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Period: 1920s
American Cubist Abstract Art Deco Avant-Garde Constructivism 20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
American Cubist Abstract Art Deco Avant-Garde Constructivism 20th Century Modern Florence Henri (American, 1893-1982) Composition 18 1/2 x 12 1/2 in...
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Abstract 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

"Costume teatrale costruttivista" acquerello e china cm. 26 x 38 1920 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Bellissimo studio costruttivista per costume teatrale Kostantin Vialov Pittore, grafico, scenografo, artista di arti decorative e applicate. Uno dei principali artisti sovietici deg...
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Constructivist 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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India Ink, Watercolor

Synchromist Abstraction watercolor by Jay Van Everen
Located in Hudson, NY
Jay Van Everen was a pioneering early American abstractionist known for his affiliation with the Synchromists. His abstract color studies would take him to the forefront of the Ameri...
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Modern 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Construction with Vertical Center, A.4
Located in Lawrence, NY
Watercolor on paper Painted while studying at the Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany Considered to be one of the founding fathers of American abstraction, Werner Drewes was one of the first a...
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Bauhaus 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Untitled
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...
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Abstract Expressionist 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Watercolor and Gouache on Paper, by Charles Burchfield, circa 1925
Located in New York, NY
Charles Burchfield, 1893-1967 Wallpaper Design No.2, 1922-28 Watercolor and gouache on paper
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1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Der Hafen von Plit
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...
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Abstract 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Laid Paper, Pen

Untitled
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: excellent Image size: 11 8 7/8 inches Frame size: 18 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist The Orange Chicken...
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Abstract 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Pastel on paper, 1922 Initialed and dated lower right (see photo) Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014. Provenance: Estate of the Artist The Orange Chicken...
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Abstract 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

"Plastic dynamism" , Black and white Futurism, Speed, Pastel cm. 32 x 24 1929
Located in Torino, IT
Plastic dynamism, Blac,white Futurism, Speed ALFREDO GAURO AMBROSI (Rome 1901 – Verona 1945) Painter of the second Futurism, he is mainly dedicated to aeropainting. His most famous work is the Air-Portrait of Mussolini the aviator...
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Futurist 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel

Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
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...
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Abstract 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel

Study No. 4 for “Painting XII”
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Study No. 4 for “Painting XII”" is a unique work on paper by Blanche Lazzell. The gouache on paper is signed in the lower left, "Blanche Lazzell 1929"...
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Abstract 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

Composition 2 - Original Drawing by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 2 is an original drawing realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956). The artwork is in tempera and in very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 34 x 29 cm No signature. The bri...
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Modern 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Tempera

Colorful Fish - Blue Green Pink White Yellow Black
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Signed lower left. Provenance: The Estate of the Artist A letter of authenticity from the Artist's Estate will accompany this work of art.
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Expressionist 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Archival Paper

Composition No. 12
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Composition No. 12 Gouache on paper, c. 1926 Signed lower right: “Urban Weis” (see photo) Condition: Excellent Image: 16 5/8 x 10 5/8" Frame: 21 1/2 x 15 5/...
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Cubist 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Composition 1920 - Original Painting by Clément Kons - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 1920 is an original painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956). The artwork is on tempera, in very good conditions and mounted on a cardb...
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Modern 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Tempera

Three Fish - colorful Blue Green Lavender Purple White Orange
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Signed lower left. Provenance: The Estate of the Artist A letter of authenticity from the Artist's Estate will accompany this work of art.
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Expressionist 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Archival Paper

Composition 6 - Original Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 6 is an original drawing in tempera realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956). Very good conditions. No signature. The bright colors make up the design for French fabrics ma...
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Modern 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Tempera

Composition 24 - Original Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 24 is an original drawing realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956). The artwork is in tempera, in very good conditions and mounted on a cardboard...
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Modern 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Tempera

Composition 23 - Original Tempera by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 23 is an original drawing in tempera realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956). Very good conditions and mounted on a cardboard (46x49). Image Di...
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Modern 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Tempera

Untitled (Study for a Pochoir) - Abstract Czech Art
Located in London, GB
FRANTISEK KUPKA 1871-1957 Opočno, Czech Republic 1871- 1957 Puteaux, France (Czech/French) Title: Untitled (Study for a Pochoir), 1920s Technique: Hand Signed Watercolour on Arche...
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1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Vogue - Original Ink and Tempera by Fortunato Depero - 1929 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed lower left: “Depero”. Certificate of authenticity by the Archive of Fortunato Depero. In 1929, Fortunato Depero realized some proposals for internal illustrations of t...
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Futurist 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Tempera

Early 20th Century Fauvist Abstracted Landscape
By Charles Henry Harmon
Located in Soquel, CA
A colorful, expressive fauvist watercolor landscape of a pond in the forest (Pan Pacific Exposition Palace Ruins) by Charles Henry Harmon(American, 1895-1936). Presented in a giltwoo...
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Abstract Impressionist 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

September Morning: The First Ferry.
Located in Storrs, CT
September Morning: The First Ferry. 1929. Watercolor. 10 1/8 x 13 (image and sheet). Provenance: The Fine Art Society, London. A misty, impressionist watercolor on French papier ved...
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American Impressionist 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Trento - Bondone Corsa in Salita - Original Drawing by Fortunato Depero - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed lower right: “F. Depero”. Certificate of authenticity by the Archive of Fortunato Depero. There are different versions of drafts that the Italian artist Fortunato Depero realized before the final Collage poster...
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Futurist 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Color Pencil, Paper

Untitled [Biplane] Senza titolo [Biplano], Drawing, Italian Futurism
Located in London, GB
ENZO BENEDETTO 1905-1993 Reggio Calabria 1905-1993 Rome (Italian) Title: Untitled [Biplane] Senza titolo [Biplano], 1925/26 Technique: Signed Waterco...
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1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon, Watercolor, Pencil

Horace Mann Livens Hanover Square London gouache painting 1920 Edwardian
Located in London, GB
To view our other Modern British Art and our views of London scroll down to 'view all from this seller' and search. Horace Mann Livens (1862-1936) Hanover Square London (1920) Gouac...
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Impressionist 1920s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

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