Abstract Abstract Paintings
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
Icon Mandala, Mid-Century Figural Abstract Black, Red & White Oval Face Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Icon Mandala, 1967
Acrylic on paper
Signed and dated lower right
30 x 22 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national ...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Red Composition by TOSHIMITSU ÏMAI - Contemporary, Abstract, Oil on canvas
Located in London, GB
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Red Composition by TOSHIMITSU ÏMAI (1928-2002)
Oil on canvas
80.2 x 55.3 (31 ⅝ x 21 ¾ inches)
Signed, TOSHIMITSU IMAÏ, dated, 1963 Paris and inscribed in Japanese on the reverse
Provenance
Private collection, USA
Born in Kyoto, Japan in 1928 Imai was part of the 20th century Japanese avant-garde. He began his formal education at the Tokyo State Art Academy where he took up painting. His early works are characterised by colourful abstractions, reminiscent of Favuism. In 1951 Imai was awarded the Kansai-Shinseisaku Prize and in 1952 the prize for the best new artist at the 15th Shinseisaku Salon.
Imai relocated to Paris in 1953, the same and subsequent year he exhibited at the Salon de L’Art Sacré. Meanwhile, he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Sorbonne to read medieval history and philosophy. In 1955, Imai completely abandoned representational art in favour of abstraction. After meeting the art critic Michel Tapié via the artist Sam Francis, Imai was the first Japanese artist to join the Art Informel movement.
In 1956 Imai was called upon by the Japanese artist Taro Okamoto to curate an exhibition entitled The World: Today’s Art in Tokyo. Artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Lucio Fontana, and Karel Appel gained important exposure in Japan. It was also in 1957, when Imai arranged for Tapié and the artists Georges Mathieu and Sam Francis to travel to Japan, that a connection between Art Informel and Gutai occurred. The Ashiya-based Gutai Art Association formed in 1954 was proclaimed a kindred spirit by Tapié which he subsequently promoted internationally. Founding members included Yoshihara Jiro, Kanayma Akira, Murakami Saburo, Shiraga Kazuo and Shozo Shimamoto...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
From the estate of the artist.
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
Materials
Oil
Phenomena High Born by Paul Jenkins - Abstract painting
By Paul Jenkins
Located in London, GB
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Phenomena High Born by Paul Jenkins (1923-2012)
Acrylic on canvas
91.44 x 50.8 cm (36 x 20 inches)
Signed lower left Jenkins
Signed, dated and titled on the reverse
Executed in 1964 which makes this a very early work and so more valuable
Biography
Born at Kansas City in Missouri (USA), the multi-media artist, poet and playwright Paul Jenkins studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Students League in New York City. After his discharge from military service at the end of February 1946, he briefly studied playwriting with dramatist George McCalmon at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. Thereafter, Jenkins spent four years studying with Japanese American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi in New York City. His first solo exhibitions were held at Studio Paul Facchetti in Paris in 1954 and the Martha Graham Gallery in New York City in 1956. Over the past thirty years, numerous retrospectives have been curated across the globe and Jenkins’ work can found in national collections from Europe and the United States to Israel, Australia and Japan.
The diversity of his work springs from Jenkins’ wealth of eclectic influences. Some of his earliest works included what he called "interior landscapes" influenced by ancient natural forms like the caves he visited in the Ozark Mountains in his native-Missouri. Frequent student visits to the Frick Collection in New York fostered a love of the great masters: Bellini, Holbein, Vermeer, Rembrandt, de la Tour, Turner and Goya. In compliment, lingering student visits to the renowned Eastern collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City evoked powerful sympathy for a monumental Chinese fresco...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
X Marks the Spot, 1960s Mid Century Modern Mixed Media Abstract Painting
Located in Denver, CO
'X Marks the Spot' is an acrylic and pastel on paper by Denver artist Edward Marecak from the 1960s. Abstract mixed media painting painted in colors of black, white, and purple. Pres...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic
Mid Century Modern 1960s Abstract Geometric Collage w Navy Blue, Green & Purple
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic late 1960's mixed media abstract geometric collage, with mulberry paper cut into curved and angular shapes and adhered in layers, in a unique color palette of navy blue, dark...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mulberry Paper, Tissue Paper
Seillans - Oil in Canvas by Cesare Peverelli - 1965
Located in Roma, IT
Seillans is an amazing original contemporary artwork realized by the Italian artist Cesare Peverelli (Milan, 1922 - Paris, 2000) in 1965.
Mixed colored oil in canvas
Hand-signed a...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Toma Yovanovich Mid Century Abstract Splatter Painting 1960 Black and White
Located in Buffalo, NY
Mid-Century Modern black and white abstract expressionist painting by American artist Toma Tovanovich (1931- 2016). C...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Polyurethane Relief #16" White Abstract Geometric Sculptural Relief Painting
Located in Houston, TX
White abstract geometric sculptural relief painting by Houston, TX artist Robert Preusser. This painting features textured three-dimensional abstracted...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Polyurethane, Gesso
ABSTRACTION Mid-Century Abstract Color Field oil American Modern James Daugherty
Located in New York, NY
ABSTRACTION Mid-Century Abstract Non-Objective Color Field oil American Modern
James Daugherty (1887 – 1974) "Unidentified Flying Object," 12 x 16 inc...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Tavern, Abstract (1960)
By Chuck Close
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Chuck Close
Title: Tavern
Year of Work: 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed & Dated Upper Left
Dimensions: framed 31 x 25 unframed 30 x 24
Provenance: Chuck Close, Marjorie Dalton (Dear friend of Chuck), Private Collection.
Tavern, is truly a rare find, an original oil on canvas, in compelling blues and grays with a touch of gold and orange. This work reveals more imagery and detail the longer one enjoys it. This painting was created during his years studying in Yale Art School, and draws different qualities to each new viewer similar to a Rorschach. Close's work is in the collections of most of the great international museums of contemporary art, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City. and the Tate Modern in London.
Artist Bio:
Chuck Close – (1940-2021) an American painter, artist and photographer born in Monroe, Washington. Early childhood illnesses including a neuromuscular condition, nephritis and dyslexia were compounded later in life by a condition known as prosopagnosia (face blindness), which may have inspired him to do portraits. Most of his early, large-format portraits are based on photographs, using photorealism or hyperrealism, of family and friends, often other artists. Close often painted abstract portraits of himself and others, which hang in collections internationally. Even though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he continued to paint inspired by artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Close's first solo exhibition, held in 1967 at the University of Massachusetts Art Gallery, Amherst, featured paintings, painted reliefs, and drawings based on photographs of record covers. Being much in the mainstream of pop art, a fragment of Close's portrait of singer-songwriter Paul Simon...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A textured "Cosmic Abstraction " that we attributed to Yeffe Kimball.
While the work is unsigned the technique used with the blistering paint closely resembles her work.
A dynamic mi...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Abstract Biomorphic Spanish Bold Modern Oil Painting Angel Ponce de Leon
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstracto Rojo (Red Abstract)
Hand signed and dated 1966
Angel Ponce de León (Spanish-French, 1925-)
The artist, apparently still living in his late 8...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Acrylic on Canvas)
By Sacha Kolin
Located in New York, NY
This sophisticated Mid Century Modern abstract acrylic on canvas painting was realized by the esteemed 20th Century French-American artist Sacha Kolin (1911-1981) circa 1965. The com...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Expressionist Abstract #7, multi colored, Philadelphia artist, signed and framed
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Expressionist Abstract #7" is a 40 x 30 inches oil on board work by Philadelphia artist Morris Lewis Blackman. The painting is signed in the artist's monogram "MLB" in the lower left and it is estate stamped on verso. Additional shipping options are available by contacting the seller via 1stDibs messaging system.
Morris Blackman...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Black and White Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Stacha Halpern
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white abstract figurative painting by Polish-Australian artist, Stacha Halpern. This painting depicts large, thick, and bold black and white strokes accentuated by reds, bl...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Soleil Fendu by TOSHIMITSU ÏMAI - Abstract, Oil painting, Art Informel Movement
Located in London, GB
Soleil Fendu by TOSHIMITSU ÏMAI (1928-2002)
Oil on canvas
73 x 60 cm (28 ³/₄x 23 ⅝ inches)
Signed TOSHIMITSU IMAÏ, dated 1963 Paris and inscribed in Japanese on the reverse
Provenance
Private collection, Japan
A wonderful piece from his most important Paris perdiod.
Artist Biography
Born in Kyoto, Japan in 1928 Imai was part of the 20th-century Japanese avant-garde. He began his formal education at the Tokyo State Art Academy where he took up painting. His early works are characterised by colourful abstractions, reminiscent of Fauvism. In 1951 Imai was awarded the Kansai-Shinseisaku Prize and in 1952 the prize for the best new artist at the 15th Shinseisaku Salon.
Imai relocated to Paris in 1953, the same and subsequent year he exhibited at the Salon de L’Art Sacré. Meanwhile, he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Sorbonne to read medieval history and philosophy. In 1955, Imai completely abandoned representational art in favour of abstraction. After meeting the art critic Michel Tapié via the artist Sam Francis, Imai was the first Japanese artist to join the Art Informel movement.
In 1956 Imai was called upon by the Japanese artist Taro Okamoto to curate an exhibition entitled The World: Today’s Art in Tokyo. Artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Lucio Fontana, and Karel Appel gained important exposure in Japan. It was also in 1957 when Imai arranged for Tapié and the artists Georges Mathieu and Sam Francis to travel to Japan, that a connection between Art Informel and Gutai occurred. The Ashiya-based Gutai Art Association formed in 1954 was proclaimed a kindred spirit by Tapié which he subsequently promoted internationally. Founding members included Yoshihara Jiro, Kanayma Akira, Murakami Saburo, Shiraga Kazuo and Shozo...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In and Out, mid-century figural abstract vibrant yellow geometric painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
In and Out, 1963
Acrylic on paper
Signed and dated lower right
22 x 30 inches
Figural abstract vibrant yellow geometric painting.
Cl...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Henge
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
Materials
Gouache
Red On Green
By Rex Ashlock
Located in Lawrence, NY
Note: We would call the "red" more of a "tomato red".
Figurative expressionist Rex Ashlock began studying under David Park in 1938 at the then San Francisco
School of Fine Arts. F...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Fossils and shells" Oil cm. 100 x 120 Yellow, Brown 1960
Located in Torino, IT
Giacomo Soffiantino (Turin 1929 - Turin, 2013)
He taught at the artistic high school and at the Albertina Academy in Turin. He was a pupil of Francesco Menzio...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled. 1960's Abstract Mixed Media Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Adrian HEATH (1920-1992)
Untitled Composition
Mixed media
Signed and dated '64
Image 11.25" x 9"
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic, Pencil
Geometric Abstract
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
About the artist:
Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Guelph, Ontario,...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Mixed Media Drawing - Mid 20th Century by Rem Raymond Coninckx Belgium
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Rem Raymond Coninckx was born on 28th March in Couvin (Belgium) 1904 and died in Dinan 1974. He was a painter, draftsman, engraver and also created metallic panels and mosaics.
Cont...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Oil Pastel
The Yellow Ribbon
Located in Lawrence, NY
One of the "Women of Abstract Expressionism"
Caradoc Ehrenhalt would often accompany his mother, the artist Amaranth Ehrenhalt,
on her visits to the Louvre in Paris and the Metropoli...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Abstract Expressionist Forest Interior Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. No signature found. Image size, 24L x 18H. Framing available.
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Garden, Vintage Abstract Mixed Media on Paper in Pink, Orange, and Green
Located in Denver, CO
Burnished crayon and acrylic on paper by Edward Marecak (1919-1993) titled The Garden. 1960s abstract mixed media painting in shades of yellow, pink, and blue. Presented in a custom ...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Crayon, Acrylic
Highland Figures, Abstract Expressionist Painting by John Kinnear c1960
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Kinnear, Canadian (1922 - 2003)
Title: Highland Figures
Medium: Acrylic on masonite, signed lower right
Date: circa 1960
Image Size: 22 x 38 ...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Masonite, Acrylic
Expressionist Abstract #8, multi colored, Philadelphia artist, signed
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Expressionist Abstract #8" is a 50 x 28 inches oil on canvas work by Philadelphia artist Morris Lewis Blackman. The painting is signed in the artist's monogram "MLB" in the lower left and it is estate stamped on verso. Additional shipping options are available by contacting the seller via 1stDibs messaging system.
Morris Blackman...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Musicians
By Gen Paul
Located in Paris, FR
India ink on paper
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
LCD4790
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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India Ink
William Jacobs "Untitled 9" (Faces), original enamel on metal tile
Located in Glenview, IL
"Untitled 9 (Faces)" by noted Chicago painter William Jacobs (1897 - 1973) is a semi-abstract enamel painting on metal tile from a series created sometime ...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Enamel
Violonist
By Gen Paul
Located in Paris, FR
Pastel
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
LCD4789
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Earth Tone Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century modern abstract expressionist oil on canvas in rusty earth tones blending with subdued dark blues and whites by S. Palmer (American, 20th Century), c.1960. Signed lower r...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Study C60, " Ted Kurahara, Abstract Expressionism, Japanese-American Artist
By Ted Kurahara
Located in New York, NY
Ted N. Kurahara (b. 1925)
Study C60, 1960
Oil on canvas
70 x 50 inches
Signed and dated upper right corner
Artist label verso: TED N. KURAHARA STUDY C60, OIL PTG 1960 70” x 50” 800
Ted Kurahara works in a minimal style that transforms color planes into infinite depth. Following his upbringing Seattle and time spent in an Internment Camp before serving in the 442nd, a highly decorated Japanese American...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
William Jacobs "Untitled 4", original enamel on metal tile
Located in Glenview, IL
"Untitled 4" by noted Chicago painter William Jacobs (1897 - 1973) is a semi-abstract enamel painting on metal tile from a series created sometime in the 1...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Enamel
Musicians
By Gen Paul
Located in Paris, FR
India ink on paper
Not signed
LCD4791
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
India Ink
1960's Large Colorful Abstract Expressionist Swiss Oil Painting Robert Lauro
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil Painting on canvas
Hand signed to lower right Lauro.
Provenance: Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Work Size: 39.5 x 39.5 in. framed 44 X 44 inches.
Roberto Lauro is a British-Swiss Post War & Contemporary artist who was born in 1932.
Roberto Lauro was born in 1932 in Gorey Harbor on the island of Jersey (Great Britain) the son of a Swiss mother, Rosa Ramseier, from Oberdiessbach / Emmental, Switzerland, and and Italian father Innocenzo Roberto Lauro, born in Mondovi, Italy. In 1941 he moved to Switzerland with his mother. 1949-1953 he lived in Gunten (Switzerland) where he did an Apprenticeship as a lithograph and offset printer and graphic designer in Thun. There he was introduced to the color theory of Johannes Itten by Hermann Oberli at the Bern School of Applied Arts. From 1953 to 1955 he worked as a fine art printer in Norway where he was influenced by the color theory of Edvard Munch. These works bears the influence of Russian artist Andre Lanskoy, Tachisme and the Cobra artists Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, and Joseph Noiret.
In 1955-1956 he worked as an offset printer in Amsterdam (Netherlands). Visit to the Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs. In 1957 he returned to Gunten, Switzerland. Where he started working in printmaking and and oil painting. He resumed his studies at the Bern School of Applied Arts. He was greatly impacted and influenced by abstract art on the occasion of a large Paul KIee exhibition. In 1958 he moved to Zurich where he worked part-time work as an offset copyist; fulfilling graphic orders for advertising agencies. In 1962 he took his final examination as graphic designer at the Zurich School of Applied Arts. In 1980 he begins his development of three-dimensional picture objects, Sculpture, detachment from the canvas, using metal as a support and play space for light and color. By 1981 he has turned full time to fine art. He spends the next years growing and developing his considerable talent. Inspired by classical music, the rhythm, mood and lightness of which form the basis for the large swings and loops of his colorfully lacquered metal and blown glass sculptures. These are "pensieri", thought sketches that capture the emotions in countless versions. There is something dance-like about his rotating sculptures. Everything becomes music and the rhythm of colors. In 1988, after exhibitions in Europe, he has his first exhibitions in Atlanta and San Francisco (USA), In 1989 he does his first glass and metal sculptures at the Roberto Niederer...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Mykonos Church Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
A vibrant example of the artist's precisionist style where a tight semi-abstract geometric composition is inspired by architecture and is reduced to simplified geometric shapes with...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Gouache, Board
'Passacaglia, the Dance' New York, Brooklyn Museum, Berlin, Basel, AAC, NAD
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Landanyi' for Emory Landanyi (Hungarian-American, 1902-1986); additionally signed, verso, dated 1968 and titled, 'Passacaglia'.
Born in Hungary, Emory Ladanyi first attended the University of Budapest Medical School. During his medical residency in Berlin, he was especially influenced by the works of Edvard Munch, forerunner of German Expressionism. During a second residency, in Vienna, he was also exposed to the works of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Kokoschka who were influential in his further development.
In 1929, Landanyi arrived in New York and began to practice medicine which enabled him to continue painting. Outside of his professional work, he moved exclusively in the avant-garde artistic circles of New York City, becoming close friends of the composer Edgar Varese, the poet Kenneth Patchen...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
Note; Estate stamped and accompanied by COA
Oil pastel on paper laid to canvas
The history of the New York School painters is still being written, but Price earned a well-deserved ...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Espectros Ibéricos" Black, Gray, and Cream Abstract Figurative Painting
By Francisco Moreno Capdevilla
Located in Houston, TX
Black, grey, and cream toned figurative abstract painting by Mexican artist Francisco Moreno Capdevila. The work features various headless g...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Black on Black #4
By Jimmy Ernst
Located in Miami, FL
The artist has painted the work in matte black and gloss black. It a sense this is also an optical art “Op Art” in that it changes as the light changes. Jimmy Ernst was a major figure of the New York School of abstract painting and part of The Irascibles, and son of Max Ernst:
Provenance: Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, New York; Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York and Washington, D.C. (acquired from the above in 1966); Joseph H. Hirshhorn bequest, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., 1981; Sotheby's Arcade, New York, New York, February 24, 1995, lot 331; The Jeanne and Carroll Berry...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Enamel
Composition
Located in Lawrence, NY
A British painter active in Italy.
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Oil
Antique American School Abstract Expressionist Forest Interior Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. No signature found. Image size, 24L x 20H. Framing available.
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape, Woodstock, New York
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Abstract landscape view overlook mountain, Woodstock, NY , 1960's.Oil on canvas, estate signature stamp lower right. Also, Pinajian estate signature stamped back of the canvas. Arc...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Oil
'Abstract, Azure and Rose', Paris, Art Students League, Carnegie Institute, Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Paul England' (American, 1918-1988) and painted circa 1965.
With old label, verso, bearing title, 'Gutenburg'.
Framed in a period wh...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Masonite, Oil
Le regard, 1966 - Huile sur toile, 46x55 cm.
Located in Nice, FR
Huile sur toile. Dimensions avec cadre: 63x72 cm.
René Duvillier, né le 3 avril 1919 à Oyonnax (Ain) et mort le 5 septembre 2002 à Paris, est un peintr...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Oil
UNTITLED (1969), [SF69-005], Abstract Painting by Sam Francis
By Sam Francis
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Sam Francis (1923‐1994)
UNTITLED [SF69-005]
acrylic on paper
104.7 x 74.9 cm (41 1/4 x 29 1/2 in)
Executed in 1969
Signed and dated on the base
This work is identified with the int...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Paper, Acrylic
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1960's Large Colorful Abstract Expressionist Swiss Oil Painting Robert Lauro
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil Painting on canvas
Hand signed to lower right Lauro.
Provenance: Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Work Size: 39.5 x 39.5 in. framed 44 X 44 inches.
Roberto Lauro is a British-Swiss Post War & Contemporary artist who was born in 1932.
Roberto Lauro was born in 1932 in Gorey Harbor on the island of Jersey (Great Britain) the son of a Swiss mother, Rosa Ramseier, from Oberdiessbach / Emmental, Switzerland, and and Italian father Innocenzo Roberto Lauro, born in Mondovi, Italy. In 1941 he moved to Switzerland with his mother. 1949-1953 he lived in Gunten (Switzerland) where he did an Apprenticeship as a lithograph and offset printer and graphic designer in Thun. There he was introduced to the color theory of Johannes Itten by Hermann Oberli at the Bern School of Applied Arts. From 1953 to 1955 he worked as a fine art printer in Norway where he was influenced by the color theory of Edvard Munch. These works bears the influence of Russian artist Andre Lanskoy, Tachisme and the Cobra artists Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, and Joseph Noiret.
In 1955-1956 he worked as an offset printer in Amsterdam (Netherlands). Visit to the Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs. In 1957 he returned to Gunten, Switzerland. Where he started working in printmaking and and oil painting. He resumed his studies at the Bern School of Applied Arts. He was greatly impacted and influenced by abstract art on the occasion of a large Paul KIee exhibition. In 1958 he moved to Zurich where he worked part-time work as an offset copyist; fulfilling graphic orders for advertising agencies. In 1962 he took his final examination as graphic designer at the Zurich School of Applied Arts. In 1980 he begins his development of three-dimensional picture objects, Sculpture, detachment from the canvas, using metal as a support and play space for light and color. By 1981 he has turned full time to fine art. He spends the next years growing and developing his considerable talent. Inspired by classical music, the rhythm, mood and lightness of which form the basis for the large swings and loops of his colorfully lacquered metal and blown glass sculptures. These are "pensieri", thought sketches that capture the emotions in countless versions. There is something dance-like about his rotating sculptures. Everything becomes music and the rhythm of colors. In 1988, after exhibitions in Europe, he has his first exhibitions in Atlanta and San Francisco (USA), In 1989 he does his first glass and metal sculptures at the Roberto Niederer...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Nocturnal Train In The City Abstract Expressionism
By Tom Hamil
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright, small abstract expressionist painting of train and town at night by Tom Hamil (American, b. 1928). Signed upper left corner "Hamil". Condition: Excellent. Presented in rustic wooden shadow box frame. Image size: 8"H x 6"W.
Tom Hamil, was born in New York in 1928 and raised primarily in California. After attending the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, he returned to California to begin his formal art training at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute). He completed his education at the University of Washington with a Master’s Degrees and Doctorate in Fine Arts and Education. His first solo exhibition was held in 1956. Since then, he has participated in numerous one man shows, group shows, and has been represented in galleries in the US and Mexico.
In addition to his painting, Hamil has authored and illustrated a number of books. While at the Naval Academy, he received recognition for his paintings, drawings, and illustrations. Listed among Hamil’s many awards and honors are a Ford Foundation Fellowship and an Award of Excellence from the American Graphics Society.
Currently, he lives in Zirahuen, Michoacan, Mexico and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Hamil’s statement: “I am a man...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Masonite, Oil
Untitled
By Stephen Pace
Located in Lawrence, NY
Pace (1918-2010) was a noted significant second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter. After 1962, he began to paint in a representational, minimalist mode using broad brush stro...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Oil
Handel Organ Concerto Opus No. 4 B Flat Major - III Allegro
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Handel Organ Concerto Opus 4 No.6 B Flat Major - III Allegro
Watercolor and mixed pigments on paper, c. 1960's
Signed and titled recto (see photos)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 19 3/4...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Watercolor
Sea. 1988. Paper, gouache, 86x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sea. 1968. Paper, gouache, 86x60 cm
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Paper, Gouache
Figures on Black, from Subway series.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Figures on Black, 1960s, pastel on black acrylic ground on paper, signed lower middle.
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Acrylic
Health Club, Bank Street Series.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Health Club, 1960s (Bank Street Series) 23 x 29 inches, acrylic on Hammer paper, signed lower middle and inscribed: “Besser an die wand alsin die hand” (“B...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Acrylic
Carriage
By Gen Paul
Located in Paris, FR
India ink on paper
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
LCD4795
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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India Ink
The Train
By Gen Paul
Located in Paris, FR
India ink on paper
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
LCD4794
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
India Ink
Composition - Japanese Abstract French
By Jun Dobashi
Located in London, GB
JUN DOBASHI 1910-1975
1910 - Tokyo-1975 (Japanese)
Title: Composition, 1962
Technique: Original Signed and Dated Oil Painting on Canvas
size: 93 x 75 cm / 36.6 x 29.5 in
Additio...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Oil
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