"Aurora" Abstract Expressionist Acrylic on Canvas, 1995
By Frank Wimberley
Located in Astoria, NY
Frank Wimberley (American, 1926-2025), "Aurora", Acrylic on Canvas, 1995, signed, titled, and dated verso, wood frame.
Canvas, Acrylic
Trees in the Field, Mixed Media Painting, African American, American Modern 1967
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Smith, Ann Tanksley, Bob Thompson, Russell Thompson, Robert Threadgill, Lloyd Toone, Bennie White, Timothy Wilkins, Walter H. Williams, Ed Wilson, Frank W. Wimberley, Hale Woodruff. ...
Mixed Media
Nature's Printing Press
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Smith, Ann Tanksley, Bob Thompson, Russell Thompson, Robert Threadgill, Lloyd Toone, Bennie White, Timothy Wilkins, Walter H. Williams, Ed Wilson, Frank W. Wimberley, Hale Woodruff. ...
Acrylic
Flutter
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
The Black History Museum, Hempstead, New York, Frank W. Wimberley, 1973.
Canvas, Acrylic
Accents Red
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
The Black History Museum, Hempstead, New York, Frank W. Wimberley, 1973.
Canvas, Acrylic
This One
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
The Black History Museum, Hempstead, New York, Frank W. Wimberley, 1973.
Canvas, Acrylic
Tangerine
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
The Black History Museum, Hempstead, New York, Frank W. Wimberley, 1973.
Canvas, Acrylic
Stones
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
The Black History Museum, Hempstead, New York, Frank W. Wimberley, 1973.
Canvas, Acrylic
Side Entrance
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
The Black History Museum, Hempstead, New York, Frank W. Wimberley, 1973.
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled Composition
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, and Hamilton, New York Coca Cola Bottling Company, Philadelphia Islip Art Museum, Long Island John Hoskins Estate, At...
Canvas, Acrylic
Edge
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, and Hamilton, New York Coca Cola Bottling Company, Philadelphia Islip Art Museum, Long Island John Hoskins Estate, At...
Canvas, Acrylic, Asphaltum
Ascent
By Frank Wimberley
Located in New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, and Hamilton, New York Coca Cola Bottling Company, Philadelphia Islip Art Museum, Long Island John Hoskins Estate, At...
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,850
H 42 in W 32 in D 1.75 in
Spiritual Origins - Abstract Oil on Wood Panel, American Modern, 1980s
By Julie Fudge
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract oil on wood panel depicting the beginnings of the ascendancy of the Earth by Julie R. Fudge (American, 20th Century). Signed "Julie Fudge" on verso. Unframed. Image, 42"H x ...
Oil, Wood Panel
Abstract
Located in Houston, TX
French abstract in tones of blues, black and purple, 1980s. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-size frame. Archival pla...
Acrylic
$2,942Sale Price|30% Off
H 59.06 in W 55.12 in D 0.04 in
September Acrylic Painting, Abstract Expressionist, 2010s, Unframed
Located in Jönköping, SE
This painting is from my series titled "The Untethered Soul." This series delves into the transformative power of nature, capturing the essence of what one feels rather than sees. In...
Acrylic
Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract painting accented in bright hues of red, blue and a soft lavender by French artist AM Vivent, 1986. Signed and dated lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a ...
Paper, Acrylic
$1,196Sale Price|20% Off
H 31 in W 39.5 in D 2 in
Antique American Modernist Abstract Landscape Morris Shulman Signed Painting
By Morris M. Shulman
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract Maine landscape painting. Watercolor and gouache on paper, circa 1960. Signed on verso. Image size, 30L x 22H. Housed in a period frame.
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, CT
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Paper, Mixed Media
04-14
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
04–14, 2016 Oil on canvas, 36 x 42 inches (91.4 x 106.7 cm) Signed and dated on verso: Madeline Peckenpaugh / 2016 Provenance The artist; Private collection, Haverford Madeline Pec...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, CT
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Etching
$343
H 8.47 in W 6.11 in D 0.04 in
Composition - Lithograph on Paper - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original print in lithograph on paper realized by an anonymous artist of the mid-20th Century. In very good conditions. The artwork is created through confident s...
Lithograph
$3,450
H 32 in W 25.75 in D 0.75 in
Edward Marecak The Garden, 1965 Abstract Mid-Century Mixed Media Painting
By Edward Marecak
Located in Denver, CO
A vibrant and sophisticated 1965 abstract mixed media painting by Edward Marecak (1919–1993), The Garden is a striking example of the artist’s mature mid-century modernist vocabulary...
Crayon, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, CT
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Etching
$5,500
H 36.25 in W 36.25 in D 0.75 in
Untitled (Abstraction), Expressionist Acrylic on Canvas, Signed, 1994
By Jack Roth
Located in Astoria, NY
Jack Roth (American, 1927-2004), Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, 1994, signed and dated "Roth 94" lower left, estate stamp and marked "JR-4295" verso, unframed. 36.25" H x 36.25" W x 0...
Canvas, Acrylic
$5,500
H 36 in W 36 in D 0.75 in
Untitled (Abstraction), Expressionist Acrylic on Canvas, Signed
By Jack Roth
Located in Astoria, NY
Jack Roth (American, 1927-2004), Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, signed "Roth" lower center, estate stamp and marked "JR-4291" verso, unframed. 36" H x 36" W x 0.75" D. Provenance: Th...
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract
Located in Houston, TX
Bright and colorful ink and watercolor abstract by French artist Jaquel, circa 1990. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat...
Ink, Watercolor
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, CT
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Lithograph
$14,500
H 53.75 in W 43.75 in D 2 in
Untitled (Abstraction), Acrylic on Canvas, Framed, 1975
By Jack Roth
Located in Astoria, NY
Jack Roth (American, 1927-2004), Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, 1975, marked "JR-118-75" verso with "Jack Roth Estate" stamp, white painted wood frame. Image: 52.25" H x 42.25" W; fra...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,750
H 11.5 in W 14 in D 1 in
"House by the Stream" Pastoral Summer Countryside Landscape Oil Painting Framed
By Christopher Willett 1
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful Impressionist summer pastoral scene of a colorful and quaint home by the stream. Willet has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and has packed muc...
Oil, Board, Canvas
"Sunday in the Park, 1910"
By Cyprien Eugène Boulet
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Right Cyprien-Eugène Boulet (1877 - 1927)
Canvas, Oil
$2,052 / item
H 40 in W 30 in D 0.03 in
"Vigne Fleurie" Signed Limited Edition Art Print by Christiane Lemieux - 30"x40"
Located in New York, NY
"Vigne Fleurie" is an exquisite limited edition fine art print that offers a modernist interpretation of a flowering vine set against a lush green colorfield. Each print is a view of...
Paper
One Fell Swoop, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Hal Mayforth
Located in Yardley, PA
An energetic composition of bold brushstrokes and hardedge color. Many layers and textures are evident in final surface. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official ...
Acrylic
$91,516
H 53.15 in W 15.75 in
Dionysos Tors Torso Bronze Sculpture Classical Mythology Contemporary Art
By Margot Homan
Located in Utrecht, NL
Dionysisch Tors Bronze Sculpture Classical Mythology Contemporary Art The sculptures of Margot Homan (1956, Oss, NL) show a perfect command of the old craft of modelling and sculpti...
Bronze
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
$3,150Sale Price|30% Off
H 39.38 in W 39.38 in D 0.79 in
Landscape 148 by Jean Krille - Oil on Masonite 100x100 cm
By Jean Krille
Located in Geneva, CH
Artwork signed at the bottom left. Jean Krillé’s paintings are known for their expressive use of color and dynamic, abstract forms, blending realism with abstraction in his depictio...
Masonite, Oil
$13,727
H 50.01 in W 50.01 in D 1.38 in
Couleurs en équilibre – Large Contemporary Geometric Abstract Oil Painting
By SOPHIE DUMONT
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Sophie Dumont (b. 1964, Paris) French contemporary painter Sophie Dumont has developed a distinctive body of work over the past two decades, exploring the intersection of memory, str...
Oil
$4,118
H 10.04 in W 6.11 in D 6.3 in
2 MID-CENTURY MODERN Orientable TABLE LAMPS by GILARDI & BARZAGHI, Italy 1950
By Gino Sarfatti, Gilardi & Bazarghi, Gilardi & Barzaghi
Located in PARIS, FR
An authentic, rare and iconic pair of orientable table lamp, Mid-Century-Modern, Modernist, Fifties, Forme-Libre, minimalist "Z" brass structures, with orientable conical shades, gol...
Brass, Aluminum
$4,800
H 24 in W 18 in
The House of Shango — African American Woman Artist, Signed Lithograph
By Samella Lewis
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Samella Sanders Lewis, 'The House of Shango', lithograph, 1992, edition 60. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '31/60' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on Arches cream ...
Lithograph
$5,400
H 37 in W 32 in
1920 COLORFUL Impressionist French/Swiss Landscape Painting FIGURE STROLLING
By Emile Bressler
Located in New York, NY
Up For Sale, Emile Bressler (1886 - 1966)…. A Swiss/French Impressionist painter who became Famous in Geneva in the 1920’s. Image depicts a figure walking through a path with a vi...
Oil
$2,025
H 36 in W 24 in
Streams No. 9 - Organic Abstract Geometric Original Painting Gold Green Red
By Alexander Eulert
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Alexander Eulert's original mixed media paintings on wood panels are abstract propositions of worlds where divergent forces coalesce into harmonious geometric interactions. He draws ...
Gold Leaf
$750
H 19.38 in W 23.88 in D 1.25 in
Nocturnal Garden Landscape -- West Side Cottage
By Kristy Simmons
Located in Soquel, CA
A nocturnal landscape of a cottage shrouded in foliage by Kristy Simmons (American, 20th century). Signed, stretcher bar, on verso. Unframed. Image, 19.38"H x 23.88"W. Painted during...
Canvas, Oil
$2,500
H 11.25 in W 13.25 in D 1 in
"Overlooking The Delaware" Upper Bucks County PA Pastoral Landscape Scene
By Christopher Willett 1
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful Impressionist summer pastoral scene of a colorful quaint home and barn in a green pastoral landscape. Willet has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic wa...
Oil, Board
$8,579
H 42.13 in W 42.13 in D 0.79 in
Topographie du reve, Large Abstract Geometric, Framed, Expressionism, French
By SOPHIE DUMONT
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Title: Topographie du Rêve Oil on canvas – 39.37 × 39.37 in (100 × 100 cm) Framed: 42.13 × 42.13 in (107 × 107 cm) – Natural wood floater frame (black optional) Year: 2025 – Signed l...
Oil
$8,500
H 16 in W 20 in
Emile Albert Gruppe Painter Artist Emile Gruppé Mountain Landscape Scene
By Emile Gruppe
Located in Rockport, MA
A beautiful landscape by Gloucester Artist, Emile Gruppe (1896-1978). Painting is Oil on Canvas, 16"x20".
Oil
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.