Ray SmithBlue Mirror, 2018
$15,000
Blue Mirror
By Ray Smith
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Painted mirror
2010s Abstract More Art
Mirror
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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$15,000
Blue Mirror
By Ray Smith
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Painted mirror
Mirror
$15,000
Yellow Mirror
By Ray Smith
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Painted mirror in yellow
Mirror
Remedy (June School)
By Wendy Small
Located in New York, NY
40"x32" photogram Wendy Small’s “Remedy” photograms are made by collecting leaves, weeds, or flowers from a specific place (indicated in the title) and placing those leaves directly ...
Photogram
Impronta # 8 De la serie La Conchita
By Perla Krauze
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Utiliza piedras rayadas o bancos de corte sobre las que coloca las telas y hace frottage con grafito para luego intervenirlas con óleo. Su obra habla acerca del paisaje y de la natur...
Canvas, Graphite, Oil
Red Room
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Etching with lead and lined collage on cotton paper
Engraving
$12,000
"A History of the World in Six Easy Installments", Large Scale Abstract Painting
By Mark Masyga
Located in New York, NY
This large scale oil painting by Mark Masyga employs a linear abstract composition. Masyga's masterful knowledge and background in color field painting shows a heightened sense and ...
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
"Azure Fade" Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in New York, NY
72"x48" acrylic and oil on canvas, signed on reverse by the artist. This is a contemporary abstract painting by the New York/ Hawaiian artist, Debra Drexler. A cool blue pool of col...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Abstract studio glass sculpture by a pioneering glass artist
Located in Colfax, CA
An early studio glass creation by Dr. Robert Fritz. Dr. Robert Fritz attended San Jose State College in the early 1950s, where he earned a Bachelors, and Master's of Arts. He went ...
Blown Glass
$3,337
Death in Venice Bridge of Sighs Black and White Limited Edition Screenprint
Located in ludlow, GB
Death in Venice, Bridge of Sighs a Black and White Limited Edition Screenprint from an edition of 70. It is called "Death in Venice" a Screenprint by one of Wales's most famous sons ...
Screen
Will Faber by Lourdes Cirlot
Located in Barcelona, CT
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Paper
Oblique Construct, Red and Silver.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Red, Gray, Silver &White. Composition of Oblique Construct, is an abstract painting from a series of work by Los Angeles based artist KOOK, exploring the energy and vibrancy of arc...
Oil
Painted Book
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Alexander Liberman (1912-1999) was an important sculptor and figure in the American world of magazines and publishing. Liberman escaped from Nazi-occupied France and immigrated to ...
Linen, Mixed Media
Horse at the stage. Color blue composition.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Oil on canvas. Artist's certificate is included.
Oil
Landscape Pink & Red, Abstract Pastel Drawing, 20th Century, Unframed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Landscape Pink & Red" is an original framed pastel drawing by Sue Bartfield. 36" x 25" art 47 1/2" x 36" framed Artist's Statement: "You might be surprised to know that I do not ...
Pastel
$24,000
"Struct II", Abstract Aluminum Metal Wall Relief Sculpture by Kevin Barrett
Located in New York, NY
"Struct II" by Kevin Barrett Abstract wall relief sculpture in painted aluminum Barrett is noted for creating contemporary metal sculpture and sculpture wall pieces for indoor and o...
Metal
"Reflective Composition (Blue Stamp), " Mixed Media Collage
Located in Chicago, IL
Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his travels. His ongoing series of large-scale kites bridge the gap between flat art and sculpture, each crafted of split bamboo frames covered with stretched muslin and a collage of vintage ephemera – including kimonos, obis, paintings, scrolls, drawings, metal leaf, bleeding paper, book pages, or anything with a story to tell. A combination of print and collage, this work entitled “Reflective Composition (Blue Stamp...
Paper, Ink
"Diary (2301), " Mixed Media Mosaic, 2023
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technica...
Marble
"Landscape Divided, " Mixed Media Mosaic
Located in Chicago, IL
Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technical art of mosaic making. Clas...
Marble
Robin Baring A Song 1968
Located in London, GB
Robin Baring (British, b. 1931) A Song, 1968 Oil on board Signed and dated lower left With a Crane Kalman Gallery sticker verso Exhibited: Crane Kalman Gallery, 1971 Dimensions: (F...
Oil, Board
Traveler's Thanks
Located in Milford, NH
A fine abstract expressionist collage by American artist Varujan Boghosian (1926-2020). Boghosian was born in New Britain, CT and after serving in the United States Navy, he attended...
Paper, Black and White, Color, Found Objects
Windmills Collage
Located in Milford, NH
A fine abstract expressionist paper collage with windmills by American artist Varujan Boghosian (1926-2020). Boghosian was born in New Britain, CT and after serving in the United States Navy, he attended Central Connecticut Teachers College and the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. In 1953, he had a Fulbright grant to paint in Italy, and from 1956 to 1959, he worked with Josef Albers, geometric abstractionist, at Yale University where he earned both his BFA and MFA. Boghosian became a professor of sculpture at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and became primarily known for his assemblages in which he uses a variety of incongruous objects such as parts of weathered barn doors, antique dolls' heads, old leather, marbles, and ping-pong balls. This collage consists of antique sepia...
Paper, Panel, Laid Paper, Lithograph
"Furbelow II" Mixed Media Kite
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites crafted from split bamboo frames covered with stretched muslin and a collage of vintage Asian ephemera—including fragments of fabric, scrolls, drawings, and books collected during his travels. In “Furbelow II,” Thompson arranges scraps of Japanese silk to form a patchwork of contrasting pattern and color. Placed with balanced asymmetry, the panels of deep indigo and sheer silk create a dark, moody atmosphere reminiscent of a night sky. Gradients of light to dark evoke soft, moonlit clouds and delicate pine branches appear as forked bolts of...
Muslin, Wood, Silk
"Landscape Blue, Violet, White, " a Pastel by Sue Bartfield
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Landscape Blue, Violet, White" is an original pastel drawing by Sue Bartfield. 41" x 28" art 41 1/4" x 35 7/8" framed Artist's Statement: "You might be surprised to know that I d...
Pastel
Man with a Covered Wagon
Located in Milford, NH
A fine abstract expressionist collage by American artist Varujan Boghosian (1926-2020). Boghosian was born in New Britain, CT and after serving in the United States Navy, he attended Central Connecticut Teachers College and the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. In 1953, he had a Fulbright grant to paint in Italy, and from 1956 to 1959, he worked with Josef Albers, geometric abstractionist, at Yale University where he earned both his BFA and MFA. Boghosian became a professor of sculpture at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and became primarily known for his assemblages in which he uses a variety of incongruous objects such as parts of weathered barn doors, antique dolls' heads, old leather, marbles, and ping-pong balls. This abstract expressionist collage includes a black and white cut paper head of a man on a heavy coat with an orange hue covered wagon...
Paper, Black and White, Color
Circus Clown and Guitarist
Located in Milford, NH
A fine graphite drawing of a circus clown with guitarist by British / Canadian artist Jack Leonard Shadbolt (1909-1998). Shadbolt was born in Sho...
Paper, Graphite
Rose & Book Fragment
Located in Milford, NH
A fine abstract expressionist collage by American artist Varujan Boghosian (1926-2020). Boghosian was born in New Britain, CT and after serving in the United States Navy, he attended...
Paper, Color, Found Objects
$4,227Sale Price|20% Off
Supernova 2 - Sunflower Print on Museum Glass, hand gilded with Citron Gold leaf
Located in London, GB
Supernova 2, 2017 "The sunflowers displayed here have been chosen, not only because of their golden individuality, but also because, like gold, they seem to have an everlasting quality. They don't readily wither and die but remain timelessly viable; their dazzling petals slowly becoming bronzed and desiccated, their statuesque form, elegantly contorted." Valda Bailey...
Gold Leaf
Shivering Crabapple
Located in Westport, CT
Jeri Eisenberg creates nature inspired works in single panels, diptychs and triptychs. Her soft colored photographic pieces are created using non-traditional and alternative photo-ba...
Photographic Film, Encaustic, Handmade Paper
56x56” Arcana Reprise
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful oil painting by Alexis Portilla, using a palette of unique sage grays, icy blue grays, exuding a quiet, poetic beauty. Color, lines and shapes that resemble picto...
Oil
$2,000
'Okina 3
By Brad Brown
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype. The ‘okina is the Hawaiian representation of the glottal stop. It is a separation of doubles. The monotypes in the ‘Okina series are doubles; the prints are divided...
Monotype
Lulo 1 - Wood sculpture by Zlata Kornilova, Yakisugi technique
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture Lulo 1 Limited edition of 12 Dimensions : H. 80 cm x D. 27 cm Mediums: Ash, oil, brass Japanese technique Yakisugi LULO - Collection Climbing. Both word and action are ...
Steel
Mystic Rituals 4
By Brad Ellis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by artist Brad Ellis exists in an edition of 30. Paper size is 46"h x 35"w with an image size of 40"h x 29"w. Brad Ellis is a Da...
Cotton, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digital...
Mystic Rituals 2
By Brad Ellis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by artist Brad Ellis exists in an edition of 30. Paper size is 46"h x 35"w with an image size of 40"h x 29"w. Brad Ellis is a Da...
Cotton, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digital...
Paradigm Yellow
By Brad Ellis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by artist Brad Ellis exists in an edition of 30. Paper size is 30"h x 24"w with an image size of 24"h x 19"w. Brad Ellis is a Da...
Cotton, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digital...
Goddess 2
By Gary Mankus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by artist Gary Mankus exists in an edition of 40. Paper size is 37"h x 35"w with an image size of 29"h x 29"w. Gary Mankus was b...
Cotton, Digital, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Goddess 5
By Gary Mankus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by artist Gary Mankus exists in an edition of 40. Paper size is 37"h x 35"w with an image size of 29"h x 29"w. Gary Mankus was b...
Cotton, Digital, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Charlie's Walls
By Gary Mankus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by artist Gary Mankus exists in an edition of 40. Paper size is 37"h x 35"w with an image size of 27"h x 27"w. Gary Mankus was b...
Cotton, Digital, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
36 Windows
By Gary Mankus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by artist Gary Mankus exists in an edition of 40. Paper size is 37"h x 35"w with an image size of 27"h x 27"w. Gary Mankus was b...
Cotton, Digital, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
36 Hibiscuses
By Gary Mankus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by artist Gary Mankus exists in an edition of 40. Paper size is 37"h x 35"w with an image size of 27"h x 27"w. Gary Mankus was b...
Cotton, Digital, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Violeta P-3
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by world renown artist Ricardo Mazal exists in an edition of 30. The paper size is 35 inches h x 37 inches w and an image size of...
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Violeta P-1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by world renown artist Ricardo Mazal exists in an edition of 30. The paper size is 35 inches h x 37 inches w and an image size of...
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Bhutan Abstraction with Black - 1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by world renown artist Ricardo Mazal exists in an edition of 30. Paper size is 35 inches h x 30 inches w with an image size of 26 inches h x 27 inches w. Born in Mexico City in 1950, Ricardo Mazal moved to Barcelona Spain in 1986, and since 1990 has lived and worked in New York City, as well as Santa Fe New Mexico. Mazal’s work explores the process of visual perception as it takes form in the human consciousness. His paintings depict the passage of time, not by illustrating events but by leaving their residue to dissipate in space like a still photograph of a speeding object blurred to abstraction. In the last decade he has been honored with ten individual museum exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (MARCO) in Monterrey. He has also shown at the Museo Nacional de Anthropologia, Mexico City and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. KORA follows the direction begun by La Tumba de La Reina Roja (The tomb of the Red Queen...
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Praga P-4
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by world renown artist Ricardo Mazal exists in an edition of 30. The paper size is 35 inches h x 39 inches w and an image size of...
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$20,790
Becoming-Sculpture, Abstract, Marble, Italian Carrara, contemporary, statement
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Becoming is a contemporary abstract sculpture, hand-carved from Italian Carrara marble. British sculptor Ian Thomson possesses the skill and expertise requ...
Marble
$13,906Sale Price|20% Off
On Stellar Rays -Monroe Hodder, American, Abstract, Juxtapositions, Bold, Modern
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
On Stellar Rays, original acrylic on canvas painting by American artist Monroe Hodder. Hodder’s abstract paintings are gloriously bold. Inspired by the u...
Acrylic
Close to Heart 1 - Wood sculpture by Zlata Kornilova
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture Close to Heart Limited edition of 12 Mediums: old pine, steel, acrylic hand painted, oil CLOSE TO HEART - Collection Working on the series I...
Steel
Glass Sculpture Escape
By L.G.
Located in Paris, FR
Gorgeous One of a kind Blown and fused Glasswhite silver transparent and matte white and noir. Includes its black metal base ( about 32 cm X 10 cm X 18 cm ). Total weight about 2...
Blown Glass
Glass Sculpture Drops sprinkling my discontinuous trip
By L.G.
Located in Paris, FR
Gorgeous One of a kind Blown and fused Glasswhite silver transparent and matte white and noir. Includes its black metal base ( about 32 cm X 10 cm X 18 cm ). Total weight about 2...
Blown Glass
Glass Sculpture Rainning inside
By L.G.
Located in Paris, FR
Gorgeous One of a kind Blown and fused Glass Sculpture in molted opaque black , brown/black and sandblasted. Includes its black metal base ( about 32 cm X 10 cm X 18 cm ). Total we...
Blown Glass
Glass Sculpture Constantly and successively
By L.G.
Located in Paris, FR
Gorgeous One of a kind Blown and fused Glass in opaque black, blueish black, transparent white and sandblasted. Includes its black metal base ( about 32 cm X 10 cm X 18 cm ). Tota...
Blown Glass
Glass sculpture Assiduosly without words
By L.G.
Located in Paris, FR
Gorgeous One of a kind Blown and fused Glass Sculpture in brown/black, bluish black, opaque white and White sandblasted. Includes its black metal base ( about 32 cm X 10 cm X 18 c...
Blown Glass
Glass Sculpture Fragmentation
By L.G.
Located in Paris, FR
Gorgeous One of a kind Blown and fused Glass Sculpture in opaque black , opaque white,black, grey and silver white. Includes its black metal base ( about 32 cm X 10 cm X 18 cm ). T...
Blown Glass
Glass Sculpture Forgotten
By L.G.
Located in Paris, FR
Gorgeous One of a kind Blown and fused Glass Sculpture in molted opaque black , black, brown, grey and sandbusted. Includes its black metal base ( about 32 cm X 10 cm X 18 cm ). To...
Blown Glass
Glass Sculpture Division
By L.G.
Located in Paris, FR
Gorgeous One of a kind Blown and fused Glass Sculpture in metal opaque black, black, grey and sandblasted. Includes its black metal base ( about 32 cm X 10 cm X 18 cm ). Total weig...
Blown Glass
Glass Sculpture Fear catalogues
By L.G.
Located in Paris, FR
Gorgeous One of a kind Blown and fused Glass in mottled opaque black, black, grey, transparent white silver and sandblasted transparent. Includes its black metal base (about32 cm X ...
Blown Glass
Glass Sculpture Thin
By L.G.
Located in Paris, FR
Gorgeous One of a kind Blown and fused Glass Sculpture in moltted opaque black, transparent white crystal, grey, silver transparent sandblasted. Includes its black metal base ( abou...
Blown Glass
Glass Sculpture Shell
By L.G.
Located in Paris, FR
Gorgeous One of a kind Blown and fused Glass sculpture in opaque white, black, grey, and white silver transparent . Includes its black metal base (about 32cm X 10 cm X 18cm ). Total ...
Blown Glass
Glass sculpture When the Queen leaves
By L.G.
Located in Paris, FR
Gorgeous,One of a kind Blown and fused Glass in opaque black with metal effects, black, grey and transparent sandblasted. Includes its black metal base ( about 32 cm X 10 cm X 18 ...
Blown Glass
Glass Sculpture Discreet presence
By L.G.
Located in Paris, FR
Gorgeous art piece, One of a kind Blown and fused Glass in opaque black, opaque white, grey, dark forest green and sandblasted transparent. Includes its black metal base ( about 32 ...
Blown Glass
Ganges : abstract work of art on paper
Located in New York, NY
An artwork on paper by New York artist Miranda Maher. Ink, Indian marble paper and Chiyogami papers on Chinese “Cicada Wing” calligraphy paper. Miranda ...
Paper, Ink