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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: Early 1900s
This Week's Listings Only
Early Abstract Expressionist - Black Mountain College Teacher, Franz Kline
Located in Miami, FL
With Abstract Expressionist painting, one could argue that the earlier, the more historically important. This stunning non-objective action painting is characterized by vast swaths o...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Abstract Figurative Framed Oil Painting - Enigma
Located in Bristol, GB
ENGIMA
Size: 49 x 57 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
An emotive and skillfully executed mid-century abstract figurative composition, painted in oil onto canvas.
The piece featur...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Springs : Oil painting on canvas
Located in New York, NY
"Springs" by Jan Wunderman.
Jan Wunderman primarily lived and worked in New York City and New Hampshire. Wunderman is noted for richly painted, gestural abstract paintings explorin...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Piece - Mid 20th Century Animal Abstract Piece by George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Near and Far Acuity, Mid Century Modern Op Art painting from historic exhibition
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Near and Far Acuity, 1957
Gouache and watercolor painting
Hand signed and dated 1957 by Richard Anuszkiewicz on the right front
Frame included
Anuszkiewicz' artworks from the late 1950s are rarely found on the market. This historic painting is one of the works that helped launch the artist's career. It was done in 1957 - the year the artist arrived in New York.
Near and Far Acuity has been removed from its original frame, and re-framed in an elegant wood frame with conservation materials and UV plexiglass. The original gallery label from The Contemporaries has been preserved and affixed to the new backing, and the collector who acquires this work will also be provided with a copy of the original receipt - signed by Karl Lunde (director of the Contemporaries and author of a major monograph on the artist).
Measurements:
Frame:
32 x 28 x 2 inches
Artwork:
21 x 25 inches
This work was first exhibited in the groundbreaking, and career-making 1960 exhibition at The Contemporaries gallery (New York, February 29, 1960 - March 19, 1960) and was featured in the exhibition catalogue, shown in the images here.
In his essay entitled "Richard Anuszkiewicz: Color Precisionist" by art historian John T. Spike, he writes, "In the spring of '57, Richard Anuszkiewicz left Ohio for good. "I was ready. I came to New York with a substantial amount of work. I was ready to go around to the galleries and I was prepared because I really had something. I had an idea. I had a series of paintings that showed this idea and I felt good about it and I felt now that's the only place for me to be." A friend helped him get a job touching up the plaster models of classical temples and statues in the Junior Museum of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He took off six months the next year to travel around Europe in a Volkswagen, also seeing some places in North Africa. "When I came back, I remember taking my work around to the galleries and receiving interesting comments — positive comments from the various people. But Abstract Expressionism was very popular. My things were very hard-edged, very strong in color — a use of color that nobody was using. Everybody would say. 'Oh, they are nice, but so hard to look at. They hurt my eyes". Leo Castelli considered him seriously but the gallery was developing a specialization in pop artists like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. "I can remember going to Martha Jackson and having her look at the work and she would put her hands straight out in front of her and block out parts of the painting with her hand and she'd say, mmm no rest areas." He finally caught on with The Contemporaries Gallery in the fall of 1959. The gallery at 992 Madison Avenue mainly represented new European talent. Karl Lunde, the gallery director, saw some of his canvases hanging...
Category
1950s Op Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Mixed Media
Abstract and Drip
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Description
An example of Scarlett’s abstract drip painting, this untitled work has linear and geometric elements rendered in shades of black, rose, and blue and...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Family of Forceps
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
David Solot, a dentist and painter, was born in Falciu (Romania) and
settled in Paris in 1928. His art was surrealistic dentally inspired plus
portraits and city landscapes.
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Translated from an article by Luana Hrisanti Rigot:
"In 1956, at the Charlotte Norberg Gallery (Paris), he presented his first personal exhibition, composed of an ensemble of surrealist paintings of professional inspiration (dental elements). Two years later, at Gallery Royale (Rochefort), he exhibits another 50 paintings on the subject. At that time, a decisive event for the painter David Solot was made: a great new-York-born antibiotic producer Lederle Cy learns about his work and contacts him through the US Ambassador to Paris, proposing an advertising contract and buying the reproduction right for 24 of its canvases. A year later, the same company bought the right to print three of its cloths in color. This was the starting point of his international notoriety.
In 1959, the American Dental Association celebrated its centenary, and to make it brilliant, David Solot invites him to a large exhibition at Columbus Circle, in Manhattan New York. The press, television is doing a great deal of promotion, and in the end, the interest shown by the medical professionals in the beginning only reaches an echo in the world of passionate art collectors. It is the beginning of a major international adventure!
David Solot is invited to Stockholm in 1960, then to Dublin and Belfast by the Cema Art Gallery. In 1962 his works are exhibited in Helsinki.
In 1963 his life was disturbed by a very painful event ... His only son, a medical student in the last year, dies in an accident. For two years, overwhelmed by pain, David Solot neglects painting. His wife, Becutza Solot, encourages him to go to Israel. David accepts, and the voyage and exhibition (1965) are successful.
When returning from the voyage, he makes material for an exhibition he will present at the Transposition Gallery, while at the Salon of Physicians his "Jerusalem" painting gets the Medal of Honor, the greatest possible reward.
Continuing to work on all plans, he adds a new activity to his concerns: writing. In 1967, he was impressed by a passage in Maurice Goudeket book Prés...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Pond in Back of Her House" Virginia Berresford, Modernist, Abstract Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Virginia Berresford
Pond in Back of Her House
Signed and titled on the reverse
Oil on board
23 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches
Virginia Berresford was an underrated American modernist who had ...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Women Walking, Abstract Painting on Paper by Omar Rayo
By Omar Rayo
Located in Long Island City, NY
An early painting by Omar Rayo from 1955. An abstract geometric work with multi-colored shapes on a surrealist horizon.
Artist: Omar Rayo, Colombian (1928 - )
Title: Mountains
Year:...
Category
1950s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Oil on canvas. Estate stamped and numbered verso; initialed “SF22” verso.
48.25 x 34.25 in.
49.25 x 35 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a solid maple floater.
Provenance
Estate of Samuel Feinstein
McCormick Gallery, Chicago
Samuel Lawrence...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Studio
Located in Sheffield, MA
Remo Michael Farruggio
American, 1905-1981
Studio
Oil on canvas
24 by 35 in. W/frame 28 by 39 in.
Signed lower right & titled on stretcher “Studio”
Circa 1959
Remo Michael Farrugg...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Fishing Boats', Sausalito, North Beach, San Francisco Bay Area Expressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Cucaro" for Pascal Cucaro (American, 1915-2003).
An icon of the Beat years in San Francisco's North Beach, Pascal Cucaro was the winner of numerous medals and a...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
"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
Abstract in Brown Tones
Located in Milford, NH
A fine abstract in brown tones by American artist David Lund (b. 1925). David Lund’s illustrious painting career spans over 65 years. Born in New York, the...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid Century Framed Oil Painting, Abstract Coastal Landscape - Icy Winter
Located in Bristol, GB
Icy Winter
Size: 44 x 52 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A beautifully ethereal mid century modernist winter landscape scene, painted in oil onto canvas.
This semi abstract land...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Series 67 No.4 abstract oil painting by Jack Wolsky
Located in Hudson, NY
Series 67, No. 4 (1955)
Oil on masonite
48" x 24 ½"
49" x 25 ¼" x 1 ¾" framed
About this artist: Jack Wolsky was born in 1930 in Rochester, New York.
He taught in the Department o...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Landscape in Winter
Located in Miami, FL
At a time when Abstract Expressionism was raging, realist painterJohn Atherton nods his head to the movement with a semi-abstract work. Meticulously rendered and carefully thought o...
Category
1950s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Wild Horses Western Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted modernist landscape by Robert Noel Blair (1912 - 2002). Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed Image size, 22 by 30 inches. In excellent original condition. ...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
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
Abstract and Fractured, Biomorphic and Geometric Forms
By Agnes Hart
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
“Abstract and Fractured Biomorphic and Geometric Forms” which was painted in the mid to late 1950’s is a nod to Picasso’s famous painting Guernica, which Hart may have seen when it was given to the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1958. Several elements in the painting clearly reference Guernica: the black geometric and cut-out shapes, the biomorphic shapes, the abstracted horse’s head and body, with a district reference to the bull’s tail, along with the black and white pallet choice and various details throughout-all hallmarks of Picasso’s Guernica. The abstracted reality Hart presents in these references go beyond a simple nod and reflect a personal interpretation reflected in the splintered abstraction and her bespoke interpretation.
Agnes Hart’s first began her career as a social realist artist in the 1930’s. She was also WPA artist. Her longtime friend Milton Avery encouraged her, and she exhibited in the same gallery in the late 1940’s, the RoKo Gallery. Her instinctive and personalized modernist periods often reflected a similar path of her compatriot artists during the first half of the 20th century. Her early works were influenced by her teachers Josef Presser, Paul Burlin and Lucile Blanch, and Reginald Neal, and reflected historical modern trends-at times showing the influence of Avery and other modernist. Like Elaine DeKooning, Lee Kraser, Michael Corrine West...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist 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
Mid Century Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco by Garrett Price (American, 1896-1979). Signed "Garrett" lower right. Unframed. Image size, 11.75"H x 15.25"W. G...
Category
1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Oil Painting of Cubist Boats
Located in Houston, TX
Seascape view of a boat dock. Painting is in a cubist style with neutral tones. The artist uses color and shape to create depth in the painting. Placed in a thick wooden frame. Artis...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
"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
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Guitarist Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful abstract expressionist painting of guitarist painted by Norman Rubington (American, 1921 - 1991) while in Rome, 1952. Signed lower left and on verso. Dated "11 - 52, Roma" ...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Geometric Shapes
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Rolph Scarlett (1889-1984)
Geometric Shapes
Gauche on Paper
14 ½" x 13”
22" x 21" framed
In this original artwork, the artist transforms circles, shapes, and lines within an ide...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
Theater on Broadway NYC
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6101 Abstract surreal theater on Broadway NYC Playbill
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
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
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
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
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
Antique American School Framed Modern Abstract Expressionist NYC Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 30L x 24H.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
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
"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
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
"Christ"
By Joachim Probst
Located in Astoria, NY
Joachim Probst (American, 1913-1980), "Christ", Impasto Oil on Canvas, 1955, signed lower right "Probst" and inscribed to verso "Probst / 1955 / CHRIST", additionally inscribed "Owne...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composition
Located in Paris, FR
Gouache, ca1950
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
22.00 cm. x 28.00 cm. 8.66 in. x 11.02 in. (image)
Framed work
Gouache on paper
A certificate of authenticity etaliblished by Pie...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
"Corrida" Abstract The Bullfight
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leopoldo Gonzales Jr
Born 1921
San Antonio Artist
Size: 36 x 22
Frame: 42.5 x 28
Medium: Casein
Circa 1958 Mid Century Modern
"Corrida"
Biography
Leopoldo Gonzales Jr Born 1921
Exh...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
In the constructing. oil on cardboard, 58x88 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
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Century Original Abstract Expressionism -- Sierra Mountains Cabin Landscape
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Sierra Mountain Cabin Abstract Expressionist Landscape
Original acrylic painting depicting a cabin in the Sierra Mountains by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985), circa 1950....
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
"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
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
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
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...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
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
Abstract Expressionist Bay Area Fauvist Oil on Paper Honora Berg Berkeley 1959
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist Bay Area 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 bold slashes of colors Honora Berg creates. Splashes of blue over red and green hues 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
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...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
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
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 ...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Copper, Enamel
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...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Cubist Painting Architectural Composition
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage abstract composition by John W. Hatch (1919 - 1998, American). Exhibited work with a tag lower left. Gouache and watercolor on paper. Signed. Framed.
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Spring Passage - Scottish art Abstract Expressionist oil painting Cobra Paris
By William Gear
Located in London, GB
This stunning Scottish Abstract Expressionist oil painting is by noted Scottish artist William Gear. Painted in 1950 it is an early and significant painting which dates to the early ...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
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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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Get to know the key movements and artists who have influenced visual culture for more than a century.
With Works Like ‘Yours Truly,’ Arthur Dove Pioneered Abstract Art in America
New York gallery Hirschl & Adler is exhibiting the bold composition by Dove — who’s hailed as the first American abstract painter — at this year’s Winter Show.
The Hilma af Klint Effect: How the Future-Forward Painter Inspires Artists Today
The early-20th-century Swedish abstractionist took artistic cues from spiritualist writings and occult practices. Now, 21st-century creators are taking cues from her.
Get to Know the Artists Who Led the Op Art Movement
In the 1960s and '70s, the hypnotic creations of Op artists went mainstream and influenced the look of pop culture.
Dorothy Hood’s Boundless Abstractions Are Back with a Fierceness
Works from the impressive oeuvre of the largely unknown Texas native are now on view at Houston's McClain Gallery.
French Artist Marie Raymond Was So Much More Than Yves Klein’s Mom
Seminal works from the mid-20th-century painter's lyrical abstract oeuvre are now on view at Paris's Diane de Polignac Gallery.
For Oliver Lee Jackson, Painting Is a Fierce and Sacred Matter
The artist and activist is the subject of a new show at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art.