Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Café Interior with Seated Figures French Modernist Gouache by Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Café Interior with Seated Figures French Modernist Gouache by Guy Nicod
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 13.75 x 10.5 inches (height x w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$405 Sale Price
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Beach Seascape
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Beach Seascape, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 20" H x 25.5" W. Provenance: From a 3...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Cityscape with Palm Trees and Modernist Architecture Gouache French Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cityscape with Palm Trees and Modernist Architecture Gouache French Landscape
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 12.75 x 19.75 inches (hei...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$442 Sale Price
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Cubist Aviation And Musical Scene With Airplanes Instruments And Abstract Figure
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist Aviation And Musical Scene With Airplanes Instruments And Abstract Figure
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 14.5 x 21.75 inches (h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Surrealist Composition with Figures and Geometric Forms French Modern Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Surrealist Composition with Figures and Geometric Forms French Modern Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 21.5 x 9.75 inches (heigh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$515 Sale Price
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Beach Seascape
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Beach Seascape, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 25.5" H x 20" W. Provenance: From a 3...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Celestial Tondo Pointillist Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Celestial Tondo, Pointillist Composition, Gouache on Paper, apparently unsigned, artist estate stamp to verso, with red dot sticker...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"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...
Category
1940s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
Cubist Abstract Still Life With Vase Fruit And Decorative Plate
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist Abstract Still Life With Vase Fruit And Decorative Plate
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 13.75 x 19.25 inches (height x width)
P...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$454 Sale Price
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French Spring Path with Shed Vineyard and Bare Tree Pastel Landscape Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Spring Path with Shed Vineyard and Bare Tree Pastel Landscape Drawing
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Oil pastel on artist paper
Size: 19.75 x 23.5 inches (height x wid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$487 Sale Price
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Still Life with Shell and Bust French Modernist Gouache Painting by Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Abstract Geometric Composition in Blue Green and Red Modernist Oil Pastel
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 14 x 10.75 inches (height x w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$532 Sale Price
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Martini Advertising Design Extra Dry Cocktail By The Fireplace French Modernist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Martini Advertising Design Extra Dry Cocktail By The Fireplace French Modernist
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$532 Sale Price
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Abstract surrealist seascape with vibrant geometric forms French modernist oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Vintage Reclining Nude Modernist Female Figure French Gouache Painting on Paper
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 22.75 inches (h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$425 Sale Price
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Colourful Countryside Road with Bridge French Modern Landscape Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Colourful Countryside Road with Bridge French Modern Landscape Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 24.25 inches (height x w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$540 Sale Price
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Architectural Rhythm French Modernist Gouache by Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Architectural Rhythm French Modernist Gouache by Guy Nicod
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 20.25 inches (height x width)
Proven...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$610 Sale Price
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Abstract Eye Composition French Modernist Watercolour by Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Abstract Eye Composition French Modernist Watercolour by Guy Nicod
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Watercolour on artist paper, unframed
Size: 17.5 x 21.75 inches (height x wi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$593 Sale Price
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Seated Female Nude Study French Modernist Gouache on Paper by Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seated Female Nude Study French Modernist Gouache on Paper by Guy Nicod
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 18.25 x 15 inches (height x wid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$417 Sale Price
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Rockwall Seascape
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Rockwall Seascape, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 19" H x 24" W. Provenance: From a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Abstract Interior Composition French Modernist Watercolour by Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Abstract Interior Composition French Modernist Watercolour by Guy Nicod
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Watercolour on artist paper, unframed
Size: 18 x 21.25 inches (height x...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$597 Sale Price
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Still Life with Dahlias in a Glass Vase French Modernist Watercolour Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Still Life with Dahlias in a Glass Vase French Modernist Watercolour Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 18.75 x 12.25 inches (heig...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$307 Sale Price
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Cubist French Countryside Landscape With Houses Trees And Bridge Modernist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist French Countryside Landscape With Houses Trees And Bridge Modernist
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 19.25 x 25.75 inches (height...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$552 Sale Price
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Czechoslovak Ballet Dancers French Modernist Poster Style Dance Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Czechoslovak Ballet Dancers French Modernist Poster Style Dance Painting
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (height x...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$511 Sale Price
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Modernist French Landscape with Cows Trees and Yellow and Blue Roofs
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modernist French Landscape with Cows Trees and Yellow and Blue Roofs
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Oil pastel on artist paper
Size: 19.75 x 23.5 inches (height x width)
Prov...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$462 Sale Price
40% Off
Rockwall Seascape
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Rockwall Seascape, Charcoal on Paper, with the artist's signature stamped lower right, unframed. 19" H x 24" W. Provenance: From a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
French Modernist Abstract Underwater Fantasy Scene with Fish and Sea Creatures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Modernist Abstract Underwater Fantasy Scene with Fish and Sea Creatures
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 11.25 x 9.25 inches (hei...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$282 Sale Price
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"Falaise d
Aval"
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), "Falaise d'Aval", Pastel on Paper, apparently unsigned, artist's estate stamp to verso, silvered wood frame. Image: 8.5" H x 10.5" ...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Protect Nature French Modernist Environmental Poster Style Figure and Tree
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Protect Nature French Modernist Environmental Poster Style Figure and Tree
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (height...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$479 Sale Price
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Cubist Still Life With Flowers Vase Chair And Book French Modernist Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist Still Life With Flowers Vase Chair And Book French Modernist Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 19.75 x 11.75 inches (heigh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$389 Sale Price
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Dancing Couple in Evening Dress French Modernist Abstract Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Dancing Couple in Evening Dress French Modernist Abstract Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 19 inches (height x width)
Pr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$429 Sale Price
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Moored Boats and Bare Trees by Riverbank French Pastel Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Moored Boats and Bare Trees by Riverbank French Pastel Drawing
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Oil pastel on artist paper
Size: 23.5 x 19.75 inches (height x width)
Provenance...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$552 Sale Price
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Moored Boats on a Reflective River French Pastel Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Moored Boats on a Reflective River French Pastel Drawing
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Oil pastel on artist paper
Size: 19.75 x 23.5 inches (height x width)
Provenance: Arti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$593 Sale Price
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Cubist Village with Red Roofs and Blue Sky French Pastel Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist Village with Red Roofs and Blue Sky French Pastel Drawing
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Oil pastel on artist paper
Size: 19.75 x 23.5 inches (height x width)
Provenan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$593 Sale Price
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Abstract Landscape with Red Form and Cypress French Modernist Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Abstract Landscape with Red Form and Cypress French Modernist Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 19 inches (height x width...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$380 Sale Price
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Mountain Landscape with Cypress French Modernist Gouache by Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mountain Landscape 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 (height x wi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$372 Sale Price
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White French Farmhouse Among Bare Trees with Ploughed Field Pastel Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: White French Farmhouse Among Bare Trees with Ploughed Field Pastel Drawing
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Oil pastel on artist paper
Size: 19.75 x 23.5 inches (height x width...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$499 Sale Price
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1930s Surrealist Still Life with Hammer, Palette and Chopper by Jan Matulka
By Jan Matulka
Located in Chicago, IL
A captivating 1930s Surrealist graphite still life drawing with a hammer, palette and chopper by notable New York Modern artist, Jan Matulka. Artwork size: 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Archivally matted to 14 x 16 1/2 inches. Estate stamped. Provenance: Estate of the artist.
An innovative drawing by Matulka reminiscent of the famed series of Modern works by the American painter and contemporary of Matulka, the New York artist Stuart Davis. In 1927, Davis began work on a series of five paintings based on a still life he had created by nailing an eggbeater, an electric fan, and a rubber glove to a table in his studio. Using this group of incongruous and unlikely items, he created his first truly abstract works. An example of these paintings, Egg Beater...
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Cubist Workshop And Architectural Scene With Tools And Abstract Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist Workshop And Architectural Scene With Tools And Abstract Figures
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15 x 21.5 inches (height x widt...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$450 Sale Price
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Modernist Still Life With Bowls Bottles And Fruit French Gouache Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modernist Still Life With Bowls Bottles And Fruit French Gouache Painting
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 14 x 20.5 inches (height x wi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$438 Sale Price
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Abstract Still Life With Bottles and Branches French Modernist Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Abstract Still Life With Bottles and Branches French Modernist Watercolour
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Watercolour on artist paper, unframed
Size: 25.75 x 19.5 inches (hei...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$241 Sale Price
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Vibrant Still Life With Fruit And Yellow Drapery French Modernist Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Vibrant Still Life With Fruit And Yellow Drapery French Modernist Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 20.5 x 14 inches (height x wi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$429 Sale Price
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Du Soleil Dans Un Verre Martini Advertising Design French Modernist Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Du Soleil Dans Un Verre Martini Advertising Design French Modernist Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (heigh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$548 Sale Price
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ALPSPITZE #3 (with Zabriskie Gallery Label), original pencil drawing of Bavaria
Located in New York, NY
Marsden Hartley
ALPSPITZE #3 (with Zabriskie Gallery Label), 1933
Pencil on cream wove paper. In original vintage frame with Zabriskie Gallery label
Sticker label, framed with Zabris...
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Challenge Martini International Fencing Poster Design French Modernist Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Challenge Martini International Fencing Poster Design French Modernist Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (he...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$425 Sale Price
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Modernist Still Life With Wine Bottle Cake And Raspberries French Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modernist Still Life With Wine Bottle Cake And Raspberries French Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 12.75 x 9.5 inches (height x ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$425 Sale Price
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Challenge Martini International French Modernist Sports Advertising Style Poster
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Challenge Martini International French Modernist Sports Advertising Style Poster
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Vintage Modernist French Advertising Poster Design for Gaston de Lagrange Cognac
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Vintage Modernist French Advertising Poster Design for Gaston de Lagrange Cognac
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 11.75 x 15.75 inches (...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Challenge Martini International Fencing French Modernist Sports Poster Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Challenge Martini International Fencing French Modernist Sports Poster Painting
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$507 Sale Price
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French River Landscape With Bare Winter Trees And Rowing Boat Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French River Landscape With Bare Winter Trees And Rowing Boat Watercolour
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Watercolour on artist paper, unframed
Size: 16.25 x 20.5 inches (heig...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$417 Sale Price
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Cubist Gouache French Farmyard Scene With Animals Figures Wine Barrels And Tools
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist Gouache French Farmyard Scene With Animals Figures Wine Barrels And Tools
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 14.5 x 21.75 inches (h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
French Village Landscape with Trees and Hilltop Houses Pastel Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Village Landscape with Trees and Hilltop Houses Pastel Drawing
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Oil pastel on artist paper
Size: 19.75 x 25.5 inches (height x width)
Pro...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$528 Sale Price
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Cubist French Abstract Interior Scene With Figures Table And Geometric Shapes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist French Abstract Interior Scene With Figures Table And Geometric Shapes
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 19.5 x 15.75 inches (heig...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$376 Sale Price
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French Gouache Street Scene With Market Stalls Shops Figures And Architecture
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Street Scene With Market Stalls Shops Figures And Architecture
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 19.75 x 25.5 inches (height x width)
Provenance: Artists estate, France
Condition: fair with age wear, surface creases, and fraying to the sheet edges
Description:
This atmospheric gouache by French modernist Guy Nicod captures the vibrancy of a bustling street market scene. Rendered with expressive brushwork and bold colour contrasts, the composition shows figures moving among market stalls, shopfronts, and delivery vehicles beneath the looming façades of Parisian-style architecture. On the right, a shop sign reading Fruits glows with yellow illumination, highlighting vendors and customers engaged in lively exchange. A truck and silhouetted figures traverse the centre, while the street recedes toward an archway in the distance, anchoring the scene in a distinctly urban setting.
Nicod’s painterly approach here contrasts with his cubist abstractions, revealing his ability to capture movement and atmosphere with a modernist eye. The gouache medium lends a rich matte finish, with vivid blues, yellows, and reds creating striking tonal contrasts against the darker architecture and evening sky. The spontaneity of the brushwork evokes the immediacy of urban life, where commerce and community intersect in daily rhythm.
This work is particularly search-friendly and appealing to collectors of French urban landscapes, market scenes, and Parisian street views. Keywords such as French market painting...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$343 Sale Price
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Cubist French Abstract Composition With Figures Architecture And Red Background
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist French Abstract Composition With Figures Architecture And Red Background
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 23 x 19 inches (height ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$532 Sale Price
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Cubist Kitchen And Butcher Scene With Hanging Meats And Utensils
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Cubist Kitchen And Butcher Scene With Hanging Meats And Utensils
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 14.5 x 21.75 inches (height x width)
P...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$491 Sale Price
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Woodland Path Among Pines Provence French Landscape Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Woodland Path Among Pines Provence French Landscape Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 19.75 x 25.5 inches (height x width)
Proven...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$421 Sale Price
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Colourful French Farmyard Scene with Tree Trunks and Mountain View Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Colourful French Farmyard Scene with Tree Trunks and Mountain View Drawing
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Oil pastel on artist paper
Size: 19.75 x 23.5 inches (height x width...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$458 Sale Price
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Peaceful French Village Curve with Red Roofs and Tree Pastel Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Peaceful French Village Curve with Red Roofs and Tree Pastel Drawing
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Oil pastel on artist paper
Size: 14.5 x 21.25 inches (height x width)
Prov...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$229 Sale Price
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Study for Worlds Beyond - Surrealist graphite drawing, Ohio artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Study for Worlds Beyond, 1980
Graphite, collage and white heightening on illustration board
Signed and dated lower right
10.75 x 4.5 in...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Landscape Abstraction
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Initialed lower left
Framed dimensions: 16 x 18 7/8 inches
Provenance
The artist;
Collection of Henry Dubin, Philadelphia until 2018
Exhibitions
Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Living Color Modern Life: Hugh Henry Breckenridge and Arthur B. Carles, October 5-November 2, 2018.
The Philadelphia modernist Arthur B. Carles was a brilliant colorist and an extraordinarily innovative painter. Though Carles trained initially at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, soaking up the more conservative teaching of William Merritt Chase and Thomas Anshutz, he was deeply influenced by the avant-garde art scene in Paris during his first trip there in 1905. In 1907, Carles won the prestigious Cresson Traveling Scholarship, which enabled him to return to Paris for several more years. This experience had a profound impact on Carles as an artist; he was extremely affected by modern French painting, especially the work of Cezanne and Matisse, and by the time Carles returned home to Philadelphia in 1912, he was a confirmed modernist.
This small landscape sketch was probably painted early during Carles's career, and yet, it already reveals his strong interest in abstraction. Indeed, Landscape Abstraction demonstrates both his daring exploration of lyrical color harmonies as well as his interest in two-dimensional surface design. Painted loosely in the spontaneous medium of watercolor, Carles used thin washes and delicate pools of paint to suggest the foreground area and surrounding trees. His color palette is rich and expressive, ranging from pale greens and blues to deep red, yellow, and even purple.
In addition to his remarkable career as an artist, Carles was also an incredibly gifted teacher. He taught at PAFA from 1917 to 1925 and had a very deep impact on a number of his students such as Morris Blackburn, Quita Brodhead, and Jane Piper...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract Composition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a Color Markers Drawing and Watercolour realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Paris 1980).
Good condition.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was born ...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
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