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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1990s
Edge of Summer
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper

Graysland
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 Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract Shapes
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Josef Presser (Poland, United States, 1907 - 1967) Abstracted Shapes signed in red lower right 19 ¾ ” x 14 3/4” 25 1/4 ” x 20 1/4” Medium: Gouache on paper Provenance: Woodstock, NY About Josef Presser was born in Lublin, Poland. He studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and in Europe, with Bryant Baker...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
ca. 1965 Acrylic on canvas 54 1/4 x 54 in. (137.8 x 137.2 cm) Signed, verso
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1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Paper

"Jour D'Orage, la Garde (Var), Mai 1921 (Stormy Day)" Louis Pastour
Located in SANTA FE, NM
This painting is bright and cheery and the jewel-tone colors are superb. "Jour d'Orage, La Garde (Var) (Stormy Day) 1921" Louis Pastour (France, 1876-1...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Panel

The Flowers: Guzmania. Circa 1963. Signed Giandante X. Milan.
Located in Firenze, IT
The Flowers: Guzmania. Circa 1963. Signed Giandante X, a painter born in Milan in 1899 and died in 1984. Milano. Measurements without the frame: 50 x 35 cm. On the back is a pho...
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1960s Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Tempera

Signed Impressionist Italian Oil Painting of Lake Como Framed Original
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist painting of Lake Como, Italy. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
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1960s Impressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
Pastel on paper The German-born American Abstractionist Carl Robert Holty became known for his biomorphic abstract forms as well as his geometric abstractions that he painted with a ...
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1930s Bauhaus Abstract Paintings

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Pastel

American Impressionist Coastal Seascape Framed Nautical Sailboat Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted impressionist seascape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
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1980s Impressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"The Sheepfold in the Hills" by Toussaint Ambrogiani d'Orcino (1913-1986)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"The Sheepfold in the Hills" Toussaint Ambrogiani d'Orcino (France, 1913-1986) Oil on canvas Signed lower right 20 x 26 (27 x 33 frame) inches T...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Signed Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract expressionist painting. Framed in a silver modernist molding. Signed lower right.
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Modernist Cubist Abstract Seascape Framed Fish Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive early American modernist abstract still life. Oil on board. Framed.
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1960s Cubist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

La fenetre a Meneaux - French Cubist Landscape Oil Painting by Andre Lhote
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on canvas landscape by French cubist painter André Lhote. The piece depicts a view of a mountainous landscape from a Mullion window - a decorative with a vertica...
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1950s Cubist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Modernist Interior Scene Framed Abstract Art Studio Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed.
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1960s Cubist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed.
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ireland Landscape Rocky Cliffs with Castle on the Northern Irish Sea Coastline
Located in Preston, GB
Ireland Landscape Rocky Cliffs with Castle on the Northern Irish Sea Coastline, by 20th Century Irish Australian Artist, Henry McLaughlin. Art measures 10 x 8 inches Frame measure...
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1980s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

'The Hill Dwellers'
Located in Cambridge, GB
The Hill Dwellers' JOHN BOLAM, 1922-2009 Oil on board, 1959, signed and inscribed verso. John Bolam is seen by many as following in the path of the neo-Romantics, most notabl...
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1950s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Mid Century Modern American Abstract Figurative Surreal Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstracted figurative painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found. Great color and composition. Nicely framed in a period modernist molding.
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1960s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Modernist Horse Carousel Animal Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really impressive early American modernist painting. Oil on board. Framed.
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1940s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Cubist Still Life', Italian School (circa 1940s)
Located in London, GB
'Cubist Still Life', gouache on paper, from the Italian School of artists (circa 1940s). Surely this very attractive piece was inspired by Juan Gris (1887-1927) and Georges Braque's ...
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1940s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

L. S. F. vibrant abstract expressionist painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 L. S. F., 1980 acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas signed lower right, dated and titled verso 48 x 65 inches 48.75 x 65.75 inches, framed R...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic

Untitled abstract expressionist mid-century painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 Untitled, c. 1950 oil on masonite 8 x 10 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

The King, abstract expressionist painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 The King of Diamonds Accepts Challenges, 1982 acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 47.5 x 47.5 in...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic

Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 Untitled, c. 1980 acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas 30 x 34 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of th...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic

Latin American Cuban Painting by Julio Antonio Devoroción (Devotion), 1992
Located in Washington, DC
Major painting by Cuban/American artist Julio Antonio (b. 1950). Painting is acrylic on canvas and titled "Devoroción". Painting is signed and dated 1992. Measures: 70" W x 78" H. ...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

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...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic

Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 Untitled, c. 1980 acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas signed lower right 24 x 20 inches 25 x 21 inches, framed Richard Andres was born in B...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic

Fragment, abstract expressionist mid-century painting, Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 oil on canvas signed and titled verso 19.5 x 24 inches 20 x 25 inches, framed Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of ...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 Untitled, c. 1980 acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas 12 x 10 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of th...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic

Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas 12 x 10 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Instit...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic

Untitled abstract expressionist oil painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
RICHARD ANDRES American, 1927–2013 Untitled, c. 1950 oil on canvas signed lower left 10 x 7 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Clevelan...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a Stylish 1960's Lady, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Stylish Lady French School, Mid 20th Century Oil painting on canvas, framed Signed by the artist on the lower right hand corner Frame size: 26.5 x 22 inches Stylish ex...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

L.O.F.Q. composition.
Located in Como, IT
Giuseppe Minoretti (Erba, Como - 1938) L.O.F.Q. composition. Acrylic on Canvas 1983 Size: 30x30 cm - thickness 3 cm (52 x 52 x 6.5 including frame) Invisible glass Giuseppe Minoret...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic Polymer

Antique Italian Impressionist Framed St Marks Square Early Detailed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive early Italian impressionist framed view of St. Mark's in Venice. Oil on board. Framed. No signature found.
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1920s Impressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman Artist Signed Amercan Modernist Framed Abstract Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract minimalist painting. Signed vero. Framed.
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1960s Cubist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Tonalist Abstract'
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Fink' for Ray Fink (American, 1922-1998) and painted circa 1985. A substantial and lyrical oil by this well-listed American Abstractionist who studied at the Ar...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Plaster, Oil

'Radiant Muse: Inspired Cubist Portrait', German School (circa 1970s)
Located in London, GB
'Radiant Muse: Inspired Cubist Portrait', oil on board, the German School (circa 1970s). A very alluring painting with warm earth tone hues both vibrant and muted. Clearly inspired b...
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1970s Cubist Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Daniel Brush Painting, 1973
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Daniel Brush (1947-2022). Signed and dated 73'. Aquatec pigments, mediums and gels on board. Measures 60" x 10". Exhibited at the Phillips Collection, 1974 when Dan...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Board

"Raphael - the Greatest Humanist..." Painting 55" x 47" inch by Gosha Ostretsov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Raphael - the Greatest Humanist..." Painting 55" x 47" inch by Gosha Ostretsov Full name: Raphael - the Greatest Humanist of the Future From "Precious Stones of Dissent" series: ...
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20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Cryptic I" Abstract Oil Painting 28" x 39" inch (1965) by Zaccaria Zeini
Located in Culver City, CA
"Cryptic I" Abstract Oil Painting 28" x 39" inch (1965) by Zaccaria Zeini Medium: oil on canvas Signed and dated Comes in old, original frame Zaccaria El Zeini (1932 - 1993) was ...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Emancipation" Painting 25" x 20" inch (1997) by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Emancipation" Painting 25" x 20" inch (1997) by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak Emancipation, 1997 Ink & Acrylic on Paper. Signed & dated The selection of Abd Elmalak’s drawings is reflectiv...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic

"Seclusion II" Abstract Oil Painting 31.5" x 39" inch (1974) by Zaccaria Zeini
Located in Culver City, CA
"Seclusion II" Abstract Oil Painting 31.5" x 39" inch (1974) by Zaccaria Zeini Medium: oil on canvas Signed and dated Zaccaria El Zeini (1932 - 1993) was raised in the popular di...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

20th Century French Modernist Signed Oil Rolling Waves at Sea Turquoise & Purple
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Sea by Louis Eugene Glasser (French b. 1897) signed oil on board, framed framed: 22.5 x 29.5 inches board: 17.5 x 24.5 inches provenance: priv...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

"Abstract Composition" Painting Pastel on Paper 14" x 18" in by Mohammed Ismail
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition" Painting Pastel on Paper 14" x 18" in by Mohammed Ismail 1989 Signed and Dated ABOUT THE ARTIST Mohammed Ismail (1936-1993) Dr. Mohamed Ismail was born in...
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20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

"Kiln" Abstract Oil Painting 26" x 20" inch (1981) by Zaccaria Zeini
Located in Culver City, CA
"Kiln" Abstract Oil Painting 26" x 20" inch (1981) by Zaccaria Zeini Medium: oil on canvas Signed and dated Zaccaria El Zeini (1932 - 1993) was raised in the popular district of ...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Untitled 6" Painting 12" x 18" inch by Gosha Ostretsov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 6" Painting 12" x 18" inch by Gosha Ostretsov Born in 1967, in Moscow Lived in Paris for ten years (1988 - 1998), now lives and works in Moscow. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: The...
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20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Fisherman" Oil painting 12" x 16" inch by Fathi Afifi
Located in Culver City, CA
"Fisherman" Oil painting 12" x 16" inch by Fathi Afifi Fathy Afifi is an Egyptian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1950. He participated in local and international exh...
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20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Terres Rouges
Located in Austin, TX
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...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Totem/Pink - bright, colourful, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canadian artist Milly Ristvedt has been exploring the power of both colour and form for more than four decades. She is considered a master colourist. Art Critic Barry Lord (Art in America) declared that Ristvedt’s paintings were ‘more insistent than Bush, more consciously structured than Molinari.’ In this gorgeous abstract piece, sky blue, orange-red, yellow, black, white and green markings form an engaging vertical composition. Blush pink provides a fresh, modern backdrop. “Colour is the philosopher’s stone that for me represents hope in a time of great challenge for us all.” Milly Ristvedt Born in British Columbia, Ristvedt studied at the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr University) and had her first solo exhibit at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto. In the late 1960s, Ristvedt shared a studio with famed Canadian painter Jack Bush, met art critic Clement Greenberg and was inspired by American painters Jules Olitiski...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Venus" Painting 31.5" x 27.5" inch by Gosha Ostretsov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Venus" Painting 31.5" x 27.5" inch by Gosha Ostretsov Acrylic & enamel on canvas Born in 1967, in Moscow Lived in Paris for ten years (1988 - 1998), now lives and works in Moscow....
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20th Century Pop Art Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Systema Solar, Large Abstract Painting by Leonardo Nierman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Large early oil painting by noted Mexican abstract artist Leonardo Nierman (1932 - ), signed lower right. Systema Solar Leonardo Nierman, Me...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

"Nineteen" Thomas Downing, Purple Washington Color School Design, Shaped Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Victor Downing (1928 - 1985) Nineteen, 1968 Acrylic on canvas 35 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches Signed on the reverse Provenance: Estate of the artist Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C. Private Collection, Washington, D.C. Thomas Downing was born in Suffolk, Virginia. In 1950, after graduating from Pratt Institute in New York City, he received a grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art to study in Europe. Upon returning from Europe, he settled in Washington, DC to teach at Catholic University. In 1954 Downing became a friend of Kenneth Noland, whose life drawing course he attended. From 1955 to 1956 Downing shared a studio with Howard Mehring, another artist who came to be identified with the Washington Color School. Downing had his first one-man show at the Washington Workshop Center for the Arts in 1959. That year, Downing, Mehring, and Betty Pajac founded Origio, a cooperative art gallery in Washington. In 1959 Downing first began using the small dot in his work, a motif he explored fully into the 1970s. In the early works colorful dots determined the structure of the painting in their size, position, and repetition within a grid. Often there was a sense of concentration and expansion of the composition from the center to the edge of the canvas, achieving a visual impression of expanding open space. Looking for the fusion between the grid and color, Downing eliminated overlapping dots in 1962. The dots arranged in grids seem to project from the canvas surface, giving the impression the color floats unrestricted by the square format of his paintings. Downing’s position in the Washington Color School came from his consistent approach to color. The canvas was the receptacle of color, on which Downing often worked in tonal modulations of a hue. Downing developed shaped canvases in 1966 as a structural solution to his deeper consideration of the “spatial definition” of color. After first working in a parallelogram shape, Downing next worked in chevron-shaped canvases that examined the illusionistic qualities of color. He exhibited these works in a solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery in 1966-1967 and later at the Allan Stone Gallery in New York in 1967. Downing’s second series of shaped canvases titled Folds were created in 1968. In the Fold series he discovered a new effect of relief and spatial depth within a flat work that could be enhanced by color. The projections and folding in the Fold paintings suggest the paintings exist in a world without gravity. Downing exhibited in a group show at Jefferson Place Gallery in 1960 and had his first solo exhibition there in the spring of 1961. Downing had solo exhibitions in New York at Allan Stone Gallery in 1962, 1967, and 1968. He also had solo exhibition in New York at Stable Gallery in September 1963 and January 1965. In the early 1970s Downing had regular solo exhibitions at the Pyramid Galleries in DC. In the 1960s Downing was included in important museum exhibitions, including: Post Painterly Abstraction at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1964 (Clement Greenberg curated and included three of Downing’s dial paintings); The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art, 1965; Colorists, 1950-1965 at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1965; Systemic Painting at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966; and Color Field Painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1970. Thomas Downing: Recent Paintings was held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in December 1966 - January 1967. A solo exhibition of his paintings from 1962 to 1968 was held at the La Jolla Museum of Art then travelled to the Phoenix Art Museum in 1968. Downing had a solo exhibition at the Phillips Collection in 1985. Downing taught at the Corcoran School of Art and Design, Washington, DC from 1965 to 1968. There he was influential for the next generation of DC color...
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1960s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract Composition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Aaron Levy was born in New York City in 1899. After retiring in 1951 from a career as president of E. Milius & Company, a textile company, Levy began a new career as a fine artist. ...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

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...
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Head Spin - Dark shades with accents of bright blue, green, turquoise, and pink
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A dark, ethereal, plum purple field hosts accents of bright blue, green, turquoise, and pink in this large-scale abstract painting by Milly Ristvedt. Thinly threaded above the field ...
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Triptych Abstract Forest Trees Landscape Painting by British Urban Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Early Triptych Abstract Trees Forest Landscape Painting by British Urban Artist, Angela Wakefield. This rare early work is from an intense body of abstract work that formed the very ...
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Gesso, Paint, Varnish, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Wood, Board, Wood Panel

The Bridge at Argenteuil Large French Impressionist Oil Painting after Monet
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Bridge at Argenteuil a copy after the earlier, original painting by Claude Monet oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 20 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, south west of Eng...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Abstract Paintings

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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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