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Period: Late 20th Century
Font Diaz Little Green original pastel abstrat painting
By Font Diaz
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
sin titulo original pastel abstrat painting
Manel Font Díaz (Barcelona, 1950) es un artista centrado especialmente en la pintura, primero formado en la facultad de Bellas Artes de la...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Abstract expressionist, geometric, large, pink, orange, blue, acrylic on canvas
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Robert Natkin
The Stranger, 1984
Acrylic on canvas
84 x 72 inches
213.4 x 183 cm
RNa026
Celebrated as an unsurpassed colorist and for the beauty of his large-scale abstract works, R...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mixed Media Abstract Trompe L
oeil Collage Oil Painting Cecil Touchon Texas Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Cecil Touchon (1956-, Austin, Texas)
Z-A / PDP165CT95
Abstract Composition
Oil, collage on canvas
Hand signed and inscribed verso
Dimensions: 24 x 22 in.
Cecil Touchon (born 1956, ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Archival Paper
Nuvu Blue - modern, contemporary, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This colourful abstract expressionist painting is by the award-winning artist Milly Ristvedt.
For decades, Milly Ristvedt has explored the unlimited potential and power of colour to...
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Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled oil on canvas, signed and dated 1988 by American artist Giorgio Cavallon (1904-1989) on the reverse. Cavallon was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists and a ...
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Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
"A New Idea" in Blue - Figural Abstract Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"A New Idea" in Blue - Figural Abstract Composition in Acrylic on Paper
A bold abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). Large blue and red brushstrokes form the structure of this composition, with a seated figure in the misty background. What appears to be a cobalt blue vessel...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Lady with Blue Bird Painting 1980
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3715 Oil on board
Set in a faux vintage bamboo wood frame
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Blue Cosmic Chaos" By P.Russo
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4093 Multi colored abstract on artist board
Set in a vintage hand painted wood frame
Signed on verso by P.Russo
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$425 Sale Price
37% Off
Primary Sun - contemporary, minimalist, abstract, acrylic on archival paper
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary acrylic abstract painting is one of Milly Ristvedt’s earlier works.
Known as a master colourist, this piece was painted in the 1970s when the Canadian artist was n...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Affection Mixed Media
By Jürgen Görg
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Affection 1989
Artist signed lower right
Oil, graphite on linen canvas 38x30, framed 52x44 inches.
Jurgen Gorg was born in 1951 in, Dernbach Germany. His formative years were spen...
Category
Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Graphite
"The Power (People)" 1970 Olaf Karlsen
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"The Power (People)" 1970
Olaf Karlsen (b. 1947)
Oil on canvas
Signed front and back.
28 1/4 x 40 inches (frame)
Olaf Karlsen has managed to remain a m...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1970
s Colorful Abstract Orange Field Landscape with Trees Textured Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Landscape
French School, indistinctly signed
dated 1970's
Signed oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas : 15 x 18 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: sound and ...
Category
Impressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Caput Mortuum - Conceptual Encaustic Oil Painting, Marble Dust Ash On Canvas XXL
Located in Salzburg, AT
Overall Size: Height 200cm x Width 300cm ( The painting consists of 2 parts, one part: 200x150cm )
Overall Size: Height 78,7402 Inch x Width 118,11 Inch ( The painting consists o...
Category
Conceptual Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Marble
Landscape 130 by Jean Krille - Oil on canvas 50x35 cm
By Jean Krille
Located in Geneva, CH
Jean Krillé’s paintings are known for their expressive use of color and dynamic, abstract forms, blending realism with abstraction in his depictions of nature. His landscapes often f...
Category
Neo-Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
White
Green Pattern Triptych Painting by George McClancy
Located in Washington, DC
George McClancy (1930-2014) abstract pattern triptych painting.
Acrylic on canvas
75W" x 48H"
George McClancy received a MA in painting from Catholic University in Washington DC, ...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract composition
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Silver wood frame with glass pane
72 x 93 x 2 cm
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
"Layers Of Time In Jimmy
s Garden" Colorful Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Tony Magar
Located in Houston, TX
Modern pink, yellow, and blue abstract expressionist painting by English artist Tony Magar. The work features bold, emotive strokes that continue around the edges with a patch of whi...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1970’s French Surrealist Signed Oil Painting Abstract Cubist Shapes Patterns
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tristan Fabris 1970's, French Surrealist artist
Abstract Surrealist Figurative study
signed & dated oil on canvas, unframed
inscribed verso
canvas: 32 x 25.5 inches
private collectio...
Category
Surrealist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,185 Sale Price
20% Off
Mirror, abstract expressionist painting by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres
American, 1927-2013
Mirror, 1984
acrylic and ink on paper mounted on canvas
signed lower right, dated and titled verso
12 x 12 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buff...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Expressions in Bloom: Portraits from the 20th Century IV - Florentine School
Located in London, GB
'Expressions in Bloom: Portraits from the 20th Century IV', oil on canvas mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings throu...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$1,201 Sale Price
20% Off
Love is in the Air - Blue and Purple Abstract Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
Love is in the Air - Blue and Purple Abstract Composition
Multicolored, lightly iridescent abstract composition by Judith W Winslow (JW) (American, 1943-2023). This piece is feature...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Precious Stone
Phoenix - large, colorful, contemporary, abstract, diptych, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Horizontal bars of blue, maroon, cherry red, pink, lemon yellow, burnt orange and green communicate on a soaked sand-coloured ground in the two panels that form this 9-foot square acrylic diptych painting on canvas. The rhythm of the spaces between the short lengths of colour creates a dialogue of movement that leads the eye upwards through the large picture plane. About the inspiration for the work, the artist wrote:
"This is one of the rare paintings that I saw clearly in a dream and painted almost exactly as I saw it. It relates back to the four-panel work, Lock-Up (1972), done a couple of months earlier, where I used the physical break between panels as an edge to anchor some colour bars. In Phoenix, some bars are anchored while others float within the larger ground colour."
This painting was included in the exhibition catalogue Milly Ristvedt-Handerek: Paintings of a Decade (1979).
Milly Ristvedt, RCA, began her career in Toronto in 1964 after studies with Takao Tanabe at the Vancouver School of Art. In Toronto, during the 1960s and 1970s, she was making and exhibiting large-scale paintings alongside a small but defined group of non-figurative painters who, like Ristvedt, had planted...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sailing, Large Abstract Expressionist Mid-Century Oil, Cleveland Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927–2013)
Sailing, 1973
oil on canvas
signed lower right, signed and titled verso
58 x 72 inches
Exhibited: Cleveland Museum of Art, May Show 1973
Richard...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
American School Signed Framed Fauvist Abstract Modernist Cloudscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 36L x 24H.
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
"Abduction of the Emperor, " 1970s Modern Abstract Painting
By Stanley Bate
Located in Westport, CT
"Abduction of the Emperor" by Stanley Bate is an abstract oil painting made in 1971. This piece is primarily a textured sandy gold color with geometric shapes that add pops of light ...
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PHENOMENA CROSS WIND ALTERNATE
By Paul Jenkins
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed, titled and dated on verso by Paul Jenkins.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Acquired by our gallery from a private collector. All reaso...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$79,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Blue Abstract
, NYU, Paris, Pompidou, Guggenheim, NYMoMA, LACMA, AIC, Whitney
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'American Action Abstract in Blue' by John Willenbecher, 1997.
Paris, Pompidou, Guggenheim, NYMoMa, LACMA, Whitney, Art Institute of Chicago, Fogg Museum, Bo...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Abstract Oil Painting, Green, Blue and Gold Colour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Oil Painting, Green, Blue and Gold Colour
By French artist Roland Gautier, 20th Century
Signed by the artist on the back of the painting
Oil painting on board, framed
Framed...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,513 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Expressionist Composition on Black
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful and dynamic abstract composition by Ross H. Pollette, who also paints under the pseudonyms 'Max West' (American, b. 1948). Pollette has used oil, in...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modern Art New York "Noah
s Ark"
By Jay Milder
Located in Portland, OR
Modern abstract painting acrylic and oil paint, by the celebrated New York artist, Jay Milder (B. 1934), Titled "Noah's Ark II", 1989.
Milder is an abstract painter who made a signi...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Oil
Large Scale Neo-Expressionist Figurative Composition in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Large Scale Neo-Expressionist Figurative Composition in Oil on Canvas
Compelling and large scale neo-expressionist figurative painting by San Jose, California area artist Daniel Dav...
Category
Neo-Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tribute to Robert Motherwell - Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Tribute to Robert Motherwell - Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Paper
A bold abstract painting by California-based artist, Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). Drawing...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Abstract Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Andy Miller (American, b. 1950), Abstract Composition, Oil on Canvas, impasto details, green ground with yellow and red highlights, with artist's studio stamp to verso, apparently un...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Orange And Black Abstract Expressionist Painting by Shirley Bleviss
Located in Pasadena, CA
This vast abstract canvas stages a confrontation between shapes and colors, evoking the hues of autumn leaves. It is crossed by a dark, horizontal band, like a slash cleaving the spa...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Lunch at Chez Louis
By Roland Dubuc
Located in London, GB
'Lunch at Chez Louis', oil on canvas, by Roland Dubuc (circa 1970s). The outdoor terrace at restaurants and cafés in France goes back centuries as they have always been a gathering place for intellectuals to meet and debate philosophical issues; for the Avant Garde set to display their works; for artists to compare and exchange ideas and for writers to drown their sorrows over their artistic anguish or melancholy. Even the freedom fighters of the French Revolution and later the French Resistance would meet in cafés to plot their course. Regular people of course also enjoy these venues. A very delightful feature of these French institutions is that there is always room for quiet book readers, romantic couples, business meetings and lively groups of friends sharing a bottle of wine. The artist Dubuc captures a slice of this lovely aspect of French culture in this smile-inducing depiction painted in vivid oils. With a background of greenery, the patrons enjoy the outdoors protected from the intense sun by the table's parasols. Ah, the life. The artwork is in good vintage condition, is framed and signed by the artist in the lower left hand corner. Please enjoy the many photos accompanying this listing. Upon request a video may be provided.
About the Artist: Roland DuBuc (1924-1998), French artist, the sixth of 13 children and son of a construction worker. The very precariousness of the family's financial situation forced him to go to work at the age of 14. In extreme poverty, he moved to Rouen where he was lodged by the Salvation Army. During that time he struck up friendships with several artists who gave him advice and taught him techniques of drawing. He moved to other cities later where he met painters including, among others, Fred Pailhès...
Category
Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,185 Sale Price
50% Off
Russian Landscape (abstract painting)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Yuri Larin (1936-2014). Landscape, 1984. Watercolor on paper, 17 x 18 inches. Unframed and unmounted. Signed and dated lower left. Excellent condition. Image is painted on verso side of block print wallpaper sheet of Russian manufacture.
Estate of Giovanni and Dagmar Migliuolo, NYC. Giovanni Migliuolo is the former Italian Ambassador to the United Nations, USSR and Egypt.
Yuri Larin, also Yuriy Larin (1936–2014) is a Russian painter and graphic artist, a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR since 1977. Larin was born in Moscow to the family of a key Soviet political leader, Nikolay Bukharin, and Anna Larina. Following the arrests of his parents in 1938 and until 1946, he lived with his relatives, and following the arrest of his step-father, he was taken to an orphanage near Stalingrad. A hydraulic engineer by training, he worked at the construction of the Saratov Hydro-Electric Plant and at design institutions. In 1960, he began his studies at the department of drawing and painting of the Krupskaya People’s University of Arts, and then, from 1965 until 1970, he studied at the department of art design at the Moscow State Higher School of Arts and Industry (the former Stroganov Institution). His career as a professional artist began in the early 1970s. From 1970 until 1986, he taught at the Moscow 1905 Memorial Arts School. His letter to prof. Vittorio Strada sent in 1980 contained the first statement of his artistic method he would later dub the “concept of the limit state”. He quit teaching after a serious illness, when he lost the ability to use his right hand. He only worked with his left hand since 1986. He died and was buried in Moscow.
Exhibitions:
1981
The sixth All-Union watercolor exhibition. Moscow
1982
Personal exhibition in Moscow Drama Theater after M.N.Ermolova (together with Ye.Kravchenko). Moscow.
1985
The eighth All-Union watercolor exhibition. Moscow
1987
The ninth All-Union watercolor exhibition. Moscow.
1989
Personal watercolor exhibition. Gallery “Books&Company Art”, NY, USA
Personal exhibition. The Central House of the Artist on Krymskiy Val, Moscow.
13 Biennale of the countries of the Baltic Region in Rostock, Germany.
1992
Personal exhibition of Russian and German landscapes. Duren, Germany.
The exhibition of the Russian graphics. Gallery «Raissa». Erfurt, Germany.
1993
Personal exhibition in exhibition hall of magazine “Nashe Nasledie” (Russian Cultural Foundation), Moscow
1994
Personal watercolor exhibition. Gallery “The Art of the XX century”.
Bonn, Germany
1996
Personal exhibition of portraits and landscapes. World Bank Moscow Office
1997
Personal exhibition “From Italian cycle”. The State Institute of Art Studies. Moscow
Exhibition “THe Russian Art of the second half of the XX century. Harmony of Contrasts”. The Academy of Arts of the Russian Federation. Moscow.
1998
Personal exhibition “The seasons of Yuriy Larin. From the Russian cycle”. Moscow State Museum of Vadim Sidur...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$900 Sale Price
50% Off
Portrait of Robert, Abstract White Oil Painting by Youri Broitman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Youri Yehuda Broitman, Russian (1956 - )
Title: Portrait of Robert
Year: 1991
Medium: Oil on Canvas, Signed on Verso
Size: 14 x 9 inches
Frame Size: 16.5 x 11.5 inches
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American School Signed Modernist Minimalist Abstract Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Step into the serene world of American minimalism with this exquisite 1980 signed original oil painting. Created by a talented American artist, this work invites you to explore the c...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Mixed Media Abstract Trompe L
oeil Collage Oil Painting Cecil Touchon Texas Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Cecil Touchon (1956-, Austin, Texas)
1-C / PDP164CT95
Abstract Composition
Oil, collage on canvas
Hand signed and inscribed verso
Dimensions: 24 x 22 in.
Cecil Touchon (born 1956, ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Archival Paper, Canvas
French 20th Century Huge Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting on Canvas c.1970
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924)
signed oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas size: 40 x 39.5 inches
condition: overall very good, a few m...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Open Window", Large Scale Minimalist Color-Field Abstract
By Sasha Rogers
Located in Soquel, CA
Large scale, compelling abstract titled "Open Window" by Canadian abstract painter Sasha Rogers (Canadian, b. 1969), daughter of premier art...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Large French 20th Century Abstract Expression Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Marie Deloume (French born 1942)
signed
oil painting on paper stuck on canvas, unframed
canvas size: 20 x 24 inches
condition: overall very good...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
Large French Abstract Painting with Cut Out Collage Artwork Listed Artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning and completely unique one of a kind original artwork - by the well listed French abstract painter, Bernard Herzog (b.1935).
During the latter part of his career, like Henr...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
House Paint, Magazine Paper, Newsprint
Duino Elegies study
By Richard Mann
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Richard Mann (1940-1990). Duino Elegies, 1981. Mixed media on rag paper, consisting of 3 sheets, each measuring 18 x 24 inches. Each vertical edge is hinged with mounting tape, resulting in a triptych
presentation. Entire measurement: 24 x 54 inches w.
Biography:
Playwright, poet and visual artist, Rev. Richard Mann was born and educated in Melbourne Australia. At the height of America's counter-cultural revolution, Mann moved to New York City where he lived and worked in Harlem.
He was influenced by surrealism, abstract expressionism, and calligraphy at the time of his arrival.
Beginning in the mid-1970's, the extreme living conditions of Harlem and demands of his religious calling provided subject matter for his painting. Urban decay and ubiquitous public graffiti provide inspiration for compositions that include highly stylized writing.
By the late 1970's many works incorporate writing exclusively, with areas of layered, obscured and illegible words, very much like repeatedly tagged walls.
Education:
Studied painting with Maurice Cantlon, Melbourne, Australia 1961-62.
Liberal Arts Studies, Christ the King...
Category
Neo-Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil
Abstract Expressionist Painting American Late 1970
s Mid Century Orange Purple
Located in Buffalo, NY
Mid Century Modern, American Abstract Expressionist Painting on artist board.
This wonderful work combines unique shades of orange yellow and purple and comes house in a contemporar...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
$551 Sale Price
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Detritus Series 3, Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas by Juan Sanchez Juarez
Located in Long Island City, NY
Signed lower right
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Cronus Asleep in the Cave" David Hare, Large Abstract Surrealist Composition
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare
Cronus Asleep in the Cave, 1971
Acrylic on linen
55 x 67 inches
“Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and what we are most afraid of.” No one could accuse David Hare of possessing such fear. Blithely unconcerned with the critics’ judgments, Hare flitted through most of the major art developments of the mid-twentieth century in the United States. He changed mediums several times; just when his fame as a sculptor had reached its apogee about 1960, he switched over to painting. Yet he remained attached to surrealism long after it had fallen out of official favor. “I can’t change what I do in order to fit what would make me popular,” he said. “Not because of moral reasons, but just because I can’t do it; I’m not interested in it.”
Hare was born in New York City in 1917; his family was both wealthy and familiar with the world of modern art. Meredith (1870-1932), his father, was a prominent corporate attorney. His mother, Elizabeth Sage Goodwin (1878-1948) was an art collector, a financial backer of the 1913 Armory Show, and a friend of artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Walt Kuhn, and Marcel Duchamp.
In the 1920s, the entire family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and later to Colorado Springs, in the hope that the change in altitude and climate would help to heal Meredith’s tuberculosis. In Colorado Springs, Elizabeth founded the Fountain Valley School where David attended high school after his father died in 1932. In the western United States, Hare developed a fascination for kachina dolls and other aspects of Native American culture that would become a recurring source of inspiration in his career.
After high school, Hare briefly attended Bard College (1936-37) in Annandale-on-Hudson. At a loss as to what to do next, he parlayed his mother’s contacts into opening a commercial photography studio and began dabbling in color photography, still a rarity at the time [Kodachrome was introduced in 1935]. At age 22, Hare had his first solo exhibition at Walker Gallery in New York City; his 30 color photographs included one of President Franklin Roosevelt.
As a photographer, Hare experimented with an automatist technique called “heatage” (or “melted negatives”) in which he heated the negative in order to distort the image. Hare described them as “antagonisms of matter.” The final products were usually abstractions tending towards surrealism and similar to processes used by Man Ray, Raoul Ubac, and Wolfgang Paalen.
In 1940, Hare moved to Roxbury, CT, where he fraternized with neighboring artists such as Alexander Calder and Arshile Gorky, as well as Yves Tanguy who was married to Hare’s cousin Kay Sage, and the art dealer Julian Levy. The same year, Hare received a commission from the American Museum of Natural History to document the Pueblo Indians. He traveled to Santa Fe and, for several months, he took portrait photographs of members of the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni tribes that were published in book form in 1941.
World War II turned Hare’s life upside down. He became a conduit in the exchange of artistic and intellectual ideas between U.S. artists and the surrealist émigrés fleeing Europe. In 1942, Hare befriended Andre Breton, the principal theorist of surrealism. When Breton wanted to publish a magazine to promote the movement in the United States, he could not serve as an editor because he was a foreign national. Instead, Breton selected Hare to edit the journal, entitled VVV [shorth for “Victory, Victory, Victory”], which ran for four issues (the second and third issues were printed as a single volume) from June 1942 to February 1944. Each edition of VVV focused on “poetry, plastic arts, anthropology, sociology, (and) psychology,” and was extensively illustrated by surrealist artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Roberto Matta, and Yves Tanguy; Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp served as editorial advisors.
At the suggestion of Jacqueline Lamba...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Large Mid Century Modern Texas Artist Abstract Expressionist Action Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
An abstract expressionist painting by Duayne Hatchett . Oil on canvas, circa 1990. Signed verso. Framed. Image size, 60"H x 56"L.
Duayne Hatchett was a visual artist whose work...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$10,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Virginia Hills American Female Modernist Abstract Signed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract signed oil painting by Anne Sharp. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
N-4, Large Abstract Expressionist painting by Robert Goodnough
Located in Long Island City, NY
At once an Abstract Expressionist and Color Field painting, this large colorful work by Robert Goodnough bursts with the energy of confetti. This acrylic and oil on canvas painting i...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
A serene moorland scene with rich hues, misty hills, and a reflective waterway
Located in Preston, GB
A serene moorland scene with rich hues, misty hills, and a reflective waterway by 20th Century British Artist. Impasto, abstract landscape.
Art measures 20 x 16 inches
Frame measu...
Category
Contemporary Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Bouquet - contemporary, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A celebration of beautiful blues—this abstract painting by master colorist Milly Ristvedt continues to explore form and color. The background is a soft wash of blue and generous brus...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Large-Scale Multicolored Color Block Abstraction in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Large-Scale Multicolored Color Block Abstraction in Acrylic on Canvas
Abstract composition by Ellis Hopkins (American, b. 1952). In this exuberant abstract composition, Hopkins orch...
Category
Color-Field Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Seated Nude - Original Abstract Expressionist on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Seated Nude - Original Abstract Expressionist on Canvas
Abstract expressionist figurative composition of a woman by California artist Harald "Harry" Dry Schmidt (American, 1933-1979...
Category
Post-War Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Hannah’s Mirror, Rembrandt’s Three Trees Transformed Into The Expulsion fr/Eden
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
IAN HORNAK (1944–2002)
Title: Hannah’s Mirror, Rembrandt’s Three Trees Transformed Into The Expulsion From Eden
Date: 1978
Medium: Acrylic ...
Category
Photorealist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Patricia Zippin "Study for Anaganaga 2/6" 1980s Abstract Painting
Located in Arp, TX
Patricia Zippin
Study For Anaganaga 2/6
1980s
Mixed Media
30"x 23", unframed
Signed in pencil bottom right and titled bottom left and signed and titled in pencil on reverse
Patricia...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Acrylic, Pencil
Large Colour Block Abstract, Mixed Medium, Original Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Large Colour Block Abstract, Mixed Medium, Original Painting
French School, circa 1990s
sigend indistinctly on the bottom of the painting
Mixed m...
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$1,638 Sale Price
20% Off
"Untitled" Swirling Abstract Oil on Canvas, Indonesian School of Affandi
Located in New York, NY
In the manner of Affandi
Abstract Lotus, circa 1970
Unsigned
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches
Category
Abstract Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Surreal Signed Nude Figures Framed Original Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract nude landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly.
Category
Modern Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
French Extra-Large Grey And White Abstract Painting By Rapfaëlle Pia From 1987
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
Presenting a stunning extra-large French abstract acrylic painting by French artist Raphaëlle Pia (1942-). This contemporary artwork exhibits a remarkably vivid quality, achieved through the harmonious interplay of a pale color palette and bold, large brushstrokes.
The painting is countersigned. ‘R. Pia’ is signed in the bottom right corner of the canvas, and 'Raphaëlle PIA' is signed on the reverse side of the canvas. It is dated 1987, is titled ‘ ("Guanorgile") "Guanos II" ’, and its' medium is noted to be 'acrylique s/ toile (et technique mixte)' which translates to 'acrylic paint on canvas and mixed technique'. There is also a reference to a Parisian street that is partially crossed out...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
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