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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Street Art
Day Dream No. 6 (Abstract, Atmospheric, Blush, Contemporary, Gestural, Graffiti)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Katrina Revenaugh Day Dream No. 6 Archival Pigment Ink, Acrylic and Spray Paint on Birch Panel Year: 2020 Size: 12×12in Signed: On Verso COA provided Ref.: 924802-1938 *on Birch Pa...
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2010s Street Art Abstract Paintings

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Birch, Archival Ink, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Panel

Abstract Procession Jewish Wedding Chuppah Oil Painting Modernist Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Abstract Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: United States Sabina Teichman: (1905-1983) Studied at Columbia Univ. (BA, MA), also with Charles J. Martin and A...
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1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Get Happy No. 1 (Abstract, Atmospheric, Blue, Blush, Colorful, Contemporary)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Katrina Revenaugh Get Happy No. 1 Archival Pigment Ink, Acrylic and Spray Paint on Birch Panel Year: 2018 Size: 24×20in Signed: On Verso COA provided Ref.: 924802-1949 *on Birch Pan...
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2010s Street Art Abstract Paintings

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Birch, Archival Ink, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Panel

Large Signed Cubist Abstract Framed Colorful Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Modernist New York City Geometric Architectural Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist cityscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed.
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1940s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Its All Greek to Me
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Aphrodite the Goddess of love and war inspired by South Florida vibrant color theme placed in a playful composition with modern living and motifs with emphasis on the past and presen...
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2010s Street Art Abstract Paintings

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Spray Paint, Acrylic

Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Seascape Framed Female Artist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American signed modernist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24L x 20H.
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1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Framed Modernist Romantic Leaves Falling Waterfall Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso.
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1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Landscape Monogrammed American Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
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1940s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Modern Abstract Landscape Surreal Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 14L x 18H.
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1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Color Stain Signed Mid Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Majorie Shaw Kubach. Oil on canvas. Framed in a minimal white wood frame.
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1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

20th Century French Expressionist Signed Oil Explosion of Colours
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020) signed oil painting on canvas canvas: 15 x 24 inches. All the paintings we have for sale by this artist have come from the artists estate in...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rare Early Antique American School Fauvist Woman Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Framed. Very finely painted and a rare fauvist palette. No signature found.
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1920s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Red & Black French Abstract Expressionist Surrealist Oil Painting 20th century
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition signed by Jack Penouel (French 1936-2018) dated 05' oil on canvas, framed framed: 16 x 16 inches canvas : 15.75 x 15.75 inches proven...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Vintage American Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly.
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1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Miami Graffiti Legend Ahol Sniffs Glue Large Spray Painting on Doors Sculpture
By Ahol Sniffs Glue
Located in Surfside, FL
Ahol Sniffs Glue David Anasagasti (Cuban American, born 1980). An original graffiti painting on found object, produced for the artist's "Geographies Of Trash" movement. The work features the artist's signature purple "sleepy eye...
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Abstract Paintings

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Wood, Mixed Media, Spray Paint

Vintage American Modernist Surreal Landscape Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed "Lee Tang".
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1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Black Face With Sun, 1968
Located in Greenwich, CT
Large Black Face with Sun, 1968 gouache and ink on paper 29.25 x 43" signed and dated "Calder 68" lower right This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York. EXHIBITED Calder, Grand Valley State College, Manitou Gallery, Allendale, Michigan, May 4-June 15, 1969 Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles Gouaches, Drawings from the Michigan Collections, Flint Institute of Arts, February 20- March 27, 1983, no. 47, pp. 30 and 32, illustrated Alexander Calder: Sculpture and Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, April 4-26, 2006 “At the time and practically ever since, the underlying form in my work has been the system of the universe, for that is a rather larger model to work from.” – Alexander Calder, 1951 (‘What Abstract Art Means to Me’, The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, Vol. 18, No. 3, Spring, 1951) Alexander Calder’s interest in cosmology, the philosophical and astronomical systems of the universe, is at the heart of his creative output. The discovery of Pluto in the 1930s was a defining moment that instigated his fascination with the solar system and astronomy. Over the ensuing years he focused on creating entire worlds like ‘Calder’s Circus’ and his ‘Constellations’ sculptures...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Gouache, Paper

Vintage Surreal Signed Nude Figures Framed Original Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract nude landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly.
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Signed Framed Fauvist Landscape Modern Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 36L x 30H.
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1980s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lone Tree in Landscape French Modernist Oil Painting on Canvas 20th century
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Tree by Michel Kritz (French 1925-1994) signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 10.75 x 9 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condition
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Vintage American School Nocturnal Seascape Lighthouse Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract seascape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
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1970s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Exhibited Modernist Abstract Maine Seascape Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist Maine landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 40L x 36H.
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1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
Located in New York, NY
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace Jo Cain (1904 – 2003) We Are All Members of the Human Race: UN Poster Proposal 21 x...
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1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Egg Tempera, Board

Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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1970s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hibiscus Garden, Vertical Modern Still Life in Pastel Tones of Vivid Flowers
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Hibiscus Garden I" is an abstract expressionist painting by Romina Milano where a dance of black gestures unfolds across colorful brushstrokes infused with raw emotion. Romina Mil...
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2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor

Vintage Signed American Modernist Framed Landscape Architectural Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
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1960s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Interesting Tropical Modernist Palm Tree Abstract Vintage Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract tropical oil painting. Oil on board. Framed.
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1940s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Modern Rebels
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Khawam’s work stems from his interest in histories, human emotion, allusions to place, memory, and the ubiquitous fleeting moments of the conscious and unconscious. The recent work h...
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2010s Street Art Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Spray Paint

Fall Flowers - Original Earth Tone Urban Graffiti Floral Street Art on Canvas
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...
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2010s Street Art Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Latex, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Ceremonial Dancers oil and tempera painting by Julio De Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Artwork measures 48" x 30" and framed 56 ¼" x 38 ¼" x 3" Provenance: John Heller Gallery, NYC, circa 1975 (label verso) The artist's daughter Corbino Galleries, Sarasota, FL (1990)...
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1940s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Masonite, Oil, Tempera

Abstract Figurative Painting NY Gallery Label Mystery Painting Colorful 1940
Located in Buffalo, NY
Abstract figurative painting on board. Carl Bredemier label on the reverse. Framed. Oil on board
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1940s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Antique Early American School Modernist Framed Original Street Scene Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed.
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1910s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

R. Hoag “Large Cat Peering Out Window”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Oil on canvas 1979 Large cat peering out window Framed 45.25x55.5 Unframed 36x47
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1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Hiddensee, Herbst (Autumn)" Hans Hofmann, Modern German Abstract Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Hans Hofmann Hiddensee, Herbst (Autumn), 1927 Signed with initials and dated lower left; titled on the reverse Oil on paper 18 x 22 inches Provenance: John Adams Fine Art, London Pr...
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1920s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Oil

1960's Huge Modernist Oil Painting The Cock Fight
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Cock Fight French School, circa 1960's period oil on board, framed framed: 25 x 48.75 inches board: 24 x 48 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good and sound c...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Vintage Southern California Abstract Landscape Painting - Katharyn Truesdell 70s
Located in Baltimore, MD
Katharyn Gwendoln Truesdell - (American; 1909-1996) This colorful painting depicts a Southern California valley, likely near Sun City, over the mountains from Los Angeles and San Di...
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1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Monumental New York City Brooklyn Bridge Cityscape Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Monumental antique American modernist abstract cityscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found. Very impressive painting in person here.
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1940s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Evening Bloomers - Original Colorful Urban Love Pop Street Art Graffiti Painting
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Summer Flirt
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Judaica Modernist Oil Painting 'Know Thyself' Israeli Kibbutz Pioneer, Prophet
Located in Surfside, FL
Mortimer Borne, Printmaker, painter, sculptor, and educator was born in Rypin, Poland in 1902 and emigrated to the US in 1916. He studied at the National Academy of Design, The Art Students League, The Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, and with Charles Webster Hawthorne, founder of the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown. Painted in a thick impasto style similar in technique to Samuel Rothbort and David Burliuk. Borne himself taught at The New School for Social Research in New York City from 1945-1967. From the 1920s through the 40s he was a prolific producer of New York City cityscapes and genre scenes. In later decades, he adopted a more modernist style apparently influenced by Picasso, producing color drypoints of abstracted figures. His works were widely exhibited in museums in the U.S. and abroad from 1931 and later, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, New York Public Library, Carnegie Institute, and Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers in London. He taught at The New School for Social Research in New York City from 1945-1967, and at the Tappan Zee...
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1970s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Interior Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
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1940s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Antique American Modernist Signed Surreal Flower Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist still life oil painting by William Sanderson (1905 - 1990). Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
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1940s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Favorite Sunrise Walk - Original Colorful Urban Love Pop Street Art
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Antique Signed American School Modernist Landscape Framed Starlit Night Harbor
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist nocturnal starlit harbor painting. Watercolor on paper. Signed. Framed.
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1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Night Garden, mid-century figural surrealist acrylic painting, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Night Garden, 1972 Acrylic on scintilla Signed and dated lower right 21.5 x 21.5 inches 24.25 x 24.25 inches, framed Clarence Holbroo...
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1970s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Rainforest Walk, Sunrise Tones, Pink Hibiscus Flower, Tropical Green Plants
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Rainforest Walk I" is an abstract expressionist painting by Romina Milano where a dance of black gestures unfolds across colorful brushstrokes infused with raw emotion. Romina Mil...
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2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor

Finding space #12, Original Abstract Painting, Affordable Art, Abstract Art
Located in Deddington, GB
The Finding Space series of work was inspired by images I had seen through shop windows at twilight. With only vague references to objects, I have tried to capture a sense of the lig...
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2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Floral Lyricism #3
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on canvas
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2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

1950s "Group Meeting" Mid Century Figurative Gouache University of Paris
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy "Group Meeting" c.1950s Gouache paint on paper 24" x 18'" unframed Unsigned Came from artist's estate Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey Studied: Newark School of Fin...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Monogrammed 1925 Pointillist Landscape Modernist Framed Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist signed pointillist painting. Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed. Framed. Rare early work!
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1920s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Contemporary Abstract Framed Painting - Blue Sun, 2020
Located in Bristol, GB
BLUE SUN Size: 39 x 33 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A fun and playful contemporary oil painting, executed in a Naïve style and dated 2020. This composition is inherently a de...
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2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

American School Modernist Framed Pink Kitchen Still Life Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
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1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

interior painting of a flower in the style of minimalism "red Gerbera"
Located in Sempach, LU
interior painting with a flower in the minimalist style "Red Gerbera" The painting is perfect for the most sophisticated interior.
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2010s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract Street (Untitled)
By Hananiah Harari
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Abstract Street (Untitled), 1939, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 12 x 32 inches; provenance includes a private collection in Venice, California; presented in what is likely the artist's original handmade frame About the Painting The present work is the culmination of a series of mainly horizontal urban abstractions Harari completed between 1937 and 1939. Deeply influenced by Stuart Davis, Harari’s New York streetscapes began with clearly recognizable objects and landmarks as in Into New York (1937 - Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art), New York Harbor (1937), Up and Downtown (1938), and his other mural proposals for the Nurses Home on Welfare Island (1937) and the Williamsburg Housing Project (1938). At the end of the series, Harari’s vistas became increasingly abstract with broad planes of color representing buildings and streets, the slightest cross-hatching forming a bridge or elevated train track and the vague suggestion of a streetlight looping in the right center of the composition. Figures, birds, and a street vendor’s cart are reduced to pictograms scratched into the surface of the canvas. Abstract Street (Untitled) is among Harari’s most spare works of the 1930s and 1940s and calls to mind the seemingly childlike, but deeply sophisticated works of Paul Klee from the 1920s. It serves as an excellent reminder of why Harari was heralded as one of the earliest members of the American Abstract Artists. About the Artist Hananiah Harari was an artistic polyglot who was equally at home working in styles as diverse as Cubism, Constructivism, Expressionism, Hard Edged Abstraction and trompe l’oeil Realism. A native of Rochester, New York, Harari initially studied as a child at the Memorial Art Gallery in his hometown and later as a scholarship student at the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University. In 1932, Harari left for Paris where he befriended Nahum Tschacbasov, Benjamin Benno and John Graham and studied at the ateliers of Lhote, Leger and Gromaire. He also studied fresco painting at the Ecole de Fresque. By 1933, Harari had completed enough work and gained a sufficient reputation to have a solo exhibition at the American Club in Paris. The following year, Harari and his childhood friend and fellow artist Herzl Emanuel traveled to Palestine, where the artists worked hard in the orchards and fields of Kibbutz Deganiah, but produced little art. After returning to New York, Harari married Emanuel’s sister, Freda, and set out on the development of what noted scholar Gail Stavitsky has called an “original synthesis of the old and new." Harari became an early member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA), an organization formed to give modernists exhibition opportunities. Harari was also a member of the socially conscious Artist’s Union and the American Artist’s Congress. From 1936 through 1942, Harari worked on the Federal Art Project and assisted Marion Greenwood on a project as part of the Mural Division, but to his disappointment did not lead his own project. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Harari completed a series of paired paintings with the same subject matter depicted in a Cubist manner and in trompe l’oeil Realism. Harari was acclaimed by Clement Greenberg and six of the artist’s works were selected for the Museum of Modern Art’s important 1943 exhibition American Realists and Magic Realists. During World War II, Harari served in the US Army Air Corps. Following the war, Harari continued to produce fine art while also producing commercial art. During the McCarthy Era, Harari’s progressive politics and leftist leaning art...
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1930s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Modern Abstract Neutral Tone Figurative Drawing of a Woman with Wings
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract drawing by Houston-based artist Charles Pebworth. The work features a female figure seated in a basket with a pair of wings stretched out behind her. Signed by the artist in the front lower right corner. Currently hung in a black frame with a neutral linen matting. Dimensions Without Frame: H 22.63 in. x W 28.25 in. Artist Biography: Charles Pebworth is known for his metal art making. He attended the University of Houston...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Abstract Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

"Aswan Vista" Pastel Painting 12" x 22" inch by El Hussein Fawzi
Located in Culver City, CA
"Aswan Vista" Pastel Painting 12" x 22" inch by El Hussein Fawzi Signed Circa 1960 EL HUSSEIN FAWZI: (1905-1999). Born in Helmia district, Cairo on 4 September 1905, El Hussein F...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Pastel, Cardboard

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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