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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
Color:  Orange
The Nobles at the Trapdoor II, from: Series for King Ubu
Located in London, GB
JOAN MIRÓ 1893-1983 Montroig 1893-1983 Mallorca (Spanish) Title: The Nobles at the Trapdoor II, from: Series for King Ubu Les Nobles à la Trappe II, from: Suites pour Ubu Roi, 1966...
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1960s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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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, ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Untitled RTP
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Untitled RTP is a 2009 lithograph by Guy Dill. Guy Dill beautifully captures the flowing motion of abstract objects in his prints, paintings, and sculpture. Untitled RTP is signed by...
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Early 2000s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Untitled # 1435
Located in New York, NY
This is an Iris print in soft yellow and red tones. It is signed and numbered. The total edition size is 72 plus 18 APs. "Calling to mind the work of Martin Puryear, Paul Klee, Alex...
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Early 2000s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Inkjet

Blue vase flowers
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is limited in edition artist signed lower right and is in very good condition. Walter Becker was a German artist. Another impress...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Crossover I, 2024, unique pigment print, signed, orange
Located in New York, NY
Crossover I, 2024 is part of the "Another World" series. This unique archival pigment print is printed on Epson Enhanced Matte paper. Image size is 9" x 6.5" on 10" x 7.5" paper si...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Joan Miro - Abstract Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Joan Miro Miro Abstract Lithograph Artist: Joan Miro Plate III from “Miro Lithographs I” Medium: Lithograph on Rives vellum Year: 1972 Image Size: 10" x ...
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Large Abstract Silkscreen by Raymond Parker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raymond Parker, American (1922 - 1990) Title: Untitled 14 Year: 1980 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 70 Image Size: 31 x 36 inches Size: 32 x 37.5 ...
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1980s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Abstract Expression #614
Located in San Antonio, TX
Laredo Jackson, American, Texas, b. 1987. Abstract Expression #614, 2024. Signed. This Medium Sized print measures 16x20 and is a one-off print, editi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Digital

The Sun, Golden Colors, Warm Tones Diptych, Space Age, Abstract Geometry Hue
Located in Barcelona, ES
Cyd Fontaine (Lausanne, 1992) is a contemporary artist renowned for her captivating use of dreamy atmospheric gradients, which has helped her carve a distinctive niche in the world o...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, G...

San Fransisco Litho
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Hand signed and numbered lithograph Momen has made a small collection of lithographs in full colours, for these under painting of his large f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Spiral
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Calder Spiral, 1970 Hand-signed Lithograph 25.5 x 19.5 22/75
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Sunrise, Sunset, 2018, Curacao, digitally manipulated photograph, signed
Located in New York, NY
Sunrise, Sunset, 2018 is part of the artist's "The Curacao Pictures" Series. This archival pigment print is printed on Epson Enhanced Matte paper. Image size is 18" x 13.5" on 20" ...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

MAGIC - Pen Ink and Pastel Giclee Print by Nora Pineda Unframed
Located in Chico, CA
Pen, ink and pastels. These limited-edition Giclee prints are created on Epson archival paper using the finest Epson inks available and which Nora has determined most closely capture the look of her original drawings. Fine art prints are custom made to order by a Chico, California professional printmaker. Prints are shipped unframed as we prefer you make this selection with your framer of choice. Each print is signed by Nora and professional packaged for shipping. Prints are shipped from Nora Pineda...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Pastel, India Ink

RISA DEL SOL - Pen Ink and Pastel Giclee Print by Nora Pineda Unframed
Located in Chico, CA
Pen, ink and pastels. These limited-edition Giclee prints are created on Epson archival paper using the finest Epson inks available and which Nora has determined most closely capture the look of her original drawings. Fine art prints are custom made to order by a Chico, California professional printmaker. Prints are shipped unframed as we prefer you make this selection with your framer of choice. Each print is signed by Nora and professional packaged for shipping. Prints are shipped from Nora Pineda...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Pastel, India Ink

Date Night
Located in BOGOTÁ, CO
Date Night, Edition of 10, printed on 100% cotton canva. I enjoy drawing ordinary moments, moments we usually miss while waiting for something big to happen. Far too often we forget...
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15th Century and Earlier Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Digital

Nocturne Suite - 3 #4
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by world renown artist Robert Kelly exists in an edition of 50. Paper size is 24"h x 30"w with an image size of 14.5"h x 19"w. R...
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Early 2000s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Pigment

Vendredi
Located in Miami, FL
Vendredi - Plate 10 from the 12 plate Portfolio, 1959 Published by Denise Rene, Paris Lithograph in colors on heavy paper 20 x 26 inches Signed, dated and numbered in ink, edition of...
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1950s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Painting with Two Balls I /// Pop Art Jasper Johns Minimalism Colorful Modern
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Jasper Johns (American, 1930-) Title: "Painting with Two Balls I" Series: Facsimile Catalogue of Jasper Johns Prints *Issued unsign...
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Laid Paper, Lithograph, Offset

Large Colorful Abstract Silkscreen by Raymond Parker
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Raymond Parker, American (1922 - 1990) Title: Jazz Year: circa 1980 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 90 Size: 35.25 x 46 in. (89.54 x 116.84 cm)
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1980s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Screen

United Europe - France 1 - Etching by Piero Dorazio - 1994
Located in Roma, IT
United Europe - France 1 is a color etching and aquatint on paper, realized in 1994 by the Italian graphic master Piero Dorazio (Rome, 1927 - Perugia, 2005). Signed and dated in pen...
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1990s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Etching

F0026 - Contemporary, Abstract, Pop Art, Modern, Surrealist, Landscape
Located in London, London
The Observer, 2019 Digital pigment print Ultrachrome ink on Fabriano Rosaspina paper. Hand signed by the artist, and certificate of authenticity. Edition of 25 (Unframed) His work...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Inkjet, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Ecoute (Listen)
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1974 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 91/100 Publisher : Maeght (Paris) Printer : Pierre Badey (Paris) Catalog : Mason 133 A lithograph by the Dutch artist...
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

untitled (orange)
Located in New York, NY
untitled (orange) screenprint, embossment, and dye resist 1976 number 3 from an edition of 25
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Acrylic Polymer, Dye, Acrylic, Screen

untitled (red)
Located in New York, NY
untitled (red) screenprint, embossment, and dye resist 1976 number 3 from an edition of 25
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Dye, Screen, Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic

Figure and Creek, Figurative Art, Large Statement Art, Bold Interior Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Figure and Creek Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Figure and Creek is a unique contemporary print by Graham Fransella. The warm orange...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

Solar Imp
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on cream wove paper. Signed and numbered 112/126 in pencil by Frankenthaler. Printed by Brand X Editions, Ltd., New York. Published b...
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Early 2000s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Color, Screen

All Blues
Located in Kansas City, MO
David Morris All Blues Digital Painting on Archival Paper Year: 2023 Size: 24x24in Edition: 15 Signed, numbered and dated by hand on label to be attached ver...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Composition pour Eric, Orig Lithograph, Signed, Annotated "Eric Hand" & Dated
Located in New York, NY
Paul Jenkins (July 12, 1923 – June 9, 2012) The paintings of Paul Jenkins have come to represent the spirit, vitality, and invention of post World War II American abstraction. Employing an unorthodox approach to paint application, Jenkins is as much identified with the process of controlled paint-pouring and canvas manipulation as with the gem-like veils of transparent and translucent color which have characterized his work since the late 1950s. Certificate of Provenance: Each individual work of art carefully curated by Mourlot Editions...
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Untitled, 1982 by Joan Thorne (abstract with bright colors)
Located in New York, NY
The limited edition was printed at Fine Creations Inc. and has the printer's blind stamp on the bottom right. It was published by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The availab...
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1980s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Peter Halley, Jablonka Galerie, Köln (Hand Signed)
Located in New York, NY
Peter Halley Peter Halley, Jablonka Galerie, Köln (Hand Signed), 1993 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Peter Halley) 26 1/2 × 26 1/2 inches Unframed Alpha 137 Gallery is honored to offer this historic offset lithograph of American artist Peter Halley's 1993 exhibition at Jablonka Gallery in Köln (Cologne, Germany) which the artist hand signed in black marker. Scroll images for a photograph of our director Nadine Witkin with the artist. Below is Peter Halley's official biography. What it doesn't mention is that Andy Warhol famously painted his portrait in 1986! Peter Halley is that legendary. According to Halley, he didn't realize until after Warhol's death that the polaroids Warhol took of him with his famous "big shot" camera were made into an original painting. Warhol's painting of Peter Halley was included in the recent Andy Warhol retrospective...
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1990s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Offset

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 Prints and Multiples

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Acrylic, Paper, Mixed Media

Abstract Landscape India Geometric Spiral Light Viscosity Print Nature Red
Located in Norfolk, GB
There is a natural and raw understanding in Mukesh Sharma’s prints that depict, and are influenced by, the Rajastani communities of his home town in rura...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper

6/25/2020
Located in New York, NY
Ajay Malghan is an American artist and son of immigrant parents from India. His mother was usually found combining cultures at home, and his father, a Materials Scientist and Enginee...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Abstract Composition - Original Lithograph by Plinio Mesciulam - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an Original screen print realized by Plinio Mesciulam in 1973. Very good condition on a white cardboard. Hand-signed and numbered by the artist on the lower...
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Sound Seeker No. 1 - Archival Pigment Print - Contemporary - Abstract Geometric
Located in New York, NY
Archival Pigment Print., Signed by Facsimile. Available in White, Black & Natural frame. Edition of 10: 26 in x 36 in About the Artwork: Lela Brunet is an...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Three Fishes
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
ROBINSON , Geoffrey (b.1945) Three Fishes c.2011 Silkscreen Print 35.0 × 56.0 cm 13 4/5 × 22 in Geoffrey Robinson trained at Bournemouth College of Art...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Screen

City Party 4
Located in Cincinnati, OH
Artist: Tim Harrier Museum Grade Archival Pigment Print. Hahnemühle Torchon Archival 285 gsm paper, 2021, signed in pencil. Numbered (there were also fifteen artist's proofs), with ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

Red, Yellow, Blue (2011)
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Bright multi-element work that plays with the combination of colours and their mixing, adding text in Pop-art style, symbols in the Dada tradition and gestures to the abstraction. Mu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Color

Signal - Original Lithograph by Leo Guida - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Signal is an original lithograph print realized by Leo Guida in 1984. Hand-signed on the lower right and dated in pencil. Numbered on the lower left, from the rare edition of 15 pr...
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1980s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Untitled (SF-311), 1979
Located in London, GB
SAM FRANCIS 1923-1994 San Mateo, California 1923 – 1994 Santa Monica (American) Title: Untitled (SF-311), 1979 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in Colours on...
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Converse 1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by artist Jeff Kahm exists in an edition of 40. Paper size is 25"h x 24"w with an image size of 20"h x 20"w. Jeff Kahm was born in Edmonton Alberta, Canada in 1968 and attended the Institute of American Indian Arts...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

T Series (Orange), Serigraph by Arthur Boden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arthur Boden, American Title: T Series (Orange) Year: circa 1970 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Size: 29 in. x 23...
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Pietro Consagra Italian Mod Abstract Expressionist Forma, Art Brut Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Pietro Consagra (Italian, 1920-2005). Hand signed in pencil and numbered limited edition color lithograph on Magnani paper. Embossed stamp with limited edition numbers in pencil to lower left, and having artist pencil signature to lower right. (from a limited edition of 80 with 15 artist's proofs) Published by Stamperia 2RC, Rome Italy and Marlborough Gallery, Rome, Italy. Abstract Modernist work in colors, produced in the style of the Forma art movement of Postwar Italy, of which the artist was a prominent member. Pietro Consagra (1920 – 2005) was an Italian Post war artist working in painting, printmaking and sculpture. In 1947 he was among the founding members of the Forma 1 group of artists, proponents of structured abstraction. (similar to the Art Informel and Art Brut in France and the Brutalist artists) Consagra was born on 6 October 1920 in Mazara del Vallo, in the province of Trapani in south-western Sicily, to Luigi Consagra and Maria Lentini. From 1931 he enrolled in a trade school for sailors, studying first to become a mechanic, and later to become a captain. In 1938 he moved to Palermo, where he enrolled in the liceo artistico; despite an attack of tuberculosis, he graduated in 1941, and in the same year signed up at the Accademia di Belle Arti, where he studied sculpture under Archimede Campini. After the Invasion of Sicily and the Allied occupation of Palermo in 1943, Consagra found work as a caricaturist for the American Red Cross club of the city; he also joined the Italian Communist Party. Early in 1944, armed with a letter of introduction from an American officer, he travelled to Rome. There he came into contact with the Sicilian artist Concetto Maugeri, and through him with Renato Guttuso, who was also Sicilian and who introduced him to the intellectual life of the city and to other postwar artists such as Leoncillo Leonardi, Mario Mafai and Giulio Turcato. Consagra signed up at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in September 1944 and studied sculpture there under Michele Guerrisi, but left before completing his diploma. In 1947, with Carla Accardi, Ugo Attardi, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo and Giulio Turcato, Consagra started the artist's group Forma 1, which advocated both Marxism and structured abstraction. Steadily Consagra's work began to find an audience. Working primarily in metal, and later in marble and wood, his thin, roughly carved reliefs, began to be collected by Peggy Guggenheim and other important patrons of the arts. He showed at the Venice Biennale eleven times between 1950 and 1993, and in 1960 won the sculpture prize at the exhibition. During the 1960s he was associated with the Continuità group, an offshoot of Forma I, and in 1967 taught at the School of Arts in Minneapolis. Large commissions allowed him to begin working on a more monumental scale, and works of his were installed in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry in Rome and in the European Parliament, Strasbourg. His work is found in the collections of The Tate Gallery, London, in Museo Cantonale d'Arte of Lugano and the Museum of Modern Art, Paris, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. Consagra returned to Sicily where he sculpted a number of significant works during the 1980s. With Senator Ludovico Corrao, he helped created an open-air museum in the new town of Gibellina, after the older town had been destroyed in the earthquake of 1968. Consagra designed the gates to the town's entrance, the building named "Meeting" and the gates to the cemetery, where he was later buried. In 1952 Consagra published La necessità della scultura ("the need for sculpture"), a response to the essay La scultura lingua morta ("sculpture, a dead language"), published in 1945 by Arturo Martini. Other works include L'agguato c'è ("the snare exists", 1960), and La città frontale ("the frontal city", 1969). His autobiography, Vita Mia, was published by Feltrinelli in 1980. In 1989 a substantial retrospective exhibition of work by Consagra was shown at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome; in 1993 a permanent exhibition of his work was installed there. In 1991 his work was shown in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. In 2002 the Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart opened a permanent exhibition of his work. He was one of ten artists invited by Giovanni Carandente, along with David Smith, Alexander Calder, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Lynn Chadwick, and Beverly Pepper, to fabricate works in Italsider factories in Italy for an outdoor exhibition, "Sculture nella città", held in Spoleto during the summer of 1962. He was included in the The 1962 International Prize for Sculpture the jury included Argan, Romero Brest and James Johnson Sweeney the former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The participants included Louise Nevelson and John Chamberlain for the United States; Lygia Clark for Brazil; Pietro Consagra, Lucio Fontana, Nino Franchina, and Gió Pomodoro for Italy; Pablo Serrano for Spain; and Eduardo Paolozzi, William Turnbull, and Kenneth Armitage for England. Gyula Kosice, Noemí Gerstein, Julio Gero, Naum Knop...
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1960s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Toys in the Attic-Limited Edition Giclée print on Archival Cotton Paper Abstract
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Toys in the Attic, 2016 Giclée print on Archival Cotton Paper. Acid and Lignin-free. The painting is a limited edition Giclée print, meticulously crafted on archival cotton paper, ensuring its durability and preserving the intricate details of the artwork. The composition takes us into the realm of imagination, depicting toys stored in an attic. Instead of representing the toys in a literal manner, the artist employs a delightful mix of geometric shapes and colors to stimulate our imagination and conjure up images of these playful objects. As we explore the artwork, we can discern a plethora of shapes carefully arranged to evoke the presence of toys. Circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles dominate the composition, both in regular and irregular forms. These shapes interact harmoniously, creating an abstract and fanciful representation of the toys that once brought joy to children. The artist's skillful use of colors enhances the whimsical atmosphere of the painting. Shades of green, orange, soft purple, soft pink, soft yellow, violet, black, and white come together, creating a captivating palette that infuses the artwork with vibrancy and energy. The colors evoke a sense of nostalgia and playfulness, transporting viewers to the imaginative world of childhood. Through the artist's masterful execution, the painting invites us to engage our imagination, allowing us to perceive the hidden toys within the abstract forms. Each viewer may envision different objects based on their personal memories and associations, breathing life into the artwork in their own unique way. Toys in the Attic, 2016 Giclée print on Archival Cotton Paper. Acid and Lignin-free. 30 x 24 Inches Edition 1 or 7 plus 2 AP 40 x 32 inches Edition 1 of 5 plus 2 AP Limited Edition Signed by the artist ____________ About the Artist Francisca Oyhanarte...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Cotton, Archival Paper, Giclée

Levels - Lithograph by Claudio Verna - 1970 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Limited edition of 150 prints, numbered and hand signed. Excellent conditions.
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Pietro Consagra Italian Mod Abstract Expressionist Forma Brutalist Lithograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Pietro Consagra (Italian, 1920-2005). Hand signed in pencil and numbered limited edition color lithograph on Magnani paper. Embossed stamp with limited edition numbers in pencil to lower left, and having artist pencil signature to lower right. (from a limited edition of 80 with 15 artist's proofs) Published by Stamperia 2RC, Rome Italy and Marlborough Gallery, Rome, Italy. Abstract Modernist work in colors, produced in the style of the Forma art movement of Postwar Italy, of which the artist was a prominent member. Pietro Consagra (1920 – 2005) was an Italian Post war artist working in painting, printmaking and sculpture. In 1947 he was among the founding members of the Forma 1 group of artists, proponents of structured abstraction. Consagra was born on 6 October 1920 in Mazara del Vallo, in the province of Trapani in south-western Sicily, to Luigi Consagra and Maria Lentini. From 1931 he enrolled in a trade school for sailors, studying first to become a mechanic, and later to become a captain. In 1938 he moved to Palermo, where he enrolled in the liceo artistico; despite an attack of tuberculosis, he graduated in 1941, and in the same year signed up at the Accademia di Belle Arti, where he studied sculpture under Archimede Campini. After the Invasion of Sicily and the Allied occupation of Palermo in 1943, Consagra found work as a caricaturist for the American Red Cross club of the city; he also joined the Italian Communist Party. Early in 1944, armed with a letter of introduction from an American officer, he travelled to Rome. There he came into contact with the Sicilian artist Concetto Maugeri, and through him with Renato Guttuso, who was also Sicilian and who introduced him to the intellectual life of the city and to other postwar artists such as Leoncillo Leonardi, Mario Mafai and Giulio Turcato. Consagra signed up at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in September 1944 and studied sculpture there under Michele Guerrisi, but left before completing his diploma. In 1947, with Carla Accardi, Ugo Attardi, Piero Dorazio, Mino Guerrini, Achille Perilli, Antonio Sanfilippo and Giulio Turcato, Consagra started the artist's group Forma 1, which advocated both Marxism and structured abstraction. Steadily Consagra's work began to find an audience. Working primarily in metal, and later in marble and wood, his thin, roughly carved reliefs, began to be collected by Peggy Guggenheim and other important patrons of the arts. He showed at the Venice Biennale eleven times between 1950 and 1993, and in 1960 won the sculpture prize at the exhibition. During the 1960s he was associated with the Continuità group, an offshoot of Forma I, and in 1967 taught at the School of Arts in Minneapolis. Large commissions allowed him to begin working on a more monumental scale, and works of his were installed in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry in Rome and in the European Parliament, Strasbourg. His work is found in the collections of The Tate Gallery, London, in Museo Cantonale d'Arte of Lugano and the Museum of Modern Art, Paris, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. Consagra returned to Sicily where he sculpted a number of significant works during the 1980s. With Senator Ludovico Corrao, he helped created an open-air museum in the new town of Gibellina, after the older town had been destroyed in the earthquake of 1968. Consagra designed the gates to the town's entrance, the building named "Meeting" and the gates to the cemetery, where he was later buried. In 1952 Consagra published La necessità della scultura ("the need for sculpture"), a response to the essay La scultura lingua morta ("sculpture, a dead language"), published in 1945 by Arturo Martini. Other works include L'agguato c'è ("the snare exists", 1960), and La città frontale ("the frontal city", 1969). His autobiography, Vita Mia, was published by Feltrinelli in 1980. In 1989 a substantial retrospective exhibition of work by Consagra was shown at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome; in 1993 a permanent exhibition of his work was installed there. In 1991 his work was shown in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. In 2002 the Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart opened a permanent exhibition of his work. He was one of ten artists invited by Giovanni Carandente, along with David Smith, Alexander Calder, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Lynn Chadwick, and Beverly Pepper, to fabricate works in Italsider factories in Italy for an outdoor exhibition, "Sculture nella città", held in Spoleto during the summer of 1962. He was included in the The 1962 International Prize for Sculpture the jury included Argan, Romero Brest and James Johnson Sweeney the former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The participants included Louise Nevelson and John Chamberlain for the United States; Lygia Clark for Brazil; Pietro Consagra, Lucio Fontana, Nino Franchina, and Gió Pomodoro for Italy; Pablo Serrano for Spain; and Eduardo Paolozzi, William Turnbull, and Kenneth Armitage for England. Gyula Kosice, Noemí Gerstein, Julio Gero, Naum Knop...
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1960s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Kingdom 02. From the series Making Sense. Abstract color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The Kingdom 02, by Angelica Tcherassi From the series "Making Sense" Photo Rag Hannemuhle 308grs Sheet size 39.3 H x 27.5 W inches. Image size 33 H x 22.8 W inches. Edition of 22 Un...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Color, Archival Pigment

Composition - Lithograph by Antoni Tàpies - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original lithograph realized by Antoni Tapies for the Art Magazine "Derrière Le Mioir" no.175 in 1968. Printed by Ateliers de Maeght, Paris, 1968. Good conditions...
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1960s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Signe-paysage
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1984 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 39/90
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1980s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Turkish Delight
Located in London, GB
Carborundum etching on paper Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition History: 'Graphics Drawings and Small Works', Bernard Jacobson Gallery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Etching

United Europe - France 1 - Etching by Piero Dorazio - 1994
Located in Roma, IT
United Europe - France 1 is a color etching and aquatint on paper, realized in 1994 by the Italian graphic master Piero Dorazio (Rome, 1927 - Perugia, 2005). Signed and dated in pen...
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1990s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Sound Seeker No. 2 - Archival Pigment Print - Contemporary - Abstract Geometric
Located in New York, NY
Archival Pigment Print., Signed by Facsimile. Available in White, Black & Natural frame. Edition of 10: 26 in x 36 in About the Artwork: Lela Brunet is an...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Archival Pigment

I Got Your Back 02. From the series Making Sense. Abstract color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
I Got Your Back 02, by Angelica Tcherassi From the series "Making Sense" Photo Rag Hannemuhle 308grs Sheet size 59 H x 47.2 W inches. Image size 5...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Color, Archival Pigment

Untitled Sheet 2 from "Canto Pisan" by Zao Wou-Ki, Orange, Abstract, Black, Green
Located in Köln, DE
Aquatint in colours by Zao Wou-Ki No Title Sheet 2 from "Canto Pisan" (portfolio with poems by Ezra Pound), 1972 50,5 x 33 cm Copy 52/150 Edition of 254 ...
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

'Okina 11
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype. The ‘okina is the Hawaiian representation of the glottal stop. It is a separation of doubles. The monotypes in the ‘Okina series are doubles; the prints are divided...
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2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Monotype

Collectors Limited Edition 1980's warm colourful abstract geometric graphic 2
Located in Norfolk, GB
Canton II Limited Edition, unframed silkscreen print Size unframed: 100cm x 80cm Available both as a unique print or as part of the Triptych, Canton I, II & III (see separate listin...
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1980s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Screen, Archival Paper

Cover Derriere le Miroir #201
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Lithograph Title: Cover Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #201 Year: 1973 Edition: Unnumbered Framed Size: 21 3/4" x 17 3/4" Sheet Size: 15" x 11" Signe...
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Abstract prints and multiples for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract prints and multiples 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 prints and multiples 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 Joan Miró, Francisco Nicolás, Dadodu , and Josef Albers. 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 prints and multiples, so small editions measuring 0.02 inches across are also available.

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