1960s Abstract Paintings

Vintage abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Signed verso. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang and ...

Jenner Augusto da Silveira Brazilian, 1924-2003 Abstract Oil on canvas 27 ½ by 35 ½ in. W/frame 29 by 37 in. Signed and dated "Jenner Augusto 1962" in lower right Jenner Augusto da Silveira (Aracaju SE 1924 - Salvador BA 2003). Painter, cartazista, illustrator, designer, writer. Reside in several cities of Sergipe. The Lizard city holds posters for the local cinema. In Orange, around 1940, studying painting of Horace Time . Returns to live in Singapore in 1944, when it dedicated to painting and works in trade. In 1949, conducts free panels in modernist style to the decor of the Bar Cacique. In 1949, he moved to Salvador, and works as an assistant in the studio of Mario Cravo...

Born in 1927 and raised in Cleveland, Fenton already had a successful career as a commercial artist and designer by age 22. In 1955, he relocated to New York to attend Pratt Insti...

Football players cloaked in oversized Browns jackets are seen from behind running off the field. Always the graphic innovator, legendary illustrator Bob Peak creates a radical composition by leaving the bottom two-thirds of the picture plane empty of detail. To convey a sense of motion, Peak uses broad strokes of paint similar to the action painters Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning, who were the dominant force in the fine art world in the 1960s. Clearly, one can see a cross-over influence from Fine Art to commercial illustration as Peak strikes a balance between abstract versus figurative art. This work was done on an assignment for Sports Illustrated...

Dipinto astratto firmato, titolato e datato sul retro della tela M. Nuti "MARE SILENZIOSO" 1964. Segnato e datato anche in fronte: Nuti 64. Olio su tela, 50 x 100 cm. Mario Nuti è ...

JACOB EL HANANI b. 1947 1947 Casablanca (Israeli) Title: Untitled, 1968 Technique: Signed and Dated Acrylic on Canvas Size: 73 x 93 cm. / 28.7 x 36.6 in. Additional Information...

An abstract acrylic and paper on canvas painting by Post War artist Arne Hiersoux. "Yonder Cisco" is executed in bold strokes, splashes and drips of violet, blue, green, yellow, whit...

Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...

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 ...

"Expressionist Abstract #5" is a 50 x 60 inches oil on board work by Philadelphia artist Morris Lewis Blackman. The painting is signed in the artist's monogram "MLB" and dated 1964-6...

"Expressionist Abstract #3" is a 50 x 55 inches oil on board work by Philadelphia artist Morris Lewis Blackman. The painting is signed in the artist's monogram "MLB" and dated 1964-6...

20th Century Italian Illustrator Gianna Renna depicts a emotionally-charged scene of three men on a raft descending into a fiery abyss. His conception and execution of Jules Verne's ...

This painting is a perfect example of lyrical abstraction and a choice painting out of the best period of Vlerick's career. Signed and titled by the artist. Pierre Vlerick...

Marc Vaux Untitled (BY) 1965 Acrylic on cotton duck 77 x 77.5 cms (30.3 x 30.5 ins) MV20871

William Walton American, 1909-1994 Courthouse, 1961 Oil on canvas 33 ¼ by 50 in, w/ frame 34 ½ by 51 ⅝ in Signed lower right, titled verso William Walton, the journalist turned painter who chaired the Washington Fine Arts Commission from 1961 to 1971, was born in Jacksonville, Illinois. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, he pursued a career in journalism, ultimately working with the Associated Press in Chicago and as Time-Life war correspondent during World War II (when he parachuted into France with the 82nd Airborne...

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...

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Fateh Moudarres 1922-1999 Untitled (Four Figures in a Landscape), 1960-1965, circa oil on board on board 20.3 x 30 cm 8 x 11 3/4 in signed As one of Syria’s most celebrated painters...

Laurence Scarfe 1914-1993 Mosaic, 1960 oil on board 50.8 x 111.8 cm 20 x 44 in signed with initials; signed again, dated and titled verso Laurence Scarfe was a multi-disciplinary Mo...

Signed on reverse Tea, ash and acrylic on canvas 36 x 65 1/2 inches

Initialed Signed, inscribed with title and dated on reverse Oil on canvas 14 x 18 inches

Signed and inscribed with title and date on reverse of board Oil and canvas and board 18 x 23 3/4 inches

‘ My pictures are painted to be listened to ‘Ivon Hitchens One of the foremost Modernists of his age, Hitchens was known as ‘ the painter in the woods ’. This picture is an exception...

Robert Natkin Untitled, 1963 Acrylic on canvas 62.75 x 38 inches 159.4 x 96.5 cm RNa031 Celebrated as an unsurpassed colorist and for the beauty of his large-scale abstract works, R...

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) Open No. 45: In Blue with Brown 1969 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 55.9 x 71.1 cms (22 x 28 ins) RM9741 P447 Exhibited: Art Galleries, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Awards, 1970, no. 55. Galerie Templon, Paris, Robert Motherwell Open...

Robert Motherwell Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 60 1960 Oil on paperboard 17.8 x 23.8 cms (7 x 9 3/8 ins) RM14624 W111 Provenance: Harriet Mnuchin Weiner, 1961. Christie's, New ...

For David Smith, America's greatest sculptor of the twentieth century, there is little difference between drawing, painting, and sculpture. He easily moved from one medium to the next and indeed one subject to the next, such that a drawing could be a unique object in its own right or a sculpture could in turn be an inspiration for a drawing. Smith was an artist of the outdoors; his work bears the mark of his surroundings. Black lines on white paper can suggest natural elements like sticks in a snow-covered field, or even less empirical and rather conceptual renderings of his sculpture imagined within the same snow-covered field. This oil on canvas painting is signed with the Greek letters "Delta Sigma...

Pastel, 1961 Handsigned by the artist in pencil Certificate of authenticity Pastel, graphite and scratching Framed work : 57 x 72 cm Support: baryta cardboard laminated on wood pane...

Robert Motherwell Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110C 1968 Acrylic and graphite on paper 15.2 x 20.3 cms (6 x 8 ins) Robert Motherwell's Elegies series represent one of the iconic motifs of Abstract Expressionism.  Based on a 1948 ink illustration the artist executed accompanying a Harold Rosenberg poem, “A Bird for every bird,” the drawing shows the hypnotically repetitive patterning of ovoids and vertical beams.  The stark contrast of the black ink on white paper references the symbolic use of the color black by artists such as Goya, Manet and Matisse to convey death, loss, and tragedy.  Motherwell was quite affected by the turbulence of the Spanish Civil War and alludes to the Spanish republic in his Elegies. Motherwell’s plumbing the depths of poetry, history, and primordial art in the Elegies is considered a hallmark of nascent Abstract Expressionist painting in its desire to "excavate" essential imagery of mankind. Motherwell, who originally trained as a philosophy scholar and later became of the great editors of 20th century art documents, grasped very early on the crucial importance that in order to contribute meaningfully to the canon of modern art, one must create a principle of aesthetics. Through the surrealist concept of automatism, the artist finally found the creative principle that eventually governed his extraordinary artistic output and produced the Elegies, one of the most salient, immediate painterly images of 20th century abstract painting. In fact, he has alluded to the fact that each one of his Elegies begins as an automatic drawing, and certain shapes are then blocked to create the signature armature of the vertical bars and ovals. The Elegies seem to possess the power of an archetypal image, an image the mind already grasps on a subconscious level. Motherwell's play of dualities of black and white as well as other dichotomies—the geometric versus the organic, chaos versus order, death versus life—was a condition of living through a tumultuous period in American history. During an interview, he vividly recalled the 1940s as the time when society was ordered by a set of contradictions.  In Motherwell's Elegies, he not only discovered an incredibly elastic pictorial language that would communicate on multiple levels but also acknowledged these contradictions in a manner that would resonate in abstract form.  The present work served as a model for a painting, Spanish Elegy...

“Icarus Suspended” is an extraordinary painting of Ayrton's obsession with flight, myths, mirrors and mazes. This complex piece shows a figure in flight, frozen in action, either swooping down or, perhaps, falling to earth. Named after the Greek mythological figure, Icarus, who along with his father attempted to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax. Flying too close to the sun the wax melted and both fell to earth. The positioning of Ayrton's figure is reminiscent of "The Fall of Icarus" by Jacob Peter Gowy, Museo Nacional del Prado. This is part of a series of artworks on Icarus some sculptural and some three-dimensional paintings on canvas. Verso contains gallery label Matthiesen Gallery, 142 Bond St., London, England, with a signature and text in upper right corner: "To Morton Schotnick. Bought on the occasion of The Archives of American Arts Tour to London, England. October 10, 1961. Michael Ayrton...

Edith Stone Philips (American 1900-1988) "Maelstrom" 1965 Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 inches Signed and Dated Lower Left EDITH STONE PHILIPS, 88 St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) - Sunday, Oc...

Expressionist painting of two abstract skulls in flowers on a field of red. Framed in a white frame with a white matte. Painting was newly framed. Dime...

Abstract black and blue painting by Spanish artist Carlos Planell of two blocky figures from the 1960's. The black dots across the canvas penet...

Presenting an exceptional abstract pen and ink by American artist Hans Burkhardt. "Abstract Enviroment", is an original pen and ink on paper, signed, dated 1963, 18 x 23.5 inches.