Abstract Sculptures
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
Yasu - Burnt Wood sculpture by Zlata Kornilova
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture YASU
Limited edition of 12
Mediums: burnt wood and brass
Discover the stunning artistry of Zlata Kornilova with this exquisite sculpture crafted from burnt wood using the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Angeli Minori F
Located in BARCELONA, ES
In apparent disagreement with the state of grace of human anatomy, Nicola Cucchiaro goes to the very origins of artistic endeavor. His production consists of combining and displacing...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Terracotta
Angeli Minori E
Located in BARCELONA, ES
In apparent disagreement with the state of grace of human anatomy, Nicola Cucchiaro goes to the very origins of artistic endeavor. His production consists of combining and displacing...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Terracotta
We Are All In
Located in Lincoln, RI
"We Are All In" is a wall hung sculpture depicting a series of arm/hand outlines overlapping. I was referencing a sports team ritual of standing in a circle before or after a game. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Acrylic
Aman
By Rosa Brun
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Joseph Kosuth, father of conceptual art, once famously said: “Works of art that try to tell us something about the world are bound to fail (…)The absence of reality in art is exactly...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper
$10,500
Karl Stirner Abstract Brutalist Bronze Sculpture, 19.75"H
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Karl Stirner (German/American, 1923-2016)
Marking(s); notes: signed
Materials: bronze
Dimensions (H, W, D): 19.75"h, 10"w, ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Golden Taurus: Contemporary Sculpture Bicycle Enamel
Located in New York, NY
Golden Taurus is a contemporary abstract sculpture by American Artist Michael Manning. It is made from recycled bike parts and yellow spray paint, fast...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel
$3,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Duality 4/12
Located in Napa, CA
Bronze Installed at one of wine country's most iconic luxury resorts Auberge Du Soleil
By applying classical techniques to his contemporary subjects, Palumbo’s textured and spirit...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$39,900
Ceramic Texture Large Wall Sculpture Abstract Porcelain
Located in Buffalo, NY
The material of choice for Neil Tetkowski's abstract sculptural work comes directly from the Earth. Most often he uses clay, which he believes is the perfect medium to express his re...
Category
1990s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Bronze Sculpture
O.T. IV
by Carola Eggeling, Patinated Bronze
Located in Paris, FR
Bronze Black Sculpture 'O.T. IV' by Carola Eggeling
Abstract sculpture with beautiful curved lines.
German bronze sculpture
Certificate of authenticity
Numbered and signed artwork
L...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Forever
Located in Fairfield, CT
Master sculptor Santiago Medina’s Tuscany inspired Italian stainless steel masterpiece sculptures are at marquee public art venues such as Harvard, Stanford, Tufts and Washington Uni...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
$32,000
Discovery 2018-2, Kug Kyung Oh
Located in Porto, 13
"Discovery 2018-2" by Kug Kyung Oh
Medium: Bronze
Edition: 3 of 6
Dimensions: 26 x 26 x 129 cm / 10.2 x 10.2 x 50.8 in
Year: 2018
"Discovery 2018-2" by Kug Kyung Oh is a sculptural m...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Conversation
By Tim Yankosky
Located in Fairfield, CT
Materials are often the driving force and inspiration behind the works of art that I create. I have always been drawn to the functional wear and patina of vintage and found objects. Recently, vintage measuring tapes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Other Medium
$6,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Geometrical Clouds. White Cloud
Located in Henderson, NV
Clifford Singer's Geometrical Clouds Series has evolved since 1974.
Category
1970s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Polystyrene, Acrylic
$14,400 Sale Price
20% Off
The Temple of Fire at the Event Horizon
By Mela M
Located in Fairfield, CT
Mela M’s sculptures are her interpretation of the seamless interconnectedness of light and material form and reference the pronounced uncertainty and unpredictability of our rapidly ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Untitled
By Pedro S. De Movellan
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1967
Pedro S. de Movellan was born in Providence, Rhode Island but moved to Mexico at a young age. As the son of an artist and an architect, de Movellan was interested in art from an early age. He studied fine art at the University of Amherst in Massachusetts and became deeply inspired by kinetic sculptor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$16,500
Knot #19 1/7
Located in Napa, CA
The sculptures of Damon Hyldreth appear both static and fluid, rigid and flexible, strong and smooth, effectively blurring the line between nature and structure. By crafting organic ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
$14,500
VERSO EQUIVALENCE 1 - acrylic, staples, pine wood, cut linen -Abstract geometric
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This painting by Linda King Ferguson is part of her equivalence series, which began as a feminist project; works that subvert the historically male gaze and a material language speaking of gendered concerns. While typically, King Ferguson paints both sides of the canvas and cuts a flap on the the frontside to reveal the color of the back of the canvas, she unexpectedly does the opposite here. The painting is hung from the "frontside" of the canvas, revealing to us the raw edges of her linen canvas, stapled to the stretchers. Two oblong shapes of pink and red dominate the center of the painting. A thin semioval cut has been made inside of both of these shapes.
Her color choices first came from Helen Molesworth’s essay, Painting With Ambivalence, published in WACK! Art of the Feminist Revolution. The Essay includes a large reproduction of Mary Heilmann’s 1979 painting...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
WOMEN IN RHYTHM - Abstract Ceramic Fine Art Sculpture Artist Signed 2018
Located in Chico, CA
Women in Rhythm. Ceramic slip cast form. Fired to cone 01. Glaze low fire to cone 06. Finished with acrylics and oils. Dimensions: 4.5"h x 6"w x 6"d.
Year: 2018
ARTIST STATEMENT
M...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Selkie #5 1/7
Located in Napa, CA
The sculptures of Damon Hyldreth appear both static and fluid, rigid and flexible, strong and smooth, effectively blurring the line between nature and structure. By crafting organic ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Arched Dancers 2 (Miniature) #11/40
Located in Napa, CA
A civil engineer for 30 years, Holmes has been exhibiting and selling his sculptures since 1975 in the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia. He is now very well-known for h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture
O.T. I
by Carola Eggeling
Located in Paris, FR
Bronze Sculpture 'O.T.I' by Carola Eggeling
Abstract sculpture with beautiful curved lines.
German bronze sculpture
Bronze Polished
Certificate of authenticity
Numbered and signed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Light-Glyph 50 (Rose Gold)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
In the first of his newest series, Light-Glyphs, a range of colors illuminate the interior of translucent sculptural boxes. Light diffuses through their frosted surfaces and softens ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Pigment
Large Ceramic Sculpture Texture Spiral Wall
Located in Buffalo, NY
The material of choice for Neil Tetkowski's abstract sculptural work comes directly from the Earth. Most often he uses clay, which he believes is the perfect medium to express his re...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
"Red Round" Abstract, Industrial Bronze Metal Sculpture by Joel Perlman
By Joel Perlman
Located in New York, NY
"Red Round" by Joel Perlman
Abstract sculpture in bronze
Joel Perlman has been creating complex sculptures out of steel, bronze, and aluminum since the early 1970's. While minimalis...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Abstract Geometric Modern Metal Etching
By Dick Wray
Located in Houston, TX
Modern geometric etching on a metal sheet in an abstract style. The piece is not framed.
Artist Biography:
Dick Wray, a native Houstonian, born in Heights Hospital in 1933 was prima...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
This sophisticated sculpture was realized from lymed French oak circa 1950. The perimeter of the piece consists of a mosaic of rectilinear blocks, while the interior rectangular pane...
Category
1960s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Oak
$3,475
Bucket
Located in New York, NY
Alan Shields
Bucket, 1977-79
Metal wire wrapped in dyed paper
13 3/4 x 8 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches
Unsigned
Category
1970s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Fruits of War
Located in Milford, NH
A fine abstract expressionist assemblage by American artist Varujan Boghosian (1926-2020). Boghosian was born in New Britain, CT and after serving in the United States Navy, he attended Central Connecticut Teachers College and the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. In 1953, he had a Fulbright grant to paint in Italy, and from 1956 to 1959, he worked with Josef Albers, geometric abstractionist, at Yale University where he earned both his BFA and MFA. Boghosian became a professor of sculpture at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and became primarily known for his assemblages in which he uses a variety of incongruous objects such as parts of weathered barn...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects
DYAD 8 - Square Sculptural Painting - Contemporary Oil
Acrylic on Linen
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Linda King Ferguson describes her "Equivalence Series" as social bodies; a re-thinking of Modernist figurative abstraction. They are a discursive formal and reductive language. As fi...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Monolyth
By Luis Ortiz Monasterio
Located in Guadalajara, Jalisco
Monolyth
Luis Ortíz Monasterio
Lost Wax Bronze
70 x 21 x 10 cm
1971, MX
Wood Base
Luis Ortiz Monasterio (Mexico City, 1906-1990) was a Mexican sculptor noted for his monumental work...
Category
1970s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Consequence
By Ed Haugevik
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Sculpture.
About the Artist:
Ed Haugevik has established a career as professional sculptor placing his work at numerous private and public sites throughout the country. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
$85,000
Stirring Within Light Gray Abstract Metal Wall Sculpture
By Zammy Migdal
Located in Miami, FL
From the newest original works by Zammy Migdal, these wall objects hang as sculpture on the wall, each one unique, forming its own fluid story. This light gray work is from a series...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$4,400 Sale Price
36% Off
Jupiter. Lincoln Center
Located in Henderson, NV
Clifford Singer's Lincoln Center Sculpture.
Category
1990s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Wood, Oil
$3,200 Sale Price
20% Off
TILT
Located in Napa, CA
The sculptures of Damon Hyldreth appear both static and fluid, rigid and flexible, strong and smooth, effectively blurring the line between nature and structure. By crafting organic ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
$55,000
Black Sail
Located in Henderson, NV
This work is made from welded aluminum and painted with black enamel. It is a different work for Clifford Singer and priced to sell.
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$9,600 Sale Price
20% Off
After the rain. 2009, stone wear, 50x31x26 cm
Located in Riga, LV
After the rain.
2009, stone wear, 50x31x26 cm
Gray abstract sculpture from stone
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone
$1,897 Sale Price
20% Off
Contemplation #2
By Dennis Leri
Located in New York, NY
Abstract. Painted steel. Metal sculpture
About the Artist:
I create sculpture for indoor, outdoor, private and public spaces from various materials such as steel, copper and wood. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Steel
DAVIDE QUAYOLA "Laocoon Fragment #8_005.003 mixed media iron wood sculpture 2016
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Davide Quayola (Italian, b. 1982)
"Laocoon Fragment #8_005.003"
2016
Made of Iron, epoxy, fiberglass, mirror-polished steel & wood.
Dimensions: 19.7 x 11 x 15.75 inches (50 x 28 x 40 cm)
Base Plate Dimensions: .8 x 23.7 x 23.7 inches (2 x 60 x 60 cm) base
From the signed and numbered edition of 3
"Quayola employs technology as a lens to explore the tensions and equilibriums between seemingly opposing forces: the real and artificial, figurative and abstract, old and new. Constructing immersive installations, he engages with and re-imagines canonical imagery through contemporary technology. Landscape painting, classical sculpture and iconography are some of the historical aesthetics that serve as a point of departure for Quayola’s hybrid compositions. His varied practice, all deriving from custom computer software, also includes audiovisual performance, immersive video installations, sculpture, and works on paper.
His work has been performed and exhibited in many prestigious institutions worldwide including V&A Museum, London; Park Avenue Armory, New York; National Art Center, Tokyo; UCCA, Beijing; How Art Museum, Shanghai; SeMA, Seoul; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Ars Electronica, Linz; Sonar Festival, Barcelona and Sundance Film Festival.
Also a frequent collaborator on musical projects, Quayola has worked with composers, orchestras and musicians including London Contemporary Orchestra, National Orchestra of Bordeaux, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Vanessa Wagner, Jamie XX...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel, Iron
Ceramic Texture Wall Sculpture Abstract
Located in Buffalo, NY
The material of choice for Neil Tetkowski's abstract sculptural work comes directly from the Earth. Most often he uses clay, which he believes is the perfect medium to express his re...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Sculpture in Brass "Angel #7"
Located in New York, NY
Reclining figure in Brass by Jacques Jarrige. Formed with a ribbon of brass and hand hammered.
#7 from a series of 18
Each is unique and signed
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Antique Hebrew letters
By Moshe Castel
Located in Jerusalem, IL
The subject of Castel’s early paintings were scenes of Sephardic Jews in the Holy Land. In 1947, Castel helped to found the "New Horizons".In the 1950s Moshe's Castel artwork work was inspired by ancient relief paintings depicting predecessors of the Jewish people...
Category
1970s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Thunderbird (1/2)
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Wood, window screen, plaster, joint compound, polymer and acrylic paint
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Acrylic, Polymer
Oro
By Rosa Brun
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Joseph Kosuth, father of conceptual art, once famously said: “Works of art that try to tell us something about the world are bound to fail (…)The absence of reality in art is exactly...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass
$5,200
Galveston
Located in Lincoln, RI
This piece is made by casting Hydrostone on top of an oil clay pattern. Once cured, the oil clay is removed, then paint and gilding are applied to emphasize the texture on the surfac...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Contemporary Scholar
s Stone II (white with blue light)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kristina Larson creates biomorphic three-dimensional works primarily out of clay. Within her multidisciplinary practice she seeks to blur the lines between art, craft, and design by ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze, LED Light
Blockhead
Located in Lincoln, RI
This low relief sculpture is created by casting hydrocal FGR 95 (a very hard plaster) over a hand sculpted oil clay design. Once the hydrocal is...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper
$4,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract culpture by Dorothy Thorpe
Located in Pasadena, CA
Dorothy Thorpe
This wonderful piece was designed by Dorothy Thorpe in America during the 1960s
Born in Salt Lake City in 1901, Dorothy Thorpe was a mid-century American artist who de...
Category
1970s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Lucite
Doble giro, estructuras variables (rosa)
By Rosa Brun
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Joseph Kosuth, father of conceptual art, once famously said: “Works of art that try to tell us something about the world are bound to fail (…)The absence of reality in art is exactly...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
Thunderbird (2/2)
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Wood, window screen, plaster, joint compound, polymer and acrylic paint
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Acrylic, Polymer
Untitled IX : large-scale steel sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A large-scale steel sculpture by Naomi Press. Signed with initials.
Naomi Press is a female abstract sculptor, who was one of the very few women working i...
Category
1980s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Doble giro, con negro y azul
By Rosa Brun
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Joseph Kosuth, father of conceptual art, once famously said: “Works of art that try to tell us something about the world are bound to fail (…)The absence of reality in art is exactly...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper, Linen
Composition 5
By Koji Takei
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Koji Takei works reference synthetic cubism in the most literal of senses. In cubist artworks, the objects are broken up, analyzed and re-assembled in abstracted form. These pieces...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Doble giro, estructuras variables (naranja)
By Rosa Brun
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Joseph Kosuth, father of conceptual art, once famously said: “Works of art that try to tell us something about the world are bound to fail (…)The absence of reality in art is exactly...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Handmade Paper
Generator
By Clark Derbes
Located in Lincoln, MA
carved and polychromed maple
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint, Underglaze
The Authority of Color at the Speed of Light
By Mela M
Located in Fairfield, CT
Mela M’s sculptures are her interpretation of the seamless interconnectedness of light and material form and reference the pronounced uncertainty and unpredictability of our rapidly ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Knot #63CT 1/7
Located in Napa, CA
The sculptures of Damon Hyldreth appear both static and fluid, rigid and flexible, strong and smooth, effectively blurring the line between nature and structure. By crafting organic ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
$24,500
Figure with Hat
Located in Milford, NH
A fine abstract polychromed plaster bust of a figure with hat by American artist Varujan Boghosian (1926-2020). Boghosian was born in New Britain, CT and after serving in the United ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Coaster
By Tom Nussbaum
Located in New Orleans, LA
Tom Nussbaum is known for a variety of work including drawings, paper cuts, prints, sculpture, children’s books, animations, functional design objects, and site-specific commissions....
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
$10,500
Cloud
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hand-built clay sculpture with white glaze and internal blue LED light. This sculpture can be wall mounted or displayed on a pedestal or table top.
Category
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze, LED Light
Abstract sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract sculptures available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add sculptures created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, purple, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Scott Troxel, John Van Alstine, Marty Mackenzie, and Stephen Walling. Frequently made by artists working with Wood, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract sculptures, so small editions measuring 0.38 inches across are also available. Prices for sculptures made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $11 and tops out at $1,400,000, while the average work sells for $4,500.
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