Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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The Blossoming Freedom Tree is an original painting realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022. China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored Canson paper. Hand-sign...

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Untitled Pastel on paper, 1922 Signed with the artist's initials in pencil Provenance: Estate of the artist Francis M. Nauman (label) Private collection, NY A very early abstract/cubist work by Kelly. Created while the artist was studying with Arthur Carles in Philadelphia. Leon Kelly (October 21, 1901 – June 28, 1982) was an American artist born in Philadelphia, PA. He is most well known for his contributions to American Surrealism, but his work also encompassed styles such as Cubism, Social Realism, and Abstraction. Reclusive by nature, a character trait that became more exaggerated in the 1940s and later, Kelly's work reflects his determination not to be limited by the trends of his time. His large output of paintings is complemented by a prolific number of drawings that span his career of 50 years. Some of the collections where his work is represented are: The Metropolitan Museum in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Boston Public Library. Biography Kelly was born in 1901 at home at 1533 Newkirk Street, Philadelphia, PA. He was the only child of Elizabeth (née Stevenson) and Pantaleon L. Kelly. The family resided in Philadelphia where Pantaleon and two of his cousins owned Kelly Brothers, a successful tailoring business. The prosperity of the firm enabled his father to purchase a 144-acre farm in Bucks County PA in 1902, which he named "Rural Retreat" It was here that Pantaleon took Leon to spend every weekend away from the pressures of business and from the disappointments in his failing marriage. Idyllic and peaceful memories of the farm stayed with Leon and embued his work with a love of nature that emerged later in the Lunar Series, in Return and Departure, and in the insect imagery of his Surrealist work. "If anything," he once said,"I am a Pantheist and see a spirit in everything, the grass, the rocks, everything." At thirteen, Leon left school and began private painting lessons with Albert Jean Adolphe, a teacher at the School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) in Philadelphia. He learned technique by copying the works of the old masters and visiting the Philadelphia Zoo, where he would draw animals. Drawings done in 1916 and 1917 of elephants, snakes and antelope, as well as copies of old master paintings by Holbein and Michelangelo, heralded an impressive emerging talent. In 1917, he studied sculpture with Alexander Portnoff but his studies came to an abrupt halt with the start of World War I. Being too young to enlist, he joined the Quartermaster Corp at the Army Depot in Philadelphia, where he served for more than a year loading ships with supplies and, along with other artists, working on drawings for camouflage. By 1920, the family's fortunes drastically changed. His father's business had failed due to the introduction of ready made clothing and his marriage, unhappy from the beginning, dissolved. Broken by circumstance Pantaleon left Philadelphia to begin a wandering existence looking for work leaving Leon to support his mother and grandmother. He found a job in 1920 at the Freihofer Baking Company where he worked nights for the next four years. Under these circumstances Leon continued to develop his skills in drawing and painting and learned of the revolutionary developments in art that were taking place in Paris. During the day he was granted permission to study anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Osteopathy where he dissected a cadaver and perfected his knowledge of the human figure. He also met and studied etching with Earl Horter, a well known illustrator, who had amassed a significant collection of modern art which included work by Brancusi, Matisse, and Cubist works by Picasso and Braque. Among the artists around Horter was Arthur Carles, a charismatic and controversial painter who taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Leon enrolled in the Academy in 1922, becoming what Carles described as, "his best student". In the next three years Leon work ranged from academic studies of plaster casts, to pointillism, to landscapes of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, as well as a series of pastels showing influences from Matisse to Picasso. Clearly influenced by Earl Horter's collection and Arthur Carles he mastered analytical cubism in works such as The Three Pears, 1923 and 1925 experimented with Purism in Moon Behind the Italian House. In 1925 Kelly was awarded a Cresson Scholarship and on June 14 he left for Europe. Paris The first trip to Europe lasted for approximately three and a half months and introduced Kelly to a culture and place where he felt he belonged. Though he returned to the Academy in the Fall, he left for Europe again a few months later to begin a four-year stay in Paris. He moved into an apartment at 19 rue Daguerre in Paris and began an existence intellectually rich but in creature comforts, very poor. "I kept a cinderblock over the drain in the kitchen sink to keep the rats out of the apartment" he once explained. He frequented the cafes making acquaintances with Henry Miller, James Joyce and the critic Félix Fénéon as well as others. His days were split between copying old master paintings in the Louvre and pursuing modernist ideas that were swirling through the work of all the artists around him. The Lake, 1926 and Interior of the Studio, 1927, now in the Newark Museum. Patrons during this time were the police official Leon Zamaran, a collector of Courbets, Lautrecs and others, who began collecting Kelly's work. Another was Alfred Barnes of the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. In 1929 Kelly married a young French woman, Henriette D'Erfurth. She appears frequently in paintings and drawings done between 1928 and the early 1930s. Philadelphia The stock market crash of 1929 made it impossible to continue living in Paris and Kelly and Henriette returned to Philadelphia in 1930. He rented a studio on Thompson Street and began working and participating in shows in the city's galleries. Work from 1930 to 1940 showed continuing influences and experimentation with the themes and techniques acquired in Paris as well as a brief foray into Social Realism. The Little Gallery of Contemporary Art purchased the Absinthe Drinker...

Oil Pastel on archival 150g grey paper by Amanda Andersen. One in a series of three drawings by Amanda Andersen created during an artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 201...

This unique work of ink on paper is framed in a black frame with Anti Reflective glass. It is currently on exhibition at the Hearst foundation building in Manhattan as part of the Ar...

Jack Scott "#7" c. 1980 Obsessive cross-hatch, charcoal, drawing on paper 40"x30" unframed Unsigned Now available for purchase, this is one of fifteen 40"x3...

Jack Scott "#4" 1981 Cross-hatch, charcoal, drawing on paper 40"x30" unframed Signed and dated in pencil on reverse Now available for purchase, this is one of fifteen 40"x30" cross-...

Genre: Modern Subject: Abstract Medium: Watercolor, Chalk Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions: not able to determine" x not able to determine" Dimensions w/Frame: 25 1/4...

About the Series: “Sensitive Material” In this Work on Paper Series, started in 2020, Claire Gilliam continues her exploration of Visual Language. She uses a common motif, the Latin ...

Requiem For May 68 is a painting realized by Iranian Painter and Poet Parimah Avani in 2022. China ink and acrylic on ivory-colored Canson paper. Hand-...

This work on paper titled Tallons Two is one in a series of two collages by Amanda Andersen, created in 2023 on 300g matte archival paper and comes with the white frame as pictured. ...

*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Fire (3) by Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) Gouache and pastel on paper 27.7 x 20.3 cm (10 ⁷/₈ x 8 inches) Signed, ...

This work on paper titled Tallons Three is one in a series of two collages by Amanda Andersen, created in 2023 on 300g matte archival paper and comes with the white frame as pictured...

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the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

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Watercolor on paper, Framed 54 x 44 x 2 cm

Contemporary abstract geometric colorful patterned painting by Texas-based artist Max Manning. The work features organic and geometric shapes in blues, pi...

Signed and dated lower left. Size: 16 x 12 in. Frame Size: 30 x 25 in.

Michael Brennan (b.1965, Pine Island, FL; lives Brooklyn, NY) has exhibited his work nationally and internationally for the past two decades, including in the United States, Mexico, Belgium, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand. His paintings and works on paper have been reviewed in publications, including The New York Times, Art in America, ARTnews, Art New England, The Brooklyn Rail, ArtNet Magazine, and NY Arts. His writings and reviews have been published by The Brooklyn Rail, ArtNet Magazine, The Village Voice, The Architect’s Newspaper, American Abstract Artists, and Archives of American Art/Smithsonian Institution, among others. Brennan’s work is included in collections, such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Jose Museum of Art, American Express, General Dynamics, Daimler AG, and Sony Corporation. Brennan holds an MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, and a BA from the University of Florida. He is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute and has also taught at the School of Visual Arts, Hunter College, and Cooper Union in NYC. GALLERY EXHIBITIONS Brant / Brennan / Zinsser, June 4 – July 2, 2016 Michael Brennan: Grey Razor Paintings, January 10 – February 15, 2014 Escape from New York...

Contemporary abstract geometric colorful patterned work on paper by Texas-based artist Max Manning. The work features organic and geometric shapes in yell...

Watercolor on paper

Diagram Drawing 9 (Abstract Drawing) Colored pencil on paper - Unframed. This work will be shipped rolled in a tube. McGlynn is interested in how a minimally-determined presentation of form can critique the residual meaning of the mediated imagery of popular culture...

About the Series: Gilliam began the series Life Lines in 2017 after recently coming into possession of MRI scans of her brain. The scans, which she spent hours pouring over, both fas...

Red and green abstract drawing by Houston, TX artist Marguerite Baldwin. The drawing depicts a lizard on a plant against a red background. Signed and dated by the artist at the bottom left corner. The piece is framed and matted in a natural raised wood grain frame. Dimensions Without Frame: H 7 in. x W 10 in. Artist Biography: "I waited until I was 61 to get a BFA in photography at Sam Houston...

This unique abstract work is a watercolor by American artist Chris Ritter. The use of broad gestural movement and bold colors creates an engaging composit...

This unique abstract work is a watercolor by American artist Chris Ritter. The use of broad gestural movement and bold colors creates an engaging composit...

A black and white charcoal drawing on paper by cubist and surrealist artist Benjamin Benno.Rather than depicting fruit or flowers on a table like a tra...

This unique abstract work is a watercolor by American artist Chris Ritter. The use of broad gestural movement and bold colors creates an engaging composit...

About the Series: “Sensitive Material” In this Work on Paper Series, started in 2020, Claire Gilliam continues her exploration of Visual Language. She uses a common motif, the Latin ...

Watercolor on paper

Rapidography & ink on paper Pascal Plazanet is a French artist born in 1963 who lives and works in Paris, France. For more 30 years, he constantly uses rapidograph pens in his artworks on paper or onto canvas. The rapidograph is a special pen with a capillary tubular tip in which flows a black pigment, an ancient drawing...

A rare early career experimental abstract artwork using Red, Yellow & Orange on a White Background, by leading Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefie...

Abstracted Cubist Egyptian Pharaoh Portrait in Pastel on Paper Brightly colored abstract portrait by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Centur...

Abstracted Woman in Shadows in Pastel on Paper Brightly colored abstract drawing by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). An abstracted woman figure is depicted walkin...

Rapidography & oil onto canvas Pascal Plazanet is a French artist born in 1963 who lives and works in Paris, France. For more 30 years, he constantly uses rapidograph pens in his artworks on paper or onto canvas. The rapidograph is a special pen with a capillary tubular tip in which flows a black pigment, an ancient drawing tool...

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Rapidography & watercolor on canvas Pascal Plazanet is a French artist born in 1963 who lives and works in Paris, France. For more 30 years, he constantly uses rapidograph pens in his artworks on paper or onto canvas. The rapidograph is a special pen with a capillary tubular tip in which flows a black pigment, an ancient drawing...

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Contemporary abstract geometric colorful patterned painting by Texas-based artist Max Manning. The work features organic and geometric shapes in green, magenta, black, and white. Si...

Acrylic monoprint on paper

This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. "Lake Tahoe Panorama" shows a sequence of abstracted ripples of the calm Tahoe waters. Details: + Title: Lake Tahoe Panor...

This Fortunato Depero wionderful serigraphy is a multiple of 250 specimens printed by the authorization of Museum of Depero in Rovereto (Italy). This i...

Diagram Drawing 7 (Abstract Drawing) Colored pencil on paper - Unframed. This work will be shipped rolled in a tube. McGlynn is interested in how a minimally-determined presentation of form can critique the residual meaning of the mediated imagery of popular culture...

About the Series: Gilliam began the series Life Lines in 2017 after recently coming into possession of MRI scans of her brain. The scans, which she spent hours pouring over, both fas...

About the Series: Gilliam began the series Life Lines in 2017 after recently coming into possession of MRI scans of her brain. The scans, which she spent hours pouring over, both fas...

Watercolor on paper, Framed 40 x 30 x 2 cm

Diagram Drawing 6 (Abstract Drawing) Colored pencil on paper - Unframed. This work will be shipped rolled in a tube. McGlynn is interested in how a minimally-determined presentation of form can critique the residual meaning of the mediated imagery of popular culture...

Diagram Drawing 5 (Abstract Drawing) Colored pencil on paper - Unframed. This work will be shipped rolled in a tube. McGlynn is interested in how a minimally-determined presentation of form can critique the residual meaning of the mediated imagery of popular culture...