1990s Abstract Paintings

Stunning carved abstract calligraphy artwork on wood panel by Bahrain artist Ali Al Mahmeed, Signed verso. Size: 29.5 x 48 in / 75 x 122 cm (framed). Spanning over 30 years, Ali Al ...

"Continuity is a mathematical picture, originally produced in 1998 after I attended A&M 98, U of C, Berkeley. The painting was produced as 36 x 36 inches, acrylic on plexiglass which I had hand drawn with mechanical drafting tools...

La Vie #71, Yoshida Kenji, nihonga painting, silver gold copper leaf cobalt, Japan Yoshida was born in 1924 in Ikeda City (part of present-day Osaka). He studied art under the grea...

An abstract expressionist painting by Duayne Hatchett . Oil on canvas, circa 1990. Signed verso. Framed. Image size, 60"H x 56"L. Duayne Hatchett was a visual artist whose work included prints, paintings, sculpture, and found objects. He was born on May 12, 1925 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. He enlisted in the Air Force where he trained to become a fighter pilot. After leaving the militrary he studied design at the University of Oklahoma. His highly technical military training combined a mathematical intelligence with a love for physics and a daring embrace of new experience, all of which would soon be the tools for his evolution through art. Two major influences interacted on his early development at OU. Emelio Omero, a colleague and close friend of Diego Rivera, introduced him to the revolutionary art ideas of Mexico City, while teaching him a wide range of printing techniques that would culminate in a Masters Degree in Painting in 1952. During this time he met Bruce Goff, a renowned Wright disciple, who was teaching architecture at OU and befriended Hatchett, introducing him to the most avant-garde architecture of that time. He spent his summers while at OU designing for a small sign shop, which introduced him to new materials used for building neon, plastic, and metal signs. The use of new materials and a keen sense for design would soon become invaluable building blocks for future sculpture. During this time he met and married Mary Ellen Jeffries. They would spend their lives together and raise three children, David (me), my brother Dana, and my sister Jeffri. As children, they were immersed in art from childhood and benefited greatly from this loving art and domestic environment. Hatchett was always interested in the techniques of construction, often watching different tradesmen working, understanding how materials are put together to create the manmade environment that surrounded him. While teaching printmaking at Oklahoma City University from 1951 through ‘54, he began to build sculpture employing some of the materials and techniques that he saw workers using. He was beginning to draw the attention of architects and he became interested in their work-trade processes, moving from blue prints to construction. He accepted an invitation from Alexander Hogue...

In this colourful abstract painting by David Sorensen, bright red draws the viewer’s eye. The Canadian artist completed a series of oils after visiting Havana, Cuba in 1999. The Havana series was created using a spatula and paintbrush. The result is highly textured pieces rendered in vivid colours—graphic shapes of lime green, orange, indigo and brown. A grid-like pattern of thick vertical and horizontal lines adds visual drama and contrast. “To me, there is still this celebration worth the paint. And it’s about an open door that the artist used to call muse.” David Sorensen Born in Vancouver Sorensen (1937-2011) studied at UBC and the Vancouver School of Art. His teachers were renowned—Arthur...

Acrylic painting realized by Dario Cusani in 1994. Certificate of authenticity by the Artist on photograph. I BECOME A PROFESSIONAL ARTIST (1986) In the spring of 1986, with the clo...

Two columns of horizontal rectangles in alternating colours of forest green and warm white frame a third, central column of warm white and sapphire blue rectangles in this 7.5 foot tall canvas...

The mermaid who couldn't climb the iceberg painting by Suzzane Law Image size: 12.6 in. H x 17.1 in W Framse size: 18.1 in. H x 22.4 in W x 1 in D W...

Curated circles of silver, black, tangerine orange, and cherry red define the dove grey ground of this square minimalist acrylic painting on plexiglass. The areas between the shapes are completed with custard yellow and maroon. This work comes framed. Framed dimensions are approximately 20.5 x 20.5 inches. Cantine's work is a poetic and intellectual exploration of a pictorial problem, color as structure which has infinite variations. Cantine was quoted in the Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art 2000: "For the past 26 years, I have painted essentially the same still life, which began as a pair of apples and its shadow, and evolved under pressure of color into the present imagery." Cantine may be referred to as a post-minimalist, a term coined by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971 to describe work with a minimalist tendency but that uses modest materials and aims towards a pure formalist aesthetic. David Cantine is a senior Canadian painter who has been exploring the still life for many years. Cantine was born in Jackson...

"You Have the Right to Remain Silent" Wood Panel Original Painting and Carving Elaborate collage, painting and carved sculpture by Mickey "Kano" Kane (American, 20th century). In Yo...

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George McClancy (1930-2014) abstract pattern painting. Acrylic on canvas 48" x 72" George McClancy received a MA in painting from Catholic Universi...

Abstract Geometric Composition in White, Red and Blue Original Acrylic on Board Bold abstract composition by Robert William Hinds (American, b. 1926). This composition is brushed wh...

Large Colour Block Abstract, Mixed Medium, Original Painting French School, circa 1990s sigend indistinctly on the bottom of the painting Mixed m...

George Dannatt (1915-2009) Estruscan Wall 1992 Oil on card 13.4 x 19.5 cm 31.8 x 36.8 cm (Frame) George Dannatt’s long career as a painter and sculptor ended with the artist’s dea...

Reference number A29 Not framed but could be with a natural oak floated frame (add 100 euros) 18 x 24 cm This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a board and place...

Clément Rosenthal Abstraction N°55 1992 Oil on Canvas 78.7 x 87.4 in, 200 x 222 cm Signed by Artist Provenance: Artist's Studio, France Very early on, Clément Rosenthal ai...

"Comet" - Minimalist Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Canvas Bold composition by California artist Charles "Dave" Francis (American, 1951-2018). A white circle is la...

Bright figurative abstract with rich layers of texture and color by Chaz Cole (American, 20th Century). Irregular perimeter. Signed and dated "Chaz Cole" lower right. Signed and date...

Wonderful large abstract painting by Betty Weiss. Oil on canvas. Signed with her married name "Betty Perez". Measuring 40 by 48 inches. Artist Bio: Betty Weiss has been a Ne...

Front Yard Abstract Expressionist Landscape The viewer is greeted by rich visual texture in this abstract expressionist painting by Kristin Cohen (American, b.1963). Along the botto...

Reference number A111 Not framed but could be with a natural oak floated frame (add 200 euros) 28 x 41 cm This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a board and pla...

Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting by Duayne Hatchett (1925 - 2015). Oil on board, circa 1994. Signed on verso. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image, 22"L x 24"H.

Femme original color ink contemporary painting. framed

This captivating British St. Ives School abstract landscape is a striking example of mid-20th-century artistic innovation, seamlessly blending geometric abstraction with the natural ...

Serene silhouetted landscape scene of a pueblo community against a beautiful pale blue and lavender sky by Duane Albert Armstrong (b. 1938). Black...

Theodore Waddell's sophisticated modernist paintings have attracted widespread recognition. A native Montanan cattle rancher, Waddell most often paints freely-rendered range animals ...

Medium: Gouache Year: 1991 Signed and dated by hand Edition: Unique COA provided

Evocative and dramatic acrylic painting of abstracted Koi fish titled "Symbiosis" that's a masterful blend of motion and objects. Circa 1980. Unframed, by Chaquille (American, 20th c...

Felix Ferreras - Landscape with window in D - Oil on canvas Oil measurements 73x100 cm. Frameless. Félix Ferreras is a visual artist with numerous national and international awards ...

'The Flea Market', oil on canvas, by Catherine Garros (circa 1990s). The viewer can feel the light of the French Riviera shine through this seductive ...

Larry Zox Dexter's Choice, State II, ca. 1990 Mixed media, Watercolor pochoir, and Oil stick Wax, Water-Based Crayons, on heavy Arches museum watercolor rag paper with deckled edges 40 × 60 in 101.6 × 152.4 cm Edition 8/30 (unique variant) Frame included Measurements: Sheet: 40 inches (vertical) by 60 inches (horizontal) Frame: 42 inches x 62 inches x 1 inch Dexter's Choice, State # II is a unique, mixed media work from an edition of 30 unique variants done in pochoir, (25 stencils, 14 colors). Here, Zox uses watercolor instead of inks, which is applied to heavy 300 lb. watercolor paper. Although it is a multiple signed and numbered from the edition of 30, each work of art is unique because of how the paper receives the watercolor brush. In addition, this work is created like a mixed media painting because it has 11 lines added by hand with wax and water based crayons and oil sticks. The unique watercolor technique that Zox employed in making "Dexter's Choice" is documented in the textbook, "Screen Printing: Water Based Techniques,Roni Henning, NYIT ". Dexter's Choice was published by Images Gallery, and this work was acquired directly from the publisher before they sold out. This work is elegantly floated and framed in a white wood frame. Accompanied by gallery issued Certificate of Guarantee Larry Zox Biography: A PAINTER who played an essential role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s and 1970s, Larry Zox is best known for his intensely and brilliantly colored geometric abstractions that question and violate symmetry.1 Zox stated in 1965: “Being contrary is the only way I can get at anything.” To Zox, this position was not necessarily arbitrary, but instead meant “responding to something in an examination of it [such as] using
a mechanical format with X number of possibilities.”2 What he sought was to “get at the specific character and quality of each painting in and for itself,” as James Monte stated in his introductory essay in the catalogue for Zox’s 1973–1974 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.3 Zox’s robust paintings reveal
a celebrated artist and master of composition who is explored and challenged the possibilities of Post-Painterly Abstraction and Minimalist pictorial conventions. Zox began to receive attention in the 1960s when he was included in several groundbreaking exhibitions of Color Field and Minimalist art, including Shape and Structure (1965), organized by Henry Geldzahler and Frank Stella for Tibor de Nagy, New York, and Systemic Painting (1966), organized by Lawrence Alloway for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. In 1973–1974, the Whitney’s solo exhibition of Zox’s work gave recognition to his significance in the art scene of the preceding decade. In the following year, he was represented in the inaugural exhibition of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Wahsington, DC, which acquired fourteen of his works.
 Zox was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1937. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, and then studied under George Grosz at the Des Moines Art Center. In 1958, Zox moved to New York, joining the downtown art scene. His studio on 20th Street became a gathering place for artists, jazz musicians, bikers, and boxers, and he occasionally sparred with visiting fighters. He later established a studio in East Hampton, a former black smithy used previously by Jackson Pollock. In his earliest works, such as Banner (1962) Zox created
collages consisting of pieces of painted paper stapled onto sheets of plywood. He then produced paintings that were illusions of collages, including both torn- and trued-edged forms, to which he added a wide range of strong hues that created ambiguous surfaces. In paintings such as For Jean (1963), he omitted the collage aspect of his work and applied flat color areas to create more complete statements of pure color and shape. He then replaced these torn and expressive edges with clean and impersonal lines that would define his work for the next decade. From 1962 to 1965, he produced his Rotation series, at first creating plywood and Plexiglas reliefs, which turned squares into dynamic polygons. He used these shapes in his paintings as well, employing white as a foil between colors to produce negative spaces that suggest that the colored shapes had only been cut out and laid down instead of painted. The New York Times in 1964 wrote of the works in show such as Rotation B (1964) and of the artist: “The artist is hip, cool, adventurous, not content to stay with the mere exercise of sensibility that one sees in smaller works.”4 In 1965, he began the Scissor Jack series, in which he arranged opposing triangular shapes with inverted Vs of bare canvas at their centers that threaten to split their compositions apart. In several works from this series, Zox was inspired by ancient Chinese water vessels. With a mathematical precision and a poetic license, Zox flattened the three dimensional object onto graph paper, and later translated his interpretation of the vessel’s lines onto canvas with masking tape, forming the structure of the painting. The Diamond Cut and Diamond Drill paintings...

This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...

John Zinsser (American, b. 1961) Iron City, 1997 oil on canvas signed John Zinsser, titled and dated (verso) 72 x 60 inches Done in bright vibrant shades of red. American artist John Zinsser was born in New York City in 1961 and studied art, art history and literature at Yale University (where he did his senior thesis on Andy Warhol). He co-founded Journal of Contemporary Art in 1987 and lectures at The New School. He has had over 40 solo shows in the U.S. and Europe, and is known in Europe for his association with monochrome painters of a previous generation. Zinsser has been a devotee of postwar Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism for decades. A native New Yorker, he came of age as an artist during the late 1980s and early 1990s alongside other now established abstract painters, including Richmond Burton, Gail Fitzgerald, Daniel Levine, Carl Ostendarp, Kate Shepherd, Cary Smith, Dan Walsh, Mary Weatherford, and Stephen Westfall, among others. Zinsser’s material paintings and conceptual drawings often pay homage to, expand upon, and subvert earlier precedents in NYC’s painting history, from Abstract Expressionism to Radical Painting to Post-Modernism. Zinsser interned for the architect Peter Eisenman, when he was director of the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City. Select Group Exhibitions 2017 Six Artists, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA New New York: Abstract Painting in the 21st Century, curated by Debra Drexler and Liam Davis, 2016 Carrie Moyer/David Reed/John Zinsser, Dedalus Foundation Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2012 Fabulists, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY (Four-person show with: Donald Evans...

Signed verso, 'Kevin Keaney' (American, born 1962) and painted circa 1995. This San Francisco Bay area artist studied with Jerry Morgan at the San Francisco Art Institute and has ex...

Peri Schwartz (born October 4, 1951, Brooklyn, New York) is an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Far Rockaway, New York. She received her BFA from Boston University College of Fine Arts in 1973 and an MFA from Queens College in 1975. Up for sale is a wonderful Still Life with fruits Painting...

Acrylic painting realized by Dario Cusani in 1994. Certificate of authenticity by the Artist on photograph. I BECOME A PROFESSIONAL ARTIST (1986) In the spring of 1986, with the clo...

This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...

Lyman Kipp Untitled drawing, 1993 Unique Colored Ink Drawing on paper with two deckled edges Hand signed, inscribed and dated by the artist on lower front 26 1/4 × 20 inches Unframed...

Abstract of shapes and lines etched into green acrylic and highlighted with hues of yellow, pink and orange by A. Vivent, 1993. Signed and date lower right. Original artwork on pape...

This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...

die-cut, lithograph, colored with guoache CASTILLO, Jorge (Pontevedra, 1933). Since childhood, Jorge Castillo is passionate about drawing, and takes only ten years, with crayons, yo...

This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...

Modernist Boats - Abstract Monterey Seascape in Oil on Canvas Vibrant abstracted landscape of colorful boats in a Monterey harbor by California artist Virginia Sevier Rogers (Americ...

Meeting. 1998. Oil on canvas, 100x99.5 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painte...

"River 2" Abstract Composition in Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Wood Panel Bold abstract composition by California artist Janet Trenchard (American, b. 1947). This piece is composed of layers of rich dark green, and soft yellow. There are accents of bronze-gold leaf that shimmer under direct light. Streaks and scrapes add dynamic movement to the compostition. Titled and signed on verso: River 2 Janet Trenchard No frame, but the edges are painted for frame-less display. Janet Trenchard (American, b. 1947) is an artist and poet from San Jose, California. Trenchard taught art in public high school for 12 years before retiring to pursue her own creative interests. An artist and writer, her paintings and assemblages have been exhibited in San Jose, Palo Alto, and San Francisco. Her poems and stories have been published in Porter Gulch...

Abstract Composition by Sally Vaughan (contemporary) gouache painting on card, unframed measurements: 10.25 x 9.25 inches condition: very good provenance: from a large private collec...

Small Early Triptych Study of Abstract Trees Forest Landscape Painting by British Urban Artist. This rare early work is from an intense body of abstract work that formed the very fou...

Stunning textural abstract aerial landscape painting by Hungarian artist Levente Baranyai. Oil on panel, 37.5 x 50 inches. With a focus on aerial urb...

This original abstract oil painting, created in 1994 by the acclaimed artist Wilma Fiori (1929-2019), captures a rich, moody composition in a large horizon...

Mixed media (acrylic and oil paints) splatter painting on canvas Signed and dated verso. Gordon Couch born 1949 British artist based in Cornwall and ...

This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...

Bill Shields "Garden Cottage" 1990's Acrylic on paper affixed to board 10"x8" unframed Signed in pencil lower right William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010 He was born at Lette...

At once an Abstract Expressionist and Color Field painting, this large colorful work by Robert Goodnough bursts with the energy of confetti. This acrylic and oil on canvas painting i...

John Evans (American, b. 1945), Untitled oilstick on paper, signed in pencil lower center, gallery label (Allan Stone Gallery, New York) affixed verso, sheet: sight size is 22"h x 3...

When David Sorensen visited Havana, Cuba in 1999 he was captivated by the rich textural atmosphere of the city. Using a spatula and paintbrush he created a series of abstract paintings in bright colours and graphic form. No 5 features a sky-blue square in the center, laid over a field of similar shapes in various sizes. Thick lines that run both vertically and horizontally across the canvas add drama. The colour palette—orange, yellow, red, and indigo is both joyful and intense. “Through the medium of his art, a bridge is built between inner sensation and outer world experience, illusion and reality, what we cannot see and what we see, life and afterlife.” John K. Grande, Montreal poet and writer Born in Vancouver Sorensen (1937-2011) studied at UBC and the Vancouver School of Art. His teachers were renowned—Arthur Erikson...

Geometric Abstract with Circles in Acrylic on Canvas Bright and colorful abstract composition by Melvin K. Allen (American, 1922-2012). Several circles are shown overlapping each ot...

Oil on canvas. Image size, 24H x 30L. Signed verso.

Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...

Bill Shields "Church on a Hill" 1990's Acrylic on board 7.25"x8" unframed Unsigned came from artist's estate William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010 He was born at Letterman Hos...

In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...