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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Style: Abstract
Style: Expressionist
Landscape #22
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jennifer Wolf grew up in Southern California hiking the Santa Ynez and Santa Monica Mountains. This intimate connection with the landscape led Wolf to explore using the earthen colo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Violet III
Located in SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE, FR
Collection personnelle de l'artiste Monique Frydman.
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Pigment

Paisaje
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Gravitational Push
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Seeking to evolve the way in which she collaborates with nature, Jennifer Wolf’s most recent series of works combine her signature flow process with innovative new layers of painterl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

One Dimensions
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Seeking to evolve the way in which she collaborates with nature, Jennifer Wolf’s most recent series of works combine her signature flow process with innovative new layers of painterl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Lumen 61
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Painting from the Series LUMEN, part of the show at the Casa de As Quintas Art Center in Spain in July 2023. The piece appears in the catalog of the show.
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2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled 2002
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Somewhere Between Time and Space
Located in Santa Monica, CA
These daily drawings are a meditation on the moment as a process to make space for the current pandemic on a personal and collective experience.
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Ogeeche Lament
Located in ATLANTA, GA
You meet the Spanish artist Alexandro Santana and you think, cripes, can he be for real? So handsome, so flamboyant, so seductive, so amusing -- you’re not sure whether it’s intentional or inadvertent. And then you discover he is the son of a notorious Dominican admiral, that the tyrannical dictator Trujillo was best man at his parents’ wedding, that his mother was a fabled high-society beauty, that he grew up on battleships and estancias before going, inevitably, to Brown. Even more surprisingly, Santana stayed in Providence for graduate studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received his degree in architecture, soon plying his trade in Manhattan and his adopted city of Savannah, where he eventually set up his own firm. Astonishingly, in this era of CAD, he draws every detail entirely by hand. Considering his tweeds, his bow ties, his drawl and debonair dress, it is perhaps not surprising to learn that Santana’s architectural taste is strongly neo-classical, inspired by the vernacular Palladianism of antebellum Georgia, with of course a touch of the Postmodern. Santana’s detailed and decorous architectural plans for his clients are complemented by drawings created for solely for himself -- exotic imaginary cityscapes and urban fantasias, like the dreams of Sir John Soane channeled through Aldo Rossi or John Hejduk...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled (balcony III), 2022, colorful, abstract, architectural painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In her “Balcony” series paintings, Lucía Rodríguez Pérez uses an same architectural mindset by constructing images of pillars and the surrounding sky by skillfully manipulating color to create the illusion of natural light. While architects and artists cannot manipulate natural light, she masterfully blends colors in her palette to create a complex yet subtle gradient that evokes the feeling of a sunset or sunrise. Each “Balcony” painting...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pink Cloud
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

'PS06' Abstract Expressionist, Scandi artwork, grey silky fabric base palo santo
Located in Lahti, FI
'PS06' is a reminder that today happens only today, everything in life and beyond happens right in this moment. The Universe is full of endless possibilities for us. Get ready to rec...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Fabric, Spray Paint

Wave Rider, 79, 2019
Located in Quogue, NY
Powdered pigments with microcrystalline oilsticks
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Bachantata
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Lithograph

Out the Gate
Located in Fresno, CA
It’s 1963. I’ve quit my teaching job ($4,000 a year) at Fresno High to try working full time as a commercial artist. Got a new home (Trend Homes by Spano, $12,000). Decide my birthday party needs a bottle of red wine (about a half gallon of Gallo Chianti, the kind in a husk basket because I think it will look good with my books on their plank and cinderblock book case. I drive a couple blocks to Jackson Jones Liquor on the corner of Shields and West, park an old gray Chevy sedan I’ve named Moby, walk in, head straight for the wine display...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Verde
Located in Barcelona, ES
original and certificated by gallery
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1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper

"Doubletrance"
Located in Toronto, ON
Jeremy Hoffeld's work plays with ambiguity, and subverts the notion that one must choose between "abstraction and figuration, the new and the borrowed or even clichéd, the bright and the muddy, the natural/primordial and the synthetic/modern." For Hoffeld, "paintings, both abstract and figurative, have always been linked with music and literature. He aims to infuse his paintings with...improvisation, spontaneity, and energy." Hoffeld has had several solo shows since 2006 at galleries in New York including John Davis Gallery, Varga Gallery, Sky-Tree Gallery and Art Center, and the Catskills Gallery, as well as Galerie Hugo Cassel in Berlin and the Emily Harding Gallery...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

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

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Enamel

Holidays
Located in ARANJUEZ, ES
« I believe painting is all about gesture and flow. Painting is nowness. » I wanted to represent the magnificent of the oak trees ,how they grow as island in the landscape and creat...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil Crayon, Ink, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Purple In Bloom
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Acrylic on canvas with whispers of glitter coated with heavy resin.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Resin, Glitter, Ink, Acrylic

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas

untitle
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Donatella Violi was born in Ovada (AL), moved to Milan and subsequently to Reggio Emilia. As she was taking lessons at the Institute of Science, she wa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

L7
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

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Oil

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 Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

FRACTAL #008
Located in Marrakech, MA
Adhesives on galvanized sheet 3 layers satin varnish Thickness 4cm Signed on the back
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Metal

Astillero
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Encaustic and oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Encaustic, Oil

Healing Circle
Located in Santa Monica, CA
These daily drawings are a meditation on the moment as a process to make space for the current pandemic on a personal and collective experience.
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

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

Baram 14
Located in Goyang-si, KR
The word "Baram" has two meanings in Korean: "wish (feel or express a strong desire or hope for something that is not easily attainable)" and "wind (the perceptible natural movement of the air)." The "Baram Series" portrays the moment of the air that's stopped in a simple two-dimensional form. Thus, the wind in the Baram Series represents the "present", which means the wind that has already blown represents the "past", and the wind that is about to blow represents the "future". Our wind in the past may be calm or turbulent. Regardless, the present is filled with hope, strongly wishing for the future wind to guide us to happiness. Maybe, these winds in our lives are dictated by our choices, and Baram Series embodies wish to deliver hope to all viewers facing the winds of their choices. <Geonwoo Lee...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Shanghái
Located in ARANJUEZ, ES
« I believe painting is all about gesture and flow. Painting is nowness. » An abstract painting for Shanghái city .Acrylic medium with Chinese ink and pencil to write the memories o...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil Crayon, Ink, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Apaños y Remiendos
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Rosarito
Located in Fresno, CA
I believe a painting (story) must have an initial dramatic impact and at second glance should include tantalizing nuances of drawing (plotting) and gestures (conflict) to stay alive....
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic

Memories
Located in ARANJUEZ, ES
She did paint a lot about the small fishermen villages on the South East of Asia that today are big cities. She is fascinated by the idea of that past and that memories under the ski...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Contemporary Geometric Abstraction- Mixed Media Painting-411010202
Located in Beijing, CN
Description: Liu Gang(b.1965) 440201202 water-based and oil-based pigments on rice paper 138.6 by 290 cm Dated 2020 mounted and framed The artwork comes wi...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

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Rice Paper, Pigment

The scribe 2
Located in Lagos, NG
This abstract painting is illustrating the ancient writer symbols and drawing attention to the accient writer acrylic on canvas on 100x80 cm canvas
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Pen

Contemporary Geometric Abstraction- Mixed Media Painting-480309102
Located in Beijing, CN
Description: Liu Gang(b.1965) 480309102 water-based and oil-based pigments on rice paper 146.5 by 145.2 cm Dated 2019 mounted and framed The artwork comes ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

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Rice Paper, Pigment

Shigoto
Located in Fresno, CA
Shortly before Walt Esslinger died a few years ago, we talked in his small yellow painted studio in Bakersfield. Sixteen years my senior, he’d been my close friend, mentor and running mate since 1960. “You still writing?” he asked. “Yes,” I answered, taking in the space’s renovations he’d recently sub-contracted. Ninety one years old, and he was thinking ahead. “Do me a favor,” he said. “Write the Andy Warhol story.” Walt was a Central Valley guy, an L.A. guy, a Las Vegas guy. A man who knew his way around. “I want you to put on record what happened back then when I bought the soup can painting.” Back then was the fall of 1962. The two of us had been exhibiting our paintings in the L.A. Art Institute’s gallery for locals only. Walt had given legendary Ad Rhinehardt a story about how he and I had been working in both Edward Kienholz’s and John Altoon’s studios (false—we’d only been visiting). One morning, the Institute’s Director, who hadn’t suspected us to be charlatans yet, introduced us to a reed thin, tow headed young man leaning against the main gallery’s wall. “Meet Andy Warhola,” he said. “Andy is from New York.” “Warhol,” the boy/man said. “Painter?” Walt asked him. “Shoe Illustrator.” The director made a snorting noise I took to mean that Warhola or Warhol’s modesty was posed. He mentioned something about Andy having a show on the La Cienega strip of galleries. We exchanged mumbles about how the art world was in flux, nothing more than that, and Walt and I moved on. If this strange cat had anything to look at, we’d see it. It was a Monday, and La Cienega’s twenty some galleries would be opening new shows and serving champagne that evening. North La Cienega Avenue, laid over a network of oil veins decades before, had become the street for the Cool School, a group of artists and gallery people trying to bring Los Angeles’s art scene to life. The galleries were small but proud. Sure, Jazz was born on the Delta and raised in New Orleans, St, Luis and Chicago, but L.A. had fifty-three jazz joints according to Chet Baker, who’d blown with the best. Why then should the West Coast be lagging behind New York in the other truly American expression, abstract art? At the Ferus Gallery that night we found Warhol’s exhibit. “Shit,” I said. Walt grinned. “You no like?” “Not exactly my can of soup,” I said, peeking into the small space, loaded now wall to wall with paintings of Campbell’s Tomato Soup. Walt stepped into the space. “How about the idea of it?” I made my way through spectators looking at once to be confused, amused, enthused and abused. When I came back to Walt he was still smiling. “Why didn’t he silk screen ‘em?” I asked. “That’s probably his next move,” Walt said. “You wanna stay?” Walt’s keen eyes cased the joint. “I see Irving Bloom over there,” he said. “Believe I’ll stick around and talk with him.” Bloom had been operating this popular gallery for some time now. “One hundred a month,” he’d told me. “It’s not like I’m getting rich.” I stood around for a bit, heard a fellow abstract expressionist I’d met tell a young lady who looked to be lost, “Okay that’s the soup. Come with me, baby, and I’ll show you the juice.” Two doors down I stopped at the Primus-Stuart Gallery. A group of people had gathered around a display of soup cans, stacked grocer’s pyramid style in the window. All Campbell’s. All Tomato. A sign leaning against the grouping stated: “Get the real thing. Thirty cents each.” That’s the way it was. Twenty-four galleries forming a gauntlet between La Cienega’s 300 block, all the way up to Barney’s Beanery at the corner of Santa Monica. Hollywood types dressed to the nines, Beats dressed for the times just gone. Champagne popping...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Oil

Inscription #06
Located in Antwerpen, VAN
Starting with inspiration from the visible world around him, Saleh Mohammadi reaches beyond the tangible and reproduces his own mind's eye. Geometric shapes with a reference to the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

White Diamond Red Ground
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Always fascinated by the uncertainty of human perception, and the duplicitous nature of vision, which can be both revealing and deceitful, Lodato creates paintings that delve into th...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"RED PLANET"
Located in SAINT-ALPINIEN, FR
Acrylic on stretched canvas 80X60 cm Abstract expressionism. Pollock Style. Action painting. Drip painting. Artiste internationale, reconnue dans le mouvement de l'expressionisme ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

All The Old Familiar Places
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic

Sonata #16
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

exploration, abstract painting, oil, expressionism, monochrome, contemporary
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
"Sophie Dumont's painting, 'Exploration of the Absolute,' unfolds as a visual meditation on the depths of human existence, taking the library as its point of departure. In this abstr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Sunset Coming, Abstract Seascape, Original Landscape Painting, Framed Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Stormy Skies is an original landscape painting by Stephen Kinder. The painting has a strong gestural composition and loose brushwork, which heightens the changing light, and tide. A...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Abstract Sky - Oil Painting 201s by Giorgio Lo Fermo
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Sky is an original oil on canvas on canvas realized by Giorgio Lo Fermo in the 2000s. Hand-signed by the artist on the back. The artwork represents an abstract landscape:...
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2010s Abstract 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

Lodos
Located in Pampilhosa da Serra, PT
Eliz Gündüz, a visionary artist born in Antalya in 2001, is a rising star in the world of abstract expressionism. Her artistic journey is an enchanting exploration of the intricate i...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Acrylic

"Vase with pink roses"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This oil painting makes part of my series dedicated to the scenes of a summer period. This abstract vibrant floral painting called "Vase with pink roses...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Porthtowan winter swimmers, beach, costal, swimming, Cornwall, people, nature
Located in Deddington, GB
Porthtowan winter swimmers is an Original painting by Eleanor Woolley Painted on the beach in Porthtowan this painting depicts some cold water swimmers braving the water. The headlan...
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2010s Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

legendes, multicolor oil on canvas, books, abstract; contemporary expressionism
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
On this captivating canvas, measuring approximately 13.8 x 10.6 inches and framed at approximately 16.5 x 13.4 inches, geometric shapes engage in a vibrant dance, evoking the richnes...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

"Margarita Time!" - Abstract, Modern, Bold, Warm Fuchsia, Teal, Green
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Sip on the Vibrant Vibes of 'Margarita Time!' This fun, wild and crazy piece is a fiesta for the eyes. Transport yourself to a tropical paradise and feel the rhythm as you indulge...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Varnish, Acrylic

ABSTRACT Painting Black Lines Canvas by Spanish Artist Alicia Gimeno 2024
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Alicia Gimeno, born in Barcelona (1989), trained in graphic design during her time in Mexico. From the beginning, she was captivated by calligraphy, the gestuality of brush strokes, ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

"Untitled" Calvert Coggeshall, Abstract Expressionism Hard-edge Stripes
Located in New York, NY
Calvert Coggeshall Untitled, circa 1975 Oil on canvas 50 x 40 inches Calvert Coggeshall worked as an abstract painter and interior designer primarily in Maine and New York City. Fro...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

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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