Bird on a Fence, Abstract Expressionist Miniature Etching
By R. Silvestrov
Located in Soquel, CA
An abstract expressionist miniature etching on paper depicting a bird on a fence, with abstract expressionist animals floating in the sky by R. Silvestrov (Russian, 20th Century). Si...
Paper, Ink
Monograph titled FLARE Thomas Nozkowski Images (hand signed by Thomas Nozkowski)
By Thomas Nozkowski
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Nozkowski Flare: Thomas Nozkowski Images (hand signed by Thomas Nozkowski), 2009 Limited Edition monograph on fine art paper (hand signed and dated by Thomas Nozkowski on the ...
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
$7,013
Series "More Energy” blue turquoise expressionism gripping abstraction Pollock
By Nataliia Krykun
Located in Schärding Vorstadt, Oberösterreich
In this creation, I've unleashed an explosion of energy through an abstract and expressionist lens. Using acrylics, ink, and spray, I layered vibrant splashes of color against a sere...
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
$18,000
Large Abstract Expressionist Painting of Head, 20th Century New York Artist
By Joseph Glasco
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph Glasco (American, 1925–1996) Head 1970 Ink on paper Signed and dated lower right 39.5 x 30 inches 43 x 32.25 inches, framed Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, Oklahoma...
Ink
$15,000
Original, unique signed Study for sculpture Motu Viget (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
By Mark di Suvero
Located in New York, NY
Mark di Suvero Study for Motu Viget, ca. 1977 Ink wash on notebook paper. Hand signed in black marker 14 × 11 1/4 inches Boldly signed in black marker on the lower front Unframed Uni...
Ink, India Ink
$1,800
Limited Signed Deluxe Monograph with Slipcase (signed & numbered by Sam Francis)
By Sam Francis
Located in New York, NY
SAM FRANCIS: Limited Signed Deluxe Edition (Hand signed and numbered by Sam Francis), 1982 Deluxe limited edition hardback monograph with cloth boards, held in special slipcase of ts...
Silk, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset, Board
Hand painted Limited Edition-Rare Square format-British Awarded Artist-Rosarian
By Shizico Yi
Located in London, GB
This stunning extra large hand painted Edition offers a grand scale visual treat to your space and enrich your daily life. Limited Edition only 3 are published, and it's surreal vs a...
Gesso, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Giclée
Black and White
By Arthur Pinajian
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The artist Pinajian signed lower right with ink. it is ink on paper.
Archival Ink
Miniature Abstract Expressionist Etching, From Start to Finish
By R. Silvestrov
Located in Soquel, CA
An abstract expressionist miniature etching on paper depicting insects with arrows forming a path from start to finish by artist R. Silvestrov (Russian). Signed and dated in Russian,...
Paper, Ink
$1,560Sale Price|20% Off
Under Water, Mixed Media Abstract Painting, Pastel & Archival Ink, 19x14, Framed
By Betty Efferson
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This 19x14 mixed media abstract draws you into the depths, with fluid tones and layered textures that create a sense of movement and mystery. The intricate details capture the essenc...
Pastel, Archival Ink
Jacques Germain -Untitled - Original Signed Drawing
By Jacques Germain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jacques GERMAIN (1915-2001) Untitled Circa 1970 Dimensions: 25 x 18 cm Pencil on Paper Signed J.G Born in Paris in 1915, worked with Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant at the Académi...
Ink
Violent delights, violent ends - Daniel Erban, 21st century, Drawing
By Daniel Erban
Located in Paris, FR
Ink on paper Signed Unique work
Paper, Ink
Modernist Abstract Nude Figurative Painting in India Ink on Paper
By Louis Nadalini
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern abstracted nude figurative study in bold black ink by Louis Nadalini (American, 1927-1995). Signed in the top left corner under the mat, "L Nadalini". Presented in a new white...
Paper, India Ink
Untitled (Urbana Series)
By Richard Diebenkorn
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This Untitled work from the Urbana Series is an ink of paper, abstract drawing by Post War, Bay Area Figurative and Abstract Expressionist Artist, Richard Diebenkorn.
Paper, Ink
Hand-Painted Large Artist Proof-Summer Night-British Awarded Artist-One Off
By Shizico Yi
Located in London, GB
This stunning Artist's Proof is an one-off, oil hand-painted, signed at front and on the back label too; each proof is 80% hand painted by Shizico Yi, because the nature of hand mixe...
Gesso, Archival Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Giclée
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled 3
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & charcoal on argentic paper Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionatel...
India Ink
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled 5
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & charcoal on argentic paper Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionatel...
India Ink
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled 4
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & charcoal on argentic paper Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionatel...
India Ink
$3,000
A machine that increases incidence II Abstract Ink, Watercolor by Dimitri Petrov
By Dimitri Petrov
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dimitri Petrov, American (1919 - 1986) - This is not an idea for a machine that increases incidence II, Year: 1976, Medium: Ink and Watercolor on paper, signed, Size: 22 x 30 in....
Ink, Watercolor
$3,600
"Chrysler Building" Abstract Expressionist, Photography, Giclee Print, Ltd.Ed.
By Hatice Besun
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Chrysler Building" Abstract, Expressionist, Photography, Giclee Print, Ltd.Ed. Creator: Hatice Besun Creation year: 2025 Dimension: 42x28" External Dimension( with white border) He...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Vibrant blue contemporary Islamic calligraphy on paper
By Hassan Massoudy
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hassan Massoudy Untitled ("O friend do not go to the flower garden, the flower garden is within you" - Kabir 16th c.), 2013 Ink and pigment on paper 29½ x 21¾ inches 74.9 x 55.1 cm H...
Ink, Pigment
Vibrant yellow contemporary Islamic calligraphy on paper
By Hassan Massoudy
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hassan Massoudy Untitled ("You fled to the desert on the wings of the heart. The desert is lost in the realm of your heart" - Rumi 13th c.), 2014 Ink and pigment on paper 29½ x 21¾ i...
Ink, Pigment
Vibrant green contemporary Islamic calligraphy on paper
By Hassan Massoudy
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hassan Massoudy Untitled ("O friend do not go to the flower garden, the flower garden is within you" - Kabir 16th c.), 2010 Ink and pigment on paper 29½ x 21¾ inches 74.9 x 55.1 cm H...
Ink, Pigment
Vibrant red contemporary Islamic calligraphy on paper
By Hassan Massoudy
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hassan Massoudy Untitled ("Travel if you aim for certain value. By traveling the skies the crescent becomes a full moon" - Ibn Qalaqis 12th c.), 2009 Ink and pigment on paper 29½ x 2...
Ink, Pigment
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 9
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Paper, Ink
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 8
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Paper, Ink
Colourful French Mixed Media Abstract Painting, Acrylic and Ink, 1980s
Located in Cotignac, FR
Colourful, French mixed media abstract, acrylic, newsprint and ink from the 1980s. The canvas is signed and dated bottom right but we have not yet managed to decipher it. A colourfu...
Canvas, Acrylic, Newsprint, Ink
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink & collages on paper
Paper, Ink
Woman in a Tantrum
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American multidisciplinary artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture. Dehner's legacy has been ...
Ink, Watercolor
$20,000
Untitled
By Hans Hofmann
Located in New York, NY
Color crayons and ink on white wove paper. Initialed and dated "VI . 24 . 43" in ink, lower right recto, and annotated and dated in ink, verso. This work is registered in the record...
Crayon, Ink
Disappointment on Sunday
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture. Despite her artistic contributions, Dehner'...
Ink, Watercolor
Breeze (Fire Island)
By Dorothy Dehner
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) was an influential American multidisciplinary artist who worked with drawing, painting, printmaking, and most notably sculpture. Dehner's legacy has been ...
Ink, Watercolor
Energetic Gestural Drawing. Funny Silver Mood - 2 -
By Sve Gri
Located in Zofingen, AG
This spontaneous gestural drawing is made with Chinese ink and silver pastel on heavy white paper. Looking at it you can feel the freshness of instant impulse and the charge of cheer...
Paper, Pastel, Ink
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
L'enigme
By André Masson
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
André MASSON (1896-1987) The enigma, 1975 ink drawing Dimensions: 47.8 x 35cm Signed lower right Provenance: Louise Leiris Gallery, Paris Paper in perfect condition. FREE period ...
Paper, Ink
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 6
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 7
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 3
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 2
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 5
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Black Flower 4
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the ...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Moldovan Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
By Doïna Vieru
Located in Paris, IDF
Watercolor, ink on Canson paper 300 g. Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the i...
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
Find original abstract paintings, sculptures, prints and other art on 1stDibs.
The Italian-American’s 2020 abstract painting “The Hoe” personifies his “art of not knowing.”
Beneath the inky blackness, the painter’s irrepressible energy electrifies this pair of intaglio prints.
The New York Botanical Garden, in the Bronx, has mounted a multifaceted show honoring the polymath modernist's legacy, including new work by contemporary landscape maker Raymond Jungles.
In his current show at New York's Lehmann Maupin gallery, the Puerto Rican–born talent reveals new paintings with a semiautobiographical aspect.