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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Contemporary
Your One Wild and Precious Life - Serene green abstract nature painting
Located in Silverthorne, CO
Jewel-like and richly textured with gold pigment, a poetic song of a painting. Inspired by one of my favorite verses in all poetry, by Mary Oliver in "The Summer Day":
Who made the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Pigment
Die Wand by Emanuel Schulze - Semi-abstract oil painting, earth tones, yellow
Located in Paris, FR
Die Wand is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Emanuel Schulze, dimensions are 70 × 60 cm (27.6 × 23.6 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes with a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gold Never Fades - Impasto Original Thick Paint Textured Heart Artwork on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Coulombe-Bégin's dynamic acrylic on canvas works seek to produce a metamorphic interpretation of the artist's inner identity. Her paintings make ample use of contrasting colors to cr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Immemorial sound #9 by Maho Maeda - Abstract painting, black, canvas and wood
Located in Paris, FR
Immemorial sound #9 is a unique painting by contemporary artist Maho Maeda. This painting is made with acrylic, coloured pencil and ink on cotton canvas and carved wood, dimensions a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil
Holdandhope by Emanuel Schulze - Architecture and landscape oil painting, grey
Located in Paris, FR
Holdandhope is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Emanuel Schulze, dimensions are 80 × 70 cm (31.5 × 27.6 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes with...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
SOUND AND VISION – Budgies by Doris Marten - Installation on vinyl
By Doris Marten
Located in Paris, FR
SOUND AND VISION – Budgies is a unique oil on vinyl installation by German contemporary artist Doris Marten, dimensions are 100 × 100 cm (39.4 × 39.4 in). Every piece is 30 cm in dia...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cherry Lake
Located in Zofingen, AG
This work is part from the Inner Landscapes series in which the landscape is not just depicted, but lived. It becomes like a person — feeling, remembering, changing. Each scene refle...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil
Far from Shore - Contemporary Abstract Pattern Stripes Leaves Blue Peach, 2023
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Contemporary abstract landscape painting in oil on linen mounted on panel with carefully ordered patterns, geometric shapes and delicate lines in bright prismatic colors against an a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
"End of the Trail" Oil on canvas 46x38" Southwest Pop Street Art
Located in Southampton, NY
We are please to announce that we are now representing the Contemporary Pop Art cowboy and cowgirl paintings of the artist Matt Straub. We at the gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Delights 136 - Contemporary Abstract Shapes Pattern Brown Taupe Blue Gold, 2024
By June Glasson
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary painting in ink, gouache and pencil on archival paper is composed of solid shapes surrounded by a pattern of delicate lines and dots in dark brown, taupe, charcoal ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil
Reflection Painting Large Contemporary Striking Bold Invest Blue Abstract Alive
By Karnish Art
Located in Pretoria, Gauteng
Title: Reflection
Painting Large Contemporary Striking Bold Invest Blue Abstract Alive
This work portrays Reflection... Going inward to find solitude in stillness and peace.
Past...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Pastel, Acrylic, Pencil, Stretcher Bars, Spray Paint
Crimson No.8 - contemporary, abstract, marble dust, wax, acrylic on canvas
By Ivo Stoyanov
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This mixed media contemporary abstract composition in a crimson colour is by a Canadian artist.
The uniquely evocative work of Ivo Stoyanov illustrates his interpretation of nature’...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Marble
Shadow 28 September 16:53 - Modern Minimalistic, Lake, Water View Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Black and White Watermark Painting on Canvas, 2024 - 'Orage'
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Moritz Berg is a young german artist born in 1994. He graduated in architecture and urban planning from the university of Stuttgart. He is currently based in Stuttgart, where he crea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Defy - Original Textural Contemporary Abstract Minimalist Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
LE BohemianMuse is an accomplished first-generation Ghanaian-American artist, whose work is informed by her formal education in art and theater at Loyola Marymount University and the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
“Shattered” wall mirror III by Franck K - Stainless steel sculpture, reflection
Located in Paris, FR
“Shattered” wall mirror III is a unique mirror-polished stainless steel sculpture by contemporary artist Franck K, dimensions are 90 × 90 × 13 cm (35.4 × 35.4 × 5.1 in).
The sculptu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Stainless Steel
Klage (Die orangene Stadt)
Located in Wien, 9
In his painting, Robert Hammerstiel is in constant search of the balance and harmony of form. In his drastic reduction to the physical essentials and the colourful placarding, he cre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contrapuntal Painting (3/25) by James Lumsden - Abstract painting, blue, orange
Located in Paris, FR
Contrapuntal Painting (3/25) is a unique acrylic on canvas, gloss finish painting by contemporary artist James Lumsden, dimensions are 40 × 35 cm (15.7 × 13.7 in).
The artwork is sig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
A Day at the Pier - Abstract Textured Colorful Expressive Graffiti Pop Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Amber Goldhammer paints dramatic abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas featuring energetic brushstrokes. Goldhammer uses her contemporary paintings to express...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Diptych: ORBITA #1 and #4. From The Series Orbita
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This artwork depicts a perfectly synchronized dance across an ocean of empty space, inspired by the "Astronomical" section of the Jet Chocolate Bar Natural History Album (1986 editio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Wood, Coating, Ink, Acrylic
Settled - dark, expressive, minimalist, abstracted florals, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Minimal in form and bold in colour this is the Black Velvet Series of paintings by Pat Service. A renowned Canadian landscape artist, these ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Lady Justice" Abstract Figurative Painting 67" x 106" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Lady Justice" Abstract Figurative Painting 67" x 106" inch by Karim Abd Elmalak
Karim Abdel Malak's layered multi-media works are influenced by the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Oil
Large Modernist Figurative Abstract Oil Painting BASKET
By Marlene Bauer
Located in Surfside, FL
A Pacific Northwest native, Bauer was born in Vancouver, Washington, and has maintained a studio in Portland, Oregon since 1976. She attended the Pacific Northwest College of Art and the University of Oregon where she received her M.F.A. Since that time, she has exhibited her work throughout the Northwest while teaching art as an associate professor at Marylhurst University.
Bauer applies her modernist approach to her artwork, and her paintings become a sort of balancing act in reconciling her subjects and her techniques. Teetering between abstraction and representational, Bauer's houses are depicted as simplified forms, exploiting a universal iconography. The recognizable elements in her artwork – trees, buildings – are unconventionally depicted in wide patches of overlapping color, "pulling each painting away from literal interpretation." Marlene Bauer's abstractions stem from her interest in the visual dynamics of a quick impression of a landscape from a moving car or a glance out a window.
The artist has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at the Laura Russo Gallery, the Elizabeth Leach Gallery (both in Portland), and the Davidson Galleries in Seattle. Bauer's artwork is included in many of the region's public and private collections including the King County Regional Justice Center, Bank of America, the City of Portland, the City of Seattle, the Oregon State...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Heart of Gold - Gold Leaves, Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This artist is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant awarded to artists with established abilities, established by the wife of Jackson Pollock. We love the work of this artist bec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Layered Web" Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas, 48x30",
By Vince Coyner
Located in Southampton, NY
Your eye wanders the surface of this painting on canvas by Vince Coyner studying the movement and interactions of dots and stripes and dripped paint. Ther...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Spray Paint
Untitled - Contemporary Expressive Abstract Painting, Conceptual Art
Located in Salzburg, AT
Urszula Wilk – artist statment:
I have always been interested in the idea of infiniteness of a painting and its opposite – that is the physical finiteness of the painting. This phys...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Black Roses Fuck
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Abstract oil painting on canvas and resin. This moody piece has a lot of depth, literally! The layers of paint and resin are built upon each other, the upper layers casting shadows below. The glossy resin over the darker surface also creates a reflective surface. Just off of center is a brighter patch of cerulean emerging from the shades of black and dark grey. This piece can be hung horizontally or vertically. When hung vertically, the word "FUCK" can be read more easily at the bottom of the composition, when horizontal, the lines of the letters hide amongst the stems of the black roses...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Magic - Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Beth Shields is a distinguished abstract artist whose work has captivated collectors and audiences worldwide. Based in Santa Cruz, California, Beth has dedicated her life to artistic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil, Graphite
"Energy Field Generator"
Located in Astoria, NY
Paula Holland (American, b. XX), "Energy Field Generator", Acrylic on Canvas, 1980, signed and dated to verso, descriptive label to verso, unframed. 60" H x 36.25" W. Provenance: Fro...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,300 Sale Price
44% Off
Vulcano - Colorful Contemporary Artwork on Canvas - Original Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Designs, shapes, and colors find a balance between a polite instinct and a domesticated confusion within the Cubist-inspired artworks by Tuscan artist, Federico Pinto Schmid. Partially restraining the seemingly boundless color are bold gestures Pinto Schmid creates with swift confidence. Each painting is meant to communicate a multitude of feelings and styles which can be reorganized infinitely within one's imagination.
This large one-of-a-kind colorful mixed media painting on canvas measures 31 inches high by 28 inches wide. It is stretched, wired, and ready to hang. It is signed by Pinto on the front and back. Free local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and International shipping available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included.
Born in Tuscany and raised between Germany and Italy, Pinto Schmid is influenced by particularly German cubism...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Slippery Pink
Located in Dallas, TX
Allison Gildersleeve addresses the theme of memory, exploring the phenomenon of past and present becoming collapsed or entwined by the emotional experience. Gildersleeve states: “In ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Mid-Century Yellow Mandala, Ovoid Figural Abstract Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904–2000)
Yellow Mandala, c. 1970s
Acrylic on canvas
39 x 36 inches
41 x 38.25 inches, framed
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of natio...
Category
1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Princess of Monaco" Figure in Gown French Haute Couture Pink Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two
Located in New Orleans, LA
AKIHIKO SUGIURA is a Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational painting. A co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$13,125
UNTITLED - Abstract Painting, Blue, White, Yellow Green Color Block
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Douglas Degges (b. Shreveport, LA) is an artist and educator currently based in Mansfield Center, CT where he is an Assistant Professor of Art in Painting and Drawing at the Universi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Here Again
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Nearly Somewhere 015
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fragmented space, examining human demand and the effects of environmental d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Sconia - contemporary abstract textured colorful mixed media painting on canvas
Located in London, GB
John’s artistic influences include the work of Kurt Schwitters, Antonio Tapies, Per Kirkeby and Gerhard Richter and like them John relishes the broad us...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
$2,618 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Abstract Composition, Oil on Canvas, apparently unsigned, stamped "Studio Elfi Schuselka" to verso, unstetched, unframed. 21.5" H x 23.5" W. Prove...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Modernist Still Life with Masks Figures and Draped Fabrics
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Modernist Still Life with Masks Figures and Draped Fabrics
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.25 x 19 inches (height x width)
Pr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
La Fonda (magenta, brown pink)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
«So far, so good, and then...» Acrylic on Canvas by O. F. Hvidsten
Located in Oslo, NO
Signed and dated.
«So far, so good, and then...» was part of O. F. Hvidsten's first solo-exhibition «This will never pass». The works comprising the exhibition is first and foremos...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Skelet II by Pavlína Kvita - Contemporary sculpture, large scale, red
Located in Paris, FR
Skelet II Skelet II is a sculpture by Czech artist Pavlína Kvita. This sculpture is presented on a steel plinth. Weight of the sculpture: 4 kg. Weight of the plinth: 15 kg. Dimension...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Stone, Steel
Sleeping dragon - Abstract green ethereal dramatic nature painting
Located in Silverthorne, CO
I seem like such a calm, ethereal spirit. I float around, head in the clouds, contemplating things like wind and flowers. But every now and again, as I step into the studio and pick ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,588 Sale Price
35% Off
Head of Woman
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Head of Woman, 2018
Christopher Mudgett
Raw and emotional, Head of Woman (2018) is a striking example of the oil paintings created during Christopher Mudgett's "Gray Period." With ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
#22-14 - Abstract Floral Painting with Vivid Color
Located in New York, NY
Annette Davidek creates paintings that look like gorgeous biomes full of naturalistic forms, enticing viewers to enter a domain that is as familiar as it is strange. Variously sugges...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Birch, Oil, Panel
it's freaky friday so... - mw4mw (Atlanta)
Located in New Orleans, LA
paint chip sample mosaic on panel
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlton Scott Sturgill received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Collage of Art in Design ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media
IKON, NO. 386
By Jean Xceron
Located in New York, NY
Jean Xceron is a Greek-born American artist who participated actively in ushering the transition from modernism to Abstract Expressionism in American art. His canvases present a rang...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Omega II' - Contemporary Geometric Abstraction Pixelation - Skull - Bosch
Located in Atlanta, GA
'Omega II' is an abstract pointillist painting featuring hues of tan, ocher, green, brown, pink and black.
Robert Hightower is inspired by the work of Giotto, Hieronymus Bosch, Jean-François Millet, Roger Brown, Howard Arkley and Julian Opie.
This piece is a part of a special immersive gallery installation, “The Apocalypse Simulacra,” which is a narrative presentation of the twilight of humanity, at the fulcrum of extinction by Atlanta-based artist Robert Hightower. Through stage-set constructions, readymade plastic models and paintings, Hightower investigates the duality of right/wrong, good/bad, eternal/ephemeral in light of the imminent end of the Human Epoch. It depicts the ideological origins of corporate greed and power, the reality of wealth distribution in the “American Dream,” and the socio-economic and environmental impacts of that collective greed. After receiving a BFA in sculpture from the University of Georgia, Hightower moved to New York City and participated in The Bronx Museum of the Art’s AIM Fellowship (Artist In the Marketplace). While in New York, his interests expanded to include art installation and the creation of spaces, and has since designed and built many unique homes, penthouses and restaurants throughout the United States. Hightower has returned home to Atlanta and will be presenting his most comprehensive body of work to date, “The Apocalypse Simulacra,” a unique universe of beauty, dichotomy and uncertainty.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The 'Apocalypse Simulacra' is a presentation of the twilight of humanity, at the fulcrum of extinction.
The climate is the subject. The Simulacra is the Theme. First discussed by Plato, the Simulacra is the search for Truth in Duality. Developing into Post-Modernism with Nietzsche’s: truth=Truth. Now with Bauvillard, the Simulacra has evolved beyond Post-Modernism, into the wholesale confusion of the real/fake, the true/false… between reality and hyper-reality. This crumbling, confusing of the truth (not necessarily the Truth) is our Reality.
For over two decades, I have created large format paintings of strip malls, suburban houses and toys. These paintings present singular images flattened-out (almost floating) on color-fields. They create a certain duality - a loving portrait of an inanimate object that would not normally be singled-out for affection. With my latest work, I have added a variety of iconic images: an airplane, a whisky bottle, a woman floating in a pool. The icons are presented in a pixelated or degenerated state. In addition to paintings, I have used adult-size building blocks to create sculptures or three-dimensional paintings. Using a child's toy at an adult-scale gives the building blocks an austere and powerful presence. The building blocks echo the blocks of the pixelated paintings...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Still Life with Yellow Vase Red Curtain and Blue Flowers French Gouache
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Abstract Still Life with Yellow Vase Red Curtain and Blue Flowers French Gouache
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 22.5 x 19 inches (heig...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Blonde Woman
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Blonde Woman, 2017
by Christopher Mudgett
In Blonde Woman (2017), Mudgett presents a striking portrait that pulses with raw emotion, inviting the viewer into an intimate, almost mag...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seeing Egg, Surreal Ovoid Figural Acrylic Painting, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Seeing Egg, c. 1960s
Acrylic on textured paper
30 x 22 inches
38.5 x 30.5 inches, framed
A surrealist mid-century figural abstract pai...
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by Francis Moreau - Remerciement au Ruisseau
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Francis Moreau is a French artist (1940-2021) who lived and worked in Paris, France. Like many others, he wasn't born with a brush from childhood but through hard wor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Everyman"
Located in Astoria, NY
Thea Thalie (American, XX), "Everyman", Oil on Canvas, depicting three veiled women surrounding a semi-nude man, all held by an angelic figure, signed lower left, signed and titled t...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Modernist Abstract Still Life with Bottles Fruit and Yellow Shapes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Modernist Abstract Still Life with Bottles Fruit and Yellow Shapes
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Gouache on artist paper, unframed
Size: 15.5 x 22.25 inches (height x...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
The Magician oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.”
To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.”
Exhibited
1964 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas
This work retains its original frame which measures 54" x 42" x 2"
About this artist: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism.
The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman.
De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
Automatics (milk & honey)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Phyllotaxis 43 by Katherine Warinner Relief Monotype on Paper
Located in Atlanta, GA
Katherine’s delicate and evocative monotypes portray nature’s flora in all its glory, from the most organic trees and branches to airily etched florals. They are the result of a per...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Monotype
Abstract Composition Diptych
Located in Astoria, NY
Robert O'Meara (American, 1957-2024), Abstract Composition, Diptych, Oil on Canvas, signed to verso, with partial frame. Overall: 24.75" H x 36" W. Provenance: From a 333 East 75th S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Few Weeks
Located in Burlingame, CA
Ryan Reynolds’ Continuum series conveys concepts of time and space within a single landscape painting. Reynolds takes his inspiration from Claude Monet’s Rouen Cathedral...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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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