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Abstract 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
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Framed Modern Art Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive mid 20th century abstract expressionist painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category

1960s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Another Chance, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Another Chance 48" x 60" Original Mixed Media Painting 1 1/2 Deep "GALLERY WRAP" stretched canvas 2014 Vivid colors and modern feel. Very nice texture. The borders are painted in bl...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Original Oil, Golden Summer-Sunlit series , British Awarded Artist-framed
Located in London, GB
The painting was painted Plein Air, in Artist's own garden of the memorial roses she planted. This is Rosa Albertine, the first Old English variety Artist Shizico Yi planted in her garden in 2016, before her late dog died. Old English Roses...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Gold

Expression With Silver 13 - Large Abstract Painting – Vibrant Modern Wall Art
Located in Zofingen, AG
Large Abstract Acrylic Painting – Vibrant Modern Wall Art (100x140 cm) Add a bold statement to your interior with this stunning abstract acrylic painting, measuring 100x140 cm. This...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

French 20th Century Abstract Expressionism Painting with Bold Pink and Orange
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition by Marie Deloume (French born 1942) signed on back, inscribed verso with the artists Paris address oil painting on paper stuck on canvas, unframed ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Paper

Gardens Far and Near, Abstract Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"A lovely garden in itself is an abstract composition," says artist Natalie George. "So my work is easy; I just have to keep it beautiful." An enchanting gard...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Pink Peonies
Located in Zofingen, AG
picture with 3d effect, changes color depending on the lighting, the work is done in the style of antique wall fresco. This artwork presents a striking depiction of two luminous pink...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Varnish, Acrylic

White Lace and Ribbons Collotype
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate and layered collotype on heavy bond paper by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). The background of this piece is a collotype, whereas the lace, strings, and shadows are ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Pencil, Lithograph, Acrylic

Going Outside, Original Abstract Landscape Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Going Outside 48.0 x 60.0 x 1.75, 8.0 lbs Mixed Media Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "'Going Outside' is a 48x60 mixed media abstract landscape painting. The colors and the composition are an emotional response to beauty and energy found in moments of reflection in the natural beauty of the landscape." About the Artist: Maggie Jones Boudreaux...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Untitled Abstract
Located in Kansas City, MO
Medium: Gouache Year: 1991 Signed and dated by hand Edition: Unique COA provided
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1990s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Abstract Composition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Aaron Levy was born in New York City in 1899. After retiring in 1951 from a career as president of E. Milius & Company, a textile company, Levy began a new career as a fine artist. ...
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1960s Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Oil on Canvas “Understander 8” by abstract-figurative artist, Frank Arnold
Located in Fresno, CA
Frank Arnold is thought by many to be one of the foremost abstract figurative painters and sculptors of our time. He is a living master whose work is considered to be both personal a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Brown paper 01
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
A painting in abstract enamel is an explosion of shapes, textures, and colors that invite personal interpretation. Across the canvas, dynamic and free brushstrokes intertwine, creati...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Enamel

R. Poch 6 Red. Retrato con copas original acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
108. Retrato con copas 100x120 original acrylic painting Born in Badalona (Barcelona). Photographer and advertising film director. Founding partner of the advertising production co...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Optimism Painting II - acrylic on wood
Located in London, GB
Optimism Painting II - acrylic & mixed media on wood panel, 2019 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm mint condition - original and unique piece. Christian Möller...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Linen, Acrylic

French 20th Century Abstract Composition Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924) signed and dated verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 20 x 20 inches condition: overall very...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Floral encounters, suddenly (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Floral encounters, suddenly (Abstract painting) Acrylics, oil, spray paint on unprimed canvas - Unframed Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt. This artwork will be shipped rolled in a den...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Ink, Spray Paint, Graphite

Florabundance Acrylic on Canvas Contemporary Abstract 40" x 40" Water
Located in Houston, TX
Florabundance Acrylic on Canvas Contemporary Abstract 40" x 40" Water ...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Black and Tan - Neutral Geometric Original Abstract Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Artist Len Klikunas paints to modify experienced reality through visual perception. Klikunas focuses on the larger idea behind his original abstract minimalist artworks. The work is characterized by “mindful artlessness” and simplicity. Understated and subtle, the work doesn’t only refer to itself, and it doesn’t explain everything. The natural-like radiation that comes from the structure of the materials and color schemes expresses calmness. The meditative process of the work is achieved through the transformation and subtle layering of geometric and organic shapes. This black and tan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Mixed Media

American Large Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist abstract painting. Oil on canvas. Image size, 36L x 36H. Signed verso, "Larry Glickman".
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

#226, Abstract, Photography, Painting, Expressionism
Located in München, BY
Unique piece More sizes and an Essay from Lyle Rexer about this series on request. Joachim Schmeisser’s work rescues photography from the centuries-old straightjacket of realism to...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Pigment

1960's French Cubist Abstract Oil Painting - Monogrammed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, signed with initials, dated 1960's Title: Cubist abstract Medium: oil painting on board, unframed board: 13.75 x 10.5 inches Provenance: private co...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

1974 California Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Bold Oil Painting Don Clausen
Located in Surfside, FL
Don Clausen American (b. 1930) Untitled (1974) Oil on board Hand signed lower left and verso Framed 11.25 X 13.5 sight 9 x 11.25 inches Don Clausen is an American Postwar & Contem...
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1970s Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Board

Paxos - Unititled Green by Jon Rowland, original, abstract, landscape
Located in Deddington, GB
Jon Rowland – contemporary abstract expressionism Paxos – Untitled Green One of a series of paintings based on my response to the landscape of the island of Paxos. Each of these refl...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Board

Two Were Fishing 3 by Chris Brandell, Large Contemporary Neutral Painting, Black
Located in Atlanta, GA
Discover the extraordinary allure of "Two Were Fishing 3," a captivating masterpiece by renowned Florida artist Chris Brandell. This large, modern oil painting on canvas showcases a ...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Pencil

"In utero" abstract acrylic on canvas 132x99cm 2021
Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne
In this abstract painting, Pierre Morquin plunges us into a dreamlike, fairytale world. The bright colours and fluid shapes evoke a vital, creative energy. A sense of movement and dy...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Acrylic, Other Medium

Vibrant Modernist Abstraction by Claire Burch
Located in New York, NY
Claire Burch (American, 1925-2009) Untitled, 20th century Oil on canvas 24 x 30 in. Framed: 31 2/3 x 37 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. Signed lower right: Claire Burch After attending grade school in Brooklyn, Burch completed a commercial art course at Washington Irving High School in Manhattan and received her B.A. in English from NYU. In the suburbs of Great Neck, New York, she first began writing poetry and articles which were published in Life magazine, The New Republic, Mademoiselle, McCall's, Saturday Review, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, and numerous literary quarterlies and anthologies.[1] Burch also developed a career as a psychiatric writer, publishing two books on the subject: Careers in Psychiatry and Stranger in the Family. In the early 1970s Burch became a playwright and painter. Her play Ten Cents a Dance was optioned to be directed by José Quintero, the famous O'Neill interpreter. Burch wrote a total of seven plays and several folk operas, but eventually moved on to filmmaking and video anthropology—she was an early adapter of video as a medium. In 1978, Burch moved to California with her longtime companion Mark Weiman, publisher and owner of Berkeley's Regent Press. She had endured a series of illnesses and wanted to escape the harsh climate of Manhattan. Burch gained insight and inspiration from insanity and the often unexpected behavior associated with it. She would often videotape homeless people in People's Park and Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, which were collected in her film People's Park in Berkeley: Then and Now. The film documented the dispute between homeless activists and the University of California from the riots of 1969 through 1996 by interviewing park "regulars," and profiling the events surrounding the deaths of park supporters James Rector and Rosebud Denovo.[2] She also produced documentaries on noted cultural figures such as James Baldwin (whom she knew as a teenager), Timothy Leary and Country Joe McDonald. Also of note was Oracle Rising, a film about the legendary psychedelic newspaper The SF Oracle published in the Haight-Ashbury district during the Summer of Love. Her last completed film was Elegy for the Naked Guy...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blue Rain III Large Abstract
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Blue Rain III Artist signed verso, natural pigment, mixed media with texture on canvas 60"x50" framed 64x54x2. This painting by Alexander and Natalia Gore hu...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Pigment

Jim Shaw - Stocks Painting - Signed and Dated Oil on Canvas
By Jim Shaw
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
JIM SHAW (B. 1952) Stocks Painting signed and dated 'J Shaw 2007' (on the overlap) oil on canvas mounted on wooden board 82 x 121.5 cm. (32 ¼ x 47.7.8 in.) Executed in 2006. PROVENANCE Metro Pictures, New York Famous as a collector of American junk, including a trove of thrift store paintings once sought by art collector Charles Saatchi, Jim Shaw draws on his vast stores of pop cultural artifacts in his work. The My Mirage (1986–91) project comprises nearly 170 drawings, silkscreens, photographs, sculptures, films, and paintings based on a Shaw stand-in called Billy, who grows from childhood to psychosis to born-again Christianity. Billy exists amid a 1960s and ’70s visual overload of pulp novels, comic books, records, and psychedelic posters. The artist’s Oism project, initiated in the late 1990s, explores his fictional religion through media including video installations (recalling both Busby Berkeley musicals and 1980s aerobics videos) and found paintings in the “Oist style.” Shaw’s richly layered practice takes liberally from both art history (Art Brut, Vincent van Gogh, Salvador Dalí, Rene Magritte, Max Ernst) and America’s vernacular of coffeemakers and zombie films. 1952 born in Midland, MI, US Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, US 1974 BFA, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, MI, US 1978 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, CA, US One-person exhibitions: 2017 (Forthcoming) The Wig Museum, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, US Massimo De Carlo, Milan, IT 2016 Rather Fear God, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR Rather Fear God, Praz-Delavallade & Vedovi, Brussels, BE 2015-2016 The End Is Here, New Museum, New York, NY, US Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK Entertaining Doubts, Mass MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, US 2014-2015 Jim Shaw. Oeuvres choisies : dessins – peintures – sculptures – vidéo, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, CH 2014 The Hidden World. Jim Shaw / Didactic Art Collection, Centre Dürrenmatt, Neuchâtel, CH I Only Wanted You To Love Me, Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US 2013-2014 The Hidden World. Jim Shaw / Didactic Art Collection, Chalet Society, Paris, FR Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, CN 2013 Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, US Peter Saul, Jim Shaw: Drawings, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY, US Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK 2012-2013 The Rinse Cycle, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK 2012 Dreams, BFAS, Geneva, CH (in collaboration with Metro Pictures, New York) Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US 2011 Thrilling Stories from the Book of "O", Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR Cakes, Men in Pain, White Rectangles, Devil in the Details, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA, US 2010 Left Behind, CAPC - Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, FR Bernier/Eliades, Athens, GR 2009 Wet Dreams, Erotic Dream Drawings by Jim Shaw, Praz-Delavallade (space II), Paris, FR The Whole: A Study in Oist Integrated Movement, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK 2008 Extraordinary Rendition, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA, US Jim Shaw: New Arrivals, Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US 2007 Dr. Goldfoot and His Bikini Bombs, Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US 2012: Montezuma’s Revenge, Praz-Delavallade, Berlin, DE The Hole, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR The Donner Party, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, NY, US Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, IT Distorted Faces & Portraits 1978-2007, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, CH 2006 My Mirage 1986-1991, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY, US 2006-2007 DO (I was in my Japenese gallery/museum in Japan...), Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA, US Left Behind #8, 9, 10, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA, US 2006 Vise Head, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA, US Bernier/Eliades, Athens, GR Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK Vise Head, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA, US 2005 The Inky Depths/The Woman in the Wilderness, Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US Art & Public, Geneva, CH Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR The Dream That Was No More A Dream, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA, US 2004 O, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, CH Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK 2003 Kill Your Darlings, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA, US Kill Your Darlings, Bernier/Eliades, Athens, GR O, Le Magasin, Grenoble, FR Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US Drawings, Studies, O-ism, Art & Public, Geneva, CH 2002 The Rite of the 360° Degree, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR The Goodman Image File and Study, Swiss Institute, New York, NY, US Oist Thrift Store Paintings, Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, IT 2001 The Artist’s World, Logan Galleries, CCAC Institute, San Francisco, CA, US Dreamt of Drawings, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, IT 2000 Thrift Store Paintings, ICA, London, UK Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA, US Everything Must Go (curated by Sue Spaid), MAMCO, Geneva, CH; travels to The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, US Johnen + Schottle, Köln, DE 1999 Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR Everything Must Go, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, LU (traveling retrospective) 1998 Drawings (curated by Peter Weiermair), Rupertinum - Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Salzburg, AT Eccentric Drawing (curated by Peter Weiermair), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE 1997 The Deep, Tokyo, JP Bookbeat, Detroit, IL, US Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, US Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR 1996 Massimo de Carlo, Milan, IT The Sleep of Reason, Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US Dreams, Cabinet Gallery, London, UK 1995 I Dreamed I Was Performing in an Alternative Space in My Maidenform Bra, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, US Dreams, Galerie Andreas Brändström, Stockholm, SE What Exactly is a Dream and What Exactly is a Joke..., Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, US 1994 Dreams That Money Can Buy, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US 1993 Dreams That Money Can Buy, Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US Dreams That Money Can Buy, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, US 1992 Life and Death, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, US Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US Horror A Vacui (with Benjamin Weissman), Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, US Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, IT 1991 Thrift Store Paintings, Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US New Works from My Mirage, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, US 1990 My Mirage, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, US My Mirage, Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA; travels to St Louis Museum of Art, St Louis, MO; Feature Inc., New York, NY, US Thrift Store Paintings, Brand Library, Glendale, CA, US 1989 Dennis Anderson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US 1986 The Nuclear Family, EZTV, Los Angeles, CA, US 1981 Life and Death, Zero Zero Club, Los Angeles, CA, US Group exhibitions: 2017 I Love L.A., Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA, US 2016 Realisms, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, RU Un autre monde (((Dans notre monde))), Galerie du Jour Agnès B., Maison de la poésie, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, FR Collection(s) et nouveaux ensembles monographiques, Mamco, Geneva, CH Physical: Sex and the Body in the 1980s, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, US A History: Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE DO IT, Hab Galerie, Nantes, FR (organised by Frac des Pays de la Loire) On verra bien, Galerie du Jour Agnès B., Paris, FR Nothing Compares to You (works from the collection of Martin & Rebecca Eisenberg), Riverview School, Cape Cod, MA, US 2015-2016 Drawing. The Bottom Line, S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE 2015 Free Admission, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR Better Than De Kooning, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, DE Collecting Lines - Drawings from the Ringier Collection, Villa Flora, Winterthur, CH Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector, Barbican Centre, London, UK The Making of Personal Theory: Mysticism and Metaphysics in the Work of Sara Kathryn Arledge, Charles Irvin, and Jim Shaw, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, US Dominos, CIRCUIT, Lausanne, CH 2014-2015 What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art from 1960 to the Present (curated by Dan Nadel), RISD Museum, Providence, RI, US do it (homage), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, US; travels to Michaelis School of Fine Art, Capte Town, ZA; Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU Selections from The Permanent Collection, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, US Onetorino: Shit and Die (organized by M. Cattelan, M. Ben Salah & M. Papini), Palazzo Cavour, Turin, IT (by invitation of Artissima) 2014 The Century of The Bed (curated by Vienna 2014), Galerie Steinek, Wien, AT As I Run And Run, Happiness Comes Closer (curated by Jérôme Sans), Emerige, Paris, FR The Crime Was Almost Perfect (curated by Cristina Ricupero), Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL Nothing Twice, Tadeusz Kantor Centre - Cricoteka, Krakow, PL Hearsay: Artists Reveal Urban Legends (curated by Wendy Sherman), California State University Fullerton Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA, US Grey Flags (curated by Timothée Chaillou), BackSlash Gallery, Paris, FR VEILS (curated by J. Dahl & A. Papademetropoulos), The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US The Crime Was Almost Perfect (curated by Cristina Ricupero), PAC - Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, IT My Little Boat of Sorrow, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, US 2013-2014 Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain, MNAM - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR 2013 Oeuvres de la collection Philippe Cohen (curated by Ami Barak), Passage de Retz, Paris, FR The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things (curated by Mark Leckey), The Bluecoat, London, UK XXXL Painting (organized by the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen), Submarine Wharf, Rotterdam, NL Nuage, Musée Réattu, Arles, FR I'm Dreaming About A Reality, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, FR Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace (curated by Massimiliano Gioni) in The 55th Venice Biennale, The Arsenale, Venezia, IT More Young Americans (curated by Susanne Van Hagen), L'Enclos des Bernardins, Hôtel de Miramion, Paris, FR Coulisses, Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux, FR Untitled. Works on Paper, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, FR do it, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK 2012-2013 Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, US LOST (in LA) (curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler, presented by FLAX), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA, US 2012 Artists Merchandising Art (organized by René Luckhardt & Judith Rohrmoser), Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin, DE / Los Angeles, CA, US Poule! (curated by Michel Blancsubé), Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, MX Dogma (curated by Gianni Jetzer), Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US Panegyric, Forde, Geneva, CH For The Martian Chronicles, L&M Arts, Venice, CA, US 2011-2012 Destroy All Monsters: 1973-1976, Prism Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US Incongru. Quand l'art fait rire, Musée cantonnal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, CH 2011 Interchange, Exchange LA, Los Angeles, CA, US All of the above (carte blanche à John Armleder...
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Early 2000s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Wild Sensations
Located in THOMERY, FR
"Wild Sensations" – Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 70 cm In this vibrant and sun-drenched piece, freedom takes shape through the fluid movement of a young woman gliding on her skateboard, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Quiet Margins
Located in Park City, UT
NICHOLAS WILTON’s paintings are visual poems, informed by Nature and his personal experience of life. Color, texture, and organic forms are layered into a complex visual weave that h...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Abstract Red Pink Blue Flowers on Yellow Background by British Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of Abstract Red, Pink, Orange & Blue Wild Flowers on a Yellow Background by British Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. From the 'Spring Burst' Interior Design Series. Frame...
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Early 2000s Abstract Paintings

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Gesso, Watercolor, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Cotton Canvas, Paint, Canvas

French 20th Century Abstract Head Portrait of Figure Large Oil Painting Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924) signed, titled verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 24 x 20 inches condition: overall very g...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cote D'Azur- abstraction art, made in pale pink, turquoise color
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The triptych is made with alcoholic ink in pale pink, turquoise color on Yupo paper. Each work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (gold or black) with a s...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink

Gen #1, #5 and #4, Triptych. Mixed media Abstract painting on Paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
DNA is genetic information, hidden and encrypted in body fluids. Veiled data that we load, that we do not know and that someone knows how to decipher. Such specifications characteriz...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Chalk, Pastel, Handmade Paper

“Wishbone”, Abstract, Yellow, Pink, Ochre, Gold, White, Acrylic Painting, 2024
Located in Natick, MA
“wishbone” is a 16 x 20 x .25 inch acrylic painting on canvas board by Sandra Cohen. This abstract internal 'landscape', in vibrant and warm colors of burgundy, pink, red, cream, and...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Large Abstract Expressionist Color Monotype Oil Painting Tom Lieber Mixed Media
Located in Surfside, FL
Tom Alan Lieber, (American, born 1949), GTW #11 -7, 1986, Oil and mixed media on paper, 30.25 x 44 inches, Hand signed and dated lower right Provenance: Garner Tullis Workshop, ...
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1980s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Monotype

Autumn Ceremony
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Artist Koko sighed lower right on the painting. Oil on canvas. Artist certificate is included.
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Adjacent 6 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Adjacent 6 (Abstract drawing) Pencil and paint stick on paper. This piece is one of a group of works on paper made with paint sticks and pencil on paper that has been primed with g...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper, Pencil

Springpower II - Serene Contemporary Oil Painting WildFlower Green Meadow Field
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bettina Mauel expresses dynamism and sensuality in her contemporary landscape paintings: “I paint what I experience,” she articulates. “This includes landscapes, flowers, and people ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Mixed Media Painting titled “Spaceman 2” 45 x 60
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
BORN JULY 31, 1979 IN NEW JERSEY, USA CURRENTLY LIVES AND WORKS IN WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA BIO: As an artist based in the vibrant community of West Palm Beach, my work is an explor...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

Bright & Colorful French Impressionist Oil Painting Fruit Still Life
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Maggy Clarysse (1931-2011) Oil on thick card, unframed 7 x 10 inches Signed inverso ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Etude III (abstract expressionist painting)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Fredric Karoly (1898-1987). Etude III, 1950. Oil on masonite panel measures 18 x 24 inches. Unframed. Signed, titled, dated on reverse. Good condition with minor paint loss at edges. Biography: An abstract painter, Karoly was born in Hungary and studied painting in Paris, architectural eingineering in Berlin, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1926. He began a successful career as a fashion and fabric designer. In 1948 he was working as a fashion director for Simplicity Patters, when he had a solo exhibition of of his oil paintings, wire montages, dry-pen drawings and abstract photography. Solo Exhibitions: Hugo Gallery (Alexandre Iolas) New York 1948; Gallery Mai. Paris 1949; New Gallery (Eugene Thaw) New York 1950; Museu de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1951; Miami Museum of Modern Art, Miami, Florida 1959; Loft Gallery, New York City, 1966.Group Exhibitions: Hugo Gallery, New York 1947; Salon des Realities Nouvelles, Paris 1949-1953; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Annual) 1951-1953, 1963; Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1951; International Independent Exhibition, Tokyo, 1951; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1959; The Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1960; Stuttman Gallery, New York, 1960; The Art Institute of Chicago (Annual), 1960; International Watercolor Exhibition, Brookyln Museum, 1961; Westchester Art Museum, White Plains, NY, 1963; Whitney Museum, Annual, NY 1963; Cleveland Art Festival, Park Synagogue, Cleveland, 1963; Whitney Museum, Sculpture Annual, NY, 1964.Works in Institutional Collections: Museu de Arte, San Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; New York University, New York; Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Finch College, NY; Barnard College, NY; Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum and Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL. Awards: National Council Arts Awards, 1968. Frederic Karoly died on December 15, 1987 at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Manhattan, where he had made his home for many years. Fredric Karoly was born in Budapest in 1893. According to Karoly’s own vitae, his exhibition history began in New York in 1947, when at the age of 54 he took part in a four-person group show at Hugo Gallery. His involvement with visual art however was apparently life long. In a brief introduction to his solo show at Galerie Mai in Paris in June of 1949, Jen Luc de Rudder, reports that Karoly began painting at the age of 12 in Budapest. After several years of studying, then working in London, Paris and Berlin, Karoly emigrated to the United States in 1925 or 1926 (he probably first came to the US on a work visa in 1925). In New York, Karoly worked in women’s fashion as a designer. In 1948 Karoly worked in a manner than was clearly influenced by the work of such European surrealists as Max Ernst, creating spiked automatic bi-chromatic paintings. His style progressed into a progressively more biomorphic vein, similar to explorations by Theodore Stamos, Daphnis, Milton Avery and Mark Rothko around the same period. He was supported with patronage during this period by Mrs. Mimi Baliff, who apparently supported the “Industrial Design Workshop” that she helped open to feature Karoly’s designs in 1948. By the early 1950’s (1951) Karoly started experimenting with the drip and splatter process as well. Drip paintings dominated his process until the late 50’s-early 60’s, when linear compositional elements began to reemerge. By the late 50’s multi-layered drip grid motifs asserted a masque of spatial organization over looser washed fields and splatters of paint that Karoly worked off of. This development was consistent with concurrent explorations into the grid by artist Agnes Martin and others. By the mid-50’s Karoly’s style began another transition into a more surface concerned “Color Field” style of painting. There are elements still reminding one of Abstract Expressionist concerns as such painters as Clifford Still. But the works that began to emerge from Karoly’s studio in 1958 presaged the Morris Lewis fan motifs and Friedl Dzubas’s epic and romantic color spewing expanses of canvas. In 1959 Karoly began experiments using washes of turpentine diluted oil paint directly onto raw linen, and all of these subsequently suffered the consequences of oil oxidation and acidity upon the surfaces. However, many of Karoly’s washes in color field happily occurred on lightly prepared primed canvas surfaces as well. By 1960 Karoly began reintroducing imagistic references to his visual content. There were also various references to Japanese and Zen influences. He experimented with a variety of processes that included mixed media and marbleized surfaces achieved by the intermixture of oil and water mediums. A calligraphic element also enter Karoly’s work in the early 60’s. Then in 1961 glued and assembled objects begin to show up in Karoly’s work in earnest. The influence of early POP artists, particularly Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg, become apparent. From 1961-63, a series of the assemblage works transition from canvas to the sculptural to pieces obviously intended for full scale installation. Many of these pieces were among the most fragile of his works primarily due to their reliance upon the of gluing of objects such as plastic or paper cups on flexible surfaces of stretched linen or canvas. In the mid-60’s Karoly apparently produced a number of photo-silk screened series of Picasso, De Kooning and other significant artists of his generation. These were executed in a style somewhere between Rauschenberg’s and Roy Lichtenstein’s, primarily because of their reliance upon half tones and Ben-Day dot effects. Then Karoly began a series of paintings conflating his drip and grid styles with super imposed and painted over string. In the late 60’s Karoly embarked upon a series of multi-paneled stretched linen constructions often with slits and fiber optic back-lit elements that were prescient of the work of Dan Flavin and others. It was this body of work that was shown at Hofstra University’s Emily Lowe Gallery, and it was these works that suffered perhaps the most irreparable damage from a steam/water infiltration in a space where they were being stored. The late professional start that Karoly had into the art world was balanced by his long life span and early immersion into the design issues of modernism as it emerged in turn of the century Europe and later evolved in America. He was clearly an artist who subscribed to the ethos of the new in abstraction and was obviously impressionable and in some instances prescient with regard to various trends in abstraction. Several noteworthy and influential collectors and institutions during his 40 years of professional engagement acquired his work. The Whitney Museum of American Art had and may still own a large Karoly canvas from 1960, but this is doubtful as the artist failed to list it on the vitae he filed with MoMA in 1965. His work was recognized and honored by the Whitney with its inclusion in four of their annual survey shows (1951,1953, 1963 and 1964). The artist’s surrealist influenced paintings from 1948-1950 were the focus of a solo exhibition held of his work by the Museo de Art in Sao Paulo and eight years later a ten year survey of his work was the focus of a solo show at the Miami Museum of Modern art. The Sao Paulo Museum in Brazil, and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina each acquired Karoly paintings for their collections in the 1950’s. One of Karoly’s surrealist pieces was apparently purchased by Christian Zervos, Picasso’s designated chronicler, who apparently also wrote a piece on Karoly in Cahiers D’Art in 1949. A 60’s piece of Karoly art that is in the New York University’s permanent collection is included in the MoMA Library’s catalog...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

Antique American School Original Large Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 25L x 47H.
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1950s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Chasing Illusions
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Lynn Sanders is an artist excited by beauty: architecture, foliage, landscapes, seascapes, interiors. She finds palettes and shapes in her environment and propels them into her work,...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Acrylic

Horse . original painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting captures the allure of horse through an abstract manner, showcasing their beauty with a dynamic use of color and texture. The horse emerges from the canvas through expr...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

I Don´t Eat Fish
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Work signed on front and back It is sent in a tube
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Bloom
Located in Columbia, MO
Joel D. Sager (b. 1980) is a contemporary American painter of landscapes, still-life and portraiture. Often drawing on such standard subject matter with economy and singularity— a so...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Aigues - Mortes
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
George Dannatt (1915-2009) Aigues - Mortes 1961 Gouache on paper Image: 11.4 x 22.8 cm Frame: 38.7 x 48.9 cm Exhibition 1981 May. Newlyn Gallery: Retrospective Exhibition Pr...
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1960s Abstract Paintings

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Gouache

Approuve' par l'artiste
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is limited in edition artist pencil signed lower right and is in very good condition. Roger Bezombes a print maker born in Paris ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Lithograph

Gestural Abstraction, Miniature Abstract Expressionist Korean Modernist Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
*Card pictured after painting not included. Dongkuk Ahn (1937-2013), better known as Don Ahn, was a South Korean artist and t'ai chi master who resided in New York City. Don Ahn (Ahn Dong Kuk) was born in Seoul, Korea. He studied at Seoul University (BFA), graduate student at Miami University, Oxford Ohio 1962...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Acrylic

Solares 52 X 42
By Mimi Bates
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
The brilliant yellow of Solaris is oil paint on aluminum and is 52 X 42 inches. Mimi Bates: "As a child I loved to paint and draw on my bedroom walls. Inspired by the images in the ...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

CLAUDE LAGOUCHE (1943-2020) ORIGNAL 1970'S FRENCH PSYCHEDELIC ABSTRACT PAINTING
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Claude Lagouche (French 1943-2020) Claude Lagouche was born January 2, 1943 in Naves, died January 16, 2020. He quickly gained recognition for his talent and his work, exh...
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1970s Abstract Paintings

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Oil

It's Beautiful - Floral Still-life Colorful Delight Flowers Bouquet Mother Earth
Located in Cullinan, ZA
Title: It's Beautiful Floral Still-life Colorful Delight Invest Flowers Bouquet Joy Energy Captivating A joyful gift for Mother's day - or to celebrate Mother Earth and our soft, y...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Abstract Purple and Peach Colored Textured Monoprint David Stephens
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant and dynamic monoprint by David Stephens (American, 20th Century). Sand (or a similar medium) was used in the pressing of this monoprint, creating a pocked texture in multiple...
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1990s Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

White Eagle , Native American Indian, Oil Painting , Texas Artist, Western Art
Located in Houston, TX
White Eagle depicts a Native American Indian in this oil painting by Texas artist, William Kalwick.. Native American Indians are known for their bright...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Contemporary expressive colorful acrylic painting "Spring color explosion"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This vibrant artwork "Spring color explosion" is an abstract explosion of color, showcasing a dynamic interplay of bold hues. This painting is a creation by the French artist Nataly...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

'Action Abstract in Blue', Paris, Pompidou, Guggenheim, NYMoMA, LACMA, Whitney
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'American Action Abstract in Blue', Paris, Pompidou, Guggenheim, NYMoMa, LACMA, Whitney, Art Institute of Chicago, Fogg Museum, Bowdoin, Hirshhorn, ------------ Signed, verso, 'John...
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1990s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

Abstract Expressionist Portrait in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist Portrait in in Acrylic on Paper A bold abstracted portrait painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). Although this piec...
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1980s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Cosmic currents - abstract painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful acrylic on canvas by Eran Shmueli will bring color to any room it will be placed in. Eran Shmueli is an artist whose life and work are deeply intertwined with creativ...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

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