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Period: 20th Century
Recognized Seller Listings
Untitled
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Cela qui gronde
By Huguette Arthur Bertrand
Located in London, GB
signed 'Hag Arthur Bertrand' (lower right); titled and dated (on the verso)
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pearl Harbour - rich, colourful, impasto, gestural abstract acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this dynamic work by the contemporary painter Joseph Drapell, swirls of shiny bright colours—pinks , purples, and plum dance around the canvas. The Czech-born artist creates uniquely beautiful paintings using innovative techniques--trowels, wide serrated blades, and his fingers to apply thick layers of paint or impasto. These grand highly textured pieces have remarkable depth.
“In terms of real...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Across the Water - calm, expressive, abstracted waterscape, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this serene painting by one of Canada’s leading landscape artists, Pat Service deconstructs the elements of a view across a lake in summer. The form is abstracted, and the colours...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
#90 Strange Creature
By Norbert Lenz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
#90 Strange Creature
Oil and pencil on board, 1932
Signed and dated in the image lower right (see photo)
Provenance:
Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, OH
Condition: excellent
Archival framing
Image size: 10 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches
Frame size: 25 x 24 inches
Painter, illustrator and commercial artist Norbert Lenz was born in Norwalk, Ohio and received his artistic training at both the Huntington Polytechnic Institute and the Cleveland School of Art. During his career Lenz exhibited his paintings and drawings at such institutions as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art. Today the art of Norbert Lenz is held by the Columbus Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art.
Lenz was also a very highly regarded commercial designer of stamps. He worked for a number
of years at the House of Farman, a leading vendor of first day covers...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Procession - large, red, blue, pink, contemporary abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Swipes and shapes in rust orange, bubble gum pink, aqua, ultramarine and black move in an orchestrated procession across a soaked charcoal ground in this acrylic by Milly Ristvedt. This large, square acrylic canvas is a poetic narrative of space, light, texture and movement through the application of color.
Milly Ristvedt (b. 1942, Kimberley, BC) RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
L'epreuve
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Roberto Matta. "L'epreuve" is a surrealist painting, oil on canvas in palette of grays, greens, and yellows by Latin American artist Roberto Matta. It is signed in the ...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Offering" - rich, colourful, impasto, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Harold Feist’s Offering is a striking, lush abstract painting rendered in rich colours. The fan-like form radiates from the base of the canvas in golden h...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Rajasthan - large, bold, gestural abstract, expressionist, acrylic on canvas
By Graham Coughtry
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Remarkably beautiful, lush, and impressionistic in form—Rajasthan is a stunning example of Canadian artist John Graham Coughtry’s masterful use of colour. Rendered in the exotic spic...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Apollo XL
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Robert Natkin. "Apollo XL" is an abstract expressionist painting, acrylic on canvas in a colorful palette by Post-War American artist Robert Natkin. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "Natkin". Robert Natkin (1930-2010) was born in Chicago and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1952. Natkin’s art blends Abstract Expressionism with Post-Impressionist colors. His work often runs in series he created using columns...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
#15-1984
Located in New York, NY
Signed (on stretcher): Stanley/ Twardowicz
Stanley Twardowicz (1917–2008), a one-time orphan, Golden Gloves boxer, professional baseball player and auto worker, emerged from a hard...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By David Smith
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is a painting by artist David Smith. The work is signed and dated in the upper left "David Smith (symbol) 1936".
When David Smith set up a workshop on the Brooklyn Navy P...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Robert Marc - Untitled (9690), cubist, post cubism, french, collage, abstract
By Robert Marc
Located in London, GB
Robert Marc (French, 1943-1993)
Untitled (9690)
collage
36 x 55 cm (14⅛ x 21⅝ in.)
signed ‘ROBERT MARC’ (lower centre)
Price:
£9,000 GBP
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Forum Gall...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
"In Memory of Clement Greenberg" - colourful, impasto abstract acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
An explosion of colour radiates from one side of the canvas in this extraordinary abstract painting dedicated to renowned NY art critic, Clement Greenberg. As a student, Joseph Drapell met and was influenced by Greenberg while studying at an American art school. This piece is rendered in thickly applied waves of shiny orange, purple, plum, white, and turquoise. Holographic materials are also used.
The Czech-born artist creates remarkably vibrant paintings using trowels...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Soft Blue Discs
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Soft Blue Discs
Acrylic/polymer on masonite, 1976
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right: LD Cantine (see photo)
Signed, titled, dated verso (see photo)
Canadian painter Cantine has spent his career exploring the role of color in painterly image construction
Condition: Excellent
Painting size: 12 x 15 inches
Provenance: Kraushaar Galleries (lebl, see photo)
"David Cantine (born 1939) is a Canadian painter, best known for consistently painting pictures using the same composition for the last forty years of his career. Cantine was born in Jackson, Michigan, and went to school at the University of Iowa, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962, and a Master of Arts degree in 1964. In 1965 he began teaching drawing and painting at the University of Alberta, until retiring from his position in 1996.
Cantine's work in the beginning of his career was figurative art, but he began to experiment with abstraction in the 1970s, and in 1975 became inspired by a photograph of a pair of apples casting round shadows. This compositional structure became the basis for the minimalist, post-painterly abstraction David Cantine is best known for. David Cantine's paintings are in a number of collections, including the Art Gallery of Alberta, the University of Alberta, the Christopher Cutts Gallery, the Francis Winspear Centre for Music, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Masur Museum of Art."
Courtesy Wikipedia
"David Cantine’s highly recognizable compositions of coloured circles below Plexiglas have been the painter’s primary pursuit for 45 years of his impressive painting career spanning almost six decades. What originally began as a still-life of apples and their shadows evolved into the present abstract imagery of four circles and seven colours. Motivated by the use of “structural colour instead of descriptive colour,” David Cantine continues to explore variations on this minimalist theme. Since the early 2000s, he has also explored a more painterly form of colourful abstracted still-life, with echoes of inspiration from Giorgio Morandi.
Born in Jackson, Michigan, Cantine received his Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa before permanently relocating to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He taught Drawing at the University of Alberta for over thirty years and has been featured multiple times at the Art Gallery of Alberta, in the Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, and most recently in Soak, Stripe, Splatter.
His work has been exhibited in 24 solo exhibitions and 37 group shows and can also be found in the following collections: Masur Museum, Louisiana; Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Ontario; Art Gallery of Alberta; University of Alberta FAB Gallery; Simons; Alberta Art Foundation; Hewlett-Packard; The Sims...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer
#15-1979
Located in New York, NY
Signed (on stretcher): Twardowicz
Stanley Twardowicz (1917–2008), a one-time orphan, Golden Gloves boxer, professional baseball player and auto worker, emerged from a hardscrabble u...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled [Abstraction]
Located in New York, NY
Gouache on paper, 18 7/8 x 14 3/4 in.
Signed (at lower right): Morris; (with monogram, on the back): GLKM [monogram] / 1932 [sic]
Executed circa late 1940s
A passionate advocate of abstract art during the 1930s and 1940s, George L. K. Morris was active as a painter, sculptor, editor, and critic. An erudite man with an internationalist point of view, Morris
eschewed the social, political, and figural concerns that preoccupied so many artists of Depression-era America, believing that painters should focus their attention on the beauty, refinement, and simplicity of pure form instead. His goal, he said, was “to wedge the expression further and further into the confines of the canvas until every shape takes on a spatial meaning” (as quoted in Ward Jackson, “George L. K. Morris: Forty Years of Abstract Art,” Art Journal 32 [Winter 1972–73], p. 150).
Born into an affluent family in New York City, Morris was a descendent of General Lewis Morris, a
signer of the Declaration of Independence. From 1918 until 1924, he attended the Groton School in
Connecticut, studying classics and art. He continued to focus on literature and art while attending
Yale University (1924–28), an experience that prepared him well for his future activity as an artist-critic. After graduating in 1928, Morris studied at the Art Students League of New York, working
under the realist painters John Sloan and Kenneth Hayes Miller, as well as Jan Matulka, the only
modernist on the faculty. In the spring of 1929, Morris traveled to Paris with Albert E. Gallatin, a
family friend and fellow painter who introduced him to leading members of the Parisian avant-garde, including Jean Arp, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jean Hélion, and Piet Mondrian. Morris also took classes at the Académie Moderne, studying under Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant, important exponents of Synthetic Cubism who influenced his aesthetic development. Indeed, after experimenting with the simplified forms of Modernism for a few years, Morris moved on to abstraction by 1934, adopting a hard-edged, geometric approach inspired by Leger’s cubist style and the biomorphic shapes of Arp and Joan Miró.
Following his return to New York in 1930, Morris built a white-walled, open-spaced studio (inspired
by that of Ozenfant, which had been designed by Le Corbusier) on the grounds of Brockhurst, his
parents’ 46-acre estate in Lenox, Massachusetts. In 1935, he married the painter and collagist Estelle “Suzy...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Deborah Oropallo. "Untitled" is a contemporary painting, oil on canvas by American female artist Deborah Oropallo. The artwork is signed on the verso, "Oropallo". Oropa...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
HEART
Located in Portland, ME
Wang Ming (Chinese-American, 1921-2016). HEART.Acrylic on paper, 1969. Signed, titled and dated, verso. 21 x 15 5/8, framed to 28 7/8 x 23 1/2. In excellent condition.
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Composition "68", ROBERT MARC - Cubist, Modern, Abstract, Geometric, Mixed Media
By Robert Marc
Located in London, GB
Composition "68", ROBERT MARC
Oil on canvas
22 x 31 cm (8 ⅝ x 12 ¼ inches)
Signed lower centre, Robert Marc
Numbered on the reverse, H966
Executed December 1990
Provenance
Collectio...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
The mermaid who couldn't climb the iceberg . Framed painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
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...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Phenomena Spectrum Guardian by Paul Jenkins, Abstract Expressionist artist
By Paul Jenkins
Located in London, GB
Phenomena Spectrum Guardian by Paul Jenkins (1923 - 2012)
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 101.5 cm (29 ⁷/₈ x 40 inches)
Signed lower middle Paul Jenkins
Executed in 1970
Provenance:
Gallerie Iris Wazzau, Davos, Switzerland
Private collection, Cologne, Germany
Artist biography:
Born at Kansas City in Missouri (USA), the multi-media artist, poet and playwright Paul Jenkins studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Students League in New York City. After his discharge from military service at the end of February 1946, he briefly studied playwriting with dramatist George McCalmon at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Thereafter, Jenkins spent four years studying with Japanese American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi in New York City. His first solo exhibitions were held at Studio Paul Facchetti in Paris in 1954 and the Martha Graham Gallery in New York City in 1956. Over the past thirty years, numerous retrospectives have been curated across the globe and Jenkins’ work can found in national collections from Europe and the United States to Israel, Australia and Japan.
The diversity of his work springs from Jenkins’ wealth of eclectic influences. Some of his earliest works included what he called "interior landscapes" influenced by ancient natural forms like the caves he visited in the Ozark Mountains in his native-Missouri. Frequent student visits to the Frick Collection in New York fostered a love of the great masters: Bellini, Holbein, Vermeer, Rembrandt, de la Tour, Turner and Goya. In compliment, lingering student visits to the renowned Eastern collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City evoked powerful sympathy for a monumental Chinese fresco...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
No. 3 -1960
Located in New York, NY
Signed (on stretcher): Stanley Twardowicz
Stanley Twardowicz (1917–2008), a one-time orphan, Golden Gloves boxer, professional baseball player and auto worker, emerged from a hards...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Robert Natkin. "Untitled" is an abstract expressionist painting, oil on canvas in a palette of greens, blues, and purples by Post-War, American artist Robert Natkin. The artwork is signed in the lower left, "Natkin 1956".
Robert Natkin was born in Chicago and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1952. Natkin’s art blends Abstract Expressionism with Post-Impressionist colors. His work often runs in series he created using columns...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Serie "U no és ningú" No. 21 by Antoni Tàpies - Abstract painting
Located in London, GB
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Serie "U no és ningú" No. 21 by Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012)
Acrylic, felt and pencil on cardboard
50 x 65 cm (19 ³...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard, Pencil, Felt
Untitled painting by Suzanne Law. Painting Framed
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled painting by Suzanne Law. Framed
Image size: 12.6 in. H x 17.1 in W
Frame size: 18.1 in. H x 22.4 in W x 1 in D
Wood frame
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Wood
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. "Untitled" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas in blues and greens by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "Jae Kon Park 1986". Born in South Korea, Park Jae Kon...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. ""Untitled"" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas in greens by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower right, ""Jae Kon...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vagues 'Wave' by TOSHIMITSU IMAÏ - Abstract Art, 20th-Century Japanese Artist
Located in London, GB
Vagues “Wave” by TOSHIMITSU ÏMAI (1928-2002)
Acrylic on paper
127 x 95 cm (50 x 37 3⁄8 inches)
Signed in Japanese and English lower right, inscribed and dated 1992 on the reverse
Provenance:
Studio of the artist
Dr Jean-Paul Coussy (Director of MCAP Museum, France), acquired directly from the artist, March 15th 1998
Dr Giorgio Tosetti, Italy, acquired from the above
Exhibitions:
Paris, Galerie Chozo Yoshii, Hommage à André Malraux - Les voix du Silence, September - November 1997
Literature
G. C. Calza, Imaï, Electa, Milan, 1998 (Onde/Waves series)
Artist biography:
Born in Kyoto, Japan in 1928 Imai was part of the 20th century Japanese avant-garde. He began his formal education at the Tokyo State Art Academy where he took up painting. His early works are characterised by colourful abstractions, reminiscent of Favuism. In 1951 Imai was awarded the Kansai-Shinseisaku Prize and in 1952 the prize for the best new artist at the 15th Shinseisaku Salon.
Imai relocated to Paris in 1953, the same and subsequent year he exhibited at the Salon de L’Art Sacré. Meanwhile, he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Sorbonne to read medieval history and philosophy. In 1955, Imai completely abandoned representational art in favour of abstraction. After meeting the art critic Michel Tapié via the artist Sam Francis, Imai was the first Japanese artist to join the Art Informel movement.
In 1956 Imai was called upon by the Japanese artist Taro Okamoto to curate an exhibition entitled The World: Today’s Art in Tokyo. Artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Lucio Fontana, and Karel Appel gained important exposure in Japan. It was also in 1957, when Imai arranged for Tapié and the artists Georges Mathieu and Sam Francis to travel to Japan, that a connection between Art Informel and Gutai occurred. The Ashiya-based Gutai Art Association formed in 1954 was proclaimed a kindred spirit by Tapié which he subsequently promoted internationally. Founding members included Yoshihara Jiro, Kanayma Akira, Murakami Saburo, Shiraga Kazuo and Shozo...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Life and Roots
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. "Life and Roots" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas in a blues and yellows by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is unsigned. Born in S...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Phenomena Prism Mirror by Paul Jenkins - Abstract painting
By Paul Jenkins
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
Phenomena Prism Mirror by Paul Jenkins (1923-2012)
Acrylic on canvas
147.3 x 1...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Red from La Música Ausente Series, Abstract painting Canvas
By Sergio Bazan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Red, by Sergio Bazan
Oil on canvas
Image Size: 57 H x 78 W in.
Unframed
_______
The paintings of Sergio Bazán have a strong gesture and expressionist imprint, firm and consistent ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. "Untitled" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas in green and gold by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower middle, "1...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled. From "La Música Ausente" series. Abstract Painting on Canvas
By Sergio Bazan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled. From "La Música Ausente" series.
Oil on canvas
Image Size: 170 H x 190 W cm.
Unframed
_______
The paintings of Sergio Bazán have a strong gesture and expressionist impri...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Las Tablas de JC. From "La Música Ausente" series. Abstract Painting on Canvas
By Sergio Bazan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Las Tablas de JC. From "La Música Ausente" series. Painting
Acrylic on canvas
Image Size: 57 7/8 H x 83 7/8 W in.
Unframed
_______
The paintings of Sergio Bazán have a strong gestu...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Promenade II. From La Música Ausente Series, Abstract Painting on Canvas
By Sergio Bazan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Promenade II, by Sergio Bazan
From La Música Ausente Series
Mixed media on canvas
Image Size: 187 H x 187 W cm.
Unframed
_______
The paintings of Sergio Bazán have a strong gesture ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Ink
Preludio en el Hospital VS. From "La Música Ausente" series. Abstract Painting
By Sergio Bazan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Preludio en el Hospital VS. From "La Música Ausente" series.
Oil on canvas
Image Size: 200 H x 145 W cm.
Unframed
_______
The paintings of Sergio Bazán have a strong gesture and expr...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sombre
Located in London, GB
oil on canvas
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A work by Julian Schnabel. This large scale, Untitled, abstract, oil, resin, gesso, fabric and leather on seamed dropcloth is executed in a dark palette of rust, gray and black with ...
Category
Neo-Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Leather, Gesso, Fabric, Resin, Oil
Mesasoar
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Stanley Boxer devoted nearly five decades to the development of an expressive, abstract practice, encompassing drawing, sculpture, and printmaking. “In the manufacture of my art, I u...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Jet
Located in London, GB
oil on canvas
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Phenomena High Born by Paul Jenkins - Abstract painting
By Paul Jenkins
Located in London, GB
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Phenomena High Born by Paul Jenkins (1923-2012)
Acrylic on canvas
91.44 x 50.8 cm (36 x 20 inches)
Signed lower left Jenkins
Signed, dated and titled on the reverse
Executed in 1964 which makes this a very early work and so more valuable
Biography
Born at Kansas City in Missouri (USA), the multi-media artist, poet and playwright Paul Jenkins studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Students League in New York City. After his discharge from military service at the end of February 1946, he briefly studied playwriting with dramatist George McCalmon at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Thereafter, Jenkins spent four years studying with Japanese American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi in New York City. His first solo exhibitions were held at Studio Paul Facchetti in Paris in 1954 and the Martha Graham Gallery in New York City in 1956. Over the past thirty years, numerous retrospectives have been curated across the globe and Jenkins’ work can found in national collections from Europe and the United States to Israel, Australia and Japan.
The diversity of his work springs from Jenkins’ wealth of eclectic influences. Some of his earliest works included what he called "interior landscapes" influenced by ancient natural forms like the caves he visited in the Ozark Mountains in his native-Missouri. Frequent student visits to the Frick Collection in New York fostered a love of the great masters: Bellini, Holbein, Vermeer, Rembrandt, de la Tour, Turner and Goya. In compliment, lingering student visits to the renowned Eastern collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City evoked powerful sympathy for a monumental Chinese fresco...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Composition in orange and black
Located in London, GB
signed and dated (lower left)
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. ""Untitled"" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas in grays and blues by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower right, ...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Arctic Light - Orange Sun
By Karl Zerbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Arctic Light-Orange Sun
Unsigned
Gouache on Japanese fibrous paper
Series: Tundra Paintings
Exhibited: Karl Zerbe, Gouaches of the Artic
Nordness Gallery, (Madison Avenue, NY) Feb 3 through Feb 23, 1958
Cat. No. 12 (label with work, see photo...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. "Untitled" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas in black and white by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "J...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract composition in black
Located in London, GB
Gouache on paper
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Phenomena like Byron by PAUL JENKINS - Abstract Expressionist, colour
By Paul Jenkins
Located in London, GB
Phenomena like Byron by PAUL JENKINS (1923-2012)
Oil on canvas
74 x 60 cm (29¹/₈ x 23⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, Paul Jenkins
Signed, titled and dated on the reverse and on the stretcher
Executed in 1990, Saint Paul
Provenance
Waterhouse & Dodd Fine Art, London/New York
Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above in 2012
Private collection, Austria
Artist biography
Born in Kansas City, the multi-media artist, poet and playwright Paul Jenkins began his studies at Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Students League in New York City. After his discharge from military service at the end of February 1946, he briefly studied playwriting with dramatist George McCalmon at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Thereafter, Jenkins spent four years studying with Japanese American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi in New York City. His first solo exhibitions were held at Studio Paul Facchetti in Paris in 1954 and the Martha Graham Gallery in New York City in 1956. Over the past thirty years, numerous retrospectives have been curated across the globe and Jenkins’ work can found in national collections from Europe and the United States to Israel, Australia and Japan.
The diversity of Jenkins’ work springs from a wealth of eclectic influences. Some of his earliest works included what he called "interior landscapes", influenced by ancient natural forms. Frequent student visits to the Frick Collection in New York fostered a love of the great masters, and lingering student visits to the renowned Eastern collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City evoked powerful sympathy for a monumental Chinese fresco...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Composition by TOSHIMITSU ÏMAI - Contemporary, Abstract, Oil on canvas
Located in London, GB
*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE.
Red Composition by TOSHIMITSU ÏMAI (1928-2002)
Oil on canvas
80.2 x 55.3 (31 ⅝ x 21 ¾ inches)
Signed, TOSHIMITSU IMAÏ, dated, 1963 Paris and inscribed in Japanese on the reverse
Provenance
Private collection, USA
Born in Kyoto, Japan in 1928 Imai was part of the 20th century Japanese avant-garde. He began his formal education at the Tokyo State Art Academy where he took up painting. His early works are characterised by colourful abstractions, reminiscent of Favuism. In 1951 Imai was awarded the Kansai-Shinseisaku Prize and in 1952 the prize for the best new artist at the 15th Shinseisaku Salon.
Imai relocated to Paris in 1953, the same and subsequent year he exhibited at the Salon de L’Art Sacré. Meanwhile, he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Sorbonne to read medieval history and philosophy. In 1955, Imai completely abandoned representational art in favour of abstraction. After meeting the art critic Michel Tapié via the artist Sam Francis, Imai was the first Japanese artist to join the Art Informel movement.
In 1956 Imai was called upon by the Japanese artist Taro Okamoto to curate an exhibition entitled The World: Today’s Art in Tokyo. Artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Lucio Fontana, and Karel Appel gained important exposure in Japan. It was also in 1957, when Imai arranged for Tapié and the artists Georges Mathieu and Sam Francis to travel to Japan, that a connection between Art Informel and Gutai occurred. The Ashiya-based Gutai Art Association formed in 1954 was proclaimed a kindred spirit by Tapié which he subsequently promoted internationally. Founding members included Yoshihara Jiro, Kanayma Akira, Murakami Saburo, Shiraga Kazuo and Shozo Shimamoto...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Phenomena Celtic Fire Torc by Paul Jenkins - Abstract painting
By Paul Jenkins
Located in London, GB
Phenomena Celtic Fire Torc by Paul Jenkins (1923-2012)
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 61 cm (29⁷/₈ x 24 inches)
Signed lower left Paul Jenkins
Signed, dated and titled on the reverse
Executed in 1995
Provenance
Private collection, Germany
Biography
Born at Kansas City in Missouri (USA), the multi-media artist, poet and playwright Paul Jenkins studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Students League in New York City. After his discharge from military service at the end of February 1946, he briefly studied playwriting with dramatist George McCalmon at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Thereafter, Jenkins spent four years studying with Japanese American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi in New York City. His first solo exhibitions were held at Studio Paul Facchetti in Paris in 1954 and the Martha Graham Gallery in New York City in 1956. Over the past thirty years, numerous retrospectives have been curated across the globe and Jenkins’ work can found in national collections from Europe and the United States to Israel, Australia and Japan.
The diversity of his work springs from Jenkins’ wealth of eclectic influences. Some of his earliest works included what he called "interior landscapes" influenced by ancient natural forms like the caves he visited in the Ozark Mountains in his native-Missouri. Frequent student visits to the Frick Collection in New York fostered a love of the great masters: Bellini, Holbein, Vermeer, Rembrandt, de la Tour, Turner and Goya. In compliment, lingering student visits to the renowned Eastern collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City evoked powerful sympathy for a monumental Chinese fresco...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Cross
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"The Cross" is a painting by Alexander Calder. The painting is signed in the lower right, "Calder". The framed dimensions are 30 x 37.5 x 1.75 in. "The Cross...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
F. AC (Ficelle AC Bris by JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE - Canadian artist, 20th century art
Located in London, GB
F. AC (Ficelle AC Bristol) by JEAN-PAUL RIOPELLE (1923-2002)
Acrylic on paper laid down on canvas
89.7 x 49.5 cm (35 1⁄4 x 19 1⁄2 inches)
Signed with initial lower right, R and titl...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
By MORRIS, CARL
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Carl Morris. “Untitled” is an abstract expressionist painting, acrylic on canvas in reds and browns by American artist Carl Morris. The artwork is signed in the lower r...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
By MORRIS, CARL
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Carl Morris. “Untitled” is an abstract expressionist painting, acrylic on canvas in yellows and greens by American artist Carl Morris. The artwork is signed in the lowe...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
L' Envolee
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Alexander Calder. "L'Envolee" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on paper in bold colors of reds and blacks by artist Alexander Calder. The artwork is sig...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Sadamasa Motonaga. "Untitled" is an abstract painting, acrylic on board with cotton cloth in a bold palette or purples, reds, and blues...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Acrylic, Board
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. "Untitled" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas by Korean artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower left, "J'eKon Park, 93". Born in South...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. "Untitled" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas in blues, oranges, and greens by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lowe...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
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