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
Period: 1980s
Land's End, Op Art Landscape by Roy Ahlgren
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Image Size: 18 x 26 inches
Paper Size: 22 x 30 inches
Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011) Roy Ahlgren entered the art world somewhat in reverse. While most artists start by recordin...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
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
Dawn of a New Era, Abstract Serigraph by Roy Ahlgren
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011)
Title: Dawn of a New Era
Year: 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 145
Image Size: 18 x 25 inches
Size: 22 x 29...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
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
Oscillation
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011)
Title: Oscillation
Year: circa 1977
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150
Image Size: 18.25 x 25.75 inches
Size: 2...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
"Starry, Starry Night", Op Art Serigraph by Roy Ahlgren
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
This swirling chrome and silver print is named in reference to the famous painting “Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh. The spiral that pulls at the center of the composition is remin...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Split Infinity #B6S, 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
Allegro, Op Art Serigraph by Roy Ahlgren
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011)
Title: Allegro
Year: 1986
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 23/100
Image Size: 18 x 25.5 inches
Size: 22.5 x 30 in...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
South Shore, Abstract Screenprint by Roy Ahlgren
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011)
Title: South Shore
Year: 1986
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 66/100
Image Size: 18 x...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Aztec, Op Art Serigraph by Roy Ahlgren
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011)
Title: Aztec
Year: 1983
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150
Image Size: 18 x 26 inches
Size: 22.5 x 30 in. (57....
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Gull Point, Op Art Silkscreen by Roy Ahlgren
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011)
Title: Gull Point
Year: 1987
Medium: Silkscreen, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil
Edition: 100
Image Size: 25.5 x 18 inches
...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Modern Green, White & Black Abstract Geometric Kimono Collagraph, Masterplate #1
Located in Soquel, CA
Unique mixed media work created from a Master plate for collagraph printmaking, featuring a bold and modern geometric kimono shape in green, white, and black, by Patricia A. Pearce (...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Silk, Masonite, Ink, Acrylic, Gesso
Composition Gold
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Victor Vasarely
Composition Gold
1980
Screenprint
13 x 10 in.
Edition of 50
Pencil signed and numbered
Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art.
...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
"Sky Light XXIII, " OP Art Serigraph by Evelyn B. Johnson, 1981
Located in Long Island City, NY
This abstract serigraph was created in 1981 by American Optical artist Evelyn B. Johnson. It is signed and numbered 17/25 in pencil, and the plate size is 25.5 x 25.5 inches. It is d...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Top Square, Op Art Screenprint by Jurgen Peters
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jurgen Peters, German (1936 - )
Title: Top Square
Year: 1981
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, AP
Image Size: 31.5 x 21.5 inches
Size...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Fifth Dimension, 3-D Serigraph Collage by Anne Youkeles
Located in Long Island City, NY
This serigraph was created by Austrian-American artist Anne Youkeles. She has said that her work has benefited from the permissiveness that has encouraged artists to follow their cre...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Space Sounds No. 2, Geometric Abstract Screenprint on Evelyn B. Johnson
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Evelyn B. Johnson
Title: Space Sounds No. 2
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 2/25
Image: 27 x 21 inches
Paper Size: 30 x 22 inches
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
David Roth, Abstract Serigraph, 1980
By David Roth
Located in Long Island City, NY
This screenprint was created by American artist David Roth. Roth's images are proportioned according to a strict mathematical formula - the pictures are composed according to horizon...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Titan A
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Victor Vasarely
Titan A
1985
Screenprint
22 x 23 1/2 in.
Edition of 300
Pencil signed & numbered
Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art
Con...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Tres Torres, Surrealist Geometric Screenprint by Enrique Sebastian Carbajal
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Enrique Carbajal Sebastian, Mexican (1947 - )
Title: Tres Torres
Year: 1982
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edi...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
"Fan Figuration, " Serigraph, 1980
Located in Long Island City, NY
This serigraph was created by German artist Jurgen Peters. Peters was a very well known optical artist in the 1970s, he was a contemporary of Victor Vasarely, Yaacov Agam and Briget Riley...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Infinitive, Geometric Abstract Serigraph by Jurgen Peters, 1981
Located in Long Island City, NY
This serigraph was created by German artist Jurgen Peters. Peters was a very well known optical artist in the 1970s, he was a contemporary of Victor Vasarely, Yaacov Agam and Briget Riley...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Encuentro de Dos Mundos
Located in Long Island City, NY
A serigraph print by Pedro Friedeberg from 1987. A optical abstract image of a surrealist interior.
Artist: Pedro Friedeberg, Mexican (1936 - )
Title: Encuentro de dos Mundos...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
"Pinwheel, " Op Art Serigraph by Jurgen Peters, 1980
Located in Long Island City, NY
This serigraph was created by German artist Jurgen Peters. Peters was a very well known optical artist in the 1970s, he was a contemporary of Victor Vasarely, Yaacov Agam and Briget Riley...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Interchange, Geometric Abstract Serigraph by Jurgen Peters, 1982
Located in Long Island City, NY
This serigraph was created by German artist Jurgen Peters. Peters was a very well known optical artist in the 1970s, he was a contemporary of Victor Vasarely, Yaacov Agam and Briget Riley...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Translumina
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Richard Anuszkiewicz. "Translumina" is a geometric abstract, acrylic on wood painting executed teal, blue, violet and black by American Op Artist Richard Anuszkiewicz. The work is signed in black acrylic paint, verso, "Richard Anuszkiewicz 1988." Anuszkiewicz’ canvases depict tight geometric shapes in vivid colours that seem to shift under the eye. Anuszkiewicz belongs to the small number of great artists who construct their life's work with all the hallmarks of a series: lucidity, progress, and, above all, depth. Like his mentor Josef Albers, like Piet Mondrian — like Giorgio Morandi, just to name a representational painter — Anuszkiewicz focuses his vision on the limitless possibilities of a single theme. In his case, the theme is not a single motif...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Sanctuary
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition: 150 (80/150)
15 color silk screen
12" round
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
By decent
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Door
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Victor Vasarely
Door
1982
Screenprint
43 x 23 1/2 in.
Edition of 325
Pencil signed and numbered
Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art.
Conditi...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Kris-Bille, from Ion Album
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Victor Vasarely
Kris-Bille, from Ion Album
1989
Screenprint
14 x 11 in.
Epreuve D'Artist (E.A.)
Pencil signed and numbered
Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shie...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Tutankhamen, Abstract Screenprint by Roy Ahlgren
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Roy Ahlgren, American (1927 - 2011)
Title: Tutankhamen
Year: 1983
Edition: 150
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Image Size: 25.5 x 18 inches
Size: 30 x 22.5 ...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Radau
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Victor Vasarely
Radau
Silkscreen on white wove paper
22 x 17 1/4 in.
E.A./B.A.T. from an edition of 300
Pencil signed and numbered
Accompanied with COA by Gr...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Color
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
Rainbow Waves, Op Art Screenprint by Jurgen Peters
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jurgen Peters, German (1936 - )
Title: Rainbow Waves
Year: 1981
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, AP 30
Image Size: 18.5 x 34 inches
...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Pixis
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Victor Vasarely
Pixis
Screenprint
17 3/8 x 14 7/8 in.
Edition of 50 annotated F.V.
Pencil signed and numbered
Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienbaum Fine Ar...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
OP Art Silkscreen by Marc Koller
By Marc Koller
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marc Koller, American
Title: Untitled
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120
Image Size: 24.5 x 24.5 inches
Size: 30 in. x 38.5 ...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Aztec
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil
Edition: 150
Serigraph on paper
Sheet: 22 1/4 x 30"
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Tutankhamon
By Roy Ahlgren
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pencil signed, dated, titled and numbered.
Image 26" x 18"
Category
1980s Op Art
Estructuras Espacio - Temporales Shetam, OP Art Painting by Enrique Careaga
By Enrique Careaga
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Enrique Careaga, Paraguay (1944 - )
Title: Estructuras Espacio - Temporales Shetam 8120137
Date: October 27th, 1981
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, Signed, titled and dated ver...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Thunder
By Tony Bechara
Located in Long Island City, NY
An abstract painting by Tony Bechara from 1984. An abstract, optical painting representative of Bechara's conceptual principles of color usage, organization and randomness.
Artist...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Deimos Black, OP Art Silkscreen by Victor Vasarely
Located in Long Island City, NY
Deimos Black by Victor Vasarely, Hungarian (1908–1997)
Date: 1981
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 63/75
Image Size: 12.25 x 11.75 inches
Size: 17.25 x 15 in. (4...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Splice -- Print, Geometrical, Abstract, Op Art by Bridget RIley
Located in London, GB
Splice, 1975
Bridget Riley
Screenprint in colours, on wove
Signed, dated, titled and, numbered from the edition of 45
Printed by Graham Henderson, London
Sheet: 75.3 × 54 cm (29.6 ×...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
RA 2 -- Print, Coloured Lines, Abstract, Op Art by Bridget RIley
Located in London, GB
RA 2, 1981
Bridget Riley
Screenprint in colours, on wove
Signed, dated, titled, annotated, numbered from the edition of 75
Printed by Artizan Editions, Hove
Image: 87.2 × 76.4 cm (3...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Compounded Red, Op Art Screenprint by Julian Stanczak
Located in Long Island City, NY
A colorful OP Art silkscreen by Poland-born American OP Artist, Julian Stanczak.
Artist: Julian Stanczak, American (1928 - 2017)
Title: Compounded Red
Year: 1981
Medium: Screenpri...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Doric Game VIII
Located in Long Island City, NY
Doric Game VIII
Evelyn B. Johnson
Date: circa 1980
Screenprint signed, numbered and titled in pencil
Edition of 9/27
Image Size: 36 x 24 inches
Size: 42 x 30 in. (106.68 x 76.2 cm)
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
"Papilion" by Victor Vasarely
Located in Hinsdale, IL
VICTOR VASARELY
PAPILLON
Color Serigraph, 1981.
Image Size: 23 7/8x30 3/4 inches, full margins.
Signed and numbered 184/250 in pencil, lower margin.
Victor Vasarely was a Fre...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Bianco, Op Art Painting by Victor Vasarely
Located in Long Island City, NY
Victor Vasarely’s Op Art painting generates a sense of movement as it appears to warp into a sphere that is overlaid with stripes in a geometric pattern.
Victor Vasarely, Hungarian ...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Oil
Cinetic Composition - Screen Print Hand Signed and Numbered - 100 copies
Located in Paris, FR
Victor VASARELY
Cinetic Composition
Screen print
Handsigned in pen by the artist
Numbered in pencil on /100 copies
On vellum size 49 x 69 cm (c. 19 x 27 in)
Very good condition (onl...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Sylla 6 - Geometric Composition - Screen Print Hand Signed and Numbered
Located in Paris, FR
Victor VASARELY
Sylla-6
Screen print
Handsigned in pen by the artist
Numbered in pencil on /100 copies
On vellum size 49 x 69 cm (c. 19 x 27 in)
Very good condition
REFERENCE : Ca...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
IUSKA
Located in Missouri, MO
Victor Vasarely
"IUSKA"
Serigraph
Ed. 48/300
Signed and Numbered
Framed Size: approx. 40 x 38.5 inches
Image Size: approx 25 x 25 inches
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Lithograph
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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