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Period: 20th Century
Frank Stella Style Geometric Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Frank Stella Style, Geometric Composition, Acrylic on Canvas, unsigned, unframed. 36" H x 60" W. Provenance: From a New York City Collection. Lindhert Steegen style, Sonia Delaunay s...
Category
Post-Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ram Kumar Painting
By Ram Kumar
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Ram Kumar (Indian, 1924-2018)
Marking(s); notes: signed; 1961
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions (H, W, D): 35"h, 27"w image; 45"h, 37"w canvas (work ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large French 1970s Abstract painting in orange hues by Jean-Maurice Lasnier
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jean Maurice Lasnier (French, 1922 – 2006)
VILLE SOLAIRE, OCTOBER 1971
Signed ‘LASNIER’ (lower middle)
Oil on canvas
62.1/2 x 31.1/2 in. (158....
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nebula - Expressionist Composition in Wax and Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Soquel, CA
Nebula - Expressionist Composition in Wax and Acrylic on Wood Panel
Bold abstract composition by California artist Charles "Dave" Francis (American, 1951-2018). Bright colors have b...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wax, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Abstract watercolor (de-accessioned from Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), w/ label)
Located in New York, NY
Robert Duran
Untitled #1 (with Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) label), 1974
Watercolor on paper
Includes labels from the Museum of Modern Art rental gallery label and Donna Schneier Inc; the artist's name is written on the board, not signed
18 × 23 1/2 inches
Unframed
This work was removed from the original vintage frame but comes with the back board with the original labels from MOMA Rental Gallery in New York and Donna Schneier Gallery in Manhattan (and later Palm Beach)
Robert Duran Biography (courtesy of KARMA):
Robert Duran (b. 1938, Salinas, CA; d. 2005, New Jersey) found his way from San Francisco to New York City in the mid-1960s, where he became associated with a Minimalist cohort that included Brice Marden, David Novros, and Paul Mogensen...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Everything is Early (Colorful Autumn colors Large Abstract Oil painting, Nature)
By Richmond Burton
Located in Cody, WY
Richmond Burton’s works are known for their kaleidoscopic color, undulating patterns, and lyrical handling of expressionistic mark making. His Visceral, seductive, and organic compositions play with decorative patterning without compromising a conceptual backbone. Their intensity of vision allows for transcendent thought, experience, and connection while challenging any preconceived norms or rules defining abstract painting.
“Structure is never absent; it’s just uninsistent, even accidental. The paintings are built up in stages, but never give the impression of being hard-worked. They have a fluid, textural presence, like luxury fabrics printed with overlapping, off-register layers of patterning.” — Holland Cotter, The New York Times (1999).
Richmond Burton (b. 1960, Talladega, AL) obtained a BA in architecture from Rice University Houston, TX (1984). He lives and works in Woodstock, NY. Burton has shown extensively both domestically and internationally and has work in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; The Broad, Los Angeles, CA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY; and National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, among others. Recent solo exhibitions include venues such as Sarah Moody Gallery of Art at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (2015); Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY (2014); Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO (2013); and George Lawson...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$60,000 Sale Price
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Parisian Abstract Expressionist Original Oil Painting - Neutrals and Terracotta
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning original oil painting by the French abstract artist, Yvette Dubois-Habasque (1929-2016). The painting has excellent provenance having come from the artists studio sale in Pa...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Green and pink by Olga Reiwald - Watercolor
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
White wooden frame with glass pane
44,5 x 52,7 x 1,5 cm
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$392 Sale Price
40% Off
Geometric Abstract with Circles in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Geometric Abstract with Circles in Acrylic on Canvas
Bright and colorful abstract composition by Melvin K. Allen (American, 1922-2012). Several circles are shown overlapping each ot...
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
"Hey Did We Scratch?" - Abstract Expressionist Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
"Hey Did We Scratch?" - Abstract Expressionist Composition
Detailed and layered composition by Leroy W. Parker (American, 1941). This piece is divided into a checkerboard, with a variety of overlaid patterns and textures. There are several types of handmade paper applied to the canvas, likely made by Parker himself.
Signed "Leroy Wheeler Parker" in the lower right corner.
"#1" and an up arrow are written on verso.
Tag on verso with artist info, title, media, and date.
No frame, but the edges of the canvas are painted for a frame-less display.
Leroy W. Parker (American, b. 1941) is an artist from Oklahoma who now resides in Lafayette, California. Parker earned his BFA in painting from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1966, and then went on to earn his MFA in 1968 from the same institution. He is a Professor of Art at San Jose State University. He has taught classes in fine arts, life drawing, ceramics, paper making (which he instituted in 1984), and sculpture since 1969. Parker has also served on the State Art Commission for sculptural grants. One of his pieces is held in the San Jose Museum of Art.
Selected Exhibitions:
Drawings and Paintings - ACCI Gallery, Berkeley, CA - 1974
“Artistry in Clay” - Forge Patio Art Gallery, Lafayette, CA - 1980
“A Most Elegant Show” - Sunshine Art Gallery, Fair Oaks, CA - 1982
“Flora” - Harcourts Contemporary, San Francisco, CA - 1983
Idea Gallery, Sacramento, CA - 1985
“Multi-Media Man” - Sacramento Center for Textile Arts, Sacramento, CA - 1994
“The Art of the Family” - Works Gallery, San Jose, CA - 1999
Artist’s Statement:
I was born in Eagletown, Oklahoma to Southern Baptist parents, and my father was a preacher. We were two boys and six girls in the family. The most mundane things were magical and special to me. I liked to draw, color, make things, and plant things. I loved the woods and the earth, and watching storms with thunder and lightning.
We moved from Oklahoma when I was 11. In the late 1950s, I attended Oakland Technical High School where I met artist Sam Richardson...
Category
Post-Minimalist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil, Handmade Paper, Stretcher Bars
$14,800 Sale Price
20% Off
The Three Peppers - Geometric Abstract
By Michael Mercado
Located in Soquel, CA
Boldly colored geometric abstract expressionist painting by California artist Michael Mercado (American, 20th Century). Signed lower right "M. Mercado '90" and Michael Mercado on ve...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
1950s Original Geometric Abstract Oil Painting, Vertical & Horizontal Art
Located in Denver, CO
This vibrant and dynamic original abstract oil painting by Paul Kauvar Smith (1893–1977) showcases the artist’s bold use of color and modernist technique. Executed in oil on board, t...
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Primary Abstract, Impressionist Acrylic Painting by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Primary Abstract (P2.73), Year: circa 1960, Medium: Acrylic on Paper, Image Size: 13 x 10 inches, Size: 13.25 x 10 in. (33.66 x 25.4 ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mixed Media Neo Expressionist Collage Painting African American Kids, Bicycle NY
By Loren Munk
Located in Surfside, FL
Loren Munk (American, b. 1951) Cut paper collage "Home Boys with Chicken & Bike", collage and mixed media on paper, signed "Munk '85", bears artist's stamp, label on back from Gabrielle Bryers Gallery NYC, 15" x 22" sheet, framed 23.5" x 30.5" .African American kids in a park. Done in a manner that recalls Romare Bearden.
The artist Loren Munk (born 1951) is primarily known for his YouTube nickname James Kalm as an uploader of videos about New York exhibitions, amongst others. He presents himself as a maker of contemporary paintings for several decades and of cubist paintings of urban imagery. Munk has received accolades for his drawings and mosaics. He differs from traditional mosaic artists by the manner in which he incorporates glass into his decorative paintings. His unique and innovative use of materials such as mirror, gold-leaf and glass mosaic affirmed him as a founding force of Kitsch Art and a leading member of New York Neo-Expressionism.
Munk's work debuted in SoHo in 1981 with a double show at J. Fields Gallery and Gabrielle Bryers. Since then, he has overseen an international career. In addition to exhibiting in Brazil, France, Germany and the United States, Munk has received national and overseas, public and private commissions. He is well represented in important collections throughout Europe, South and North America and the Middle East.
Most recently, Munk has been producing a series of paintings which tackle the subject of art itself through a historical and diagrammatic lens. Munk documents the New York art world in YouTube videos, using the name James Kalm.
Timeline:
1979 Attended Art Students League, New York
1973-75 Attended University of Maryland at Ramstein, Germany while in US Army
1969-72 Attended Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
1951 Born, Salt Lake City, Utah
Select Group Exhibitions
2018 “Under Erasure” curated by Heather and Raphael Rubinstein at Pierogi Gallery New York
2016 "It Was Never Linear: Recent Painting" at the Sheldon Museum of Art Lincoln Neb. with: Robert Bordo, Dawn Clements, Lois Dodd, Michelle Grabner, Colin Prahl, Peter Saul, Barbara Takenaga, and Stanley Whitney
2014 "Some Artists" curated by Matthew Deleget at Minus Space. David Diao, Mary Beth Edelson, Alfred Jensen, George Maciunas, Loren Munk, Ward Shelley, John Zinsser
2013 "Coming Together: Surviving Sandy Year 1" curated by Phong Bui for the Dedalus Foundation,
"The Decline and Fall of the Art World: Part I" curated by Nick Lawrence at Freight+Volume, N.Y.
"Reticulate" at McKenzie Fine Art Inc., N.Y.
"The Pyramids Along the Nile" at English Kills Gallery
2012 "When We Were Ancient" organized by Ethan Petitt at Teddy's Bar, Williamsburg
"Heroes" curated by Julie Torres at Small Black Door, Ridgewood Queens, N.Y.
2011 "ABC123" curated by Janet Goleas at Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, N.Y.
"6 Who Paint" curated by Fred Valentine at Big & Small/Casual, Long Island City, N.Y.
"It's All Good: Apocalypse Now" curated by Richard Timperio, Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
"Paper 2011" at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn.
"NEW year NEW work NEW faces" by Jason Andrew and Deborah Brown at Storefront Gallery.
"Unfinished Pictures" curated by Kristin Calabrese...
Category
Neo-Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
Genovart. 23 Vertical Colors original abstract acrylic painting.
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Colors original abstract acrylic painting.
GENOVART LLOPIS, Jaume (Barcelona, 1941-1994).
Basically self - taught painter, was released in 1972. Grandson of typesetter and booksell...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Out of the Blue, Miniature Red & Blue Abstract
By Tom Hamil
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright, small abstract expressionist painting of red, white and blue hues by California artist Tom Hamil (American, b. 1928). Signed upper left corner "Hamil". Condition: Excellent. Presented in rustic wooden shadow box frame. Image size: 2.75"H x 6.75"W.
Tom Hamil, was born in New York in 1928 and raised primarily in California. After attending the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, he returned to California to begin his formal art training at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute). He completed his education at the University of Washington with a Master’s Degrees and Doctorate in Fine Arts and Education. His first solo exhibition was held in 1956. Since then, he has participated in numerous one man shows, group shows, and has been represented in galleries in the US and Mexico.
In addition to his painting, Hamil has authored and illustrated a number of books. While at the Naval Academy, he received recognition for his paintings, drawings, and illustrations. Listed among Hamil’s many awards and honors are a Ford Foundation Fellowship and an Award of Excellence from the American Graphics Society.
Currently, he lives in Zirahuen, Michoacan, Mexico and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Hamil’s statement: “I am a man...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$440 Sale Price
20% Off
Trompe L'Oeil "Old Town Chicago" Signed Van Zandt Street Scene Modern Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene painting. OIl on board. Framed. Signed "Van Zandt 50". Really finely painted and an interesting subject as well!
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
1960s "Fruit Bowl in Mexico" Gouache & Oil Pastel Abstract Mid Century
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield
Mexican Fruit Bowl
1960s
Oil Pastel and Gouache on Paper
36"x32" unframed $1600
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
Abstract Portrait, Red Colour, Stylised, Glazed Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Portrait, Red Colour, Stylised, Glazed Frame
By European schooled artist, Late 20th Century
Gouache and Ink on canvas
Framed size: 14.5 x 16 inches
...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
$778 Sale Price
30% Off
Modernist Boats - Abstract Monterey Seascape in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Modernist Boats - Abstract Monterey Seascape in Oil on Canvas
Vibrant abstracted landscape of colorful boats in a Monterey harbor by California artist Virginia Sevier Rogers (Americ...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,368 Sale Price
20% Off
Canadian Modernist Abstract Expressionist Painting Color Field Claude Vermette
Located in Surfside, FL
Claude Vermette R.C.A. is a Canadian ceramicist and painter who was born in Montreal, Quebec, August 10, 1930 and who died in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, April 21, 2006. Artist of international reputation, he made important contributions to the ceramic arts in Canada
As a ceramist who worked in the architecture field, Claude Vermette is a pioneer in Québec and in Canada with regards to this type of artistic expression. The bursts of colours of his wall size mural ceramics, the warmth of their hues and the play of their textures brought a human dimension in architectural spaces that were often grey and frigid. In his abstract paintings as well as in his prints and watercolours, Claude Vermette pursued this bold approach while constantly renewing and expanding the possibilities of colour and light. His work works with gradations of color field and shifting light.
A native of Montreal, Quebec, Claude Vermette studied art under the guidance of Brother Jerome, c.s.c. at Notre-Dame College while also attending the Collège Saint-Laurent and the college of the Clercs de Saint-Viateur for his academic studies. Through his contact with Brother Jerome, he met Paul-Emile Borduas and joined the Automatiste group of emerging artists. They were influenced by Surrealism and its theory of automatism. Members included Marcel Barbeau, Roger Fauteux, Claude Gauvreau, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Pierre Gauvreau, Fernand Leduc, Jean-Paul Mousseau, Marcelle Ferron and Françoise Sullivan...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rose. Paper, mixed media, 30 x 40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Rose. Paper, mixed media, 30 x 40 cm
Education
1967-1973 Department of Painting, Latvian Academy of Art, Riga, Latvia
1960-1967 Janis Rozentals Riga High School of Art, Riga, Latvia
Member of the Artist’s Union of Latvia. Lives and works in Riga, Latvia.
Participating in exhibitions since 1972
Awards and Prizes
2016 Art Academy Prize, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
2009 Nominant for the Purvītis Prize 2009 – Latvian National Museum of Art, Alfor LTD, Latvia
2008 Diena Annual Culture Award – Newspaper Diena, Riga, Latvia
2008 “Lielais Kristaps (The Big Kristaps)” prize for the best animation feature artist – Prize of Latvian Filmmakers Union, Riga, Latvia
2008 IV class Order of the Three Stars – highest civilian order awarded for meritorious service to Latvia, The Chapter of Orders, Riga, Latvia
2007 Latvian Museums Association Prize of the Year, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
Public collections
Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
Artists’ Union of Latvia Art Collection, Riga, Latvia
State Bank of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Swedbank Contemporary Art Collection, Riga, Latvia
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
ECB’s Art Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia
Jane Voorhees...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
The Letter R - Abstract Composition David C. Sherburne
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract composition by California and Washington state artist David Sherburne (American, b.1943 ). Signed in the lower right corner "d. Sherburne '72." Presented in a double slat frame (white and brown). Image size: 17.75"H x 22.75"H.
David C. Sherburne
Columbia River Gorge artist now based in Trout Lake...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School Modernist Framed Signed Exhibited Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Exhibited at the Butler Art Institute.
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Abstract Expressionist Signed Original Mid Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist abstract oil painting by Anton Sipos (Born 1938). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Composition - Painting by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition is an original contemporary artwork realized by Leo Guida in 1970s
Mixed colored tempera on plywood.
Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, art...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
$1,620 Sale Price
25% Off
Captain Cook
By Cleve Gray
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work:
Acrylic on canvas. Signed and dated lower right, titled verso.
69 x 68.25 in.
70.5 x 70 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a solid maple floater.
Provenance
Private Collection, Hilton Head Island, SC
Cleve Gray was born Cleve Ginsberg in New York on September 22, 1918. The family subsequently changed its surname to ‘Gray’ in 1936. He attended the Ethical Culture School in New York, and completed his college preparatory studies at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, where he won the Morse Prize for most promising art student. In 1940, Gray graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with degrees in art and archaeology. He wrote his thesis on Chinese landscape painting, which would later become an important influence on his own painterly practice.
Gray joined the U.S. Army in 1942 and was deployed to the U.K., France, and Germany, where he sketched wartime destruction. After the liberation of Paris in 1944, he began informal studies with the French artists André Lhote and Jacques Villon, which continued following the conclusion of the war. Soon after, he began to exhibit his work at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris, followed shortly by his first solo exhibition at the Jacques Seligmann Gallery in New York in 1947. Before 1950, Gray would participate in group exhibitions at such venerable institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago.
In the 1960s, he formed a close friendship with the first generation Abstract Expressionist Barnett Newman. It was during this time that Gray experienced an artistic metamorphosis, dissolving his earlier cubist compositions in a sea of distilled color. This dramatic body of work marked the beginning of an artistic meditation that would last for over 40 years. The rigors of French modernism, the ethos of Abstract Expressionism, and the meditative restraint of Chinese and Japanese scroll painting commingle with astounding affect. The atmospheric, subdued tones of his 1960s paintings gradually gave way to bright, monochromatic fields of color, hazily washed onto the canvas in stain like swathes. Much of his work from the last three decades of his career feature striking graphic brushwork that conjures the influence of Japanese and Chinese calligraphy.
Beginning with his marriage in 1957 to the French author and New Yorker staff writer, Francine Du Plessix, Gray would spend the remainder of his life working out of his home base in Warren, CT, while continuously exhibiting and participating in residencies around the world. He enjoyed representation and exhibitions with some of the most influential galleries of the day, including the Betty Parsons Gallery, Staempfli Gallery, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Eva Cohon Gallery, and Berry-Hill Gallery. Cleve Gray died in Hartford, CT in 2004, at the age of 86.
Gray's work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and many other museums and institutional collections around the world.
Source: The New York Times and Loretta Howard...
Category
Color-Field 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$75,000
Journey No 19 - white, blue, grey, indigenous, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Rick Rivet
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A grey-earth tinted boat shape trailed by a dark triangular shape on a atmospheric ground of cool white pierces a band of brown and black in this acrylic painting by Rick Rivet. The ...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Patricia Zippin "Shades of Blue" 1980s Mixed Media Abstract Painting
Located in Arp, TX
Patricia Zippin
Shades of Blue
1980s
Mixed Media
15"x 11.5", unframed
Signed in ink on lower right
Patricia Jayne Zippin (1930-2015)
She was born to Ben and Dorothy Schubert on Janu...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Acrylic, Pencil
ROGER HERSON (1922-2008) SIGNED FRENCH 20thC ABSTRACT PAINTING - ROUEN PAINTER
By Roger Herson
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Abstract Composition"
by Roger Herson (French 1922-2008)
signed lower right hand-side on card,
gouache and crayon on card, unframed
painting: 12.5 x 9 inches
Superb original abstr...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Abstract Expressionist Color Gouache Painting Mid Century Mod WPA Jewish Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Huge Colourful Expressionist Abstract Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Huge Colourful Abstract, Signed Oil Painting
Finnish School, 20th Century
Signed by the artist on the lower left hand corner
Oil painting on canvas, framed
Frame size: 41 x 38 inches
Fabulously colourful abstract painting. This masterpiece is open to interpretation, what do you see? I see the top of buildings, perhaps Moscow with the stars on top.
The wonderful colour palette used is a fun array of pinks, reds, blues and greens.
The artist has signed this oil painting on the lower left hand corner, however it is hard to decipher. The previous owner thought the work was by a Finnish painter...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,870 Sale Price
41% Off
By the Dawn's Early Light, mid-century abstract black, red, yellow oil painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Charles Green Shaw (American, 1892-1974)
By the Dawn's Early Light, 1955
Oil on masonite
Signed lower left, dated and titled verso
35.5 x 23.75 inches
38 x 26.25 inches, framed
Provenance: The estate of the artist to Charles H. Carpenter
Charles Green Shaw, born into a wealthy New York family, began painting when he was in his mid-thirties. A 1914 graduate of Yale, Shaw also completed a year of architectural studies at Columbia University. During the 1920s Shaw enjoyed a successful career as a freelance writer for The New Yorker, Smart Set and Vanity Fair, chronicling the life of the theater and café society. In addition to penning insightful articles, Shaw was a poet, novelist and journalist. In 1927 he began to take a serious interest in art and attended Thomas Hart Benton's class at the Art Students League briefly in New York. He also studied privately with George Luks, who became a good friend. Once he had dedicated himself to non-traditional painting, Shaw's writing ability made him a potent defender of abstract art.
After initial study with Benton and Luks, Shaw continued his artistic education in Paris by visiting numerous museums and galleries. From 1930 to 1932 Shaw's paintings evolved from a style imitative of Cubism to one directly inspired by it, though simplified and more purely geometric. Returning to the United States in 1933, Shaw began a series of abstracted cityscapes of skyscrapers he called Manhattan Motifs which evolved into his most famous works, the shaped canvases he called Plastic Polygons.
The 1930s were productive years for Shaw. He showed his paintings in numerous group exhibitions, both in New York and abroad, and was also given several one-man exhibitions. Shaw had his first one-man exhibition at the Valentine Dudensing Gallery in New York in 1934, which included 25 Manhattan Motif paintings and 8 abstract works. In the spring of 1935 Shaw was introduced to Albert Gallatin and George L.K. Morris. Gallatin was so impressed with Shaw's work, he broke a policy against solo exhibitions at his museum, the Gallery of Living Art, and offered Shaw an exhibition there. In the summer of 1935 Shaw traveled to Paris with Gallatin and Morris who provided introductions to many great painters. Shaw regularly spent time with John Ferren and Jean Hélion. The following year Gallatin organized an exhibition called Five Contemporary American Concretionists at the Reinhardt Gallery that included Shaw, Ferren, and Morris, Alexander Calder, and Charles Biederman...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Monumental American Abstract Expressionist Signed Contemporary Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
A large and very impressive late 20th century painting by listed Ohio artist, James Massena (1953 - 2021). Oil on canvas. Titled "Storm Surge".
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,180 Sale Price
20% Off
Quadratic, Mid-Century Ovoid Figural Abstract Acrylic & Collage with faces
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Quadratic, 1979
Acrylic and collage on textured paper
Signed and dated lower right
30 x 22 inches
31.5 x 23.5 inches, framed
A surreal...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Colorful 1970s Abstraction, Signed "Soyer" Illegibly
Located in New York, NY
Sloyer
Untitled, 1976
Oil on canvas
36 1/4 x 24 x 1 3/8 in.
Artist label verso (text slightly obscured)
Signed on stretcher bar
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Framed Original East Hampton Beach Marsh Signed Pastel Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist pastel painting. Pastel on paper. Framed. Signed.
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
"Untitled #17 (Samurai), " 1960s Modern Abstract Painting
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting by Stanley Bate is made with oil paint and 3-dimensional wooden shapes on canvas. The warm metal grey paint is highly textured, while the ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
Mid-Century Modern Extra-Large Red Abstract Oil Painting By Kai Lindemann
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
An extra-large red abstract composition that invigorates the bystander with its powerful red and black color play. This oil painting is an exquisite example of a mid-century modern a...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Framed Large Great Color Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted abstract expressionist mid century oil painting. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
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1960s "Storm at Sea" Gouache and Oil Pastel Abstract SF Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Storm at Sea
1960s
Gouache and Oil Pastel on paper
35.75"x33.25 float mount black wood frame measures 38.5"x1.5"x36"
Gloria (Fischer) Dudfield
July 12, 1922 – May 27, 2015
Came from...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Gouache
$2,400 Sale Price
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“Abstract Sailing, 1945”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on academy board by the Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed and dated lower left, 1945. Condition: Excellent. Presently not framed.
Biography :
Russian-America...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
$4,800 Sale Price
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Jungle Panorama, Contemporary Expressionist Horizontal Landscape with Trees
Located in Soquel, CA
A lush, jungle setting bursting with plant life is depicted in panoramic view, in this horizontal botanical landscape by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957), c.1990s....
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Surrealist Composition - Precious Stones Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed surrealist composition evoking tribal, abstracted carved stone-like shapes fitting together like a three dimensional sphere shaped puzzle, floating in a sky blue space by Clayton Anderson (American b. 1943). Textured plaster border around the edge of the piece. Signed "Clayton Anderson" along the upper left edge and on verso. Presented in a deep maple box frame.
Clayton Anderson (American, b. 1943) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and worked with Ben Kimihira, Walter...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Oil, Wood Panel
$1,880 Sale Price
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Summer 1976 Baldwin
Located in Soquel, CA
Inspired by a summer in Baldwin Park, Los Angeles, this abstract expressionist oil painting depicts hues of pink, green and blues in front of a white background by Bay Area artist Mi...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,280 Sale Price
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Large Surreal Abstract by Richard Fluhr
Located in Houston, TX
"Texas Artist Richard E. Fluhr was born in New York City in 1955 and for the past forty years has been living the artists dream. He has refined his own visual and conceptual vocabul...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Caged, Mid-Century Ovoid Geometrical Abstract Acrylic, Black & Grey
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Caged, 1971
Acrylic on paper
Signed and dated lower right
24 x 20 inches
A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting.
Clarenc...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Abstract Piece - Mid 20th Century Colourful Oil on Canvas by Metchiled Naviasky
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Metchiled Naviasky
Refugee from Europe who studied art in England. During the war she became picture editor of famous magazine PIcture Post. Later she taught mysticism in art at t...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Triptych
Located in Germantown, NY
Stuart Bigley is an artist based in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. He has been making and showing his artwork for over 40 years. During this time he also co-founded and ran the ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Canvas, Oil
Inner and Outer Arc, 1970 - Geometric Abstract Painting
By Gordon House
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Gordon House was born in 1932 in Pontardawe, South Wales. Early exposure to art on trips to the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery as a young boy inspired House towards creative endeavors and ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Strong Arm" Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright figurative abstract with rich layers of texture and color by Chaz Cole (American, 20th Century). Irregular perimeter. Signed and dated "Chaz Cole" lower right. Signed and date...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Tempera, Cardboard
Sun in Clouds, Large Geometric Abstract Acrylic Painting by Max Epstein
By Max Epstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002)
Title: Untitled
Year: 1973
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated verso
Size: 67 x 67 inches
Frame Size: 68 x 68 in. (172.72 x 172.72...
Category
Op Art 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
City Drive Abstract Expressionist Painting by Leading British Urban Artist
Located in Preston, GB
City Drive Abstract Expressionist Painting - a rare early work from Leading British Urban Artist, Angela Wakefield. Entitled 'City Drive', this moody and atmospheric artwork is from ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Acrylic, Oil, Mixed Media, Cotton Canvas, Varnish, Paint, Cotton,...
$41,702 Sale Price
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Midsummer - Scottish Abstract Expressionist exhibited art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This striking exhibited large abstract oil painting is by noted Scottish artist Iain Robertson. Painted in 1998 and exhibited in the same year in London, it was completed just before he moved to Cornwall. Entitled Midsummer verso it is a riot of summery colours and heavy impasto and late twentieth century abstract expressionism. A really uplifting piece of art.
Signed and inscribed with title and dated 1998 verso.
Provenance. Solo show, 'Art First', London, 1998.
Condition. Oil on Canvas. Size 60 x 24 inches
Frame. Housed in surround frame, 62 inches by 26 inches and in good condition.
Iain Robertson (b. 1955) was born in Cyprus but grew up in Edinburgh before studying art, 1978-1982. In 1993 he worked as Artist In Residence at Grizedale Sculpture Park before relocating to Cornwall where he now lives and works. He has retained studio 7 at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives, since 2007. Previously Robertson worked in Montgomery Street Studio, Edinburgh, 1991-1999. He has exhibited widely with numerous solo shows in the UK and Europe. His work is held in public and private collections in Germany, Denmark, Norway, Scotland, England, USA and Hong Kong. His work was included in the ‘Art Now Cornwall’ exhibition at TATE St Ives Spring 2007 and at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 2007.
The recipient of a number of awards including Scottish Arts Council, British Council and Arts Council, Robertson was the first Scottish recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York, in 1988.
Notable exhibitions include, Contemporary Abstract Printmaking, Artists- Rachel Clark, Ian Davenport, Christopher Le Brun, John McLean, Mali Morris...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$7,784 Sale Price
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Abstract Valley - Welsh 1963 art abstract landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb Welsh abstract oil painting is by noted artist Thomas John Nash, better known as Tom Nash. It was painted in 1963 and is entitled on a gallery lab...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$6,116 Sale Price
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Primary Colors in Acrylic on Textured Paper Abstract Expressionist San Francisco
Located in Soquel, CA
Primary Color Abstract in Acrylic on Textured Paper
Abstract in bold primary colors on a stark black background with accents of white, by California-based artist Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century).
Signed and dated at the bottom, "de Silva 86."
Paper size: 16"H x 12"W
From a collection of Ricardo de Silva's work and memorabilia. DeSilva was a gallery owner, first in Santa Barbara in the 1960's and 70's, then in San Jose in the 1980's. He was dedicated to promoting the work of talented upcoming artists, including Kogyo and Hasui Kiyochika, Robert Frame, Jim Stuckenberg, Alice Robertson Carr, Deborah Eve Alastra...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Structure XXIII - Acrylic Painting by Nato Frascà - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Structure XXIII is an original contemporary artwork realized by Nato Frascà in 1964.
Acrylic painting on canvas.
Title, signature and date on the back of...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Optical wall sculptures
Located in Greenwich, CT
Our shaped canvas which also is a sculptural form in essence for a wall, is a geometric and forward play of optical illusion. Hinman is an important pioneer of exploration in the co...
Category
Hard-Edge 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Composition 14 - Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 14 is an original painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera and in very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 47...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
$225 Sale Price
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Reflections by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on canvas 38x46 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
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...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$880 Sale Price
61% Off
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