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Destroyer, American Modern Watercolor Painting by Robert Parker 1964
Located in Long Island City, NY
Executed in an American Modern style reminiscent of Lyonel Feininger, this Robert Andrew Parker watercolor painting depicts a warship at sea. The work is signed and dated lower left....
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
At the dock
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "At the Dock" c.1980 is a watercolor on 500 Aquarelle paper by noted American artist Allen Daniel (Dan) Burt, 1930-2004. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 21.5 x 29.5 inches, framed size is 29.5 x 37.5 inches. Custom framed in a white metal frame, with off-white matting. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame has some minor scratches, the acrylic glass have some scratches and will be replaced by a new...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Watercolor
Listen
Located in Denver, CO
Rock formations in landscape
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
$4,000
Original Abstract Portrait in Mixed Media on Paper II (1987)
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Abstract Portrait in Mixed Media on Paper II (1987)
Robert Azensky Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this gorgeous example of 1980...
Category
1980s Post-War Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pencil
$800 Sale Price
20% Off
Female #5
By Ant Pearce
Located in Brecon, Powys
Another baboon face work from the very talented ant Pearce. Clever stuff. Ink on paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Nude Drawings and W...
Materials
Ink, Paper
Hiawatha
s Honeymoon - Heroic Pose at Sunset
Located in Miami, FL
In a heroic standing pose on a cliff, set against the grandeur of nature, female illustrator Adelaide Hiebel depicts an idealized double portrait of Hiawatha and her husband, Minneha...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Pastel
Net,
by David Mladjovic, Abstract Screen Print
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 39.5" x 27.75" screen print (#1 of 6) by Serbian artist David Mladjovic depicts an abstract composition of dynamic lines and shapes in a palette of mauve, black, green, and gray...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
$824 Sale Price
31% Off
Rhythm of Color,
by David Mladjovic, Screen Print, 2021
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 27.5" x 39" silkscreen print by artist David Mladjovic explores a vibrant colorful composition of lines and shapes providing the composition with an interesting rhythm. Mladjovi...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
$864 Sale Price
52% Off
beach, three-dimensional inflatable ink drawing on paper, rocks, sun and bluesea
Located in Carballo, ES
This work is part of the latest production by artist Ruth Vidal (1998, Pontevedra). In this series, Ruth works on heavyweight paper with bouncy paint. She brings this material from t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Printer s Ink, Handmade Paper
Target 2. Contemporary Figurative Mixed Media Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Target 2. An unusual black & white piece; this picture cleverly confuses the eye with its intricate construct. Acrylic, charcoal and hand finished in pencil. Mounted not framed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic, Pencil
Mountain Vineyard Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor landscape of a white farmhouse beside a colorful California vineyard with tall mountains fading into the distance Henry Hank Volle (American, 20th Century). This scene was painted on Hecker Pass in the Santa Cruz mountains...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Early Horses VI, Charcoal Drawing, Brown, Black by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Early Horses VI - 19.5 x 29 inches (unframed size)
Charcoal on paper
(Framed & Delivered)
Sunil Das was one of India's most important postmodernist painters and rose to ...
Category
1960s Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Suite of five Lands End paintings / watercolor, beautifully framed
Located in Burlingame, CA
Glorious electric green, yellow with pale blue Land's End series of five watercolors from William Stanisich, whose provocative Land’s End series was painted over a 40-year span, with a force and directness that reflects the artist’s search for the essence of light through the medium of watercolor. The 5 iconic works that are included in this collection, are newly framed in a museum quality ebonized black...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Christine With Her Hair Up. charcoal on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Such a beautiful work in charcoal. Angela has the most distinctive way of presenting figurative drawings, she usually works in a range of colours so this is an unusual piece from her...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Mixed Media
1980s "#20" Charcoal Cross Hatch Abstract Drawing Modern Art Jack Scott
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Scott
"#20"
1980
Interwoven, continuous line charcoal drawing on paper
40"x30" site, black wood gallery frame float mount 42.5"x32.75" museum glass
Sig...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Elk Vertebrae" Original Impressionist Skeletal Still-Life, Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Hazel Z Weckbach's "Elk Vertebrae" is an original, hand-made watercolor painting depicting a vast coast with large rocks in an impressionistic style.
Artist Statement:
"Subject matt...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil, Panel
Asleep. Contemporary Mixed Media on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela brings vibrant immediacy to her figurative paintings. She uses a depth of colour and bright outlines of her figures to emphasize shape and contours. In all her works Angela gi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil
Lady In Red. Contemporary Mixed Media on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela brings vibrant immediacy to her figurative paintings. She uses a depth of colour and bright outlines of her figures to emphasize shape and contours. In all her works Angela gi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil
GUIA FEDEX and DHL. Tracking, Diptych. From the series Terms and Conditions
Located in Miami Beach, FL
GUIA FEDEX and DHL. Tracking, Diptych by Rodrigo Spinel
From the series Terms and Conditions
Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g.
Overall Frame size: 52 cm H x 86 cm W x 4 cm D
Over...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Abstract Painting with Yellow Orange Red
Pink by Contemporary British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Abstract Painting with Yellow Orange Red
Pink by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield. This is the one of the earliest works from her Abstract Interior Design Series. ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Oil
Andra Samelson, Next to Nothing 12, 2001, Ink on Mat Board, 40 x 32 inches
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board
Architectural Design Original Ink and Watercolor on Cardboard-Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Architectural design is an original painting in ink and watercolor on cardboard by Anonymous french Artist in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions except for being aged and repai...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Teal Ribbons and Copper Thread - Photorealistic Drawing on Collotype
Located in Soquel, CA
Teal Ribbons and Bronze Thread - Photorealistic Drawing
Highly detailed drawing by Patricia Pearce (American, b. 1948). The base layer of this piece is a collotype, but the ribbons ...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pen, Pencil, Color Pencil, Lithograph
Reclined Pose: Mixed media painting on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Drawn from life this model is obviously at ease which has allowed Angela to present a relaxed and subtle figurative work. Her colors are warm and this is a beautiful, graceful piece....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Passing By (Light), Abstract Mixed Media Painting by Stephen Greene
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stephen Greene, American (1917 - 1999)
Title: Untitled
Year: 1986
Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 40 x 30 inches
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Reclining Nude: Mixed media painting on paper by Angela Lyle
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela was born in 1946 and studied art at Kingston Art College, London. Her early career was predominantly spent designing sets and costumes for rock bands. This connection with the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Target 1. Contemporary Mixed Media Figurative Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Target 1. An unusual black & white piece; this picture cleverly confuses the eye with its intricate construct. Acrylic, charcoal and hand finished in pencil. Mounted not framed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic, Pencil
Framed abstract Persian calligraphy ink drawing/painting on paper, black
white
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Nazanin Moghbeli's "Morghe Sahar 2" is framed in a white wood painted frame with white mat. It is wired with all hanging hardware, and is ready to install. Moghbeli is a Persian American artist with training in Persian calligraphy, miniature painting, and music. She borrows techniques from Iranian calligraphy to create abstract drawings with traditional bamboo “ghalams,” or quills. Rather than using these techniques to create religious objects as they were originally used, she explores the secular meaning of line in and of itself. She seeks the complete dissolution of words and prefers instead to create abstract images, her alternative to religious object making.
The poem that is collaged into this work is a historic Iranian ballad, entitled "Morghe Sahar" (Bird of Dawn), written by Mohammad-Taqi Bahar and put to music by Morteza Neidavoud in 1921. Some consider this song to be the unofficial anthem of freedom in Iran. The lyrics describe a caged nightingale, urging her to sing with passion and break free. It has been sung in different political contexts, from the constitutional revolution of 1921 through the dictatorship of Mohammad Reza...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
Untitled nude (signed, dedicated
inscribed to Clement Greenberg)
By Anthony Caro
Located in New York, NY
Anthony Caro
Nude (signed, dedicated & inscribed to Clement Greenberg), 1986
Charcoal on Paper
Hand-signed by artist, The drawing is inscribed, "To Clem, much love, from Tony" and signed "A. Caro 1986 July."
38 × 24 inches
Unframed
This original drawing was acquired from the collection of the influential critic Clement Greenberg - one of the greatest supporters of British artist Anthony Caro, whose students and colleagues at St. Martin School of Art included the distinguished sculptors William Tucker and Isaac Witkin...
Category
1980s Abstract Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Georgian Contemporary Art by Tamar Darchiashvili - Shadows 1
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper
Tamar Darchiashvili is a Georgian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1996 she graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Faculty ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Georgian Contemporary Art by Tamar Darchiashvili - Untitled 12
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil on paper
Tamar Darchiashvili is a Georgian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1996 she graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Faculty ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Georgian Contemporary Art by Tamar Darchiashvili - States 1
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on paper
Tamar Darchiashvili is a Georgian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1996 she graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Faculty of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Portrait of a Man in a Flannel Shirt in Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a Man in a Flannel Shirt in Ink on Paper
Expressive line drawing of a man by Shirley Pittman (American, 1929-2013). He is sitting, cross legged, with a drink and an asht...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
Georgian Contemporary Art by Tamar Darchiashvili - Your Past Follows You
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil
ink on paper,
Tamar Darchiashvili is a Georgian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1996 she graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Georgian Contemporary Art by Tamar Darchiashvili - Untitled 10
Located in Paris, IDF
Pencil & ink on paper,
Tamar Darchiashvili is a Georgian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1996 she graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, F...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Ink
Georgian Contemporary Art by Tamar Darchiashvili - Invasion
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on paper,
Tamar Darchiashvili is a Georgian artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1996 she graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Faculty of...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Don
t wake up the princess - XX Century, Mixed Media Figurative Painting, Nude
Located in Warsaw, PL
Gabryela Wasowicz is a Polish painter born in 1947. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw and then at the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie in Amsterdam. Once she graduated in 197...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache
Lilac Body: Mixed media painting on paper by Angela Lyle
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Subtle portrait from this accomplished English artist.
Angela was born in 1946 and studied art at Kingston Art College, London. Her early career was predominantly spent designing ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
Blind Beggar
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Blind Beggar" 1959 is a watercolor and gouache on paper laid down on board by noted California artist Frank Moss Hamilton, 1930-1999. It is signed and dated at t...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Larry Rivers Modernist Male Figure Original Charcoal Mid 20th C.
By Larry Rivers
Located in San Francisco, CA
Larry Rivers (1923-2002) Modernist Male Figure Original Charcoal Mid 20th C.
Rare charcoal portrait by American modernist painter Larry Rivers.
Original charcoal on paper. Dimensions 17" x 22". The frame measures 29.5" x 34".
Signed lower right. Very good condition.
Figurative artist Larry Rivers was born in the Bronx in 1923 to Ukrainian Jewish parents, and was named Yitzak Loiza Grossberg. Rivers belonged to the second generation of the New York School of painters, although unlike most of his contemporaries he stayed away from abstraction instead preferring narrative paintings.
Rivers attended Hans Hofmann's school for nearly two years. In 1949, he had his first solo show at the Jane Street Gallery, an artist's co-op in the Village. Rivers received favorable reviews and was invited to join the Tibor de Nagy...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Snowy Landscape, 1928 - signed litograph, 78x101 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Lithograph, signed lower right
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper
Morgan O
Hara, Movement of the Hands of Martha Argerich, Drawing, June 2001
Located in Darien, CT
Live Transmission
Morgan O'Hara's conceptually based performative drawing researches the vital movement of living beings, the human experience of time and space. It is culturally co...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Steer Your Life (if there is something to forget), Painting, Watercolor on Canva
Located in Yardley, PA
The work is inspired by the mythical and timeless car - Mini Cooper and the girl's thoughts on her personal life. The girl realizes at this point that she will have to think about al...
Category
2010s Pop Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Lands End 2004 No. 9 / watercolor, beautifully framed
Located in Burlingame, CA
Glorious electric green Land's end watercolor from William Stanisich, whose provocative Land’s End series was painted over a 40-year span with a force and directness that reflects th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Andra Samelson, Next to Nothing 11, 2001, Ink on Mat Board, 32 x 40 inches
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board
Being one with Nature III, Environment Lover, Charcoal, Black
White
In Stock
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Debabrata Basu - Being one with Nature III - 26 x 20 inches (unframed size)
Charcoal on Fabriano Paper.
Style : Debabrata derives his style and theme by introspecting within himself...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Man In Sarong. Contemporary Mixed Media on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Angela brings vibrant immediacy to her figurative paintings. She uses a depth of colour and bright outlines of her figures to emphasize shape and contours. In all her works Angela gi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Oil
Reclined Pose: Contemporary Mixed media life study on paper
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
Drawn from life this model is obviously at ease which has allowed Angela to present a relaxed and subtle figurative work. Her colors are warm and this is a beautiful, graceful piece....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Great Western Staircase, New York State Capitol Building Albany (View II) Unique
By Richard Haas
Located in New York, NY
Richard Haas
Great Western Staircase, New York State Capitol Building, Albany (View II), 1980
Pastel drawing on paper
Hand-signed by artist, Signed and dated 1980; bears RDA (Readers Digest...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Joseph H. Clayton (fl.1891-1929) - Framed Watercolour, Sailing Round Headland
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine coastal scene by the British artist Joseph Hughes Clayton. This delicate watercolour depicts a group of boats sailing to the left of headland, wit...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$446 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled - Watercolor with Collage
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Kenjilo (Kenji) Nanao – Japanese/American (1929-2013)
Title: Untitled – Watercolor with collage
Date: 1989
Medium: Watercolor with collage
Image size: 39.5 x 38 inches
Sheet ...
Category
1980s Other Art Style Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Curlee Raven Holton, Three Views of a Dancer
Located in New York, NY
A painter, draftsman, printmaker and master printer, Curlee Raven Holton (born 1951) taught for twenty years at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, a...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Colophon 11, Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Signed, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Willy Bo Richardson received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Takashimayaoisha, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Beijing-ga Series XXX (nº 30)
Title: “Takashimaohisa”
Ohisa, along with Okita and Tomimoto Toyohina, were the three most famous beauties of the time. The first two were waitresses...
Category
2010s Edo Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Egg Dancers. Male and Female nude figures black background red tones dark humor
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mixed media on red toned archival paper signed and dated bottom left.
Part of the artist series of egg walkers/ dancers.
Playful twist on psychological theme
ABOUT Stephen Basso
St...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Pastel, Gouache, Archival Paper
Norman Foster XXL Monograph. Signed Limited Edition with a Signed Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A comprehensive exploration of the life and work of Norman Foster
With a career spanning across continents and over six decades, the work of the renowned architect Norman Foster is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Photographic Paper, Rag Paper
Central Park, Impressionist Watercolor on Paper by Wayne Ensrud
By Wayne Ensrud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Central Park, Year: circa 1975, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Signed in Pencil, Size: 22 in. x 28 in. (55.88 cm x 71.12 cm), Frame Size: 32.5 x ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Signed
Framed c.1890 Watercolour - Sailors at Dawn
Located in Corsham, GB
Distant ships traverse the rough sea as sailors gather at the rocky sea-face
The artwork is signed '..evil', with the beginning of the signature obscured by the mountboard.
Well pr...
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$394 Sale Price
20% Off
Lady in Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor on Paper by Wayne Ensrud
By Wayne Ensrud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - Lady in Flowers, Year: circa 1975, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed l.r., Size: 29 in. x 21 in. (73.66 cm x 53.34 cm), Frame Size: 37 x 28.5...
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Israeli Modernist Watercolor Painting Safed Synagogue Interior Bezalel School
Located in Surfside, FL
Watercolor painting of Shul interior in Tzfas, Safed Israel.
MORDECHAI AVNIEL
Minsk, Belarus, b. 1900, d. 1989
Mordecai Dickstein (later Avniel) was born in 1900 in Minsk, present-day Belarus. He studied fine arts in Yekaterinburg, Russia (1913–19) and at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (1923). Avniel immigrated to Palestine in 1921 where he first worked as a pioneer in citrus plantations near Petah Tikva. In 1923, at the urging of Boris Schatz, he went to Jerusalem to further his art studies at Bezalel. He later taught painting and sculpture at the school, and served a term as director of the Small Sculpture Section of the Sculpture Department (1924–28). From 1935 on, Avniel lived in Haifa. Avniel was also a lawyer and a founding partner of the Haifa firm Avniel, Salomon & Company.
Avniel regularly showed his work in group exhibitions of the Painters and Sculptors' Association of Israel. He was awarded the Herman Struck Prize (1952), Tenth Anniversary Prize for Watercolours, Ramat Gan (1958), Histadrut Prize (1961), and First Prize Haifa Municipality (1977). He represented Israel at the 1958 Venice Biennale and the 1962 International Art Seminar at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Avniel was a member of the Artists' Colony in Safed and maintained a studio on Mount Carmel.
Mordechai Avniel is best known for his deft and singular landscape work.
His works are held in numerous museums and collections both in Israel and abroad, including the Metropolitan Museum, New York and the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA. Avniel's manipulations of light and colour share much with those of compatriot artists Shimshon Holzman and Joseph Kossonogi.
Education
1913-19 Art School of Katrinburg, Russia
1923 Bezalel School of Art, Jerusalem
Selected exhibitions:
2004: Our Landscape: Notes on Landscape Painting in Israel, University of Haifa Art Gallery, Haifa (online catalogue)
1965: Mordechai Avniel Retrospective, Haifa Municipality Museum of Modern Art, Haifa
1964: Galerie Synthèse, Paris
1962: New York University, New York
1961: Rina Gallery of Modern Art, Jerusalem
The Autumn Exhibition Rina Gallery, Jerusalem
Artists: Dedi Ben Shaul...
Category
20th Century Modern Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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