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Medium: Watercolor
1950 s French Modernist/ Cubist Painting Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Portrait by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed size: 17 x 7 inches condition: very good and ready to be e...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

Yellow Draped Cloth Grey Bottles and Potted Plants French Modernist Still Life
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Yellow Draped Cloth Grey Bottles and Potted Plants French Modernist Still Life Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 24 x 19.5 inches (height...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Dinosaur Me Baby
Located in London, GB
'Dinosaur Me & Baby' abstract composition, mixed media on soft board, Japanese ink, oil, pencil and gouache by Erez Yardeni (2018). The scribblings of a c...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Oil, Gouache, Board, Pencil

Dinosaur Me 
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Dinosaur Me 
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A Visual Journey: Landscape #6, Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Painting
Located in Boston, MA
A Visual Journey: Landscape #6, Original Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Painting, 2022 Reminiscent of the abstract expressionist works of Hans Hoffman, this small-format mixed media painting study by artist Simona Gocan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

Running the Light (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Running the Light (Abstract painting) Gouache on matte board. Unframed. This work is part of an early series made in 1998 where Gordon explored with free flowing interacting with c...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Oberkampf 2 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed. Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally ar...
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Early 2000s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil

Large Celestial Mythical Horse Painting Acrylic Gouache Ink on Canvas Blue
Located in Versailles, KY
Large Celestial Mythical Horse Painting by Alex K. Mason "Wardusa", Acrylic Gouache Ink on Canvas, Blue, White, Gold, Yellow This painting is part of a constellation series I did f...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache

Paris - Ober (Blue Tarp) (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed. Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally ar...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil

Hot Flame III Abstract Work On Paper
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Hot Flame III Abstract Abstract watercolor on French Arches rag paper artist signed. It can be ship rolled up or frame before shipping for additional cost. Frank Monaco American art...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper, Vinyl

Covers 13-Purple A
Located in London, GB
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed. Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper. She uses tape to mask out shapes and employ hard e...
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2010s Hard-Edge Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

"Queen of Darkness" abstract mixed media collage, (blue, red, brown, gold, grey)
Located in New York, NY
22’’ x 30" mixed media collage: ink, watercolor, origami paper, gold foil, pattern-making paper on paper, framing options available. Linda Ganjian's artwork captivates with its or...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Foil

Abstract Red Fruit and Green Foliage Large French Modernist Still Life Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Abstract Red Fruit and Green Foliage Large French Modernist Still Life Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.75 x 24.25 inches (h...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Yellow Draped Cloth Bottles Glassware and Potted Plants Modernist Still Life
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Yellow Draped Cloth Bottles Glassware and Potted Plants Modernist Still Life Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 18.25 x 24 inches (height ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Large Abstract Celestial Painting Mixed Media on Canvas, Blues, Golds, White
Located in Versailles, KY
Large Abstract Celestial Painting by Alex K. Mason. "Ultralight Beam". Acrylic, Gouache, Ink on Canvas, 48"H x 48"W x 3"D. Blues, Golds, Whites,...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache

Contemporary abstract expressionist vivid watercolor woman paper "Woman s pause"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary expressionist painting "Woman's Pause" was created by French artist Natalya Mougenot and makes part of her ongoing series dedicated to Women. In this series, Natal...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

"NY 7.24" 2024 gouache on watercolor paper
Located in New York, NY
Jill Moser NY 7.24, 2024 gouache on watercolor paper 22.5 x 30 in. (mose010)
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Consort , Modernist Equestrian Gouache, AIC, WPA artist, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966); additionally titled verso 'Consort' and dated 1954 with inscription, 'by the one and only buk, made for Ruth'....
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1950s Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Tempera, Gouache, Illustration Board

Waiting for the Maharaja- line drawing woman figure with jewelry
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
The work was done with ink and watercolor on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size. Framed black or gold 20 by 16 inches . This is the "Many thoughts, one head"...
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2010s Minimalist Watercolor Abstract Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Mod Abstract Expressionist W/C Painting Bernard Segal New Hope PA Modernist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed 19 x 26. Image 14 X 21 Bernard Segal was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and attended Cincinnati University and the Cincinnati Art Academy. He was known for figure, abstract painti...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"NY 4.24" 2024 gouache on watercolor paper
Located in New York, NY
Jill Moser NY 7.24, 2024 gouache on watercolor paper 22.5 x 30 in. (mose010)
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Let’s play- Line Drawing Woman Body with red “Playboy” Bunny mask
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Let’s play- Line Drawing Woman Body with red “Playboy” Bunny mask, 2025. Interior design paintings. The artwork was done with watercolor on watercolor paper 300g. The works are 15 by...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Double Ring Totem" abstract collage, (blue, red, black, silver, grey)
Located in New York, NY
12"x9" mixed media collage: acrylic, metallic watercolor and papers, ink, collage dressmaking patterns, framing options available. Linda Ganjian's artwork captivates with its ornat...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

Materials

Foil

Rest
Located in New York, NY
ink and watercolor on paper, 82" x96" This painting is from a new series of works by Jesse Lambert which ink and depict ad-hoc structures that are constructed out of scraps of woo...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Watercolor

Abstract Mixed Media environmental art collage Andre Emmerich Gallery, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Judy Pfaff Untitled, 1994 Collage, Mixed media, Gouache and Leaves on paper, in Artist's Frame. Signed with Andre Emmerich Bellas Artes Gallery Labels - accompanied by original...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Gouache

Provincetown (Cape Cod landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful ca.1930 double-sided abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). On the Docks, Sunset. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20.5 inches. S...
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Early 20th Century Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil

Ballad by Olga Reiwald - Watercolor
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper White wooden frame with glass pane 53 x 43,5 x 1 cm
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1970s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Traveller - Soft Abstract Figurative Landscape Painting on Wood
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Eddy Lee’s figurative surrealist portrait paintings on exposed wood depict emotive sirens who evoke a sense of mystery and seductiveness. His original artworks combine geometric elements with innocent women portraits seeking to trigger emotions, rather than communicating specific explanations. He reconciles the unconscious with rational life, exploring the power of dreams, embracing automatism, and freeing his subjects from the constraints of conscious thought. This colorful, intriguing woman portrait is painted with acrylic and gouache on a hand-built cradled wood panel. This one-of-a-kind original artwork measures 24 inches high by 24 inches wide. It is signed by the artist on the front and back. It is wired and ready to hang. It does not require framing. Free local Los Angeles delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included with this unique work. Originally from Seattle, Washington, Eddy Lee relocated to Los Angeles in late 2012 to pursue a full-time career as a fine artist. He started his career on the Venice Beach Boardwalk and quickly gained a large following across the United States with exhibitions in San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. The artist’s work is inspired by the works of Audrey Kawasaki...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Wood Panel, Graphite

Vintage European Modernist Signed 1969 Landscape Coastal Signed Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist coastal seascape painting. Mixed media on board. Framed. Measuring: 17 by 20 inches overall. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
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1960s Modern Watercolor Abstract Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Board

Surrealist Musical Fantasy
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful Surrealist musical painting by unknown artist Watercolor on paper, shett measures 22 x 22 inches. Unframed. Small repaited puncture in painting can be seen just beneath p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Watercolor Abstract Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

"Geometric Design"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed lower left. Rolph Scarlett (1889 - 1984) A major exponent of non-objective painting, Rolph Scarlett's career and art...
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20th Century Abstract Geometric Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Abstract in Coral and Indigo , American Action Painting
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Russa Graeme' (American, 1919-1995) and painted circa 1975. A substantial, semi-abstracted landscape in shades of turquoise, indigo and royal blue on an ochre an...
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1970s Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Elfi Schuselka Surrealist Composition Mixed Media
Located in Astoria, NY
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Surrealist Composition, Mixed Media on Paper, stamped "Studio / Elfi Schuselka" to verso. 39.75" H x 29.75" W. Provenance: From the Collection o...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Graphite, Watercolor

Mid 20th Century French Fauvist Painting - Amazing Colors - pupil of Andre Lhote
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Figure' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 9.5 x 13 inches Fabulous 1970s abstract goauche painting. The colours used in this...
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Mid-20th Century Fauvist Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

California Sunset - Blue, Red Yellow Modern Abstract Landscape Seascape Art
Located in Preston, GB
California Sunset - Blue, Red & Yellow Modern Abstract Landscape Seascape Painting art on thick washi paper mounted behind glass in a silver leaf frame Art measures 30 x 23 inches ...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Washi Paper

Locale - Pale Yellow Blue Peach Orange Green Abstract Color Waves, 2020
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract painting in watercolor and acrylic on canvas, undulating waves in shades of light blue, pale orange and light green are layered over a soft, luminous pa...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor

Delights 131 - Contemporary Abstract Shapes Pattern Blue Neon Yellow, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary painting in ink, gouache and pencil on archival paper is composed of solid shapes surrounded by a pattern of delicate lines and dots in bright blue, luminous neon y...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Archival Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil

Horse Riders In Geometric Abstract French 20th Century Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Horse Riders by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 15.5 x 19 inches stamped verso provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Watercolor

Bird Abstraction — Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Stephen Harty, Untitled (Bird Abstraction), gouache, 1953. Signed and dated lower left. A fine, meticulously rendered, mid-century, modernist gouache painting, with fresh colors on 1...
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1950s American Modern Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Thoughts - line drawing woman figure with dandelion
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The artwork were done with acrylic, ink and watercolor in white color on black watercolor paper 360g. The work are 12 by 16.5 inches in size, framed (black...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

"NY 6.24" 2024 gouache on watercolor paper
Located in New York, NY
Jill Moser NY 6.24 , 2024 gouache on watercolor paper 30 x 22.5 in (mose011)
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Athirst I
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ina Kaur (b. 1980) is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptually driven work responds to imbalances and injustices within social, cultural, and ecological environments. Her practi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Natural Flow Series n2 and Liquid Life Series n5, Diptych. Abstract Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Flow is the ability of liquids to continually move from one place to another. Also, It means accepting each situation as it is. The movement of the liquid comes from life, it is natu...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Lacquer, India Ink, Watercolor, Pigment

"Can t Be Bothered With Details (Diptych)" Figure in Profile with Pastel Pattern
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Can't Be Bothered With Details (Diptych)" is an original piece by Kevin Snipes made from ink, gouache, and acrylic on paper. This piece measures approx. 8.25”h x 12.25”w and is sign...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache

Christopher Street (abstract Greenwich Village cityscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
De Hirsh Margules (1899-1965). Christopher Street, 1939. Watercolor on Arches wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil by artist lower margin. Sheet measures 15.5 x 20 inches. Window in matting measures 15 x 19 inches. Framed measurement: 23 x 30 inched. Bears fragment of original label affixed on verso. Incredibly vibrant and saturated color with no fading or toning of sheet. Provenance: Babcock Galleries, NYC Exhibited: The American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition. From the facade of The Waverly at Christopher is depicted One Christopher Street, the 16-story Art Deco residential building erected in 1931. It is not a casual coincidence that the structure appears in this cityscape: 1 Christopher Street is the subject. The original intention of this project was to transform the neighborhood, bring a bit of affluence and make a bid to rival the Upper West Side. Margules, a sensitive aesthete, understood how a massive piece of architecture such as One changes a neighborhood. Sound, scale and focal points are forever altered. A pedestrian's sense of depth and distance becomes pronounced. All of these factors contribute to the intent behind this image. Tall buildings disrupt the human scale, change the skyline and carve up space. In this piece, negative space conforms to the man-made geometries. Clouds become gems fixed in settings. De Hirsh Margules (1899–1965) was a Romanian-American "abstract realist" painter who crossed paths with many major American artistic and intellectual figures of the first half of the 20th century. Elaine de Kooning said that he was "[w]idely recognized as one of the most gifted and erudite watercolorists in the country". The New York Times critic Howard Devree stated in 1938 that "Margules uses color in a breath-taking manner. A keen observer, he eliminates scrupulously without distortion of his material." Devree later called Margules "one of our most daring experimentalists in the medium" Margules was also a well-known participant in the bohemian culture of New York City's Greenwich Village, where he was widely known as the "Baron" of Greenwich Village.[1] The New York Times described him as "one of Greenwich Village's best-known personalities" and "one of the best known and most buoyant characters about Greenwich Village. Early Life De Hirsh Margules was born in 1899 in the Romanian city of Iași (also known as Iasse, Jassy, or Jasse). When Margules was 10 weeks old, his family immigrated to New York City. Both of his parents were active in the Yiddish theater, His father was Yekutiel "Edward" Margules, a "renowned Jewish actor-impresario and founder of the Yiddish stage." Margules' mother, Rosa, thirty-nine years younger than his father, was an actress in the Yiddish theater and later in vaudeville. Although Margules appeared as a child actor with the Adler Family[11] and Bertha Kalich, his sister, Annette Margules, somewhat dubiously continued in family theater and vaudeville tradition, creating the blackface role of the lightly-clad Tondelayo (a part later played on film Hedy Lamarr) in Earl Carroll's 1924 Broadway exoticist hit, White Cargo. Annette herself faced stereotyping as an exotic flower: writing about her publicist Charles Bouchert stated that "Romania produces a stormy, temperamental type of woman---a type admirably fitted to portray emotion." His brother Samuel became a noted magician who appeared under the name "Rami-Sami." Samuel later became a lawyer, representing magician Horace Goldin, among others. A family portrait including a young De Hirsh, a portrait of Rosa and Annette together, and individual photos of Rosa and Edward can be found on the Museum of the City of New York website. At around age 9 or 10, Margules took art classes with the Boys Club on East Tenth Street, and his first taste of exhibition was at a student art show presented by the club. By age 11, he had won a city-wide prize (a box camera) at a children's art show presented by the department store Wanamakers. As a young teenager, Margules was already displaying a characteristic kindness and loyalty. Upon hearing that two friends (one of them was author Alexander King), were in trouble for breaking a school microscope, the nearly broke Margules gave them five dollars to repair the microscope . Margules had to approach a wealthy man that Margules had once saved on the subway from a heart attack. Margules didn't reveal the source of the five dollars to King until twenty-five years later. In his late teens, Margules studied for a couple of months in Pittsburgh with Edwin Randby, a follower of Western painter Frederic Remington. Thereafter he pursued a two-year course of studies in architecture, design and decoration at the New York Evening School of Art and Design, while working as a clerk during the day at Stern's Department Store. He was encouraged in these artistic pursuits by his neighbor, the painter Benno Greenstein (who later went by the name of Benjamin Benno). Artistic career In 1922, Margules began work as a police reporter for the City News Association of New York .Margules then considered himself something of an expert on art, and the painter Myron Lechay is said to have responded to some unsolicited analysis of his work with the remark "Since you seem to know so much about it, why don't you paint yourself?" This led to study with Lechay and a flurry of painting. Margules' first show was in 1922 at Jane Heap's Little Review Gallery. Thereafter Margules began to participate in shows with a group including Stuart Davis, Jan Matulka, Buckminster Fuller (exhibiting depictions of his "Dymaxion house") in a gallery run by art-lover and restaurateur Romany Marie on the floor above her cafe. Jane Heap, left, with Mina Loy and Ezra Pound During the 1920s, Margules traveled outside of the country a number of times. In 1922, with the intent of reaching Bali, he took a job as a "'wiper on a tramp steamer where [he] played nursemaid to the engine." He reached Rotterdam before he turned back. He would return to Rotterdam shortly thereafter. In 1927, Margules took a lengthy leave of absence from his day job as a police reporter in order to travel to Paris, where he "set up a studio in Montmartre's Place du Tertre, on the top floor of an almost deserted hotel, a shabby establishment, lacking both heat and running water." He studied at the Louvre and traveled to paint landscapes in provincial France and North Africa. Margules also joined the "Noctambulist" movement and experimented with painting and showing his artwork in low light.Jonathan Cott wrote that: the painter De Hirsch Margulies sat on the quays of the Seine and painted pictures in the dark. In fact, the first exhibition of these paintings, which could be seen only in a darkened room, took place in [ Walter Lowenfels'] Paris apartment. Elaine de Kooning remarked that studying the works of the Noctambulists confirmed Margules' "direction toward the use of primary colors for perverse effects of heavy shadow." It was also in Paris that Margules initially conceived his idea of "Time Painting", where a painting is divided into sectors, each representing a different time of day, with color choices meant to evoke that time of day. In Paris, his social circle included Lowenfels, photographer Berenice Abbott, publisher Jane Heap, composer George Anthiel, sculptor Thelma Wood, painter André Favory, writer Norman Douglas, writer and editor George Davis, composer and writer Max Ewing, and writer Michael Fraenkel. Upon his return to New York in 1929, Margules attended an exhibition of John Marin's paintings. While at the exhibition, he "launched into an eloquent explanation of Marin to two nearby women", and was overheard by an impressed Alfred Stieglitz. The famous photographer and art promoter invited Margules to dine with his wife, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and his assistant, painter Emil Zoler. Stieglitz thereafter became a friend and mentor to Margules, becoming for him "what Socrates was to his friends." Alfred Stieglitz Stieglitz introduced Margules to John Marin, who quickly became the most important painterly influence upon Margules. Elaine de Kooning later noted that Margules was "indebted to Marin and through Marin to Cézanne for his initial conceptual approach - for his constructions of scenes with no negative elements, for skies that loom with the impact of mountains." Margules himself said that Marin was his "father and ... academy." The admiration was by no means unreciprocated: Marin said that Margules was "an art lover with abounding faith and sincerity, with much intelligence and quick seeing." Stieglitz also introduced Margules to many other artistic and intellectual figures in New York. With the encouragement of Alfred Stieglitz, Margules in 1936 opened a two-room gallery at 43 West 8th Street called "Another Place." Over the following two years there were fourteen solo exhibitions by Margules and others, and the gallery was well-respected by the press. It was in this gallery that the painter James Lechay, Myron's brother, exhibited his first painting. In 1936, Margules first saw recognition by major art museums when both the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston purchased his works. In 1942, Margules gave up working as a police reporter, and apparently dedicated himself thereafter solely to an artistic vocation. "The Baron of Greenwich Village"[edit] Margules made his mark not only as an artist, but also as an outsized personality known throughout Greenwich Village and beyond. To local residents, Margules was known as the "Baron", after Baron Maurice de Hirsch, a prominent German Jewish philanthropist. Margules was easily recognizable by the beret he routinely wore over his long hair. Writer Charles Norman said that he "dressed with a flair for sloppiness." He was said to "know everybody" in Greenwich Village, to the extent that when the novelist and poet Maxwell Bodenheim was murdered, Margules was the first one the police sought to identify the body. Margules' letters show him interacting with art world figures such as Sacha Kolin, John Marin and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as with prominent figures outside the art world such as polymath Buckminster Fuller and writer Henry Miller. Most of his friends and acquaintances found Margules a generous and voluble man, given to broadly emotionally expressive gestures and acts of kindness and loyalty. In 1929, he exhibited an example of this loyalty and fellow-feeling when he appeared in court to fight what the wrongful commitment of his friend, writer and sculptor Alfred Dreyfuss, who appeared to have been a victim of an illicit attempt to block an inheritance. The Greenwich Village chronicler Charles Norman described the bone-crushing hugs that Margules would routinely bestow on his friends and acquaintances, and speaks of the "persuasive theatricality" that Margules seemed to have inherited from his actor parents. Norman also wrote about Margules' routine acts of kindness, taking in homeless artists, constantly feeding his friends and providing the salvatory loan where needed. Norman also notes that Margules was blessed with a loud and good voice, and was apt to sing an operatic air without provocation. The writer and television personality Alexander King said I think the outstanding characteristics of my friend's personality are affirmation, emphasis, and overemphasis. He chooses to express himself predominantly in superlatives and the gestures which accompany his utterances are sometimes dangerous to life and limb. Of the bystanders, I mean. King also spoke with affectionate amusement about Margules' pride in his cooking, speaking of how "if he should ever invite you to dinner, he may serve you a hamburger with onions, in his kitchen-living room, with such an air of gastronomic protocol, such mysterious hints and ogliing innuendoes, as if César Ritz and Brillat-Savarin had sneaked out, only a moment before, with his secret recipe in their pockets." Margules was such a memorable New York personality that comic book writer Alvin Schwartz imagined him at the Sixth Avenue Cafeteria in a risible yet poignant debate with Clark Kent about whether Superman had the ability to stop Hitler. Margules' entrenchment in the Greenwich Village milieu can be seen in a photograph from Fred McDarrah's "Beat Generation Album" of a January 13, 1961 writers' and poets' meeting to discuss "The Funeral of the Beat Generation", in Robert Cordier [fr]'s railroad flat at 85 Christopher Street. Among the people in the same photograph are Shel Silverstein...
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1930s American Modern Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Watercolor, Rag Paper

Contemporary abstract expressionist vivid watercolor women paper "Dancing souls"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary abstract expressionist painting, "Dancing Souls," depicting two women in dance, was created by French artist Natalya Mougenot. A striking work rooted in her ongoing...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Grey, from Study for Larger Tri Motif Series, c. 1977 - Gouache and Watercolour
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Gordon House was born in 1932 in Pontardawe, South Wales. Early exposure to art on trips to the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery as a young boy inspired House towards creative endeavors and at the age of fourteen he was awarded a grant to enter art school which he accepted. From 1947 to 1950 he studied at Luton School of Art, Bedfordshire, and St. Albans School of Art, Hertfordshire. House's contemporaries included Richard Smith and John Plumb with whom he remained close. During the early fifties, after finishing art school, House began work as assistant to the ecclesiastical sculptor Theodore Kern. He also spent time at an advertising studio where he honed his burgeoning skills in typography and graphic design. In 1952 House was offered the position of designer for Imperial Chemical Industries Plastics Division where he stayed until 1959. This was followed by two years spent as graphic designer for the Kynoch Press in London. In 1961 House set out on his own as a self-employed designer and typographer. Initially this was supplemented by part-time teaching at art schools in and around London but by 1964 House was able to devote himself entirely to his design work which freed up valuable time to concentrate on his own artistic output in the studio. In the late fifties, informed by the new art emerging from America and that of his contemporaries in England, House began to create large-scale abstract works which he was invited to show in 1959 at Dennis Bowen's legendary New Vision Centre in Marble Arch. House was an active participant in the vibrant London art scene of the sixties, regularly attending lectures, exhibitions and discussions. In 1960 he exhibited in 'Situation' the key abstract exhibition of the decade held at the RBA Galleries. Other participating artists included Robyn Denny, Bernard and Harold Cohen, Gillian Ayres, John Hoyland, Richard Smith and William Turnbull among others. These artists, united by a common admiration for American Abstract Expressionism, were frustrated by the lack of exposure given to large-scale abstract works in commercial galleries so they organised their own exhibition. The name was derived from the participants' idea that an abstract painting that occupied the whole field of vision would involve the spectator in an 'event' or 'situation'. This exhibition was followed by 'New London Situation' in 1961 and a nationwide touring Arts Council presentation in recognition of the significance of the two earlier shows. In 1961 House began producing his first prints at the Kelpra Studio, run by Chris and Rose Prater, where he made the earliest fine art screenprint ever to be produced in Britain. Artists such as Paolozzi and Hamilton followed in his footsteps and together they started a printmaking revolution in Britain. They cemented the medium of the screenprint in the world of fine art as opposed to the commercial sphere and secured the reputation of Kelpra in the process. Later, together with Cliff White, House set up the White Ink (Ltd.) print studio in London, where he produced etchings and wood engravings on a series of magnificent antique printing presses...
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20th Century Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

Contemporary abstract expressionist watercolor women paper "The blue dialogue"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary abstract expressionist painting, depicting two women in dance, was created by French artist Natalya Mougenot. It forms part of her ongoing series dedicated to women...
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2010s Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Composition in Orange and Red
By James Pichette
Located in London, GB
'Composition in Orange and Red', gouache on paper, by James Pichette (circa 1970s). A dynamic, lively abstract composition by an artist known for such s...
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1970s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Contemporary British Abstract Original Painting Surrealist Head Portraits
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition by Sally Vaughan (contemporary) gouache painting on card, unframed measurements: 10.25 x 9.25 inches condition: very good provenance: from a large private collec...
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1990s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Mexican Abstract Watercolor, Ink, Pastel Bullfight Painting Moises Zabludovsky
Located in Surfside, FL
Moises Zabludovsky (Mexican, 1959-) Bull Fight Mixed Media Work on paper, watercolor; ink and pastel on paper 1979 Hand signed and dated. Dimensions: Frame: 28.5 X 36.5. Image: 22.5 X 30 Abstract Modernist Mexican bullfighting image. Born in Mexico City. His first training in art was in 1969 when he started working with Silvia Gonzalez and later on in the Arcai Atelier in Paris. At 18, he held his first exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno of Mexico City and he went on to display his work at the International Biennale of the Bronx Museum in New York City. He grew up around the Mer Kup Gallery, run by his maternal grandmother, Merl de Kuper, where he presented his work in several group exhibitions and three solo shows (1979, 1981, and 1985). She was a champion of many important mexican modernist artists including artists like Pedro friedeberg, Feliciano Bejar, Mathias Goeritz, Diego Rivera, Sebastián, and José Luis Cuevas.Moises Zabludovsky exhibited at the National Center for the Arts in 2011 and at the Museo El Eco of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has exhibited paintings and sculptures at the Museum of Modern Art, the Jose Luis Cuevas Museum, Metropolitana in Mexico City. He has successful shows at prominent art galleries like the Miro Gallery in Monterrey, Palacio de Bellas Artes and Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City. He also had some international shows in Florida and Latin America. In 1982 he was awarded a degree in graphic design from Parsons University. He has received numerous awards and exhibited widely since the early 1990's. He is known both for his oil painting as well as for his ceramic and bronze bullfighting sculpture. In 1978, he received an honorable mention at the First Ibero-American Painting Biennial, where Carlos Merida and Rufino Tamayo were on the jury. He was part of the Emerging Decade generation whose members participated in the exhibitions bearing that name at the Museo Universitario del Chopo in 1984 and 1994, the latter titled An Emerging Decade, a Decade Later . He also participated in the Salón dès Aztecs, a renowned alternative space for Mexican art In the show Nuevas tendencias (New Trends) at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City. That same year, he also exhibited at the International Biennial at the Bronx Museum in New York. He continued his studies at the Metropolitan University of Mexico City and simultaneously exhibited at various galleries and museums: the Mer-Kup Gallery and the Miró Gallery in Monterrey, Nuevo León; the Palacio de Bellas Artes; the Carrillo Gil Art Museum; and, outside the country, in Florida and at the Traveling Young Art Exhibition organized by the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. as well as in art galleries in Mexico and the United States. His father was the famous professor and architect Abraham Zabludovsky known for his brutalist architecture masterpieces among them the iconic Museo Rufino Tamayo. His work is featured in two buildings designed by his father, Abraham Zabludovsky (1924-2003): the Byzantine mosaic mural 'The Applause' in the Guanajuato State Auditorium (1990) and the sculpture 'The Caravan' in the Poliforum, Auditorium and Convention Center in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas (1993). Moises Zabludovsky has shown with Antonio Galvan Duque, Jose Sacal, Tomas Gomez Robledo, Renato Gonzalez, Fitzia, Luis Argudin, Luis Granda, Jose Antonio Gurtubay, Heriberto Mendez, Vlady, Omar Manueco, Jesus Urbieta, Miguel Angel Garrido, Carlos Nakatani, Miguel Castro Lenero, Jose Luis Serrano, Humberto Oramas, Gabriel Macotela, Nicolas Moreno, Luis Nishizawa, Gilberto Navarro, Fernando Castro Pacheco...
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1970s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Pastel, Ink, Watercolor

Contemporary abstract impressionist nature painting on paper "Seabreeze silence"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary abstract expressionist seascape painting was created by French artist Natalya Mougenot and is part of her ongoing series dedicated to nature—where she seeks to depi...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Composition on Violet Background
By Etienne Beothy
Located in London, GB
ETIENNE BEOTHY 1897-1961 Heves, Hungary 1897 - 1961 Paris (Hungarian/French) Title: Composition on Violet Background, 1927 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Dated Gouache Paintin...
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1920s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

"Squares and Strokes (Ultra_22)" 2025, gouache on handmade paper, 28 x 20 in.
Located in New York, NY
Joanne Freeman Squares and Strokes (Ultra_22), 2025 gouache on handmade paper 28 x 20 in. image: 22 x 14 in. (freem245) My paintings and drawings incorporate elements found in archi...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Gouache, Handmade Paper

Abstract Gates Leading to a Mythical Kingdom Landscape Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mythcial Kindgom by Jean Fourie (1927-2015) French artist, painting in the Champagne region of France watercolour and pencil painting on card , unframed painting: 16.5 x 21 inches co...
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1970s French School Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Watercolor, Color Pencil

Red/Green, from Study for Larger Tri Motif Series, 1977 - Gouache, Watercolour
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Gordon House was born in 1932 in Pontardawe, South Wales. Early exposure to art on trips to the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery as a young boy inspired House towards creative endeavors and at the age of fourteen he was awarded a grant to enter art school which he accepted. From 1947 to 1950 he studied at Luton School of Art, Bedfordshire, and St. Albans School of Art, Hertfordshire. House's contemporaries included Richard Smith and John Plumb with whom he remained close. During the early fifties, after finishing art school, House began work as assistant to the ecclesiastical sculptor Theodore Kern. He also spent time at an advertising studio where he honed his burgeoning skills in typography and graphic design. In 1952 House was offered the position of designer for Imperial Chemical Industries Plastics Division where he stayed until 1959. This was followed by two years spent as graphic designer for the Kynoch Press in London. In 1961 House set out on his own as a self-employed designer and typographer. Initially this was supplemented by part-time teaching at art schools in and around London but by 1964 House was able to devote himself entirely to his design work which freed up valuable time to concentrate on his own artistic output in the studio. In the late fifties, informed by the new art emerging from America and that of his contemporaries in England, House began to create large-scale abstract works which he was invited to show in 1959 at Dennis Bowen's legendary New Vision Centre in Marble Arch. House was an active participant in the vibrant London art scene of the sixties, regularly attending lectures, exhibitions and discussions. In 1960 he exhibited in 'Situation' the key abstract exhibition of the decade held at the RBA Galleries. Other participating artists included Robyn Denny, Bernard and Harold Cohen, Gillian Ayres, John Hoyland, Richard Smith and William Turnbull among others. These artists, united by a common admiration for American Abstract Expressionism, were frustrated by the lack of exposure given to large-scale abstract works in commercial galleries so they organised their own exhibition. The name was derived from the participants' idea that an abstract painting that occupied the whole field of vision would involve the spectator in an 'event' or 'situation'. This exhibition was followed by 'New London Situation' in 1961 and a nationwide touring Arts Council presentation in recognition of the significance of the two earlier shows. In 1961 House began producing his first prints at the Kelpra Studio, run by Chris and Rose Prater, where he made the earliest fine art screenprint ever to be produced in Britain. Artists such as Paolozzi and Hamilton followed in his footsteps and together they started a printmaking revolution in Britain. They cemented the medium of the screenprint in the world of fine art as opposed to the commercial sphere and secured the reputation of Kelpra in the process. Later, together with Cliff White, House set up the White Ink (Ltd.) print studio in London, where he produced etchings and wood engravings on a series of magnificent antique printing presses...
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20th Century Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

Angel with Veronica s Veil I (Diptych)- Painting Inspired by Bernini s Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Ivan Markovic transports viewers into a world of technicolor with this collection of works inspired by Bernini's angels. Markovic's life in Rome brought him to walk across the Ponte Sant'Angelo time and time again, and with his sketchbook in hand he saw a world of Bernini's angels erupt into technicolor. This show combines Markovic's iconic paper sculptures with a new collection of electric paintings. Gallery VICTOR welcomes you to experience Bernini's Angels of the Ponte Sant'Angelo and the street art of Rome come to life in a new light at the hands of Ivan Markovic. Ivan Markovic Angel with Veronica...
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2010s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Wood, Gouache

"Arat" Amaranth Ehrenhalt, Unique Painting, Woman Abstract Expressionism, 1974
Located in New York, NY
Amaranth Ehrenhalt (1928–2021) Arat, 1974 Gouache and watercolor on thick paper Painting: 38 x 28 cm l 15 x 11 in. Frame: 52 x 42 cm l 20 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. Signed, titled and dated ...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Abstracted Landscape , Abstract, Mills College, Whitney Museum, CCAC, ASL
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Schoener' for Jason Schoener (American, 1919-1997) and painted circa 1970. Titled 'Choruscating Landscape' (labels, verso). Accompanied with artist card on origi...
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1970s Abstract Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Fantasy, Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting by Soni Wallace
Located in Long Island City, NY
A hazy rendition of a flower garden by Soni Wallace, with the colors blending and folding in on one another. Framed behind glass, this pastel-toned painti...
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1970s Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

Colophon 12, Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in New York, NY
Willy Bo Richardson married himself to a single mode of working as a formal recognition of the power of remaining in one place and as a way to honor consistency and quietude. Viewing...
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2010s Contemporary Watercolor Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

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