1980s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

"Bourrée Fantasque #2", Pastel on Paper by Artist Francisco Moncion, is a Mid-20th Century fantasy image inspired by George Balanchine's 1949 ballet ...

"Bourrée Fantasque #8", 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...

Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Pink Flowers, Medium: Tempera on paper, signed lower left, Size: 18 x 24 in. (45.72 x 60.96 cm)

Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Pink Flowers with Greenery, Medium: Tempera on paper, signed lower left, Size: 19 x 25 in. (48.26 x 63.5 cm)

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...

1983 Keith Haring Dancing Figures drawing on Keith Haring World Tour hat: A rare, historic Keith Haring collectible featuring a sharply executed black mar...

"Bourrée Fantasque #3", Pastel on Paper by Artist Francisco Moncion, is a Mid-20th Century fantasy image inspired by George Balanchine's 1949 ballet ...

"Bourrée Fantasque #9", Pastel on Paper by Artist Francisco Moncion, is a Mid-20th Century fantasy image inspired by George Balanchine's 1949 ballet ...

Peter Pinchbeck, English (1931 - 2000) - Red Square, Green Square, Year: 1981, Medium: Gouache on Fabriano Cotton Paper, signed, and dated in pencil, Image Size: 18 x 25.5 inches, S...

Signed lower left, 'Picot' for Jean-Claude Picot (French, born 1933), and painted circa 1985; additionally titled, verso, on old label, 'L'escalier du Jardin (Mandelie '. From 1947,...

Ellsworth Kelly Handwritten, signed note on card to CBS cameraman and collector Dan Pope Ink on offset lithograph card Handwritten note signed and inscribed to Dan Pope. It reads, "D...

Walasse Ting 丁雄泉 CAT (original drawing), 1985 Original Ink and Marker on offset lithograph held in hardback monograph Hand signed and inscribed by the artist This is an absolutely g...

Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Vibrant sketch of sitting nude woman with washes of blue, g...

Robert Petersen Eight of Hearts, 1989 Mixed media silkscreen with hand applied acrylic on paper with deckled edges Hand signed, numbered 6/21, dated, and inscribed on the front Uniqu...

Reed, Robert (American, 1938-2014). SAN ROMANO: BLACK NINE. Mixed media, collage, assemblage. painted and colored papers and office staples, not dated, but ...

Signature: Published Vogue Italy Client Halston Double Signature Signed lower right Antonio Also signed Halston Graphic remarks were written in pencil by Halston. work is elegantly m...

Robert Cottingham Don't Walk, 1985 Three color Linoleum Cut on Paper Pencil signed, inscribed to Bryan and annotated TP Published by Chip Elwell Fine Prints Trial Proof (unique) This...

*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE. Sklye by Sam Francis (1923-1994) Acrylic on paper 14.6 x 10.2 cm (5 ³/₄ x 4 inches) Signed, Sam Francis and dated on th...

A mixed media drawing by Michael Platt from 1981. A representational image of a figure in a cool, subdued color pallet. Platt creates artwork that centers on figurative explorations ...

Radiant baby drawing done in marker on inside page of historic limited edition monograph Boldly signed, dated '88 and inscribed "FOR EARL (MY SECOND FAVORITE DEALER) This original ma...

Carolee Schneeman Infinity Kisses, 1988 Archival pigment print Signed and dated on the front This is a unique work of art Frame included Infinity Kisses for the artist's beloved cat...

Robert Mangold Untitled minimalist drawing, ca. 1980 Drawing in Ink on Paper Hand signed and inscribed on lower front Inscription reads as follows: Best Wishes David Bob Mangold Fram...

Modern realistic sepia toned drawing of nude figures by Texas artist Robert Levers. The work features a male figure with horns in an aggressive sta...

Plum Branches and Flowers watercolor on wove paper, 1985 Signed and dated in pencil lower right corner From the artist's 1985 sketchbook Inspired by O'Sickey's love of Japanese and Chinese art and calligraphy. Provenance: Estate of the artist Condition: Excellent Image/Sheet size: 13 5/8 x 17 inches Joseph B. O’Sickey, Painter 1974 CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE FOR VISUAL ARTS The title conferred on him by Plain Dealer art critic Steve Litt in a 1994 article, “the dean of painting in northeast Ohio,” must have pleased Joseph O'Sickey. It was more than 30 years since he had burst onto the local (and national) art scene. O’Sickey was already in his 40s in that spring of 1962 when he had his first one-man show at the Akron Art Museum and was signed by New York’s prestigious Seligmann Galleries, founded in 1888. In the decade and a half that followed, he would have seven one-man shows at Seligmann, which had showed the work of such trailblazing figures as Seurat, Vuilliard, Bonnard, Leger and Picasso, and appear in all of the group shows. O’Sickey took the Best Painting award in the 1962 May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). He and would capture the same honor in back-to-back May Shows in 1964 and ’65, and again in 1967. The remarkable thing, noted the Plain Dealer’s Helen Borsick, was that he accomplished this sweep in a variety of painterly styles, even using that most hackneyed of subjects, flowers. “The subject doesn’t matter,” he told her, “what the artist brings to it is the important thing.” O’Sickey’s garden and landscape paintings were big and bold, eschewing delicate detail in favor of vitality and impact. The great art collector and CMA benefactor Katherine C. White, standing before one of O’Sickey’s vivid garden paintings, compared the sensation to “being pelted with flowers.” Though he might represent an entire blossom with one or two smudged brush strokes or a stem with a simple sweep of green, O’Sickey rejected the moniker of Impressionist—or Pointillist or Abstract painter or Expressionist. “My work,” he said, “is a direct response to the subject. I believe in fervor and poetic metaphor. I try to make each color and shape visible and identifiable within the context of surrounding colors and shapes. A yellow must hold its unique quality from any another yellow or surrounding color, and yet read as a lemon or an object, by inference. It does not require shading or modeling—the poetic evocation is part of the whole.” “The subject,” O’Sickey used to tell his students at Kent State University, where he taught painting from 1964 to 1989, “has to be seen as a whole and the painting has to be structured to be seen as a whole.” He liked to think of it as “a process of controlled rapture.” When, in the 1960s, fond childhood memories drew him to the zoo, he found himself responding to the caged animals in their lonely dignity (or indignity) with sharp-edged, almost silhouette-like forms that evoked Matisse’s paintings and cut-paper assemblages. One observer was left with the impression that the artist had “looked at these animals, past daylight and into dusk when they lose their details in shadow and become pure shapes, with eyes that are seeing the viewer rather than the other way around. This is a world of shape and essence,” wrote Helen Borsick. “All is simplification.” O’Sickey attributed his ability to capture his subjects with just a few strokes—in an almost iconographic way—to a rigorous exercise he had imposed upon himself over a period of several months. Limiting his tools to a large No. 6 bristle brush and black ink, he set himself the task of drawing his pet parakeet and the other small objects in its cage (cuttlebone, feeding dish, tinkling bell) hundreds of times. The exercise gave him “invaluable insights into painting. . . . Because of the crudity of the medium, every part of these drawings had to be an invention and every mark had to have its room and clarity.” Then he began adding one color at a time—“still with the same brush and striving for the same clarity”—and headed off to the zoo where “the world opened up to me. I learned how little it took to express the subject.” Born in Detroit at the close of the First World War, O’Sickey grew up in St. Stanislaus parish near East 65th and Fleet on Cleveland’s southeast side. (The apostrophe was inserted into the family’s proud Polish name by a clerk at Ellis Island.) An early interest in drawing and painting may have been kindled by the presence on the walls of Charles Dickens Elementary School, one of only three grade schools in the district with a special focus on the arts, of masterful watercolors by such Cleveland masters as Paul Travis, Frank N. Wilcox and Bill Coombes. As a youngster O’Sickey took drawing classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and he and his brother spent hours copying famous paintings; while a student at East Tech High School in the mid-’30s, he attended free evening classes in life drawing with Travis and Ralph Stoll at the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Institute, and Saturday classes at the Cleveland School (later the Cleveland Institute) of Art, where he earned his degree in 1940 under the tutelage of Travis, Stoll and such other legendary figures as Henry Keller, Carl Gaertner, William Eastman, Kenneth Bates...

Modern abstract black ink line drawing of a seated female nude. The work features a loose rendering of a single woman sitting on her heels and looking off in the distance. Signed and dated in front lower right corner. Currently unframed, but options are available. Artist Biography: Frank Dolejska...

This watercolor painting was created by Oscar Hess in circa 1980. It is hand signed in the lower right hand corner, and measures 19.5 x 14 inches. It is displayed in a 27 x 22 inch m...

To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you want. Derrick Latimer Sayer (British: 1917-1992) Tree for Beverly Nichols...

Joseph Piccillo’s meticulous charcoal and graphite drawings and paintings reveal an exquisite draftsmanship tempered by emotional sensitivity. Piccillo presents an action-based assem...

Robert Petersen May 1987, 1987 Pure pigment collage, gold leaf, acrylic painting and drawing Signed, titled and dated on the front. The back of the frame bears the label of Castelli ...

James Nares Untitled flower monotype, 1988 Monotype on hand made paper Pencil signed and dated by James Nares on the lower right front Frame included: floated in the original wood fr...

Ex Libris 1982, paper, ink, gouache, 17,5х13 cm Information about artist: Gunārs Vīndedzis (1918 - 1991) - cartoonist, illustrator. Born in a fami...

Artist: Gay Kabbash, American Title: Miss Maude Year: 1988 Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated Size: 18 in. x 23.5 in. (45.72 cm x 59.69 cm) Frame Size: 23 x 29 inches

Artist: Kim Jones, American (1944 - ) Title: Don't Cry For Me Argentina Year: 1988 Medium: Ink and Gouache, signed and dated verso Size: 20 x 15.5 in. (50.8 x 39.37 cm) Frame Size: 2...

It is a classic drawing in pencil. A young woman, nude, kneels, hands behind her head. She is looking away from the viewer into the distance, a solemn gaze. Christopher Pratt, one of...

D. Tongen "Orange and Blue" 1980s 11.75"x9.75" Soft pastel and pencil on paper Initialed and dated in pencil lower right

"Grey Pitcher" is a pastel still life by American artist Warren Brandt created in 1986. Warren Brandt is known for his still-life paintings being especial...

Hay stacks. 1981. Oil on cardboard, 22x30 cm

Artist: Peter Max Title: Untitled Original Watercolor on Paper Medium: Original Watercolor on Paper Signed: Hand Signed Measurements: Paper: 6" x 19" Frame: 19" x 32.5" Condition...

Untitled (Hot Air Balloon Ascent and Spectators) Sepia wash on wove paper, 1985 Signed and dated in ink lower right corner From the artist's 1985 sketchbook Probably a view of Cape C...

Original oil pastel, ink and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of nude woman reclining in a turban in washes o...

Gouache on paper and technic mixed, signed lower left.

Sheila Isham Flight XXXI, 1987 acrylic, watercolor, and collage on handmade paper with deckled edges Pencil signed, dated and titled Signed again and warm...

Crash Pleased to See You, 1989 Signed and dated lower left Watercolor and ink on paper 30 x 20 1/2 inches A contemporary of Keith Haring and a modern-day master of this present day ...

Impossible Solutions at The Fountain of Youth Collage on paper, 1987 Signed with the artist's initials and datedlower left Condition: Good, with the ...

Boy with glasses is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981s. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artwork represents a you...

Portrait of Boy is an original drawing pen realized by Anthony Roaland in early 1980s. The artist want to define a well-balanced composition, through a harmonious style. Good cond...

Portrait of a boy is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1981. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artist represents the fi...

The boy at the sea is an original drawing on pencil realized by Anthony Roaland in 1980. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin. The artist represents the f...

Claudio Verna pastel on paper signed and dated 1980 registered and certified by the Claudio Verna Archive.  The drawing was analyzed by the Claudio Verna Archive directly. Based on ...

The murder of John Lennon. The birth of my children. Nixon’s resignation. Brain surgery. Driven by the desire to express myself, and leave a physical record of my life and times, I’v...

Untitled III, 1984 by Enrique Grau Graphite on paper Signed in the top right corner. Great condition. Provenance: Private collection. Image size: 12 in H ...

"The Nature of Things" is an original oil pastel drawing on paper by Reginald K. Gee. The artist initialed the piece on the back. This work features a variety of abstract techniques-...

"Bourrée Fantasque #4", 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...

An early work on a series of nude figures that have been part of the artist's extensive body of work. The pastel colors are strong and vibrant with extensive reworking . It i s signe...

Detailed figurative watercolor landscape the Monterey Wharf with figures and boats by Stephen John Skerce (American, 1926-2010). Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "Skerce" lower le...

Claude Bauret Allard (French, b. 1936), "New Mexico", Pastel on Paper, 1983, signed in pencil, titled, and dated to verso, unframed. 19" H x 26.25" W. Provenance: From a 35 East 75th...

Fashion Illustration. Work is unframed. Free standing heavy watercolor paper loosely hinged to board. Excellent condition.

Paese in estate is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1988 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original drawing in beautiful colored tempera on...

"Creatures" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It features abstracted "creatures" in bright colors. ...

Katherine Porter Country Music (Nashville is an Enigma), 1986 Mixed media; colored pencil, gouache, and graphite on paper, uniquely signed and inscribed with Nashville dateline Hand ...