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Liberté Égalité Fraternité Symbolic Composition French Modernist Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Liberté Égalité Fraternité Symbolic Composition French Modernist Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 12.75 x 9.5 inches (height x w...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$352 Sale Price
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ORIGINAL INK UNIQUE PIECE GEORGES MATHIEU MANUFACTURE DES GOBELINS
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original ink on paper
Hand signed
Unique piece
Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Yellow and Green Composition
Located in New York, NY
Yellow and Green Composition is a striking and lyrical example of Natalia Dumitresco’s mature abstract style, rendered here on an intimate scale. IT is also framed in a very unique a...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper
Vlady at Galeria de Arte Misrachi, Ink Drawing by Vladimir "Vlady" Kibalchich
Located in Long Island City, NY
This collotype featured in the pamphlet available at Galerie de Art Misrachi for an exhibition of works by Vlady. This specific example also bears a drawing by the artist in pen on t...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
British Painting Warm Colors Reflecting On Lake Beneath The Mountains
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
signed original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 7 x 9 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for ...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Roofs of Ravello
, Mid-Century Abstract, Harvard Fogg Museum, SFAA, Carmel, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Roofs of Ravello' by Margaret Wentworth, 1959.
Mid-Century Abstract, Harvard Fogg Museum, San Francisco Art Association, Carmel, Art Institute of Chicago
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Initialed lower rig...
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Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Egg Tempera, Pen, Paper
British Mid 20th Century Impressionist Painting The Village In The Mountains
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 16 x 19.75 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for a...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
British Impressionist Painting Autuminal Landscape Cattle Crossing The Road
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 13 x 11 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for an un...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Abstracted San Francisco Bay Line Drawing Landscape
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold abstract geometric landscape, an expressive black and white line drawing done in pastel, by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999). Unsigned, but was acquired from the artist's estate. Presented in a new black mat with foam core backing. Provenance: Estate of Earle Loran; David Carlson...
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Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Abstract drawing n°13 by Julien Dinou - A4 size
By Julien Dinou
Located in Geneva, CH
Drawing on paper without frame
Size A4
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$160 Sale Price
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1950
s French Modernist/ Cubist Painting Floral Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Floral Abstract
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed
size: 12 x 9 inches
condition: very good and ready to be e...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
$470 Sale Price
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French Futurist Abstract Figure Mid 20th Century Signed Painting
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Futurist Abstract Figure
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
Signed lower right
gouache painting on paper, unframed
measurements: 12 x 6 inches (overall sheet measures 15.5 x 11.25 inches)
provenance: private collection of the artists work, Provence, France
Condition report: very good, colour strong, clean throughout, minor rippling, shallow creasing around corners and edges of sheet, image clean
Vibrant French futurist...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$742 Sale Price
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British Impressionist Painting Winding River Nestled In The Countryside
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
signed original watercolour painting on artistic paper, unframed
size: 10 x 14 inches
condition: overall very good, ...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 10.75 x 8.5 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we h...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
British Impressionist Painting Fishermen And Boats On The Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 15. x 21.5 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for an...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
British Impressionist Painting Swan and Signets Gliding Across Peaceful Waters
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
signed original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 10.75 x 15 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 10 x 10 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we have ...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 11 x 7.5 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we have...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
British Impressionist Painting Lighthouse Beneath Flaming Sky
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
signed original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 11 x 16 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal fo...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
British Impressionist Painting Peaceful Town On A Summer Day Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
signed original watercolour painting on artistic paper, unframed
size: 10 x 14 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
British Impressionist Painting Punt Boat On Lake Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 10 x 12 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to t...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
British Impressionist Painting Bridge and Flowing River In The Countryside
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 10 x 13.75 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for an...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
British Impressionist Painting Bridge Behind Fishing Boat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
signed original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 10 x 11 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal fo...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
British Impressionist Painting Flowers, Foliage And Boat On The Lake
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 15 x 22 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for an u...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mother Nature
, Lyrical Surrealist Abstract Watercolour on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-century lyrical surrealist abstract watercolour on paper by French artist Jean Clerté, signed and dated bottom right. Presented in mid-century frame.
Jean Clerté , born in 1930 in Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe in Vienne, is a French painter, engraver, draftsman, watercolourist and sculptor . This work is a great example of his more humorous and expressive work influenced by Alechinsky from the late 1960s onwards. There is a light playfulness and yet the watercolours are more vivid than his previous palette.
Jean Clerté works in series. His sequential narrations testify both to a youthful spontaneity and to a perfect mastery in the distribution of forms and images on the painted surface. The narration is not only an accumulation of juxtaposed fragments and symbols, it forms a whole, it takes on and gives meaning. In general, we can say of Clerté that he practices an “eco-art” that feeds on primary hungers: the feeling of being united with nature, the vegetable, the mineral, the aquatic. In his colourful canvases, his inks, his boxes, his objects, like a shaman on the path of his dreams, the painter Clerté mounts an assault on beasts and demons, elves and gnomes. From the Poitevin marshes to the tropical forests emerges a fauna caught in the meanders of a design that marvels at the appearance of these grotesque idols.
Jean Clerté began to draw and paint at a very young age, and at the age of 15 he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Poitiers. Then in 1949, curious about the capital, he moved to Paris. Having very few financial resources, he could not continue his studies at first, worked as a model to survive, and met other artists; he was then admitted to the studio of Ossip Zadkine and, from 1952, he was also able to study engraving at Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter, an English engraver and printer living in Paris associated in the 1930s with surrealism.
At the end of the 1960s, he worked alongside Pierre Alechinsky, founding member of the Cobra movement, engraving Alechinsky's originals, benefiting from his advice, and discovering acrylic as a medium.
From 1976, Jean Clerté became associate professor at Hayter. Clerté had taught previously, in 1971 at the Salzburg Summer University and in 1972 he gave courses at the Paris-Sorbonne University . In 1981, he was appointed professor at the School of Decorative Arts , where he had Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas as a student and, from 1983 to 1988, he was Alechinsky's assistant professor at the Paris School of Fine Arts.
His first works are part of the current of lyrical abstraction, and are nourished by impressions of nature (landscape motifs, e.g. forest fires, waterscapes), then around 1968, encouraged by Alechinsky, he rejects abstraction, and his work becomes more figurative with expressive and humorous elements. From this period his colours are more subdued, often with pastel tones, he works on series. Jean Clerté has created a world in a space where drawing, painting, objects participate in a playful figuration. From his drawings were born sculptures and sometimes mobiles (Le Moulin à dessin). If it is the artist who makes astonishing, polychrome, whimsical “toys”, it is the painter who appeals to adults through his caustic and satirical humour.
His first exhibitions in France took place at the Galerie Massol , then at the Galerie Pascal...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bright Colored Abstract Watercolor and Ink - Under the Canopy
Located in Houston, TX
Whimsical and bright abstract ink and watercolor painting of a tree surrounded with colorful foliage, circa 1970.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold bor...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Pencil Drawing
By Hugo Esteban
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract pencil drawing demonstrating curb flow and eccentric designby Spanish artist Hugo Esteban, circa 1960. Signed lower left.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white m...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Transformista 3 - Original Figurative Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
Transformista 3 - Original Figurative Drawing by Jose Luis Cuevas (b. 1934 d. 2017.)
This original ink drawing by Cuevas depicts two distorted figures pressing their faces together....
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Abstract drawing n°2 by Julien Dinou
By Julien Dinou
Located in Geneva, CH
Drawing on paper without frame
Size A4
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$160 Sale Price
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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 Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 12.75 x 9.75 inches
condition: excellent
pr...
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Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
Mid-Century Modernist Watercolor
Gouache Painting by Robert Natkin
Located in New York, NY
This ethereal and beautifully colored Mid-Century Modernist Watercolor & Gouache Painting by Robert Natkin originates from the United States, C.1963. A significant figure in abstract...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
British Painting Moonlight Reflecting On The Water With Fishing Trawler Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 10 x 12 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to th...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 10 x 10 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we have ...
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Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
British Impressionist Painting Sleepy Town
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 12 x 15 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for an un...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$382 Sale Price
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British Mid 20th Century Impressionist Painting Pontoon On The Lake
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 16 x 19.75 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for a...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
British Impressionist Painting The Carousel At A FunFair
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
original watercolour painting on board, unframed
size: 11 x 14.75 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for an...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$382 Sale Price
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French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
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...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
British Mid 20th Century Impressionist Painting Village And Canal Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Frank Duffield (British, 1908-1982)
signed original watercolour painting on card, unframed
size: 5 x 7.5 inches
condition: overall very good, minor wear to the edges as is normal for...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 13 x 10 inches Signed
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings w...
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Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil
"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...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract drawing n°4 - Oiseaux migrateurs by Julien Dinou - A4 size
By Julien Dinou
Located in Geneva, CH
Drawing on paper without frame
Size A4
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$160 Sale Price
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Martini and Rossi Bitter Vintage Advertising Design French Modernist Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Martini and Rossi Bitter Vintage Advertising Design French Modernist Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (heig...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$561 Sale Price
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Abstracted Hilltop Village with Cypress French Modernist Gouache by Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Abstracted Hilltop Village with Cypress French Modernist Gouache by Guy Nicod
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 18.75 inches (hei...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$311 Sale Price
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Martini and Rossi Bitter French Modernist Cocktail Advertising Style with Bottle
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Martini and Rossi Bitter French Modernist Cocktail Advertising Style Painting
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 11.75 x 15.75 inches (hei...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
La Ville Ce Monstre Dévorant Urban Monster Poster Design French Modernist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: La Ville Ce Monstre Dévorant Urban Monster Poster Design French Modernist
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (height ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$548 Sale Price
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Floral Still Life With Red Amaryllis And Wine Bottles French Modernist Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Floral Still Life With Red Amaryllis And Wine Bottles French Modernist Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 19.25 x 15.5 inches (height x width)
Provenance: Artists estate, France
Condition: good overall, with light handling marks and minor age-related wear consistent with age
Description:
This bold and dynamic modernist gouache by French artist Guy Nicod (1923–2021) depicts a vibrant still life of red amaryllis flowers arranged alongside a cluster of wine bottles and fruit. The tall, vivid blooms dominate the composition, their scarlet petals set against a richly painted background of cobalt blue, deep burgundy, and emerald green. At the base of the composition, the dark verticals of bottles and the rounded form of fruit anchor the scene, creating a strong sense of balance and depth.
Nicod’s expressive use of gouache on paper brings an immediacy and energy to the piece. Bold brushstrokes and layered passages of colour merge figuration with abstraction, allowing the viewer to focus on the interplay of red, green, and yellow hues as much as on the floral subject itself. The painting captures not only the natural beauty of flowers, but also the celebratory atmosphere suggested by the presence of wine bottles, evoking themes of conviviality and abundance.
Rooted in the traditions of post-war French modernism, Nicod’s floral still lifes combine painterly freedom with structured arrangements. Here, the oversized flowers radiate across the surface with theatrical intensity, while the bottles and fruit add depth and contrast. The work is both decorative and expressive, making it an ideal choice for collectors of French floral painting...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$540 Sale Price
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Vibrant Floral Still Life With Red Gladiolus And Wine Bottles French Modernist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Vibrant Floral Still Life With Red Gladiolus And Wine Bottles French Modernist
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 19.25 x 13.75 inches (he...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$552 Sale Price
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Mid Century French Illustration Of A Grey Abstract Hardware Utensils Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Grey Hardware
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed
pastel/watercolor on paper, unframed
painting: 25.5 x 19 inches
good condition - small rip in paper
provenance: from the art...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor
American abstract collage by a female artist from the 1930s
Located in Colfax, CA
An abstract collage by Janet Todd Young, early AAA member and lifelong abstract artist.
Janet Todd Young was born in Illinois in 1908, and earned a bachelor's degree in languages fr...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Socre Up, Surrealist Mixed Media Drawing on Paper by Juan Sanchez Juarez
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ink, Pencil and watercolor, signed and dated l.l.
Size: 16 x 12 in.
Frame Size: 30 x 25 in.
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Untitled PL 63-03
Located in Pine Plains, NY
An early drawing by this unique visionary artist, post Harvard Graduate School and concurrent with his apprenticeship to Frederick Kiesler
Category
Outsider Art Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Abstract composition by Julien Dinou - Charcoal on paper A4 size
By Julien Dinou
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Black plastic frame with glass pane
31,5 x 41 x 2 cm
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
$264 Sale Price
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Abstract Composition - Pastel by Giorgio Zennaro - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Oil Pastel on paper realized in 1969.
Hand signed and dated in pencil lower right.
Hand dedicated, signed and dated (1971) on rear.
Includes a wooden frame cm. 43.5x52.
Very goo...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Early Modern Black
White Abstract Still Life
Vases Drawing Studies
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern black and white sketch by iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. Pulled from a collection of previously undiscovered sketchbooks, this work serves as a peak behind t...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Ink
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 Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
American abstract painting of a nude woman by a California artist circa 1937
By Harry Bowden
Located in Colfax, CA
An early abstract figurative painting on paper by American artist, Harry Bowden.
Harry Bowden was an abstract painter, photographer, and educator, who lived, worked and exhibited in...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Early Modern Black
White Abstract Figurative Elegant Woman Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern black and white sketch by iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. Pulled from a collection of previously undiscovered sketchbooks, this work serves as a peak behind t...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Constructivist collage by a female American abstract artist circa 1935
Located in Colfax, CA
A rare work of art by an female modernist artist from the 1930s, by Janet Todd Young.
Janet Todd Young is a very interesting artist.
She was born in Illinois in 1908, and earned a bachelor's degree in languages from Oberlin College, specializing in French, Italian and German. After graduating, Janet travelled to Europe to put her language skills to use, working for her father.
While living in Berlin in the early 1930s she met and married Beckford Young, an American artist from Petaluma, California who had recently been working with Hans Hofmann at UC Berkeley.
Hofmann, widely considered to be one of the most influential abstract artists of the time, was returning to Germany and convinced Beckford to travel with him so the two could be closer the the cutting edge of emerging modern art in Europe.
Through Beckford and Hofmann, Janet, a midwesterner, and the daughter of a congregational minister, was introduced to cutting edge ideas in the modern art world.
Soon after their marriage, Janet and Beckford travelled to Positano, Italy where Vaclav Vytlacil, a leading modern American artist, was teaching at an art colony.
In 1937, the unrest in Europe forced the Youngs to leave Europe for California.
While living in California, Janet exhibited her work in New York City with the American Abstract Artists, which had been recently created by leading American abstract artists with the sole purpose of exposing the American public to American abstract art.
In California Janet exhibited her work at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1938, the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939, and with the San Francisco Art Association in 1956.
Janet, who had already been making and exhibiting Russian constructivist inspired constructions, was introduced to furniture making by her husband, and made constructivist furniture...
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Abstract Mid-20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
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