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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
Naturaleza muerta con botella
Naturaleza muerta con botella

Naturaleza muerta con botella

By Eduardo Costa

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic

Milagro 12
Milagro 12

Milagro 12

By Eduardo Costa

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic

Not If But When

Not If But When

By Alex Gingrow

Located in New York, NY

graphite, flashe, ink and gesso on paper, 22"x30" signed by the artist The text in this painting reads like a mantra: Not If But When, in grades of red, pink and blue on a washed gre...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Gesso, Ink, Graphite

Still Pretty Though

Still Pretty Though

By Alex Gingrow

Located in New York, NY

graphite, flashe, ink and gesso on paper, 22"x30" signed by the artist The text in this painting reads: still pretty though, painted in stark capital letters faded into the backgroun...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Gesso, Ink, Graphite

Relocation Lasso
Relocation Lasso

Relocation Lasso

By Patricia Smith

Located in New York, NY

Designated Problem Area Relocation Lasso (Plot Plan No. 170520 ) framed, with signature on reverse This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newly released ser...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

"Hard Shell Confinement Structure"
"Hard Shell Confinement Structure"

"Hard Shell Confinement Structure"

By Patricia Smith

Located in New York, NY

Potentially Materialized Hard Shell Confinement Structure (Plot Plan No. 10618) framed, pen and ink with watercolor, signed on reverse by the artist. Beautifully rendered in ink an...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Rigged Opulence Compartment
Rigged Opulence Compartment

Rigged Opulence Compartment

By Patricia Smith

Located in New York, NY

"Rigged Opulence Compartment With Temporal Resonance Modules" framed, with signature on reverse This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newly released series...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Plot Plan No. 13821
Plot Plan No. 13821

Plot Plan No. 13821

By Patricia Smith

Located in New York, NY

Plot Plan No. 13821 For Proposed Positive Aspect Containment Strategy, watercolor and ink on paper, signed on reverse by the artist and presentd framed in a high quality shadowbox fr...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Plot Plan No. 170518
Plot Plan No. 170518

Plot Plan No. 170518

By Patricia Smith

Located in New York, NY

Plot Plan No. 170518 Self-Generating Polarization Structure With Pronounced Left Hemisphere Compartmentalization This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newl...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Plot Plan No. 170519
Plot Plan No. 170519

Plot Plan No. 170519

By Patricia Smith

Located in New York, NY

Plot Plan No. 170519 Full-Dress Protectionist Pad With Knotted Entrance Strategy This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newly released series: "Shelter in P...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Plot Plan No. 10616
Plot Plan No. 10616

Plot Plan No. 10616

By Patricia Smith

Located in New York, NY

Plot Plan No. 10616 Potentially Materialized Triple Chamber Confinement Study This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newly released series: "Shelter in...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Traveling Landscape (Roundtop Steamer)
Traveling Landscape (Roundtop Steamer)

Traveling Landscape (Roundtop Steamer)

By Kathleen Vance

Located in New York, NY

This sculptural installation incorporates running water and and interior light which activates the scene of a streambed along a grassy knoll. Kathleen Vance is an environmental artist who creates projects that connect people to local aspects of nature that are overlooked or under appreciated. With the series “Traveling Landscapes” Vance creates miniature landscapes with running streams and rivers inside vintage suitcases and trunks...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Resin, Found Objects

Elmwood and Oaklawn

Elmwood and Oaklawn

By Ross Racine

Located in New York, NY

archival pigment print image size: 23.5"x 31.5" on 26.75"x 34.5" sheet edition of 10 available unframed This print is a surreal depiction of an aerial view of a ...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Mesh Wonder Ball (1510)
Mesh Wonder Ball (1510)

Mesh Wonder Ball (1510)

By Joanne Ungar

Located in New York, NY

beeswax, paraffin, cardboard on wood 8.25"x7.75" Joanne Ungar’s use of wax obscures and mystifies the origin of the materials she has imbedded. In this work, the composition is d...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Cardboard, Wax, Wood

To The River

To The River

By Ross Racine

Located in New York, NY

edition of 5 available unframed image size: 23 1/2" x 31 1/2" Ross Racine is an artist living in Montreal (Quebec), Canada, and New York. Racine's works are drawn freehand on a ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Bulb

Bulb

By Walker Pickering

Located in New York, NY

Walker Pickering is an artist and educator based in Lincoln, Nebraska. He is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he has taught photography sinc...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Mario Bedini

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Lithograph

Art Against AIDS
Art Against AIDS

Art Against AIDS

By General Idea

Located in Toronto, Ontario

In 1967, General Idea was founded in Toronto by AA Bronson (b. 1946), Felix Partz (1945-1994), and Jorge Zontal (1944-1994). Over the course of 25 years, they made a significant cont...

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Screen

El paseo de la niña
El paseo de la niña

El paseo de la niña

Located in Barcelona, CT

the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Color

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Orange Storefront, Project, Ediciones Poligrafa, 1979
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Orange Storefront, Project, Ediciones Poligrafa, 1979

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Orange Storefront, Project, Ediciones Poligrafa, 1979

By Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph by Christo and Jeanne-Claude (1935–2020; 1935–2009), titled Facade de magasin orange, projet (Orange Storefront, Project), from the album Ediciones Poligraf...

Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Julio Castillo

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with work and authenticity certificate

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Untitled

Untitled

By Juan Casellas

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Oil

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Maria Carbonero

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

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1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Pep Canyellas

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Pep Canyellas

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Lluis Barba

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Lluis Barba

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Lluis Barba

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Lluis Barba

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Lluis Barba

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Ink

They grey square
They grey square

They grey square

By Juan Canals

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Humanoids
Humanoids

Humanoids

By Juan Canals

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Marx
Marx

Marx

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Lluis Barba

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Aguas Serenas
Aguas Serenas

Aguas Serenas

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Alfonso Albacete

Located in Barcelona, CT

the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Printer's Ink

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.