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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Surrealist
Red Minimal Large Abstract Painting with Bicycles
Located in Houston, TX
Red and yellow tonal minimal abstract painting with bicycles. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner. The canvas board is framed in a gold frame. Dimensions without F...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Blue Mixed Media Painting with Race Cars
Located in Houston, TX
Primary tonal painting with toy cars attached to the surface. The work is signed by the artist, Francis d'Estaing, in the bottom corner of the painting. The artist board is framed in...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Face and Chinese Calligraphy
By Huang Gang
Located in Missouri, MO
Huang Gang (b. 1961) "Face with Chinese Calligraphy" Mixed Media including Gold Gilding, Decoupage, Oil on Panel approx 23.5 x 23.5 inches Huang Gang 黄钢 Hu...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Maelstrom
By Edith Stone Philips
Located in Missouri, MO
Edith Stone Philips (American 1900-1988) "Maelstrom" 1965 Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 inches Signed and Dated Lower Left EDITH STONE PHILIPS, 88 St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) - Sunday, Oc...
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1960s American Modern 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

Materials

Linen, Oil

Figurative Abstract
Located in Missouri, MO
Ernest Tino Trova "Figurative Abstract" 1965 Oil on Canvas approx 17 x 12.5 inches Signed and Dated Lower Right Known for his Falling Man series in abstract figural sculpture, he cr...
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1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Flop
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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1980s Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

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

Squared
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a just discovered mixed media painting by American artist Robert McIntosh, (1916-2010.) Squared, is an original mixed media oil on canvas board, signed, c.1958 with an i...
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1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

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

Eyrie
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower right: "Kainen". Inscribed verso: "J. Kainen/ Eyrie- Dec 1949".
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1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

William Rosewood - Stigmata - Oil and Gold
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
William Rosewood - Stigmata Medium: Oil on panel Casted in Gold 24 Karat Dimension: Diameter: 120 cm (Framed 130cm) William Rosewood is a talented artist who has discovered th...
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2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gold, Gold Leaf

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

Materials

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

Materials

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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