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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1910s
Blue Waters
By Dorothy Hood
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Blue Waters" is an oil on canvas painting by Dorothy Hood. The painting size is 90 x 70 inches.
Early in her maturation, Hood established herself as an artist of metaphysically cha...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New Space Arabia 1979 Colossal Abstract Red Blue Green Museum Canvas James Yohe
By James Yohe
Located in Miami, FL
James Yohe painted this large scale red and deep hues of blue and green powerful and beautiful original work on canvas in 1979. This early work by this famous artist of the 1980's a...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer
Four & Six, No. 1 painting by Naohiko Inukai
Located in Hudson, NY
Strong vertical and horizontal elements woven into a repeating pattern, Naohiko Inukai's painting Four & Six, No. 1 offers a calming rhythmic symmetry. As was noted the the March 196...
Category
1960s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Robert Kiley Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Work is titled “Aperture Series 1985”; Provenance: Collection of Phyllis Kiley (wife of the artist), Boca Raton, Florida
Marking(s); notes: signed on label
...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Conté, Acrylic
Large Jack Youngerman Painting, 92″W
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Work is titled “Gray Open”. Provenance: Tupperware Brands Corporate Collection, Orlando, Florida.
Marking(s); notes: signed; 1972-73
Country of origin; mate...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint
City Scene with Faces casein tempera on canvas by Vaclav Vytlacil
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed and dated "Vytlacil 32" lower right
Provenance: Estate of the artist #1584; Martin Diamond Fine Art
Exhibitions: 1990 Graham Gallery, NYC (label verso)
About this artist: B...
Category
1930s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Casein, Canvas
Subjective Farm Landscape abstract oil painting by Ralph Rosenborg
Located in Hudson, NY
Subjective Farm Landscape
1940
Oil on canvas, 24" x 30"
37.5" x 31" x 2" framed - frame is original to this artwork
Signed recto lower right: "rosenborg 40" & arrow box cypher. Signe...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Pale Green Gavotte, 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Image size: 35 3/4 x 35 3/4 inches (91 x 91 cm)
Entitled, monogrammed, dated 'November 1974' and inscribed on reverse
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Cubist Still Life Interior Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed. Signed.
Category
1960s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape
Located in Singapore, SG
The colourful backdrop of nature blends in a sacred moment when the artist explores the outdoors. The beauty, majesty, wonder and allure are all turbulent yet calming.
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mann und Frau
Located in Wien, 9
Seit seinem frühen Tod 1999 erlebt das Werk von Franz Ecker eine längst fällige Neubewertung, die sich auch in zahlreichen Einzelausstellungen, Katalogen und einem sehenswerten Kinof...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Untitled
By Rafael Ruz
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Nadando en...
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
1980s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Handmade Paper
Bolmes
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed, dated, and titled verso.
46.5 x 36 in.
47.5 x 37 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a maple floater.
Charles Strong, who was born in Greeley, Colorado on Christmas Day in 1938, was one of the youngest artists of the San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism. He was a colleague of vanguard artists such as Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Jack Jefferson...
Category
1960s Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Valentine's Day II"
By Lamar Briggs
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Lamar Briggs (1935 – 2015)
Abstract artist, Lamar Briggs, was born November 13, 1935 in Lafayette, Louisiana. He initially attended the University of Southern Louisiana for architec...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
ET Pollination
By Karl Momen
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Momen is the creator of the Metaphor: The Tree of Utah, an 87-foot (27 m) sculpture resembling a tree in the Bonneville Salt Flats off of Interstate 80. He financed the project himself and built it from 1982 to 1986, afterwards donating the sculpture to the state of Utah.
Known For remaining true to the initiation he received early in his career into the modernist paradigm that still informs his distinctive style to the present day. Momen is the most long-lived exponent of early twentieth century Geometric abstraction movement.
bauhaus, futurism art...
Category
20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Canal In The Night
Located in Provincetown, MA
The restrained use of color in this undated painting likely from the mid-1950s demonstrates Farruggio’s mastery of contrast, dimension, and perspective. The work is rendered figurati...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wooden Heads
Located in Wien, 9
Since Franz Ecker’s early death in 1999 his work has been newly appreciated, what is manifested in numerous exhibitions, catalogues and in the acclaimed film about the artist. He was extremely productive and left behind an almost unmanageable scope of works in various styles. Among them some of the top works that are unparalleled in recent Austrian art history and whose significance has not yet been adequately appreciated.
After finishing his studies in 1966 in class of prof. Sergius Pauser and after receiving his two prizes, Franz Ecker moved back to Leonding where he developed his clear, abstract language of forms. Among his sources of inspiration are Cezanne and Picasso, as well as Martin Polasek who was one of his teachers. This led him to painting in a flat and abstract manner, which triggers a spatial experience through its exact color coordination and strict composition. The strongest period in his oeuvre is the time when his paintings are between figuration and abstraction. Only until around 1975 he additionally creates numerous watercolors, even though he restricts this medium to his more lyrical works.
If Franz Ecker cannot be included in the avant-garde cannon of the 70’s, it is only because he witheld from presenting his works on the art market. Instead of using the opportunities that were offered to him in Vienna, he returned after his time at the academy to Linz where there was no appreciation nor market for his works. Distanced from the established art business, Ecker lives uncompromisingly the precarious life of a lonely genius. An artist myth, which in his case certainly is a bitter reality. Unimpressed by this, Ecker develops an increasingly broad language of forms within the clear line of abstract pictorial conception, which he emphasizes with constantly new forms of signature.
At the end of the seventies his works became more gestural and expressive. His works like “Kafka” anticipate the “Neue Wilden”. When these are celebrated as the “return of painting...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Matisse's Three Oranges - Calder's Three Oranges
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting is from the Matisse series created by Maurice Sullins in the late 1970s.
Sullins' works, set in brilliantly imagined scenes in Tahiti, F...
Category
1970s Folk Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pyromaniac's Pyre mixed media work by Mary Spencer Nay
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed and dated "Mary Spencer Nay '74" lower left. Titled "Pyromaniac's Pyre" verso.
Exhibited:
1976-1977 "Mary Spencer Nay: Recent and Retrospective Works". J.B. Speed Art Museum...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Rubber, Wood, Oil
The Night Journey - Drip Painting like Jackson Pollock
By Byron Browne
Located in Miami, FL
In Byron Brown's "The Night Journey", 1947, Picasso meets Jackson Pollock. Here Brown strikes a balance between fanciful representation and abstraction. ...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Patrick Hughes - Hanging on a hook, rainbow, gloss, moon, contemporary, painting
Located in London, GB
Patrick Hughes (b.1939)
Hanging on a Hook
1978
gloss paint on board
91 x 91 cm
Price:
£19,000 GBP
Provenance:
Private collection, UK (acquired directly from the artist in the late ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Board
Life and Roots
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. ""Life and Roots"" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas in greens by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower right, ""Jae Kon Park, 92"". Born in South Korea, Park Jae Kon...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fandango, c. 1985
By Ben Wilson
Located in Quogue, NY
Born in Philadelphia, Ben Wilson was a New York abstract expressionist painter. His work was exhibited frequently from the mid-thirties through sixties, and less frequently but consi...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mask
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Nathan Oliveira. "Mask" is a Post-War painting, acrylic, earth, and oil on canvas by Bay Area Figurative artist Nathan Oliveira. The artwork is signed and dated in the ...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Diagonal Stripe VI-21
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Kenneth Noland. “Diagonal Stripe VI-21” is a hard-edge, abstract painting, paint on handmade paper by artist Kenneth Noland. ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper
Wave
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Solo Samba
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A mixed media work by Merion Estes. "Solo Samba" is a contemporary abstract, acrylic on canvas in a palette of purples, reds, and yellows by American female artist Merion Estes. The ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
SF64-045, Sam Francis, Acrylic, American Abstraction, Postwar, Work on paper
By Sam Francis
Located in Geneva, CH
SF64-045, Sam Francis, Acrylic, American Abstraction, Postwar, Work on paper
1964
Acrylic on paper
73 x 56.5 cm
94 x 75 cm / 37 x 29.5 in. (w...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Orb"
By Rex Ashlock
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Verso
Rex Ashlock (1918 - 1999)
Born in Spokane, WA on Aug. 23, 1918. Ashlock moved to San Francisco in 1937 and was a copy boy for Associated Press while studying at the C...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Line Color Form Number 1
By Albert Manchak
Located in New York, NY
Line, Color, Form Number 1, 1959, by Albert Manchak (b. 1925)
Oil on canvas
35 ½ x 35 ½ inches unframed
37 x 37 inches framed
Signed on bottom right
Lab...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunset Grip
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
Category
20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
Shotgun Hunting Abstract with Shooting Bullseye
Located in Miami, FL
Complex and masterfully thought out the composition of rifle, gun shells, target shapes, and buck shots. Most likely done for a ad or men's magazine.
Signed lower right Atherton. Housed in a rustic House of Heydenryk frame...
Category
1940s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Memphitis
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract acrylic and paper on canvas painting by Post War artist Arne Hiersoux. "Memphitis" is executed in bold strokes, splashes and drips of black, red, green, yellow and ochre ...
Category
1960s Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Paper
"Carioca No. 1"
By Lamar Briggs
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Lamar Briggs (1935 – 2015)
Abstract artist, Lamar Briggs, was born November 13, 1935 in Lafayette, Louisiana. He initially attended the University of Southern Louisiana for architec...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
Conjugations
By Cleve Gray
Located in New York, NY
Cleve Gray
Conjugations, 1975
Vermont Series
Mixed media on paper
14 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches each
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. "Untitled" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas by Korean artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "Je Kon park 92". Born in South...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
ca. 1965
Acrylic on canvas
54 1/4 x 54 in. (137.8 x 137.2 cm)
Signed, verso
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled, 1965
Located in London, GB
oil on canvas
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chwana
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...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Abstraction"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Arthur B. Carles (1882-1952)
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Arthur Carles was a painter whose work went through phases...
Category
1930s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Después del desierto
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Cardboard
"Yellow"
By Rex Ashlock
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Rex Ashlock (1918 – 1999)
Born in Spokane, Washington in 1918 Rex Ashlock was known for his abstract, figurative expression...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Je ne sais ou il va?
By Junko Frank
Located in London, GB
JUNKO FRANK (Junko Tsuchihachi) b. 1930
Wakayama, Japan 1930 (Japanese)
Title: Je ne sais ou il va?, 1969
Technique: Original Signed and Dated Oil Painting on Canvas
size: ...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
No. 78, October 1985
Located in Quogue, NY
Acrylic on Paper
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Cassandra Kiss
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract acrylic and paper on canvas painting by Post War artist Arne Hiersoux. "Cassandra Kiss" is executed in bold strokes, splashes and drips of deep blue, red, back and white ...
Category
1960s Post-War Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
No. 131, January 1985
Located in Quogue, NY
Acrylic on Paper
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Yellow Square, Red Square and Blue Triangle
By Marcel Janco
Located in London, GB
MARCEL JANCO 1895-1984
Bucarest 1895-1984 Ein Hod (Rumanian/Israeli)
Title: Yellow Square, Red Square and Blue Triangle
Technique: Original signed Oil ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No. 72, September 1985
Located in Quogue, NY
Acrylic on Paper
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Forms Sound Forme rumore, Futurism, Abstract Art
Located in London, GB
GIACOMO BALLA 1871-1958
Torino 1871 - 1958 Rome (Italian)
Title: Forms Sound Forme rumore, 1925/30
Technique: Signed Tempera on Card
Size: 19 x 22.7 cm. / 7.5 x 8.9 in.
Addition...
Category
1920s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Bank Street Series No. 44, 1978-1985
Located in Quogue, NY
Acrylic on Canvas
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Stuttgart Series II No. 7, 1960s
Located in Quogue, NY
Acrylic on Canvas
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled (Boat)
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Violet III
Located in SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE, FR
Collection personnelle de l'artiste Monique Frydman.
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Pigment
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
1980s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Gouache, Paper, Handmade Paper
Paisaje sin agua
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
1980s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Handmade Paper
El bosque desnudo
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
1980s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Handmade Paper
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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