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 (for the journal, XX Siécle)
By Hans Hartung
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (for the journal, XXe Siécle)
Color lithograph on wove paper, 1973
Unsigned (as issued)
From: XXe Siecle,, December 1973, No. 41
Published by G. di San Lazzaro for A. Maeght, Paris
Printed by Mourlot, Paris
Edition 3000 (There was also a signed edition of 75 on larger paper)
Catalogue raisonné: Subsequent to Schmücking
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches
"Hans Hartung
B. 1904, LEIPZIG, GERMANY; D. 1989, ANTIBES, FRANCE
Hans Hartung was born on September 21, 1904, in Leipzig, Germany. He cultivated interests in philosophy, astronomy, music, and religion at a young age before he turned to painting. Early in his career he found inspiration in the works of Rembrandt van Rijn and Francisco de Goya, and later influences included Lovis Corinth, Oskar Kokoschka, Emil Nolde, and Max Slevogt. At just 17, Hartung began to experiment with abstraction, synthesizing the graphic techniques of his artistic models...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Waves: Squid
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen, lithograph, linoleum block with hand-colouring, marbling and collage, 1989, on T. H. Saunders and Somerset paper, signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 60, publi...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Composition #1825
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 7.
RENAUD ALLIRAND was born in 1970, and currently lives and works in Paris. He is a prolific artist who has exhibited regularly sinc...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled (Tamarind J)
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
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated in pencil lower right; Annotated: Artist's Proof in pencil lower left; printer's chop mark lower right
Edition: 18 impressions and 2 ar...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Oraison du soir (Evening Prayer)
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered from the edition of 50. Bozon's prints are often a balance between abstraction and landscape, which he creates with drypoint and aquatint. He has decided against...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Pastoral
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil from the edition of 50. Bozon's prints are often a balance between abstraction and landscape, which he creates with drypoint and aquatint.
Chr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Position, Momentum
By Angel Villanueva
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Villanueva was born in California to Mexican migrant workers, and grew up in Mexico. This work was completed at Self Help Graphics in Los angeles. Signed, titled unique monotype scr...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype, Screen
Aylesbury Estate
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 2014, signed, edition of 50, 54 x 42 cm. (21¼ x 16½ in.)
Keith Coventry was born in Burnley in 1958 and lives and works in London. He attended Brighton Polytechnic 1978– 81 and Chelsea School of Art London 1981– 82. He was featured in the seminal exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1997 and in 2006, he received a mid-career retrospective at Glasgow's Tramway (Art Centre). He was also a co-founder and curator of City Racing, an influential not-for-profit gallery in Kennington, South London from 1988-98.
His work has been exhibited widely in the UK and Europe and is included in collections worldwide, including the British Council; Tate Modern; Arts Council of England; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis;, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2010 Coventry was awarded the John Moores Painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Grey Folded Clouds - II Blue and white
By Joe Goode
Located in London, GB
Joe Goode
Grey Folded Clouds - II Blue and white (blue paper sky)
1971
Lithograph, Edition of 50
41 x 61 cms (16 x 24 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
UNTITLED (From the ARTSOUNDS Collection)
Located in New York, NY
BURTON VAN DEUSEN
Untitled (from the Artsounds Collection), 1986
color offset print, ed. 200
12 x 12 cm. 30.5 x 30.5 cm.
Edition 49/100
signed and numbered in pencil by the artist...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
Untitled (Tamarind O )
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
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jules Laforgue - I'll take my life monotonous (Edition C)
Located in London, GB
Patrick Caulfield
Jules Laforgue - I'll take my life monotonous (Edition C)
1973
Screenprint, Edition of 100
61 x 56 cms (24 x 22 ins)
PCE9257
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Mirror Pool, by Rosalyn Richards
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist. Edition of 10.
Rosalyn Richards has been a member of the Bucknell University art faculty since 1982. Images from particle physics, satellite photography, biotechnology, radiology, geological survey maps, have all served as influences on Richards' work. Her paintings, prints, and drawings relate to the human need to construct our experiences in nature using systems of design and technology. The maps become metaphors for inner journeys and are also meant to suggest playful and whimsical approaches to the usually serious function of diagrams.
She has had solo shows throughout the United States, and her work is represented in museum collections such as:
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
Chicago Art Institute
Mineapolis Institute of the Arts
University of Minnesota
Yale University Art Gallery
Grunwald Center...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Sulk
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
Colour soap ground and spit bite aquatints with photogravure and roulette on Somerset Satin paper
Published by Crown Point Press
87.6 x 64.8 cms (34 1/2 x 25 1/2 ins)
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Línea Bloques, Línea Cubos, and Línea Estructura. Abstract drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Línea Bloques, Línea Cubos, and Línea Estructura, 2020 by Rodrigo Spinel
From The No. 4 Series
Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g.
Overall size: 19 cm H x 57 cm W
Overall Frame s...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Araignee
Located in London, GB
Stanley William Hayter
Araignee
1967
Etching, Edition of 50
Paper size: 65 x 49.5 cms (25 1/2 x 19 1/2 ins)
Plate size: 39.5 x 24.7 cms (15 1/2 x 9.7 ins)
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled
By John Hoyland
Located in London, GB
Screenprint with embossing on wove
Edition of 40
30 x 24 cms (11 4/5 x 9 2/5 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Werkubersicht/Work-Overview D
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
Línea Bloques. From The No. 4 Series. Abstract Drawing on paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Línea Bloques, 2020 by Rodrigo Spinel
From The No. 4 Series
Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g.
Image size: 19 cm H x 19 cm W
Frame size: 30 cm H x ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Línea Estructura. From The No. 4 Series. Abstract Drawing on paper.
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Línea Estructura. 2020 by Rodrigo Spinel
From The No. 4 Series
Chinese ink on Fabriano paper 250 g.
Image size: 19 cm H x 19 cm W
Frame size: 30 cm H x 30 cm W x 4 cm D
One of a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Interlinear K50 — Mid-Century Geometric Abstraction
By Josef Albers
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Josef Albers, 'Interlinear K50', zinc plate lithograph offset to stone printing, 1962, edition 20, Danilowitz 151. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '14/20' in pencil. A superb, ri...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
X
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered from the edition of 13.
RENAUD ALLIRAND was born in 1970, and currently lives and works in Paris. He has exhibited regularly since 1995 and has won numerous priz...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Rake
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
Colour soap ground and spit bite aquatints with photgravure and roulette on Somerset Satin Paper
Published by Crown Point Press
87.6 x 64.8 cms (34 1/2 x 25 1/2 ins)
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Edward Gordon Craig I
Located in London, GB
Edition of 95, Set of 2
56 x 76.2 cms (22 x 30 ins)
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
An Other Set (Y) – From the Pasadena Box
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
An Other Set - Y (From The Pasadena Box)
1964
Lithograph, Edition of 100, experimental proof
39.4 x 57.2 cms (15.51 x 22.52 ins)
SF15493
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Yellow Composition #10
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 6.
RENAUD ALLIRAND was born in 1970, and currently lives and works in Paris. He is a prolific artist who has exhibited regularly sinc...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Africa Suite: Africa 6
Located in London, GB
The original studies from the 'Africa Suite' were a group of ten works selected from a series of ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large autom...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Fire
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil, edition of 10.
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
'Untitled Fantasy' — 1980s Surrealist Abstraction
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Untitled Fantasy', color serigraph, 1983, edition 30, Ryan 214. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 30' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on off-whi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Pliss
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Edition of 25
Colour soap ground and spit bite aquatints with photgravure and roulette on Somerset Satin White paper
Published by Crown Point Press
87.6 x 64.8 cms (34 1/2 x 25 1/2...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Photogravure
Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, dated, annotated "epreuve d'artiste"; Annotated on titled "B.B."
Edition: 5
References And Exhibitions:
One of the three impressions printed on ARCHES watermark pape...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Intaglio
UNTITLED (from the ARTSOUNDS Collection)
By Italo Scanga
Located in New York, NY
ITALO SCANGA
Untitled (from the Artsounds Collection), 1986
color offset print, ed. 200
12 x 12 cm. 30.5 x 30.5 cm.
Edition 49/100
signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, sig...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
Four Knots
Located in London, GB
Edition of 50
71 x 76 cm (28 x 30 ins)
RSE023
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Composition #6
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Monotype completed during his period as Resident Artist at the French Institute of Tangier, 2017. Signed on the reverse.
RENAUD ALLIRAND was born in 1970, and currently lives and wo...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Monoprint
Origin-Metamorphosis #4
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered from the edition of 20. Seiko's prints take their inspiration from nature, a meditation on the forms and shapes water, ferns and the basic elements of life. Other...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Intaglio
España II
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Espana II
1983
Aquatint and lift-ground etching on Moulin du Gue Rives de Lin paper
Edition of 40
31.8 x 26.7 cms (12.5 x 10.5 ins)
RME9319
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Grey Folded Clouds - I Blue and Pink
By Joe Goode
Located in London, GB
Joe Goode
Grey Folded Clouds - I Blue and Pink (blue sky tiles)
1971
Lithograph, Edition of 50
33 x 46 cms (13 x 18 ins)
JGE007
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Werkubersicht/Work-Overview B
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
Omar’s Cup
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Annotated in pencil on detached bottom margin: “Printed by the artist’s own press at 4 rue d’universite, Paris, Sept. 1958”
Edition: 10 (8/10)
Printed in red, black with gold leaf highlights
Dedicated in pencil by the artist: “For Alice and Albert Turner...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint
BLOOMING ICE
Located in Portland, ME
Peterdi, Gabor (American, born Hungary, 19150-2001) . BLOOMING ICE. Combined technique (intaglio and screenprint) in six colors, 1965. P.228. Edition of 25. 20 x 32 inches, 504 x 813...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Intaglio, Screen
Bastos
Located in London, GB
Edition of 49 plus 12 artist's proofs
158.4 x 101.6 cms (62.4 x 40 ins)
Published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Six From Nine on Two (#2)
By Eric Theise
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Monoprint, with a companion piece (Six From Nine From Two #2). Theise is an artist, teacher and experimental film maker from San Francisco.
These two prints are from a series the a...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
WOUNDED DARKNESS
Located in Portland, ME
Peterdi, Gabor. American, 1915-2001.
WOUNDED DARKNESS. P.132.
Etching, engraving and aquatint on zinc, with four stenciled colors, 1956.
Edition of 35. Signed in pencil and numbere...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Paroles peintes III: Untitled
Located in London, GB
Open-bite etching printed in dark, brownish black on fibrous Japan paper
38 x 28 cms (14 7/8 x 11 1/8 ins)
Edition of 200 in three numbered segments
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Garden of Eden
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LEONARD EDMONDSON (1906 – 2001)
GARDEN OF EDEN c. 1960
Color intaglio (carborundum?) Signed and titled in pencil. Small edition, these larger prints...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Intaglio
Africa Suite: Africa 7
Located in London, GB
The original studies from the 'Africa Suite' were a group of ten works selected from a series of ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large autom...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Identical/Variation (red, yellow, blue)
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 crea...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lueurs Musiciennes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 50.
Bozon's prints are often a balance between abstraction and landscape, which he creates with drypoint and aquatint. They reflect t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Two of a Kind IIIb (bright red x on green)
Located in London, GB
100.7 x 46.3 cms (40 x 18 1/4 ins)
Edition of 90
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Werkubersicht/Work-Overview J
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
Etching 1916 Number II
Located in New York, NY
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Etching 1916 Number II, drypoint, signed in pencil lower right, titled, numbered (No. 9) and dated lower left [also with initials and date in the plate lower right]. Reference: Roethel 154, only state, edition of 10. In excellent condition (the barest handling fold at sheet edge), printed on a heavy ivory wove paper, the full sheet with full margins, 4 7/8 x 3 1/4, the sheet 17 1/2 x 13 inches, archival mount with window mat.
A fine fresh impression of this great rarity, printed in a dark brown ink.
Kandinsky created this drypoint (erroneously named Etching 1916) in early 1916 while staying with Gabriel Munter in Stockholm during the winter of 1915-16. This is from the second series of drypoints he made; the first was in the year 1913-14.
Provenance: Kornfeld Auction, Bern, June 2007.
The tiny size of this edition (10) makes this print a great rarity within the Kandinsky’s printed...
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1910s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Antiphonaires
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 (Tondo) C
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
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Africa Suite: Africa 10
Located in London, GB
The original studies from the 'Africa Suite' were a group of ten works selected from a series of ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large autom...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Untitled (Tamarind H)
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
Un Reve
Located in New York, NY
Louis Marcoussis (1883-1941), Un Reve, etching, 1930, signed in pencil lower right and inscribed “2nd etat 1/2” lower left. Plate 1 of the portfolio Aurelia. Reference: Milet 55II, second state (of 4), before the edition (of 153 in the fourth state). In good condition, on a wove paper with full margins (a small area of discoloration below the border lower left, remains of prior glue right margin edge), 7 1/4 x 5 3/8, the sheet 15 5/8 x 9 3/8 inches, archival matting.
A fine impression of a rare proof, before the edition. This is one of the two proofs of the second state. After this state the plate was reduced in a third state (from 183 to 174 mm), and then steel faced for the edition.
Provenance: Libreria Prandi Reggio (blindstamp lower right corner)
Jean Cassou and Pierre Courthion asked Marcoussis to illustrate Aurelia, a novel by Gerard de Merval. This was the first album of their collection “Le Blanc et Le Noir,” edition chez Fourcade. Marcoussis was familiar with this novel, in which imagination and reality intermingle. In it de Merval wrote: “La Reve est une seconde vie.” (The Dream is a parallel life.) Marcoussis wrote of the print: “Il ressemblait a l’Ange de la Melancholie d’Albrecht Durer.” (It recalls the angel in Durer’s Melancholia...
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Africa Suite: Africa 8
Located in London, GB
The original studies from the 'Africa Suite' were a group of ten works selected from a series of ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large autom...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
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