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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
Bay Area Cubist Figure in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Bay Area Cubist Figure in Oil on Canvas by Ellis Hopkins (American, b. 1952). This vibrant cubist-inspired composition depicts a seated figure abstracted into interlocking planes o...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas, Stretcher Bars

Antique French Modernist Paris School Signed Street Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French modernist Paris school cityscape street scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring 27 by 40 inches overall and 26 by 39 painting alone. In excellent...
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1940s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Village Landscape Scene
Located in Astoria, NY
Jacob Eisenscher (Israeli, 1896-1980), Village Landscape Scene, Oil on Canvas, signed in Hebrew and English lower right, carved wood frame. Image: 25" H x 31.5" W; frame: 32.25" H x ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Celestial Tondo Pointillist Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Celestial Tondo, Pointillist Composition, Gouache on Paper, apparently unsigned, artist estate stamp to verso, with red dot sticker...
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1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

The Yellow Eiffel Tower, Oil on Canvas Painting by Claude-Max Lochu
Located in Atlanta, GA
This oil on canvas painting is by French artist Claude-Max Lochu (1951 -) and features an iconic Paris view with a poetic vision of the Eiffel Tower in yellow and purple tones. The a...
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1990s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Color Block Abstracted Still Life with Bust
Located in Soquel, CA
Color Block Abstracted Still Life with Bust by Ellis Hopkins (American, b. 1952). This bold composition combines the language of still life with geometric abstraction. Vivid blocks...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Board, Acrylic, Masonite

Vintage Mid Century Modern American Abstract Framed Landscape Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Signed and dated Rolfe '83, this vivid 1983 oil painting, titled "Country Road", transforms a rural scene into a dynamic interplay of color and form. With sweeping curves and stylize...
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1980s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

The Dark Web, Original Abstract Painting, 2019
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary: This piece is an exploration of the concept of "the dark web". I envisioned a constant flow of binary numbers endlessly moving towards an u...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings

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Leather, Mixed Media

On the Red Line, Black & Red Figural Abstract Ovoid, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) On the Red Line, 1965 Acrylic on textured paper Signed and dated lower right 24 x 31 inches 32.5 x 39 inches, framed There is damage ...
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1960s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Grün ist die Hoffnung, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
In German there is the saying that the color green stands for hope. And hope is what we need during the Corona-crises. Hope that we soon find a efficient medicine for the therapy of ...
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2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Longing to Belong - Figurative Surrealist Quirky Raccoon Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amanda Immurs, an artist hailing from Hamilton, Canada, creates enchanting oil and watercolor artworks that bring whimsical scenes of children, animals, and flora to life. Immurs' ar...
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2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sunset Grip
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...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Wax, Oil

Bay Area Abstract Painting with Viridian Green Square
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Composition with Viridian Square by Ellis Hopkins (American, b. 1952). This abstract composition features bold brushstrokes and highly contrasting colors. A large blue sha...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Stretcher Bars, Linen, Acrylic

1940's French Signed Modernist Oil Painting Nude Figure in Room Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude in Interior by Maurice Delavier (French mid 20th century) signed and dated 1944 oil on board, unframed board: 18.5 x 14.5 inches inscribed verso provenance: private collection, ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Fuego 8 - Modern Resin Blue Striped Minimalist Artwork
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings

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Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

CRESCENDO, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
CRESCENDO, by Pamela Boullier Ross, speaks to the artist's power and energy with palette knife and paint to create her multi-level, distinctly one-of-a-kind original masterpieces. ...
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2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Excavation
Located in New York, NY
Charles Houghton Howard was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the third of five children in a cultured and educated family with roots going back to the Massachusetts Bay colony. His father, John Galen Howard, was an architect who had trained at M.I.T. and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, and apprenticed in Boston with H. H. Richardson. In New York, the elder Howard worked for McKim, Mead and White before establishing a successful private practice. Mary Robertson Bradbury, Charles’s mother, had studied art before her marriage. John Galen Howard moved his household to California in 1902 to assume the position of supervising architect of the new University of California campus at Berkeley and to serve as Professor of Architecture and the first Dean of the School of Architecture (established in 1903). The four Howard boys grew up to be artists and all married artists, leaving a combined family legacy of art making in the San Francisco Bay area that endures to this day, most notably in design, murals and reliefs at the Coit Tower and in buildings on the Berkeley campus. Charles Howard graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1921 as a journalism major, and pursued graduate studies in English at Harvard and Columbia Universities before embarking on a two-year trip to Europe. Howard went to Europe as a would-be writer. But a near-religious experience, seeing a picture by Giorgione in a remote town outside of Venice, proved a life-altering epiphany. In his own words, “I cut the tour at once and hurried immediately back to Paris, to begin painting. I have been painting whenever I could ever since” (Charles Howard, “What Concerns Me,” Magazine of Art 39, no. 2 [February 1946], p. 63). Giorgione’s achievement, in utilizing a structured and rational visual language of art to convey high emotion on canvas, instantly convinced Howard that painting, and not literature, offered the best vehicle to express what he wanted to say. Howard returned to the United States in 1925, confirmed in his intent to become an artist. Howard settled in New York and supported himself as a painter in the decorating workshop of Louis Bouché and Rudolph Guertler, where he specialized in mural painting. Devoting spare time to his own work, he lived in Greenwich Village and immersed himself in the downtown avant-garde cultural milieu. The late 1920s and early 1930s were the years of Howard’s art apprenticeship. He never pursued formal art instruction, but his keen eye, depth of feeling, and intense commitment to the process of art making, allowed him to assimilate elements of painting intuitively from the wide variety of art that interested him. He found inspiration in the modernist movements of the day, both for their adherence to abstract formal qualities and for the cosmopolitan, international nature of the movements themselves. Influenced deeply by Surrealism, Howard was part of a group of American and European Surrealists clustered around Julien Levy. Levy opened his eponymously-named gallery in 1931, and rose to fame in January 1932, when he organized and hosted Surrealisme, the first ever exhibition of Surrealism in America, which included one work by Howard. Levy remained the preeminent force in advocating for Surrealism in America until he closed his gallery in 1949. Howard’s association with Levy in the early 1930s confirms the artist’s place among the avant-garde community in New York at that time. In 1933, Howard left New York for London. It is likely that among the factors that led to the move were Howard’s desire to be a part of an international art community, as well as his marriage to English artist, Madge Knight...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled, Abstract, Mixed Media on Paper by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Anita Roy Chowdhury - Untitled Watercolour on Paper 22 x 15 inches (Unframed & Delivered) A serene watercolour by Anita Roy Chowdhury, featuring a central leaf surrounded by abstrac...
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Early 2000s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Old Door
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz Old Door, 1953 Watercolor on paper Signed and dated by the artist on the lower right front 20 × 14 inches Unframed This unique and extre...
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1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

North African Street Market with Figures French Modernist Signed Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Market French School, indistinctly signed late 20th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 19.75 x 19.75 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition: very good cond...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Harbour
Located in London, GB
Born in Persia Gohar Goddard was educated in France and the foothills of the Himalayas. She came to England in her teens, working for a variety of organisations including the British...
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2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Color Block Modernist Still Life with Fruit Bowl
Located in Soquel, CA
Color Block Modernist Still Life with Fruit Bowl by Ellis Hopkins (American, b. 1952). This bold still life depicts a yellow bowl of fruit sitting on a table next to a long bottle,...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Large Contemporary Female American Modernist Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderful large abstract painting by Betty Weiss. Oil on canvas. Signed with her married name "Betty Perez". Measuring 52 by 65 inches. Artist Bio: Betty Weiss has been a Ne...
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Early 2000s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Blind Man's White Collage painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Mixed Media Collage Painting . signed and dated. Blindman's White Adja Yunkers b. 1900, Riga, Russia; d. 1983, New York Adja Yunkers was born Adolf Junkers on July 15, 1900, in Ri...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Abstract Cubist Diptych of Human Figures, Sitting with Each Other, Black, Blue
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a beautiful painting by Alberto de Blobs (Barcleona, 1982). Alberto is a talented painter whose elaborate mixture of figurative and free form ...
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2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Paper

Colorful Modernist Still Life with Fruit and Water Jug
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful Modernist Still Life with Fruit and Water Jug by Ellis Hopkins (American, b. 1952). This bold still life depicts a bowl of fruit resting on a table with a large green jug....
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Board, Oil

'Bird Abstraction' — Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Stephen Harty, Untitled (Bird Abstraction), gouache, 1953. Signed and dated lower left. A fine, meticulously rendered, mid-century, modernist gouache painting, with fresh colors on 1...
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1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Early Texas Modern Warm Toned Landscape of Oil Refinery in a Swamp Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern warm toned landscape watercolor painting by Texas artist E.M. "Buck" Schiwetz. The work features an oil refinery on a platform in the background with a bald cypress fram...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Watercolor

Oval Search, Modern Mixed Media on Canvas by Biagio Civale
Located in Long Island City, NY
Biagio Civale, Italian/American (1936 - ) - Oval Search, Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas, Signed Four Times, Size: 20 in. x 16 in. (50.8 cm x 40.64 cm), Frame Size: 30 x 24 inches
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1980s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

20th Century French Modernist Painting Purple Orange Pink Mauve Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed stamped verso painting : 24 x 20 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good a...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Under The Sea Series Nº 26. Oil fantasy underwater blue green red landscape
Located in Segovia, ES
Under The Sea Series Nº 26. Oil on paper. Fantasy underwater abstract landscape. Green-blue-red color. Transparencies effect. Measurements: (H) 40 cm. / 15.75 in. (W) 27 cm. / 10....
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2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Discovering Red (Gestural Abstraction, Red, Green, Blue, Gold, ~35% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ted Hinrichs Discovering Red Acrylic on Canvas Year: 2025 Size: 20 x 16 x 0.75 inches (50.8 x 40.64 x 1.9 cm) Signed by hand COA provided *On Stretcher Frame (Painted Edges), ready ...
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2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

"Nightmare at Baskin Robbins" Abstract Oil Painting Illustrator Bill Shields
Located in Arp, TX
William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010 "Nightmare at Baskin Robbins II" 1994 Oil on canvas 48"x42" artist framed Signed lower right William Stephens Shields, Jr., 1925 - 2010 He was born in san Francisco, in 1931, Bill moved to Texas, where he grew up. Moved to New York in 1940 and later joined the Naval Air Corps at the age of 18. He served as an Aviation Cadet in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945. At the end of WWII, Bill returned to Texas. At 21, Bill re-focused his energy and enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Art as an Illustration major. What followed was a whirlwind of success, great friendships and a sense of belonging he had never before experienced. Art was his calling and the art-world could not have been less prepared for the likes of Bill Shields. He took them by storm, first Houston, then San Francisco, followed by New York in the late 60's. For 35 years, Bill produced some of the country's best illustrations: fresh, playful, loose and innovative. His illustrations were coveted by such clients as Bantam Books, Time Life, MacMillan Publishing Co., and were awarded numerous gold medals by the Societies of Illustrators in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and the Houston Artists Guild. Later, following inspirational trips to Mexico and France, Bill shifted his attention to the self-directed world of fine art. After years of sculpting, making assemblages, painting nudes and landscapes, he settled on the exploration of large abstract oil paintings. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries in San Francisco, Connecticut and New York. CV EDUCATION: Chicago Academy Of Fine Art San Antonio Art Institute MAJOR FIELDS OF PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVOR: Freelance graphic design and illustration Instructor of painting and illustration Landscape, figurative and abstract painting ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT: (Professor of Art) California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA San Francisco Art Institute San Jose State University AWARDS FOR ILLUSTRATION, Gold Medals: New York Society of Illustrators Los Angeles Society of Illustrators San Francisco Society of Illustrators Dallas-Fort Worth Art Director's Club Houston Artist's Guild BIBLIOGRAPHY: Feature articles in: American Artist, Communication Arts, Print, North Light. Architectural design featured in: Better Homes and Gardens, American Home, Sunset Magazine, Architectural Digest. ILLUSTRATION CLIENTS: Oil Companies: Champlin Oil Company, Mobil Oil Company, Continental Oil Company, Standard Oil Company, Humble Oil and Refining Company. Industrial: Hughes Tool Company, General Electric, United States Steel, Phelps Dodge, Sylvania Television, Texas Gulf Sulphur, Litton Industries, Houston Lighting and Power Company...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Red Figure Sketch
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...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Cindy Kane 1985 Original Painting on Plywood
Located in New York, NY
Cindy Kane (American, b. 1957) Untitled, 1985 Oil on plywood Sight: 31 1/2 x 28 1/2 in. Framed: 39 3/4 x 36 x 2 in. Signed lower right: KANE Signed, titled, dated verso: Cindy Kane, Untitled, 1985 Cindy Kane (American, 1957-) grew up in Washington DC during the Vietnam War era, absorbing the period's powerful political climate. She is a self-taught artist whose multi media work is born out of a deep sense of connection to the political and environmental issues of our times. Her early work was influenced by the experience of living and working at the bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park, where she had the opportunity to document Anasazi Indian pictographs in pen and ink drawings. These images would inform her work for years to come. She draws on personal narrative and experience to create her paintings of maps, birds, toys, and artifacts from nature, often collaging bits of newspaper headlines, pieces of her children's homework, and pages of sheet music beneath layers of color and imagery. In a review of her work, author and critic John Loughery wrote; "Kane leads us into a peculiar netherworld, a hard to place area that's both reassuringly ancient, and anxiously modern. This is a painter who is interested in the unconscious and the archetypal, and utilizes her own private, (but not inaccessible) vocabulary and imagery." In a submission to AskART, Diana Wilson...
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1980s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Plywood, Oil

Large French Surrealist Abstract Oil Painting Black Ochre Beige Cream Colours
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition by Jack Penouel (French 1936-2018) oil on canvas, framed framed: 32.5 x 26 inches canvas : 32 x 25.5 inches provenance: the artists e...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Abstract Interior Scene
Located in Surfside, FL
Measures 16.5 X 20 without frame. heavy craquelure. it seems like some sort of experimental technique the artist used. paint is stable. please see photos Abram Tromka was born May 1, 1896 in Poland. At the age of seven he immigrated with his family to the United States, settling in New York City. It was on the boat coming to New York where Tromka first became interested in art. Fascinated by a woman who was painting, he decided that he wanted to become an artist. Upon arrival at immigration headquarters, Tromka’s family adopted the surname “Phillips,” which he kept until 1930. Hence the artist’s early works bear the signature — ‘A. Phillips.’ Having a rough childhood, Tromka left home at 15 and spent the remainder of his teenage years living at the Henry Street...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Untitled, Figurative, Ink on Paper by Modern Indian Manu Parekh "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Manu Parekh - Untitled, Ink on Paper 28 x 20 inches, 2016 ( Unframed & Delivered ) This artwork, an untitled ink on paper by Manu Parekh, reflects his signature exploration of abstr...
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2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Pan of Bolts" and on Verso Joan Brown Swimming W/Manuel Neri Walking on Water
Located in Soquel, CA
"Pan of Bolts" and on Verso Joan Brown Swimming W/Manuel Neri Walking on Water Sally Wilt studied with Joan at California School of Fine Art Stunning lar...
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1960s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstract Nude Lady with Dali Style Moustache Very Large French Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Lady with the Moustache French School, late 20th century signed oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 36 x 29 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very goo...
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Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"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...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Blue & Chanel" Modern Abstract Nude in Style Modigliani Oil Painting on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
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2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Archival Paper, Acrylic

St Tropez Harbor France Large 1970's French Modernist Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
St Tropez French Modernist artist, indistinctly signed circa 1970 oil on canvas, framed framed: 13 x 37 inches canvas: 12 x 36 inches provenance: private collection, France conditio...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Vintage American Modernist Giltwood Framed Forest Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist forest landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely fr...
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1950s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Zodiac Magic Circle - Oil Paint by Mino Meno - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on wooden panel realized by Mino Meno in 1980s. Hand signed and titled on rear. It bears a contemporary wooden frame cm. 59.5x49.
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1980s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Lyrical Abstract Israeli Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Hanna Ben Dov is an Israeli abstract painter who was born in Jerusalem in 1919 and died in Paris in 2008. Ben Dov's father, Yacov Ben-Dov, was a famous Israeli photographer who founded the photography department in the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 1910. Hannah herself attended Bezalel during the 1940s, and later continued to Camberwell College of Arts in London. After the completion of her formal education she moved to Paris, where she exhibited for the first time in 1948 and has been living and working there since, as a part of the local abstract artists school. She took part in the first French Biennale of 1951, that was held in Menton. Collections Her paintings can be found in several collections, including the French State Collection, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art collection, the Bezalel National Museum collection in Jerusalem and the Rockefeller Museum collection in New York. Ben Dov resided for her last two years at the Maison Des Artistes Home in Nogent-Sur-Marne, France, just outside Paris. Exhibitions Gallery97 Tel Aviv Paintings...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'The Soul is Music' France, Provence, California, Post Impressionist Figural Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'J.da Silveira' for Jose Da Silveira (French-American, born 1965), titled, 'The Soul is Music' and painted circa 2002. Additionally...
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Early 2000s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Football Match 20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting playing football
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...
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20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Untitled 4, from series "Monumental Figures"
Located in Zofingen, AG
Ruslan Perekucha was born in 1967. Since childhood, he was interested in the history of art, and he loved modernism most of all. This prompted him to collect antiques and art in the ...
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2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Archival Paper, Pastel

'Pink and White Poppies beneath Blue Skies', Whitney Museum, PAFA, AIC, ASL, ICA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'C G Nelson' for Carl Gustaf Simon Nelson (American, 1898-1988) and dated 1956. A substantial, Modernist oil showing a profusion of white and pink poppies contra...
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1960s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"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

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Canvas, Oil

Small Tide Pools 36 - Small Modern Resin Minimalist Artwork
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings

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Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Thousand and One Nights" Painting with Plastic Technique, Erika Baktay
Located in Rome, IT
"Thousand and One Nights" painting with individual plastic Technique, Erika Baktay. This painting can be placed both horizontally and vertically. Dimensions: cm 70 x 50 with frame cm...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Abstract Expressionist Landscape in Vibrant Yellow and Earth Tones
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Jill Jackson (British, contemporary) Title: Abstract Expressionist Landscape Medium: oil on artist paper, unframed Painting : 19.75 x 14 inches Provenance: all t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Original 20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting Man in Punt Boat by Houses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Man in Boat by Raymond Guidot (French, 1935 - 2021) artists studio stamp verso oil painting on board, unframed board: 10.75 x 9 inches stamped verso condition: very good provenance:...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Antique English Modernist Tropical Palm Tree Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique English landscape oil painting by Julian Barrow (1939 - 2013). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 10 by 12 inches overall, and 8 by 10 painting alone. In excellent or...
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1940s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Modern Abstract Landscape with Blues, Greens, and Yellows
Located in Houston, TX
Large, soft brush strokes in cool tones form an abstract composition reminiscent of a marine landscape, by artist Barn Post, c.1960. Displayed in a white mat with a gold border and f...
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1960s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Paint, Paper

Expressions in Bloom: Portraits from the 20th Century XIV - Florentine School
Located in London, GB
'Expressions in Bloom: Portraits from the 20th Century XIV', oil on canvas mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings thro...
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1980s Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

The Window 317 - Modern Resin Beige Minimalist Artwork
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

Vehement
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ted Hinrichs Vehement Acrylic on Canvas Year: 2021 Size: 48x40in Framed: 50x42x2.5in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 24802-1716 *Framed in black Wood ...
Category

2010s Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Vehement
Vehement
$3,333 Sale Price
43% Off

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