1970s Abstract Paintings

Agony is an original artwork realized in 1977 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original drawing pencil on ivory-colored paper. Hand-signed and dated...

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...

Untitled is an original modern artwork realized by Marisa Busanel in 1971. Oil painting on board Hand signed and dated. On the back of the painting: ...

Artist: William Copley Title: Firecracker Year: 1975 Medium: Oil on Canvas with Match and Firecracker, signed and dated Size: 12 in. x 12 in. (30.48 cm x 30.48 cm) Frame Size: 13 x 1...

Enamel on cardboard. Hand signed, 1970. Dimensions: 27x22 cm. This artwork by Pablo Echaurren is a typical example of his production in 70s. Echaurren, son of Sebastian Matta, is ...

Artist: Clayton J. Gorder, American (1936 - 1987) Title: Radio Year: circa 1970 Medium: Acrylic and Airbrush on Custom Shaped Canvas Size: 40 x 26.5 inches Provenance: Arras Gallery...

Woman with Flower and Bird Al Amatulli American (1935) Date: circa 1972 Oil on Canvas, signed verso Size: 44 in. x 33 in. (111.76 cm x 83.82 cm)

Abstraction 3. 1972, paper, gouache, 55x35 cm with paper edge defects Gunars Klava (1933 – 1989) Gunars Klava was born in 1933 in Priekule. 1953 - graduated from J. Rosenthal Art ...

Flute Player is a beautiful mixed media, original drawings in blue-colored, coupe-papier, applied on cardboard, realized in 1972 by the artist Esy A. Belluzzi, Hand-signed on the lower right " ESY" and dated. In very good conditions. The artwork represents a female player with the transverse...

Original acrylic painting on paper ( the paper has been glued on a book page, very usual practice of the artist) The page is free and the book is not included The painting can be e...

American School, unsigned and painted circa 1975. A vivid and upbeat oil abstract comprising discrete areas of golden-yellow, coral and aqua-turquoise...

"The Nature" is an original oil on paper by the italian artist Sergio Barletta. Designed in mid 1970s, it is in very good conditions. Sergio Barletta From the age of 22 is active in...

Abstract featuring graceful, sweeping lines evocative of bone fragments by an unknown artist. Illegibly signed lower left and dated "77". Presented in a metal frame. Image size, 18"H...

This painting was created by Canadian artist Max Epstein. Epstein's paintings, like this one, often feature Canadian motifs and bright colors. This painting is signed and titled vers...

Signed, verso, 'Ablan' for Mohammed Al Ablan (Saudi, 20th century) and dated 1971. A substantial and dynamic abstract comprising contiguous and fluidly overlapping areas of rose, scarlet, parchment and ochre. Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Al Ablan holds a Diploma in Art Education and has participated in numerous regional and international exhibitions, receiving several awards of appreciation. One of the artist's works is displayed at the King Fahd...

BILLY, 1975, epoxy painting on riveted fiberglass and aluminum, titled signed and dated verso . Gallery label from Obelisk Gallery, Boston, MA Tom Holland (born 1936 in Seattle, Was...

Mandolin is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the 1970s by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original Oil on canvas. Dimensions: cm 40 x 3 x 50. ...

J. James Akston Surrealism, Village scene (Mexico) Acrylic on Board Frame: 15 X 18 Image: 9 X 12 Joseph James Akston was a Polish American sculptor, painter, known for surrealist abstract painting and Aubusson (for Les Ateliers Pinton Frères, tapisserie, Aubusson) tapestry artist. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1898 he died in Palm Beach Florida in 1983. During the 1960s and '70s the entrepreneur-artist James Joseph Akston adopted a unique Surreal Expressionist style in order to present his private primordial universe and lampoon its denizens, a ribald cast of animal creatures with human foibles. A successful industrialist, he began his career with General Motors foreign operations and then started his own business. Intermittently he studied painting, first with Jerry Farnsworth in North Truro (Mass.) and then with Jose Clemente Orozco in Mexico. In the early 1960s Akston became publisher-editor of a group of art publications which included The Magazine Arts. Initially an abstract expressionist, Akston had one-man exhibitions at the New York Convention Center and the Corcoran Museum in Washington. Since 2015 the record price for this artist at auction is $12,575 USD for Spheres Aux Triangles Aubusson Tapestry, sold at Bonhams New York in 2019. He was a Graduate of Georgetown University. He sat on the board of the Norton Museum. Exhibitions 1976 Hokin Gallery 1966 Gallery 63 NYC 1960 Gallery 63 Rome , Italy Select Public Collections National Museum, Wshington DC Boca Museum of Art Whitney Museum of Art, NYC Museum of Modern Art, NYC Museum of African Art Washington DC (Now part of Smithsonian Museum) Bibliography: 1962 Art...

Original oil on canvas painting by the American artist, Susan Wilmarth. Signed, titled and dated 1973 verso. Condition is excellent. Unframed. Provenance: A Long Island, New York collector. This painting might have been the 1st part of a diptych to “Open Shell 2” also being sold on my site. Susan Wilmarth was born in 1942 and is known for her abstract paintings. She exhibited at MoMA in 1972 and her paintings are in many private collections. She was the wife of Christopher Wilmarth...

"Fragments of Dreams" 1977 is a mid-century modern, abstract acrylic on canvas painting, predominantly red with geometric squares in varying shades of red and blue with a mid-century...

Modern pastel pink and yellow toned landscape painting by Texas born artist Clark Fox. The work features a clean-lined, geometric rendering of an architectur...

acrylic on paper

Gene Hedge Untitled, circa 1970 Acrylic on canvas 48 x 18 inches Provenance Estate of the artist Gene Hedge was born (1928) and raised in rural Indiana. After military service, he...

A substantial pop art style oil painting of famed Olympian Bruce Jenner (now Caitlyn Jenner) composed of contrasting mosaic-like rectangles in rainbow of ...

Enamel on cardboard. Signed at lower right. Signed, dated, titled on overleaf. Authentication by Fondazone Pablo Echaurren.

Signed lower right, 'C. Maxwell' (American. 20th Century) and painted circa 1975. A very substantial, American School oil abstract comprising cont...

Fun and vivid fashion painting of a bright purple and green handbag with abstract geometric and linear accents by Michael William Eggleston (American, 2...

This is an Abstract Expressionist torn and folded paper painted collage. The paper is metallicized through some process. they are very luminous and beautiful. it is mounted on heav...

This Chinese ancestry, California based artist created collage layered paintings of remarkable quality and appeal. A great example of his best work and of good size. The layers and...

acrylic on paper

Minimalist geometric abstract by Santa Cruz, California artist Arn Ghigliazza (American, b.1937). Presented in a painted slat-wood frame. Titled "Kiva IV", signed and dated 1973 on v...

An abstract diptych by James Caughlin (American, 1926-1979). Signed lower right. Artist's studio label on verso. Displayed in a white mat with two win...

Landscape by the river. Oil on cardboard, 47. 5 x 69. 5 cm Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad ...

Kandahar Acrylic and mixed media on fabric, c. 1970 Signed by the artist lower right (see photo) Kandahar is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southern part of the country next to Pakistan. Inspired by the Dehns visit to Afghanistan in the 1960's. Provenance: Estate of the Artist Dehn Heirs Condition: Excellent Canvas size: 18 x 20 inches Virginia Dehn From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Virginia Dehn Virginia Dehn in her studio in Santa Fe Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26, 1922 – July 28, 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the U.S. Her paintings are included in many public collections. Life Dehn was born in Nevada, Missouri on October 26, 1922.] Raised in Hamden, Connecticut, she studied at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri before moving to New York City. She met the artist Adolf Dehn while working at the Art Students League. They married in November 1947. The two artists worked side by side for many years, part of a group of artists who influenced the history of 20th century American art. Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered. Early career Virginia Dehn studied art at Stephens College in Missouri before continuing her art education at the Traphagen School of Design, and, later, the Art Students League, both located in New York City. In the mid-1940s while working at the Associated American Artists gallery, she met lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn. Adolf was older than Virginia, and he already enjoyed a successful career as an artist. The two were married in 1947 in a private ceremony at Virginia's parents house in Wallingford, Connecticut. Virginia and Adolf Dehn The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work. The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India. Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies. Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...

Wonderful vintage space abstract by Santa Cruz, California artist Ralph Edward Joosten (American, 1928-2009). Presented in a metal frame. Signed "R. Joos...

Spring bouquet. Oil on cardboard, 85x74,5 cm Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of Art,...

Tulips with pear. Oil on cardboard, 50x40 cm Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of Art,...

Gouache on paper, signed by different Chubac friends artists, lower right. The artists are: Max Charvolen, Serge Maccaferri et Martin Miguel that constituted the Groupe 70 a Nice. A ...

Substantial early work in watercolor, abstract expressionist painting of "Goldfish" By Norma Auer Adams (Norma Jean Anderson) painter and writer. Signed lower right N. Adams and exhi...

Flowers. Oil on cardboard, 40x50 cm Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of Art, Saratov ...

Dynamic abstract consisting of red, purple and blue by Patricia Gaglioti (American, 20th Century), circa 1970. Signed "Gaglioti" lower right. Displayed in a slat wood frame. Image, 2...

This acrylic painting on paper was created by New York-born artist Jay Rosenblum. In his art, he seeks to correlate his great love for chamber music sonatas with freely evolving bloc...

Natalia Dumitresco (or Dumitresco) was born in Bucarest in 1915 and passed away in Chars in 1997. After having studied at the Beaux-Arts of Bucharest, Natalia Dumitresco married Ale...

Artist: Bonnie Kline Title: Untitled Year: circa 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 46 in. x 46 in. (116.84 cm x 116.84 cm)

Signed lower left, 'Norden' for Frealon Norden Bibbins (American, 1926-2013) and dated 1976. Inscribed verso, 'Blue Storm', stamped with certification of authenticity and wax seal. A substantial and dynamic work by this California Abstract painter evoking organic floral forms and comprising fluidly superimposed and adjacent, flowing layers of jade, coral and magenta set against an ivory field. This listed California artist, author and musician lived and painted in Alameda and also had a distinguished career with the San Francisco Symphony...

Signed lower right, 'N. Flynn' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1975. A large and turbulent oil abstract showing a conflagration of hot colors contrasted against an auberg...

acrylic on paper

Gordon House 1932-2004 Red/Green Ornament Frieze I, 1976-1977 signed and dated on the canvas overlap acrylic on canvas 91 x 91 cm 35 7/8 x 35 7/8 in Gordon House was born in 1932 in Pontardawe, South Wales. Early exposure to art on trips to the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery as a young boy inspired House towards creative endeavors and at the age of fourteen he was awarded a grant to enter art school which he accepted. From 1947 to 1950 he studied at Luton School of Art, Bedfordshire, and St. Albans School of Art, Hertfordshire. House's contemporaries included Richard Smith and John Plumb with whom he remained close. During the early fifties, after finishing art school, House began work as assistant to the ecclesiastical sculptor Theodore Kern. He also spent time at an advertising studio where he honed his burgeoning skills in typography and graphic design. In 1952 House was offered the position of designer for Imperial Chemical Industries Plastics Division where he stayed until 1959. This was followed by two years spent as graphic designer for the Kynoch Press in London. In 1961 House set out on his own as a self-employed designer and typographer. Initially this was supplemented by part-time teaching at art schools in and around London but by 1964 House was able to devote himself entirely to his design work which freed up valuable time to concentrate on his own artistic output in the studio. In the late fifties, informed by the new art emerging from America and that of his contemporaries in England, House began to create large-scale abstract works which he was invited to show in 1959 at Dennis Bowen's legendary New Vision Centre in Marble Arch. House was an active participant in the vibrant London art scene of the sixties, regularly attending lectures, exhibitions and discussions. In 1960 he exhibited in 'Situation' the key abstract exhibition of the decade held at the RBA Galleries. Other participating artists included Robyn Denny, Bernard and Harold Cohen, Gillian Ayres, John Hoyland, Richard Smith and William Turnbull among others. These artists, united by a common admiration for American Abstract Expressionism, were frustrated by the lack of exposure given to large-scale abstract works in commercial galleries so they organised their own exhibition. The name was derived from the participants' idea that an abstract painting that occupied the whole field of vision would involve the spectator in an 'event' or 'situation'. This exhibition was followed by 'New London Situation' in 1961 and a nationwide touring Arts Council presentation in recognition of the significance of the two earlier shows. In 1961 House began producing his first prints at the Kelpra Studio, run by Chris and Rose Prater, where he made the earliest fine art screenprint ever to be produced in Britain. Artists such as Paolozzi and Hamilton followed in his footsteps and together they started a printmaking revolution in Britain. They cemented the medium of the screenprint in the world of fine art as opposed to the commercial sphere and secured the reputation of Kelpra in the process. Later, together with Cliff White, House set up the White Ink (Ltd.) print studio in London, where he produced etchings and wood engravings on a series of magnificent antique printing...

Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011) Title: Aperture Year: 1976 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed verso Size: 30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm)

Untitled Mixed media on paper, 1979 Signed and dated ‘79 lower right (see photo) Sheet size: 31 1/2 x 48" Frame: 34 1/4 x 50 1/4" Provenance: Members Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Galle...

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...

"Atlantic City Revisited" 1977 is a mid-century modern, abstract acrylic on canvas painting, predominantly blue, and pink with geometric squares in varying shades of blue, pink, black, and gray with a mid-century modern aesthetic recalling Peter Max. It is signed on the front and back. All hanging hardware attached, no additional framing necessary. Every purchase comes with a free, hardcover copy of the beautiful illustrated new book, "Joseph McAleer...

Original watercolor on paper. Hand signed on front; signed, titled and dated on verso by the artist. Additional images are available upon request. Certificate of Authenticity is inc...

Painted by Frealon Bibbins (American, 1926-2013) circa 1976. Certification of authenticity, verso, with stamped wax seal. A substantial 1970's abstract evoking graceful, oceanic forms and comprising fluidly superimposed and adjacent, diaphanous layers of scarlet, rose, lilac, and grass-green against a variegated sunshine-yellow field. This listed California artist, author and musician lived and painted in Alameda and also had a distinguished career with the San Francisco Symphony...

This acrylic painting on paper was created by New York-born artist Jay Rosenblum. In his art, he seeks to correlate his great love for chamber music sonatas with freely evolving blocks of color which like the notes in the music transform the work into a cohesive form of art. This piece is signed in pencil, and measures 40 x 22...

An abstract mid century painting by Duayne Hatchett . Oil on canvas, circa 1973. Signed verso. Framed. Duayne Hatchett was a visual artist whose work included prints, painting...

Artist: Richard R. Benda (1934 - ) Title: Satyricon - Triptych Year: circa 1970 Medium: Acrylic on Board, signed l.r. Frame Size: 40 in. x 63 in. (101.6 cm x 160.02 cm)

Sebastian Matta-Clark was born in 1943, twin of Gordon Matta-Clark. Son Of Chilean Surrealist Roberto Matta Sebastian, known as Batan died in 1976. He showed 3 exhibitions in his sho...