Cleve Gray was an American Abstract Expressionist painter. He was born on September 22, 1918, in New York. His works are displayed in various museums including, The Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Smithsonian Institute, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The Phillips Collection. Gray died on December 8, 2004, in Hartford.
$40,000
After Egypt
By Cleve Gray
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on canvas Cleve Gray is a painter admired for his large-scale, vividly colorful, and lyrically gestural abstract compositions. He achieved his greatest critical recognition in ...
Canvas, Oil
1962, Cleve Gray Oil Painting
By Cleve Gray
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vibrant, original, signed and dated, 1962, abstract, oil-on-canvas painting by esteemed, award winning American artist, Cleve Gray (1918-2004). Select collections: The Brooklyn Museu...
Canvas, Oil
$75,000
Captain Cook
By Cleve Gray
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Acrylic on canvas. Signed and dated lower right, titled verso. 69 x 68.25 in. 70.5 x 70 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple floater. Provenance Private Collection, Hilton Head Island, SC Cleve Gray was born Cleve Ginsberg in New York on September 22, 1918. The family subsequently changed its surname to ‘Gray’ in 1936. He attended the Ethical Culture School in New York, and completed his college preparatory studies at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, where he won the Morse Prize for most promising art student. In 1940, Gray graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with degrees in art and archaeology. He wrote his thesis on Chinese landscape painting, which would later become an important influence on his own painterly practice. Gray joined the U.S. Army in 1942 and was deployed to the U.K., France, and Germany, where he sketched wartime destruction. After the liberation of Paris in 1944, he began informal studies with the French artists André Lhote and Jacques Villon, which continued following the conclusion of the war. Soon after, he began to exhibit his work at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris, followed shortly by his first solo exhibition at the Jacques Seligmann Gallery in New York in 1947. Before 1950, Gray would participate in group exhibitions at such venerable institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago. In the 1960s, he formed a close friendship with the first generation Abstract Expressionist Barnett Newman. It was during this time that Gray experienced an artistic metamorphosis, dissolving his earlier cubist compositions in a sea of distilled color. This dramatic body of work marked the beginning of an artistic meditation that would last for over 40 years. The rigors of French modernism, the ethos of Abstract Expressionism, and the meditative restraint of Chinese and Japanese scroll painting commingle with astounding affect. The atmospheric, subdued tones of his 1960s paintings gradually gave way to bright, monochromatic fields of color, hazily washed onto the canvas in stain like swathes. Much of his work from the last three decades of his career feature striking graphic brushwork that conjures the influence of Japanese and Chinese calligraphy. Beginning with his marriage in 1957 to the French author and New Yorker staff writer, Francine Du Plessix, Gray would spend the remainder of his life working out of his home base in Warren, CT, while continuously exhibiting and participating in residencies around the world. He enjoyed representation and exhibitions with some of the most influential galleries of the day, including the Betty Parsons Gallery, Staempfli Gallery, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Eva Cohon Gallery, and Berry-Hill Gallery. Cleve Gray died in Hartford, CT in 2004, at the age of 86. Gray's work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and many other museums and institutional collections around the world. Source: The New York Times and Loretta Howard...
Canvas, Acrylic
End of October
By Cleve Gray
Located in New York, NY
Cleve Gray 'End of October,' 1978 Acrylic on canvas 55 x 55 inches Signed verso This work was donated to the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) by the The Estate of Cleve Gray for FCA's 2021 benefit exhibition held at Greene Naftali.
Acrylic
Study: Ochre, Black
By Cleve Gray
Located in New York, NY
A striking and unique abstraction by abstract expressionist, Cleve Gray. His works on paper translate very well as he carefully chose his papers and combined ab-ex action painting w...
Mixed Media
South Hampton 8:45 PM Oil Painting, Abstract Style, Signed, 28x40 in
By Cleve Gray
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Southhampton 8:45 PM Signed Gray lower right Titled on verso in black paint Oil on canvas, 28 x 40 inches Exhibited: Jacques Seligman Galleries (label) twice, original price $450. (...
Oil
"Red Mountain" abstract gestural painting by Cleve Gray
By Cleve Gray
Located in Greenwich, CT
Abstract painting wherein a calligraphic brushstroke delineates a mountaintop.
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,321
H 19.69 in W 31.11 in D 0.6 in
Original Diptych-Spring Duet-British Awarded Artist-Abstract UK Contemporary
By Shizico Yi
Located in London, GB
Spring Duet is part of Shizico Yi’s ongoing exploration of the diptych format—a project that began in 2024. Painted en plein air, every canvas captures both the landscape outside her studio and the intimate interior surrounding it. This duality unfolds across two paintings, creating a visual dialogue that shifts and harmonises like a musical duet. The work belongs to Shizico’s long-running Memory Landscape Series (est. 2015), in which she moves fluidly between mediums—installation, sculpture, painting—and across visual languages from impressionism and expressionism into abstraction. In this spring chapter, she turns to the gentle hues of the Northern European early spring: soft greens, creamy whites, pink-apricot light—tones that hold the tender, awakening atmosphere of the season. Each canvas functions like a musical note; together, the pair forms a coherent visual phrase. Their relationship is harmonious yet flexible, offering multiple ways of living with the work in your home. -Artist's Lifetime Warranty for the original artwork Details Diptych (set of 2 paintings) Medium: oil, acrylic, mixed media on canvas Size: • Each canvas: 50 × 39.5 cm • Total combined size: 50 × 79 × 1.5 cm (Unframed measurements) -Versatile Display: The diptych may be hung: • Side by side as a traditional diptych set • Separated across different walls to create visual punctuation and subtle connection between spaces This flexibility allows the work to adapt to a variety of homes and interior styles. -Guarantee End to end tracking Delivery Worldwide by Royal Mail Worldwide at lowest flat Rate £22. About the artist: Dr. Shizico Yi is a London-based artist working across installation, film, and painting. Her practice explores themes of loss, repetition, the everyday, and the significance of memory. Drawing on a background in design and film, she creates works that weave personal experience into wider social and human narratives. Yi holds a PhD in Fine Art from the University of East London (2017), an MFA, and a BA in Womenswear from the University of the Arts London. Her practice also includes plein air painting from spring to autumn and studio-based work in winter, allowing place and season to inform the energy, scale, and materiality of her pieces. Her work has been exhibited internationally in the UK, Korea, and Italy, and is held in private collections across the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and the UK. Notably, Shizico Yi secured the title of Winner of the Women Film Makers: Best Shorts Competition in 2013 in Los Angeles, USA. She also serves as a guest jury member at the 14th-16th Annual New York City Independent Film Festival from 2022 to 2024 and is a curator and founder of no barking aRt...
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$3,335
H 31.5 in W 23.63 in D 2.37 in
Untitled 01 - Contemporary, Organic, Black, Minimalist, Abstract, Monochrome
By Zsolt Berszán
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Untitled 01, 2017 Black adhesive and black oil on canvas (Signed on reverse) 31 1/2 H x 23 5/8 H in. 80 H x 60 W cm Zsolt Berszán treats the first layer of the drawing as a substrat...
Canvas, Adhesive, Oil
$3,900
H 35.5 in W 45.5 in D 1.13 in
Dennis Sheehan Tonalist Landscape Oil Painting, Golds of Dusk
By Dennis Sheehan
Located in Milford, NH
A colorful tonalist landscape and the end of the day by contemporary artist Dennis Sheehan (b. 1950). Sheehan was born in Boston, Massachusetts and went on to become well known as a ...
Canvas, Oil
$3,454
H 26.38 in W 26.38 in D 1.19 in
Seasons, Abstract Lanscape, oil, Contemporary, multicolor, french art, modern
By SOPHIE DUMONT
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Choose the color of the frame: black or wood Unframed dimensions: 60 x 60 cm (approx. 23.6 x 23.6 in) Framed dimensions: 74 x 74 cm (approx. 29.1 x 29.1 in) About the artist Sophie...
Oil
$2,531Sale Price|25% Off
H 31.5 in W 27.56 in
Confession, 80x70cm, oil on canvas
By Anastasiia Danilenko
Located in Yerevan, AM
80x70cm , oil\canvas
Canvas, Oil
$9,750
H 47.25 in W 59.06 in
Spiral Staircase In Nature. Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Paul Wadsworth
Located in Brecon, Powys
Paul Wadsworth has a very special, innate talent for transporting the viewer into other realms. In his stunning, vibrant works from his travels on the Indian sub-continent the painti...
Oil
$1,590
H 37.41 in W 37.41 in D 1.58 in
Sepia Murmur by Gabriela Azar Schreiner. Contemporary abstract Painting
By Gabriela Azar Schreiner
Located in Mentone, AU
This painting is unstretched and unframed. It will be carefully rolled and shipped in a tube. "Creating large-scale abstract paintings that evoke tranquility and presence in any spac...
Acrylic
$2,203
H 22.45 in W 22.45 in D 0.79 in
Earth memory, Abstract Lanscape, oil, Expressionism, Contemporary art
By SOPHIE DUMONT
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Sophie Dumont is a French contemporary painter whose work explores the dialogue between structure, memory, and landscape. Born in Paris in 1964 and now based in Normandy, she has exh...
Oil
$600
H 24.02 in W 24.02 in D 0.79 in
Golden Thread - Painting Abstract Expression Gilding Calm Ocean Blue Abundance
By Karnish Art
Located in Pretoria, Gauteng
Title: Golden Thread Golden Thread - Painting Abstract Expression Gilding Calm Ocean Blue Abundance Gold In this piece, I've embraced the dance of harmony and flow. With featherli...
Gold Leaf
$2,950
H 29.63 in W 35.63 in D 1.75 in
Dennis Sheehan Tonalist Barbizon Landscape Oil Painting
By Dennis Sheehan
Located in Milford, NH
A fine New England tonalist landscape painted in the Barbizon style by contemporary artist Dennis Sheehan (b. 1950). Sheehan was born in Boston, Massachusetts and went on to become w...
Canvas, Oil
Touch, 80x100cm, oil on canvas
By Tasya Vasilkova
Located in Yerevan, AM
Touch, 80x100cm, oil on canvas
Canvas, Oil
$5,100
H 36 in W 50 in
Contemporary abstract oil painting purple pink yellow green minimalist
By Deirdre Schanen
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Changing Memories 2" is an abstract acrylic on canvas by Deirdre Schanen, signed on verso. Layers of browns, pinks, golds, and purples fill the canvas, reflecting a style reminiscen...
Canvas, Acrylic
Sold
H 24 in W 16 in
Study for Threnody 1973 (a 28 panel painting in Neuberger Museum of Art) o/c oil
By Cleve Gray
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
PROVENANCE: Ensign Bickford Aerospace Corp, Simsbury, CT Threnody (1973-74) is a 250-foot-wide site-specific painting created by Cleve Gray for the opening of t...
Canvas, Oil
Roman Walls #89
By Cleve Gray
Located in Phoenix, AZ
mixed media on canvas unframed dimensions: h 18.25" x w 24.5" x d .75" Provenance: Private collector
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Sold
H 81 in W 101 in
Blue Stream, Large Abstract Expressionist Painting by Cleve Gray 1971
By Cleve Gray
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Cleve Gray, American (1918 - 2004) Title: Blue Stream Year: 1971 Medium: Liquitex on Liquitex Gesso with Aluminum paint on canvas, signed verso Size: 82 x 101 in. (208.28 x 2...
Canvas, Acrylic
Sold
H 19.5 in W 23.5 in
Inception, Abstract Expressionist Painting by Cleve Gray 1966
By Cleve Gray
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Cleve Gray, American (1918 - 2004) Title: Inception Year: 1966 Medium: Oil on Canvas, Signed lower right, signed and title verso Size: 19.5 x 23.5 in. (49.53 x 59.69 cm) Fram...
Oil
Silver Spectre
By Cleve Gray
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas with aluminum paint
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Hatshepsut #3
By Cleve Gray
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas 60.75 x 60.75 x 2 inches framed
Canvas, Acrylic
Thrust #7 (Violet on Red)
By Cleve Gray
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Cleve Gray is a painter admired for his large-scale, vividly colorful, and lyrically gestural abstract compositions. He achieved his greatest critical recognition in the late 1960s and ‘70s after working for many years in a comparatively conservative late-Cubist style. Inspired in the ‘60s by artists like Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, and Helen Frankenthaler, Gray began to produce large paintings using...