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.
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Style: Op Art
Blue Composition - Screen Print by Victor Debach - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Blue Composition in a screenprint realized by Victor Debach in 1970s.
50x70 cm.
Limited edition of 100.
Handsigned in pencil on the right lower margin.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
$165 Sale Price
30% Off
Exploded View, Abstract Geometric Screenprint by Roy Ahlgren
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011)
Title: Exploded View
Year: 1971
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 50
Image Size: 17 x 17 inches
Size: 20 x 20 i...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Portals, Geometric Abstract OP Art Acrylic Painting by Roy Ahlgren
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
An acrylic painting by Roy Ahlgren from 1971. A geometric abstract painting utilizing bright contrasting color blocks in a modern form. Signed verso, unframed.
Artist: Roy Ahlgre...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, 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
Energetic Influence (Cut-out, Collage, Black & White, Patterns, Negative Space)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Louise Marler
Energetic Influence
Archival Pigment Print
Epson UltraChrome Archival Inks on White Metallic Archival Stock
2022
Edition: 10
Size: 20x16inches
Signed and numbered by hand
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-1695
*Separate Edition of 10 in size 10x8in available. Please inquire within.
** Framing Options available. Please inquire within.
Tags: Cut-out, collage, black and white, patterns, negative space, organic
Louise Marler’s photo-based Mixed Media art, is iconic visual vocabulary. Au-thentic style has led to exhibits, art collections and events which integrate his-tory, education, and entertainment. Raised in a family that collected, sold and repaired typewriters. These and other analog, vintage machines are part of her personal history and led naturally to becoming part of the subject matter of her visual expression. Louise Marleris inspired by Americana and also influenced by pop art and technology.
“I developed my unique art style in a Santa Monica Airport (former mechanic) hanger turned art studio. I currently live and work in St. Louis where antique row meets the most progressive art...
Category
2010s Op Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Blue Composition - Screen Print by Victor Debach - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Blue Composition in a screenprint realized by Victor Debach in 1970s.
50x70 cm.
Limited edition of 100.
Handsigned in pencil on the right lower margin.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Square Variables IX
By Todd Smith
Located in Surfside, FL
Early graphic work by the photographer Todd Smith during his period at Pratt Institute in the early 1970s. Edition of 250, unsigned and unnumbered, as issued.
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Lithograph
Mangata 31 (small scale gold grid painting abstract flora wood op art)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångatas" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting and hard-edge technique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Granat positif
Located in PARIS, FR
Matt acrylic-painted wood relief
Éditions Denise René - no. X
“Exceptionally also signed on the front on 4 VIII 73 in Gordes”.
Presented at the exhibition “Vasarely - Le partage des ...
Category
1960s Op Art
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Start -- Screen Print, Abstract, Bright Colors, Op Art by Bridget Riley
Located in London, GB
Start, 2000
Bridget Riley
Screenprint in colours, on paper
Signed, titled, dated and numbered from the edition of 200
Printed by Artizan Editions, Hove
Image: 34.8 × 38 cm (13.7 × 1...
Category
Early 2000s Op Art
Materials
Screen
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
Rose Horizontal -- Screen Print, Stripes, Patterns, Op Art by Bridget Riley
Located in London, GB
Rose Horizontal, 2018
Bridget Riley
Screenprint in colours, on Fabriano 5 paper
Signed, titled, dated and numbered from the edition of 75
Printed by A...
Category
2010s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Mangata 20 (small scale gold grid painting abstract wood contemporary op art)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångatas" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting and hard-edge technique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Blue Composition - Screen Print by Victor Debach - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Blue Composition in a screenprint realized by Victor Debach in 1970s.
50x70 cm.
Limited edition of 100.
Handsigned in pencil on the right lower margin.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
$165 Sale Price
30% Off
Compounded Red
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and numbered in pencil
Publisher: Eugene Shuster, London Arts
Printer: Vistec Graphics, Rochester, New York
Stamp verso: London Arts Copyright 1980
Edition: 175 (85/175)
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
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
Mangata 28 (small scale gold grid painting abstract wood contemporary op art)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångatas" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting and hard-edge technique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Carnival -- Screen Print, Abstract, Op Art by Bridget RIley
Located in London, GB
Carnival, 2000
Bridget Riley
Sscreenprint in colours, on wove paper
Signed, dated, titled and numbered from the edition of 75 (plus 10 artist's proof)
Printed and published by Artiz...
Category
Early 2000s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Mangata 29 (small scale gold grid painting abstract wood contemporary op art)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångatas" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting and hard-edge technique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Mangata 3 (small scale grid pastel painting abstract wood contemporary op art)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
The series "Mångatas" explores the marriage of chance-derived gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of aerosol painting and hard-edge technique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Op Art
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
ANUSZKIEWICZ, monograph (hand signed and inscribed by Richard Anuszkiewicz)
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz
ANUSZKIEWICZ by Karl Lunde (hand signed and inscribed by Richard Anuszkiewicz), 1977
Hardback monograph with dust jacket (hand signed and inscribed by Richard An...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset, Ink, Board
Anthea Galleria D'arte poster, limited edition Italian poster mid century modern
Located in New York, NY
Victor Vasarely
Anthea Galleria D'arte Poster, ca. 1971
Offset lithograph poster
Limited edition of 400 (unnumbered)
28 1/2 × 22 1/2 inches
Unframed
This historic offset lithograph p...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Patrick Hughes - Jazz, contemporary, op art, optical, reverspective, matisse
Located in London, GB
Patrick Hughes (b.1939)
Jazz
2016
hand painted multiple with archival inkjet
43.5 x 91.5 x 18.5 cm
edition of 50 plus 10 AP
Price:
£7,200 GBP (inc. 20% UK VAT)
Provenance:
Direct f...
Category
2010s Op Art
Materials
Paint, Archival Ink, Inkjet
Zaphir
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Victor Vasarely
Zaphir
c.1970
Screenprint on wove paper
13 x 10 in.
Edition of 50
Pencil signed & numbered
Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienbaum Fine A...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Michael Dal Cerro, Stepped Cubes, 2019, Linocut, Urban Landscape
Located in Darien, CT
Michael Dal Cerro's prints could be seen as imaginary architectural proposals. He takes satisfaction in taking something that is supposed to be exact...
Category
2010s Op Art
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Linocut
Michael Dal Cerro, Entryway, 2020, Linocut, Urban Landscape, Modern
Located in Darien, CT
Michael Dal Cerro's prints could be seen as imaginary architectural proposals. He takes satisfaction in taking something that is supposed to be exact...
Category
2010s Op Art
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Linocut
Michael Dal Cerro, Soviet Tower City, 2020, Linocut, Urban Landscape, Modern Art
Located in Darien, CT
Michael Dal Cerro's prints could be seen as imaginary architectural proposals. He takes satisfaction in taking something that is supposed to be exact...
Category
2010s Op Art
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Linocut
"Cellphone Accident Surprise 2"
Located in Astoria, NY
Peter Christian Peterson (Danish, b. 1973), "Cellphone Accident Surprise 2", Acrylic and Enamel on Plastic, 1999, signed, titled, dated, and American-European Fine Art label to the v...
Category
1990s Op Art
Materials
Enamel
Princess Snow White Op Art
By Pawel Wasowski
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Princess Snow White Op Art acrylic on canvas. Size 39x39x1
In 1999 artist Pawel Wasowski got his diploma and in 2008, doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Architecture at the Uni...
Category
2010s Op Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sunspot
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sunspot" c.1980 is an original color aquatint by noted California artist Arnold A. Grossman, 1923-2016. It is signed, titled, and numbered 3/30 in pencil by the ...
Category
Late 20th Century Op Art
Materials
Aquatint
"Cellphone Accident Surprise 1"
Located in Astoria, NY
Peter Christian Peterson (Danish, b. 1973), "Cellphone Accident Surprise 1", Acrylic and Enamel on Plastic, 1999, signed, titled, dated, and American-European Fine Art label to the v...
Category
1990s Op Art
Materials
Enamel
Eclipse
Located in PARIS, FR
Éditions Denise René
Matt acrylic-painted wood relief
Signed.
Exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, “Vasarely - le partage des formes”,
Category
1960s Op Art
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
$19,558
Abstract Composition in Purple - Screen Print by V. Debach - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition in purple is an screen print realized by Victor Debach in 1970s.
50x70 cm.
Edition 14/100
Handsigned in pencil on the right lower margin.
Excellent conditions.
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Abstract Composition in Purple - Screen Print by V. Debach - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract composition in purple is a screenprint realized by Victor Debach in 1970s.
50x70 cm.
Edition 21/100
Handsigned in pencil on the right lower margin.
Excellent conditions.
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Purple Composition - Screen Print by V. Debach - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Purple Composition is a contemporary artwork realized by Victor Debach in the 1970s.
Mixed colored screen print on paper.
Hand signed on the lower rig...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Blue Composition - Screen Print by Victor Debach - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Blue Composition is an original contemporary artwork realized by Victor Debach in the 1970s.
Mixed colored screen print on paper.
Hand signed on the lower right margin.
Numbered o...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Disconnected Circles - Original Screen Print by Mario Padovan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Disconnected Circles is an original colored serigraph realized by Mario Padovan in the 1970s.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered in pencil on the lower left. Edition...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Hidden Flowers - Original Screen Print by Mario Padovan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Hidden Flowers is an original colored serigraph realized by Mario Padovan in the 1970s.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered in pencil on the lower left. Edition 20/50...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Baronian, 1983, Etching with Aquatint by Barry Nelson
By Barry Nelson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Baronian
Barry Nelson, British/American (1937)
Date: 1983
Etching with Aquatint on Arches, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil
Edition of AP
Image Size: 29.5 x 20.25 inches
...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Faith, 1982, Etching with Aquatint by Barry Nelson
By Barry Nelson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Faith
Barry Nelson, British/American (1937)
Date: 1982
Etching with Aquatint on Arches, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil
Edition of AP
Image Size: 29.5 x 20.25 inches
Siz...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Regalion, 1983, Etching with Aquatint by Barry Nelson
By Barry Nelson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Regalion
Barry Nelson, British/American (1937)
Date: 1983
Etching with Aquatint on Arches, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil
Edition of 15/15
Image Size: 29.5 x 20.25 inch...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Paralax V, 1980, Etching with Aquatint by Barry Nelson
By Barry Nelson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Paralax V
Barry Nelson, British/American (1937)
Date: 1980
Etching with Aquatint on Arches, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil
Edition of 22/30
Image Size: 20.25 x 29.5 inc...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Blue Study, from: The Discourse on Method - Op Art Illusion Hungarian Descartes
Located in London, GB
This original screenprint in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Vasarely” in the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 138, at the l...
Category
1960s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Rogelio Polesello(1939-2014) - Agata - Screen printing on BFK Rives paper - 1975
Located in Varese, IT
Screen printing on BFK Rives paper, edited in 1975.
Limited edition of 200 copies , numbered as 42/200 in lower left corner.
Hand-signed by artist in pencil in the lower right corne...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
Complex Geometries - Original Screen Print by Mario Padovan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Complex Geometries is an original colored serigraph realized by Mario Padovan in the 1970s.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered in pencil on the lower left. Edition o...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Emerged Land - Lithograph by Mario Padovan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Emerged Land is an original colored lithograph realized by Mario Padovan in the 1970s.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered in pencil on the lower left. Edition of 50 ...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Lithograph
Fluo Composition - Lithograph by Mario Padovan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Fluo Composition is an original colored lithograph realized by Mario Padovan in the 1970s.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered in pencil on the lower left. Edition 13...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Lithograph
$240 Sale Price
30% Off
Iboya, NBC 35
Located in Palo Alto, CA
The Hungarian word, Iboya, meaning a small forest violet, has been chosen by Vasarely to identify his astonishing series of vertical sculptures for intereior use.
The Iboya consist ...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Polystyrene, Wood
Nebulus II
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Victor Vasarely
Nebulus II
c. 1980
Screenprint
32 1/2 x 30 3/4 in.
Edition of 50
Pencil signed and numbered
Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art....
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Abstract Totem - Original Lithograph by Mario Padovan - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Totem is an original colored lithograph realized by Mario Padovan in the 1970s.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered in pencil o...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Lithograph
$199 Sale Price
30% Off
Rhythm 15 - Original Screen Print by Mario Padovan - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Rhythm 15 is an original colored serigraph realized by Mario Padovan in 1969.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. Numbered in pencil on the lower left. Edition 26/50. Original...
Category
1960s Op Art
Materials
Lithograph
$240 Sale Price
30% Off
Refracted Light, Op Art Screenprint by Bruce Tippett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bruce Tippett, American (1933 - 2017) - Refracted Light, Year: 1971, Medium: Screenprint, signed and dated in pencil, Image Size: 25.5 x 20 inches, Size: 28.5 x 22.5 in. (72.39 x 57...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
$640 Sale Price
20% Off
"Meat Helmet 3"
Located in Astoria, NY
Peter Christian Petersen (Danish, b. 1973), "Meat Helmet 3", Mixed Media on Canvas, 2000, acrylic and enamel, signed, dated, titled, and with fragment of American-European Art Associ...
Category
Early 2000s Op Art
Materials
Enamel
Faces of Dali #1
Located in Greenwich, CT
Faces of Dalí #1 is a serigraph on paper with an image size of 26 x 18 inches, signed 'Yvaral' lower right and numbered 91/200 lower left. From the edition of 263 (there were also 20...
Category
20th Century Op Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
Dark Matter Halo
Located in OPOLE, PL
Jaremi Picz (1955) - Dark Matter Halo
Giclée from 2025.
The edition of 10.
Dimensions of work: 50 x 50 cm.
Hand signed.
Publisher: Dell'Arte Foundatio...
Category
2010s Op Art
Materials
Giclée
NY Cat's Eye II Nebula
Located in OPOLE, PL
Jaremi Picz (1955) - NY Cat's Eye II Nebula
Giclée from 2025.
The edition of 10.
Dimensions of work: 50 x 50 cm.
Hand signed.
Publisher: Dell'Arte Foundation, Cracow.
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Jarem...
Category
2010s Op Art
Materials
Giclée
Phoenix Cluster
Located in OPOLE, PL
Jaremi Picz (1955) - Phoenix Cluster
Giclée from 2025.
The edition of 10.
Dimensions of work: 50 x 50 cm.
Hand signed.
Publisher: Dell'Arte Foundation, Cracow.
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Jaremi Picz ...
Category
2010s Op Art
Materials
Giclée
Latorça, from: The Discourse on Method - Op Art Illusion Hungarian Descartes
Located in London, GB
This original screenprint in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Vasarely” in the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 138, at the l...
Category
1960s Op Art
Materials
Screen
"Busta" 38x50" illusion on canvas
Located in Southampton, NY
This illusionistic work on canvas titled "Busta" is a collaboration between two artists, Joe Doyle and Diane Rosenblum. The surface of the canvas is completely flat but a remarkable ...
Category
2010s Op Art
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink, Pigment
Faces of Dali #2
Located in Greenwich, CT
Faces of Dalí #2 is a serigraph on paper with an image size of 26 x 18 inches, signed 'Yvaral' lower right and numbered 80/200 lower left. From the edition of 263 (there were also 20...
Category
20th Century Op Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
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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