Abstract Art
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: Beige
Seafoam vortex, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Abstract painting with white, seafoam, pastel green and rust orange. Emotional, organic painting, beautiful composition and happy colors, great conversation starter. - Title: Seafo...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Oui Oui, 30 x 40, Abstract Painting, Plaster & Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Armonk, NY
Oui Oui is an abstract painting on canvas by artist Chanel Cohn. Chanel used plaster and acrylic paint in cream, bronze and gold to create this dynamically lay...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Concrete
Framed Mixed Media Monotype "Sfumato"
Located in San Francisco, CA
This beautiful yellow-hued print is one of a kind print, in which artist Deborah Sibony incorporates multiple techniques: screen print with a monotype and graphite. It comes framed....
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Graphite, Monotype, Screen
Blooming Flower Fields, Abstract Expressionist Vivid Tones Brushstrokes, Pattern
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Blooming Flower Fields" is an abstract painting with an urban touch through dynamic, angular brushstrokes representing the gentle swaying of fl...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Man & Woman Figural Abstract Oil on Canvas Painting, Signed
Located in Plainview, NY
A figural abstract oil on canvas painting by Alfred Alexander Gockel ( German, 1952). The geometrical painting depicts a silhouette of a man and woman in vivid orange and brown earthy tones. The painting is signed by the artist and is presented in custom wooden frame.
About the artist:
German artist Alfred Gockel...
Category
20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Those Days, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Painted linen hand sewn to raw 12 x 12 raw canvas in a natural fir frame. “Moments never stay, whether or not you ask them, they do not care, no moment cares, and the ones you w...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Three Poems: Burnt Water
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Motherwell, American (1915 - 1991)
Title: No. 10 from Three Poems, collaboration with Octavio Paz
Year: 1987
Medium: Lithograph on Japon with Chine Colle
Edition: 750
...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Rice Paper, Lithograph
Double Sided Abstract Expressionist Monotypes on Handmade Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A double sided work of two abstract expressionist monotypes on hand-made paper from an original work by Martin Engelman. The paper has one monotype to each side. See photos. The work...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Monotype
Linda Turner, Art Meditation 5, Collage, Pattern and Decoration, Automatism
Located in Darien, CT
Linda Turner, raised both in NYC and Northern Virginia, resides in Brooklyn, NY. She achieved a BFA in Surface Design/Textile Design from the Fashion Inst...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
El Dorado , 120x100cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
El Dorado , 120x100cm
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Variant FII-F29, II
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
This work is from the series Formulation Articulation consisting of 127 original silkscreens, selected from forty years of Albers' study of the conceptual relationship between color ...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Auprès de mon lac n7
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
Auprès de mon lac n7
1985
Lithograph on Japan paper
20 ½ x 26 ¾ in
52 x 68 cm
Signed and numbered in pencil (edition of 75)
Catalogue raison...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Geoforms 42
Located in King, ON
Bright colors have been used in this abstract painting, exploring the boundaries between space and color.
Signed by Artist on the back. Signed certificate of authenticity.
Acrylic o...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Horsefeather Thirteen X
Located in Washington Depot,, CT
lithograph and screenprint with pochoir collage and embossing on paper
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph, Screen
Organic Forms G75
Located in King, ON
The oversized 60"x60" (152x152cm) abstract painting from series “Organic Forms” is inspired by minimalism, modern art and hard edge.
This artwork is a vibrant and dynamic composition...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Neighbors
Located in Tulsa, OK
Brandon Reese’s focus on experimentation and varying techniques relates to his belief that the best part of life is the process, “My art wears the fingerprints, cuts, dents and other...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Clay, Plaster, Paint
Vintage American Modernist Outsider Pop Art Abstract Large Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category
1950s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
If Only 2, Mixed Media on Wood Panel
By Ellen Brooks
Located in Yardley, PA
Gesture and delicious colors come alive in this dreamscape filled with textures and spontaneous shapes and markings. I look for high contrast, a bit of mystery and the visual and em...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Joyce T. Nagel Monoprint "Storm" Signed and Dated
Located in Detroit, MI
"Storm" is one of the monoprints that Joyce Nagel so enjoyed creating. Like an actual storm whose characteristics are unique this monoprint is a one-off pr...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Ink, Paper
Variant PII-F9
By Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
This work is from the series Formulation Articulation consisting of 127 original silkscreens, selected from forty years of Albers' study of the conceptual relationship between color ...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Sonata
By Mark Tobey
Located in New York, NY
A very good, richly-inked impression of this color screenprint on Japon nacré. The deluxe, Roman numeral edition of 60 on Japon nacré, aside from the regular edition of 100. Signed a...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen, Color
Organic Patterns XVII, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Painted in a lively and brisk manner, inspired by form and line in the nature. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Writers’ Bench 149th Street and Grand Concourse, 2020, Hand Finished
By José Parlá
Located in Draper, UT
Writers’ Bench 149th Street and Grand Concourse, 2020, José Parlá. Rare, hand finished from an edition of 50. Absolutely stunning piece that works in a variety of environments. Wonde...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Pigment
"Abstract Script" Ink on Fabric Painting 81" x 20" inch by Mohamed Monaiseer
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Script" Ink on Fabric Painting 81" x 20" inch by Mohamed Monaiseer
Trinity series (2015)
In this work, I am a developing personal philosophy of the trinity—the uniting of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Fabric, Ink
Holi powder Tantra painting #2 - Colorful abstract tantric stain painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
'Holi powder Tantra painting #2' acrylic painting by contemporary artist Elisa Niva 36”x44” Acrylic and powder on cotton canvas
One of the main inspirations of this soak-stain paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Cotton Canvas
Fleure polychromes, original lithograph
Located in Belgrade, MT
Catherine Ann Lurcat ( 1932-1994) was a French artist and painter born in Boulogne-Billancourt in the inner southwestern suburbs of Paris, and is the daughter of the architect Andre'...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
ST055-Contemporary, Abstract, Expressionism, Modern, Pop art, , Geometric
Located in London, London
Digital pigment print Ultrachrome ink on Fabriano Rosaspina paper. Hand signed. Edition of 25 (Unframed)
His work has been shown in Reina Sofía Museum of Madrid, Royal Academy of...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Inkjet, Pigment, Archival Pigment
Oiseaux en péril
By Max Ernst
Located in Paris, FR
Etching and aquatint, 1975
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 26/100
Publisher : Éditions Georges Visat (Paris)
Printer : Atelier Georges Visat (Paris)
54.50 cm. x 41.50...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Graphite on paper, 1930
Signed and dated upper right (see photo)
Exhibited: Francis Nauman, Leon Kelly: Draftsman Extraordinaire, New York, April 4 - May 23, 2014. (label)
C...
Category
1920s Abstract Art
Materials
Pencil
Joyce T. Nagel Monoprint Abstract "Dropout" Signed Dated
Located in Detroit, MI
"Dropout" is one of the monoprints that Joyce Nagel so enjoyed creating. This monoprint is a one-off abstract print. The arrangement of shapes and colors p...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Auprès de mon lac n4
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
Auprès de mon lac n4
1985
Lithograph on Japan paper
20 ½ x 26 ¾ in
52 x 68 cm
Signed and numbered in pencil (edition of 75)
Catalogue raiso...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
ST1823-Contemporary , Abstract, Gestual, Street art, Pop art, Modern, Geometric
Located in London, London
Edition of 25 Unframed
Digital pigment print Ultrachrome ink on Fabriano Rosaspina paper. Hand signed by the artist, and certificate of authenticity, (Unframed)
His work has been s...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Auprès de mon lac n5
Located in Westmount, QC
Jean-Paul Riopelle, 1923-2002, Canadian
Auprès de mon lac n5
1985
Lithograph on Japan paper
20 ½ x 26 ¾ in
52 x 68 cm
Signed and numbered in pencil (edition of 75)
Catalogue raiso...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Organic Forms B60
Located in King, ON
This abstract painting from series “Organic Forms” is inspired by collage technic, modern art and hard edge.
This work is signed, dated and tilted by Artist on the back. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Emil Schumacher Limited Edition Serigraph Terraraph Print Abstract Art Informel
Located in Surfside, FL
Heavily textured abstract print in a serigraph and terragraph technique. It has a raised texture to the surface, A beautiful piece. This listing is for the one print, the cover justification sheet and the photograph are just included for provenance.
This is from the limited edition of 100. Hand signed and numbered on colophon page. (They are not signed and numbered on each print) Arches paper.
Dimensions: 15.75 X 15.25 These have a texture that feels like a painting. Done in Jaffa Israel based on the Hebrew Bible. Jewish, Judaica interest.
Emil Schumacher is among the best-known exponents of Art Informel in Germany. His painting style, which he initially developed in the 1950s under the influence of Wols, is marked by dark, brownish black or brilliant thick red colours and a graffiti like sign language that endow the pictures the expressive character of old cracked masonry.
Emil Schumacher (29 August 1912 in Hagen, Westfalen – 4 October 1999 in San José, Ibiza) was a German artist and painter. He was an important representative of abstract expressionism in post-war Germany.
As an 18-year-old, Emil Schumacher undertakes a four-week-long bicycle tour to Paris, France.
1932–1935: Studies graphic design at the School of Applied Arts in Dortmund intending to become a graphic designer in advertising.
1935–1939: Independent artist without participating in exhibits. He undertakes study trips by bicycle to the Netherlands and Belgium.
1939–1945: Service obligation as draftsman in an arms factory, the Akkumulatoren–Werke of Hagen.
Since 1945: Immediately after end of war, new start as independent artist.
1947: First solo exhibit in the Studio für neue Kunst. Co-founder of the artist group Junger Westen.
1954: Participates in the Willem Sandberg...
Category
20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
NEW YORK Broadway Street Scene FEMALE American Modernist Impressionist Painter
By Jane Wilson
Located in New York, NY
Up for sale is a New York City Street, Broadway by Jane Wilson (1924-2015). Jane wilson was an important female Abstract Expressionists painter. She has been exhibited in many museum...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
N° 607
Located in Toronto, CA
Robert’s work incorporates small poetic texts, often in a childlike manner. She did not utilize conventual tools, such as a paintbrush, but moved the paint with her hands. Though right-handed, she preferred to use her left hand to tap into a fragile creative energy akin to the mark-making of an untrained child’s first gestures.
Her work, therefore, has a sense of discovery that is both assertive and tentative. Her poetic texts are evocative and sometimes nonsensical, functioning more compositionally than literally. Her works on paper are often composed of variegated scribbles, and her paintings are rich painterly statements that move between abstraction and fantastical landscapes.
Louise Robert’s first professional exhibition was held in Montreal...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Graphite
Mid Century Modern Abstract Oil Painting by Werner Drewes, Green Blue Red Yellow
Located in Denver, CO
Abstract oil on canvas painting by Werner Drewes painted in vibrant shades of green, blue, and red from 1944. Signed by the artist in the lower right corner of the canvas. Presented ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
When I get there, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
WHEN I GET THERE Painting Size - 36 x 48 inches HAND PAINTED original stretched on raw canvas - signed + sealed. Please know that colors will vary slightly from screen to sc...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Claude Tousignant is one of those very few artists whose lives have been dedicated exclusively to their art. At school, the only classes that interested him were drawing and geometry...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Digital
Siesta Song (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Siesta Song (Abstract painting)
Oil on Canvas - Unframed
Annear works with oil, building images from layered shares and creating complex surface textures. He incessantly explores t...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Post Concentric Episode Bone Diptych
By Kris Cox
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Pigment wood putty, acrylic, Dorland's wax medium on wood panel
The underlying grid matrices in these paintings serve as metaphor for memory; while, the incremental and rhythmically...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Pigment, Putty, Wax, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Angle and Nude - Lithograph by E. M. G. Van Offel - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Angle and Nude is a splendid lithography engraving realized by the Belgian artist Edmond Marie Gabriël Van Offel.
Signed on the plate on the lower left.
Th...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Resisting the Present, Original Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Resisting the Present, Original Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Painting
48" x 60" x 2" (HxWxD) Acrylic on Canvas
This large painting by Poonam Choudhary...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
ALERO - Abstract Metal Sculpture
By ENNAIA
Located in Weslaco, TX
From the artifacts of Leonardo Da Vinci, to the mythical Icarus and the innumerable inventions of NASA, the human being does not stop manifesting one of its deepest desires: to fly. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Steel, Stainless Steel
Rain Drops Blue & Green
Located in Southampton, NY
Four abstract field of blue and green suggest change in atmosphere during a period of time.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Organic Forms R36
Located in King, ON
This abstract painting from new Series “Organic Forms” is inspired by minimalism, modern art and hard edge.
This work is signed, dated and tilted by Artist on the back.
This work wil...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Inner Eye (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Inner Eye (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on paper mounted on canvas — Unframed.
Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke kaleid...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Paper
Field Mouse Series
Located in New York, NY
Robert Natkin (1930-2010)
Abstract Expressionist Painter
'Field Mouse Series,' about 1970
Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 44 in.
Signed (at lower right): Natkin
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Claude Tousignant is one of those very few artists whose lives have been dedicated exclusively to their art. At school, the only classes that interested him were drawing and geometry...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Digital
No title
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1978
Edition : 73/100
Catalog : Mason 301
48.00 cm. x 34.00 cm. 18.9 in. x 13.39 in. (paper)
39.00 cm. x 28.00 cm. 15.35 in. x 11.02 in. (image)
Handsigned by the artis...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
When It's Said You're Square
Located in Phoenix, AZ
"These inflated objects are grown more than fabricated. Through the process of inflation, the application of the air to the geometric construction defines form at the moment of infla...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Cotton, Resin, Vinyl
Die Frau in Grün
Located in Berlin, DE
Die Frau in Grün
Gestural photography Intentional Camera Movement
The edition size (regardless of the printed size) is 7+2 E.A. each
Betty Schmidt is a German artist, her specialty...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas
Offering III
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Offering III
Mixed Media On Paper
30" x 22"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium of painting employing the use of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Midi
Located in Miami, FL
Vendredi - Plate 3 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 ...
Category
1950s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Violent Violin Concerto Hand Signed Lithograph Silkscreen
By Arman
Located in Surfside, FL
Arman (November 17, 1928 – October 22, 2005) was a French-born American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Centre Noeuds
Located in Paris, FR
Etching, 1974
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered EA 14/15
Artist proof
Publisher : Georges Visat (Paris)
60.50 cm. x 44.00 cm. 23.82 in. x 17.32 in. (paper)
35.50 cm. x...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching
Pala
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Pala
Oil, Muslin, Marble Dust, Spray Paint, Asphalt On Canvas
24" x 40"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium of pa...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Marble
Abstract art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract art 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 art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Sumit Mehndiratta, Giorgio Lo Fermo, Francisco Nicolás, and Dadodu . Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Synthetic Resin 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 art, so small editions measuring 0.02 inches across are also available.
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