1980s Abstract Paintings

Robert Kushner Pears, 1985 Acrylic & Collage on Paper; Framed with Holly Solomon Gallery Label & Reader's Digest Art Collection Label Signed and titled by the artist on the front Thi...

Richard Mann (1940-1990). Duino Elegies, 1981. Mixed media on rag paper, consisting of 3 sheets, each measuring 18 x 24 inches. Each vertical edge is hinged with mounting tape, resulting in a triptych presentation. Entire measurement: 24 x 54 inches w. Biography: Playwright, poet and visual artist, Rev. Richard Mann was born and educated in Melbourne Australia. At the height of America's counter-cultural revolution, Mann moved to New York City where he lived and worked in Harlem. He was influenced by surrealism, abstract expressionism, and calligraphy at the time of his arrival. Beginning in the mid-1970's, the extreme living conditions of Harlem and demands of his religious calling provided subject matter for his painting. Urban decay and ubiquitous public graffiti provide inspiration for compositions that include highly stylized writing. By the late 1970's many works incorporate writing exclusively, with areas of layered, obscured and illegible words, very much like repeatedly tagged walls. Education: Studied painting with Maurice Cantlon, Melbourne, Australia 1961-62. Liberal Arts Studies, Christ the King...

Milly Ristvedt approaches colour in her work with sincere consideration and expertise, her palettes contain a subtle complexity that is striking. The background of this painting is b...

Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 The Challenge, c. 1982 acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 60 x 41.5 inches Richard Andres was...

Artist: Jeanick Bouys, French (1950 - ) Title: No. 217 Year: 1983 Medium: Oil on Canvas, Signed on Verso Size: 42 x 52 inches (106.68 x 132.08 cm)

Ron Stonier (1933-2001) was a dedicated Vancouver artist celebrated for his exploration of abstract painting, influenced by his mentors Gordon Smith and Jack Shadbolt, as well as by ...

A 1980 yellow-toned, Abstract Geometric painting by Institute of Design artist Eugene Dana. Artwork size: 27" x 41". Framed size: 28". x42". Provenance: Estate of the artist. E...

Black and Red Abstract Michel Picotte, Canadian (1947) Date: 1984 Acrylic on paper, signed and dated in pen Image Size: 28.25 x 21 inches Size: 30 x 22 ...

Larry Brown Long-time established New York painter as well as faculty member the The Cooper Union, Brown works in oil on canvas and tempera paints on paper. He deals with themes of science and universality. EDUCATION: 1970 M.F.A. in Painting, University of Arizona 1967 BA in Painting, Washington State University SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Mixed Company: Women Choose Men, AIR Gallery, New York, NY Easy Breezy, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY From Stone and Plate: Contemporary Prints from Tamarind Institute, California State University Change of View Tamarind Institute Gallery, Albuquerque, NM Animal As Muse, The Norton Museum of Art, W. Palm Beach, FL Painting--Larry Brown, Joseph Haske, David Schoffman, Helander Gallery, New York, NY Paper Houses, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY Curators Choice, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Current Trends in Abstraction-- Larry Brown, Bill Drew...

'Expressions in Bloom: Portraits from the 20th Century XIV', oil on canvas mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings thro...

This 20" x 24" oil on canvas painting by David Crown dates to 1985. The focal point of this painting are three animal figures in the foreground rendered in...

Wonderful large scale natural toned mixed media abstract comprising a rectangle of antiqued white texturized with gesso'd hemp sacking and set above second ivory rectangle in pale ivory with circle of scumbled grey by British contemporary artist Richard Lawrence...

"Sycamores" Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper Bold and expressive composition by Ellen Marie Jones (American, b. 1961). Several botanical shapes resembling tree...

Georges Mathieu (1921 - 2012) L’horizon mensonger Alkyde sur toile / Alkyd on canvas Signé en bas à gauche, titré au dos / Signed lower left and titles on the back Circa 1990 Size : ...

Uccelliera is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1988 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original drawing in beautiful colored tempera on ivor...

Red Strike - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper A bold abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). This piece is a ...

Ashes of Roses is Rene Ricard's mauve-colored map of Rivington Street between Suffolk and Clinton Street, with a white arrow pointing to the word mofongo, indicating a Puerto Rican r...

Abstract painting featuring a rich geometric patchwork of reds, pinks, and golds, by artist Michael Keifers, circa 1980. Signed lower left. Original artwork on paper. Archival pla...

Artist: Pierre Marie Brisson (French, 1955-) Title: "Figure Sur Rouge (Figure on Red)" *Signed by Brisson lower right. It is also signed and dated on verso Year: 1983 Medium: Origina...

Gladys Nilsson A Small Error (INV# NP3714) watercolor on paper Approx: 5 x 5.12" Frame: 10.12 x 10.12" 1987 Annotated on mat verso with title, artist...

Ronnie Landfield (1947- American) "Untitled" 1982 Acrylic on Paper Dimensions: Sheet 30" X 42" Frame 32 X 44 Hand signed and dated lower right Provenance: Denman Associates, Seattle gallery Ronnie Landfield (American, 1947-) is an abstract painter. During his early career from the mid-1960s through the 1970s his paintings were associated with Lyrical Abstraction (related to Postminimalism, Color Field painting, and Abstract expressionism), and he was represented by the David Whitney Gallery and the André Emmerich Gallery. Landfield is best known for his abstract landscape paintings, and has held more than seventy solo exhibitions and more than two hundred group exhibitions. Born and raised in Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, Landfield first exhibited his paintings in Manhattan in 1962. He continued his study of painting by visiting major museum and gallery exhibitions in New York during the early sixties and by taking painting and drawing classes at the Art Students League of New York and in Woodstock, New York. He graduated from the High School of Art and Design in June 1963. He briefly attending the Kansas City Art Institute before returning to New York in November 1963. At sixteen Landfield rented his first loft at 6 Bleecker Street near The Bowery (sublet with a friend from the figurative painter Leland Bell), during a period when his abstract expressionist oil paintings took on hard-edged and large painterly shapes. In February 1964, Landfield traveled to Los Angeles; and in March he began living in Berkeley where he began painting Hard-edge abstractions primarily painted with acrylic. He briefly attended the University of California, Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute before returning to New York in July 1965. From 1964 to 1966 he experimented with minimal art, sculpture, hard-edge geometric painting, found objects, and finally began a series of 15 - 9' x 6' mystical "border paintings". After a serious setback in February 1966 when his loft at 496 Broadway burned down, he returned to painting in April 1966 by sharing a loft with his friend Dan Christensen at 4 Great Jones Street. The Border Painting series was completed in July 1966, and soon after architect Philip Johnson acquired Tan Painting for the permanent collection of The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in Lincoln, Nebraska. In late 1966 through 1968 he began exhibiting his paintings and works on paper in leading galleries and museums. Landfield moved into his loft at 94 Bowery in July 1967; there, he continued to experiment with rollers, staining, hard-edge borders, and painted unstretched canvases on the floor for the first time. Briefly in 1967-1968 he worked part-time for Dick Higgins and the Something Else Press. Landfield was part of a large circle of young artists who had come to Manhattan during the 1960s. Peter Young, Dan Christensen, Peter Reginato, Eva Hesse, Carlos Villa, William Pettet, David R. Prentice, Kenneth Showell, David Novros, Joan Jonas, Michael Steiner, Frosty Myers, Tex Wray, Larry Zox, Larry Poons, Robert Povlich, Neil Williams, Carl Gliko, Billy Hoffman, Lee Lozano, Pat Lipsky, John Griefen, Brice Marden, James Monte, John Chamberlain, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, Carl Andre, Dan Graham, Robert Smithson, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Noland, Clement Greenberg, Bob Neuwirth, Joseph Kosuth, Mark di Suvero, Brigid Berlin, Lawrence Weiner, Rosemarie Castoro, Marjorie Strider, Dorothea Rockburne, Leo Valledor, Peter Forakis...

Very impressive modernist landscape by Larry Horowitz (Born 1956). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Artist Bio: Larry Horowitz is an American landscape painter, focused especi...

Roland Ayers (1932-2017). Improvisation, 2nd Series, #5. Ink on paper, measures 19 x 24 inches. Unframed and unmounted. Signed and dated lower right, titled lower left. There are a few minor areas of loss in margins as depicted in close-up photos. Additionally, there a a few minor tears in margins. Ayers holds the distinction of having participated in the first important survey of African-Americans, Contemporary Black Artists in America, a 1971 show at The Whitney. Biography: Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only child of Alice and Lorenzo Ayers, and grew up in the Germantown district of Philadelphia. Ayers served in the US Army (stationed in Germany) before studying at the Philadelphia College of Art (currently University of the Arts). He graduated with a BFA in Art Education, 1954. He traveled Europe 1966-67, spending time in Amsterdam and Greece in particular. During this period, he drifted away from painting to focus on linear figurative drawings of a surreal nature. His return home inaugurated the artist’s most prolific and inspired period (1968-1975). Shorty before his second major trip abroad in 1971-72 to West Africa, Ayers began to focus on African themes, and African American figures populated his work almost exclusively. In spite of Ayers’ travel and exploration of the world, he gravitated back to his beloved Germantown, a place he endowed with mythological qualities in his work and literature. His auto-biographical writing focuses on the importance of place during his childhood. Ayers’ journals meticulously document the ethnic and cultural make-up of Germantown, and tell a compelling story of class marginalization that brought together poor families despite racial differences. The distinctive look and design of Germantown inform Ayers’ visual vocabulary. It is a setting with distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and haunting natural beauty. These characteristics are translated and recur in the artist’s imagery. During his childhood, one of the only books in the Ayers household was an illustrated Bible. The images within had a profound effect on the themes and subjects that would appear in his adult work. Figures in an Ayers’ drawing often seem trapped in a narrative of loss and redemption. Powerful women loom large in the drawings: they suggest the female role models his journals record in early life. The drawings can sometimes convey a strong sense of conflict, and at other times, harmony. Nature and architecture seem to have an antagonistic relationship that is, ironically, symbiotic. A critical turning point in the artist’s career came in 1971 when he was included in the extremely controversial Whitney Museum show, Contemporary Black Artists in America. The exhibition gave Ayers an international audience and served as a calling card for introductions he would soon make in Europe. Ayers is a particularly compelling figure in a period when black artists struggled with the idea of authenticity. A questioned often asked was “Is your work too black, or not black enough?” Abstractionists were considered by some peers to be sell-outs, frauds or worse. Figurative* work was accused of being either sentimental or politically radical depending on the critical source. Ayers made the choice early on to be a figurative artist, but considered his work devoid of political content. Organizations such as Chicago’ s Afri-Cobra in the late 1960‘s asserted that the only true black art of any relevance must depict the black man and woman...

ESTEBAN VICENTE (1903-2001) UNTITLED signed and dated "1980 Esteban Vicente” (lower right) collage, watercolor and pencil on cardboard 14 x 17 inches (35.5 x 43 cm.) framed: 19-3/4 x...

Paul Pagk Untitled Geometric Abstraction, 1989 Gouache and watercolor on paper Signed, dated and inscribed "A Jacqueline". Frame included Excellent unique work on paper by contempora...

Artist: Peter Mack Title: Circulars 2 Year: circa 1980 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, Signed l.r. Size: 54 x 54 in. (137.16 x 137.16 cm)

Vibrant impressionistic impasto Landscape with boat by shore by Kristin Cohen (American, b. 1963). Thick impasto oil and Alkyd acrylic paints in this colorful painting. From a collec...

Iron Drops (Gocce di ferro) is a contemporary artwork realized by Tommaso Cascella in 1991. Mixed media painting (oil painting on rough canvas; copper inserts and base). Hand signe...

Subtle but vibrant, this abstraction of a hibiscus in brilliant yellow is framed by a cluster of bird of paradise blooms in the shady foreground—the latter simplified into bursts of the plant’s renown color duo. Bring a garden inside without the watering and weeding. Nice. According to the Smithsonian Institution’s archives, the artist Hilda Pertha...

This colorful contemporary abstract painting was created by Milly Ristvedt. Canadian artist Milly Ristvedt has been exploring the creative and emotive possibilities of color express...

Veit Hofmann (*1944 Dresden), Rare Animal, 1987. Oil on light card, 42 cm (height) x 30 cm (width), monogrammed “V[eit]H[ofmann]” lower right and dated “[19]87”, titled “Seltenes Tie...

'Feminine Forms: Harmony in Curves', oil on board, German School (circa 1980s). Two nude figures portrayed in the abstract posture differently. Both are curvaceous and Rubenesque. Re...

Ilya Bolotowsky is an important and highly recognized hard edge american abstractionist. He experimented with diamond shaped canvases and circular works as well as square formats wi...

Piccolo Archivio is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1988 by the italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original drawing in beautiful colored tempera o...

Omens is a watercolor painting on Fabriano paper by Italian-born multidisciplinary artist Lucio Pozzi. It is currently housed at Hal Bromm Gallery.

Keith Haring. 1958-1990. The iconography of his drawings includes dancing animals and figures, dogs, crawling babies, pyramids, televisions, telephones, and flying saucers. The idea ...

Artist: Alois Mosbacher– Austrian (1954- ) Title: Figure Drinking from Bottle Year: 1982 Medium: Mixed Media – Acrylic and watercolor on paper Size: 16.75 x 24 inches (42.5 x 61 cm) ...

Ireland Landscape Rocky Cliffs with Castle on the Northern Irish Sea Coastline, by 20th Century Irish Australian Artist, Henry McLaughlin. Art measures 10 x 8 inches Frame measure...

Stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for Suzanne Gertz (American, 1938-2003) and painted circa 1985, partial signature lower right. Suzanne Gertz first studied at the...

Julia Marc, American - Heaven Can Wait, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed lower right, Size: 60 x 48 in. (152.4 x 121.92 cm)

Large scale, compelling abstract titled "Open Window" by Canadian abstract painter Sasha Rogers (Canadian, b. 1969), daughter of premier art...

Deep Blue Figures, French Expressionist Original Oil Painting French school, late 20th Century Oil painting on canvas, unframed Canvas size: 39 x 51 inches A deep and inky blue lar...

Impressive early American modernist sunset beach scene oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 24H by 20L.

Larry Poons Spring Field 1989 Acrylic on canvas 39.37 x 95.25 cms (15 1/2 x 37 1/2 ins) LP10155

Paula Holland (American, b. XX), "Energy Field Generator", Acrylic on Canvas, 1980, signed and dated to verso, descriptive label to verso, unframed. 60" H x 36.25" W. Provenance: Fro...

Julia Marc, American - Bold Strokes 18, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed lower right, Size: 48 x 72 in. (121.92 x 182.88 cm)

Star Fighter evolved out of Clifford Singer's work during the 1980s using arcs and straight lines.

Striking abstract on board utilizing fiery colors by Berlin artist Michael S. Keifers, circa 1980. Signed lower left. Archival plastic sleeve and Certifica...

Jay Rosenblum Polarity #9, 1981 Acrylic on Paper painting 6 × 9 1/2 inches Pencil signed and titled on the front Unique work Unframed ]This gem of a work is an acrylic painting on p...

Fernando de Szyszlo El Innombrable, 1980 Titled inscribed dated verso: Orrentia 1980 "El Innombrable" Signed lower bottom edge center "Szyszlo" Oil on canvas 59 1/2 x 59 inches Fernando de Szyszlo was a Peruvian painter...

Salt Ponds 1, Large Scale Modern Geometric Abstract Landscape with Pink A bright and colorful monumental scale abstract interpretation of the Bay Area salt...

Leon Collard (1916-2011) "Cityscape of Black and White" c. 1980s Acrylic on Paper 23.25"x18" unframed Signed lower right in paint Leon Collard (1916-2011...

An evocative oil painting by Katherine Bowling, completed in 1989. Executed on spackle over wood, this atmospheric composition reveals Bowling’s distinctive technique of layering thi...

You don't have to be a Catholic, or a medievalist, or a Catholic medievalist (Tolkien?) to appreciate this striking image of St. George taking on the dragon. In style it falls somewhere between Cubism and Guernica, to my eye. The limited color palette, with the bold red, gives it the energy of early 20th-century Russian poster...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Last Song: Beim Schlafengehen (Going to Sleep) Year: 1985 Year: 1985-2001 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, with Artist Painted Frame Size: 47 x 59 i...

1-4083 Oversized abstract on rapped canvas Unframed Ready to hang Signed on back Brunelli

Matthew Radford (British, b. 1953) Study for Blue and Gold III, 1989 Oil on canvas 30 x 10 inches Signed on the reverse Provenance: Frank Bernarducci ...

Richard Andres American, 1927-2013 Mirror, 1984 acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas signed lower right, dated and titled verso 12 x 12 inches Richard Andres was born in Buff...

Santa Rosa Juan Sánchez Juárez, Mexican (1946) Acrylic on Canvas Size: 60 x 48 in. (152.4 x 121.92 cm) Frame Size: 61 x 49 inches

When Red Meets Yellow - Original Abstract In the Style of Diebenkorn and Rothko Substantial abstract expressionist oil painting depicting the conjoining of red and yellow by America...