1960s Abstract Paintings

Mid-century abstract in oil and tempera by French artist Hervet in cool tones of blues and purples, signed lower right. Original artwork on paper dis...

Abstract waves watercolor painting by listed artist Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed "Warner" lower left. Unframed. Image size, 15"H x 2...

Artist: Victor Chab, Argentine (1930 - ) Title: Untitled - Abstract Bird Year: 1964 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 32 x 25.5 inches (81 x 65 cm)

Signed and dated by the artist vertically lower left edge. Part of an experimental series of works using motor oil, India Ink, adhesives, sand, and various other mediums.

Untitled geometric abstract oil painting by Martin Canin, measuring 60x50-inch. Martin Canin’s work can be linked to two 1960s movements: Color field and Op Art. Like many artists of...

Fusain on paper, signed lower right

Fusain on paper, signed lower right.

This original Modern abstract painting by Stanley Bate is made with oil paint on canvas, and was painted circa 1960. It features a bold, vibrant red hue, with dark shapes lining the ...

"Stele" by Modernist painter Stanley Bate is a bold painting with a dark grey and umber border and large, central rectangles, the left in a warm red and orange and the right in a lig...

This untitled artwork by Stanley Bate was created circa 1960. It is a Modern abstract oil painting on canvas, featuring an earthy palette of sandy brown and umber, light blue, muted ...

Stuart Bigley is an artist based in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. He has been making and showing his artwork for over 40 years. During this time he also co-founded and ran th...

French abstract gouache painting of three figures blowing glass backed by geometric shapes in light pastel hues, circa 1960. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with ...

Impactful abstract monotype of abstract figures in black over a bright orange background, circa 1960. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a g...

Oil and paper assemblage abstracted seascape comprised of layers of cut and torn paper with printed patterns, images, and text, overlapped by dynamic fields of sea-foam green, coral,...

Artist: Julien Dinou, Swiss (1895 - 1983) Title: Jeu de Taches Year: 1966 Medium: Oil on Board, Signed and dated Size: 20 x 26 inches; 50.8 x 66.04 cm Frame: 24...

RAY DONARSKI (1935-1996) Swing, 1966 Oil on canvas 17 ½ x 17 ½ inches Signed, dated and inscribed verso: ‘Swing’ / Ray Donarski / 2/66 / 17 ½ x 17 ½ / For Mr. & Mrs. Passerman / New York 1966 Original frame Ray Donarski was one of a group of artists in New York known as the Bowery Boys during the early sixties. The group included Eva Hesse, Robert Mangold, Jack Youngerman, and Robert Rauschenberg among others. He is mentioned in several of art critic Lucy Lippard's articles on New York conceptual artists and Bowery Boy artists of that period. Donarski was a close friend of artist James Rosenquist. They had studied together at the Art Students League in New York. In January of 1962 Donarski helped Rosenquist set up his first solo exhibition at the Green Gallery in New York. In his book, Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art, Rosenquist recalls sitting on the floor with Donarski before opening night wondering if anyone would show up. The show sold out before it opened. When Rosenquist was broke and homeless in 1955 his friend Donarski told him he knew of a great job as a chauffeur and bartender for some very wealthy people. They went up to see them and split the job. Rosenquist took it for a year, and after a year, he gave it to Donarski. In an interview with Rosenquist he said “I lived in the lap of luxury with very little money, and was a chauffeur bopping around in a ’56 Lincoln town car and a ’56 Lincoln convertible with big fins on the car (laughs), great big fins. I did that for a year and then transferred into the International Sign Painters.” Donarski married Mary Lou Storm and had two children. He became known as the “American in Luxembourg”, dividing his time between New York and summers in Luxembourg, where he was represented by Galerie Paul Bruck and Galerie Horn. He also exhibited at the Westport Gallery...

Signed "E.B." in a cartouche panel in the upper center, which is repeated on the verso. Includes 19 on the left side and 62 on the right side. h: 33.2 x w: 19.5 in / h: 84.3 x w: 49...

Martin Canin's Dichotos is a large 60 x 50 geometric abstract oil painting, dating 1967. Martin Canin’s work can be linked to two 1960s movements: Color field and Op Art. Like many a...

This 1960s painting by Modernist artist Stanley Bate is an energetic abstract composition with a warm red and orange palette with small pops of bright blue throughout. The painting i...

This work by Martin Canin is a 60 x 50 inch geometric abstraction oil painting from 1974. Color is freed from objective context and becomes the subject in itself. The stillness of t...

Africana Mid-Century Modern large and impressive mixed media stone, sand and oil on artist board. The painting is unsigned there is a small fragment of old paper label with number #2...

Eugene Berman is a keen observer of his surroundings but never translates his vision in a literal way. In "Sicilian Landscape," the artist transfor...

Substantial and period painting, a Mid Century Modern portrait of a woman in an abstracted landscape by listed California artist Tarmo Pasto...

"Martos" is an abstract oil painting on canvas by Stanley Bate featuring what appears to be a high horizon line of white and muted yellow. Beneath that line is a combination of textu...

A dynamic mid century abstract expressionist image done in interesting earth tones by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey...

This abstract painting by Modernist artist Stanley Bate is an abstract oil painting on canvas featuring a bright red geometric shape at the center of the composition and deep grey, b...

"Storm King" by Modernist artist Stanley Bate is a moderately sized oil painting on canvas. The predominantly greyscale painting features a warm off-white w...

An original signed framed abstract expressionist painting by mid-century modern Chicago woman artist, Margo Hoff (1910-2008), "Stone Quarry" was created using acrylic, crayon and paper collage on board in shades of purple, blue, brown, white and black. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 48 ½ x 40 ½ x 1 ¾ inches. Image size is 48 x 40 inches. Provenance: Estate of the artist, Margo Hoff About the Artist: A prolific artist, Margo Hoff’s exquisite style evolved throughout her career yet was always rooted in the events, people, and places in her life. The human experience was her soul focus, expressed through her eyes alone. Born in 1910 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hoff began creating white-clay animals at a young age, giving them to her friends and family. At eleven she contracted typhoid fever and was bedridden for a summer. During her convalescence, she drew and made cutouts, and it was during this time that her bold, artistic imagination came alive. She began formal art training in high school and continued her education at the University of Oklahoma, Tulsa. In 1933 she moved to Chicago and attended the National Academy of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Between 1933 and 1960—her Chicago years—Hoff’s works was deeply rooted in a figurative, regionalist style. She often used elements of magical realism, and many of her paintings have dreamlike qualities. As a child she learned about color by grinding down rocks, plants, and berries. Her color pallet during the Chicago years is indicative of her early-life color experimentation as she consistently used warm, earth tones in her work. Hoff was a born adventurer and traveled extensively. She lived, worked, taught, and painted in Europe, Mexico, Beirut, Lebanon, Uganda, Brazil, and China. She also showed at the Denver Art Museum’s Annual Western Exhibitions in 1952-54, 56, and 57. In 1957 she showed along side Colorado modernist Vance Kirkland at the Denver Art Museum’s exhibition, Man's Conquest of Space. What was once a focus on the representational, her work began to change after 1957 when she saw Sputnik in its orbit around Earth. At that moment, feet firmly placed on the ground, she was able to imagine herself in space, looking down from the cosmos, and what she saw was an abstracted world. She then had the opportunity to peer into an electron microscope where once again she was looking down into what seemed to be a realm of pure abstraction. These two events profoundly changed her perspective and she began to move from figural painting to abstract, geometric collage. In 1960, Hoff moved to New York City and she began creating collages. Placing the canvas on the ground, and working from all sides, she used strips of painted paper and tissue—and later painted pieces of canvas—glued onto the canvas surface, building layer upon layer, shape against shape, “action of color next to stillness of color.” She believed these simplified, abstracted forms held the spirit of the subject in the same way poetry reduces words to their essence. These pieces range from aerial cityscapes, to dancers in motions, to flora...

"Newstand" by Modernist painter Stanley Bate features a dark grey and brown perimeter with a white, blue and red composition that features geometric crosshatched lines with integrate...

You are viewing a modern abstract painting by Robert Blair. Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher. He is best k...

Dina Gustin Baker studied at the Philadelphia college of Fine Art as well as the Art Students League in New York. This work acrylic on paper is evocative of her colorful palette and ...

"Exodus" is a Modern abstract painting by Stanley Bate. Bate, who was greatly inspired by his peer, Mark Rothko and the Abstract Expressionist movement in general, creates an energet...

Original 1961 mid-century modern abstract painting by New Mexico Transcendentalist, Emil Bisttram (1895-1976). Abstract floating shapes painted in shades of purple, blue, gray, white and black. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 33 x 37 x 1 ¾ inches. Image size is 32 ½ x 36 ¼ inches. Painting is clean and in very good vintage condition - please contact us for a complete condition report. Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: Emil Bisttram grew up in the tenements of New York City after his family emigrated from Hungary when he was a young boy. Bisttram studied at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, and at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art. During his training, Emil studied under Ivan Olinsky, Leon Kroll, Howard Giles, and Jay Hambidge. Bisttram later taught at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art, Parson's School of Design, and at the Master Institute of the Roerich Museum in New York. Bisttram opened the nation's first freelance advertising art agency by the age of twenty-one. However, he soon abandoned the business in pursuit of a career in Fine Art. In 1930, the artist made his first visit to Taos, New Mexico, where he reportedly found himself "blocked" by the open spaces, intense light, and color that define the region. In 1931, he traveled to Mexico where he studied mural painting with Diego Rivera on a Guggenheim Fellowship. While Emil was in Mexico, his wife lived in Taos where the couple established permanent residence upon his return. In Taos, Bisttram opened the area's first commercial art gallery, the Heptagon Gallery. He also founded the avante-garde Taos School of Art, later known as the Bisttram School of Fine Art. In 1934, Bisttram was among artists selected to paint murals for the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). While commissioned by the W.P.A., Bisttram worked on murals in the County Courthouse in Taos and he completed a mural in the Justice Department Building in Washington, D.C. Although he continued with representational painting, much of Bisttram's work in the late 1930's became increasingly abstract. Along with Raymond Jonson and seven other artists, Bisttram founded the Transcendental Painting Group...

'Portrait of Cubist Man', oil on board, Berlin School (circa 1960s). A striking cubist depiction, this is a vibrant portrait of a figure in geometric perspective. The varied hues - b...

'Cubist Figure', oil on board, by STM (circa 1960s - 70s). A marvellous mid-century sizeable painting by an artist with the initials STM. Clearly inspired by cubists Picasso and Braq...

Nicely painted mid century abstract geometric cubist framed and signed oil painting by Burton Wasserman (1929 - 2017). Great color and composition. Framed. Signed. Artist Bio...

Aubrey Penny (1917 - 2000) Abtract Painting, Oil on Board. Signed and Dated 62, lower right Titled: "Laws of Chance" Series One 3-185- C 1962 Aubrey Penny (American 1917-2000) wa...

A major work by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Painting is casein paint and plaster on board, which allows for wonderful color and text...

Very nice American sunset landscape. Great color. Handsomely framed.

5-3327 Cat Nap ,animal painting vintage acrylic on board displayed in a wood frame,signed by Martino .Image size 10.50 H x 13.50 W

Etienne Ret (1900-1996). Portrait of a Young Woman, ca. 1965. Oil on panel measuring 12.5 x 17.5 inches; 20 x 25 inches framed. Signed upper left. Excellent condition. Custom carved ...

Gorgeous cyan and blue abstract expressionist landscape of highly abstracted forms in cool colors evoking the Bay Area hills, with a glimpse of Mt. Tamalpais, by an unknown Californi...

Antique American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

This superb British Abstract Expressionist oil painting in by noted British artist Ron Russell. Russell was born in Britain but lived in Australia for over 10 years in the late forti...

Antique American modernist abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right and dated 1962.

Vintage modernist abstract still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.

Lucien BEYER (1908-1983) Composition Oil on canvas Size: 65 x 92 cm Signed lower right Provenance : - Yves Jaubert Gallery, Paris - Private collection,...

It makes a bold statement. Field Green is one of a series of colour field paintings created by modernist Milly Ristvedt. Renowned as a master colourist, Ristvedt chose a bright palet...

Untitled, 1963 Unique Piece Oil on canvas 60 x 90 x cm. 23.6 x 35.4 in. ABOUT THE ARTIST Oswaldo Vigas (b. 1923, Valencia, Venezuela; d. 2014, Caracas, Venezuela) is a protean crea...

Antique American signed modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 46L x 36H.

An abstract acrylic piece by Murray Reich completed in 1969.

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 ...

LOT:20230613N02 Kazuo Shiraga [Untitled] Oil on canvas Signed by the artist on the lower right and the reverse, dated 1965 on the reverse Unique COA issued by the Japan Art Dealers A...

ALEXANDER CALDER 1898-1976 Lawnton, Pennsylvania 1898 - 1976 New York (American) Title: Eclipse, 1961 Technique: Signed and Dated Gouache on Wove Paper Size: 55 x 74.5 cm. / 21.7 ...

The artwork is handsigned "Emblema 1966" on the back of the canvas by the artist.

SHANTI DAVE, Untitled Composition, Mixed Media on Canvas, 21" x 25", signed upper right and dated '61, framed, 24 1/2" x 28 1/2". Perlman Gallery. Shanti Dave is an Indian painter and sculptor, considered by many as one of the major Indian artists of the twentieth century. He is a former member of the Lalit Kala Akademi and the Sahitya Kala Parishad. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1985. Dave was born on 25 September 1931 at the northern Gujarat village of Badpura as one of the four children of a rural family of modest means. He did his education in Baroda by joining the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1951 from where he completed his graduate and post graduate studies in Fine Arts. He started his career as a commercial artist doing banners and sign boards...

Mid Century Modern "Reflections" Oil 1950s Early morning abstract landscape with birds and reflections of a European scene by Marjorie Suits Erbesa Fresno, California artist (America...