Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
EXPRESSIONIST STYLE
While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared.
Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.
Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.
Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.
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Style: Expressionist
Framed Beachscape Watercolor on Laid Paper by Rene Genis
By René Genis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rene Genis, French (1922 - 2004)
Title: Beachscape
Medium: Watercolor on Laid Paper, signed l.r.
Size: 10 x 16 inches
Frame Size: 15 x 21 inches
Category
1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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Expressionist Hand Signed Lithograph - Benjamin Kopman
Located in Surfside, FL
Actual Lithograph without matte is 16" X 12".
BENJAMIN KOPMAN (1887 - 1965)
Painter, Illustrator and printmaker Benjamin Kopman was born in Vitebsk, Russia and emigrated to the Unit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Expressionist Ink, Pastel, Crayon Drawing Jewish American Modernist Ben Zion WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Expressionist ink and pastel crayon drawing of beans (carobs, flowers?) in pods
Hand signed.
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual wo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Pastel, Ink
Études de Personnages (Figure Studies)
Located in Chicago, IL
Provenance:
Atelier of the artist
Notes:
Studio stamp on the verso of this important, early work by Gromaire.
Over the years there has been an ever-widening interest in the work o...
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1920s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Etching with Hand Watercolor Painting Jules Pascin Pencil Signed
By Jules Pascin
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: German Expressionist
Subject: Figures
Medium: etching, watercolor paint
Surface: Paper
This is hand signed lower right.. there does not seem to be an edition size although th...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Etching
UNTITLED - SEATED WOMAN WITH TOGA
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GERHARD MARCKS (1889 1981)
(SEATED WOMAN WITH TOGA) 1933. Graphite on wove paper, signed,
dated, 14 ¼” x 7”. Sheet 15” x 10”. S...
Category
1930s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
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Late 20th Century French Expressionist Crayon on Paper.
Woman on a Bed
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Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th Century French drawing on Canson paper by Gilbert Pastor. Signed bottom right. Acquired directly from the artist.
Born in Mars...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Disegno ritratto figurativo espressionista nudo femminile toscano del XX secolo
Located in Florence, IT
Il disegno, penna con inchiostri di diversi colori su carta, è firmato e datato L. NOCENTINI 91. La carta si presenta di un bel colore marrone nocciola, anche se con la luce del vide...
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1990s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Abres à Noyelles (Trees in Noyelles)
Located in Chicago, IL
Studio stamp of Gromaire, lower left
Provenance:
Atelier of the artist
Notes:
Noyelles, where this drawing was created, is a small town in the Somme department of Northern France ...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Colourful Abstract Sunset Sky, French Expressionist Original Painting
By Akos Biro
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002)
watercolor/ gouache
size: 7.5 x 10.5 inches
Beautifully colourful, original painting by the very popular and highly regarded Hungarian/ French painte...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sunset over the Sea, French Expressionist Original Painting
By Akos Biro
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002)
watercolor/gouache
size: 7.75 x 11 inches
Beautifully colorful, original painting by the very popular and highly regarded Hungarian/ French painter, ...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Woman in the Street, Expressionist Painting by Irma Stern 1923
By Irma Stern
Located in Long Island City, NY
Woman in the Street by Irma Stern, South African (1894–1966)
Date: 1923
Gouache on Paper, signed and dated lower right
Size: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
Frame Size: 26.5 x 22 inches
Category
1920s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
British expressive, mid century gouache
A dance at the fair
by Basil Town
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Norman Basil Town (British, 1915 – 1987)
A dance at the fair
Gouache on paper
7.7/8 x 13 in. (20 x 33 cm.)
Norman Basil Town (1905–1984) was a British artist known for his evocativ...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Nurse and Patient, Original Drawing by Ben Shahn
By Ben Shahn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Shahn, American (1898 - 1969)
Title: Nurse
Medium: Pencil on Paper, signed l.r.
Image Size: 7 x 5 inches
Frame Size: 15 x 13 inches
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache, Archival Paper
George Grosz NYC City Scene Modernism Watercolor German Expressionism Weimar
By George Grosz
Located in New York, NY
George Grosz NYC City Scene Modernism Watercolor German Expressionism Weimar
George Grosz (Germany, 1893-1959) "City Scene," 17 x 12 inches, signed and dated “33” lower left, watercolor on paper. This drawing, created while Grosz was living in NYC. Period frame, It has been authenticated by Ralph Jentsch, the globally recognized Grosz expert.
Provenance: Hirschl & Adler and 511 Gallery...
Category
1930s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Robed Woman. 3/4 length portrait done in blacks grey white and touches of pink
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a mixed media work on high quality sanded pastel paper. Signed and dated lower left hand corner.
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil painting...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
British expressive, mid century watercolour
The flight to Egypt
by Basil Town
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Norman Basil Town (British, 1915 – 1987)
The flight to Egypt
Gouache on paper
7.1/4 x 5.1/8 in. (18.4 x 13 cm.)
Norman Basil Town (1905–1984) was a British artist known for his evoc...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"90 Low Tide Barred Island" Small Pastel Sea Scape Maine Deer Island Pines Sea
Located in Austin, TX
Page size: 8 x 10 in.
Frame size: 10.5 x 12.5 in.
Signed, bottom left.
Inscribed with title, bottom right.
The rectangular picture plane can hardly contain energic mark-making in th...
Category
1990s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Illustration Board
British expressive, mid century watercolour
The Deposition
by Basil Town
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Norman Basil Town (British, 1915 – 1987)
The Deposition
Gouache on paper
9.1/2 x 6.1/8 in. (24.2 x 15.5 cm.)
Norman Basil Town (1905–1984) was a British artist known for his evocati...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Gouache Watercolor Painting, Nantucket Harbor Boats American Deaf Modernist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract harbor scene with boats, in bold, vivid colors on heavy mould made paper.
Hand signed and dated, 1980
22 X 30 not frame
Robert Freiman, deaf from birth, was born in March 1917 in New York City. He attended an oral program near his home and later transferred to the Lexington School for the Deaf when he was six. Early in his childhood, his love for drawing, painting and studying became apparent, and as an adult, he continued his studies in New York at the National Academy of Design, Pratt Institute, the Art Students League and the Parsons School of Design. In Paris, France he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Bob Freiman was especially focused on painting portraits and figures in motion in various mediums, especially the mixed-media combination of watercolor, acrylic and pen. Among his subjects were acrobats, ballet dancers, cyclists and other athletes. He as well focused on abstracts for a time, discovering new media in his works with quick brushwork and expressive movements.
In the latter part of his career, his style became abstract and surreal with images of metaphysical landscapes with architectural elements such as arches, towers, pyramids and castles floating in the air. The famed art critic Pierre Rouve wrote: “It is therefore refreshing to see them revitalized by the colourist wealth and virile handwriting of Robert Freiman, probably the best American water-colorist since John Marin. He worked in Provincetown and Nantucket and regularly exhibited there. He showed at Doll & Richards gallery of Boston alongside John Chetcuti, Lloyd Goodrich, Tod Lindenmuth, William Meyerowitz, Dwight Shepler...
Category
1980s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Woman in flapper hat . Black and white head portrait charcoal drawing.
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a charcoal on light Grey paper possibly a study for a larger work. The dimensions including the frame measure 14 x11 in. Signed on bottom.right hand corner
ABOUT Stephen Ba...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Archival Paper
Post Soviet Avant Garde Russian Woodcut Print With Hand Watercolor Painting
By Ilya Shenker
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts a feast style celebration scene in a style of German Expressionism. hand signed and hand painted in watercolor.
Ilya Shenker, Russian/American (1922 - )
As a soldier in World War II, he survived where millions perished. Upon returning to his home town of Odessa, felt abandoned and alone. He studied Art and Architecture in Odessa, but, one of a number of Russian Jewish artists allowed to emigrate, he left for America when the opportunity arose. He settled in New York City, a choice that has forever impacted his oeuvre. Many of his pictures depict New York cityscapes and lifestyle; however, they remain typically Russian. His subject matter often comes from memory and includes the life that he left behind, family, and friends. Drawing upon his Jewish heritage for inspiration, Shenker also paints historical events, such as "On the Eve of the Assault" in which he portrayed the last night before the destruction of Jerusalem. He has also illustrated a number of classics of Russian literature including Alexander Pushkin. His use of imagination also applies to the figures in his expressionist paintings—fictional characters such as the Spanish literary character Don Quixote make appearances in his work. He has also placed figures such as Rembrandt and Picasso in modern settings: in "Rembrandt Visiting our Family," Shenker sits his most favored artist at his family table, in a tribute to someone he describes as a "peoples artist." He is one in a long line of great Soviet Russian Judaica Jewish artists beginning with Yehuda Pen, who founded Russia's first art school for Jews in Vitebsk in 1897 continuing with his students, including Marc Chagall and El Lissitzky, Natan Altman, Leon Bakst and Robert Falk...
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1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Like Swimming In A Quarry. Contemporary Figurative Drawing
Located in Brecon, Powys
Like Swimming In A Quarry - 120 feet and dark in the middle. One of Wadsworth's celebrated & innovative Black Cloth series. His sitters pose with a large black cloth & talk about wha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
"Nude Wearing a Hat" Gestural Figure Portrait Study Orange Red and Purple Washes
Located in Austin, TX
Page size: 8 x 12 in.
Frame Size: 15.5 x 11.5 in.
Signed, bottom left.
This spirited mixed media drawing features a standing female figure rendered in a loose, expressive style. The...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Post Soviet Avant Garde Russian Woodcut Print With Hand Watercolor Painting
By Ilya Shenker
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts a wedding scene in a style of German Expressionism. hand signed and hand painted in watercolor.
Ilya Shenker, Russian/American (1922 - )
As a soldier in World War II, he survived where millions perished. Upon returning to his home town of Odessa, felt abandoned and alone. He studied Art and Architecture in Odessa, but, one of a number of Russian Jewish artists allowed to emigrate, he left for America when the opportunity arose. He settled in New York City, a choice that has forever impacted his oeuvre. Many of his pictures depict New York cityscapes and lifestyle; however, they remain typically Russian. His subject matter often comes from memory and includes the life that he left behind, family, and friends. Drawing upon his Jewish heritage for inspiration, Shenker also paints historical events, such as "On the Eve of the Assault" in which he portrayed the last night before the destruction of Jerusalem. He has also illustrated a number of classics of Russian literature including Alexander Pushkin. His use of imagination also applies to the figures in his expressionist paintings—fictional characters such as the Spanish literary character Don Quixote make appearances in his work. He has also placed figures such as Rembrandt and Picasso in modern settings: in "Rembrandt Visiting our Family," Shenker sits his most favored artist at his family table, in a tribute to someone he describes as a "peoples artist." He is one in a long line of great Soviet Russian Judaica Jewish artists beginning with Yehuda Pen, who founded Russia's first art school for Jews in Vitebsk in 1897 continuing with his students, including Marc Chagall and El Lissitzky, Natan Altman, Leon Bakst and Robert Falk...
Category
1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Woodcut
Jewish Family
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Jewish Family" 1968 is an acrylic and ink on wove paper by noted Lithuanian artist Boris Deutsch, 1892-1978. It is hand signed and dated at the lower left corner by the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Expressionist Figure Study
By Sigmund Menkes
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Expressionist
Subject: Figures
Medium: Ink
Surface: Paper
Dimensions w/Frame: 14 1/4" x 12 1/4"
Zygmunt (Sigmund) Menkes
born in Lviv (Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire) Polish painter of Jewish origin, born in 1896 in Lvov, died in 1986 in Riverdale, New York. Member of the École de Paris group in the 1920s and 1930s. From the beginning of 1935 he lived and worked in the United States; he was a representative of the Expressionist Colorism movement.
Menkes began his artistic studies in 1912 at the Industrial School in Lviv. At the same time he worked as a restorer of rural churches. Between 1919 and 1922 he supplemented his studies at Krakow's Academy of Fine Arts and in 1922 expanded on this education and broadened his artistic skills in the private studio of Alexander Archipenko in Berlin. In 1923 Menkes settled in Paris, where he became a member of the École de Paris - a community that was primarily made up of artists hailing from Central and Eastern Europe who rented inexpensive studios in the "La Ruche" building in the Montparnasse district. Menkes developed close friendships with Eugeniusz Zak and Marc Chagall. Two years later, Menkes made the decision to settle permanently in France. He participated in a series of the city's salons, including the Salon d'Automne (1924, 1925, 1927), the Salon des Independants (1925-1928), and Tuileries Salon (1928, 1929, 1931, 1938). He presented his works in a number of Parisian galleries, among them, the Bernheim, de France, and Le Portique. In 1930 the artist traveled to the United States to present his work in Cleveland and New York. He also exhibited his paintings in Canada and England. He visited Poland frequently, spent time in Berlin in 1928, and toured Spain with Artur Nacht-Samborski in 1935, moving to the United States the same year.
In 1936 Menkes had his first solo exhibition in New York at the Sullivan Gallery on 57th Street. He also worked with the Associated American Artists Gallery and the French Art Gallery, and for years was a lecturer at the Art Students League. Solo exhibitions of his work were organized by the Galerie Le Portique in Paris (1928), the Friends of Fine Arts Society in Lviv (1930), and at the Jewish Society for Support of the Fine Arts in Warsaw (1931). In Poland the artist was a member of groups with a Coloristic orientation, including Nowa Generacja (New Generation) and Zwornik (Keystone), participating in their exhibitions in Lviv (1932, 1935) and Warsaw (1935, 1938). Menkes received a series of important distinctions for his work, including the Carol H. Beck Medal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Philadelphia, 1943), the Gold Medal of the Corcoran Gallery (Washington, D.C., 1947), the Andrew Carnegie...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Original mid 20th Century French drawing by Expressionist Morot-Sir
Graphica
By Gerard Morot-Sir
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Gerard Morot-Sir (French, 1931 – 2003)
Graphica
Ink on paper
Signed and dated ‘ Morot-Sir, 59’ (lower left)
12.1/2 x 9.5/8in. (31.7 x 24.5cm.)
Newly framed in a limed wood frame in a...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Lothar Homeyer "Portrait Marc Chagall 1946" German Expressionst , Ink Drawing
Located in Eltville am Rhein, DE
Lothar Homeyer
Berlin 1883 - 1969
Marc Chagall, 1946
Ink drawing, heightened in white in places on paper / cardboard
Monogrammed and dated lower right, titled lower left below th...
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1940s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
The First Day At School In Rural Wales Framed Welsh Cultural Pastel Artwork
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Julian Ruddock.
British ( b.1965 ).
To School In Llanfihangel. (First Day At School).
Pastel On Paper.
Signed Lower Left.
Image size 21.7 inches x 29.6 inches ( 55cm x 75cm ).
Frame...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Nude - XXI Century, Contemporary Gouache and Charcoal Figurative Drawing, Female
By Marta Łebek
Located in Warsaw, PL
Marta Lebek is a Polish artist born in 1978. She currently lives and works in Spain.
She studied at the School of Fine Arts and specialized in the departm...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
Colorado Summer
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil pastel and watercolor on paper. Signed and dated to lower right edge 'Vaclav Vytlacil 1953'. Signed and dated to lower left edge 'Vytlacil 1953'. It is also titled on reverse. Pa...
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1950s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor
The Cruxifixction
By Hans Hofmann
Located in New York, NY
Description
Hans Hofmann
Untitled
On the reverse a pencil sketch
Pencil on paper
14 x 16 7/8 in.
Provenance
Herbert Matter, New York / Lillian Heidenberg Gallery, New York / Bunny...
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20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Jean Dufy, 1925 watercolour painting of the port of Le Havre, France
By Jean Dufy
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jean Dufy (French, 1888 – 1964)
Vue de port du Havre, circa 1925
Watercolour on paper
Signed ‘Jean Dufy’ (lower right) and inscribed on the reverse
19.1/4 x 23.1/4 in. (48.5 x 59 cm....
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20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Battle Station. colorful food medley of eggplants and leeks on kitchen table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This part of a series titled Restless Still Lie by the artist depicting everyday objects engaged in some particular drama hence the title.
It is soft pastel on toned archival sanded...
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2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Pastel, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Havana
By Jean Carzou
Located in New York, NY
Jean Carzou traveled to Havana as an artist to explore the world and he captured a ship from a earlier era.
Category
1950s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$5,000
Dancing Musician
, New York, Kinetic Figural, NYMOMA, LACMA, Whitney Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Dancing Musician' by Ronald Mallory, 1975.
New York Museum of Modern Art, Kinetic Figural, Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum
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Signed lower right, 'Mallor...
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1970s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
Politician - Watercolor and Ink - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
Politician is an original china ink and drawing watercolor realized in 1923 by an Artist of expressionist school.
Fair conditions (yellowing of paper and tears).
Unreadible signat...
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1920s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Women in Purple and Shadow - Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Nun in the Shadows - Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper
A dark abstracted portrait by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). This piece is abst...
Category
1980s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Three Rabbis at The Torah, Expressionist Judaica Painting
By Andre Elbaz
Located in Surfside, FL
In this painting the artist uses gestural brushstrokes, which causes distortion and exaggeration for emotional effect. Andre Elbaz uses as his subject three male figures with tefilin are depicted during prayer.
André Elbaz (born April 26, 1934, El Jadida, Morocco) is a famous Moroccan painter and filmmaker.
Elbaz studied art and theatre in Rabat and Paris from 1950 to 1961. He started painting only at the age of 21, until which age he had been interested mainly in theatre. A few years later, he managed to combine his two passions into a new approach in art-therapy, inventing together with his wife, a psychiatrist, the Pictodrame, which brought him world recognition.
His first exhibition, which was very successful, took place in Casablanca in 1961 and earned him an appointment as Professor at the Beaux-Arts school in Casablanca. Years later, in 1976, he exhibited his paintings at the Tel-Aviv Museum.
In parallel to his career as a painter, Elbaz is also known as a filmmaker. He produced several short films in France, Canada and the United States. One of them, La nuit n'est jamais complète (The night is never complete), won a prize at the "5th Biennale de Paris in 1967". Among the themes chosen for the many films he produced, there was a short one about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, as well as a series of drawings entitled Seuls (Alone), with texts written by both Elie Wiesel...
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20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Lost Hedgerows Framed Environmental Activism Pastel Artwork Late 20th Century
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Julian Ruddock.
British ( b.1965 ).
Lost Hedgerows.
Pastel On Paper.
Signed Lower Right.
Image size 21.9 inches x 25 inches ( 55.5cm x 63.5cm ).
Frame size 29 inches x 32.1 inches ...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Harbor View London Bridge, Lake Havasu City Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor of London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, a landscape of boats in the harbor by Bernard Epstein (Polish/American, 1910-2003). Presented in a blue wooden frame. Signed "Bernard Epstein" lower right. Image: 17.5"H x 23.5"W.
Bernard Epstein was born in Grodno Poland in 1910. He came to Worcester MA in 1921, where he studied art at the Worcester Art Museum School. He pursued his art studies in Boston, graduating with a B.A. from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and with a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from Boston University. He continued his art studies in New York, where he attended the National Academy of Fine Arts in New York City, studying under the tutelage of Leon Kroll and Herbert Barnett. (2)
He was the Art supervisor for the Uxbridge Public Schools for over 30 years, retiring in 1970 to pursue his interest in watercolors, oils and pottery. He opened an art gallery and pottery shop in North Eastham, MA that he operated for 26 years, retiring in 1996. (3)
For over 50 years Mr. Epstein painted in his favorite haunts: Gloucester, Worcester, Provincetown and Lower Cape in MA; Old Orchard Beach...
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1970s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$556 Sale Price
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Sketch Idea for Metropolis - German Expressionism - 1926
By Otto Dix
Located in London, GB
OTTO DIX 1891-1969
Gera 1891-1969 Singen (German)
Title: Sketch Idea for Metropolis Ideenskizze zu einem Großstadtbild, 1926
Technique: Coloured Pencil and Pencil Drawing on Wov...
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1920s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Seated Pair, Framed Pastel on Paper by Francisco Zuniga
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Francisco Zuniga, Costa Rican / Mexican (1912 - 1998)
Title: Seated Pair
Year: 1964
Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 15.5 x 25 inches
Frame: 24 x 33 inche...
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1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Portrait - Drawing on Paper by Sebastiano Carta - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original mixed media drawing on paper realized by Sebastiano Carta.
In good conditions except for some diffused foldings.
Hand-signed on the lower left margin in pen...
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1950s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Mixed Media
British 20th Century Charcoal and crayon drawing of a seated leopard
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Elsie Marian Henderson (British, 1880-1967)
Seated Leopard
Charcoal and crayon
11.3/8 x 7.7/8 in. (28.8 x 20 cm.)
Provenance: The estate of the artist
S...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Crayon
Large Watercolor Painting Israeli Modernist Judaica Two Rabbis
By Moshe Gat
Located in Surfside, FL
A large watercolor painting.
Moshe Gat was born in Haifa in 1935.
in 1952 he began his studies at the Bezalel School, in Jerusalem.
In 1955...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Medea
, Jason
s Enchantress, Greek Mythological Figural, Expressionist Woman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Medea' by Peter Brandes, 1964.
Jason's Enchantress, Greek Mythological Figural, Expressionist Woman
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Signed lower right, 'Peter Brandes' (Danish, ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Tower Bridge, London - Abstracted Urban Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic pastel drawing of Tower Bridge in London by Allie William "Bill" Skelton (American, 1942-1986). Signed and dated in pencil by the artist in the lower right corner. Unframed.
Allie William “Bill” Skelton (American, 1942-1986) was a painter and sculptor active in San Francisco who was involved in the gay art...
Category
1970s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
Magnolia Study No. 7, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Original watercolor painting on 140 lb Arches cold press paper :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: R...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Point Sur Light House, Big Sur, California - Cyanotype / Watercolor Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Soft watercolor accents add to the beauty of this unique cyanotype and watercolor landscape of the Point Sur Lighthouse in Big Sur, California by Cheryl Trotter (American, 20th centu...
Category
1980s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Photographic Film, Watercolor
Reclining Young Man Liegender junger Mann - Drawing German Expressionism
Located in London, GB
This pencil drawing by the German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is stamped at the lower left corner, verso with the artist's estate stamp (Lugt 1570b) and inscribed in black ink “B Dr...
Category
1910s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Patterns female figure pattern dress strong red-orange and black colors
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imaginat...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Archival Paper
Body in the Field #2 - Red, Blue, Drawing, Coloured Pencils, Landscape
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #2, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
Body in the Field #1 - Red, Landscape, Coloured pencil, Drawing
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #1, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
Body in the Field #9 - Landscape, Orange, Red, Coloured pencil
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #9, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
Lothar Malskat – Abstract Landscape in Red and Green, Signed and Dated ’44
Located in Berlin, DE
Vivid expressionist landscape by Lothar Malskat (German, 1913–1988), signed and dated ’44 lower right. Executed in watercolor and gouache on paper, this dynamic composition captures ...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Middletown ..Cafe scene standing woman between two plants warm red color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imaginat...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper, Pen
Body in the Field #6 - Green, Canvas, Landscape, 21st Century
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Body in the Field #6, 2022
coloured pencils on canvas
25 H x 16 W cm
Signed on reverse
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism of t...
Category
2010s Expressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Color Pencil
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