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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
Three Forms
Three Forms

Three Forms

By Robert Motherwell

Located in New York, NY

Created by Robert Motherwell in 1988, Three Forms is an etching and aquatint in colors on German etching paper. Hand-initialed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 50, the artw...

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1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Joan Miro - “Plate I” from “Oda à Joan Miró” - Lithograph
Joan Miro - “Plate I” from “Oda à Joan Miró” - Lithograph

Joan Miro - “Plate I” from “Oda à Joan Miró” - Lithograph

By Joan Miró

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

“Plate I,” from “Oda à Joan Miró,” by Joan Brossa Lithograph in colors, 1973 Signed in pencil and inscribed “H.C.” (presumably one of 10; the total edition was 525) Published by La P...

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1960s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Coral Bouquet - Abstracted Underwater Scene in Acrylic on Masonite
Coral Bouquet - Abstracted Underwater Scene in Acrylic on Masonite

Coral Bouquet - Abstracted Underwater Scene in Acrylic on Masonite

Located in Soquel, CA

Coral Bouquet - Abstracted Underwater Scene in Acrylic on Masonite High contrast abstract composition by an unknown artist (20th Century). Vibrant scene composed of abstract shapes ...

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Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Masonite, Acrylic

"Retired Ballerina"  Great Mid Century Modern Portrait.
"Retired Ballerina"  Great Mid Century Modern Portrait.

"Retired Ballerina" Great Mid Century Modern Portrait.

By Clarice Akin Holloway

Located in San Antonio, TX

Clarice Akin Holloway (1905-1989) Port Arthur Artist Image Size: 20 x 16 Frame Size: 28 x 24 Medium: Oil Circa 1960s "Retired Ballerina" Biography Clarice Akin Holloway (1905-1989) Mrs. Richard B. Dell Holloway Port Arthur Painter, teacher. A native of Port Arthur, Holloway graduated from nearby Lamar College, Beaumont, with honors. She received instruction or criticism on various occasions from Otis Dozier, Frederic Taubes, Elliott O'hara, Henri Gasser, Ted Schuyler, Fred Samuelson, Boardman Robinson, Morris Davidson...

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1960s Abstract Art

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Oil

Two Lovers - Abstract Figurative Oil Painting on Canvas, 21st Century
Two Lovers - Abstract Figurative Oil Painting on Canvas, 21st Century

Two Lovers - Abstract Figurative Oil Painting on Canvas, 21st Century

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Mark Acetelli’s oil and mixed media paintings awaken the viewer’s sense of exploration and adventure; they demand a new discovery. His artworks exhibit a chemistry of complexity and ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1955 Exhibition Poster
1955 Exhibition Poster

1955 Exhibition Poster

By Paul Klee

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Original Exhibition Poster Paul Klee, Berggruen and Cie, Paris 1955. Measuring This poster is an original print, not a reproduction. The poster is in very good vintage condition wi...

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Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Offset

Flowers_03
Flowers_03

Flowers_03

By Simon Gaon

Located in New York, NY

“Between chaos and beauty, Gaon finds the pulse of life.” His work is often described as expressionistic, energetic, and deeply tied to the experience of the city, nature and human e...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Spring Prayer (Abstract Painting)
Spring Prayer (Abstract Painting)

Spring Prayer (Abstract Painting)

By Petra Schott

Located in London, GB

This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube. German artist Petra Schott translates human emotions, memories, and sensory experiences into expressive, lyrical abstr...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spring Is Coming
Spring Is Coming

Spring Is Coming

Located in Zofingen, AG

Spring Is Coming From the series “Infinity Map” We all journey through our own inner world. Along the way, we encounter images that cannot be explained literally. They may evoke fea...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Blind Garden
Blind Garden

Blind Garden

By Viktoriia Kolesnykova

Located in Zofingen, AG

The Blind Garden is an unsettling, surreal parable about the survival of the inner world in a state of rupture from external reality. The work deliberately rejects conventional aesth...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Divided, Abstract Painting
Divided, Abstract Painting

Divided, Abstract Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This abstract composition layers vibrant marks of turquoise, orange, and gold. Artist Maya Henaff uses palette knives to build the painting, then scratches thro...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Original Abstract Landscape Painting of the Scottish Highlands by British Artist
Original Abstract Landscape Painting of the Scottish Highlands by British Artist

Original Abstract Landscape Painting of the Scottish Highlands by British Artist

By Angela Wakefield

Located in Preston, GB

Original Abstract Landscape Painting of the Scottish Highlands by British Artist, Angela Wakefield Art measures 16 x 12 inches Frame measures 21 x 17 inches Angela Wakefield has t...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Board

Dolby
Dolby

Dolby

By Dan Christensen

Located in Austin, TX

Dan Christensen, "Dolby" (1998). Acrylic on canvas. Signed, titled, and dated along rear supports. 65 x 70 in. 66.75 x 71.75 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid, unfinished maple floater. Provenance Estate of Dan Christensen, East Hampton, NY Berry Campbell Gallery, New York Private Collection, United States Waterline Fine Art, Austin Exhibited "Dan Christensen Retrospective," September 17-October 17, 2015. Berry Campbell Gallery, New York. Dan Christensen was born in Lexington, Nebraska, in 1942, and grew up outside Cozad. His father was a farmer, and his mother taught art and math. At sixteen, he left home to attend a commercial art school in Denver, where he saw the work of Jackson Pollock, an encounter that stayed with him. He then studied at Chadron State College in Nebraska under the ceramist and illustrator William Artis...

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1990s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Monumental Gold Tone Abstract Painting by MacMillan c.1970
Monumental Gold Tone Abstract Painting by MacMillan c.1970

Monumental Gold Tone Abstract Painting by MacMillan c.1970

Located in San Francisco, CA

Magnificent monumental abstract painting circa 1970s. Signed lower right "MacMillan". This painting will be the centerpiece of any interior. It's a large, and elegant painting fill...

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Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Summer at the beach - abstract painting, landscape painting
Summer at the beach - abstract painting, landscape painting

Summer at the beach - abstract painting, landscape painting

Located in New York, NY

Dimensions: 90 × 80 cm Technique: Acrylic on canvas Year: 2015 An expressive and abstract interpretation of a hot summer day by the sea, this painting captures the atmosphere of the ...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

No title

No title

Located in Paris, FR

Lithograph, 1953 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 27/100 Printer : Jean Pons (Paris) LCD5358

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1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Bloody Oscar I (Limited Edition Print)
The Bloody Oscar I (Limited Edition Print)

The Bloody Oscar I (Limited Edition Print)

By Mauro Oliveira

Located in LOS ANGELES, CA

Celebrating the Academy with this Limited Oscar Art Series by Mauro Oliveira. Limited edition of 30 museum quality giclee prints on CANVAS, signed and numbered by the artist. A "C...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Giclée

Armadillo, scrap metal abstract sculpture

Armadillo, scrap metal abstract sculpture

By Carole Eisner

Located in New York, NY

Carole Eisner's indoor sculptures, averaging two to four feet tall, are made from a welded collage of drops and cut-out steel pieces from the same series of scrap she found in a Conn...

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1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Metal

Where Am I ? #18, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Where Am I ? #18, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Where Am I ? #18, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By Jeffrey Davies

Located in Yardley, PA

about the same when I am working! I want to create(is that a pretentious word?) art that I want to "create", that may appeal to another human an be fulfilling to me. Actually very s...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

New England Country Side Covered Bridge Painting by Maine artist William Fisher
New England Country Side Covered Bridge Painting by Maine artist William Fisher

New England Country Side Covered Bridge Painting by Maine artist William Fisher

By William Fisher

Located in New York, NY

William Fisher (American, 1891-1985) Untitled (Covered Bridge), 20th century Oil on canvas 24 x 30 in. Signed lower right: William Fisher William Fisher was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1891. He studied at the Brooklyn Institute of Art and Science and at Pratt Institute. Following service as an ambulance driver in WWI, he remained in Europe after the war and studied painting in Rome, Italy for one year. Upon his return from Rome, to New Jersey, he pursued his painting and began to teach small art classes. In the 1920's Fisher became a successful illustrator. His work appeared in Saturday Evening Post, Mc Calls, Harpers and other popular magazines. He later did pen and ink sketches for the "Villager," a weekly Greenwich Village newspaper. Microfilmed pages of the Villager are preserved in New York University's Washington Square Library. His sketches also appeared on the cover of the "Gotham Guide," which was sold Fridays at news stands in Manhattan. In partnership with Margaret Kilburn, an artist and crafts person, Fisher opened an art gallery and school at 33 West 8th St in NYC during the 1930's. They also opened a summer art gallery and school in 1949 in Kennebunkport, Maine, which ran for many years, and, after the NY gallery closed (around 1952), they made a full time commitment to living and working in Kennebunkport, Maine. Fisher was the recipient of over 100 awards. His work was widely exhibited in Philadelphia,Pa., Montclair, Trenton, and Newark, NJ, the Currier Gallery in New Hampshire and the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, Maine. William Fisher and Margaret Kilburn were familiar and beloved figures in Kennebunkport. They taught generations of local children, and they participated in numerous exhibits with other artists, both in the Kennebunkport area and throughout Maine. Mr Fisher always insisted on marching in the local Memorial Day parade, until he was well in his 90's, because he didn't want to ride in a car provided for older veterans. Many homes in the Kennebunks have his works, including members of the Bush family, and they were purchased by numerous out of state and Canadian summer visitors. There are several examples of his works in the Kennebunkport Town Offices and in local churches. Fisher loved to paint "big" canvases, usually local Maine scenes...

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20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Keshin (Incarnation (Moku)
Keshin (Incarnation (Moku)

Keshin (Incarnation (Moku)

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Keshin (Incarnation (Moku) Color woodcut, 1958 Signed and dated lower left in pencil (see photo) An impression is in the collectionof the Asian Art Museum, No. 2012.93, which is not a richly inked s this impression. Another impression is in the National Museum of Art, Smithsonian, accession no. S2019.3.1297 A third impression is in the collectionof the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria This appears to be the best and most colorful impression of the museum holdings. The image is thought to depict a flying crame Condition: Wrinkles to large sheet of handmade paper. Not objectionable. Image size: 29 15/16 x 21 1/4 inches Sheet size: 37 3/8 x 27 1/4 inches Reference: Tadashi Nakiyama Life & Work, Plate F Tadashi Nakayama - Sosaku hanga artist Tadashi Nakayama initially studied oil painting at Tama Art College, but began creating woodblock prints in 1951. In the 1960s, he traveled to Turkey, Greece, England, and Italy, absorbing influences from Persian and Byzantine art and the renaissance master Paolo Ucello. Throughout his long career, his subjects have included flowers, butterflies, women, and perhaps most famously, horses...

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1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Woodcut

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Bram Van Velde

Located in Paris, FR

Lithograph, 1980 Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 12/100 Publisher : Jacques Putman, Paris Printer : Pierre Badey, Paris Catalog : [Mason Putman 371, p. 33] 80.00 cm. ...

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1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Early Morning
Early Morning

Early Morning

By Olena Kishkurno

Located in Zofingen, AG

This work is part of the Inner Landscapes series, in which the landscape becomes part of a memory, a lived state, or emotions that cannot be expressed in words and can only be felt. ...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Modern Arab Abstract Islamic Calligraphy Modernist Painting
Modern Arab Abstract Islamic Calligraphy Modernist Painting

Modern Arab Abstract Islamic Calligraphy Modernist Painting

By Wajih Nahle

Located in Surfside, FL

Wajih Nahlé (1932-2017), born in Beirut, Lebanon,was a Lebanese Arab abstract painter and calligrapher. He studied painting in the workshop of the Lebanese painter Moustafa Farroukh....

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1990s Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media

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.