Op Art
OP ART STYLE
The Op art movement emerged in the 1960s, mirroring the counterculture of the time in its embrace of visual trickery, graphic shapes and bright colors.
Spreading across Europe and the Americas, the style — whose name is short for “optical art” — influenced advertising, fashion and interior design before fading in the early ’70s.
Op art remained significant, however, for artists and scientists interested in the nature of perception. And today, it’s seeing a resurgence of interest from collectors and interior designers.
Op artists played with the principles of perception, manipulating line, shape, patterns and color to create the illusion of depth and movement. They drew on and evolved methods developed by past movements, from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism, to produce intense visual experiences.
All the Op artists shared a focus on the gap between what is and what we perceive. Each, however, had a distinct approach to the issue and a unique visual style.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of Op art that includes works by Josef Albers, Bridget Riley, Jesús Rafael Soto and more.
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Style: Op Art
Faces of Dali #4
Located in Greenwich, CT
Faces of Dalí #4 is a serigraph on paper with an image size of 25 x 17 inches, signed 'Yvaral' lower right and numbered 160/200 lower left. From the edition of 263 (there were also 2...
Category
20th Century Op Art
Materials
Screen, Paper
VICTOR VASARELY - OEUVRES PROFONDES CINETIQUES - 1973
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Victor Vasarely
Title: Profound Works
Year: 1973
Not signed or numbered, as published
Dimensions: 12 in. by 12 in. Framed
Edition: From the Rare Limited Edition
Publisher: Ed...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Progressions (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Progressions I, 1972. Published and printed by Édition...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Sequential Chroma, Julian Stanczak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Julian Stanczak (1928-2017)
Title: Sequential Chroma
Year: 1978
Edition: 2/175, plus proofs
Medium: Silkscreen on Somerset paper
Size: 30.25 x 25.75 inches
Condition: Good
In...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Progressions (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Progressions I, 1972. Published and printed by Édition...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, PLANETARY (Joray 197) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Gelatin Print on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Referenc...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Veiled (from Twelve Progressions), Julian Stanczak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Julian Stanczak (1928-2017)
Title: Veiled (from Twelve Progressions)
Year: 1971
Edition: 53/90, plus proofs
Medium: Three color silkscreen on Fabriano paper
Size: 32.25 x 26 ...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, KEZDI - VEGA (Joray 149-151) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Gelatin Print on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Referenc...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vasarely, Composition, VONAL (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Trespass, Julian Stanczak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Julian Stanczak (1928-2017)
Title: Trespass
Year: 1979
Edition: 106/175, plus proofs
Medium: Silkscreen on Somerset paper
Size: 26.75 x 22.5 inches
Condition: Good
Inscriptio...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
VICTOR VASARELY - OEUVRES PROFONDES CINETIQUES VIII - 1973
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Victor Vasarely
Title: Profound Works VIII
Year: 1973
Not signed or numbered, as published
Dimensions: 12 in. by 12 in. Framed
Edition: From the Rare Limited Edition
Publisher: Editions du Griffon Neuchatel
Suite: Profound Works
Medium: 3D, Serigraph on Acitate Over Serigraph on Paper
Condition: Excellent
Victor Vasarely (French/Hungarian, 1906–1997) is known as the father of the Op Art movement. As a painter, he created intricate abstractions that suggested depth and dimensionality using a variety of optical illusions, with surfaces seeming to bulge out of the canvas. His works present color, form, and pattern as a single interconnected element—a concept that was critical to the foundation of the Op Art movement and the focus of his mature works.
Vasarely initially studied medicine at the Budapest University in his early 20s, only to abandon his medical studies to attend to the Muhely Academy, the center of the Bauhaus movement in Budapest. While there, he was profoundly influenced by the work of color theorist and artist Josef Albers, as well as the Constructivist methods promoted by artists such as Wassily Kandinsky. While Vasarely’s earlier work was concerned more with color theory, during the 1950s and 1960s his work became more focused on the optical potential of the two-dimensional surface. He began to use complex and colorful patterns to actively engage the viewer’s eye, and to convey a sense of kinetic energy across the two-dimensional surface.
Vasarely’s work was heavily influenced by his time spent at Breton Beach of Belle Isle...
Category
1990s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Untitled #1, 1964 from New York Ten
By Mon Levinson
Located in New York, NY
This dynamic work was realized by the esteemed 20th Century modern artist Mon Levinson in 1964. The work was realized in 1964, and printed in 1965 by Chiron Press in New York- the same year that Levinson was included in the seminal Op-Art exhibition "The Responsive Eye", alongside contemporary luminaries such as Bridget Riley. An identical work from this edition resides in the permanent collection of the New York MoMA. This mixed media work consists of an translucent vinyl sheet layered over a print- part etching, part lithograph. The clear vinyl sheet is embossed with a tight pattern of sinuously curved repeating black lines and is subtly raised in places- creating a subtle three dimensionality and dynamic sense of movement. The paper is inscribed with the same recurring pattern of snaking black lines, like a fine filigree, with two weighty black geometric forms that appear to crowd the composition. Smaller geometric forms reside within creating the apparition of negative space in the bone hued paper. The juxtaposition of the delicate texture and colossal feeling forms imbues the piece with a stunning dynamism and tension, helping to explain why Levinson is among the most influential and important artist to come out of the Op Art movement. His work is in the permanent collections of important institutions around the world including the Museum of Modern Art as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Signed by the artist and marked 18/200. The work comes presented in a custom walnut and white gilt frame...
Category
1960s Op Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Five Visual Orchestrations, Yaacov Agam
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Yaakov Agam (1928)
Title: Five Visual Orchestrations
Year: 1990
Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper
Edition: 12/72, plus proofs
Size: 30.25 x 42 inches
Condition: Good
Inscrip...
Category
1980s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Graphismes III (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on archival thick-stock gloss paper. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Graphismes III, 1977. Published and printed by Éditions du Griffon, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 197...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, VEGA (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Graphismes II (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
VICTOR VASARELY - OEUVRES PROFONDES CINETIQUES III - 1973
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Victor Vasarely
Title: Profound Works III
Year: 1973
Not signed or numbered, as published
Dimensions: 12 in. by 12 in. Framed
Edition: From the Rare Limited Edition
Publisher...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, TORONY (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Offset Lithograph on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Note...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Offset
Vasarely, Composition, Structures universelles de l'Octogone (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, VEGA (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, VEGA - BI - ARCT (Joray 155) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Gelatin Print on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Referenc...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vasarely, Composition, Ondulatoires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, FENY (Joray 160) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Offset Lithograph on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Refe...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Offset
Vasarely, VP - RB (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Offset Lithograph on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Note...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Offset
Vasarely, Composition, Progressions (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Progressions III, 1972. Published and printed by Éditi...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Oeuvres profondes cinétiques (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, VONAL (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, DELL - 3 (Joray 163) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Offset Lithograph on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Refe...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Offset
Vasarely, Composition, VONAL (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on archival thick-stock gloss paper. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, VONAL III, 1976 Published and printed by Éditions du Griffon, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1976.
VI...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, QUASAR - 2 (Joray 83) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Gelatin Print on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Referenc...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vasarely, Composition, Oeuvres profondes cinétiques (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Graphismes III (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, VONAL (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on archival thick-stock gloss paper. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, VONAL III, 1976 Published and printed by Éditions du Griffon, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1976.
VI...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Ondulatoires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Corpusculaires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Corpusculaires, 1973. Published and printed by Édition...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, HAT- LEG (Joray 189; 191) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Offset Lithograph on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Refe...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Offset
Vasarely, Composition, Folklore planétaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, CTA 102 (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, VONAL (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on archival thick-stock gloss paper. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, VONAL III, 1976 Published and printed by Éditions du Griffon, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1976.
VI...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, CTA 102 (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Progressions (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Progressions I, 1972. Published and printed by Édition...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Graphismes II (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Silkscreen on archival thick-stock gloss paper. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Graphismes II, 1977. Published and printed by Éditions du Griffon, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1977...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Oeuvres profondes cinétiques (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Graphismes II (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Hommage à l'Hexagone (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Structures universelles de l'Hexagone (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, CTA 102 (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Swiss Artist Large Color Symphony Silkscreen Serigraph Print Kinetic Op Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and numbered from edition of 90
Jakob Weder, (Switzerland, 1906-1990) Swiss color/music kinetic artist. known for his oil and tempera painting ...
Category
20th Century Op Art
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Vasarely, Composition, VEGA (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Ondulatoires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Croisées (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Croisées, 1973. Published and printed by Éditions du G...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Progressions (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Extracted from the folio, Progressions I, 1972. Published and printed by Édition...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Ondulatoires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Ondulatoires (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Tiefenbilder (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on mylar and paperboard. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Not...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Mylar, Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Graphismes III (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Êtres et Fantômes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Vasarely, Composition, Folklore planétaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Heliogravure on archival paper. Excellent condition with publisher’s text on verso, as issued; never framed or matted. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: Fr...
Category
1970s Op Art
Materials
Screen
Op Art art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Op 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, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Victor Vasarely, Roy Ahlgren, Victor Debach, and Yaacov Agam. Frequently made by artists working with Screen Print, 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 Op Art, so small editions measuring 2 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 $66 and tops out at $350,000, while the average work sells for $1,616.