Abstract Paintings
ABSTRACT STYLE
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.
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Style: Abstract
Item Ships From: Tri-State Area
"Nature and Human Relationships – Embrace 3 – 50F" Portrait of Princess Diana
By Suki Maguire
Located in New York, NY
Unorthodox; yet effective, Suki treats us to a series of works that tantalizes the imagination with bold strokes of dark and light, hinting at shapes both human and ethereal and pull...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Mixed Media
"Nature and Human Relationships – Embrace – DannyBoy 1 – 100M" Abstract Painting
By Suki Maguire
Located in New York, NY
Unorthodox; yet effective, Suki treats us to a series of works that tantalizes the imagination with bold strokes of dark and light, hinting at shapes both human and ethereal and pull...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Mixed Media
Shape 9 (2019)
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Shape 9 (2019) by Ryan Park of Shapes Only.
Abstract geometric art, acrylic on 300gsm archival paper. Abstract muted yellow shape innovated by the artist...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Untitled Geometric Abstraction (unique two sided acrylic and pencil drawing)
By James Rosati
Located in New York, NY
James Rosati
Untitled Geometric Abstraction, 1982
Two-sided Acrylic and Colored Pencil on Paper drawing
Hand signed and dated on lower right front
14 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches
This is a un...
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Mixed Media
Antique American School New York Minimalist Abstract Splatter Oil Painting MCM
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school abstract expressionist action painting. Oil on paper, circa 1960.
Unsigned. Image size, 15"L x 11"H.
Category
1960s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Estuary 1
Located in London, GB
Graphite and acrylic on linen - Unframed
This fluid abstract painting is intuitively made with a loaded brush graphite and acrylic on linen.
The intersecting multi-layered forms cr...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Graphite
"Union, " Abstract Hummingbird Painting
By Ned Martin
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Ned Martin is made with oil paint and aluminum on board. It features two blue and green birds, one at the top right-hand corner and one at the bottom left, ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
Mortality
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
This painting is done with small broken pieces of glass, arranged in a mosaic creating a skull. A unique process done by the artist meticulously.
Having built a diverse body of w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Glass, Acrylic
Untitled Nude
By Rowann Villency
Located in New York, NY
Rowann Villency, Untitled Nude, Abstract Figurative Nude, Mixed Media, 42.75 x 28.75, 1989
Colors: White, Blue, Orange, Purple, Turquoise, Gold
Framed 5...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Mixed Media
Dog and Walker on St. Germain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This painting was inspired by my view from a hotel balcony in Paris. I captured the motion and texture of the moment in my signature style to inspire the view...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Coast Of Batumi
Located in New York, NY
A. Pavlov (Lithuanian/Russian) " Coast of Batumi ", Abstract Landscape signed Oil on Canvas, 20.50 x 25.50, Late 20th Century, 1979
Colors: Yellow, White, Black, Blue, White, Purple...
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chong Liu Abstract Original Oil Painting "The Beginning Of Nature-Green & Black"
Located in New York, NY
Title: The Beginning Of Nature 36
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 22 x 27 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Year: 2000 Circa
Artist: Chong Liu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Insanity of Autumn
Located in New York, NY
Andrei Korovin (Russian) "Insanity of Autumn", Abstract Oil on Canvas, 35.50 x 35.50, Late 20th Century, 1990
Colors: Orange, Green, Yellow, Blue, Brown, Red
Category
1990s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Earth Day Bouquet, " Abstract Floral Oil Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract floral painting by Christine Averill-Green is made with oil paint on gallery wrapped canvas. It captures a floral bouquet with red, pink, and white flowers and green leaves, which are placed in a glass vase. The clear vase reflects and refracts the colors of the stems of the flowers. The background is a deep, near black which provides contrast to the vibrant colors of the flowers, The painting is wired and ready to hang.
Averill-Green has been exhibiting her artwork in galleries and museums in Upstate New York for over 40 years. She received her B.A. in Art and an M.S. in Art Education. Artists such as Richard Diebenkorn, Euan Eglow, Antonio Lopez Garcia, and her teachers Catherine Kehoe...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Thoughts in Space 2
Located in New York, NY
Orange, Green, Yellow, Turquoise, black - mixed media on canvas by Jonathan Georgi. Several pieces of this series hung together or as a single piece of art make for a very powerful ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Felt Pen
Ky Anderson "Dark Garden" - Large Geometric Abstract Painting on Paper
By Ky Anderson
Located in New York, NY
Dark Garden, 2021
acrylic and ink on watercolor paper
42 x 48 in.
(and371)
This original acrylic painting on paper by Ky Anderson features geometric shapes and abstract lines in bri...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Gudrun Mertes-Frady "Cool Play" Abstract oil and metallic media on canvas
Located in New York, NY
Gudrun Mertes-Frady
Cool Play, 2015-17
oil and metallic media on canvas
44 x 45 in.
(mer160)
"In my paintings, I use metallic pigments, like aluminum and graphite. I also use mica p...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rock 198: Black Ice, black and grey abstract oil painting
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas on wood panel. Unframed.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
Thoughts in Space 7
Located in New York, NY
Orange, Green, Yellow, Turquoise, black - mixed media on canvas. Several pieces of this series hung together or as a single piece of art make for a very powerful statement.
Drawn t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Felt Pen, Canvas, Color Pencil
Chong Liu Abstract Original Oil Painting "The Beginning Of Nature 27"
Located in New York, NY
Title: The Beginning Of Nature 27
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 22 x 27 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Year: 2000 Circa
Artist: Chong Liu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas by Bonnie Kline
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bonnie Kline
Title: Untitled
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 46 in. x 46 in. (116.84 cm x 116.84 cm)
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nightshade (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Nightshade (Abstract painting)
Oil on canvas - Unframed
For Russinof, everything begins with color. She begins a painting by applying color in lyrical, gestural marks. The marks co...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Andy Miller Abstract Composition Oil on Canvas
Located in Astoria, NY
Andy Miller (American, b. 1950), Abstract Composition, Oil on Canvas, impasto details, green brown with heavy texture, artist's studio stamp to verso, apparently unsigned, unframed. ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled Abstract Batik work on paper, from the Album International 2 Portfolio
Located in New York, NY
Chantal Carbonatto
Untitled, from the Album International 2 Portfolio, 1977
Batik on paper
Signed and numbered 1/50 by the artist on the front
27 1/2 × 19 3/4 inches
Unframed
This is...
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Small Maelstrom (Ref 854) (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Small Maelstrom (Ref 854) (Abstract drawing)
Pigment pencil on Mylar. Unframed.
The Maelstrom Series include the most iconic and known of Peerna's works.
Starting from the cente...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mylar, Pencil, Pigment
Vapors, Relationships (Abstract painting)
By Debra Ramsay
Located in London, GB
Vapors, Relationships (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on cast acrylic - Unframed.
This work is sold as a triptych which would be displayed on a shelf.
Each panel has the following dime...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Deborah Dancy "In Short Order" - Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Deborah Dancy
In Short Order, 2021
oil on canvas
26 x 24 in.
(dan031)
This original contemporary abstract oil painting on canvas by Deborah Dancy is comprised of blue, orange, cream, and black hues in her signature built up/re-built space.
Deborah Dancy is an abstract artist. Her paintings and drawings are sensuous provocations beset with marks that guide, then abruptly collide into confrontational slabs of color. There is an atmosphere of complex but urgent tension in her work, as she builds tangential linear demarcations, and abutting shapes, that provoke, entice and disrupt; -taking us everywhere and nowhere. From densely painted forms to more minimally declared images, Dancy’s work operates in the recognition that meanderings, intentional and accidental declarations are best when the beautiful and the disconcerting exist simultaneously.
Deborah Dancy was born in Bessemer, Alabama and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She earned BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MS and an MFA from Illinois State University. She is the recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Yaddo Fellow, and a National Endowment of the Arts NEFA award. Her work is in many collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Hunter Museum and The Detroit Institute of Art. N’Namdi Contemporary Miami, Robischon...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled II, Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting on Canvas by Gustavo Schmidt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gustavo Schmidt
Title: Untitled II
Year: 2016
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and titled verso
Size: 56 x 46.5 inches
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Artist's Studio, Painting by John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg, American (1922 - 2005)
Title: Untitled - Artist's Studio
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Acrylic on Board, signed l.r.
Size: 24 x 29.5 in. (60.96 x 74.93 cm)
Frame: 2...
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Regina's Journey, Abstract Painting by Soni Wallace
Located in Long Island City, NY
Soni Wallace masters color and form in this Abstract Expressionist painting. Many works from this period in her life reflect coastal landscapes through a lens of minimalism and geome...
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Tuscan Daydream, " Abstract Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with mixed media on linen. With a cool blue palette, it mixes varying shades and hues of blue with lighter creme and off...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Linen
"The Gatekeeper", acrylic, oil stick, judge, jury, portrait, proscenium, stage
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"The Gatekeeper" is a mysterious painting, seemingly both a portrait and a situation – perhaps a portrait of a barrier. Gatekeeping suggests inclusion a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Acrylic, Canvas
"Brain Fog"- Colorful & Playful Abstract Painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Jordan Barker is a New York City based mixed media artist. Initially inspired by found objects, his first piece was a coffee table that was created from a wooden palate found in the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Convergence" Abstract Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This large abstract statement painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint and raw canvas pieces assembled on gallery wrapped canvas. It features a light blue and off-white ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Advance (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Charcoal on paper - Unframed.
Margaret Neill works for a time on a group of pieces in a series, using classic almost primal materials such as graphite, charcoal, paint on traditiona...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Prisms" Abstract Geometric Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This large abstract statement painting by Kelly Rossetti is made with acrylic paint and raw canvas pieces assembled on gallery wrapped canvas. It features a light pink and blue palet...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tamar Zinn "Verdant Suite 4" - Abstract Oil Painting on Paper
By Tamar Zinn
Located in New York, NY
Tamar Zinn
Verdant Suite 4, 2021
oil on paper
image size: 17 x 17 in.
paper size: 22 x 22 in.
(zinn1061)
This colorful abstract oil painting on paper features layered, painterly swa...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Gray Matter"- Subtle Monochromatic Mixed Media Painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Jordan Barker is a New York City based mixed media artist. Initially inspired by found objects, his first piece was a coffee table that was created from a wooden palate found in the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Spring- earth tone blue color circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
"No Place Like Chrome" Metallic Abstract Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Teodora Guererra features a metallic silver palette. The paint is layered thickly on canvas in wide, gestural strokes, creating a highly textured surface. I...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Spirits Through Time VII, " Abstract Portrait Painting
By Ned Martin
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract portrait by Ned Martin is made with oil paint on panel. Part of his Spirits Through Time series, it features a woman in profile - her face and hair are rendered realist...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Yellow Tulips
Located in New York, NY
Friedmann’s expressive and colorful abstractions elicit an immediacy of painting and the relativity of time. The works in the series suggest a subjective impression of movement, like...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Water for Life, original 60x48 acrylic abstract expressionist landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
Water for life offers possibilities of redemption, renewal, a cleansing. This 60x48 original abstract expressionist acrylic landscape explores the multitude of layers that reveal the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Delight in the Dawn" Abstract Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Julia Contacessi features a light, coastal palette, with washes of varying blue tones on the bottom of the composition and light blush and white tones at th...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Weiguo Wang Abstract Original Oil On Canvas "Spring Day"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Spring Day
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 19" x 27"
Frame: Framing options available!
Age: 2000s
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Artist: Weigu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
XingGuang Zheng Abstract Nude Ladies Party 2
Located in New York, NY
Title: Abstract Figurative 2
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 15.25"" x 11.5""
Frame: Framing options available!
Age: 2000s
Condition: Painting appears to be in excellent condition....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jianping Chen Abstract Original Oil Painting "Pattern 11 - Blue"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Pattern 11 - Blue
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 23 x 19 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Year: 2015...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Beaches, original 40x30 abstract expressionist marine landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
This original abstract impressionist acrylic painting by internationally trending artist Carol Carpenter, "Beaches," is bubbling over with shades of pe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Dusk, original 32x38 abstract expressionist cityscape landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
At dusk, the heart and soul of a modern cosmopolitan city, with it's fast pulse blurring into each other, comes alive! Artist Bart DeCeglie used a mixture of elongated and shorter brush strokes to add motion to the many elements of this abstract expressionist cityscape...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fran Shalom "Untitled 6" -- Colorful Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas
By Fran Shalom
Located in New York, NY
Fran Shalom
Untitled 6, 2020
oil on canvas
16 x 16 in.
(sha038ap)
This abstract oil painting on canvas is bold, bright, and colorful, in highly saturated shades of red and orange se...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sarah Irvin "I Assumed" Abstract Ink Painting on paper
By Sarah Irvin
Located in New York, NY
Sarah Irvin
I Assumed, 2019
ink on Yupo paper
35 x 50 in.
This original abstract ink painting on Yupo paper by Sarah Irvin features bold translucent shades of magenta, yellow, laven...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Synthetic Paper
"Untitled" Angelo Ippolito, Yellow 1950s Abstract Expressionism, New York School
By Angelo Ippolito
Located in New York, NY
Angelo Ippolito
Untitled, 1952
Signed and dated on the reverse
Oil on canvas
16 x 36 inches
Provenance:
Gloria Torrice
Estate of the above
Liana Torrice, West Orange...
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Light blue surface - geometric abstract painting
Located in New York, NY
This hand painted piece by Lucchetta is part of the op art series where he is able to catch movement with his unique technique. Lucchetta is challenging himself. His precise stable h...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Ink, Acrylic, Cardboard
"Into the Light" Abstract Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Sue De Chiara is made with acrylic paint on panel. It features a light blue, white, and off-white palette, with green, yellow, and pink accents and a layere...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
"Plaid" Abstract Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract painting by Sue De Chiara is made with acrylic paint on panel. It features a light blue and white palette and a layered, minimalist composition. The painting has clean,...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Abstract with Yellow Stripes, Acrylic and Collage Painting on Canvas by Dan Teis
By Dan Teis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Dan Teis, American (1925 - 2002)
Title: Abstract with Yellow Stripes
Year: 1978
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 44 x 55.5 in. (111.76 x 140.97 cm)
Frame Size: 45.25 ...
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Wind, Abstract Original Oil Painting by Minglei Wang
Located in New York, NY
This is an oil painting made by Minglei Wang, a Chinese artist currently based in Beijing, China.
Provenance: This painting is directly from the ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Window Bush Lit by Sun
Located in New York, NY
Voskoboynikov B.V. (Russian) "Window Bush Lit By Sun", Abstract Landscape signed Oil on Canvas, 32 x 32, Late 20th Century, 1988
Colors: Purple, Green, Pink, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Red
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
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