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
Collage Series IX, Mixed Media, Paper, Foil, Acrylic, Blue, White "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Collage Series IX - 23 x 16 inches (unframed size)
Collage Series, Mixed Media, Paper, Foil, Acrylic.
Will be shipped, ready to hang with frame .
Sunil Das (1939-2015) ...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Foil
$5,999 Sale Price
33% Off
Collage Series V, Abstract, Mixed Media, Fevicryl Fire, Foil, Yellow "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Collage Series V - 16 x 11 inches (unframed size)
Collage Series, Mixed Media, Fevicryl Fire on thick Imported Paper
Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form.
Sunil D...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Foil
Penographic II, White, Black Colour Drawing by Indian Artist Sunil Das "In Stock
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Penographic II - 17 x 13 inches (unframed size)
Penographic Series. Single Edition 1 / 1 (each).
( Framed & Delivered )
Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian ...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Modernist Painting, "Exhibit Preening"
By Peter Geise
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind acrylic and mixed media painting on wood panel by San Diego artist, Peter Geise. It is unframed. Its dimensions are 9"x12" A certif...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Changing Rock I, Mythscape Series, Indian Heritage, Oil on Canvas, Art"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Amitabh Sengupta - Changing Rock I - 60 x 60 inches (unframed size)
Oil on canvas
** This work will be shipped in roll form to save on shipping cost.
Mythscape Series : This series...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Litho work by National award winner, Modern Indian artist Sunil Das
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Litho work by extremely talented Indian Artist Sunil Das - 13.5 x 18.5 inches ( unframed size)
Lithograph.
Sunil Das ( 1939-...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Brooklyn Dusk Panel Painting
Located in Booklyn, NY
Brooklyn Dusk is painted on panel. The glass-like finish can be achieved on few other surfaces. I was attracted to this style of painting early on, seduced by the deep delicate tones...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Oil, Pigment
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
XXXL painting called 'Looking for the ultimate pleasure'
Located in Oostende, BE
XXXL painting called 'Looking for the ultimate pleasure'
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Fort Greene Park
Located in Booklyn, NY
In 1981, Fort Greene Park was somewhat neglected and bared the same existential, graffitied, stamp mark that covered most of NYC in the 80's. Fort Greene Park became part of my hist...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Oil, Wood Panel, Pigment
Forest Cardboard, oil, 30x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Forest
Cardboard, oil, 30x30 cm
Lidija Auza
(1914. 24. 02 Vitebsk, Belarus – 1989. 13. 12 Riga, Latvia) Painter
She studied at the Art Academy of Latvia (1936-1938) and gradua...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$1,528 Sale Price
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Modern Colorful Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original 1950's unsigned abstract. This whimsical bright work comes housed in a contemporary natural wood frame presentation which signs on the w...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$515 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape
By Wes Olmsted
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original watercolor painting by Westley "Wes" Olmsted. This work is currently featured in the exhibition Man of Extremes at Benjaman Gallery in Buffalo, NY.
Westley G. Olmsted ...
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Casa Loma Stomp
Located in New York, NY
Born in 1927 and raised in Cleveland, Fenton already had a successful career as a commercial artist and designer by age 22. In 1955, he relocated to New York to attend Pratt Insti...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Shift' oil on Board c2020
Located in Frome, Somerset
'Shift', oil on board by Sabrina Rowan Hamilton. M.A. Widely exhibited Internationally solo & group shows.
Mounted in a glazed box frame.
Sabrina's paintings are a substantial part o...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$542 Sale Price
39% Off
Le Bouquet, 1968 - Oil paint, 83x103 cm, framed
By Will H.Torehuysen
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas, signed lower right.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Aire
Located in Atlanta, GA
Rosa McMurtray is an internationally exhibited artist who was born in Spain and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Her innate artistic talent was reco...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Acrylic
$1,105
Rosa's Universe #23
Located in Atlanta, GA
Rosa McMurtray is an internationally exhibited artist who was born in Spain and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Her innate artistic talent was reco...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Acrylic
Untitled, 2021
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original oil painting beach parasols BLUE DREAM by Carole Grandgirard France
Located in Antwerp, BE
Original painting beach with parasols BLUE DREAM Viviane.
By Carole Grandgirard, title and signature on the back of the canvas.
Oil on canvas.
Contemporary, France 2022.
Carole G...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cardboard
Mickey
Located in Atlanta, GA
Dominique Mulhem was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine June 13, 1952.
1975: Training at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
His painting refers to pop culture and art Ownership (art) by his inspiration. His technique was initially very pop art with the use of the bomb and stencils and more hyperrealistic with airbrushing to become a modern pointillism.
It was the first multimedia artist inventing in 1979 the holopeinture where he mixed paint holography. He had to work in the early 70s on the different 3D rendering techniques.
Beyond its highly representative form, his painting is primarily conceptual. The themes are the lives of people and things, without limit in treated subjects. All the work of Dominique Mulhem has the same theme : the concept of simultaneous vision. “The look from inside” as Pierre Restany said.
INTERNATINALES EXHIBITIONS:
GERMANY, CHINA, COLOMBIA, KOREA, DENMARK, EGYPT, SPAIN, UNITED STATES, GREECE, FRANCE, HUNGARY, ITALY, LUXEMBOURG, MONACO, RUSSIA, SWITZERLAND.
Dominique retrospective MULHEM 1972-2009, City of Asnieres-sur-Seine, France.
PRESENCE IN MUSEUMS :
Museum of Holography, Paris, France.
Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary.
Museum of Holography, Washington, USA.
Zamalek Museum and Arts Centre, Cairo, Egypt.
PRESENCE IN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
Scarification :
Dominique Mulhem develops a suite of amazing concepts, suite, analysis, updating, revisiting any of these terms is false but none are true, the most appropriate choice would be thinking.
Thinking back on as thought to further examine refraction and reflection as to take another propagation velocity of the history of art. It shall submit the artwork to a movement infinite in space and time.
In the 80’s Portraits of Artists planned painters and sculptors between past and future by offering a three-dimensional holograms vision. In the 90s his imaginary museum, Pierre Restany wrote: “Dream Creatures to a dream before painting it’s more!” In “I should say, because my eye has been unable to separate things, to erase this simultaneous vision, to separate the two elements “.In the 2000s Zones, timeless journeys in the words and sentences of Guillaume Apollinaire’s poem.
Every decade Mulhem shares his world view. Today his scars challenge us on different characteristics of our society to the standardized culture object...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
$5,460
CAPEZ - Modern Painting - Collage / Construction, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Rich Moyers
Located in Yardley, PA
TITLE: "CAPEZ" SERIES: "Dimensional Abstracts" MATERIALS: Gesso, Acrylic Paint on 1/16th Inch Shaped Archival Plexiglas / Canvas / Archival mount / Pintura Wood Panel / UV Con...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Open Space, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"Open Space" is a vibrant painting on canvas in the tradition of Informel. The main colors are mint, yellow, rose, black and white and a bit of red and orange. The work is done w...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Play & Diversity 4, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Lucie Jirku
Located in Yardley, PA
Original abstract painting "Play & Diversity 4" was created with vibrant acrylic bright colours on standard edge canvas. The size of this particular artwork: Height : 27,6 inch...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
NOIR SYNAPTIC - 3D Modern Painting / Construction, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Rich Moyers
Located in Yardley, PA
This piece is part of the Artist's Series "3D RELIEF CONSTRUCTIONS / WALL SCULPTURES" These Three Dimensional artworks are comprised of Archival Paints & Plastics, Natural Woods, ...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Keep Cool, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"Keep Cool" is a vibrant and passionate artwork on canvas. I used soft acrylic colors. It is a very happy painting that will bring joy in your daily life. The main colors are yellow...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Telling Stories, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Dance With Me" is a large, abstract painting with soft colors, full of harmony and movement. It is an invitation to dance, dance and forget about any problems. The main colors a...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Meet My Friends 1, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Meet My Friends 1" is a vibrant, expressive artwork on paper. There is a lot of movement, layers and strokes. The main colors are black and white, rose and a bit of yellow, green...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Beautiful Life at the Lake 2, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Beautiful Life at the Lake 3" is a lovely acrylic painting on paper. It is inspired by the Bavarian Lake "Spitzingsee" and its gorgeous surroundings. It matches perfect with "Beau...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mit Speck fängt man Mäuse, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Mit Speck fängt man Mäuse" is a vibrant acrylic artwork on paper. It is a modern, abstract painting in the tradition of the abstract expressionism - a statement piece for every ro...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Look in the Mirror, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Look in the Mirror" - be honest to yourself - are you playing a role others expect of you - or are you living the life you really want to live. The artwork was done on thick qual...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Given Time 1, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
In Times of Corona many people get more time, more time with their families. They slow down, running for money and success and even more money and power are replaced by self-reflecti...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
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 ...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
At Home 1, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
In times of Corona and the Social Distancing we stay much more at home then usually. That can be good as well: We do have more time to get to know ourselves better. Even we have more...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
CYAN - Modern / Minimal Geometric Painting, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Rich Moyers
Located in Yardley, PA
Original Modernist / Minimalist Acrylic Painting on Italian Polyester / Cotton Canvas over 3 /16 inches MDF Hard Board Panel. The piece is Float Mounted on a custom hidden recessed M...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Good Times Follow Bad Times, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
In Times of Corona it is very important that we believe that after this very difficult time there will come - no-one knows when - much better days again. The artwork was done on ...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Danach, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Danach - Afterwards: Often in life we ask ourselves what will follow afterwards. How will my life be after the Corona-crises? Will I loose a beloved one, will I loose my job....? Aft...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Starting with a Dance, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Ein neuer Morgen beginnt. Die Sonne scheint. Es ist Sommer. Die ersten Sonnenstrahlen werden auf der Haut spürbar. Warum nicht den neuen Tag mit einem Tanz begrüßen. Dieses fa...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
On the Road, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"On the Road" is a happy painting with warm colors, full of harmony and movement. It is a love-story for all the people who move on in life and are on the road. 6 The work is done w...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Das Leben ist bunt, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Das Leben ist bunt" (Life is colorful) is a colorful, gestural painted diptych on paper. It is a mixture of monotype and abstract painting. The size of the two pictures is 21 x 29.7...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Daphne, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
"Daphne" is a colorful, dynamic acrylic painting on canvas. It is gestural and painted in the Informel tradition. Due to the different shades of blue it conveys something of sea or s...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Eruption 3, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Eruption 3" is a dynamic small acrylic diptych on paper. It is a mixture of monotype and abstract painting. The size of the two pictures is 21 x 29.7 cm / 8.3 x 11.7 inches each. To...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Dark Wisdom, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Max Kulich
Located in Yardley, PA
Title: Dark Wisdom Artwork ID: MK201702 Created: 2017, signed and dated Size: 40x60cm 15,7x23,6in Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Original abstract painting by Max...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Which Direction, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Sometimes in life we are at a fork in the road and we don't quite know which way to go. If we do not decide for ourselves, it is often others who decide about our lives. But even if ...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Good Morning World, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
"Good Morning World" is a small acrylic painting on thick paper. It is painted expressively and gesturally. It combines the informal with monotype elements. Some days we have so m...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled, 2021
Located in Atlanta, GA
Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
#15-1984
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 hard...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Celestial Tondo Pointillist Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Manfred Schwartz (American, b. Poland, 1909-1970), Celestial Tondo, Pointillist Composition, Gouache on Paper, apparently unsigned, with red dot sticker to the verso, chrome frame. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
The Anatomic Theatre: The World: West'
Located in Atlanta, GA
Stefan Umærus Stefan Umærus has initiated, created and exhibited cross-cultural art projects since 1985, with one-man gallery and museum exhibitions in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By Robert Marc
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract oil on canvas by Post War artist Robert Marc. Signed lower right, "Robert Marc."
Provenance:
Estate of the artist;
Forum Gallery, New York;
Barry Friedman Ltd., New York.
Exhibition:
London, Alon Zakaim...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1990s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1990s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Wreath of Life, deep midnight Blue with gold leaf tree
By Frank Olt
Located in Brookville, NY
Frank Olt finds most of his creative images in the landscape. The suggestion of a late night sky with a silhouette on the Arboretum like property that he lives on. The vivid deep blues surround the golden tree with sprays of moonlight coming from the edges. A ceramic and encaustic on panel, mounted for hanging installation.
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ceramic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1990s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1990s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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
Seated Woman (11-8)
Located in Westport, CT
This figurative abstract painting is by David Skillicorn.
The female nude is a new direction for the artist. A bold and creative approach is the melding of the abstract with the fig...
Category
2010s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Judgment
Located in Miami, FL
Thin edged metal frame
Philip Castle is an Irish Painter and husband to artist Barry Castle
He is rarely exhibited and Prince Rainier of Monaco once purc...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$5,250 Sale Price
22% Off
Hana
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jennifer J L Jones was born in Virginia U.S.A. in 1971 and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$12,480
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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.