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Birth of a Star in Daylight
Located in San Francisco, CA
Someone had Coltrane on the HiFi as they channeled Jackson Pollock. There’s a dark Gauloise going—a habit picked up in those student years in Paris—with smoke emitting from the chrom...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Mexican Hillside Village Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
The understated palette is the surprise here, given that it’s Mexico. No blinding white plaster walls. No bright green palms, hot pink bougainvillea and turquoise sea on the horizon,...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Americana 2”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Native-born Americans rarely experience the remarkable hopefulness and energy that can come with the privilege of U.S. citizenship, especially when it’s granted after birth elsewhere...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Polymer
$3,875
Power Grab in Primary Colors
Located in San Francisco, CA
Locked in an embrace, two of the three primary colors set against a yellow background might represent the contentment of enduring intimacy, or the grip technology has on all of us, o...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
An Abstraction in the Primary Colors
Located in San Francisco, CA
Modest in life—the artist signed quite discreetly with the initials GAC—but bold on the canvas. This abstract is easy to embrace, depending only on primary colors. (Remember those th...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Pointillist View of a Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
The artist had a lot to say. Why else spend the intense focus and time on rendering such a luminous work brought to completion literally point by point in tiny dots? Ask yourself: Ar...
Category
Late 20th Century Pointillist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract of Waves
Located in San Francisco, CA
For creative people living in the Bay Area, water vistas offer daily inspiration. Abstract artist Keith Race focused here on the steady, choppy surface of waves throwing off spray. W...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
A Warning
Located in San Francisco, CA
Copenhagen-born American artist Soren Edsberg (1945-2021) combined abstraction with impressionism in this vision of Armageddon. The son of a Danish painter, Edsberg converted in 1961...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,250
A Summer's Sunset
Located in San Francisco, CA
In this abstract landscape, artist Geneva Cross conveys the mood of a dreamlike summer evening that might be remembered by any of us in its universality. Blending the basic elements ...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Style of Motherwell
Located in San Francisco, CA
Very powerful, large abstract painting by a very talented artist. It is in the style of a Robert Motherwell or Franz. Kline. The painting measures 25 inches high by 21 inches wide. T...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$1,250
Women in an Enchanted Mist
Located in San Francisco, CA
Through the Technicolor mist, two Asian ladies pass by. There’s a pensive one with a baby on her back. She carries an empty basket. The other is slightly smiling, completely absorbed...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
An Abstract of "Forces"
Located in San Francisco, CA
The artist of this piece, William "Bill" Stephens Shields Jr. (1925-2010), was born in San Francisco and following the death of his father in 1931, the then-4 year-old grew up in Tex...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Cubist "Nob Hill" Becomes San Francisco's "Oz"
By Jean Kalisch
Located in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco’s elegant Nob Hill caught the eye of Japanese-born, Californian painter Jean Kalisch ((1912-1995). In this atmospheric cityscape, the artist has rendered the famously e...
Category
1960s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
After Jean Miró, Pink and Purple Surrealism at Play
By (after) Joan Miró
Located in San Francisco, CA
There’s been a lot of gray and stainless steel in decorating in recent years. For someone tentatively thinking of introducing some fresh excitement into their minimalist maison, cons...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carmel's Romantic Mission San Carlos Borromeo Del Rio Carmelo
Located in San Francisco, CA
Without a doubt California's charming coastal village of Carmel compels one to romance. But this location, the 1797 Mission San Carlos Borromeo Del Rio Carmelo, with its lovely, foun...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pointillist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Mending the Sails"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beginning nearly 8,000 years ago, when humans first harnessed the winds with sails, they’ve been mending them. Even longer for fishing nets. We may have glanced at such activity when...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“In the Beginning”
By Lester Russon
Located in San Francisco, CA
Some say that life on earth may have first bubbled up from hot spots on the ocean floor, the Primordial Soup. Based on its title, “In the Beginning,” it’s likely that American artist...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pulsating Energy in the Abstract
Located in San Francisco, CA
The beauty of an abstract painting is that you can read into it whatever you imagine. For a work that is wall-to-wall taupe, this one has surprising vibrancy. Perhaps Giovenetti, the...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
An Eye-Tricking Abstract
Located in San Francisco, CA
It's an abstract from the 1940s-1950s, but one with a brilliant trompe l’oeil effect. The artist’s intense focus for accuracy in color placement achieves three-dimensionality as if t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,200
A Mendocino Artist's Abstract “Ode to Day”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Subtle but vibrant, this abstraction of a hibiscus in brilliant yellow is framed by a cluster of bird of paradise blooms in the shady foreground—the latter simplified into bursts of the plant’s renown color duo. Bring a garden inside without the watering and weeding. Nice.
According to the Smithsonian Institution’s archives, the artist Hilda Pertha...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Maine Farmer" A late 20th-Century Abstract Painting in Red, Black & White
Located in San Francisco, CA
Not the visual expected of a painting carrying the title “Maine Farmer.” But this abstract composition manages to convey the flinty resolve of men who support their families on the output of demanding and “generally infertile” soils, as described by the University of Maine. Thank the Lord for blueberries.
Artist Abraham Elterman bestrides two countries. He was born in Mexico City and spent much of his education in the sciences, here in sequence: a B.Sc. in Physics at the nearly 475-year-old Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in his home town; a stint at Hebrew University of Jerusalem; a Ph.D. in Biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley; and then, taking a new direction with a residency in The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture located in Madison, Maine. Ah-ha, Maine!
Elterman’s website lists 22 exhibitions in both Mexico and California, starting in 1986, and inclusion in group shows at the Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California and the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Explosive Abstract in Vibrant Blue, Red and Black
By Heinie Hartwig
Located in San Francisco, CA
Small but mighty. A moment caught, an explosion of energy, of color. And such a departure for California artist Heinie Hartwig (b. 1937), who is known primarily for his Western subje...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
David Hammons, Gray & Rust Abstract
By David Hammons
Located in San Francisco, CA
This signed painting by acclaimed African-American artist David Hammons displays an early experimental use of painted material during the artist’s formative years at Otis Art Institu...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
David Hammons, Brown & Blue Abstract
By David Hammons
Located in San Francisco, CA
This signed painting by acclaimed African-American artist David Hammons displays an early experimental use of painted material during the artist’s formative years at Otis Art Institu...
Category
1960s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Pair of Mid Century Geometric Abstract Paintings Signed "GAC", 1972
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pair of Mid-Century Geometric Abstract Paintings
Oil on canvas
Signed "GAC", 1972
Numbered I & II
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
James Grant (1924–1997) Mixed Media Abstract 1963
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fine art mixed media painting by listed artist James Grant (1924–1997). Titled "Three Dots". Collage with oils on Masonite. This fine mid modern abstract painting will brighten up a...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Perle Fine Geometric Abstract
By Perle Fine
Located in San Francisco, CA
Perle Fine: 1905-1988. Very well listed American abstract and geometric abstract artist. Her high auction result was $57,600 in September 2024. She studied with Hans Hoffman, and was...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Very powerful, mid century abstract expressionist painting. It is signed Triea and dated 1953. On the reverse it is signed Ruffino Triea and title...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Mid-Century Abstract Oil Painting By E. Costello
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid Modern Abstract Oil Painting By E. Costello
Large and impressive abstract oil painting created with oils on Masonite.
This painting can hang vertical, or horizontal.
Dimension...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paolo Buggiani Mid Century Modern Abstract
By Paolo Buggiani
Located in San Francisco, CA
magnificent abstract, painting by the well listed Italian artist Paolo Buggiani relationship relationship. Born in Italy in 1933, but worked in America from the 1950s. He has auction...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Monumental Geometric Op Art Oil Painting c.1970s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Monumental Geometric Op Art Oil Painting c.1970s
Fantastic original Op Art oil painting. The large size will ensure it's the centerpiece of any r...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Harold Dry Schmidt (1933 - 1979) Outsider Art Figural Abstract Mixed Media
Located in San Francisco, CA
Harold Dry Schmidt (1933 - 1979)
Outsider Art Figural Abstract
Mixed Media
On Paper mounted to Foam Core
Unframed
14" x 17"
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Saul Steinberg (1914-1999, American) Postcard Style Watercolor Landscape, Signed
By Saul Steinberg
Located in San Francisco, CA
Saul Steinberg (1914-1999, American)
Postcard Style Watercolor Landscape Painting
Cover of The New Yorker, September, 1971
Signed and Dated 1970
Inscribed "For Barbara"
Unfra...
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Rene Marcil Cubist Still Life
By René Marcil
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rene Marcil: 1917-1993. Very well listed Canadian artist who has auction records as high as $100,000. This fabulous fresh to the market oil painting is either on a thin board or thic...
Category
1970s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Helene McKinsey Herzbrun Abstract Colors
By Helene McKinsey Herzbrun
Located in San Francisco, CA
Helene McKinsey Herzbrun: 1922-1984. Well listed second generation abstract American artist. She studied at the art Institute of Chicago, and under Jack Tworkov at American Universi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Abstract Painting by Chamlin Oil Paint on Canvas
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid-century Abstract Painting by Chamlin
Oil Paint on Canvas
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-century Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid-century Abstract Painting
No visible signature
24 x 40 unframed, 24.74 x 40.75 framed
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paskow mid century mixed media painting on board
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paskow mid century mixed media painting on board
Signed Low Right
24 x 30 unframed, 32 x 38 framed
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Colorful Abstract 2008 Signed "VERSO"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Colorful Abstract 2008 Signed "VERSO"
Oil on canvas
36 x 48 unframed
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Geometric Abstract Oil Painting on Masonite
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large Geometric Abstract Oil Painting on Masonite
No visible signature
36 x 48 unframed, 37.5 x 49.5 framed
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Jean Kallsch, View of abstract village with fields and churches
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jean Kallsch,
View of abstract village with fields
Category
19th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Grimes 1963
Located in San Francisco, CA
Grimes 1963
Abstract depicting various portraits
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 unframed, 32.5 x 26 framed
Category
1960s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
G.B. Humphreys expressionist abstract
Located in San Francisco, CA
Expressionist abstract. Oil on canvas. 24 x 30 unframed, 25.5 x 31.5
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eva Sikorski (1917-1990) Abstract Portrait Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Eva Sikorski (1917-1990) abstract portrait painting by listed German born California artist. Classic impressionistic style with muted colors. Oil on canvas. Excellent condition in li...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Titled “Sarpi”
By Don Clausen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Abstract
oil on canvas
By notable California artist
Titled “Sarpi”
Dated 1982
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vibrant High Gloss Painting by San Francisco Artist
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vibrant Mixed media abstract by San Francisco artist Bret Vanhorn AKA Lioti (leave it or take it)
Enamel/resin on wood
2021
10" x 22"
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
R. Hoag “Large Cat Peering Out Window”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Oil on canvas 1979
Large cat peering out window
Framed
45.25x55.5
Unframed 36x47
Category
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Modern Abstract Painting by Don Clausen C.1959
By Don Clausen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid Century Modern Abstract Painting by Don Clausen C.1959
Early abstract by Clausen
Original oil on board
Dimensions 48" wide x 28.25" high
The frame measures 52" wide x 33.25" ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Mid Century Modern Abstract Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous mystery midcentury abstract. It is oil on board measuring 60 inches wide by 20 high. Frame is 1/2 around. Painting is signed Kirstein. The artist was obviously very talented...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mystery Mid Century Modern Sailboats
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mystery heavy impasto abstract sailboat scene. Fabulous midcentury oil on canvas which appears to be illegibly signed. It has wonderful colors and is...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Asian Embossed Print of a Jar
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. 20th Century - Print of Asian Embossed Jar ( Signed with a Stamp )
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Glass
Watercolor Painting By Richard Bolingbroke
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. 20th Century - Very Interesting Abstract Watercolor Painting By Richard Bolingbroke
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Glass, Watercolor
Arthur Dove 1940 "Sun" Painting
By Arthur Dove
Located in San Francisco, CA
Arthur Dove: 1880-1946. One of the most important early American Modernists and Abstract Expressionists. He has had auction results over $8,000,000 and that record was 2 weeks ago. A...
Category
1940s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Abstract Oil on Paper
By Leon Wall
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. 20th Century - 1940's Abstract Oil on Paper Done by Leon Wall ( 1916 - 1980 )
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper
Richard Anuszkiewicz 1963 Original Painting
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in San Francisco, CA
Richard Anuszkiewicz: 1930-2020. Very important and well listed American artist. He has auction results as high as $250,000. He was the leader of what would be called OP Art short fo...
Category
1960s Op Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Peter Sword Vintage Abstract Triptych Oil Paintings C.1970s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Peter Sword Vintage Abstract Triptych Oil Paintings C.1970s
Oil on recycled wood panels
Each painting varies slightly in size
Largest dimensions 24.5" w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil
Abstract Oil Painting by S. Kissel 20th C.
Located in San Francisco, CA
Abstract Oil Painting by S. Kissel 20th C.
Original oil on paper in shades of green and brown
Dimensions 10.5" wide x 19.5" high
The frame measures 18" wide x 27" high
Signed low...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Phyllis Ciment Abstract Pastel Painting c.1970s
By Phyllis Ciment
Located in San Francisco, CA
Phyllis Ciment Abstract Pastel Painting c.1970s
Red, white and blue - Fine colorful abstract painting
24" wide x 18" high
The frame measures 33" wide x 28" high
Signed by the art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Moises Ramos Mixed Media Abstract Painting 20th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Moises Ramos Mixed Media Abstract Painting 20th Century
Mixed media with oils and acrylics on canvas
Canvas dimensions 29" wide x 22.5" high
The frame measures 30.25" wide x 24" h...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Mid Century Abstract Stream Painting by Gibbs C.1968
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid Century Abstract Stream Painting by Gibbs C.1968
Original oil on panel
Dimensions 10" wide x 25" high
The rabbet measures 15.5" wide x 30.5" high
Please note: The rabbet is i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
