$2,800Sale Price|20% Off
H 24 in W 24 in D 4 in
Abstract expressionist sea, shore, landscape scene with white, blue and orange
By Claude Howard Stuart
Located in Woodbury, CT
Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, James Brooks, Albert Kotin, and many others. This
Acrylic
Untitled
By Albert Kotin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
AMERICAN ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST ALBERT KOTIN 1907-1980 Albert Kotin belonged to the early
Emergence
By Albert Kotin
Located in Dallas, TX
Abstract piece by Albert Kotin. Oil on Canvas dimensions 36 x 30. Framed dimensions 37 x 31
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Albert Kotin
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Canvas, Oil
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H 24.25 in W 24.25 in
"Phobia, " Albert Kotin, American Abstract Expressionist, Ninth Street
By Albert Kotin
Located in New York, NY
Albert Kotin (1907 - 1980) Phobia Oil on board 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 inches Signed lower right Albert
Oil, Board
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H 25 in W 21.5 in
Albert Kotin Abstract Expressionist Painting Nude Biomorphic Figure WPA Artist
By Albert Kotin
Located in Surfside, FL
verso. Dimensions: Framed 25 x 21.5. Sight 13.5 x 10.5. Albert Kotin (1907 – 1980) belonged to the
Paper, Oil, Gouache
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H 40 in W 40 in D 4 in
Abstract Seascape, Landscape in Blue, Red, Black and Orange tones, 'Seaspray'
By Claude Howard Stuart
Located in Woodbury, CT
Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, James Brooks, Albert Kotin and many others. This piece
Acrylic
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H 8 in W 8 in
Abstract collage Portrait of Pablo Picasso , with paint, ink on antique paper,
By Claude Howard Stuart
Located in Woodbury, CT
Francis, Chagall , Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, James Brooks, Albert
Laid Paper
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H 8 in W 8 in
Abstract collage Portrait of Lucian Freud, with paint, ink on antique paper,
By Claude Howard Stuart
Located in Woodbury, CT
, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, James Brooks, Albert Kotin, and many others
Laid Paper
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H 24 in W 24 in D 4 in
Abstract expressionist reflections of the Sea, beach and landscape
By Claude Howard Stuart
Located in Woodbury, CT
Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, James Brooks, Albert Kotin and many others. This piece
Acrylic
"Pen and Ink Interior" Pen and Ink Abstract on Paper
Located in Detroit, MI
Hagedorn, John Hultberg, Albert Kotin, Clarence Major, Knox Martin, Misha Reznikoff, William Scharf, Ethel
Ink, Pen, Paper
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H 24 in Dm 24 in
Abstract collage, Leger, Nantucket, Chinese, original , white, black, gray
By Claude Howard Stuart
Located in Woodbury, CT
works of Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, James Brooks, Albert
Laid Paper, Canvas
Green #12
By Albert Kotin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
AMERICAN ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST ALBERT KOTIN 1907-1980 Albert Kotin belonged to the early
Drum Talk
By Albert Kotin
Located in Dallas, TX
Albert Kotin piece. Oil on Canvas dimensions 38 x 50 Immigrating to the US from Russia in 1908
Canvas, Oil
Inca
By Albert Kotin
Located in Dallas, TX
Albert Kotin piece. Oil on Canvas dimensions 50 x 40. Immigrating to the US from Russia in 1908
Canvas, Oil
Untitled Double Page Illustration for DLM
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Double Page Illustration for DLM Color lithograph, 1968 Unsigned as issued in DLM Published in Derriere le Miroir (Behind the Mirror), called DLM From: DLM No. 173, publishe...
Lithograph
The Gathering
By Jirayr Hamparzoom Zorthian
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to...
Oil, Panel
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H 8.813 in W 14 in
Joan Mitchell, Untitled, from The Poems, 1960
By Joan Mitchell
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite silkscreen by Joan Mitchell (1925–1992), titled Untitled, from the album The Poems, originates from the 1960 edition published and printed by Tiber Press, New York, un...
Screen
The Artist's Wife oil painting by Hans Burkhardt
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Hudson, NY
Hans Burkhardt The Artist's Wife (1930) Oil on canvas, 20" x 16" 24" x 20 ½" x 1 ½" framed Dated 1930 lower right recto. Annotated "To Elsa HB Louise Burkhardt 1930. HB" verso. ...
Canvas, Oil
Glade, 2009
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Oil on canvas 52 x 36 inches (132.1 x 91.4 cm) Framed dimensions: 53 1/4 x 37 1/4 in Dated and inscribed on verso: 2009/42 Provenance Morrison Gallery, Kent, CT; Private collection,...
Oil
$2,800
H 49.5 in W 35 in
A Large and Impressive Painting of a Standing Nude by Artist Francis Chapin
By Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A large 1930s painting of standing female nude by notable Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin, in a gold-toned frame. Artwork size: 43 3/4 x 29 3/4 inches; Framed size: 49 1/2 x...
Canvas, Oil
"Blue nude" 1953 Oil cm. 50 x 60
By Edgardo Corbelli
Located in Torino, IT
Blue Nude, 1953 Oil on canvas Signed and dated upper right Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989) From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to tec...
Canvas, Oil
$1,093
H 17.72 in W 13.78 in D 1.19 in
Abstract Expression - Oil paint by Giorgio Lo Fermo - 2021
By Giorgio Lo Fermo
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Expressionism is an original contemporary artwork realized by the Italian artist Giorgio Lo Fermo in 2021. Original Oil painting on canvas. Hand-signed and dated on the b...
Oil, Canvas
Corps de Ballet
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Signed, original, 1994, oil–on-canvas painting, Corps de Ballet by significant American artist, Wolf Kahn (b. 1927). Winner: Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships. Award in Art from...
Canvas, Oil
Lady Chatterley
Located in PARIS, FR
Edouard Dumoulin (1898 - 1973) Lady Chatterley Oil on canvas 100 x 65 cm (110 x 75 cm with frame) 39.37 x 25.59 in (43.31 x 29.53 in with frame) Inscription from left to right : L...
Oil
$17,612
H 13.98 in W 19.69 in D 0.04 in
Le Lézard aux Plumes d'Or - Lithograph by Joan Miró - 1971
By Joan Miró
Located in Roma, IT
"Le Lézard aux Plumes d'Or" is an original lithograph realized by Joan Miró in 1971, and part of the famous homonym series. Hand signed and numbered, it is an H.C. (out of commerce)...
Lithograph
$35,000
H 72 in W 72 in D 1.5 in
"Love" by Rehfeld - Ochre and Orange Contemporary Mixed Media Abstract
By Steven H. Rehfeld
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven H. Rehfeld (American, born 1954) "Love" 2019 Oil paint, Paper, Glue, Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher bars The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Introdu...
Canvas, Wax, Oil, Paper, Charcoal, Stretcher Bars
"Still Life with Bananas"
By Vaclav Vytlacil
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984) He was born to Czechoslovakian parents in 1892 in New York City. Living in Chicago as a youth,...
Oil, Board
$1,800
H 19 in W 23 in D 1 in
Cool-Colored Abstract Expressionist Sailboats and Boat House
By Chester Dixon Snowden 1
Located in Houston, TX
Oil painting with boats and boat house. The artist uses color and line to create the illusion of texture within the painting. Placed in a dark, thick, wooden frame with mat. Artist...
Oil
$41,300
H 55 in W 90 in
"Silver Pond V" Contemporary oil painting with resin - 3 dimensional waterlilies
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A representational abstract depiction of "Silver Pond" on Long Island. Darius Yektai dives back into his popular "Silver Pond" palette in this dreamy waterscape. He paints his canvas...
Linen, Resin, Oil, Acrylic
Seeing Voice Welsh Heart
By Paul Jenkins
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph on Rives BFK. Signed and numbered 30/40 in pencil. Printed by Mourlot, Paris. Published by Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris. From the same-...
Color, Lithograph
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.