Modern Abstract Paintings
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Vintage American Modernist Adirondack Mountain Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring 35 by 47 inches overall and 27 by 39 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Hands...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Modernist Abstract Still Life Interior View Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract still life oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 22L x 13H. Signed.
Category
1940s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Under the Twilight Canopy
Located in Atlanta, GA
The recent paintings of Atlanta artist David Kidd continue an evolving series of images inspired by and based upon natural forms, specifically the shadows cast by trees and other veg...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Large Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas "Galactic Solar Rays" Serg Graff, COA
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is a unique original oil painting on canvas in a fantasy abstract style by Serg Graff Titled "Galactic Solar Rays". Bright colors and texture make this picture 3D and expressiv...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Rare German Israeli Surrealist Judaica Abstract Gouache Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
A Surrealist Judaica scene of a bearded man (Rabbi) in a boat with Shabbat candlesticks.
Sight size: 17.75" x 22.5". Overall size with frame: 26.5" x31.5"
Naftali Bezem (Hebrew: נ...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Chicago Jewish Modernist Mixed Media Surrealist Painting WPA Artist Mosaic Tiles
Located in Surfside, FL
Alexander Raymond Katz (Hungarian-American, 1895-1974)
initialed l.r. "A.R.K."
inscribed verso "Prayer Tree", A Raymond Katz."
Sight size: 39-3/4"h x 30"...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Alkyd, Board
Modern Abstract Blue Rose, Vintage Abstracted Minimalist Floral by Eleanor Perry
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern Abstract Blue Rose, Vintage Abstracted Minimalist Floral by Eleanor Perry
Modernist blue and white rose abstract by San Francisco, California artist Eleanor Louise Perry (Ame...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Acrylic
Sunset Grip
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wax, Oil
Wounds, Figurative, Lithograph on Paper by Artist Somnath Hore "In Stock"
By Somnath Hore
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Somnath Hore - Wounds
Lithograph on Paper
15 x 22 inches, 1975
(Framed & Delivered)
Inclusive of shipment mounted not framed, Should you wish to receive the same framed and shipped ...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
In Tune 69 - Small Modern Resin Blue Striped Minimalist Artwork
By Ricky Hunt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
'Central Railroad' — Mid-Century African-American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Elmer Harris (Beni E. Kosh), Untitled (Central Railroad), watercolor, c. 1945. Estate stamped verso, 'Beni E Kosh COLLECTION' and numbered '697' in ink. A fine, modernist re...
Category
1940s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, India Ink
"Shrimp"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Right
Bror Julius Olsson “B.J.O.” Nordfeldt (1878 - 1955)
Bror Julius Olsson was born in Tullstrop, Sweden in 1878. He immigrated to the United States in 1891, later adopting his mother’s maiden name of Nordfeldt. Beginning his art studies at the Art Institute of Chicago where he was chosen to assist fellow artist, Albert Herter, with a large mural project for the McCormick Harvester Company. In 1900, he was sent to Paris by McCormick to help set up the completed mural at the Paris Exposition. While there, he studied briefly at the Academie Julian before traveling to England to study woodblock printmaking under F. Morley Fletcher. Returning to Chicago in 1903, Nordfeldt would spend the next ten years painting mainly figurative works in an academic style similar to that of the Old Masters. By the mid-teens he had developed a bold dramatic modernist style and divided his time between New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. There, he invented the “Provincetown Print...
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1940s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist 1945 Abstract Waterfall Watercolor Landscape Painting by Eve Drewelowe
Located in Denver, CO
This striking 1945 abstract landscape watercolor by pioneering modernist artist Eve (Van Ek) Drewelowe, titled "The Champagne Cascades, Crescendos, Crashes," is a bold interpretation...
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1940s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Horse Race Painting by Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A dynamic, Mid-Century Modern horse race painting by noted Chicago artist, Rudolph Pen. Artwork size: 27" x 23"; Framed size: 27 1/2" x 23 1/2". Signed "Pen" lower right. Provenan...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Moon Glow by Robert Terry
Located in Brookville, NY
Born 1955 in Broken Bow, Nebraska. Lives and works in New York.
AWARDS
National Endowment for the Arts, Major Grant
Robert Terry was best noted in his depictions of romantic moons...
Category
1990s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
No. 3 -1960
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 hards...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Untitled Gestural Abstract Composition
Located in Kansas City, MO
Matthias Kohlmann
Untitled Gestural Abstract Composition
Medium: Gouache
Year: 1991
Signed and dated by hand
Edition: Unique
Size: 13.7 × 9.9 inches
COA provided
Matthias Kohlmann (...
Category
1990s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Thunderous
Located in Sheffield, MA
Emory Ladanyi
Hungarian, 1902-1986
Thunderous
Mixed Media on Canvas
Signed Lower Right
Inscribed & titled on Verso
40 by 48 in. W/frame 42 by 50 in.
Born November 8, 1902 in Kecskemet, Hungary, the child of Mihaly and Maria Ladanyi, Emory Ladanyi moved with his family to Eger, a town famous for its good wine. He studied at the High School of Science and Art.
At fifteen, he discovered anatomy in a textbook and began to consider a career in medicine, and was accepted into the Medical School of The University of Budapest to become a medical student. He received his doctoral degree in 1927 and did his residency in dermatology in the largest hospital in Berlin, then one of the most prominent dematology centers of Europe.
In Berlin, he was especially impressed by the works of Edvard Munch, forerunner of German Expressionism, who exerted a lasting influence on his work. Following medical residency in Vienna, he was also impressed by the works of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Kokoschka.
In 1928 he returned to Budapest to continue postgraduate studies, also advancing his art education. His many friends were among the avant-garde poets and writers of that time.
In March 1929, he arrived in New York. June of that year, he passed the medical boards, and in September received his license to practice medice in the State of New York.
Outside of the medical profession which enabled him the livelihood to continue to paint, he moved exclusively in avant-garde circles of New York City. He was a close friend of the composer Edgar Varese. Others of his circle were poet Kenneth Patchen...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Framed Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted modernist landscape by Robert Noel Blair (1912 - 2002). Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed Image size, 23 by 31 inches. In excellent original condition. ...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Original California Figurative Abstract Still Life Ink Drawing Joyce Treiman
By Joyce Treiman
Located in Surfside, FL
Joyce Treiman
Ink on paper, framed under glass; signed in pencil lower right;
Dimensions: 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches; 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches frame.
Joyce Wahl Treiman was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and teacher. Her work ranged from "the impishly perverse and humorously paradoxical to the brilliant and profound." She was known as an excellent draftsperson throughout her career. She made several trips to Europe to study the old masters, and the human figure is central in her work. In her later paintings she is known to have inserted self-portraits. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and then studied at the State University of Iowa (today the University of Iowa) under the influential painter Philip Guston. During World War II she worked as a commercial artist but resigned when she began to have success with exhibitions of her work in Chicago and New York.
In 1945 she married Kenneth Treiman, and son Donald, now an Architect, was born in 1950. The Treimans, along with Rene and Rose Wahl, moved to Los Angeles in 1960. She was in an exhibit of Tamarind prints...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Paper
Modernist Persian Iranian Middle Eastern Abstract Fereydoun Assa Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Fereydoun (Fred) Rahimi Assa (Iranian, b. 1936)
"Lonely Soul in Desert"
Oil and mixed media on canvas, Hand signed lower left
Framed : 40-1/2"h x 30-1/2"w
Sight: 40"h x 30"w Made with metallic foil or paint, the patchwork-like piece bears geometric designs and symbols.
Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, Fereydoun Rahimi Assa (b. 1936) moved to Tehran at the age of three. He attended the College of Decorative Arts, Tehran in the same year group as well-known formidable masters, Hossein Zenderoudi and Massoud Arabshahi.
After being awarded a travelling scholarship in 1964, Rahimi-Assa went to Israel for three months of study. Although Rahimi-Assa saw success through the several exhibitions he held in Israel, unable to secure a long-term visa and not keen to return to Iran, he found himself in the US – in no small part, thanks to the help of Eric Azari in obtaining a long-term residency visa.
Fred Rahimi-Assa went first to New York and later settled in New Jersey. While in New York, he worked in some capacity at Columbia University’s Painting department where he also exhibited several times, including a solo show in 1968. In the same year, Rahimi-Assa participated in a group exhibition of Modern Persian painting, sponsored by the Centre for Iranian Studies at Columbia University – founded that year by Professor Ehsan Yarshater (Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies, Columbia University). After moving out of the City, to New Jersey in the 1970s, Rahimi Asa continued to exhibit with local institutes and organized art seminars in the homes of various artists.
His work was included in the Middle East auction held by Sotheby's. It includes pioneering artists such as Egyptian Mahmoud Mokhtar, Moroccan modernism, Mohamed Melehi...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Foil
In Tune 66 - Small Modern Resin Yellow Striped Minimalist Artwork
By Ricky Hunt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
The Window 317 - Modern Resin Beige Minimalist Artwork
By Ricky Hunt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Morat, " 1960s Modern Abstract Painting
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Modernist artist Stanley Bate combines deep, textured red with creme and dark blue and grey. Geometric shapes throughout the painting are softened by the en...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figure with Guitar II
By Henry Fitch Taylor
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York;
Collection of Jeptha H. Wade and Emily Vanderbilt Wade, Boston, until 2025
Exhibitions
Cleveland Museum of Art, Art for Collectors, 1971...
Category
1910s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
West Wind (Abstracted Landscape of Country Field, Clouds, and Light Blue Sky)
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract landscape painting of a white cloud in a light blue sky over an expansive dark brown country field
"West Wind," painted by David Konigsberg in 2019
18 x 24 x 2 inches
Ready...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century American Abstract, possibly Fisherman's wharf San Francisco, Ca
By Mel Fowler
Located in Woodbury, CT
Midcentury oil on canvas , Wharf scene, possibly Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco.
Mel Fowler (1921-1987) was a listed Italian-American painter known for ...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Anthony Benjamin was born in England on 29 March 1931. He began his study at Southall Technical College in 1947 as an engineering draughtsman and was accepted into Regent Street Poly...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Construction Site Landscape by Paul Delapoterie - Oil on wood 43.5x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Paul Delapoterie, born in 1930, is a painter from Geneva, Switzerland. His work spans various styles, including abstract landscapes, figurative portraits, and surrealist pieces. Know...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Sea Colours Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021),
Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Salome dance"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This is a modern interpretation of Salome's Legendary Dance. The head of John is presented here as a dessert dish, a prize for the performance of his dance. The dog is waiting for th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Jo"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Ashley John is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
Gershon Benjamin is a painter of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene. He had a pro...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Grey Bridge Red Sky Scape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021),
Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Black American Modernist New York Street Scene Framed HUGE Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare and large early American modernist oil painting by Nicholas Davis (Born 1937). Oil on canvas. Framed. Important provenance. Measuring 52 by 32 inches.
Artist bio:
Nicholas Davis (Amer. B. 1937)
Nicholas Davis was born in New York City in 1937. He studied at the Arts Students League, and in Mexico City. He was included in the 1969 Exhibition of 100 Afro-American Artists at the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum. That exhibition included the works of Henry Ossawa Turner, Romare Bearden, Hale Woodruff, Edward Bannister...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Modernist 20th century Oil Painting Sun Scorched Corsica Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Corsica
signed by Lucien Gondret (French 1941-2023)
signed oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 13 x 18 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
conditi...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Artist White Suit, Wild Tie" Colorful Modern Abstract Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Colorful modern abstract portrait painting by Houston, TX artist David Adickes. The work features an artist in a white suit with a colorful abstract tie. Unsigned. Framed in a beauti...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Abstraction"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Arthur B. Carles (1882-1952)
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Arthur Carles was a painter whose work went through phases...
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Doledrum ( Industrial Environmental Pollution
Located in Miami, FL
Out of many come one. A huge back mountain is formed out of scores of gas spewing smokestacks. The foreboding back mass fills most of the pictorial area. As one gets closer to the canvas, the complexity of the mass if revealed in low on contrast as we see the diverse variety of the stacks with accompanying petrochemical architecture. Above the stacks, plums of air pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides rise gracefully into the atmosphere. The artist focuses less on the by-product of the stacks and more on his giant pollution machine that he has so astutely rendered. The work is mostly monochromatic but the artist has indicted a red tonality of a sunset/sunrise that offsets the charcoal blacks and grays.
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Submitted by Tamarind Institute
Ian Davis...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Chicago Modernist Gouache Painting Shabbat Hebrew Calligraphy WPA Artist Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
A Judaica painting with Hebrew Calligraphy by noted Chicago Modernist. Alexander Raymond Katz (his Hungarian first name, Sandor, was anglicized to A...
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
1960's French Expressionist Oil Painting Portrait of Christ Crucifixion
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Christ (The Crucifixion)
by Jean Pierre Stagnaro (French, 1960's)
signed, titled and dated verso
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 18 x 15 inches
provenance: private collection, France...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hayfields: Impressionist Painting of Bouquet by David Konigsberg
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract landscape painting of a gestural blue cloud over an olive green field
"Hayfields" painted by David Konigsberg in 2015
oil on wood panel, 23 x 24 x 2 inches
Ready to hang, s...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s "Mound Street" Mid Century Figurative Painting American Modernist
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Mound Street"
c. 1950s
Gouache paint on paper
24" x 18'" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
For sale is a striking black and white painting titled "Mound Stre...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Antique Modernist Coastal Seascape Framed Fauvist Large Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist landscape painting by Jan Matulka (1890 - 1972). Watercolor on paper. Signed. Framed. Measuring 24 by 28 inches overall and 15.5 by 19.5 painting alone.
Category
1920s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reed 22 November 09:54 - Modern Nature Oil Painting, Abstract, Minimalism
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Velloso - Vibrant Orange Green Southwest Inspired Pop Art Cactus Painting
By Will Beger
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Will Beger and his contemporary-minimalist paintings, take on an entirely unique approach to southwest art. Influenced by his youth and inspired by nature, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Modernist French Portrait of a Woman Holding Flowers Expressive Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Modernist Portrait of Woman with Flowers
French artist, circa 1960's
Signed lower right corner
Oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas: 24 x 18 inches
Provenance: Private collection, France
C...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century French Modernist Signed Oil Provence Landscape, framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, late 20th century, signed
Title: Provencal Landscape
Medium: oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 28.5 x 22.5
Canvas : 24 x 19 inches
Provenance: privat...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Air Chamber, Mid-Century Figural Abstract Collage, Anatomy & Ovoids
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Air Chamber, 1965
Collage, graphite and gouache on paper
Signed and dated upper left
30 x 22 inches
Provenance: Descended through the family.
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite
Israeli Modernist Abstract Expressionist Seascape Oil Painting Tel Aviv Harbor
By Motke Blum
Located in Surfside, FL
In this artwork the artist uses the medium spontaneously .The paint has been applied thickly to the surface. The resulting work emphasizes the physical act of painting itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of the artist.
size is with frame.
Motke Blum was born in Racacun, Romania in 1925. Early in his childhood, the Blum family moved to Bukarest where they settled in a house situated near a circus. The circus would become young Blum's greatest love. He befriended several of the clowns and other performers and, when not painting or playing in clay, Blum could be found enjoyoing the company of these spirited entertainers. These experiences would later become a recurring theme in many of his works of art.
In 1938, he was taken by the Romanian Iron Guard. When the Germans invaded Romania, Blum was taken to a forced labor camp. Even during his imprisonment, he continued to create art, painting on the walls of the camp. He escaped the camp in 1944 and boarded an immigrants' ship to Israel. One of the three ships in the convoy was sunk by a German torpedo. Motke later incorporated shipwrecks, boats, and other maritime subjects into several of his paintings.
Over the course of his long and fruitful career, Blum showed internationally at over fifty one-man-shows with exhibits in Israel, Holland, England, Belgium, the United States, France, Australia, and more. His art has been commissioned for public buildings and by prominant figures in Israel and around the world, and a series of posters were commissioned by the Justice Ministry and the Ministry of Tourism.
Giving back to the community has been a focus throughout his life. After establishing a studio at Chutzot Hayotzer, Motke welcomed schools and both adults and children with special needs, using painting...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Playa Mayor. Salamanca
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Early 2000s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper
A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Horse Race Painting by Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Large, Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Horse Race by noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. Artwork size: 24" x 36"; Framed size: 25" x 37". Signed "Pen" lower right and ti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Portrait
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed
size: 17 x 7 inches
condition: very good and ready to be e...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
"Phoenix Nest, " 1960s Modern Abstract Painting
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
This original Modern abstract painting by Stanley Bate is made with oil paint on canvas, and was painted circa 1960. It features a bold, vibrant red hue, with dark shapes lining the ...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vibrant Mid-20th Century Modernist Med Seascape Sailboats & Coastal Buildings
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Modernist Seascape
by Henry D'Anty (French 1910-1998)
signed oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 10 x 12 inches
Canvas : 5.5 x 7 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: fr...
Category
20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-Century Modern Abstracted Cubist Table Still-Life in Acrylic on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-Century Modern Abstracted Cubist Table Still-Life in Acrylic on Masonite
Vibrant mid-century modern still life with abstracted synthetic cubist elements in warm colors, highligh...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Love Across Time Zones
Located in East Hampton, NY
fun with Color Theory
As seen at Art on Paper 2024 at The Mannix Project East Hampton NY
12"x12" (14"x14" framed) each
These come in a white frame.
Acrylic on Paper
Artist Statement...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
1940's French Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Winding River Lush Green Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Winding River
French School, 1947
signed & dated
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 20 x 24 inches
canvas: 14 x 18.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstracted Figure in Nature in Ink and Pastel on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Figure in Nature in Ink and Pastel on Paper
Beautiful and unique abstract piece of a figure in nature by Frank Rowland (American, 1927-2012). The graceful and simplifie...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink
Modern abstract paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Modern abstract paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add abstract paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, red, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Stanley Bate, Christel Haag, Clarence Holbrook Carter, and Carmen Gutierrez. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Modern abstract paintings, so small editions measuring 18 inches across are also available. Prices for abstract paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $380 and tops out at $175,000, while the average work sells for $2,970.