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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1920s
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Antique American Modernist Abstract Still Life Nicely Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
David Lan Bar - Composition - 1955
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Composition
1955
Oil on panel
Signed and Dated
61 x 50 cm
The painting is framed.
This beautiful painting is representative of David Lan Bar's 1950's compositions.
David...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Expressionist Figurative Female Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3240a Oil on artist board set in a vintage black wood frame
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Composition
Located in PARIS, FR
Important work by the artist, were exhibited at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Radical Innovations, 2024-25.
Natalia Dumitresco (or Dumitrescu) was born in Bucharest in 1915 and died i...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Polish American Impressionist Flower Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Polish American impressionist flower still life oil painting by Edward Lis (1915 - 2011). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 15H x 17L.
Category
1950s Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Leaf People Surreal Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3004 Fantasy oil painting on board, displayed in a dark-wood frame
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstraction
Located in Kensington, MD
Signed: Gendron '59
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Brown Abstraction - The Walls
By Lili Orszag
Located in London, GB
LILI ORSZAG 1926 - 1978
(Hungarian)
Title: Brown Abstraction - The Walls
Technique: Original Oil on paper
Size: 28 x 16 cm. / 11 x 6.2 in.
Additional Information: This original...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figures Running - Early Abstract Expressionism like Willem de Kooning
Located in Miami, FL
Salvatore Grippi was my art professor at Ithaca college from 1970- 1971
Who was doing paintings like this in 1950? Jackson Pollack, Willem De Kooning and Salvatore Grippi, and a few...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Covered Bridge
Located in Sheffield, MA
Remo Michael Farruggio
American,1905-1981
Covered Bridge
Oil on canvas.
22 in. by 30 in. W/frame 26 in. by 34 in.
Signed lower right & titled on verso...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Composition with Triangle and Circle
By Antal Biro
Located in London, GB
ANTAL BIRO 1907-1990
Pozsony 1907-1990 Székesfehérvár (Hungarian)
Title: Composition with Triangle and Circle, 1950
Technique: Original Signed and Dated Double Sided Oil Painting on Canvas...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figures / Alakok
By Antal Biro
Located in London, GB
ANTAL BIRO 1907-1990
Pozsony 1907-1990 Székesfehérvár (Hungarian)
Title: Figures / Alakok, 1950-1952
Technique: Original Signed and Oil Painting on Board
size: 21 x 31 cm / 8.3 x...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Theater on Broadway NYC
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6101 Abstract surreal theater on Broadway NYC Playbill
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Deer Isle, Maine"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Mercedes Matter (1913 - 2001)
Best known as a painter of abstract still life and founder of the New York Studio School, M...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern Surreal Figurative Oil Painting Clowns on flying Balloons by W.Morinet
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3910a Surreal oil on canvas set in a black frame
Two clowns on a flying balloon
Signed W.Morinet
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Untitled, 58-A8" Stephen Pace, Dynamic Dark Red Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
Stephen Pace
Untitled, 58-A8, 1958
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
64 x 48 inches
Born in Charleston, Missouri, Stephen Pace grew up in Indiana, where his parents operated a groce...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Untitled, 58-26" Stephen Pace, Interlocking Forms, Blue and Black Abstract Work
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
Stephen Pace
Untitled, 58-26, 1958
Signed and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
56 x 40 inches
Born in Charleston, Missouri, Stephen Pace grew up in Indiana, where his parents operate...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Family
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present the following suite of just discovered, mixed media paintings, c.1957, by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
Robert McIntosh was extremely prolific...
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Composition on Violet Background
By Etienne Beothy
Located in London, GB
ETIENNE BEOTHY 1897-1961
Heves, Hungary 1897 - 1961 Paris (Hungarian/French)
Title: Composition on Violet Background, 1927
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Dated Gouache Paintin...
Category
1920s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Monochrome Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Monochrome Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
San Francisco Bay area abstract expressionist composition by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Although this piece only uses black and white paint, the blue paper creates an additional layer of depth. Lines dance across the paper, implying movement and expression, yet the piece is well-balanced and harmonious.
Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work.
Unframed.
Paper size: 25.5"H x 20"W
Larry Miller 1958-2003, Larry was a specialist in bay area abstract artists and purchased numerous bay area artists estates. He purchased the entirety of the Honora Berg Estate and we purchased many of those works directly from Larry.
Honora Berg, an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist, studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
1959 Nyc Artist Gj Rogers Surrealist Original Vintage Painting Blue and Green
Located in Arp, TX
GJ Rogers
Surreal Octopus
1959
Oil on Canvas
36"x24.5"
Signed and dated in paint lower right
George Jay Rogers was born in Yonkers, New York on June 9, 1926. During the Great Depression George's mother being a single mother and falling on hard times sent George to a home for boys in New York City. George remained there and later attended The School of Industrial Arts in New York City.
Shortly after his 18th birthday George enlisted in the Army. He was sent to Germany where he drove a light truck as a message center courier. He was given an honorable discharge and moved back to New York City. Under the GI Bill he enrolled in the Art Students League of NYC in 1948. Here George studied under noted artists Robert Brackman, Morris Kantor, Louis Bouche, Harry Sternberg and Robert Beverly Hale to name a few. He was a student at the League from 1948-1956. In order to support his desire to paint, George worked as a message courier in NYC.
In the late 1950s George painted...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Composition in Oil on Cardboard
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Composition in Oil on Cardboard
San Francisco Bay area abstract expressionist composition by Honora Be...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Wilhelm Ohm (1905-1965), Double Portrait with Chairs, circa 1950
Located in Greding, DE
Expressive portrait of a man and a woman looking directly at the viewer as well as indicated chairs.
The execution of a series of chair paintings served Wilhelm Ohm (1905 Stettin -...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Vendimia - Grape Harvest
Located in Berlin, MD
Georges Dayez (French, 1907-1991). “Vendimia” Vintage / Grape Harvest / Wine Harvest , Oil on paper, 20”x 26 1/3, framed 27 1/4 x 33 1/4.
Dayez was a...
Category
1950s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Board
Early Abstract 1926 - Scottish Abstract art modernist oil painting
Located in London, GB
Scottish artist William Johnstone OBE painted this stunning abstract oil painting. It is a superb important piece of Scottish Art History and early twentieth century abstraction. An early modernist work, dated 1926 so way ahead of its time and other abstract artists. At the forefront of the Scottish Renaissance and European modernism this painting pre dates the abstraction and Abstract Expressionism of the later mid twentieth century. Earlier than Arshille Gorkuy who was, in the thirties, a bridge between European Modernism and American Abstract Expressionism, Johnstone was inspired and influenced by ideas surrounding the surreal and the subconscious and this painting appears to have elements of this thought process within its key abstract passages.
Signed and dated 1926 verso.
Provenance. William Hardie...
Category
1920s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Composition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Provenance: Barry Friedman Gallery, Modernism Fine Arts, New York.
Estate Stamped.
Thilo Maatsch (1900-1983)
Thilo Maatsch has an epiphany at age 16 when, having been taken to Berlin’s prestigious Avant Garde art gallery Der Sturm, he’s mesmerized by the work of Franz Marc, and determines to be an artist. Eleven years later, he’ll one day recall with pride, his work exhibits there.
Born and raised in 1900 Braunschweig, Germany, Maatsch by age 18 forms "Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst" (Society of Friends of New Art) with Rudolf Jahns and Johannes Molzahn. Its members include soon-to-be-famous Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, who promotes Maatsch and becomes something of a father figure. Introductions to collector Otto Ralfs in Braunschweig and the esteemed painter Heinrich Vogeler in Worpswede over the next two years influence his expanding body of work.
By 1922 Maatsch has a growing family to support, and as his art fails to provide this he begins training to be a teacher, a vocation he’ll fall back on repeatedly throughout his life. His first assignment is that of primary school teaching in Holzminden.
1924 sees Ralfs purchasing a Maatsch work and hanging it alongside the now well-known names of Mondrian, Kandinsky and Klee. The following year Ralfs launches an entire exhibition of the Society of Friends of New Art.
Because of his day job, Maatsch is unable to realize his wish to study at the Bauhaus, the avant garde epicenter in Weimar and later, Dessau. But thanks to Kandinsky, Klee and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, he’s allowed to occupy their studios and study with them during school holidays. His befriending of Kurt Schwitters during this time explains why Maatsch is often included in the so-called Schwitters Group.
In 1925 he joins the Novembergruppe (November Group) and exhibits annually in the renowned Große Berliner Kunstausstellung (Great Berlin Art Exhibition...
Category
1920s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signals
Located in Sheffield, MA
Remo Michael Farruggio
American, 1905-1981
Signals
Oil on canvas
24 by 35 in. W/frame 28 by 39 in.
Signed lower right & titled on stretcher “Signals”
Circa 1959
Remo Michael Farru...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Untitled" Diana Kurz, circa 1959 Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann Influence
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Untitled, circa 1959
Signed lower right
Signature and address on verso
Oil on canvas
42 x 38 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938,...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Signed Modernist Street Scene Rare Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed scene oil painting. Oil on paper. Signed. Framed. Image size, 20L x 15H.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...
Category
1950s American Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Composizione " Arancione , olio su cartone di imballaggio Agfa cm. 22 x 19
By Dora Maar
Located in Torino, IT
Dora Maar è lo pseudonimo di Henrietta Theodora Markovitch (Parigi 1907 - 1997).
Avvolta nell'ombra monumentale di Picasso, è stata a lungo - e riduttivamente - conosciuta come la su...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Pigeon Holes Abstract"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed and dated 1950 lower right.
Richard Peter Hoffman (1911-1977)
Richard Peter Hoffman was a precisionist painter, ph...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Black And White Abstract - Oil And Gouache On Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Black And White Abstract - Oil And Gouache On Paper
Black and white abstract painting by Felix Ruvolo (American, 1912-1992). Grey takes over the center of the paper with strokes of ...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Watercolor, Gouache
Old Door
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Old Door, 1953
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated by the artist on the lower right front
20 × 14 inches
Unframed
This unique and extre...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Ascension
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a just discovered mixed media painting by American artist Robert McIntosh, (1916-2010.)
Ascension, is an original mixed media gouac...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Antique Modernist Coastal Seascape Framed Fauvist Large Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist landscape painting by Jan Matulka (1890 - 1972). Watercolor on paper. Signed. Framed. Measuring 24 by 28 inches overall and 15.5 by 19.5 painting alone.
Category
1920s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Judaica Enamel Mounted Wall Panel Plaque Artwork by George Welch
Located in Atlanta, GA
George F. Welch (1926 - 2003) designed this lovely Mid-Century modernist enamel on copper artwork. The large square enameled plaque is wall-mounted and framed. The artwork boasts an ...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Antique Signed European Framed Village Signed Orientalist Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist abstract village painting. Oil on board. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 24L x 12H. Signed.
Category
1920s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Composizione astratta" Gialla e verde olio su cartone 1950 ca cm. 52 x 32
By Dora Maar
Located in Torino, IT
Dora Maar è lo pseudonimo di Henrietta Theodora Markovitch (Parigi 1907 - 1997).
Avvolta nell'ombra monumentale di Picasso, è stata a lungo - e riduttivamente - conosciuta come la su...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Antique American Monumental Op Art Framed Abstract Color Field Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredibly well painted mid century abstract color field oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed. Early and large work!
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
abstract 1, 1954 - oil on panel, 100x65 cm., framed
By Henriette Gremeret
Located in Nice, FR
Wonderful oil on panel by Henriette Gremeret. Dated 1954, signed low left. The painting has been wonderfully framed on a glass support frmed in oakwood.
Cette artiste peintre ( 1895...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Landscape Morris Shulman Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract Maine landscape painting. Watercolor and gouache on paper, circa 1960. Signed on verso. Image size, 30...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Man San Francisco Bay Area Figurative Movement Peter Witwer
By Peter Witwer
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Man San Francisco Bay Area Figurative Movement
Figurative portrait of a man by San Francisco artist Peter Witwer (American, 1928-1968). Unsigned from a collection of his work. Provenance estate of Peter Witwer, Lost Art Solon.
Image 32"H x 26"W
Frame, 32.5"H x 26.5"W x 1.75"D
Posthumous show of the artists work exhibit card on verso.
Born George Peter...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fauvist Ocean Wave and Sunset, 1920's Seascape
By John Henry Ramm
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling fauvist seascape with boldly colorful ocean waves and glowing sunset by Northern California artist John Ramm (American, 1879-1948), 1929. Impasto brush strokes add depth and interest to high voltage color palette. Signed lower right corner and dated on stretcher "29" . Condition: Good; minor edge losses professionally restored/in-painted. Signature slightly augmented to enhance readability. Image size: 22"H x 28"W.
The son of German immigrants, John Henry Ramm was the son of German immigrants, and his father had been a Duke in his native land. Ramm moved to San Francisco in 1893 and worked as an apprentice to a photographer. He married Nettie Hoist in Sacramento and they lived in San Francisco. He was a close friend of painter Manuel Valencia...
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1920s Fauvist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Cubist Framed Mid Century Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed.
Category
1950s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract - British Moderist Abstract Art - 1950's St Ives School oil painting
By Trevor Bell
Located in London, GB
An original very large British Abstract Expressionist oil on canvas by Trevor Bell, the last of the St Ives modernists. Titled December in Anticoli and painted in 1959 after Mark Rot...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Brutalist Still Life in the Summer, Oil on Canvas Painting by E.J.E. Dulfer
Located in Atlanta, GA
This stunning abstract still-life composition was signed by Dutch artist E.J.E. Dulfer (Rotterdam 1909 - Bussum 1965), dated 1958, and named "Summer in the windowsill" (Zomer in de v...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Vintage American Minimalist Mid Century Modern Abstract Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract minimalist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Vibrant abstract acrylic painting with primary tones of yellow, lime green and black with white accents, 1952. Signed and dated lower right.
Original artwork on paper displayed on...
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1950s Abstract Paintings
The Dance
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Rolph Scarlett painted and exhibited nationally over a multi decade career. Paintings by Rolph Scarlett were exhibited at the Museum of Art, at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, and the University of Guelph. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum owns over sixty of Scarlett's oils, watercolors, and drawings.
The Dance, is a mixed media gouache on paper, signed, c.1950. A bright, modernist depiction of musicians and dancers...
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1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled Mid Century Abstract Oil Painting New York Artist
By John Opper
Located in Beachwood, OH
John Opper (American, 1908 - 1994)
Untitled, 1959
Oil on board
Signed and dated lower right
14.75 in. h x 18 in. w.
20 in. h. x 24.5 in. w., as framed
John Opper described the 1930s...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fall Palette, Abstract Expressionist Oil on Canvas by Unknown Artist
Located in Long Island City, NY
Unknown Artist - Fall Palette, Year: 1959, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso, Size: 15.5 x 9.75 in. (39.37 x 24.77 cm), Description: Signed "Frieda...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
'View of San Francisco Bay', Bay Area Abstraction, Jack London, Modernist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'J.e.t.' for Jessie E. Thomason (American, 20th Century) and dated 1956. Exhibited: Jack London Art Festival, 1956.
Displayed in the original and period, paint...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Signed American School Modernist Landscape Framed Starlit Night Harbor
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist nocturnal starlit harbor painting. Watercolor on paper. Signed. Framed.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composition 15 - Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 15 is an original painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera and in very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 48...
Category
1920s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Modern Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Lively abstract painting with primary tones of yellows, reds and greens with accents of blue and black on white background, 1952. Signed lower right.
Original artwork on paper dis...
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1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Vintage French Abstract - Departure of the Souls
Located in Houston, TX
Captivating acrylic abstract painting using a vast array of colors to depict an abstract human face and hand with a landscape in the background under a setting sun and souls Flying o...
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Blue and Green Forms - British 50's abstract art oil painting paper colourfield
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
This stunning British abstract oil on paper painting is by noted radical British artist Robyn Denny. One of his earlier works, it was painted in February 1959. Entitled blue and gree...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
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.
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