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Abstract Sculptures

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
Stunning wall installation of bright blue butterflies
Stunning wall installation of bright blue butterflies

Stunning wall installation of bright blue butterflies

By Paul Villinski

Located in London, GB

Paul Villinski is an American sculptor widely known for transforming littered cans from the city streets into large-scale, abstract installations of life-like butterflies. Over three...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Wire

Attitudes, Glass and Polished Brass Sculpture by Jaworksi
Attitudes, Glass and Polished Brass Sculpture by Jaworksi

Attitudes, Glass and Polished Brass Sculpture by Jaworksi

By David Jaworski

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: David Jaworsky, American Title: Attitudes Year: 1991 Medium: Blown Glass and Bronze with a Marble Base Size: 31 x 20 x 24 in. (78.74 x 50.8 x 60.96 cm) Base: 16 x 2 x 16 ...

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1990s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #2), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects
Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #2), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects

Liz Sweibel, Untitled (Scrapings #2), 2016, Wood, Paint, Found Objects

By Liz Sweibel

Located in Darien, CT

The freestanding sculptures in this portfolio are made from the “sticks”: a pile of found wood that Sweibel has been pulling from to make new works since about 2002. The pile consisted of more than a dozen four- to seven-foot lengths of hardwood, each an uneven inch in depth and width. The sticks were warped, with worn yellow paint on one side and raw wood on the other three. Over the years she has painted the raw sides of the sticks, cut the wood into shorter lengths, and sliced paint off – and kept the residue from these actions. Sweibel has also made sculptures ranging from full-length sticks to tiny stick splinters. She built these sculptures using sliced-off paint. Timeworn materials and objects have an intelligence that the artist looks for and listens to. Shaping and reshaping material to find new form and elicit new insights in the material itself is the territory she is mining. The limitations of the process are its strengths. Her work is concerned with fragility, precariousness, adaptability, and strength. It is a visual response to powerful yet unseen forces - like wind and thoughts - that threaten, propel, ruin, and protect. Liz Sweibel is a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, sculpture, installation, and digital photography and video. Her spare, personal language of abstraction transforms ordinary materials into statements about connectedness and responsibility: every action has an impact, the effects persist in space and over time, and we are accountable. By drawing attention to simple, ordinary “stuff of life” and referencing both shared and personal history, Sweibel’s work explores and reflects back fundamental experiences in response to our world and relationships. Her intention is to reinvigorate viewers’ awareness of the everyday – in its raw beauty and precariousness – in hopes that they might bring heightened senses of sight and care to their daily lives. Sweibel has participated in solo, two-person, and group exhibits in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Michigan, and Tennessee since 1998. In 2016, Sweibel’s work was in the group shows Lightly Structured at Sculpture Space NYC, Precarious Constructs at the Venus Knitting Art...

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2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Paint, Found Objects

"Endless Sky" Textured Abstract Painting
"Endless Sky" Textured Abstract Painting

"Endless Sky" Textured Abstract Painting

By Teodora Guererra

Located in Westport, CT

This horizontal abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a blue, teal, lavender and white palette. The artist layers thick strokes of paint using a palette knife in broad, hori...

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

#202
#202

#202

By Keith Francis

Located in Dallas, TX

cold rolled steel, sparkle orange metallic powder coated wall sculpture

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

#203
#203

#203

By Keith Francis

Located in Dallas, TX

cold rolled steel, powdered coated Granny Smith green wall sculpture

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Assiduosly without  words
Assiduosly without  words

Assiduosly without words

By L.G.

Located in Paris, FR

One of a kind Blown and fused Glass Sculpture in brown/black, bluish black, opaque white and White sandblasted. Includes its black metal base ( about 32 cm X 10 cm X 18 cm ). Tota...

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

Murano Glass Sculpture Abstract Face Handcrafted by Paul Kostabi
Murano Glass Sculpture Abstract Face Handcrafted by Paul Kostabi

Murano Glass Sculpture Abstract Face Handcrafted by Paul Kostabi

Located in Winterswijk, NL

This unique Murano glass sculpture by Paul Kostabi is a unique example of Venetian craftsmanship. Mouth-blown and hand-cut at the Hofmeister Glass Factory in Amberg, it is a truly un...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Glass, Blown Glass

(4 pieces) Rolling dice/Turning luck, Marble Sculpture, Suitable for Outdoors
(4 pieces) Rolling dice/Turning luck, Marble Sculpture, Suitable for Outdoors

(4 pieces) Rolling dice/Turning luck, Marble Sculpture, Suitable for Outdoors

By Bertalan Andrasfalvy

Located in Boston, MA

Artist Commentary: Rolling dice, turning luck! All 6 sides of the dice has the same probability. When the dice is cubic, the results are digital, but when the dice getting closer to the ball shape the results could be analog and infinite when it is a perfect ball. Old cobblestones were used to make the heavy dices. In 3 steps the cube became a ball, a real rolling dice. Keywords: Abstract, dice, 4 pieces, black, white Artist Biography: Born in Hungary, Andrasfalvy is 50, with swift dark eyes, a chiseled jaw, and a casually athletic frame that stretch, well over six feet. He exudes a quiet restlessness. He holds an M.D., a Ph.D., and two curricula vitae—one that lists eleven peer-reviewed publications on neuronal physiology, and another that describes dozens of sculptures, several of them commissioned and many gifts. The pivot between art and science started early. When Andrasfalvy was 10 years old, his father gave him a woodcarving set. By age 20, he had completed his first stone sculpture—and was on the path to medical school. Ever since, he’s spent weekends sculpting leftover granite or marble...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Granite, Marble

Brutalist Bronze Abstract Modernist Sculpture
Brutalist Bronze Abstract Modernist Sculpture

Brutalist Bronze Abstract Modernist Sculpture

Located in Surfside, FL

In the manner of Julio Gonzalez, mixed metal sculpture. Neo-Dada Abstract Sculpture: Assemblages Abstract sculpture followed a slightly different course. Rather than focusing on no...

Category

20th Century Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze, Copper

Masque Oiseau
Masque Oiseau

Jean ArpMasque Oiseau, 1968

$2,438Sale Price|24% Off

Masque Oiseau

By Jean Arp

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Jean Arp, also known as Hans Arp (1886-1966), was an important contributor to the avant-garde movements of the 20th century. Arp was active during the crucial years that shaped Europ...

Category

1960s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Tower
Tower

Tower

By Tom Nussbaum

Located in New Orleans, LA

Tom Nussbaum is known for a variety of work including drawings, paper cuts, prints, sculpture, children’s books, animations, functional design objects, and site-specific commissions....

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

"Boe`e" ("Come")- abstract sculpture
"Boe`e" ("Come")- abstract sculpture

"Boe`e" ("Come")- abstract sculpture

By Ilanit Vigodsky

Located in New York, NY

This beautiful Laser cut sculpture is part of Ilanit`s Calligraphy series. It is made of laser cut aluminium covered with automotive paint. As all of Ilanit`s works, this work is ba...

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Peace

Peace

By Eileen Braun

Located in Atlanta, GA

Eileen Braun delights in creating biomorphic or organic sculptural forms. Although they may look as though they're constructed of metal rods, they're actually created from rattan ree...

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Alexander's Inspiration (Abstract Sculpture)
Alexander's Inspiration (Abstract Sculpture)

Alexander's Inspiration (Abstract Sculpture)

By Amaury Maillet

Located in London, GB

Aluminum sheet, metal wire and acrylic - mobile "Limited edition of 8 1/8 Available on request — 3 week turnaround " Amaury Maillet is a self-taught artist who explored art in Pro...

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Round ceramic urn crescent moon by Heidi Hartmann

Round ceramic urn crescent moon by Heidi Hartmann

By Heidi Hartmann

Located in Winterswijk, NL

This ceramic vase-like urn with a little golden ball on top is a unique piece handcrafted with care and passion. This beautiful memorial artwork combines aesthetic beauty with deep s...

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Gold Leaf

Triumph
Triumph

John HenryTriumph, 2000

$220,000Sale Price|21% Off

Triumph

By John Henry

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

15 feet X 8 feet X 5 feet Machined aluminum John Raymond Henry (1943-2022) is an internationally renowned sculptor. Since 1971, Henry produced many...

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Impressive Branch and Cauliflower Coral Sculpture on Lucite
Impressive Branch and Cauliflower Coral Sculpture on Lucite

Impressive Branch and Cauliflower Coral Sculpture on Lucite

Located in Palm Beach, FL

Impressive branch and cauliflower coral assemblage hand crafted in specimens with mother nature's sea inspired colors and forms. Presented on a lucite base to enhance its sculptural ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Organic Material

Softening

Softening

By Eileen Braun

Located in Atlanta, GA

Eileen Braun delights in creating biomorphic or organic sculptural forms. Although they may look as though they're constructed of metal rods, they're actually created from rattan ree...

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Rubber, Mixed Media

Large Latin American Modernist Bronze Abstract Cuban Master Roberto Estopinan
Large Latin American Modernist Bronze Abstract Cuban Master Roberto Estopinan

Large Latin American Modernist Bronze Abstract Cuban Master Roberto Estopinan

By Roberto Estopiñan

Located in Surfside, FL

Roberto Estopinan, Cuban, 1920 - 2015 Dimensions: 24.5" wide x 13" high plus 6" high base. Roberto Estopiñán (1921–2015) was a Cuban American sculptor known for his sculptures of the human form, including political prisoners. Born in Camaguey, Cuba, he lived in the United States for over fifty years. His works are held by major institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. Roberto Gabriel Estopinan, a sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker, was born in Havana, Cuba on March 18, 1921. Estopiñán enrolled at the San Alejandro Academy when he was just 14 years old and became the protegé and studio assistant of the sculptor Juan José Sicre. After graduation he traveled first to Mexico, where he met and befriended Francisco Zuniga, and studied Pre-Columbian sculpture. In 1949 he traveled to Europe, visiting England, France and Italy. In these trips he encountered the sculpture of Henry Moore and Marino Marini, and their humanistic yet formal visions would be influential on Estopinan's work. Estopiñán was a pioneer of direct carvings using wood and of welding techniques in Latin America. Throughout the 1950s, Estopiñán received important prizes at various national exhibitions in Havana. In 1953 he was the only semi-finalist from Latin America at the Tate Gallery's international sculpture competition for a Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner. In 1961, the artist moved to New York, where he resided until 2002. Roberto Gabriel Estopiñán a Cuban emigre sculptor who emigrated to exile in the United States not long after Fidel Castro’s revolution in 1959, is considered one of Latin America’s most important 20th-century artists. His work, which includes drawings and prints as well as sculptures in wood and bronze, is in the collections of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Detroit Institute of Art, among many locations. He is best known for his stark, disturbing renderings of political prisoners, the fruit of his own experiences as a dissident under both Castro and his predecessor, the dictator Fulgencio Batista, and for his representations of the female torso that can remind viewers of both classical statuary and the high-modern, abstractly elongated work of Henry Moore.mHe was born in Havana to a father from Asturias in northwest Spain and a mother of African descent. Estopiñán was something of a prodigy. At the age of fourteen, he won the first prize in drawing at the Centro Asturiano, a regional association for Cubans of Asturian descent. Shortly afterward he received special permission to enter the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana. At the school he was mentored first by its director, the painter Armando Menocal (1863-1941), then by the landscape artist Antonio Rodríguez Morey (1872-1967), and finally by Juan José Sicre (1898-1974), regarded as one of Cuba’s greatest sculptors. Sicre, a professor of sculpture at the Academy, had helped introduce European modernist art to Cuba, and from the 1930s through the 1950s had sculpted monumental figures in Havana of José Martí and other Cuban national heroes that stand to this day. Estopiñán was first Sicre’s student, then his assistant, and, finally, his colleague for the next fifty years. After graduating from San Alejandro in 1942, Estopiñán began simultaneously teaching art at the Ceiba del Agua School for young men, assisting Sicre in public art projects and developing his own artistic vision. He also traveled widely, to Mexico, New York, France, and Italy. From the late 1940s through the 1950s his sculpture evolved from an early neoclassical phase under the influence of Maillol to what he defined as “formalist humanism”: emphasizing the abstract beauty of the shapes he sculpted while not abandoning the human figure as the basis of his work. As the 1950s progressed he chose to carve in native Cuban woods...

Category

20th Century Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Untitled: (Totem Pole) - Abstract Sculpture, c. 1960
Untitled: (Totem Pole) - Abstract Sculpture, c. 1960

Untitled: (Totem Pole) - Abstract Sculpture, c. 1960

By Elaine de Kooning

Located in Palm Desert, CA

A major figure in both the Abstract Expressionist and American Figurative Expressionist movements of the 1940s and 1950s, Elaine de Kooning's prolific output defied singular categorization. Her versatile styles explored the spectrum of realism to abstraction, resulting in a career characterized by intense expression and artistic boundary-pushing. A striking example of de Kooning's explosive creativity is Untitled (Totem Pole...

Category

1960s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

"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

"Vega" - Vintage Glass Sculpture
"Vega" - Vintage Glass Sculpture

"Vega" - Vintage Glass Sculpture

Located in Westport, CT

Resurrect Studio, “Vega,” Recycled Victorian-Era Glass Sculpture, 12 x 12 x 14 in. Named for the brightest star in the Lyra constellation, “Vega” is a luminous recycled glass sculpt...

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Glass, Resin

Italian Mid Century Mod Large Brutalist Welded Copper Enamel Sculpture Wood Base
Italian Mid Century Mod Large Brutalist Welded Copper Enamel Sculpture Wood Base

Italian Mid Century Mod Large Brutalist Welded Copper Enamel Sculpture Wood Base

Located in Surfside, FL

Welded, brazed, copper (based on the weight, this might be iron or bronze) with colorful inset enamel plaques on a painted wood base. A studio handmade Brutalist sculpture in a mann...

Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Copper, Enamel

Small Gold Wiggle

Small Gold Wiggle

Located in Napa, CA

Simon Waranch (b. 1999) is an artist at the vanguard of fine art glass sculpture. Blending a mastery of classical techniques with imaginative formal experimentation, Waranch’s work ...

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

Golden Apples 24

Golden Apples 24

By Frances Parker

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Hand Built and glazed ceramic. Free standing, two pieces (sphere and stand). My interest in clay as an artistic medium began in 1984. Like most beginners in the medium, I focused ...

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

White Burst 2 - 3D organic feel contemporary abstract mural sculpture in foam
White Burst 2 - 3D organic feel contemporary abstract mural sculpture in foam

White Burst 2 - 3D organic feel contemporary abstract mural sculpture in foam

Located in New York, NY

Erin Vincent is a Toronto based-artist whose work draws on a variety of repetitive and labor intensive processes and materials. Things and common objects have always fascinated Vinc...

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Resin, Foam, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Paper

Chester Williams, Black Artist, Abstract Bronze, Wood African American Sculpture
Chester Williams, Black Artist, Abstract Bronze, Wood African American Sculpture

Chester Williams, Black Artist, Abstract Bronze, Wood African American Sculpture

Located in Surfside, FL

Chester L. Williams Label on bottom, signed. Title: Promethium Medium: Bronze, Aluminum and wood. Approx. dimensions: 12 X 11 X 4 inches. Chester Lee Williams (1944-1919) was born in 1944, in Durham, North Carolina. Chester cultivated a creative mind that eventually led him to pursue an education in fine arts and sculpture at North Carolina Central University (BA) and the University of Michigan (MFA). In 1974, he made his way to Tallahassee and started instructing at FAMU. Students at the university have a deep appreciation for the jazz lover’s insight and skill. A lifelong artist, Chester's work has been featured in galleries and publications across the country. The body of his work produced over 45 years has evolved from smooth and supple sculptures into the more angular and defiant shapes seen in his later works. Chester has said: "All of the works are me. I still embrace every one of them." Chester enjoyed traveling and exploring different cultures. His art was influenced by his travel and knowledge of African culture. He was an educator for 37 years, teaching at Voorhees College, North Carolina Central University and Florida A&M University before retiring in 2011. He sold his first piece of art in the ninth grade to his homeroom teacher. (That early sale paid off — years later, that teacher’s husband, the president of a bank, commissioned Williams to create a sculpture for the bank’s lobby...

Category

20th Century Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Bronze

Elevation by Tien Wen - Abstract Ceramic Sculpture, Black, Vertical
Elevation by Tien Wen - Abstract Ceramic Sculpture, Black, Vertical

Elevation by Tien Wen - Abstract Ceramic Sculpture, Black, Vertical

By Tien Wen

Located in Paris, FR

Elevation is a unique ceramic sculpture by contemporary artist Tien Wen, dimensions are 110 × 25 × 22 cm (43.3 × 9.8 × 8.7 in). The sculpture is signed and comes with a certificate ...

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

Copper Rings Mesh

Copper Rings Mesh

By Daniela Cutait

Located in New York, NY

Daniela Cutait studied fine arts at FAAP in Sao Paulo in the early 1990s and has always been curious, creative, communicative and restless. The artist orbited through the universe of...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Copper

Karen Schiff, Space Die, 2016, Wood, Ink, Gouache
Karen Schiff, Space Die, 2016, Wood, Ink, Gouache

Karen Schiff, Space Die, 2016, Wood, Ink, Gouache

By Karen Schiff

Located in Darien, CT

Karen Schiff is an artist and wordsmith based in New York; she has always been a reader as well as a visual artist. Her drawings, paintings, installations, and performances combine t...

Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Ink, Gouache

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.