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While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared. 

Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.

Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.

Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.

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Style: Expressionist
Maggie in Helmet Portrait Oil Painting Richard Butler Psychedelic Furs Front Man
Maggie in Helmet Portrait Oil Painting Richard Butler Psychedelic Furs Front Man

Maggie in Helmet Portrait Oil Painting Richard Butler Psychedelic Furs Front Man

Located in Surfside, FL

'Maggie with Helmet' 2012 Oil on canvas Verso: Hand signed and dated on canvas. Dimensions: 24" h x 20" w. Frame: 25.5" h 21.5" w Provenance: Property of a Southampton, NY collection Richard Butler (Post-war and Contemporary artist) studied painting at the Epsom School of Art and Design (now University for the Creative Arts). In school he was exposed to radical developments taking hold in the artworld including Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, David Hockney and Francis Bacon and the emerging British pop art of Richard Hamilton and Peter Blake. He later turning to silkscreen printmaking. But like many famous rockers, from Keith Richards and Roger Waters to Tupac Shakur and Lady Gaga, Butler began making music in art school, and art was a passion that never went away. Shortly after graduating from the art school, in 1977, Richard Butler became a founder and singer/songwriter for the British post-punk / new wave rock and roll band "The Psychedelic Furs". Quickly gaining commercial success, his musical career kept him away from painting throughout the 80s and the 90s. In early 2000s, Richard Butler returned to painting and started exhibiting his art in the U.S. and Europe. He prefers to call himself a painter who sings, rather than a singer who paints. He was influenced by Anselm Kiefer and Francesco Clemente and became friends with Julian Schnabel. With his daughter, Maggie Mozart Butler, as his muse, he produces expressionistic portraits of pensive female subjects, who serve as ciphers for himself. As he describes, “In a way I think all of my paintings are self-portraits in that, though the face I am painting may not be my own, the feeling I get back from the painting is certainly an important element of my own psyche.” His work is a sort of dark moody expressionism with nods towards Lucien Freud. He lives and works in Connecticut. He has had solo exhibitions in New York City, Miami and Florence, Italy. One of his works, Girl with a Map, has been used as a CD's cover art. Selected Solo Exhibitions 2020 Richard Butler: Amnesiac Hostess, Waltman Ortega Fine Art, Miami, Florida, USA 2017 101/EXHIBIT, La Peer Drive, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA 2015 naturalhistory ,Freight+Volume (Allen St.) ,Lower East Side, New York, USA Selected Group Exhibitions 2025 Summer Sale, Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris Saint-Germain, 6e, Paris, France The Rhythm. Vibratory Shock of Being, Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris Marais...

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2010s Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Large-Scale Abstract Expressionism with Aqua, Teal, Grey, & White
Large-Scale Abstract Expressionism with Aqua, Teal, Grey, & White

Large-Scale Abstract Expressionism with Aqua, Teal, Grey, & White

By D.S. Silver

Located in Soquel, CA

Expressive and dynamic large-scale abstract expressionist painting by D.S. Silver (American, 20th Century), c.1985. Big and bold brushstrokes in a palette of cool colors, including aqua, teal, grey, and white, dance across the huge canvas...

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1980s Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Coit Tower, San Francisco - Mid Century Urban Landscape
Coit Tower, San Francisco - Mid Century Urban Landscape

Coit Tower, San Francisco - Mid Century Urban Landscape

Located in Soquel, CA

Wonderful mid century expressionist urban landscape of Coit Tower and skyline of San Francisco, circa 1950s. Signed lower right illegibly (D. Y'Gasseu?). Co...

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1950s Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Town Square, Original Painting
Town Square, Original Painting

Town Square, Original Painting

By Laura (Yi Zhen) Chen

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A town square boasts structures with mixed architectural styles. Lively street performers and the crowd enjoy each other's company. It captures the vibrant es...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Sunflowers 97X170, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Sunflowers 97X170, Painting, Oil on Canvas

Sunflowers 97X170, Painting, Oil on Canvas

By Elena Lukina

Located in Yardley, PA

In my creation, I pour my soul into the vibrant dance of sunflowers under an evocative sky. Each stroke is a symphony of colors, blending impressionistic warmth with a touch of reali...

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2010s Expressionist Art

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Oil

Complete Beach, Oil Painting
Complete Beach, Oil Painting

Complete Beach, Oil Painting

By George Peebles

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Verdant blades of grass blend into warm tones of yellow and orange, gradually leading to a sandy shore. On the horizon, a quiet beach meets the clear blue sky...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Oil

La Rencontre Avec Les Muletiers IV by Bernard Buffet

La Rencontre Avec Les Muletiers IV by Bernard Buffet

By Bernard Buffet

Located in New York, NY

"Painting, we do not talk about it, we do not analyse it, we feel it." - Bernard Buffet About the Artist: (10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter of Expressionism and a member of the anti-abstract art group L'homme Témoin (the Witness-Man) Certificate of Provenance: Each individual work of art carefully curated by Mourlot Editions comes with a Certificate of Provenance, signed, dated, stamped, and numbered by Eric Mourlot...

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1980s Expressionist Art

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Lithograph

'Improvisation 7' original first ed. woodcut  from 'Klänge' by Wassily Kandinsky
'Improvisation 7' original first ed. woodcut  from 'Klänge' by Wassily Kandinsky

'Improvisation 7' original first ed. woodcut from 'Klänge' by Wassily Kandinsky

By Wassily Kandinsky

Located in Milwaukee, WI

The present woodcut print comes from 'Klänge (Sounds),' a book of original graphics and poetry by Wassily Kandinsky. This first edition was released in an edition of 300, each book signed and numbered by the artist. The title of the album and this particular print, 'Improvisation,' demonstrated Kandinsky's interest in music and how abstract musical forms could be translated into images on a two-dimensional surface. This particular composition is difficult to read, but through the abstraction, one can make out various figures and a landscape beyond. 7.5 x 5 inches, image 22 x 19.5 inches, frame Woodcut in black ink on laid paper (watermark Van Gelder Zonen) Signed with encircled 'K' in the block, lower right Framed to conservation standards using 100 percent acid free archival materials including silk-lined matting with 1/4 inch bevel, museum glass, and a gold-gilded moulding Ref. Roethel 124 The Museum of Modern Art described 'Klänge (Sounds)' as follows: Vasily Kandinsky's self-described "musical album," Klänge (Sounds), consists of thirty-eight prose-poems he wrote between 1909 and 1911 and fifty-six woodcuts he began in 1907. In the woodcuts Kandinsky veiled his subject matter, creating increasingly indecipherable images (though the horse and rider, his symbol for overcoming objective representation, runs through as a leitmotif). This process proved crucial for the development of abstraction in his art. Kandinsky said his choice of media sprang from an "inner necessity" for expression: the woodcuts were not merely illustrative, nor were the poems purely verbal descriptions. Kandinsky sought a synthesis of the arts, in which meaning was created through the interaction of, and space between, text and image, sound and meaning, mark and blank space. The experimental typography shows his interest in the physical aspects of the book. Klänge is one of three major publications by Kandinsky that appeared shortly before World War I, alongside Über die Geistige in der Kunst (Concerning the Spiritual in Art) and the Blaue Reiter almanac...

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1910s Expressionist Art

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Woodcut

Farmhouse in Buchberg by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime collotype, 1908-1912
Farmhouse in Buchberg by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime collotype, 1908-1912

Farmhouse in Buchberg by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime collotype, 1908-1912

By Gustav Klimt

Located in Chicago, IL

Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Farmhouse in Buchberg (Upper Austrian Farmhouse), painted in 1911. Published and edited by Verlag H.O. Miethke and printed by k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, in an edition of 300. Between 1908 and 1914, H.O. Miethke published Das Werk Gustav Klimts...

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Early 1900s Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper

Sunrise over the City, Original Painting
Sunrise over the City, Original Painting

Sunrise over the City, Original Painting

By Diana Elena Chelaru

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Vibrant, swirling sun rays fill the sky, creating a celestial panorama above a city. The windows of the stylized buildings below reflect the galaxy of geometr...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

"Moon Spirit Dancer, " Oil on Canvas
"Moon Spirit Dancer, " Oil on Canvas

"Moon Spirit Dancer, " Oil on Canvas

By Bruno Surdo

Located in Chicago, IL

Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo creates dynamic compositions of people and places that communicate a rich commentary on the world around him. Depicting trees from personal encounters, Surdo’s latest body of work entitled “Tree Spirits” takes us on a foray into the forest, where leaves, branches and burls express something deeply personal. Applying his mastery of figurative realism to the natural world, he experiments with form and texture to uncover the intangible spirits of trees. This large-scale painting entitled “Moon Spirit Dancer...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Oil

Daycamp, Original Painting
Daycamp, Original Painting

Daycamp, Original Painting

By Janet Dyer

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Low buildings hide among nature in an abandoned day camp. The sunlight filters through the trees, painting the grass with a soft radiance. The expressive brus...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Acrylic

The Songs of Songs of King Salomons
The Songs of Songs of King Salomons

The Songs of Songs of King Salomons

By Théo Tobiasse

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist: Teo Tobiasse (French/Israeli, 1927-2012) Title: "The Songs of Songs of King Solomons" Year: 1975 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: Numbered LVII/C in pencil Paper: Jap...

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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

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Lithograph

"Untitled": Lithograph from One Cent Life
"Untitled": Lithograph from One Cent Life

"Untitled": Lithograph from One Cent Life

By Pierre Alechinsky

Located in Austin, TX

Artist: Pierre Alechinsky Title: "Untitled": Lithograph from One Cent Life Year: 1964 Medium: 2 page lithograph, as printed from One Cent Life As printed with Walasse Ting poem, fro...

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1960s Expressionist Art

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Lithograph

Dancing with Friends, Original Painting
Dancing with Friends, Original Painting

Dancing with Friends, Original Painting

By Diana Elena Chelaru

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This painting shows a happy moment between friends dancing with each other. They close their eyes and lift their hands, fully immersing themselves in the expe...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

French School, Floral Still Life Oil Painting, Flowers in a White Vase
French School, Floral Still Life Oil Painting, Flowers in a White Vase

French School, Floral Still Life Oil Painting, Flowers in a White Vase

By Charles Badoisel

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

An original French Expressionist floral still life oil painting on linen from 1967 by Charles Badoisel (1925–2009), flowers in a white vase, signed and dated by the artist at the low...

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1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Paint, Oil

Harlequin Oil Painting on Canvas, Expressionist Style, 1990s
Harlequin Oil Painting on Canvas, Expressionist Style, 1990s

Harlequin Oil Painting on Canvas, Expressionist Style, 1990s

By Evelyne Ballestra

Located in Miami, FL

Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work creates a commentary about “beginnings” and the transmission of signs and emotions through visual elements evoking a spiritual essence to our scientific notion of etymology. After studying under Rolf Dürig...

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1990s Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Le Tennis

Le Tennis

By Jean-Pierre Cassigneul

Located in New York, NY

Le Tennis is a beautiful large painting by the artist and painted painted in 1981. The artist has one of the paintings in his own collection and was happy to hear when we acquired t...

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1980s Expressionist Art

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Oil

Rebirth 2 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative People, Expressionism, Women
Rebirth 2 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative People, Expressionism, Women

Rebirth 2 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative People, Expressionism, Women

By Emmanuel Ojebola

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure 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 Authenticity About Artist Emma...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Coffee, Mixed Media

Rebirth 1 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative People, Expressionism, Women
Rebirth 1 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative People, Expressionism, Women

Rebirth 1 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative People, Expressionism, Women

By Emmanuel Ojebola

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure 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 Authenticity About Artist Emma...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Coffee, Mixed Media

Tides of  Change 1 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative People, Expressionism
Tides of  Change 1 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative People, Expressionism

Tides of Change 1 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative People, Expressionism

By Emmanuel Ojebola

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Tides of Change captures the constant ebb and flow of human experience, where moments of uncertainty give rise to transformation. Like the sea, life moves in rhythms of loss and rene...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Coffee, Mixed Media

Track Star - Figurative Portrait of an African American Man in Pastel on Paper
Track Star - Figurative Portrait of an African American Man in Pastel on Paper

Track Star - Figurative Portrait of an African American Man in Pastel on Paper

Located in Soquel, CA

Track Star - Abstracted Portrait of an African American Man in Pastel on Paper Bold and imaginative pastel drawing of a man in a track suit by an unknown artist (20th Century). An A...

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Late 20th Century Expressionist Art

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Paper, Oil Pastel

A Colorful Life, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
A Colorful Life, Painting, Acrylic on Paper

A Colorful Life, Painting, Acrylic on Paper

By Debbie Pacheco

Located in Yardley, PA

The world if full of light and color if we look for it. A new day is a new opportunity. A new day is full of hope. The painting is on heavy weight paper and painted expressively with...

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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Down East, Original Painting
Down East, Original Painting

Down East, Original Painting

By Robert Hofherr

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Coastal Maine structures take on an expressive quality through intense colors and simplified forms. Large blocks of yellow, green, blue, and purple create visua...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Sister, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Sister, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper

Sister, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper

By Barbara Kroll

Located in Yardley, PA

In my pictures I try to combine the visual and the conceptual. For me, drawing is a medium of knowledge which, beyond direct expression, makes visible material and immaterial forces,...

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2010s Expressionist Art

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Pencil

Seated woman with shawl, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch), 1922
Seated woman with shawl, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch), 1922

Seated woman with shawl, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch), 1922

By (after) Gustav Klimt

Located in Chicago, IL

Original collotype lithograph of Gustav Kilmt’s Seated woman with shawl, published in the 1922 Handzeichnungen portfolio by Thyrsos Verlag, Leipzig and Vienna, in an edition of 375. This artwork is presented in archival rag mat and arrives accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Klimt’s mastery of depth is most evident in the gentleness of his linework. Without the aid of shadow or the subtlety of values, the gestures of line allow the viewer a sense of a three-dimensional person or object. The meticulous lithographic process used to create Klimt’s Handzeichnungen portfolio ensures exceptionally crisp markings bearing a strong resemblance to the original sketches. This series showcases the quintessence behind Klimt’s signature visual style. This artwork arrives accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Century Guild has curated collections of Gustav Klimt’s printed...

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1920s Expressionist Art

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Paper, Lithograph

Landscape With River  Abstract Expressionist
Landscape With River  Abstract Expressionist

Landscape With River Abstract Expressionist

By Jacques Kupfermann

Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Expressionist Landscape With River Signed lower left. Jacques Herbert Kupfermann (1926–1987) was an American Expressionist painter who was born in Vienna, Austria. His work, both ab...

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1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Summer light, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Summer light, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Summer light, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By LE ANH TUAN

Located in Yardley, PA

Welcome to Under the Summer Light, a landscape painting full of vitality and vibrant colors of a beautiful summer. The painting is like a blend of vibrant nature and fresh emotions...

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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Rabbis Singing
Rabbis Singing

Rabbis Singing

By Jacob Steinhardt

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist: Jakob Steinhardt (German/Israeli, 1887-1968) Title: Rabbis Singing Year: Circa 1960 Medium: Color woodcut Paper: Wove Image size (Block mark): 9.60 x 14 inches Sheet size...

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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art

Materials

Woodcut

Musical Flow, Original Painting
Musical Flow, Original Painting

Musical Flow, Original Painting

By Diana Elena Chelaru

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
In this lively and spirited painting, five figures revel in the music and each other's company. Tones of blue and orange embrace their forms as they hit the d...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

C'est le Passe que Nous Attendons
C'est le Passe que Nous Attendons

C'est le Passe que Nous Attendons

By Théo Tobiasse

Located in Long Island City, NY

An oil painting by Theo Tobiasse from 1967. An expressionist-style textural painting of intensely dark and vivid color palette. Inspired from the artist's personal experiences of the...

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1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

My Steeze - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern, Men, Africa
My Steeze - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern, Men, Africa

My Steeze - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern, Men, Africa

By Daniel Owoeye

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

My Steezz "Steez" = composure + values + identity + inner Standard - something unbending, no matter the storm. Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This wo...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Hathor Oil Painting on Canvas, Expressionist Style, 21st Century
Hathor Oil Painting on Canvas, Expressionist Style, 21st Century

Hathor Oil Painting on Canvas, Expressionist Style, 21st Century

By Evelyne Ballestra

Located in Miami, FL

Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work creates a commentary about “beginnings” and the transmission of signs and emotions through visual elements evoking a spiritual essence to our scientific notion of etymology. After studying under Rolf Dürig...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

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Find a wide variety of authentic Expressionist 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 orange, blue, purple, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Iryna Kastsova, George Grosz, Stephen Basso, and Marc Chagall. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil 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 Expressionist art, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available.