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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Artist: Enzio Wenk
Artist: Paul Reed
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Acrylic Paint on Masonite, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on masonite.
The frame was painted by the artist.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
"Love" by Enzio Wenk, 1994 - Abstract Portrait on Cardboard, Framed
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on cardboard with a sculptural frame made in hand-shaped and painted clay.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Clay, Acrylic, Cardboard
Personaggio con figure e ventaglio
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Figure with shapes and fan"
Mixed media on canvas.
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Acrylic Paint on Masonite, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on masonite.
The frame was painted by the artist.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
"Una storia" by Enzio Wenk, 2018 - Mixed Media on Canvas, Expressionism - Italy
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "A story"
Mixed media on canvas.
This painting represents the complexity and the unpredictability of stories.
The artist sells the handmade, original and one-of...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Acrylic Paint on Masonite, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on masonite.
The frame was painted by the artist.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Acrylic Paint on Masonite, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on masonite.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Acrylic Paint on Masonite, Abstract Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on masonite.
The frame was painted by the artist.
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
"Composizione con personaggio" by Enzio Wenk, 2008 - Acrylic , Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
"Translated title": "Composition with character".
Acrylic on board.
Category
Early 2000s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Untitled
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"E se non avessimo più cose da dire?" by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Words on Orange
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "What if we have nothing more to say?"
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Acrylic Paint on Masonite, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on masonite.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Nondetto
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Untold"
Digital print on canvas with painted parts.
It is one-of-a-kind.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Digital
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2018 - Neo-Expressionist Figurative with Irregular Frame
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on canvas with a wooden frame.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic
"Ora ti vedo" by Enzio Wenk, 2011- Abstract, Acrylic on canvas, Neoexpressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translate title: "Now I see you".
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Le parole dentro
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Words inside".
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Acrylic Paint on Masonite, Abstract Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on masonite.
The frame was painted by the artist.
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2016 - Blue and Gold, Mixed Media, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Mixed media on wood.
It features a frame painted by the artist.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood Panel
"Verso il cielo" by Enzio Wenk, 2008 - Acrylic on Canvas, Urban Landscape
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Heavenward"
Acrylic on canvas panel.
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Quando qualcuno indica la luna, lo stupido guarda il dito" by Enzio Wenk, 2010
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "When someone point at the moon, the fool looks at their finger"
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on canvas with a wooden frame.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic
Untitled
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Graphic processing on paper, printed on paper, glued on wood and repainted.
It is one-of-a-kind.
Category
2010s Pop Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Panel
Untitled
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on cardboard.
The painting without the frame measures:
35 x 50 cm
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
L'arte è una bugia
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Art is a lie"
Acrylic on canvas.
This painting has a very slight defect that has been restored by the artist himself and that does not disturb the aesthetic of t...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Acrylic Paint on Masonite, Abstract Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on masonite.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Untitled
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Acrylic Paint on Masonite, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on masonite.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Acrylic Paint on Masonite, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on masonite.
The frame was painted by the artist.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Untitled
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Acrylic Paint on Masonite, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on masonite.
The frame was painted by the artist.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Acrylic Paint on Masonite, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on masonite.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
"Lui ti vede" by Enzio Wenk, 2012 - Words on Black Canvas, NeoExpressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "He sees you".
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Acrylic Paint on Masonite, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on masonite.
The frame was painted by the artist.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Acrylic Paint on Masonite, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic paint on masonite.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Quanta fatica, quanto mistero, quanta gioia ( omaggio a Marilyn Monroe)
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "What an effort, what a mystery, what a delight (tribute to Marilyn Monroe)"
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Coppia di innamorati di diversa etnia" by Enzio Wenk, 2016 - Acrylic on Canvas
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Couple of lovers of different ethnicities"
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Albero
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Tree".
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Colorful Abstract Portrait, NeoExpressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on a wood panel.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Ora ti vedo" by Enzio Wenk, 2016 - Abstract Portrait, Framed, NeoExpressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Now I see you"
Acrylic on masonite.
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
"Albero della vita", by ENZIO WENK, 2017 - Abstract Red Tree on Canvas
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "The tree of life"
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Minotauro" by Enzio Wenk, 2003-Acrylic on Canvas, Mythological NeoExpressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Minotaur"
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Scontro tra due personaggi" by Enzio Wenk, 2010 - Acrylic, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Fight between two characters"
Acrylic on wood panel.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Orange Circle
By Paul Reed
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed & dated Verso. 1965
Paul Reed in 1970. He favored “staining” untreated canvas.
Paul Reed, the last surviving member of the Washington Color School, who explored the complexities of color and form in vibrant bio-morphic and hard-edge abstract paintings, died on Sept. 26 at his home in Phoenix. He was 96.
His death was confirmed by his daughter, Jean Reed Roberts.
Mr. Reed acquired his public identity as an artist when he was included, along with Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Thomas Downing and Howard Mehring, in “The Washington Color Painters,” a landmark traveling exhibition that began at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in 1965.
All of the other painters had been shown, the year before, in “Post-Painterly Abstraction,” a 31-artist exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art organized by the critic Clement Greenberg in an effort to write a new chapter in the historic march of abstract art.
Like his fellow Washington artists, Mr. Reed rejected the hot, gestural approach of Abstract Expressionism and explored color and abstract forms in a cooler mode. Working with diluted acrylic paint, in discrete series that methodically explored formal issues, he created luminous fields of color by letting the paint bleed into, or stain, untreated canvas.
“I have a saying: Pollock dripped, Frankenthaler poured,” he told The Washington Post in 2011, referring to the artist Helen Frankenthaler. “Morris Louis poured. Howard Mehring sprinkled. I blot.”
In his first stained series, “Mandala,” color radiated from a circular central image. The nearly 100 paintings in his “Disk” series, which he called “a matrix for exploiting color,” consisted of a central circle and two triangles positioned at the corners of the canvas.
Over the next decade he moved to hard-edge geometric zigzags and stripes in the vertical “Upstart” series, color grids and shaped canvases that allowed for more complex experiments in form and color relations. He also made welded steel sculptures and, in the “Quad” series of the 1980s, collaged photographs.
“Reed was, in a sense, the ‘little master’ of that first batch of Washington colorists,” the critic Benjamin Forgey wrote in The Washington Post in 1997. “He was a latecomer — he didn’t turn seriously to painting until he was in his mid-30s — but he never considered becoming anything other than an abstract painter. And when he was ready to show, in his early 40s, he was a very good abstract painter indeed.”
Mr. Reed gave himself a more modest assessment in an interview with NPR last year. “I’m sort of low man on the totem pole of that group of six,” he said.
Paul Allen...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Ora ti vedo" by Enzio Wenk, 2016 - Abstract Portrait, Framed, NeoExpressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Now I see you".
Acrylic on masonite.
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
"Quante cose ho visto" by Enzio Wenk, 2016 - Mixed Media, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "How many things I've seen..."
Mixed media on canvas.
The dimensions refer to the painting with the frame.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Ora ti vedo
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Now I see you".
Enamel on canvas panel.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Albero" by Enzio Wenk, 2017 - Still Life Painting, Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Tree".
Acrylic on canvas.
The artist sells the handmade, original and one-of-a-kind piece, but he reserves the right to duplicate it in multiples or digital prin...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Aver ancora vita per cercare" by Enzio Wenk, 2016 - Acrylic on Canvas
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Still having life to look for"
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Il viaggio di Enrico" by Enzio Wenk, 1999 - Mixed Media on Canvas, Figurative
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Enrico's journey"
Collage, ink on canvas and paper.
Category
1990s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
"Verso il cielo" by Enzio Wenk, 2006 - Urban Landscape, Acrylic on Canvas
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Heavenward".
Acrylic on canvas panel.
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2007 - Acrylic on canvas, Abstract, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on masonite.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Untitled
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 2015 - Acrylic on Masonite, Pink and Green Shades
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on masonite
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite
"Macaco" by Enzio Wenk, 2018 -Acrylic on Canvas, Neo-Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Macaque".
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Original Abstract Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
Bring audacious experiments with color and textures to your living room, dining room or home office. Abstract paintings, large or small, will stand out in your space, encouraging conversation and introducing a museum-like atmosphere that’s welcoming and conducive to creating memorable gatherings.
Abstract art has origins in 19th-century Europe, but it came into its own as a significant movement during the 20th century. Early practitioners of abstraction included Wassily Kandinsky, although painters were exploring nonfigurative art prior to the influential Russian artist’s efforts, which were inspired by music and religion. Abstract painters endeavored to create works that didn’t focus on the outside world’s conventional subjects, and even when artists depicted realistic subjects, they worked in an abstract mode to do so.
In 1940s-era New York City, a group of painters working in the abstract mode created radical work that looked to European avant-garde artists as well as to the art of ancient cultures, prioritizing improvisation, immediacy and direct personal expression. While they were never formally affiliated with one another, we know them today as Abstract Expressionists.
The male contingent of the Abstract Expressionists, which includes Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, is frequently cited in discussing leading figures of this internationally influential postwar art movement. However, the women of Abstract Expressionism, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and others, were equally involved in the art world of the time. Sexism, family obligations and societal pressures contributed to a long history of their being overlooked, but the female Abstract Expressionists experimented vigorously, developed their own style and produced significant bodies of work.
Draw your guests into abstract oil paintings across different eras and countries of origin. On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive range of abstract paintings along with a guide on how to arrange your wonderful new wall art.
If you’re working with a small living space, a colorful, oversize work can create depth in a given room, but there isn’t any need to overwhelm your interior with a sprawling pièce de résistance. Colorful abstractions of any size can pop against a white wall in your living room, but if you’re working with a colored backdrop, you may wish to stick to colors that complement the decor that is already in the space. Alternatively, let your painting make a statement on its own, regardless of its surroundings, or group it, gallery-style, with other works.