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Pine Knob Shelter, Maryland, [ 39.54249, -77.60181 ]
By Sarah Kaizar
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Pine Knob Shelter, Maryland, [ 39.54249, -77.60181 ]" is an original pen and ink, and acrylic wash artwork by Sarah Kaizar measuring 24"h x 30"w framed.
It’s an off-beat, diverse c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Pen
![Pine Knob Shelter, Maryland, [ 39.54249, -77.60181 ]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_1882/a_51063421570561671870/Pine_Knob_Shelter_Maryland_framed_master.jpg?width=240 "sarah kaizar")
Architectural Doorway
Located in Houston, TX
Beautifully detailed early 20th century French pencil drawing on calque of detailed architectural doorway, circa 1910. Folds in paper, very delic...
Category
1910s Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Blood in the Veins
. Cherry blossom pink white blue magenta abstract sakura
Located in Penzance, GB
'Blood in the Veins'
Original Artwork, Unframed.
_____________________
Capturing the flush of fleeting youth, the cherry blossoms blush crimson as the sap pulses through branches, b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Dawn on silk
. Abstract naturalistic pink cherry blossom blue sky sakura season
Located in Penzance, GB
'Dawn on Silk'
Original Artwork, Unframed
_________________
Capturing the pulse and flush of fleeting youth. Sap rising through branches, buds, blossoms; like blood through the vein...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Gold Leaf
James Brown - Framed Early 20th Century Watercolour, Rowing on the River Wear
By James Brown
Located in Corsham, GB
Original early 20th century watercolour. A beautifully framed watercolour by James brown depicting a rower on the river Wear with Durham Cathedral in the distance. Presented in a fin...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Summer for everyone. Contemporary Gouache Painting, Abstraction, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
JACEK SOWICKI (1948-2022)
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and graduated from the Academy Of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1973. In 1984-89 he run the graphics atelier at th...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Abstract Watercolor Painting,
Fire Series
, C. 1996 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Abstract Watercolor Painting,
Fire Series
, C. 1992 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Walter Darby Bannard, Ammersee #2 signed painting by renowned Color Field artist
Located in New York, NY
Walter Darby Bannard
Ammersee #2, 1975
Watercolor and acrylic painting on paper
Signed, titled and dated lower recto
This is a unique work
Frame included: elegantly floated and frame...
Category
1970s Color-Field Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite
WPA Mural Study Mid-Century Modern American Scene Social Realism Workers
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mural Study Mid-Century Modern American Scene Social Realism Workers
Anton Refregier (1905-1979)
Mural Study, Untitled
7 ¾ x 22 inches (sight)
Gouache, pencil, and charcoal on board, c. 1940s
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of Seymour Fogel, noted verso
Thomas McCormick Gallery...
Category
1940s American Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Gouache, Board, Pencil
untitled (Lady), Impressionist Watercolor and Pencil on Paper by Wayne Ensrud
By Wayne Ensrud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Wayne Ensrud, American (1934 - ) - untitled (Lady), Year: circa 1975, Medium: Watercolor and Pencil on Paper, Signed in Pencil, Size: 31 in. x 23 in. (78.74 cm x 58.42 cm)
Category
1970s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
The Hunt - Drawing by Lars Bo - 1962
By Lars Bo
Located in Roma, IT
The hunt is an original moder artwork realized by Lars Bo in 1962.
Watercolored china on paper.
Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin.
Hand wrtitten notes on the back
I...
Category
1960s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Totem, Pop Art Gouache on Paper by Jean Sariano
By Jean Sariano
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Sariano, Algerian/American (1943 - ) - Totem, Year: 1999, Medium: Gouache on Paper, signed and dated, Size: 23.5 x 23.5 in. (59.69 cm x 59.69 cm), Frame Size: 27.5 x 27.25 i...
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Red and Orange Flowers, Modern Tempera on Paper by Biagio Civale
Located in Long Island City, NY
Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Red and Orange Flowers, Medium: Tempera on paper, signed lower left, Size: 19 x 25 in. (48.26 x 63.5 cm)
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
Pop Flower 46, Bright Orange Mandala, Green, Maroon, Dark Burgundy, Blue Center
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This multicolored drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Pop Flower 46 is a predominately orange mandala shape with a gr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
Nomad Camp
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Donald Edwin Dawes Teague (American, 1897-1991)
Title: Nomad Camp
Year: Circa 1950
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor
Image size: 10 x 15.25 inches
paper size: ...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Turkeys in the Trees, Early 20th Century Farm Landscape Watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Turkey in the Trees, c. 1922
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
22 x 29 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a mast...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Little Lamb - Original Watercolor House Home Playful Painting Colorful Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Animal Drawings and...
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting,
Design for Space, C. 2005 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Land Shark" 2024, ink and colored pencil on paper
By Maeve D
Arcy
Located in New York, NY
Maeve D'Arcy
Land Shark , 2024
ink and colored pencil on paper
22 x 30 in.
(dar150)
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Color Pencil
Fragment, Drawing, Original Art Ready to Hang By Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
i remember Family House
Title: Fragment
Artist: Marilina Marchica
Dimensions:
Artwork: 72x56 cm
Frame:43x60 cm
Description:
This is an original, non-reproducible piece by Marilina M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Dead King 32 [21st Century American President]
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This wall-hanging artwork titled "Dead King 32 [21st Century American President]" is an original artwork by Kate Glasheen made of pen and ink on archival pap...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pen
![Dead King 32 [21st Century American President]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_1882/a_74138021611432051172/Dead_King_32_21st_Century_American_President_web_master.jpg?width=240 "kate glasheen")
Louis Van Staaten (1836-1909) - Framed Watercolour, Dutch Windmill Scene
Located in Corsham, GB
An original watercolour by Dutch painter Louis Van Staaten, also known as Hermanus II Koekkoek (1836-1909). Signed to the lower left. Well-presented in a large wooden frame with gilt...
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Female Nude
, by R.V. Goetz, Charcoal on Paper Drawing
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This Richard Vernon Goetz Drawing on Paper from the mid-20th Century features a standing female nude rendered in black and grey cross-hatch lines of Charcoal and Conté Crayon.
The we...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Conté
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Contemporary Watercolor Painting,
Design for Space, C. 2005 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled 06 - Contemporary Abstract Painting, Colorful Framed Composition
Located in Salzburg, AT
Dominika Krechowicz is a professor at the Gdansk GUT
The Art works from this series are painted with acrylic technique on fabriano watercolor paper. They were created from 2010 to ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Louis Van Staaten (1836-1909) - Watercolour, Dutch River Scene with Windmills
Located in Corsham, GB
Fine original watercolour by the Dutch painter Louis Van Staaten, also known as Hermanus II Koekkoek (1836-1909). Signed lower right. Presented in a smart silver coloured frame with ...
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
James Hardy II (1832–1889) - 19th Century Watercolour, Still Life of Dead Game
By James Hardy III
Located in Corsham, GB
A still life watercolour study by James Hardy II, featuring dead game, a basket of vegetables, and a shotgun cartridge. Handsomely presented in a complimentary gold and red frame wit...
Category
19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting,
Design for Sculpture
, C. 2008 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting,
Thought About Space
, 2022 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Landscape with Trail
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Trail" c.1980 is a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Gerald F. Brommer, 1927-2020. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The a...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life with Knife
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Still Life with Knife" c.1980 is a watercolor on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the low...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Contemporary Watercolor Painting,
Design for Space
, C. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
No title 3, Abstract Watercolor
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In this series, water and pigments dance in a liquid choreography, intertwining and painting their own destinies. Each brushstroke traces ephemeral paths that are born, intersect and...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Bowl Of Cherries. 1920s Watercolor
By Irene P. Gardner
Located in Brecon, Powys
Skilled and very beautiful watercolor by I. P. Gardner from the 1920s to 1930s. Artist is well known for her watercolors of life in the Middle East during that period. Signed lower l...
Category
1920s Realist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
No title 1, Watercolor on Hahnemuhle paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In this series, water and pigments dance in a liquid choreography, intertwining and painting their own destinies. Each brushstroke traces ephemeral paths that are born, intersect and...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Dance.Dream.Dare" ( abstract word acrylic on paper art)
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This vibrant expressive artwork makes part of my Abstract Word Art series dedicated to the expression of emotions and feelings. This one is called ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Paper
"Lanvin Paris Atelier w/ Trio of Arch Doors c1950s Artwork"
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 14 1/4"H x 21 1/4"W
Category
1950s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Thomas Creswick RA (1811-1869) - 1846 Watercolour, The Fallen Rod
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour scene depicting a family fishing in the river running through their village. The man leans towards the water, trying to retrieve the rod that he's dropped. The...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Disegno figurativo ritratto nudo femminile espressionista toscano del XX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, penna e acquerello su carta, è firmato e datato L. NOCENTINI 92 Rappresenta una figura femminile con i capelli corti ricci, seduta raggomitolata.
Lo stile di Ladislao Noc...
Category
1990s Expressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
"about this winter 2" 2023 oil on paper
Located in New York, NY
Sarah Hinckley
about this winter 2, 2023
oil on paper
30 x 22 in.
(bvg034)
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
House of Magenta - Original Playful House Home Watercolor Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Animal Drawings and...
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
The Violet Dress 14 - Pink and Red Minimalist Figurative Ink Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bettina Mauel expresses dynamism and sensuality in her paintings: “I paint what I experience,” she articulates. “This includes landscapes, flowers, and people in motion, capturing th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Linen, Ink, Mixed Media
Pierre Neveu (b.1929) - Mid 20th Century Gouache, Monument
By Pierre Neveu
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful mid-20th-century gouache by the artist Pierre Neveu (b.1929). Signed. On paper.
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Mashipacong Shelter, New Jersey, [ 41.25216, -74.68594 ]
By Sarah Kaizar
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Mashipacong Shelter, New Jersey, [ 41.25216, -74.68594 ]" is an original pen and ink, and acrylic wash artwork by Sarah Kaizar measuring 24"h x 30"w framed.
It’s an off-beat, diver...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Pen
![Mashipacong Shelter, New Jersey, [ 41.25216, -74.68594 ]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_1882/a_51064621570562603575/13_NJ_mashipacong_shelter_master.jpg?width=240 "kasyn alexander")
Low Gap Shelter, Georgia, [ 34.77624, -83.8245 ]
By Sarah Kaizar
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This drawing titled "Low Gap Shelter, Georgia, [ 34.77624, -83.8245 ]" is an original artwork by Sarah Kaizar made of silver leaf, pen and ink. Drawing from her experience hiking the Appalachian trail...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
![Low Gap Shelter, Georgia, [ 34.77624, -83.8245 ]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_1882/a_51064821570562739405/4_GA_low_gap_shelter_master.jpg?width=240 "sarah kaizar")
Spaulding Mountain Lean-To, Maine, [ 44.99577, -70.34134 ]
By Sarah Kaizar
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This drawing titled "Spaulding Mountain Lean-To, Maine, [ 44.99577, -70.34134 ]" is an original artwork by Sarah Kaizar made of pen and ink, and acrylic wash. Drawing from her experience hiking the Appalachian trailing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Acrylic
![Spaulding Mountain Lean-To, Maine, [ 44.99577, -70.34134 ]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_1882/a_51063221570561547944/7_ME_spaulding_mountain_leanto_master.jpg?width=240 "sarah kaizar")
William Brien Memorial Shelter, New York, [ 41.2796N, 74.0594W ]
By Sarah Kaizar
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This drawing titled "William Brien Memorial Shelter, New York, [ 41.2796N, 74.0594W ]" is an original artwork by Sarah Kaizar made of pen and ink, and acrylic wash. Drawing from her experience hiking the Appalachian trail...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Pen
![William Brien Memorial Shelter, New York, [ 41.2796N, 74.0594W ]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_1882/a_51058211570556931047/17_NY_william_brien_memorial_shelter_master.jpg?width=240 "sarah kaizar")
3D Tree, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A towering tree stretches toward the sky, its twisting branches creating a striking silhouette. The soft mist in the background contrasts sharply with the dar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
British School c.1930 Gouache - Blue Irises by the Window
Located in Corsham, GB
A stunning early to mid-20th century still life study of blue irises on a windowsill. Completed in delicate gouache, this subtle floral composition is a charming snapshot of domestic...
Category
Early 20th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
$606 Sale Price
20% Off
Peru Peak, Vermont, [ 43.3012, -72.95184 ]
By Sarah Kaizar
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Peru Peak, Vermont, [ 43.3012, -72.95184 ]" is an original pen and ink, and acrylic wash artwork by Sarah Kaizar measuring 24"h x 30"w framed.
It’s an off-beat, diverse community t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Pen
![Peru Peak, Vermont, [ 43.3012, -72.95184 ]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_1882/a_51064521570562480792/10_VT_peru_peak_shelter_master.jpg?width=240 "ira kaizar")
Provençal Scene in Ink
Located in Houston, TX
Emotive mid-century ink drawing on paper of a rurale vista in Provence by French artist, Jean Baptiste Grancher, circa 1960.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with ...
Category
1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Surrealist Gouache on Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Watercolour and gouache on paper painting titled 'Siamese Slaves' by British artist Derek Carruthers, signed to the bottom right and to the reverse and dated 2008 and titled.
A colo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
G_19 - 21st Century, Drawing, Contemporary, Black, White, Minimalist, Abstract
By Alina Aldea
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
G_19, 2019
White ink on black cardboard
27.55 H x 16.14 W in.
70 H x 41 W cm
Alina Aldea's drawing projects all the possible forms which appear to rapidly disappear, without having ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Cardboard
Female Nude, Pastel and Chalk Study for a Sculpture
By Marie-Jo Bourron
Located in Cotignac, FR
A chalk and crayon study for a scuplture by French female artist Marie-Josèphe Bourron. Presented in modern frame with mount under glass. Though not signed the drawing was acquired d...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Crayon, Pastel
Demon Mask with Skull Helmet in Neo-Japanese Style
Located in Soquel, CA
Demon Mask with Skull Helmet in Neo-Japanese Style
Boldly colored depiction of a demon mask by an unknown artist. A bright yellow mask stares out at the viewer, with a broad grin. A...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Permanent Marker
$620 Sale Price
20% Off
Megalithic Stone Alignments, Original Charcoal
Graphite Contemporary Landscape
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work.
Medium : Drawing with Charcoal and White pencil on Archival Fine Art paper 300Gsm.
Subject : Alignements de Lagatjar par temp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
Mother with Child
Located in Surfside, FL
Katarzyna LIBROWICZ
Polish French painter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and arrived in France in 1937 .
She studied with André Lhote in Montparnasse Paris and exhibi...
Category
20th Century Figurative 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...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
News Vendor, New York - China Ink Drawing on Paper by G. Grosz - 1932
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
News Vendor, New York is an original drawing, ink on paper, realized by George Grosz in 1932, signature stamp and Grosz Estate stamp on the reverse n°4-56-7.
Certificate by Ralph Jentsch.
Provenance George Grosz Estate.
In very good conditions.
Here representing a man selling news angrily and a man with paper in his hand with indifference and calm look with a time devilish smile. critically demonstrated an allegorical and deeply pessimistic kind representation of Grosz's moral perspective regarding war.
George Grosz (1893 -1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin...
Category
1930s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
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The New York artist created covers for the nation’s most illustrious magazines. Now, the originals are on display as fine art.
Cecilia Vicuña Merges Politics, Science and Spirituality in Her Poetic Art
The Chilean creator, who has been living in exile in New York for decades, is having a major moment, receiving the biggest exhibitions, commissions and awards an artist could dream of.
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Shantell Martin Finds Wonder in Sharing the Creative Process
The visual artist completed a new work in front of a crowd at the 1stdibs Gallery.