20th Century Abstract Paintings

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 ...

Title: Impressionist French Gouache of Sacré-Cœur Paris in Snow with Figures By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (height x width) Gouache painting on board, unframed ...

This exceptional oil on canvas by master Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein is an exceptional and unique example of his early pre-pop work. It is signed by the artist, upper right. After m...

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...

This colorful abstract acrylic painting is by Canadian artist Milly Ristvedt. Inspired by modernist mentors, in the 1970s Milly Ristvedt used simple formats on raw canvas to displa...

Tetsuo Mizu (1944) Landscape Executed in 1987 Oil on canvas 80.3 x 100 cm (39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in) Dated and Signed “1987 MIZU” (lower left) Signed, dated, an...

Title: French Coastal Lighthouse Scene with Sailors and Yellow Boat in Bold Oil By Fanch Lel Size: 17.75 x 21.75 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Condition: Th...

''Still Life of Fruit" French School, circa 1960's signed lower corner oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 15 x 18 inches the painting is in overall very g...

Modernist Cityscape by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century) gouache painting on artist paper, unframed artist paper: 19.5 x 14.5 inches condition: overall very good provenance: a...

Andy Miller (American, b. 1950), Abstract Composition, Oil on Canvas, impasto details, green ground with yellow and red highlights, with artist's studio stamp to verso, apparently un...

A peaceful early 20th-century landscape by J.M. Livens, signed and dated 1924 on the reverse. The painting depicts a wide meadow under soft afternoon light, bordered by trees and pun...

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...

Large Aboriginal-inspired abstract oil on board. We have shown the painting hanging in 'portrait' form but it could also be hung 'landscape'. This painting shares some of the qualit...

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, ...

This is a collaboration between Marshall Simpson (1900 – 1958) and Roslynn Estelle Middleman (1929 – 2003), 100-10, by 1958, oil on Masonite, signed and titled verso, 22 x 30 inches,...

American modernist abstract cityscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 30H by 24L.

The Bridge at Argenteuil a copy after the earlier, original painting by Claude Monet oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 20 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, south west of Eng...

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...

Vibrant Abstract Landscape Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 7 x 10.5 inches Suzanne Vattier (1901-1996) was a pupil of the famous pai...

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

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924) signed and dated verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 20 x 20 inches condition: overall very...

Douglas M. Olsen (b. 1960). #38, After the Rains, 1980. Watercolor on rag paper, 22 x 22 inches. Signed lower margin and on verso.

Barn Pastel Sketch by Akos Biro (Hungarian 1911-2002) pastel painting on artist paper, unframed painting: 9 x 12 inches provenance: the artists estate, France Superb orig...

Expressive late 1970's green and red abstract on rough plywood, with scribbled linear forms in the style of Basquiat, by Bay Area artist Micha...

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

Signed lower right, 'Savo' for Joan Savo (American, 1918-1992) and dated 1960. Additionally signed, verso, on old label and titled, 'City Lights'. Accompanie...

Ethel Rosetta Davis was born in Hardin County, Tennessee in 1897. She studied art in Birmingham, Alabama. Davis married and located to Tuscumbia a...

Study for Cambridge, Liqutex on Canvas Painting by Mark Lancaster 1938-2021, 1968 Additional information: Medium: Liqutex on canvas 36 x 36 cm 14 1/8 x 14 1/8 in Signed Mark Lancas...

This is a bold, abstracted city scene. It appears to be New York City, It could be any large metropolis with skyscrapers and a bustle to it. It is signed S. Chait and signed with ini...

Antique American school abstract expressionist painting. Oil on board. Signed. In excellent original condition. Nicely framed in a period wood molding. Excellent condition, read...

Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Château de Trécesson in Brittany By Fanch Lel Signed: yes Size: 15 x 18 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Condition:...

5-3747 Large scale Abstract Expressionist oil painting in multi colors and patterns Signed .Framed

Sam Maitin (1928-2004). Seated Figure, ca. 1970. Charcoal, gouache and decorative paper collage. Measuring 15.5 x 20.5 inches; 22.75 x 27.75 inches framed. Signed lower left. Excellent condition. Period frame original to the piece in mahogany with natural wood grain on sides and 22k gold leaf gilt face. After graduating from Simon Gratz High School, Maitin won a scholarship to the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts). A painter, printmaker, sculptor, muralist, graphic designer, political activist, and beloved teacher, Maitin headed the Visual Graphics Communication Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication from 1965–1972 and served on the board of Woodmere Art Museum from 1995–2004. He received a number of awards, including a 1968 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. He created murals and other public art for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University’s Kornberg School of Dentistry, the Please Touch Museum, and Hahnemann University Hospital, among others. Maitin's work is museum collections in the United States and Europe, including (but not limited to): Philadelphia Museum of Art Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Museum of Modern Art, New York Tate Gallery, London Bauersche Geisserie, Germany Oakland Museum, California Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts The Currier Gallery of Art...

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 : ...

Title: French Coastal Village with Moored Fishing Boats and Rocky Shoreline By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 16.25 x 22.5 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Condit...

Robert O'Meara (American, XX-XXI), Miniature Cityscape, Oil on Board, circa 1975, apparently unsigned, unframed. 4" H x 3.5" W. Provenance: From a 333 East 75th Street Estate.

Abstract Gouache on Paper by Minnesota/Chicago artist Richard Koppe (1916-1073). Simply titled “Woman,” the work is an excellent composition by the artist created 1941. The painting ...

Larry Zox Jean Jean, 1964 Signed, dated, and titled on the stretcher Liquitex on canvas 58 x 62 inches Provenance: Solomon & Co., New York Private Collection, NJ Estate of the above, 2023 Committed to abstraction throughout his career, Larry Zox played a central role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s and 1970s. His work of the time, consisting of brilliantly colored geometric shapes in dynamic juxtapositions, demonstrated that hard-edge painting was neither cold nor formalistic. He reused certain motifs, but he did so less to explore their aspects than to “get at the specific character and quality of each painting in and for itself,” as James Monte stated in his essay for Zox’s solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1973. By the 1970s, Zox was using a freer, more emotive method, while maintaining the autonomy of color, which increasingly became more important to him than structure in his late years. 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 for the Gallery of Modern Art, New York, and Systemic Painting (1966), organized by Lawrence Alloway for the Guggenheim Museum. In 1973, 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, Zox was represented in the inaugural exhibition of the Hirshhorn Museum, which owns fourteen of his works. Zox was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Drake University. While studying at the Des Moines Art Center, he was mentored by George Grosz, who despite his own figurative approach encouraged Zox’s forays into abstraction. 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. He occasionally sparred with the visiting fighters. He later established a studio in East Hampton, where he painted and fished including using a helicopter to spot fish. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Zox’s works were collages consisting of painted pieces of 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 intense hues that created ambiguous surfaces. Next, he omitted the collage aspect of his work and applied flat color areas to create more complete statements of pure color and shape. 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 noted in 1964: “The artist is hip, cool, adventurous, not content to stay with the mere exercise of sensibility that one sees in smaller works.” In 1965, he began the Scissors Jack...

Stunning horizontal abstracted mesh and gold-leaf lithograph on heavy bond paper with artist's protocol notes (for future projects) by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Unsigne...

Title: French Village Church Oil Painting with Bell Tower River and Autumn Woodland By Fanch Lel Size: 13 x 16 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Condition: The ...

Very nicely painted antique American impressionist beach scene painting. Oil on board. Signed. Handsomely framed in a giltwood impressionist molding. Ready to hang excellent cond...

Artist: Juhachiro Takada Title: Untitled II Medium: Encaustic, Sand on Canvas, Signed in pencl Paper Size: 10.5 x 12.5 inches Frame Size: 19.5 x 20.5 inches

Title: Impressionist Painting of Fishing Boats and Boathouse under Dramatic Sky By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 13 x 16.25 inches (height x width) Oil painting on cardboard, unframed ...

Clare Leighton (1819-1989) original wood engraving on paper. Copy number 11 of the edition of 50 signed and numbered by the artist in pencil. Design for her series of Wedgwood plates...

Title: Impressionist River Bridge Scene with Reflections and White Buildings in France By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 16.25 x 13.25 inches (height x width) Oil painting on cardboard,...

Title: French Cityscape Oil Painting of Canal Bridge and Historic Architecture By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 16.25 x 13 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Condi...

Title: Impressionist Coastal Landscape with Blue Fishing Boat and White Cottages By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 16.25 x 22.5 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed C...

Nude Model by Therese Hummel (French, 1911-1999) signed & dated 1954 oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 11 x 14 inches Provenance: private collection of this artists work, Paris Condit...

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...

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

Title: Impressionist French Harvest Landscape with Stone Bridge and Castle near Amiens By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 13 x 9.75 inches (height x width) Gouache painting on cardboard,...

Lively abstract painting with primary tones of yellows, reds and greens with accents of blue and black on white background, 1952. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper dis...

A colorful contemporary dog painting of Scottish Terrier dogs with accompanying text from a book is an inspirational departure from the tradi...

Title: French Coastal Oil Painting of Seaside Village with Red Roofs Reflected in Water By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 13 x 16.25 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unfra...

Title: French Harbour Oil Painting of Boats Lighthouse and Rocky Shoreline at Low Tide By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 13 x 16 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Condition: The painting is in good condition with expressive texture throughout; minor surface wear and edge scuffing present. Provenance: All the paintings we have for sale by this artist have come from the artists estate and have had no previous owners at all. Description: This expressive 1986 oil on board titled Marée (meaning “Tide”) captures a dramatic moment along the French coast, where the sky glows with streaks of yellow and rose as the tide pulls gently from the harbour. A lighthouse stands at the center of the scene, surrounded by whitewashed buildings and small moored fishing boats bobbing in the shallows. Painted by French artist Fanch Lel, this work features dynamic brushwork and a moody, storm-washed sky layered in shades of slate grey, lavender, and warm amber. The palette evokes the fleeting golden hour, as the low sun reflects off wet rocks and waterlogged docks. The boats in the foreground are rendered in deep rust, black, and marine blue, giving the composition a grounded, tactile quality. The piece has strong visual depth: a rocky foreground with tethered boats...

Timothee (Tymo) Pierre, "Indian African Face Woman", Signed Abstract/ Figurative Portrait Painting, Acrylic Paint on Cardboard, 13.50 x 10.50, Late 20th ...

Monogram lower left "RD" Exhibited Malborough-Gerson Gallery, New York Lee Gallery, Belmont-Massachusetts Galerie Rosengart, Luzern Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago/New York Liter...

Antique American oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 30 by 36 inches overall and 24 by 30 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a ...

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

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 12.75 x 9.75 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we ...