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Medium: Oil
Blue Expressionist Figurative Oil Painting on Paper "Couple"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A unique oil painting on paper, framed with a thin, black aluminium box frame. Artwork floated and raised to the back board. Ready to hang. Size of 100 x 70 cm is that of the artwork...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Archival Paper

The light and the heavy (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
The light and the heavy (Abstract Painting) Oil on canvas - Unframed This artwork is exclusive to IdeelArt. German artist Petra Schott uses colour, line...
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2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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 Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

abstract hills, desert
Located in Belgrade, MT
This painting by Lucien Durand is part of my private collection. It is signed by the artist.
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20th Century Impressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil

"Ghost of the Gardens" (green, floral, vibrant, energetic, abstract landscapes)
Located in Paris, IDF
"Ghosts of the Gardens" is a mysterious and captivating abstract painting, evoking the untamed beauty of wild gardens and chaotic floral motifs with its energetic and loose movement....
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic

"Under A Pink Sky" Abstract work with pink and yellow brushstrokes
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I have a deep affinity for the land, it’s a place for immersion, to experience and be absorbed. My work taps into the emotional gravity of a place, its memory, its pulse, its rawnes...
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2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Untitled, Abstract Geometric Oil on Canvas Painting by Carmen Louis Cicero
Located in Long Island City, NY
Carmen Louis Cicero, American (1926 -) - Untitled, Year: 1972, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated on verso, Size: 38 x 44 in. (96.52 x 111.76 cm)
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1970s Abstract Geometric Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Contemporary impressionist expressive oil painting on paper "Garden lemon trees"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
French artist Natalya Mougenot presents a new series of small oil paintings inspired by the quiet beauty of everyday life. "Just Green Lemons" is one of the pieces from this collecti...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Paper

Large Figurative Oil Painting with Nude Anna Veriki Surreal Dark Landscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
The artwork will be shipped rolled in a tube to your address. For other shipping options please contact with our gallery. At Escat Gallery we are committed to maintaining the highes...
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2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Contemporary British Abstract Landscape Original Oil Painting - Southern Shore
Located in Bristol, GB
SOUTHERN SHORE Size: 65.5 x 65.5 cm (including frame) Oil on board A very atmospheric and expressive abstract landscape painting, executed in oil onto board by contemporary British artist Ian Mood...
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2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Large Scale Gestural Figurative Abstract Expressionist Surrealist Oil Painting
By Matthew Carone
Located in Surfside, FL
Artist: Matt Carone, signed lower right Dated: 1995 Dimensions: 80.25"H x 56.25"L In a fine wooden black and gold gilded frame. Provenance: Freitas Revilla Gallery. Matt Carone (1930-) South Florida artist and gallerist. The Italian- American New Jersey native took up painting in the 1940s after Hans Hoffman asked him to model in a class in which Nicolas Carone...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Every Bloom #3" Colorful, bright, abstracted bouquet of flowers in a vase.
Located in Edgartown, MA
"I am a Gippsland-based artist, whose creative process is ever-evolving, with the constant being my subject matter. Native Australian flora and fauna are commonly depicted in my work...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

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Enamel

Etude III (abstract expressionist painting)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Fredric Karoly (1898-1987). Etude III, 1950. Oil on masonite panel measures 18 x 24 inches. Unframed. Signed, titled, dated on reverse. Good condition with minor paint loss at edges. Biography: An abstract painter, Karoly was born in Hungary and studied painting in Paris, architectural eingineering in Berlin, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1926. He began a successful career as a fashion and fabric designer. In 1948 he was working as a fashion director for Simplicity Patters, when he had a solo exhibition of of his oil paintings, wire montages, dry-pen drawings and abstract photography. Solo Exhibitions: Hugo Gallery (Alexandre Iolas) New York 1948; Gallery Mai. Paris 1949; New Gallery (Eugene Thaw) New York 1950; Museu de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1951; Miami Museum of Modern Art, Miami, Florida 1959; Loft Gallery, New York City, 1966.Group Exhibitions: Hugo Gallery, New York 1947; Salon des Realities Nouvelles, Paris 1949-1953; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Annual) 1951-1953, 1963; Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1951; International Independent Exhibition, Tokyo, 1951; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1959; The Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1960; Stuttman Gallery, New York, 1960; The Art Institute of Chicago (Annual), 1960; International Watercolor Exhibition, Brookyln Museum, 1961; Westchester Art Museum, White Plains, NY, 1963; Whitney Museum, Annual, NY 1963; Cleveland Art Festival, Park Synagogue, Cleveland, 1963; Whitney Museum, Sculpture Annual, NY, 1964.Works in Institutional Collections: Museu de Arte, San Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; New York University, New York; Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Finch College, NY; Barnard College, NY; Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum and Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL. Awards: National Council Arts Awards, 1968. Frederic Karoly died on December 15, 1987 at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Manhattan, where he had made his home for many years. Fredric Karoly was born in Budapest in 1893. According to Karoly’s own vitae, his exhibition history began in New York in 1947, when at the age of 54 he took part in a four-person group show at Hugo Gallery. His involvement with visual art however was apparently life long. In a brief introduction to his solo show at Galerie Mai in Paris in June of 1949, Jen Luc de Rudder, reports that Karoly began painting at the age of 12 in Budapest. After several years of studying, then working in London, Paris and Berlin, Karoly emigrated to the United States in 1925 or 1926 (he probably first came to the US on a work visa in 1925). In New York, Karoly worked in women’s fashion as a designer. In 1948 Karoly worked in a manner than was clearly influenced by the work of such European surrealists as Max Ernst, creating spiked automatic bi-chromatic paintings. His style progressed into a progressively more biomorphic vein, similar to explorations by Theodore Stamos, Daphnis, Milton Avery and Mark Rothko around the same period. He was supported with patronage during this period by Mrs. Mimi Baliff, who apparently supported the “Industrial Design Workshop” that she helped open to feature Karoly’s designs in 1948. By the early 1950’s (1951) Karoly started experimenting with the drip and splatter process as well. Drip paintings dominated his process until the late 50’s-early 60’s, when linear compositional elements began to reemerge. By the late 50’s multi-layered drip grid motifs asserted a masque of spatial organization over looser washed fields and splatters of paint that Karoly worked off of. This development was consistent with concurrent explorations into the grid by artist Agnes Martin and others. By the mid-50’s Karoly’s style began another transition into a more surface concerned “Color Field” style of painting. There are elements still reminding one of Abstract Expressionist concerns as such painters as Clifford Still. But the works that began to emerge from Karoly’s studio in 1958 presaged the Morris Lewis fan motifs and Friedl Dzubas’s epic and romantic color spewing expanses of canvas. In 1959 Karoly began experiments using washes of turpentine diluted oil paint directly onto raw linen, and all of these subsequently suffered the consequences of oil oxidation and acidity upon the surfaces. However, many of Karoly’s washes in color field happily occurred on lightly prepared primed canvas surfaces as well. By 1960 Karoly began reintroducing imagistic references to his visual content. There were also various references to Japanese and Zen influences. He experimented with a variety of processes that included mixed media and marbleized surfaces achieved by the intermixture of oil and water mediums. A calligraphic element also enter Karoly’s work in the early 60’s. Then in 1961 glued and assembled objects begin to show up in Karoly’s work in earnest. The influence of early POP artists, particularly Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg, become apparent. From 1961-63, a series of the assemblage works transition from canvas to the sculptural to pieces obviously intended for full scale installation. Many of these pieces were among the most fragile of his works primarily due to their reliance upon the of gluing of objects such as plastic or paper cups on flexible surfaces of stretched linen or canvas. In the mid-60’s Karoly apparently produced a number of photo-silk screened series of Picasso, De Kooning and other significant artists of his generation. These were executed in a style somewhere between Rauschenberg’s and Roy Lichtenstein’s, primarily because of their reliance upon half tones and Ben-Day dot effects. Then Karoly began a series of paintings conflating his drip and grid styles with super imposed and painted over string. In the late 60’s Karoly embarked upon a series of multi-paneled stretched linen constructions often with slits and fiber optic back-lit elements that were prescient of the work of Dan Flavin and others. It was this body of work that was shown at Hofstra University’s Emily Lowe Gallery, and it was these works that suffered perhaps the most irreparable damage from a steam/water infiltration in a space where they were being stored. The late professional start that Karoly had into the art world was balanced by his long life span and early immersion into the design issues of modernism as it emerged in turn of the century Europe and later evolved in America. He was clearly an artist who subscribed to the ethos of the new in abstraction and was obviously impressionable and in some instances prescient with regard to various trends in abstraction. Several noteworthy and influential collectors and institutions during his 40 years of professional engagement acquired his work. The Whitney Museum of American Art had and may still own a large Karoly canvas from 1960, but this is doubtful as the artist failed to list it on the vitae he filed with MoMA in 1965. His work was recognized and honored by the Whitney with its inclusion in four of their annual survey shows (1951,1953, 1963 and 1964). The artist’s surrealist influenced paintings from 1948-1950 were the focus of a solo exhibition held of his work by the Museo de Art in Sao Paulo and eight years later a ten year survey of his work was the focus of a solo show at the Miami Museum of Modern art. The Sao Paulo Museum in Brazil, and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina each acquired Karoly paintings for their collections in the 1950’s. One of Karoly’s surrealist pieces was apparently purchased by Christian Zervos, Picasso’s designated chronicler, who apparently also wrote a piece on Karoly in Cahiers D’Art in 1949. A 60’s piece of Karoly art that is in the New York University’s permanent collection is included in the MoMA Library’s catalog...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Landscape 130 by Jean Krille - Oil on canvas 50x35 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Jean Krillé’s paintings are known for their expressive use of color and dynamic, abstract forms, blending realism with abstraction in his depictions of nature. His landscapes often f...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

"Girl with Balloons - Kiss n' Fly" Paris Figure Haute Couture Oil on Paper
Located in New York, NY
“Girl with Balloons” was created from a vision aritst Cindy Shaoul had during the height of the pandemic. She wanted to create a piece with a light heart but also translate a message...
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2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Archival Paper

Path Of Transformation, Abstract Original Painting on Canvas, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Voskan Galstian Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2024 Style: Abstract Art, Title: Path Of Transformation Size: 40" x 50...
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2010s Impressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Original Set Primary Blue series-Summer Cat-White Butterfly-BritishAward Artist
Located in London, GB
-In light of new tariffs, we’ve applied a 20% discount off the market price of this piece to support our collectors in facing potential added costs. At the gallery, we work closely w...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Silver

The wind and my broken heart mending - Dramatic abstract landscape sky painting
Located in Silverthorne, CO
A dramatic, atmospheric abstract landscape with a story... My heart is broken. It's taken me a while to just accept it. To say it. My heart is broken. Having cancer and going thro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil

“Starry sky“ black and white abstraction dropping Pop Art
Located in Vienna, AT
Combine several abstract monochrome paintings in your interior for a stylish modern effect. The artwork is executed in black and white monochrome tones and will be suitable for any ...
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2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Dahlias in Dusk-Gold Leaf and oil -British Awarded Artist-Exhibition Collection
Located in London, GB
With strokes of Gold, Oil, Gesso and Acrylic, Shizico orchestrates a visual symphony of abstract expression in this on-going series [Landscape Memories]; it's a part of her [Sunlit S...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Gold Leaf

ABSTRACT Mirko Baricchi Oil Gestural Landscapes Flora Earth Tones Mixed media
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Mirko Baricchi (born 1970) is an accomplished Italian painter who currently lives and works between Vicenza and La Spezia, regions located in Veneto and Liguria, Italy, respectively....
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2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Hunt Slonem "Veil" Red Diamond Dust Glitter Bunny
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Veil" Red Diamond Dust Glitter Bunny A rabbit gestured in red on a matching background in a vintage frame Unframed: 10 x 8 inches Framed: 15 x 13 inches *Painting is fr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Glass, Resin, Glitter, Oil, Panel

Headlands V
Located in Burlingame, CA
Musically inspired oil painting with lively color from Stephen Henriques, who is influenced by Bonnard and Vuillard, and the western landscape and its light. When referring to his oi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life With Dresser - contemporary, abstracted still life, oil on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The Still Life paintings created by Mel Davis are a masterful melange of bright colors and expressive, dynamic forms. The Montreal-born artist’s contemporary work is inspired by natu...
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2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
Julien Airault (B.1979) Untitled Oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm / 36.22 x 28.74 inches With frame : 98 x 79 cm / 38.58 x 31.10 inches 2024 Born in 1979, Juli...
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2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Late 20th Century Cubist Style Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board, Late 20th Century. Illegibly signed verso. Image size 12"L x 15"H.
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Late 20th Century Cubist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Orange Composition - Oil On Canvas by Giorgio Lo Fermo - 2021
Located in Roma, IT
Orange Composition is an artwork realized by Giorgio Lo Fermo (b. 1947) in 2021. Original Oil Painting on Canvas applied on Plywood. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lowe...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Plywood

Abstract Overlook Mountain, Woodstock NY. Contemporary Abstract Painting.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Title: Overlook Mountain, Woodstock Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 24 x 33 inches Date: c. 1960 Archive No.: 382 The painting is signed 'Pinajian' in the lower right corner and dated b...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Between the lines, Abstract Library, colors, Geometric, Contemporary, Oil, Books
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
In "Between the Lines," Sophie Dumont masterfully transforms the canvas into a visual symphony using her expert knife painting technique. This painting, measuring 65 x 54 cm, is dist...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Burkhardt Abstract Oil On Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Framed abstract oil on canvas, signed and dated 1968 in the lower right corner. Canvas size 30"H x 25"W Gilt-wood frame.
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1960s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Night Life" - Vibrant Impasto Colorful Rainbow Circles with Black Oil Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Sveta Hessler (Russian, born 1973) "Night Life" 2025 Oil Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the bottom right and the back of the painting. In "Night Life," Sveta Hessle...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Original Oil Painting of Blue Vase, Brown Bowl, and Eggs on a Table
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original Oil Painting of Blue Vase, Brown Bowl, and Eggs on a Table Artist: Roland Pichard Signed: Bottom right Medium: Oil on oil paper, mounted on card Size: 14 (height)...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil

King of Daffs II - Golden Yellow Garnet Red White Geometric Pattern, 2020
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract painting in oil on linen, the yellow background is vibrant and bright, offsetting a layered, eye-catching geometric pattern in white and berry red with ...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Intermezzo 3. Contemporary Abstract Color-Field Townscape. Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A contemporary abstract geometric colour field landscape in oil on canvas by Dutch artist Bernadette Van Baarsen. Signed bottom left and signed and titled to the reverse. Highly co...
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21st Century and Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Serra’s (Italian, b. 1946) revival of archaic painting techniques is founded on his intimate understanding of these older materials and deep respect for “Old Master” paintings from t...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Meditation on African Sculpture, mid-century figural abstract painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Beni E. Kosh/Charles Elmer Harris (American, 1917-1993) Meditation on African Sculpture, 1957 Oil on found wood panel Signed and dated lower left 20 x 15 inches Charles Elmer Harris...
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1950s Modern Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Pink and Purple Abstract of Orange Circles French 20th Century Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition signed by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924) oil painting on canvas, unframed dated 04' canvas size: 51 x 38.5 inches Inscribed verso condition: ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sunflower Mountain. Large Contemporary Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
With beautiful, warm tones and generously applied oil paint Paul Wadsworth creates stunning paintings redolent of the hot, atmospheric sunshine of southern India. These expressive pi...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Spill (Laocoön)
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French 20th Century Modernist Painting Bright Blue and Purple Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Bright Abstract by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 18 x 24 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled 4 - Contemporary Expressive Abstract Painting, Conceptual Art, Framed
Located in Salzburg, AT
Urszula Wilk – artist statment: I have always been interested in the idea of infiniteness of a painting and its opposite – that is the physical finiteness of the painting. This phys...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Fiberboard

Large Venezuelan Expressionist Oil Painting Diego Barboza Latin American Master
Located in Surfside, FL
Diego Barboza - 1945-2003 Hand signed and dated 1988 Oil on Canvas Diego Barboza was born the Carabobo street of Maracaibo, Venezuela on February 4, 1945. He was a Venezuelan Neo Figurative Painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in Venezuelan art history. Diego Barboza opened a new chapter in Latin America, beyond the surreal or the magical realism of the Modern Latin American Masters. He created a new language of dislocation and transgression. Personages became distorted to the point that was very exaggerated forms His figures twisted and contorted without losing their presence or their pull. Extremities muscles, and bones burst into an explosive compound of divergent and convergent lines. Through eruptive brushstrokes and fractured outlines. Barboza created a world of illusions. Barboza was born into a upper-middle-class family. He stopped going to school at 12 years old, and he registered himself at the School of Visual Art in the City of Maracaibo Venezuela. Barboza studied at the School of Visual Arts in Caracas, Venezuela. Barboza began his training as an artist at age 12 in his native Maracaibo when he left formal education to enroll in the then School of Plastic Arts of Zulia, then Julio Arraga School of Plastic Arts, where he was a student in the modeling, collage and Drawing of Angelina Curiel. His first collages, in the sixties, show the influence of American Pop Art. In 1967 he exhibited at the Ateneo de Caracas his series 'Los Ratones', a proposal then 'criticized by critics as unprecedented in Venezuela'. In his tribute to the film "Nosferatu" Friedrich Murnau included 32 drawings as well as two-dimensional objects. In 1968 he moved to London where he studied at the London College of Printing. From that time is his '30 Girls with Nets', an action in which 30 students of the London College of Printing, dressed in black and covered by white nets, toured London public places, behaving naturally. His 'street expressions', which he later called 'poetic actions', symbolized a breakdown of social restraints through unusual behaviors that sought to provoke public reactions. Upon his return to Venezuela in 1973, Barboza continues with this line of work, being recognized as one of the initiators of Venezuelan conceptual art. In the 1980's Diego Barboza turned to painting, the New Venezuelan Figuration. Here belongings and the feminine figure fill the work of that time, in which he embodied his intimacy and daily life through scenes of furnishings and flowers that included objects from his workshop and home. His nudes were made from live model, then to follow the path of distortion resulting in their unmistakable females: a figure that represented their personal way of appreciating beauty. Barboza presented his first individual exhibition at the Centro de Bellas Artes of Maracaibo Venezuela. In 1963, he traveled to London when the Conceptual Art movement started, he had the support of the London New Art Lab Gallery. On March 7, 1970 Barboza displayed his first work on Conceptual Art, which he called Art of Action. In London with the performance of 30 Girls with nets (30 Muchachas con redes). His second work was Nets and Hats in markets and restaurants (Con sombreros y redes en mercados y restaurantes). In London UK. His third The Centerpiece (El Ciempies) and the fourth Expression on a laundry-mat (Expresiones en una lavandería) In 1974. Baboza returned to Venezuela. Where he presented two very important Conceptual Art works: The Armadillo Box (La Caja del Cachicamo) and from the School of Athens to the New School of Caracas (De la Escuela de Atenas a la Nueva Escuela de Caracas). Closing his cycle of Conceptual Art creation. IN Venezuela a sort of impromptu academy started up at Claudio Perna’s house. Eugenio Espinoza, Roberto Obregón, Antonieta Sosa, Alfred Wenemoser, Yeni and Nan, Sigfredo Chacón, Diego Barboza, Luis Villamizar, Margherita D’Amico, Pedro Terán, Alfredo del Mónaco, as well as international figures who happened to be visiting Venezuela such as Antoni Muntadas, Charlotte Moorman, and Roman Polanski would gather there. Venezuela, especially Caracas, was a rich field of action for modernism in South America. Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction, Op art and Kinetic Art dominated through crucial figures like Jesús Rafael Soto, Gego, Alejandro Otero, and Carlos Cruz Diez, the country’s kinetic art made a fundamental contribution internationally. The Greater London Arts Association and the Arts Council of Great Britain did several exhibitions of (North, Central, South, London, Wales, Scotland and Ulster) to show the actual Visual Arts in all of the United Kingdom and Diego Barboza was invited for this event with a solo exhibition, expressions around a cylinder (Expresiones alrededor de un cilindro). Diego has made numerous solo and group exhibitions, obtaining rewards since 1963. He is represented in the most important museums of Venezuela, as well as in England, Brazil, Colombia and Cuba. In 1986 he was awarded the Municipal Visual Arts Award of the Municipal Council of the Federal District and in 1997 he received the National Prize for Plastic Arts granted by the National Council of Culture, CONAC. Select Group Exhibitions 1964 Ateneo de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela 1965 Salón Arturo Michelena, Valencia, Venezuela 1968 Salón Oficial Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela 1971 Art Spectrum London, London, Great Britain 1972 Serpentine Gallery, London, Great Britain 1973 Midland Group Gallery, London, Great Britain 1974 Galería BANAP, Caracas, Venezuela 1975 Casa de Las Américas, La Habana, Cuba Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas Galería de Arte Nuevo, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1976 Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Sao Paulo, Brazil Museo de la Tertulia, Cali, Colombia Bienal de Venecia, Venecia, Italy 1979 Centro de Artes y Comunicación, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1980 Galería NBC, Memphis, Tennessee, USA 1981 Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Medellín, Colombia Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela 1986 Museo de Arte La Rinconada, Caracas, Venezuela 1989 Galería Venzor, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1990 Museo Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile 1992 Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, USA 1993 Museo de Arte de Petare, Caracas, Venezuela Centro de Arte Lia Bermúdez, Maracaibo, Venezuela 1994 Galería Namia Mondolfi, Caracas, Venezuela 1995 Galería Art Nouveau, Maracaibo, Venezuela Galería Cesar Sassòn, Caracas, Venezuela Maremares Resort, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela Galería Durban, Caracas, Venezuela Galería Odalys, Caracas, Venezuela 1996 Centro de Arte Grupo Li, Caracas, Venezuela Galería Uno, Caracas, Venezuela Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas, Venezuela Espacios Unión, Caracas, Venezuela Hebraica, Caracas, Venezuela 1997 Sociedad Dramática, Maracaibo, Venezuela, Venezuela CELARG, Caracas, Venezuela Galería Ocre Arte, Caracas, Venezuela Museo de Arte Contemporáneo , Maracay, Venezuela Galería Medicci, Caracas, Venezuela Awards 1963 Premio Estímulo - IX Salón d’Empaire, Maracaibo, Venezuela 1964 Premio José Ortìn Rodríguez - X Salón d’Empaire, Maracaibo, Venezuela 1965 Primer Premio de Dibujo - III Salón Pez Dorado, Caracas, Venezuela 1968 Premio Henrique Otero Vizcarrondo - XXIV Salón Oficial Anual de Arte Venezolano Museo de Bellas Artes, 1973 Premio Emilio Boggio...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Baal
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Baal (M-1128)" is an abstract Post War oil on canvas painting by Hans Hofmann in 1947. The artwork is 59 3/8 x 47 1/4 inches and with the frame is 68 x 56 x 3 1/8 inches, weighing l...
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20th Century Post-War Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Studio 1528
Located in Fresno, CA
"Studio 1528" Oil on Canvas presents a bold visage in blues and white on a mixed field dominated by blues and green tone. Frank Arnold is viewed as one of the foremost abstract figurative painters and sculptors of our time. He is a living master guided by a personal mission to “turn on a light in the human soul,” through his passionate creation of “Messengers” from his deeper mind connection with Carl Jung's archetypal images, the collective unconscious, and Jungian Synchronicity. These unconscious forms from his deeper mind resonate as personal messages of universal acceptance, reaching out to the viewer. Arnold has been honored as IAD Artist of the year 2018 by International Artist Day, and 2013 FAC Horizon Artist Award. He has exhibited his artwork in numerous galleries and museums, and is in collections worldwide. Arnold divides his working days between oil painting in San Jose del Cabo, Baja Sur...
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2010s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Countryside Landscape with Red Roofed Cottages and Rolling Hills
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Countryside Landscape with Red Roofed Cottages and Rolling Hills Artist: Roland Pichard Medium: Oil on oil paper, mounted on card Size: 14 (height) x 10.75 (width), (Includ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil

French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 11 x 7.5 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we have...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rene Ricard Red Blue Nasty, 1989 poetry painting Keith Haring reference
Located in New York, NY
Frustration is center stage, written in cursive: "It's one of those days nothing works out right -- bump into any sharp corner – can’t tell flesh from white or brown from…or green fr...
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1980s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Screen

Caroline Chappell, Coastal Blue, Abstract Seascape Painting, UK art
Located in Deddington, GB
Coastal Blue by Caroline Chappell [2022] original Oil on Canvas Image size: H:40 cm x W:40 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:40 cm x D:2.5cm...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Expressive Black Gestures on Vibrant Red Background Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
A powerful abstract expressionist painting featuring bold black brushstrokes against a vibrant red background. The artwork measures 31.5 × 31.5 inches (80 × 80 cm), created with oil ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Stepping Out - Rodeo Drive" Chanel Haute Couture Colorful Oil Painting on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the excitement of High-End Fashion, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composi...
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2010s American Impressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Archival Paper

Abstract Still Life with Pink and Orange Vases - Contemporary Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Abstract Still Life with Pink and Orange Vases - Contemporary Oil Painting Artist: Roland Pichard Signed: Bottom right Medium: Oil on oi...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled 01 - Contemporary, Organic, Black, Minimalist, Abstract, Monochrome
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled 01, 2017 Black adhesive and black oil on canvas (Signed on reverse) 31 1/2 H x 23 5/8 H in. 80 H x 60 W cm Zsolt Berszán treats the first layer of the drawing as a substrat...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Adhesive, Oil

River Magic, Abstract Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This abstract painting captures a serene view where muted greens, browns, and grays blend to create a contemplative mood. Expressive, textured brushstrokes su...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Large Antique American Signed Abstract Sandy Beach Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted mid century abstract beach scene. Oil on canvas. Signed illegibly. Framed elegantly.
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1940s Abstract Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rose
Located in Burlingame, CA
Inspired by Taoist teachings and meditations, 'Rose' feels alive with its concentration on red. Matuszewski creates meditative and harmonious color field paintings to invoke a sense ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Pencil

Big Sur bouquet - Still-life Art by Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Floral - Abstract Paintings - Contemporary Art By Marc Zimmerman This masterpiece is exhibited in the Zimmerman Gallery, Carmel CA. The painting comes with a certificate of authen...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Subdue, 10x10" oil on linen
Located in Loveland, CO
"Subdue" by Alyson Kinkade Abstract Landscape Oil on Linen 10x10" image 12x12" framed in black wood as pictured *Shipping price includes the custom packing necessary for safe transp...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Vintage Italian Geometric Cubic " Shades of Gray" By Martino 1970's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3478 Cubic circles in shades of gray Set in a vintage gilt and black wood frame
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1970s Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Original Oil Painting of Serene Mountain View of Delphi, Greece, with Blue Hues
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original Oil Painting of Serene Mountain View of Delphi, Greece, with Blue Hues Artist: Roland Pichard Medium: Oil on oil paper, mounted on card Size: 8.75 (height) x 13.75...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Oil Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vintage American School Framed Modernist Fall Signed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting by Frank Barry. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 27 by 31 inches overall and 18 by 22 painting alone. Nicely framed in a wood...
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1950s Modern Oil Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Original Abstract Oil Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs

With original abstract oil paintings, bring audacious experiments with color and textures to your living room, dining room or home office.

Whether they're large or small, abstract paintings 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.

When you've found the work(s) you'd like to bring into your home, think about how you want to arrange the 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.

On 1stDibs, you’ll find a wide range of original abstract oil paintings along with a guide on how to arrange your wonderful new wall art.

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