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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Style: Old Masters
Style: Hard-Edge
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. ...
Category
1960s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No. 16 painting by Naohiko Inukai
Located in Hudson, NY
A great strong-edge painting by Naohiko Inukai, No. 16 is part of a series the artist created in the mid 1960s. Many from this series were shown at Inuk...
Category
1960s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Optical wall sculptures
Located in Greenwich, CT
Our shaped canvas which also is a sculptural form in essence for a wall, is a geometric and forward play of optical illusion. Hinman is an important pioneer of exploration in the co...
Category
1970s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Israeli Round Tondo Hard Edged Geometric Abstract Color Painting Reuven Berman
Located in Surfside, FL
Reuven Kadim (Mark Berman) Kadim, Israeli, born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,USA, 1929-2014. Identified with geometric abstract art. Since 1985 worked with classical ancient Mediterranean imagery, and Since 1995 worked exclusively with computer on new versions of Islamic and fractal patterns. 1983 Curator of the 17th International Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1961-72 Art Critic for "Jerusalem Post"; 1966-73 Art Critic for "Yedioth Ahronoth" newspaper. Lived and worked in Rehovot.
Education
1948-49 Los Angeles City College, California, USA, Anthropology and Architectural Design
1954-56 New Bezalel School of Art, Jerusalem
Teaching
1977-84 The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Architecture, and Town Planning
since 1979 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem
1984 Sadna Workshop for Architecture and Design, Tel Aviv.
Reuven Berman...
Category
1970s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Plywood, Paint, Acrylic
Russian Orthodox Church, Middle 19th Century
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown Russian Artist
Russian Orthodox Church, Middle 19th century
Unsigned
Illuminated in red, yellow blue and green pigments and gold leaf on paper
An Illuminated manuscript folio...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pigment
Sun Cycles
Located in Lawrence, NY
Born in Germany, Weisenborn was an early American modernist painter. Encounters with the proto-cubist work of French artist Paul Cézanne and other avant-garde artists spoke to Weisen...
Category
1950s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Casein
Friendship
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Friendship" is a visually captivating artwork that immediately evokes a sense of warmth and connection. The piece is created using oil and acrylic on canvas and portrays two figures...
Category
1990s Old Masters Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Rose Breasted Mazurka" Watercolor Painting - abstract, landscape, colorful
Located in Marmora, NJ
Kurt Herrmann
10x11” (26x28 cm) unframed
watercolor on paper
2022
Artist Watercolor statement:
I went to Siberia in 1994 for the adventure and to paint. I came home with my first ...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Gold Dust Bebop" Painting - Hard edge, color bomb, bold, abstract
Located in Marmora, NJ
"I want the Color Bombs to be beacons of positivity that can radiate across the room or whisper quietly beside you. I love the freedom and openness of color. These works don’t bring ...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Birch, Acrylic
"The Bee Keeper’s Wife" Acrylic/Canvas - Hard edge, color bomb, blue, yellow
Located in Marmora, NJ
"The Bee Keeper’s Wife"
Acrylic on canvas
30"x58” (76x147 cm)
This Color Bomb was a direct reaction to an intense stretch of summer weather in the Appalachian mountains...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Praying Mantis" Painting - Hard edge, color bomb, bold, blue, green, orange
Located in Marmora, NJ
"I want the Color Bombs to be beacons of positivity that can radiate across the room or whisper quietly beside you. I love the freedom and openness of color. These works don’t bring ...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Gold Rush" Painting - Hard edge, color bomb, bold, blue, green, orange
Located in Marmora, NJ
"I want the Color Bombs to be beacons of positivity that can radiate across the room or whisper quietly beside you. I love the freedom and openness of color. These works don’t bring ...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Praying Mantis" Painting - Hard edge, color bomb, bold, blue, green, orange
Located in Marmora, NJ
"I want the Color Bombs to be beacons of positivity that can radiate across the room or whisper quietly beside you. I love the freedom and openness of color. These works don’t bring ...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Pollinator No.2" Painting - Hard edge, color bomb, bold, pink, blue, orange
Located in Marmora, NJ
"I want the Color Bombs to be beacons of positivity that can radiate across the room or whisper quietly beside you. I love the freedom and openness of color. These works don’t bring ...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Pollinator No.1" Painting - Hard edge, color bomb, bold, yellow, green, blue
Located in Marmora, NJ
"I want the Color Bombs to be beacons of positivity that can radiate across the room or whisper quietly beside you. I love the freedom and openness of color. These works don’t bring ...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dolores, Eating Breakfast
Located in Nashville, TN
Kelly Brumfield-Woods (b. 1966, Los Angeles) received an acceptance to Otis College of Art and Design in mid-1980s, the same time she was asked to be Studio Assistant for Mary Corse....
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic
No One is Sleeping
Located in Nashville, TN
Kelly Brumfield-Woods (b. 1966, Los Angeles) received an acceptance to Otis College of Art and Design in mid-1980s, the same time she was asked to be Studio Assistant for Mary Corse....
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic
Uneasy Devices
Located in Nashville, TN
Kelly Brumfield-Woods (b. 1966, Los Angeles) received an acceptance to Otis College of Art and Design in mid-1980s, the same time she was asked to be Studio Assistant for Mary Corse....
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Acrylic
"Naxos" Painting - Hard edge, color bomb, bold, blue, green, orange red
Located in Marmora, NJ
"I want the Color Bombs to be beacons of positivity that can radiate across the room or whisper quietly beside you. I love the freedom and openness of color. These works don’t bring ...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Scudding Winward, from the Regatta Series (diptych)
Located in Lawrence, NY
Artist Angelo Ippolito (1922-2001) produced a body of oils on canvas, works on paper, and assemblages renowned for their lyrical color, light, and compositional rigor. His paintings ...
Category
1980s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sails, from the Regatta Series
Located in Lawrence, NY
Artist Angelo Ippolito (1922-2001) produced a body of oils on canvas, works on paper, and assemblages renowned for their lyrical color, light, and compositional rigor. His paintings ...
Category
1980s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Raquel. Figurative woman's portraits on abstract background.
Located in Segovia, ES
Raquel. Images of woman on abstract background.
Mixed media on panel.
Measurements: 81 x 65 x 0.5 cm / Framed 103 x 87 x 5 cm
In inches: 31.89 x 25.59 x 0.2 " / Framed 40.55 x 34.25 x 1.97 "
"Raquel" was painted by Goyo in 1999 ( signature and date in right down corner) using a mixed technique. On abstract background that plays with colors, shapes, and volumes, Goyo portrays a beautiful woman's face with a penetrating gaze. There, almost like a collage, an academic female...
Category
1990s Old Masters Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Mixed Media
Ghost Fence, surrealist hard-edge architectural painting
Located in New York, NY
Anne Finkelstein’s hard-edged architectural paintings are built upon a foundation of poetry and history. Inspired by a lifetime of walking through New...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"The Secrets in the Circle, " Oli Sihvonen, Blue and Red Hard-Edge Geometric
Located in New York, NY
Oli T. Sihvonen (1921 - 1991)
The Secrets in the Circle, 1962
Oil on canvas
25 x 34 in
Signed lower right; signed, titled dated, and inscribed "Box 563 Taos, N.M." on the reverse
Provenance:
Private Collection, Nyack, New York
Known for large, hard-edged abstractions, Oli T. Sihvonen, a Brooklyn native of Finnish ancestry, grew up in Connecticut. He attended the Norwich Art School before enrolling at the Art Students League in New York between 1938 and 1941. During World War II, Sihvonen served in the United States Army as a sergeant, specializing, as he later said, in “camouflage and deception.” His tour of duty took him to Europe where he encountered the work of Paul Cézanne.
In the summer of 1946, Sihvonen traveled to western North Carolina to study at Black Mountain College, which experienced a boost in enrollment following the war years. He was greatly influenced by the progressive color theories of Josef Albers, and, later, the thinking of Buckminster Fuller. After leaving Black Mountain in 1948, Sihvonen continued his studies under the G.I. Bill at Louis Ribak’s Taos Valley Art School in New Mexico from 1949 to 1950. A year spent painting murals in Mexico included work for the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico City, an early example of his large-scale proficiency. Returning to the East Coast, Sihvonen held a succession of teaching posts: initially in Washington, DC, and then in New York City, first at Hunter College in 1954 and the following academic year at Cooper Union.
Drawn to the southwestern landscape, Sihvonen moved to New Mexico, where he resided in Taos from 1956 through 1967. There, he painted sizeable geometric compositions with exuberant colors, which was atypical of Taos painters...
Category
1960s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Untitled, " Jay Rosenblum, Hard-Edge Color Field, Colorful Horizontal Stripes
Located in New York, NY
Jay Rosenblum (1933 - 1989)
Untitled, 1973
Acrylic on canvas
54 x 128 inches
Signed twice and dated on the reverse
Provenance:
Private Collection, Long Island
Jay Rosenblum experim...
Category
1970s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Covers 13-Black B (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13-Black B (Abstract painting)
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses ta...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
sbc 141 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
sbc 141 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on linen - Unframed
This acrylic painting on linen is one of 8 medium-scale paintings that Cantrick produced for her 2012 series based on the pr...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Covers 13 Red Orange (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13 Red Orange (Abstract painting)
Gouache on handmade paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses tape t...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
Covers 13-Blue Black (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13-Blue Black (Abstract Painting)
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Covers 13 Green (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13 Green (Abstract Painting)
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses tape ...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
Covers 13 Green (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13 Green (Abstract Painting)
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses tape ...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
Glass Wall (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Laura Newman
Located in London, GB
Glass Wall (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Oil on canvas - Unframed
Laura Newman's paintings combine geometric delineations of space, ephemeral color fields, dynamic lines and or...
Category
Early 2000s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Covers 13 Red 2 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13 Red 2 (Abstract Painting)
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses tape ...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
Cut Space (Abstract Painting)
By Jessica Snow
Located in London, GB
Cut Space (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on paper. Unframed.
As a multidisciplinary artist, Snow uses different mediums and supports. Each work results from preliminary studies drawn ...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Covers 13 Red 2 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13 Red 2 (Abstract Painting)
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses tape ...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
Edge Space (Abstract Painting)
By Jessica Snow
Located in London, GB
Edge Space (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on paper. Unframed.
As a multidisciplinary artist, Snow uses different mediums and supports. Each work results from preliminary studies drawn...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Covers 13-Purple (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13-Purple (Abstract painting)
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses tap...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Covers 13 - orange (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13 - orange (Abstract Painting)
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses ta...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
Covers 13-Black D (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13-Black D (Abstract Drawing)
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses tap...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Covers 3 - orange (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Covers 3 - orange (Abstract painting)
Aquatint made with oil based Charbonnel Etching Ink, printed on 100% rag paper Copperplate Warm White. Unframed.
"Edition 5/20
This piece is ...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
Ambient Space (Abstract Painting)
By Jessica Snow
Located in London, GB
Ambient Space (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on paper. Unframed.
As a multidisciplinary artist, Snow uses different mediums and supports. Each work results from preliminary studies dr...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Covers 13 Red Orange (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13 Red Orange (Abstract painting)
Gouache on handmade paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses tape t...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
sbc 154 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
sbc 154 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on linen - Unframed
This acrylic painting on linen is one of a series of 10 that the artist developed from a painting that incorporated a photog...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Untitled (Hard-Edge Geometric Abstract Painting)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful Hard Edge abstract painting by American artist, Anthony Krauss. Oil on canvas, ca. 1980, measures 32 x 38 inches. Signed on verso. Excellent condi...
Category
1980s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Covers 13-Purple A (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13-Purple A (Abstract Painting)
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses t...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
sbc 141 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
sbc 141 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on linen - Unframed
This acrylic painting on linen is one of 8 medium-scale paintings that Cantrick produced for her 2012 series based on the pr...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Elise Ansel, Study for After Fools Rush In, Oil on Canvas
By Elise Ansel
Located in London, GB
Oil on Canvas
30.5 x 40.6 cm
12 x 16 in
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Ansel deconstructs pictorial language and authorial agency in order to excavate and liberate meanings buried beneath the surface of the works from which her paintings spring. Old Master paintings were, for the most part, created by men for men. Abstraction allows her to interrupt this one sided narrative and transform it into a sensually capacious non-narrative form of visual communication that embraces multiple points of view. The title of the exhibition yes I said Yes is carved from the last line...
Category
2010s Old Masters Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Covers 13-Red Yellow A (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13-Red Yellow A (Abstract Painting)
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She us...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Covers 13-Red Yellow (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13-Red Yellow (Abstract Painting)
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
sbc 139 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
sbc 139 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on linen - Unframed
This acrylic painting on linen is one of 8 medium-scale paintings that Cantrick produced for her 2012 series based on the pr...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Cut Space (Abstract Painting)
By Jessica Snow
Located in London, GB
Cut Space (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on paper. Unframed.
As a multidisciplinary artist, Snow uses different mediums and supports. Each work results from preliminary studies drawn ...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
sbc 195 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
sbc 195 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on Linen - Unframed
Like sbc 194, this acrylic painting on medium-weave linen deviates from Cantrick’s habitual formats.
Indeed, the seascape f...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Gravitational wave (Abstract painting)
By Jessica Snow
Located in London, GB
Gravitational wave (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on paper. Unframed.
As a multidisciplinary artist, Snow uses different mediums and supports. Each work results from preliminary studi...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
sbc 139 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
sbc 139 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on linen - Unframed
This acrylic painting on linen is one of 8 medium-scale paintings that Cantrick produced for her 2012 series based on the pr...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Covers 13-Blue Black (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13-Blue Black (Abstract painting)
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She use...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
sbc 154 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
sbc 154 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on linen - Unframed
This acrylic painting on linen is one of a series of 10 that the artist developed from a painting that incorporated a photog...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Covers 13-Purple B (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Covers 13-Purple B (Abstract painting)
Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed.
Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper.
She uses ta...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Ambient Space (Abstract Painting)
By Jessica Snow
Located in London, GB
Ambient Space (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on paper. Unframed.
As a multidisciplinary artist, Snow uses different mediums and supports. Each work results from preliminary studies dr...
Category
2010s Hard-Edge Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Original Abstract Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
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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.
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