Abstract Expressionist Art

Stunning abstract expressionist portrait of a blonde woman with a gold earring by Harvey C. Parks (American, b. 1948), 1980. Signed and dated "Parks '80" Condition: Good; minor missing paint (lower edge) retouched. Unframed. Image size: 20"H x 16"W. Harvey C. Parks (Born 1948) is active/lives in Pennsylvania, California. Harvey Parks...

Artist: Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Spanish (1941 - ) Title: Cosmos 4 Year: 2003 Medium: Acrylic and Mixed Media on Paper, signed and dated Paper Size: 15.5 x...

Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...

"Reign of Horus" depicts one of the most significant entities of the Egyptian pantheon. Horus was a god of kingship and sky, containing in himself both the Sun and the Moon. Stefanel...

Stefanelli depicts two dynamic figures in the act of worshipping. The bright orange background is painted with visible strokes of various density to further amplify the energy of the...

A flock of birds at sunset in East Hampton is captured by color photographer Mitchell Funk. The overall composition without a central point of focus is not unlike the work of East H...

"Summers In Cali" Gestural, spontaneous, colourful, bold Joan Mitchell inspired capture of life in California. Hues pulled from the shore and sky, beach areas and the vibrant colo...

Large abstract expressionist painting influenced by Mark Rothko that consists of red and yellow tones. The canvas is signed, titled and dated by the artist. Canvas is not framed. Artist Biography: Karen Lastre was born in St. Paul, MN in 1940. She moved to Texas in 1965 where she began to work as a painter in 1969. She has been influenced by the color field abstract expressionist works like Mark Rothko. Her work has been purchased by private collectors throughout the United States and Europe. In 1994 she was a Merit Award at the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville...

Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...

Acrylic on canvas

Acrylic on canvas

Shortly before Walt Esslinger died a few years ago, we talked in his small yellow painted studio in Bakersfield. Sixteen years my senior, he’d been my close friend, mentor and running mate since 1960. “You still writing?” he asked. “Yes,” I answered, taking in the space’s renovations he’d recently sub-contracted. Ninety one years old, and he was thinking ahead. “Do me a favor,” he said. “Write the Andy Warhol story.” Walt was a Central Valley guy, an L.A. guy, a Las Vegas guy. A man who knew his way around. “I want you to put on record what happened back then when I bought the soup can painting.” Back then was the fall of 1962. The two of us had been exhibiting our paintings in the L.A. Art Institute’s gallery for locals only. Walt had given legendary Ad Rhinehardt a story about how he and I had been working in both Edward Kienholz’s and John Altoon’s studios (false—we’d only been visiting). One morning, the Institute’s Director, who hadn’t suspected us to be charlatans yet, introduced us to a reed thin, tow headed young man leaning against the main gallery’s wall. “Meet Andy Warhola,” he said. “Andy is from New York.” “Warhol,” the boy/man said. “Painter?” Walt asked him. “Shoe Illustrator.” The director made a snorting noise I took to mean that Warhola or Warhol’s modesty was posed. He mentioned something about Andy having a show on the La Cienega strip of galleries. We exchanged mumbles about how the art world was in flux, nothing more than that, and Walt and I moved on. If this strange cat had anything to look at, we’d see it. It was a Monday, and La Cienega’s twenty some galleries would be opening new shows and serving champagne that evening. North La Cienega Avenue, laid over a network of oil veins decades before, had become the street for the Cool School, a group of artists and gallery people trying to bring Los Angeles’s art scene to life. The galleries were small but proud. Sure, Jazz was born on the Delta and raised in New Orleans, St, Luis and Chicago, but L.A. had fifty-three jazz joints according to Chet Baker, who’d blown with the best. Why then should the West Coast be lagging behind New York in the other truly American expression, abstract art? At the Ferus Gallery that night we found Warhol’s exhibit. “Shit,” I said. Walt grinned. “You no like?” “Not exactly my can of soup,” I said, peeking into the small space, loaded now wall to wall with paintings of Campbell’s Tomato Soup. Walt stepped into the space. “How about the idea of it?” I made my way through spectators looking at once to be confused, amused, enthused and abused. When I came back to Walt he was still smiling. “Why didn’t he silk screen ‘em?” I asked. “That’s probably his next move,” Walt said. “You wanna stay?” Walt’s keen eyes cased the joint. “I see Irving Bloom over there,” he said. “Believe I’ll stick around and talk with him.” Bloom had been operating this popular gallery for some time now. “One hundred a month,” he’d told me. “It’s not like I’m getting rich.” I stood around for a bit, heard a fellow abstract expressionist I’d met tell a young lady who looked to be lost, “Okay that’s the soup. Come with me, baby, and I’ll show you the juice.” Two doors down I stopped at the Primus-Stuart Gallery. A group of people had gathered around a display of soup cans, stacked grocer’s pyramid style in the window. All Campbell’s. All Tomato. A sign leaning against the grouping stated: “Get the real thing. Thirty cents each.” That’s the way it was. Twenty-four galleries forming a gauntlet between La Cienega’s 300 block, all the way up to Barney’s Beanery at the corner of Santa Monica. Hollywood types dressed to the nines, Beats dressed for the times just gone. Champagne popping...

An expressive abstract landscape painting on canvas by Alanna Eakin showing the contrast between snowy mountains and a cacti filled desert in the foreground ABOUT ALANNA EAKIN Alann...

"Imprints of time" abstract acrylic 81x65cm 2022 During a trip to Prague, I observed on a balustrade of an extraordinary cathedral, inscriptions worn out by time I was inspired by ...

Joffe's career spans the post-World War II Abstract Expressionist movement to the present. She is known for her powerful images of women and horses, often intertwined, and representi...

Oil on masonite. Like many of his compatriots in the New York School, Ben Wilson (1913-2001) began his career painting figuratively before transitioning to abstraction after WWII (and somewhat later than his compatriots.) However, because he started in a different place than they did, he ended up in a different place. His starting place was the cubism of Picasso, Braque and Leger, and their influence never left him. A critic in the Princeton Review in 1987 wrote: "Ben Wilson's canvases, while still within the abstract expressionist mode, retain echoes of Picasso, Braque and even mechanistic elements of Fernand Leger." Another critic writes: "The expressive abstractions of Ben Wilson belong among the best work created by New York artists in the 20th century; but they stand outside the critical labels applied to Abstract Expressionism..." Ben Wilson had more than 30 one-man shows during his lifetime, first starting to show in the early 1930s. As early as 1942, he was singled out by the New York Times art critic Edward Alden...

"Head of Batista", a mid-century modern miniature abstract etching by California artist Richard W. Downs (American,b-1934). This delicate, small-scale etching, dated 1965, was submitted to the Seattle Art Museum for the Northwest Printmakers 36th International Exhibition. Numbered "Proof III", titled "Head of Batista", signed "RW Downs" and dated "1/65" lower edge. Submission label attached to verso for the Northwest Printmakers 36th International Exhibition 1965, with information about the artist and piece. "RW Downs / San Jose California" written on verso. Displayed in a new beige mat, unframed. Image size: 3.25"H x 3.25"W. Paper size: 6"H x 5.5"W. Mat size: 13.75"H x 11.5"W RICHARD W. DOWNS was born in Los Angeles and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California and Master of Arts from San Jose State College where he taught one year as faculty assistant. He was a member of the Drake...

History of the Horizon (2) is by young Cuban artist Alejandro Jurado who lives and paints in his studio in Havana, Cuba, The painting is 60 x 50. For shipping purposes it is best to ...

Bold cubist style abstraction by NYC based designer/artist Fredda Tone

At the forefront of the canvas Stefanelli paints two nude female figures, who obviously know each other closely. It is very likely that they represent ladies who worked at a brothel ...

Stefanelli depicts the gods of the bygone eras, placing their figures on the forefront of the canvas. The artist loosely paints what appears to be a courtyard. The sitting figure on ...

Stefanelli’s "Seti’s Banquet" is a lush celebration, a decadent feast of a pharaoh. In this period of time many of Stefanelli’s works are focused on interpreting historical narrative...

An original oil on masonite painting by well listed Mexican artist Leonardo Nierman. This work comes in a unique gold frame presentation which is likely original to the piece. Si...

Abstract painting with an organic-floral character. Against a rich green background, a vibrant color formation unfolds in shades of yellow, white, beige, brown, orange, red, magenta,...

A work of art by a notable second generation abstract expressionist Joseph Stefanelli. Joseph Stefanelli’s art, rooted in academic training as well ...

"Maternal" Wood sculpture 18" x 7" in by Ibrahim Abd Elmalak Maternal, 2005 Wood 45 x 18 cm, Signed & Dated Sculptures that mostly depict his ch...

Cosmic Water 67 X 76 Antonio Ugarte paints water as a reflection of the spirit, a form of meditation. He sees water as “a primordial element” in life and the physical environment as...

Nevelson’s compositions explore the relational possibilities of sculpture and space, summing up the objectification of the external world into a personal landscape. Although her prac...

Pink and Red Composition is an original artwork realized by Giorgio Lo Fermo (b. 1947) in 2020. Original Oil Painting on Canvas. Hand-signed, titled and dated on the back of the ca...

Original Contemporary Abstract Painting. O O O ------- Classic Abstract Painting Geometric simplicity Colour Harmony and textures * * * * I have captured a moment in time ...

Gallery on the Square London by Susan Brown [2021] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Giclee print on paper Edition number 150 Image size: H...

Laddie John Dill, American (1943) Date: 1988 Etching with Aquatint on Rives BFK, signed, numbered and dated in pencil Edition of 74/75 Image Size: 9 x 22.5 inches Size: 22.5 x 30 in....

Mary Knowland. Poppy 10- this is a poppy print in acrylic paint made in 2014 as part of a series of works It is a unique mono print Signed bottom right Mary Knowland 2014 This work i...

Oh how we miss those sunny, bustling days in Washington Square NW! Exams and deadlines were on everyone's mind but the warmth had begun to nourish our souls and the musicians had b...

This work was inspired pure emotion, the emotion of feeling a sense of turbulence in the world. However, admist it I feel calm, but these are turbulent times. This work is canvas st...

Jane Sangerman lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has a BFA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from SUNY Buffalo. She has had one and two person shows in many citi...

EMILY VAN HORN My soul purpose is as a catalyst for transformation. As a visual starting point I draw inspiration from urban surroundings, the crumblin...

Artist : Katherine Bello Title : Valentine Materials : Acrylic and paper on board Date : 1/2020 Dimensions : 18"x18"x.75" Signed and Dated by Hand COA Provided Katherine Bello's aim as an artist is to capture a sense of place, a moment of time, or a feeling - to evoke a sense of wonder. Bello loves paint and paint brushes; bold, gestural mark-making and the interplay of color. She is influenced by light and landscape, poetry, history and science. Formerly educated in Chemical Engineering and Interior Design, Bello is drawn to the process of creating Something out of Nothing. Abstract, sbstract art...

Artist: Domenick Turturro, Italian/American (1936 - 2002) Title: Fern Hills Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300 Image Size: 23 x 30 inches Size: ...

Tranquil shades of sylvan colour are paramount in this piece from Francesca Owen. Painted on a theme of metamorphosis it’s a particularly good work show...

The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...

This artwork titled "Desert Approach" 1993 is an original color serigraph on Wove paper by Canadian/American artist Howard Bradford, 1919-2008. It is hand signed, titled, dated and ...

An abstract Expressionist piece titled "Metamorphosis of Zan Biell" Numbered "20/20", and signed by artist Keisuke Serizawa. Woodcut on Rice Paper. Designer, painter, illustrator, d...

This Worn and Torn series is based on the principal that even in life, when we going through our difficult times and we become 'worn' out or 'torn' by grief, there is still beauty in...

This Worn and Torn series is based on the principal that even in life, when we going through our difficult times and we become 'worn' out or 'torn' by grief, there is still beauty in...

This Worn and Torn series is based on the principal that even in life, when we going through our difficult times and we become 'worn' out or 'torn' by grief, there is still beauty in...

Large vertical self portrait by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b.1957). A minimalist portrait of the artist is at the center of this piece, w...

Acrylic on canvas

Cubist Composition by Armand Rottenberg (French 1903-2000) signed lower corner, oil painting on board, unframed painting: 17 x 9.75 inches Stunning original Cubist painting by the...

The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...

More Moor By Gina Parr [2014] original oil and acrylic on hardwood panel Image size: H:55 cm x W:66 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:52 cm x D:0.5cm Frame Size: H:55 cm x W:66 cm x D:5cm Sold Framed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Gina Parr More Moor Original Contemporary Abstract Landscape Oil Painting Oil and Acrylic on Hardwood Panel Framed Size: H 66cm x W 55cm x D 5cm Framed in an integral black wooden tray...

"Synopsis" by Elsbeth Halvorsen Vever (American, b. 1929). Box sculpture combines aluminum, sand, bone, glass and a magnifier. Signed "Elsbeth Vever 1982" on verso. Image, 24.50"L x 13.75"H x 4"W. Using bone as the central image Elsbeth has assembled an optical and visual experience. One view is the magnification and juxtaposition of the floating effect of the curvature in the stainless steel background; stand back and it's a hologram effect. The first image shows clearly the hologram effect available to the eye of the viewer. From a review of her show of box constructions in Providence, Rhode Island: "Viewing her box constructions is a lot like a walk in the moonlight. What we know, or think, to be true in the hard brightness of daytime reality dissolves into an amorphous space of multiple possibilities and perspectives." Born in Purdys, New York, Elspeth Halvorsen is the daughter, granddaughter, and mother of professional artists. She has studied at prestigious academic and artistic institutions includingthe New School for Social Research, the Art Students League, and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1955, she moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, establishing her home and studio in the former residence of Mark Rothko. Provincetown not only remains her home but also acts as a personal, social, and artistic source of inspiration for her work. Shortly after arriving in Provincetown, Halvorsen and her husband, the late Tony Vevers...

Signed, dated and titled. Initialed and dated lower right, each numbered 8/20, lower left. 9 x 6 image size, 22 x 15 in. sheet size. With the blindstamp of the Tamarind Institute print...

Ana Hefco's (US based) "Ocean Waves #12" is an original, hand made mixed media painting that depicts an abstracted color field of blue, teal and beige, that is reminiscent of an aerial/satellite image of a coastal beach where the waves crash on shore. Artist Bio and Statement: Born and raised in Bucharest Romania, I am a self-taught dreamer and artist. To dream is my path and to paint is my dream. Lack of control is not my strong suit, but in the painting process things are different. The resin (also known as liquid glass) has a mind of its own and I learn to mindfully let go every time I paint. I allow those liquid color induced emotions I feel to drive me and take lead of my hands and at the end of the process, it’s just music and bliss. My inspiration is always nature's force, balance, perfection in purpose and beauty. It can be a place I travelled or sailed to or just a feeling floating on our boat docked in a Turkish marina or just on anchor nearby a Greek taverna on a remote tiny island in the Mediterranean or Aegean Sea. It can be this artist as a little girl reading...

Acrylic and oil paint on preprocessed wooden panel in wooden frame. The frame can made in blank, white or black color. In fact the enjoying of making them and for all undergoing...