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Abstract Figurative Paintings

ABSTRACT STYLE

Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.

Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.

Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.

Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.

Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.

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Style: Abstract
Color:  Black
Magaiver, 60 x 66, quirky surreal figurative work paying homage to Picasso
By Erin Haldrup
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Surrealistic abstract figurative painting paying homage to Picasso. Bright and vivid colors. Provenance only artist collection to gallery inventory. Hand-signed by the Artist. Certif...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

untiteled
By Meir Pichhadze
Located in Jerusalem, IL
An original oil on canvas, amazing and special and rare painting, by the famous Israeli Georgian artist Meir Pichhadze, the painting is signed and date...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"My Purple Diamond Heart" Diamond Dust Oil Painting with Floater Frame
Located in New York, NY
Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection” is a vibrant and energetic dis...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board, Glass

Study for Guidance, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero paints a tender mother and daughter moment in a river. Created as a figurative study for a larger painting of the same setting. The subjec...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil

HUMAN ATMOSPHERE 6 - award winning contemporary emerging artist, oil on canvas
Located in London, GB
In this collection, British painter Michael Pemberton (b. 1974) suggests we each have a personal HUMAN ATMOSPHERE. An ether where we truly exist, unseen by the naked eye but as real ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

GLOWING ROSE, Lee Herring, limited edition print
Located in Deddington, GB
Glowing Rose [2021] limited_edition Giclee print Edition number 20 Image size: H:90 cm x W:90 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:98 cm x W:96 cm x D:0.1cm Sold Unframed Pleas...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Giclée

In the Gloaming, colorful abstract group of figures
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Figurative abstraction. Painting will be mounted to support frame and ready for hanging.
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

LVII, From the series Lous and The Yakuza, Mixed media color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
LVII, 2022 by Hunter & Gatti From the series Lous and The Yakuza Acrylic and oil wax on fine art paper 255 grs. Image size: 20.6 in H x 15.7 in W Unframed This is a project together...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wax, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Fiery River Black Orange Abstract
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Fiery River Black Orange Abstract Expressionist 2022 Signed on the beck. Jerzy Kubina Polish/American Artist: Jerzy was born in Zamosc, Poland, 1956. Studied at the Academy Of Fine A...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Red Clouds" Acrylic & Inks Painting 39" x 39" inch by Kinda Adly
Located in Culver City, CA
"Red Clouds" Acrylic & Inks Painting 39" x 39" inch by Kinda Adly Kinda Adly, born in Egypt in 1989, is a self-taught artist. She grew up in Egypt and currently lives in Switzerland...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Ink, Acrylic

0605
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swiss artist Edith Konrad paints figurative abstract compositions with mixed media on canvas. She layers her expression of her emotional response to the subjects with dynamic textures and subtle patterns in her artworks. The thick layers of paint add a sculptural and tactile, rich looking feel to her paintings, along with the bodily presence of her subjects. Her works have been exhibited internationally, including Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles and many art fairs such as Montreux, Geneva, Salzburg, Rotterdam, Marbella, Los Angeles, Toronto and Paris. This original 34 inch high by 10 inch wide artwork is composed of oil and mixed media on canvas. The artist signed this abstract figurative painting on the front in the lower right corner. Convenient local Los Angeles area shipping. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping also available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included. Edith Konrad has studied in numerous master classes with artists from Germany and Italy. She paints in a variety of techniques and particularly prefers the use acrylic on canvas, collage and mixed media. In 2007 her art was acquired by the State Museum Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She won the 2009 Palm Art Award, a Certificate of Excellence for outstanding artistic quality and originality of the work. In 2010 she exhibited at the Salon de la Culture at the Louvre in Paris, France. REPRESENTATION Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, USA EXHIBITIONS 2022 Identity With A Chance of Imperfection, Los Angeles, CA 2020 In Search of Principle, Artspace Warehouse. Los Angeles, CA 2019 Something Vague, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2018 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA Opposites Group Exhibition, Hotel Chlosterhof, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland Falcon Gallery, Stein am Rhein, Switzerland K-13 Freiamt, Villmergen, Switzerland 2017 Falkengalerie, Stein am Rhein, Germany Banca intermobiliare di investimenti Lugano, Switzerland Arte Genova 13, Art Fair Genova, Italy 2016 Fugo Diethelm, Mühlau, Switzerland Galerie f 5, Lucerne, Switzerland Kunstsupermarkt Solothurn, Switzerland Kunstwarenhaus Zürich, Switzerland Affordable Art Fair New York, NY Galerie-Beck, Saarbrücken, Germany 2015 Affordable Art Fair Singapore Migros Kulturprozent Zugerland, Switzerland Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, California Love Art Fair Toronto, Canada Affordable Art Fair New York, NY LA Art Show International Art Fair, Los Angeles 2014 Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles Houston Fine Art Fair, Texas Kunstwarenhaus Zürich, Switzerland Love Art Fair Toronto, Canada Who’s Who Deutschland (Germany) 2013 Galleria Alter Ego, Ponte Tresa, Switzerland Schweizer Kunstraum, Lausanne, Switzerland Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles, California Kunstwarenhaus Zürich, Switzerland Flussreif in Berikon, Switzerland Ateliernacht im Freiamt, Switzerland Kunst-Supermarkt Solothurn, Switzerland 2012 Affordable Art Fair Los Angeles, CA Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles Galerie Katapult, Basel, Switzerland 2011 Kunst-Supermarkt Solothurn, Switzerland Kunstwarenhaus Zurich, Switzerland Zugermesse, Switzerland 2010 Kunstwarenhaus, Zürich, Switzerland Ennenda, Switzerland Zentrum Aettenbühl Sins CH Louvre, Salon de la Culture, Paris, France 2009 International Art Fair, Europ Art Geneva, Switzerland Palm Art Award, Leipzig, Germany Kunst-Supermarkt Solothurn, Switzerland Porto Ceresio Italy Galerie Tedden Düsseldorf, Germany Galerie Katapult, Basel, Switzerland Who‘s Who Deutschland (Germany) 2008 Chunschtspycher Bettmeralp, Switzerland Bad Ditzenbach Germany Porto Ceresio Italy Forum Zugerland Migros Kulturprozent, Switzerland Kunst-Supermarkt Solothurn, Switzerland 2007 International Art Fair ROTTERDAM, Holland Kulturachse Horw: art five, Switzerland Acquisition by STATE MUSEUM HALIFAX, Nova Scotia 2301 Art Fair Zug Design, Switzerland Vita Solothurn Gallery, Switzerland 2006 International Art Fair EUROP`Art Genève International Art Fair ART SALZBURG, Austria International Art Fair ART MARBELLA, Spain Müllerhaus Lenzburg group exhibition CH 2005 International Art Fair ART GALLERY Montreux, Switzerland Porto Ceresio Italy Kulturschür Windisch, Switzerland 2004 Bahnhofgalerie, Sins, Switzerland 2003 Keller Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland 2002 Bahnhofgalerie, Sins, Switzerland 2001 Jugendseelsorge, Zürich, Switzerland 2000 Zentrum Aettenbühl, Sins, Switzerland TV & FILM Athena, Amazon Prime...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

"Vesuvius" (abstract, pink, white, figure painting, historical, framed on linen)
Located in Paris, IDF
VESUVIUS 2022 PARIS, FRANCE Graphically textural, yet bold, this abstract piece comes framed, and offers a neutral color palette. Inspired by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Dye, Ink

Vintage Bay Area Figurative -- "Brilliance Dazzles"
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful large scale Bay Area Figurative School portrait titled "Jason's Brilliance Dazzles," 1996 by an anonymous bay area artist (M) Unsi...
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1990s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Mid-Century Cyclists-The Field Sprint Pierre Bosco #26 (Italy/France, 1909-1993)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Mid-Century Cyclists - The Field Sprint Pierre Bosco (Italy/France, 1909-1993) Oil on canvas 15 x 12 inches, frame size “The savage art of Bosco bears its rudeness and its mystery....
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1960s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Boxing Scene. Vanquished Boxer in his Corner. Sports Illustrated Boxing Story
Located in Miami, FL
There are a lot of people in the art world today who dismiss illustrators are being commercial solely because the artists identified as being commercial artists and that the work was done on assignment. Sadly these art world people have limited imagination and a restricted sense of curiosity. This boxing illustration/painting was done for Sports Illustrated...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil

Finestra con Natura Morta - OIl Paint by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Finestra con Natura Morta is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the 1970s by the italian contemporary artist Leo Guida Oil painting on canvas. Frame is included. Tot...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Figurative and Abstract Expressionist Composition in Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic and expressive abstract expressionist composition by SF Bay Area found artist "Aska" (20th Century). Colors are patched and layered in a controlled...
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Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Lords of the City
Located in Milford, NH
A fine mid century abstract expressionist figural painting by American artist Robert Phillip Anderson (1926-2005). Anderson was born in Perth Amboy, NJ, an...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Untitled 82" Abstract Painting 39" x 35" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 82" Painting 39" x 35" inch by Ahmed Dafrawy Dafrawy’s fine arts academic background started in 2014 when he received the certificate of draw...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Portrait of Man San Francisco Bay Area Figurative Movement Peter Witwer
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Man San Francisco Bay Area Figurative Movement Figurative portrait of a man by San Francisco artist Peter Witwer (American, 1928-1968). Unsigned from a collection of his work. Provenance estate of Peter Witwer, Lost Art Solon. Image 32"H x 26"W Frame, 32.5"H x 26.5"W x 1.75"D Posthumous show of the artists work exhibit card on verso. Born George Peter...
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1950s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Bay Area Figurative Movement -- Impasto Berkeley Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful impasto Bay Area Figurative Movement painting with bell tower (possibly Berkeley Campanile?) and abstracted figures on path and ...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Graffiti Day, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Diana Rosa says this graphic, expressive portrait of 'Graffiti Man' is an outward portrayal of human emotion, as well as a personal fascination with the human head and skull. "The piece explores questions of identity and communication," explains Diana.


About the Artist
Lighthearted and jovial by nature, Diana’s contemporary paintings depict people in varied scenarios of indulgence. Whether it is a quiet moment alone in the woods, or a tantalizing rendezvous in the tub, Diana creates private moments in carefree or comedic ways. Her narratives often include humorous sexual tension between unlikely bedfellows, enough to elicit a chuckle from even the most stoic art lover. “I create a visual dialogue where everything is possible and magic is the queen,” says Diana. “[There is] a subtle injection of ambiguity that blurs the gap between the ordinary and the fantastic. The background of this sub-world appears to be transformed into an innocent children’s fantasy that almost looks like a dream.”


Words that describe this painting: man, expressionism...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

It's Five O'clock Somewhere, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Faye Vander Veer paints an impressionist scene of a cafe in the afternoon. She shows the relaxed and calm atmosphere of a little bistro. The late sunligh...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil

A Lonely Place, earth tones, female nude back brushwork
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil painting over ink on paper. Figurative expressionist, moody, poetic nude.
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Tom and His Girls, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Benjamin Thomas paints a playful scene of young children referenced from a photo taken decades ago. Tom stands in the middle among three little girls. "M...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

The Light 13, Still life oil con canvas Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Light 13, 2021 by Jose Ricardo Contreras González From the series The Light Oil on canvas Image size: 30 H cm. x 40 W cm. Mounted on a stretcher. Signed on verso THE LIGHT (2018...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tree of Knowledge II (Tapestry of Nature) : abstract work of art
Located in New York, NY
Abstract work of art with figurative elements by Elizabeth Myers Castonguay. Her work is dedicated to creating art about human equality and preservation of the biodiversity of nature. This painting is a complex work of art that incorporates abstraction and figurative elements. One can notice images of books, human hands, bitten apple and even an entire beautiful landscape in this canvas. Stark contrast of dark background with bright shapes and elements create drama and tension. This work can become a unique gift and will be a wonderful addition to any space, be it a living room of a modern home or a lobby of a commercial building. Elizabeth Myers Castonguay is an accomplished artist, whose work was exhibited at Denise Bibro...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Metal

"Trump", contemporary political brown green orange abstract acrylic, spray paint
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This pieces is part of a 22 painting series I created for my MFA thesis in 2017. The abstraction in this series is effected through symbolic gestures, distinctive lines, and organi...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

History Maps
Located in Deddington, GB
History Maps by Maria Pierides [2020] original Oil, oil stick collage, pastel and wax on cradled panel Image size: H:20 cm x W:20 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:20 cm x W:20...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Canvas

"Angel" Abstract Painting 59" x 47" inch by Amal Nasr
Located in Culver City, CA
"Angel" Abstract Painting 59" x 47" inch by Amal Nasr “New Horizon” series There is a constant quest to restore the joy of discovery and the pleasure of the first experience, and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

untitled
Located in Spetses, GR
Discover the captivating urban narrative of Foti Kllogjeri's painting, a cityscape where towering buildings on either side converge to form a mesmerizi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

After Snowfall, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Nikolay Rizhankov shows a tranquil winter scene in this work. A boy walks his dog around the frosty driveway on a quiet evening. They both enjoy the stil...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil

The Argument, 1960s Vintage Semi-Abstract Oil Painting in Reds, Pinks, and Black
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board painting by Edward Marecak (1919-1993) titled "The Argument" from 1968. Semi-abstract oil painting depicting two figures in colors of greens, pinks, blues, and blacks. Presented framed, outer dimensions measure 49 ½ x 33 ¼ x 1 ½ inches. Image size is 48 x 32 inches. Painting is clean and in very good vintage condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. About the artist: Born to immigrant parents from the Carpathian region in Slovakia, Marecak grew up with his family in the farming community of Bennett’s Corners, now part of the town of Brunswick, near Cleveland, Ohio. When he turned twelve, his family moved to a multi-ethnic neighborhood of Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Slovenians in Cleveland. His childhood household cherished the customs and Slavic folk tales from the Old Country that later strongly influenced his work as a professional artist. During junior high he painted scenery for puppet shows of “Peter and the Wolf,” awakening his interest in art. In his senior year in high school he did Cézanne-inspired watercolors of Ohio barns at seventy-five cents apiece for the National Youth Administration. They earned him a full scholarship to the Cleveland Institute of Art (1938-1942) where he studied with Henry George Keller whose work was included in the 1913 New York Armory Show. In 1940 Marecak also taught at the Museum School of the Cleveland Institute. Before being drafted into the military in 1942, he briefly attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit, one of the nation’s leading graduate schools of art, architecture, and design. A center of innovative work in architecture, art and design with an educational approach built on a mentorship model, it has been home to some of the world’s most renowned designers and artists, including Eero Saarinen, Charles Eames, Daniel Libeskind and Harry Bertoia. Marecak’s studies at Cranbrook with painter Zoltan Sepeshy and sculptor Carl Milles were interrupted by U.S. army service in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Following his military discharge, Marecak studied on the G.I. Bill at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center from 1946 to 1950, having previously met its director, Boardman Robinson, conducting a seminar in mural painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Although he did not work with Robinson at the Fine Arts Center, who had become quite ill - retiring in 1947 - he studied Robinson’s specialty of mural painting before leaving to briefly attend the Cranbrook Academy in 1947. That same year he returned to the Fine Arts Center, studying painting with Jean Charlot and Mary Chenoweth, and lithography with Lawrence Barrett with whom he produced some 132 images during 1948-49. At the Fine Arts Center he met his future wife, Donna Fortin, whom he married in 1947. Also a Midwesterner, she had taken night art courses at Hull House in Chicago, later studying at the Art Institute of Chicago with the encouragement of artist Edgar Britton. After World War II she studied with him from 1946 to 1949 at the Fine Arts Center. (He had moved to Colorado Springs to treat his tuberculosis.) Ed Marecak also became good friends with Britton, later collaborating with him on the design of large stained glass windows for a local church. In 1950-51 Marecak returned to the Cleveland Institute of Art to complete his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. A year later he was invited to conduct a summer class at the University of Colorado in Boulder, confirming his interest in the teaching profession. In 1955 he received his teaching certificate from the University of Denver. Vance Kirkland, the head of its art department, helped him get a teaching job with the Denver Public Schools so that he and his family could remain in the Mile High City. For the next twenty-five years he taught art at Skinner, Grove, East, George Washington and Morey Junior High Schools. Prior to coming to Colorado, Marecak did watercolors resembling those of Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and Charles Burchfield. However, once in Colorado Springs he decided to destroy much of his earlier oeuvre, embarking on a totally new direction unlike anything he had previously done. Initially, in the 1940s, he was influenced by surrealist imagery and Paul Klee and in the West by Indian petroglyphs and Kachinas. His first one-person show at the Garrett Gallery in Colorado Springs in 1949 featured paintings and lithographs rendered in the style of Magic Realism and referential abstraction. The pieces, including an oil Witch with Pink Dish...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"My Film Noir Heart" Colorful Abstract Oil Painting with Floater Frame
Located in New York, NY
Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection” is a vibrant and energetic dis...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Hommage to Paul Klee - Painting by Giorgio Cresciani - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract is an original contemporary artwork realzed by Giorgio Cresciani in 1977. Oil painting on table. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
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1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Paint

"Prophecy" Abstract Painting 31" x 31" inch by Amal Nasr
Located in Culver City, CA
"Prophecy" Abstract Painting 31" x 31" inch by Amal Nasr “New Horizon” series There is a constant quest to restore the joy of discovery and the pleasure of the first experience, a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Waiting II" Painting 19" x 11" in by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak
Located in Culver City, CA
"Waiting II" Painting 19" x 11" in by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak Femmes Fatale, Circa 1980s Ink & Acrylic on Paper. Signed Signed The selection of Abd ...
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Acrylic

"The media world" abstract on linen canvas acrylic 72x97cm 2006
Located in Roscoff, FR
"The media world" abstract on linen canvas acrylic 72x97cm 2006 The harshness of this competitive world where to be the first is the priority goal.
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Lot, dramatic abstracted military theme, fire, multiple figures
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil, acrylic, charcoal on panel.
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Charcoal, Oil, Acrylic

Interior, large, colorful figural abstract red, orange, blue acrylic of couple
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Interior, 1976 acrylic on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 50 x 59.5 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

Time Has Come Today
Located in Denver, CO
This is an original unframed, oil painting on canvas. Rocky Hawkins was born in 1950 in Seattle, Washington and grew up in small towns near the Cascades Mountains. His interest in th...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Sea Goddess" Abstract Painting 16" x 16" inch by Amal Nasr
Located in Culver City, CA
"Sea Goddess" Abstract Painting 16" x 16" inch by Amal Nasr “New Horizon” series There is a constant quest to restore the joy of discovery and the pleas...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Adam and Eve, 1980s Abstract Figurative Painting, Vertical Oil Painting, 30 x 48
Located in Denver, CO
Oil painting on foam core titled "Adam and Eve" by Denver artist Edward Marecak (1919-1993) from 1983. Portrays two semi-abstract figures with shapes in the background, painted in colors of pink, blue, yellow, and brown. Presented in a custom wooden frame, outer dimensions measure 30 ⅞ x 48 ⅞ x 2 ⅝ inches. Image size 30 x 48 inches. Painting is in good vintage condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Provenance: Estate of Edward Marecak About the Artist: Born to immigrant parents from the Carpathian region in Slovakia, Marecak grew up with his family in the farming community of Bennett’s Corners, now part of the town of Brunswick, near Cleveland, Ohio. When he turned twelve, his family moved to a multi-ethnic neighborhood of Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, and Slovenians in Cleveland. His childhood household cherished the customs and Slavic folk tales from the Old Country that later strongly influenced his work as a professional artist. His junior and senior high projects earned him a full scholarship to the Cleveland Institute of Art (1938-1942) where he studied with Henry George Keller whose work was included in the 1913 New York Armory Show. In 1940 Marecak also taught at the Museum School of the Cleveland Institute. Before being drafted into the military in 1942, he briefly attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit, one of the nation’s leading graduate schools of art, architecture, and design. Marecak’s studies at Cranbrook with painter Zoltan Sepeshy...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Genesis" Abstract Painting 47" x 39" inch by Amal Nasr
Located in Culver City, CA
"Genesis" Abstract Painting 47" x 39" inch by Amal Nasr “New Horizon” series There is a constant quest to restore the joy of discovery and the pleasure of the first experience, an...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

"Blue Line + Fruit" Modernist Black and White Abstract Nudes Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A modernist depiction of figures executed with strong use of line and texture. This piece is filled with movement and beautiful brushwork, the use of color placement is enchanting wi...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Masks, 1980s Semi-Abstract Polychromatic Oil Painting, Vibrant Multicolor
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board painting by Edward Marecak (1919-1993) titled "Masks" from the 1980s. Mosaic style oil painting in vibrant colors of red, blue, green, yellow, and orange. Presented in a...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Abstract Expressionist Composition on Black
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful and dynamic abstract composition by Ross H. Pollette, who also paints under the pseudonyms 'Max West' (American, b. 1948). Pollette has used oil, in...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil, Canvas, Ink

Hermes III
Located in Spetses, GR
Combinations of dark oil colours present an abstract figurative figure of the ancient Greek god Hermes, who represents trade, wealth, luck, fertility,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Storm - Landscape Abstract Oil Painting Colors Green Blue White Orange Black
Located in Sofia, BG
Storm - abstract painting by Maestro Nina Ruseva. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: Oil painting STYLE: Abstract, Contemporary Edition : Unique, signed Weight: Approximately 2 kg. Th...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Couple, Figurative, , Acrylic, Black, White by Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Tapas Ghosal - Untitled - 24 x 24 inches (unframed size) Acrylic Dry Pastel & Pigment on Canvas, 2014 It will be delivered in a roll form. Style : In Hindu philosophy, the 'Antahka...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Pigment

Fire, Oil on canvas, Landscape Still life, Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Fire by Jose Ricardo Contreras González Oil on canvas Image size: 75 H cm. x 65 W cm. Mounted on streacher. José Ricardo Contreras Gon...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

THE ARCHER - Italian Abstract Oil on Canvas Painting.
Located in Napoli, IT
The archer - Modern -Alfonso Pragliola Italia 2014 - Oil on canvas cm.60x40. Black laquered wooden frame.
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstract painting w/ photograph & collage objects, Black African-American artist
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"Pearl's World" is a large acrylic painting with a photograph portrait and a number of found objects integrated into the painting, including pearls, metal pins, tickets, and text. Th...
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Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic

"My Heart on Noir" Black and White Contemporary Oil Painting with Floater Frame
Located in New York, NY
Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection” is a vibrant and energetic dis...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

La nascita delle cose
Located in Milano, MI
After touring Europe on a motorcycle, he arrived in Berlin in 2012, where he won a residence for artists with a pictorial series on massification and nihilism. In 2014 he was invited...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Three Shadows, Figurative Abstract
By Dwight Eberly
Located in Soquel, CA
Unique abstract expressionist oil painting of three dark shadowy figures by Dwight Eberly (American, 1925-2014). The figures stand in a warm, glowing light that is depicted in soft focus. Signed "Eberly '85" lower right. Framed. Image size: 38"H x 44"L. A California abstract expressionist artist and art educator. "I want my work to stimulate on an emotional level - not just a visual. I want the response to transcend the color and canvas or composition--something that has not been touched before but is waiting to be known, an affirmation and change." EDUCATION: 1960-1961 California State University, Sacramento - M.A. Degree 1954-1955 California State University, Sacramento - B.A. Degree 1948-1950 University of Southern California, Los Angeles 1946-1947 University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois ORGANIZATIONS: Mendocino County Arts Council 1993-1994 Gualala Arts - Board Member (4 years) Artists Guild of San Francisco - Participating Member Roseville Arts Center-Board Member; 1984-1988 Northern California Art...
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1980s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Expanding Mandala, Black and Orange Abstract Oval Mid-Century Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Expanding Mandala, c. 1970s Acrylic on scintilla 23 x 30 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success...
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1970s Abstract Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Winged Victory XVI: Figurative Abstract Graphite Drawing of Nike Goddess
Located in Hudson, NY
Figurative abstract style black and white drawing of "Winged Victory of Samothrace" Greek Goddess Nike in an oval antique wood frame with gold inlay detail "Nike Descending XVI" by H...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Archival Paper, Graphite

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