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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
Pair of Antique Japanese Iron Pagodas
Pair of Antique Japanese Iron Pagodas

Pair of Antique Japanese Iron Pagodas

Located in Palm Beach, FL

Enchanting pair of Japanese pagodas crafted in iron with classic finials or sorin at the tops on five floors with hanging bells and an entrance at the bottom.

Category

20th Century Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Iron

"Large Vessel" - abstract sculpture - Barbara Hepworth
"Large Vessel" - abstract sculpture - Barbara Hepworth

"Large Vessel" - abstract sculpture - Barbara Hepworth

By Susan Hable

Located in Atlanta, GA

Susan Hable is inspired by the work of David Hockney, Milton Avery, Henri Matisse, Alex Katz, Howard Hodgkins, Hilma af Klint, Georgia O'Keeffe, Barbara Hepworth and Constantin Brâncuși. With humor and a bit of mischief, Susan Hable’s “Don't Pick The Flowers!” is a body of work that is at once a refuge and a playground. Inspired by her sumptuous garden just outside of her Athens studio, Susan flows from one medium to the next from painting to collage to sculpture. Susan sees her garden as a place for adventure and daydreaming, challenging her perceptions of what her Art can be. Even a weedy ground cover has caught Susan’s eye, an overlooked invasive is seen in a new light becoming a dreamlike fairytale path. Her work asks us to engage in life, go for a walk and play. Susan Hable Smith is the artist and designer behind the boldly colored and hand drawn patterns of Hable Construction...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stoneware

Bow-White
Bow-White

Bow-White

By Masakazu Kobayashi

Located in Wilton, CT

"[Masakazu Kobayashi's] woven Waves in dyed threads rank[s] among the most perfect in aesthetic effectiveness ever produced by contemporary weaving….This Japanese way of conjuring up such transparency with threads, of perceiving the thread itself as something creative is highly artistic. They celebrate aesthetic beauty in a way no one can elude.” From “Textile Art and the Avant-garde,” Erika Billeter (Contemporary Textile Art: the Collection of the Pierre Pauli...

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1990s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Light Glyph VFSV
Light Glyph VFSV

Light Glyph VFSV

By Casper Brindle

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Light-Glyphs, a range of colors illuminate the interior of translucent sculptural boxes. The color is muted and light diffused through frosted surfaces. At center, a thin blade of co...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Pigment

"Structure Relief 254" Abstract Landscape Relief, Earth Tones
"Structure Relief 254" Abstract Landscape Relief, Earth Tones

"Structure Relief 254" Abstract Landscape Relief, Earth Tones

Located in Detroit, MI

"Structure Relief 254" is an abstract structural relief painted in earth tones. Throughout his life Barr was interested in engineering, structure, mathematics and nature. Although i...

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1980s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Jaff_Blow_2014_hand cut paper_minimalism
Jaff_Blow_2014_hand cut paper_minimalism

Jaff_Blow_2014_hand cut paper_minimalism

By Liz Jaff

Located in Darien, CT

Liz Jaff creates intricate constructions which use repetition, patterns and forms from nature and architecture to explore ideas of love, commitment, sacrifice and memory of time and ...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Archival Paper

"To Incite Rain " Mixed Media Sculpture

"To Incite Rain " Mixed Media Sculpture

By Duane Paul

Located in West Hollywood, CA

Duane Paul's work can best be characterized as innovative, dynamic and intimate. His sculptures each employ colorful organic shapes, which act as a personal language. The playful and...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Enamel

"Metamorphosis"
"Metamorphosis"

"Metamorphosis"

By Katib Mamedov

Located in Edinburgh, GB

The sculpture “Metamorphosis” embodies the idea of change, transformation, and the flow of life. Its smooth, graceful lines create a sense of dynamism, while the combination of a mir...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Granite, Bronze

"Little Swann 8" Painted Wooden Cube Sculpture
"Little Swann 8" Painted Wooden Cube Sculpture

"Little Swann 8" Painted Wooden Cube Sculpture

By Sofie Swann

Located in Westport, CT

This 5" hand-painted sculptural cube by Sofie Swann is made with acrylic paint and gesso on wood. It features a deep teal palette with light texture over the surface of the cube. It ...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Gesso, Wood, Acrylic

"Steel City Dragster" Mixed-Media Sculpture
"Steel City Dragster" Mixed-Media Sculpture

"Steel City Dragster" Mixed-Media Sculpture

By Patrick Fitzgerald 1

Located in Chicago, IL

To Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald, his miniature car sculptures are a means of traveling through time. Born from a fascination with the soap box derby cars of his youth, eac...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media, Oil, Cardboard

Sculptural Circular Candy Wall Composition in White, Turquoise and Copper Tones
Sculptural Circular Candy Wall Composition in White, Turquoise and Copper Tones

Sculptural Circular Candy Wall Composition in White, Turquoise and Copper Tones

By Elizabeth Art Candy

Located in FISTERRA, ES

This circular wall-mounted composition combines mixed media and sculptural relief to evoke the appearance of candies and confections, arranged in a constellation of carefully balance...

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Clay, Spray Paint, Board

Stack XXI : contemporary modern geometric sculpture

Stack XXI : contemporary modern geometric sculpture

By Greg Chann

Located in New York, NY

Greg Chann creates contemporary modern abstract geometric sculptures. His constructions are complex interwoven systems of physical elements varying in size, material, and color. Thes...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic

Abstract Clay Sculpture of Urban Row Home with Black History Themes
Abstract Clay Sculpture of Urban Row Home with Black History Themes

Abstract Clay Sculpture of Urban Row Home with Black History Themes

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

Rather than being literal reproductions of buildings, Leroy Johnson’s iconic, signature house sculptures are alive with texture and symbolism, celebrating the resilience of communiti...

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Early 2000s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic, Clay, Mixed Media, Acrylic

White Coral Sculpture or Assemblage on Lucite
White Coral Sculpture or Assemblage on Lucite

White Coral Sculpture or Assemblage on Lucite

Located in Palm Beach, FL

Lofty one of a kind branch coral assemblage or sculpture handcrafted with organic specimens, with its ocean inspired form and texture, designed exclusively by F.S. Henemader and pres...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Organic Material

Diane Englander, White Form on Red Wood, 2018, scrapwood and acrylic, 12 x 13 in
Diane Englander, White Form on Red Wood, 2018, scrapwood and acrylic, 12 x 13 in

Diane Englander, White Form on Red Wood, 2018, scrapwood and acrylic, 12 x 13 in

By Diane Englander

Located in Darien, CT

Diane Englander uses formal means to create a place between discord and tranquility, a zone with a charged harmony that energizes as it also provides refuge. That often requires that the prettiness of an initial surface is made ugly, or there’s a conscious choice to avoid balance in the composition. Hers is a largely intuitive process, the materials entice her. Inspiration from the world that we don't call “art” is where she finds her muse: a wall, a landscape, a window shade transfused with light, a stretch of sand and shadow. Most influential are predecessors like Burri, Vicente, Tapies, Motherwell, Rauschenberg, medieval cloisonné, Vermeer, Breughel, and many, many more. A native New Yorker, Diane had an earlier career including 17 years as a management consultant to local nonprofits concerned with poverty or disenfranchisement; work in NYC government; and several years as a lawyer at a large NYC law firm. “I was brought up going to galleries and museums, a sometimes reluctant attendant to my parents’ passion for looking and for collecting. My own expressive energy must have simmered internally for years, occasionally emerging in photography, in quilt-making, in other tentative explorations, and certainly in providing opportunity and materials for my children to create. Not until those children were nearly grown did I come unequivocally to the need to make art myself.” In late 2006 Diane began making collages that started her on her current path; in late 2007 she left her consulting job to focus on her artwork full-time. She has studied with Bruce Dorfman at the Art Students League in New York, and has had solo exhibits at the Alexey von Schlippe...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic, Wood

Abstract Kinetic Sculpture Statement Minimalism Balance White Bauman Signed
Abstract Kinetic Sculpture Statement Minimalism Balance White Bauman Signed

Abstract Kinetic Sculpture Statement Minimalism Balance White Bauman Signed

By Arthur Bauman

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Untitled (Sun Over the Rain Clouds)" is an abstract kinetic sculpture with many moving parts created by Arthur Bauman. The artist carved his initials into the red disc that hangs at...

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Early 2000s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Proof
Proof

Proof

By Michael Thacker

Located in Belgravia, London, London

"Proof" by Michael Thacker British, 21st Century Aurora Blue Marble with Platinum Leaf Sculpture size (HxWxD): 31 x 15.75 x 13.5 inches Monogrammed and dated 2 5 24

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Platinum

Now You See It, abstract geometric wooden sculpture

Now You See It, abstract geometric wooden sculpture

By Joe Sultan

Located in New York, NY

Milled wood and acrylic. Joe Sultan started sculpting later in life after building a home in the Hudson Valley in 2012. He trained, worked as an architect and led his own firms fo...

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

"Cobalt White All Over - In", Hand Cut Paper Wall Relief Sculpture, Abstract
"Cobalt White All Over - In", Hand Cut Paper Wall Relief Sculpture, Abstract

"Cobalt White All Over - In", Hand Cut Paper Wall Relief Sculpture, Abstract

By Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen

Located in New York, NY

"Cobalt & White All Over" by Elizabeth Gregory-Gruen Hand cut 2-ply museum board, gouche This sculptural wall piece can mounted in a plexi box (dimensions: 24" x 20" x 3") Cut Work...

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Paper, Board, Paint, Gouache

"Experience №1 v.2" Bronze Sculpture 18 x 6 x 6 in Edition 1/5 by Sergii Shaulis
"Experience №1 v.2" Bronze Sculpture 18 x 6 x 6 in Edition 1/5 by Sergii Shaulis

"Experience №1 v.2" Bronze Sculpture 18 x 6 x 6 in Edition 1/5 by Sergii Shaulis

By Sergii Shaulis

Located in Culver City, CA

"Experience №1 v.2" Bronze Sculpture 18 x 6 x 6 in Edition 1/5 by Sergii Shaulis 2019 From the EXPERIENCE series Bronze Approximate weight 15lbs ABOUT ARTIST Born on 27 May 1985 ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Spillway

Spillway

By Ben Watkins

Located in Lincoln, RI

Spillway is a low relief, bent laminated, wall-hung sculpture made from ash veneer and formed using a vacuums technique. The shapes mimic two bodies of water connecting through a "s...

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Textured Abstract Wall Sculpture in Natural Materials, Organic Hemp Modern Art
Textured Abstract Wall Sculpture in Natural Materials, Organic Hemp Modern Art

Textured Abstract Wall Sculpture in Natural Materials, Organic Hemp Modern Art

By Silvana Ilieva

Located in Sofia, BG

Textured Abstract Wall Sculpture in Natural Materials, Organic Hemp Modern Art Titled "A Fragment of the Infinite," this abstract wall sculpture by Silvana Ilieva is crafted from in...

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Organic Material, Ink

Abstract sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract sculptures 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 sculptures created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, purple, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Scott Troxel, John Van Alstine, Marty Mackenzie, and Stephen Walling. Frequently made by artists working with Wood, and Paint 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 sculptures, so small editions measuring 0.38 inches across are also available. Prices for sculptures made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $11 and tops out at $1,400,000, while the average work sells for $4,500.