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Uniquely Unfit for Constraints, 40"x26" abstract gesture w female figure
Located in Brooklyn, NY
RINY artists Audrey Anastasi and C.Dimitri collaborated to create contemporary collage works.
Born of the Covid pandemic, the team started working remotely, mailing artwork to each ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
Signatures II, Minimalist Mixed Media Painting by Robyn Denny
By Robyn Denny
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original painting on paper by British Modern artist Robyn Denny. It is signed and dated lower right and titled lower left. Framed to 44 x 32 inches.
Category
1980s Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Chalk
Ink #5 (Abstract painting)
By Emily Berger
Located in London, GB
Ink #5 (Abstract painting)
Ink, watercolor on Arches watercolor paper - Unframed.
Image size: 12.25” x 8.25 - 31 x 21 cm.
She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Der Hafen von Plit
By Paul Klee
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Der Hafen von Plit" is a drawing by Paul Klee. The drawing is signed lower left, "Klee". The framed piece measures 25 1/4 x 30 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.
Paul Klee was one of the most import...
Category
1920s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper, Pen
Big Blue Melt 14 (Abstract drawing)
By Jaanika Peerna
Located in London, GB
Big Blue Melt 14 (Abstract drawing)
Pigment, Color Pencil and Ice on Mylar. Unframed.
Big Blue Melt are works that have been created with pigment pencils and ice. Peerna starts th...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Plastic, Pigment, Color Pencil
Mono Lake - Original Abstract Muted Colorful Landscape Nature Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Heidi Lowell is a multidisciplinary artist based in Austin, Texas, whose practice is deeply rooted in the earth itself. Harvesting site-specific soils and plant materials from across...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Original Signed Drawing in book, Two Flowers with heart, inscribed in Japanese
By Takashi Murakami
Located in New York, NY
Makes a brilliant gift!
Takashi Murakami
Untitled signed original drawing of Two Flowers with heart, 2021
Original marker drawing done on title page and bound in hardback monograph w...
Category
2010s Pop Art Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
"Not Intended For Office Viewing Series Section F" Oil Pastel by Reginald K. Gee
By Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Not Intended For Office Viewing Series, Section F" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. This piece fe...
Category
1990s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
Not Just Beige
Located in Westport, CT
Selena Beaudry’s work is created by marking and cutting up drawings. This has led the artist to rediscovering her visual language. Her work consists of...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Linen, Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, Color Pencil
Art Deco Couple In Front of Black and White Art Deco Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
Art Deco Illustrator Charles Perry Weimer creates a powerfully graphic depiction of a 1930s couple in front of a classic Art Deco building with a...
Category
1930s Art Deco Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
“Untitled (PPR 367)” Contemporary Abstract Colorful Geometric Patterned Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract geometric colorful patterned painting by Texas-based artist Max Manning. The work features organic and geometric shapes in red, pinks, blues, yellow, black, an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Two Crosses
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Two Crosses" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right, "Calder 65”.
Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alexander Calder started his artistic career as an abstract painter, preferring to use gouache. What is gouache? Gouache is a water-soluble paint – a type of opaque watercolor.
As Calder returned to gouache painting towards the end of his life, he was now armed with a lifetime of experience as a sculptor. He explored the three-dimensional vocabulary of sculptural forms he had developed onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper. Certain shapes and colors recur throughout his gouaches and sculptures. Circles, ovals, and other geometric forms dominate the space. There is the same sense of energy and fluidity. The shapes do not sit on the surface but vibrate giving a feeling of movement in contrast to the static nature of painting.
Like his sculpture, Calder’s gouache...
Category
1960s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Don
t Cry For Me Argentina, Contemporary Surrealist Drawing by Kim Jones
By Kim Jones
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kim Jones, American (1944 - )
Title: Don't Cry For Me Argentina
Year: 1988
Medium: Ink and Gouache, signed and dated verso
Size: 20 x 15.5 in. (50.8 x 39.37 cm)
Frame Size: 2...
Category
1980s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Athirst V
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold Leaf
$3,600
Pop Flower Four B Zero Five - Orange Red Black Geometric Mandala Circle, 2016
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
Contemporary drawing created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Pop Flower 4B05 is a predominately orange mandala shape with red and black in the center creating an intri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
"Lagoon 05" Contemporary, colorful blue textured abstract pigment work on paper
Located in Dallas, TX
Emma's artwork is inspired by the Parisian luxury world of fashion, textures and colour. This blue tone artwork titled "Lagoon 05" works well on it's own or as a grouping. It comes f...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper, Pigment
Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Fabric Design
Gouache on paper, 1920-1935
Signed with the Atelier Stamp verso (see photo)
Numbered with the Atelier Litt Archive number verso
(see photo) No. 05535
...
Category
1930s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
1960s Abstract Painting by New Mexico Modernist Artist - Vibrant Yellow, Orange
By Ward Lockwood
Located in Denver, CO
This vintage 1960s abstract painting by renowned New Mexico modernist artist Ward Lockwood (1894–1963) is an exceptional example of mid-century modern art. The original artwork, crea...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Ink, Gouache
Rhythm Hut #20: framed abstract ink painting on art paper in red
black w/ moon
By Antonio Puri
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a framed mixed media ink painting (sumi inks, India inks, and walnut inks) on paper in red, black, and earth tones. It is framed in a contemporary white wood shadowbox frame. Organizing the composition is a moon motif. This series was created by Antonio Puri during an artist's residency in Australia. Can be displayed in any orientation. This piece works especially well when paired with "Rhythm Hut #17", listed separately.
Antonio Puri was born in Chandigarh, Punjab, India and raised in the Himalayas around Buddhist monks before studying at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, Coe College, and the University of Iowa. He established his studio in Philadelphia where he practiced for many years before relocating to Bogotá, Colombia. During this time, Puri completed several artist residencies all over the world, including in New York, Hungary, Bulgaria, Colombia, South Africa, Serbia, Mauritius, India, Denmark, Trinidad and Tobago, and Romania. Puri’s range of geographical and cultural experiences are embedded in his work, where he commonly explores the relationships between his eastern and western cultural connections.
Puri has exhibited his work all over the world, including at the Museo de Arte del Tolima in Colombia; Sundaram Tagore Gallery Singapore; Government Museum and Art Gallery Chandigarh, India; Art Depot, Austria; La Cometa Gallery, Bogota; Museo Casa Conde Rul, Mexico; The Guild, NY; Nu Art...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Walnut, Paper, Sumi Ink, India Ink
1981 "Orange and Blue" Soft Pastel Abstract Drawing
Located in Arp, TX
D. Tongen
"Orange and Blue"
1980s
11.75"x9.75"
Soft pastel and pencil on paper
Initialed and dated in pencil lower right
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Pencil
Flushing #4
Located in Westport, CT
Selena Beaudry’s work is created by marking and cutting up drawings. This has led the artist to rediscovering her visual language. Her work consists of...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Linen, Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, Color Pencil
0103: contemporary abstract gestural painting w/ yellow, pink
blue lines
By Paula Cahill
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Paula Cahill's linear abstract compositions are often comprised of a single, luminous line that meanders, changes color, and seamlessly connects back to itself. The work is signed an...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Archival Paper
Untitled, Small Works No. 51, green geometric abstraction, work on paper
By Sasha Hallock
Located in New York, NY
Between September 2018 and April 2019, I created 100 small paintings consecutively. I endeavored to make nothing else and viewed the project as an opportunity to experiment and solid...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Wood Panel, Color Pencil, Graphite
For Marie, 20th Century Abstract Expressionist New York Artist
By Joseph Glasco
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph Glasco (American, 1925–1996)
For Marie, 1982
Ink on paper
Signed and dated lower left
8 x 10 inches
15.75 x 18.75 inches, framed
Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, Okla...
Category
1980s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Ice blossoms
By Anya Spielman
Located in London, GB
Oil on paper - Unframed
Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving between them as each begins to form...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil
Three Pyramids + Blue Ball
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Three Pyramids + Blue Ball" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right, "Calder 73”.
Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alexander Calder started his artistic career as an abstract painter, preferring to use gouache. What is gouache? Gouache is a water-soluble paint – a type of opaque watercolor.
As Calder returned to gouache painting towards the end of his life, he was now armed with a lifetime of experience as a sculptor. He explored the three-dimensional vocabulary of sculptural forms he had developed onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper. Certain shapes and colors recur throughout his gouaches and sculptures. Circles, ovals, and other geometric forms dominate the space. There is the same sense of energy and fluidity. The shapes do not sit on the surface but vibrate giving a feeling of movement in contrast to the static nature of painting.
Like his sculpture, Calder’s gouache...
Category
1970s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
"Untitled" Mid 20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Abstraction
Located in New York, NY
"Untitled" Mid 20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Abstraction
James Daugherty (1887 – 1974)
Untitled
12 ¼ x 15 ¼ inches
Initialed and dated February 21, 1966 lower ri...
Category
1960s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Graphite on paper, 1930
Signed and dated upper right (see photo)
Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014. (label)
C...
Category
1920s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$2,500
Damien Hirst "In A Spin (Unique)"
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Hirst, Damien
Title: In A Spin (Unique)
Series: in a spin
Date: 2002
Medium: acrylic, crayon, printers inks & pencil on paper
Unframed Dimension...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
$39,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Night Rodeo - contemporary abstract painting w/ yellow, green, red lines on blue
By Paula Cahill
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Paula Cahill's linear abstract compositions are often comprised of a single, luminous line that meanders, changes color, and seamlessly connects back to itself. This painting combine...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
Gilded: abstract expressionist blue
white painting/drawing on paper, framed
By Paula Cahill
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Free shipping with code ART2021SHIP through December! This is an abstract framed work on paper with blue and white gestural, expressive lines. The work itself measures 10" x 13" and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
"Casper" Diana Kurz, New York Female Abstract Expressionist Gouache on Paper
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Casper
Gouache on paper
11 x 17 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family fled Austria, first to England and then ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Untitled
By Margo Margolis
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Untitled," Abstraction, Pop Sensibility, Flashe and Charcoal on Paper, 30 x 22 Inches. Framed in White Wood.
This painting on paper has a very sophisticated sensibility in th...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
"Dark Matters" Minimal Contemporary Abstract
By Paul Reeves
Located in Houston, TX
Large abstract painting by artist Paul Reeves. Was made in 2017 with dark acrylic paints. Shades of red and blue compliment the dark brown and purple tones nicely.
Artist Biography...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Dovetail 1 (Abstract drawing)
By Margaret Neill
Located in London, GB
Dovetail 1 (Abstract drawing)
Charcoal on paper - Unframed.
Neill creates works on canvas, linen and paper using a variety of mediums, including graphite, colored pencil, charcoal a...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Sapath II, Halsey Chait, Abstract Drawing, Geometric, Circle, Black, White
By Halsey Chait
Located in New York, NY
"Sapath II" by Halsey Chait
Acrylic on Paper
Halsey Chait's drawings develop according to the rules and mathematics that govern the growth processes of life forms and molecular stru...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Abstract Compositions, 2
Located in Astoria, NY
Willard MacGregor (American, 1901-1993), Two Abstract Compositions, Watercolor on Paper, 1983 and 1989, each signed and dated lower left, ebonized giltwood frames. Larger image: 11.2...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
"Bee Gone" A large, framed, technically stunning drawing by Arminée Chahbazian
Located in Hollister, CA
Bee Gone
Bee Gone is a poetic and visually arresting work by Arminée Chahbazian that speaks to the fragility of the natural world and the silent disappearance of vital species. Throu...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold Leaf
"This Place is a Dream (Heartbeat)" - botanical - cyanotype - flowers - red
By Caroline Bullock
Located in Atlanta, GA
This piece is an abstract botanical work on paper featuring hues of red, blue and tan. It is framed in a simple white box frame behind UV Plexiglas. The unframed work measures 60 by ...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Summertime 2022, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
By Daniel Clarke
Located in Yardley, PA
Oh, summer has clothed the earth In a cloak from the loom of the sun! And a mantle, too, of the skies' soft blue, And a belt where the rivers run. And now for the kiss of the w...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Color Trac #5 (Abstract painting)
By Robert Baribeau
Located in London, GB
Color Trac #5 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on paper - Unframed.
Baribeau constructs his paintings layer upon layer, building color, form and texture into viscous, impasto compositio...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$6,056 Sale Price
20% Off
Andra Samelson, Dusk, Acrylic on paper, 12 x 12 inches, 2018
By Andra Samelson
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
untitled-#3, *abstract with suggestion of landscape, green, yellow, blue
By Jeffrey Kurland
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled painting/collage #3
2022
acrylic and painted silkscreen mesh on 140 lb. cold press paper 30x22” unframed
blue, green, yellow, white
irregular texture surface
abstract
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Fragment (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Gina Werfel
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and mixed media on paper - Unframed
Werfel employs expressive, lyrical gestures that create bursts of movement and energy. Her color choices create a range of tones from the...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Untitled-005 mixed media on paper by John Von Wicht
By John von Wicht
Located in Hudson, NY
This abstract artwork is one of a group of over 100 pieces personally selected by the artist, and gifted to a close personal friend in 1969. Please note this painting was never matte...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
"Superimposition of Two Forms" - Contemporary Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement: "I had been making some very colorful paintings based on rings or circles that have been very well received, but my forms and brushstrokes began to tighten and feel a little restrained. So I decided to change both the forms and the strokes, and lose a lot of the color, and do something different for awhile. I stayed with simple forms as in general I am much more interested in surface and color anyway. With this painting, after I had finished the central piece, I felt it lacked gravitas due mostly to size, and so I decided to affix the canvas to an underlying canvas painted in a very flat black color, with texture to it (I actually used house paint for this, which is perfect for what I wanted). So the painting is actually a canvas attached to another, and has three-dimensionality to it. You can see in the close-ups the "strokiness" I was after. I think this painting has a sort of Rothko-ish, iconic quality to it, but without the gravitas."
Recent message from a 1stDibs buyer and seasoned collector about a painting in the prior "ring" series:
"Love your work. We collect colorists like Wolf Kahn and Jennifer Bartlett, whom I commissioned a piece from that is in the entrance of Mayo Clinic. We are old fans...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, House Paint
$960 Sale Price
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MODERNIST DRAWING New Hope Mid-Century WPA Abstract Non-Objective Jazz Modern
By Ramstonev (Ramsey/Stone/Evans co-operative)
Located in New York, NY
MODERNIST DRAWING New Hope Mid-Century WPA Abstract Non-Objective Jazz Modern. Signed with a "Ramstonev" stamp lower right.
RAMSTONEV Cooperative Art Project (1937-1939). In the late 1930s, Charles Ramsey became close friends with Charles Evans and Louis Stone. He persuaded them to join him teaching his New Hope summer classes in non-objective painting. Soon, a history-making collaboration began. In 1937, meeting in Evans' studio at the rear of Cryer's Hardware store on Main Street in New Hope, a decision was made to establish the Co-Operative Painting Project. They were intrigued by the cooperative ad-lib process by which jazz musicians created their music. Believing this to be the quintessential American contribution to music, they theorized that a similar result might be obtainable with art, a "visual jam session." This particlarly fascinated Ramsey, who was a jazz buff and had a large collection of jazz records.
The objective was to jointly collaborate in the creation of a painting as well as applying collective criticism during its creation. By creating forward movement by general consent, they believed they could produce a higher level of beauty. By consensus it was decided that subject matter would be non-objective. Up to eight people would participate and stop when the painting "felt" finished by common agreement.
These co-operative works were done in several different mediums- the majority in pastel, but some in watercolor, gouache, graphite or cut paper collage. On occasion, the group would create a series, as opposed to a single work, created in steps by three or four artists. One of the occasional participants was famed New Hope poet, Stanley Kunitz. These series could range in number from four to sixteen paintings in each. The first of a series would be very basic and the last a fully finished work.
In the scope of importance among the New Hope Modernist...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Stripes
By Paul Jenkins
Located in New York, NY
Stripes by Paul Jenkins (1923-2012)
Watercolor on paper
42 x 30 ¼ inches unframed (106.68 x 76.835 cm)
47 ½ x 35 ½ inches framed (120.65 x 90.17 cm)
Inscribed (Jenkins) on bottom cen...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$29,500
Warren St 18 (Abstract Drawing)
By Peter Soriano
Located in London, GB
Warren St 18 (Abstract Drawing)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano is a Philippines-born French-American abstract artist wh...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Sketch for
The X
Its Tails
. 1967
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palo Alto, CA
This work is registered as an authentic work by Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976) in the archives of the Calder Foundation (NY), under application number A.24492. Created in 1967, this original pen and red ink drawing on paper is initialed ‘CA’ in blue ink in the lower right by Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976) with a handwritten dedication, also in blue ink, ‘To Alvin Lane’ along the lower center.
The Sketch for ‘The X & Its Tails’ is an original study and preliminary drawing made by Calder preceding his large-scale sculpture for the Detroit Institute of Arts. Sketches for models and sculptures are rare and this is no exception; according to Alvin S. Lane, collector and friend to Calder, “To the best of my knowledge there were very few, if any, preliminary drawings done by Calder that were on the market, but he was good enough when he did two for commissions to send the drawings to me as a present [including this Sketch for ‘The X & Its Tails’]. I included one of them here to show that although his drawings usually have a flowing steady line, his preliminary drawings are sloppy scribbles” (23).
Provenance:
~ Gift of artist
~ Private Collection (Riverdale, NJ)
Catalogue Raisonné and COA:
Sketch for 'The X & Its Tails,' 1967 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work).
1. Registered with the Calder Foundation, NY under application number A.24492.
2. Elvehjem Museum of Art. The Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection...
Category
1960s Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Warren St 18 (Abstract Painting)
By Peter Soriano
Located in London, GB
Warren St 18 (Abstract Painting)
Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed.
Peter Soriano is a Philippines-born French-American abstract artist who divides his time b...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil
Framed (Abstract painting)
By Anne Russinof
Located in London, GB
Framed (Abstract painting)
Casein on Arches paper. Unframed.
Anne Russinof often does paintings on paper to loosen up for the larger canvas works. The point is to free her hand.
...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Casein
Repertory 2 (Abstract drawing)
By Margaret Neill
Located in London, GB
Repertory 2 (Abstract drawing)
Charcoal on paper - Unframed.
Neill creates works on canvas, linen and paper using a variety of mediums, including graphite, colored pencil, charcoal ...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
House Scenes, 3
Located in Astoria, NY
Robert O'Meara (American, 1957-2024), Group of Three House Scenes, graphite on paper, two signed lower right depicting interior home scenes, one picturing farm house, two wood frames...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Dancing Figurative Study of a Nude Woman
By Thierry Andre
Located in Houston, TX
Figurative study of a dancing woman. The work is signed by Thierry Andre thought to be a French who was influenced by Edgar Degas. The paper is not fr...
Category
1960s Naturalistic Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
3.3.14 #33, Drawing, Pen
Ink on Paper
By Allison Long Hardy
Located in Yardley, PA
marker, pen on paper :: Drawing :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Loc...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Manifest 2 (Abstract Painting)
By Margaret Neill
Located in London, GB
Manifest 2 (Abstract Painting)
Charcoal and water on paper. Unframed.
Margaret Neill works for a time on a group of pieces in a series, using classic almost primal materials such a...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Manifest 1 (Abstract Drawing)
By Margaret Neill
Located in London, GB
Manifest 1 (Abstract Drawing)
Charcoal and water on paper. Unframed.
Margaret Neill works for a time on a group of pieces in a series, using classic almost primal materials such as...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Flushing #1
Located in Westport, CT
Selena Beaudry’s work is created by marking and cutting up drawings. This has led the artist to rediscovering her visual language. Her work consists of...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Linen, Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, Color Pencil
Botanical Experiment #2
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paula Valenzuela
Botanical Experiment #2, 2025
Watercolor, alcohol and acrylic inks on paper
9 x 12 inches
This one-of-a-kind work on paper comes unframed and ships in a tube. Exter...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
