"Waiting" by Dan McCaw, Abstracted, Figural Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Waiting" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an abstracted
Oil, Board
$9,500
H 30 in W 24 in
"Textures" (2025) by Dan McCaw, Abstracted, Figural Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Textures" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an abstracted
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"Waiting" (2025) by Dan McCaw, Abstracted, Figural Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Waiting" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an abstracted
Oil, Board
$10,500
H 36 in W 24 in
"Symbiotic" (2025) by Dan McCaw, Abstracted, Figural Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Symbiotic" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts three
Oil, Board
$24,000
H 48 in W 42 in
"Reverie" (2024) By Dan McCaw, Original Abstract Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's "Reverie" created in 2024, is a striking oil painting measuring 48 x 42 inches. This
Oil, Board
$9,500
H 31.75 in W 25 in
"Textures" (2024) By Dan McCaw, Original Abstract Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's "Textures" created in 2024, is a striking oil painting measuring 30 x 24 inches. This
Oil, Board
$9,500
H 31.75 in W 25.75 in
"Harmony" (2024) By Dan McCaw, Original Abstract Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's "Harmony" created in 2024, is a striking oil painting measuring 30 x 24 inches. This
Oil, Board
$8,500
H 26.5 in W 20.25 in
"Invitation" (2024) By Dan McCaw, Original Abstract Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's "Invitation" created in 2024, is a striking oil painting measuring 24 x 18 inches. This
Oil, Board
$8,000
H 24 in W 19.5 in
"Resilient" (2024) By Dan McCaw, Original Abstract Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's "Resilient" created in 2024, is a striking oil painting measuring 22 x 18 inches. This
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"Untitled, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Untitled" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an abstracted
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"'Anticipation" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Anticipation" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an
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"Unadorned" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Unadorned" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an abstracted
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"Sisters" Interior Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Sisters" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts two abstracted
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"Standing Figure" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Standing Figure" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an
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"Seated Figure" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Seated Figure" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an
Oil, Panel
$3,800
H 16 in W 12 in
"Transformation" (2024), Abstract Figurative Oil Painting on Board
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Transformation" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an
Oil, Board
$3,800
H 16 in W 12 in
"Expectations" (2024), Abstract Colorful Figurative Oil Painting on Board
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Transformation" is a beautiful original handmade oil painting that depicts
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"Reverie" by Dan McCaw, Abstracted, Figural Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Reverie" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an abstracted
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H 22.5 in W 19 in
"Reflective" (2024) By Dan McCaw, Original Abstract Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's "Reflective" created in 2024, is a striking oil painting measuring 16 x 12 inches. This
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"Tempered" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Tempered" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an abstracted
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"Untethered" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Untethered" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts the
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"Reverie" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Reverie" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an abstracted
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"Hidden Treasures" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Hidden Treasures" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a
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"Landscape Within, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Landscape Within" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an
Canvas, Oil
"Figure in Landscape" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Figure in Landscape" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a
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H 26.25 in W 20.25 in
"Reverie" (2024) By Dan McCaw, Original Abstract Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's "Reverie" created in 2024, is a striking oil painting measuring 24 x 18 inches. This
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"Serenity" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dan McCaw's (US based) "Serenity" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an abstracted
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What Did She Say, Oil Painting
By Faye Vander Veer
Located in San Francisco, CA
McCaw, , impressionism, people, representational, oil painting, red, orangeWhat Did She Say
Oil
$18,389Sale Price|20% Off
H 58 in W 48.5 in
Huge 1700's Florentine Old Master Oil Painting Eros Triumph over Pan Male Nudes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Triumph of Eros over Pan Florentine School, early 1700's period, unsigned oil on canvas, framed framed: 58 x 48.5 inches canvas: 50 x 40 inches Provenance: private collection, Pa...
Oil
$1,200
H 16 in W 12 in
"Sunlit" (2023) By John McCaw, Original Expressionist Oil on Canvas Painting
By John McCaw
Located in Denver, CO
John McCaw's (US based) "Sunlit" (2023) is a beautiful original expressionist painting, which depicts a park pathway during the sunset. A park bench rests along the path which leads...
Canvas, Oil
Sold|$18,500
H 19 in W 21 in
"Picnic Scene" Paulette Van Roekens, Impressionist Scene, Leisure, Pastel Colors
Located in New York, NY
Paulette Van Roekens Picnic Scene Signed lower center Oil on canvas 12 1/8 x 14 1/4 inches Painter Paulette van Roekens was born in France and attended the Philadelphia School of D...
Oil, Canvas
$125,000
H 18 in W 18.5 in
H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Kiss" collotype print
By Gustav Klimt & K.K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei
Located in Palm Beach, FL
The Kiss, no. 1 from the fifth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Undoubtedly Klimt’s best known and most reproduced images, this printed version of The Kiss is the only one with...
Handmade Paper
$102,195
H 35 in W 40 in
Dam at Genetin - Impressionist Oil, Winter Riverscape by Armand Guillaumin
By Jean Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated impressionist landscape oil on canvas by French painter Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin. This simply stunning piece depicts a view of the dam at Genetin on the River...
Canvas, Oil
Airplane in landscape - landscape painting
By Jeroen Allart
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful painting by Jeroen Allart is part of his minimalist landscape and animal painting he did in his home country the Netherlands. 'A farm stands before you on the horizon....
Canvas, Oil
$715
H 6.3 in W 2.37 in D 3.55 in
Janne by Nando Kallweit. Elegant figurative sculpture.
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Janne is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit. Modelled on modern youthful postures but with a nod to the importance of heritage through the stylised Egyptian-in...
Bronze
$6,800Sale Price|20% Off
H 60 in W 48 in D 1.5 in
"Enchanted" Modernist Multicolor & Textured Abstract Portrait Painting on Canvas
By Gee Gee Collins
Located in New York, NY
A modernist depiction of a portrait executed with strong use of line and texture. This piece is filled with movement and beautiful brushwork, the use of color placement is enchanting...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
On Hold|$4,589
H 24.81 in W 18.51 in D 5.52 in
Magdalena II by Nando Kallweit. Elegant bronze sculpture of a female nude figure
By Nando Kallweit
Located in Coltishall, GB
Magdalena II is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture by Nando Kallweit. Tall and elongated, with throws hanging from outstretched arms, this is a beautiful piece. The slender figu...
Bronze
$1,800,000
H 27 in W 24 in D 2.5 in
Pierre Auguste Renoir Portrait de femme - Berthe Poret
By Pierre Auguste Renoir
Located in Los Angeles, CA
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) Portrait de femme - Berthe Poret bears signature (lower left) oil on canvas 17 15/16 x 14 3/4 in (45.5 x 37.4 cm) Painted between 1862-1863 Footn...
Canvas, Oil
"Red Flower", Oil Painting
By Danny McCaw
Located in Denver, CO
Danny McCaw's (US based) "Untitled" is an original, handmade oil painting with impasto brushstrokes that depicts an ambiguous figure of white and grey sitting in an interior of grey....
Oil, Board
Allegory of Abundance
Located in New York, NY
Painted in collaboration with Hendrick van Balen (Antwerp, 1575 – 1632). Provenance: Private Collection, Uruguay, since the 1930s. The eldest son of Jan Breughel the Elder, Jan the...
Copper
$1,900
H 12 in W 9 in
"Stripes" (2024) By Danny McCaw, Original Abstract Portrait Oil Painting
By Danny McCaw
Located in Denver, CO
Danny McCaw's (US based) "Stripes" is an original, handmade oil painting with impasto brushstrokes that depicts an ambiguous human figure leaning against a bed. Bio/artist statement...
Oil, Board
"Red Symphony" Oil Painting
By Danny McCaw
Located in Denver, CO
Danny McCaw's (US based) "Red Symphony" is an original, handmade oil painting with impasto brushstrokes that depicts two ambiguous human figures of white and grey sitting in an inter...
Oil, Board
At the Mirror
By Frederick Carl Frieseke
Located in New Orleans, LA
the most important American Impressionists of his age. While many of his contemporaries focused on the landscape, Frieseke gained his inspiration from the figural, and in particular ...
Canvas, Oil
$8,300
H 18.63 in W 17.88 in D 0.1 in
Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer, Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Original 1931 collotype created from Gustav Kilmt’s Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer, oil on canvas, 1916. Published by Max Eisler and printed by Österreichischer Staatsdruckerei (A...
Paper
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.