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.
Devil's Hole, Conceptual Art Lithograph by Dennis A. Oppenheim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dennis Oppenheim, American (1938 - 2011) Title: Devil's Hole Year: 1978 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 41.25 in. x 29.75 in. (104.78 cm ...
Lithograph
Upper Torso for a Flyer Whirligig , Screenprint by John Russell Clift
Located in Long Island City, NY
Upper Torso for a Flyer Whirligig (No One B) John Russell Clift, American (1925–1999) Date: 1980 Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 260 Image Size: 33 x 21.5 inche...
Screen
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...
Canvas, Oil
Lamps, Surrealist Black and White Etching by Ben Schonzeit
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Schonzeit, American (1942 - ) Title: Lamps Year: 1979 Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 14/125 Image Size: 19.5 x 17 inches Size: 28 x 25 in. (71.12...
Etching
$700
Mondrian with Vermeer, Conceptual Art Lithograph with Screenprint by George Deem
By George Deem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Deem, American (1932 - 2008) Title: Mondrian with Vemeer Year: 1978 Medium: Lithograph with Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300, AP 40 Image Size: ...
Lithograph, Screen
Time Line, Conceptual Lithograph by Dennis A. Oppenheim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dennis Oppenheim, American (1938 - 2011) Title: Time Line Kent, Maine Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150, AP 3...
Lithograph
$2,983
Salle D'Etude by Gina Soden, Photography, Documentary Photography, Photographic
Located in Deddington, GB
Salle D’Etude by Gina Soden [2020] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Digital photograph on Baryta paper Edition number 3 Image size: H:70.02 cm...
Paper, Digital
Move VI, Lithograph by Helene Guetary
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Helene Guetary, French/American (1957 - ) Title: Move VI Year: circa 1979 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 200 Size: 38 in. x 25.5 in. (96...
Lithograph
$3,600
Post Soviet Russian Avant Garde Art Photograph Mixed Media Gum Bichromate Photo
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...
Mixed Media, Photographic Paper
Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, NFS Sample Conceptual Taxidermy Art
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a proof print. Stamped with the Muse X stamp and marked NFS. This is a single print from 1998 Birds. Suite of eight Cibachromes. Edition of fifteen. 10″ × 10″ (sheet size). Muse [X] Editions. Taxidermy Bird. Brenda Zlamany has shown widely in the United States and Europe. Her work has been reproduced in The New York Times Magazine, Artforum, Flashart, Art in America, Art and Antiques, and The New Yorker. She was born in New York City in 1959. 1976 - 77 Yale College Before College Program, New Haven, Conn. 1981 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (BA) Stanley William Hayter s Atelier 17, Paris. Tyler School of Art, Rome. 1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. Select Museums: Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution; the National Museum, Gdansk; Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent. Select Collections: Cincinnati Art Museum; Deutsche Bank; the Museum of Modern Art, Houston; the Neuberger Museum of Art; the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; the World Bank; the Yale University Art Gallery. Select Commissions the World Bank, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center the New York Times Magazine (Marian Anderson for an article by Jessye Norman, Osama bin Laden for the September 11, 2005, cover, Jeffrey Dahmer) Select Grants and Awards: Fulbright Fellowship (2011), Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2006–07), New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship in Painting (1994). MacDowell Colony (1995, 1992, 1986) Yaddo (1997). For many years, Brenda Zlamany has painted portraits of other artists, including Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and David Hockney. She has also been a subject for them; as she puts it, “we are professional posers.” Recently, however, she has worked to paint portraits of those whose gaze is more internal—monks and nomads in Tibet, aboriginal people in Taiwan—creating large bodies of portraits that investigate the limits of the genre. She returned, with her daughter, to Hockney’s studio in 2014, not only to sit for him but to paint him once again. Her practice involves the long sittings and intense looking required of traditional portrait-making. Muse X Editions. An (now defunct) LA based innovative publisher of limited-edition prints, Muse X has launched its first group of prints and is just beginning to make itself known to artists, curators, dealers and collectors. Among works just off the press are otherworldly landscapes by Barbara Kasten and Oliver Wasow...
C Print
LOL (laugh out loud)
Located in Buffalo, NY
LOL (laugh out loud) 2014 4x6" framed. 8x10" SUBTEXT This series of small paintings are a mash-up of Renaissance Choir book borders with their ornate grotesques and drolleries combi...
Gold Leaf
Tree Abstract, Serigraph by Menashe Kadishman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Menashe Kadishman, Israeli (1932 - 2015) Title: Tree in Tree Year: 1979 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 125 Size: 41 x 30 in. (104.14 x 76....
Screen
City 36, Signed Abstract Screenprint by Risaburo Kimura
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 36 Year: 1968 Medium: Serigraph, signed and titled in pencil Edition: 300 Image Size: 25 x 20 inches Size: 30 x 22 in....
Screen
Human Target 1, Acrylic Paint and Paper on Canvas by Anatol Pacanowski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Human Target 1 Anatol Pacanowski, (1945) Date: 1981 Acrylic, Airbrush and Collaged Media on Canvas, Signed and Dated right Size: 51 in. x 41 in. (129.54 ...
Paper, Acrylic, Canvas
$1,500
Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 5, Screenprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 5 Year: circa 1978 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in. (...
Screen
Four Color Quartets, Abstract Lithograph by Mel Bochner
By Mel Bochner
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mel Bochner, American (1940 - ) Title: Four Color Quartets Year: 1990 Medium: Four Lithographs, signed and numbered verso Edition: 8/35 Overall Size...
Lithograph
Perturbé by Gina Soden, Photography, Limited Edition Print, Documentary
Located in Deddington, GB
Perturbé by Gina Soden [2020] limited_edition Digital photograph on Baryta paper Edition number 1 Image size: H:76.2 cm x W:76,2 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:80.2 cm x W:...
Paper, Digital
Isolamento by Gina Soden, Colour photography, Limited edition print
By Gina Soden
Located in Deddington, GB
Isolamento by Gina Soden [2020] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Digital photograph on Baryta paper Edition number 3 Image size: H:70.02 cm x W:105 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:74.2 cm x W:109 cm x D:0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look "On my 4th attempt I finally got inside here. Always overlooked by neighbours and a police station right next door, it always seemed tricky as it was hard not to get spotted. This was a grand villa...
Paper, Digital Pigment
Age
Located in New York, NY
Michael Craig-Martin Age, 2010 Acrylic on aluminum 48 x 48 inches Signed
Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic
Sheep, Conceptual Screenprint by Menashe Kadishman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Menashe Kadishman, Israeli (b. 1932) Title: Sheep Year: 1977 Medium: Etching and Screenprint, signed in pencil Edition: 65 Size: 34 x 31 in. (86.36 x 78.74 cm)
Screen, Etching
Mud Flat, Contemporary Lithograph by Dennis Oppenheim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dennis Oppenheim Title: Mud Flat Year: 1977 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Size: 41 in. x 29 in. (104.14 cm x 73.66 cm)
Lithograph
Sydney, Psychedelic Screenprint by Risaburo Kimura
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: Sydney Year: 1973 Medium: Screenprint on BFK Rives, Signed, titled and numbered in pencil Edition: 250, AP 20 Size: 30 in. x 22 in....
Screen
Meeting II. Oil on canvas, 85x84.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Meeting II Oil on canvas, 85x84.5 cm Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate ...
Canvas, Oil
$17,000
YES NO
By Dike Blair
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dike Blair, American (1952 - ) Title: YES NO Year: 1986 Medium: Mixed Media Collage, signed and dated verso Frame Size: 98 x 17.5 inches
Acrylic, Stencil
Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 8 - Conceptual Screenprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Chinatown Portfolio II, Image 8 Year: circa 1978 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 40 in. x 30.5 in....
Screen
$2,350
"Untitled 8.20" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 8.20" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina Signed and numbered by the artist Comes with COA issued by the artist García de Marina was born in Gijó...
Digital Pigment
$1,850
"Untitled 3.16" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 3.16" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition 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 Gijó...
Digital Pigment
Tower and Horseman, Etching by Malcolm Morley
Located in Long Island City, NY
Tower and Horseman Malcolm Morley, British (1931–2018) Date: circa 1980 Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 100 Size: 30 in. x 22.5 in. (76.2 cm x 57.15 cm)
Etching
$463Sale Price|20% Off
Caricature. "A bon chat bon rat" lithograph on paper, 30x22 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Honore-Victor Daumier (1808–1879) - Caricature. "A bon chat bon rat" lithograph on paper, 30x22 cm
Paper, Lithograph
City 364, Conceptual Screenprint by Risaburo Kimura
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 364 Year: circa 1971 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300 Image Size: 25 x 20 inches Size: ...
Screen
Target, Conceptual Abstract Lithograph by Dennis A. Oppenheim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dennis Oppenheim, American (1938 - 2011) Title: Target Year: 1981 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 41.25 in. x 29.75 in. (104.78 cm x 75.5...
Lithograph
Portrait of an Old Flyer Whirligig, Surrealist Screenprint by John Russell Clift
Located in Long Island City, NY
Portrait of an Old Flyer Whirligig John Russell Clift, American (1925–1999) Date: 1980 Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 260 Image Size: 31.5 x 21 inches Size: 42...
Screen
Confetti Tiles, Pop Art Screenprint by Menashe Kadishman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Menashe Kadishman, Israeli (1932 - 2015) Title: Confetti Tiles Year: circa 1979 Medium: Screenprint, Signed in Pencil Edition: PP Size: 41 in. x 29 in. (104.14 cm x 73....
Screen
Nonsense (Gas Mask), Unique Bronze Sculpture by Mark Eastridge
By Mark Eastridge
Located in Long Island City, NY
A bronze sculpture by Mark Eastridge. A surrealist composition of a bronze case gas mask sitting atop a glove. Artist: Mark Eastridge, American Title: Nonsense (Gas Mask) Medium: Br...
Granite, Bronze
Reggae Curve, Painted Hanging Sculpture by Kevin Cole
By Kevin Cole
Located in Long Island City, NY
This hanging sculpture by the American artist Kevin Cole, is a modern conceptual work. It is constructed of painted rubber and wood. Cole was quoted, "Throughout all of my work, I ...
Rubber, Wood, Paint
American Newsprint, Monoprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: American Newsprint Year: 1977 Medium: Silkscreen and Acrylic Monoprint on Paper, signed, dated and titled in pencil Image Size: 13 x 21.5 ...
Monoprint
$950
Tree in Tree (Red and Orange), Conceptual Screenprint by Menashe Kadishman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Menashe Kadishman, Israeli (1932 - 2015) Title: Tree in Tree (Red and Orange) Year: 1979 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 125 Size: 41 x 30...
Screen
Vermeer's Lacemaker, Pop Art Lithograph by George Deem
By George Deem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Deem, American (1932 - 2008) Title: Vermeer's Lacemaker Year: Circa 1979 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP 40 Image Size: 22 x 18 inches Si...
Lithograph
Clocher Roman Lithograph, Conceptual Style, Signed, Limited Edition
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is limited in edition artist pencil signed lower right and is in very good condition . Jean Couty Epreuve de' artist an original ...
Lithograph
Tree in Tree (Green and Purple), Conceptual Art Screenprint by Menashe Kadishman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Menashe Kadishman, Israeli (1932 - 2015) Title: Tree in Tree (Green and Purple) Year: 1979 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 125 Size: 41 x ...
Screen
Conceptual Collage, "In Search Of Enlightenment 1"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original conceptual paper collage by Southern California artist, May-Ling Martinez. It is framed as pictured. Its dimensions are 20"x27.5". A certificate of a...
Paper
$4,500
Sunrise at Bayonne, Framed Conceptual Aquatint Etching by Komar & Melamid
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Vitaly Komar, Russian (1943 - ) and Alexander Melamid, Russian (1945 - ) Title: Sunrise at Bayonne Year: 1988 Medium: Aquatint Etching with Metallic Leaf Collage, signed and ...
Etching, Aquatint
$2,500
Conceptual Moon Phases 8, Abstract Ink & Watercolor Collage by Shlomo Koren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Shlomo Koren, German (1932 - ) Title: Untitled - Conceptual Moon Phases 8 Year: 1965 Medium: Ink, Watercolor and Collage on Paper mounted to Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 15.5 in...
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
$2,800
Blomberg 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Blomberg 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed Ideas of home and dislocation have always been compelling to me as the child of immigrant parents who arri...
Archival Pigment
Viola d'Amour, Signed Pop Art Screenprint by Arman
By Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arman Title: Viola d'Amour Year: 1978 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 150, AP 30 Paper Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm) Printer...
Screen
Leo from the Constellations Series, Conceptual Screenprint by Charles Ross
By Charles Ross
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Ross, American (1937 - ) Title: Leo from the Constellations Series Year: 1979 Medium: Screenprint, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150, AP XX Image Size: 45 x ...
Screen
Autumn wind. Cardboard, oil, 64 x 75 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Autumn wind Cardboard, oil, 64x75 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a...
Canvas, Oil
A provincial delight. Oil on canvas, 41 х 51 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A provincial delight. Oil on canvas, 41х51 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, gr...
Oil, Canvas
Hydra, Pop Art Serigraph by Arman
By Arman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arman, French (1929 - 2005) Title: Hydra Year: 1979 Medium: Serigraph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
Screen
Jupiter 6, Minimalist Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Rafael Bogarin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rafael Bogarin Title: Jupiter 6 Year: 1981 Medium: Screenprint, signed and titled in pencil Edition: 295 Paper Size: 28.5 x 22.5 inches
Screen
Bruna Sevini and Whistler's Mother, Conceptual Lithograph by George Deem
By George Deem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Deem, American (1932 - 2008) Title: Bruna Sevini and Whistler's Mother Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300, AP 40 Image Size: 2...
Lithograph
George Washington with Powder, Surrealist Portrait Lithograph by George Deem
By George Deem
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: George Deem, American (1932 - 2008) Title: George Washington with Powder Year: Circa 1980 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 300; AP 40 Image Size: 25...
Lithograph, Screen
City 36, Geometric Landscape Screenprint by Risaburo Kimura
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 36 Year: 1968 Medium: Screenprint, signed in pencil Edition: AP Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
Screen
White Horse from Wessex, Conceptual Etching by Joe Tilson
By Joe Tilson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joe Tilson, British (1928 - ) Title: White Horse from Wessex Portfolio Year: 1977 Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: I/XXV Size: 19.5 x 13.75 in. (49.53 ...
Etching
Jobs and Employment Classifieds, Monoprint by Chryssa
By Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Chryssa, Greek (1933 - 2013) Title: Jobs and Employment Classifieds Year: 1982 Medium: Monoprint Silkscreen, signed l.r. Image Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Size: 39 in. x 29.5 in. ...
Monotype
City 84, Geometric Serigraph by Risaburo Kimura
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 84 Year: 1968 Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil Edition: AP Size: 25 x 19 in. (63.5 x 48.26 cm)
Screen
Meeting. 1998. Oil on canvas, 100 x 99. 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Meeting. 1998. Oil on canvas, 100x99.5 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painte...
Canvas, Oil
Flight. 1999. Oil on canvas, 76x91 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flight 1999. Oil on canvas, 76x91 cm Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate ...
Canvas, Oil
No. 776, Conceptual Geometric Screenprint by Shigeru Taniguchi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Shigeru Taniguchi, Japanese (1948 - ) Title: No. 776 Year: 1977 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 5/24 Image Size: 19 x 23 inches Size: 21 in. x 25 ...
Screen
"Painting's", 1975, Silkscreen by Shigeru Taniguchi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Shigeru Taniguchi, Japanese (1948 - ) Title: Painting's Year: 1975 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 12/20 Size: 23 in. x 19 in. (58.42 cm x 48.26 cm)
Screen