20th Century Abstract Paintings

Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 18H x 24L.

Antique American modernist oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Signed.

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

Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Untitled, c. 1949 oil on canvas 18 x 32 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller designed and made the simple gold wedding ring Avis wore for their 65 years of marriage. During those 65 years neither wavered in their mutual love, nor in the respect they shared for one another’s art. The couple lived in a converted chicken coop in Missouri while Richard was in boot camp. At the camp, he would volunteer for any job offered and one of those jobs ended up being painting road signs. His commander noticed how quickly and neatly he worked and gave him more painting work to do - eventually recommending him for a position painting murals for Army offices in Panama. Until her dying day, Avis remained angry that “The army got to keep those fabulous murals and they probably didn’t even know how wonderful they were.” In Panama, their first son, Mark, was born. After Richard’s discharge in 1953, they moved back to the Cleveland area and used the GI bill to attend Kent State gaining his BA in education. The small family then moved briefly to Buffalo, where Richard taught at the Albright Art School and the University of Buffalo – and their second son, Peter, was born. Richard had exhibited work in the Cleveland May Show and the Butler Art Museum during his art school years, and during the years in Buffalo, his work was exhibited at the gallery he had so loved as a child, the Albright Art Gallery. In 1956, the family moved back to the Cleveland area and Richard began teaching art at Lincoln West High School during the day while working toward his MA in art at Kent State in the evenings. Avis and Richard, with the help of an architect, designed their first home - a saltbox style house in Hudson, Ohio, and in 1958, their third son, Max (after Max Beckmann) was born. Richard enjoyed the consistency of teaching high school as well as the time it gave him to paint on the weekends and during the summer months. In 1961, he received his MA and his daughter, Claire, was born. With a fourth child, the house was much too small, and Avis and Richard began designing their second home. An admirer of MCM architecture, Richard’s favorite example of the style was the Farnsworth house – he often spoke of how the concepts behind this architectural style, particularly that of Mies van der Rohe, influenced his painting. Andres described himself as a 1950’s...

Sailboats Abstract French cubist artist, circa 1950's oil on board, unframed board: 33 x 48 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: all four corners are worn but sho...

This striking American Cubist still life by Genara Del, circa 1970, is a masterful exploration of form, color, and abstraction, capturing the essence of modern art with both simplici...

2901 City Landscape ,acrylic on canvas Displayed in a custom gilt wood frame Image size 18x24" overall 21x26.5" Signed Varen

Vintage American school modernist painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Unsigned. Image size, 30L x 24H. Housed in a period frame.

Signed lower right, "Mogens Valeur" (Danish, 1927-1999) and dated 1956. Mogens Valeur first studied with Peter Rostrup Boyesen and, later, attended the Copenhagen Art Academy. He su...

Signed lower right 'S. Aron' (French, 20th century) and dated 1970; additionally signed, verso, on canvas with old label verso. Provenance: Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California.

Sylvia Rutkoff (1919-2011) Sr5-1 c.1960s “Crossed Arms” Acrylic on Masonite 36x42 period frame Unsigned Collection acquired from family estate

Blue n.18 is an original contemporary artwork realized by Gastone Biggi in 1974. Mixed colored acrylic painting on canvas Hand signed, titled and dated...

Mid Century Modern, American Abstract Expressionist Painting on Masonite. This wonderful work in hues of blue comes house in a contemporary natural wood frame presentation.. The ar...

Introducing a beautifully gripping post-war oil painting by British artist Joseph Duncan. Within this intense expressionistic work, the powerful use of c...

Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...

MODERNIST MOSAIC Size: 35.5 x 43.5 cm (including frame) Oil on board An excellent and striking mid-century modernist style geometric abstract composition thats celebrates form and c...

Young Woman By The Sea Cost Artist signed lower right, canvas 35hx39w Nicola Simbari was born in Italy and grow up in Rome. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, and in ...

Cubist Composition by Jean Besnard (1922-2007) oil on board, unframed signed with initials, dated board: 27 x 26 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: good and sou...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 10.75 x 8.5 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we h...

Impressive European impressionist summer beach scene oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 20H by 24L.

Vibrant mid century modern abstracted figurative in orange, red and black by Bay Area artist Paul Sheppard. Dated 1959 and signed "Sheppard." Presented i...

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

Reference number A162 Not framed but could be with a natural oak floated frame (add 200 euros) 16 x 43 cm This work is painted with oil on a board. It is signed...

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

Compelling and large scale neo-expressionist urban scene painting depicting San Francisco's Mission District by San Jose, California area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American, 1978-...

6005 Vintage oil painting of an exotic plumed bird set in a bed of colorful flowers. Canvas set on wood board . Set in a vintage hand painted red wood frame' Image size 10.5x1...

Nicely painted early American impressionist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed.

Maurice Potier (French, 1926 – 2002) Oranges, figs, lemons and a vase of flowers Oil on canvas Signed ‘M Potier’ (lower right), Further signed and dated Maurice Potier / 1994. 27.3/8...

Martin Rosenthal "House with Yellow Windows" c. 1960s Encaustic & Oil paint on paper 20"x13" unframed Signed and dated in ink lower left Martin Rosent...

"Pale Pink" is an abstract Post War acrylic painting by Richard Anuszkiewicz in 1980. The artwork is 48 1/4 x 48 1/4 inches and, with the frame, is 49 1/4 x 49 1/4 x 2 inches. It is ...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Hannah’s Mirror, Rembrandt’s Three Trees Transformed Into The Expulsion From Eden Year: 1978 Medium: Acryli...

Abstract Expressionist Composition signed by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924) dated 68 oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 26 x 36 inches condition: overall very good, ...

Composition is an original drawing in oil on cardboard realized by an unknown artist in 1989. This Artwork is depicted through strong and confident s...

Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting by Alton S. Tobey (1914 - 2005). Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Impressive modernist painting by an important and historical artist. The following is written and submitted by Joseph Dolice, Exhibition Director of the New Rochelle Council on the Arts. This information accompanied the exhibition, "Alton Tobey," of the New Rochelle Council on the Arts October 22 to November 14, 2003. Millions of Americans have seen reproductions of the art of Alton Tobey, one of the most famous of today's living illustrators -- in national magazines such as Life, Reader's Digest and American Artist; and in public murals such as at The Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City; and in Westchester where his Roots of Westchester mural is installed at the White Plains County Courthouse. Few people, however, had had the opportunity to see almost three dozen of his original paintings, including many of his portraits of famous people, at any single time or place before in history. From October 22nd through November 14th, 2003 The New Rochelle Council on The Arts, a major cultural resource for the citizens of New Rochelle and the residents of the surrounding Westchester community will present a special one-man exhibition of thirty-three of Alton Tobey's original paintings, many of which have never been publicly shown before. The show will be held in the 3000 square foot Lumen Winter Gallery in the lobby of The New Rochelle Library, the site of many major exhibitions in the past by the NRCA, such as its show of original artwork of Norman Rockwell and of Frederic Remington. Both of these artists also achieved fame mainly as illustrative painters, and had ties to the community. Alton Tobey was born in Middletown, Connecticut and received his BFA and MFA at the Yale School of Fine Arts and later taught there for four years. He has also taught at the City College of New York and has been juror for many prestigious art competitions. His work is in over 30 museums and in important government, corporate and private art collections. He has had over 50 one-man exhibitions. His work has been published in over a dozen national magazines and books, and he has over three dozen historic murals to his credit. Education: Yale School of Fine Arts, B.F.A. and M.F.A. Taught at: Yale School of Fine Arts; City College, New York City; 92nd St. YM-YWHA, New York City Affiliations: Hudson River Contemporary Artists - President Emeritus; National Society of Mural Painters - President Emeritus; Artists Equity of New York - President Emeritus; Mamaroneck Artists Guild - President Emeritus; International Arts Association - Past Vice-President Memberships: Abraxis; League of Present Day Artists; Fine Arts Federation; American Society of Contemporary Artists; Metropolitan Arts Association Awards: PWA Mural Award, 1939; Westchester Society Merit Award; Edwin Abby Mural Award, 1965; Grumbacher Awards, 1982, 1985; Westchester Council for the Arts, 1987; Lindner Memorial Award, 1992 Murals: Tazewell Museum; Tazewell, VA; 16 Chief Justices; St. Paul, MN; Signing of the Constitution; St. Paul, MN; Roots of Thomasville; Thomasville, GA; Intrepid Sea, Air, Space; New York, NY; Smithsonian Museum (2); Washington, DC; California Bank, Rockefeller Center; NYC; American Bureau of Shipping; NYC; Council on Fitness; Washington, DC; U.S. Post Office; East Hartford, CT; MacArthur Memorial, (6); Norfolk, VA; Falstaff Mural; St. Louis, MO; Three Murals for Saudi Arabia; Jidda, SA; History of Transportation; Hartford, CT; Project 400 (14 Murals); Chadds Ford, PA; Evyan Perfumes/Cheseborough; NYC; Campbell Avenue Library; E. Hartford, CT; Eastchester Town Hall; Eastchester, NY; Liebowitz Family (2); New York, NY; Roots of Westchester County; WhitePlains, NY Publications where featured: Life Magazine; Iconagraphy of Stradivari; American Artist; Readers' Digest; Spotlight; Epic of Man - Life; The Plate Collection Magazine; Birds of Tikai - Museum of Natural History; Men and Power - Western Publishing; The Golden Book of American History (in 12 volumes - 300 paintings by Tobey) August 1, 1961 in Plate Collector magazine (with Tobey featured on the cover): "Tobey Brings Murals to Plates" by Susan Elliott: Winter, 2007 (Vol. 5 Number 20) in Illustration magazine: "The Curvilinear Career of Alton S. Tobey" by John Matuszak. Also in numerous newspaper articles in The New York Times, USA Today, Gannett newspapers, and others. Corporate collections: ABC TV; New York, NY; Charles Pfizer Co.; New York, NY; Readers' Digest; Pleasantville, NY; Ciba-Geigy; Ardsley NY; American Cyanamid; Bound Brook, NJ; General Foods Corp.; White Plains, NY; Evyan Perfumes; New York, NY Portraits: Albert Einstein; Pope John Paul II; Ronald Reagan; Charles Pfizer; Golda Meir; Alexander Calder; Cardinal Cooke; Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins; Robert Merrill; E. Ronald Harriman; Robert Frost; Douglas MacArthur; Alfred DelBello; Robert Merrill; John L. Lewis; Charles Picker; John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy Government & other projects: Newberger Museum; Purchase, NY; Dept. of Commerce; Washington, DC; Amer. Machine/Foundry; White Plains, NY; President's Council on Fitness; Wash., DC; Yonkers Professional Hospital; Yonkers, NY; Iona College; New Rochelle, NY; NYU Law Library; New York, NY; Jewish Community Center; White Plains, NY; Instituto Norteamericano del Arte; Mexico; American Center; Stockholm, Sweden; Amer. Bureau of Shipping; New York, NY; The National Academy; New York, NY; St. Patrick's Cathedral; New York, NY; St. Francis Hospital; Hartford, CT; Elmira College; Elmira, NY; Hofstra University; Long Island, NY; Murray Av. School; Larchmont, NY; Mercy College; Dobbs Ferry, NY Limited editions: Royal Doulton Plates; London, England; Lucien Picard; New York, NY; Scafa Tournabene; West Nyack, NY; Numa, Ltd.; Akron, OH International collections: Copenhagen, Denmark; Minori, Italy; Jerusalem, Israel; Lima, Peru; LaRochelle, France; Stockholm, Sweden; Athens, Greece; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Guatemala City, Guatemala; Mexico City, Mexico; Tepotzian, Mexico Solo Shows: American Center; Stockholm, Sweden Alliance Galleria; Copenhagen, Denmark Mamaroneck Artists' Guild; Larchmont, NY Silvermine Artists Guild; New Canaan, CT Instituto Mexicano Norteamericano; Mexico Galleria Satellite; Mexico City, Mexico Casa de Aquarella, Mexico City, Mexico Jewish Center; New Haven, CT Alice Tully Hall; Lincoln Center, NYC Riverside Museum; New York, NY Westchester Art Society...

Very nicely painted European impressionist landscape painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 20H by 20L. Nicely framed and in excellent condition. Ready to hang.

4093 Multi colored abstract on artist board Set in a vintage hand painted wood frame Signed on verso by P.Russo

"Ole Swimmin Hole" Southern California Oil on canvas board 1930s Elegant mid century landscape depicting a lake and hillside in summer by well known and collected California artist ...

Nicely painted American school abstract expressionist painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso. Measuring 30 by 30 overall and 24 by 24 painting alone.

Abstract Painting With rolled painter's canvases. Circa 1970. Dimensions: 64 x 53 cm Abstract painting with Cubist influence. Technique: oil on canvas. Signed on the back A. Ra...

French Colorist School, circa 1960's period oil painting on board, framed framed: 18 x 14 inches board: 13 x 9.5 inches provenance: private collection,...

Victor Vasarely (1908-1997) Axo This piece is hand signed and numbered circa 1972-1977 I have seen it described as enamel on steel and enamel on aluminium. it is a serigraph on meta...

Artist: Rene Portocarrero, Cuban (1912 - 1985) Title: Ciudad de la Habana, 1961 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 34 x 24 inches Provenance: Private Cuban Collection in South Florida....

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

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

Manuel Soto-Muñoz (1913-2000), Puerto Rican born American painter. Recipient award of merit Florida Southern College, 1958; prize Art Students League New York, 1950; 1st prize Salón ...

5123a Black and white letters oil on paper by Deidra Framed Image Size 17.5x11.5"

Harbor Party by John von Wicht, German (1888–1970) Date: circa 1965 Gouache and Pastel on Japon, signed in pencil lower right Size: 15.5 x 23 in. (39.37 x 58.42 cm) Frame Size: 22 x ...

Appropriately called the "Mosaic" period for important historical artist Carl Holty, this is a super example! His color use during this time frame was lively as he always used sky b...

Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910-1996) Title: « Anooralya Yam » 91x121 cm - 1993 Acrylic on canvas Aboriginal Art Australian Provenance: Delmore Gallery Aborigène Galerie Paris, France E...

Lyrical abstract expressionist gouache on paper by French artist Michel Loiseau. Signed bottom right. Michel Loiseau-Rizzo, born in 1937 is an illust...

Untitled Judy Wahl Date: 1980 Acrylic on Canvas, signed lower right Size: 47.5 x 71 in. (120.65 x 180.34 cm) Frame Size: 48 x 71.5 inches

Rare and finely painted early American impressionist oil painting by Joe (Joseph) Franklin De Yong (1894 - 1975). Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 13H by 15L.

Karel Appel is internationally recognized and collected for this subject matter in particular. Preferable to have the faces, this piece has rich color and presence. Good value and ...

Steven H. Rehfeld (American, born 1954) "Untitled" 1992 Oil Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the back of the painting. "Untitled" by Steven H...

Pure mid century abstract expressionist painting. Great colors and movement. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924) signed oil painting on canvas, unframed inscribed verso canvas size: 35 x 46 inches condition: overall very...

"Nightlights" is the perfect name of this sparkling gorgeous piece by Alcalay. Dozens of colors are used to described a lively, moving street scene of night lights, including headlig...

Impasto Oil Painting of River Tree Scene British Postwar & Contemporary Artist, Terry Evans Terry Evans is a British Postwar & Contemporary Painter born i...