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ABSTRACT STYLE

Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.

Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.

Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.

Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.

Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.

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Style: Abstract
Period: 1960s
Composition by IGAEL TUMARKIN - Mixed media, large artwork, abstract art
Located in London, GB
Untitled 65 by IGAEL TUMARKIN (1933-2021) Mixed media on board 152 x 63 cm (59 ⅞ x 24 ¾ inches) Signed and dated lower left, Tumarkin 65 Numbered 'No6' on the reverse This work is from the most important period of Israeli artist Tumarkin during his time in Paris. Artist biography Peter Martin Gregor Heinrich Hellberg (later Yigal Tumarkin) was born in Dresden, Germany in 1933. His father, Martin Hellberg, was a German theatre actor and director. With his mother, Berta Gurevitch, and his stepfather, Herzl Tumarkin, Tumarkin immigrated to Mandate Palestine when he was two. He served in the Israeli Sea Corps and, after completing his military service, studied sculpture with Rudi Lehman in Ein Hod, a village of artists near Mount Carmel. In 1955, Tumarkin went to Berlin to work as a scenographer for Bertolt Brecht...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

"Vortex of thoughts" Oil on paper cm.26 x 20
Located in Torino, IT
Black,Red,Abstrat,Picasso, Dora Maar is the pseudonym of Henrietta Theodora Markovitch (Paris 1907 - 1997). Shrouded in the monumental shadow of Picasso, she has long been - and redu...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Slate Stone Collage Painting - African American Artist
By Alvin C. Hollingsworth
Located in Miami, FL
African American Artist Alvin Hollingsworth creates a mixed-media abstract painting/collage that abounds with inventiveness and creativity. Large s...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Stone, Slate

Black and Red Oil Abstract on Canvas by Carol Pinsky
Located in Pasadena, CA
This black and red abstract oil painting features red and orange splashes of paint overlaid on a black background. The vivacity and life force evoked by the artwork makes it a captiv...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Lynn Leland Untitled Op Art painting, 1967-1968 Acrylic on Canvas (with Albright Knox Gallery Label, A. M Sachs Gallery Label, Atlantic Richfield Corporat...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

'Abstract in Saffron and Tourmaline', New York School, WPA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'V. Wicht' for John Von Wicht (German-American, 1888-1970) and painted circa 1965. Born in Germany, this abstract expressionist painter, muralist, printmaker, mo...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1960’s Colorful French Abstract Expressionisr “La Feu Court Dans La Montagne”
Located in New York, NY
I have 5 paintings I purchased recently for sale by this artist. They are all beautiful and colorful with gallery labels as pictured. They all come From the estate of Guy Joseph Émile Nairay…. Famous French Diplomat who owned many major artists in his collection. Sarthou is a famous French abstract painter whose colors are very vibrant. Here for sale: MAURICE ELIE SARTHOU...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Panama Garden, Mid-century abstract expressionist modern work
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Panama Garden, c. 1964 acrylic on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 46 x 38 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Komposition rot/schwarz
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower left, inscribed label verso. 59.25 x 55.25 in. 61 x 57 in. (framed) Custom framed in a wooden double tray frame, hand-painted white. Provenance Galerie Lovers of Fine Art, Gstaad, Switzerland This work has been recorded under no. 1531 in the digital Catalogue Raisonné of the artist, prepared by Michel Reymondin, Montreux, Switzerland. Carl Walter Liner was born in the Swiss canton of Appenzell, near the border with Liechtenstein, in 1914. The son of famed artist Carl August Liner, the younger Liner enjoyed more critical and commercial renown for his landscapes. In 1938 at the age of 24, he undertook what would become the first of several residencies in Paris. This particular sojourn helped to establish the trajectory of his career, as Paris would provide the setting in which he became acquainted with early twentieth century masters Maurice de Vlaminck, Georges Braque, Ossip Zadkine, Gérard Schneider, and Erich Heckel. The stylistic and technical influence of his contemporaries is clearly evident in Liner’s work from this point forward. Unfortunately, the dawn of the 1940s would bring about a number of challenges for Liner. With the outbreak of war, Liner was mobilized for the Swiss Border Guard, and returned home to Switzerland in 1939. He remained on active duty until 1945, only to lose his father the following year. The death of the elder Liner left a profound impact on his son, who eventually made his way back to Paris in 1947 and embarked upon what would become a very successful series of nudes. By his own admission, 1948 was a pivotal year in Liner’s career, as a particularly spiritual trip to Algeria would foment the emotions led to the beginning of his practice with abstraction. Henceforth, Liner would vacillate between the figurative and abstract, creating parallel oeuvres. His abstraction from the 1950s and 60s mirrored...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woodstock Mountains and landscape.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
"One of Pinajian's early works, 'Overlook Mountain, Woodstock, 1974' is a vibrant depiction of the Woodstock mountains. The abstract composition was create...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Mid-Century - Horse Race #28 Pierre Bosco (Italy/France, 1909-1993)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Mid-Century - Horse Race #28 Pierre Bosco (Italy/France, 1909-1993) Oil on canvas 9 /78 x 6 7/8 (17 7/8 x 14 5/8 inches, frame size) *Frame appears to be original and made by the art...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kurz is one such example. Diana Kurz (b. 1938) was born into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family whose business was Aryanized after the Anschluss forcing the family to flee, first to Spain, then across Europe, and finally to the United States. Brought up as a "normal" American girl, Kurz always wanted to be an artist. She studied at Brandeis, at Hunter with Robert Motherwell and received her MFA from Columbia. She received instruction from Hans Hoffmann, studied with Phillip Guston and Phillip Pearlstein...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Mid-Century "The Horse Race" Pierre Bosco #50 A (Italy/France, 1909-1993)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Mid-Century "The Horse Race" #50 A Pierre Bosco (Italy/France, 1909-1993) Oil on canvas 14 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches, frame size “The savage art of Bosco bears its rudeness and its myste...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mod Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Bernard Segal New Hope PA Modernist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Bernard Segal was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and attended Cincinnati University and the Cincinnati Art Academy. He was known for figure, abstract painting, collage, and cartoon illustration. In the 1920's and 30's, he lived in NYC and attended The Art Students League where he was creative with a number of artistic styles of the period. During WWII, he worked as a cartoonist for a government issued newspaper called 10-SHUN that was published in Greensboro, NC. Bernard worked under the pen name Seeg, and was the author of the comic strip "Hank and Honey," that appeared in the New York Herald Tribune from the 1940's through the 50's. This cartoon was syndicated and published in Quebec under the title "Louise et Louis." The strip was later retitled to Ellsworth. Segal also illustrated a number of Jewish books that were published by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and Bible stories. In the 1950's Segal moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and became a member of the New Hope Modernists. He worked with esteemed artists such as George Nakashima, Charles Evans, Louis Stone, Lloyd ney, josef Zenk, Clarence Carter and Charles Ramsey. Segal's most noted work was made during the 1960's, during which time he produced paintings and collages in the abstract expressionist style. He enjoyed painting bright abstract oil...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Candelabra, " Edward Millman, Colorful Abstract Expressionist Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Edward Millman (1907 - 1964) Candelabra, 1962 Signed lower right; titled and dated on the reverse Oil on canvas 41 3/4 x 31 1/2 inches Provenance: The ...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Senza Titolo - important Italian artist! 1968 Abstract oil on paper painting
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Abstract, oil, watercolor, ink & pencil on paper by important Italian artist, Gastone Novelli. Signed & dated lower right "Novelli 68" Provenance: MILAN ART, Via Zara 18, Milano Fra...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Oil, Watercolor

1966 French Abstract Expressionist COLORFUL painting “Feu de Marquis”
Located in New York, NY
I have 5 paintings I purchased recently for sale by this artist. They are all beautiful and colorful with gallery labels as pictured. They all come From the estate of Guy Joseph Émile Nairay…. Famous French Diplomat who owned many major artists in his collection. Sarthou is a famous French abstract painter whose colors are very vibrant. Here for sale: MAURICE ELIE SARTHOU...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

1966 French Colorful Abstract Expressionist Painting “Regates a La Voile Jaun”
Located in New York, NY
I have 5 paintings I purchased recently for sale by this artist. They are all beautiful and colorful with gallery labels as pictured. They all come From the estate of Guy Joseph Émile Nairay…. Famous French Diplomat who owned many major artists in his collection. Sarthou is a famous French abstract painter whose colors are very vibrant. Here for sale: MAURICE ELIE SARTHOU...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Mid-Century "The Emigrants" Pierre Bosco #34 (Italy/France, 1909-1993)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Mid-Century "The Emigrants" #34 Pierre Bosco (Italy/France, 1909-1993) Oil on canvas 19 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches, frame size “The savage art of Bosco bears i...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Snowfall
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
George Dannatt (1915-2009) was an outstanding and inspirational figure in the story of the later St Ives School. He represented a rare breed of cultural polymath: musician, critic, p...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Sunken Caesarea
By Mordechai Ardon
Located in Jerusalem, IL
A one of a kind piece by world famous Israeli artist Mordechai Ardon. It is a framed oil on canvas painting. 65X54 cm (25 5/8 x 21 ¼ in). Signed and dated "Ardon 60" (upper right). S...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

July Fourth
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed and titled verso. 40.25 x 56.25 in. 40.75 x 56.75 in. (framed) Custom framed in a whitewashed cherry closed-corner frame. Aaron Levy was born in New York Cit...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Untitled, " Female Abstract Expressionism, Jean Cohen, Alex Katz
By Jean Cohen
Located in New York, NY
Jean Cohen Untitled, circa 1960 Signed Lower Right: Jean Cohen Mixed Media on artist board 26 3/4 x 19 inches Jean Cohen was an important American painter whose work spans six decades. Jean Cohen lived on Tenth Street in Manhattan, and was a member of the vibrant Tenth Street Artists Galleries during the 1950s and 1960s. She was married to Alex Katz, was a member of the Area Gallery, and showed her work in the Tanager Gallery as well. She has paintings in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New Jersey State Museum, Museum of Modern Art, the University of Maine, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has yet to be given the recognition she deserves. Born 1927 Washington Heights, New York Married to painter Alex Katz 1949-1956 Tanager Gallery NYC 1952-1962 Involved with painter John Grillo 1957-1962 Area Gallery NYC 1960-'65 Split time living between NYC and Provincetown c.1957-1980 Landmark Gallery, NYC 1972-1977 Co Founder in '72. Moved to Long Island '85 Died on Long Island, New York 2013 Education: Cooper Union 1945-1948. Studied with John Ferren, Nicholas Marsicano, Morris Kantor, Leo Manso...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Gouache, Board

'Biomorphic Abstraction', Large Mid-Century American Abstract Leaf Form Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'E.B.S.' for E.B.Stetson (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1965; additionally signed, verso, 'E. B. Stetson'. A substantial, mid-century American Sch...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Naval Occurrence, orange, blue & green mid-century, abstract geometrical work
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Naval Occurrence, c. 1963 oil on canvas signed and titled verso 24 x 32 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller designed and made the simple gold wedding ring Avis wore for their 65 years of marriage. During those 65 years neither wavered in their mutual love, nor in the respect they shared for one another’s art. The couple lived in a converted chicken coop in Missouri while Richard was in boot camp. At the camp, he would volunteer for any job offered and one of those jobs ended up being painting road signs. His commander noticed how quickly and neatly he worked and gave him more painting work to do - eventually recommending him for a position painting murals for Army offices in Panama. Until her dying day, Avis remained angry that “The army got to keep those fabulous murals and they probably didn’t even know how wonderful they were.” In Panama, their first son, Mark, was born. After Richard’s discharge in 1953, they moved back to the Cleveland area and used the GI bill to attend Kent State gaining his BA in education. The small family then moved briefly to Buffalo, where Richard taught at the Albright Art School and the University of Buffalo – and their second son, Peter, was born. Richard had exhibited work in the Cleveland May Show and the Butler Art Museum during his art school years, and during the years in Buffalo, his work was exhibited at the gallery he had so loved as a child, the Albright Art Gallery. In 1956, the family moved back to the Cleveland area and Richard began teaching art at Lincoln West High School during the day while working toward his MA in art at Kent State in the evenings. Avis and Richard, with the help of an architect, designed their first home - a saltbox style house in Hudson, Ohio, and in 1958, their third son, Max (after Max Beckmann) was born. Richard enjoyed the consistency of teaching high school as well as the time it gave him to paint on the weekends and during the summer months. In 1961, he received his MA and his daughter, Claire, was born. With a fourth child, the house was much too small, and Avis and Richard began designing their second home. An admirer of MCM architecture, Richard’s favorite example of the style was the Farnsworth house – he often spoke of how the concepts behind this architectural style, particularly that of Mies van der Rohe, influenced his painting. Andres described himself as a 1950’s...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Grey & Tan Abstract Expressionist Textural Mid-Century Abstract by Peter Witwer
Located in Soquel, CA
Grey & Tan Abstract Expressionist Textural Mid-Century Abstract by Peter Witwer Heavily textured, expressive composition by Peter Witwer (American, 1928-1968). Over the top of a heavy base layer of plaster, Witwer has added various layers of oil paint, creating a massive amount of depth and texture. Sections of red peek out from underneath various shades of tan, grey, and black. Spots of blue and purple are used sparingly, hidden in the composition. Presented in a wood frame. Canvas size: 20"H x 40"W Frame size: 26.63"H x 46.63"W Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work. Provenance: Without a will and a family that had little interest in his art, nearly all of his possessions and close to 100 paintings were turned over to SF’s Conservators Office. His friend, Albert Richard Lasker, purchased all of Peter’s possessions (including the art) and has taken care of them until this day, always sensing there was something remarkable about the collection. Wanting Peter’s work to finally be seen, Richard came to Lost Art Salon with Peter’s story after reading about the new gallery in a July, 2005 issue of the SF Chronicle. Born George Peter...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Plaster, Oil

"Untitled, " Alan Fenton, Abstract Expressionism
Located in New York, NY
Alan Fenton (1927 - 2000) Untitled, 1965 Charcoal and graphite on paper 23 x 17 inches Signed and dated lower right Fenton's quiet and contemplative nonob...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Graphite

Mid-Century "The Horse Race" Pierre Bosco #50 B (Italy/France, 1909-1993)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Mid-Century "The Horse Race" #50 B Pierre Bosco (Italy/France, 1909-1993) Oil on canvas 15 x 12 inches, frame size “The savage art of Bosco bears its rudeness and its mystery. It i...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in Irvine, CA
"Untitled" by Don Totten is an abstract oil painting circa 1960 on canvas and measures 16 in x 20 in. It is in excellent condition. Donald C. Totten (1903...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Abstract American Geometric Oil Painting Martin Rosenthal 60 Mid Century Modern
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original abstract oil painting by American artist Martin Rosenthal signed by the artist and created in the late 1950's, early 1960's. This colorful dynamic work comes housed in a...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Once More
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil on masonite Lawrence Fine Art is pleased to offer this marvelous early work by first generation Abstract Expressionist painter Joe Stefanelli (1921-...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Clif McChesney "Untitled" Abstract Expressionist
Located in Detroit, MI
In 2016 the Dennos Museum in Traverse City, Michigan, in homage to the very first exhibition in the Zimmerman Sculpture Court, installed the first two paintings by the former Michig...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas

Untitled
Located in Irvine, CA
"Untitled" by Don Totten is an abstract oil painting circa 1960 on canvas and measures 48.5 in x 36.5 in. It is in excellent condition. Donald C. Totten (1903-1964) was a member of a group of artists who quietly began to introduce modernist thought, emanating from Europe and the East Coast, to the Los Angeles art community during the 1920s. Other members of this group were influential artists as Nick Brigante, Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Wave of Ur, Asian Ocean abstract
Located in Greenwich, CT
A dreamy and expertly painted abstraction by this noted American/Asian artist. Presented in a contemporary and high quality silvered leaf float frame which allows it to breath. Wave of Ur...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life and Round Lace Table, 1960s Abstract Still Life, Acrylic and Pastel
Located in Denver, CO
"Still Life and Round Lace Table" is an original acrylic and pastel on paper by Edward Marecak (1919-1993) circa 1960s. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Abstracted sti...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Pastel, Acrylic

1968 Abstract Geometric Painting “Six Dimensions of Orange”
Located in New York, NY
Here we have a beautiful Geometric Abstract by Benjamin Cunningham. It is Acrylic on board, Painting is titled “color structures (six dimensions of orange)” painted in 1968. Overal...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Cityscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century abstract expressionist landscape of bridge over water cityscape, circa 1960. Illegible signature lower left ("Aioli"?). Conditi...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
Inscribed: "For Bilha and Jerry, Nov 1961, Howie Kanovitz" Howard Kanovitz was known as one of the first photo-realist painters. This is an early work, completed while he was still painting abstractly. Following is a brief bio of the artist: Howard Kanovitz, born in Fall River, Massachusetts, began painting in 1949, after an early career as a jazz trombonist. He studied at The Rhode Island School of Design and at The Art Students League in Woodstock with Yasu Kunyyoshi, before moving to New York City and apprenticing with Franz Kline. His Abstract Expressionist work was exhibited at Tenth Street galleries - Tanager, Hansa, Poindexter, and in Stable Gallery Annuals. Kanovitz also had a two person show with Marisol at The Great Jones Gallery and participated in the 1956 “Poets Select Painter’s” show at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. Kanovitz always painted representational work but remained safely within what he later called the Abstract Expressionist “orthodoxy” for exhibition. His 1956-8 travels in Europe and Morocco, playing jazz...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled
Located in Irvine, CA
"Untitled" by Don Totten is an abstract oil painting circa 1960 on canvas and measures 16.5 in x 31.5 in. It is in excellent condition. Donald C. Totten (...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Assault on Space
Located in Lawrence, NY
One of the "Women of Abstract Expressionism". Oil on canvas. A New York Times review describes Buffie Johnson's work as located at the intersection of spiritualism, myth, and symbol, and influenced by the work of Carl Jung...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Mid-Century Cyclists-The Field Sprint Pierre Bosco #26 (Italy/France, 1909-1993)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Mid-Century Cyclists - The Field Sprint Pierre Bosco (Italy/France, 1909-1993) Oil on canvas 15 x 12 inches, frame size “The savage art of Bosco bears its rudeness and its mystery....
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Boxing Scene. Vanquished Boxer in his Corner. Sports Illustrated Boxing Story
Located in Miami, FL
There are a lot of people in the art world today who dismiss illustrators are being commercial solely because the artists identified as being commercial artists and that the work was done on assignment. Sadly these art world people have limited imagination and a restricted sense of curiosity. This boxing illustration/painting was done for Sports Illustrated...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil

American School New York City Abstract Magic Surrealism Sunset Park Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
American school abstract painting. Watercolor on paper, circa 1960. Unsigned. Image size, 12"L x 9"H.
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache

Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil on paper Estate stamped The history of the New York School painters is still being written, but Price earned a well-deserved place from the beginning. Price was one of the youngest of the first generation Abstract Expressionist circle of painters working in New York after WWII. Though only in his late twenties he began exhibiting in 1948 in New York at Hugo, Bodely, Iolas and Egan galleries. In a 1949, showing at Peridot galleries, Price was hailed for his breakthrough "Maze Series." A complex interweaving of organic shapes, automatic in nature and sometimes resembling bones or body parts, the "Maze" paintings exuded a pulsating energy that brought him critical acclaim. He received rave reviews in Art Digest, the New York Times and the New York Tribune. Price's earliest work was biomorphic or surrealist in nature, influenced by the automatism of Andre Breton and his school. By 1946, his work began to move away from this style to an all-over, decentralized style which became the "Maze" works and ultimately AbEx works which saw their culmination in the "Black Warrior" series. When the "Club" was started, Price was invited to join and forged close relationships with other members of the New York School including Fritz Bultman, Giorgio Cavallon, Weldon Kees, Bradley Walker Tomlin...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled (43)
By Hanna Eshel
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled (43) Hanna Eshel, Israeli (1926) Date: 1965 Oil and Assemblage on Burlap, signed and dated verso Size: 39 x 31 in. (99.06 x 78.74 cm) Frame Size: 45 x 37 inches
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Burlap, Oil

Geometric Composition - Oil Painting by Aldo Moriconi - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Geometric Composition is an original contemporary artwork realized by Aldo Moriconi in 1967. Mixed colored enamel on wood. Hand signed and dated on th...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paint, Oil

Man in a Rainy Town - Late 20th Century Mixed Media Wood Abstract - De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Wood, Mixed Media, Oil

Abstract Painting in Blue, Gray & Black, Vintage 1960s Mid Century Modern Art
Located in Denver, CO
Original vintage 1960s abstract painting by 20th century Colorado Springs artist Charles Ragland Bunnell. The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1963 lower right. This midcen...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Ascent
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Brown wooden baguette frame 66.5 x 79.5 x 3.5 cm
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil

Untitled (Falling Tower)
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil on linen Neuman's work assimilated a wide variety of influences, including Bay Area Abstraction, the New York School and European Art Informel. Not bad for a young man raised in the rural mining town of Kellogg, Idaho! Arriving in San Francisco in 1947, at age 21, Neuman would first be exposed to the work of Richard Diebenkorn, Sam Francis, Clyfford Still...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Fallen Tree
Located in Lawrence, NY
Accompanied by COA from the estate Gandy Brodie (American, 1924-1975) studied dance and jazz before teaching himself to paint, inspired by the paintings ...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Color composition
Located in Genève, GE
Canvas mounted on wood Golden wooden frame 89 x 73 x 5 cm
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Structure XXIII - Acrylic Painting by Nato Frascà - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Structure XXIII is an original contemporary artwork realized by Nato Frascà in 1964. Acrylic painting on canvas. Title, signature and date on the back of...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Autumn '60
Located in Irvine, CA
"Autumn '60" by Don Totten is an abstract oil painting on burlap circa 1960 and measures 50 in x 44 in. There is a tear on the lower left area of the painting but otherwise good cond...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Burlap, Oil

Lyric
Located in Irvine, CA
"Lyric" by Don Totten circa 1960, oil on masonite and measures 18 in x 32 in. This piece is in excellent condition. Donald C. Totten (1903-1964) was a mem...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Vintage Mid Century Modern Geometric Abstract Pop Art Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract painting titled "Praying Mantis". Oil on canvas, circa 1970. Signed. Image size, 12L x 16H. Housed in a period wood frame.
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Celebration on June 7th
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas Handsigned by the artist in pencil Signed lower middle Signed, titled on the back 41.00 cm. x 33.00 cm. 16.14 in. x 12.99 in. (image) 47.00 cm. x 39.00 cm. 18.5 in....
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Jon's Christmas
Located in Lawrence, NY
Artist Angelo Ippolito (1922-2001) produced a body of oils on canvas, works on paper, and assemblages renowned for their lyrical color, light, and compositional rigor. His paintings ...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

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