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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
Figure Sur Rouge (Figure on Red) /// Contemporary French Painting Minimalism Art
Figure Sur Rouge (Figure on Red) /// Contemporary French Painting Minimalism Art

Figure Sur Rouge (Figure on Red) /// Contemporary French Painting Minimalism Art

By Pierre Marie Brisson

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Artist: Pierre Marie Brisson (French, 1955-) Title: "Figure Sur Rouge (Figure on Red)" *Signed by Brisson lower right. It is also signed and dated on verso Year: 1983 Medium: Origina...

Category

1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Paint, Oil, Handmade Paper, Rag Paper, Mixed Media

“Sandscape 2”
“Sandscape 2”

“Sandscape 2”

By Syd Solomon

Located in Southampton, NY

Original oil and acrylic painting on canvas titled “Sandscape 2” by the well known American artist, Syd Solomon. Signed Syd Solomon lower left. Signed and dated Syd Solomon 1972 and inscribed as titled on the reverse. 22 × 30 inches. Overall very good to excellent condition. No notable issues detected during inspection. No signs of restoration under UV inspection. The painting is in its original wood with silver reveal floating frame. Overall framed measurements are 24.25 by 32.25 inches. Provenance: A private collector. Syd Solomon was born near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1917. He began painting in high school in Wilkes-Barre, where he was also a star football player. After high school, he worked in advertising and took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he joined the war effort and was assigned to the First Camouflage Battalion, the 924th Engineer Aviation Regiment of the US Army. He used his artistic skills to create camouflage instruction manuals utilized throughout the Army. He married Ann Francine Cohen in late 1941. Soon thereafter, in early 1942, the couple moved to Fort Ord in California where he was sent to camouflage the coast to protect it from possible aerial bombings. Sent overseas in 1943, Solomon did aerial reconnaissance over Holland. Solomon was sent to Normandy early in the invasion where his camouflage designs provided protective concealment for the transport of supplies for men who had broken through the enemy line. Solomon was considered one of the best camoufleurs in the Army, receiving among other commendations, five bronze stars. Solomon often remarked that his camouflage experience during World War II influenced his ideas about abstract art. At the end of the War, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Because Solomon suffered frostbite during the Battle of the Bulge, he could not live in cold climates, so he and Annie chose to settle in Sarasota, Florida, after the War. Sarasota was home to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and soon Solomon became friends with Arthur Everett “Chick” Austin, Jr., the museum’s first Director. In the late 1940s, Solomon experimented with new synthetic media, the precursors to acrylic paints provided to him by chemist Guy Pascal, who was developing them. Victor D’Amico, the first Director of Education for the Museum of Modern Art, recognized Solomon as the first artist to use acrylic paint. His early experimentation with this medium as well as other media put him at the forefront of technical innovations in his generation. He was also one of the first artists to use aerosol sprays and combined them with resists, an innovation influenced by his camouflage experience. Solomon’s work began to be acknowledged nationally in 1952. He was included in American Watercolors, Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From 1952–1962, Solomon’s work was discovered by the cognoscenti of the art world, including the Museum of Modern Art Curators, Dorothy C. Miller and Peter Selz, and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Director, John I. H. Baur. He had his first solo show in New York at the Associated American Artists Gallery in 1955 with “Chick” Austin, Jr. writing the essay for the exhibition. In the summer of 1955, the Solomons visited East Hampton, New York, for the first time at the invitation of fellow artist David Budd. There, Solomon met and befriended many of the artists of the New York School, including Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, James Brooks, Alfonso Ossorio, and Conrad Marca-Relli. By 1959, and for the next thirty-five years, the Solomons split the year between Sarasota (in the winter and spring) and the Hamptons (in the summer and fall). In 1959, Solomon began showing regularly in New York City at the Saidenberg Gallery with collector Joseph Hirshhorn buying three paintings from Solomon’s first show. At the same time, his works entered the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Connecticut, among others. Solomon also began showing at Signa Gallery in East Hampton and at the James David Gallery in Miami run by the renowned art dealer, Dorothy Blau. In 1961, the Guggenheim Museum’s H. H. Arnason bestowed to him the Silvermine Award at the 13th New England Annual. Additionally, Thomas Hess of ARTnews magazine chose Solomon as one of the ten outstanding painters of the year. At the suggestion of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the Museum of Modern Art’s Director, the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota began its contemporary collection by purchasing Solomon’s painting, Silent World, 1961. Solomon became influential in the Hamptons and in Florida during the 1960s. In late 1964, he created the Institute of Fine Art at the New College in Sarasota. He is credited with bringing many nationally known artists to Florida to teach, including Larry Rivers, Philip Guston, James Brooks, and Conrad Marca-Relli. Later Jimmy Ernst, John Chamberlain, James Rosenquist, and Robert Rauschenberg settled near Solomon in Florida. In East Hampton, the Solomon home was the epicenter of artists and writers who spent time in the Hamptons, including Alfred Leslie, Jim Dine, Ibram Lassaw, Saul Bellow, Barney Rosset, Arthur Kopit, and Harold Rosenberg. In 1970, Solomon, along with architect Gene Leedy, one of the founders of the Sarasota School of Architecture, built an award-winning precast concrete and glass house and studio on the Gulf of Mexico near Midnight Pass in Sarasota. Because of its siting, it functioned much like Monet’s home in Giverny, France. Open to the sky, sea, and shore with inside and outside studios, Solomon was able to fully solicit all the environmental forces that influenced his work. His friend, the art critic Harold Rosenberg, said Solomon’s best work was produced in the period he lived on the beach. During 1974 and 1975, a retrospective exhibition of Solomon’s work was held at the New York Cultural Center and traveled to the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota. Writer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. conducted an important interview with Solomon for the exhibition catalogue. The artist was close to many writers, including Harold Rosenberg, Joy Williams, John D. McDonald, Budd Schulberg, Elia Kazan, Betty Friedan...

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1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Oil, Canvas

ID No. 13 The Startled. Limited edition photograph
ID No. 13 The Startled. Limited edition photograph

ID No. 13 The Startled. Limited edition photograph

By Dubravka Lazic

Located in Miami Beach, FL

In this early photographic series, Dubravka Lazić turns her lens toward a subject rarely treated with such a quiet dignity: domestic cats. Shot in 2005, these portraits mimic the fo...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Heroes 15, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Heroes 15, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Heroes 15, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By Karina Antonczak

Located in Yardley, PA

"HEROES 15"/ acrylic painting/ not stretched/ high quality canvas/ dimension 140/110 cm. I send only the canvas in a tube. I attach a certificate of authenticity. Kariko ono_Kar...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Huge French Contemporary Modernist Abstract Oil Painting Amazing Colors
Huge French Contemporary Modernist Abstract Oil Painting Amazing Colors

Huge French Contemporary Modernist Abstract Oil Painting Amazing Colors

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Abstract Composition signed by Jacqueline VERDET (French, 1931-2023) oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 46 x 32 inches condition: the work is in overall very sound and good con...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Oh So Blue - Tall Modern Large Contemporary Abstract Minimalism Steel Sculpture
Oh So Blue - Tall Modern Large Contemporary Abstract Minimalism Steel Sculpture

Oh So Blue - Tall Modern Large Contemporary Abstract Minimalism Steel Sculpture

By Granville Beals

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Inspired by dance and weightlessness, Granville Beals' industrial metal sculptures are primarily about relationships. Concerned with form and abstraction, he does not merely manipula...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Metal, Steel

An ancient fable. 1971. Oil on canvas, 100x150 cm
An ancient fable. 1971. Oil on canvas, 100x150 cm

An ancient fable. 1971. Oil on canvas, 100x150 cm

By Ivars Muizulis

Located in Riga, LV

An ancient fable. 1971. Oil on canvas, 100x150 cm Ivars Muizulis (1936) 1956 – Graduated from the Liepaja Art College, Department of Sculpture 1956 – 1960 – Studied at the Art Aca...

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1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Blue Moon Landing" Mixed Media Painting
"Blue Moon Landing" Mixed Media Painting

"Blue Moon Landing" Mixed Media Painting

By Patrick Burns

Located in Chicago, IL

This mixed-media painting by contemporary artist Patrick Burns is a departure from his "Concrete Gardens" flower paintings, yet continues his use of heavy texture and reverberating, ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Concrete

Pleasure Chasers: Abstract Expressionist Painting on Raw Linen, 2000s
Pleasure Chasers: Abstract Expressionist Painting on Raw Linen, 2000s

Pleasure Chasers: Abstract Expressionist Painting on Raw Linen, 2000s

Located in Jönköping, SE

In keeping with my passion of nature, this collection focusses on the movement and structure of nature. I am fascinated in finding things in our environment that often go unnoticed....

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Art

Materials

Raw Linen

Abstract Composition
Abstract Composition

Abstract Composition

By Louis Schanker

Located in Wiscasett, ME

Tempura on heavy paper, signed and dated 1945 lower left. The piece measures 23" x 30" including the frame and presents very well overall. Provenance: Willard Gallery, NYC Brad...

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1940s Abstract Art

Materials

Tempera, Watercolor

French Expressionist Blue Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
French Expressionist Blue Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance

French Expressionist Blue Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) oil painting on canvas unframed: 16 x 11 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we have for sale ...

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Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Original Diptych-Spring Duet-British Awarded Artist-Abstract UK Contemporary
Original Diptych-Spring Duet-British Awarded Artist-Abstract UK Contemporary

Original Diptych-Spring Duet-British Awarded Artist-Abstract UK Contemporary

By Shizico Yi

Located in London, GB

Spring Duet is part of Shizico Yi’s ongoing exploration of the diptych format—a project that began in 2024. Painted en plein air, every canvas captures both the landscape outside her studio and the intimate interior surrounding it. This duality unfolds across two paintings, creating a visual dialogue that shifts and harmonises like a musical duet. The work belongs to Shizico’s long-running Memory Landscape Series (est. 2015), in which she moves fluidly between mediums—installation, sculpture, painting—and across visual languages from impressionism and expressionism into abstraction. In this spring chapter, she turns to the gentle hues of the Northern European early spring: soft greens, creamy whites, pink-apricot light—tones that hold the tender, awakening atmosphere of the season. Each canvas functions like a musical note; together, the pair forms a coherent visual phrase. Their relationship is harmonious yet flexible, offering multiple ways of living with the work in your home. -Artist's Lifetime Warranty for the original artwork Details Diptych (set of 2 paintings) Medium: oil, acrylic, mixed media on canvas Size: • Each canvas: 50 × 39.5 cm • Total combined size: 50 × 79 × 1.5 cm (Unframed measurements) -Versatile Display: The diptych may be hung: • Side by side as a traditional diptych set • Separated across different walls to create visual punctuation and subtle connection between spaces This flexibility allows the work to adapt to a variety of homes and interior styles. -Guarantee End to end tracking Delivery Worldwide by Royal Mail Worldwide at lowest flat Rate £22. About the artist: Dr. Shizico Yi is a London-based artist working across installation, film, and painting. Her practice explores themes of loss, repetition, the everyday, and the significance of memory. Drawing on a background in design and film, she creates works that weave personal experience into wider social and human narratives. Yi holds a PhD in Fine Art from the University of East London (2017), an MFA, and a BA in Womenswear from the University of the Arts London. ​ Her practice also includes plein air painting from spring to autumn and studio-based work in winter, allowing place and season to inform the energy, scale, and materiality of her pieces. Her work has been exhibited internationally in the UK, Korea, and Italy, and is held in private collections across the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and the UK. Notably, Shizico Yi secured the title of Winner of the Women Film Makers: Best Shorts Competition in 2013 in Los Angeles, USA. She also serves as a guest jury member at the 14th-16th Annual New York City Independent Film Festival from 2022 to 2024 and is a curator and founder of no barking aRt...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Pearlescent panel
Pearlescent panel

Pearlescent panel

By Svetlana Saratova

Located in Zofingen, AG

This artwork is created on a wooden panel using mixed media: the relief is built with gypsum plaster, and selected areas are enhanced with transparent layers of epoxy resin. The comp...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Wood, Board

Abstract 2305
Abstract 2305

Alex SenchenkoAbstract 2305, 2023

$1,892Sale Price|20% Off

Abstract 2305

By Alex Senchenko

Located in Zofingen, AG

Abstract 2305 - is original, authentic, and personally signed by the artist. Created using acrylic on canvas, a clear, gloss coating protects your cherished fine art investment from ...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Helter Skelter - Large Contemporary Cubist Terracotta Orange Oil Painting Canvas
Helter Skelter - Large Contemporary Cubist Terracotta Orange Oil Painting Canvas

Helter Skelter - Large Contemporary Cubist Terracotta Orange Oil Painting Canvas

By Harrison Gilman

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles artist Harrison Gilman graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 2018 his artworks were exhibited at the We Rise Art Fair in Los Angeles alongside Shepard Fairey ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled mid century modern geometric abstraction
Untitled mid century modern geometric abstraction

Untitled mid century modern geometric abstraction

By William Fredericksen

Located in New York, NY

William Fredericksen Untitled mid century modern geometric abstraction, 1958-1959 Watercolor and Gouache on Board Hand signed and dated on the front 12 4/5 × 11 7/10 inches Unframed ...

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Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache

Miro Original Wax Painting, Abstract, Framed, Circa 1960
Miro Original Wax Painting, Abstract, Framed, Circa 1960

Miro Original Wax Painting, Abstract, Framed, Circa 1960

By Joan Miró

Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL

Original drawing painted in wax by Joan Miro. Certified by Jacques Dupin, official certifier of the artist's work. The work is a wax painted on two continuous pages of a book publish...

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1960s Abstract Art

Materials

Crayon

"Ocean, " Limited Edition Giclee Print, 30" x 40"
"Ocean, " Limited Edition Giclee Print, 30" x 40"

"Ocean, " Limited Edition Giclee Print, 30" x 40"

By Elwood Howell

Located in Westport, CT

This abstract landscape limited edition print by Elwood Howell features the artist's signature high horizon line in white. Beneath the line is a textured deep blue that is composed o...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Digital, Giclée

Blue, light blue, creams, painting, decorative Bird Flew Out In Search of a Cage
Blue, light blue, creams, painting, decorative Bird Flew Out In Search of a Cage

Blue, light blue, creams, painting, decorative Bird Flew Out In Search of a Cage

Located in Lake Worth, FL

When the Artist was young she heard someone say, A Bird Flew Out of A Cage it became a Title in A Series about her feelings and wanting to fly and reach all of her potential and at t...

Category

1990s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Cotton, Paint, Mixed Media, Papier Mâché, Other Medium

Liberty
Liberty

Liberty

By Oksana Reva

Located in Zofingen, AG

Liberty is an oil abstract painting and minimalist abstract landscape shaped by the quiet meeting of a sky-blue horizon and warm ochre earth tones, creating a subtle dialogue between...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled, Georg Karl Pfahler
Untitled, Georg Karl Pfahler

Untitled, Georg Karl Pfahler

By Georg Karl Pfahler

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Georg Karl Pfahler (1926-2002) Title: Untitled Year: 1993 Edition: 75/100, plus proofs Medium: Silkscreen on wove paper Size: 26 x 27 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Sign...

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1990s Abstract Art

Materials

Screen

French Abstract Landscape Composition Oil Painting Yvette Dubois Habasque
French Abstract Landscape Composition Oil Painting Yvette Dubois Habasque

French Abstract Landscape Composition Oil Painting Yvette Dubois Habasque

By Yvette Dubois Habasque

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Artist: Yvette Dubois-Habasque (French, 1929–2016) Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 14 x 17 inches Frame: Unframed Provenance: Acquired from the artist’s studio sale, Paris Condition: Ver...

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Late 20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Royal Curtain, Gene Davis
Royal Curtain, Gene Davis

Royal Curtain, Gene Davis

By Gene Davis

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Gene Davis (1920-1985) Title: Royal Curtain Year: 1980 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Edition: 41/250, plus proofs Size: 30 x 21.5 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Sig...

Category

1980s Abstract Art

Materials

Screen

Picky Picky, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Picky Picky, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Picky Picky, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By Hal Mayforth

Located in Yardley, PA

A vertically formatted painting in blues, yellows, pinks with darker textured areas of grays, browns and blues combined with loose abstract brushstrokes in reds and grays Many intere...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

CC #86 - Green Blue Abstract Geometric Wall Sculpture
CC #86 - Green Blue Abstract Geometric Wall Sculpture

CC #86 - Green Blue Abstract Geometric Wall Sculpture

By Anna Kruhelska

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Anna Kruhelska, a talented visual artist and practicing architect from Lodz, Poland, merges her expertise in both fields to create captivating artworks. With a background in major ar...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Wood, Plywood, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Faded Rose - Muted Color Atmospheric Abstract Alluring Oil Painting on Canvas
Faded Rose - Muted Color Atmospheric Abstract Alluring Oil Painting on Canvas

Faded Rose - Muted Color Atmospheric Abstract Alluring Oil Painting on Canvas

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 ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Flow of Freedom
Flow of Freedom

Flow of Freedom

By Olena Kishkurno

Located in Zofingen, AG

Freedom is always about pure energy and inner strength, and since ancient times, the horse has been its most powerful archetype. In this work, the image of the horse becomes a condui...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Oil Crayon

And Around We Go

And Around We Go

Located in Los Angeles, CA

And Around We Go Acrylic on canvas 48 x 48 x 1.5 Edges painted white, back wired, ready to hang. Sarah Trundle is a Charlottesville, Va. painter who, after beginnings in represent...

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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Ruz  Interior Landscapes - Abstract Acrylic on paper Painting

Ruz Interior Landscapes - Abstract Acrylic on paper Painting

By Rafael Ruz

Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL

Original work on paper by the Spanish artist Rafael RUZ. Perfect state While contemplating the painting of Ruz, we are inclined to talk about real ‘psychodrama’, in the same sense t...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic, Cardboard

“Meeting Point”
“Meeting Point”

“Meeting Point”

By Jacob Burda

Located in Zofingen, AG

The painting “Meeting Point” captures a quiet moment of anticipation. In the foreground, a man in a cap leans calmly against a car, as if waiting for someone. In the background, anot...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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.