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Andre Masson, Untitled, from Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, 1962
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
Breton, he pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive, instinctive method that sought to bypass conscious
Category

1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Andre Masson, Untitled, from Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, 1962
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
Breton, he pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive, instinctive method that sought to bypass conscious
Category

1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Andre Masson, Untitled, from Albert Camus, oeuvres completes, 1962
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
Breton, he pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive, instinctive method that sought to bypass conscious
Category

1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Andre Masson, Untitled, from The Seventh Song, 1974
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
movement founded by Andre Breton, Masson pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive process that sought to
Category

1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Engraving

Andre Masson, Untitled, from The Seventh Song, 1974
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
movement founded by Andre Breton, Masson pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive process that sought to
Category

1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Engraving

Andre Masson, Untitled, from The Seventh Song, 1974
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
movement founded by Andre Breton, Masson pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive process that sought to
Category

1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Engraving

Andre Masson, Untitled, from The Seventh Song, 1974
By André Masson
Located in Southampton, NY
movement founded by Andre Breton, Masson pioneered automatic drawing—an intuitive process that sought to
Category

1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Engraving

Modernist British Israeli Lithograph Expressionist Figures
By Michael Druks
Located in Surfside, FL
, 2012. Wandering Lines: From Automatic Drawing to Abstraction, England & Co, London,2012. Life: A User's
Category

20th Century Neo-Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Large Robert Motherwell Lithograph Abstract Expressionist Lament for Lorca 1982
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Surfside, FL
, Dead and Alive (1943). Roberto Matta introduced Motherwell to the concept of "automatic" drawing or
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Les Insectes - Cubist Oil Painting by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
1936. From then, his output was prodigious. He produced his first automatic drawings and truly
Category

1940s Cubist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Trans-Plant-ter Wave. Abstract blue and dark palette surrealism oil painting.
By Renelio Marin
Located in New York, NY
Havana. I started practicing the automatic method of drawing proselytized by the Surrealists in order to
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Africa Suite: Africa 7
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large automatic brush drawings were reworked with white
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Africa Suite: Africa 8
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large automatic brush drawings were reworked with white
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Africa Suite: Africa 10
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large automatic brush drawings were reworked with white
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Africa Suite: Africa 6
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large automatic brush drawings were reworked with white
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Africa Suite: Africa 9
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large automatic brush drawings were reworked with white
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

America-La France Variations VII (large hand signed lithograph)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Aventura, FL
Abstract Expressionist painter. Influenced by the automatic writing and drawing prescribed by the
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1980s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Characters in a Surrealist Landscape
By Lucien Coutaud
Located in London, GB
-like states or dreams. Some Surrealists practiced psychic 'automatism' which was automatic writing or
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1930s Surrealist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract Expressionist Textured Art Informel Oil Painting Signed Noel
By Georges Noel
Located in Surfside, FL
drawing and "automatic writing" (although he was not interested in Surrealism) led him to invent a medium
Category

20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

The Red and Black No. 52
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract Expressionist painter. Influenced by the automatic writing and drawing prescribed by the
Category

1980s Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Aquatint

Recreation Salon
By Nurhan Gokturk
Located in New Orleans, LA
drawings confronts the automatic, expressive and inexact sensibility of the paintings.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

Portraiture Salon
By Nurhan Gokturk
Located in New Orleans, LA
drawings confronts the automatic, expressive and inexact sensibility of the paintings.
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Watercolor, Lithograph

#8
By Brandon Ryan
Located in Sausalito, CA
drawings were done primarily on canvas and explored the “automatic” effect of clearing all ideas or
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Crayon, Archival Paper

#7
By Brandon Ryan
Located in Sausalito, CA
drawings were done primarily on canvas and explored the “automatic” effect of clearing all ideas or
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Crayon, Archival Paper

#12
By Brandon Ryan
Located in Sausalito, CA
drawings were done primarily on canvas and explored the “automatic” effect of clearing all ideas or
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Crayon, Archival Paper

give and take (Berlin)
By Jimmie James
Located in Stowe, VT
spare touches of green, blue and red. In this work, James’ automatic drawing defines the central
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Acrylic, Rag Paper, Color Pencil

Ojo (Bind Lemon)
By Ricardo Gonzalez
Located in New York, NY
his own automatic drawings, urban wall scribbles that populate his environment in Mexico City and New
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Ever Get the Feeling You ve Been Cheated?
By Ricardo Gonzalez
Located in New York, NY
his own automatic drawings, urban wall scribbles that populate his environment in Mexico City and New
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Rake
By Ricardo Gonzalez
Located in New York, NY
his own automatic drawings, urban wall scribbles that populate his environment in Mexico City and New
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Someday I ll Be in the Clay
By Ricardo Gonzalez
Located in New York, NY
his own automatic drawings, urban wall scribbles that populate his environment in Mexico City and New
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Reason and Squalor
By Ricardo Gonzalez
Located in New York, NY
his own automatic drawings, urban wall scribbles that populate his environment in Mexico City and New
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Can t Be Satismamlishfied
By Ricardo Gonzalez
Located in New York, NY
his own automatic drawings, urban wall scribbles that populate his environment in Mexico City and New
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Loose Fate
By Ricardo Gonzalez
Located in New York, NY
his own automatic drawings, urban wall scribbles that populate his environment in Mexico City and New
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

more than you ll ever know
By Jimmie James
Located in Stowe, VT
automatic drawing in his work to free his hand from the control of his mind, shapes arriving on the support
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Acrylic, Rag Paper, Color Pencil

echo
By Jimmie James
Located in Stowe, VT
compositional balance. James frequently uses automatic drawing in his work to free his hand from the control of
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Acrylic, Rag Paper, Color Pencil

The Dust Blows Back
By Ricardo Gonzalez
Located in New York, NY
red painting is created with acrylic on canvas. His work draws on his own automatic drawings, urban
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

Fuck Poetry Look at Your Hand Read It
By Ricardo Gonzalez
Located in New York, NY
red painting is created with acrylic on canvas. His work draws on his own automatic drawings, urban
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

my cup runneth over (NYC)
By Jimmie James
Located in Stowe, VT
compositional balance. James frequently uses automatic drawing in his work to free his hand from the control of
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Acrylic, Rag Paper, Graphite

fortunate (Berlin)
By Jimmie James
Located in Stowe, VT
artist frequently uses automatic drawing in his work to free his hand from the control of his mind
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Acrylic, Rag Paper, Color Pencil

about my love
By Jimmie James
Located in Stowe, VT
with a deep sense of humanity and emotion. James frequently uses automatic drawing in his work to free
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Acrylic, Rag Paper, Color Pencil

the retrieved (Berlin)
By Jimmie James
Located in Stowe, VT
painted shapes creates tension and compositional balance. James frequently uses automatic drawing in his
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Acrylic, Rag Paper, Color Pencil

pony, hyena and something else (Berlin, Germany)
By Jimmie James
Located in Stowe, VT
with a deep sense of humanity and emotion. James frequently uses automatic drawing in his work to free
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Acrylic, Rag Paper, Color Pencil

Eternal Return, figurative drawing, ink, nature, trees
By Alexandra Eastburn
Located in Memphis, TN
art history. Her experimental art practice is characterized by automatic and intuitive drawing and
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...

Materials

Paper, Ink

A Luxuriance of Scarlet
By Barbara Owen
Located in Pound Ridge, NY
drawing/arriving at a shape through a kind of “automatic drawing” is one of the ways she creates various
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media

Cut Circles Over Painted Circles III
By Barbara Owen
Located in Pound Ridge, NY
drawing/arriving at a shape through a kind of “automatic drawing” is one of the ways she creates various
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media

Little Layered Blooms I
By Barbara Owen
Located in Pound Ridge, NY
viewer to dissect. The process of drawing/arriving at a shape through a kind of “automatic drawing” is
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media

Little Layered Blooms I
By Barbara Owen
Located in Pound Ridge, NY
for the viewer to dissect. The process of drawing/arriving at a shape through a kind of “automatic
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media

Untitled
By Alan Vega
Located in New york, NY
This drawing is from a series of semi-automatic, diary-like drawings (2014 2015), which Vega
Category

2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Untitled
By Alan Vega
Located in New york, NY
This drawing is from a series of semi-automatic, diary-like drawings (2014 2015), which Vega
Category

2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Untitled
By Alan Vega
Located in New york, NY
This drawing is from a series of semi-automatic, diary-like drawings (2014 2015), which Vega
Category

2010s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Try Not to Fall, Just Go I by Courtney Nicole Googe. Surrealism
Located in Granbury, TX
real places overlaid with automatic drawing and collage which consider the realms of dream and
Category

2010s Surrealist Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Glue, Charcoal, Ink, Wood Panel

Awake in a Dream, botanicals, florals, nature, watercolor painting, pink blue
By Alexandra Eastburn
Located in Memphis, TN
art history. Her experimental art practice is characterized by automatic and intuitive drawing and
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Listen to the Wind Playing Harp, botanical, nature, watercolor painting, blue
By Alexandra Eastburn
Located in Memphis, TN
art history. Her experimental art practice is characterized by automatic and intuitive drawing and
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Let Them Carpet the Earth, botanical, floral, nature, watercolor painting, green
By Alexandra Eastburn
Located in Memphis, TN
art history. Her experimental art practice is characterized by automatic and intuitive drawing and
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

The Marriage, botanical, florals, nature, watercolor painting, pink green blue
By Alexandra Eastburn
Located in Memphis, TN
art history. Her experimental art practice is characterized by automatic and intuitive drawing and
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Pinky Rose (Mystery Girl), botanical, florals, nature, watercolor painting, pink
By Alexandra Eastburn
Located in Memphis, TN
art history. Her experimental art practice is characterized by automatic and intuitive drawing and
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Waterc...

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Numéro de réfèrence 107
By André Masson
Located in Paris, FR
automatic drawing. By the end of the 1920s, he left the surrealist movement and turned instead to a more
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Automatic Drawing For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate automatic drawing for your needs in our varied inventory. Adding an automatic drawing to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — find a piece on 1stDibs that incorporates elements of beige, gray, red, orange and more. Creating an automatic drawing has been a part of the legacy of many artists, but those crafted by Anastasia Pelias, Mary Judge and David Barnett are consistently popular. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in paper, crayon and oil crayon. A large automatic drawing can be an attractive addition to some spaces, while smaller examples are available — approximately spanning 25 high and 19 wide — and may be better suited to a more modest living area.

How Much is a Automatic Drawing?

The price for an automatic drawing in our collection starts at $1,800 and tops out at $3,750 with the average selling for $3,750.