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
Generations 16
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
Etching with aquatint on watercolour wash on paper
53 x 71 cms (21 x 28 ins)
Edition of 35, Set of 24
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/35
Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London
Prin...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
One Plate, from We are the Jocular Clan
Located in London, GB
Offset lithograph in colours, 2018, on wove paper, signed in ink and numbered from the edition of 300, published by Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 47.6 x 47.6 cm. (18 3/4 x 18 3/4 in....
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Generations 10
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
Etching with aquatint on watercolour wash on paper
53 x 71 cms (21 x 28 ins)
Edition of 35, Set of 24
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/35
Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London
Prin...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Generations 21
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
Etching with aquatint on watercolour wash on paper
53 x 71 cms (21 x 28 ins)
Edition of 35, Set of 24
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/35
Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London
Prin...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
One Plate, from We are the Jocular Clan
Located in London, GB
Offset lithograph in colours, 2018, on wove paper, signed in ink and numbered from the edition of 300, published by Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 47.6 x 47.6 cm. (18 3/4 x 18 3/4 in....
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Generations 2
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
Etching with aquatint on watercolour wash on paper
53 x 71 cms (21 x 28 ins)
Edition of 35, Set of 24
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/35
Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London
Prin...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Color, Etching
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
Birthday Party
Located in London, GB
Lithograph from a stone printed in sepia and green, with hand colouring in two shades of blue gouache. On Velin Arches mould-made paper (300 gsm)
Signed and dated 77 in pencil, lower...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Color
Drawing Boards I (grey / purple)
Located in London, GB
Edition of 60, Set of 5
74.9 x 56.5 cms (29.5 x 22.25 ins)
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
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
Proscenium II (loose lines around square centre)
Located in London, GB
Edition of 40
77.5 x 58.5 cms (30.5 x 23 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Russian II (red)
Located in London, GB
Edition of 50
51 x 51 cms (20 x 20 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Mourning
Located in London, GB
111.8 x 140.3 cms (44 x 55.25 ins)
Edition of 50
Impressed with Solo Press stamp and the printer’s stamp. Lithograph (from three plates) with hand colouring in gouache (two greys...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Still Life
Located in London, GB
Screenprint from 18 screens. On Velin Arches mould-made paper
Based on 'Still Life', textile dyes on hand-made Indian paper, 1978
Signed with initials and dated 1980 in pencil, lower...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Drawing Boards II (No.3)
Located in London, GB
Edition of 30, Set of 5
74.9 x 59.1 cms (29 1/2 x 23 1/4 ins)
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
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
Parterre
Located in London, GB
52 x 52 cms (20 1/2 x 20 1/2 ins)
Edition of 75
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Screen
Late Afternoon in the Museum of Modern Art, from ‘In the Museum of Modern Art’
Located in London, GB
Soft-ground etching from one copper plate printed in black. On buff BFK Rives mould-made paper
Signed, numbered and dated '79 in red crayon, lower centre
Published by Petersburg Press
Exhibition History: 'Howard Hodgkin Recollections’, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 21 April - 14 May 2022
Literature: Jacqueline Brody, 'Howard Hodgkin, Alone in the Museum of Modern Art and Not Quite Alone in the Museum of Modern Art (1979)', The Print Collector's Newsletter, vol. 10, no. 3, July-August 1979, p. 93; Pat Gilmour, 'Howard Hodgkin', The Print Collector's Newsletter, vol. 12, no. 1, March-April 1981, p. 4 (ill.); 'Prints by Six British Painters: Stephen Buckley, Robyn Denny, Howard Hodgkin, John Hoyland, Richard Smith, John Walker', Tate Gallery, London, 1981-82 (n.p.); 'The Tate Gallery: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1980-82', London, 1984, p. 261; Mary Rose...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Paperclip Suite IIc (yellow/blue)
Located in London, GB
Etching, Edition of 25
45 x 45 cms (17.5 x 17.5 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Generations 19
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
Etching with aquatint on watercolour wash on paper
53 x 71 cms (21 x 28 ins)
Edition of 35, Set of 24
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/35
Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London
Prin...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Untitled
By Bruce McLean
Located in London, GB
Ink, card and painted collage on paper
Edition of 10
101.6 x 80 cms (40 x 31 1/2 ins)
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Paint, Paper, Ink
Tropic Fruit
Located in London, GB
80 x 94 cms (31.5 x 37 ins)
Edition of 100
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Screen
Green Chateau II
Located in London, GB
Lithograph from one zinc plate printed in green with hand colouring in yellow gouache. On Velin Arches mould-made paper (300 gsm)
Signed with initials and dated 78 in pencil, lower c...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Two of a Kind IIIa (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
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Sam Francis
Untitled
1995
Etching in colours, Edition of 35
53.3 x 45.7 cms (21 x 18 ins)
SF17887
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
Plate size: 36.8 x 27. 3 cms (14 1/2 x 10 3/4 ins)
Image size: 15.2 x 9.5 cms (6 x 3 3/4 ins)
Edition of 20
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Damp
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
66 x 94 cms (26 x 37 ins)
Edition of 20
Rives BFK paper
Proofs: I BAT, 4 AP, 7 CTP, 9 XP
Signed lower left; numbered lower left; publisher's chop lower left.
Published by Tama...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Bedroom
Located in London, GB
Lithograph from five zinc plates, using tusche and crayon with splatter, printed in red, orange, green, black, and pink. On J Green paper (250 gsm)
Signed, numbered and dated '68 in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Untitled
By Henri Goetz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Engraving, drypoint & carborundum, c. 1960's
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 25 (9/25)
Printed by the artist
Condition: Adhesive residue on the verso to...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving
Ancient Landscape II (Ancient City)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and titled in pencil by the artist;
Annotated: "E130 A/1" in pencil lower right
Estate stamp verso
Edition: 20
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist (Foundation sta...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Prints
Moving Through - colorful, contemporary, gestural abstract, paper collage
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Expressive brushstrokes in vivid colours play against a sunny yellow in this contemporary composition by Yvonne Lammerich. The form of this silkscreen...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
Untitled, from The Geldzahler Portfolio
By Jasper Johns
Located in London, GB
Etching, 1997, on Hahnemühle copperplate paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75 (there were also 15 artist’s proofs), printed by Gemini G.E.L. LLC, publis...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled, from The Geldzahler Portfolio
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours, 1997, on Rives BFK paper, signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75 (there were also 15 artist’s proofs), printed by Gemini G.E.L. LLC, published by Th...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
fern-butterfly effect f-1
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: intaglio
Year: 2015
Signed Artist Proof from the edition of 25
Image Size: 7.5 x 6 inches
Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Seiko Tachibana's...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
"Untitled VII"
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype.
Barbara Takenaga's latest prints are a series of Untitled hand colored monotypes, which she describes as follows: Making these monotypes was a wonderful new experien...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Monotype
Connected By 5 and 8, Diptych. Abstract color photographs
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Connected By 5 and 8, Diptych, 2022 by Angelica Tcherassi
From the series "We are one"
Photo Rag Hannemuhle 308grs
Overall size
Sheet size 59 H x 94.4 W inches.
Image size 51.1 H ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
fern-butterfly effect b-5
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: intaglio
Year: 2015
Signed Artist Proof from the edition of 25
Image Size: 7.5 x 6 inches
Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Seiko Tachibana's...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Healing 03 and The Block 02, Diptych. Abstract color photographs
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Healing 03 and The Block 02, Diptych, 2022 by Angelica Tcherassi
From the series "The Journey"
Photo Rag Hannemuhle 308grs
Overall size
Sheet size 59 H x 94.4 W inches.
Image size...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
fern-butterfly effect g-1
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: intaglio
Year: 2015
Signed Artist Proof from the edition of 25
Image Size: 7.5 x 6 inches
Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Seiko Tachibana's...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
He Said 01 and She Said 02, Diptych. Abstract color photographs
Located in Miami Beach, FL
He Said 01 and She Said 02, Diptych, 2022 by Angelica Tcherassi
From the series "Power"
Photo Rag Hannemuhle 308grs
Overall size
Sheet size 27.5 H x 39.2 W inches.
Image size: 23.6...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Look Up 03 and Maze Me 01, Diptych. Abstract color photographs
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Look Up 03 and Maze Me 01, Diptych, 2022 by Angelica Tcherassi
From the series Return to Source
Photo Rag Hannemuhle 308grs
Overall size
Sheet size 27.5 H x 39.2 W inches.
Image si...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Seated Figure
Located in New York, NY
image: 28 3/4 x 21 3/8 in. (73 x 54.3 cm)
sheet: 40 x 27 7/8 in. (101.6 x 70.8 cm)
etching and aquatint in colors on Arches paper with full margins
Signed and annotated 'HC' in penci...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
fern-butterfly effect e-1
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: intaglio
Year: 2015
Signed Artist Proof from the edition of 25
Image Size: 7.5 x 6 inches
Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Seiko Tachibana's...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Blender 01 and I Got Your Back 01, Diptych. Abstract color photographs
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Blender 01 and I Got Your Back 01, Diptych, 2022 by Angelica Tcherassi
From the series "Making Sense"
Photo Rag Hannemuhle 308grs
Overall size
Sheet size 59 H x 94.4 W inches.
Ima...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Singularity 02 and 03, Diptych. Abstract color photographs
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Singularity 02 and 03, Diptych, 2022 by Angelica Tcherassi
From the series "We are one"
Photo Rag Hannemuhle 308grs
Overall size
Sheet size 59 H x 94.4 W inches.
Image size 51.1 H...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Healing 02 and Gaze Into The Lake 03, Diptych. Abstract color photographs
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Healing 02 and Gaze Into The Lake 03, Diptych, 2022 by Angelica Tcherassi
From the series "The Journey"
Photo Rag Hannemuhle 308grs
Overall size
Sheet size 59 H x 94.4 W inches.
I...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
He Said 03 and 02, Diptych. Abstract color photographs
Located in Miami Beach, FL
He Said 03 and 02, Diptych, 2022 by Angelica Tcherassi
From the series "Power"
Photo Rag Hannemuhle 308grs
Overall size
Sheet size 27.5 H x 39.2 W inches.
Image size: 23.6 H x 33 W...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Cover for DLM No. 173
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cover for DLM No. 173
Color lithograph, 1968
Unsigned as issued in DLM
Published in Derriere le Miroir (Behind the Mirror), called DLM
From: DLM No. 173, published October 1968, whic...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Stronger 02 and Look Up 01, Diptych. Abstract color photographs
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Stronger 02 and Look Up 01, Diptych, 2022 by Angelica Tcherassi
From the series Return to Source
Photo Rag Hannemuhle 308grs
Overall size
Sheet size 27.5 H x 39.2 W inches.
Image s...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Between Air and Water #18
By Shoichi Ida
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Between Air and Water #18
Color soft ground, Spit Bite Aquatint and Drypoint on Gampi Chine Colle, 1992
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil (see photo)
Annotated: A.P.4 (see photo)
C...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Octavio Paz Suite: Nocturne VI
Located in London, GB
Lithograph and chine appliqué
64.5 x 54 cms (25 3/8 x 21 1/4 ins)
Edition 50
Paper: Arches paper; Japanese Gampi handmade paper
Other Collaborators: Image transferred from Mylar to...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Color, Lithograph
Figura en negro
Located in New York, NY
Color etching
Edition of 99 + 15 AP
29 3/4 x 21 7/8 in. / 75.6 x 55.6 cm
Printed & published by Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona.
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Butterfly Effect 1
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: intaglio
Year: 2015
Signed Artist Proof from the edition of 25
Image Size: 7.5 x 6 inches
Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Seiko Tachibana's...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Orchid
Located in New York, NY
Barbara HEPWORTH
Orchid, 1970
screenprint, ed. of 60
22 7/8 x 30 3/4 in.
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Samurai
Located in London, GB
Signature: Signed "R. Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions: Numbered in pencil lower right; workshop chop mark lower right
Edition: 16
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Magnificent Jungle Cats
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Magnificent Jungle Cats
Etching, drypoint and monoprint inking of the plate
Printed by the artist at Atelier 17, New York
Annotated 1/5 in pencil
Estate stamp and number, verso
Editi...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
November Green
Located in New York, NY
Barbara HEPWORTH
November Green, 1970
screenprint, ed. of 60
30 3/4 x 22 7/8 in.
frame: 33 1/2 x 26 in.
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Affiche pour la Hune II
By Max Ernst
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Affiche pour la Hune II
Lithograph in colors, 1970
Signed in pencil lower right
Numbered 13/99 lower left
This impression from the edition before the addition of lettering and the pu...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract abstract prints for sale on 1stDibs.
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