In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.
LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.
Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.
Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.
The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.
Ptitza, Conceptual Etching with Aquatint by Grisha Bruskin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Grisha Bruskin, Russian (1945 - ) - Ptitza, Portfolio: Lexica, Year: 1992, Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: WP, Image Size: ...
Etching, Aquatint
Iain Baxter& "Reaching Landscape" Conceptual Monoprint Painting
By Iain Baxter
Located in Surfside, FL
Landscape with Ranch Fence in bright vibrant colors. Iain Baxter& (the artist recently added the ampersand to his name) is recognized as Canada’s pioneering conceptual artist. ...
Mixed Media, Monoprint, Monotype
$350
Juke Box Tune 2, Conceptual Etching with Aquatint by Natalie d'Arbeloff
Located in Long Island City, NY
Natalie d'Arbeloff, British/American (1929 - ) - Juke Box Tune 2, Year: 1989, Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 32/150, Image S...
Etching, Aquatint
"Breathe" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication. This series "Word on ...
Metal, Steel
Conceptual Contemporary Art Color Photograph, Social Commentary
By Carole Conde & Karl Beveridge
Located in Surfside, FL
Referencing immigrants and the disabled. Social commentary conceptual artwork. Provenance: Deaccessioned from a New York University. Condé + Beveridg...
C Print, Color
Iain Baxter& "Kissing Landscape" Conceptual Monoprint Painting
By Iain Baxter
Located in Surfside, FL
Landscape with Sandwich Maker in bright vibrant colors. Iain Baxter& (the artist recently added the ampersand to his name) is recognized as Canada’s pioneering conceptual artis...
Mixed Media, Monoprint, Monotype
Litza II, Conceptual Etching with Aquatint by Grisha Bruskin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Grisha Bruskin, Russian (1945 - ) - Litza II, Portfolio: Lexica, Year: 1992, Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: WP, Image Size: 9 x 7....
Etching, Aquatint
$1,000
THEN NOW AND THEN: Leo Castelli Gallery poster (Hand Signed by Lawrence Weiner)
Located in New York, NY
Lawrence Weiner Then Now and Then: Leo Castelli Gallery (Hand Signed), 1997 Vintage Poster Signed by Lawrence Weiner 14 × 12 1/2 inches Unframed Uniquely hand signed poster (of unkno...
Offset, Lithograph
Fritz Horstman, Kannagawa Voices, 2015, Video
Located in Darien, CT
While working on a large building project several years ago the artist, Fritz Horstman was struck by the poetry in the unfinished state of the construction site. He was drawn specifically to the space between the plywood walls that were raised as formworks for the pouring of cement. That space could only exist for a few hours before the cement truck...
Video
$1,000
Image Intervention project in Alaska poster (Hand Signed by Dennis Oppenheim)
Located in New York, NY
Dennis Oppenheim Image Intervention (Hand Signed), 1984 Offset Lithograph (hand signed and dated by Dennis Oppenheim) Hand signed and dated on the middle front 28 × 20 inches Unframe...
Ink, Lithograph, Offset
$3,200
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Window Transparencies, 2018, Plastic, Digital Print
Located in Darien, CT
This series of five transparencies are in an edition size of 3. They are designed to be installed directly onto interior window areas to allow light to pass thru them. These transpar...
Plastic, Digital
"Why Are We So Cruel" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication. This series "Word on ...
Metal
George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This masterful photograph by renowned architectural photographer Reinhard Görner captures the timeless elegance of the George Peabody Library in Baltimore. Known as the 'cathedral of...
C Print, Lambda
State of Mind, Conceptual Etching by Peter Nadin
By Peter Nadin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Peter Nadin, British/American (1954 - ) - State of Mind, Year: 1985, Medium: Etching on Arches, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 20, Image Size: 4 x 5 inches, Size:...
Etching
Ellen Hackl Fagan, Doremi_Musicians-L, 2012, ink, gouache, rag paper
Located in Darien, CT
ColorSoundGrammar Ellen Hackl Fagan There is a long history of sound/color synaesthesia work, from Isaac Newton’s color organ to Alexander Scriabin’s “Prometheus,” but not much wor...
Ink, Gouache, Rag Paper
Heartland I, Conceptual Etching by Charlie Hewitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Charlie Hewitt, American (1946 - ) - Heartland I, Year: 1993, Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: HC 4/6, Image Size: 35.5 x 24 inches, Size: 37.5 x 25.5 in...
Etching
$13,000
Large French Conceptual Sculpture Photograph Triptych Copper Frame Pascal Kern
Located in Surfside, FL
Pascal Kern (1952-2007) Icone (three panel triptych), 1987 Cibachrome print, inn copper handmade frame. (One is empty of photo on purpose.) Bearing artist label and inscriptions (frame verso) 48 x 48 inches. (each) Provenance: the Ginny L Williams...
Copper
A Surreal Watercolor and Cyanotype on Cotton Sateen, "Relational Gradient"
Located in San Diego, CA
A one of a kind 17x19 Surreal Watercolor and Cyanotype executed on Cotton Sateen by artist Annalise Neil. A certificate of authenticity will be provided upon its purchase or delivery...
Photographic Paper
Bode Museum
Located in Los Angeles, CA
50 x 62.5 inches ed. of 7 $6,000 60 x 75 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format phot...
Lambda
$1,500
Some Men Still Believe..., Conceptual Lithograph by Allen Ruppersberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Allen Ruppersberg, American (1944 - ) - Untitled (Some Men Still Believe...), Year: 1978, Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 26/46, Image...
Lithograph
Dramma in Nove Versi, Conceptual Art Lithograph with Screenprint
Located in Long Island City, NY
This enigmatic lithograph titled “Dramma in Nove Versi” (Drama in Nine Verses) presents a Conceptual Art exploration of text and visual poetry through Textual Art practices. The comp...
Lithograph, Screen
Bode-Museum, Berlin (Suite of Rooms with Portals)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bode-Museum, Berlin 62 1/2 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87 1/2 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, w...
Lambda
$20,000
I Am Alone, Contemporary Abstract Painting, Oil on Canvas, 76x73 in
Located in New York, NY
Large-scale oil on canvas by Italian conceptual artist Francesco Correggia, titled "I Am Alone," created in 2014. This signed original work measures 76 x 73 inches and is in new cond...
Canvas, Oil
"Attention Oh Sorry Nevermind" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication. This series "Word on ...
Metal
$25,000
Andra Samelson, Pemarom, 2013-2022, 1300 + cds, Edition of 5, Abstract Sculpture
Located in Darien, CT
The word in Tibetan for lotus is “Pema.” In Buddhism the lotus is a symbol of purity. The lotus is planted and rooted in the mud, but grows up through the water and into the vast sky...
Mirror, Plastic, Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Other Medium
Cocoon II, Conceptual Lithograph by Adam Styka
By Adam Styka
Located in Long Island City, NY
Adam Styka, Polish (1940 - ) - Cocoon II, Year: 1985, Medium: Lithograph, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: Trial Proof, Size: 22.5 x 30 in. (57.15 x 76.2 cm)
Lithograph
Building Spire, Conceptual Etching by Chuck Connelly
Located in Long Island City, NY
Chuck Connelly, American (1955 - 2025) - Building Spire, Year: 1985, Medium: Etching on Arches, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 2/20, Image Size: 5.75 x 7.75 inch...
Etching
Bagatelle, Conceptual Etching with Aquatint by Natalie d'Arbeloff
Located in Long Island City, NY
Natalie d'Arbeloff, British/American (1929 - ) - Bagatelle, Year: 1989, Medium: Etching with Aquatint and Embossing, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 5/150, ...
Etching, Aquatint
Litza, Conceptual Etching with Aquatint by Grisha Bruskin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Grisha Bruskin, Russian (1945 - ) - Litza, Portfolio: Lexica, Year: 1992, Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 23/24, Image Size:...
Etching, Aquatint
$18,000
Paintbrushes III
By Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arman, French/American (1929 - 2005) Title: Paintbrushes III Year: 1991 Medium: Paintbrushes and Oil Paint in Epoxy Resin Sculpture, Signature and number inscribed Edition: 2...
Epoxy Resin, Oil
The Kitchen Poster (Hand signed by Lawrence Weiner)
Located in New York, NY
Lawrence Weiner The Kitchen Poster (Hand signed by Lawrence Weiner), 2017 Offset lithograph poster Signed by the artist on lower right front with blac...
Lithograph, Offset
"Let Me In, Let Me Out" - Abstract Mixed Media Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
"Let Me In, Let Me Out" - Abstract Mixed Media Composition Boldly colored abstract figurative composition by California artist Elizabeth Arrington Leaf (American, B-1955). Three lar...
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
"If Elections Were Held Today" from the Castelli Sonnabend Collection
By Hans Haacke
Located in New York, NY
Hans Haacke "If Elections Were Held Today" from the Castelli Sonnabend Collection, 1973 Silkscreen in portfolio sleeve of Crane's bond paper No. 1. Stamped and numbered. Unframed in ...
Screen
$2,500
Manhattan Triptych, Set of Three NYC Conceptual Art Lithographs by Alan Sonfist
By Alan Sonfist
Located in Long Island City, NY
Part of a triptych, this rendering of Manhattan shows the uppermost area of the island of New York City. Along the coasts of the city are large illustrations of plants native to the ...
Lithograph
$1,700
"Working Drawing for an Unfinished Project, " Lithograph by Robert Stackhouse
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Working Drawing for an Unfinished Project" is an original lithograph by Robert Stackhouse, numbered 99 578. It depicts abstract, sculptural drawings of a project the artist was work...
Lithograph
"Start" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication. This series "Word on ...
Metal
George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This masterful photograph by renowned architectural photographer Reinhard Görner captures the timeless elegance of the George Peabody Library in Baltimore. Known as the 'cathedral of...
C Print, Lambda
"We Are The Ones" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for comm...
Metal
$900Sale Price|50% Off
Chinatown Portfolio #1, 97/250
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Chryssa (Greek, born 1933) Chinatown Portfolio #1 Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprint on wove paper Signed in pencil and numbered 97/250 Edition: 250 Dimension: 38 1/4 x 31 1/4i...
Screen
"Play" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication. This series "Word on ...
Metal
"Begin"- Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for comm...
Metal
Miller High Life, Trompe L'Oeil Hyperrealism Decay Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Tom Pfannerstill was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1951. He earned is bachelor’s degree in 1975 from Western Kentucky University. Pfannerstill has been a full-time studio artist s...
Wood, Acrylic
Piazza San Marco, Italy, Architectural Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
60 x 40 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 50 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 90 x 60 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photogra...
Archival Pigment
Linda Cunningham, 'Still Structures II', 2011, Pastel, Ink
Located in Darien, CT
Unexpected materials, found and manufactured, perch precariously on torn edges and bifurcated sheets of large paper. Here, fluid calligraphic lines are posed against the veracity of ...
Pastel, Ink
Sleeping Beauty, Old National Gallery, Berlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
60 x 45 inches ed. of 5 $6,000 80 x 60 inches ed. of 5 $9,000 93.2 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of historical architecture, gardens, and masterpieces. An active architecture photographer since 1985, is a master of perspectives and precise spatial compositions, and he thus considers classical sculpture, in all of its possible facets, a special challenge. "Görner’s photographs sometimes open the doors to another world and take the viewer with them on a journey through time. Here the palace is no longer a museum but both royal residence and a site steeped in history. The viewer does not have to share the halls with the masses of visitors; instead the images offer him exclusive impressions of the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and the Galerie des Batailles (Hall of Battles) as even the king of France was probably never granted. The halls are empty of people, yet they seem to be able to unfurl their individual characters of their own accord. These places practically breathe history, and this aspect is also part of the essence captured in the photographs. King Wilhelm of Prussia was named German Emperor Wilhelm I in the Hall of Mirrors after France was defeated in 1870–1871 in the Franco-German War. The Treaty of Versailles following World War I was also signed there in 1919. In this sense, the architectural photographs of Versailles’s ceremonial rooms have an edge on Renaissance paintings; here even a sense of world history arises within the viewer – one which continues to exert an influence today". Horst Klöver Notes on the Old National Gallery...
Lambda
Linda Cunningham, 'Edge of Change III', 2015, Pastel, Acrylic Paint
Located in Darien, CT
Unexpected materials, found and manufactured, perch precariously on torn edges and bifurcated sheets of large paper. Here, fluid calligraphic lines are posed against the veracity of ...
Pastel, Acrylic, Wood, Charcoal, Cotton Canvas, Found Objects
$15,137
Large Oil Minimalistic Neutral Geometric Abstract Painting "Turquoise Tunnel"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Mark Hilltout has always been drawn to the random, the discarded and the broken. He is attracted to the broken edge, not the perfectly straight line. F...
Varnish, House Paint, Oil, Board
Original ink on Paper, Contemporary Blue Abstract Seaweeds , Waves
By TUSET
Located in Carballo, ES
Blue Minimal Painting is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2020. The painting is unframed, we can frame it in natural wood or black on request. The title of this works is "F...
Ink, Handmade Paper
Lady, Marble and Fabric Conceptual Abstract Sculpture Maria Dompe
By Maria Dompe
Located in Surfside, FL
MARIA DOMPE, (Italian, b. 1958), Lady Sculpture, marble and fabric, 1995, height: 14 in. One of a pair, (Lady and Gentleman) being sold separately. Maria Dompe was born in Fermo on ...
Marble
Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Rope Swing
By Su Yu
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Su Yu is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives and works in Beijing. He was an old student of prestigious art teachers as Shi Liang & Chen Danqing at Oil Paintin...
Canvas, Oil
$1,200
Large Contemporary Annette Lemieux Photo Etching Aquatint Censor Abstract Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Annette Lemieux (American, 1957-) Date: 1994 Medium: photogravure, aquatint (photo etching) and stencil Hand signed and dated lower right. Editioned lower left. Dimensions: Sheet: 22...
Etching, Aquatint, Photogravure
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Surrealist Fake Limb Prosthetic Factory Photo
By Shimon Attie
Located in Surfside, FL
These are vintage prints from the 1980's. The last photo shows a gallery or museum label from an accompanying piece (there were three sequence shots in this series) but is not on thi...
Silver Gelatin
$1,200
Large Contemporary Annette Lemieux Photo Etching Aquatint Censor Abstract Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Annette Lemieux (American, 1957-) Date: 1994 Medium: photogravure, aquatint (photo etching) and stencil Hand signed and dated lower right. Editioned lower left. Dimensions: Sheet: 22...
Etching, Aquatint, Photogravure
The Long Room V, Trinity College Library, Dublin Ireland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
40 x 60 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 50 x 75 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 60 x 90 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photogra...
C Print, Lambda
Riggs Library I, Washington DC, Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riggs Library I, Washington DC, by world-renowned architectural photographer Reinhard Görner, captures the timeless elegance of one of America's rare surviving cast-iron libraries. T...
C Print, Lambda
$1,200
Large Contemporary Annette Lemieux Photo Etching Aquatint Censor Abstract Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Annette Lemieux (American, 1957-) Date: 1994 Medium: photogravure, aquatint (photo etching) and stencil Hand signed and dated lower right. Editioned lower left. Dimensions: Sheet: 22...
Etching, Aquatint, Photogravure
Untitled, Mixed Media Oil Painting Figures Contemporary Female Artist
By Mil Lubroth
Located in Surfside, FL
This Contemporary female artist overlays stenciled figures using vibrant colors. Some of the figures are rendered with detail while others are left in abstraction. Mil Lubroth (1926...
Mixed Media, Oil
Jesus in Motion, Conceptual Screenprint by Komar & Melamid
Located in Long Island City, NY
Komar and Melamid (Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid), Russian (1943/5 - ) - Jesus in Motion, Year: 1990, Medium: Screenprint, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: TP, ...
Screen
$1,200
Large Contemporary Annette Lemieux Photo Etching Aquatint Censor Abstract Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Annette Lemieux (American, 1957-) Date: 1994 Medium: photogravure, aquatint (photo etching) and stencil Hand signed and dated lower right. Editioned lower left. Dimensions: Sheet: 22...
Etching, Aquatint, Photogravure
$900Sale Price|50% Off
Chinatown Portfolio #6, 97/250
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Chryssa (Greek, born 1933) Chinatown Portfolio #6 Year: 1978 Medium: Screenprint on wove paper Signed in pencil and numbered 97/250 Edition: 250 Dimension: 38 1/4 x 31 1/4i...
Screen