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The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Visage
Located in New York, NY
An early and stunningly beautiful hand-painted ceramic bowl created by Picasso in 1955, Visage measures 5 inches (12.8 cm) in diameter and is Inscribed 'Edition Picasso/Madoura' (bot...
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20th Century Modern More Art

Materials

Ceramic, Earthenware

Calder - Rare Book illustrated by Alexander Calder - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Catalogue of the exhibition of Alexander Calder held at the Palazzo a Vela in Turin from 2 July to 25 September 1983. Richly illustrated in b/w and color. In-4º, in Italian, pp. 25...
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1980s Modern More Art

Materials

Paper

Very Large Hand Woven Wool Tapestry "Boulders II" River Stones
By Julia Mitchell
Located in Surfside, FL
Julia Mitchell Wool on Linen Tapestry, Boulders II Signed and dated JM 82 Julia Mitchell’s Biography Julia grew up in a family of artists, adopting tap...
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20th Century Modern More Art

Materials

Wool, Linen

Pickaxe (Spitzhacke) Superimposed on a Drawing of the Site by E.L. Grimm
Located in Missouri, MO
Pickaxe (Spitzhacke) Superimposed on a Drawing of the Site by E.L. Grimm, 1982 By Claes Oldenburg (Swedish, American, 1929-2022) Unframed: 26" x 20" Framed: 28.75" x 22.75" Signed and Dated Lower Right Whimsical sculpture of pop culture objects, many of them large and out-of-doors, is the signature work of Swedish-born Claes Oldenburg who became one of America's leading Pop Artists. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. His father was a diplomat, and during Claes' childhood moved his family from Stockholm to a variety of locations including Chicago where the father was general consul of Sweden and where Oldenburg spent most of his childhood. He attended the Latin School of Chicago, and then Yale University where he studied literature and art history, graduating in 1950, the same year Claes became an American citizen. Returning to Chicago, he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1952 to 1954 and also worked as a reporter at the City News Bureau. He opened his own studio, and in 1953, some of his satirical drawings were included in his first group show at the Club St. Elmo, Chicago. He also painted at the Oxbow School of Painting in Michigan. In 1956, he moved to New York where he drew and painted while working as a clerk in the art libraries of Cooper-Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. Selling his first artworks during this time, he earned 25 dollars for five pieces. Oldenburg became friends with numerous artists including Jim Dine, Red Grooms and Allan Kaprow, who with his "Happenings" was especially influential on Oldenburg's interest in environmental art. Another growing interest was soft sculpture, and in 1957, he created a piece later titled Sausage, a free-hanging woman's stocking stuffed with newspaper. In 1959, he had his first one-man show, held at the Judson Gallery at Washington Square. He exhibited wood and newspaper sculpture and painted papier-mache objects. Some viewers of the exhibit commented how refreshing Oldenburg's pieces were in contrast to the Abstract Expressionism, a style which much dominated the art world. During this time, he was influenced by the whimsical work of French artist, Bernard Buffet, and he experimented with materials and images of the junk-filled streets of New York. In 1960, Oldenburg created his first Pop-Art Environments and Happenings in a mock store full of plaster objects. He also did Performances with a cast of colleagues including artists Lucas Samaras, Tom Wesselman, Carolee Schneemann, Oyvind Fahlstrom and Richard Artschwager, dealer Annina Nosei, critic Barbara Rose, and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer. His first wife (1960-1970) Pat Muschinski, who sewed many of his early soft sculptures, was a constant performer in his Happenings. This brash, often humorous, approach to art was at great odds with the prevailing sensibility that, by its nature, art dealt with "profound" expressions or ideas. In December 1961, he rented a store on Manhattan's Lower East Side to house "The Store," a month-long installation he had first presented at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York. This installation was stocked with sculptures roughly in the form of consumer goods. Oldenburg moved to Los Angeles in 1963 "because it was the most opposite thing to New York I could think of". That same year, he conceived AUT OBO DYS, performed in the parking lot of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in December 1963. In 1965 he turned his attention to drawings and projects for imaginary outdoor monuments. Initially these monuments took the form of small collages such as a crayon image of a fat, fuzzy teddy bear looming over the grassy fields of New York's Central Park (1965) and Lipsticks in Piccadilly Circus, London (1966). Oldenburg realized his first outdoor public monument in 1967; Placid Civic Monument took the form of a Conceptual performance/action behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with a crew of gravediggers digging a 6-by-3-foot rectangular hole in the ground. Many of Oldenburg's large-scale sculptures of mundane objects elicited public ridicule before being embraced as whimsical, insightful, and fun additions to public outdoor art. From the early 1970s Oldenburg concentrated almost exclusively on public commissions. Between 1969 and 1977 Oldenburg had been in a relationship with Hannah Wilke, feminist artist, but in 1977 he married Coosje van Bruggen, a Dutch-American writer and art historian who became collaborator with him on his artwork. He had met her in 1970, when she curated an exhibition for him at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Their first collaboration came when Oldenburg was commissioned to rework Trowel I, a 1971 sculpture of an oversize garden tool, for the grounds of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands. Oldenburg has officially signed all the work he has done since 1981 with both his own name and van Bruggen's. In 1988, the two created the iconic Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota that remains a staple of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden as well as a classic image of the city. Typewriter Eraser...
Category

20th Century Modern More Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint, Photogravure

Brutalist Metal Wall Sculpture Entitled "Saturn Rings" by Silas Seandel
Located in New York, NY
This stunning brutalist wall sculpture, entitled "Saturn Rings" was realized by the esteemed multidisciplinary artist and furniture maker Silas Seandel in the United States Circa 198...
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1980s Modern More Art

Materials

Brass

PRIDE GLITTER CHAIR WITH OTTOMAN I (One Of a Kind Functional Art)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**ANNUAL SUPER SALE UNTIL Feb 29TH. ONLY** **THIS PRICE WON'T BE REPEATED AGAIN THIS YEAR - TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT** PRIDE GLITTER CHAIR I Collection is a limited edition of only 5 ch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern More Art

Materials

Resin, Fiberglass, Glue, Glitter, Acrylic

HARD CANDY GLITTER CHAIR WITH OTTOMAN I (One Of a Kind Functional Art)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
**ANNUAL SUPER SALE UNTIL Feb 29TH. ONLY** **THIS PRICE WON'T BE REPEATED AGAIN THIS YEAR - TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT** HARD CANDY GLITTER CHAIR I Collection is a limited edition of only...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern More Art

Materials

Resin, Fiberglass, Glue, Glitter, Acrylic

Miro Engravings Volume II Plate I
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Original lithograph in colors from the unsigned edition included in Miro Lithographs Volume I. Published by Mourlot, Paris. Reference Mourlot 857.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern More Art

Materials

Lithograph

Miro Lithographs Volume I Plate X
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Original lithograph in colors from the unsigned edition included in Miro Lithographs Volume I. Published by Mourlot, Paris. Reference Mourlot 857.
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern More Art

Materials

Lithograph

Miro Lithographs Volume II Plate X
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Original lithograph in colors from the unsigned edition included in Miro Lithographs Volume I. Published by Mourlot, Paris. Reference Mourlot 857.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern More Art

Materials

Lithograph

Miro Engravings Volume II Plate II
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Original lithograph in colors from the unsigned edition included in Miro Lithographs Volume I. Published by Mourlot, Paris. Reference Mourlot 857.
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern More Art

Materials

Lithograph

Plate VI from Espriu
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Plate VI from the portfolio of nine works to illustrate Poems by Salvador Espriu. Published by Sala Gaspar, Barcelona in 1975 and printed by J.J. Torralba, Rubi (Barcelona). Signed...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern More Art

Materials

Engraving, Etching, Aquatint

Jazz Players
Located in Missouri, MO
Jazz Players by Bill Hinz (1920-2009) Signature in Textile Bottom Left Unframed: 41.5" x 64" Framed: 42.5" x 64.75" Unique Piece made entirely out of a s...
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20th Century Modern More Art

Materials

Textile

Zille’s Hausschatz - Illustrated book by Heinrich Zille - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Zille’s Hausschatz is an original modern rare book illustrated by Heinrich Zille (Radeburg, 10 January 1858 - Berlin, 9 August 1929) in 1931. Original ...
Category

1930s Modern More Art

Materials

Paper, Photogravure

Correspondence by Theodor Fr. Heyse - 1836
Located in Roma, IT
Correspondence consisting of six autograph letters signed and all dated 1836 by the German classical philologist and writer Theodor Fr. Heyse. Heyse addresses Benedetto Monti in Tiv...
Category

1830s Modern More Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Autograph Letter by Reynaldo Hahn - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph letter signed “R. Hahn” and postmarked “29-10-1931” by the Venezuelan-born French composer and critic Reynaldo Hahn (Caracas, 1874 - Paris, 1947). Hahn writes to Maurice D...
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1930s Modern More Art

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Paper, Ink

Autograph Letter by Jorge Guillén - Original Manuscript - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph letter signed and dated Ronchi 24 Julio 1961 by Jorge Guillén (Valladolid, 1893 - Málaga, 1984). Jorge Guillén was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '27 and professor at Wellesley College...
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Mid-20th Century Modern More Art

Materials

Paper

Autograph Letter by Francois Mauriac - Original Manuscript - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Autograph letter signed, not dated [postmarked 18 12 1954] by the French writer Francois Mauriac (Bordeaux, 1885 - Paris, 1970). Francois Mauriac was awarded the Nobel Prize for Lit...
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Mid-20th Century Modern More Art

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Paper, Ink

Twelve Pattern Plate
Located in Kansas City, MO
Rachel Hubbard Kline Twelve Pattern Plate Medium: Stoneware, underglaze, glaze Year: 2021 Size: 1 1/2" x 8" x 8" Description: Wheel-thrown plate with hand-painted textile pattern -...
Category

2010s Modern More Art

Materials

Glaze, Underglaze, Stoneware

Brown 10 Petal Plate
Located in Kansas City, MO
Rachel Hubbard Kline Brown 10 Petal Plate Medium: Stoneware, underglaze, glaze Year: 2021 Size: 1 1/4" x 7 3/4" x 7 3/4" Description: Wheel-thrown plate wi...
Category

2010s Modern More Art

Materials

Stoneware, Glaze, Underglaze

Museum Quality Shino platter by Warren MacKenzie
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Warren MacKenzie Finger Swiped Shino Platter approx 3.5 x 19.75 x 19.75" Stoneware and glaze date unknown Possibly stamped under the glaze but cannot see the MA mark.
Category

1990s Modern More Art

Materials

Stoneware, Glaze

Lozenge with Dancer and Hind
Located in Missouri, MO
Lozenge with Dancer and Hind (#620, Ramie) Red Earthenware Clay Edition Madoura Picasso, 93/500 (Verso)
Category

1970s Modern More Art

Materials

Ceramic

Little-Headed Pitcher (R.222)
Located in Missouri, MO
Turned Pitcher Edition of 300 A.R. White Earthenware Clay, Oxidized Paraffin Decoration, White Enamel, Black 5.12 x 5.71 inches
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1950s Modern More Art

Materials

Ceramic

Seagull Lamp
Located in Missouri, MO
William F. Boogar, Jr. Seagull Lamp 1946 Bronze approx. 15 1/4" High x 6 1/2" Wide Signed and Dated Bottom WILLIAM F. BOOGAR, Jr., the Provincetown sculp...
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1940s Modern More Art

Materials

Bronze

Exquisite Signed Murano Handblown Glass Toucan Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
A mid Century Modern Italian Toucan bird on a branch by a contemporary master. smoked and clear hand blown Murano glass. The base is Hand signed with the signature "L Zanetti". Licio...
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20th Century Modern More Art

Materials

Blown Glass

Gold Gilt Bronze Sculpture Pendant Israeli Tumarkin Abstract Modernist Jewelry
Located in Surfside, FL
Measures about 4.25 X 2.25 inches. Box frame is 17 X 13 inches. Signed by artist verso. From the literature that I have seen I believe the edition size was limited to 10, I do not kn...
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1960s Modern More Art

Materials

Gold, Bronze

Gold Gilt Bronze Sculpture Brooch Art Israeli Tumarkin Abstract Surrealist
Located in Surfside, FL
Measures about 4 X 3.75 inches. Box frame is 17 X 13 inches. Signed by artist verso. From the literature that I have seen I believe the edition size was limited to 10, I do not know ...
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1960s Modern More Art

Materials

Gold, Bronze

Gold Gilt Bronze Sculpture Necklace Art Israeli Tumarkin Abstract Surrealist
Located in Surfside, FL
Measures about 4 X 3.75 inches. Box frame is 17 X 13 inches. Signed by artist verso. From the literature that I have seen I believe the edition size was limited to 10, I do not know ...
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1960s Modern More Art

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Gold, Bronze

"Hotel California" Double Entendre
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Two painting in one is how the Double Entendre Series starts and a hidden message in a message is how it ends. Can you find the message?
Category

2010s Modern More Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Stencil Painting "Tide Pool" American WPA Abstract Expressionist Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract Expressionist Stencil Painting Signed and dated in ink. Born in Savannah, Georgia in 1912, abstract expressionist painter Morris Shulman studied at the National Academy of D...
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1960s Modern More Art

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Mixed Media

Joie de Vivre
Located in Missouri, MO
JOIE DE VIVRE (A. Ramié no. 346) stamped, marked, engraved and numbered 'Madoura Plein Feu/Empreinte Originale de Picasso (underneath) unglazed white ea...
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1950s Modern More Art

Materials

Ceramic

Yan Black Headband
Located in Missouri, MO
"Yan Black Headband" (A.R. 514) 1963 Red Earthenware Pitcher Painted in Black Inscised 'EDITION PICASSO MADOURA' and 'EDITION PICASSO' pottery stamps on...
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1960s Modern More Art

Materials

Ceramic

Louis Gartner Petit Point Needlework Tapestry after Paul Cadmus THE INVENTOR
By (after) Paul Cadmus
Located in Surfside, FL
Provenance: The Estate of Louis J. Gartner Jr., Palm Beach, Florida. After the 1946 Paul Cadmus painting titled The Inventor, the needlework completely done in very fine petit point stitchery, with gray border banding around, initialed and dated '60 lower right corner, signed Cadmus. framed in a stained wooden barn siding frame- an amazing piece of needlework. Dimensions: needlework: 25.25 x 21.5 in., framed: 27 x 30.75 in. Louis Gartner...
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1960s Modern More Art

Materials

Wool

Particle VIII (Eight)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Particle VIII (Eight) Materials: Ceramic, glaze Year: 2016 The formal languages and frequencies that we find in the natural existence of the universe inform and inspire the investig...
Category

2010s Modern More Art

Materials

Ceramic, Glaze

Particle VII (Seven)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Particle VII (Seven) Materials: Ceramic, glaze Year: 2016 The formal languages and frequencies that we find in the natural existence of the universe inform and inspire the investiga...
Category

2010s Modern More Art

Materials

Ceramic, Glaze

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