USA - Abstract Paintings

Johanna Secor (American, 1920-1998) Waterfall, Late 20th Century Oil on canvas Framed: 35 3/8 x 29 1/8 x 1 7/8 in. Signed and inscribed verso: Johanna Secor "Waterfall" “Mrs. Seco...

Clean and precise, carefully ordered blocks of color in light blue and light green are lively and vibrant while thin, delicate lines in blue and navy frame the shapes. Signed, dated ...

Two figures, retaking the abstract figure in new setting and meaning. Oil on paper :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed ...

A painting by Alexander Calder. "The Forest" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on paper in bold colors of reds, blacks, yellows, and blues by artist Alexander Calder. The artwork is signed lower right, "Calder 72...

Mary Lai is a multifaceted Korean-American artist based in Los Angeles, California.  Her outlook is that “Art is a universal language that can speak to anyone...

Acrylic on 3 wood panels Each panel is 36 x 18 x 1 inches Suggested installation is 1-2 inches between panels, which can be oriented in any direction Overall dimensions: 36 x 56 x 1...

This original floral painting by Sally West showcases lush impasto roses and blossoms in a textured, abstract bouquet—ideal for collectors seeking expressive contemporary flower art with rich oil paint. Using her signature palette knife style, West builds each petal and leaf with thick, dynamic strokes, blending soft pastels with vibrant reds, blues, and greens. The composition feels both spontaneous and refined, offering a joyful and tactile celebration of nature in full bloom. What makes Sally West’s original oil paintings so recognizable is the combination of texture, abstraction, and calming colors. The movement of the paint strokes on canvas is reminiscent of a light breeze or waves. Each painting is completed in one day, with the date present in the title. West's pieces take at least eight weeks to completely dry. Once dry, the thick paint takes on an almost sculptural effect. Overall, West’s color palette is uniquely her own, conveying a very specific feeling of comfort associated with familiarity and softness. This one-of-a-kind 16 inches tall by 20 inches wide artwork is painted with thick, textural oil paint on canvas. It is wired and ready to hang. It is signed by the artist on the front lower right corner as well as the back. The sides of this artwork are painted, and it is ready to hang. Convenient local Los Angeles area delivery. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping are available. A certificate of authenticity issued by Artplex Gallery is included. Sally West was born in West Wyalong, Central New South Wales. West grew up on a farm and, as a teenager, moved to Eastern Sydney for school. Throughout her life, she has traveled through and lived in both Europe and South East Asia to gain inspiration for her artwork. Although her international journeys have acted as an influence on her style, the subjects of her paintings are very close to home. The subjects of all of her paintings exist in an infinite timeline but only in the location of Eastern Australia. Since West’s first breakthrough solo exhibition in New York in 2011, her artworks have become highly sought after internationally. She has won and placed as a finalist in numerous worldwide art competitions and juried exhibitions throughout her career. Her artworks are exhibited in influential galleries across Australia and the USA. Artplex Gallery has been representing and exhibiting Sally West's original artworks since 2019. Artspace Warehouse, a partner gallery of Artplex Gallery, has been a 1stdibs partner since 2014 with consistently excellent reviews from clients worldwide. The gallery exhibits a large selection of original artworks from established and emerging international artists with diverse backgrounds at high standards. Artspace Warehouse and Artplex Gallery are known to provide accurate descriptions, images, reliable services, communication, and delivery. The gallery's commitment to customer satisfaction means that clients can invest in art with confidence, knowing they have a reputable and established art gallery backing their acquisition. Artplex Gallery prioritizes our clients' peace of mind by ensuring a seamless and worry-free art-buying experience. REPRESENTATION Artplex Gallery, Los Angeles, USA SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2021 Breeze, KAB Gallery, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Terrigal Sally West, Jag Gallery, Key West, Florida, USA 2020 PINK, KAB Gallery, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Terrigal 2019 Spring Colours – Sydney, Fellia Melas Gallery, Woollahra, Sydney Lizzie Beach, KAB Gallery, Terrigal 2018 Sally West, Art Images Gallery, Adelaide All Sorts, Fellia Melas Gallery, Woollahra, Sydney 2017 Surf & Snow, KAB Gallery, Crowne Plaza, Terrigal Figurative Focus, KAB Gallery, Crowne Plaza, Terrigal Around Town, Traffic Jam Galleries, Netural Bay 2016 Spring Sydney, Fellia Melas Gallery, Woollahra, Sydney Sally West, KAB Gallery, Crowne Plaza, Terrigal 2015 Sally West Plein...

Shape 29 (2019) by Ryan Park of Shapes Only. Abstract geometric art, acrylic on 300gsm archival paper. Abstract green shape innovated by the artist. Fr...

This painting was created over several months with intermittent pauses throughout the process. The primary composition was established early on, but the surface evolved as layers of ...

Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), "Friday Night February 13th", Acrylic on Tarlatan, with foamcore elements, unsigned, with descriptive paper label. 43.75" H x 47" W. Provenance: F...

An acrylic and oil on canvas piece with bright use of color and texture. We are focused on the simplicity of beauty in the moment as Shaoul creates a translucent but very colorful pa...

This piece is part of an exciting new collection depicting iconic "Chanel N°5" with the artists "Dripping Dots" style. Focused on a pointillistic technique, the paint is able to capt...

A Lebanese born, Italian artist ,Masri has developed a style that captures mideastern mood with A Lucien Freud brush touch. His work is varied and known e...

Colorful abstract painting with geometric details in bright hues of blue, red, green, and yellow, against a black background "Instead", painted by Anne Francey in 2017 Mixed media on Masonite 10 x 10 x 2 inches, sides reveal raw wood Excellent condition, signed verso Ready to hang Anne Francey has been working with subject matter inspired by nature for most of her artistic career. Since the pandemic, this focus has become ever more apparent as her new acrylic paintings on paper demonstrate her intuitive process of reinterpreting literal subjects like leaves, flowers, birds, or bugs into vibrant worlds of layered color. She begins by drawing from life but then allows fluctuating colors, traces of the hand, and evidence of the physical medium to be introduced as the composition evolves and finds its final imprint on the surface. The spontaneity of her process welcomes the unknown, she explains: “The things that moved me first…might have become by now just a faint whispering. But I know that a story is being told, even if I don’t understand yet all the words.” About the artist: Anne Francey was born in 1956 in Grandson, Switzerland. She attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (ECBA) from 1976 to 1981, where she received a diploma of Fine Arts in painting. In 1981, she moved to New York where she attended the School of Visual Arts and the graduate program of Fine Arts at Hunter College. She graduated in 1987 with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA). EDUCATION 1983-1987 Hunter College: Master of Fine Arts, New York EXHIBITIONS (Most recent) 2021 Le Comptoir des Motifs, Artefactory, Geneva, Switzerland, fabric design, group show 2018 Eric Laffer Gallery, Upstate Invitational, 3 person show, Schuylerville, NY The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Configurations, one person show, Troy, NY Carrie Haddad gallery, Ebb and Flow, Hudson, NY Saratoga Arts, Then and Now, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 2017 Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center, The Ritual of Construction, group show, Woodstock, NY Carrie Haddad gallery, Summer, group show Thompson Giroux gallery, En Masse, group show Eric Laffer gallery, Winter Show, Schuylerville, NY 2016 Saratoga Arts, 30th Anniversary Invitational, Saratoga Springs, NY Carrie Haddad Gallery, Summer Color, Hudson, NY Laffer Gallery, 5th Annual Juried Group Show, Schuylerville, NY 2015 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Paper, group show, Hudson, NY 2014 Luminarté, Contemporary Islamic Art, group show, Dallas, TX Spring Street Gallery, Where are you from? 3 persons show, Saratoga Spgs, NY Albany Institute of History and Art, Mohawk Hudson Regional, group show NY Albany International Airport, Natural Gestures, 3 persons show Albany, NY Laffer Gallery, Winter show, Schuylerville, NY COMMUNITY MURALS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, SYMPOSIUMS, 2021 Community Mural United Nations International school, NY “The Year that Zoomed by” 2020 Fulbright U.S. Scholar award 2020-2021 (travel postponed to 2021-2022) 2019 1001 Hands (“1001 Mains”) Concept, design and direction of a 150 sqft community ceramic mural with 600 participants, Ibn Rachiq Art Center,Tunis, Tunisia. Funded through the US Embassy and the Swiss Embassy in Tunis. Colors of the City, Wall Ceramic and Architecture in Tunis, International symposium, Tunis/Tunisia 1997- 2018 Artist in residence at various schools for the creation of community murals 2018 Bir-el Bey...

Swedish artist Jonas Fisch’s imagery is vibrantly buzzing with colorful commentary on society - past and present - morphed into figures, words, and shapes. His heavily layered canvas...

DNA is genetic information, hidden and encrypted in body fluids. Veiled data that we load, that we do not know and that someone knows how to decipher. Such specifications characteriz...

A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a white bunny on a Sapphire Blue background with thick use of paint....

Peter Roux combines principles of landscape and abstract painting. His cloud paintings oscillate between representational and non-objective painting by rendering recognizable cloud f...

Waves, 2022 by a.muse is a painting on Japanese washi paper. In this colorful art on paper the artist celebrates color and rhythm through lines and stripes of orange, red, aqua, blue...

His The panel paintings "Expanded Metal Paintings" are the closest to the classic art of painting. Firstly paint is applied by a brush on a primed canvas. Then wire mesh is dunked in...

Interior design paintings. The artwork was done with watercolor on watercolor paper 360g. The works are 14 by 11 inches in size, framed (black) with a styrene face on a mat board in ...

James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982), ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin. James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist st...

An abstract oil on canvas by Brazilian contemporary artist Christian Rosa. This large format, untitled oil is executed in bright yellow, black, red and blue in a subdued, neutral pal...

Almo wonders about his identity, the countries he has lived in, his daily routine and how he creates himself. An outsider who has made the world his home, skin, and citizenship, and ...

"Glow 2" transports viewers into a mesmerizing fantasy landscape, where the boundaries of reality blur with the ethereal. Dominated by hues of pink ...

Spooning Daubs 3 16.0 x 20.0 x 1.5 Oil on canvas Hand signed by artist Please note this piece is available as a commission. The artist will create a one of a kind original based on ...

Gail Chase Bien paints thinly layered oil on linen over extended periods (from months to years) to complete a single work of art. Taking cues from nature’s extraordinary visual offer...

This abstract painting exudes a sense of fluidity and energy, evoking the impression of light filtering through water or reflections on a shimmering surface. The composition is domin...

Drawing inspiration from an immersive and impressionistic interpretation of nature, Canadian artist Vé Boisvert paints textural original artworks that capture the fleeting effects of...

Clara Berta’s acrylic and mixed-media paintings blend texture and color to create harmony, mystery, and depth on the painted surface. Her paintings transform spaces into Zen environments where one can quiet a cluttered mind and enjoy beauty every day. Clara Berta’s paintings explore themes such as the ebb and flow of memory, the significance of personal heritage, the passing of physical time, desire, grief, and love. This framed original minimalist abstract contemporary artwork measures 17.5-inches square. It is framed in a natural wood frame, is wired, and ready to hang. The size includes the frame. It is signed and titled by the artist on the back. Convenient local Los Angeles shipping. Affordable Continental U.S. and worldwide shipping is also available. A certificate of authenticity issued by the art gallery is included. Clara Berta explores the collision between the old and new; destruction and rebuilding lives. She began painting as an outlet of grief; creating something beautiful as the result of loss. Through her creative practice, she has found healing and further offers to her community safe spaces for troubled teens and women to heal through the meditative process of painting. Her artworks are a language, a push forward in new directions and achievements, while always inspired by history. Berta mixes minimalism with underlying texture and embraces modernism while compiling the odds and ends of her attempts to let her art speak for itself. Her abstract works often include reminders of her travels expressed in unexpected sequences of patterns as well as distortion of perspectives and subconscious spaces. Manipulating the texture with several layers of texture paste and acrylic paint, she will work and re-work her canvases, layering textures to give added dimension, and creating works that intrigue and invite the viewer to explore not only the surface but also the inner language of the painting. A passionate, award-winning artist of Hungarian heritage, Clara Berta's dynamic and highly textural abstract works have been exhibited and collected worldwide. Artspace Warehouse has been representing and exhibiting Clara Berta's original artworks since 2017. The gallery has been a 1stdibs partner since 2014 with consistently excellent reviews from clients worldwide. The gallery exhibits a large selection of affordable original artworks from established and emerging international artists with diverse backgrounds at high standards. Artspace Warehouse is known to provide accurate descriptions, images, reliable services, communication, and delivery. REPRESENTATION Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2022 Solo show, Ethereal, Artspace Warehouse, CA Blue Like the Ocean, Artspace Warehouse, CA About Women: Celebrating Women Artists, MAC Fine Art, Delray Beach, FL Blue Configurations (Paper) Series, Ronewa Art Projects, Berlin, Germany 2021 20th International Art Exchange, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan BLVDG Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2020 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2019 Bistango Restaurant with Ethos Contemporary, Irvine, CA 2019 MAC Fine Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 2018 Heath Gallery, Palm Springs, CA 2018 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2018 Pictures at An Exhibition: LA Phil Gallery, CA 2018 Breaking Illusions, Claremont University, CA 2017 Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY 2017 Made in California, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA 2017 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2016 Made in California, Juried Exhibit, Brea Gallery, Brea 2016 Vision of LA Fest, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica 2015 Michael Kate Interiors - Santa Barbara, CA 2015 JCC Gallery - Santa Barbara, CA 2011-2016 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA 2013 Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL 2012 Gem, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Barnsdall Theatre, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Tell No One, The Wine Bistro, Studio City, CA 2009 Art: Raw/Gallery, New York, NY 2009 Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, NV 2008 Stella Dottir Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2007 NoHo Gallery LA, North Hollywood, CA 2007 Riverside Museum, Riverside, CA 2006 Locanda Veneta, West Hollywood, CA 2006 Altobelli Gallery, North Hollywood, CA 2004 Erotic by Nature, LaPeer Gallery, West Hollywood, CA 2004 Lankershim Art Center, North Hollywood, CA 2003 Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA 2003 Studio 3 Art & Design, Westwood, CA 2000 Pick-A-Dilly Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA AWARDS AND HONORS 2021 Gold Award & Award of Excellence, 20th International Art Exchange, Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan 2019 LA Artcore Juried Exhibition, Honorable Mention 2018 CFA Artist of the Year Finalist 2017 Made in California, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA 2016 Third Place Prize “Made in California” Juried Exhibit, Brea Gallery 2016 ABC’s “The Catch” 2016 Art featured “Broken Links”, by Meir Sharony 2009 “You Again”, Disney film by Andy Fickman 2007 Artwork featured in Deepak Chopra’s DVD, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success 2003 Art Expo Finalist, Fullerton, CA EDUCATION 2014 Abstract Painting - Melinda Smith...

Danny McCaw's (US based) "Thick to Thin" is an original, handmade oil painting with impasto brushstrokes that depicts an ambiguous human figure on a black, red, and white background....

Ben Wilson Ozymandias, 1989 Oil on masonite board Boldly signed by Ben Wilson on the back 36 × 48 inches Unframed Provenance: acquired from the Estate of Ben Wilson This work is titled "Ozymandias" after the famous sonnet written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). Shelley's poem is one of the most poignant meditations on the fleeting nature of human power and the inevitability of decline. The poem serves as a reminder that time erodes even the most imposing empires and leaders and that the pursuit of lasting fame and control is ultimately futile. Depending on how one views Ben Wilson's Abstract Expressionist painting of "Ozymandias" -- some of the imagery might reveal the head of an angry king and a sickle. Shelley's poem Ozymandias reads: I met a traveler from an antique land...

Petra Rös-Nickel’s original paintings merge playful forms, bright colors, and architectural compositions in oil and mixed media on canvas. Her contemporary artworks contain rich text...

CIVILIZED TO DEATH 2019 Pink painting of a nude figure featuring typography which reads: “Civilized to Death.” A playful commentary on Nihilistic narcissism. Canvas is unframed. O...

Katherine Bello About Time Acrylic and oil stick on canvas 2023 Size: 52x42x1.5in Signed, dated and titled by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1874 *on stretcher frame - ready to hang...

Green, yellow, and blue abstract impressionist Western landscape by Texas artist Fred Darge. The painting depicts an arid desert with a huge desert sage bush against a mountainous landscape with overcast clouds. Signed by the artist at the bottom right corner. Unframed but framing options are available. Artist Biography: Friedrich Ernst (Fred) Darge was born in Rendsburg, Germany March 1, 1900, and died in Dallas, Texas April 10, 1978. He entered the U.S. at Port Arthur, Texas in 1923. By 1924 he was in Chicago painting...

Gestural abstract painting on paper with accents of blue, dark gray, and teal underneath silver and gold metallic powders "Seeing the Past", made in 2022 by Hudson Valley painter, Br...

Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Pelican" Series: Abstract *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year: 2024 Medium: Original...

Gloria Dudfield Mexican Fruit Bowl 1960s Oil Pastel and Gouache on Paper 36"x32" unframed $1600 *Custom framing available for additional charge. Please...

The large abstract painting "TURQUOISE TWO STEP" by Jeffrey Kurland, with acrylic paint on canvas measuring 51" high by 84" wide, is new work from the summer of 2019. Often employing...

Colorful abstract cowboy portrait painting by contemporary artist Ian Francis. The work features a western inspired figure with a shadowed face dressed in a coat and yellow ochre hat...

Large and impressive modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly.

This original abstract painting is on paper, and should be matted and framed. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the a...

The Love Project #4 This painting is part of a new series of abstracts that I am currently working on called "The Love Project". Using the markings of my painting style and braking ...

Abstract expressionist painting in the style of Gerhard Richter in a gold and deep lapis blue palette with accents of orange, pink, and silver "Endless Clarity", made by Bruce Murphy...

Untitled (Mondrian), Oil on Canvas Painting, 2010 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas Condition: Excellent Dimensions: 30 x 20 inches About artist: David Klamen (American...

Sergio de Castro (15 September 1922 – 31 December 2012) was a French-Argentinian Sergio de Castro was born in Argentina, in an aristocratic family of Spanish origins (Galicia and the Basque Country), the House of Castro. His father was a diplomat, which is why, from 1923 until 1932, Castro lived in Switzerland with his parents and his two sisters. During these years he visited cities like Lausanne, Geneva and Turin. In 1933 he entered a Jesuit school in Montevideo and he started studying music. He discovered poetry by learning to speak and write in Spanish. He was specially touched by the works of César Vallejo. Through the years Castro would become close friends with writers like Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Samuel Beckett, Kostas Papaioannou and Georges Schéhadé. Later, during a trip to Uruguay, he met Joaquín Torres García, with whom he studied painting and monumental art from 1941 until 1949. In 1942 he moved to Argentina, where he would live until 1949. Castro was also friends with other artists like Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva and Arpad Szenes. In 1945 he found a job as a secretary in the Astronomy Observatorium of the city of Córdoba, where we also worked as the assistant to the musician Manuel de Falla in Alta Gracia, until his death in 1946. In 1945 and 1946 he had a grant from the French government to study musical composition. During the year of 1946 he had an exhibition in New York City among other members of Torres Garcia's workshop. That same year he traveled to the northeast of Argentina and the south of Perú to study pre-columbian art with Gonzalo Fonseca, Julio Uruguay Alpuy and Jonio Montiel. In 1949 he started teaching History of Music in the new music school of the city of La Plata. His work as a musician drew attention from relevant figures such as Wilhelm Furtwängler, Aaron Copland and Juan José Castro. He quit this job when he got a grant from the French government to improve his musical studies in Paris, where he settled in November 1949. Since 1951 he devoted himself exclusively to painting. In 1955, his friend the German writer and translator Edith Aron introduced him to Julio Cortázar, who would become a close friend of him. Castro inspired the character of Etienne in Cortázar's novel Rayuela (Hopscotch). In the book is featured the intimate friendship of the protagonist, Horacio Oliveira, with his companion in the Serpent Club, whom he often visited in his studio in Paris. In 1960 he won the Hallmark Prize in New York. In 1979 he obtained the French nationality. In 1980 he showed his works at the Argentinian pavilion in the 39th Venice Biennale. He was associate professor in the Human Sciences Faculty of the University of Strasbourg from 1981 until 1986. In 1997 he became Officer in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2006, Sergio de Castro made a 220-work donation to the Fine Arts Museum of Saint-Lô. He was also a close friend of the musician Alberto Ginastera, who made reference to Sergio de Castro and his first works in his notes on modern Argentinian music. Castro died 31 December 2012 in Paris. He is buried in the Montparnasse cemetery, in Paris, close to his dear friend Samuel Beckett. Monumental works Two wall paintings for the Martirené Pavilion of the Hospital Saint-Bois (1942), in Montevideo (Uruguay), in collaboration with Joaquín Torres García and his disciples, among which Castro was the youngest. The Creation of the Universe (1956–1958), 6m x 20m stained-glass window. Castro worked with painter and glass-maker J. J. K. Ray (1898–1979) in Paris. Selected Exhibitions 1952 Galerie Jeanne Castel Paris 1954 Galería Bonino Buenos Aires and Galerie Pierre Loeb, Paris 1956 Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris 1958 Matthiesen Gallery, London 1959 documenta 2 Kunst nach 1945 Kassel 1961 Matthiesen Gallery, London 1963–64 Galeria Lorenzelli, Bergamo and Milano 1964 Galería Bettie Thommen, Basel 1965 Kunstverein Hamburg Retrospektive 1966 Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Fribourg, Switzerland (retrospective) 1966 Recklinhausen, Variationen über ein Thema, Städtische Kunsthalle 1970 Retrospektiven in Oslo, Kunstforering, and Kunst Industriemuseet, Copenhagen, Kunstforening, Oslo, Kunstforening, Holstebro 1972 Wildenstein Gallery, London Landscapes of Light 1974 Galerie Jacob, Paris 1975 Kunsthalle Bremen, Retrospektive, Berlin Tempelhof, Kunstamt (Berlin Festival) 1975–76 Retrospective exhibition the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen (68 artworks from 1956 to 1966), France 1979 Hommage à Pierre Loeb, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1980 39th Venice Biennale 1987 French Institute London. Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires 1988 Galerie des Ambassades y Galerie Galarte, Sergio de Castro, Natures Mortes, 1958–1965. Paris/ Bayeux, Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art 1989 Galerie des Ambassades, Paris 1991–92 Romont, Swiss Stained Glass...

Antique American abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1960. No signature found. Image size, 24L x 20H. Framing available.

Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist. Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance. Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called   "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form."   His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this  painting  Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.  
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist.  He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color.  The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black.  Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows:  blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...

Fanciful mid-century modern abstract of trapeze artists by Brooklyn artist Hilda Dora Pape Arp (b. 1909). This 1962 highly abstracted depiction of trape...

Sword Fight, 2018, pen and crayon on paper

A lively, impressionistic depiction of a Parisian woman in which sunglasses and a Chanel sweater. We are whisked away in this whimsical scene with the emotion and dynamic composition...

The Antagonists 2024 David Stern (Germany, b. 1956) Acrylics on canvas 60 inches by 39 inches Hand signed by artist, certificate of authenticity available Colors: Black, Brown, Ochre...

Marc Raphael’s "Meteor Shower" is a captivating display of action painting that explodes with color and kinetic energy. This original 24 x 60-inch acrylic painting combines elements ...

David Stern (Germany, b. 1956) Acrylic on Canvas 91 x 81 inches Hand-Signed by the Artist Certificate of Authenticity Available A tour de force of scale, spirit, and painterly force...