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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Artist: Robert Gregory Phillips
Artist: Paul Reed
"The Pond in Golden Light" Contemporary Acrylic Painting in the style of Monet
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of whites, pinks, orange and effortless lines and shapes. Inspired by Claude Monet's Lilly Pads...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"The Pond in Golden Light" Contemporary Painting in the style of Claude Monet
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of whites, pinks, yellow and effortless lines and shapes. Inspired by Claude Monet's Lilly Pads...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Once in Blue and Pink" Midnight Blue Abstract Contemporary Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of deep mid night blue, pinks, and effortless lines and shapes. Inspired by Claude Monet's Lill...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"The Water Garden in Deep Royal Blue" Acrylic Painting In the Style of Monet
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of deep royal blue, yellow and effortless lines and shapes. Inspired by Claude Monet's Lilly Pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"On the Water They Rest Gloriously" Contemporary Painting in the style of Monet
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of whites, pinks, yellow and effortless lines and shapes. Inspired by Claude Monet's Lilly Pads...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Lilly Pads on the Water" Contemporary Acrylic Painting In the Style of Monet
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of soft, pinks, yellow and effortless lines and shapes. Inspired by Claude Monet's Lilly Pads, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"The Lily Pond Imagined" Contemporary Acrylic Painting in the style of Monet
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of whites, pinks, yellow and effortless lines and shapes. Inspired by Claude Monet's Lilly Pads...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"They Who Dance on Water" Contemporary Painting on Canvas Inspired by Monet
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of whites, pinks, yellow and effortless lines and shapes. Inspired by Claude Monet's Lilly Pads...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Peace Blue" Contemporary Gradient Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of deep royal blue, into soft whites. A beautiful large, elegant and chic decorative piece with...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Nativity In Yellow" Contemporary Gradient Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of deep yellow, into soft whites. A beautiful large, elegant and chic decorative piece with mov...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Considering Cezanne, Gorky, Twombly and a Landscape." Contemporary Painting
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of soft, pinks, yellow and effortless lines and shapes. This piece is layer with paint and text...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Love And Sacrifice In Red And White" Contemporary Abstract Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of soft, pinks, red and effortless lines and shapes. This piece is layer with paint and texture...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Feeling Good With Blue" Contemporary Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of soft, whites, periwinkle blues and effortless lines and shapes. This piece is layer with pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Advent in Yellow, Pink and Blue
Located in New York, NY
Robert's work considers the dualities which encompass an authentic life inspired by the spirit. Deeply connected to poetry and the tranquil essence of nature, Robert discovers unique...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled (Basic Colors)
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting with wonderful color combinations and effortless lines and shapes. A beautiful decorative piece with movement, complexity, and depth. Signe...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Beyond the Mountain in Blue" Contemporary Abstract Acrylic Painting on Board
Located in New York, NY
Through his use of color, texture and brush stroke, Robert vibrates the viewer with these strong emotional ties that he so longs to connect with nature and the spirit of the all-enco...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
"Crimson Red and Pastels" Contemporary Colorful Acrylic Painting on Board
Located in New York, NY
Through his use of color, texture and brush stroke, Robert vibrates the viewer with these strong emotional ties that he so longs to connect with nature and the spirit of the all-enco...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
"The Desert Sun" Contemporary Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Through his use of color, texture, and brushstroke, Robert vibrates the viewer with these strong emotional ties that he so longs to connect with nature and the spirit of the all-enco...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
"Finishing" Contemporary Colorful Acrylic Painting on Canvas Mounted on Board
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting with wonderful color combinations and effortless lines and shapes. A large beautiful decorative piece with movement, and depth. Signed by t...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Board
One Glorious Morning In Yellow And White
Located in New York, NY
Through his use of color, texture and brush stroke, Robert vibrates the viewer with these strong emotional ties that he so longs to connect with nature and the spirit of the all-enco...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Falling Rain" Contemporary Blue & Pink Mixed Media Abstract Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Through his use of color, texture and brush stroke, Robert vibrates the viewer with these strong emotional ties that he so longs to connect with nature and the spirit of the all-enco...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vertical Relationships of Blue
Located in New York, NY
Through his use of color, texture and brush stroke, Robert vibrates the viewer with these strong emotional ties that he so longs to connect with nature and the spirit of the all-enco...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Quietness" Contemporary Gradient Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Through his use of color, texture and brush stroke, Robert vibrates the viewer with these strong emotional ties that he so longs to connect with nature and the spirit of the all-enco...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vertical Relationships of Red
Located in New York, NY
Through his use of color, texture and brush stroke, Robert vibrates the viewer with these strong emotional ties that he so longs to connect with nature and the spirit of the all-enco...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Love Languages
Located in New York, NY
Through his use of color, texture and brush stroke, Robert vibrates the viewer with these strong emotional ties that he so longs to connect with nature and the spirit of the all-enco...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Magenta, Blue and Snow White
Located in New York, NY
An abstract gestural work, with free expressions, and vibrant colors. This is an acrylic on canvas work, signed by the artist.
Art measures 24 x 18 in
Robert's work considers the d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Clinging To A Cloud" Contemporary Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of soft, pinks, yellow and effortless lines and shapes. This piece is layer with paint and text...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Blue Passages" Contemporary Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of soft, whites, blues and effortless lines and shapes. This piece is layer with paint and text...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"On The Horizon In Yellow" Contemporary Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of soft, pinks, yellow and effortless lines and shapes. This piece is layer with paint and text...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Warm Morning Light" Contemporary Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of soft, yellows and effortless lines and shapes. This piece is layer with paint and texture, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Conversion's Door In White
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of soft, whites and effortless lines and shapes. This piece is layer with paint and texture, an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Magical Snowy Look" Abstract Expressionist Acrylic Layered Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of soft, blues, whites and effortless lines and shapes. This piece is layered with paint and te...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Timelapse
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of soft, pinks, red and effortless lines and shapes. This piece is layer with paint and texture...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Clouds of Glory Touch Earth, Abstract Contemporary Painting
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations and effortless lines and shapes. This piece is layer with paint and texture, and has a soft yet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
For I Am Gentle And Humble In Heart, Abstract Contemporary Painting
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations and effortless lines and shapes. This piece is layer with paint and texture, and has a soft yet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Waiting On The Heart, Abstract Expressionistic Painting
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations and effortless lines and shapes. This piece is layer with paint and texture, and has a soft yet...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Patience, Kindness And Love, Abstract Expressionistic Painting
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations and effortless lines and shapes. This piece is layer with paint and texture, and has a soft yet...
Category
2010s Abstract 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.