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Neo-Expressionist Art

NEO-EXPRESSIONIST STYLE

A resurgence of interest in Expressionism, Pop art, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and other movements gained steam among artists of the 1970s and ’80s, in part as a reaction to the austerity of the prevailing minimalism and Conceptual art of the era. A decadent, bold and brash art style called Neo-Expressionism saw painters returning to figural representation, creating highly textured works that were imbued with intensely personal narratives.

Neo-Expressionist paintings are sensuous in nature and highly subjective in meaning. Expressive brushwork, highly pigmented colors and layered forms and materials lent sculptural attributes to the work and were used to depict symbolic narratives from history, mythology and the artist’s personal experience. 

Prominent figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat led the Neo-Expressionist movement in the United States with paintings and prints that were raw, emotional and often violent in nature. In Germany, Die Neuen Wilden (the “New Fauves”) was the name given to a group of postwar artists that included the likes of sculptor Georg Baselitz and Gerhard Richter, a painter and photographer who explored the possibilities of both abstraction and realism, sometimes in a single piece. The work of the New Fauves — labeled as such for its return to Fauvism’s textured brushwork and use of vibrant colors — shares commonalities with Neo-Expressionism, and Baselitz was a pioneer of the movement in Europe. In addition, Willem de Kooning’s pulsating action paintings and Julian Schnabel’s experimentation with the materiality of paintings also took shape during this period.

“I was trying to make paintings different from the paintings that I saw a lot of at the time, which were mostly minimal, and they were highbrow and alienating, and I wanted to make very direct paintings that most people would feel the emotion behind when they saw them,” said Basquiat. 

Neo-Expressionism generated some polarizing opinions, with some celebrating the revival of personal subjectivity in art while others criticizing the movement for being too commercially driven and nostalgic. But most experts agree that Neo-Expressionism was a huge commercial success and culturally impactful, paving the way for the postmodern work of artists like Richter and Sigmar Polke

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Style: Neo-Expressionist
"Composition in RED" Painting 71" x 59" inch by Vera Kochubey
Located in Culver City, CA
"Composition in RED" Painting 71" x 59" inch by Vera Kochubey * * * SHIPPED: ROLLED CANVAS * * * The majority of Kochubey’s paintings take the form of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

HONEY
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Mixed media on watercolour paper. by artist Daria Kusto The magic flow reality... Shipped well protected, unframed
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Permanent Marker

Hutch Kaleidoscope Fratilery
Located in Denver, CO
This cool-toned work by Hunt Slonem features an often returned to subject for the artist - the butterfly. In this composition, Slonem has created an ethereal and undulating abstract ...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Guardians & Butterflies" Multicolor Background Oil Painting on Canvas w Birds
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Butterflies and Birds. This piece depicts gestural figures of Butterflies and Birds against a multicolor background. ...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Hatch
Located in Denver, CO
This metallic painting by renowned artist Hunt Slonem features a grouping of rabbits. Slonem is known for his work featuring a variety of creatures, birds, butterflies, and rabbits i...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Oil, Canvas

"Rotterdam Field" Tulip on Peach Orange Background Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's newest series, Tulips. This piece depicts a gestural figure of an organ and yellow Tulip on a peach orange background with thick use of pai...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Oil, Wood Panel

"Green Man Trail" Light Green Oil Painting with Diamond Dust Bunnies on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts gestural figures of white bunnies on a light green background with thick use of paint and...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Glass, Resin, Oil, Acrylic

Resin
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a black bunny on white background with diamond dust and thick use of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

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Oil

"Parrot Tulips" Tulips on Light Lavender Background Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's newest series, Tulips. This piece depicts gestural figures of red and yellow Tulips on a light lavender background with thick use of paint....
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Oil, Wood Panel

Meso Painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“My work can be understood through the mind, but it is best felt with the heart, experienced through the emotions, recognized as a manifestation of the spiritual that is born on the ...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Enamel

Landscape, oil on canvas with aluminum frame, sea blue, waves texture
Located in Carballo, ES
Landscape painted by Luis Moscardo, from his series with oil paintings "Land of Storms", in which he paints the waves of the wild sea, the shapes and textures that are generated in i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

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Oil, Cotton Canvas

Marilyn Monroe
Located in Denver, CO
This monotone portrait of famed starlet Marilyn Monroe is by Hunt Slonem. Rendered in shades of red oil paint, recalling Monroe's favored signature lipstick, this work comes directly...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Nocturne Diamond Dust" Bunnies on Black Background with Diamond Dust Painting
Located in New York, NY
A stunning composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts gestural figures of Bunnies against a black diamond dust background. Slonem traces these b...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Glass, Resin, Oil

Midsummer Night Ruby 2
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“My work can be understood through the mind, but it is best felt with the heart, experienced through the emotions, recognized as a manifestation of the spiritual that is born on the ...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Enamel

Untitled
Located in Denver, CO
A rabbit outlined in pigmented blue oil paint is the subject of this painting by Hunt Slonem. This work comes framed in an artist-selected vintage style example, adding character and...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Oil, Canvas

Love is Blue
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“My work can be understood through the mind, but it is best felt with the heart, experienced through the emotions, recognized as a manifestation of the spiritual that is born on the ...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil

LOVE FACE
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Markers & acrylic on paper, 300GR Shipped well protected, unframed I can do commissioned work of any technique, style and size, contact us without obligation i can ship several dra...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Acrylic, Permanent Marker

EMOTIONS
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Oil pastel on paper by artist Daria Kusto Shipped well protected, unframed Curated by Art Reserve & Angel Rivas We can do commissioned work of any technique, style and size, cont...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Permanent Marker

Owen
Located in Natchez, MS
This gorgeous loose portrait of the bon vivant "Owen" is very much in line with Bailey's instantly recognizable style.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Phuket Series #9
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“My work can be understood through the mind, but it is best felt with the heart, experienced through the emotions, recognized as a manifestation of the spiritual that is born on the ...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Wax, Oil

As If You Care
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“My work can be understood through the mind, but it is best felt with the heart, experienced through the emotions, recognized as a manifestation of the spiritual that is born on the ...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Oil

HAPPY PHOENIX
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Markers on paper. by artist Daria Kusto The magic flow reality... Shipped well protected, unframed Curated by Art Reserve & Angel Rivas We can do commissioned work of any technique...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Permanent Marker

"Verso il cielo" by E. Wenk, 2010 - Mixed Media on Canvas, NeoExpressionism
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: " Towards the sky ". Mixed media on canvas.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Mixed Media, Canvas

Orbit
Located in Denver, CO
"Orbit" is a vibrant, large-scale oil painting by Hunt Slonem. The cobalt blue background of the composition offsets large abstract orbs and the forms of white egrets, a graceful bir...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Oil, Canvas

Landscape, oil on canvas with aluminum frame, sea blue, waves texture
Located in Carballo, ES
Landscape painted by Luis Moscardo, from his series with oil paintings "Land of Storms", in which he paints the waves of the wild sea, the shapes and textures that are generated in i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Cotton Canvas

Morgan
Located in Natchez, MS
We are huge fans of this work at the gallery. "Morgan", while very much a wonderful and recognizable example of Bailey's work, incorporates almost a Cubist structure to his often so...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Andy
Located in Natchez, MS
Here Bailey depicts "Andy", from his series of diminutive portraits created in 2020. Andy is a dandy, beautiful and well dressed. Though Bailey paints him in his loose blocked in st...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Royal Tenenbaums
Located in Natchez, MS
Bailey expresses his love for film and popular culture in this representation of a film poster of the cult classic film The Royal Tennenbaums by Wes Anderson. This painting is an abs...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lincoln
Located in Natchez, MS
Bailey works with the iconic figure of a seated, contemplative Lincoln. Working in broad strokes, Clifford Bailey manages to capture the stoic nature o...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tamara
Located in Natchez, MS
"Tamara" is another favorite at the gallery. From the series of diminutive portraits the artist created in 2020, Tamara is an homage to the artist Tamara de Lempicka. While Bailey p...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The American
Located in Natchez, MS
"The American" is certainly not one of Bailey's most flattering portraits, but is is familiar nonetheless. Who hasn't seen this expression in life?
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Abstract Portrait, " Oil Pastel on Paper signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This pastel drawing, 'Abstract Portrait,' demonstrates Reggie K Gee's love of color and love of abstraction. In the image, the form of a head is marked by a black contour; however, a...
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1990s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Oil Pastel

"Magicians Dream" Painting 71" x 59" inch by Vera Kochubey
Located in Culver City, CA
"Magicians Dream" Painting 71" x 59" inch by Vera Kochubey * * * SHIPPED: ROLLED CANVAS * * * The majority of Kochubey’s paintings take the form of hea...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Columbia
Located in Natchez, MS
Again, expressing a love for film and popular culture, Bailey creates a stunning work based on the Columbia Pictures logo.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The General
Located in Natchez, MS
Clifford Bailey paints "The General" in the loose yet kinetically charged style he is best known for. One can see The General's visage appear in large...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ecstasy: Contemporary Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
This painting from Sax Berlin's studio overlooking the wild Atlantic Ocean captures the essence of ecstasy. It's imbued with the hot sense of the urgency and frenetic energy of New Y...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

Landscape, oil on canvas with aluminum frame, sea blue, waves texture
Located in Carballo, ES
Landscape painted by Luis Moscardo, from his series with oil paintings "Land of Storms", in which he paints the waves of the wild sea, the shapes and textures that are generated in i...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Giancarlo
Located in Natchez, MS
Buttoned up and serious, "Giancarlo" peers directly into the viewers eyes unflinching. An excellent and instantly recognizable example of Bailey's work.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Thought I Wasn't Enough
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
I would always seek validation on every little thing. Validation to take the simplest action and most times the response breaks me even more. I realized to be confident in one’s body I had to work on my mind because the mind controls...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

The Student
Located in Natchez, MS
"The Student", handsome and self possessed. Another beautiful example of Bailey's portraiture.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Paramount
Located in Natchez, MS
A tribute to the artist's love of film and popular culture. Bailey creates a work based on the Paramount Pictures logo.
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

BIRD'S -EYE VIEW
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Mixed media on watercolour paper. by artist Daria Kusto The magic flow reality... Shipped well protected, unframed Curated by Art Reserve & Angel Rivas We can do commissioned work...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Permanent Marker

Helen
Located in Natchez, MS
"Helen" is from an interesting group of diminutive portraits created by Bailey in and around 2020. She appears as a Victorian portrait of an ancestor.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Glinda
Located in Natchez, MS
Bailey celebrates his love of film and popular culture in this portrait of Glinda the Good Witch from the Wizard of Oz.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

American Neo Expressionist "Wild Horses" Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Robert Beauchamp (1923 – March 1995) was an American figurative painter and arts educator. Beauchamp's paintings and drawings are known for depicting dramatic creatures and figures with expressionistic colors. His work was described in the New York Times as being "both frightening and amusing,". He was a Guggenheim Fellow and a student of Hans Hofmann. Robert Beauchamp was born in Denver, Colorado in 1923. He had three brothers and three sisters, and the children were orphaned by both parents by the time Beauchamp was three. The family grew up impoverished due to the Great Depression, living in a community house with other families. As a child he dabbled in art but it wasn't until high school that he began taking art classes. When not creating art he also played sports; football and basketball, and enjoyed chemistry and geology. He was told he was good at drawing, and replaced study hall classes with art classes, receiving instruction and inspiration from a Welsh teacher named R. Idris Thomas. While in high school Beauchamp would go, every Monday, to the public library and a local museum where he would read books about art; specifically French painting, as assigned by Thomas. Beauchamp absorbed the tenets of European Modernism and American Abstract Expressionism—with which he eventually broke. While abstraction, with its focus on color and form, underlies his compositions, he filled canvas and paper with psychologically acute portraits of himself and others, nudes, animals, and objects of all kinds. Beauchamp would spend upwards of four hours a day in the art room and eventually won the Carter Memorial Prize, which provided a scholarship to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. At Colorado Springs he studied under Boardman Robinson, painting landscapes in nature. Beauchamp eventually joined the Navy and then returned to Colorado Springs to continue his studies. Traveling the world as an Armed Guard, he spent a year and a half at sea and the rest of the three years in San Francisco. Seeking to make money, and to follow his love for a girl, Beauchamp decided to attend Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1947–1948. There he studied pottery, believing one could "make more money selling pots than you could selling paintings." He described his experience at Cranbrook as intimidating and claustrophobic, and eventually switched to sculpture before switching to painting. Beauchamp moved to New York City in the early 1950s and was involved in the Tenth Street galleries, which provided outlets for more experimental artists and the second generation of abstract expressionists. Despite his involvement with 10th Street and friendships with abstract artists, abstract art never interested in him. He showed at numerous galleries in New York and Provincetown, socializing with gallery owners, artists and collectors. His first exhibition was at the Tanager Gallery in New York, he also showed during the 1950s at the Hansa Gallery. In New York and Provincetown he studied under Hans Hofmann Eventually he felt that abstract expressionism became dull and stalemated. During the 1960s he showed at the Green Gallery. C. 1960 he was awarded a Fulbright Award allowing him to travel to La Romola, Italy. He traveled frequently to cities such as Rome and worked constantly. Beauchamp returned to the states and lived in Provincetown at Walter Gutman's house, who awarded Beauchamp a grant. That year he met his future wife, Nadine Valenti, whom he married in 1967. Beauchamp taught at a variety of schools during his lifetime including Brooklyn College, School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union and the Art Students League of New York during the last fifteen years of his life. Beauchamp described his drawings as painterly, seeking the spontaneity in an image. He would develop a drawing then a painting, and vice versa. His heavily impastoed paintings, often described as sculptures themselves, came from the pouring of paint from a can, with little planning and constant evolution in the medium upon the canvas. He preferred little planning to his creations, believing that an artists work would become stale and repetitive with constant planning. He also created large scale works, at times 70 inches long. Beauchamp had little intention of ever selling his large works, preferring to create them due to the slow and intense experience he received from the process. The large drawings he created on the floor, and the smaller works were created on a table. Paintings were created on either the floor or wall and he described his painting process as "splattering", "pushing the paint around," and sponging. Animals often appear in his paintings, despite a dislike for domestic animals outside of his artistic creations. He called the characters in his paintings as Beauchamps. Some Beauchamps hold meaning, with Beauchamp rarely sharing the meaning behind the symbols and characters. He made up the creatures himself, seeking to emphasize the character of each. In 2006 the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Visual & Performing Arts hosted an exhibition of Beauchamp's pieces from the 1960s, curators stated that Beauchamp's work: "effortlessly blends innovative style elements with narrative, descriptive images. One senses equal enjoyment in the manipulation of, and interaction with, color and paint, and the often sudden and unexpected presence of a wasp or a lump of sugar." included in the important exhibit "Twelve New York Painters." New York: David Findlay Jr. Fine Art with Mary Abbott, Alcopley, Robert Beauchamp, Byron Browne, Charles Cajori, Jim Forsberg, Carl Heidenreich, Angelo Ippolito, Emily Mason, Robert Natkin, Robert Richenburg and Nina Tryggvadottir...
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20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

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Paper, Oil

Wooster
Located in Natchez, MS
"Wooster" is another from Bailey's series of diminutive portraits created in 2020.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Young Foote
Located in Natchez, MS
"Young Foote" is a portrait of one of the artist's professors as a young man. Clearly Bailey has warm feelings for the teacher; the painting is soft and kind to the viewer's eye. As...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Cameo Profile
Located in Natchez, MS
"Cameo Profile" is exactly that a cameo with the subject in profile. From the series of diminutive portraits Bailey created during 2020.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Estelle
Located in Natchez, MS
"Estelle" is an example of the diminutive portraits Bailey created in 2020. Whereas most of his subjects seem tightly pulled together in their dress, "Estelle" is free, a bohemian pe...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Madame Lee
Located in Natchez, MS
"Madame Lee" is the portrait of a beautiful woman from a bygone era. From his series of diminutive portraits created in 2020. Bailey is gifted in that he is able to portray his subj...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Ocelots Blue Pearls
Located in Denver, CO
This vibrant grouping of ocelots on a pink background is a special work by artist Hunt Slonem. Each rendered with unique and loving detail, the felines stand out against a bubblegum ...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Hibiscus Hummingbirds Havan - Oil Painting by Hunt Slonem
Located in Denver, CO
Green hummingbirds flit amongst red blossoms in this oil painting by artist Hunt Slonem. The delicate avian creatures are so small they seem to blend in with the surrounding flora, c...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Chinensis Light
Located in Denver, CO
"Chinensis Light" sees artist Hunt Slonem return to a favored subject - the rabbit. A gaggle of the long-eared creatures crowds into the frame, rendered in stylized black lines on an...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

July 18
Located in Denver, CO
This large scale still life by artist Hunt Slonem features dozens of one of the worlds smallest avian creatures - the hummingbird. Rendered in gestural green oil paint and accompanie...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Golden Equality 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"The Golden Equality" is the first pair from the series of Abfillage works referred to as "Renegades of a breaking nation". The distorted afro hair pattern, the symbol, and the expre...
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21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

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Acrylic, Wood Panel, Newsprint

Warning Code Red ! Contemporary Neo Expressionist Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Primary, rich red defines this painting, yet the face is so magnetic. Berlin is hugely conscious of the environment and these highly immediate works are his way of trying to draw att...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

"White Gold Mortality". Contemporary Mixed Media Figurative Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
A stark and powerful painting, it immediately attracts attention. Berlin has revisited the skull motif in this piece of Neo-Expressionist art to sublime effect. The painting is a mas...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Passion
Located in Denver, CO
A trio of floppy eared rabbits is the subject of this lively oil portrait by Hunt Slonem. A favored subject of the famed Neo-expressionist artist, rabbits are signifiers of luck, pla...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Neo-expressionist art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Neo-Expressionist art 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 art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Hunt Slonem, Enzio Wenk, Sax Berlin, and Jean Sanglar. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Acrylic 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 Neo-Expressionist art, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for art 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 $39 and tops out at $215,000, while the average work sells for $3,444.

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