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
Period: 1960s
Twee haantjes
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL
Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon
Two birds
1966
Gouache on paper
39,5 x 48 cm.
Signed and dated: lower right ‘Quirijn 66’
Provenance: Private collection, the Netherlands...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Gouache
Four & Six, No. 1 painting by Naohiko Inukai
Located in Hudson, NY
Strong vertical and horizontal elements woven into a repeating pattern, Naohiko Inukai's painting Four & Six, No. 1 offers a calming rhythmic symmetry. As was noted the the March 196...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Nobles at the Trapdoor II, from: Series for King Ubu
By Joan Miró
Located in London, GB
JOAN MIRÓ 1893-1983
Montroig 1893-1983 Mallorca (Spanish)
Title: The Nobles at the Trapdoor II, from: Series for King Ubu Les Nobles à la Trappe II, from: Suites pour Ubu Roi, 1966...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Femme Au Collant Rose", Rufino Tamayo, Figurative Abstraction, Etching, 30x22
Located in Dallas, TX
"Femme Au Collant Rose" by Rufino Tamayo is a Figurative Abstraction lithograph limited edition measuring 30x22 in. The piece is framed beautifully with a white mat in a gold and bla...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching
"Orb"
By Rex Ashlock
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Verso
Rex Ashlock (1918 - 1999)
Born in Spokane, WA on Aug. 23, 1918. Ashlock moved to San Francisco in 1937 and was a copy boy for Associated Press while studying at the C...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
I-S #1 /// Abstract Geometric Sewell Sillman Screenprint Purple Pink Modern Art
By Sewell Sillman
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Sewell Sillman (American, 1924-1992)
Title: "I-S #1"
*Signed and dated by Sillman in pencil lower right
Year: 1968
Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded heavy white wove ...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
"Wind"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Lloyd R. Ney (1893 – 1964)
Called “Bill” by his friends, Lloyd Ney was one of the pioneers of Modernist art in New Hope. Ne...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Stuttgart Series II No. 7, 1960s
Located in Quogue, NY
Acrylic on Canvas
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
SF64-045, Sam Francis, Acrylic, American Abstraction, Postwar, Work on paper
By Sam Francis
Located in Geneva, CH
SF64-045, Sam Francis, Acrylic, American Abstraction, Postwar, Work on paper
1964
Acrylic on paper
73 x 56.5 cm
94 x 75 cm / 37 x 29.5 in. (w...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Damp
By Sam Francis
Located in London, GB
66 x 94 cms (26 x 37 ins)
Edition of 20
Rives BFK paper
Proofs: I BAT, 4 AP, 7 CTP, 9 XP
Signed lower left; numbered lower left; publisher's chop lower left.
Published by Tama...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
ca. 1965
Acrylic on canvas
54 1/4 x 54 in. (137.8 x 137.2 cm)
Signed, verso
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Will Faber
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Paper
Drapery - Screen Print - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 15 x 9.5 cm.
Drapery is an original color serigraph on paper, realized around the 1970's by a German artist, whose signature is hard to read.
Signed in pencil on ...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed.
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Piece - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media Watercolor by John Bolam
By John Bolam
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
John Bolam was born in 1922 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. He originally studied painting at Hornsey School of Art and furniture design at High Wycombe School of Art. He subsequently ...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Expressionist Large Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really impressive mid century abstract expressionist painting. Love the colors and impasto. Framed. Oil on canvas.
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Sheepfold in the Hills" by Toussaint Ambrogiani d'Orcino (1913-1986)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"The Sheepfold in the Hills"
Toussaint Ambrogiani d'Orcino (France, 1913-1986)
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
20 x 26 (27 x 33 frame) inches
T...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Sunset Landscape', Hamburg, Rivne, Volhynia, Rivne Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'G. Kosmiadi' for Georg Kosmiadi (Ukranian-German, 1886-1967) and dated, '66'; additionally signed verso, 'Georg Kosmiadi', inscribed with serial number and dated, '20/9/66'.
Georg Kosmiadi was a resident of Rivne before moving to Hamburg in 1940 where he worked as an art teacher. Kosmiadi exhibited at the Rivne Regional Museum and a regional art...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Joan Miró, "Tracé sur la Paroi I, " etching, hand signed
By Joan Miró
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Joan Míro
Tracé sur la Paroi I
Original etching, aquatint and carborundum
1967
Hand signed in pencil, numbered 50/75 from the edition of 75 on Mandeure rag paper
Dupin 440
Image Size...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching
Abstract Composition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Aaron Levy was born in New York City in 1899. After retiring in 1951 from a career as president of E. Milius & Company, a textile company, Levy began a new career as a fine artist. ...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Composition - Antoni Tapies - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is lithograph by Antoni Tapies for the Art Magazine Derriere Le Miroir no. 175 in 1968.
Published by Maeght, Paris. Edition of unknown size.
Very good conditions.
One ...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Mid-Century "Green & Blue Nude II" Oil Pastel Drawing
By Jack Hooper
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper
"Green and Blue Nude II"
5/1963
Oil pastel on paper
8.5"x11" unframed
Signed and dated in pencil lower right
Jack Meredith Hooper (August 26, ...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper
Abstract Composition - Screen Print by Carlo Lorenzetti - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition is a screen print realized by Carlo Lorenzetti in 1969.
Editor Segnapassi Pesaro.
Hand-signed.
Numbered, Edition, 45/60.
Very...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Untitled Gestural Abstraction (~63% OFF LIST PRICE - LIMITED TIME ONLY)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Bernhard Heiliger
Untitled Gestural Abstraction
Year: 1967
Lithograph on BK Rives
Signed, numbered and inscribed in pencil
Edition: 100 + H.C.
Size: 20.5 × 12.9 on 25.5 × 19.7 inches...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Meditations in an Emergency /// Abstract Expressionist Female Artist Post-War NY
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Joan Mitchell (American, 1925-1992)
Title: "Meditations in an Emergency"
Portfolio: In Memory of My Feelings
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1967 (First edition)
Medium: Original Lithograph on Mohawk Superfine Smooth paper
Limited edition: 514/2,500
Printer: Crafton Graphic Company, Inc., New York, NY
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Sheet size: 12" x 9"
Condition: In excellent condition
Rare
Notes:
Comes with its accompanying poetry pages. Numbered on colophon page. Comes from the 1967 "In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems" book volume by Frank O'Hara with approx. 46 unbound original lithographs by various artists. Collaboration: Edward Katz (printing). The last image of the complete book is for reference/provenance; it is not included.
This image Mitchell contributed to "In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems" by Frank O'Hara, edited by Bill Berkson, for the Museum of Modern Art. The project was published in 1967 in memory of Frank O'Hara, poet and associate curator at the museum, who died in a tragic accident in 1966. Bill Berkson (with the assistance of Kenneth Koch and John Ashbery) selected the poems and (with advice from Robert Motherwell) asked the following artists to contribute: Nell Blaine, Norman Bluhm, Joe Branaird, John Buton, Giorgio Cavallon, Allan D'Arcangelo, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Michael Goldberg, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, Jasper Johns, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Alex Katz, Lee Krasner, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Reuben Nakian, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, and Jane Wilson...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original Color Field Oil Painting Multi-Color Geometric Abstract - "Commute"
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Color Field Oil Painting Multi-Color Geometric Abstract - "Commute"
Dramatic multi-color geometric abstract painting by Virginia Sevier Rogers (American, 1917-2015). Vivid ...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maquette for Laureate (unique sculpture)
Located in New York, NY
Seymour Lipton
Maquette for Laureate, ca. 1968-1969
Nickel silver on monel metal
Unique
18 × 8 1/2 × 7 inches
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the pre...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Metal, Silver
Message Intime - Etching and Aquatint after Vasilij Kandinskij - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Message Intime is an artwork realized by Maeght Editeur in 1960 after a watercolor by Wassily Kandinsky of 1925.
Etching and Aquatint on BFK Rives paper.
Image dimension: 37x30.5 c...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Antique American Large Abstract Expressionist Framed Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible mid century abstract expressionist oil painting by Ken Munowitz. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Framed Modern Art Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive mid 20th century abstract expressionist painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Clown
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: The Clown
Medium: Offset lithograph on Arches paper
Date: 1967
Edition: 72/200
Frame Size: 34 1/4" x 28 1/2"
Sheet Size: 25" x 20"
Signature: Hand signed...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dipinto astratto italiano degli anni sessanta
By Mario Nuti
Located in Florence, IT
Dipinto astratto firmato, titolato e datato sul retro della tela M. Nuti "MARE SILENZIOSO" 1964.
Segnato e datato anche in fronte: Nuti 64.
Olio su tela, 50 x 100 cm.
Mario Nuti è ...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ziggurat 5 (Hard Edge Pop Art Abstraction)
By Joe Tilson
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joe Tilson (British, 1928–2023)
Ziggurat 5, 1966.
Screen print, ed. 70. Pencil signed lower right, numbered (11/70) and titled lower right.
Measuring 22"H x 34"W; Framed 29.5"H x ...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Pierre Montheillet, Composition in grey, gouache and wash on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre MONTHEILLET (1923-2011)
Composition in grey
Gouache and wash on laid paper
Signed "Montheillet" lower right
Dimensions of the work: 24 x 32 cm
Dimensions of the frame: 40 x 50...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Pierre Montheillet, Composition in yellow, watercolor and gouache on paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre MONTHEILLET (1923-2011)
Composition in yellow
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Signed lower left
Dimensions of the work: 50 x 65 cm
Dimensions of the frame: 60 x 80 cm
Pierre ...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
R.S.P. (Perspective Space Search)
By Paolo Minoli
Located in Como, IT
Paolo Minoli (1942-2004)
R.S.P. (Perspective Space Search)
1969
Acrylic on Canvas
Size 40x40 cm (63x63 cm including the frame with invisible glass)
Bibliography:
Pirovano, Paolo Min...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer
Soleil recerclé
By Hans Arp
Located in Paris, FR
Wood engraving, 1966
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 3/60
Publisher : Louis Broder (Paris)
Printer : Féquet & Baudier (Paris)
47.00 cm. x 36.50 cm. 18.5 in. x 14.37 ...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Engraving
Square in opposite directions
By Max Bill
Located in Paris, FR
Silksreen, 1968
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 27/150
61.50 cm. x 44.00 cm. 24.21 in. x 17.32 in. (paper)
36.00 cm. x 36.00 cm. 14.17 in. x 14.17 in. (image)
On wo...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Silk
Greenfield and Sun
By Jack Bush
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Jack Bush (1909-1977) is Canada's most successful abstract artist of the 20th century.
Bush was a graduate of OCAD (Ontario College of Art & Design) and a key member of Painters El...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Fasnacht oil painting by Hans Burkhardt
Located in Hudson, NY
Fasnacht, an oil painting by Hans Burkhardt, was gifted by the artist to his daughter. It focuses on the traditional Swiss carnival celebration prior to the beginning of Lent.
Abou...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Summit, NJ
Gorgeous aquatint in reds and oranges by Piero Dorazio (Italian 1927-2005). This aquatint is on heavy "Umbria" Fabriano paper. It is signed and dated 1964 in the lower margin in penc...
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1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Aquatint
Night Reflections, rare 1960s abstract silkscreen, hand signed & numbered 17/100
Located in New York, NY
Louise Nevelson
Night Reflections, 1968
Silkscreen on wove paper
Hand signed by the artist in ink and graphite pencil on the lower right front and numbered 17/100 lower left
Bibliogr...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen, Gel Pen, Pencil
Untitled Gestural Abstraction (~64% OFF LIMITED TIME ONLY)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Bernhard Heiliger
Untitled Gestural Abstraction
Lithograph on BK Rives
1964
Signed, dated and numbered "E.A." in pencil
Size: 24.2 × 15.6 on 30 × 22 inches
Edition: 75 + E.A.
Publish...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Green Bombshell, Hollywood Honeymoon (Abstract Expressionist Lithograph Signed)
By Walasse Ting
Located in New York, NY
WALASSE TING
Green Bombshell, 1964
Color lithograph on Rives BFK paper
28 × 38 inches
Signed and numbered 14/20 in graphite pencil on the front
Published by: Tamarind Institute, USA
...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Pencil, Lithograph
Untitled (Plate 4) DLM
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Plate 7) DLM
Color lithograph, 1963
Unsigned (as issued)
From: Derriere le Miroir, No. 141
Edition: 1500?
Published by A. Maeght, Paris
Condition: Mint
Sheet/Image size: 1...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Aubrey Penny Abstract Water Color - Untitled, Signed and Dated
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Aubrey Penny Abstract Watercolor - Untitled
Signed, Dated, and Numbered 2204, 1962 Untitled
Aubrey Penny (American 1917-2000) was an innovative California abstract artist who worke...
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1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Watercolor
Derrier le Miroir, cover, Volume 141
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Derrier le Miroir, cover, Volume 141
Original color lithograph, 1963
Unsigned and unnumbered (as issued)
From: Derriere le Miroir, No. 141
Published by A. Maeght, Paris
Condition: E...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the oil). Issued in 1967 in an edition of 1200 for the rare exhibition catalogue "Oiseau solaire, oiseau lunaire, etincelles", published by the Pierre Matisse ...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
original lithograph
By Joan Miró
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Executed for Derriere le Miroir (No. 128) in 1961, and published the same year by the Maeght atelier. Sheet size: 15 x 22 inches. There is a center fold,...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Quelques fleurs pour des amis
By Joan Miró
Located in Paris, FR
Facsimile, 1964
Signed on the plate
Printer : Daniel Jacomet
38.00 cm. x 28.00 cm. 14.96 in. x 11.02 in. (paper)
31.00 cm. x 25.00 cm. 12.2 in. x 9.84 in. (image)
Dedication "Homm...
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1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper
Talisman
By James Koenig
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern abstract collage and oil on panel by American artist James Koenig.
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract California Landscape Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract painting by Verna Herbst Hull (1916 - 2002) . Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract shape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
Algue Blanche sur fond Viole
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Algue Blanche sur fond Viole, 1960
Original Lithograph
unknown edition size
not signed
59.4 x 42.9 cm
71 x 51 cm (framed)
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Portrait of a Man Playing Guitar', Berlin School (circa 1960s)
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Man Playing Guitar', oil on board, Berlin School (circa 1960s). Clearly inspired by Georges Braque's (1882-1963) and Juan Gris' (1887-1927) works, this painting is sim...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Release
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
A Los Toros Avec Picasso (Set of Four in Gold Frames)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: La Pique (I), Le Picador (II), Jeu de la Cape (III), Les Banderilles (IV)
Portfolio: A Los Toros Avec Picasso
Medium: Set of four transfer lithographs
Ye...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract Expressionist Gestural Oil Pastel Drawing Women Figures Anthony Triano
Located in Surfside, FL
Anthony Thomas Triano (1928–1997) was an abstract expressionist painter, sculptor, illustrator and teacher. His works feature natural forms, especially the human form, and tend towar...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
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