Modern Art
MODERN STYLE
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
Slim Aarons 'Keep Your Cool'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool, 1978
Chromogenic Lambda print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity.
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lambda
Royal Palace in Genoa - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Royal Palace in Genoa is a lithograph on paper realized in the 19th Century.
The artwork is represented in a well-balanced composition with strong strokes.
Very good condition.
Category
19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Soldier - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Soldier is an ink and watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Ink
Figure - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is a drawing Artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mr. Carl Edward Sagan - Vintage Photo - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Mr. Carl Edward Sagan is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th Century.
Good conditions and aged.
The photo depicts the American Astronomer, Carl Edward Sagan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Nice Pool
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
American writer C.Z. Guest (Mrs F.C. Winston Guest, 1920 - 2003) and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool on the ocean-front estate, V...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Lambda
Étude de jambes
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on Japon paper, 1925. Signed and numbered 37 of an edition of 50 copies in pencil upper right. Dimensions: 25 x 50 cm. Reference: Duthuit 460.
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
60x45 Jean Michel Basquiat PHOTOMOSAIC Street Pop Art Photography
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Basquiat"is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons".
Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smalle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Chagall, Vision de Paris (Cramer 23; Mourlot 80-87) Verve: Revue (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate, verso, with title and additional lithograph. Good condition; with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Braque, Oiseau, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered; text on verso, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 85-86, published by Derrière l...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original Las Vegas Fun Map vintage 1960s travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1960 Las Vegas Fun Map. Archival linen backed and in very good condition, ready to frame. The poster is not signed by is presumed to be done by “King”. Size: 22 5/8"...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Offset
40x60 NOTORIOUS B.I.G. "LIFE AFTER DEATH" Cassette Photography Pop Art by Destro
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of a NOTORIOUS B.I.G. "LIFE AFTER DEATH" cassette tape.
This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro
These ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Early 20th Century British oil painting by Harold Dearden 'The window cleaners'
By Harold Dearden
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
HAROLD DEARDEN (BRITISH, 1888-1962)
THE WINDOW CLEANERS
Oil on canvas
Signed `H DEARDEN’ (lower left)
30 x 30 in. (76.3 x 76.3 cm.)
Dearden studied at Rochdale School of Art under H...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Braque, Oiseau au couchant, Georges Braque le solitaire (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, Georges Braque le solitaire, 1959. Published by Editio...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage American Modernist Signed Industrial Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century modernist industrial cityscape. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso.
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Teeny - Original linocut, 1938 - Referenced in Duthuit #723
Located in Paris, FR
Henri MATISSE
Teeny
Original linocut
Printed signature in the plate
On light wove paper 31 x 24 cm (c. 12.5 x 10 in)
REFRENCES : Catalogue raisonne Duthuit #723
From the unsigned, ...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Linocut
Night Meetings - Screenprint by Dipas - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Night meetings is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Dipas in the 1970s.
Mixed colored screen print.
Hand signed on the lower right margin.
Numbered on the lower left m...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bienheureux époux, tu as l'hymen que tu désirais, ...
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
Bienheureux époux, tu as l'hymen que tu désirais, et tu possèdes la vierge désirée.
Colour lithograph on Arches vellum, 1967, plate XII from the Sur la Terre des Dieux (In the Land ...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
1970s Pop Art "Dancing Lessons #2" Green, Pink Silkscreen Mod Ballet Girl Print
Located in Surfside, FL
there is a companion piece on a silver paper. A depiction of a ballet dancer, superimposed upon canceled dance class checks.
Joanne Seltzer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Rare Modernist Oil Painting Line Drawing Nude Man Louis Stettner
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed and Dated Modern Line Drawing Oil Painting of Nude Man.
Louis Stettner (November 7, 1922 – October 13, 2016) was an American photographer of the 20th century whose work inclu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monumental WPA Gloucester School Oil Mural New England Lobstermen, Hunters
Located in Exton, PA
Dramatic, monumental oil painting laid to Masonite by George Matthews Harding (1882-1959). Painter, illustrator and muralist, Harding was born in Philadelphia. He studied at the Pyle...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Large Marine Landscape Oil on Canvas Painting with Boats at a Dock, Signed
By James L. Thomas
Located in Plainview, NY
A late 20th century oil on canvas of a marine landscape depicting boats at a dock featuring a blue tone. The painting, an exemplary work of the American landscape art work of the 20t...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
San Carlo in Arona on Lake Maggiore - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
San Carlo in Arona on Lake Maggiore is a lithograph on paper realized in the 19th Century.
The artwork is represented in a well-balanced composition with strong strokes.
Very good ...
Category
19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Walter Rudolph, City of Ibiza 1976, Limited ΣYMO Edition, Copy 1 of 50
Located in Cologne, DE
Walter Rudolph
His photographs are reminiscent of the jet-set photographer Slim Aarons. Walter Rudolph discovered the world as a photographer on the idea, travel was his passion, hi...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Color
'Sun Worship' 1981 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sun Worship' 1981 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
Bianca Volpato sunning herself at Capri in a lilac coloured bikini. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Produced from t...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
C Print, Color
1940 WPA School EXHIBITED Painting SPRING FLOOD by Morris Shulman
Located in Exton, PA
Fine WPA period painting by Morris Shulman. The painting is oil on canvass measuring 24" x 30". Signed M Shulman and dated '40 at the lower right. Titled verso "Spring Flood." Shul...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Queens' College, Cambridge punting lithograph by Edwin La Dell
Located in London, GB
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Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Church of Sant Andrea in Vercelli - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Church of Sant Andrea in Vercelli is a lithograph on paper realized in the 19th Century.
The artwork is represented in a well-balanced composition with strong strokes.
Very good co...
Category
19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Gulf of La Spezia - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Gulf of La Spezia is a lithograph on paper realized in the 19th Century.
The artwork is represented in a well-balanced composition with strong strokes.
Very good condition.
Category
19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Superga Turin - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Superga Turin is a lithograph on paper realized in the 19th Century.
The artwork is represented in a well-balanced composition with strong strokes.
Very good condition.
Category
19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Savona - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Savona is a lithograph on paper realized in the 19th Century.
The artwork is represented in a well-balanced composition with strong strokes.
Very good condition.
Category
19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Capri Island - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Capri Island is a lithograph on paper realized in the 19th Century.
The artwork is represented in a well-balanced composition with strong strokes.
Very good condition.
Category
19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Lecce - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lecce is a lithograph on paper realized in the 19th Century.
The artwork is represented in a well-balanced composition with strong strokes.
Very good condition.
Category
19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Naples, from Posillipo - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Naples, from Posillipo is a lithograph on paper realized in the 19th Century.
The artwork is represented in a well-balanced composition with strong strokes.
Very good condition.
Category
19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Naples, from Posillipo - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Naples, from Posillipo is a lithograph on paper realized in the 19th Century.
The artwork is represented in a well-balanced composition with strong strokes.
Very good condition.
Category
19th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Samba - Vintage Photo by Rubens Barbosa - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Samba is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th Century, by Rubens Barbosa.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Dancers - Vintage Photo by Ari Gomes - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Dancers is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th Century, by Ari Gomes.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Carnival Parade - Vintage Photo by Ari Gomes - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Carnival Parade is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th Century, by Ari Gomes.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Figure - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Rough Conversation is a drawing Artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-R...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Pen
Walking - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Walking is a watercolor realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 19...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Pen
Figure - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is a watercolor realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 198...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Figures - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is a watercolor realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 19...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Yomeimon Gate - Japan - Vintage Photo - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Yomeimon Gate - Japan is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th Century
Good conditions and aged.
The photo depicts the beautiful Yomeimon, the most famous port...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Seventy Feet Below the Circus - Vintage Photo - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Seventy feet below the circus is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1964
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical mo...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Wadham College, Oxford etching by Richard Beer
By Richard Beer
Located in London, GB
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Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Loggia by the Sea
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Karen Stene
Loggia by the Sea, (150/78)
Enhanced Limited Edition
32 x 44 x 111.76 in
Category
Early 2000s Modern Art
Materials
Color
Appearance - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Appearance is a china ink drawing artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Pen
Painter - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Painter is a drawing Artwork realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 1...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Original "Japan" vintage travel poster serigraph bicycle
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Japan serigraph travel poster. Linen backed in very find condition, ready to frame.
Japanese travel posters have a rich history and are renowned for their captivating ...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Screen
36x24 “Cosmic Cliffs” James Webb Telescope Space Photography NASA Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The WEBB imagery is of the most important imagery every taken.
The finest museum quality WEBB images available.
Printed on museum quality poster paper
What looks much like craggy ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
"60x48" FRIDA KAHLO Photomosaic Pop Art Archival Fine Art Photography Print
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Frida is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. The first release in a series mosaic works called "Icons".
Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Odalisque sur la terrasse
Located in London, GB
Etching and aquatint on Arches wove paper, executed in 1922, by Jacques Villon after Henri Matisse. One of the twenty proofs in black before the edition of 200 in colour published by...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Delicadeza
By José Royo
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Royo
Delicadeza, 2004, (500/425)
Serigraph on Paper
20.50 x 26 in
Category
Early 2000s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White
La Lecture, nu de profil
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on simili-japon paper, 1913. Signed and numbered 21 of an edition of 50 copies in pen and ink. Dimensions: 25.6 x 49.9 cm. Reference: Duthuit 408.
Category
1910s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Nu couché au visage incomplet - Étude de jambes
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on Japon paper, 1925. Signed and numbered 18 of an edition of 50 copies in pencil upper right. Dimensions: image 28.6 x 52.5cm (11 1/4 x 20 11/16 in.); sheet 45.5 x 56cm ...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
1959 Israeli Aharon Kahana Modernist Aquatint Etching Judaica Rabbi & Students
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract color composition, 1959 aquatint lithograph "the Master and his Pupils".
This was from a portfolio which included works by Yosl Bergner, Menashe Kadishman, Yosef Zaritsky, A...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Aquatint
Afghan Woman - Vintage Photo - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Afghan Woman is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th Century
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical m...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
A Satirical Scene - Lithograph by E. Lavrate - 1860s
Located in Roma, IT
A Satirical Scene is an original modern artwork realized by Edmond Lavrate in the second half of the XX Century.
Original colored lithograph.
Hand-signed on the lower right corne...
Category
1860s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
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