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
CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT Animals Dark Red Text Ukranian Artist Anna Veriki 2024
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
The artwork will be shipped rolled in a tube to your adress. For other shipping options please contact with our gallery.
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Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Roses in the Japanese vase with birds"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The series of flowers shows a classical motif with a subtle attention to the subtle movement and rhythm of the flora, with the help of paint, abstract vision and expressive handwriti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Storm, Abstract Expressionist Painting by Keith Morrow Martin 1959
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Abstract Expressionist cum Surreal painting by Kenneth Morrow Martin, American (1911-1983).
Storm by Keith Morrow Martin, American (1911–1983)...
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1960s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
ABSTRACT Saint Lawrence Painting Contemporary Artist Ed Warner 2024
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
At Escat Gallery we are committed to maintaining the highest standards of trust and professionalism for our collectors. Every artwork in our collection comes with a Certificate of Au...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
$860 Sale Price
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Contemporary Composition of Guitar, Composition a la guitar, Georges Terzian.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Composition à la guitare is a vibrant and visually captivating work that exemplifies Georges Terzian’s distinctive style. Known for his love of color and complex compositions, Terzia...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
City Centre, Contemporary Figurative Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
City Of Glass. Oil on board abstract painting form the studio of English artist Christopher E Barrow.
Well presented in a wooded frame
Image 20" x 16"
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Night Watchers: African American collage painting w/ Black figures, red pink
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"Night Watchers" is a collage / painting created from acrylic and collage on leather mounted on MDF panel with predominant red / pink / orange. The work itself is 24" x 22", framed to 24.5" x 22.5" in a narrow, simple black metal frame. It includes several photograph of Black figures. It is signed and dated along the lower edge. This is one of a series of five works -- see image gallery for additional works in the series. Each is listed separately on IstDibs, but I will combine shipping for multiple purchases.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022 & "And the Beat Goes On," Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, Sept - Oct 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Leather, Acrylic, Panel, Fiberboard, Archival Paper
"Japanese Spring" very large format, floral diptych on linen canvas
Located in Zofingen, AG
Title: Japanese Spring
*Diptych – 2 panels, each 152 x 56 x 4 cm (60 x 22 x 1.6 inches)
Medium: Acrylic on linen canvas
“Flowers do not try to become something else.
They simply unf...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Beach Day
Located in Boston, MA
Michael Azgour's work has been extensively collected, awarded and celebrated worldwide. He is a painting and drawing teacher at Stanford University and his works can be seen in publi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Spring Veil - impressionistic painting on canvas with pink roses, blue flowers
Located in Zofingen, AG
Size: 60 x 130 x 4 cm (23.6 x 51.2 x 1.6 inches)
Medium: Acrylic on 100% linen canvas
Orientation: Can be displayed vertically or horizontally
Spring Veil is a lyrical floral compos...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Sad." Contemporary Acrylic Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sad, showing Japanese script for sad.
Walshe recently embarked on a series of Sad Rhino pictures. Highlighting his concern for the environment. A repeating theme in his work.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Y, From the series Lous and The Yakuza. Mixed media fashion color photography
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This project is with Louis Vuitton and the stylist Carine Roitfeld and Madame Figaro, starring the Belgian singer Lous and the Yakuza. All the looks Lous is wearing are designed by N...
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2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Three Masks, Mid Century Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Three masks abstract by Novak (American, 20th Century). Presented in a white wooden frame. Signed "Novak" lower right. Image: 28.5"H x 26"W.
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$1,080 Sale Price
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"Unadorned" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Unadorned" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an abstracted figure of gray and white standing within a black interior where two orange and gre...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Rich Seated 3, Original Nude Painting, Figurative Art, Life Drawing, Bright Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Rich Seated 3 is a contemporary nude painting by Judith Brenner. This is an original drawing from life on paper using acrylic, pan pastel , ink and watercolour pencil. The idea is to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
Bold Abstract Expressionist Figure
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold figurative abstract in black, white, and red by Daniel David Fuentes (American, 1978-2016). From a collection of his works. Signed "Fuentes" and dated "07" bottom right. Unframe...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
"Bird of soul"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Man is born free and always strives for freedom.! It's a maternal instinct. I think the main thing is not to lose this gift.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Composition with Figure, " Irene Rice Pereira
Located in New York, NY
Irene Rice Pereira
Composition with Figure, 1951
Inscribed, signed and dated Salford/Pereira 2/51 (lr); inscribed I Rice Pereira/2669 Great Clowes St/Sa...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Casein
"Karma"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This painting, created with bold, dynamic strokes and abstract forms, captures a vibrant interplay between figures and their surroundings. The composition is dominated by dark outlin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Contemporary Abstract Artwork Only Fans By Ed Warner 2023
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
At Escat Gallery we are committed to maintaining the highest standards of trust and professionalism for our collectors. Every artwork in our collection comes with a Certificate of Au...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Courage - Abstract, Nature, Rhino, Colorful, Painting, Contemporary, Landscape
By Karnish Art
Located in Cullinan, ZA
Title: Coraticum - Courage
Abstract, Nature, Rhino, Colorful, Painting, Contemporary, Landscape, Invest
Wonderful rendition of rhinos, African colour feel of Ubuntu (unity) and a d...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
CONTEMPORARY Abstract Titled El Patron by Ed Warner 2023
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
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This is an intervention in a old paper recordered. Old frame.
Western progress and development, of which we are so proud, have brought us to this point. A society where hyper-individualism, loss of solidarity, and an exaggerated egocentrism rule.
Art circulates everywhere today, and the world is totally aestheticized. But it is an aestheticization that only involves the virtuality of the screens. This generates hypervisibility, an excess of images. The virtual world gives us the perfect illusion, but it is an empty illusion, not an artistic one. It pretends to be a double of reality, a mere reproduction that has nothing to do with the creativity of art. In this scenario, we ask ourselves if the aesthetic illusion and the enigmatic power of art can still exist.
Ed Warner...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Paper
Abstract Expressionist Figure - "I Don't See Anything Here"
By R Navarro
Located in Soquel, CA
Intense figurative abstract with bold colors and the text "I Don't See Anything Here" by R. Navarro (American, 20th Century). Signed "R. Navarro" and dated "2000" on verso. Image, 30...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
My Other Side
By Frank Arnold
Located in Fresno, CA
“My Other Side” is 48”x 36”. This is an earlier piece by Arnold from the estate of a late collector of his work. This piece is predominantly shades of red from light to almost black....
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$38,800
"Monster Five" American Abstract Expressionist
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic, colorful painting of a man floating in a pool by Marc Foster Grant (American, b. 1947). Signed, titled and dated, "Monster Five," and "Grant...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Mindbender - Abstract Expressionism
Located in Soquel, CA
Mindbender - Abstract Expressionism "G.D."
A painting in vivid red that revels in a harmonious balance between gestural abstraction, geometric ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
$1,320 Sale Price
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Oil on Canvas “Cabo Azul 3”
By Frank Arnold
Located in Fresno, CA
“Cabo Azul 3” is 43” x 36”. Frank Arnold’s paintings exhibit the highest quality materials for a truly archival piece, created to last generations. Much of Frank Arnold’s work is so...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gertrude
Located in Deddington, GB
‘Gertrude’ is an original abstract painting on board by contemporary artist Wendi Weller. Oil pastel mark making details are added to many layers of acryl...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
$1,049
Love by Gaetan de Seguin - Contemporary Figurative painting
Located in DE
Gaetan de Seguin paints figurative works, with an abstract character. The various colors highlight that not one person is the same, and his artworks celebrate this individuality in a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Women - Painting by Juan Rodrigo Piedrahita Escobar - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Acrylic painting by Juan Rodrigo Piedrahita Escobar, realized in 2022.
"My art is for get a peace and pleasing in painting world and gets an armory space, and see the life until d...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$2,151 Sale Price
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Leave the Pieces by Laura McCarty, Large Framed Contemporary Abstract Canvas
Located in Atlanta, GA
The framed price is listed. UNFRAMED this piece measures 36"H x 36"W.
Born and raised in Georgia, from a young age, Laura developed a deep love for an array of creative outlets. Des...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Paris, Tuileries Garden. 1961. Oil on canvas, 27x41 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Paris, Tuileries Garden. 1961. Oil on canvas, 27x41 cm
Andree Cottavoz (1922-2012)
André Cottavoz is a painter and lithographer who belonged to the Sanzistes group and Paris School...
Category
1960s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$3,634 Sale Price
20% Off
A Celebration, Original Painting, Contemporary, Food, Still Life
Located in Deddington, GB
This piece celebrates many of the good things in life - colour, pattern & cake! Rendered in oil paint on a cradled plywood panel & framed in a contemporary white tray frame, the flat...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel
"Relations"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This series of paintings explores the depth of human relationships and the spiritual world through dynamic compositions, where lines and color planes create a sense of constant movem...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Nightfall - Abstract Cool Tone Colorful Textured Impasto Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ekaterina Ermilkina’s original, abstract fine art paintings are created using a skillful combination of applying and removing oil paint with a palette knife on canvas. Her inspiratio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Grey Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract expressionist nude figure by Louis Nadalini (American, 1927-1995). Signed "Louis Nadalini" in the lower right corner. Signed "Louis Ernie Nadalini" on verso. Unframed. Image...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Canvas, Oil
Vintage Abstract Figurative Vision
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully evocative abstract expressionist oil painting of a face with figure reflecting in the eye by an unknown California artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned. Unframed. Im...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$920 Sale Price
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"Chat Noir" - Black Cat Abstract Expressionism
Located in Soquel, CA
"Chat Noir" - Black Cat Abstract Expressionism
A vibrant abstract painting of a black cat with stark contrast of black accented in red and yellow, by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract painting w/ collage & photographs, Black African American history
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Please contact me with zip code for precise shipping rates. "Enough Said Already" is a large acrylic collage painting with photograph portraits integrated into it, as well as ticket stubs, and text. It includes imagery that references African American history...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Tan and Magenta Abstract Textured Monotype
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant and dynamic monotype painting by David Stephens (American, 20th Century). Painted on glass and pressed onto paper and then, sand (or a similar medium) was used in the pressin...
Category
1990s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
$700 Sale Price
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"The wisper of forest spirit"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The whole painting looks like a dream or vision, a world escaping understanding yet alluring with its obscurity and enigma, forming a certain figure that can be associated with an an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Eyes wide open
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kader Boly is known for painting pastoral and communal scenes from his life as a nomadic herder in the Fulani tribe, on the plains of West Africa. Kader’s w...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Pencil
"He Opened His Hand And I Put My Stories Into It" (2024) by Amy Hutcheson
Located in Denver, CO
"He Opened His Hand And I Put My Stories Into It" (2024) is an original, handmade oil painting on canvas, by Amy Hutcheson, that depicts an abstract painting with colorful geometric ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Prismatic Polygon XV: geometric abstract painting w/ linear pattern, red, orange
By Jay Walker
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Jay Walker is best known for his large-scale, site-specific installations and collector's pieces created with laser-cut vinyl, colored acrylic sheets, artist-made stencils, tape, and...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Prismatic Polygon XIX: geometric abstract painting w/ pattern. Gold, green ombre
By Jay Walker
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Jay Walker is best known for his large-scale, site-specific installations and collector's pieces created with laser-cut vinyl, colored acrylic sheets, artist-made stencils, tape, and...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
"D’Avignon"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This artwork is a captivating collage that pays homage to the iconic “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” by Pablo Picasso while embracing a minimalist aesthetic. Through the use of paper cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper
Clouds Behind Clouds II with Screenprint on Paper by Simon Tozer
By Simon Tozer
Located in Deddington, GB
Clouds Behind Clouds II by Simon Tozer [2021]
This is one of an ongoing series of seascapes and sky images that have clouds as their main focus. Clouds are ethereal forms, and along...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Screen, Paper
Les Competiteurs, American Modernist, Abstract Figurative Oil on Canvas, 1952
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Les Competiteurs" by American modernist painter Leonard Nelson is a 36" x 26" oil on canvas abstract figurative painting, created in 1952. The work is framed in classic black and si...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
CONTEMPORARY Painting by Argentine Artist Flora Castiglia ESEY 2023
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Flora is an Argentinian artist, born in Buenos Aires. She was introduced to the practices of art from a very young age by her mother, also an artist. Observing her mother working fr...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
"Menage A Trois"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This artwork is a captivating abstract composition that reflects the elusive nature of human relationships through figures of people, particularly feminine forms. Amorphous shapes an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Picnic in the Park - Mid Century Figurative Landscape
By Albert Genta
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century figurative landscape of a a group of figures, sitting on the lake shore with a guitar by Francis Albert Genta (French, 1901-1989), c.1950. Signed "A. Genta" lower right. Unframed. Image size: 18"H x 24"W.
Albert Genta was born in Paris, France in 1901 and is primarily known for painting female portraits and landscapes. Albert Genta (Francis Albert Genta) is a painter French specialist naked , born 13 September 1901 in Paris 12th and died on 5 September 1989 in the 20th, Paris .
He was a female nude painter...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil, Paper
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
"Fractality Beginnings" (2024), Original Abstract Oil Painting on Mounted Paper
Located in Denver, CO
"Fractality Beginnings" by Terry Gardner is an original, handmade oil painting on paper that depicts a colorful abstract scene. This painting measures 28 x 22 inches in its frame and...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Allegory Fish - Oil Painting Blue Green Brown White Red Orange Yellow
Located in Sofia, BG
"Allegory Fish" is a modern, abstract oil painting by Maestro Dimitar Mitov-Komshin
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: oil painting
STYLE: Abstract, Contemporary
Edition : Unique, sign...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Scale Bay Area Figurative Inspired -- The Young Trumpet Player
Located in Soquel, CA
Large Scale Bay Area Figurative Inspired -- The Young Trumpet Player
Compelling Bay Area Figurative Movement inspired painting of a young trumpet player, circa 1990. Unsigned. Unframed.
The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th Century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward into the 1960s. Spanning two decades, this art movement is often broken down into three groups, or generations: the First Generation, the Bridge Generation, and the Second Generation.
Many of the "First Generation" artists in this movement were avid fans of Abstract Expressionism, and worked in that manner, until several of them abandoned non-objective painting in favor of working with the figure. Among these First Generation Bay Area Figurative School artists were: David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Rex Ashlock, Elmer Bischoff, Glenn Wessels, Wayne Thiebaud, Raimonds Staprans, and James Weeks.
The "Bridge Generation" included the artists: Henrietta Berk, Nathan Oliveira, Theophilus Brown, Paul Wonner, Roland Petersen, John Hultberg, and Frank Lobdell.
Many "Second Generation" artists of this movement studied under the First Generation artists, or were late starters. Among these Second Generation artists were: Bruce McGaw, Henry Villierme...
Category
1990s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$960 Sale Price
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Vintage Mid Century Modern Figurative Oil Painting - Crimson Conversation
Located in Bristol, GB
CRIMSON CONVERSATION
Size: 51 x 64 cm (including frame)
Oil and gouache on board
A bold and expressive mid-century modernist figurative composition, painted in oil and gouache onto ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Gouache
America Rising - Patriotic 9/11 Figurative Abstract
By Jocelyn Audette
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid and evocative abstracted painting of 9/11 by artist Jocelyn Audette (American, b. 1952), circa 2001. Impasto adds texture and interest. Label on verso with artist's name. Pres...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Bay Area Figurative School -- "Banker's Holiday"
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful Bay Area School figurative of tan man with blue hat by Patricia Gren Hayes (American, 20th Century), 1980. Signed, titled and dated on ve...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,720 Sale Price
20% Off
In Venice
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Like his mentor the great American Impressionist William Merritt Chase, Charles Webster Hawthorne was equally admired in his own day as both a talented painter and a highly influential instructor. Hawthorne first studied with Chase at his Shinnecock Summer School of Art, which was specifically dedicated to open-air landscape painting. Not only did Hawthorne quickly absorb all the principles of Chase’s instruction, but he also became determined to found his own school based on the same model. In 1899 Hawthorne discovered the small fishing village of Provincetown on the furthermost tip of Cape Cod, and after purchasing a large house on Miller Hill, he opened the Cape Cod School of Art, which proved to be an immediate success.
While Hawthorne’s own approach as a teacher owed much to Chase, he developed a distinctly unique painting style and teaching method that defies easy categorization. He was greatly impressed with the work of Franz Hals, which he was exposed to during his trip to Holland in the summer of 1898. Hawthorne was particularly struck by Hals’ Regentesses of the Old Men’s Almhouse, and from this work he absorbed a deep appreciation for the power of human expression and an economy of technique. Hawthorne applied these lessons to his own realistic portraits of Provincetown fishermen and their families; these works have a somber, almost melancholy quality to them, and they reveal a sense of the vulnerability of the human condition.
Stylistically, Hawthorne maintained a life-long commitment to the importance of color. “Beauty in art,” he said, “is the delicious notes of color one against the other.” Of equal importance to him was capturing the effects of light. He told his students: “Everything in painting is a matter of silhouettes. Hold light against shadow, not light against light.” He developed a particular technique of layering glazes and texturing the surface of his paintings, which heightens the relationship between the colors and creates a light effect that seems to emanate from within the painting. These stylistic techniques in combination with his straightforward compositions of one or more figures shown at close range create the hallmarks of Hawthorne’s best paintings.
Hawthorne and his wife Ethel’s 1905-1907 trip to Italy did not result in a drastic impact on his artistic style. Nonetheless, it proved to be a transformative and enlightening voyage. The extensive trip was financed by collectors who paid in advance for a painting to be produced abroad. On the trip, Hawthorne explored the work of old masters and was struck particularly by the paintings of Titian, which to Hawthorne, demonstrated the master’s true adoration for the act of painting itself through his handling of paint and color. Where Titian’s paintings...
Category
Early 1900s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ciao Bella, original 40x30 abstract expressionist figurative landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
When he whispers "ciao bella" and they kiss, they both know that their lives are about to change on so many levels! This abstract expressionist figurative landscape captures the nurt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas “850” by abstract-figurative artist, Frank Arnold
By Frank Arnold
Located in Fresno, CA
"850" is 72” x 60”. The smokey greens, greys and blues are combined in the heavy hand, brush and knife strokes which characterize much of this artist’s work. Frank Arnold’s paintings...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract figurative 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 figurative 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, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Cindy Shaoul, Simon Richard Halimi, Frank Arnold, and Judith Berry. 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 Abstract figurative paintings, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative 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 $121 and tops out at $570,000, while the average work sells for $2,500.