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
The Sketch Class, Figurative Study Line Drawing
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive line drawing figure study featuring a group of figures in a classroom by David Rosen (Canadian, 1912-2004). Unsigned, but was acquire...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen, Watercolor
The Fishing - Original China Ink Drawing by E. Berman - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
The fishing is an original China ink and watercolor drawing on paper, realized in 1938 by the Surrealist artist Eugène Berman.
Monogrammed and dated "E. B." in China ink on the lowe...
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Abstract Composition in Red - Watercolor - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition in Red is an drawing on paper realized by an Anonymous artist in the 1970s.
Watercolor on paper.
Good conditions.
The artwork is represented through organic a...
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1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Blue and Red Composition, Modern Watercolor by G Sinclair
Located in Long Island City, NY
G Sinclair - Blue and Red Composition, Year: 1969, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated in pencil, Image Size: 14 x 11 inches, Size: 15 x 12 in. (38.1 x 30.48 cm)
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1960s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Green and Purple Composition, Modern Watercolor by G Sinclair
Located in Long Island City, NY
G Sinclair - Green and Purple Composition, Year: 1969, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated in pencil, Image Size: 12.5 x 11 inches, Size: 15.25 x 12 in. (38.74 x 30.48 ...
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1960s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled - Drawing by Francesco Trunfio - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
This abstract calligraphy, Untitled, was realized by Francesco Trunfio in 2018 as a sign study. This tempera drawing is part of a series based on the analysis of calligraphy signs. ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Composition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a Black Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a sheet of a notebook.
No signatur...
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1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Animal - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Animal is a Watercolor artwork realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on white paper.
No Signature.
Reynold Arnould was born in Le Havre, Fra...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Large Modernist Abstract Expressionist Gouache Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor or gouache composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Landscape - Ink drawing and Chacography on Paper - 1980
By Michel Gigon
Located in Roma, IT
Black And White Landscape is an original artwork realized by Michel Gigon in 1980.
Mixed media on cardboard (chalcography and ink).
Hand-signed by the artist on the upper left corner.
Very good conditions except for some foxing on the back.
Totally black Surrealist composition realized by Michel Gigon at the end of his artistic career. During this period, the artist realized several black artworks...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Abstract Splashes of Yellow, Red, and Purple
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted composition by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned, but acquired from the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Presented in a new grey...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$260 Sale Price
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"RED WING" ABSTRACT FRAMED 27 X 35.5
Located in San Antonio, TX
Charles Schorre
1925-1996
Texas
Image Size: 22 x 30
Frame Size: 27 x 35.5
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
"Red Wing"
Biography
Charles Schorre 1925-1996
Charles Schorre (1925 - 1996) was...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Acrobat - Original Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Acrobat is an original Drawing in Color Markers realized by an anonymous artist in the 20th Century.
Good Conditions except for a cutaway on the low-left.
The artwork is depicted t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Permanent Marker
Composition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is a China Ink Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a white paper.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was born in Le Havre...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Abstract Coposition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Coposition is a Black Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was bo...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Figure - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is a Watercolour artwork realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Paris 1980).
Good condition on white paper.
No Signature.
Reynold Arnould was born in Le Havre, Fra...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Abstract Composition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a Black Marker Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a sheet of a notebook.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould ...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Abstract Composition - Drawing By Reynold Arnould - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a Pastel and Color Markers Drawing realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a white paper.
No signature.
Reynold Arnou...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker
Castle - Drawing By Reynold Arnould -Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Castle is a Watercolour artwork realized by Reynold Arnould (Le Havre 1919 - Parigi 1980).
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
No signature.
Reynold Arnould was born in Le Havre...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled - Drawing by Francesco Trunfio - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
This abstract calligraphy, Untitled, was realized by Francesco Trunfio in 2018 as a sign study. This tempera drawing is part of a series based on the analysis of calligraphy signs. ...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Composition - Original Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original Drawing in Pencil and watercolor realized by an anonymous artist in the mid-20th Century.
Good Conditions.
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
The Sea - Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Sea is an original drawing in tempera on Canvas, realized by an anonymous artist in the mid-20th Century.
The status of preservation Good.
The artwork is depicted skillfully th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Bourrée Fantasque #7 Pastel on Paper Mid 20th Century Modern as seen on
Étoile
Located in Glenford, NY
"Bourrée Fantasque #7", Pastel on Paper by Artist Francisco Moncion, is a Mid-20th Century fantasy image inspired by George Balanchine's 1949 ballet of the same name for the New York...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Composition 6 - Original Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 6 is an original drawing in tempera realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
Very good conditions.
No signature. The bright colors make up the design for French fabrics ma...
Category
1920s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Abstract Composition - Drawing - 1970s
By José Ortega
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is a tempera and watercolor attributed to José Ortega oand realized in the 1970s.
The artwork is composed by two little arts on a cream colored cardboard passpa...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Tempera
Composition - Watercolor by Mino Maccari - 1970s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original modern artwork realized in 1970 by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original drawing in watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed by th...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract Composition - Watercolor on paper - 1957
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original watercolored drawing on paper realized by a French Anonymous artist in 1957.
Dated on the lower.
Good conditions.
The delicate poetic expressio...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Surrealist Composition - Mixed Media Drawing- 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Surrealist Composition" is a drawing in mixed media on paper, ink and watercolor, realized by Anonymous Artist of the XX Century.
The state of preservation of the artwork is very ...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Ink, Watercolor
Composition 2 - Original Drawing by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 2 is an original drawing realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is in tempera and in very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 34 x 29 cm
No signature. The bri...
Category
1920s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Composition - Original Watercolor by Umberto Maria Casotti - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Composition" is an original watercolor drawing on ivory-colorated paper by Umberto Maria Casotti.
In excellent conditions.
Illegible Hand-signed of the Artist, on the lower right.
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Contemporary Mid Century Inspired Blue
Green Toned Neighborhood Aerial Pastel
Located in Houston, TX
Mid century inspired aerial landscape pastel drawing by contemporary artist R. Michael Wommack. The work features a birds eye view of a planned neighborhood at night with glowing swi...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Abstract Composition - Original Drawing by Maurice André - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original Ink and Watercolor drawing on paper applied realized by Maurice André in the Mid-20th Century.
Good conditions.
Han...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Watercolor
Composition - Drawing in Ink and Watercolor by Vedan - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original drawing in Ink and watercolor by Vedan in the mid 20th century.
Good condition
Hand-signed.
The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
The Eiffel - Drawing in Watercolor by Yves Alix - Early 20th Century
By Yves Alix
Located in Roma, IT
The Eiffel in Colors is an Original drawing in watercolor realized by Yves Alix (1899-1971).
Hand- signed on the lower left.
Good conditions.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Black Flower - Original Drawing by Mario Surbone - 1987
Located in Roma, IT
Black flower is an original contemporary artwork realized in 1987 by Mario Surbone.
Colored mixed media (watercolor and carchoal) on paper.
Hand signe...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Ruffled Waters" Harmony Hammond, Striped, Black and White, Abstract, Feminist
Located in New York, NY
Harmony Hammond
Ruffled Waters, 1980
Signed lower right
Mixed media on paper
18 1/8 x 24 inches
Provenance
Private Collection, New York
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Contemporary Art W...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
L
Ange - Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
L'Ange is an original Drawing in Charcoal realized by an anonymous artist in the 20th Century.
Good Conditions.
The artwork is depicted through strong strokes with perfect Hatchings.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Abstract Composition - Original Mixed Media Drawing - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original artwork realized by Anonymous artist in mid-20th century.
A colored mixed media (pencil, tempera and white lead) artwork on paper.
Includes gil...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled - Drawing by Francesco Trunfio - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
This abstract calligraphy, Untitled, was realized by Francesco Trunfio in 2018 as a sign study. This tempera drawing is part of a series based on the analysis of calligraphy signs. ...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Untitled - Drawing by Francesco Trunfio - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
This abstract calligraphy, Untitled, was realized by Francesco Trunfio in 2018 as a sign study. This tempera drawing is part of a series based on the analysis of calligraphy signs. ...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Lucifer Mephistopheles - Drawing by Maurice Walter Edmond de Lambert - 1900s
Located in Roma, IT
Lucifer Mephistopheles is an original drawing in China ink on paper realized by Maurice Walter Edmond de Lambert.
Monogrammed on the lower right.
Good conditions.
The artwork repr...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Composition 1920 - Original Painting by Clément Kons - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 1920 is an original painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera, in very good conditions and mounted on a cardb...
Category
1920s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Composition 24 - Original Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 24 is an original drawing realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is in tempera, in very good conditions and mounted on a cardboard...
Category
1920s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Figure - Original Mixed Media Drawing by Sergio Barletta - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing in mixed media (ink, tempera and white lead) on cardboard, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1962.
Hand-signed on the lower right and dated.
Image Dimens...
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1960s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Bourrée Fantasque #12 Pastel on Paper Mid 20th Century Modern as seen on Étoile
Located in Glenford, NY
"Bourrée Fantasque #12 Blue", Pastel on Paper by Artist Francisco Moncion, is a Mid-20th Century fantasy image inspired by George Balanchine's 1949 b...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Modern Grey and Orange Geometric Abstract Leaf Pattern Painting
By John Little
Located in Houston, TX
Modern grey and white geometric abstract leaf pattern composition with orange accents by textile designer John Little. The work was created as a proposed design for a wallpaper and features the original color codes in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a solid black frame with a large white margin.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 27.13 in. x W 31.5 in.
Artist Biography: A painter and textile designer, John Little is best known for gestural works filled with boldly explosive color that reflect the influences of his teacher Hans Hofmann and for his involvement in the Abstract Expressionist movement in East Hampton, where he moved in the late 1940s. In East Hampton Little congregated with Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and the other artists who were the leading innovators in the New York School.
John Little was born in Sanford, Alabama. He left home at the age of fourteen to become an artist, and moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1923. After spending a year working as a stevedore on the docks to save money, he enrolled at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and developed an interest in singing. In 1927 he moved to New York City where he continued his vocal work and studied operatic literature. He also became involved in textile design, opening his own store in 1920, called John Little Studios: Fabric and Wallpaper Design. He ran the store until 1950.
In 1933 John Little resumed his painting studies at the Art Students League in New York under the guidance of George Grosz (1893-1959). The following year he made his first visit to East Hampton, Long Island, which he would eventually call home. Later in the decade, he traveled to Paris where he became familiar with European modernism. On his return to America, he taught textile design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He hired Josephine Watkins to work for him; she later became his wife. Little's textile store and teaching job gave him a financial security that was rare during the Depression, and he never found it necessary to find employment with the Works Progress Administration. At the end of the decade, John Little studied with Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in New York and Provincetown. Little was greatly influenced by Hofmann, particularly by his views on color theory.
In 1942 John Little joined the Navy as an aerial photographer. In the late 1940s he purchased a rundown house on Three Mile Harbor...
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Early 20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Bourrée Fantasque #11 Pastel on Paper Mid 20th Century Modern as seen on Étoile
Located in Glenford, NY
"Bourrée Fantasque #11 Blue", Pastel on Paper by Artist Francisco Moncion, is a Mid-20th Century fantasy image inspired by George Balanchine's 1949 ballet of the same name for the Ne...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Her beautiful vagina. 2009, ink on paper, 26x17 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Her beautiful vagina. 2009, ink on paper, 26x17 cm
Erotic ink drawing in black and white colors
Category
Early 2000s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
$759 Sale Price
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Bourrée Fantasque #1 Pastel on Paper Mid 20th Century Modern as seen on
Étoile
Located in Glenford, NY
"Bourrée Fantasque #1", Pastel on Paper by Artist Francisco Moncion, is a Mid-20th Century fantasy image inspired by George Balanchine's 1949 ballet ...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
Mid-Century French Yasse Tabuchi Modern Signed Ink Drawing
Located in Roma, IT
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1960s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Yellow, Red and Purple Square - Modern Gouache Painting by Peter Pinchbeck
Located in Long Island City, NY
Peter Pinchbeck, English (1931 - 2000) - Yellow, Red and Purple Square, Year: 1981, Medium: Gouache on Fabriano Cotton Paper, signed, and dated in pencil, Image Size: 18 x 25.5 inc...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Village in Tuscany
, California Modernist woman artist, SFAA
By Dora Masters
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A semi-abstracted study of a Tuscan townscape with warm terra-cotta roofs and stucco hues of saffron and crimson.
Signed lower right, 'D. Masters' for Dora Masters (American, 1916-...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Early Modern Black
White Abstract Study Drawing of Native American Figures
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
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Charles Ragland Bunnell 1938 Ink Drawing of Church in Rocky Mountains, Colorado
Located in Denver, CO
This vintage 1938 ink drawing by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968) beautifully depicts a church nestled amid the dramatic Rocky Mountains of Georgetown, Colorado. Executed in bold ...
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Ink
Canadian Art Mixed Media Collage Assemblage Painting Hebrew Canada Stamp
Located in Surfside, FL
Canadian artist, designer, teacher and writer Stephen James Andrews was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1922. Studied art at Winnipeg School of Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Camberwell...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
Rare Israeli Modernist Judaica Watercolor Painting on Lithograph Naftali Bezem
Located in Surfside, FL
Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נפתלי בזם; born November 27, 1924) is an Israeli painter, muralist, and sculptor.
Bezem was born in Essen, Germany, in 1924. His early adolescence was spent ...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Original California Figurative Abstract Still Life Ink Drawing Joyce Treiman
By Joyce Treiman
Located in Surfside, FL
Joyce Treiman
Ink on paper, framed under glass; signed in pencil lower right;
Dimensions: 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches; 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches frame.
Joyce Wahl Treiman was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and teacher. Her work ranged from "the impishly perverse and humorously paradoxical to the brilliant and profound." She was known as an excellent draftsperson throughout her career. She made several trips to Europe to study the old masters, and the human figure is central in her work. In her later paintings she is known to have inserted self-portraits. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and then studied at the State University of Iowa (today the University of Iowa) under the influential painter Philip Guston. During World War II she worked as a commercial artist but resigned when she began to have success with exhibitions of her work in Chicago and New York.
In 1945 she married Kenneth Treiman, and son Donald, now an Architect, was born in 1950. The Treimans, along with Rene and Rose Wahl, moved to Los Angeles in 1960. She was in an exhibit of Tamarind prints...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Paper
Polish French Judaica Watercolor Gouache Painting Original Bauhaus Yiddish Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Moses Bahelfer BAGEL (1908-1995)
Moses Bagel (born Moshe Bahelfer) was a Polish-born Jewish artist and graphic designer associated with the original Bauhaus and then the School of Pa...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, ABS
Mid Century Modern British
Toccata 23
by British German illustrator Kapp, 1976
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Edmond Xavier Kapp (British, 1890 – 1978)
Toccata 23
Ink on paper
Signed and dated ‘Kapp 76’ (lower right)
9.1/2 x 14 in. (24.3 x 35.5 cm.)
Edmond Kapp was born in Islington, London, on 5 November 1890, of American and German Jewish parentage. He gave himself the middle initial ‘X’ – sometimes said to stand for Xavier – to distinguish himself from his father Emil Kapp, who was a wine merchant. However, his parents called him ‘Eddie’ while his wife and friends knew him as ‘Peter’.
During his early years, Kapp was continually ill and, while convalescing, entertained himself by drawing at home. As his health improved, he attended Dame Alice Owen’s School, Islington (1903-10), with periods at Berlin University (1909) and L’Institut Français pour les Etrangers, Paris (1909). He then read Languages at Christ’s College, Cambridge (1910-13), though spent most of his time writing and drawing.
Kapp took a studio in London, and worked intensively until the outbreak of the First World War, contributing to the Daily News, the Onlooker and other periodicals. During the war, he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front, and then in Intelligence, rising to the position of Staff Captain on Haig’s Staff. Finally, he founded and directed the Neutral Press Counter-propaganda Section.
In 1919, Kapp returned to London and, after abortive periods at three art schools, worked alone. In that year, he made his name with an exhibition of caricatures, held at Furst’s Gallery, London, and accompanied by a catalogue introduced by Max Beerbohm. This soon led to contracts with three London periodicals and a book of caricatures, Personalities, published by Martin Secker. Through the 1920s and 30s, his drawings of musicians and other personalities appeared in a wide variety of periodicals, most notably Time & Tide; were collected in further volumes; and were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. He considered himself to be a ‘character-portraitist’, producing images of psychological not satirical power, and disliking the term ‘caricature’.
Between the wars, Kapp developed other aspects of his artistic talents, the desire to study and the search for subject matter often taking him abroad. For instance, work at the British Academy, Rome, under Antonio Sciortino...
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