Abstract Art for Sale

Abstract art spans genres, from the nude to the natural landscape. Find inspiration in these abstract compositions, and discover the perfect abstract photographs for your space!

NYC Penguins - Part II

Robert Jahns

from £ 429 to £ 929

THE SECRET II

Joe Mcdermott

from £ 699 to £ 1,499

Beauty

Alexander Straulino | Trunk Archive

£ 1,999

Bubble Lips

Alexander Straulino | Trunk Archive

from £ 699 to £ 1,299

Enlightment

Andrew Bordwin

from £ 749 to £ 1,299

£ 599

from £ 749 to £ 1,299

Crown Cranes Explore New Terrain

Pat Swain

from £ 399 to £ 1,399

Tsunami

Andrew Bordwin

from £ 749 to £ 1,299

£ 1,499

£ 1,999

from £ 549 to £ 1,199

Bowie

Richard Brandao

from £ 899 to £ 1,199

£ 1,199

CITIZENS' INVESTIGATION

£ 949

£ 239

£ 239

from £ 269 to £ 899

Anti-pop Andy

Loui Jover

from £ 259 to £ 349

£ 349

£ 179

£ 98

from £ 999 to £ 1,699

Venice

Anne - Laure Maison

from £ 999 to £ 1,699

New York

Anne - Laure Maison

from £ 999 to £ 1,699

The 2nd day of summer

Ania Luk

£ 239

Oranges are not the only Fruit

£ 1,599

from £ 899 to £ 1,599

Bauhaus Dessau III

Sabine Wild

from £ 549 to £ 1,999

Etude Pour Un Apres Midi 02

£ 649

£ 1,199

£ 599

£ 549

from £ 649 to £ 1,099

New Yorker

Sandra Rauch

from £ 649 to £ 1,999

Kate

Renaud Delorme

from £ 1,699 to £ 3,790

Your Head is Full of Birdies

Peperina Magenta

Ohne Titel (Version Grün)

A.r. Penck

Ohne Titel (Version Rot)

A.r. Penck

Fright Wig (Red)

Gavin Turk

Remix, Rute (Version Rot/Gelb)

Georg Baselitz

Obey Lotus Crescent (White & Gold)

Shepard Fairey

Remix, Hirte (Version Rot/Gelb)

Georg Baselitz

Remix, Mantel (Version Rot/Gelb)

Georg Baselitz

Elke VII

Georg Baselitz

Remix, Partisan (Version Rot/Gelb)

Georg Baselitz

Remix, Haus (Version Rot/Gelb)

Georg Baselitz

Elke VIII

Georg Baselitz

Boudoir Reflection II

Obey Lotus Diamond (Black & Gold)

Shepard Fairey

Mylan's Wave

Matthew Cusick

£ 4,490

Fjallkonan, (mountain woman)

Kate Shaw

£ 1,199

Demon

Jean - Michel Basquiat

from £ 499 to £ 1,599

Union Jack and Jill

Derek Gores

from £ 349 to £ 799

£ 1,299

from £ 799 to £ 2,690

Good Traffic in Shibuya

Sandra Rauch

from £ 749 to £ 1,399

£ 1,999

from £ 549 to £ 1,099

Antoinette Home

Olaf Hajek

from £ 499 to £ 799

Barranco del Rey 33

Gerhard Mantz

from £ 549 to £ 1,049

Barranco del Arena 37

Gerhard Mantz

from £ 499 to £ 999

Barranco del Fuente 57

Gerhard Mantz

from £ 499 to £ 999

An Introduction to Abstract Art

From surrealism and futurism to abstract expressionism, the call to abstraction has been one of the animating imperatives of modern art. The roots of abstract art lie in late 19th century painting. Impressionist art began to seek out what artists like Claude Monet and Edgar Degas considered more faithful representations of the natural world. Artists of Expressionism also pursued a reality beyond the real, but did so by attempting to focus on and portray inner experience. In the period between the two World Wars, Surrealism took rise as a current which used a mixed pallette of realistic and magical representation, in order to elucidate that in the real world which pointed to something beyond.

The agenda of pursuing a distinctly abstract, or "non-objective" art, began contemporaneously in Europe and Russia. In Europe, avant gardists like Picasso and Piet Mondrian explored new techniques and philosophies, driven by concerns which drifted increasingly away from realism. In Russia, Wladimir Kandinsky and then Kazimir Malevich propagated powerful variants of "spiritualist" ideology, understanding the artist as a something like a demiurge, and conceiving of color and line as possessing extranatural qualities. For them, art was a vehicle to spiritual or social truth, and for its attainment in the hands of the artist. For these artists, the non-objective quality of their efforts denoted the pursuit of "realities" which were unlike the naturally given real. In their famous paintings and drawings, color, form, and line opened onto new and previously unexplored (or created) realities.

Throughout the 20th century, abstract art has been a seminal force in painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture. In the mid-20th century, abstract expressionism took off in the United States as a profoundly new movement, radicalizing and popularizing some of the fundamental ideas of abstract painters and modernist theorists. Artists like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko created abstract paintings which were meant to be reflect the artist's physical movements, rather than the strict product of a preintended blueprint for executing the artwork. It combined the abstract as a technique of representation with expressionism as a philosophy of showing the inside on the outside.

By the mid 1960's, the authority of abstract expressionism gave way to new movements, which were centered on the decorative, functional, and social aspects of art. Transitional movements like Pop Art and neo-expressionism, with transitional figures like Robert Rauschenberg, Alex Katz, and Keith Haring led the way from art as concerned with theory and method to art as concerned with life and society.

Movements like minimalist art privileged abstract and geometrical representations above all, eschewing all superfluous and representational elements. Mid century modern art in furniture, architecture, household wares, painting, and photography pushed above all for pragmatism and economy in artistic production.

Many artists in the LUMAS exemplify the influence of abstract art, both as succeeding historical movements in the 20th century, as as a basic impulse in their creations. Artist Kate Shaw's colorful abstract landscapes, as well as the scenes by Sun Yuong Byun, show the influence of Expressionism in their bold use of color. The pulsating colors of Beatrice Hug are highly reminiscent of Rothko's Color Field Painting, in which he took color as itself a canvas and subject matter for expressionist imperatives. Explore their work, and art by a number of other famous artists in the LUMAS portfolio!

Buying and Collecting Abstract Art

Artist, theme, genre, size, year - all these play crucial roles in determining the value and collectibility of an artwork. But who determines worth, and who can guarantee a harmony between artworld trends and our decorative needs? This is where both art buyers and sellers come to rely on the experts.

This is perhaps truer in the case of abstract art than in any other genre. What to any one of us may appear as undirected circuits of line and applications of color may appear to yet another as the dialectical endpoint of long struggles with human suffering and the very question of representation in art. One person's undirected smattering of paint is another's profound representation of the Epicurean "swerve": the aleatory, or chance, element of reality.

This is where the LUMAS curators step in. Located in the center of the European artworld, in hip Berlin, we are widely recognized as an authority on art collectibility, especially at the nexus of fine art and interior design. Our curators source beautiful abstract art that is popular and collectible. But they do you one better: they are also looking out for your home, your walls, your space. We sell artwork that is not just valuable in itself, but which also has the potential to harmonize well with your home, or to otherwise uplift, inspire, or provoke you.

Explore Abstract Art by Color

Black and White Abstract Art

Colorful Abstract Art

Abstract Art for Sale

An Introduction to Abstract Art

Buying and Collecting Abstract Art

Explore Abstract Art by Color

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