Abstract Prints and Multiples
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
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Drypoint
Byzantine
By Arman
Located in New York, NY
Large abstract print by renouned artist Arman.
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Fish In a Pond
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, titled, and number MS 1 (Mono screenprint 1/1). This is one of a small group of prints done during a session working with Gronk at Self Help G...
Category
2010s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Snowy Egret
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by the artist
Dedicated: "To Jon From Ray"
Edition: 100 in two printings
A studio proof from the second printing by Jon Clemens, master printe...
Category
1950s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Currency
By Arman
Located in New York, NY
print by renouned artist Arman, published in Switzerland
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Prints and Multiples
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monotype, Screen
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Les Penitentes #3
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ralston Crawford, 'Los Penitentes #3', etching, 1976, edition 20. Signed and numbered '6/20' in pencil; titled and annotated 'specially selected for Marcelle and Dan' in the bottom s...
Category
1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
'Signes' — Mid-Century Modernist Abstraction
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Jean Arp, Signes, woodcut, edition 50, 1949. A fine, black impression, with all the fine lines printing clearly, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with wide margins (1 5/8 to 6 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. Signed and numbered '8/50' in pencil. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jean Arp was born Hans Arp on September 16, 1886, in Strassburg. In 1904, after leaving the Ecole des Arts et Métiers, Strasbourg, he visited Paris and published his poetry for the first time. From 1905 to 1907, Arp studied at the Kunstschule, Weimar, and in 1908 went to Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian. In 1909, he moved to Switzerland and in 1911 was a founder of the Moderner Bund group there. The following year, he met Robert and Sonia Delaunay in Paris and Vasily Kandinsky in Munich. Arp participated in the Erste deutsche Herbstsalon in 1913 at the gallery Der Sturm, Berlin. After returning to Paris in 1914, he became acquainted with Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Amadeo Modigliani, and Pablo Picasso. In 1915, he moved to Zurich, where he executed collages and tapestries, often in collaboration with his future wife Sophie Taeuber (who became known as Sophie Taeuber-Arp after they married in 1922).
In 1916, Hugo Ball...
Category
1940s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Monoprint
Mirrors (brown)
By Robyn Denny
Located in London, GB
63 x 46 cms (25 x 18 ins)
Edition of 40
Category
1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Color, Screen
Room
By Sean Scully
Located in New York, NY
Sean Scully (Irish, b. 1945)
Room, 1988
etching
42 x 51 inches (106.7 x 129.5 cm)
Edition of 40
Category
1980s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
'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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Four Knots
Located in London, GB
Edition of 50
71 x 76 cm (28 x 30 ins)
RSE023
Category
1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Three of a Kind C
Located in London, GB
Edition of 60
71 x 79 cms (28 x 31 ins)
Category
1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Monoprint
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint, Photogravure
Werkubersicht/Work-Overview 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
1980s Abstract Prints and Multiples
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Monoprint
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Intaglio
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 Prints and Multiples
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
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 Prints and Multiples
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
UNTITLED (from the KINETIC PORTFOLIO)
By Eusebio Sempere
Located in New York, NY
serigraph, Edition of 100
image of abstract flower
from KINETIC PORTFOLIO
Category
1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
'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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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 Prints and Multiples
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Intaglio
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
'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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Linocut
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 Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
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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