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Conceptual Art

CONCEPTUAL STYLE

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.

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Style: Conceptual
Post Soviet Russian Avant Garde Art Photograph Mixed Media Gum Bichromate Photo
Post Soviet Russian Avant Garde Art Photograph Mixed Media Gum Bichromate Photo

Post Soviet Russian Avant Garde Art Photograph Mixed Media Gum Bichromate Photo

By Igor Vishnyakov

Located in Surfside, FL

Igor Vishnyakov is a Russian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1968 in Moscow. Igor spent his childhood in Africa and Southeast Asia. After returning to Moscow in the mi...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Photographic Paper

Mare Veen - "Tell me who you are, and I will be You" - art print - ready to hang
Mare Veen - "Tell me who you are, and I will be You" - art print - ready to hang

Mare Veen - "Tell me who you are, and I will be You" - art print - ready to hang

Located in Winterswijk, NL

Mare Veen - "Tell me who you are, and I will be You". Of the series 'Free Fall'. Result of a personal journey, looking for answers to the question 'What is Being?'. This process was...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Rag Paper, Digital

Original ink on Paper, Contemporary Landscape Botanic Expressionist
Original ink on Paper, Contemporary Landscape Botanic Expressionist

Original ink on Paper, Contemporary Landscape Botanic Expressionist

Located in Carballo, ES

Black And White Minimal Painting is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2020. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request. The title of this works is "From the Apollon...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink, Handmade Paper

Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence

Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Biblioteca Marucelliana Florence, Italy 2022 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso ...

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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Abeni (We Prayed for Her and She Arrived) -21st Century, Contemporary Figurative
Abeni (We Prayed for Her and She Arrived) -21st Century, Contemporary Figurative

Abeni (We Prayed for Her and She Arrived) -21st Century, Contemporary Figurative

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. The ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Acrylic

Prise De Possession Du Tout, 1960 - mixed media, 33x34 cm, framed
Prise De Possession Du Tout, 1960 - mixed media, 33x34 cm, framed

Prise De Possession Du Tout, 1960 - mixed media, 33x34 cm, framed

By Ben Vautier

Located in Nice, FR

Gouche and technic mixte on paper.signed in the text. Benjamin Vautier was born July 18, 1935 in Naples, Italy to a French family. He is the great-grandson of the Swiss painter Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier [fr] (1829-1898). He discovered Yves Klein and the Nouveau Réalisme in the 1950s, but he became quickly interested in the French dada artist Marcel Duchamp and the music of John Cage. In 1959, Vautier founded the journal Ben Dieu.[2] In 1960, he had his first one-man show, Rien et tout in Laboratoire 32. Ben joined George Maciunas...

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1960s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

"Untitled 4.16" Still Life Photography 24' x 16' in Ed of 15 by García De Marina

"Untitled 4.16" Still Life Photography 24' x 16' in Ed of 15 by García De Marina

By García De Marina

Located in Culver City, CA

"Untitled 4.16" Still Life Photography 24' x 16' in Ed of 15 by García De Marina Signed and numbered by the artist Comes with COA issued by the artist García de Marina was born in ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Matthew Barney, Cremaster 5: Her Giant, 1997
Matthew Barney, Cremaster 5: Her Giant, 1997

Matthew Barney, Cremaster 5: Her Giant, 1997

By Matthew Barney

Located in Madrid, MD

Matthew Barney, Cremaster 5: Her Giant, 1997 C-print mounted under Plexiglas Signed and dated by the artist, with artist’s stamp on verso Edition: 6 of 6 An iconic work by American ...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Silicone, Synthetic Resin

Biblioteca Archiginnasio I

Biblioteca Archiginnasio I

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Biblioteca Archiginnasio Bologna, Italy 2022 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner records cultural and industrial heritage through his series of photographs depicting contemporary and historical architecture, landscapes, parks, and plants. Best known for his photographs of libraries and reading rooms from around the world—in works such as George Peabody Library II, Baltimore (2017) and Riggs Library I, Washington DC (2017)—Görner captures the atmosphere of absolute silence and concentration the spaces embody while also revealing their almost cathedral-like sense of grandeur. Görner’s images have a vivid sense of depth and dimension that convey an impression of intimacy, as in Isaac Newton, Cambridge (2017), or monumentality via his precise and skilful use of framing and perspective. This stunning photograph captures a vista through the storied volumes, intricately painted walls, and doorways inside the Biblioteca comunale dell'Archiginnasio (Archiginnasio Municipal Library). The Biblioteca Archiginnasio is a public library located inside the Palace of the Archiginnasio in Bologna, Italy. The largest library in Emilia-Romagna, it boasts some 850,000 volumes and pamphlets, 2,500 incunabula, 15,000 16th century editions, 8,500 manuscripts and then letters, collections of autographs, prints and drawings, and 250 archives. The library has also a section of 7,500 magazines. In 1838 a section of the building was destined to preserve the books collected from Napoleon's closure of the religious orders. Fabled patrons include the cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, Giovanni Gozzadini, Marco Minghetti, Giovanni Pascoli, Jacob Moleschott, Luigi Serra, Laura Bassi, Aurelio Saffi, Riccardo Bacchelli, Pelagio Palagi...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

LIE TO ME, Mixed Media Abstract Painting with Text
LIE TO ME, Mixed Media Abstract Painting with Text

LIE TO ME, Mixed Media Abstract Painting with Text

By Henri Bassmadjian

Located in Surfside, FL

Born in 1958. At his first personal exhibition (greeted by "Le Matin"), he is still a high school student. At the workshops of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he prefers the personal research on the questioning of the paint of the painting that he does not hesitate to exhibit in the Salons (Big and Young, May, etc. ...) and which is split up with a mystic and barbarous vision applied to the installation, at Land-art. In 1983, on his first visit to the USA, discovers the Hopi in the heart of the "American Dream". Violence of the figure. He then weaves in New York, Toulouse, Brussels, Paris the conjunction installation-drawing over many galleries. In 1988, he entered the Galerie Krif (Paris) and immersed himself in the myth of Moby Dick. Many exhibitions (Brussels, Tarbes, Lyon, Rennes) while teaching at the School of Fine Arts in Bourges. Henri Basmadjian died in December 1993. Homage to Furea Koral's 40th Year in Art showed with Osman Dinç, Song S, Daniel Buren Ten Artists Ten Works: Henri Basmadjian, Canan Beykal, John Latham, Osman Dinç Sabri Berkel

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1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Oil Pastel, Gouache, Graphite

Roe V Wade

Roe V Wade

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Photography. Roe v Wade political document projected on the figures before the picture was taken.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Black and White

Echoes of Success and Unseen Burdens - 21st Century, Contemporary, Garden, Men
Echoes of Success and Unseen Burdens - 21st Century, Contemporary, Garden, Men

Echoes of Success and Unseen Burdens - 21st Century, Contemporary, Garden, Men

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Coffee, Mixed Media

Identical Twin - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous Art, Cultural
Identical Twin - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous Art, Cultural

Identical Twin - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous Art, Cultural

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. Having been nurtured by a Yoruba father who happens to be a twin was a major inspiration for creating this painting. In Yoruba culture, twins are considered a special blessing from God. They are mostly called ‘ibeji’ which means twins. In Yoruba society, twins are given special names, such as Taiwo (meaning “first to taste the world“) and Kehinde (meaning “second to taste the world”). It is mostly believed that twins have special privileges and are accompanied by several fortunes. About Artist Oluwatobiloba Amusan...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Acrylic

Wise Women - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous Art, Cultural
Wise Women - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous Art, Cultural

Wise Women - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous Art, Cultural

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. The thematic expression of this art piece was crafted from the experience of what women especially wives and mothers had to go through to ensure that their homes were sustained. This art piece tends to inform her female audience; most especially intending wives and mothers that what keeps the home is not primarily in the acquisition of degrees and certifications but in having the requisite knowledge and consciously fulfilling their role as home builders. About Artist Oluwatobiloba Amusan...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Paper

Ecstasy - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous, Children in Fashion
Ecstasy - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous, Children in Fashion

Ecstasy - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous, Children in Fashion

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. A young girl holding a yellow rose flower is seen in this painting during her playtime rejoicing after receiving a piece of good news. The yellow rose flower is a symbol of joy, happiness, and gratitude. About Artist Oluwatobiloba...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Acrylic

Church & Steeple - Dog and Cat Large Format Polaroid
Church & Steeple - Dog and Cat Large Format Polaroid

Church & Steeple - Dog and Cat Large Format Polaroid

By William Wegman

Located in Miami, FL

William Wegman's highly conceptual Dog - Cat interaction is depicted in this large-format Polaroid Polacolor print that features a double portrait - a Dog and a Cat - together but separate in their own defined space. Signed, titled, and dated to lower right ‘Church & Steeple William Wegman 93’. This work is unique. provenance: Wright Chicago, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Acquired from the previous in 1993 by the original owner Thence by descent Best viewed with a top gallery light...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Polaroid

A walk. Oil on canvas, 80x81 cm
A walk. Oil on canvas, 80x81 cm

A walk. Oil on canvas, 80x81 cm

Located in Riga, LV

A walk Oil on canvas, 80x81 cm Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate of Lat...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Venus (detail), Sandro Botticelli Workshop, Painting Gallery, Berlin, Photograph
Venus (detail), Sandro Botticelli Workshop, Painting Gallery, Berlin, Photograph

Venus (detail), Sandro Botticelli Workshop, Painting Gallery, Berlin, Photograph

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Venus (detail), Sandro Botticelli Workshop, Painting Gallery, Berlin, Photograph 53.4 x 40 inches ed. of 7 $4400 66.7 x 50 ed. of 5 $6800 signed and numbered on label, verso Rein...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Shining Wall of Books, Yale Beinecke Library, Interior Architecture Photograph
Shining Wall of Books, Yale Beinecke Library, Interior Architecture Photograph

Shining Wall of Books, Yale Beinecke Library, Interior Architecture Photograph

By Reinhard Görner

Located in Los Angeles, CA

A breathtaking homage to the grandeur of knowledge, Reinhard Görner’s Shining Wall of Books captures the luminous beauty of one of the world’s most revered libraries. This masterfull...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Behind The Smile
Behind The Smile

Behind The Smile

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

White Lollipop
White Lollipop

White Lollipop

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Red Hair
Red Hair

Red Hair

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Fruitless Endeavor
Fruitless Endeavor

Fruitless Endeavor

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Blue - Floral color photo
Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Blue - Floral color photo

Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Blue - Floral color photo

By Heidler & Heeps

Located in Cambridge, GB

30 Cents Singapore Orchid Blue, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection. This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards from Afar' have been given a twenty-first century pop art lease of life. The fine detailed tapestry of the original small postage stamp has been brought to life, made unique by the franking stamp and Heidler & Heeps specialist darkroom process. This artwork is a limited edition of 25 gloss photographic c-print, accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity. The print is fragile and it is recommended it is handled and framed professionally. This artwork is available in other sizes. Be sure to look at Heidler & Heeps other artworks listed on 1stDibs as they are great paired for interior design projects. Following on from the hugely successful ‘Vinyl Collection’, Natasha Heidler & Richard Heeps have collaborated again, drawing from the childhood past time of stamp collecting...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Game of Life
Game of Life

Michael AdetulaGame of Life, 2023

$1,480Sale Price|20% Off

Game of Life

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

In this game of life, we fiercely strive, Chasing dreams, hoping to survive. Each step we take, is a move on the board, Sometimes rewarded, sometimes ignored. We start with a roll of...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Grass - Salt Factory, Northwich - Blue British Square Photograph
Grass - Salt Factory, Northwich - Blue British Square Photograph

Grass - Salt Factory, Northwich - Blue British Square Photograph

By Richard Heeps

Located in Cambridge, GB

Grass, blue abstract photography from the Richard Heeps series Ordinary Places, photographing Britain on the brink of change. It was Richard's first colour collection and was shot be...

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Hubcap, Manea - Monochrome Vintage British Square Photograph
Hubcap, Manea - Monochrome Vintage British Square Photograph

Hubcap, Manea - Monochrome Vintage British Square Photograph

By Richard Heeps

Located in Cambridge, GB

Hubcap, subtle interior photography from the Richard Heeps series Ordinary Places, photographing Britain on the brink of change. It was Richard's first colour collection and was shot...

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Conceptual art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual 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 Reinhard Görner, Kojun, Jose Sierra, and xulong zhang. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and 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 Conceptual art, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $45 and tops out at $500,000, while the average work sells for $2,465.