Abstract Abstract Prints
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
Recognized Seller Listings
Untitled XXV
Located in New York, NY
Untitled XXV shows four, large, stripes which are mostly in red, green and blue with some little part in yellow and two different shades of purple. The background is white.
Three str...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Moon Drama 3/20 - intimate, abstract, mixed media on paper
By Otto Rogers
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A darkening sky is illuminated by the eclipsed view of a bold deep blue moon in this contemplative piece by Otto Rogers. He was seen as a ‘big attack painter’ by the renowned art cri...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Giclée
Long horizontal Patmos
Located in London, GB
34 x 48 cms ( 13.38 x 18.89 ins)
Edition of 50
Etching with hand colouring
Signed and dated (recto)
Inscribed "Jean + Norman 73 BN" (verso)
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Summertime in Italy (with Lines)
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on Rives BFK paper
61.6 x 43.18 cms (24 1/4 x 17 inches)
Edition of 100
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Plate 4)
By Terry Haass
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Plate 4)
Engraving, sugar-lift, and aquatint, 1970
Signed and numbered in pencil
From: Variations (8 plates)
Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 100 (29/100)
Printed by ...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving
Autumn Composition
By Robert Roach
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Unique monotype, signed and numbered 1/1.
Artist Robert Roach lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His one-of-a-kind, abstract monoprints are inspir...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
Werkubersicht/Work-Overview G
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Pilot Jack 19
Located in Dallas, TX
David Collins was raised in Dallas, received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives and works in New York City. Collins has had numerous solo exhibitions i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
Untitled (Tamarind K)
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Identical/Variation (red, blue, green)
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30.
The artist describes this project:
“In early September, I made my second trip to Shark's Ink in Lyons, CO. It was wonderful to be invited back to cre...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Antiphonaires (Red)
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Monotype, on a page from an 18th century Antiphonaire (The antiphonary is a Catholic liturgical book gathering the Gregorian scores of the hours canoniales). This unique piece on ant...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Monoprint
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Untitled
1968
Lithograph, Edition of 3, experimental proof
66 x 47 cms (26 x 18 1/2 ins)
SF15155
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rain
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil, edition of 15.
Rosalyn Richards has been a member of the Bucknell University art faculty since 1982. Images from particle physics, satellite p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
RE: Mine
Located in New York, NY
2016, color aquatint and hardground etching, 25 3/4 x 37 inches (65.4 x 94 cm), edition of 25, signed, dated and numbered by the artist
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Déesse- Goddess
By André Verdet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Déesse- Goddess
Linocut in colors, 1972
Unsigned
Stamped in ink on verso: "Imprimerie Arnéra" Archives/ Non Signé
Watermark: Arches (see photo)
An impression printed in black, purpl...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut
'Interim' from the series 'Graphic Tectonics' —Mid-Century Geometric Abstraction
By Josef Albers
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Josef Albers, 'Interim' from the series 'Graphic Tectonics', zinc plate lithograph, 1942, edition 30, Danilowitz 101. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '3/30' in pencil. A fine imp...
Category
1940s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Solidly grounded in Abstract Expressionist tradition, process-oriented painter Thomas Nozkowski’s method is predicated on relinquishing the idea of an end result. To highlight this, ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Marron
Located in London, GB
Kenneth Noland
Marron
1990
Etching and Aquatint on Guarro Paper
40cm x 59cm
Initialed and numbered in pencil on recto, with publisher's blindstamp
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Basque Suite: Untitled
Located in London, GB
Colour screenprint on J.B. Green paper
104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins)
Edition of 150
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Screen
Constellation
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition: 100
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
By descent
Sheet: 20 1/8 x 20 1/8"; Image size: 17 x 17"
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Durango II
By Sean Scully
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scully (Irish, b. 1945)
Durango II, 1991
etching, aquatint, sugarlift, and spitbite on paper
Paper Size: 17 1/2 x 23 inches (44.5 x 58.4 cm)
Image Size: 10 1/4 x 17 inches (...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Nuit d'été IV (Summer Night IV)
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The deeply etched lines and vibrant red and black color of this print are common to Alliand's abstract "haubans" prints. Haubans is french for a guy line - a tensioned cable designed...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Untitled
By Henri Goetz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition: 25 (9/25) (see photo)
Engraving, drypoint & carborundum
Printed by the artist
Condition: Excellent, slight residue on reverse
Sheet: 9 7/8 x 12 3/4"
Image/Plate: 5 x 7"
Note: Goetz was born in the United States, moved to Paris and became a noted Surrealist artist and journalist of the surrealist movement. As a printmaker, Goetz invented carborundum printmaking in the 1960’s. In 1968, La gravure au carborundum, a treatise on carborundum printing, was published by the Maeght Gallery. It was prefaced by Joan Miró. Goetz created many abstract prints using this method. Other artists such as Antoni Clavé, Antoni Tàpies, and in particular Joan Miró, employed carborundum printing in their work.
Henri Bernard Goetz (1909-1989)
Henri Bernard Goetz was born 29 September 1909 in New York, in a family of French and American origin. He studied at Harvard University and the Grand Central Art School before moving to Paris in 1930 where he continued his studies at the Academies Julian and Academies Ozenfant in Montparnasse.
After a brief return to the US in the early 1930’s he settled permanently in France, taking a Parisian studio next to Victor Brauner. With Brauner Goetz became involved with the Surrealist group and was soon a highly accomplished exponent. 1935 would be a year of major importance for Goetz: he exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Surindependants, he married the Dutch painter Christine Boumeester and he met Hans Hartung, who would become a close lifelong friend. In 1937 Goetz held his first solo show at Galerie Van Leer, Paris.
During the war, having neglected to become naturalized French citizens, Goetz and Boumeester became illegal aliens and both worked in the resistance movement. They printed leaflets on a simple printing press and created posters to paste...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
For Meyer Schapiro: Tallith for Meyer Schapiro
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
For Meyer Schapiro: Tallith for Meyer Schapiro
1974
Lift-ground etching and aquatint on Arches Cover paper
Ed. 100, 13 AP, 1 CP, 11 HC
105.4 x 74.9 cms (41.5 x 29.5...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Mercury
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Mercury
1963
Lithograph on BFK Rives paper, Edition of 20
60 .3 x 47.6 cms (23 3/4 x 18 3/4 ins)
SF16664
Literature:
The Prints of Sam Francis: A Catalogue Raisonne 196...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Untitled
1984
Etching and aquatint in colours, edition of 30, this is a colour trial proof
74.6 x 43.2 cms (29 3/8 x 17 ins)
SF15201
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
sprawl
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 10.
Rosalyn Richards has been a member of the Bucknell University art faculty since 1982. Images from particle physics, satelli...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Dedication–Lincoln Center (B.App.23)
Located in London, GB
44.5 x 29.25 ins (113 x 74.3 cms)
Edition of 108
Signature:Signed "R. Motherwell" in pencil lower left
Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower left; some impressions have artist's chop mark lower left
Publisher:The Juilliard School...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Mixed Media, Screen
Three of a Kind C
Located in London, GB
Edition of 60
71 x 79 cms (28 x 31 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mirage
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 15.
Rosalyn Richards has been a member of the Bucknell University art faculty since 1982. Images from particle physics, satelli...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Paris Suite 3 (Autumn)
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Paris Suite III (Autumn)
1980
Lithograph on J.B. Green handmade paper, Edition of 60
49.2 x 56.8 cms (19 1/2 x 22 1/2 ins)
RM17035
CR 26...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Drawing Boards I (blue and violet)
Located in London, GB
Edition of 60, Set of 5
74.9 x 56.5 cms (29 1/2 x 22 1/4 ins)
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled (Plate 2)
By Terry Haass
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Plate 2)
Engraving, sugar-lift, and aquatint , 1970
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photo)
From: Variations (8 plates)
Edition: 100 (100/100) (see photo)
Printed by Lac...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving
Resting
By Leon Kossoff
Located in London, GB
Leon Kossoff
Resting
1983
Etching, Edition of 60
50.8 x 59.7 cms (20 x 23 1/2 ins) (paper size)
24 x 30 cms (9 1/2 x 11 3/4 ins) (plate size)
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
FLAMME VIVE
Located in Portland, ME
Manessier, Alfred. FLAMME VIVE. Lithograph in colors, 1959. Artist's Proof in addition to the edition of 175. Inscribed "Epreuve d'Artiste" and signed in pencil. 20 x 13 1/2 inches, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Descent
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil, edition of 15.
Rosalyn Richards has been a member of the Bucknell University art faculty since 1982. Images from particle physics, satellite p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Debris
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, dated, titled and number
Edition: 25 (1/25), never fully realized
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Etching, engraving and color aquatint
Sheet: 10 5/8 x 13 1/2";
Image...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Multitude I
By Henry Moore
Located in London, GB
Henry Moore
Multitude (from Auden Portfolio)
Lithograph
1973
Reference: Cramer 287
collections: Tate Collection
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Smoke Sulfur
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
64.8 x 85.7 cms (25.5 x 33.75 ins)
Edition of 30
Paper: Rives BFK
Proofs: 1 BAT, 6 AP (I on Japanese paper), I CTP
Signed lower right; numbered lower left; publisher's cho...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Werkubersicht/Work-Overview E
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Pieces of Eight (pink square)
Located in London, GB
Edition of 35
48 x 100 cms (19 x 39.5 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Tamarind A)
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Plate 3)
By Terry Haass
Located in Fairlawn, OH
From: Happy Pentagone (6 plates)
Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 100 (37/100)
Printer: Lacouriere et Frelaut Imprimeur, Paris
Paper: BFK RIVES watermark on some sheets from th...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Rainbow
Located in London, GB
49.5 x 41.9 cms (19 1/2 x 16 1/2 ins)
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Etching
Grey Folded Clouds - III Pink and Green
By Joe Goode
Located in London, GB
Joe Goode
Grey Folded Clouds - III Pink and Green
1971
Lithograph, Edition of 50
41 x 61 cms (16 x 24 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Collision
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist. Edition of 15.
Rosalyn Richards has been a member of the Bucknell University art faculty since 1982. Images from particle physic...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Untitled From: Gates to Times Square (20 screenprints, 2 lithographic additions)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in pencil
Edition 100
Printer: Styria Studio, Inc., NY, with their blindstamp
This earlier (1966) sculpture of the same title is the inspiration of the portfolio. The sculpture is in the collection of the Albright Knox Museum. The screenprints follow the neon of the sculpture.
Greek-born American sculptor Chryssa—who went by her first name professionally—died on December 23, 2013, reports Margalit Fox of the New York Times. Born in 1933 in Athens, Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali grew up during the Nazi occupation of Greece. After studying at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, and the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, she began incorporating neon into her fragmentary, text-based work. Her first solo exhibition in New York was held at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1961, which was quickly followed by shows at the Guggenheim, New York; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Her work is part of collections of major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Note: A set of Gates...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Grey Folded Clouds - IV Grey
By Joe Goode
Located in London, GB
Joe Goode
Grey Folded Clouds - IV Grey
1971
Lithograph, Edition of 50
50.8 x 75 cms (20 x 29 1/2 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Contour Study 5
By Elise Wagner
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered from an edition of 10.
Elise Wagner painter, printmaker, and teacher, is a recent recipient of the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. Originally from Jersey City,...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Encaustic, Monoprint
Swing Boats
Located in New York, NY
Claude Flight (1881-1955), Swing Boats, circa 1919-1921, color linoleum cut on very thin Japan paper, signed and numbered by the artist lower left. In very ...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut
'Segments' — 1930s Geometric Abstraction
By Josef Albers
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Josef Albers, 'Segments', linoleum cut, 1934, edition 20, 25, plus proofs, Danilowitz 79. Signed, titled, dated, and annotated '(proof)' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression on...
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut
Senza Titolo I
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
125.5 x 135.5 cms (49.41 x 53.35 ins)
Edition of 58
Signed in pencil, inscribed 'Bon a tirer'.
Published by 2RC Edizioni d'Arte, Rome
Printed by Vigna Antoniniana, Rome, with t...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Color, Etching
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Aquatint and drypoint
75.9 x 60.6 cms (29 7/8 x 23 7/8 ins) paper size
60.3 x 45.4 cms (23 3/4 x 17 7/8 ins) plate size
Edition of 5
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Poet II - Lithograph, Abstract Print, 20th Century by Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Edition of 35
75.6 x 53.7 cms (29.76 x 21.14 ins)
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pieces of Eight (red and green squares)
Located in London, GB
Edition of 35
48 x 100 cms (19 x 39.5 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Small Blue
Located in London, GB
Edition of 50
66 x 57 cms (26 x 22 1/2 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled (Tamarind M)
Located in New York, NY
Leon Polk Smith (1906 -1996) holds a unique place in a long tradition of American geometric abstract painting. Born near Chikasha, a Native American territory later annexed by the U....
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sulfur Sail
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
97.5 x 66 cms (38 3/8 x 26 ins)
Edition of 20
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract abstract prints 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 abstract prints 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, red, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Dadodu , Francisco Nicolás, Teodora Guererra, and Joan Miró. Frequently made by artists working with Lithograph, and Screen Print 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 abstract prints, so small editions measuring 0.02 inches across are also available.