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Period: 20th Century
Recognized Seller Listings
Moth Barn Interior 3 - 20th Century, Oil on board by Alan Reynolds
Located in London, GB
Oil on board, signed verso.
Reynolds made numerous paintings on the theme of ‘moth barn’, in addition to a lithograph dating from 1956. Moth Barn Interior 3 (1952) is a diminutive va...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Oval Theme I - 20th Century, Oil & Polyfilla on board by Adrian Heath
By Adrian Heath
Located in London, GB
Oval Theme (1) builds outwards from a central red wedge, unfurling through larger slabs of colour towards the edge of the composition. The materiality of th...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
#26-1983
Located in New York, NY
Signed (on stretcher): Stanley Twardowicz
Stanley Twardowicz (1917–2008), a one-time orphan, Golden Gloves boxer, professional baseball player and auto worker, emerged from a hardsc...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cry Red
Located in Boca Raton, FL
From the Target Series
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Red, Black and Blue Arrows - 20th Century, Oil on canvas by Terry Frost
Located in London, GB
Signed, titled and dated on verso
Provenance:
Waddington Galleries
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation
Belgrave Gallery, London
Private Collection, UK (purchased from the above, 2001)
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Al Held
Located in New York, NY
AL HELD
Untitled, 1950 - 1952
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Signed verso
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Silver Song
By Cleve Gray
Located in New York, NY
CLEVE GRAY
Silver Song, 1967
Acrylic on canvas with aluminum paint and bronze
101 x 80 inches
Signed, titled and dated
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Silver Voyage
By Cleve Gray
Located in New York, NY
CLEVE GRAY
Silver Voyage, 1967
Acrylic on canvas with silver enamel
79 x 80 inches
Signed, titled and dated
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Open #125: Jeannie
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Open #125: Jeannie
1969
Acrylic and charcoal on canvasboard
76.2 x 50.8 cms (30 x 20 ins)
RM9796
P532
The title of this painting refers to Motherwell's elder daugh...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Untitled from the Westwood Paintings
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
Untitled (The Westwood Paintings)
1989
Acrylic on canvas
61 x 71.1 cms (24 x 28 ins)
WT9778
Category
American Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Automatism No. 11
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Automatism No. 11
1965
Ink and oil on paper
67.3 x 61.6 cms (26 1/2 x 24 1/4 ins)
Part of the Beside the Sea series, a series of oil paintings influenced by Mother...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110C
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110C
1968
Acrylic and graphite on paper
15.2 x 20.3 cms (6 x 8 ins)
Robert Motherwell's Elegies series represent one of the iconic motifs of Abstract Expressionism. Based on a 1948 ink illustration the artist executed accompanying a Harold Rosenberg poem, “A Bird for every bird,” the drawing shows the hypnotically repetitive patterning of ovoids and vertical beams. The stark contrast of the black ink on white paper references the symbolic use of the color black by artists such as Goya, Manet and Matisse to convey death, loss, and tragedy. Motherwell was quite affected by the turbulence of the Spanish Civil War and alludes to the Spanish republic in his Elegies. Motherwell’s plumbing the depths of poetry, history, and primordial art in the Elegies is considered a hallmark of nascent Abstract Expressionist painting in its desire to "excavate" essential imagery of mankind.
Motherwell, who originally trained as a philosophy scholar and later became of the great editors of 20th century art documents, grasped very early on the crucial importance that in order to contribute meaningfully to the canon of modern art, one must create a principle of aesthetics. Through the surrealist concept of automatism, the artist finally found the creative principle that eventually governed his extraordinary artistic output and produced the Elegies, one of the most salient, immediate painterly images of 20th century abstract painting. In fact, he has alluded to the fact that each one of his Elegies begins as an automatic drawing, and certain shapes are then blocked to create the signature armature of the vertical bars and ovals. The Elegies seem to possess the power of an archetypal image, an image the mind already grasps on a subconscious level.
Motherwell's play of dualities of black and white as well as other dichotomies—the geometric versus the organic, chaos versus order, death versus life—was a condition of living through a tumultuous period in American history. During an interview, he vividly recalled the 1940s as the time when society was ordered by a set of contradictions. In Motherwell's Elegies, he not only discovered an incredibly elastic pictorial language that would communicate on multiple levels but also acknowledged these contradictions in a manner that would resonate in abstract form. The present work served as a model for a painting, Spanish Elegy...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Laid Paper, Graphite
Brasileira
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Brasileira
1975
Acrylic, graphite and printed paper collage on canvas laid on board
121 x 91 cms (47 5/8 x 35 7/8 ins)
Provenance:
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
Doug...
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Green Projection, 1971 - Acrylic on Canvas, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow
By Sandra Blow
Located in London, GB
Green Projection, 1971 - Work on Paper, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow
Signed and dated on canvas overlap on reverse
Acrylic on canvas, with aluminium construction
54 x 48 inches
...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Abstract in Browns, 1997 - Gouache on board, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow
By Sandra Blow
Located in London, GB
Abstract in Browns, 1997 - Work on Paper, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow
Signed and dated
Gouache on board
12 x 9 1/2 inches
Sandra Blow RA (1925-2006) pioneered British abstract...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Yellow Within, 2006 - Acrylic and mixed media, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow
By Sandra Blow
Located in London, GB
Yellow Within, 2006 - Work on Paper, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow
Signed on reverse
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Sandra Blow RA (1925-2006) pioneered Britis...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
LA 8
Located in New York, NY
SHIRLEY GOLDFARB
LA 8, 1969
Oil on canvas
10 x 8 inches
signed on back "Goldfarb '69"
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Forest Floor - 20th Century, Oil on canvas
Located in London, GB
Signed in oil verso
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Floating Red
By Cleve Gray
Located in New York, NY
CLEVE GRAY
Floating Red, 1990
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 60 inches
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
89AS-1
By Larry Poons
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 1989, 25.4 x 120.02 cm. (10 x 47 ½ in.)
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Orbis - 20th Century, Abstract, Oil on canvas by Paul Feiler
By Paul Feiler
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Atlantic Island - 20th Century, Oil on canvas by Paul Feiler
By Paul Feiler
Located in London, GB
Signed lower right
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape with Cable - 20th Century, Oil on canvas by Prunella Clough
Located in London, GB
Exhibited: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Prunella Clough 'Retrospective Exhibition', Sept-Oct 1960, no:74
Camden Art Centre, London, 2015
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oblique I - 20th Century, Oil on canvas by Prunella Clough
Located in London, GB
Signed verso
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
The I Can Not Station
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Outsider Art 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Child Leaving Its Mother
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Outsider Art 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Covered Wagon
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Porteuse - Léopold Survage, modern, abstract, portrait, french, bright, surreal
Located in London, GB
Léopold Survage (1879-1968)
Porteuse
1962
oil on canvas
100 x 81.3 cm
signed and dated ‘Survage. 48.’ (lower right)
Price:
$63,000 USD (inc. 5% UK imp...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sola
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Considering All Possible Worlds #4
By Cleve Gray
Located in New York, NY
Cleve Gray
Considering All Possible Worlds #4
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Radiant Blue
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Radiant Blue
1977 - 2017
30 x 30 inches
acrylic on canvas
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Woman in a Rowboat
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Willem de Kooning. "Woman in a Rowboat" is an abstract, oil on paper laid on masonite painting executed in a lush and swirling palette primarily of greens, whites, beiges and yellow and depicting an abstracted, nude woman in a boat by Post War artist Willem de Kooning. "Woman in a Rowboat" is a seminal work by de Kooning that has a new fluidity which relates to his next major series of Woman paintings which he began in 1964. Signed lower left, "de Kooning."
Provenance:
Allan Stone Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Private Collection, Arizona
Exhibition:
North Hampton, Smith College Museum of Art; Cambridge, The New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Willem de Kooning: a Retrospective from Public and Private Collections, April – June 1965 (Cambridge only) New York, Allan Stone Gallery, De Kooning/Cornell, February – March 1965
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, American Paintings, September - October 1966, cat. no. 26
Dublin, The Royal Dublin Society, Rosc'67:The Poetry of Vision, November – December 1967, p. 201, illustrated
Detroit, J.L. Hudson, Willem de Kooning: Three Decades of Painting, March – April 1968, no. 31 (exhibition checklist)
Easthampton, Gild Hall...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Oil
Bang, Bang, Banjio
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self-Inflicted
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Crimson
By Kikuo Saito
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Kikuo Saito was a color field painter, set designer, and theater director, who began his career as a studio assistant for some of the most preeminent painters of the 1970s and ‘80s, including Larry Poons, Kenneth Noland, and Helen Frankenthaler. Saito’s works are bright and calligraphic, often covered in gestural strokes of color, drips of paint, and stenciled capital letters. Before turning to painting, Saito was a resident at New York’s La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, and collaborated on set design with directors and choreographers like Robert Wilson, Peter Brook...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pink, Red and Black - 20th Century, Ink & oil on paper by Ben Nicholson
Located in London, GB
Ink and oil on prepared paper
Signed Nicholson, dated 1978/April and inscribed as titled on the reverse
The sheet is tipped to a painted Masonite board at the upper left and right...
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil
Untitled - 20th Century, Oil on canvas by Roger Hilton
By Roger Hilton
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated verso
Provenance: Private Collection
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
DANIEL GORSKI
Untitled, 1964
Acrylic on canvas mounted on
board
90 x 90 inches
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Board
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
DANIEL GORSKI
Untitled, 1963
Acrylic on canvas (Diptych)
80 x 45 inches
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sentinel #1
Located in New York, NY
DANIEL GORSKI
Sentinel #1, 1964
Acrylic on canvas
85 x 23 inches
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Wolf
Located in New York, NY
Jules Olitski
Wolf, 1985
Acrylic On Canvas
8h x 12w in
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
84BS-2
By Larry Poons
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on canvas, 1984, signed and dated on the verso, 34.4 x 23.5 cm. (13 ½ x 9 ¼ in.)
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Yellow and Violet
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
60 S-2 AP
By Al Held
Located in New York, NY
AL HELD
60 S-2 AP, 1964-1965
Ink and acrylic on paper mounted on board
15 x 39-7/8 inches
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Red, White and Blue No. 2
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and pasted paper on paper
21.6 x 17.8 cms (8 1/2 x 7 ins)
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Red, White and Blue No. 1
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and pasted paper on paper
21.6 x 17.8 cms (8 1/2 x 7 ins)
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
The Brown Stripe
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
35.6 x 21 cms (14 x 8 1/2 ins)
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on paper
79.1 x 106.4 cms (31 1/8 x 41 15/16 ins)
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French Revolution Bicentennial No. 5
Located in London, GB
Acrylic, enamel and pasted papers on paper
25.4 x 35.6 cms (10 x 14 ins)
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Temple of Yellow Light II
Located in New York, NY
RICHARD ANUSZKIEWICZ
Temple of Yellow Light II, 1984
Acrylic on panel
17 x 12 inches
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Forms on an Ovoid Ground - 20th Century, Abstract, Oil on board by Alan Reynolds
Located in London, GB
Titled and numbered 3 on an artist's label verso
Category
Modern 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Wind’s Eye
Located in New York, NY
RICHARD ANUSZKIEWICZ
The Wind’s Eye, 1965
Liquitex on Masonite
24 x 24 inches
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
By Norman Bluhm
Located in New York, NY
NORMAN BLUHM
Untitled, 1962
Oil on paper
23 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches
60.3 x 50.2 cm
Signed "to Bill / Bluhm 62" Bill Berkson
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled #4
Located in New York, NY
EDWARD DUGMORE
Untitled #4, 1969
Oil on canvas
74 x 62 3/4 inches
188 x 159.4 cm
Abstract Expressionism
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled #14
Located in New York, NY
EDWARD DUGMORE
Untitled #14, 1969
Oil on Linen
71 1/2 x 81 inches
181.6 x 205.7 cm
Abstract Expressionist - combination of figure and landscape
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled #9 (Icarus)
Located in New York, NY
EDWARD DUGMORE
Untitled #9 (Icarus), 1969
Oil on Linen
78 x 61 inches
198.1 x 154.9 cm
Abstract Expressionist
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Series X #2
Located in New York, NY
EDWARD DUGMORE
Series X #2, 1969
Oil on Linen
78 x 61 inches
198.1 x 154.9 cm
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled, Undated - Mixed Media, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow (Abstract)
By Sandra Blow
Located in London, GB
Untitled, Undated - Mixed Media, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow (Abstract)
Sandra Blow RA (1925-2006) pioneered British abstraction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
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