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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1970s
Color:  Red
New Polish Abstraction, 1972-2002, Acrylic on canvas, Flags, Visual Poetry
Located in Milano, IT
Work part of the series "New International Abstraction" produced from 1972 to 2002 accompanied by certificate of authenticity on photograph issued by the Sarenco Foundation. Coming f...
Category

1970s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Untitled" abstract painting by Doris Vlasek Hails, acrylic on heavy paper
Located in Glenview, IL
"Untitled" by American artist Doris Vlasek Hails is an abstract acrylic painting on heavy paper. Signed “1979 Vlasek Hails” in upper left corner. Doris Vlasek-Hails was born in Chic...
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Modern Abstract Red and Green Toned Interior Painting of a Nude Female Figure
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract figurative painting by Houston, TX artist Margaret Nobler. The work features a central seated female nude set against a bold red and gr...
Category

1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Arapahoe XII
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed, titled, dated verso. 40 x 44 in. 41.5 x 45.5 in. (framed) Custom framed in a natural cherry floater. Provenance Knoedler Contemporary, New York Ludwig Sand...
Category

1970s Color-Field Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right, signed and sequentially numbered on verso. 44 x 30.25 in. 47.5 x 33.75 in. (framed) Custom framed in a two-tiered matte white hardwood tray frame. Provenance Estate of Norman Carton Norman Carton was born in the Ukraine, eventually immigrating to the U.S. in 1922 and settling in Philadelphia, where he attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art. In the 1930s, he received a scholarship to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA). Between 1939 and 1942, the Works Project Administration (WPA) employed Carton as a muralist. During World War II, Carton was a naval structural designer and draftsman at the Cramps...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Folk girl. Paper, watercolor, 110x76 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Folk girl. Paper, watercolor, 110x76 cm Dzemma Skulme worked in oil, acrylic and water-colors. She developed the theme of the caryatid, wherein she ende...
Category

1970s Post-Modern Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Passaggi - Tempera on Paper by Paolo Cotani - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Passaggi is an original painting by Paolo Cotani (Rome, 1940-2011) in 1972. Hand-signed and dated in pencil on the lower right margin. Tempera on paper. Includes frame The artwor...
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Tempera

Island of Red Flowers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Island of Red Flowers Year: 1979 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, titled and dated verso Size: 7...
Category

1970s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Serie "U no és ningú" No. 21 by Antoni Tàpies - Abstract painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Serie "U no és ningú" No. 21 by Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012) Acrylic, felt and pencil on cardboard 50 x 65 cm (19 ³...
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1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Cardboard, Pencil, Felt

Wo Alu und Honig Fließen by OTTO PIENE - Red and Black Abstract Painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL NEED TO PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE Wo Alu und Honig Fließen by OTTO PIENE (1928-2014) Fire gouache with aluminium on cardboard 99 x 64 cm (39 x...
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Cardboard, Mixed Media, Gouache

Catch, striped hard edge abstraction
Located in Greenwich, CT
An impressive. large and lively hard edge abstraction by celebrated Jay Rosenblum. A classic work by him from 1979 and a great investment. This ...
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Chez la Modiste', Interior Figural Oil, Post-Impressionist, Woman Folk Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Elisabeth' for Elisabeth Gevaert (Belgian, 1934-2016) and dated 1970. A finely-painted, whimsical study of the interior of a milliner's shop with a woman seated...
Category

1970s Post-Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Houses of town. 1972, watercolor on paper, 55x75, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Houses of town. 1972, watercolor on paper, 55x75,5 cm Olgerts Jaunarajs (1907-2003) He was so-called legend of abstract expressionism in the Latvia...
Category

1970s Color-Field Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

1978 (red)
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on linen
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Wax, Oil

Red Lady, Watercolor Painting by Charles Levier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Levier, French (1920 - 2003) Title: Red Lady Year: circa 1970 Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed l.l. Size: 16 x 11 inches Paper Size: 25 x 1...
Category

1970s Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Cook Islands Tropical Sunset Landscape with Red Anthurium Flower
Located in Soquel, CA
A dreamy tropical landscape of the beautiful Cook Islands coastline at sunset with a red anthurium flower in the foreground by Motohiko Ono (20th Century)...
Category

1970s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Stars and Stripes, Expressionist Portrait with American Flag
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Stars and Stripes" is an oil on board portrait of a young woman with an American Flag, painted by Philadelphia born Expressionist artist Bernard Harmon. The painting is 41 3/4" x 35...
Category

1970s Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Abstract Acrylic Painting with Collage
Located in Long Island City, NY
This is an acrylic painting on canvas by American artist Dan Teis. This work follows his signature style, geometric compositions in acrylic and paper collage on canvas. His work achi...
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

True Confessions
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of 'True Confessions' Written by Dunne John Gregory True Confessions, first published in 1977, is widely regarded as a classic American novel. Set in Los Angeles in 1948 and based on the notorious, never-solved Black Dahlia murder case, the story plumbs the depths of guilt and corruption — in the L.A.P.D., the Catholic Church, the construction industry, and in the relationships among them. Like the film Chinatown, which came to the screen three years before the novel, True Confessions illuminates the dark underside of Los Angeles at a time when corruption ran rampant and seemingly without shame. The book’s stature as a classic is underlined in an introduction by the brilliant novelist and screenwriter George Pelecanos, who writes of the author, “with True Confessions, he achieved what most novelists can only hope for. He left behind a work of art.” Indeed. True Confessions works on many levels: as a crime novel, as humor (the story is often laugh-out-loud funny), as an example of masterful writing style, as an emblematic tale of a great American city, and as a novel that explores the human condition with sensitivity and deep understanding. True Confessions revolves around the often testy relationship between two Irish-American brothers, Tom and Des Spellacy. Tom is a lieutenant in the L.A.P.D., a clever detective with a past history of corruption. Tom’s brother, Des, is a Catholic priest risen to the rank of Monsignor and the role of fixer and hatchet man for the aging Cardinal, whom he hopes to succeed. The two brothers come into conflict over their clashing agendas for a corrupt construction mogul who is one of the city’s richest and most powerful men. They have drastically different ideas about how to deal with the man. The author writes with compassion. For example, describing bystanders in a poor neighborhood, he writes, “They weren’t bad people. Just too-little, too-late people. Has-beens, never-weres, never-will-bes.” The novel is rife with unsympathetic characters, but none of them can be viewed as evil. The story opens and closes in the 1970s, when Tom and Des are old men, reviewing the wreckage of their careers. In between, two plots intertwine: Tom’s investigation of the shocking murder of a young woman, and Des’s attempts to strengthen the Church while scheming to position himself as the successor to the Cardinal. The late novelist and screenwriter John Gregory Dunne — he died in 2003 at the age of 71 — came naturally to writing. He was the younger brother of the writer Dominick Dunne...
Category

1970s Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Novus Belator, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Novus Belator, loose latin translation for 'New Warriors'. Two javelin throwers striking a pose reminiscent of Italian renaissance battle murals. "Battle of San Romano...
Category

1970s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Empire State building Multiple Exposure Zoom
Located in Miami, FL
Six in-camera exposures with yellow, green and red filters on a single frame of Kodacrome while moving the position of the camera and zooming yields a striking semi-abstract color i...
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric Paintings

Materials

Inkjet

Mary Tyler Moore, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Unsigned Contact for exact dimensions. Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, October 1974
Category

1970s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled Red (1979)
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on linen Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she attended the, now, Sa...
Category

1970s Color-Field Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Break Dance, 1975 Large Abstract Figurative Collage Painting, Black Pink Purple
Located in Denver, CO
'Break Dancers' is an original vintage 1980s painting by Chicago artist, Margo Hoff (1910-2008). From the artist's "Action Series" the painting depicts ...
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Passaggi - Tempera on Paper by Paolo Cotani - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Passaggi is a painting realized by Paolo Cotani (Rome, 1940-2011) in 1972. Hand-signed and dated in pencil on the lower right margin. Tempera on paper. The artwork was exhibited on...
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Tempera

Abstract Expressionist Bold Red Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3465 Red Bold Abstract ,modernist style, acrylic palette on canvas applied to a board, set in a gilt-wood frame, signed by Borge lower right.
Category

1970s Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Large Abstract and Collage Painting on Canvas by Dan Teis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dan Teis, American (1925 - 2002) Title: White X on Red with Orange Dots Year: 1978 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 54 x 54 in. (137.16 x 137.16 cm) Frame Size: 5...
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Still Life with Red Wine"
Located in Southampton, NY
Wonderful small still life painting by John T. Axton III done circa 1980. Oil on canvas and signed with the artist's monogram lower left. Unframed. Axton was born in Fort Leavenwo...
Category

1970s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Still life with Vegetables"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
Category

1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Red Painting" - Historic Red and Pink Geometric Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Martin Canin's Ozone is an historic, large, 51 x 63-inch geometric-abstraction oil painting, dated 1972. Martin Canin’s work can be linked to two 1960s movements: Color field and Op ...
Category

1970s Color-Field Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Textural Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Embark on a journey through the vibrant and tumultuous spirit of the 1970s with this striking American modernist abstract expressionist oil painting. An unsigned masterpiece, this ca...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled (Red Open)
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Untitled (Red Open) ca. 1970 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas board 17.8 x 22.8 cms (7 x 9 ins) RM9923 P575 Artist's studio number P71-286 Signed (verso) Provenance...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Acrylic

Brith at Red
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category

1970s American Modern Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Red in the Sky
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category

1970s Surrealist Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Experimentation for Chinatown
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Experimentation for Chinatown Year: 1977 Medium: Acrylic on Paper, signed and dated l.r. Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm) ...
Category

1970s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Bernard Aubertin - Tableau Clous - Nail Painting 1970
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Bernard Aubertin (1934 -.) Tableau Clous 1970 Nails and acrylic on panel, 50 × 50 cm Verso signed and dated. Bernard Aubertin associates the element fire with a glowing red. "...
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

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