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Style: Contemporary
Style: Abstract
Medium: Encaustic
Hostess (Contemporary Abstract Painting on Panel in Dark Brown with Orange Grid)
Located in Hudson, NY
16 x 16 x 2 inches
encaustic on square wood panel
HOSTESS is an abstracted painting in rich encaustic (pigmented wax) on wood panel. A dark, cross-hatched pattern is overlaid with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Wax, Encaustic, Wood Panel
Scene 1
By Mary Long
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she began working in encaustic in 2001. Mary grew u...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic
Lynn's Cheetah #2
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
Andrea Bonfils - Many Moons, Painting 2019
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Many Moons
Andrea’s encaustic Many Moons encompasses warm, soothing tones whilst complemented by darker tints of indigo and a splash of yellow. The color combinations break ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil
Andrea Bonfils - Turquoise Moons, Painting
Located in Greenwich, CT
1/1, steel frame, Can be hung vertical or horizontal
Oil and encaustic
Size: 30" x 40"
This painting will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil
Denise Regan "Bubble" Oil Painting on Canvas
By Denise Regan
Located in New York, NY
Denise Regan
Bubble, 2017
oil and encaustic on canvas
24 x 36 in.
This oil painting on canvas by Denise Regan depicts a colorful still life with a fish and flowers, rendered in her ...
Category
2010s Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
Patricia Zippin "Shades of Blue" 1980s Mixed Media Abstract Painting
Located in Arp, TX
Patricia Zippin
Shades of Blue
1980s
Mixed Media
15"x 11.5", unframed
Signed in ink on lower right
Patricia Jayne Zippin (1930-2015)
She was born to Ben and Dorothy Schubert on Janu...
Category
1980s Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Acrylic, Pencil
Eklund Roundup 12
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
Meditations 6 (encaustic on panel, abstract, stripes, maroon, pink, yellow)
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Pressman earned her BA in Art from Douglas College, Rutgers University and an MFA from Bard College. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad, incl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Encaustic
White What's Left (Contemporary Abstract Painting with Colorful Paper Collage)
Located in Hudson, NY
White What's Left (Contemporary Abstract Painting with Colorful Paper Collage)
20 x 20 x 2 inches
encaustic, collage on wood panel
Signed on rev...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
'Forms in Charcoal and Jade', San Francisco Bay Area Abstraction, SFMFA, CWS
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Gilberg' for Robert George Gilberg (American, 1911-1970) and dated '58'.
Born in Oakland, Robert George Gilberg first studied at the Oakland Art Center during t...
Category
1950s Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Gouache, Laid Paper
Scene 6
By Mary Long
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she began working in encaustic in 2001. Mary grew u...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic
Different Nomenclatures. Contemporary Abstract Encaustic Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Different Nomenclatures 2019
Encaustic wax & oil colour on deep-fame board
600 x 600 mm
Category
2010s Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Wax, Encaustic, Oil
Meditations 2 (encaustic on panel, abstract, stripes, maroon, yellow, bright)
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Pressman earned her BA in Art from Douglas College, Rutgers University and an MFA from Bard College. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad, incl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
Swell
Located in Columbia, MO
Born in Beacon, New York, returning exhibitor Laura Moriarty received training through an apprenticeship in hand papermaking (1986-1990), and is otherwise self-taught. Since 1992, he...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Panel
"White Box Blue Lines" 1980s Encaustic Abstract Painting CCAC Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Patricia Zippin
White Box Blue Lines
1980s
Mixed Media
30.75"x 22.5", unframed
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing time between 3-5 weeks.
Category
1980s Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Acrylic, Pencil
Current by Shirley Lewis Large Square Contemporary Blue Painting on Canvas
Located in Atlanta, GA
With its fluid motion and layered textures, Current by Shirley Lewis is a compelling 48 x 48-inch mixed media painting that captures the energy of flowin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Encaustic
Rest Stop In Blue - Landscape With Children Riding Animal Trees, 2021
By Cecile Chong
Located in Kent, CT
A peaceful landscape scene is set in shades of blue with pale ivory in this contemporary encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting with oil paint, pigments from Morocco and India, volca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic, Panel
Bannack Horses
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
Andrea Bonfils - Beehives, Painting 2017
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: Beehives
Beehives, Encaustic Beeswax, Fabric, Beehives
Size: 18" x 46"/ 46" x 18"
Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, iron and other heated tools - along with pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Wax, Encaustic, Oil
Solstice, Contemporary Encaustic Abstract Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Solstice
2020 Encaustic wax on board
Image 652 x 585 mm
Signed in a Welsh Oak frame
Image 50cm x 50cm
2020
Category
2010s Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Wax, Encaustic, Oil, Board
Grayscale 1
By Mary Long
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she began working in encaustic in 2001. Mary grew u...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic
Ciao Gaia
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Caviar20 is excited to be offering this epic Tony Scherman landscape painting.
While landscapes are an important part of the artist's oeuvre, they do not come on the secondary market very often.
Tony Scherman (b. 1950) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. He is renowned internationally for his work, typically executed in encaustic, a mix of wax and oil (one of the most difficult mediums to work in).
Scherman frequently alludes to the grandeur of past centuries, both in his subject matter and his technique of painting with encaustic. The artist is continuing a tradition, of working with this material, that has been propelled through art history by a diverse number of canonical artists including Pieter Claesz, Caravaggio, and Cézanne.
"Ciao Gaia...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil
Blue Thistle by Shirley Lewis Large Square Contemporary Blue Painting on Canvas
Located in Atlanta, GA
Bold, layered, and visually arresting, Blue Thistle by Shirley Lewis is a 48 x 48-inch mixed media painting that fuses contemporary abstraction with organic elegance. Rich in tonal d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Encaustic
Andrea Bonfils - Golden Hour, Painting
Located in Greenwich, CT
1/1, steel frame
Oil and encaustic
Size: 30" x 40"
This painting will be shipped directly from the artist's studio.
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil
Modernist Encaustic Painting "New Orleans" Pacific Northwest Artist Molly Hilts
Located in Portland, OR
"New Orleans," Encaustic, Molly Cliff Hilts (1958- )
Molly Cliff Hilts is an artist whose work is part of an emerging form that fuses painting, phot...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Patricia Zippin "Tillamook Flight 3 of 12" 1980s Abstract Painting
Located in Arp, TX
Patricia Zippin
Tillamook Flight 3 of 12
1980s
Mixed Media
30.75"x 23", unframed
Signed in paint bottom right and signed and titled in pen on reverse
Patricia Jayne Zippin (1930-201...
Category
1980s Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Acrylic, Pencil
Summer Moon
By Mary Long
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she began working in encaustic in 2001. Mary grew u...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic
Branches, abstract landscape encaustic painting
Located in Basalt, CO
We once viewed “nature” as the broad, creative and controlling force in the universe. Tania Dibbs studied both biology and art, and is interested in our changing relationship to to ...
Category
2010s Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Drops
Located in Columbia, MO
Born in Beacon, New York, returning exhibitor Laura Moriarty received training through an apprenticeship in hand papermaking (1986-1990), and is otherwise self-taught. Since 1992, he...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Panel
Powder Room 1
By Mary Long
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Brown, Orange, Blue, Pink, Green, Yellow, Red
Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she be...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic
Full House
By Mary Long
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she began working in encaustic in 2001. Mary grew u...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic
"Here to There Triptych" (2018) By Victoria Eubanks, Encaustic on Birch Panel
Located in Denver, CO
"Here to There Triptych" (2018) by Victoria Eubanks is an original handmade encaustic painting on three birch panels that depicts a colorful abstract scene.
About the Artist:
Victo...
Category
2010s Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
'Fireflies', Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Art Association, Seattle
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right, 'Laisner' for George Laisner (American, 1914-1984), titled, verso, 'Fireflies', and painted circa 1955.
Born in Czechoslovakia, Laisner first studied at the Uni...
Category
1950s Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Paint, Encaustic, Board
"Guinness" (2023) by Carrie Goller, Original Oil and Cold Wax Encaustic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Carrie Goller's (US based) "Guiness" (2024) is an original, mixed media painting using encaustic on wood panel which features a side portrait still-life of a sheep.
Born and raised ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic, Wood Panel
Waterfall by Shirley Lewis Large Square Contemporary Blue Painting on Canvas
Located in Atlanta, GA
Immerse yourself in the expressive beauty of Waterfall, a striking 48 x 48-inch mixed media painting by contemporary artist Shirley Lewis. Layered with t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Encaustic
Cafe 1
By Mary Long
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Brown, Orange, Blue, Pink, Green, Yellow, Red
Mary was born in Ohio and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee since the mid-1990s. Following studies in graphic design and painting, she be...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic
Israeli Abstract Expressionist Dina Recanati Cosmos Painting, Sculpture in Metal
Located in Surfside, FL
Dina Recanati
Cosmos Series
(they look like outer space or abstract desert landscapes)
2003
Metallic paint, acid etched on aluminum, wood
Hand signed and dated on side
Dina Recanati (born Diane Hettena; 1928 – 2021) was an Israeli artist, sculptor and painter.
Diane Hettena was born in Cairo, Egypt. In 1946, she married Raphael Recanati in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine.
Went to London to study History and Art 1946-1948.
Moved to New York 1948. Raised two sons, Oudi and Michael.
Attended Art Student League 1959-1962. Studied with Jose de Creft and John Hovannes.
Beginning in 1964, she was active on the board of the America-israel Cultural Foundation. In the 1970s, she was a member of the board of the Israel Museum and in the 1980s Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem. At the same time as she was working as an artist, she was also collecting artwork. She lives and works in Herzliya and New York.
Most of Recanati's work is in the medium of sculpture. Her works, which contain images of books or parchment, have been influenced by American abstract expressionism in their use of swaths of color. In the 1980s and 1990s, she worked widely in sculptures in the public domain. Dina Recanati was a proponent of Israeli art and supported many Israeli artists. In the 1950s and 1960s, she showcased the work of beginning artists at the 5th Avenue branch of Israel Discount Bank in New York City, while growing Discount Bank’s art collection.
She has gone on to exhibit worldwide with permanent works in the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum, Ben Gurion Airport, The Jewish Museum (New York) among others. She is the recipient of the AICF AVIV Award and The Council for a Beautiful Israel Yakir Award.
She was represented by Flomenhaft Gallery in New York City (was included in the Feminist Art Project along with Miriam Schapiro) and Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv.
Recanati died in Herzliya Pituah at the ate of 93.
Israeli Art: Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Work. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 1971
Artists: Igael Tumarkin, Bezalel Schatz, Yehiel Shemi, Buky Schwartz, Dina Recanati, Menashe Kadishman, David Palombo, Itzhak Danziger, Sorel Etrog, Yaacov Agam, Jakob Steinhardt, Louise Schatz, Anna Ticho, Ruth Schloss, Moshe Castel, Yohanan Simon, Lea Nikel, Marcel Janco, Mordecai Ardon etc.
40 From Israel: Contemporary Sculpture & Drawing Israel: Contemporary Sculpture & Drawing Brooklyn...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Metal
How to Sew a Blouse (green, abstract, landscape, organic)
By Amber George
Located in New York, NY
Encaustic on board
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Board, Encaustic
Milan Still Life
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Tony Scherman (1950-2023) is one of the most collected and cherished Canadian artists. He is renowned internationally for his work in encaustic (a mix of wax and oil, one of the most...
Category
1990s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Abstract Encaustic Painting, "Memories of Watching Koi"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original encaustic mixed media artwork by Tiffany Bociek. Its dimensions are 36" x 36" x 2.3". A certificate of authenticity will follow delivery.
Created t...
Category
2010s Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Pastel, Mulberry Paper
Silk Road 223 - Light Powder Blue Coral Pink Encaustic Painting, 2014
Located in Kent, CT
A luminous pale blue contemporary encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting on birch panel accented with bright coral along the edge of the panel. Signed, dated and titled on verso.
Jo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Panel
American Family No. 2
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
Guna II
By Tracey Adams
Located in London, GB
Encaustic on Okawara paper - Unframed
The title, Guna (2016), is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘string, thread or strand’ and was inspired by Adams yoga practice.
“It’s a key concept in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Encaustic
Seeing (abstract, encaustic on panel, pastel, green)
Located in New York, NY
Lisa Pressman earned her BA in Art from Douglas College, Rutgers University and an MFA from Bard College. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad, incl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
Composition. 1973, canvas, synthetic tempera, cold encaustic, 87x64 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Composition. 1973, canvas, synthetic tempera, cold encaustic, 87x64 cm
Cubistic composition in red, yellow, green, blue colors
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic, Tempera
Demiuge, 2022, framed encaustic and oil on panel
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic and oil on panel, framed
Focusing on painting as a space of exploration, Raphaëlle Goethals has worked with wax, resin, and pigments as her signature medium for over twent...
Category
2010s Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil
Lacuna 7, yellow and green abstract encaustic painting on panel, stripes
By Amber George
Located in New York, NY
My work is a visual and increasingly literal patchwork quilt containing little and big pieces of myself and the archetypal imagery developed over the course of my practice.
Within t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
Alfa Blues, 2024, framed encaustic and oil on panel
Located in Phoenix, AZ
encaustic and oil on panel, framed
Focusing on painting as a space of exploration, Raphaëlle Goethals has worked with wax, resin, and pigments as her signature medium for over twent...
Category
2010s Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil
State of Grace 3
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Encaustic on panel. blue teal aqua white yellow orange navy Red
It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Russian John #3
Located in Bozeman, MT
Theodore Waddell's sophisticated modernist paintings have attracted widespread recognition. A native Montanan cattle rancher, Waddell most often paints freely-rendered range animals ...
Category
1990s Abstract Impressionist Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
"Best Buy Baking Cups Small" Geometric Abstract Cast Wax Wall Painting, in green
By Joanne Ungar
Located in New York, NY
This poured wax painting in green by Joanne Ungar, is composed with the geometric forms of recycled packaging, layered and infused with pigmented wax. A vibrant sculptural painting, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Wax, Encaustic
Spring, from the Seasons Series
Located in New York, NY
Friedmann’s expressive and colorful abstractions elicit an immediacy of painting and the relativity of time. The works in the series suggest a subjective impression of movement, like...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil, Acrylic
Animal Painting #09-6577 (bear)
By Les Thomas
Located in Bozeman, MT
Les Thomas has long recognized painting as a language in its own right, and its diversity in terms of poetic and conceptual messages, exhibited by each individual picture.
Les Thoma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Oil
Study for Valencia 2
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Tony Scherman (1950-2023) is one of the most collected and distinctive Canadian artists. He is renowned internationally for his work in encaustic (a mix of wax and oil, one of the mo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic
"Held" abstract encaustic painting of curved shapes in navy, blue and white
Located in Edgartown, MA
“As an encaustic painter, I have come to appreciate and enjoy the way the hot wax pushes me beyond precision. I am a very orderly person and I think in grids. Much of my work is cent...
Category
2010s Abstract Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
Man with Dog
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
Open Seating - Encaustic Landscape Figures Mother and Child Blue Yellow, 2015
By Cecile Chong
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting on panel, a peaceful landscape scene in shades of pale blue, canary yellow, light orange, and pale maroon red is accented ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Encaustic Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic, Panel
Encaustic paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Encaustic paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add paintings created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, red, blue, pink and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Amy Van Winkle, Kay Hartung, Andrew Francis, and Mary Long. Frequently made by artists working in the Abstract, Contemporary, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Encaustic paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available
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