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Art For Sale
Style: Abstract
Color:  Beige
N° 665
Located in Toronto, CA
Robert’s work incorporates small poetic texts, often in a childlike manner. She did not utilize conventual tools, such as a paintbrush, but moved the paint with her hands. Though right-handed, she preferred to use her left hand to tap into a fragile creative energy akin to the mark-making of an untrained child’s first gestures. Her work, therefore, has a sense of discovery that is both assertive and tentative. Her poetic texts are evocative and sometimes nonsensical, functioning more compositionally than literally. Her works on paper are often composed of variegated scribbles, and her paintings are rich painterly statements that move between abstraction and fantastical landscapes. Louise Robert’s first professional exhibition was held in Montreal...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Down To Earth
Located in Singapore, SG
Making mistakes is often a taboo in society. This forms a person's mentality and when problems come they tend to blame circumstances. This artwork invites us to be more open and acce...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Permanent Marker

Paperclip Suite IIc (yellow/blue)
Located in London, GB
Etching, Edition of 25 45 x 45 cms (17.5 x 17.5 ins)
Category

1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Etching

Spill (Laocoön)
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Singapore Noon 1.3
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on Canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Red Barn
Located in New York, NY
2022 Vinyl 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm) Edition of 5 Signed and numbered in pencil, verso
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Vinyl

"Mighty Cupcakes, " Limited Edition Giclee Print, 24" x 24"
Located in Westport, CT
This Limited Edition abstract print, "Mighty Cupcakes," by Sofie Swann measures 24" x 24" and is an edition of 95. Printed on canvas, this giclee ships framed in a white floater fram...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Digital, Giclée

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, 2019 Acrylic and graphite on hardboard 11 x 14 in
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Acrylic, Board, Graphite

Fight over inheritance (i) & (ii), Elisia Nghidishange, relief print on paper
Located in Windhoek, NA
Fight over inheritance (i) & (ii), 2017. Cardboard block print on paper Elisia Nghidishange was born in Eenhana in northern Namibia. This printmaker, sculptor and mixed media artist...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Beings Series, Nicky Marais
Located in Windhoek, NA
Beings Series, 2018. Acrylic ink on paper. Nicky Marais is a Namibian artist, educator and activist who lives and works in Windhoek. Marais is well-known for her abstract artworks c...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Paper, Ink

June First
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Aspen Study I - large scale photograph of Indian summer autumnal color palette
Located in San Francisco, CA
Aspen Study I by Frank Schott a series of images capturing the yellow golden Indian summer foliage palette of aspen trees in California's Sierra Nevada ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée

"Fish"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Ramstonev Co-operative Project (1937 - 1939) In the late 1930s, Charles Ramsey became close friends with Charles Evans and ...
Category

1930s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Fandango, c. 1985
Located in Quogue, NY
Born in Philadelphia, Ben Wilson was a New York abstract expressionist painter. His work was exhibited frequently from the mid-thirties through sixties, and less frequently but consi...
Category

1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Modern Black, Brown and Orange Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Striking mid century modern abstract with black, brown and orange by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Signed "Kimball" lower right. Unframed. Image size: 36"H x 36"W.
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Untitled (Sesc Pompeia)
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas 62 x 62 in Unstretched Luciana Levinton de-contextualizes architectural elements, sketches facades, delineates floor plan...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Oil

Furungle Orange
Located in Atlanta, GA
Archival pigment ink prints with silkscreened high-gloss varnish and diamond dust on Innova 315 gsm paper
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Varnish, Archival Pigment

Grey Folded Clouds - II Blue and white
Located in London, GB
Joe Goode Grey Folded Clouds - II Blue and white (blue paper sky) 1971 Lithograph, Edition of 50 41 x 61 cms (16 x 24 ins)
Category

1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Resolution by Louis Shields, Abstract Mixed Media on Canvas, 2012
Located in Middleburg, VA
Mixed media on canvas. Signed Delu 2012
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Yellow Car with Woman and Puppet
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in Moscow, Idaho,and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. His work has be...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Untitled
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Emerging from a history of innovative West Coast artists, who pioneered the Finish Fetish and Light and Space movements, Casper Brindle has mastered the industrial materials at his d...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Resin, Automotive Paint, Acrylic, Panel

ANGRY BANNER
By Mist
Located in Marrakech, MA
Mixed media on canvas. Work signed on the front & back Black exterior frame included
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Still Point (Perpetual Angelus)
Located in ATLANTA, GA
he abstract paintings and drawings of Michael Barringer are steeped in contemplation. The Georgia artist creates works as part of a series, often inspired by art history, archaeology...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Panel

Ten Back
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. Wi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Bibi Nocturne XII, 2015, Oil and mixed media on canvas
Located in Atlanta, GA
Drawing on his extensive travels, Robert Kelly’s painted collages contain found print and material from around the world. Kelly has included antique botanical drawings...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Yellow Field, April 24, 2014
By Leora Armstrong
Located in New York, NY
Leora Armstrong grew up on the West Coast of Scotland surrounded by the sea, hills and Scottish weather. It was this changing light of the West Coast, upon the landscape, which happe...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

"Yellow"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Rex Ashlock (1918 – 1999) Born in Spokane, Washington in 1918 Rex Ashlock was known for his abstract, figurative expression...
Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Terrace Positano, 2002
Located in Quogue, NY
Watercolor on paper
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Lumina, ca. 1985
Located in Quogue, NY
Oil on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Red Diamond
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Peter Lodato offers new oils on canvas, whose layers of paint and scumbled surfaces resonate like tuning forks to the soul.
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Topologie IV
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 20
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Photogravure, Lithograph

Untitled 518, 1990s
Located in Quogue, NY
Watercolor on paper
Category

1990s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Topologie III
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 20
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Photogravure, Lithograph

Paintings on paper "Nature-Universe-Tool" ( 50 pieces folder)
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
One piece made of a folder with 50 acrylic paintings on paper, with measures 29.5 x 20 cm each paper.
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Yards of Love III C (amarillo, oxido)
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on canvas 78 x 89 in Unstretched Vicky Barranguet found her own voice and colorful expression of life, emotions, and music through her studies with master painters, Larry P...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Somewhere Between Time and Space
Located in Santa Monica, CA
These daily drawings are a meditation on the moment as a process to make space for the current pandemic on a personal and collective experience.
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Klint / reDux / kbrk
Located in Bristol, GB
Klint / reDux / kbrk is a ten colour archival pigment print on 305gsm, 100% cotton, Hahnemühle fine art paper. The work can be supplied unframed, or framed and ready to hang. I tend to use fairly minimal glazed and painted tulipwood frames, and set the work ‘straight in’ under the fillets, without a window mount. If you’d like to discuss other framing choices to suit your space please do get in touch. Individually signed and numbered From an edition of 48 prints, plus 4 APs Image size ⋅ 50.8cm H x 66cm W Sheet size ⋅ 65cm H x 80cm W . Le Klint Studio is an inspiration to anyone who loves paper folding, contemporary design, and light. So, of course, I couldn’t resist making a series of origami like geometries for a new set of works on paper in 2015. Le Klint Studio, to my mind, are particularly well known for their folded paper pendant shades, contemporary designs which are as beautiful as they are ubiquitous. The image I made is not an identikit line work, more an homage based around some of the origami like folds they use, with the addition of colour glazes and offset transparencies. I've also added a grid like structure of darkly shaded lines and accents, that brings the geometry to life. The first piece I drew, ACDH (acid house...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

L7
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Oil

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

"Hole in One"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Cut Paper Collage 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...
Category

20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Untitled (Thomas's Test Orange #2)
Located in New York, NY
Born in 1974 in Westfield, Massachusetts, David Colton began his career as an artist while attending the University of Colorado in Boulder. Heavily influenced by the rise of graffiti in America throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he chose to create his own twist on the movement with sculpture. Using glass as his chosen medium, Colton is widely recognized by his peers for the distinct organic style he has developed since he first started in 1995. Recent accolades include being featured in The New York Times Magazine and the Corning Museum of Glass’s annual peer-reviewed journal New Glass Review in 2017. Notable exhibitions include the Architectural Digest Design Show with Chesterfield Gallery...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Glass

Astillero
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Encaustic and oil on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Encaustic, Oil

Healing Circle
Located in Santa Monica, CA
These daily drawings are a meditation on the moment as a process to make space for the current pandemic on a personal and collective experience.
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Embroidery (1920s textile work) by Herta Ottolenghi Wedekind
Located in Roma, RM
Artist: Herta Ottolenghi Wedekind Title: Embroidery Bibliography: Herta Ottolenghi Wedekind. The dream of the total artwork, exhibition catalogue edited by G. Gomiero, E. Lago, ...
Category

1920s Abstract Art

Materials

Tapestry, Fabric, Textile

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

Contemporary Geometric Abstraction- Mixed Media Painting-480309102
Located in Beijing, CN
Description: Liu Gang(b.1965) 480309102 water-based and oil-based pigments on rice paper 146.5 by 145.2 cm Dated 2019 mounted and framed The artwork comes ...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Rice Paper, Pigment

Abstract Composition Inspired by Bach, Framed Abstract Watercolor Painting, Pink
Located in Denver, CO
Original vintage watercolor painting by twentieth century San Francisco woman artist, Hildegarde Haas (1926-2002). "Bach - English Suite No.2 in A Minor...
Category

20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Watercolor

Abstract Sky - Oil Painting 201s by Giorgio Lo Fermo
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Sky is an original oil on canvas on canvas realized by Giorgio Lo Fermo in the 2000s. Hand-signed by the artist on the back. The artwork represents an abstract landscape:...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Aspen Study II - large scale photograph of Indian summer autumnal color palette
Located in San Francisco, CA
Aspen Study II by Frank Schott a series of images capturing the yellow golden Indian summer foliage palette of aspen trees in California's Sierra Nevada ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Art 1981 Chicago Poster /// Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Modern Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1992) Title: "Art 1981 Chicago" *Issued unsigned, though signed and dated by Motherwell in the plate (printed signature) upper right Year: 1981 Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on Dove paper Limited edition: 2,000. (There was also a signed and numbered edition of 150 on Arches Cover paper without margins or text) Printer: Roger Campbell and Lee Funderburg of Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, NY Publisher: Lakeside Group, Chicago, IL Reference: "The Prints of Robert Motherwell - A Catalogue Raisonné 1943-1984" - Belknap No. 249, page 247; "Robert Motherwell - The Complete Prints 1940-1991" - Engberg No. 282; "Tyler Graphics - Catalogue Raisonné, 1974-1985" - Tyler No. 410:RM29, page 246 Sheet size: 39.5" x 27.5". Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. Some minor edge wear. In excellent condition Notes: Printed in four colors: light tan, orange, deep red, and black. Poster produced for a special exhibition of various artists' work at the Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL from May 14-19, 1981. The image featured on this poster is Motherwell's 1977 collage "Untitled". This poster was the official poster for the 1981 Chicago International Art Exposition. Printer's imprint and artist's copyright lower center. 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

1980s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Removal of Self #60" Photography 16" x 20" inch Edition 1/1 by Ben Cope
Located in Culver City, CA
"Removal of Self #60" Photography 16" x 20" inch Edition 1/1 by Ben Cope 2011 Photo on deconstructed paper 16” x 20” inch Ben Cope is a Georgia native graduating from Columbus Sta...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Pigment

Father & Son - colorful, expressive, abstracted figurative, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This charming, unembellished portrait of a little boy held closely by his father as they wade in the water is by Pat Service. The backdrop for the painting is lime green…a summer col...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Arrived /// Bauhaus Abstract Geometric Josef Albers Screenprint Yellow Minimal
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Josef Albers (German-American, 1888-1976) Title: "Arrived" Portfolio: Soft Edge - Hard Edge *Signed and dated by Albers in pencil lower right Year: 1965 Medium: Original Scre...
Category

1960s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Screen

"Camael" Mosaic by Toyoharu Kii
Located in Chicago, IL
In the series “Heavenly,” Toyoharu Kii honors the fullness of life and its continual rebirth. In some works, white tesserae assume abstract profiles. In others, irregular shapes cont...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Marble

IN TANGIER Limited Edition Serigraph, Art Poster, Abstract Palm Tree Morocco
Located in Union City, NJ
Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017), one of Britain’s greatest contemporary artists became best known for his vibrantly colored paintings that chronicle his personal experiences. IN TANGIER...
Category

1990s Abstract Art

Materials

Screen

Steven Baris, Ruse Of Transparency 13, 2014, plexiglass, acrylic paint
Located in Darien, CT
Steve Baris is interested in the interconnections of the built environment and spatial experience. His artwork is a response to a largely overlooked type of landscape that is emerg...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Plexiglass, Acrylic

Untitled
Located in Summit, NJ
Gorgeous aquatint in reds and oranges by Piero Dorazio (Italian 1927-2005). This aquatint is on heavy "Umbria" Fabriano paper. It is signed and dated 1964 in the lower margin in penc...
Category

1960s Abstract Art

Materials

Aquatint

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