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"Delivered and Discarded (positives) #2" wall hanging ink and Tyvek assemblage
By Yoonmi Nam
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Delivered and Discarded (positives) #2" is an original wall-hanging piece by Yoonmi Nam. This piece is made from the flattening out packing boxes that the artist traces to depict t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Found Objects, Sumi Ink, Synthetic Paper
Untitled #2
By Jerry Opper
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled #2" c.1970 is a colors pastel and crayon on thick paper by American artist Jerry Opper, 1924-2014. It is hand signed with initial in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist. The image size is 23 x 18 inches, sheet size is 24 x 19 inches. It is in excellent condition, there are pastel marks on the margin all around the artwork and also on the back, see picture #1.
About the artist:
Jerry Opper was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 5, 1924. He moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1933. After graduating from Hollywood High School, he worked in movie studios and attended art classes at Chouinard Art Institute. In May 1942, Opper was drafted into the army and was then able to study at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center while his outfit was stationed in Colorado. Later he was sent to Guam and was discharged in December 1945.
Opper returned to Chouinard and his work in movie studios until 1947, when he moved to San Francisco. He enrolled as a full-time student at the California School of Fine Arts (now SFAI) and received his diploma in June of 1950. In 1948, Opper met his wife Gertrud Ruth Friedmann, daughter of artist Gustav Friedmann, whose works are also in the Lost Art Salon collection. It was love at first sight and a few weeks after their first encounter at the Black Cat in San Francisco's North Beach, they got married and enjoyed a passionate, life-long romance.
Shortly after he finished school, Opper worked briefly as a decorator’s assistant and then started his career as a commercial artist, working for several firms such as Fibreboard, Beatrix Food and Precision. Working full-time and dedicating himself to having a rich family life occupied most of Opper's time, but he continued to be creative. He was above all a family man with the pride of having raised two exceptional daughters, Erika and Jody. Year after year, Opper would painstakingly craft their Halloween costumes...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Abstract Expressionist Rue de Paris Oil on paper - Transfer Monotype
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist Rue de Paris
Original transfer Monotype painting by California artist Heather Speck (American 20th C) abstract scene using oil and...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil, Monotype
$700 Sale Price
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American Modernist Peter Macchiarini "Brooch Sketch"
Located in Arp, TX
Peter Macchiarini
"Brooch Drawing"
c. 1950s
Pencil on paper
Site 3.5"x3.5" silver carved wood frame 14.75"x16.75"
Studio stamp lower left
Was born to Italian parents on the Wohler Ranch, a hop yard and vineyard spread on the Russian river near Santa Rosa, Sonoma County on August 27, 1909. I attended grammar school and high schools in Sonoma County until the age of fourteen at which time my parents returned to Italy. There I took preliminary courses in the Italian language and having decided on an artistic career, took the entry examinations for the Art Academy Pietrasanta, Province of Lucca, and was accepted. At the Academy I received basic training in marble carving, clay modeling, architectural drawing and general sciences.
In 1928 I returned to the United States and was gainfully employed as a stonecarver with several San Francisco Bay Area firms. I continued my art studies in San Francisco at the California School of Fine Arts, taking night courses. In 1936, I worked on projects under Beniamino Bufano and Ralph Stackpole...
Category
1950s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Pencil
Funny and Sad Faces, Surrealist Geometric Colorful Drawing, France 1960
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exceptional original project drawing, painted with colored pencil on translucent tracing paper, is by a French artist, circa the 1960s. The original painting features a geometri...
Category
1960s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Color Pencil
Oberon, Series 1
, Instituto Allende, Carmel Art Association, NAWA, La Jolla
By Barbara Johnson
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Barbara Johnson' (American, 1927-2021) and titled, lower left, 'Oberon Series 1'.
Exhibited: Carmel Art Association, circa 1995 (accompanied by original label)
...
Category
1990s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold Leaf
Portrait at a Party, Abstract Expressionist Watercolor and Pastel by Max Epstein
By Max Epstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002) - Portrait at a Party, Year: 1973, Medium: Watercolor and Pastel on Paper, Size: 24 x 18 in. (60.96 x 45.72 cm), Frame Size: 33 x 25 inches
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
Geometric Color Grid - Op Art Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly precise op-art composition by an unknown artist. A grid of colored squares has been created with various colors, divided by occasional diagonal lines that give the feel of ove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$360 Sale Price
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Muller
s Garden
Located in New York, NY
Friederike Oeser, a contemporary abstract painter, lives and works in Munich, Germany. For Oeser there is no hierarchy of visual value. It all has import—whether it be a trickle of w...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$3,192 Sale Price
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Cadaques No. 24, Surrealist Figure Painting by Eduardo Arranz-Bravo
By Eduardo Arranz-Bravo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Spanish (1941 - )
Title: Cadaques No.24
Year: 1994
Medium: Mixed Media (Watercolor and Color pencil) on paper, signed and dated
Size: 13.75 x 5 in. (34....
Category
1990s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Color Pencil
Sea bottom
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sea Bottom" c.1980 is a watercolor with collage on heavy watercolor paper by California artist Charlotte Huntley. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The size is 15.5 x 23.75 inches. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright.
About the artist:
Charlotte Huntley might have been a renowned graffiti artist – her earliest work consisted of drawing on walls. But fate intervened and she learned to control these urges with a formal education at Scripps College, Chouinard School of Art, and the Los Angeles County Art Institute. These early tendencies reemerged not just in painting, but in other artistic ways as well, to the benefit of community theaters in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago. She spent years as a professional puppeteer and set designer, and developing her own unique watercolor painting style. Charlotte’s use of pointillism. Charlotte Huntley AWS, June Workshop Instructor “Charlotte Huntley has special insights into color and fresh approaches to cliche subject matter. Her work in watercolor is truly unique. Charlotte adapts the Pointillism of Seurat and other post-Impressionists and makes it her own in watercolor. With Pointillism, distinct points of primary colors create the impression of a wide selection of secondary colors. The technique relies on the perceptive ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to mix the color spots into a fuller range of tones. Charlotte truly makes the most of this style of painting. Over her illustrious career, Huntley has been awarded a signature membership in 29 watercolor societies, including the American Watercolor Society, California Watercolor Association, Transparent Watercolor Soc. of America, Northwest Watercolor Society, and Watercolor West. Overall, Charlotte has received 45 Awards in National Exhibitions since 2000 – an impressive achievement
This imaginative Watercolor Artist has had over 575 paintings accepted in National Juried Art Exhibitions in 46 states, also Canada and Puerto Rico, with 113 Awards.
Charlotte has proven to be a popular Juror, knowledgeable Juror, inspiring Workshop Instructor, and an Award-winning Author.The work of Charlotte Huntley is held in collections in the U.S. Canada and Puerto Rico as well as in some European country.
In 2016 Charlotte has been accepted in 14 National Exhibitions with 1 Award: Signature American W/C Society (CA), Rockies West National (CO) , Animals in Art (LA) (Judge’s Award) , Georgia W/C Society , Missouri W/C Society, Society of W/C Artists (TX) , Gibson Co. Visual Arts Ass’n (TN) , Illinois W/C Society, W/C Soc. of Alabama, Rocky Mountain Nat’1 W/C (CO), Alaska W/C Soc., Aqueous USA 2016 (KY), Niagara Frontier W/C Soc . (NY) and Northwest W/C Soc. (WA).
Elite Awards
Sylvan Grouse Guild Award, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society
Elite Signature Status , Watercolor Art Society-Houston
Master Signature Member, Western Colorado Watercolor...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Nikolausstaden", Abstract Mixed Media Collage with Watercolor
Found Objects
By Michael Pauker
Located in Soquel, CA
Mixed media found object collage with watercolor by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957), 2008.
This unique piece creates an abstract composition by layering stamps, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Newsprint
Abstracted Cubist Turkey in Pastel on Paper
By Michael William Eggleston
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Cubist Turkey Portrait in Pastel on Paper
Brightly colored abstract portrait by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). An abs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
$600 Sale Price
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Carol Diehl, Aida, 2011, powder pastel on Masonite, 9 x 12 inches, Abstract
By Carol Diehl
Located in Darien, CT
ODETTA is pleased to present works by Carol Diehl as our Flat File Feature Artist.
Opening each drawer in the cabinet presents one in a series of pastel drawings that the artist beg...
Category
2010s Suprematist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Board
Delta (Abstract Drawing)
By Margaret Neil
Located in London, GB
Diptych.
Paper size: 96.5 x 127 cm/38 x 50""
Image size: 91.5 x 122 cm/ 36 x 48""
Neill is inspired by the fluid geometric qualities of curve and line, in particular how the natura...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Calligraphy Abstract Panorama IV - Japanese Calligraphy on Rice Paper
By Michael Pauker
Located in Soquel, CA
Calligraphy Abstract Panorama IV - Japanese Calligraphy on Rice Paper
Landscape and Calligraphy on rice paper by Michael Pauker (American, 20th c).
Signed by the artist in the bottom right corner in red pencil, "V - 40 (artist's signature) 2007."
Mat Size: 10"H x 20"W
Paper Size: 5.63"H x 14.38"W
“I’m driven by curiosity...where it comes from I can’t tell you; it’s just there. And early 20th-century modernist art is the thing that I keep returning to.” - Michael Pauker
Bay Area artist and art educator Michael Pauker was born in New York in 1957, and knew he wanted to be an artist from the age of 15. He earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at SUNY Purchase in his native state of New York. In 1989, he went on to earn an M.F.A at Mills College in Oakland and was awarded the City of Oakland Artist Fellowship in Painting. He has been a Bay Area resident since 1988. His work has been exhibited widely across the U.S., as well as in Japan and Costa Rica, and is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Exhibitions include:
2007 Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica
2007 “The Ebay Art Project,” Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
2003 “Found Imagery: The Art of Collage,” Fresno Art Museum,Fresno, CA
2003 “Cut, Copy, Paste,” De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2003 “20th Annual Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2002 “40 by 40,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, N.Y., NY
2002 “Works on Paper,” Bryant St. Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2002 Dolby Chadwick Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Rice Paper
Morgan O
Hara, Movement of the Hands Seiji Shimoda, Drawing, March 2004
By Morgan O
Hara
Located in Darien, CT
Live Transmission
Morgan O'Hara's conceptually based performative drawing researches the vital movement of living beings, the human experience of time and space. It is culturally co...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Surrealist Drawings Geometric Colorist Project, France circa 1960
Located in Atlanta, GA
These exceptional original project drawings, painted with colored pencil on translucent tracing paper, are by a French artist, circa the 1960s. The two paintings feature a geometric ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. This one bears the influence of Sam Francis. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre...
Category
20th Century American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Low Humm
By Darren Waterston
Located in San Francisco, CA
Darren Waterston b. 1965
Low Humm, 2024
Watercolor and gouache on rag paper
29 1/4 x 22 inches (74.3 x 55.9 cm)
Framed: 36 1/4 x 29 inches
From the 2024 exhibition at Berggruen Gall...
Category
2010s Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Liz Sweibel, All Fall Down 1, 2019, Thread, vellum, Abstract Drawing
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
The drawings in this series are from photos of marine accidents, and made of thread, knots, and vellum. All were completed in 2019.
At sea, stacks of containers topple from a load...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Thread, Vellum
Little Gardens #4
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Little Gardens #4" 2001 is a watercolor with gold addition on heavy rag paper by American artist Phil Gallagher. It is hand signed,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"Cubist Figure Lounging" Original Ink Drawing South West Artist John Rosa
Located in Arp, TX
John Rosa
"Cubist Figure Lounging"
2000
Ink on paper
11"x8" unframed
Signed and dated in ink lower left
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Framed abstract Persian calligraphy ink drawing/painting on paper, black
white
By Nazanin Moghbeli
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Nazanin Moghbeli's "Morghe Sahar 2" is framed in a white wood painted frame with white mat. It is wired with all hanging hardware, and is ready to install. Moghbeli is a Persian American artist with training in Persian calligraphy, miniature painting, and music. She borrows techniques from Iranian calligraphy to create abstract drawings with traditional bamboo “ghalams,” or quills. Rather than using these techniques to create religious objects as they were originally used, she explores the secular meaning of line in and of itself. She seeks the complete dissolution of words and prefers instead to create abstract images, her alternative to religious object making.
The poem that is collaged into this work is a historic Iranian ballad, entitled "Morghe Sahar" (Bird of Dawn), written by Mohammad-Taqi Bahar and put to music by Morteza Neidavoud in 1921. Some consider this song to be the unofficial anthem of freedom in Iran. The lyrics describe a caged nightingale, urging her to sing with passion and break free. It has been sung in different political contexts, from the constitutional revolution of 1921 through the dictatorship of Mohammad Reza...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
Colophon 11, Contemporary Abstract Paintings
By Willy Bo Richardson
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Signed, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Willy Bo Richardson received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Contemporary Mid Century Inspired Blue
Green Toned Neighborhood Aerial Pastel
Located in Houston, TX
Mid century inspired aerial landscape pastel drawing by contemporary artist R. Michael Wommack. The work features a birds eye view of a planned neighborhood at night with glowing swi...
Category
2010s American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Untitled
By Arnold A. Grossman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Arnold Grossman (American, 1923-2016)
Title: Untitled
Year: c.2000
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor paper
Size image: 18 x 24 inches
paper: 18 x 24 inches
Signature: ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Color in Motion - Pointillist Abstract
By Ben Black
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed pointillist watercolor and ink drawing featuring dynamic form and color in motion by Ben Black (American, 1922-2003). Unframed. Signed "Ben Black" lower right. Image,...
Category
1980s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
$716 Sale Price
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Unforgettable
Located in New York, NY
The art of Philip Wittmann is founded on signals. For him, signs serve as a bridge between abstraction, reality and writing, too. When he was 26 years old, he began painting as a hobbyist using 'pure' abstraction. However, he believed his work lacked a solid foundation upon which to grow.
He discovered a book on the origins of the Chinese alphabet, which origins are essentially signs, in 2008 while taking a calligraphy class. The 26 letters of our Latin alphabet are less pictorial than the Chinese characters as we know them now. He discovered that pictorial representation is more prevalent when examining the origins of alphabets—all alphabets, in fact—because there is frequently a similarity between the sign's true meaning and what it is meant to represent. For instance, the symbol for a turtle in the original Chinese script resembles a turtle.
Wittmann loves signs as they leave room for interpretation. For instance, if one writes “the sky
is blue”, one will make for themself a mental representation of a blue sky, even if each one-off us
will probably have some nuance in our own mental representation of that blue sky. On the other hand, a sign can...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
"The Winter Valley" Purple and Brown Toned Winter Landscape Townscape
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Houston, TX
Blue, purple, and green toned winter landscape pastel drawing by German-American painter, Wolf Kahn. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Framed and matted in a gold frame...
Category
1980s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$9,500 Sale Price
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Abstracted Cubist Lion Portrait in Pastel on Paper
By Michael William Eggleston
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Cubist Lion Portrait in Pastel on Paper
Brightly colored abstract portrait by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). An abstract...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
$460 Sale Price
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Red
Blue Linear Abstract
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic abstract with boldly colored forms in motion by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed "Warner" lower left. Unframed. Image size, 12H x 9"W. Purchase from the estate ...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. This one is influenced by California Abstract Expressionist artist Sam Francis. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Frozen Lake" Abstracted Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Evocative abstract landscape by Martin Kallman (American, 1925-1992). This piece has large sections of light and shadow that overlap each other, as if c...
Category
1980s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Ink, Monotype
$700 Sale Price
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Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Pawel Kontny
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. This one bears the influence of Sam Francis. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre...
Category
20th Century American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Sea Creatures Abstract Watercolor
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant and fun figurative abstract of creatures on the ocean floor by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. U...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sylvia Schwartz,
Red Plane
, 2016, Thread, Masonite, Acrylic Paint, Minimalist
By Sylvia Schwartz
Located in Darien, CT
In Sylvia Schwartz' structures, silicone molds are cast from both natural and hand-made forms, including clay coils, volcanic rock patterns, seaweed, and the artist's own fingerprint...
Category
2010s Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Thread, Masonite, Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Pigment
Farindola 7
Located in New York, NY
Friederike Oeser, a contemporary abstract painter, lives and works in Munich, Germany. For Oeser there is no hierarchy of visual value. It all has import—whether it be a trickle of w...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$2,320 Sale Price
20% Off
German Neo Expressionist Color Pencil Drawing Erwin Pfrang
Located in Surfside, FL
Erwin Pfrang, German (b. 1951)
Graphite, Colored Pencil on paper
Framed 20.5/8 X 16.5/8 sheet 6 X 7.75
Erwin Pfrang (born 1951, in Munich) is a German painter and printmaker.
Pfra...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
"The Hurdy Gurdy Man", Colorful Figurative Abstract Street Performer Watercolor
By Hope Tepley
Located in Soquel, CA
Brightly colored watercolor of a 1970's California street performer, done in a colorful, expressive slap-dash style, by Hope Tepley (American, 1919-2010). Signed "Tepley" in the lower right corner. Titled "The Hurdy Gurdy...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"#51 – WE THINK", ink, pencil, gouache, vintage book page, hemingway, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#51 – WE THINK" is from Amy Williams' series "A Farewell to Arms" – wherein the artist works directly onto page 51 of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Karen Schiff, Word Snake G, 2014, Watercolor, Gouache, Rag Paper, Pencil
By Karen Schiff
Located in Darien, CT
Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Rag Paper, Pencil
"Transition, Series 1, No. 4" - Watercolor Figurative Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Subtly shaded abstract figurative illustration by Elsa Warnick (American, 1942-2013). Two adult and three baby figures are rendered with subtle tan shading, against an abstract background with geometric shapes and swirling ribbons. One of the two adult figures is laying down, while the other appears to be jumping or dancing. Notable is the skillful use of negative space to balance the composition.
Signed and dated "Warnick 1982" in the lower right corner.
Signed, titled, and dated with materials information on verso.
Presented in a silver aluminum frame.
Frame size: 23.5"H x 31.25"W
Paper size: 23.25"H x 31"W
Elsa Warnick (American, 1942-2013) was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. She moved to Portland to attend the Reed College/Museum Art School joint five year program. Warnick went on to create many works of art as well as teach art and illustration. She is mostly known for her watercolor paintings, including the illustration of several children's books. Some of her pieces are held in the Portland Art Museum’s collection.
Selected Exhibitions:
1974: University Center Gallery, Willamette University - Salem, OR
1978: Mayer Gallery...
Category
1980s American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Pastel on paper, 1922
Initialed lower right (see photo)
Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014.
Condition: Excell...
Category
20th Century American Modern Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
$4,000
Liz Sweibel, Untitled #1 (MOL Comfort, 6.27.13, 11.46 am) 2015, Post-Minimalist
By Liz Sweibel
Located in Darien, CT
These thread-and-vellum drawings document the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March 2011. They began as a reaction to photographs of the devastated landscape, p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Minimalist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Thread, Vellum
Sans Titre 1
By Roberto Matta
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Roberto Matta
Title: Sans Titre 1
Medium: Original pastel/drawing on paper
Signed: Hand Signed
Year: 1969
Measurements: 12" x 16"
Framed: 20" x 24"
Authentication: Kajsa...
Category
1960s Surrealist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
"Sea Fan" - Abstracted Oceanic Still Life in Pen
Ink on Cardstock
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed patterned abstract composition by Patricia "Patti" Omori Shepp (American, b. 1954). This piece has a repeating pattern across the width, reflected on itself. Texture ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Postcard, Pen
Morgan O
Hara, Movement of the Hands of Anthony Auerbach, Drawing, March 2000
By Morgan O
Hara
Located in Darien, CT
Live Transmission
Morgan O'Hara's conceptually based performative drawing researches the vital movement of living beings, the human experience of time and space. It is culturally co...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Swipe 3 (Abstract painting)
By Anne Russinof
Located in London, GB
Swipe 3 (Abstract painting)
Sumi ink and paint on paper. Unframed.
For Russinof, everything begins with color. She begins a painting by applying color in lyrical, gestural marks. T...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Sumi Ink, Acrylic
Ellen Hackl Fagan, Doremi_Musicians-L, 2012, ink, gouache, rag paper
By Ellen Hackl Fagan
Located in Darien, CT
ColorSoundGrammar
Ellen Hackl Fagan
There is a long history of sound/color synaesthesia work, from Isaac Newton’s color organ to Alexander Scriabin’s “Prometheus,” but not much wor...
Category
2010s Conceptual Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Rag Paper
Monday Series 18
Located in New York, NY
Friederike Oeser, a contemporary abstract painter, lives and works in Munich, Germany. For Oeser there is no hierarchy of visual value. It all has import—whether it be a trickle of w...
Category
2010s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$460 Sale Price
20% Off
I, Modern Abstract Tempera Painting by Y. Brandolini
By Yasmin Brandolini d
Adda
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yasmin Brandolini d'Adda, South African/Italian (1929 - )
Title: I
Year: 1984
Medium: Tempera on Paper, signed and dated
Size: 40 in. x 25 in. (101.6 cm x 63.5 cm)
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera
The Colors of Happiness
Located in New York, NY
Friederike Oeser, a contemporary abstract painter, lives and works in Munich, Germany. For Oeser there is no hierarchy of visual value. It all has import—whether it be a trickle of w...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel
$2,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Signature #XVI
By Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: Signature #16
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size image: 30 x 22.5 inches
Size paper: 30 x 22.5 in...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
The Maze - Abstract Expressionist Miniature Etching
By R. Silvestrov
Located in Soquel, CA
An abstract expressionist miniature etching on paper depicting a numerous different insects following a line of arrows by R. Silvestrov (Russian). Si...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Signature #XIII
By Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sandra Phipps MacDiarmid (American, born 1937)
Title: Signature #13
Year: Circa 1990
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Size image: 30 x 22.5 inches
Size paper: 30 x 22.5 in...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
By Fannie Hillsmith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Collage and crayon drawing, 1967
Signed and dated lower center (see photo)
Condition: Small imperfections from the creative process
Small tear on the left sheet edge (repai...
Category
1960s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon
"Structure" Mid 20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Abstraction
Located in New York, NY
"Structure" Mid 20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Abstraction
James Daugherty (1887 – 1974)
"Structure"
10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Pastel on paper
Initialed lower left, t...
Category
1960s Abstract Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
"Codicis Liber", Contemporary Monotype with Chine Colle and Watercolor
By Michael Pauker
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary abstract painting and collage composition of stamps, various types of paper, and watercolor by Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957), 2009. Titled "Codicis Liber", which is...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental US - Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
