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Period: 20th Century
The Day After
By Michael (Corinne) West
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"The Day After" is an abstract Post War oil on canvas painting by Michael (Corinne) West in 1963. The artwork is 85 1/4 x 50 1/8 inches and is 86 7/8 x 51 5/8 x 2 inches with the fra...
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Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid-Century French Abstract Expressionist Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A large mid-century French abstract expressionist oil and acrylic on canvas by Jean-Louis Ladislas. Signed and dated 69 to the reverse. Presented in a slim baton wood frame. A highl...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

American Abstract Expressionist Flowers Oil Painting Norman Carton WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Norman Carton (1908 – 1980) was an American artist and educator known for abstract expressionist art. He was born in the Ukraine region of Imperial Russia and moved to the United States in 1922 where he spent most of his adult life. A classically trained portrait and landscape artist, Carton also worked as a drafter, newspaper illustrator, muralist, theater set designer, photographer, and fabric designer and spent most of his mature life as an art educator. Carton showed in and continues to be shown in many solo and group exhibitions. His work is included in numerous museums and private collections throughout the world. Norman Carton was born in the Dnieper Ukraine territory of the Russian Empire in 1908. Escaping the turbulence of civil war massacres, he settled in Philadelphia in 1922 after years of constant flight. While attending the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, Carton worked as a newspaper artist for the Philadelphia Record from 1928 to 1930 in the company of other illustrator/artists who had founded the Ashcan School, the beginnings of modern American art. From 1930 to 1935, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Henry McCarter, who was a pupil of Toulouse-Lautrec, Puvis de Chavanne, and Thomas Eakins. Arthur Carles, especially with his sense of color, and the architect John Harbison also provided tutelage and inspiration. Following his time at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Carton studied at the Barnes Foundation from 1935 to 1936 where he was influenced by an intellectual climate led by visiting lecturers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell as well as daily access to Albert C. Barnes and his art collection. Carton was awarded the Cresson Traveling Scholarship in 1934 which allowed him to travel through Europe and study in Paris. There he expanded his artistic horizons with influences stemming from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Chaim Soutine, and Wassily Kandinsky. While at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Carton was also awarded the Toppan Prize for figure painting as well as the Thouron Composition Prize. He received numerous commissions as a portrait artist, social realist, sculptor, and theatrical stage designer as well as academic scholarships. During this time, Carton worked as a scenery designer at Sparks Scenic Studios, a drafter at the Philadelphia Enameling Works, and a fine art lithographer. From 1939 to 1942, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project employed Carton as a muralist and easel artist. He collaborated with architect George Howe. The WPA commissioned Carton to paint major murals at the Helen Fleischer Vocational School for Girls in Philadelphia, the Officers’ Club at Camp Meade Army Base in Maryland, and in the city of Hidalgo, Mexico. Throughout the 1940s, Carton exhibited and won prizes for his semi-abstract Expressionist and Surrealist paintings. He socialized with and was inspired by Émile Gauguin and Fernand Leger. During World War II, Carton was a naval structural designer and draftsman at the Cramps...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Mid 20th Century French Post-Impressionist Signed Oil Mud Bails French Valley
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 15 x 18 inches inscribed verso dated 1970 provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condition
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstract Composition in Green
Located in Astoria, NY
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Abstract Composition in Green, Oil on Canvas, signed to verso, unstretched, unframed. 21.5" H x 23.5" W. Provenance: From the collection of the ar...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstract Expressionist Landscape Jay Milder Rhino Horn Painting American Pop Art
Located in Surfside, FL
This came from the collection of the Horace Richter Gallery These were done in the 1990's This does not appear to be hand signed. It is signed and dated verso perhaps by gallerist. Jay Milder (born 1934) is an American artist and a figurative expressionist painter of the second generation New York School. Old Testament themes such as Jacob's Ladder and Noah’s Ark, and the Jewish mystical beliefs of the Kabbalah, are recurring themes in Milder’s paintings which are presented as archetypal images that recur in the basic karma, make-up and need of human nature. Internationally exhibited, Milder is included in the collections of many national and international museums. He has been the subject of two, recent retrospectives in Brazil in 2007 at the National Museum Brasilia and, in 2006, at the Museum of Modern Art, in Rio de Janeiro. He is renowned in Sao Paulo, one of the major international centers for street and public art, as a seminal influence on graffiti artists. Jay Milder was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1934. His grandparents, who came from the Ukraine, were descendants of the Hasidic mystic, Rabbi Nachman. As he listened to family stories his interest in spiritualism and mysticism increased, and became an important influence on his philosophy of life and art. Later, when he arrived in New York, he was drawn to the Theosophical Society and the teaching of Helena Blavatsky. In 1954 Milder visited Europe where he studied painting with André L’Hote, and sculpture with Ossip Zadkine. He spent much time studying at the Louvre Museum, and at the studio of Stanley Hayter. During his Paris years the paintings of the Jewish painter Chaim Soutine, primarily influenced him. Milder returned to the United States in 1956, and he began studying painting at the Chicago Art Institute. He exhibited with the Momentum Group, an alliance of artists who were particularly dedicated to the progression of figurative art and its global origins. In 1957, Milder spent the summer in Mexico for a summer where he exhibited in Puebla. That year he received the Mexican Government’s Honor Award for artists. In the summer of 1958, Milder studied with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He exhibited his work at the Sun Gallery, with his contemporaries, including Mary Frank, Red Grooms, Bob Thompson, Lester Johnson, Emilio Cruz and Alex Katz, among others. During this period his painting began to incorporate iconography of birds, animals, humans and animal/human hybrids. In 1958, Milder, Bob Thompson and Red Grooms, founded the City Gallery in the Chelsea section of New York City. The gallery moved downtown and became the Delancey Street Museum and an early site for ‘Happenings’,which Milder participated in. He showed his first major series called Subway Runners in 1960 at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York City. Milder began a group of smaller paintings, entitled “Messiah Series”, in the late 1960s. These were fully expressionistic earth toned pictures, and he completed around 250 paintings in the series, based on biblical themes from the Old Testament. When 40 of these paintings were shown in a traveling exhibition premiering at the Richard Green Gallery in New York City, in 1987, art critic Donald Kuspit wrote in ArtForum Magazine: “after Nolde’s biblical pictures, these are the best and most integral group of biblical pictures in the 20th century.” During the 1970s, Milder co-founded a collective group called Rhino Horn with Peter Passuntino, Peter Dean, Benny Andrews, Nicholas Sperakis, Michael Fauerbach, Ken Bowman, Leonel Gongora, and Bill Barrell...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Large Robert Kiley Abstract Painting, 78"w
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Robert Kiley (American, 1924-1996) Marking(s); notes: signed artist's label verso, marking(s); 1990 Materials: acrylic on l...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

Untitled, 1975
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Untitled, 1975" by Claudia Sisemore, acylic on canvas, 41.5 x 50 inches, $4,800. "I have a vague idea of what I am going to paint. I read that many artists are inspired by an idea before they begin their work and plan their approach and process based on that idea or muse. Others become inspired after they have begun working and watching colors, shapes and designs form. I basically belong the second group. Usually, after painting begins in a loose, free manner, I become excited by certain colors and patterns and continue from there." -Claudia Sisemore -- Caudia Sisemore says she was teaching English when artist David Chaplin (an equally popular and influential teacher) was at Weber and initially got her into landscape painting. “Then he took me to a show at the Art Barn and Lee [Deffebach] was showing there [with Don Olsen...
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Color-Field 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled, Lithograph on Paper, Yellow, Black by Artist Somnath Hore "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Somnath Hore - Untitled Lithograph on Paper 11 x 15 inches ( Unframed & Delivered ) Inclusive of shipment mounted not framed, Should you wish to receive the same framed and shipped ...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Lithograph

Abstract Mixed Media Torn Paper Collage Pop Expressionist Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
American Artist 1922 – 2012 Served his country as a Sergeant in World War II, both stateside and in the Philippines. After the war, native Chicagoan Ronald Ahlström graduated from the School of the Art Institute, He became a prominent Abstract Expressionist collage assemblage maker working in a style similar to some of the New York school assemblage artists such as Robert Goodnough. Utilizing cutout letters in a concrete poetry style. He frequently exhibited his collages and paintings in the Chicago and Vicinity exhibits of the 1950s and 1960s. He worked as the curator of the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma WA during the early 1960s. He showed at Exhibition Momentum in the ’60s, and was selected for the Corcoran Biennial. Together with his colleagues and fellow-abstractionists Robert Nickle, Morris Barazani, Harry Bouras, George Kokines, and George Waite, he exhibited at McCormick Place in an independently produced survey of contemporary Chicagoans, circa 1962, under the banner 12 Chicago Artists. An adept and sensitive painter, Ahlström’s most personal work is as an abstract expressionist collage maker. Using strips of paper, sometimes weathered and beaten into rough hewn surfaces, he creates immaculately layered, lively, gestural compositions. He was the recipient of many art awards and prizes throughout his long career. His works are part of numerous private, corporate and museum collections. His work was published in many national and international art publications including Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Art. he taught art at both high school and college level. His other passions included history, literature and music. He was an accomplished base fiddle and guitar player and often played professionally in clubs during the late 1940s and 1950s. In 1958, he was awarded the William H. Bartels Prize of five hundred dollars at the Art Institute of Chicago. Education: Art Institute of Chicago University of Chicago DePaul University Exhibitions: Art Institute of Chicago Annuals, Corcoran Biennial in Washington DC, 12 Chicago Artists 50 Chicago Artists European Exhibit at the US Information Agency Collage and Construction, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Tacoma Art Museum, Washington Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle 50th Northwestern Annual, Seattle Art Museum, Chicago Invitational, University of Illinois One Man Exhibits: Rockford College, Rockford Il. Barat College, Lake Forest Il. Rodger Wilson Gallery, Chicago, Il. Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY. Joseph Faulkner, Main Street Galleries, Chicago, Il. Zriny Galleries, Chicago Il. Awards: Clyde Carr Prize, Art Institute of Chicago William H. Bartels Prize, Art Institute of Chicago James Broadus Clark Prize, Art Institute of Chicago Alumni of Art Institute Prize Singer and Sons Prize, Navy Pier, Chicago Abel Fagan Prize, Festival of Fine Arts, Lake Forest, Il. Ford Foundation Purchase Prize, Seattle, Wa. Collections: Art Institute of Chicago Barat College Tacoma Art Museum, Wa. Phibrook Art Center, Tulsa, Ok. Blue-Cross Collection, Chicago, Il. Atlantic Richfield Collection Illinois Bell Telephone Collection Container Corporation of...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Paint, Paper, Mixed Media

Beach Expanse
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Beach Expanse, Oil on Canvas, signed lower left, signed and with Art Students League Red Dot to verso, wood frame. Image: 36" H x 5...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Indivisible - pink, purple, blue, abstract, contemporary, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Modern, grid, abstract. In the hands of master colourist Milly Ristvedt, the classic grid pattern becomes more than a ‘container’ for colour. Hailed by critics and collectors as one ...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Still Life and Cornfield, Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas by Sheila Meeks
Located in Long Island City, NY
Still Life and Cornfield by Sheila Meeks, Canadian (1955) Date: 1991 Oil on Canvas Size: 48 x 24 in. (121.92 x 60.96 cm) Frame Size: 50.5 x 26.5 inches
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Abstract Impressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Postcard Geometry" Mary Abbott, Geometric Abstract Crayon on Paper Composition
Located in New York, NY
Mary Abbott Postcard Geometry Signed lower right Crayon on paper 4 x 5 1/2 inches Among the early exponents of Abstract Expressionism, Mary Abbott created powerful oil paintings in...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Crayon

Terre, soleil, lune, mer
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles Marcel Jean Picart Le Doux, born January 31, 1902 in the 6th arrondissement of Paris and died May 7, 1982 in Venice1, was a French painter and tapestry-maker of the contempor...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Large Mid Century California Modernist Sunset Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled, Alfonso Hüppi - Original mixed media on canvas, abstraction - 1962
Located in New York, NY
Alfonso Hüppi Untitled, 1962 Mixed media on canvas (paint, wood) 18 1/2 × 20 1/2 in 47 × 52 cm (without frame) Frame included
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Meditation
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Studio Interior" Diana Kurz, 1964 Abstract Expressionist Interior Composition
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz Studio Interior, 1964 Signed, titled, dated on verso Oil on canvas 52 x 72 inches Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's fami...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sienna Abstraction
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original abstract expressionist painting created in 1962 by American artist James Koenig. This work will be featured in our exhibition "Draw Near" which will run from March 11...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

American School Signed Framed Fauvist Abstract Modernist Cloudscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 36L x 24H.
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstraction in Whites 1
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 ...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Abstraction" Mid-20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Modernist
Located in New York, NY
"Abstraction" Mid-20th Century American Abstract 1960s Color Field Modernist James Daugherty (1887 – 1974) Abstraction 24 x 20 inches Estate stamp verso Oil on panel Provenance: ...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

American Modernist Abstract Autumn Landscape Oil Painting – Trees in Fall Colors
Located in Denver, CO
This mid-20th-century abstract landscape oil painting by American modernist Henriette "Yetti" Stolz beautifully captures a stylized forest scene, featuring trees rendered in rich, earthy tones of gold, brown, orange, and blue. The painting reflects Stolz's modernist approach, blending organic forms with abstract color fields. Signed on the back, this piece is presented in a vintage frame, with outer dimensions measuring 30 ¾ x 36 ¼ inches, and the image size is 30 ¼ x 35 ¾ inches. Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Henriette "Yetti" Stolz. About the Artist: Henriette "Yetti" Stolz was born in Serbia in 1935 and moved to Denver, Colorado, in the early 1950s after WWII. She studied art at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, where she was exposed to the modernist movements shaping the local art scene. Stolz was influenced by contemporary artists such as Mary Chenoweth...
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American Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Oil

After the rain. 1991, oil on cardboard, 90x83 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Laimdots Murnieks had a significant influence on the development of Latvian painting at the end of the 20th century. His work 'Holiday' conveys the fee...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Vintage Incredible Large Abstract Portrait Signed Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist abstract portrait oil painting by Abraham Pariente. Oil on canvas, circa 2000. Signed. Displayed in a modernist frame. Important large and impressive work!
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mid-century modern abstract expressionist painting by American artist Toma Yovanovich. Toma Yovanovich (1931-2016) Yovanovich was a painter/printmaker whose work is i...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cornish oil painting, British 20th Century abstract by Carl Jaycock
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Carl Jaycock (British, b. 1963) Sea light Signed and dated ‘C JAYCOCK 85’ (lower right) Oil on board 24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm.) Cornwall based Jaycock has...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

1970s Mid-Century Modern Geometric Abstract Acrylic Painting Yellow, Blue, White
Located in Denver, CO
This vibrant 1970s abstract acrylic painting titled Yellow Sun is a stunning example of Beatrice Mandelman’s mastery in Mid-Century Modern art. Featuring a dynamic interplay of yellow, blue, white, and black hues, this piece captures the artist’s signature geometric abstraction style. Signed by Mandelman in the lower right corner, the painting is acrylic on canvas and presented in a custom blonde wood frame, with outer dimensions of 33 ½ x 25 ½ x 2 inches. The image size measures 32 x 24 inches. This colorful artwork encapsulates Mandelman’s unique vision and artistic legacy, making it a perfect addition to any collection of 20th-century American modern art. About Beatrice Mandelman: Beatrice Mandelman (1912-1998) was an influential 20th-century artist whose work bridged the worlds of abstract expressionism and geometric abstraction. Originally from New York, she studied at the Art Students League before establishing herself in the vibrant New York art scene. In 1944, she and her husband, painter Louis Ribak, relocated to New Mexico, where they founded the Taos Valley Art School and were instrumental in forming the Taos Art Association. Mandelman’s paintings are known for their bold use of color and geometric shapes, with influences ranging from stained-glass windows and Native American art to the avant-garde movements of Paris and New York. Her work reflects her deep engagement with modernism, as well as her connection to the rich cultural environment of Taos. Her abstract works, like Yellow Sun, continue to resonate with collectors and art enthusiasts, highlighting her as one of the leading figures in 20th-century American modern art. ©David Cook Galleries...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Abstract Oilpainting on canvas for sale unique by Frank Vaders
Located in Winterswijk, NL
This painting by Frank Vaders is a unique piece from the 1990s, made in oil on canvas with the dimensions 251 × 200 cm. It is in good condition. Vaders' works have been offered at au...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Miniature Cityscape
Located in Astoria, NY
Robert O'Meara (American, XX-XXI), Miniature Cityscape, Oil on Board, circa 1975, apparently unsigned, unframed. 4" H x 3.5" W. Provenance: From a 333 East 75th Street Estate.
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Impressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Filtration Abstract Mixed Media Contemporary
Located in Eversholt, Bedfordshire
Just purchased, more information to follow Filtration, signed lower right Doylan In a ebonised oak moulded frame Length 103cm, Height 104cm Depth 4cm Striking, decorative, contempo...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Antique French Modernist Paris School Signed Street Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French modernist Paris school cityscape street scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring 27 by 40 inches overall and 26 by 39 painting alone. In excellent...
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Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Large Abstract Painting by Lou Fink
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large, oil and sand painting by American Artist, Lou Fink. Provenance: Gift of Florence Fink, wife of the artist. Artist: Lou Fink, American (...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

#4, FROM 6 LITHOGRAPHS (AFTER UNTITLED 1975)
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist. Sheet size: 30.125 x 29.875 in. Edition of 60. Published by Gemini, G.E.L., Los Angeles. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certifica...
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Pop Art 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Lithograph

7.79 (white)
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on canvas Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended ...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Wax, Oil

"Circles" by Dutch Artist Andrus Theodore Vossen
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Gouache & Ink abstracts from the Mid-20th Century are unique. This is by Dutch artist Andrus Theodore Vossen born in the Netherlands in 1893 and he died in 1963. It is pencil signed ...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Ink, Gouache

Modernist Abstract Oil Painting Marine Seascape Sunset w Boat Ralph Della Volpe
Located in Surfside, FL
RALPH DELLA-VOLPE (1923-2017) Fine Art Painter, American Contemporary Sunset Sail Oil on canvas Hand signed lower right and verso 22 x 20 inches Provenance: The Estate of the artist Ralph Della Volpe TRAINING: National Academy of Design The Art Students League, NYC Ralph Eugene Della-Volpe's semi-abstract paintings of often simplified, minimalist, beach scenes and anonymous portraits "convey profound awareness of mood and character", and his paintings are hardly as literal as they may first appear (Arts Magazine. "New York Exhibitions". 1965). His brightly-colored, light-infused, ornamental compositions bring together aspects of many modernist art movements including Fauvism, Impressionism, Symbolism, and abstraction. Della-Volpe first studied painting at the prestigious National Academy of Design before joining the Army during World War II. As a soldier, the artist saw action on Utah Beach, winning a Purple Heart, and his experiences undoubtedly affected his later artistic style. The Fauvist "coloristic exuberance" found in the works beginning in the mid 1960's, with their vibrant fuschias and yellows, seem to offset what could be an otherwise solemn tone to many of his works at the time. Upon his return from military service, Della-Volpe’s style evolved significantly. In the years following the second world war, his work was solemn, imbued with a quiet darkness. Over time, this darkness faded: by the 1950s, influenced by his time at the Art Students League, his oeuvre was overtaken by the tenants of Abstract Expressionism. Paintings from this period boast bold brushwork, energetic compositions, and strong color. Although the next decade saw Della-Volpe trade expressionist abstraction for figuration, his love of color continued to shine through his work.Della-Volpe took a teaching position as the first artist-in-residence at Bennett College in Millbrook, New York where he remained for 28 years, serving as chairman of the Art Department for most of that time. Obviously influenced by impressionism 's preoccupation with the treatment of light, Della-Volpe's own works have a "faultless tonal quality, with its sense of failing light—the areas of silvery gray deepening into rosy tans" (Arts Magazine. "In the Galleries". 1960). Della-Volpe has exhibited widely throughout his career and has lectured on art at colleges, universities, and galleries across the country. SOLO SHOWS: Hotchkiss Library, Sharon, Conn Millbrook Library, Millbrook,NY Gregory James Gallery...
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Fauvist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Jean Jean" Larry Zox, Color Field, Geometric Abstraction, Hard-Edge, Yellow
Located in New York, NY
Larry Zox Jean Jean, 1964 Signed, dated, and titled on the stretcher Liquitex on canvas 58 x 62 inches Provenance: Solomon & Co., New York Private Collection, NJ Estate of the above, 2023 Committed to abstraction throughout his career, Larry Zox played a central role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s and 1970s. His work of the time, consisting of brilliantly colored geometric shapes in dynamic juxtapositions, demonstrated that hard-edge painting was neither cold nor formalistic. He reused certain motifs, but he did so less to explore their aspects than to “get at the specific character and quality of each painting in and for itself,” as James Monte stated in his essay for Zox’s solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1973. By the 1970s, Zox was using a freer, more emotive method, while maintaining the autonomy of color, which increasingly became more important to him than structure in his late years. Zox began to receive attention in the 1960s, when he was included in several groundbreaking exhibitions of Color Field and Minimalist art, including Shape and Structure (1965), organized by Henry Geldzahler for the Gallery of Modern Art, New York, and Systemic Painting (1966), organized by Lawrence Alloway for the Guggenheim Museum. In 1973, the Whitney’s solo exhibition of Zox’s work gave recognition to his significance in the art scene of the preceding decade. In the following year, Zox was represented in the inaugural exhibition of the Hirshhorn Museum, which owns fourteen of his works. Zox was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Drake University. While studying at the Des Moines Art Center, he was mentored by George Grosz, who despite his own figurative approach encouraged Zox’s forays into abstraction. In 1958, Zox moved to New York, joining the downtown art scene. His studio on 20th Street became a gathering place for artists, jazz musicians, bikers, and boxers. He occasionally sparred with the visiting fighters. He later established a studio in East Hampton, where he painted and fished including using a helicopter to spot fish. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Zox’s works were collages consisting of painted pieces of paper stapled onto sheets of plywood. He then produced paintings that were illusions of collages, including both torn- and trued-edged forms, to which he added a wide range of intense hues that created ambiguous surfaces. Next, he omitted the collage aspect of his work and applied flat color areas to create more complete statements of pure color and shape. From 1962 to 1965, he produced his Rotation Series, at first creating plywood and Plexiglas reliefs, which turned squares into dynamic polygons. He used these shapes in his paintings as well, employing white as a foil between colors to produce negative spaces that suggest that the colored shapes had only been cut out and laid down instead of painted. The New York Times noted in 1964: “The artist is hip, cool, adventurous, not content to stay with the mere exercise of sensibility that one sees in smaller works.” In 1965, he began the Scissors Jack...
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Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Miniature Cityscape
Located in Astoria, NY
Robert O'Meara (American, XX-XXI), Miniature Cityscape, Oil on Board, circa 1975, unframed. 4.5" H x 3.5" W. Provenance: From a 333 East 75th Street Estate.
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Impressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Large Jack Youngerman Painting, 92″W, Tupperware Brands Corporate Collection
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Jack Youngerman (1926-2020) Marking(s); notes: signed; 1972-73 Country of origin; materials: American; canvas on shaped wood frame Dimensions (H, W, D)...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paint

Filled Space #1, Abstract Painting by Jackie Battenfield
Located in Long Island City, NY
Filled Space #1 Jackie Battenfield, American Date: 1981 Mixed media on paper, signed and dated in pencil, titled verso Size: 22.5 x 30 in. (57.15 x 76.2 cm)
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Oil Pastel

Espace en Gris, Abstract Expressionist Painting by Raymond Abner 1956
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original oil painting by Egyptian Born French Artist, Raymond Abner (1919 - 1999) entitled "Espace en Gris". Abner rubbed shoulders with the top arti...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Romeo de Ravenne - Cubist Oil, Figure & Boat on Landscape by Camille Hilaire
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled oil on canvas by French cubist painter Camile Hilaire. The piece beautifully depicts a man at a port beside boats coloured in reds, blues and oranges. A wonderfully...
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Cubist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing. A modernist artist who emigrated to America from Greece in 1904, when he was fourteen years old, Jean Xceron is described as having a reputation as an artist that has mysteriously fallen into obscurity---especially since he was reportedly quite prominent during his lifetime. However, a partial explanation of that omission is the fact that many of his papers and early records have been lost. He was a painter of biomorphic abstractions and did collages, which were influenced by Dadaism. Xceron was active in New York City when modernism was gaining influence. Of him during this period, it was written that his artistic role was "a vital link between what is commonly termed as the first-generation (the Stieglitz group, the Synchromists, etc.) and second-generation, the American Abstract Artists, the Transcendental Painting...
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American Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Cubist Still Life Composition Gouache Painting by A Derek Ching
Located in Atlanta, GA
Vibrant Cubist Still Life Painting by A. Derek Ching (20th Century) Bold yet nuanced, this rare original gouache on paper, created by American artist A. Derek Ching (USA, 20th Centu...
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Cubist 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Bauhaus Moshe Raviv Moi Ver Abstract Oil Painting Lithuanian Israeli Modern
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract, Figure of Woman, Safed Oil on Masonite. Signed. Moshé Raviv-Vorobeichic, known as Moi Ver, born Moses Vorobeichik (1904–1995) was an Israeli photographer and painter. Moi Ver (Moshe Raviv) was born in 1904 in Vilnius, Lithuania as Moshe Vorobeichic. Moshe Vorobeichic received his initial artistic training in the early 1920s in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he studied painting, architecture, and photography. Having become an important figure in the Yiddish avant-garde culture, he exhibited his first works. From October 1927, he studied at the Bauhaus school in Dessau (Germany), with photographer-visual artist Laszlo Moholy Nagy and painters Josef Albers, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Hinnerk Scheper. In his book Moi Ver: Paris, he produced avant-garde photomontages. Originally published in 1931 by Editions Jeanne Walter with an introduction by futurist Fernand Leger. In 1932 Raviv was sent by the weekly La Vie Parisienne to British Mandate Palestine as photo reporter. Raviv illustrated many books. Raviv was a founder of the Artists' Colony in Safed. At the height of 20th Century modernism and one of the followers of Laszlo Moholy Nagy and his concept of New Vision, Moin Ver was one of the rising stars in European photography. Born in Lebedeva, in Belarus, he wandered through Europe until he immigrated to Palestine in 1934. His well known yet partly forgotten three photographic projects in 1931, The Ghetto Lane in Wilna, Paris: 80 Photographies de Moi Ver and Ci-Contre – 110 Photos de Moi Ver (that was not published at the time), have remained milestones in the art of the 1930s as he created and imposed a new visionary style in photography. As a contemporary of artists such as Man Ray, Ilse Bing...
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Bauhaus 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Figure, 1972 - Roger Hilton (Oil on canvas) Modern British Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas 36 x 30 inches Provenance: Private Collection, London The Art Centre, London The Harriman Judd Collection, Los Angeles
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled: Street Art - Graffiti Art Before Basquiat - African American
Located in Miami, FL
Sometimes, the most celebrated artists are not the most original. Such is the case with Jean-Michel Basquiat, known for bringing into mainstream abstract yet representational street ...
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Street Art 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Metal

Contemporary Gouache Painting Earthquake III, Greek Ruins, Monuments of Greece
Located in Surfside, FL
Les Ruines Des Plus Beaux Monuments De La Grece both 22 3/4" x 34" (sight) oil with arabesque artist identified on label verso. #27, Earthquake III, From 1992 show; Night Paintings,...
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Contemporary 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Paint, Paper, Gouache

Turkey Tolson - "Two Women Travelling at Puja" - 182x182cm 2006 - Aboriginal Art
Located in PARIS, FR
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula (c.1938-2001) « Two Women Travelling At Puja » 182×182 cm – 1986 Provenance: From Papunya Tula Artists, certificated Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 1996, Corporat...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Lithograph

Santa Fe Series #6 (Contemporary Abstract Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement "College tuitions are headed my way, so I am letting go of some things I held on to from the past. This is from my Santa Fe series, the only one I have left. To m...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic

City 13. 1966, paper, monotype, varnish, 47x77 cm
Located in Riga, LV
City 13. 1966, paper, monotype, varnish, 47x77 cm Soikans Nikolay, pseudonym Niklo de Martell (till 1953.) 1926. 9 IX Ludza – 1980. 21 II Lester, Great Britain – graphic artist. ...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Monotype, Varnish

Indian Summer
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dan Christensen (1942-2007) is widely recognized as one of America’s foremost abstract artist. Over the course his lengthy career, Christensen was devoted to exploring and expanding the constantly shifting aesthetics of 20th century abstraction. Christensen established his reputation at the end of the 1960s, by using spray guns to create colorful stacks, loops, and lines in his artworks. This body of work was considered by the legendary art critic Clement Greenberg among the most original abstract paintings of the decade. Unlike many of his contemporaries who dedicated themselves to a signature style, Christensen was unrelentingly curious and allowed his dynamic version of abstraction to evolve as he tried new techniques and varied his aesthetic. During the 1980's in particular, Christensen focused on experimenting with different forms of washing, spraying, and layering colours over top of each other. The works from Christensen's late period combine the gestural drama of Abstract Expressionism with the stained surface look popularized by the color field artists. The aesthetic complexity he achieved with these combined techniques are perfectly demonstrated in this later untitled work (aka "Indian Summer...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic

Omen II
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Grosse Pointe, Michigan native Mara Millich created this interesting mixed media abstract in 2004. It is an original and hand signed by Mara Millich.
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Omen II
Omen II
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Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache botanical Style on White Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Abstract Expressionist design. Sealed on the back with the design studio name and number . Ilegible signature We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by this ...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Fall-Winter Series 64 No. 15 - Large abstract oil on canvas 1964
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Provenance: Kootz Gallery, New York Private collector, Greenwich, CT Trinity Auction, Avon, CT, May 11, 2013, lot 23 Private collection, NJ Condition: Conditio...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

KUPFERMAN American Abstract 1959 Expressionist Painting
Located in New York, NY
Lawrence Kupferman (1909-1982) is an American Abstract painter and founder of the Boston Expressionist school. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Mu...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil

"Buddha with Wings" - abstract painting, oil and tar on linen, framed
Located in Nyack, NY
"Buddha with Wings", contemporary abstract painting by artist Martha Lloyd. Framed dimensions: H: 45.5 x W: 41.5 x D: 2 in. Canvas is framed in a wood ...
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Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Tar, Oil

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