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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1980s
This Week's Listings Only
Wyoming Gold Diggings, Large Scale Modern Abstract Geometric Landscape #3
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Wyoming Gold Diggings, Large Scale Modern Abstract Geometric Landscape #3
Beautiful abstracted geometric landscape by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999) of the Wyoming "Gold Diggins"....
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
'Consort', Modernist Equestrian Gouache, AIC, WPA artist, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966); additionally titled verso 'Consort' and dated 1954 with inscription, 'by the one and only buk, made for Ruth'....
Category
1950s Art Deco Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Tempera
Mixed Media Neo Expressionist Collage Painting African American Kids, Bicycle NY
By Loren Munk
Located in Surfside, FL
Loren Munk (American, b. 1951) Cut paper collage "Home Boys with Chicken & Bike", collage and mixed media on paper, signed "Munk '85", bears artist's stamp, label on back from Gabrielle Bryers Gallery NYC, 15" x 22" sheet, framed 23.5" x 30.5" .African American kids in a park. Done in a manner that recalls Romare Bearden.
The artist Loren Munk (born 1951) is primarily known for his YouTube nickname James Kalm as an uploader of videos about New York exhibitions, amongst others. He presents himself as a maker of contemporary paintings for several decades and of cubist paintings of urban imagery. Munk has received accolades for his drawings and mosaics. He differs from traditional mosaic artists by the manner in which he incorporates glass into his decorative paintings. His unique and innovative use of materials such as mirror, gold-leaf and glass mosaic affirmed him as a founding force of Kitsch Art and a leading member of New York Neo-Expressionism.
Munk's work debuted in SoHo in 1981 with a double show at J. Fields Gallery and Gabrielle Bryers. Since then, he has overseen an international career. In addition to exhibiting in Brazil, France, Germany and the United States, Munk has received national and overseas, public and private commissions. He is well represented in important collections throughout Europe, South and North America and the Middle East.
Most recently, Munk has been producing a series of paintings which tackle the subject of art itself through a historical and diagrammatic lens. Munk documents the New York art world in YouTube videos, using the name James Kalm.
Timeline:
1979 Attended Art Students League, New York
1973-75 Attended University of Maryland at Ramstein, Germany while in US Army
1969-72 Attended Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
1951 Born, Salt Lake City, Utah
Select Group Exhibitions
2018 “Under Erasure” curated by Heather and Raphael Rubinstein at Pierogi Gallery New York
2016 "It Was Never Linear: Recent Painting" at the Sheldon Museum of Art Lincoln Neb. with: Robert Bordo, Dawn Clements, Lois Dodd, Michelle Grabner, Colin Prahl, Peter Saul, Barbara Takenaga, and Stanley Whitney
2014 "Some Artists" curated by Matthew Deleget at Minus Space. David Diao, Mary Beth Edelson, Alfred Jensen, George Maciunas, Loren Munk, Ward Shelley, John Zinsser
2013 "Coming Together: Surviving Sandy Year 1" curated by Phong Bui for the Dedalus Foundation,
"The Decline and Fall of the Art World: Part I" curated by Nick Lawrence at Freight+Volume, N.Y.
"Reticulate" at McKenzie Fine Art Inc., N.Y.
"The Pyramids Along the Nile" at English Kills Gallery
2012 "When We Were Ancient" organized by Ethan Petitt at Teddy's Bar, Williamsburg
"Heroes" curated by Julie Torres at Small Black Door, Ridgewood Queens, N.Y.
2011 "ABC123" curated by Janet Goleas at Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y.
"6 Who Paint" curated by Fred Valentine at Big & Small/Casual, Long Island City, N.Y.
"It's All Good: Apocalypse Now" curated by Richard Timperio, Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
"Paper 2011" at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn.
"NEW year NEW work NEW faces" by Jason Andrew and Deborah Brown at Storefront Gallery.
"Unfinished Pictures" curated by Kristin Calabrese...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract painting accented in bright hues of red, blue and a soft lavender by French artist AM Vivent, 1986. Signed and dated lower right.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a ...
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Black Red Figure no. 2 - Scottish 1957 Abstract Expressionist art oil painting
By William Gear
Located in London, GB
This superb Abstract Expressionist Scottish oil painting is by noted artist William Gear. It was painted in 1957 and is entitled Black/Red Figure no. 2. This abstract composition is ...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
LARRY RIVERS (hand signed and inscribed first edition book)
By Larry Rivers
Located in New York, NY
Larry Rivers
LARRY RIVERS (hand signed and inscribed first edition book), 1989
Hardback monograph with a dust jacket (hand signed and inscribed "Enjoy the Matisse"
Signed, dated and inscribed by Larry Rivers in red marker on the title page
11 3/5 × 9 4/5 inches
Lavishly illustrated hardback monograph with dust jacket on the occasion of the artist's career retrospective. Text is by the distinguished art historian and Princeton professor Sam Hunter.
Hand signed, dated and dedicated in red marker on the title page.
Inscription reads:
To Joanne and Ira
Enjoy the Matisse
Larry Rivers, April 2, 1992
About the book:
Hunter, Sam. LARRY RIVERS. 358 pp. with 400 illustrations, including 155 plates in color. Folio, cloth. New York, Rizzoli, 1989.
New York: Rizzoli, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 358 pages. Retrospective monograph on Larry Rivers. Features text by Sam Hunter. Includes 400 illustrations of which 155 are in color.
Publisher's Blurb:
Rivers' public persona as an artist combines that of bohemian outsider, sensualist and entertainer. His best-known images of the 1960s--Dutch Masters cigars, French money, cigarette packs--became Pop icons. Eschewing abstraction, he came up with startling, disquieting figures, such as his obese, sagging mother-in-law depicted in the nude with brutal honesty ( Double Portrait of Berdie ). Yet there is more to Rivers than the hipster, as this lavishly illustrated monograph by a former Princeton art historian shows. Hunter makes a case for Rivers as a social realist: witness his powerful construction piece Ghetto Stoop or recent works that include searching portraits of Primo Levi...
Category
1980s Pop Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
Mid-Century Paleolithic Hunt Scene
By Nan Street Fowler
Located in Soquel, CA
A wonderful mid-century interpretation of prehistoric, Paleolithic cave paintings; done in reddish earth tones and rich in visual texture by Sausalito, California artist Nan Street F...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Composition abstraite/Abstract composition
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Reference number A161
Not framed but could be with a natural oak floated frame (add 200 euros)
17 x 44 cm
This work is painted with oil on a board. . It is signed and dated 1989 in ...
Category
1980s French School Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Color Field - Abstract Green and Yellow by Patricia Gren Hayes Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Color Field - Abstract Green and Yellow by Patricia Gren Hayes Acrylic on Canvas
Color Field abstract composition by Bay Area artist Patricia Gren Hayes (American, b. 1932). Wide br...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composition
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
VEDRA IBIZA No.2 Large Abstract Expressionist Color Field Acrylic Painting
By Lamar Briggs
Located in Surfside, FL
size is without frame. This is being sold without frame.
Bright, vivid, large Abstract Expressionist color field painting. Similar in manner t the colorful abstract works of Paul Jen...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Toscane II, Abstract Painting by Jeanick Buoys
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jeanick Bouys, French (1950 - )
Title: Toscane II
Year: 1988
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed verso
Size: 52 x 42 inches
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Abstract Expressionist Color Monotype, Oil Painting Tom Lieber
By Tom Lieber
Located in Surfside, FL
Tom Alan Lieber, (American, born 1949),
GTW #11 -7, 1986,
Oil and mixed media on paper,
30.25 x 44 inches,
Hand signed and dated lower right
Provenance: Garner Tullis Workshop, ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Monotype
Antique American School Abstract Expressionist New York City Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 24L x 18H.
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Impressionist Modernist New York City Brooklyn Bridge Painting
By Kamil Kubik
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist New York City oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found. Label from Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011).
Category
1950s Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Blue Cosmic Female Summer Abstract
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3735 French Mixed media abstract set in a wood frame
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Sepia Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Sepia Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
A bold abstract painting in in sepia-toned brush strokes and deep red and bright yellow accents with contrasting black a...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Bright Colorful Abstract Expressionist
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright, colorful abstract expressionist piece by Monterey, California artist Anthony Rappa (American, 20th Century). Heavy, textured pa...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Large Abstract Expressionist Color Monotype Oil Painting Tom Lieber Mixed Media
By Tom Lieber
Located in Surfside, FL
Tom Alan Lieber, (American, born 1949),
GTW #11 -7, 1986,
Oil and mixed media on paper,
30.25 x 44 inches,
Hand signed and dated lower right
Provenance: Garner Tullis Workshop, ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Monotype
Abstraction Pink
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on linen mounted to board by American modern female artist Harriet Holden Nash. The piece will come with custom framing either black or natural wood based on the buy...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Board
Morning-Skyscape, Dramatic Pink Red Impasto Contemporary By Joyce Weinstein
By Joyce Weinstein
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
An abstract contemporary painting by Joyce Weinstein. "City-Morning-Skyscape" is a captivating painting from 1982 that flaunt the artist's early brilli...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composition Abstraite by Franz Stirnimann - Oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
Swiss painter
Artist born in 1915, says Franz Sti.
Died in 1997.
Work on canvas
Black American case with golden edges
65,5 x 75,5 x 3 cm
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled - Oil Paint by Mario Guglielmotti - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a modern artwork realized by Mario Guglielmotti.
Mixed media on canvas.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes frame
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seaport 1 1957 - British Abstract art oil painting Suffolk artist
Located in London, GB
This superb British abstract expressionist oil painting is by noted Suffolk British artist Robert Sadler. Painted as oil on board it was painted in 1957 and is entitled Seaport 1 on ...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Font Diaz Little Green original pastel abstrat painting
By Font Diaz
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
sin titulo original pastel abstrat painting
Manel Font Díaz (Barcelona, 1950) es un artista centrado especialmente en la pintura, primero formado en la facultad de Bellas Artes de la...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Jorge Castillo Golden Yellow Surreal. 1985 original abstract acrylic canvas
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Original work by the Spanish artist Jorge Castillo
Perfect state
CASTILLO, Jorge (Pontevedra, 1933).
Since childhood, Jorge Castillo is passionate about drawing, and takes only te...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Collage, 1958
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Berto Lardera (1911-1989). Collage, 1958. Paper, cardboard, paint. 29 x 40.5 inches; 31.5 x 42 inches framed. Signed and dated lower right. Bears origina...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera, Cardboard
Dynamic & Colorful, Abstract Expressionist Painting, Dated 1957 by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A dynamic & colorful, Abstract Expressionist Painting in Reds, Blues & Yellows by Artist Harold Haydon, Dated 1957. Framed in a dark, wood cube frame. Image size: 12" x 16". Fra...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Large Abstract Expressionist Figure Handmade Paper Etching Silkscreen Print
By Sam Messer
Located in Surfside, FL
This is done on a very interesting handmade paper (Japanese?) it is hand signed and numbered.
In this print the artist Sam Messer uses bold contrasting colors in a gestural manner. Messer's work, so apparently spontaneous or impulsive in its emphasis on highly dramatic gestural brushstrokes and intense color, is, in fact, carefully considered. The treatment of the composition conveys dynamic movement through the sweep...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Lithograph, Screen
Contour Detour No. 4 - colorful, abstract, pigmented plaster on board
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Yvonne Lammerich has used a dynamic pattern, bold colours and geometric form to create this visually stunning contemporary piece. The ‘building block ...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Plaster, Board, Pigment
American Abstract Expressionist Artist Melissa Meyer Oil Painting Flaming Heart
Located in Surfside, FL
MELISSA MEYER (American, b. 1946),
''Bleeding Heart'', 1982,
Oil and wax (encaustic) on canvas,
Signed to canvas verso.
Canvas 39-1/4''h, 31-3/4''w.
Melissa Meyer (born May 4,...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
"Still Life with Two Fruits" Black, Gray, and Red Abstract Still Life Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Wonderful example of Houston Artist David Adickes's early work. This heavily textured still life features 2 apples and 3 bottles. Most likely this work was framed at Dubose Gallery o...
Category
1950s Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Vineyard Fishing Boat"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed and Dated Lower Right
Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984)
He was born to Czechoslovakian parents in 1892 in New York City. Living in Chicago as a youth, he took classes at the ...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Florentine Night, 1950s Abstract Oil Painting by Edward Chavez in Purple & Blue
Located in Denver, CO
"Florentine Night" is a vibrant abstract oil painting by Edward (Eduardo) Arcenio Chavez (1917-1995), created circa 1951. Signed and titled by the artist on the back of the canvas, t...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Joan Kahn Rome Vibrant Bold Color Abstract Expressionist Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil paint on heavy tar paper.
Hand signed and dated verso.
Joan Kahn (USA 1953-) grew up in New York City; Princeton, New Jersey; and Vermont; in an environment that patronized the arts. At home her father, a professor, and mother, a state economist and homemaker, collected nineteenth and twentieth century drawings and prints, Middle eastern rugs, and ceramics, pewter, and old tools. Her grandfather, Max Westfield, was an academically trained portrait painter and her great uncle was a well-known gallery owner and art dealer in pre-World War II Germany. One of the influential experiences of Joan’s youth was visiting her grandfather in his studio in Tennessee where the family had first immigrated.
Growing up near New York, and spending a year in Paris during high school, provided formative visits to museums and galleries. Joan was academically talented in grade and high school, but after her father’s death during her first years at university she found herself concentrating on studio and history of art. It was a subject above others absorbed and concentrated her focus.
Influential in Joan’s development and later work are the historic movements of the Bauhaus and Modernist design and architecture, geometric art and design of diverse cultures, Color Field Painting. Many artists have had a impact on her work, such as Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, Sonia Delaunay, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Antoni Tapies, David Smith, John McLaughlin, Tony Smith, Louise Nevelson, Robert Mangold, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Valerie Jaudon, Jasper Johns, James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Vija Celmins, Caio Fonseca, Peter Halley, Ed Moses, Juan Usle, and Nancy Haynes...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Signed Framed Modernist "Massage" Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American signed interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Signed. Framed. Image size, 14L x 11H.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
RARE 1950’s Avante-Garde FEMALE American Abstract Expressionist painting
By Minna Citron
Located in New York, NY
Here I have for sale a rare Avant-Garde painting by
Minna Wright Citron (October 15, 1896 – December 21, 1991). She was wife of the famous social realist Bernard Koopman. Reginald Marsh and Raphael Soyer. She moved on to start teaching in the early 1950’s Abstract...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Genovart. Vertical Colors original abstract acrylic painting.
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Colors original abstract acrylic painting.
GENOVART LLOPIS, Jaume (Barcelona, 1941-1994).
Basically self - taught painter, was released in 1972. Grandson of typesetter and booksell...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
'Abstract in Rose and Blue', Oregon Woman Artist, Portland State, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right, 'Gertrude Schoeler' (American, 1913-2007) and dated December, 1980. Additionally signed, verso, on stretcher bars and with artist...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Chasm" - Minimalist Abstract in Acrylic
Located in Soquel, CA
"Chasm" - Minimalist Abstract in Acrylic
Minimalist abstract done in watercolor, acrylic and metallic paint (gold and light gray/blue). Titled, signed and dated on verso: "Chasm, d...
Category
1980s Symbolist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold
Deep Blue Figures, Large French Expressionist Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Deep Blue Figures, French Expressionist Original Oil Painting
French school, late 20th Century
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
Canvas size: 39 x 51 inches
A deep and inky blue lar...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Garner Tullis, Large Painting with Collage by Tom Holland
By Tom Holland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Tom Holland
Title: Garner Tullis
Year: 1988
Medium: Acrylic on paper, signed and dated in pencil
Paper Size: 42 x 82 in. (106.68 x 208.28 cm)
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Crows On The Field - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Crows On The Field - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Oil on Canvas
Compelling abstract expressionist painting "Crows on the Field" by Kristin Cohen (American, b. 1963). This p...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century abstract geometric oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013)
Untitled, c. 1950
Oil on paper
Signed lower right
12.5 x 19 inc...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American School Signed Modernist Minimalist Abstract Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Step into the serene world of American minimalism with this exquisite 1980 signed original oil painting. Created by a talented American artist, this work invites you to explore the c...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Modernist Paris School Fall Forest Signed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French modern painting of a fall forest. Oil on board, circa 1950. Signed. Image size, 15.5L x 9.75H. Housed in a period giltwood f...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1980’s French Surrealist Huge Oil Painting Nude Sculpture in Green Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tristan Fabris, 1980’s French Surrealist painter
Abstract Surrealist Figurative nude work
oil on canvas, unframed
painting: 26 x 32 inches
private collection, France
The painting is...
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cliff's Formation" - Modernist Geometric Abstracted Landscape
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous abstracted geometric landscape titled, "Cliff's Formation" by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999), 1984. Unframed. Signed and dated lower right "Loran '84" and titled "Cliff's ...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract Expressionist Portrait in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist Portrait in in Acrylic on Paper
A bold abstracted portrait painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). Although this piec...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Three Masks, Mid Century Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Three masks abstract by Novak (American, 20th Century). Presented in a white wooden frame. Signed "Novak" lower right. Image: 28.5"H x 26"W.
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Without Beginning Without End, Two-Sided Cubist Painting by William Littlefield
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Littlefield, American (1902 - 1969)
Title: Still Life and Abstract
Year: 1950 & 1954
Medium: Double-Sided Oil on Masonite, signed and dated both sides
Size: 22 x 28 i...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Two Dogs Pass, Large Four Part Abstract Painting by Donald Sultan 1988
Located in Long Island City, NY
A monumental unique painting in four 48 x 48 inch panels by Donald Sultan.
Artist: Donald Sultan, American (1951 - )
Title: Two Dog Pass
Year: January 12th, 1988
Medium: Tar and L...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Latex, Wood, Tar
Vintage American Female Modernist Precisionist Street Scene Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene oil painting by Elaine Wesley (1923 - 2007). Oil on board. Estate stamped verso.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Abstract Figures on the Beach
Located in New York, NY
An abstract beach scene with vivid use of paint and complex lines and color placement. A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1982 with sail ...
Category
1980s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge French Modernist Oil Kissing Couple Abstract Figures, signed painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, signed and dated
Title: Kissing Couple, beautfiful Modernist work with green, beige, brown, yellow, golden colors.
Med...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Abstract in Coral and Jade', Chouinard Institute, LACMA, MGM studios, Osaka
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Inman' for Robert Inman (American, 1927–2016) and dated, beneath the mat, 1981.
Matted dimensions: 20 x 30 inches.
Robert Inman first...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Gouache, Illustration Board
Large Scale Vintage Abstracted Still Life with Fish In Style Of Henri Matisse
By D.S. Silver
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright, ocean-like, tropical colors in this abstract with fish in the style of Henri Matisse by D.S. Silver. One of a group of works, by D.S. Silver...
Category
1980s Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Large Vintage American School Framed Modernist Fauvist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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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.
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The artist and activist is the subject of a new show at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art.