Op Art
OP ART STYLE
The Op art movement emerged in the 1960s, mirroring the counterculture of the time in its embrace of visual trickery, graphic shapes and bright colors.
Spreading across Europe and the Americas, the style — whose name is short for “optical art” — influenced advertising, fashion and interior design before fading in the early ’70s.
Op art remained significant, however, for artists and scientists interested in the nature of perception. And today, it’s seeing a resurgence of interest from collectors and interior designers.
Op artists played with the principles of perception, manipulating line, shape, patterns and color to create the illusion of depth and movement. They drew on and evolved methods developed by past movements, from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism, to produce intense visual experiences.
All the Op artists shared a focus on the gap between what is and what we perceive. Each, however, had a distinct approach to the issue and a unique visual style.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of Op art that includes works by Josef Albers, Bridget Riley, Jesús Rafael Soto and more.
Style: Op Art
Color: Orange
"Homage to the Cross II", circa 1970, Serigraph by Roy Ahlgren
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011)
Title: Homage to the Cross II
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 100
Image Size: 17 x 17 inches
Si...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Parmasos VII
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Original color silkscreen, cca. 1970. Edition of 70 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper.
Marko Spalatin was a modern and contemporary artist from Croatia, who immigrated ...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Rows
Located in New York, NY
Rows, 1970, by Julian Stanczak (1928-2017)
Acrylic on canvas
27 ¼ x 27 ¼ inches unframed (69.215 x 69.215 cm)
28 ½ x 28 ½ inches framed (72.39 x 72.39 cm)
Signed on reverse
Dated and...
Category
Late 20th Century Op Art
Materials
Acrylic
Agam Silkscreen Jerusalem Lithograph Hand Signed Israeli Kinetic Op Art Print
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Surfside, FL
Yaacov Agam, Israeli (b. 1928)
Hand signed, not individually numbered but from edition of 180. I can include a copy of the title sheet with the edition size and his signature if you ...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Kandahar - Screen Print by Victor Vasarely - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Kandahar is a contemporary artwork realized by Victor Vasarely in 1955.
Screen print on wove paper after a painting of 1951.
Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin.
Edition ...
Category
1950s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Highway, Pop Art Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Highway
Year: 1979
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Image Size: 30 x 22 inches
Paper Si...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
'Trees at Sunset', Large Oil, Philadelphia Museum, Yale, PAFA Op-Ed Woman Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, lower left, with monogram, 'E. A.', for Edna Wright Andrade (American, 1917-2008) and dated 1954. Additionally signed, verso.
A luminous, mid-ce...
Category
1950s Op Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red is a Red, OpArt red geometric acrylic painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Julian Stanczak (American, 1928–2017)
Red is a Red, 1969
Acrylic on canvas
Signed, dated and titled verso
28 x 28 inches
29 x 29 inches, framed
OpArt red geometric acrylic painting
...
Category
1960s Op Art
Materials
Acrylic
Gamut, Op Art Screenprint by Mark Rowland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mark Rowland (American, 1953 - )
Title: Gamut
Medium: Screenprint, signed, dated, and titled in pencil
Edition 214/300
Size: 30 x 30 in. (76.2 x ...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Let It Be Orange
Located in Miami, FL
Technical Information:
Julian Stanczak
Let It Be Orange
1981
Screenprint
25 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.
Edition of 175
Pencil signed and numbered
Accompanied with COA...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Inward Eye, #4 OP Art Serigraph by Anuszkiewicz
Located in Long Island City, NY
A limited edition serigraph from the Inward Eye portfolio. The work bears the publishers stamp verso and is unsigned from the edition of 500.
Artist: Richard Anuszkiewicz, American ...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Emerging Orange
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Julian Stanczak
Emerging Orange
1970
Screenprint
28 3/4 x 28 3/4 in.
Edition of 165
Pencil signed and numbered
Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Inward Eye, #1 OP Art Serigraph by Anuszkiewicz
Located in Long Island City, NY
A limited edition serigraph from the Inward Eye portfolio. The work bears the publishers stamp verso and is unsigned from the edition of 500.
Artist: Richard Anuszkiewicz, American ...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Dimensional, from Twelve Progressions
Located in Miami, FL
Technical Information:
Julian Stanczak
Dimensional, from Twelve Progressions
1971
Screenprint
31 3/4 x 26 in.
Edition of 90
Pencil signed and numbered
Accompanied with COA by Gregg...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Fractions, from Twelve Progressions
Located in Miami, FL
Technical Information:
Julian Stanczak
Fractions, from Twelve Progressions
1971
Screenprint
26 1/2 x 26 1/2 in.
Edition of 90
Pencil signed and numbered
Accompanied with COA by Gre...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Three to Compare, from Twelve Progressions
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Julian Stanczak
Three to Compare, from Twelve Progressions
1971
Screenprint
31 3/4 x 26 in.
Edition of 90
Pencil signed and numbered
Accompanied with COA by ...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Diamonds Floating in Orange
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Julian Stanczak
Diamonds Floating in Orange
1970
Silkscreen
28 1/4 x 28 1/4 in.
Edition of 135
Pencil Signed and Numbered
Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shien...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
"Suspend" Optical Art Contemporary Painting with Female Figure
By Emily Roz
Located in New York, NY
"Suspend" is an evocative contemporary op art painting, depicting a female nude lounging amongst a planar background of optics and geometric visual effects. Vibrant colors of violets, reds, yellows and blues in geometric patterns create illusion and optical effects that surround and absorb the figure in this painting by Emily Roz. Referencing op art and a 1970's sensibility, volumizing shaded stripes, polka dots, stripes and radiating lines of color in contrasting angles creates a distorted planar ground that the figure extends across, facing away from the viewer.
Emily Roz, "Suspend"
acryla gouache on paper, 12 x 16 inches, 2020
Emily Roz (b. 1972, New Haven, CT) is a New York based artist. She has had multiple solo exhibitions at Front Room Gallery...
Category
2010s Op Art
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
Three to Compare
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Three to Compare
From: Twelve Progressions
Signed and numbered in pencil
Commissioned by Martha Jackson Graphics
Printer: Domberger, Stuttgart, Germany
Their drystamp lower right cor...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Egg (Orange), Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Kyohei Inukai
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kyohei Inukai, American (1913 - 1985)
Title: Egg (Orange)
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 50
Image Size: 25 x 20 inches
Size: 35 x...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Colourful, op-art, modern painting "Movimenti Cinetici"
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Ferruccio Gard (Italy, 1940) is one of the pioneers and leading artist representatives of the Neo-Constructivist art, Programmed Art and Optical Art, which he has practiced since 1969. He is considered to be a master of colour, in his painting Gard creates original formal and compositional solutions of forms and colours. Exploring the geometric composition with chromatic and special themes Gards clasps the complexity of black and white and the extremes of the tonal scale of colours.
Gard's work have been the subject of many writers, including Piero Dorazio and Virgilio Guidi, as well as renowned poets art art curators such as Jorge Amado...
Category
1990s Op Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Op-art contemporary colourful acrylic painting "Movement as a Message"
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Ferruccio Gard (Italy, 1940) is one of the pioneers and leading artist representatives of the Neo-Constructivist art, Programmed Art and Optical Art, which he has practiced since 1969. He is considered to be a master of colour, in his painting Gard creates original formal and compositional solutions of forms and colours. Exploring the geometric composition with chromatic and special themes Gards clasps the complexity of black and white and the extremes of the tonal scale of colours.
Gard's work have been the subject of many writers, including Piero Dorazio and Virgilio Guidi, as well as renowned poets art art curators such as Jorge Amado...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Split Infinity #8B5, Geometric Abstract Screenprint by Herbert Aach
By Herbert Aach
Located in Long Island City, NY
This serigraph was created by German Op artist Herbert Aach. Aach's prints play with geometry and form, and trick the viewer's eyes by juxtaposing bright neon colors. This print is s...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
PEACE III (HEXAGON SHAPED)
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed and titled on verso by the artist. Canvas is stretched in a hexagon shape as pictured.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Let It Be Orange
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in pencil lower right
Published by Eugene Schuster, London Art
Printer: Vistec, Rochester, New York
Regular edition unrealized per Stanczak web site
This annotated "H.C." ...
Category
1880s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Checkmate, Op Art by Rita Simon
By Rita Simon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Rita Simon, American (1938 - )
Title: Checkmate
Year: 1978
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP 30
Image Size: 32 x 24 inches
Size: 34 in. x 26...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Flirt, OP Art Screenprint by Arthur Boden
By Arthur Boden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Arthur Boden
Title: Flirt
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Serigraph on Canvas, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: AP
Size: 31 x 36 in. (78.74 x 91.44 cm)
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
II from the Aquarius Suite, Op Art Screenprint by Stanley William Hayter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stanley Hayter, British (1901 - 1988)
Title: II from the Aquarius Suite
Year: 1970
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150; AP XXX
Paper Size: 27 x 2...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
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Historic limited edition 1960s retrospective poster British Council Pop Op Art
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After Bridget Riley
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in collaboration with five international museums
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Located in Roma, IT
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Formes Et Coulers Planche 2
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Located in Paonia, CO
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TallerOr
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TallerOr
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"Oktoqou III" 1974 OpArt Silkscreen Jürgen Peters
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Oktoqou III
1974
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28.25"x28.25" unframed
Signed, dated, titled, and print number across bottom in pencil.
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Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
Victor Vasarely, Door, 1982
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Victor Vasarely (Hungarian / French 1906 – 1997)
Door, 1982
Numbered ‘E.A. 7/9’ (lower left) and signed Vasarely (lower right)
Artist’s proof
Silkscreen print
43 x 23.1/2 in. (109.3 ...
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Located in San Francisco, CA
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Located in Long Island City, NY
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1960s Op Art
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Screen
H 32 in W 32 in D 1 in
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Located in Auburn Hills, MI
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Highway, Pop Art Screenprint
Located in Long Island City, NY
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Annotated: EA in pencil lower left (see photo)
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Yaacov Gibstein (later Agam) was born in Rishon LeZion, then Mandate Palestine. His father, Yehoshua Gibstein, was a rabbi and a kabbalist.
Agam trained at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, before moving to Zürich, Switzerland in 1949, where he studied under Johannes Itten (1888–1967) at the Kunstgewerbe Schule, and was also influenced by the painter and sculptor Max Bill (1908–1994).
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RADIANCE (CIRCULAR SHAPED)
By Stan Slutsky
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front; signed and titled on verso by the artist. Canvas is stretched in circular shape.
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21st Century and Contemporary Op Art
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The Inward Eye 7, signed OP Art silkscreen by Anuszkiewicz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Anuszkiewicz, American (1930 - )
Title: Inward Eye, #7
Year: 1970
Medium: Serigraph, signed in pencil lower right
Edition Size: 500
Size: 25.5 x 19.75 in. (64.77 x 50...
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1970s Op Art
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Sequential Chroma, Julian Stanczak
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Op Art art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Op 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 Victor Vasarely, Roy Ahlgren, Victor Debach, and Yaacov Agam. Frequently made by artists working with Screen Print, 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 Op Art, so small editions measuring 2 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 $66 and tops out at $350,000, while the average work sells for $1,616.
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