeks after their first encounter at the Black Cat in San Francisco's North Beach, they got married and enjoyed a passionate, life-long romance. Shortly after he finished school, Opper worked briefly as a decorator’s assistant and then started his career as a commercial artist, working for several firms such as Fibreboard, Beatrix Food and Precision. Working full-time and dedicating himself to having a rich family life occupied most of Opper's time, but he continued to be creative. He was above all a family man with the pride of having raised two exceptional daughters, Erika and Jody. Year after year, Opper would painstakingly craft their Halloween costumes...

Keith Sonnier (1940-2020, Louisiana) is best known for radically reinventing the art of sculpture in the late 1960s. He employed unusual materials that had never been used before, ca...

Gallo By Clyde Hopkins Clyde Hopkins is a mysterious and reclusive figure known for blending surreal storytelling with abstract thought. His work often challenges conventional per...

Jeremy Moon Drawing 73/13 (20/5/73), 1973 Pastel on paper Hand-signed by artist, Signed and dated 20/5/73 in graphite on the lower front; the back of the v...

Expressive watercolor landscape of an abstracted crashing surf swirling into a dreamy sky, punctuated by silhouetted birds in flight by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-...

John Peters 1927-2019 "Brown DNA" 1980s Marker on paper 8"x10" brown wood frame float mount over linen mat 11"x12.75 Unsigned, came from a portfolio of the artist's work

This artwork titled "Full Moon" 1995 is in an original pastel on paper by noted American artist Pia Stern, b. 1953. It is hand signed, dated and titled by th...

Artist: Mac Jamison, American Title: Untitled Medium: Watercolor, signed l.r. Size: 30 in. x 41.5 in. (76.2 cm x 105.41 cm)

Original collage on paper by the italian artist Giuseppe Uncini, in excellent conditions and authenticated by the Archivio Opera Giuseppe Uncini in 2014.

Grace Knowlton Untitled (Colored Pencils), 1978 Mixed media watercolor and charcoal painting on paper. (Framed with labels from the legendary Allan Stone Collection...

Ervin NEUHAUS Fire Original watercolor and tempera on heavy paper Handsigned bottom right Authenticated with the stamp of the Estate sale on the back 21 x 21 cm (c. 8 x 8 inch) Ex...

Vibrant multicolor abstract with linear grid patterns by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Signed "Les Anderson" lower right. Presented in a new grey mat. Image...

A striking large-scale abstract watercolor painting by contemporary American artist Virginia Maitland (b. 1947), created in 1980. Known for her expressive use of color and dynamic co...

Bill Shields "Micro Biomorphic Abstract Drawing III" 1990's Pastel, pencil on paper affixed to mat board Site measures 2.75"x2.5" silver wood frame 9.5"x9" Unsigned came from artist'...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Apocalyptic Tropical Landscape) Year: 1973 Medium: Ink on heavy archival paper Size: 22 x 30 inches ...

Simon Samsonian (1912-2003) Untitled, 1991 Poster color and pastel on paper Sight size: 19 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. Framed: 28 1/4 x 22 1/4 in. Signed lower le...

Ervin NEUHAUS Composition Blue and Red on Orange Original watercolor and tempera on heavy paper Handsigned bottom right Authenticated with the stamp of the Estate sale on the back ...

This artwork "Still Life #1" c.1970 is a colors pastel and crayon on thick paper by American artist Jerry Opper, 1924-2014. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist. The image size is 22 x 16 inches, sheet size is 24.25 x 18 inches. It is in excellent condition, there are pastel marks on the margin all around the artwork and also on the back, see picture #1. About the artist: Jerry Opper was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 5, 1924. He moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1933. After graduating from Hollywood High School, he worked in movie studios and attended art classes at Chouinard Art Institute. In May 1942, Opper was drafted into the army and was then able to study at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center while his outfit was stationed in Colorado. Later he was sent to Guam and was discharged in December 1945. Opper returned to Chouinard and his work in movie studios until 1947, when he moved to San Francisco. He enrolled as a full-time student at the California School of Fine Arts (now SFAI) and received his diploma in June of 1950. In 1948, Opper met his wife Gertrud Ruth Friedmann, daughter of artist Gustav Friedmann, whose works are also in the Lost Art Salon collection. It was love at first sight and a few weeks after their first encounter at the Black Cat in San Francisco's North Beach, they got married and enjoyed a passionate, life-long romance. Shortly after he finished school, Opper worked briefly as a decorator’s assistant and then started his career as a commercial artist, working for several firms such as Fibreboard, Beatrix Food and Precision. Working full-time and dedicating himself to having a rich family life occupied most of Opper's time, but he continued to be creative. He was above all a family man with the pride of having raised two exceptional daughters, Erika and Jody. Year after year, Opper would painstakingly craft their Halloween costumes...

This is original watercolor over a limited edition woodcut political poster. hand signed, dated and numbered. it bears similarity to works by Alexander Calder. Employing a star and abstract design. Katherine Porter is an American artist born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1941. She received her BA from Colorado College in 1963. Katherine Porter received an honorary doctorate from Colby College. She has shown twice in the Whitney Biennial and solo exhibitions at the Knoedler Gallery in London, the Nina Nielsen Gallery in Boston, and the Andre Emmerich and Salander-O'Reilly Galleries in New York. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Tel Aviv Museum and Bezalel Museum in Jerusalem. (Katherine Page Porter, Katherine Pavlis Porter) Her exhibitions include biennials in 1976 and 1981 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; 1980 at the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts; 1981, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; 1985, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; and 1987 at the Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City. Classic Americana. American Abstract Expressionism. Early Pattern and Decoration piece, The movement was championed by the gallery owner Holly Solomon. The P&D movement wanted to revive an interest in minor forms such as patterning which at that point was equated with triviality. The prevailing negative view of decoration was one not generally shared by non-Western cultures, The Pattern and Decoration movement was influenced by sources outside of what was considered to be fine art. Blurring the line between art and design, many P&D works mimic patterns like those on wallpapers, printed fabrics, and quilts. There is a close connection between the Pattern and Decoration movement and the Feminist art movement. The P&D movement arose in opposition to the Minimalist and Conceptualist movements. Mary Grigoriadis Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Miriam Schapiro, Robert Zakanitch all worked in this same vein. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA Salander O’Reilly Gallery, New York, NY Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY Knoedler Gallery, London Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY Pace Gallery, Addison, ME Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (drawings) Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Contemporary Landscape Painting, Nagoya/Boston Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan From the Collection of Edward Broida, Palm Beach Art Museum, Palm Beach, FL Abstraction Per Se (through January 1993), Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY Painting Self-Evident (Curator), Picolo Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC Art on Paper 1990, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina, Museo Barjola, Gijon, Spain; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY Sightings, Instituto de Estudios Norteamericanos, Barcelona; Casa Revilla, Valladolid, Invitational, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT Atelier Project, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, NY Landscape Show, Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY Rethinking the Avant-Garde, by Jonathan Fineberg, The Katonah Gallery, NY Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NY Group Show, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland Contemporary Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, NY Modern Expressionist: German, Italian, & American Painters, Sidney Janis Gallery, NY American Women Artists, Part II: Younger Generation, Sidney Janis Gallery, NY Contemporary Works on Paper, Frumkin-Adams Gallery, NY Hassam Speicher Purchase Fund Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY The End of the World: Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse, The New York Museum of Contemporary Art, NY Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Homage to Arthur Dove, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY Six Painters, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Twenty New York Painters, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 74th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Abstract Painting, Women’s Caucus, NY Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Spoleto Choice, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC From Women’s Eyes, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Theodoran, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Three If By Air, Obelisk Gallery, Boston, MA Betty Parsons Collection, Finch College, New York, NY SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria California Palace of the Legion of Honor (Achenbach Foundation), San Francisco, CA Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, MI Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Gemeentsmuseum of the Hague, The Hague, Netherlands (permanent installation) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Mount Holyoke...

Movie Room is an original artwork in mixed media applied on cardboard, realized by Sergio Barletta. Hand-signed on the lower right. Titled in Italian on t...

In the Restaurant is a Colors Markers Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Paris 1980). Good condition on a sheet of a notebook. No signature,titled and dated on ...

Margie Hughto Orchid & Red, 1983 Dyed Handmade paper Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right front. Titled on the back. Unique Frame Inclu...

Tony Oursler Crab (With Museum Exhibition Labels), 1972 Colored pencil on paper Bears what appears to be the artists signature (or original notation)...

SEYMOUR LIPTON Untitled sculpture drawing, 1979 Charcoal on paper Original drawing done in charcoal by renowned sculptor Seymour Lipton Provenance: Michael and Alan Lipton, the artis...

D. Tongen Pink, Blue, Mint, Black 1980s 12.75"x9.75" Soft pastel and pencil on paper Initialed in pencil lower right

Genichiro Inokuma, Japanese (1902 - 1993) - Labyrinth, Year: 1970, Medium: Blue and Black Ink Drawing on Paper, Size: 5 x 3 in. (12.7 x 7.62 cm), ...

Bill Shields "Micro Biomorphic Abstract Drawing " 1990's Pastel, pencil charcoal on illustration board Site measures 3"x3" silver wood frame 9.75"x10.75" Unsigned came from artist's ...

A large minimal abstract painting on paper by Yasmin Brandolini. Artist: Yasmin Brandolini d'Adda, South African/Italian (1929 - ) Title: 36A Year: 1986 Medium: Acrylic on Paper, Mo...

Art: 30-1/8 x 22-3/8 inches Lithograph, from Portfolio Signed and numbered ‘80’, from the edition of 100” Famed worldwide for giving graphic definition to the postwar age, Saul Ste...

Original drawing on paper. Hand signed and dated on front by Purvis Young. Paper size: 9.25 x 11.25 inches. Frame size: 12.25 x 15.25 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. ...

JAN ANISEROWICZ (born in 1929) Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, St. Petersburg and Rome. He received the scholarship from the Italian Government. He received numerous a...

David Novros (American, b. 1941) Untitled (Home Savings Study), 1986 Watercolor on paper Framed: 35 1/4 x 86 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. Each panel: 30 x 42 in. From Los Angeles and working fro...

Untitled is an original artwork realized by Tony Cragg in 1996. Pencil on paper. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower left. On the back, there is the label of Buchmann Galerie, Kol...

Target in Square Shlomo Cassos, Moroccan (1936) Date: 1978 Collage on paper, signed Size: 17 x 13.5 in. (43.18 x 34.29 cm)

Saint Clair Cemin (Brazilian-American) Double Sculpture, 1987 Graphite and watercolor on paper Hand signed, dated and titled on the back of the sheet ...

Alan Davie, Scotland (1920-2014). Gouache painting with watercolor 'Village Myth' Hand signed ('with love') lower left, 1982 Dimensions: with frame 37.5"H x 30.25"W; image, 28"H x 22.5"W. James Alan Davie (1920 – 2014) was a Scottish painter and musician. Davie was born in Grangemouth, Scotland in 1920, the son of Elizabeth (née Turnbull) and James William Davie, an art teacher and painter who exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1925. During this formative period Davie discovered the poetry of Walt Whitman and T.S. Eliot, whose prose is echoed in letters home as well as his own verses. Alan Davie studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1937 to 1941. An early exhibition of his work came through the Society of Scottish Artists. After the Second World War, Davie played tenor saxophone in the Tommy Sampson Orchestra, which was based in Edinburgh and broadcast and toured in Europe. He also earned a living making jewellery during the postwar period. Davie began teaching basic design in the jewellery department at London’s Central School of Arts and Crafts led by the Scottish artist William Johnstone, where colleagues included artists Nigel Henderson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton and Patrick Heron. In 1961, Davie’s jewellery was featured in The International Exhibition of Modern Jewellery at London’s Goldsmith’s Hall, a milestone in the history of jewellery making in Britain where an impressive roster of international and British artists including Alexander Calder, Naum Gabo, Victor Pasmore and John McHale...

Abstract watercolor with layered green and yellow tones by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Signed verso ...

Souleymane Keita, Senegalese (1947 -2014) - Green Symphony, Year: 1982, Medium: Pastel on J Perrigot Arches Special MBM, signed and dated in pencil ...

Ron Morosan, American (1947 - ) - Pictorial Transfer, Year: 1998, Medium: Gouache On Paper, signed, titled and dated in pencil, Size: 15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 27.94 cm)

Ron Morosan, American (1947 - ) - Closed Circuit, Year: 1999, Medium: Crayon on Paper, signed and dated in pencil lower left, Size: 11 x 8.5 in. (27.94 x 21.59 cm)

Composition is an Original Mixed Media realized by Francois Chapuis in mid-20th century. Good condition , hand signed on the lower right corner with ...

Abstract Color Field Composition in Watercolor on Paper Bold abstract composition by Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). Two rectangles of color sit vertically, with gray-pu...

Modern warm toned expressionist abstract painting by contemporary artist Doyle Gertjejansen. The work features an abstract, surrealist view of orange organic forms overlaid with expressive black strokes. Signed and dated in the front lower right corner. Currently hung in thick grey frame. Dimensions Without Frame: H 18 in. x W 24 in. Artist Biography: Doyle Gertjejansen received his MFA degree with a major in painting and minor in art history from the University of Minnesota. He has resided in New Orleans for most of his professional career, teaching and serving as chair, graduate coordinator, gallery director, and other academic positions and duties at the University of New Orleans. In New Orleans his work has been represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery, Galerie Simonne Stern, and currently, Callan Contemporary...

Artist: Dom Mingolla, American (1900 - 1980?) Title: Untitled Year: circa 1985 Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Signed l.r. Size: 22 x 30 inches Frame: 32 x 42 inches

Abstract Expressionist Rue de Paris Original transfer Monotype painting by California artist Heather Speck (American 20th C) abstract scene using oil and...

Green and yellow abstract mix by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Unsigned and unframed. Image size, 10.2...

Acrylic, Ink, Pastel and collage on archival paper - Original Work on Paper, unique work. The work is in very good condition and is signed lower Right "Patricia R.". Unfortunately w...

Highly detailed rendering of a kimono by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). The ribbons in this piece have a metallic quality to them. Signed "Patricia A Pearce" in the bottom r...

Abstract Composition is an original mixed media drawing in ink and watercolor on paper realized by Peter Dischleit (1940-1993) in 1973. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right marg...

Modern warm toned expressionist abstract painting by contemporary artist Doyle Gertjejansen. The work features an abstract, surrealist view of a painting hanging on a wall overlaid with expressive black strokes. Signed and dated in the front lower right corner. Currently hung in thick grey frame. Dimensions Without Frame: H 18 in. x W 24 in. Artist Biography: Doyle Gertjejansen received his MFA degree with a major in painting and minor in art history from the University of Minnesota. He has resided in New Orleans for most of his professional career, teaching and serving as chair, graduate coordinator, gallery director, and other academic positions and duties at the University of New Orleans. In New Orleans his work has been represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery, Galerie Simonne Stern, and currently, Callan Contemporary...

This artwork "Untitled #2" c.1970 is a colors pastel and crayon on thick paper by American artist Jerry Opper, 1924-2014. It is hand signed with initial in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist. The image size is 23 x 18 inches, sheet size is 24 x 19 inches. It is in excellent condition, there are pastel marks on the margin all around the artwork and also on the back, see picture #1. About the artist: Jerry Opper was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 5, 1924. He moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1933. After graduating from Hollywood High School, he worked in movie studios and attended art classes at Chouinard Art Institute. In May 1942, Opper was drafted into the army and was then able to study at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center while his outfit was stationed in Colorado. Later he was sent to Guam and was discharged in December 1945. Opper returned to Chouinard and his work in movie studios until 1947, when he moved to San Francisco. He enrolled as a full-time student at the California School of Fine Arts (now SFAI) and received his diploma in June of 1950. In 1948, Opper met his wife Gertrud Ruth Friedmann, daughter of artist Gustav Friedmann, whose works are also in the Lost Art Salon collection. It was love at first sight and a few weeks after their first encounter at the Black Cat in San Francisco's North Beach, they got married and enjoyed a passionate, life-long romance. Shortly after he finished school, Opper worked briefly as a decorator’s assistant and then started his career as a commercial artist, working for several firms such as Fibreboard, Beatrix Food and Precision. Working full-time and dedicating himself to having a rich family life occupied most of Opper's time, but he continued to be creative. He was above all a family man with the pride of having raised two exceptional daughters, Erika and Jody. Year after year, Opper would painstakingly craft their Halloween costumes...

Hyman Bloom "Still Life with Flies" Frame: 18" X 16" Image: 9.25" X 8.25" Hand signed with his monogram initials Provenance: bears exhibition label from Fuller Museum of Art Hyman B...

Archaic Spirit is an artwork realized by the English artist Martin Bradley in 1970 ca.. Watercolour on cardboard, hand-signed on the lower left corner "Martin Bradley " and titled o...

Artist: Arnold Grossman (American, 1923-2016) Title: Untitled Year: c.2000 Medium: Watercolor Paper: Watercolor paper Size image: 18 x 24 inches paper: 18 x 24 inches Signature: ...