20th Century Abstract Paintings

Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting. Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...

Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting. Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...

Plagues of Egypt by Kate Orr (British 20th century) signed lower corner, circa 1990's oil painting on board, unframed painting: 31 x 25 inches Superbly painted, Modern British oil ...

Figurative Abstract French School, signed and dated 1972 small frame oil painting on board painting: 19.75 x 25.5 inches overall size: 21.5 x 27 inches condition: overall very good a...

Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting. Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...

Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting. Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...

Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting. Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...

Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting. Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...

Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting. Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...

Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting. Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...

Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting. Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...

Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting. Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...

Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting. Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...

Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting. Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...

Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting. Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...

Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting. Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...

Stunning original oil painting by Elvic Steele depicting this surrealist fantasy abstract painting. Elvic Steele is a fascinating English painter. Her works entrance the observer, d...

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

Lawrence Philp Insiders Say Too Much is Enough Signed lower left; titled on overlap Oil on canvas 70 x 59 1/2 inches Lawrence Philp, the son of Jamaican immigrants, studied at the ...

Light Sleep, Surrealist Impressionist Oil Painting, Signed By British artist, Kate Orr, late 20th Century Inscribed into the paint by the artist on the lower right hand corner Oil pa...

Sueño Original Magical Surrealism Mixed media paper painting. virtual frame Cándido Ballester is a contemporary Mallorcan painter who was born in 1926. As a child he had to emigrate...

French Surrealist Oil Painting Mid 20th Century Oil painting on canvas, unframed Canvas size: 24 x 18 inches This intriguing oil definitely ignites some expressive thoughts - one in...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Rhythms with Central Point" Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 5.25 height x 4.5 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintin...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Leading In + Out 4 Roundabout" Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 4 height x 3.5 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintin...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Truth Hidden in a Web of Words" Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 3.75 height x 4 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paint...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Radiant Bloom in Orbit Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 6 height x 4.5 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintings we hav...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Break Out" Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 4 height x 3.5 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintings we have by this a...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Yellow Shine + Red Glow" Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 6 height x 4 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintings we ha...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Flower Thoinasina" Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 6 height x 4.5 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintings we have b...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Evolving Organisms" Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 5.5 height x 3 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintings we have ...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Fairies Dancing Lawn" Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 4.5 height x 6 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintings we hav...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Spring Bloom Under Blue Skies Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 3.5 height x 4.5 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintin...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Ghosts of Frosted Flowers" Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 4.5 height x 4 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintings w...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - "Openings in the Warp of Time" Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 4.5 height x 6 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the painting...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Blossoming Foliage and Earth Roots Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 4 height x 6 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the painti...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Sunlit Coral and Sea Bloom Study Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 4 height x 6 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the painting...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Red Lily and Blue Forget-Me-Nots Study Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 6.25 height x 3 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Month of Mists' Abstract Study Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 3.5 height x 4 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintin...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - Interwoven Colorful Form Abstract Study Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 2.75 height x 4.5 width Condition: Good Provenance: all ...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Floating 2' Abstract Study Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 4 height x 6 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintings we ...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Hopes Fragile as Eggs' Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 4.5 height x 6 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintings we ha...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Old Trees Love Fine Weather' Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 5.25 height x 6.5 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the painti...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Garlands for Sorting' Abstract Study Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 4.5 height x 5 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the p...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Wild Growth' Abstract Study Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 3 height x 5.25 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintings...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Children's Party Fun' Abstract Study Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 4.5 height x 6 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the p...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Adding Colour Numbers' Abstract Study Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 5.75 height x 4 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Ocean Depths Eruption' Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 6 height x 4 width Condition: Good Provenance: all the paintings we have...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Encounters' Abstract Artist: Elvic Steele Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 4.5 height x 6 width Condition: Good Provenance: all ...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Beginnings' Abstract Artist: Elvic Steele Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 4.5 height x 6 width Condition: Good Provenance: all ...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Garden Lights' Abstract Artist: Elvic Steele Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 3 height x 4.5 width Condition: Good Provenance: a...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Life's Beginnings' Abstract Artist: Elvic Steele Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 6 height x 3.5 width Condition: Good Provenanc...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Logic + Fantasy' Abstract Artist: Elvic Steele Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 4.25 height x 6 width Condition: Good Provenance...

Title: 1960's British Surrealist Oil Painting - 'Primitive Pond Life' Abstract Artist: Elvic Steele Medium: Oil on board, unframed Size: 6 height x 4.5 width Condition: Good Provena...

Detailed surrealist landscape depicting a barren, desert-like scene with small boats by Clayton Anderson (American, b. 1943). Signed "CLAY ANDERSON" on v...

Genre: Surrealism Subject: Abstract Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: France In this surreal composition by Heinrich M. Frama the artist clumps a group of figures towards the mid...

Antique American modern surrealist ladnscape. Oil on canvas, circa 1987. Signed. Image size 18.5L x 218.5H. Housed in a period modern frame.

Myriam Bat-Yosef Surrealist abstract oil painting in colorful abstract patterned rectangles and shades Hand signed and dated 1984. Miniature design letter also signed. Myriam Bat-Yosef, whose real name is Marion Hellerman, born on January 31, 1931 in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish family from Lithuania, she is an Israeli-Icelandic artist who paints on papers, paintings, fabrics, objects and human beings for performances. Myriam Bat-Yosef currently lives and works in Paris. In 1933, her family fleeing the Nazi Holocaust, Miriam Bat-Yosef emigrates to Palestine and settles in Jaffa. In 1936, she suffers a family tragedy, her father, militant Zionist, is called to fight, still recovering from an operation of appendicitis. The incision will become infected, antibiotics did not exist yet, and her father will die in the hospital after 9 months of suffering. Myriam and her mother leave Palestine to live in Paris for three years. French is Myriam's first school language. In 1939, still fleeing Nazism, she returned to Palestine, leaving France by the last boat from Marseille. She moved to Tel Aviv with her mother, aunt and maternal grandmother. In 1940, she began attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv and took her name as an artist, Bat-Yosef, which means Joseph's daughter in Hebrew, as a tribute to her father. In 1946, Myriam graduated as a kindergarten teacher but wanted to be an artist. Her mother enrolled her in an evening school to prepare a diploma of art teacher. At 19, she performs two years of military service in Israel. In 1952, with a pension of $50 a month that her mother allocated, she went to study at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. To survive, she has several activities while studying. In 1955, she had her first solo exhibition, at the Israeli Club on Wagram Avenue in Paris. Many artists, such as Yaacov Agam, Yehuda Neiman Avigdor Arikha, Raffi Kaiser, Dani Karavan and sculptors Achiam and Shlomo Selinger attended the opening . In 1956, she enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Florence. This is where she meets the painter Errô. They share an icy studio in winter. Myriam moves to Milan with friends. She organizes a joint exhibition with Erro, one room each, at the Montenapoleone gallery. Her works are admired by the sculptor Marino Marini and the painters Renato Birolli and Enrico Prampolini. Myriam and Erro exhibit in Rome, Milan, Florence and meet many personalities: Alain Jouffroy and his wife, the painter Manina, Roberto Matta and his wife Malitte, textile artist who was one of the founders of the Pompidou Center. Back in Paris, Myriam and Erro get married, which allows Myriam to avoid being called into the Israeli army during the Suez Canal War. In 1957, Myriam and her husband went to Iceland. Myriam works in a chocolate factory. Having enough money, she starts producing art again. She exhibited in Reykjavik's first art gallery. She meets the artist Sigridur Bjornsdottir, married to the Swiss painter Dieter Roth . In 1958, Myriam and her husband leave for Israel. They exhibit in Germany, then in Israel. Back in Paris, the couple became friends with artists of the surrealist movement, such as Victor Brauner, Hans Bellmer, the sculptor Philippe Hiquily, Liliane Lijn, future wife of Takis and photographer Nathalie Waag. Erro and Myriam have a daughter on March 15, 1960, named Tura, after the painter Cosmè Tura, but also close to the Icelandic Thora or the Hebrew Torah. Bat-Yosef’s complex trajectory throughout the 20th century is linked as much to the transnational history of what was for a time called the School of Paris as it is to a certain legacy of Surrealism. Her work features the same idea of resolving antinomies that also defined the spirit of surrealism, and is enhanced with her readings of the Kabbalah and her spiritual grounding in Taoism. However, while there are reasons for her approach to be associated with the process of the ready-made, it is important to consider the immediate intrication of these works with her practice of performance, during which the body itself is also painted – a feminist response to Yves Klein’s Anthropometries (1960) and an echo of the happenings which Jean-Jacques Lebel organised at the time in Paris. In 1963, Erró told Myriam that if she wants to be a painter, she can not be his wife. Myriam chose to be a painter and the couple divorced in 1964. Since that time, Myriam Bat-Yosef has exhibited in many countries: Europe, United States, Japan, etc. Although long in the shadows, the work of Myriam Bat-Yosef has been greeted by many artists and personalities: Anaïs Nin, Nancy Huston, André Pieyre of Mandiargues, José Pierre, René de Solier , Jacques Lacarrière, Alain Bosquet, Pierre Restany, Sarane Alexandrian and Surrealist André Breton who, after a visit to her studio, confided to having been intrigued by its phantasmagorical dimension. She was included in the book Pop Art and Beyond: Gender, Race, and Class in the Global Sixties by Mona Hadler and Kalliopi Minioudaki. Extract "World Citizen, Artist of the Pop Era Sarah Wilson; Why do we know so little of Myriam Bat-Yosef, the most important female Israeli artist of the Pop era? Issues of identity and sexuality feature constantly in her work. She exhibited internationally from Reykjavik to Tokyo; she had two shows at Arturo Schwarz’s famous Dada/surrealist gallery in Milan; she participated in feminist art events in Los Angeles. Above all, in 1971, she conceived Total Art, a Pop Gesamtkunstwerk inside and outside the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Painter, performer, and installation artist, she was also a lover, wife, and mother. Of Lithuanian-Jewish descent, she was close to the family of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. An émigré in Paris she would repudiate a national passport, participating in Garry Davis’s short-lived “World Citizens” movement. She continues the lineage of women surrealist artists: Valentine Hugo, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning, Leonora Carrington, Unica Zürn, Jane Graverol...

Nahum Tschacbasov Lovers and Others (Two Unique Works), 1978-1979 Gouache on Two-sided Paper (Two Signed Works) Hand signed twice: once on each side 11 × 15 inches (each side) A rare...