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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Style: Surrealist
Style: Post-War
Chalkboard Diaries, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Chalkboard Diaries, a mixed media painting filled with oils, pastel and chalkboard paint take a diaristic approach on domestic romance.. The flames ar...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Inside of the lines, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
It is an ORIGINAL painting not a print or reproduction or mass produced art! I personally pack my artworks. All necessary arrangements are made to make sure your paintings arrive saf...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Organic Mechanism (colorful large abstract oil painting) Armenian Artist 2014
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Artist’s Statement “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝟷) 𝘔𝘺 “𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩” 𝘪𝘯 ...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Carl Morris. “Untitled” is an abstract expressionist painting, acrylic on canvas in dark colors by American artist Carl Morris. The artwork is signed in the lower right, “Carl Morris”. Born in Yorba Linda, Calif., in 1911, Carl Morris studied at the Chicago Art Institute, as well as in Vienna and Paris, before he became director of the Spokane Art Center in Washington and, eventually, the most important painter to establish himself in Oregon. From an aesthetic perspective, he fit in with the New York School painters was counted Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, as well as the Northwest...
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Late 20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

“Traveling Together” 2012 colorful Abstract oil on board Armenian Artist VATCHE
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
“Traveling Together” is a colorful, abstract, surrealist painting by Armenian artist, Vatche Geuvdjelian painted in 2012. Artist’s Statement “𝘛𝘩�...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. "Untitled" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas in black and white by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "J...
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Late 20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Organic Mechanism 2014 colorful large abstract oil Surrealist oc Armenian Artist
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
"Organic Mechanism" Date: 2014-2015 Abstract oil painting on canvas (oc) Vatche is an Armenian artist living in Mexico. Artist’s Statement “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳�...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
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20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Origins 2015 Abstract Expressionist oil/canvas green blue Armenian Artist VATCHE
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Artist’s Statement “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝟷) 𝘔𝘺 “𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩” 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨; 𝟸) 𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵; 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝟹) 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 "𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵", 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦.” 𝘝𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘶𝘷𝘥𝘫𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Provenance: The artist's private collection "Origins" 2015 A colorful, abstract, surrealist oil painting by an Armenian Artist...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Carl Morris. “Untitled” is an abstract expressionist painting, acrylic on canvas in yellows and greens by American artist Carl Morris. The artwork is signed in the lowe...
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Late 20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

New Canabis
Located in New York, NY
Isabel Peña New Canabis, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 70.80h x 35.40w in 179.83h x 89.92w cm
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Musical Tree
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: The dreamyness of music in a small format. Keywords: tree, water, eighth note
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Toy Room, Gabriela Lukschal
Located in Porto, 13
76 x 72 cm without the frame 93 x 97 cm with the frame Toy Room (2022) – Acrylic on Canvas Dimensions: 96.5 x 93 x 3 cm (38 x 36.6 x 1.2 in) Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Condition: Exc...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. ""Untitled"" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas in greens by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower right, ""Jae Kon Park 92"". Born in South Korea, Park Jae Kon...
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Late 20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

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Oil

White Field
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Carl Morris. “White Field” is an abstract expressionist painting, acrylic on canvas in yellows, whites, and browns by American artist Carl Morris. The artwork is signed in the lower left. Born in Yorba Linda, Calif., in 1911, Carl Morris studied at the Chicago Art Institute, as well as in Vienna and Paris, before he became director of the Spokane Art Center in Washington and, eventually, the most important painter to establish himself in Oregon. From an aesthetic perspective, he fit in with the New York School painters was counted Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, as well as the Northwest School...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. "Untitled" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas in cream and gold by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "Ja...
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Late 20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. ""Untitled"" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas in greens and oranges by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower left, ""Jae Kon Park, 92"". Born in South Korea, Park Jae Kon (1937 – 1993) attended Seoul National University of Fine Art. Not long after graduating, Park Jae Kon left Korea with his wife and two daughters. He and his family traveled widely, eventually settling in Argentina. He spent the rest of his life in South America, traveling to various regions and using the landscape and cultural history as inspiration for his artworks. As an artist, his output spanned various media, styles, and subject matter, producing work that ranged from gestural abstract expressionism and typographic woodcuts. Throughout his career, travel continued to inspire him. Park Jae Kon created abstract landscapes that reflect the colors and light of the Andes Mountains and geometric abstractions that incorporate iconography from the South America’s ancient civilizations. Park Jae Kon himself found a deep spiritual resonance with South American and Indian cultural history, and his work captures this personal connection to Aztec, Incan, and Hindu iconography. In his later work, Park Jae Kon attempted to reconcile his Korean identity with his adopted homeland of South America. These works often combine the colors and patterns of ancient Incan and Aztec art...
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Late 20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. ""Untitled"" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas in grays and blues by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower right, ...
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Late 20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. "Untitled" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas by Korean artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "Je Kon park 92". Born in South...
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Late 20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. "Untitled" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas in a colorful palette of blues, oranges, yellows, and greens by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "Jae Kon Park 92". Born in South Korea, Park Jae Kon...
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Late 20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled No. 7
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled No. 7" is an abstract Post War acrylic, pencil and gesso on canvas by Agnes Martin in 1974. The artwork is 72 x 72 inches and, with the frame, is 72 3/8 x 72 3/8 x 1 1/2 in...
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20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic, Pencil

"Pink Garden" Gerome Kamrowski, American Surrealist 1947 Expressive Abstraction
Located in New York, NY
Gerome Kamrowski Pink Garden, 1947 Signed lower left Watercolor on paper 22 x 30 inches Gerome Kamrowski was born in Warren, Minnesota, on January 19, 1914. In 1932 he enrolled in ...
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1940s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Surrealist Collection Number 5. Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sax Berlin has embarked on a journey through Surrealism. This collection writhes & flows from his "Billion Dollar Hand" creating a complexity of interwoven rhythms. Berlin has been e...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Passed life
Located in New York, NY
With his works included in the permanent collection at the Norton and the New Britain Museum, Drew Tal’s successful career has been nothing but a soaring ascension into the global ar...
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Early 2000s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Photogram

Starry, Starry, Starry
Located in New York, NY
Dionisios Fragias is a New York -based artist born on the Greek island of Kefalonia and raised in New York City. He is the protege of the artist Jeff Koons whose years-long mentorshi...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Figure in Gray, Abstract Oil Painting on Burlap by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
Gray Area Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980) Date: circa 1960 Oil on Burlap, signed Size: 18 x 15 in. (45.72 x 38.1 cm) Frame Size: 23.5 x 20 inches
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Burlap, Oil

"Season of the Brilliant Purple Sky, " Acrylic on Canvas - Abstract Surrealism
Located in Houston, TX
The burning of desire and the subsequent extinction of the flames leads to purification of the soul. Artwork Details: Tawatchai Somkong "Season of the Brilliant Purple Sky" 1998 ...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Royal Palms
Located in Kansas City, MO
Heather Farrell Title : Royal Palms Materials : Acrylic on canvas Date : 2019 Dimensions : 4' x 5'. (48 x 60 in.) Signed, COA provided Heather Farrell wor...
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2010s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Porteuse - Léopold Survage, modern, abstract, portrait, french, bright, surreal
Located in London, GB
Léopold Survage (1879-1968) Porteuse 1962 oil on canvas 100 x 81.3 cm signed and dated ‘Survage. 48.’ (lower right) Price: $63,000 USD (inc. 5% UK imp...
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman in a Rowboat
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Willem de Kooning. "Woman in a Rowboat" is an abstract, oil on paper laid on masonite painting executed in a lush and swirling palette primarily of greens, whites, beiges and yellow and depicting an abstracted, nude woman in a boat by Post War artist Willem de Kooning. "Woman in a Rowboat" is a seminal work by de Kooning that has a new fluidity which relates to his next major series of Woman paintings which he began in 1964. Signed lower left, "de Kooning." Provenance: Allan Stone Gallery, New York Private Collection, New York Private Collection, Arizona Exhibition: North Hampton, Smith College Museum of Art; Cambridge, The New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Willem de Kooning: a Retrospective from Public and Private Collections, April – June 1965 (Cambridge only) New York, Allan Stone Gallery, De Kooning/Cornell, February – March 1965 Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, American Paintings, September - October 1966, cat. no. 26 Dublin, The Royal Dublin Society, Rosc'67:The Poetry of Vision, November – December 1967, p. 201, illustrated Detroit, J.L. Hudson, Willem de Kooning: Three Decades of Painting, March – April 1968, no. 31 (exhibition checklist) Easthampton, Gild Hall...
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1960s Post-War Abstract Paintings

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Masonite, Paper, Oil

Bang, Bang, Banjio
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...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Self-Inflicted
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...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled - Oil on Canvas by Roberto Sebastian Matta - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an original oil on canvas realized by Roberto Sébastian Matta in 1996. It comes with a certificate of authenticity by Matta's son ...
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1990s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Creek Pea
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...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Ore-T-Ba
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...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Dinner in the Sky
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 paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (Edward M. Gomez, "Futuristic Forms Frolic Under Eerie Texan Skies...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

La vigna di una foglia
Located in Malmo, SE
Technique: Terre colorée sur toile de jute. Delivered with the certificate of authenticity from the archives of Roberto Matta. Artwork size: 100 x 100 cm. Frame size: 114 x 112 cm. Free shipment worldwide. Acquired directly from the artist. “The heart is an eye,” writes Nobel laureate Octavio Paz in an essay on Matta’s paintings. Matta creates a world coloured both by a sunny faith in the future and by visions of impending doom. Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Antonio Matta, who died aged 91 on 23 November 2002, was born in Santiago, Chile, on 11 November 1911 into a family with Spanish, French and Basque roots, and raised in an atmosphere of religiosity. By the age of 21 he had graduated and begun work as an architect, but his leisure time he devoted to sketching and painting. In 1933 he travelled to Europe for the first time, visiting Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries, and subsequently taking the initiative to collaborate with the architect, Le Corbusier. As time passed, however, Matta’s enthusiasm for a career in architecture waned, and he began to devote himself full-time to art, making early acquaintances with surrealists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, André Breton and others. Between 1939 and 1948 Matta, like many of his artistic contemporaries, lived in self-imposed exile in the USA, but, after almost 10 years’ absence from Europe, he returned to make first Rome and then, a few years later, Paris his home. Throughout most of the rest of his life Matta commuted between his studio in Paris and his creative refuge in the monastery outside Rome. And it is here, in Italy, that he produced his greatest paintings. Matta’s first retrospective in Sweden was organised in 1956 when his works were exhibited in what was then Galerie Colibri – run by, among others, the artist C O Hultén at number 36 Södra Förstadsgatan in Malmö, Sweden. This was also the time when Matta began to collaborate with poets and other artists in Sweden. He produced the illustrations for Lasse Söderberg’s first anthology of poems, Akrobaterna (“The Acrobats”), published in 1955, and was also responsible for the cover of the Swedish art and literary magazine Salamander. In 1959 the first museum exhibition of Matta’s work in Europe was arranged at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm. Held under the aegis of Pontus Hultén, it was entitled “Fifteen Forms of Doubt” and included 15 or so gigantic paintings...
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1980s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Venus
By Edmond Vandercammen
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an exceptional and rare mixed media watercolor by Belgian artist Edmond Vandercammen. Vandercammen was classically trained and well ...
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1920s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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Watercolor

Portrait of the Genie
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Federico Castellón (1914-1971) was a Spanish-American painter, sculptor, printmaker and illustrator of children's books. Portrait of a Genie, is an original pencil signed etching,...
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Surrealist Abstract Paintings

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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