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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1980s
This Week's Listings Only
Domenick Capobianco Color Field Oil on Canvas
Located in Astoria, NY
Domenick Capobianco (American, b. 1928), Abstract Color Field Composition in Yellow and Orange, Oil on Canvas, 1980, apparently unsigned, dated to verso and with "Studio Domenick Cap...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist 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
Dorothy Dehner, Mid Century Modern signed abstract sculptural drawing, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Dorothy Dehner
Untitled Mid Century Modern abstract sculptural drawing, 1955
Marker and graphite on paper
Signed and dated by Dorothy Dehner in black felt tip pen on the front
Frame ...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Graphite
Chanson - large, colourful, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Harold Feist’s gloriously colorful acrylic abstract painting called Chanson radiates joy. Known for his innovative color field work, Feist has chosen a bright rainbow palette in broa...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
4-Seasons: Fall
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ronald Slowinski
4-Seasons: Fall
Watercolor, paper
Year: circa 1987
Size: 46x94x2.25in
Framed in an acrylic box
COA provided
Comes with original papers and photographic slide
Ref.: 9...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Spring Field
By Larry Poons
Located in London, GB
Larry Poons
Spring Field
1989
Acrylic on canvas
39.37 x 95.25 cms (15 1/2 x 37 1/2 ins)
LP10155
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Large Abstract Oil Painting Belgian American Artist Roger Van Ouytsel Menorah
By Roger Van Ouytsel
Located in Surfside, FL
Roger Van Ouytsel (American, b. 1941)
Title: "The Things I liked About Larry Wise,"
1987. Oil painting on canvas, signed and dated. Framed.
Provenance: Exhibited at Allan Stone Ga...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s "Yellow Cubist Figure" Abstract Figurative Painting
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedmann Opper
Yellow Cubist FIgure
c. 1940-1950's
Gouache
15" x 18", silver wood frame 16"x19"
Unsigned
This striking gouache painting featur...
Category
1950s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Vintage Signed Abstract Expressionist Framed Minimalist New York Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract painting. Signed. Framed.
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Meditation on African Sculpture, mid-century figural abstract painting
By Beni E. Kosh
Located in Beachwood, OH
Beni E. Kosh/Charles Elmer Harris (American, 1917-1993)
Meditation on African Sculpture, 1957
Oil on found wood panel
Signed and dated lower left
20 x 15 inches
Charles Elmer Harris...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Figurative Abstract', Woman Artist, Art Institute of Chicago, San Bernardino
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for Suzanne Gertz (American, 1938-2003) and painted circa 1985, partial signature lower right.
Suzanne Gertz first studied at the...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Tooth Ache
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
1980s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 At Night', Oil on Linen, by Robert Bonaparte
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed, 33" x 26" oil on canvas painting was completed by Robert Bonaparte in 1980. The painting presents a composition dominated by dark hues, creating a nocturnal atmosphere a...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Large American Modernist Abstract Framed New York School Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Georgia Suite: Symmetry - modern, contemporary, abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A ‘symphony’ of colour neatly framed in pale blue bordered quadrants plays against a wash of yellow in this vivid abstract by Milly Ristvedt. A master colourist, in the 1980s Ristved...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Antique American School Signed Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 19L x 13H.
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Judy Rifka, Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting on Paper Hockey Players
By Judy Rifka
Located in Surfside, FL
Judy Rifka (American, b. 1945) "Ice Hockey"
Acrylic or oil paint on Fabriano paper paintings featuring multiple hockey players executed in yellow, white, purple, and black hues.
Ha...
Category
1980s Pop Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Untitled
By Luigi Boille
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Unsigned.
63 x 51.25 in.
64.5 x 52.5 in. (framed)
Custom framed in an ebonized solid walnu...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Thumbprint - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Red Thumbprint - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
A bold abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). This piece i...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Still life with sunflowers. Oil on cardboard, 38x38 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001)
Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of Art, Saratov Art School, graduated from the Depar...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
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
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
Untitled
By Richard Pousette-Dart
Located in Miami, FL
Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist.
Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance.
Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form." His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this painting Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist. He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color. The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black. Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows: blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Antique American School Cubist Signed Rare Early Framed Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed.
Category
1950s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Signed Exhibited Abstract Expressionist Original Framed Oil Painting
By Adele Becker
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American signed abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Deux Harlequins" Abstract Figurative Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Blue and green-toned modern abstract figurative portrait painting by Houston, TX artist David Adickes. The work features two men figures standing side by s...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Raphaelle Pia, Papier douche 4, 1980, acrylic on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Raphaelle PIA (born in 1942)
Papier douché 4, 1980
Acrylic paint on paper
Titled, signed et dated “1980” lower right
Dimensions of the work : 50 x 65 cm
Sold without frame
Raphaëll...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
The Colour of Light - large, yellow, purple, gestural abstract acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Milly Ristvedt approaches colour in her work with sincere consideration and expertise, her palettes contain a subtle complexity that is striking. The background of this painting is b...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Untitled, 57-10" Stephen Pace, Dynamic, Vibrant Orange, Abstract Expressionism
By Stephen Pace
Located in New York, NY
Stephen Pace
Untitled, 57-10, 1957
Signed and dated lower right
Oil on canvas
47 x 38 inches
Born in Charleston, Missouri, Stephen Pace grew up in Indiana, where his parents operat...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Composition, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Pierre Coquet – Abstract Composition
Reference number A268
Framed with a natural oak floated frame
55 x 70 cm frame included (50 x 65 cm without frame)
This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a board and placed in a made to measure wood strectcher. It is signed in the bottom right. Stamp of the signature in the bottom right
Pierre was very sensitive to abstract paintings. He did a lot of abstract works melting colors and shapes in different atmosphere and style. Nevertheless he could come back to figuration and again to abstraction with no precise period of time.
Abstract paintings by Pierre Coquet represent a large part of his production.
The constant search for balance between shapes and colors as well as his passion for Nicolas de Staël, André Lanskoy, Alfred Mannessier… takes him on different paths from what we know of him.
His way of painting is strong and thoughtful, the lines stretch out and the harmonious touches, applied with sobriety, reveal a great sense of color.
Provenance : Workshop of the artist (stamped and numbered on the back)
Pierre Coquet (1926-2021) is a French painter who was born in Limas near Lyon, France.
He entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon in 1942 and followed the teaching of Antoine Chartres, Henri Vielly and René Chancrin. He won a prize in 1945 and joined a movement that wanted to be outside of any school whose name ends with “ism”, (like impressionism, cubism…) between figuration and the renaissance of Abstract Art, bringing together young generations under thirty and eager not to submit to any technique. The “Sanzism” (literally without « ism ») will bring together, among others, painters: James Bansac, Roger Bravard, André Chaix, Jean Mélinand, Paul Clair, André Cottavoz, Pierre Doye, Jean Fusaro, Jacques Truphémus, André Lauran...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Indian African Face Woman
Located in New York, NY
Timothee (Tymo) Pierre, "Indian African Face Woman", Signed Abstract/ Figurative Portrait Painting, Acrylic Paint on Cardboard, 13.50 x 10.50, Late 20th ...
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
"Sycamores" Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Sycamores" Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Bold and expressive composition by Ellen Marie Jones (American, b. 1961). Several botanical shapes resembling tree...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Glue, Acrylic
Incredible Mid Century Abstract Artist Interior Studio View Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid 20th century modernist interior view. So well painted with great color and bold expressive strokes. Signed illegibly. Housed in a period modernist frame. Oil ...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Bird on a Wire" The Crow - Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Bird on a Wire" The Crow - Acrylic on Canvas
Playful depiction of a crow by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). The crow is shown with green and ye...
Category
1980s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Vintage American Modernist Outsider Pop Art Abstract Large Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Polarity #9 unique signed color field abstract color painting on paper - a gem!
Located in New York, NY
Jay Rosenblum
Polarity #9, 1981
Acrylic on Paper painting
6 × 9 1/2 inches
Pencil signed and titled on the front
Unique work
Unframed
]This gem of a work is an acrylic painting on p...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Terres Rouges
By Roger Mühl
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, signed, dated, and titled verso.
59 x 62.75 in.
60.75 x 64.5 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a matte white hardwood floater, with gilded metallic front.
Roger Mühl was born on December 20, 1929 in Strausbourg, France, where he attended the National School of Decorative Arts. He spent most of his life living and working in Provence, while regularly exhibiting in London, Paris, Geneva, Tokyo, and New York.
Mühl is best known for his brightly colored, heavily textured landscape renderings of the south of France. His bucolic paintings...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gemini mixed media on canvas painting Abstract Expressionism
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
TECHNICAL SHEET
Title: Gemini
Artist: Svetla Georgieva
Technique: Mixed media (oil and material) on canvas
Dimensions: 21.6 x 18.1 in
Framing: Unframed
Year: 1989
Style: Abstract Ex...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Large Color California Abstract Expressionist Copolymer Vinyl Painting Ron Davis
By Ronald Davis
Located in Surfside, FL
Ronald Davis (American, b. 1937)
Pitch, 1983
cel-vinyl copolymer on canvas
Hand signed verso and further inscribed with title, date, size and PTG 751
67 x 110 1/2in. Framed 69 x 112in.
Bears remnants of old gallery label to reverse.
Ronald Ron Davis (born 1937) is an American painter whose work is associated with geometric abstraction, abstract illusionism, lyrical abstraction, hard-edge painting, shaped canvas painting, color field painting, and 3D computer graphics. He is a veteran of nearly seventy solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions.
Born in Santa Monica, California, he was raised in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In 1955–56 he attended the University of Wyoming. In 1959 at the age of 22 he became interested in painting. In 1960–64 he attended the San Francisco Art Institute. Abstract expressionism, the prevailing artistic movement of the time, would have an influence on many of his future works. In 1962 he was a Yale-Norfolk Summer School Grantee. In 1963 his paintings became hard-edged, geometric and optical in style, and by 1964 his works were shown in important museums and galleries. He lived and worked in Los Angeles, 1965–71, and in Malibu, California, 1972–90. Since 1991 he has lived and worked in Arroyo Hondo on the outskirts of Taos, New Mexico.
Ronald Davis from the earliest days of his career had a significant impact on contemporary abstract painting of the mid-1960s. According to art critic Michael Fried: Ron Davis is a young California artist whose new paintings, recently shown at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York, are among the most significant produced anywhere during the past few years, and place him, along with Frank Stella and Walter Darby Bannard, at the forefront of his generation.
He had his first one-person exhibition at the Nicholas Wilder Gallery in Los Angeles in 1965.
Barbara Rose wrote an in depth essay about Davis' paintings of the 1960s in the catalogue accompanying an exhibition of his Dodecagon Series in 1989 in Los Angeles. Among other observations she wrote:
Davis saw a way to use Marcel Duchamp's perspective studies and transparent plane in The Large Glass for pictorial purposes. Instead of glass, he used fiberglass to create a surface that was equally transparent and detached from any illusion of reality. Because his colored pigments are mixed into a fluid resin and harden quickly, multiple layers of color may be applied without becoming muddy. his is essentially an inversion of Old Master layering and glazing except that color is applied behind rather than on top of the surface. Alone among his contemporaries, Davis was equally concerned with traditional problems of painting: space, scale, detail, color relationships and illusions as he was with the California emphasis on hi-tech craft and industrial materials. His work has some connection to the Light and Space art movement related to op art and minimalism. He was a contemporary of Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Ron Cooper...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer
The Challenge, abstract expressionist painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
The Challenge, c. 1982
acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas
signed lower right, signed and titled verso
60 x 41.5 inches
Richard Andres was...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Edge
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on board. Signed and dated lower right and verso, titled verso.
36.25 x 48 in.
40.5 x 52.25 in. (framed)
Framed in contemporary silver, tiered floater frame.
Dennis Eugene Norman Burton was a Canadian modernist who was born in Lethbridge, Ontario. He attended the Ontario College of Art from 1952 to 1956, and worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) as a graphic designer until 1960.
Inspired by a 1955 exhibition of the “Painters Eleven” at Toronto’s Hart House, as well as American Abstract Expressionist artists such as Robert Motherwell, Jack Tworkov, and Willem de Kooning, Burton shifted his focus toward abstraction in the mid-1950s.
Burton showed with the famed Isaacs Gallery in Toronto, becoming one of the youngest members on the gallery’s roster. A talented musician, he also played saxophone in the Artist’s Jazz Band in Toronto - a pioneering Canadian free-jazz group...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Board
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
Forest Landscape in Sumi Ink on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Forest Landscape in Sumi Ink on Paper
High contrast abstracted landscape by an unknown artist "Shmitt" (20th Century). The edge of a forest is shown in bold strokes of sumi ink, cre...
Category
1950s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Sumi Ink
Affection Mixed Media
By Jürgen Görg
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Affection 1989
Artist signed lower right
Oil, graphite on linen canvas 38x30, framed 52x44 inches.
Jurgen Gorg was born in 1951 in, Dernbach Germany. His formative years were spen...
Category
1980s Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Graphite
American Modernist Black Woman Artist New Orleans Family Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist southern school painting. A family portrait on a New Orleans porch. Beautiful detail in the wrought iron. Brilliant color palette here. Signed verso. ...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Fauvist Oil on Paper Honora Berg Berkeley 1959
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Fauvist Oil on Paper Honora Berg Berkeley 1959
San Francisco Bay area abstract expressionist painting by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985).A brilliant fauvist example of the melting pot of colors Honora Berg creates. Splashes of red over hues of blue with bright canary yellow swirls and patches.
Estate stamp on verso "Estate of Honora Berg - Miller Fine Art"
Unframed. 30"H x 22"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 form 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...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Abstract in Yellow Green & Red - British 1955 abstract art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb British 1950's abstract oil on board painting is by noted Slade School trained contemporary artist Leo Davy. Davy was born in Yorkshire but settled in Cornwall in 1968 an...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original, highly textured oil on canvas painting by Jacques Gandon. Signed lower right and dated 1953. The painting has the visual appearance of a woven fabric abstract. Can be hung horizontally or vertically. Condition is very good, no issues. Original artist pine strip frame. Frame has wear consistent with its age. Overall framed measurements are 24.5 by 37 inches. Vintage Jonathan Adler...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Clump of Trees #82" Modern Abstract Teal & Pink Landscape Painting on Board
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract landscape painting by the iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. The work features a group of green, pink, and blue trees set against a light aqua background. Sig...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Vintage Art Deco Formula Two Grand Prix Car Racing Modernist MCM Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very rare and well painted Formula Two racing painting. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Nicely framed.
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
Antique American Large Female Abstract Expressionist Sunset Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage signed American abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24L x 24H.
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
SINCRONIA ROSA - Angelo Palazzini Abstract Oil on Canvas Painting
By Angelo Palazzini
Located in Napoli, IT
Sincronia Rosa - Abstract Oil on Canvas Paintng , Angelom Palazzini, Italy
Angelo Palazzini was born in Lodi in 1953 where he still resides and has his own studio. His encounter wit...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Russian Landscape (abstract painting)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Yuri Larin (1936-2014). Landscape, 1986. Watercolor on paper, 16.5 x 18 inches. Mounted on cardboard sheet measuring 24 x 28 inches. Signed and dated lower ...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Patricia Zippin "Tillamook Flight 6 of 12" 1980s Abstract Painting
Located in Arp, TX
Patricia Zippin
Tillamook Flight 6 of 12
1980s
Mixed Media
30.5"x 22.5", unframed
Signed in paint on bottom right and signed and titled on reverse in pen
Patricia Jayne Zippin (1930...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Acrylic, Pencil
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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