Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Original oil and acrylic painting on canvas titled “Sandscape 2” by the well known American artist, Syd Solomon. Signed Syd Solomon lower left. Signed and dated Syd Solomon 1972 and inscribed as titled on the reverse. 22 × 30 inches. Overall very good to excellent condition. No notable issues detected during inspection. No signs of restoration under UV inspection. The painting is in its original wood with silver reveal floating frame. Overall framed measurements are 24.25 by 32.25 inches. Provenance: A private collector. Syd Solomon was born near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1917. He began painting in high school in Wilkes-Barre, where he was also a star football player. After high school, he worked in advertising and took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he joined the war effort and was assigned to the First Camouflage Battalion, the 924th Engineer Aviation Regiment of the US Army. He used his artistic skills to create camouflage instruction manuals utilized throughout the Army. He married Ann Francine Cohen in late 1941. Soon thereafter, in early 1942, the couple moved to Fort Ord in California where he was sent to camouflage the coast to protect it from possible aerial bombings. Sent overseas in 1943, Solomon did aerial reconnaissance over Holland. Solomon was sent to Normandy early in the invasion where his camouflage designs provided protective concealment for the transport of supplies for men who had broken through the enemy line. Solomon was considered one of the best camoufleurs in the Army, receiving among other commendations, five bronze stars. Solomon often remarked that his camouflage experience during World War II influenced his ideas about abstract art. At the end of the War, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Because Solomon suffered frostbite during the Battle of the Bulge, he could not live in cold climates, so he and Annie chose to settle in Sarasota, Florida, after the War. Sarasota was home to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and soon Solomon became friends with Arthur Everett “Chick” Austin, Jr., the museum’s first Director. In the late 1940s, Solomon experimented with new synthetic media, the precursors to acrylic paints provided to him by chemist Guy Pascal, who was developing them. Victor D’Amico, the first Director of Education for the Museum of Modern Art, recognized Solomon as the first artist to use acrylic paint. His early experimentation with this medium as well as other media put him at the forefront of technical innovations in his generation. He was also one of the first artists to use aerosol sprays and combined them with resists, an innovation influenced by his camouflage experience. Solomon’s work began to be acknowledged nationally in 1952. He was included in American Watercolors, Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From 1952–1962, Solomon’s work was discovered by the cognoscenti of the art world, including the Museum of Modern Art Curators, Dorothy C. Miller and Peter Selz, and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Director, John I. H. Baur. He had his first solo show in New York at the Associated American Artists Gallery in 1955 with “Chick” Austin, Jr. writing the essay for the exhibition. In the summer of 1955, the Solomons visited East Hampton, New York, for the first time at the invitation of fellow artist David Budd. There, Solomon met and befriended many of the artists of the New York School, including Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, James Brooks, Alfonso Ossorio, and Conrad Marca-Relli. By 1959, and for the next thirty-five years, the Solomons split the year between Sarasota (in the winter and spring) and the Hamptons (in the summer and fall). In 1959, Solomon began showing regularly in New York City at the Saidenberg Gallery with collector Joseph Hirshhorn buying three paintings from Solomon’s first show. At the same time, his works entered the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Connecticut, among others. Solomon also began showing at Signa Gallery in East Hampton and at the James David Gallery in Miami run by the renowned art dealer, Dorothy Blau. In 1961, the Guggenheim Museum’s H. H. Arnason bestowed to him the Silvermine Award at the 13th New England Annual. Additionally, Thomas Hess of ARTnews magazine chose Solomon as one of the ten outstanding painters of the year. At the suggestion of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the Museum of Modern Art’s Director, the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota began its contemporary collection by purchasing Solomon’s painting, Silent World, 1961. Solomon became influential in the Hamptons and in Florida during the 1960s. In late 1964, he created the Institute of Fine Art at the New College in Sarasota. He is credited with bringing many nationally known artists to Florida to teach, including Larry Rivers, Philip Guston, James Brooks, and Conrad Marca-Relli. Later Jimmy Ernst, John Chamberlain, James Rosenquist, and Robert Rauschenberg settled near Solomon in Florida. In East Hampton, the Solomon home was the epicenter of artists and writers who spent time in the Hamptons, including Alfred Leslie, Jim Dine, Ibram Lassaw, Saul Bellow, Barney Rosset, Arthur Kopit, and Harold Rosenberg. In 1970, Solomon, along with architect Gene Leedy, one of the founders of the Sarasota School of Architecture, built an award-winning precast concrete and glass house and studio on the Gulf of Mexico near Midnight Pass in Sarasota. Because of its siting, it functioned much like Monet’s home in Giverny, France. Open to the sky, sea, and shore with inside and outside studios, Solomon was able to fully solicit all the environmental forces that influenced his work. His friend, the art critic Harold Rosenberg, said Solomon’s best work was produced in the period he lived on the beach. During 1974 and 1975, a retrospective exhibition of Solomon’s work was held at the New York Cultural Center and traveled to the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota. Writer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. conducted an important interview with Solomon for the exhibition catalogue. The artist was close to many writers, including Harold Rosenberg, Joy Williams, John D. McDonald, Budd Schulberg, Elia Kazan, Betty Friedan...

Signed lower right, 'Aziza' with monogram and dated 1990. A fresh and vibrant oil abstract juxtaposing adjacent and overlaid organic forms in cerulean, crimson and yellow applied wi...

Antonio Gritón (Mexico City, 1953) Lives and works in Mexico City. Antonio Griton is a visual artist and tireless promoter of Mexican culture. He captures a visual discourse that r...

Abstract, 1987 Hand signed and dated verso Not sure of technique. this might be a monotype or monoprint with hand painting. The handmade paper is cut somewhat irregularly as per the ...

Signed and dated by artist on verso

Classical music inspires the artist in all its forms , lose yourself in the atmosphere that Tahedl create on the canvas. Let these musical paintings transport you and fill you with ...

Lieber's paintings are in the permanent collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art NY, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum NY, Tate London, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MOCALA, Bolinas Museum, Honolulu Contemporary Museum, Fleming Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, Farnsworth Museum, Tucson Museum of Art, Newport Art Museum, Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College...

Large abstract artwork worked with free gestures. Professional and high quality painting with anti UV protection and velvet rendering :: Painting :: Abstract Expressionism :: This p...

Colorful and rich abstract expressionism artwork. Worked in several layers with professional and high quality painting with anti UV protection and velvet rendering. Ship rolled on ...

The surfaces Susan Washington works with are derived from her memories of the graffitied subway car, public telephone booths, and rolling steel cages that secure neighborhood stores ...

Abstract expressionism artwork realized in several layers in a coloful and contrasted palette. Free and intuitive gesture. Professional and high quality painting with anti UV prote...

Sweet and bright abstract expressionism artwork in a pastel palette of peach, pink, white, blue and red. Its rendering evokes calm and serenity, something aerial. Professional and ...

Large abstract expressionism artwork realized during summer 2023 in France. This piece is part of a serie of research and improve on work composition. Worked in several layers with...

Abstract expressionism artwork with a bright and warm palette of pink, red, yellow and orange. Worked in several layers with professional and high quality painting with anti UV prot...

Lyrical abstraction Gestural Abstraction

Large abstract expressionism artwork in a colorful palette, mainly pink, red and blue. Worked in several layers with professional and high quality painting with anti UV protection a...

Large expressionism artwork inspired by nature during summer in France in 2023. The palette is mainly green, white and blue. Worked in several layers with professional and high qua...

Large abstract expressionism artwork in a colorful palette mainly blue and orange. Worked in several layers with a professional and high quality painting with anti UV protection and...

Large square abstract expressionism artwork. Worked in several layers with a colorful and joyful palette. Professional and high quality painting with anti UV protection and velvet ...

"Travedo," a 48" x 36" masterpiece by artist Masri, is a tour de force of contemporary abstract expressionism. The canvas is alive with dynamic swirls of black and white, creating a ...

Abstract Expressionist Composition signed by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924) oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 20 x 24 inches condition: overall very good, a few m...

Abstract expressionism artwork inspired by sunflowers. The palette is colorful on a white background. Work with several touches of colors reminiscent of flower petals. Professiona...

Wang Tao (Chinese, 1943) "Blue Clouds with Dragons (Untitled)," 2007, Acrylic and vintage antique paper collage on canvas, Hand signed and dated L/R, Verso inscribed and dated Di...

Large abstract expressionism artwork inspired by nature, leaves and flowers. Worked with a professional and high quality painting with anti UV protection and velvet rendering. Ship...

Pink and red gesture on a white background. Professional and high quality painting with anti UV protection and velvet rendering. Edges are painted in the continuity of the artwork....

Abstract expressionism artwork with a strong palette mainly blue and green. Inspired by nature, this piece has been worked in several layers with affirmed brush strokes loaded with ...

Abstract expressionism artwork worked on the composition with a powerful palette of colors mainly pink. Professional and high quality painting with anti UV protection and velvet ren...

Large abstract expressionism artwork airy and vaporous. The palette is soft but colorful mainly turquoise, yellow and orange. Professional and high quality painting with anti UV pr...

Abstract expressionism artwork in a strong and colorful palette mainly blue and orange. Worked in several layers with energic brush strokes loaded with paint. Professional and high...

Abstract expressionism artwork worked in a strong colorful palette mainly red, blue, yellow and black. Realized after seeing the french movie " un coup de maître" about the complic...

Abstract expressionism artwork with a warm and autumnal palette worked in several layers. Professional and high quality painting with anti UV protection and velvet rendering. Edges...

Abstract expressionism artwork worked in several layers with spontaneous gesture. The palette is colorful but mainly blue turquoise. Professional and high quality painting with ant...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 9 x 9 inches condition: very good and impressive provenance: all the paintings we have for sale by this artist have come from the artists studio and are all featured in the artists Catalogue Raisonne. Jacques, Paul, Firmin Coulais is a French painter born on March 22 , 1955 in Fenioux ( Deux-Sèvres ) and died at the age of 56, the June 25 , 2011 in Niort (Deux-Sèvres). Born into a farming family, he was the seventh of eight children. Suddenly becoming a quadriplegic at the age of six following poliomyelitis, he overcame this handicap by building with determination an independent life centered on artistic practice and an intense social life. For more than thirty years his house and his workshop have been the center of attraction for many artists, art lovers or simply friends of Niort and all of France. Coulais began to paint with his mouth, as an autodidact. In 1978, he made the acquaintance of a plastic art teacher who advised him and engaged him on the path of watercolour. The freedom granted to him by this technique as well as the flexibility of its application fascinate him. This meeting and the friendship shared with his teacher, lead him and very quickly direct his work from figurative to abstraction in a way that he explores and that he will then find in the works of Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Angoulême, he studied there from 1981 to 1984 and obtained the National Superior Diploma in Plastic Expression at the age of 31. A few years later, Jacques Coulais exhibited at the Museum of Niort and since then, his career has been punctuated by his participation in numerous exhibitions organized very regularly in various French cities as well as abroad. In the 1990s, the AAPBP, Association of Mouth and Foot Painting...

Fire of Life is a philosophical painting about passion to life, energy of life, full of sun and joy. Yellow and orange are colors of our wis...

Large abstract expressionism artwork with a contrasted palette mainly black and pink. Gestural abstraction with free and spontaneous brush strokes and dripping. Professional and hi...

Floral abstract expressionism artwork worked in several layers of gestural brush strokes. The palette is bright and colorful. Inspired by the summer flowers in France. Professiona...

Lucid dream is an abstract expressionism artwork worked in a limited palette of blue, red, brown and white. Worked on the composition with soft brush strokes. Professional and high...

This lively original botanical abstract painting with color of forest on hand cut heavy stock brings restful and secure feeling to any home. See the others in the series to cre...

This abstract mixed media work, created on canvas, is part of the "Chaos and Control Theory" series. Utilizing pages from an Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, the piece invites intera...

Arizona artist Gail Titus paints vibrant abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas with a focus on texture and color. The geometric planes of her artworks and the texture in her mov...

This expressive artwork " Blond woman on the beach" captures the essence of abstract impressionism through bold brushstrokes and vivid color contrasts. Central to the composition is...

118 x 77 in Acrylic on canvas Unstretched Vicky Barranguet found her own voice and colorful expression of life, emotions, and music through her studies with master painters, Larry P...

A bold figurative narrative, blocks of color on white, acrylic, collage friendship, helpful, hand, figurative abstraction This acrylic painting on paper can be framed or displayed ...

Abstract Expressionist Composition signed by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924) oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 31.5 x 16 inches condition: overall very good, a few m...

Large scale painting by Steve Balkin titled “Entre Nous”. Balkin is known as being the creator of “Lyrical Impression” which is clearly displayed and defi...

Springtime Plains Mixed Media on Canvas 31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in 80 x 60 cm "I want to celebrate the subtlety and nuance, the sense of timelessness, strength and fragility, and to convey ...

I am inspired by the colors of nature .Layering and texture serves as the foundation for my painting . Artwork is ready to hang and is signed on the back and on the front .The painti...

Original abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas, affixed to Windsor Newton paper. The moods and whims of nature influence the work of Sarah Van Beckum. D...

'Perseid II' 2018 by Seattle based abstract painter, Liz Tran. Mixed media on panel, 40 x 30 in. Tran's 'Perseid' series is inspired by meteor showers observed in eastern Washington....

"Empowered Modesty," created by French artist Natalya Mougenot, is a compelling addition to her series dedicated to exploring themes related to women. The piece emphasizes the streng...

Frame size: 34x26.5" Elizabeth Higgins describes herself as an abstract figurative and landscape painter. Everything around her serves as a potential subject, an inspiration to begi...

Carrowteige II Mixed Media on Board 54.5 x 76 cm 21 1/2 x 29 7/8 in "I want to celebrate the subtlety and nuance, the sense of timelessness, strength and fragility, and to convey th...

Portrait of Joan Brown Bay Area Expressionist Seated Nude in Oil on Canvas Heavy impasto painting of a seated nude woman (Joan Brown) by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Bold depiction of a nude woman with dark hair. She is sitting in a dark blue chair, body slightly angled towards the viewer. The wall behind her is a deep red. Both the chair and the model are made out of many small brushstrokes of varying colors, creating a pointillist feel. Honora Berg also painted and portrait of Manuel Neri (Joan's Husband) which we acquired also from the Larry Miller Estate. Unframed. Canvas size: 30"H x 24"W Signed and dated "Honora Berg 60" in the lower right corner. Signed "H. Berg" on verso. Tag from Larry Miller Fine Art on verso. Provenance: Estate of Honora Berg, David Carson...

Abstract Expressionist Composition signed by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924) oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 31.5 x 16 inches condition: overall very good, a few m...

This contemporary abstract impressionist landscape painting, infused with elements of expressionism and brut art, is a creation by French artist Natalya Mougenot. Titled "My Love, M...

Signed and dated by artist on back. Andrew W. Young (American) is an artist who lives in Manhattan and has life-long and abiding associations Downeast (Maine) and Down Cape (Cod). ...

This artwork named " Exploring the sea cliff" is a vibrant and expressive landscape painting that captures the raw essence of nature through dynamic brushstrokes and bold colors. D...

Date: 1988 Acrylic and sand on canvas, signed lower right Size: 48 in. x 72 in. (121.92 cm x 182.88 cm)