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Post-War Abstract Bronze Statue

Post-War Abstract Bronze Statue

Located in Queens, NY

American Post-War design abstract bronze statue sculpture of a nude female figure seated in an easy

Category

20th Century American Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

"Surreal Woman"
"Surreal Woman"

"Surreal Woman"

By Nahum Tschacbasov

Located in Southampton, NY

Russian/American artist who was widely exhibited and collected post WW II. Tschacbasov taught at the Art

Category

1940s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Fiberboard

Gravity by Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof
Gravity by Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof

Gravity by Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof

Located in New Orleans, LA

size, quality and precision, this work is a modern masterpiece of design. Escher’s Gravitation was

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

Whispers of the Club
Whispers of the Club

Whispers of the Club

Located in Zofingen, AG

A dark club symbol takes center stage against a cracked, timeworn surface, surrounded by clock faces, golden gears, and roses blooming through the fractures. Chess pieces stand like ...

Category

2010s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Varnish, Acrylic

“Untitled”
“Untitled”

Sid Birnbaum“Untitled”, 1987

$1,440Sale Price|20% Off

“Untitled”

By Sid Birnbaum

Located in Southampton, NY

abstract cubist style. Condition is very good. Signed and dated verso, 1987. Overall size is 27 inches by

Category

1980s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Italy 1980 Late 20th Century Pop Art Multiple Bronze Pens
Italy 1980 Late 20th Century Pop Art Multiple Bronze Pens

Italy 1980 Late 20th Century Pop Art Multiple Bronze Pens

Located in Brescia, IT

This is a multiple bronze with wood base create by the Italian artist Tino Stefanoni in 1980 circa. This artwork is following Pop Art and its philosophy that elevates everyday objetc...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Italy 1980 Late 20th Century Pop Art Multiple Bronze Dippers
Italy 1980 Late 20th Century Pop Art Multiple Bronze Dippers

Italy 1980 Late 20th Century Pop Art Multiple Bronze Dippers

Located in Brescia, IT

This is a multiple bronze with wood base create by the Italian artist Tino Stefanoni in 1980 circa. This artwork is following Pop Art and its philosophy that elevates everyday objetc...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Italy 1980 Late 20th Century Pop Art Multiple Bronze Bottles
Italy 1980 Late 20th Century Pop Art Multiple Bronze Bottles

Italy 1980 Late 20th Century Pop Art Multiple Bronze Bottles

Located in Brescia, IT

This is a multiple bronze with wood base create by the Italian artist Tino Stefanoni in 1980 circa. This artwork is following Pop Art and its philosophy that elevates everyday objetc...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Omaggio a Giacometti Tribute to Giacometti 1970 Italy Urano Palma
Omaggio a Giacometti Tribute to Giacometti 1970 Italy Urano Palma

Omaggio a Giacometti Tribute to Giacometti 1970 Italy Urano Palma

Located in Brescia, IT

This very intense and engaging artwork was created by Urano Palma that he is a well known Italian artist who starts to create his artworks following the philosophy of Lucio Fontana. ...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

“The Greatest Story Ever Told”
“The Greatest Story Ever Told”

“The Greatest Story Ever Told”

By Joseph Conrad-Ferm

Located in Southampton, NY

Original acrylic on canvas painting by the well known American artist, Joseph Conrad Ferm. Condition is excellent. Signed lower right “Ferm”. Titled, signed and dated verso 2012. Un...

Category

2010s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

“Mumbo Jumbo” Neon Pink Biomorphic Painting
“Mumbo Jumbo” Neon Pink Biomorphic Painting

“Mumbo Jumbo” Neon Pink Biomorphic Painting

By Matthew Reeves

Located in Houston, TX

Abstract textured biomorphic shape painted with bright pink pigment by contemporary Houston, TX

Category

2010s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

1980 Italy Bronze Sculpture by Edmondo Cirillo Title Ulisse
1980 Italy Bronze Sculpture by Edmondo Cirillo Title Ulisse

1980 Italy Bronze Sculpture by Edmondo Cirillo Title Ulisse

Located in Brescia, IT

This engagind and intense artwork was created in 1980 by the Italian artist Edmondo Cirillo. It was forged in bronze and gold plated and then burnished. The title of this piece is "...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

The case will remain unsolved. Veneer, acrylic, 50x50 cm
The case will remain unsolved. Veneer, acrylic, 50x50 cm

The case will remain unsolved. Veneer, acrylic, 50x50 cm

Located in Riga, LV

The case will remain unsolved. Veneer, acrylic, 50x50 cm Dzemma Skulme worked in oil, acrylic and water-colors. She developed the theme of the caryatid, wherein she endeavored to re...

Category

2010s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

“Woman with Birds”
“Woman with Birds”

“Woman with Birds”

By Nahum Tschacbasov

Located in Southampton, NY

Original post modern acrylic on canvas painting of a woman with birds and a large bouquet of

Category

1980s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

'City to the Sea' signed original mixed media c2005
'City to the Sea' signed original mixed media c2005

'City to the Sea' signed original mixed media c2005

Located in Frome, Somerset

'City to The Sea' signed original mixed media painting . circa 2005. Glazed oak frame 423.5cm x62.5cm Painting 20cmx 28cm Watercolour , pastel , ink pen , inkjet print and varnish. ...

Category

Early 2000s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Wendover.2
Wendover.2

Wendover.2

By Joseph Ostraff

Located in Salt Lake City, UT

"Wendover 2" by Joseph Ostraff, oil on panel, 36 X 31 inches, $4,800. "For me, paint documents the state of things, how I feel and what is at the forefront in my thinking—maybe it’s...

Category

2010s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

“Edge”
“Edge”

Susan Wilmarth“Edge”, 1973

$550Sale Price|43% Off

“Edge”

Located in Southampton, NY

Wilmarth was born in 1942 and is known for her abstract paintings. She exhibited at MoMA in 1972 and her

Category

1970s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Masterpiece Swiss Contemporary Blown Matte Glass Sculpture Vase
Masterpiece Swiss Contemporary Blown Matte Glass Sculpture Vase

Masterpiece Swiss Contemporary Blown Matte Glass Sculpture Vase

By Thomas Blank

Located in Surfside, FL

Thomas Blank was born in Berne, Switzerland, in 1973. He is a master of transformation, who has been investigating the nature of glass for 20 years now, without losing his fascinatio...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

“Open Shell 2”
“Open Shell 2”

“Open Shell 2”

Located in Southampton, NY

Wilmarth was born in 1942 and is known for her abstract paintings. She exhibited at MoMA in 1972 and her

Category

1970s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Open Shell”
“Open Shell”

“Open Shell”

Located in Southampton, NY

Wilmarth was born in 1942 and is known for her abstract paintings. She exhibited at MoMA in 1972 and her

Category

1970s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Stupore Astonishment 1980 Italy by Mirella Forlivesi
Stupore Astonishment 1980 Italy by Mirella Forlivesi

Stupore Astonishment 1980 Italy by Mirella Forlivesi

Located in Brescia, IT

This intense artwork was created by the Italian artist Mirella Forlivesi. Title "Stupore" traslated in "Astonishment". The piece is a multiple of 1,000 specimen numbered and signed...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Il volume The Book Italy 1975 by Nato Frascà
Il volume The Book Italy 1975 by Nato Frascà

Il volume The Book Italy 1975 by Nato Frascà

Located in Brescia, IT

This intense and engaging artwork was created by the Italian artist Nato Frascà. The title is "Il Volume" translated in " The Book". This is a multiple of 50 specimens and this piec...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Bronze Sculpture by Patrizia Guerresi Melograno Pomegranate
Bronze Sculpture by Patrizia Guerresi Melograno Pomegranate

Bronze Sculpture by Patrizia Guerresi Melograno Pomegranate

By Patrizia Guerresi Maïmouna

Located in Brescia, IT

This is an engaging bronze sculpture created by the Italian artist Patrizia Guerresi, in 1986. The piece is a multiple of 1000 specimens on a green-painted wooden base. This artwork ...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Walter Valentini Big Tracks Tracce
Walter Valentini Big Tracks Tracce

Walter Valentini Big Tracks Tracce

Located in Brescia, IT

Walter Valentini was born in 1928 in South Italy. A painter and engraver, he lives and works in Milan. He is Holder of the chair for engraving at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

2001. paper, watercolor, 103x73 cm
2001. paper, watercolor, 103x73 cm

2001. paper, watercolor, 103x73 cm

Located in Riga, LV

2001. paper, watercolor, 103x73 cm Dzemma Skulme worked in oil, acrylic and water-colors. She developed the theme of the caryatid, wherein she endeavored to reveal the ethical and s...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Italy, 1980, Riccardo Dalisi White Painted Metal Sculpture Pulcinino
Italy, 1980, Riccardo Dalisi White Painted Metal Sculpture Pulcinino

Italy, 1980, Riccardo Dalisi White Painted Metal Sculpture Pulcinino

Located in Brescia, IT

This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known international artist Riccardo Dalisi. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi Black Metal Painted Sculpture Caffellatte
Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi Black Metal Painted Sculpture Caffellatte

Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi Black Metal Painted Sculpture Caffellatte

Located in Brescia, IT

This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the wellknown International artist Riccardo Dalisi. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed ...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi Black Painted Metal Sculpture Amanti Lovers
Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi Black Painted Metal Sculpture Amanti Lovers

Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi Black Painted Metal Sculpture Amanti Lovers

Located in Brescia, IT

This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known international artist Riccardo Dalisi. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi  White Painted Metal Amanti
Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi  White Painted Metal Amanti

Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi White Painted Metal Amanti

Located in Brescia, IT

This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known international artist Riccardo Dalisi. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and complete...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi White Painted Metal Sculpture Muccacaffè
Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi White Painted Metal Sculpture Muccacaffè

Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi White Painted Metal Sculpture Muccacaffè

Located in Brescia, IT

This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known international artist Riccardo Dalisi. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi Black Painted Metal Sculpture Muccacaffè
Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi Black Painted Metal Sculpture Muccacaffè

Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi Black Painted Metal Sculpture Muccacaffè

Located in Brescia, IT

This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known international artist Riccardo Dalisi. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and complete...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi White Metal Painted Sculpture Nuvolella
Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi White Metal Painted Sculpture Nuvolella

Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi White Metal Painted Sculpture Nuvolella

Located in Brescia, IT

This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known international artist Riccardo Dalisi. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

"Big Catch"

Nahum Tschacbasov"Big Catch", 1972

$30,400Sale Price|20% Off

"Big Catch"

By Nahum Tschacbasov

Located in Southampton, NY

Oil on canvas Signed and dated top right 1972 Painting exhibited at the National Arts Club, New York Nahum Tschacbasov Retrospective, June 2013

Category

1970s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Wendover.3
Wendover.3

Wendover.3

By Joseph Ostraff

Located in Salt Lake City, UT

"Wendover 3" by Joseph Ostraff, oil on panel, 36 X 31 inches, $4,800. "For me, paint documents the state of things, how I feel and what is at the forefront in my thinking—maybe it’s...

Category

2010s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

“Composition Red and Gold”
“Composition Red and Gold”

“Composition Red and Gold”

Located in Southampton, NY

Original oil on canvas painting by the American artist Miriam H. Greenberg. Signed lower right. Titled “Composition Red and Gold” and dated verso, 1988. Condition is very good. Orig...

Category

1980s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jean-Louis Scherrer Paris Silk Scarf Vintage 1980s
Jean-Louis Scherrer Paris Silk Scarf Vintage 1980s

Jean-Louis Scherrer Paris Silk Scarf Vintage 1980s

By Jean-Louis Scherrer

Located in Moreno Valley, CA

favorites. This rendition is carefully cut from luxurious silk and designed with a Post Modern Abstract

Category

1980s French Scarves

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

Located in Barcelona, CT

Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

Category

1980s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

"Untitled"  Lawrence Philp, Abstracted Surrealist Forms by Afro-American Artist

"Untitled" Lawrence Philp, Abstracted Surrealist Forms by Afro-American Artist

Located in New York, NY

Lawrence Philp Untitled Oil and acrylic on canvas 75 1/2 x 79 inches Lawrence Philp, the son of Jamaican immigrants, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and was included i...

Category

1970s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

No te enteras
No te enteras

No te enteras

Located in Barcelona, CT

Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

Category

1980s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil, Handmade Paper

Del bosque la montaña
Del bosque la montaña

Del bosque la montaña

Located in Barcelona, CT

Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

Category

1980s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil, Handmade Paper

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Post Modern Abstract For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal post modern abstract for your home. Frequently made of metal, ceramic and stone, every post modern abstract was constructed with great care. There are 1022 variations of the antique or vintage post modern abstract you’re looking for, while we also have 758 modern editions of this piece to choose from as well. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer post modern abstract, there are earlier versions available from the 19th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 21st Century. A post modern abstract, designed in the modern, mid-century modern or Art Deco style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. You’ll likely find more than one post modern abstract that is appealing in its simplicity, but Tom von Kaenel, Berber Tribes of Morocco and Curtis Jeré produced versions that are worth a look.

How Much is a Post Modern Abstract?

The average selling price for a post modern abstract at 1stDibs is $2,419, while they’re typically $0 on the low end and $2,750,000 for the highest priced.

A Close Look at Post-modern Furniture

Postmodern design was a short-lived movement that manifested itself chiefly in Italy and the United States in the early 1980s. The characteristics of vintage postmodern furniture and other postmodern objects and decor for the home included loud-patterned, usually plastic surfaces; strange proportions, vibrant colors and weird angles; and a vague-at-best relationship between form and function.

ORIGINS OF POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

  • Emerges during the 1960s; popularity explodes during the ’80s
  • A reaction to prevailing conventions of modernism by mainly American architects
  • Architect Robert Venturi critiques modern architecture in his Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)
  • Theorist Charles Jencks, who championed architecture filled with allusions and cultural references, writes The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977)
  • Italian design collective the Memphis Group, also known as Memphis Milano, meets for the first time (1980) 
  • Memphis collective debuts more than 50 objects and furnishings at Salone del Milano (1981)
  • Interest in style declines, minimalism gains steam

CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

  • Dizzying graphic patterns and an emphasis on loud, off-the-wall colors
  • Use of plastic and laminates, glass, metal and marble; lacquered and painted wood 
  • Unconventional proportions and abundant ornamentation
  • Playful nods to Art Deco and Pop art

POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

VINTAGE POSTMODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS

Critics derided postmodern design as a grandstanding bid for attention and nothing of consequence. Decades later, the fact that postmodernism still has the power to provoke thoughts, along with other reactions, proves they were not entirely correct.

Postmodern design began as an architectural critique. Starting in the 1960s, a small cadre of mainly American architects began to argue that modernism, once high-minded and even noble in its goals, had become stale, stagnant and blandly corporate. Later, in Milan, a cohort of creators led by Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendinia onetime mentor to Sottsass and a key figure in the Italian Radical movement — brought the discussion to bear on design.

Sottsass, an industrial designer, philosopher and provocateur, gathered a core group of young designers into a collective in 1980 they called Memphis. Members of the Memphis Group,  which would come to include Martine Bedin, Michael Graves, Marco Zanini, Shiro Kuramata, Michele de Lucchi and Matteo Thun, saw design as a means of communication, and they wanted it to shout. That it did: The first Memphis collection appeared in 1981 in Milan and broke all the modernist taboos, embracing irony, kitsch, wild ornamentation and bad taste.

Memphis works remain icons of postmodernism: the Sottsass Casablanca bookcase, with its leopard-print plastic veneer; de Lucchi’s First chair, which has been described as having the look of an electronics component; Martine Bedin’s Super lamp: a pull-toy puppy on a power-cord leash. Even though it preceded the Memphis Group’s formal launch, Sottsass’s iconic Ultrafragola mirror — in its conspicuously curved plastic shell with radical pops of pink neon — proves striking in any space and embodies many of the collective’s postmodern ideals. 

After the initial Memphis show caused an uproar, the postmodern movement within furniture and interior design quickly took off in America. (Memphis fell out of fashion when the Reagan era gave way to cool 1990’s minimalism.) The architect Robert Venturi had by then already begun a series of plywood chairs for Knoll Inc., with beefy, exaggerated silhouettes of traditional styles such as Queen Anne and Chippendale. In 1982, the new firm Swid Powell enlisted a group of top American architects, including Frank Gehry, Richard Meier, Stanley Tigerman and Venturi to create postmodern tableware in silver, ceramic and glass.

On 1stDibs, the vintage postmodern furniture collection includes chairs, coffee tables, sofas, decorative objects, table lamps and more.