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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
Jo Yarrington, Ghost girls_Slide Carousel, 2018, Photographic Film, Found Object
Jo Yarrington, Ghost girls_Slide Carousel, 2018, Photographic Film, Found Object

Jo Yarrington, Ghost girls_Slide Carousel, 2018, Photographic Film, Found Object

By Jo Yarrington

Located in Darien, CT

Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...

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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Found Objects

Cabinet of Wonders, Persistence and the Fugitive
Cabinet of Wonders, Persistence and the Fugitive

Cabinet of Wonders, Persistence and the Fugitive

By Greg Garvey

Located in Darien, CT

This flat file installation is a kind of Wunderkammer – a Cabinet of Wonder or Curiosity containing a small idiosyncratic collection of select wonders and oddities of the natural wor...

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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Wood, Video, Found Objects

Fritz Horstman, Formwork for a Square Pad, 2015, Steel, Wood, Maple
Fritz Horstman, Formwork for a Square Pad, 2015, Steel, Wood, Maple

Fritz Horstman, Formwork for a Square Pad, 2015, Steel, Wood, Maple

By Fritz Horstman

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...

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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Steel

Fritz Horstman, Five Walls With Openings, 2016, Wood, Walnut
Fritz Horstman, Five Walls With Openings, 2016, Wood, Walnut

Fritz Horstman, Five Walls With Openings, 2016, Wood, Walnut

By Fritz Horstman

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...

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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Wood, Walnut

Fritz Horstman, Glacier Face, 2016, Wood, Walnut
Fritz Horstman, Glacier Face, 2016, Wood, Walnut

Fritz Horstman, Glacier Face, 2016, Wood, Walnut

By Fritz Horstman

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...

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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Wood, Walnut

Ellen Hackl Fagan, ColorSoundGrammar_ASOG, 2010, Enamel, Latex, Ink, Graphite
Ellen Hackl Fagan, ColorSoundGrammar_ASOG, 2010, Enamel, Latex, Ink, Graphite

Ellen Hackl Fagan, ColorSoundGrammar_ASOG, 2010, Enamel, Latex, Ink, Graphite

By Ellen Hackl Fagan

Located in Darien, CT

Inviting the accidental while painting, the artist's materials continue to reveal limitless possibilities for improvisation, like jazz music. Influenced by scientific theories-both real and imagined, kitsch, music, decorative art and indigenous textiles, Fagan's abstract paintings and interactive performance build connections between color and surface to sound. This exploration has led to creating a series of interactive games with viewers, the most recent being The Alphabet Game. To play, viewers select, from colored squares, the color(s) that best represent each note in the familiar ABC Song melody. Through these playful interventions their thoughts about color and music are explored in-depth. Documenting their responses in the form of photographs and notes in journals, Fagan has compiled the results of fifteen artists who played the Alphabet Game during a lecture on color where the artist was the guest presenter in order to create this particular painting. Fagan distilled the data gathered and painted this visualization of a color/sound alphabet based on the colors selected by this artist's group. These alphabet paintings introduce a wonderful completion to this pseudo-scientific investigation and celebrate painting...

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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Enamel

Floating Feather in the Midnight Sky, Medium size Photograph, Mounted and Framed
Floating Feather in the Midnight Sky, Medium size Photograph, Mounted and Framed

Floating Feather in the Midnight Sky, Medium size Photograph, Mounted and Framed

By Paul Kenny

Located in London, GB

The artworks capture a feather balanced amidst a starry void, inviting contemplation and reflection. A feather down drifts softly, suspended in a mysterious, dream-like expanse of bl...

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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Photogram, Archival Pigment

"Untitled 2.22" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina

"Untitled 2.22" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina

By García De Marina

Located in Culver City, CA

"Untitled 2.22" 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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Jeff Becker, Privey Policy, 2016, Archival Pigment Print

Jeff Becker, Privey Policy, 2016, Archival Pigment Print

By Jeff Becker

Located in Darien, CT

Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Slu...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Peoples Privacy

Peoples Privacy

By Jeff Becker

Located in Darien, CT

Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Sl...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Inkjet

Jeff Becker, Slurry Pentagon, 2016, Inkjet Print

Jeff Becker, Slurry Pentagon, 2016, Inkjet Print

By Jeff Becker

Located in Darien, CT

Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Sl...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Inkjet

"Untitled 2.21" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina

"Untitled 2.21" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina

By García De Marina

Located in Culver City, CA

"Untitled 2.21" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. A do...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Virtual Reality  30 X 25
Virtual Reality  30 X 25

Virtual Reality 30 X 25

By Heriberto Mora

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

Each of Heriberto Mora's paintings has a story for the viewer to imagine. Heriberto Mora was born in Havana, Cuba. He graduated from the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts ...

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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Untitled 1.21" Still Life Photography 24' x 35' in Ed of 10 by García De Marina

"Untitled 1.21" Still Life Photography 24' x 35' in Ed of 10 by García De Marina

By García De Marina

Located in Culver City, CA

"Untitled 1.21" Still Life Photography 24' x 35' in Ed 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 ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Twilight's 034, Danse Macabre - A skeletal Oak tree - Landscpae
Twilight's 034, Danse Macabre - A skeletal Oak tree - Landscpae

Twilight's 034, Danse Macabre - A skeletal Oak tree - Landscpae

By Jasper Goodall

Located in London, GB

A skeletal oak, starved of light by the surrounding fir trees still holds its twisted limbs up towards the light as if frozen in its death throes. "I want to bring a sense of unfamiliarity into the images; to present commonplace nature in a peculiar way. This is, in part, a reaction against our over sanitised and conditioned lives. The night forest is devoid of people. It is an undomesticated wilderness right on our doorstep." - Jasper Goodall...

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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Color

The Magic Sign - Lithograph by Giuliano Sturli - 1976

The Magic Sign - Lithograph by Giuliano Sturli - 1976

Located in Roma, IT

The magic sign is a lithograph realized by Giuliano Sturli in 1976 Hand-signed and dated on the lower margin. Numbered of the lower left. Edition of 50. Original title: Il seg...

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1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Untitled 3.22" Photography 16' x 24' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina

"Untitled 3.22" Photography 16' x 24' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina

By García De Marina

Located in Culver City, CA

"Untitled 3.22" Photography 16' x 24' 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 Gij...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

RIC: Random Internet Cat #9

RIC: Random Internet Cat #9

By Patrick Lichty

Located in New York, NY

Random Internet Cats 
Robotically-fabricated drawings on paper, these series formally deal with mediation from screen image to ‘drawing’ while using a computer-controlled pen plotte...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper

RIC: Random Internet Cat #4

RIC: Random Internet Cat #4

By Patrick Lichty

Located in New York, NY

Random Internet Cats 
Robotically-fabricated drawings on paper, these series formally deal with mediation from screen image to ‘drawing’ while using a computer-controlled pen plotte...

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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-236 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-236 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

By Miroslav Tichy

Located in Zurich, CH

Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-236 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 16,8 x 11,8 cm (6 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...

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Late 20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Mujo Silver
Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Mujo Silver

Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Mujo Silver

By Kojun

Located in Paris, IDF

Cardboard, silver leaf, gilder’s bole This work was created for an exhibit as part of the artistic unit SHIKŌ, a collaborative effort between sculptors Kanji Hasegawa, Isaji Yugo, a...

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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Silver

Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Shiko 17
Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Shiko 17

Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Shiko 17

By Kojun

Located in Paris, IDF

Lego, gold leaf, cashew lacquer  This collaborative work, which began with a common interest in Buddhism, explored the idea of expressing the sacred within everyday life. As artist and Zen monk...

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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Richard Long, Wind Stones – Signed Print from 1986
Richard Long, Wind Stones – Signed Print from 1986

Richard Long, Wind Stones – Signed Print from 1986

By Richard Long

Located in Hamburg, DE

Richard Long (British, b. 1945) Wind Stones (from For Joseph Beuys), 1986 Medium: Offset lithograph and silkscreen on paper Dimensions: 60 x 80 cm (23.5 x 31.5 in) Edition of 90 + XX...

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20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Offset, Screen

Untitled I, Conceptual Intaglio by Shlomo Koren

Untitled I, Conceptual Intaglio by Shlomo Koren

By Shlomo Koren

Located in Long Island City, NY

Shlomo Koren, German/Israeli (1932 - ) - Untitled I, Year: 1970, Medium: Intaglio, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 15, Size: 26 x 20 in. (66.04 x 50.8 cm)

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1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Intaglio

Earth Series 2, Conceptual Lithograph by Alan Sonfist
Earth Series 2, Conceptual Lithograph by Alan Sonfist

Earth Series 2, Conceptual Lithograph by Alan Sonfist

By Alan Sonfist

Located in Long Island City, NY

Alan Sonfist, American (1946 - ) - Earth Series 2, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, Image Size: 24 x 18 inches, Size: 30 x 22 in. (7...

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Earth Series 3, Conceptual Lithograph by Alan Sonfist
Earth Series 3, Conceptual Lithograph by Alan Sonfist

Earth Series 3, Conceptual Lithograph by Alan Sonfist

By Alan Sonfist

Located in Long Island City, NY

Alan Sonfist, American (1946 - ) - Earth Series 3, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, Image Size: 24 x 18 inches, Size: 30 in. x 22 in....

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1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Nebula, Conceptual Lithograph by Alan Sonfist
Nebula, Conceptual Lithograph by Alan Sonfist

Nebula, Conceptual Lithograph by Alan Sonfist

By Alan Sonfist

Located in Long Island City, NY

Alan Sonfist, American (1946 - ) - Nebula, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 2/300, Image Size: 20 x 27.5 inches, Size: 22 x 30 in. ...

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1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled, Conceptual Intaglio by Shlomo Koren
Untitled, Conceptual Intaglio by Shlomo Koren

Untitled, Conceptual Intaglio by Shlomo Koren

By Shlomo Koren

Located in Long Island City, NY

Shlomo Koren, German/Israeli (1932 - ) - Untitled, Year: 1970, Medium: Intaglio, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 15, Size: 26 x 20 in. (66.04 x 50.8 cm)

Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Intaglio

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.