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Period: 1970s
Abstraction
Located in Germantown, NY
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 the ...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"So What How?" - Abstract Expressionist Earth Tone Abstract in Oil on Canvas
By John O. Thomson
Located in Soquel, CA
"So What How?" - Abstract Expressionist Earth Tone Abstract in Oil on Canvas Expressive abstract work in earth tones by Monterey Bay artist and gallery owner John O. Thomson (Americ...
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American Modern 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Merry Christmas, Spray Paint, Stencil
Located in Surfside, FL
Matt Mullican (born September 18, 1951 in Santa Monica, California) is an American artist and son of artists Lee Mullican and Luchita Hurtado. Mullican received his BFA from CalArts in 1974, and rose to prominence as a member of the "Pictures Generation" along with such artists as Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, David Salle, James Welling, Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler...
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Contemporary 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Spray Paint, Stencil

'Abstract in Coral and Jade', American School
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An elegant, cabinet-size, American School abstract comprising fragmented structural areas of goldenrod, coral, and ebony, superimposed on a soft field of jade and sage green. Signed...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Gouache

Visionary Surrealist Totem Abstract -- Fragment Under Grey Sky
Located in Soquel, CA
Geometric surrealist composition depicting a totem-like form, composed of colorful surrealist three dimensional interlocking shapes, by Clayton Anderson (American, b. 1943). Signed "Clayton Anderson" and titled "Landscape #10 (Fragment Under Grey Sky)" on verso. Signature embossed into lower left edge of paper. Presented in a custom deep box frame with plexiglass. Image size: 20.75"H x 16"W Clayton Anderson (American, b. 1943) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and worked with Ben Kimihira, Walter...
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Surrealist 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Oil

"Radio City Music Hall" Art Deco Geometric Painting on Canvas with Gold Diptych
Located in New York, NY
This work is a bold display of geometrically strong pieces, with charcoal grey and light grey and touches of gold in the strong lines which create this Diptych. "Radio City Music Hall...
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Art Deco 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Latex, Varnish, Canvas, Tape

Flight on the Flieblies no.1 - Tempera on Paper by Alan Davie - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Flight on the Flieblies no. 1 is a beautiful tempera on paper, realized by Alan Davie (1920-2014) in 1972. Signature and date in pencil on the lower right margin. Title in pencil on...
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Contemporary 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Tempera

Isadore Levy "Brandford" 1971
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Isadore Levy "Brandford" 1971 Oil on canvas dated , signed , titled 70 x 35 cms
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1970s Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Porthmeor: Two Whites with Circle
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
George Dannatt (1915-2009) Porthmeor: Two Whites with Circle 1970 Gouache on paper Image: 13.4 x 17.5 cm Frame: 31.4 x 36.2 cm Provenance: The George and Ann Dannatt Estate, T...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Rising Tondo, De Stijl Painting by Ilya Bolotowsky 1972
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rising Tondo by Ilya Bolotowsky, Russian/American (1907–1981) Date: 1972 Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated bottom, and signed, titled, and dated on verso Size: 47 x 47 in. (119.38 ...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Served table
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper Brown and gold wooden frame with glass window 69.5 x 90 x 5 cm
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Analytic Cubist 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Snow of Planet - Original Acrylic Painting by Frida & Raul -2022
Located in Roma, IT
Snow of planet is a beauty acrylic painting realized by the Italian artists Frida & Raul in 2022. Hand-signed. Perfect conditions.
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Cracked Shell, Op Art Acrylic Painting on Canvas by Patrice Breteau
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Patrice Breteau, French (1942 - ) Title: Cracked Shell Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated l.r. Size: 30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm) Frame: 31.5 x 31.5 inches
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Op Art 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Invitation to the Paradise #11
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Sakurai Takami - Japanese (1928-2016) Title: Invitation to the Paradise ST#11 Year: circa 1972 Medium: Oil on Canvas Sight size: 18 x 24 inches. Framed size: 21 x 27 inches Signature: Unsigned. Label on old frame Condition: Very good Frame: Framed in original frame. Frame in poor condition This oil on canvas is by the noted avant garde Japanese artist Sakurai Takami (1928-2016). It was created sometime between 1971, when Takami lived in San Francisco and was a member of and exhibited with the “Konnyaku Commune” and 1978 when he exhibited with the Vorpal Gallery in San Francisco. This painting was purchased from the Vorpal Gallery. The painting is in very good condition. It is unsigned, but the title is on the side of the metal frame. The frame is fine, but the mat is stained and in poor condition. I will include the frame for protection and provenance. Sakurai was a main member of the avant-garde art group “Kyushu-ha”. Kyushu-ha” created a major trend among contemporary art in post-war Japan, which spread from Fukuoka to the whole country and also France, the United States and other overseas countries. Throughout his life he was very dramatic; his enormous and diverse works are energetic and face us with the true meaning of expression. Initially his main focus was on informal paintings, but it gradually expanded towards anti-artistic objects and performances. His works are characterized by the usage of materials that are connected with the smell of a workers life, such as coal tar, asphalt, woven mats and dungarees (jute bag). Shortly after Kyushu-ha disbanded in 1968, Sakurai Takami moved to San Francisco. From 1973 onward, he lived in France. The people and faces in Sakurai’s paintings are coloured red, so that the colour, a symbol of heat, becomes a “social sign”. Each person has a life of their own, while at the same time expressing the colourful life of human communities, like the hippies. His theme may be drawing “humanity and the universe” with a loving embrace of “peace” and “life”. 1953 graduated Fukuoka Liberal Arts University 1955 40th Nika Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum 1956 Persona Exhibition, outer west side of the Fukuoka prefectural office 1957-68 part of Kyushu-ha 1965 went to the United States (~’67) 1970 “Kanousei e no Ishi“ Kitakyushu Hachiman Museum of Art Kyushu: Trends in Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Bunka Hall Sakurai Takami solo exhibition, Fukuoka Bunka Hall went to the United States for the second time, started working with the konyaku commune (San Francisco) 1971 Konyaku Revolution Art Exhibition (San Francisco) 1973 Nagoya mayor nominating election convention, Azabu public hall moved to France 1974 formed the group “Kusuguri” (Paris) 1975 7th...
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Other Art Style 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Wounds, Figurative, Lithograph on Paper by Artist Somnath Hore "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Somnath Hore - Wounds Lithograph on Paper 15 x 22 inches, 1975 (Framed & Delivered) Inclusive of shipment mounted not framed, Should you wish to receive the same framed and shipped ...
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Modern 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Lithograph

Expanding Mandala, Black and Orange Abstract Oval Mid-Century Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Expanding Mandala, c. 1970s Acrylic on scintilla 23 x 30 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled, Magenta, Sienna and Turquoise - expressive, abstract, pastel on paper
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This ethereal abstract pastel on paper is an early work by Milly Ritsvedt known as one of Canada’s foremost abstract artists. Soft clouds of magenta, sienna and turquoise float acros...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Lunch at Chez Louis
Located in London, GB
'Lunch at Chez Louis', oil on canvas, by Roland Dubuc (circa 1970s). The outdoor terrace at restaurants and cafés in France goes back centuries as they have always been a gathering place for intellectuals to meet and debate philosophical issues; for the Avant Garde set to display their works; for artists to compare and exchange ideas and for writers to drown their sorrows over their artistic anguish or melancholy. Even the freedom fighters of the French Revolution and later the French Resistance would meet in cafés to plot their course. Regular people of course also enjoy these venues. A very delightful feature of these French institutions is that there is always room for quiet book readers, romantic couples, business meetings and lively groups of friends sharing a bottle of wine. The artist Dubuc captures a slice of this lovely aspect of French culture in this smile-inducing depiction painted in vivid oils. With a background of greenery, the patrons enjoy the outdoors protected from the intense sun by the table's parasols. Ah, the life. The artwork is in good vintage condition, is framed and signed by the artist in the lower left hand corner. Please enjoy the many photos accompanying this listing. Upon request a video may be provided. About the Artist: Roland DuBuc (1924-1998), French artist, the sixth of 13 children and son of a construction worker. The very precariousness of the family's financial situation forced him to go to work at the age of 14. In extreme poverty, he moved to Rouen where he was lodged by the Salvation Army. During that time he struck up friendships with several artists who gave him advice and taught him techniques of drawing. He moved to other cities later where he met painters including, among others, Fred Pailhès...
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Expressionist 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Abstracted Landscape', Abstract, Mills College, Whitney Museum, CCAC, ASL
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Schoener' for Jason Schoener (American, 1919-1997) and painted circa 1970. Titled 'Choruscating Landscape' (labels, verso). Accompa...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Small Surrealist Landscape with Boats - After the Flood
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed surrealist landscape depicting a barren, desert-like scene with small boats by Clayton Anderson (American, b. 1943). Signed "CLAY ANDERSON" on v...
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Surrealist 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Wood, Masonite, Oil

Erie Shore, Large Abstract Expressionist Mid-Century Modern geometric work
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Erie Shore, c. 1975 acrylic on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 50 x 72 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...
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Abstract Expressionist 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled abstract pop art oil painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Untitled Artist: Isabel Baquedano (1929–2018) Medium: Oil on canvas mounted on board Dimensions: 44.9 x 44.9 in (114 x 114 cm) Estimated date: 1970s–1980s Signature: Not ...
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Pop Art 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Raphael’s Stairway, Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Raphael’s Stairway Year: 1978 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 48 x 36 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed recto; signed, dated, and ...
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Photorealist 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Fungo Atomico" (Atomic Mushroom) Surrealist Landscape
By Luigi Pretin
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist painting of a white structure in a barren desert titled "Fungo Atomico" by Italian surrealist painter Luigi Pretin, circa 1976. Signed and dated in lower right corner as w...
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Surrealist 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

1970’s French Surrealist Signed Oil Painting Abstract Robotic Figure
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tristan Fabris 1970's, French Surrealist artist Abstract Surrealist Figurative study oil on canvas, unframed inscribed verso canvas: 32 x 24 inches private collection, France The pai...
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Surrealist 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Composition abstraite/Abstract composition
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Reference number A214 The painting is not framed but it could be with a natural oak floated or black frame (see how it would look like on the simulation photo. Price for the frame : ...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

6 Variations Relief - colorful, contemporary, abstract, wood, gouache, foam core
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Striking in colour and form, this contemporary composition is by Yvonne Lammerich. The Canadian artist has garnered an international reputation for her inspired exploration of abstra...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Gouache, Wood Panel, Foam Board

"Past Physical" Symbolism and Figures form the Artists Subconscious 1970s
Located in Soquel, CA
A dark yet vibrant and expertly executed painting full of personal symbolism concepts to numerous to cover in a few sentences, by Ralph Thompson (aka Akili Nali) (American, B-circa 1...
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Symbolist 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Apple Tree Jules Paressant (French, 1917-2001)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
The Apple Tree Jules Paressant (French, 1917-2001) Oil on found wood panel 17 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches The nature of the apple, as an idea unto itself, is ever young, ever fresh and free...
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Modern 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Wood, Oil

Linear Development by Victor Heath-Leytron - Oil on paper 58x58 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Vetriculus, Surrealist Ovoid acrylic painting, Figural Abstract work on paper
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Vetriculus, c. 1970s Acrylic on paper 4.5 x 3.5 inches 11 x 10 inches, framed A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting. Cl...
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American Modern 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Modern Abstract Blue Rose, Vintage Abstracted Minimalist Floral by Eleanor Perry
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern Abstract Blue Rose, Vintage Abstracted Minimalist Floral by Eleanor Perry Modernist blue and white rose abstract by San Francisco, California artist Eleanor Louise Perry (Ame...
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American Modern 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Masonite, Acrylic

Sennedem, Abstract Italian Modernist Oil Painting in Brass Frame
By Ezio Gribaudo
Located in Surfside, FL
36X30 framed, 31X26.5 unframed. Ezio Gribaudo was born in Turin on January 10, 1929. He trained at the Accademia di Brera, Milan (1949–52), and attended the Faculty of Architecture ...
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Modern 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Brass

Seated Female Nude
Located in Astoria, NY
Jack Stevens (American, XX), Seated Female Nude, Oil on Canvas, 1978, Post-Cubist style, signed and dated upper left, signed and with two Art Students League of New York descriptive ...
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Modern 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Beginning, 2021, cast paper, framed sculpture, black, Chinese text
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Cheung Yee, Cast Paper painting, wall sculpture, black, edition CHEUNG YEE (1936–2019) The Chinese artist Cheung Yee, a pioneer of the contemporary art scene in Hong Kong, died in Los Angeles on December 4 at the age of eighty-three. The Hong Kong Museum of Art confirmed his passing. Best known for his paper castings; bronze relief; and wooden, stone, and bronze sculptures, which mixed Western modernism, traditional Chinese aesthetics, and elements of folklore and ancient philosophies, Cheung cofounded the avant-garde Circle Art Group with Hon Chi Fun, Wucius Wong, and several other peers. The group was active from 1964 to 1971. Born in Guangzhou, China, in 1936, Cheung was raised in Hong Kong but was forced to leave the region when the Japanese invaded China during the Second Sino-Japanese War; his family relocated to Guangzhou. When the conflict ended, Cheung returned to the region and began learning Gongbi, a realist brush technique in Chinese painting. In the 1950s, he studied art at Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, where he met his wife. Throughout his schooling, Cheung pursued his interests in archaeology and began experimenting with different materials and with approaches to copperplate etching, welding, and modeling. In 1964, Cheung’s first major retrospective was organized by the City Museum and Art Gallery at Hong Kong City Hall. The following year, he received a grant from the Institute of International Education to study in the United States and Europe. Since then, he has had solo exhibitions at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, AO Vertical Art...
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Contemporary 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Handmade Paper

1970’s French Surrealist Signed Oil Painting Spiralling Shapes & Patterns
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tristan Fabris 1970's French Surrealist artist Abstract Surrealist Figurative study signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 26.5 x 22.5 inches canvas: 25.5 x 21.5 inches inscribed vers...
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Surrealist 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Regina's Journey, Abstract Painting by Soni Wallace
Located in Long Island City, NY
Soni Wallace masters color and form in this Abstract Expressionist painting. Many works from this period in her life reflect coastal landscapes through a lens of minimalism and geome...
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Abstract Expressionist 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Spiritualistic" - Heavily Textured Abstract Expressionist Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Spiritualistic" - Heavily Textured Abstract Expressionist Oil on Canvas Bold, textured, impasto composition of a figure by California artist Harald "Harry" Dry Schmidt (American, 1...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Bruce Jenner, Olympian 1976 - Large Scale Pop Art Portrait Original Painting
By Edgar Duveyoung
Located in Soquel, CA
A substantial pop art style oil painting of famed Olympian Bruce Jenner (now Caitlyn Jenner) composed of contrasting mosaic-like rectangles in rainbow of ...
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Pop Art 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

The game. 1973, paper, tempera, 19x18 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Touch 1974, photo screen printing, 53x49 cm Atis Ievins (1946) The exhibition by artist Atis Ieviņš reminds the very origins of serigraphy technique in Latvian art in the time of t...
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Contemporary 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Tempera

Garden, Abstract Expressionist Mid-Century Modern geometric work
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Garden, 1972 acrylic on canvas signed, dated and titled verso 59.5 x 50 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...
Category

Abstract Expressionist 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Heavy Impasto Portrait of a Man Expressionist Piece "Tally Ho"
Located in Soquel, CA
Heavy Impasto Portrait of a Man Expressionist Piece by Harald Dry Schmidt Abstract expressionist portrait of a man with his hand raised by California artist Harald "Harry" Dry Schmi...
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American Modern 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Still Life with Plants and Abstraction
Located in Germantown, NY
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 the ...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Linen, Oil

Large Scale San Francisco Bay Abstract Geometric Landscape -- "Tidal Planes"
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful abstracted geometric landscape of mountains surrounding San Francisco Bay Area titled "Tidal Planes" by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999). Signed and dated lower right "Lora...
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Abstract Geometric 1970s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Nude Original Oil Painting Mid 20th Century British Artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Original Oil Painting, Mid 20th Century, British Artist By British artist, Beryl Darton, Mid 20th Century Oil painting on board, unframed Board size:...
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Impressionist 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled Geometric Abstraction unique signed & framed by Minimalist art pioneer
Located in New York, NY
Lyman Kipp Untitled geometric abstraction, 1978 Acrylic painting on paper Hand signed and dated 1978 Unique Frame included: Elegantly floated and framed in a hand made white wood mus...
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Minimalist 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Winter Landscape - Tempera and Watercolor by Sergio Barletta - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Winter landscape is an original artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in the 1970s. Watercolor and tempera. Includes frame: 38 x 3.5 x 48 cm Hand-signed on the lower margin Sergio Barletta (1934) is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator, who has also published some humorous and political satire books. From the age of 22 is active in Rome, where he worked as an illustrator and art director in some monthly magazines like “Costume”, Diners Club house organ, BP Review, IBM, and others. In 1965 started the joint-working with Marino Gallery in Rome, and in 1966 in Milan with Humour Graphic’s group, at Levi Gallery and others in the following years. In these years graphic work and illustration are mixed with painting and photography, also with satirical drawings...
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Abstract 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Tempera

Vintage Abstract Expressionist Nude Figurative - Heavily Textured Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Abstract Expressionist Nude Figurative - Heavily Textured Oil on Canvas Abstract expressionist figurative composition of a nude woman by California artist Harald "Harry" Dry...
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Post-War 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bolder Strokes 14
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bolder Strokes 14 Julia Marc, American Date: circa 1980 Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 48 x 84 in. (121.92 x 213.36 cm)
Category

Abstract Expressionist 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Extinction, Stylised Surrealist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Extinction, Stylised Surrealist Oil Painting French School, 20th century Oil painting on canvas, unframed Canvas size: 19.5 x 24 inches Quite ...
Category

Surrealist 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Air" Modern Abstract Geometric Pastel Pink Contoured / Shaped Canvas Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern pastel pink abstract painting by Texas born artist Clark Fox. The work features an intricate geometric pattern of dots against a shaped canvas. Titled...
Category

Modern 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Orange Violet and Blue Surface - Acrylic on Canvas by Genny Puccini - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Orange violet and blue surface is a contemporary artwork realized by Genny Puccini in 1975. Mixed colored acrylic painting on canvas. Hand-signed and dated on the back.
Category

Abstract 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Handmade Paper Collage Sculpture Art Assemblage with String Nancy Genn Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
Nancy Genn, American (b. 1929) Marshfield 25 (1977) Handmade paper collage Hand signed verso Dimensions: 20 1/8 x 22 inches Utilizing what is now known as the 'Genn Method,' Nancy Genn created three-dimensional abstract works of handmade paper, gaining international recognition in the 1970s Nancy Genn is an American artist living and working in Berkeley, California known for works in a variety of media, including paintings, bronze sculpture, printmaking, and handmade paper rooted in the Japanese washi paper making tradition. Her work explores geometric abstraction, non-objective form, and calligraphic mark making, and features light, landscape, water, and architecture motifs. She is influenced by her extensive travels, and Asian craft, aesthetics and spiritual traditions. Nancy Genn was born in 1929 in San Francisco, California. She recognized early that she would pursue a career as an artist. Her mother, Ruth Wetmore Thompson Whitehouse, was a painter and UC Berkeley alumna who played a leadership role in the San Francisco Women Artists organization. Genn studied at San Francisco Art Institute (then California School of Fine Arts) with painter Hassel Smith, and at the Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley (1948–49) with Professors Margaret Peterson and John Haley, and fellow students Sam Francis and Sonya Rapoport. In 1949 she married Vernon “Tom” Genn, an engineer raised in Japan, with whom she had three children. Career Genn's first noted solo exhibition was in 1955 at Gump's Gallery in San Francisco. She received international recognition through her inclusion in French art critic Michel Tapié’s seminal text Morphologie Autre (1960), which cited her as one of the most important exponents of post-war informal art. In 1961, Genn began creating bronze sculptures using the lost-wax casting method. Influenced by noted sculptor and family friend Claire Falkenstein, who used open-formed structures in her work, Genn cast forms woven from long grape vine cuttings, and produced vessels, fountains, fire screens, a menorah, a lectern, and, notably, the Cowell Fountain (1966) at UC Santa Cruz. In 1963 her sculptural work was exhibited with Berkeley artists Peter Voulkos and Harold Paris in the influential exhibition Creative Casting curated by Paul J. Smith at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York. Genn was one of the first American artists to express herself through handmade paper, first receiving wide recognition via exhibitions at Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, beginning in 1977, and in traveling exhibitions with Robert Rauschenberg and Sam Francis. In 1978-1979, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and Japan Creative Arts Fellowship, she studied papermaking in Japan, visiting local paper craftspeople, working in Shikenjo studio in Saitama Prefecture, and exhibiting her work in Tokyo. She also learned techniques from Donald Farnsworth...
Category

Abstract 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Handmade Paper

Elegant Portrait, Mother and Child, Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Elegant Portrait, Mother and Child, Abstract Original Oil Painting By French artist, 20th Century Oil painting on canvas, framed Framed size: 12 x 15 ...
Category

Impressionist 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

1970's French Surrealist Signed Oil Figurative Abstract Amazing Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: T. Fabris 1973, French Title: Abstract Surrealist Figurative study Medium: oil on canvas, framed Framed: 27 x 20.5 inches Painting: 26 x 19 inches Provenance: pri...
Category

Surrealist 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Genovart. Little Red original surrealist acrilic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Paisaje original surrealist acrilic painting GENOVART LLOPIS, Jaume (Barcelona, 1941-1994). Basically self - taught painter, was released in 1972. Grandson of typesetter and booksel...
Category

Surrealist 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

'Ville' Abstract Surrealist Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Ville' Abstract Surrealist Oil Painting, Signed By artist Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 Signed by the artist on the lower right h...
Category

Fauvist 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Composition
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Genovart Gray Background Yellow original surrealist acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Luces original surrealist acrylic painting. GENOVART LLOPIS, Jaume (Barcelona, 1941-1994). Basically self - taught painter, was released in 1972. Grandson of typesetter and booksell...
Category

Surrealist 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Untitled (ER39) Abstract Expressionist painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Edward Pechmann Renouf (1906-1999). Oil on panel measures 16 x 24 inches. Signed lower margin. Excellent condition. Provenance: Allan Stone Pr...
Category

Abstract Expressionist 1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

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