1980s Abstract Paintings

Lynne Golob Gelfman, American (1944-2020) Composition in Pink Acrylic on paper Hand signed and dated recto Sheet: 22.5 x 30 inches Frame dimensions: 24.75 x 32.25 frame with glazing ...

Victor Vasarely was a Hungarian-born French Op Art painter. He was best known as the "grandfather" of the Op Art movement of the 1960s. Vasarely was born in 1908 in Pecs, Hungary. He...

Spiral of Time II Mixed media with acrylic on paper, 1986 Signed lower right (see photo) Condition: Excellent Image size: 35 x 15 1/2 inches Provenance: Peter Marciniak, New Hampshire Distinguished Midwest Private Collection Select Exhibition: 1991 Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo) 1980 Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY 1974 Bertha Schaefer Gallery; New York, NY (solo) 1972 Childe Hassam Purchase Show, National Institute of the Arts and Letters 1971 "The Turkish Bath of Ingres,” Louvre Museum, Paris, France 1971 Guest Artist, Tamarind Institute; Albuquerque, NM 1970 “American Drawings of the Sixties,” New School Art Center; New York, NY 1966 Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY (solo) 1962 Dwan Gallery; Los Angeles, CA (solo) 1959 Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo) Museum Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI Fine Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Harwood Museum of Art, Taos "An abstract painter who lived in New York City; Amagansett, Long Island, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, Harry Nadler is described as a "formalist abstract painter of the 1960s-90s whose works were marked by their rich colors, transparencies, and labyrinthine constructions. —The attempt to capture in a purely abstract imagery the quintessential quality of light and contour that emanate from a particular landscape is a hazardous pictorial ambition, but Mr. Nadler has met the challenge of this problem with remarkable success.˜ (Hilton Kramer, The New York Times, April 27, 1974) Noted Fine Print Publications: Lincoln Center/Fine Art Prints,1990, "Live From Lincoln Center", screen print,edition72 Harry Nadler Biography DESCRIPTION WITHOUT PLACE A story Harry told me that he felt was a metaphor for his life and work was about his "golden bird." One day, when he was eight, he was walking home from school, a dangerous task for a Jewish boy in East Los Angeles in the '30s. He carried a painting he had made in school. He had to walk through a dark tunnel and was afraid. His painting of a beautiful, golden bird, radiating tropical colors, shone in the dark and he lost all his fear. The image of beauty, flight, darkness, and the power of his own image-making, stayed with him his whole life. He discovered a kind of freedom in school; he graduated when he was 16, went to art school, supported himself as an illustrator for a newspaper; then discovered a wide new world of literature and fine arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned a B.A. and an M.A., and his talent as an artist manifested itself in teaching assistantships and in painting awards and early shows. His affinity for European painting was strong, and he yearned to go to New York and immerse himself in the museums and in the current work being done by the abstract expressionists. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Spain in 1960, Harry fulfilled his dream of traveling to Europe and studying Goya's Disasters of War at the Prado. His commitment to finding a visual language to express his deep ethical concerns began at this time. He produced a series of works dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust and called the Buchenwald Landscapes and exhibited this body of work at the end of his year in Spain. He agonized over it, feeling that the imagery was too literal. He was searching for something--a formal instrument that reached a meaning beyond the obvious horror of the subject matter. On his return to the United States, he relocated to New York City, believing that his artistic roots lay there. He first made a living by teaching extension courses, while studying great paintings in the city's museums, participating in the current art world and developing his own work. Between 1961 and 1965, Harry made paintings of strange spaces filled with autobiographical objects. The poetry of Wallace Stevens powerfully affected him especially. For Harry, the activity of painting was a way of connecting separate realities. The work of imagination, metaphor, or "seeming" as Stevens described it, takes place in the gap between disparate elements, making connections of meaning on a deeper level. In this gap, he struggled to formulate with precision his understanding of his tools: his materials, his knowledge of philosophy and art history, his religious tradition, his life experience. In this gap, he lived with the anxiety of knowing, with faith in a process larger than himself. And he worked. Geometry became a way of speaking about ultimate purity, wholeness, relatedness; the sensuous material of paint and the particular way he combined those materials became a way of expressing the quality of his own experience. He named a painting series Description Without Place, in honor of Stevens. In this series, windows and boxes hold images of experience (painted objects, that both separate and merge the spaces of the painting. He combines images of crucifixion and blackness, with the vitality of life in both object and color. The breaking of edges and boundaries, merging the spatial and the temporal, continued throughout his life. In 1965, he was offered a teaching position at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. There he began his series, Homage to Ingres, shown in New York City in 1969, followed by a sports series...

Step into the serene world of American minimalism with this exquisite 1980 signed original oil painting. Created by a talented American artist, this work invites you to explore the c...

Lace Swirls - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper A dynamic abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). A brownish-r...

Lace Swirls - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper A dynamic abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). This piece i...

In this masterpiece Claudio Olivieri experimented with palette darkening, using a spray gun to distribute the oil and achieve an unprecedented result. In addition, this painting give...

Bookatz's artistic practice embodies a dynamic and multifaceted approach to creation. His canvases resonate with an improvisational interplay, a reflection reminiscent of the nuance...

Original acrylic painting on double layered Masonite, 1985. Size: 21.5 x 18 inches. Inscription: Signed, recto; signed, dated, and titled, verso. Provenance: Armstrong Gallery (57th ...

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

Latin American School abstract expressionist original composition in acrylic on paper Stunning example of 1980s Latin American art bold abstract...

Bookatz's artistic practice embodies a dynamic and multifaceted approach to creation. His canvases resonate with an improvisational interplay, a reflection reminiscent of the nuance...

Red, Black, and Brown Figurative Abstract Expressionist in Acrylic on Paper A bold abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). This pie...

Tharrats lunar landscape- original . . dark. small abstract Son of Josep Tharrats i Vilà, in 1932 he moved to Béziers until 1935, when he returned to Barcelona to study at the Massan...

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso.

Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...

Original acrylic painting on double layered Masonite, 1985. Size: 16 x 19 inches. Inscription: Signed, recto; signed, dated, and titled, verso. Provenance: Armstrong Gallery (57th St...

Original acrylic painting on Masonite with artist’s painted wood frame, 1985. Size: 37 x 31 inches. Inscription: Signed, recto; titled, and double signed and dated, verso. Provenance...

Signed upper left, 'Michael Bradley' for Michael Thorn Bradley (American, 1944-2015) and dated 1986. Previously with: Gump's Gallery, San Francisco (fr...

Original acrylic painting on Masonite with artist’s painted wood frame, 1985. Size: 31 x 37 inches. Inscription: Signed, recto; titled, and double signed and dated, verso. Provenance...

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

Vivien Abrams Collens is a mid-career abstract artist born in Cleveland, Ohio, whose current practice includes site specific installations, sculpture and painting. After graduatin...

ARTIST: Vladimir Cora MEIDUM: Oil on canvas Signed & dated lower left "Vladimir Cora 89" Painting dimensions 39 x 31 inches Framed dimensions 47 x 38 inches

This stunning large Abstract oil on board painting is by noted British artist Frank Avray Wilson. It was painted in 1985 and given to Wilson's good friend and holiday companion, the...

Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...

Subaquatic Canyon - Abstract Expressionist on Paper Abstract in bold blue and red with textures created by salt in India ink and watercolor, by California-based artist Ricardo de Si...

Modern neutral toned abstract mixed media painting by Texas artist Carole Myers. The work features a collage of different textured papers combined with pa...

Miming - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Yellow, Red, and Black in Acrylic on Textured Paper A dynamic abstract painting in stark black, yellow, and red shows a brown-haired p...

This stunning Abstract oil on carboard painting is by noted British artist Frank Avray Wilson. It was painted in 1983 and given to Wilson's good friend and holiday companion, the la...

Falling Feathers in Yellow and White Abstract Expressionist in Acrylic on Paper A bright abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). Sh...

Red, Black, and Brown Figurative Abstract Expressionist in Acrylic on Paper A bold abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). The left...

Abstract oil on canvas By notable California artist Titled “Sarpi” Dated 1982

Introducing an intriguing and vibrant extra-large contemporary painting. In-versio: "Cardaillac", 1984, "Acryl sur papier de chine", "Yellow Orange and Blue"

"Untitled Abstract I" is an Original Oil on Canvas by G. CURTIS. The piece is part of a set. It measures 37.5 x 49.5 x 1 inches with frame. It is signed and dated by the artist. The ...

Monument in Red, Black, and Blue - Abstract Expressionist in Acrylic on Paper A bold abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). A blac...

5-3161 Acrylic nude on paper in a custom wood frame

Folded Red and Gold Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper A bold abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). This piec...

Step into the world of abstract contemporary art with Joyce Weinstein's "City-Morning-Skyscape", a captivating painting from 1982 that flaunt the artist's early brilliance and creati...

Antique American modernist signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.

Josep Hurtuna Giralt (1913-1978) Josep Hurtuna was a Catalan painter and engraver, also a master in the art of lithography. He trained at the School of Fine Arts of San Jorge in Barc...

Color Field - Abstract Green and Yellow by Patricia Gren Hayes Acrylic on Canvas Color Field abstract composition by Bay Area artist Patricia Gren Hayes (American, b. 1932). Wide br...

Antique American modernist signed landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 36L x 30H.

original acrylic painting Son of Josep Tharrats i Vilà, in 1932 he moved to Béziers until 1935, when he returned to Barcelona to study at the Massana School. The Spanish Civil War ...

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

The art market--collectors, curators and museums--is in the early stages of a broad reappraisal of the contribution of previously overlooked groups to the development of post-war mod...

Over the course of his 40-year career German-American artist, Gunnar Theel, has created a rich body of work largely comprised of painting and sculpture. S...

Interesting Latin American art collage/assemblage of images. bears elements of Arte Povera. it is mounted onto a wood construction. Signed verso and bears label from Stux Gallery. Well Known Brazilian political artist and collector. Showed at Stux Gallery (they showed Doug Anderson and then Mike and Doug...

Ronald Davis (American, b. 1937) Pitch, 1983 cel-vinyl copolymer on canvas Hand signed verso and further inscribed with title, date, size and PTG 751 67 x 110 1/2in. Framed 69 x 112in. Bears remnants of old gallery label to reverse. Ronald Ron Davis (born 1937) is an American painter whose work is associated with geometric abstraction, abstract illusionism, lyrical abstraction, hard-edge painting, shaped canvas painting, color field painting, and 3D computer graphics. He is a veteran of nearly seventy solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions. Born in Santa Monica, California, he was raised in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In 1955–56 he attended the University of Wyoming. In 1959 at the age of 22 he became interested in painting. In 1960–64 he attended the San Francisco Art Institute. Abstract expressionism, the prevailing artistic movement of the time, would have an influence on many of his future works. In 1962 he was a Yale-Norfolk Summer School Grantee. In 1963 his paintings became hard-edged, geometric and optical in style, and by 1964 his works were shown in important museums and galleries. He lived and worked in Los Angeles, 1965–71, and in Malibu, California, 1972–90. Since 1991 he has lived and worked in Arroyo Hondo on the outskirts of Taos, New Mexico. Ronald Davis from the earliest days of his career had a significant impact on contemporary abstract painting of the mid-1960s. According to art critic Michael Fried: Ron Davis is a young California artist whose new paintings, recently shown at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York, are among the most significant produced anywhere during the past few years, and place him, along with Frank Stella and Walter Darby Bannard, at the forefront of his generation. He had his first one-person exhibition at the Nicholas Wilder Gallery in Los Angeles in 1965. Barbara Rose wrote an in depth essay about Davis' paintings of the 1960s in the catalogue accompanying an exhibition of his Dodecagon Series in 1989 in Los Angeles. Among other observations she wrote: Davis saw a way to use Marcel Duchamp's perspective studies and transparent plane in The Large Glass for pictorial purposes. Instead of glass, he used fiberglass to create a surface that was equally transparent and detached from any illusion of reality. Because his colored pigments are mixed into a fluid resin and harden quickly, multiple layers of color may be applied without becoming muddy. his is essentially an inversion of Old Master layering and glazing except that color is applied behind rather than on top of the surface. Alone among his contemporaries, Davis was equally concerned with traditional problems of painting: space, scale, detail, color relationships and illusions as he was with the California emphasis on hi-tech craft and industrial materials. His work has some connection to the Light and Space art movement related to op art and minimalism. He was a contemporary of Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Ron Cooper...

4077 Modern Cubic geometric monochromatic oil on canvas set in a vintage wood frame signed D.Wins Image size 15.25x19"

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Duayne Hatchett (1925 - 2015). Oil on canvas. Framed.

Face After Picasso - Tropical Storm Two Sided Abstract Watercolor Acrylic Paper Bold Face after Picasso with a storm of bold abstract colors on verso, by California-based artist Ric...

Over the course of his 40-year career German-American artist, Gunnar Theel, has created a rich body of work largely comprised of painting and sculpture. S...

Chuta KIMURA (also "Tchuta" or "Tshuta") is an allusive landscape painter and pastellist. His name - composed of the words Ki (tree) and Mura (village) -...

ACRYLIC PAINTING ORIGINAL. Acrylic on cardboard ANTONI TAPIES was the maximum representative of Spanish abstract art of the 20th century. His works are represented in museums and fo...

Modernist abstract "Manan du Terre" by LT Milton 1987 Abstract landscape on paper by Milton (American, 20th century). Bright colors in Gouache and Acrylic paints. A bold green mount...

Over the course of his 40-year career German-American artist, Gunnar Theel, has created a rich body of work largely comprised of painting and sculpture. S...

Chuta KIMURA (also "Tchuta" or "Tshuta") is an allusive landscape painter and pastellist. His name - composed of the words Ki (tree) and Mura (village) -...

3775 Oil on canvas colorful Surreal oil on canvas in a black frame