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Art For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Abstract Expressionist
Ponies and Puppies Trotty And Trix Coloring Book, Cover Art
Located in Miami, FL
Children's illustration of Ponies and Puppies Signed lower left Children’s Books Published by The Merrill Company
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Gouache

Schneelanschaft / Snowy landscape
Located in Wien, 9
The artwork is signed and dated on the lower right and provided with sticker verso. The frame is a golden showpiece. Provenance: Private collection Sweden
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Moving Colors I
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Rosa McMurtray is an internationally exhibited artist who was born in Spain and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Her innate artistic talent was reco...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Acrylic, Resin, Wood

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

The Corner
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Perran started a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts (COFA) Sydney in 2006 and held his first exhibition in the same year. Perran has never limited himself to a single ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Glass, Maple

En Partence, 2013
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Fernando Moreno is a Mexican artist who was born in 1983. Fernando Moreno's work has been offered at auction multiple times. Only one artwork sold; this was Untitled, which realized ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Resin

Museum Quality, Nude with Pink Towel
Located in Miami, FL
Walkowitz creates a powerful composition with the tightly cropped nude figure pushed up-close to the viewer and occupying half of the picture plane. Smaller figures lead the eye back...
Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Shaken not Stirred, 1968 - 20th Century, Photography, Roger Moore, James Bond
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times expected between 15-20 days. A gorgeous black and white fibre print, available in other sizes. Taken from the world’s largest photographic archive, (Hulton Archive and Getty Images), the Getty Images Gallery collection features an extraordinary time capsule of the last century – social and political images that both made the news, as well as images from behind the headlines, which show the human race at work and play. This stunning collection of photographs...
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Black and White, Photographic Paper

Simon Le Bon
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Gelatin Silver Print Paper size: 10 x 8 inches Framed size: 26.5 x 22.5 inches Dated 'Apr 29 1982' on the reverse Provenance: Private collection, New York This work originates fr...
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Ganesh Chaturthi Festival, 1994
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Steve McCurry is an American photographer, freelancer, and photojournalist. His photo Afghan Girl, of a girl with piercing green eyes, has appeared on the cover of National Geographi...
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

C Print

Seated Nude
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
An oil on board painting by Belgian Modernist painter Emiel Creado. Framed - 60 x 38 Inches Unframed - 53 x 31 Inches
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Matt Smith, Female Candlestick Sconce, White Earthenware
Located in London, GB
White Earthenware 58 x 30 x 15 cm 22 7/8 x 11 3/4 x 5 7/8 in ----------- "Working as a hybrid artist and curator, the core of my practice is unpicking the work of establishment organ...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Earthenware

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Wood

Ochur Scramble
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Expressionist Painting. Acrylic on Canvas. Collection from revered artist of NYC and The Hamptons. About the Artist: Part of the New York School Abstract Expressionists. Recognized around the world as the leading art movement after WW II. He showed with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. 1921 born in Philadelphia 1934 – 38 Graphic Sketch Club 1938 – 40 Philadelphia Museum School of Art 1940 – 41 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 1942 – 45 WWII War Correspondent-Artist, Yank magazine 1946 – 47 Art Students League, Will Barnett 1947- 48 Hans Hofmann Academy 1960–1979 Instructor at: University of California, Berkeley, CA; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; New York University, New York, NY; Columbia University, New York, NY; Brooklyn College, New York, NY; Temple University, Rome, Italy 2017 deceased Collections: Ciba-Geigy Collection Chase Manhattan Bank Art Institute of Chicago Corcoran Art Museum, Washington Eugene V. Thaw Collection Max Kozloff Collection Montana Historical Society, Montana New York University Norfolk Art Museum Robert Rosenblum Collection Sarah Lawrence Collection Union Carbide Collection University of California Museum University of Massachusetts University of Montana Walter P. Chrysler Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Whitney Museum, New York Yellowstone Art Center, Montana Exhibitions: Individual 2020 Frankfurt TBD 2018 Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt 2008 Suvretta House, St. Moritz, Schweiz Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt 2006 Ludwigmuseum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz Galerie Barbara von Stechow zu Gast in der Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf 2005 Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt New York „Abstract Expressionism” Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Dr. Alexander Georgieff & Dr. Peter Sewing bei Georgieff Capital, Frankfurt 2004 Galerie Barbara von Stechow zu Gast in der Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf CherryStoneGallery, Massachusetts 2003 Galerie Barbara von Stechow zu Gast in der Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt Kunstverein Augsburg 2002 ART Frankfurt, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt 2001 Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt a. M. Art Cologne, Galerie Barbara von Stechow Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York City 2000 Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt a. M. Art Frankfurt, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt a. M. Galerie Schröder & Dörr, Bergisch-Gladbach 1999 Galerie Peter Bäumler, Regensburg 1998 Conrad Hinrich Donner Bank, Hamburg 1996 Galerie Hexagon, Aachen Olaf Clasen Gallery, Köln 1995 Olaf Clasen Gallery, Köln Denise Bibro Gallery, New York City 1994 Olaf Clasen Gallery, Köln 1993 Galerie Peter Bäumler, Regensburg Bologna-Landi Gallery, East Hampton, New York 1992 Olaf Clasen Gallery, Köln Benton Gallery, East Hampton, New York 1991 St. Mary’s College, Maryland M 13 Gallery, New York City 1989 Randall Gallery, St. Louis, Mass. RH Love Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Morris Gallery), Pennsylvania 1988 Cyrus Gallery, New York City Benton Gallery, East Hampton, New York 1987 Armstrong Gallery, New York City 1986 Barbara Ingber Gallery, New York City 1984 Barbara Ingber Gallery, New York City 1982 The New School, New York City 1981 Benson Gallery, New York City 1980 Landmark Gallery, New York City 1978 Temple University Abroad, Rom 1977 Andre Zarre, New York City 1974 Bertha Schaefer, New York City 1973 Bertha Schaefer, New York City 1971 Westbeth Galleries, New York City 1965 University of Arkansas, Little Rock 1964 Princeton University, New Jersey 1963 Thibault Gallery, New York City 1962 Hacker Gallery, New York City 1960 Poindexter Gallery, New York City 1958 Poindexter Gallery, New York City 1957 Poindexter Gallery, New York City 1956 Ganymede Gallery, New York City 1954 Artists’ Gallery, New York City 1953 Hendler Gallery, Philadelphia 1952 New Gallery, New York City 1950 Artists’ Gallery, New York City Group Exhibitions: 2018 Titans In the Rough Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY 2011 Joe Stefanelli...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Chestnuts, Ferns, Mossy Rocks, 2013
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Reid Masselink (born 1974) is an American born artist, currently living in Bourron-Marlotte, France. He is primarily a landscape painter, working in oils on canvas, out-of-doors, en plein air. His paintings are notable for their attention to detail and their insistence on the exuberance and diversity of nature. He paints and exhibits in Europe and the US, and gives lectures on various art related topics. Masselink earned his BA in Art from the Colorado College in 1997. He then worked as an art dealer and art historian specializing in old master drawings and paintings in New York and Paris from 1997-2004. During these years he authored an important catalog of old master Dutch drawings...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Playa del Carmen, 2010
Located in ATLANTA, GA
I am a choreographer and photographer, born in Germany. I received my art education at the Palucca University of Dance in Dresden. In 2001 I moved to the USA were I transformed my ey...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

Ozzy Osbourne and Andy Warhol
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Unique Gelatin Silver Print Paper size: 8 x 10 inches Framed size: 23.75 x 25.25 inches Provenance: Private collection, New York This work originates from the Estate of Andy Warho...
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

'PS06' Abstract Expressionist, Scandi artwork, grey silky fabric base palo santo
Located in Lahti, FI
'PS06' is a reminder that today happens only today, everything in life and beyond happens right in this moment. The Universe is full of endless possibilities for us. Get ready to rec...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Fabric, Spray Paint

Il Castello dei Destini Incrociati, 2012
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Donatella Violi was born in Ovada (AL), moved to Milan and subsequently to Reggio Emilia. As she was taking lessons at the Institute of Science, she wa...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

"Red Tulips, Paris"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Bror Julius Olsson “B.J.O.” Nordfeldt (1878 – 1955) Bror Julius Olsson was born in Tullstrop, Sweden in 1878. He immigrated to the United States in 1891, later adopting his mother’s maiden name of Nordfeldt. Beginning his art studies at the Art Institute of Chicago where he was chosen to assist fellow artist, Albert Herter, with a large mural project for the McCormick Harvester Company. In 1900, he was sent to Paris by McCormick to help set up the completed mural at the Paris Exposition. While there, he studied briefly at the Academie Julian before traveling to England to study woodblock printmaking under F. Morley Fletcher. Returning to Chicago in 1903, Nordfeldt would spend the next ten years painting mainly figurative works in an academic style similar to that of the Old Masters. By the mid-teens he had developed a bold dramatic modernist style and divided his time between New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. There, he invented the “Provincetown Print...
Category

1930s American Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Holidays
Located in ARANJUEZ, ES
« I believe painting is all about gesture and flow. Painting is nowness. » I wanted to represent the magnificent of the oak trees ,how they grow as island in the landscape and creat...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil Crayon, Ink, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Thousand and One Nights" Painting with Plastic Technique, Erika Baktay
Located in Rome, IT
"Thousand and One Nights" painting with individual plastic Technique, Erika Baktay. This painting can be placed both horizontally and vertically. Dimensions: cm 70 x 50 with frame cm...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Acrylic

Elegy Black and Blues
Located in Boca Raton, FL
JM Rizzi (aka JMR) is a New York artist. His work has roots in Abstract Expressionism yet favors a Neo Contemporary flair. JMR has catapulted his vision by painting bold curves and l...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Dimension en el Espacio
Located in ATLANTA, GA
The painter and sculptor Martín Carral studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. Carral has been painting gravitational waves for many years, an ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Coquelicots
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Lithograph after a gouache decoupee from Verve 35/36
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

‘Tacheles Print #2’, 2021 Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin
Located in London, GB
Silver Gelatin applied with Japanese brushes on Britannia Aquarell Hahnemüle rough 300gsm 185 x 125 cm Unframed
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Film

Life in Yellow # 108515
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Carlos J. Tirado (born on April 3, 1964 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an artist, painter and sculptor who has developed a very personal and precise line of work linked to Neo-Pop art. With plenty of personal art exhibitions, Tirado has participated in numerous collective exhibitions, receiving different awards such as “III Premio de Escultura” del Certamen Aires de Córdoba in 2004 and other recognitions, among them, at the Venezuelan Embassy in DC (2005), and the X Latin Art Festival of Atlanta (2005). Childhood Tirado grew up in an upper-middle-class family environment. His inclination for the arts started from an early age. At 8 years old, he was already experimenting with tridimensional forms, creating molds out of cast lead from pieces previously gathered on the streets. These first artistic experiences led by his inquisitive nature, provided the ground to continue exploring the possibilities with different materials like wood, waste and plaster. His childhood games were centered around painting and sculpting, which played an important role that ranged from recreational to aesthetics. When Tirado turned 12 years of age, his parents agreed for him to attend private art classes with professor Javier Hernandez in Caracas. Later on, he realized that Art was a profession that required investment in materials, reason that led him to work at a furniture store painting landscapes and figurative art to decorate the exhibit room. He created numerous paintings of Caracas’ famous mountain: El Avila, and other art pieces that not only served as a source of income, but more importantly, led him to deepen his figurative expression. In 1985, he started drawing comic sets for a renowned newspaper El Diario de Caracas, alongside Jorge Blanco...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Acrylic

Purple In Bloom
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Acrylic on canvas with whispers of glitter coated with heavy resin.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Resin, Glitter, Ink, Acrylic

Greenwich Arts Council Poster /// Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell NY
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1992) Title: "Greenwich Arts Council" *Issued unsigned, though signed by Motherwell in the plate (printed signature) center right Year: 1976 Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on Strathmore paper Limited edition: 700. (There was also a signed and numbered edition of 42) Printer: Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Mount Kisco, NY Publisher: Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT Reference: "The Prints of Robert Motherwell - A Catalogue Raisonné 1943-1984" - Belknap Appendix: No. 28, page 282; "Robert Motherwell - The Complete Prints 1940-1991" - Engberg No. 202 Sheet size: 37.25" x 23" Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. Some minor edge wear. In excellent condition Rare Notes: Printed in three colors: black, green, and cream. Poster produced for a special exhibition "Sculpture 76" at The Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT from June - October, 1976. The image featured on this poster is Motherwell's 1972 acrylic painting on paper "Greenwich Sculpture". Artist's copyright lower left and printer's imprint lower right. GIA Gallery Poster Disclaimer: Not to be confused with thousands of contemporary inkjet/giclée/digital reproductions ignorantly or deliberately passed off as originals on the market today. The examples we offer here are the original period vintage (exhibition) posters, created and designed by, or under the supervision and authorization of the artist or their respective estate (posthumously), for various exhibitions and events in which they participated. If applicable, this poster is also fully documented within its respective artists' official catalogue raisonné of authentic graphic works, prints, and or posters. Biography: Robert Motherwell was born January 24, 1915, in Aberdeen, Washington. He was awarded a fellowship to the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles at age 11, and in 1932 studied painting briefly at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Motherwell received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1937 and enrolled for graduate work later that year in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He traveled to Europe in 1938 for a year of study abroad. His first solo show was presented at the Raymond Duncan...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Wandering Musicians from Chagall Lithographs I
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Lithograph
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Valle
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Few artists in Venezuela have the fortune of the affection and the overwhelming admiration of the city that saw them born, like the one expressed by Barquisimeto and the Barquisimeta...
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Hormiga con Manzana
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gerardo Fernandez South American Artist set of 10 bronze stick bugs with iron antennas. Some bugs have circles on their feet in order to make an art ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Bronze

Out the Gate
Located in Fresno, CA
It’s 1963. I’ve quit my teaching job ($4,000 a year) at Fresno High to try working full time as a commercial artist. Got a new home (Trend Homes by Spano, $12,000). Decide my birthday party needs a bottle of red wine (about a half gallon of Gallo Chianti, the kind in a husk basket because I think it will look good with my books on their plank and cinderblock book case. I drive a couple blocks to Jackson Jones Liquor on the corner of Shields and West, park an old gray Chevy sedan I’ve named Moby, walk in, head straight for the wine display...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

"Lilian"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

Untitled Senza Titolo
Located in London, GB
MARINO MARINI 1901-1980 Pistoia, Italy 1901-1980 Viareggio, Italy (Italian) Title: Untitled Senza Titolo, 1963 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in Co...
Category

Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Peace Bird V
Located in ARANJUEZ, ES
Peace Birds is a series of 5 pieces depicting abstract birds. Rich mix media on paper with vibrant colors and strong pigments , mixing Occidental and orient...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Pastel, Ink, Watercolor

Atlanta
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Few artists in Venezuela have the fortune of the affection and the overwhelming admiration of the city that saw them born, like the one expressed by Barquisimeto and the Barquisimeta...
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

FRACTAL #008
Located in Marrakech, MA
Adhesives on galvanized sheet 3 layers satin varnish Thickness 4cm Signed on the back
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Metal

The Artichoke
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jerome Grilhot was born and raised in Beziers, France. After a successful career as a chef for over 25 years, Grilhot has been focusing his creative talents on photography for the p...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Photographic Paper

untitle
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Donatella Violi was born in Ovada (AL), moved to Milan and subsequently to Reggio Emilia. As she was taking lessons at the Institute of Science, she wa...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Manhattanhenge 2021 with Mystical Object - Street Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Late afternoon light from Manhattanhenge skims across the asphalt of East 72nd Street. The circular shape of a manhole cover in the foreground echos the ...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink

Mademoiselle Carmela
Located in Lagos, NG
mademoiselle Carmela She is a money goddess a special woman a woman of substance a woman in wealth a good woman and an African woman with a rich cultural heritage she is surround...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Watercolor

"Through the Doors"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Josef Zenk (1904-2000) Josef Zenk was born in New York City in 1904. After graduating from high school, he studied for thr...
Category

20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper

"RED PLANET"
Located in SAINT-ALPINIEN, FR
Acrylic on stretched canvas 80X60 cm Abstract expressionism. Pollock Style. Action painting. Drip painting. Artiste internationale, reconnue dans le mouvement de l'expressionisme ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Tea Party #3
Located in New York, NY
Abstract stainless steel pipe sculpture with beautifully detailed surface. Can be inside or outside. About the Artist: Famous abstract expressionist. Soffer was born in Bagh...
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Stainless Steel

Oak tree
Located in ARANJUEZ, ES
« I believe painting is all about gesture and flow. Painting is nowness. » I wanted to represent the magnificent of the oak trees ,how they grow as island in...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil Crayon, Ink, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

"Staccato I"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville is proud to present this artwork by Solomon Ethe (1924 – 2019) Solomon Ethe was born on June 22, 1924. A native New Yorker, he rece...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Shigoto
Located in Fresno, CA
Shortly before Walt Esslinger died a few years ago, we talked in his small yellow painted studio in Bakersfield. Sixteen years my senior, he’d been my close friend, mentor and running mate since 1960. “You still writing?” he asked. “Yes,” I answered, taking in the space’s renovations he’d recently sub-contracted. Ninety one years old, and he was thinking ahead. “Do me a favor,” he said. “Write the Andy Warhol story.” Walt was a Central Valley guy, an L.A. guy, a Las Vegas guy. A man who knew his way around. “I want you to put on record what happened back then when I bought the soup can painting.” Back then was the fall of 1962. The two of us had been exhibiting our paintings in the L.A. Art Institute’s gallery for locals only. Walt had given legendary Ad Rhinehardt a story about how he and I had been working in both Edward Kienholz’s and John Altoon’s studios (false—we’d only been visiting). One morning, the Institute’s Director, who hadn’t suspected us to be charlatans yet, introduced us to a reed thin, tow headed young man leaning against the main gallery’s wall. “Meet Andy Warhola,” he said. “Andy is from New York.” “Warhol,” the boy/man said. “Painter?” Walt asked him. “Shoe Illustrator.” The director made a snorting noise I took to mean that Warhola or Warhol’s modesty was posed. He mentioned something about Andy having a show on the La Cienega strip of galleries. We exchanged mumbles about how the art world was in flux, nothing more than that, and Walt and I moved on. If this strange cat had anything to look at, we’d see it. It was a Monday, and La Cienega’s twenty some galleries would be opening new shows and serving champagne that evening. North La Cienega Avenue, laid over a network of oil veins decades before, had become the street for the Cool School, a group of artists and gallery people trying to bring Los Angeles’s art scene to life. The galleries were small but proud. Sure, Jazz was born on the Delta and raised in New Orleans, St, Luis and Chicago, but L.A. had fifty-three jazz joints according to Chet Baker, who’d blown with the best. Why then should the West Coast be lagging behind New York in the other truly American expression, abstract art? At the Ferus Gallery that night we found Warhol’s exhibit. “Shit,” I said. Walt grinned. “You no like?” “Not exactly my can of soup,” I said, peeking into the small space, loaded now wall to wall with paintings of Campbell’s Tomato Soup. Walt stepped into the space. “How about the idea of it?” I made my way through spectators looking at once to be confused, amused, enthused and abused. When I came back to Walt he was still smiling. “Why didn’t he silk screen ‘em?” I asked. “That’s probably his next move,” Walt said. “You wanna stay?” Walt’s keen eyes cased the joint. “I see Irving Bloom over there,” he said. “Believe I’ll stick around and talk with him.” Bloom had been operating this popular gallery for some time now. “One hundred a month,” he’d told me. “It’s not like I’m getting rich.” I stood around for a bit, heard a fellow abstract expressionist I’d met tell a young lady who looked to be lost, “Okay that’s the soup. Come with me, baby, and I’ll show you the juice.” Two doors down I stopped at the Primus-Stuart Gallery. A group of people had gathered around a display of soup cans, stacked grocer’s pyramid style in the window. All Campbell’s. All Tomato. A sign leaning against the grouping stated: “Get the real thing. Thirty cents each.” That’s the way it was. Twenty-four galleries forming a gauntlet between La Cienega’s 300 block, all the way up to Barney’s Beanery at the corner of Santa Monica. Hollywood types dressed to the nines, Beats dressed for the times just gone. Champagne popping...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Oil

All The Old Familiar Places
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

The scribe 2
Located in Lagos, NG
This abstract painting is illustrating the ancient writer symbols and drawing attention to the accient writer acrylic on canvas on 100x80 cm canvas
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Pen

Graysland
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
Category

20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Macaroni, from Bauhaus I Portfolio
By Irene Bayer
Located in Dallas, TX
Bauhaus I Portfolio Ed. 33/70 Signed and dated in black ink on print margin.
Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Palazzo Ducale di Massa
Located in New York, NY
Palazzo Ducale di Massa The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how his architectural subject matter allows him to control the compo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

C Print

Untitled (Fresh Air School) /// Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Walasse Ting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Walasse Ting (Chinese-American, 1929-2010) Title: "Untitled (Fresh Air School)" Portfolio: Fresh Air School *Unsigned edition Year: 1972 Mediu...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

'The Carlton Hotel' 1955 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in London, GB
'The Carlton Hotel' 1955 (Slim Aarons Estate Edition) A Cadillac with Florida plates parked outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, circa 1955. Another gorgeous and typically 'S...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

'Antigua Beach Club' (Estate Stamped Edition)
Located in London, GB
'Antigua Beach Club' by Slim Aarons The beach club at at the Mill Reef Club on Antigua in the West Indies, 1960. This photograph epitomises the travel st...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

C Print

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Visual art is among the oldest forms of expression, and it has been evolving for centuries. Beautiful objects can provide a window to the past or insight into our current time. Art collecting enhances daily life through the presence of meaningful work. It displays an appreciation for culture, whether a print by Elizabeth Catlett channeling social change or a narrative quilt by Faith Ringgold.

Contemporary art has lured more initiates to collecting than almost any other category, with notable artists including Yayoi Kusama, Marc Chagall, Kehinde Wiley and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Navigating the waiting lists for the next Marlene Dumas, Jeff Koons or Jasper Johns has become competitive.

When you’re living with art, particularly as people more often work from home and enjoy their spaces, it’s important to choose art that resonates with you. While the richness of art with its many movements, styles and histories can be overwhelming, the key is to identify what is appealing and inspiring. Artwork can play with the surrounding color of a room, creating a layered approach. The dynamic shapes and sizes of sculptures can set different moods, such as a bronze by Miguel Guía on a mantel or an Alexander Calder mobile suspended over a table. A wall of art can evoke emotions in an interior while showing off your tastes and interests. A salon-style wall mixing eclectic pieces like landscape paintings with charcoal drawings is a unique way to transform a space and show off a collection.

For art meditating on the subconscious, investigate Surrealists like Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí. Explore Pop art and its leading artists such as Andy Warhol, Rosalyn Drexler and Keith Haring for bright and bold colors. Not only did these artists question art itself, but also how we perceive society. Similarly, 20th-century photography and abstract painting reconsidered the intent of art.

Abstract Expressionists like Helen Frankenthaler and Lee Krasner and Color Field artists including Sam Gilliam broke from conventional ideas of painting, while Op artists such as Yaacov Agam embraced visual trickery and kinetic movement. Novel visuals are also integral to contemporary work influenced by street art, such as sculptures and prints by KAWS.

Realist portraiture is a global tradition reflecting on what makes us human. This is reflected in the work of Slim Aarons, an American photographer whose images are at once candid and polished and appeared in Holiday magazine and elsewhere. Innovative artists Mickalene Thomas and Kerry James Marshall are now offering new perspectives on the form.

Collecting art is a rewarding, lifelong pursuit that can help connect you with the creative ways historic, modern and contemporary artists have engaged with the world. For more tips on piecing together an art collection, see our guide to buying and displaying art.

A variety of authentic art is available on 1stDibs. Explore art at auction and the 1stDibs NFT art marketplace, too. 

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