"Tutu Sync", Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By June Johnson
Located in Yardley, PA
Abstract painting with figure and place. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :...
Acrylic
$8,500
"Centrifuge" - Contemporary Abstract Collage with Figure and Chinese Print
By Steven H. Rehfeld
Located in Carmel, CA
Rehfeld (American, born 1954) "Centrifuge" 1998 Oil paint, paper, newsprint, mixed media, on canvas stretched over a wood panel The artist signed the back of the painting. This 24" ...
Newsprint, Stretcher Bars, Wood Panel, Mixed Media, Resin, Oil, Canvas
Figure with Orange and Blue - Original Signed Abstract Expressionist Work
By Felix Ruvolo
Located in Soquel, CA
Figure with Orange and Blue - Original Signed Abstract Expressionist Work Dynamic figural abstract piece by Felix Ruvolo (American, 1912-1992).
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Ink
$650
"With Fear, With Blanket 2" (animalia, fauna, figure, snake, portrait, abstract)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
WITH FEAR, WITH BLANKET (2) PARIS, FRANCE 2024 This painting depicts the most vulnerable version of ones child self. A blanket is represented with the patterned blue material the ...
Linen, Oil, Acrylic
$650
"With Fear, With Blanket 1" (fauna, figure, swan, animalia, pattern, abstract)
By Nicholas Evans
Located in Paris, IDF
WITH FEAR, WITH BLANKET (1) PARIS, FRANCE 2024 This painting depicts the most vulnerable version of ones child self. A blanket is represented with the patterned blue material the c...
Oil, Acrylic, Linen
'Figure with Pyramids' By Robert Bonaparte, Oil on Linen Painting
By Robert Bonaparte 1
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 22" x 28" oil painting on linen by Oklahoma-native, Los Angeles-based artist Robert Bonaparte features a minimalist style with a limited color palette. The focal point of the co...
Linen, Oil
Quadratic, Mid-Century Ovoid Figural Abstract Acrylic & Collage with faces
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Quadratic, 1979 Acrylic and collage on textured paper Signed and dated lower right 30 x 22 inches 31.5 x 23.5 inches, framed A surreal...
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
My Date with Andy - Flo Schell, Mixed Media on Canvas, Abstract, Figure Paint
By Flo Schell
Located in Houston, TX
My Date with Andy by Flo Schell, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, abstract figure painting. Hand-signed by artist. Certificate of authenticity provided with purchase.
Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media
$5,470Sale Price|20% Off
Huge 20th Century French Abstract Figure with Arrow Pink Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French artist, 1970's-1980's period oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 51 x 38 inches provenance: private collection, Paris The painting is in overall good and presentable condition.
Oil, Canvas
$6,200
Figure With Cross Like Cutout - modern, contemporary abstract, acrylic on canvas
By Aron Hill
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Aron Hill’s colourful, abstract work often tells a story that invites the viewer in. Here the Calgary artist’s imagery suggests a cross, a sun and a road. Bold shapes are rendered in...
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
The Mayor, Mid-Century Ovoid Figural Abstract Acrylic & Collage with Eye
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) The Mayor, 1979 Acrylic and collage on scintilla Signed lower right 30 x 22 inches A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting....
Acrylic
"Composition with Figure, " Irene Rice Pereira
By Irene Rice Pereira
Located in New York, NY
Irene Rice Pereira Composition with Figure, 1951 Inscribed, signed and dated Salford/Pereira 2/51 (lr); inscribed I Rice Pereira/2669 Great Clowes St/Salford 7 Manchester/after May 1...
Paper, India Ink, Casein
$1,422Sale Price|20% Off
Surrealist Figure with Fish Oil Painting Waves of Fish No.2 Kate Orr
By Kate Orr
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Kate Orr (British, 20th Century) Medium: Oil on canvas Size: [please confirm dimensions if needed] Signature: Signed lower right; signed and titled verso Condition: Excellent...
Oil
Ballet Dancer with Umbrella Original Painting Abstract Figure Dance Artwork
By Marina Fisher
Located in Zofingen, AG
Ballet Dancer with Umbrella – Original Abstract Figure Painting, Contemporary Dance Art, Fluid Acrylic & Oil on Canvas This original abstract figurative painting presents a poetic v...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$7,250
"Seated Figure with Red Beret" Modern Abstract Figurative Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract figurative portrait painting by Houston, TX artist David Adickes.
Acrylic
$700
"Sunburst" Abstract Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Oil, Archival Paper
$1,000
"Dancing with the Stars" Abstract Figure Gown Haute Couture Oil Painting Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Paper, Oil, Acrylic
$2,000Sale Price|20% Off
Abstract Expressionist Seated Figure with Clown Hat
By Daniel David Fuentes
Located in Soquel, CA
Cool abstract expressionist figurative of seated figure with clown hat by San Jose, California area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American, 20th Century).
Canvas, Oil
"Alexis" Abstract Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media
$800Sale Price|20% Off
"Sapphire" Abstract Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
"Paris at Night" Abstract Figure with Chanel Gown Haute Couture Oil Painting
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
$2,500
"Elisa" Abstract Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
$700
"Angelique" Abstract Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Cardboard
"Tovah" Abstract Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
"Rafita" Abstract Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
"Eve" Abstract Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
"Angela" Abstract Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper
"Figure with Textures" by Danny McCaw (2024) Abstracted Figure, Oil Painting
By Danny McCaw
Located in Denver, CO
Danny McCaw's (US based) "Figure with Textures" is an oil painting with impasto brushstrokes that depicts an abstracted figure in an interior with a grey and red background.
Oil
$9,500
"Figure with Cat", Colorful Interior Figurative Abstract, Woman Seated with Cat
By Maura Petersen
Located in Carmel, CA
Maura Petersen (American, born 1956) "Figure with Cat" 2022 Acrylic paint on stretched canvas The artist signed the bottom right corner of the painting. “Figure with Cat” by Maura P...
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Plays, large abstract with figure and text elements on canvas
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A sort of cityscape/skyscape concerned with simplicity, minimalism, negative space, and a story of art and the stock market.
Canvas, Gesso, India Ink, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
$541Sale Price|20% Off
Contemplative Figure with Dog Abstract Watercolor Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure and Dog Sketch by Édouard Righetti (1924-2001) Watercolour and pencil painting on artist paper, beautifully painted. very good condition size: 25.5 x inches x 17.5 inches, un...
Watercolor, Color Pencil
Pheromone, colorful abstract with figure beautiful blue tones, brushwork
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A expressionist, abstracted nude immersed in striking colors. The figure melds with the atmospheric surface to form a powerful symbolist imagery.
Canvas, Oil
Art Deco Inspired Female Figure with Abstract Geometric Composition
Located in NANTES, FR
Contemporary figurative painting, Art Deco inspired, Art Deco composition, female figure painting, contemporary portrait, expressionist painting, geometric abstraction, contemporary ...
Acrylic
Figure with Hands Raised, Abstract Oil on Board by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Figure with Hands Raised (17) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board (Double-Sided), unsigned Size: 18 in. x 10 in. (45.72 cm x 25.4 cm)
Oil, Board
$1,200
"Girl with Golden Balloons" Figure in Chanel Oil Painting on Canvas with Dog
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
It would become a freeing moment of painting in an abstract way after going to school and learning the impressionist technique.
Canvas, Oil
$7,500
"Figure in Reflection", Colorful Bay Area Figurative Painting, Woman with Mirror
By Maura Petersen
Located in Carmel, CA
Maura Petersen (American, born 1956) "Figure in Reflection" 2025 Acrylic paint on stretched canvas The artist signed the bottom right corner of the painting. “Figure in Reflection” ...
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
"Sophia" Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Paper, Oil
"Valentina" Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Paper, Oil
"Amalie" Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Paper, Oil
"Vogue, Vespa, Flowers" Figure with Chanel NYC Oil Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
$1,000
"The Ballerina" Figure with Chanel Gown French Haute Couture Oil Canvas Painting
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Canvas, Oil
$3,600
"Girl with Balloons - Star Lit" Figure in Chanel & French Poodles Oil Painting
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Balloons in Spanish means “Globos” and The "Girl with Balloons" is a staple figure which represents unity and the message of hope and aspiration.
Canvas, Oil, Glass, Mixed Media
$700
"Girl with Balloons at Twilight" Figure Paris French Haute Couture Oil Painting
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Having built a diverse body of work since her early career ranging from portraits to abstract paintings of the universe, today Cindy's works exhibit a more impressionistic technique.
Oil, Archival Paper
"Monet's Bride" Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Paper, Oil, Acrylic
Pär Lindblad. Gouache on paper. Abstract composition with figure.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Pär Lindblad (1907-1981), well listed Swedish artist. Gouache on paper. Abstract figurative composition. Approximately from the 1960s. Signed. In perfect condition. Dimensions: Widt...
Other
"Serena" Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Colorful Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Mixed Media, Oil, Archival Paper
"Midnight Bride" Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Board
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Board
$800Sale Price|20% Off
"Milla" Figure with White Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Mixed Media, Oil, Archival Paper
"Chanel in Paris" Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Paper, Oil, Acrylic
$700
"Parisian Nights" Figure in Haute Couture Gown with Silver Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Mixed Media, Oil, Archival Paper
$700
"Olympia in Paris" Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Oil, Archival Paper
$700
"Rainbow in Paris" Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Oil, Archival Paper
"Paris is for Lovers" Figure with Coffee and Croissants Oil on Paper Painting
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Oil, Archival Paper
"Dior in Venice" Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Paper
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Mixed Media, Oil, Archival Paper
$1,000
"Goldie - Met Gala" Figure with Gown French Haute Couture Oil Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
"Chanel by the Arc de Triomphe" Figure with French Haute Couture Oil Painting
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Mixed Media, Oil, Archival Paper
$600
"Stepping Out in NYC" Figure with Chanel Bag Haute Couture Oil Painting Framed
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Oil, Board
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.
Bring audacious experiments with color and textures to your living room, dining room or home office. Abstract paintings, large or small, will stand out in your space, encouraging conversation and introducing a museum-like atmosphere that’s welcoming and conducive to creating memorable gatherings.
Abstract art has origins in 19th-century Europe, but it came into its own as a significant movement during the 20th century. Early practitioners of abstraction included Wassily Kandinsky, although painters were exploring nonfigurative art prior to the influential Russian artist’s efforts, which were inspired by music and religion. Abstract painters endeavored to create works that didn’t focus on the outside world’s conventional subjects, and even when artists depicted realistic subjects, they worked in an abstract mode to do so.
In 1940s-era New York City, a group of painters working in the abstract mode created radical work that looked to European avant-garde artists as well as to the art of ancient cultures, prioritizing improvisation, immediacy and direct personal expression. While they were never formally affiliated with one another, we know them today as Abstract Expressionists.
The male contingent of the Abstract Expressionists, which includes Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, is frequently cited in discussing leading figures of this internationally influential postwar art movement. However, the women of Abstract Expressionism, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and others, were equally involved in the art world of the time. Sexism, family obligations and societal pressures contributed to a long history of their being overlooked, but the female Abstract Expressionists experimented vigorously, developed their own style and produced significant bodies of work.
Draw your guests into abstract oil paintings across different eras and countries of origin. On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive range of abstract paintings along with a guide on how to arrange your wonderful new wall art.
If you’re working with a small living space, a colorful, oversize work can create depth in a given room, but there isn’t any need to overwhelm your interior with a sprawling pièce de résistance. Colorful abstractions of any size can pop against a white wall in your living room, but if you’re working with a colored backdrop, you may wish to stick to colors that complement the decor that is already in the space. Alternatively, let your painting make a statement on its own, regardless of its surroundings, or group it, gallery-style, with other works.
The Italian-American’s 2020 abstract painting “The Hoe” personifies his “art of not knowing.”
In his current show at New York's Lehmann Maupin gallery, the Puerto Rican–born talent reveals new paintings with a semiautobiographical aspect.