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Henri Michaux, Untitled, from XXe Siecle, 1958
Henri Michaux, Untitled, from XXe Siecle, 1958

Henri Michaux, Untitled, from XXe Siecle, 1958

By Henri Michaux

Located in Southampton, NY

About the Artist: Henri Michaux (1899–1984) was a profoundly influential Belgian born French painter, poet, and visionary explorer of the unconscious whose hallucinatory ink works, c...

Category

1950s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Henri Michaux, Untitled, from XXe Siecle, 1952
Henri Michaux, Untitled, from XXe Siecle, 1952

Henri Michaux, Untitled, from XXe Siecle, 1952

By Henri Michaux

Located in Southampton, NY

About the Artist: Henri Michaux (1899–1984) was a profoundly influential Belgian born French painter, poet, and visionary explorer of the unconscious whose hallucinatory ink works, c...

Category

1950s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Carolee Schneemann, Infinity Kisses, (for her cat) Unique Signed work, Framed
Carolee Schneemann, Infinity Kisses, (for her cat) Unique Signed work, Framed

Carolee Schneemann, Infinity Kisses, (for her cat) Unique Signed work, Framed

By Carolee Schneemann 1

Located in New York, NY

“I wanted my actual body to be combined with the work as an integral material,” she wrote at the time.3 Schneemann developed her approach to making art in dialogue with action paint...

Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Archival Pigment

Parisian on the Phone, Oil Painting
Parisian on the Phone, Oil Painting

Parisian on the Phone, Oil Painting

By Warren Keating

Located in San Francisco, CA

Words that describe this painting: impressionism, figurative, action, walking, people, Paris, street life, aerial view, overhead, figure, perspective, birds-eye-view, man, oilpaint, ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist More Art

Materials

Oil

Sans Titre
Sans Titre

Sans Titre

By Roberto Matta

Located in San Francisco, CA

Matta's style and willing exploration of the surrealist philosophy of "automatic composition" heavily influenced the development of the New York Abstract Expressionist School and the...

Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Hecatombe de Toros
Hecatombe de Toros

Hecatombe de Toros

By Roberto Matta

Located in San Francisco, CA

Matta's style and willing exploration of the surrealist philosophy of "automatic composition" heavily influenced the development of the New York Abstract Expressionist School and the...

Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Hecatombe de Toros
Hecatombe de Toros

Hecatombe de Toros

By Roberto Matta

Located in San Francisco, CA

Matta's style and willing exploration of the surrealist philosophy of "automatic composition" heavily influenced the development of the New York Abstract Expressionist School and the...

Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Hecatombe de Toros
Hecatombe de Toros

Hecatombe de Toros

By Roberto Matta

Located in San Francisco, CA

Matta's style and willing exploration of the surrealist philosophy of "automatic composition" heavily influenced the development of the New York Abstract Expressionist School and the...

Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Centre Noeuds" planche #3
"Centre Noeuds" planche #3

"Centre Noeuds" planche #3

By Roberto Matta

Located in San Francisco, CA

Matta's style and willing exploration of the surrealist philosophy of "automatic composition" heavily influenced the development of the New York Abstract Expressionist School and the...

Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Aquatint

"Centre Noeuds" planche #6
"Centre Noeuds" planche #6

"Centre Noeuds" planche #6

By Roberto Matta

Located in San Francisco, CA

Matta's style and willing exploration of the surrealist philosophy of "automatic composition" heavily influenced the development of the New York Abstract Expressionist School and the...

Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Aquatint

"Centre Noeuds" planche #8
"Centre Noeuds" planche #8

"Centre Noeuds" planche #8

By Roberto Matta

Located in San Francisco, CA

Matta's style and willing exploration of the surrealist philosophy of "automatic composition" heavily influenced the development of the New York Abstract Expressionist School and the...

Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Aquatint

"Centre Noeuds" planche #1
"Centre Noeuds" planche #1

"Centre Noeuds" planche #1

By Roberto Matta

Located in San Francisco, CA

Matta's style and willing exploration of the surrealist philosophy of "automatic composition" heavily influenced the development of the New York Abstract Expressionist School and the...

Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Aquatint

"Centre Noeuds" planche #5
"Centre Noeuds" planche #5

"Centre Noeuds" planche #5

By Roberto Matta

Located in San Francisco, CA

Matta's style and willing exploration of the surrealist philosophy of "automatic composition" heavily influenced the development of the New York Abstract Expressionist School and the...

Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Aquatint

"Centre Noeuds" planche #9
"Centre Noeuds" planche #9

"Centre Noeuds" planche #9

By Roberto Matta

Located in San Francisco, CA

Matta's style and willing exploration of the surrealist philosophy of "automatic composition" heavily influenced the development of the New York Abstract Expressionist School and the...

Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Aquatint

"Centre Noeuds" planche #7
"Centre Noeuds" planche #7

"Centre Noeuds" planche #7

By Roberto Matta

Located in San Francisco, CA

Matta's style and willing exploration of the surrealist philosophy of "automatic composition" heavily influenced the development of the New York Abstract Expressionist School and the...

Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Aquatint

"Centre Noeuds" planche #10
"Centre Noeuds" planche #10

"Centre Noeuds" planche #10

By Roberto Matta

Located in San Francisco, CA

Matta's style and willing exploration of the surrealist philosophy of "automatic composition" heavily influenced the development of the New York Abstract Expressionist School and the...

Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Aquatint

"Centre Noeuds" planche #2
"Centre Noeuds" planche #2

"Centre Noeuds" planche #2

By Roberto Matta

Located in San Francisco, CA

Matta's style and willing exploration of the surrealist philosophy of "automatic composition" heavily influenced the development of the New York Abstract Expressionist School and the...

Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Aquatint

"Centre Noeuds" planche #4
"Centre Noeuds" planche #4

"Centre Noeuds" planche #4

By Roberto Matta

Located in San Francisco, CA

Matta's style and willing exploration of the surrealist philosophy of "automatic composition" heavily influenced the development of the New York Abstract Expressionist School and the...

Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints

Materials

Aquatint

Chinese Moonlight (signed, dated and inscribed by Walasse Ting) with four lithos
Chinese Moonlight (signed, dated and inscribed by Walasse Ting) with four lithos

Chinese Moonlight (signed, dated and inscribed by Walasse Ting) with four lithos

By Walasse Ting

Located in New York, NY

The artist bestows the paint with incomparable freedom of motion, re-enacting upon the canvas the passion and action of nature. The action painting that became iconic of American abs...

Category

1960s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset

Mute Fraction - Diptych (Two Paintings), Mixed Media on Canvas
Mute Fraction - Diptych (Two Paintings), Mixed Media on Canvas

Mute Fraction - Diptych (Two Paintings), Mixed Media on Canvas

By Robert Musser

Located in Yardley, PA

Gray on paper adds scaffolding for flowing actions. Two 11"x14" paintings. :: Mixed Media :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the a...

Category

2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Margo Margolis

Located in Wellesley, MA

They create an identity distinctly different from action painting, gestural painting or any notion that the artists' stroke is assumed to reveal his/her psyche.

Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Monoprint

Lotus
Lotus

Lotus

By Angelo Savelli

Located in Missouri, MO

He works out a monochrome art, distancing himself from the expressive violence of "action painting", realizing works of extreme lightness and formal purity, from a compelling inner n...

Category

1960s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

SWELTERING SUN, Mixed Media on Canvas
SWELTERING SUN, Mixed Media on Canvas

SWELTERING SUN, Mixed Media on Canvas

By db Waterman

Located in Yardley, PA

"Sweltering Sun: Children in the Heatwave" is both a visually captivating work and a call to action. DB Waterman's mixed media painting attempts to bring out a complex range of emoti...

Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Original Vintage Travel Poster France Rhone Alpes by Mathieu

Original Vintage Travel Poster France Rhone Alpes by Mathieu

By Georges Mathieu

Located in Boca Raton, FL

Mathieu’s work values rhythm and movement, each of his paintings have an “action” characteristic, resembling the flow of calligraphy and representing the frenzy of the internal mind.

Category

1990s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

It's the Thought that Counts famous limited edition MOMART UK fine art multiple
It's the Thought that Counts famous limited edition MOMART UK fine art multiple

It's the Thought that Counts famous limited edition MOMART UK fine art multiple

By Mark Wallinger

Located in New York, NY

They move his practice, as he says from ‘painting ‘I’s to ‘I paint’—from image to action. Each painting pivots round the line of symmetry created by the artist’s body evoking the bil...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media, Cardboard

Rosenthal Vase "Renaissance" by Jan van der Vaart and Daniel Groen, 1989
Rosenthal Vase "Renaissance" by Jan van der Vaart and Daniel Groen, 1989

Rosenthal Vase "Renaissance" by Jan van der Vaart and Daniel Groen, 1989

By Daniel Greene, Jan van der Vaart

Located in Delft, NL

The four sides of the vase have been incorporated in an all-round depiction, i.e. the beholder must rotate the vase in order to follow the action. As in Baroque painting, an arm or s...

Category

20th Century German Porcelain

Materials

Porcelain

Evening - The depth of the visible -
Evening - The depth of the visible -

Evening - The depth of the visible -

Located in Berlin, DE

There are no people in Clarenbach's landscape paintings to bring action into the picture. Not even we ourselves are assigned a viewing position in the picture, so that we do not beco...

Category

Early 1900s Realist Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

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