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Abstract Paintings For Sale
Style: Contemporary
Style: Post-Impressionist
Full Moon is coming to Town
Located in New York, NY
Mixed media painting on canvas. Ready to hang
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Silk, Acrylic, Etching

Moon Shadow
Located in San Diego, CA
"Moon Shadow" in the "Celeste and Sea" collection is an original painting by San Diego Artist Shima Shanti in the ancient art form of Encaustic. Up to 50 layers of purified beeswax ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Wax, Encaustic, Oil

Gravity's Rainbow, unique signed painting on canvas by celebrated female artist
Located in New York, NY
Thelma Appel Gravity's Rainbow, 2010 Acrylic on Canvas Hand Signed, Titled & Dated on the back of canvas 48 × 60 inches Unframed Thelma Appel was the subject of a 50 year career surv...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Leaving Earth
Located in Santa Clarita, CA
Larisa Safaryan has chosen to work with a most unconventional and delicate medium: an eggshell. Without question she is an innovator in what she does.​ The strength and fragility of ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Canvas

White Landscape, Diptych, Original Art , Made in Italy by Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
White landscape oil painting on canvas original painting one of a kind diptych overall dimensions 130x92 (65x92 each single canvas) Marilina Marchica, born in 1984, was born in Agr...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Handmade Paper

Untitled - abstract, oil painting, squares, blue & black
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Using pure oil paint, which gives the artwork its unique texture, the artist manages to use two particularly difficult colors to work with: black and blue. This artwork is part of ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbie World
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1986 Adam Umbach was born in Chicago, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. After being inspired from an early age by the modern masters collection at th...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Large Robert Kiley Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Work is titled “Aperture Series 1985”; Provenance: Collection of Phyllis Kiley (wife of the artist), Boca Raton, Florida Marking(s); notes: signed on label ...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Conté, Acrylic

Large Jack Youngerman Painting, 92″W
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Work is titled “Gray Open”. Provenance: Tupperware Brands Corporate Collection, Orlando, Florida. Marking(s); notes: signed; 1972-73 Country of origin; mate...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paint

Large Composition VI
Located in Bantam, CT
Patricia Udell's art is a combination of Color Field and Hard-Edge abstraction, and her beautiful artworks are deceptively simple. Her signature style and contemporary use of color ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Paper

Make up - Part I
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Sebastien's body of work unfolds around the image. Almost always, he works on his work in series, which means that several works result from one source image. He is very methodical ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Acrylic, Monotype

"La lluvia de la semilla" colorful, figurative, organic, ink painting
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Through fluid strokes, rhythmic details, and archaic beings, the work shows us the artist's interest in exploring color. This abstract landscape is built by stages of primary colors,...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Aquatint

Bonitou, vespers Nicolas Kennett Contemporary painting art lines landscape waves
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel Unique work Hand-signed on the back by the artist
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Nebula, British Contemporary Artist Abstract Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas Image size: 15 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches (40 x 49.5 cm) Framed
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Shooo-(I)
Located in Seoul, KR
ARTIST STATEMENT My work focuses on the relationship between ‘Writing and Drawing’. From a distance, it appears to be a drawn image but a closer look reveals innumerable minute handw...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Ink, Paper

1613 - 21st Century, Contemporary Art, Abstract, Acrylic Painting
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Maria Paola's creative process dwells on a permanent search for the beauty hiding within our state of mind. Coda examines and translates the vibratory element of beauty that goes bey...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Begegnung
Located in Wien, 9
In his painting, Robert Hammerstiel is in constant search of the balance and harmony of form. In his drastic reduction to the physical essentials and the colourful placarding, he cre...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

#22-13 - Contemporary Abstract Floral
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting by Annette Davidek
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Birch, Oil, Panel

The Fantasy of Castle No.2 - Contemporary art, Geometric, Abstract
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Da Hong Born in 1984 Henan China, and currently living in Beijing He graduated from Jingdezhen Ceramic University in 2007 The artist enjoyed piling up the blocks on the c...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Der Hundemann
Located in Wien, 9
In his painting, Robert Hammerstiel is in constant search of the balance and harmony of form. In his drastic reduction to the physical essentials and the colourful placarding, he cre...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rave Heads X
Located in London, GB
Rafael Melendez's artwork titled "Mosh Pit X" is a captivating exploration of human interaction and the juxtaposition between the energetic atmosphere of a mosh pit and the confines ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

#22-14 - Abstract Floral Painting with Vivid Color
Located in New York, NY
Annette Davidek creates paintings that look like gorgeous biomes full of naturalistic forms, enticing viewers to enter a domain that is as familiar as it is strange. Variously sugges...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Birch, Oil, Panel

Storm - large, dark, smoky, atmospheric abstracted landscape, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Painterly swipes and drips light up an atmospheric sky in this dynamic acrylic by Lynne Fernie. The fiery horizon adds to the sense of brewing storm. Lynne Fernie is a Toronto artist...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Diagonal Stripe VI-21
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Kenneth Noland. “Diagonal Stripe VI-21” is a hard-edge, abstract painting, paint on handmade paper by artist Kenneth Noland. ...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Handmade Paper

"Minamina Dreaming - Minamina Juk", Acrylic Contemporary Aboriginal Painting
Located in London, GB
Simon employs optic whites and an array of pastels to capture the feeling and colour of the desert flowers, and its natural features surrounding the salt plains of Mina Mina, a salt ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Linen, Acrylic

"G" Acrylic on Paper Piece by Ralph Anderson
Located in London, GB
Ralph Anderson G Acrylic on paper H 30cm x W 42cm
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper, Acrylic

Evening Symphony
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Turkey Dreaming" Aboriginal Acrylic Painting by Lily Hargraves Nungarrayi
Located in London, GB
Lily Hargraves Nungarrayi was driven to record and preserve cultural knowledge and traditions, knowing she was fighting against the power of time and the new impeding culture. She lo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"M 3" Paint, Ink, Graphite, Oil on Paper Piece by Mark Houghton
Located in London, GB
Mark Houghton M 3 Paint, Ink, Graphite, Oil on Paper 68 x 49.5 cm 26 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches Houghton's practice highlights overlooked aspects of the everyd...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paint, Ink, Oil, Graphite

"Purrpalala" Aboriginal Acrylic on Canvas Painting by Biddy Long Yulngarri
Located in London, GB
Biddy Long is a traditional woman bringing years of bush living and travelling to her painting. Her early life was with other Warlpiri on Mt Doreen cattle station when her family was...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

West to East
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An oil on linen canvas painting by contemporary artist Ross Bleckner. "West to East" is an abstract oil painting executed in deep and brilliant orange on a neutral ground...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Miel y Canela
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An artwork by Carlos Luna. "Miel y Canela" is a contemporary painting, gouache and charcoal on amate paper in red, black, and brown by Latin American artist Carlos Luna. The artwork ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache

"Las cosas no son lo que parecen" figurative, abstract, colorful ink painting
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Alejandra España presupposes the development of her language of forms through the creation of symbolic functionalism and allegories that elevates the ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink

Solo Samba
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A mixed media work by Merion Estes. "Solo Samba" is a contemporary abstract, acrylic on canvas in a palette of purples, reds, and yellows by American female artist Merion Estes. The ...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Ango Areoli
Located in Zürich, ZH
Nelio Sonego was born in Switzerland, in Sion, in 1955. He attended and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice with Emilio Vedova, from whom he assimilated the gestural an...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Divine Garden Series #268", Mark Whitmarsh, Contemporary White Flowers, 48x36
Located in Dallas, TX
“As I build layers of color, a personal iconography evolves on the painted surface. I’m interested in a surface that has a rich patina with a modern ancestry. By adding and subtracti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled
By Christian Rosa
Located in Palm Desert, CA
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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Trapped
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A mixed media work by Merion Estes. "Trapped" is a contemporary abstract, fabric collage, acrylic on fabric in a palette of blacks, reds, and yellows by American female artist Merion...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Black Mountains XI - 21st Century, Contemporary, Painting, Mixed Media
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"My work is characterized by forms and lines. The relationship between background and figure is repeated persistently in each of my works. The figure, simple and almost always quadri...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Stones XVIII - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract Painting, Mixed Media
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"My work is characterized by forms and lines. The relationship between background and figure is repeated persistently in each of my works. The figure, simple and almost always quadri...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Stones XXXIV - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract Painting, Mixed Media
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"My work is characterized by forms and lines. The relationship between background and figure is repeated persistently in each of my works. The figure, simple and almost always quadri...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Untitled
By Mary Mitsuda
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract acrylic on wood panel painting executed in deep burgundy, yellow, blue and black by contemporary artist Mary Mitsuda.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

5TH DIMENSIONAL LOVE MACHINE
Located in Marrakech, MA
Acrylic painting on canvas Black exterior frame Signed on the front Framed dimensions: 163x269(x5)cm
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

In Every Way Possible 2
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Udo Nöger aims to bring out the luminescence of paint in his practice. The artist is known for monochromatic gray works that give the impression of emitting light. Nöger achieves thi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

211
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean BIJOUX (XX) 211 Acrylic painting and gold leaf on vellum Signed lower middle H. 27 cm ; L. 18 cm
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Exhale - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract Painting, Gold Leaf
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Oil and gold leaf on canvas Also available as a Diptych with "Inhale". For centuries, artisans and artists have turned to gold leaf as a way to make their creations shimmer and shi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Caïn and Abel II
Located in Paris, IDF
Bruno DESPLANQUES (Born in 1966, France) Caïn and Abel II Painting on wood 120 cm x 90 cm 2021
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paint

Partita 50
Located in Paris, IDF
Bruno DESPLANQUES (Born in 1966, France) Partita 50 Enamelled lava stone 30 cm ; 30 cm 2021
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Stone, Enamel

201
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean BIJOUX (XX) 201 Acrylic painting and gold leaf on vellum Signed lower left H. 21 cm ; L. 19 cm
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Start out by Dreaming
Located in New York, NY
Start out by Dreaming, 2018 Acrylic on canvas 66h x 48w in Vicky Barranguet was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1973. In 1996 she moved to Boston and in 1997 to NY, where she studied...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"The Happy Piano" Contemporary Art, Abstract Expressionist Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Coimbra, PT
JParames is considered one of the most talented and promising Portuguese artists of his generation. Born in Lisbon in 1978, he studied at the National Society of Fine Arts in Lisbon....
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Three Field Collage #2
Located in Fairfield, CT
Category

Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Contemporary Art "The Color Maker"Large Abstract Expressionist Acrilic on Canvas
Located in Coimbra, PT
JParames is considered one of the most talented and promising Portuguese artists of his generation. Born in Lisbon in 1978, he studied at the National Society of Fine Arts in Lisbon....
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

In the middle of the road
Located in Houston, TX
Dana Frankfort In the middle of the road, 2017 oil on canvas over panel 48 x 48 x 1.75 inches For over two decades, Dana Frankfort has explored the vexing periphery between language and sight by painting words. Rather than laying claim to the paintings, controlling their semiotic pulse, her words serve as the formal armature; they prop up, ventilate, and allow the many layers of paint to breathe. Imperatives, allusions, evocations—the words dissolve into a palimpsest of obscured serifs and stems, into color and form. The title of the work is a phrase from a poem by Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s “In the Middle of Road.” Here it is, translated from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Bishop...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel

Ice Rider
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Els Terrats Dels Confinats - 21st Century, Contemporary, Oil Painting, Abstract
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"Tomàs Martínez Sunyol was born in Dieulefit (France) in 1964 and was surrounded by art from a young age. Both his father, Joaquim Martínez Lerma, and uncle, Álvaro Sunyol, were pain...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Patrick Hughes - Hanging on a hook, rainbow, gloss, moon, contemporary, painting
Located in London, GB
Patrick Hughes (b.1939) Hanging on a Hook 1978 gloss paint on board 91 x 91 cm Price: £19,000 GBP Provenance: Private collection, UK (acquired directly from the artist in the late ...
Category

1970s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paint, Board

Chwana
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Original Abstract Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs

Bring audacious experiments with color and textures to your living room, dining room or home office. Abstract paintings, large or small, will stand out in your space, encouraging conversation and introducing a museum-like atmosphere that’s welcoming and conducive to creating memorable gatherings.

Abstract art has origins in 19th-century Europe, but it came into its own as a significant movement during the 20th century. Early practitioners of abstraction included Wassily Kandinsky, although painters were exploring nonfigurative art prior to the influential Russian artist’s efforts, which were inspired by music and religion. Abstract painters endeavored to create works that didn’t focus on the outside world’s conventional subjects, and even when artists depicted realistic subjects, they worked in an abstract mode to do so.

In 1940s-era New York City, a group of painters working in the abstract mode created radical work that looked to European avant-garde artists as well as to the art of ancient cultures, prioritizing improvisation, immediacy and direct personal expression. While they were never formally affiliated with one another, we know them today as Abstract Expressionists.

The male contingent of the Abstract Expressionists, which includes Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, is frequently cited in discussing leading figures of this internationally influential postwar art movement. However, the women of Abstract Expressionism, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and others, were equally involved in the art world of the time. Sexism, family obligations and societal pressures contributed to a long history of their being overlooked, but the female Abstract Expressionists experimented vigorously, developed their own style and produced significant bodies of work.

Draw your guests into abstract oil paintings across different eras and countries of origin. On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive range of abstract paintings along with a guide on how to arrange your wonderful new wall art.

If you’re working with a small living space, a colorful, oversize work can create depth in a given room, but there isn’t any need to overwhelm your interior with a sprawling pièce de résistance. Colorful abstractions of any size can pop against a white wall in your living room, but if you’re working with a colored backdrop, you may wish to stick to colors that complement the decor that is already in the space. Alternatively, let your painting make a statement on its own, regardless of its surroundings, or group it, gallery-style, with other works.

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