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Style: Contemporary
Period: 20th Century
Austrian Contemporary Art by Peter Hofmann Gir - Neapel Strategie
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on jute
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Jute, Mixed Media

Austrian Contemporary Art by Peter Hofmann Gir - Raum o.T.#12
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on jute
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Jute, Mixed Media

Austrian Contemporary Art by Peter Hofmann Gir - Raum o.T.#10
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on jute
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Jute, Mixed Media

Austrian Contemporary Art by Peter Hofmann Gir - Andalusien
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on jute, diptychon
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Jute, Mixed Media

Homage to Klee - Painting by Sergio Barletta - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Homage to Klee is an original contemporary artwork realized by Sergio Barletta in 1960. Mixed colored oil on masonite. Includes frame: 78 x 26 cm Hand signed and dated on the high...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Merry Christmas, Spray Paint, Stencil
Located in Surfside, FL
Matt Mullican (born September 18, 1951 in Santa Monica, California) is an American artist and son of artists Lee Mullican and Luchita Hurtado. Mullican received his BFA from CalArts in 1974, and rose to prominence as a member of the "Pictures Generation" along with such artists as Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, David Salle, James Welling, Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Spray Paint, Stencil

Bright earth colors contemporary dog/Scottie acrylic painting with text on paper
Located in Charleston, US
"Making a Beseech" (Frill Dog series). A colorful contemporary dog painting of a Scottish Terrier dog with accompanying text from a book is an inspirational departure from the traditional illustrations found in British Rudyard Kipling's "Thy Servant a Dog", 1930. The book was the first ever narrated by a dog, Boots, a Scottie. Making a beseech is the only trick the Scottie, Boots knows, paws over nose. Nancy van Meter...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite

Defilé - Tempera by Danilo Bergamo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Defilè is an original mixed colored tempera on cardboard realized by Danilo Bergamo in 1970s.. Hand signed on the lower right margin...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Tempera

Abstract Composition - Oil Painting by R. Basso - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition is a contemporary artwork realized in the mid-20th Century by Riccardo Basso. Mixed colored oi painting on canvas. Hand signed R. Ba...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Sketch #1 - bold, colourful, organic, modernism, abstract, acrylic on canvas
By David Bolduc
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Toronto artist David Bolduc was a modernist inspired by Jack Bush and Henri Matisse--his work was described as exotic and eccentric. A prolific traveler...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Colorful contemporary Dog/Scottie in Frills/i.e.Tutus with text acrylic on paper
Located in Charleston, US
A colorful contemporary dog painting of Scottish Terrier dogs with accompanying text from a book is an inspirational departure from the tradi...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Graphite, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Abstraction, Mauves
Located in Greenwich, CT
This marvelous work done in the rich palette of mauves and intermittent blues, greens and whites is a dynamic work that would bring movement to any room. Forster was a Canadian arti...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Large Painting Photo Collage Martin Luther King African American Civil Rights
Located in Surfside, FL
This depicts civil rights icon MLK, the Statue of Liberty, Iwo Jima, an assemblage of mixed media photographic images and painted collaged elements. A powerful, moving work, an ode to the black civil rights movement. John M. Mitchell is originally from North Carolina, and as an art student at North Carolina Central University, he was involved with the Civil Rights movement including participating and getting arrested at a sit-in protest in Durham in 1963. After graduating, he was one of the first art teachers to take a position at the newly integrated schools in his home state. Mitchell continued his education in the 1990s and earned an MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1993. He later served as a professor there from 1998-2006. Of his inspiration to create, Mitchell says: "A lot of my work is based on my experiences during the Civil Rights movement," he says. "I see art making as a 'record' of experiences. My bittersweet past, growing up in the segregated South, inspires the content, focus and narrative of my work." Savannah-based artist John Mitchell believes that a home is more than a simple edifice. Rather, he argues that the sociological, psychological, architectural, and historical associations embedded in the structure “tell us about our culture, our lives. It tells us about where we come from.” Mitchell's signature shotgun house constructions, crafted from found materials and scraps of newspaper headlines, reference his childhood in North Carolina, where such modest architectural structures were once commonplace. In "ALA 1963," he uses the shotgun shape to create a heartfelt memorial to a group of African-American girls killed in a racially motivated church bombing in Alabama nearly 50 years ago. He also incorporates the shotgun symbol in "Victims," a powerful reflection upon crime in Savannah in the early 1990s, which reveals how little has changed over the past two decades. Mitchell's mixed media constructions operate, in many ways, like memory itself. Scraps, fragments and pieces loosely cohere around a central idea, making symbolic and metaphorical connections. In these richly narrative and boldly stream-of-conscious assemblages, the whole truly is greater than the sum of its parts. Mitchell's jazz collages - carefully crafted from scraps of newspaper, sheet music, magazines and tissue paper - celebrate key players in Savannah's jazz scene, from sultry female vocalists to wiry male saxophone players. A tribute to the late jazz bassist Ben Tucker, a true Savannah legend, is especially moving, incorporating a pencil sketch of the standing bass player as well as newspaper clippings of other Savannah jazz musicians. Mitchell grew up in a shotgun house in North Carolina, a style of vernacular architecture that is particularly prevalent in the South. Mitchell fills his sculptural homes with objects of metaphorical and symbolic, iconic, importance. In Home Sweet Home he includes the American flag, a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, and a china plate depicting The Last Supper, among other items that convey a personal and historical narrative. He notes that making art acts “as a ‘record’ of experiences. My bittersweet past, growing up in the segregated South, inspires the content, focus, and narrative of my work.” While this contains elements reminiscent of folk art and outsider art this is a quite sophisticated tour de force. He was included in the show Complex Uncertainties, Telfair Museum: Modern and contemporary art comprise painting, prints, drawing, photograph, sculpture, and works in new media, representing American artistic achievement from 1945 to the present day. The exhibition includes works by artists such as Bruce Davidson, Elaine de Kooning, Carrie Mae Weems, Sam Gilliam, Ethel Schwabacher, Radcliffe Bailey...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Glass, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper

A Small Error by Gladys Nilsson (INV# NP3714)
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Gladys Nilsson A Small Error (INV# NP3714) watercolor on paper Approx: 5 x 5.12" Frame: 10.12 x 10.12" 1987 Annotated on mat verso with title, artist...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Watercolor

Red Square (Modern Abstract Acrylic painting on Canvas)
Located in Hudson, NY
"Red Square", by Anne Francey, painted in 1990 48 x 48 inches, unframed acrylic on paper pasted on canvas The prevalence of both nature and geometry in Islamic art both inspired an...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Abstraction in pink
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
For Nicolás, the importance of the work of art lies in taking distance from common and ordinary language. Taking poetry as an instrument of construction, where images and words becom...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Pigment

Untitled - Mixed Media by Marisa Busanel - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an original artwork realized by the Italian contemporary artist Marisa Busanel (1933-1990) in 1964. Mixed media artwork on panel (collage a...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Voile n.3 - Mixed Media by Marisa Busanel - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Voile N.3 is an original artwork realized by the Italian contemporary artist Marisa Busanel (1933-1990) in 1968. Mixed media artwork on panel (collage ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Saint George 1992
By Nikas Safronov
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on panel. Signed bottom right. On the back, with Cyrillic characters, there is the title, the date and the location, Bergamo. The Lithuanian artist, who currently lives and works between Moscow, Italy and the United Kingdom, is considered one of the most important contemporary Russian artists. In his large production there are landscapes, still lifes, many portraits of famous people...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Red from La Música Ausente Series, Abstract painting Canvas
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 ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Chindambaram Temple, Mixed Media Photo Collage on Cardboard
Located in Surfside, FL
MacConnel, Kim Robert (American, California, born 1946) Chindambaram Temple, India Medium: Collage of commercial photo prints on cardboard with acrylic, with mirror insets in the a...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Mirror, Acrylic Polymer, Mixed Media

Medusa - Greek Mythology, Abstract Versus Figurative Oil Painting, Earth Color
Located in New York, NY
Medusa is a 50 x 40-inch figurative oil painting on canvas. The primary colors are earth tones, salmon, and blue. It represents the Greek mythological figure of Medusa. Two of Vanni'...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Promenade II. From La Música Ausente Series, Abstract Painting on Canvas
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 ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Ink

Abstract Mixed Media Painting African American Woman Artist Cheryl Warrick
Located in Surfside, FL
Cheryl Warrick (American, b. 1956), "By Ones By Twos" Acrylic mixed media on panel, 1999, Hand signed in pencil, titled and dated verso, gallery label...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Canvas

Modern Figure in Pink, Contemporary Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful modernist impasto figure painting of a seated woman by an unknown artist. This contemporary figurative piece uses expressive textures and colors, featuring a palette of pink...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

West End London contemporary painting by British artist Jo Holdsworth
Located in London, GB
‘West End’ is a stunning new oil on canvas painting by Award winning London artist Jo Holdsworth. Jo is often inspired by people going about their daily lives and the hustle and bust...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil

"Voyage I, " Rosamond Berg, Female Contemporary Minimalist Sculpture Artist
Located in New York, NY
Rosamond Berg (American, 1931 - 2018) Voyage I, 1982 Mixed media construction including hand-dyed cotton cloth pouches 24 x 24 inches Signed, titled an...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Cotton, Thread, Glass, Wood

Portrait of a Schoolboy
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a School Boy', oil on board, by Peter Robert Keil (1983). Big, bold with brash brush strokes painted in exuberant colours is the trademark of the artist. Strangers, frie...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Modern Red Abstract with Two Miniature Female Figures
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling red abstract with two tiny female figures by Arkansas artist Gene Hatfield (American, 1925-2017). The piece consists of a textural red abstr...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Contemporary Abstract Landscape Monotype Painting Sarah Amos
By Sarah Amos
Located in Surfside, FL
Sarah Amos(Contemporary Australian/American) Untitled Monotype, 1995 Monotype or painting on paper 12 x 9 inches on a 22.25 x 15 inches sheet size, Hand signed and dated lower right Provenance: Garner Tullis Workshop This appears as a abstract expressionist landscape or seacape. A lovely, moody, piece Sarah Amos, originally from Australia, lives in Vermont, and maintains an active International and National exhibition schedule. Sarah left Australia, after receiving a BFA in Printmaking from RMIT, to attend the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in New Mexico. In 1992 she became a certified Tamarind Master Printer in Lithography working with Joyce Kozloff and Barton Lidice Benes . In 1998 Sarah became the Master Printer for the Vermont Studio Center Press until 2008 and during this time she also received an MFA from the University of Northern Vermont. Sarah has been an Adjunct Professor at Dartmouth, Williams and Bennington Colleges teaching Printmaking and Drawing since 2007. She has led workshops on monoprint collagraph printing techniques with Joel Janowitz. Amongst her inspirations in her work are El Anatsui, Peter Doig, American Outsider Artists, Vermeer, Hokusai’s ghost prints, Kabuki Theater, African ritual dress and sacred objects. She is passionate about textiles from around the world, soft sculpture and African masks and architecture. This was done with Garner Tullis of Experimental Press. Tullis worked with many masters including John Walker, Sean Scully, Friedel Dzubas, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Francis, William Wiley, and others. She was included in the show A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art. Painters, sculptors, photographers, of different races, from diverse ethnic and cultural traditions. Artists in the exhibition are: Blanka Amezkua, Sarah Amos, Helene Aylon, Siona Benjamin, Zoë Charlton, Sonya Clark, Annet Couwenberg, Lalla Essaydi, Judy Gelles, Sharon Harper, Julie Harris, Fujiko Isomura, Tatiana Parcero, Philemona Williamson, Flo Oy Wong and April Wood. The Feminist Art Project. Selected Solo and Group exhibitions include: CUE Art Foundation NY (2019), BCA, Vermont (2019), Huntington Museum, WV (2019), ICA San Jose (2018), Flinders Lane Gallery, Australia (2017), Cynthia Reeves Projects Mass MOCA, Massachusetts (2015), Fischer Museum USC, Los Angeles CA,(2012), Penn State University (2011), Monash University, Australia (2011), Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe NM( she showed with Magdalena Abakanowicz, Jennifer Bartlett, Isabel Bigelow...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Monotype

Toys- Contemporary, Abstract, Minimalism, Modern, Pop , Mixed media, geometric
Located in London, London
"Toys" 1993. Acrylic and collage on canvas This work unframed, signed and with certificate of authenticity. His work has been shown in Reina Sofía Museum of Madrid, Royal Academy o...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Untitled" - Rectangular abstract figurative painting, mixed media.
Located in Miami, FL
Mixed media, contemporary work.
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Minimalist Black Oil Painting, Collage, Mixed Media on Canvas Kevin Larmon
Located in Surfside, FL
Kevin Larmon, (American, b. 1955), 1985-1986, oil on canvas; hand signed, titled, and dated on the reverse Provenance: bear a Curt Marcos Gallery label verso This is one of a pair we are offering for sale Kevin Larmon (1955-) is an American artist and was assistant monitor of painting at Syracuse University. Kevin Larmon was born in Syracuse, New York in 1955. He grew up on a small horse farm. Larmon's mother was a school secretary while his father was a construction worker. He graduated from Binghamton University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and moved to New York City as an undergraduate senior, where he finished his schooling at the New York Studio School. In the late 1970s, Larmon played guitar for Mudmen, a three piece band in the East Village of New York City with Craig Gillis playing bass, Mike Caffes playing drums, and percussionist Jill Burkhart. Mudmen played in venues such as CBGB, Danceteria, A7 (bar), Pyramid Club, Mudd Club, and The Limelight. Larmon started making still life paintings in 1979. He has also worked with atmospheric drawings and paintings since 1989, many of which are made on canvas or wood. In 2009, he began to paint his cell paintings. Larmon's paintings are built up through layers of collage and paint. Most famously, Larmon's work includes collages of gay male pornography that have been painted over with images that exist somewhere in between abstraction and form. These images are often anatomical. Conceptually, Larmon's work deals with issues such as the male body image and fascist culture. Similarly, Larmon's drawings on wood deal with ambiguously anatomical and abstracted forms. His work has been associated with the post-conceptualism and neo-conceptual art movements, which were prominent aspects of exhibitions at Gallery Nature Morte and with Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo shaping the nature of painting after the rise of conceptual art. Larmon was also associated with Feature Inc., a gallery that was first established in Chicago in 1984. In August 1988, the gallery's director, known as Hudson, moved Feature Inc. to New York City. Larmon's first exhibition with Feature Inc. occurred in 1987 in Chicago, Illinois. Over the years, Hudson and Larmon would work together on many exhibitions. As a young artist, Larmon spent his Thursdays working to sustain Gallery Nature Morte together with the gallery owners, Alan Becher and Peter Nagy, when the gallery existed in New York City. Larmon was heavily influenced by his contemporaries at Gallery Nature Morte such as Robin Weglinski, Joel Otterson, and Steven Parrino. Other influential artists include Oliver Wasow, Robert Gober, Nancy Shaver, Carter Hodgkin, and Steven Wolfe. Larmon also drew inspiration from Rembrandt, Giorgio Morandi, Jackson Pollock, and Agnes Martin. During his time as a professor at Syracuse University, Larmon made an impact on many emerging artists including Deborah Roberts and Paul Weiner. Larmon participated in Aperto 86 at the 1986 Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, where his paintings were exhibited at the Corderie at the Arsenal. From 1983–2013, Larmon was invited to exhibit in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Feature Inc, New York, New York; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; the University Art Museum at the University of California, Berkeley; the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Visual Arts Museum, New York, New York; the Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, now the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado; Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey; and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2013, Larmon was included in a group show at the Leslie Sacks Gallery in Los Angeles, California alongside artists Christo, Jim Dine, Pablo Picasso, Chuck Close, Howard Hodgkin, Jasper Johns, Marino Marini, Henri Matisse, Karel Nel, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, and Sebastião Salgado. Exhibitions curated by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo Still Life With Transaction: Former Objects, New Moral Arrangements, and the History of Surfaces took place at International with Monument in New York from March 28 – April 21, 1984. Larmon was accompanied by artists Alice Albert, Ericka Beckman, Alan Belcher, Ross Bleckner, Barry Bridgwood, Sarah Charlesworth, Wendy Galavitz, Judy Geib, Jim Jacobs, Stephen Lack, Andrew Masullo, Peter McCaffrey, Jan Mohlman, Peter Nadin, Peter Nagy, Joel Otterson, Richard Prince, Steven Parrino, Tyler Turkle, and Laurie Simmons. Natural Genre: From the Neutral Subject to the Hypothesis of World Objects took place at Florida State University Gallery & Museum in Tallahassee, Florida from Aug. 31-Sept. 30, 1984. Larmon was accompanied by artists Jane Bauman, Ericka Beckman, Alan Belcher, Gretchen Bender, Ross Bleckner, Tom Brazleton, Barry Bridgwood, Sarah Charlesworth, Carroll Dunham, Robert Garratt, Mark Innerst, Louise Lawler, Allan McCollum, Peter Nadin, Peter Nagy, Joseph Nechvatal, Steven Parrino, Louis Renzoni, Meyer Vaisman, Oliver Wasow, James Welling, David Wojnarowicz, Michael Zwack...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil

French Modernist Fauvist Oil Painting Claude Gaveau School of Paris
Located in Surfside, FL
CLAUDE GAVEAU (1906 - 1970) A beautiful and large signed oil on canvas by the important french painter Claude Gaveau. The work is signed upper right and unlined and unrestored on its original canvas. Title: “Composition” Signature: Signed upper right Medium: Oil on original canvas Provenance: Private french collection Size: c. 24 x 29 inches unframed Claude Gaveau (1906 - 1970) is a French painter born in Neuilly-sur-Marne in 1940. The painter was born near Paris and studied there as well as in Belgium. He comes from a family of artists, his grandfather was the creator of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. He is passionate since very young about painting and entered the Ecole des Arts Appliqués in Paris in 1955 where he studied mural art for five years, stained glass, tapestry, mosaic and fresco. In 1960, he studied at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, becoming equally accomplished in oil painting, watercolor, drawing and lithography, pastel and gouache. Influenced by great Post Impressionist painters such as Paul Cézanne, George Braque and Raoul Dufy, Gaveau gets inspired as well by music and lyricism. His talent was quickly recognized, in 1963 he won his first prize and obtained a scholarship from the Academy of Antwerp, Belgium which allowed him to study Flemish painting in Brussels. In 1965, with only 25 years, he made his first solo exhibition at the Angle Aigu Gallery in Paris. His career took a real turn in 1968 when he was nominated for the "la Critique Parrainé" Award by the Saint Placide Gallery in Paris. A recurrent traveler, the landscapes he observes all around the world allow him to broaden his artistic palette. Other exhibitions of his work followed during the 1960’s and 1970’s in France with the Galerie Vauban in Dijon in 1967, 1968 and 1970; with the Galerie Saint Placide in Paris in 1968; with the Galerie Marc Hudier in Belfort in 1970; and three one-man shows with the Galerie La Belle Gabrielle in Paris in 1972, 1975 and 1978. In 1980 Claude Gaveau had his first one-man exhibition with Wally Findlay Galleries...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Minimalist Black Oil Painting, Collage, Mixed Media on Canvas Kevin Larmon
Located in Surfside, FL
Kevin Larmon, (American, b. 1955), 1985-1986, oil on canvas; hand signed, titled, and dated on the reverse Provenance: bear a Curt Marcos Gallery label verso This is one of a pair we are offering for sale Kevin Larmon (1955-) is an American artist and was assistant monitor of painting at Syracuse University. Kevin Larmon was born in Syracuse, New York in 1955. He grew up on a small horse farm. Larmon's mother was a school secretary while his father was a construction worker. He graduated from Binghamton University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and moved to New York City as an undergraduate senior, where he finished his schooling at the New York Studio School. In the late 1970s, Larmon played guitar for Mudmen, a three piece band in the East Village of New York City with Craig Gillis playing bass, Mike Caffes playing drums, and percussionist Jill Burkhart. Mudmen played in venues such as CBGB, Danceteria, A7 (bar), Pyramid Club, Mudd Club, and The Limelight. Larmon started making still life paintings in 1979. He has also worked with atmospheric drawings and paintings since 1989, many of which are made on canvas or wood. In 2009, he began to paint his cell paintings. Larmon's paintings are built up through layers of collage and paint. Most famously, Larmon's work includes collages of gay male pornography that have been painted over with images that exist somewhere in between abstraction and form. These images are often anatomical. Conceptually, Larmon's work deals with issues such as the male body image and fascist culture. Similarly, Larmon's drawings on wood deal with ambiguously anatomical and abstracted forms. His work has been associated with the post-conceptualism and neo-conceptual art movements, which were prominent aspects of exhibitions at Gallery Nature Morte and with Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo shaping the nature of painting after the rise of conceptual art. Larmon was also associated with Feature Inc., a gallery that was first established in Chicago in 1984. In August 1988, the gallery's director, known as Hudson, moved Feature Inc. to New York City. Larmon's first exhibition with Feature Inc. occurred in 1987 in Chicago, Illinois. Over the years, Hudson and Larmon would work together on many exhibitions. As a young artist, Larmon spent his Thursdays working to sustain Gallery Nature Morte together with the gallery owners, Alan Becher and Peter Nagy, when the gallery existed in New York City. Larmon was heavily influenced by his contemporaries at Gallery Nature Morte such as Robin Weglinski, Joel Otterson, and Steven Parrino. Other influential artists include Oliver Wasow, Robert Gober, Nancy Shaver, Carter Hodgkin, and Steven Wolfe. Larmon also drew inspiration from Rembrandt, Giorgio Morandi, Jackson Pollock, and Agnes Martin. During his time as a professor at Syracuse University, Larmon made an impact on many emerging artists including Deborah Roberts and Paul Weiner. Larmon participated in Aperto 86 at the 1986 Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, where his paintings were exhibited at the Corderie at the Arsenal. From 1983–2013, Larmon was invited to exhibit in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Feature Inc, New York, New York; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; the University Art Museum at the University of California, Berkeley; the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Visual Arts Museum, New York, New York; the Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, now the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado; Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey; and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2013, Larmon was included in a group show at the Leslie Sacks Gallery in Los Angeles, California alongside artists Christo, Jim Dine, Pablo Picasso, Chuck Close, Howard Hodgkin, Jasper Johns, Marino Marini, Henri Matisse, Karel Nel, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, and Sebastião Salgado. Exhibitions curated by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo Still Life With Transaction: Former Objects, New Moral Arrangements, and the History of Surfaces took place at International with Monument in New York from March 28 – April 21, 1984. Larmon was accompanied by artists Alice Albert, Ericka Beckman, Alan Belcher, Ross Bleckner, Barry Bridgwood, Sarah Charlesworth, Wendy Galavitz, Judy Geib, Jim Jacobs, Stephen Lack, Andrew Masullo, Peter McCaffrey, Jan Mohlman, Peter Nadin, Peter Nagy, Joel Otterson, Richard Prince, Steven Parrino, Tyler Turkle, and Laurie Simmons. Natural Genre: From the Neutral Subject to the Hypothesis of World Objects took place at Florida State University Gallery & Museum in Tallahassee, Florida from Aug. 31-Sept. 30, 1984. Larmon was accompanied by artists Jane Bauman, Ericka Beckman, Alan Belcher, Gretchen Bender, Ross Bleckner, Tom Brazleton, Barry Bridgwood, Sarah Charlesworth, Carroll Dunham, Robert Garratt, Mark Innerst, Louise Lawler, Allan McCollum, Peter Nadin, Peter Nagy, Joseph Nechvatal, Steven Parrino, Louis Renzoni, Meyer Vaisman, Oliver Wasow, James Welling, David Wojnarowicz, Michael Zwack...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil

Nike and the Green Funnel
Located in Nashville, TN
Artwork Size: 32 x 40 in About the Artist: Ke Francis is a narrative artist who has been actively producing artwork for more than fifty years. Francis wor...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

ST- Contemporary, Abstract, Minimalism, Modern, Pop , Mixed media, geometric
Located in London, London
"ST" 1994. Acrylic and collage on canvas This work unframed, signed and with certificate of authenticity. His work has been shown in Reina Sofía Museum of Madrid, Royal Academy of ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

ST02- Contemporary, Abstract, Minimalism, Modern, Pop , Mixed media, geometric
Located in London, London
"ST02" 1995. Acrylic on canvas This work unframed, signed and with certificate of authenticity. His work has been shown in Reina Sofía Museum of Madrid, Royal Academy of London, Ar...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

ST01- Contemporary, Abstract, Minimalism, Modern, Pop , Mixed media, geometric
Located in London, London
"Mar del trópico" 1994. Acrylic and collage on canvas This work unframed, signed and with certificate of authenticity. His work has been shown in Reina Sofía...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

FLAGS 10 - Modern Abstract Painting Composition - 4 Elements
Located in Salzburg, AT
Dominika Krechowicz is a professor at the Gdansk GUT Institute Flags , 53x65 cm, acrylic, pigment on paper, 1996, composed of 4 elements, a single part is 24 x 30 cm. Works from th...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Pigment

Modern Indian Art, Madras, Life cycle, canvas Painting, Abstract, Red, India
Located in Norfolk, GB
Part of the history of Modern Art in India, this striking published painting is by noted seminal artist R B Bhaskaran. The artist’s work plays with the g...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

FLAGS 9 - Modern Abstract Painting Composition - 4 Elements
Located in Salzburg, AT
Dominika Krechowicz is a professor at the Gdansk GUT Institute Flags , 53x65 cm, acrylic, pigment on paper, 1996, composed of 4 elements, a single part is 24 x 30 cm. Works from th...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic, Pigment

"Taddington" - Abstract Earthtone Patterned Wall Sculpture
Located in Soquel, CA
Paisley and floral patterned wall sculpture by Jessica Godisak (American, b. 1977). This dimensional piece is constructed of several wood forms joined together. There is empty space ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Lacquer, Wood, Fiberboard, Acrylic, Cardboard

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...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Diagonal Stripe VI-21
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Kenneth Noland. “Diagonal Stripe VI-21” is a hard-edge, abstract painting, paint on handmade paper by artist Kenneth Noland. ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Handmade Paper

Yellow Flower IV
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jose Maria Sicilia. "Yellow Flower IV" is a geometric, gestural abstract painting, acrylic on linen by Jose Maria Sicilia. The artwork is signed on the verso, "Yellow F...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Fracture - Mixed Media by Marco Amici - 1990
Located in Roma, IT
Fracture is an original mixed media painting on panel, realized by the Italian artist Marco Amici in 1990. Original Title: Frattura Title, Signature, date and monograms are writt...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Feast
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A mixed media work by Merion Estes. "Feast" is a contemporary abstract, acrylic and glitter on canvas in a palette yellows by American female artist Merion Estes. The artwork is unsi...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Aiuola
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Bruno Ceccobelli. "Aiuola" is a contemporary figurative painting, mixed media on panel in blacks and browns by Italian artist Bruno Cecc...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Solo Samba
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A mixed media work by Merion Estes. "Solo Samba" is a contemporary abstract, acrylic on canvas in a palette of purples, reds, and yellows by American female artist Merion Estes. The ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Abstract Composition - Painting - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original contemporary artwork realized by an Unknown artist in the 20th century. Oil on hardboard. Arrangement of abstract shapes, numbers and cyrillic le...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Large Floralscape Original Oil Painting on Canvas by William Verdult, Framed
Located in Encino, CA
Untitled Floralscape, an original oil painting on canvas by William Verdult, is a piece for the true collector. The artist's genius reflects a fiery artistic approach that inspires u...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil

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, "Jae Kon Park, 93". Born in Sout...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Vivid Pastel Surreal Painting "Whimsical Orbit"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A colourful, unique and vivid painting on canvas. Framing on request.
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Mixed Media Gravel Painting, Sculpture Abstract Expressionist Thomas Nozkowski
Located in Surfside, FL
Thomas Edward Nozkowski (American, 1944-2019). Original mixed media abstract composition art utilizing colored rock gravel. Titled, "Gravel Piece." Hand signed on verso, dated 5/73. Provenance: Collection of the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida (Museum Inventory No. t.13.2000.053.) Thomas Nozkowski was an American contemporary painter. He achieved a place of prominence through his small scale paintings and drawings that push the limits of visual language. His work appeared in more than 300 exhibitions over the past 40 years. He had more than 70 solo exhibitions, and 24 of his paintings were featured in a large-scale retrospective in 1987 at Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC Nozkowski was born in Teaneck, New Jersey and raised in Dumont, where he graduated from Dumont High School in 1961. He spent his youth in the New Jersey suburbs, admiring New York culture from afar before moving there after graduating high school. His father worked in an Alcoa Aluminum factory and then as a postman. His mother worked in factories and as a bookkeeper. One of his aunts was a schoolteacher who gave him and his younger sister art supplies. When he was a senior in high school he won a scholarship to attend a painting class at New York University's School of Education, where he studied with Robert Kaupelis and Hale Woodruff. While he earned his BFA at Cooper Union, Nozkowski was making sculpture. He graduated in 1967. He later transitioned to large scale abstract expressionist painting, and exhibited some of his earliest works in group shows at the storied Betty Parsons Gallery. Richard Tuttle had his first show a year after he began assisting Betty Parsons. Thomas Nozkowski worked for her after graduating from Cooper Union. Between 1949 and 1951. In the course of 36 years, the Betty Parsons Gallery mounted important early shows of Robert Rauschenberg, Kenzo Okada...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Stone

Kris Magdzinski "I Shall Repeat Again" 1993, original oil on canvas
Located in Glenview, IL
"I Shall Repeat Again" is an abstract oil on canvas created by the artist in 1993. The artwork is presented in a gilded floater frame and is signed on lower right. Also titled, signe...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Kris Magdzinski "Time is Half Over" 1993, original oil on canvas
Located in Glenview, IL
"Time is Half Over" is an abstract oil on canvas created by the artist in 1993. The artwork is presented in a gilded floater frame and is signed on right side. Also titled, signed an...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Kris Magdzinski "To Joanna" 1993, original oil on canvas
Located in Glenview, IL
"For Joanna" is an abstract oil on canvas created by the artist in 1993. The artwork is presented in a gilded floater frame and is signed on right side also titled and signed on verso.
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

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