1960s Abstract Paintings

Thin edged metal frame Philip Castle is an Irish Painter and husband to artist Barry Castle He is rarely exhibited and Prince Rainier of Monaco once purc...

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This painting is a perfect example of lyrical abstraction and a choice painting out of the best period of Vlerick's career. Geen nachtschade (No Nightshade), 1962 Oil on Masonite board 121 x 61 cm (without frame) 136 x 75 cm (framed) Signed and dated bottom left ‘P. Vlerick 1962’& with title, signature place and date at the back Pierre Vlerick...

"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...

“The Garden” is a striking, original 1960s abstract mixed media artwork by celebrated American artist Edward Marecak (1919–1993). Created using burnished crayon and acrylic on paper,...

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...

"Paesaggio" is Stefanelli’s celebration of the Italian landscape and its power and warmth. Strokes of geometric shapes in swaths of orange hint at the presence of manmade structures ...

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: ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Rex Ashlock (1918 - 1999) Born in Spokane, WA on Aug. 23, 1918. Ashlock moved to San Francisco in 1937 and was a copy boy...

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...

Sam Francis (1923-1994) is one of the most distinctive and collected 20th-century abstract artists. After serving in the Air Force in WWII, Francis returned to his native Californi...

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

Artwork size: 195x97 cm. Frame size 222x123 cm. Provenance: Private collection Stockholm, Sweden Certificate of authenticity from the Comité Lanskoy in Paris André Lanskoy was born ...

‘ 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 ...

Gray Area Benjamin Benno, American (1901–1980) Date: circa 1960 Oil on Burlap, signed Size: 18 x 15 in. (45.72 x 38.1 cm) Frame Size: 23.5 x 20 inches

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...

Fernando de Szyszlo was a Peruvian painter and sculptor who was a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mid-1950s. Untitled II ...

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...

Oswaldo Vigas Terricola, 1963 Oil on Canvas 116 x 90 cm 45.6 x 35.4 in. The painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Cat. Rais. 1963.131 Provenance: Private Collect...

Kestutis Edward Zapkus was born in Lithuania in 1938. He was predominantly influenced creatively by the Abstract Expressionist movement in Post War New York. Zapkus soon immigrated t...

Robert Motherwell Open #125: Jeannie 1969 Acrylic and charcoal on canvasboard 76.2 x 50.8 cms (30 x 20 ins) RM9796 P532 The title of this painting refers to Motherwell's elder daugh...

Robert Motherwell Automatism No. 11 1965 Ink and oil on paper 67.3 x 61.6 cms (26 1/2 x 24 1/4 ins) Part of the Beside the Sea series, a series of oil paintings influenced by Mother...

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...

Léopold Survage (1879-1968) Porteuse 1962 oil on canvas 100 x 81.3 cm signed and dated ‘Survage. 48.’ (lower right) Price: $63,000 USD (inc. 5% UK imp...

A painting by Willem de Kooning. "Woman in a Rowboat" is an abstract, oil on paper laid on masonite painting executed in a lush and swirling palette primarily of greens, whites, beiges and yellow and depicting an abstracted, nude woman in a boat by Post War artist Willem de Kooning. "Woman in a Rowboat" is a seminal work by de Kooning that has a new fluidity which relates to his next major series of Woman paintings which he began in 1964. Signed lower left, "de Kooning.” Provenance: Allan Stone Gallery, New York Private Collection, New York Private Collection, Arizona Exhibition: North Hampton, Smith College Museum of Art; Cambridge, The New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Willem de Kooning: a Retrospective from Public and Private Collections, April – June 1965 (Cambridge only) New York, Allan Stone Gallery, De Kooning/Cornell, February – March 1965 Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, American Paintings, September - October 1966, cat. no. 26 Dublin, The Royal Dublin Society, Rosc'67:The Poetry of Vision, November – December 1967, p. 201, illustrated Detroit, J.L. Hudson, Willem de Kooning: Three Decades of Painting, March – April 1968, no. 31 (exhibition checklist) Easthampton, Gild Hall...

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...

Ernest Tino Trova "Figurative Abstract" 1965 Oil on Canvas approx 17 x 12.5 inches Signed and Dated Lower Right Known for his Falling Man series in abstract figural sculpture, he cr...

Presenting a just discovered mixed media painting by American artist Robert McIntosh, (1916-2010.) Endeavor, is an original mixed media oil and collage on canvas board, signed, c. ...

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...

Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously organized abstract compositions, use of sculpture, and the adoption of collage as a core prac...

Fritz Bultman set himself apart from other Abstract Expressionists with his meticulously organized abstract compositions, use of sculpture, and the adoption of collage as a core prac...

Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the d...

Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the d...

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.