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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
Original "Bly by BOAC to Japan" vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original JAPAN, Fly by BOAC to the Caribbean. Small format. Archival linen-backed original vintage European travel poster in mint condition; ready to frame. This antique original poster...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Offset

'Nets'
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Nets - Japanese harbour' Mixed media on paper, signed, 24x 18. John Preston Goddard (born 1928, Liverpool; died January 2009) was a painter in oils, watercolour and gouache. He stud...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Stonechat - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Stonechat is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) . Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London, Bell & Sons, 1870. Nam...
Category

1870s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

Untitled Double Page Illustration for DLM
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Double Page Illustration for DLM Color lithograph, 1968 Unsigned as issued in DLM Published in Derriere le Miroir (Behind the Mirror), calle...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Vintage Poster Saul Steinberg Galerie Maeght Paris France
Located in Surfside, FL
SAUL STEINBERG (American 1914-1999) Via Air Mail Geometric Design Lithograph. Sheet: 21 1/2 x 28 inches; Frame: 22 1/4 x 29 inches. Plate signed and dated l/r with sticker upper ri...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Screen

"Shelter Island Evening" blue and green seascape of a harbor - oil painting
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Shelter Island Evening" is a blue and green oil painting of a Northeastern American harbor. Kelly Carmody’s work has been widely exhibited and collected. One of her major figurati...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Jungle Fantasy #2 - Landscape Painting - Oil on Canvas By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
The flow of botanical splendor bursts in lavish color in the foreground while the palms and trees open the view to distant mountains in this tropical painting. Jungle Fantasy #2 - ...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Conversation - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Conversation is a china ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Good conditions with slight foxing. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome,...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Portrait - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a watercolor 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, Watercolor

Red Floral - Oil Paint By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Right as red, this painting is delicious with color. And that accent of the blue/green leaf is just the perfect accent. Red Floral - Oil Paint By Marc Zimmerman This masterpiece is...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blooms (Flowers, Saturated, Green, Yellow, Purple, Pink, Red)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Jill Opelka Blooms Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Size: 18 x 14 inches Framed: 19 x 15 x 1.5 inches Signed COA provided Tags: Blooms, Flowers, Saturated, Green, Yellow, Purple, Pink, Red...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Oil

Man - Drawing by Renzo Vespignani - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Man is a modern artwork realized by Renzo Vespignani in 1946 Black and white drawing in ink. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin. Fair conditions (stains on paper). Include...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Ink

A 1940s Black & WhiteFashion Study for Lily Daché Hat Designs
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s black & white fashion study featuring an advertisement for women's hats by Lilly Daché. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the Sc...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

64x48" Elvis by Warhol" Photomosaic Pop Fine Art Photography
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"ELVIS BY ANDY WARHOL" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. Destro has created large prints which are made up of many hundreds of smaller images. Archival photographic paper Framin...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Conflict - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Conflict is a watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Good conditions with slight foxing. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Ju...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Cows in a Field, Early 20th Century American Modernist Landscape Watercolor
Located in Beachwood, OH
William Sommer (American, 1867-1949) Cows in a Field Watercolor on paper Signed lower left 11.5 x 15.5 inches 17.5 x 21.5 inches, framed William Sommer is seen as a key person in br...
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

Magnolia (Flowers, Toned-down, Muted, Delicate, Warm)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Jill Opelka Magnolia (Flowers, Toned-down, Muted, Delicate, Warm) Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Size: 48 x 30 inches Framed: 49 x 31 x 1.5 inches Signed COA provided Tags: Magnolia , Flo...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Oil

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 in...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

New York Skyline
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Irish landscape artist, graphic designer and illustrator Nora McGuinness was born in County Derry, Northern Ireland. She studied drawing and fine art painting at the Metropolita...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Gouache

Air Reduced to the Notes of European Music - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Air Reduced to the Notes of European Music is a lithograph on paper realized in the 19th Century. The artwork is represented in a well-balanced composition with strong strokes. Ver...
Category

19th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Fight - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Fight is a china ink drawing 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

Ink, Paper

AC DC BACK IN BLACK 40x60 Photography Photograph Cassette Tape Fine Art Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of an AC/DC - Back In Black cassette tape. "They encapsulate an era instantly transporting the viewer to another time." - Destro Printed on Archival Paper...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Near the sea. Cardboard, oil, 17x27 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Near the sea. Cardboard, oil, 17x27 cm Laimdots Murnieks has said: "I am a sunny artist. The sun and a woman are the center of the world. It is not for nothing that the sun always c...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Gathering - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Gathering is a china ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Good conditions with slight foxing. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Ju...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

1951 Monhegan, Maine MUSHROOMS painting by Morris Shulman ex. Rehn Gallery
Located in Exton, PA
Wild period abstract expressionist painting by Morris Shulman. The painting is egg tempera on Masonite measuring 32" x 22". Signed M Shulman and dated '51 at the lower right. Titled...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

R2D2 40x28 Star Wars, Photography Pop Art, Empire Strikes Back, Jedi Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
R2D2 from the original Kenner release of the Star Wars toys in May of 1977 This is pre release is the first release in the much anticipated series "The Toys" These iconic figures hav...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Train - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Train is a pastel drawing 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

Oil Pastel, Paper

Conversation - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Conversation is a charcoal drawing realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Good conditions with slight foxing. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Charcoal, Paper

Statues - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Statues is a china ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Good conditions with slight foxing. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Mother and Baby Watercolor
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan 8" x 5" Watercolor on Paper Framed Size: 15.75" x 12.5" A mother holding a and comforting her baby. 1965 This piece is part of Likan's series depicting his wife Bar...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

60x45 Jean Michel Basquiat PHOTOMOSAIC Street Pop Art Archival Photography Print
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

45x60 "Apollo 8 Earth Rise" Space Photography NASA Fine Art Print Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Original museum grade exhibition prints on acid-free archival photographic luster paper. These are the highest quality NASA prints ever produced. Taken aboard Apollo 8 by Bill Ande...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

Jumping - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Jumping is a charcoal and watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Good conditions with slight foxing. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor

Orofena, from Imaginary Places III
Located in London, GB
Lithograph, screenprint, etching and aquatint printed in colours, with relief, 1998, signed in pencil, dated, numbered from the edition of 55 (there were also 14 artist's proofs), wi...
Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph, Screen

A 1940s Fashion Study for Women's Hats
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s fashion study featuring women's hats in pink tobes. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

A 1940s Fashion Study for the Southern Collection by Nettie Rosenstein
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s fashion study featuring and advertisement for Marshall Field & Company featuring the "Southern Collection by Nettie Rosenstien". Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Fo...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil

Canaries on a Tree
Located in London, GB
Canaries on a Tree, 2003 Screenprint Edition size: 300 Image and paper size: 28.5 x 24cm hand-signed and numbered by the artist on verso published by Advanced Graphics accompanied by...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Art

Materials

Screen

"Tierra Roja" from the "Mexican suite"
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Tierra Roja" from "The Mexican Suite" is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by renown Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1896-1974. It is hand sig...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Iffish, From Imaginary Places III
Located in London, GB
Lithograph, screenprint and etching printed in colours, with relief, 1998, on TGL handmade paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 55 (there were also 14 arti...
Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Lithograph, Screen

Lunna Wola (V), from Paper Reliefs
Located in London, GB
Unique cotton-pulp relief with hand-colouring and collage, 1975, on coloured HMP handmade paper, signed, dated and annotated 'T.P' in black ink on the reverse, one of 14 unique color...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Cotton, Paper

Entablature II, from Entablature Series
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours with embossing and collage of gloss copper and mat pink metallic foil, 1976, on Rives BFK paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered from edition of 30 (there...
Category

1670s Modern Art

Materials

Screen

Conversation - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Conversation is a watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Good conditions with slight foxing. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Aiolio, from Imaginary Places III
Located in London, GB
Lithograph, screenprint, etching and aquatint printed in colours, with relief, 1998, signed in pencil, dated, numbered from the edition of 51 (there were also twelve artist's proofs)...
Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph, Screen

Flirty. 2006, canvas, mixed media, 100x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flirty. 2006, canvas, mixed media, 100x30 cm
Category

Early 2000s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Sublimation or weightlessness. 2006, canvas, oil, 70x90 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sublimation or weightlessness. 2006, canvas, oil, 70x90 cm
Category

Early 2000s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Dufy, Dessin, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches Arjomari paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy, 1...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

50x40 Jean Michel Basquiat PHOTOMOSAIC Street Pop Art Archival Photography Print
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

Gathering - Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Gathering is a china ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari  (1924-1989) in the Mid-20th Century. Hand-signed. Good conditions with slight foxing. Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, Ju...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Marc Chagall, Et sur la terre - plate VII, 1977 Original Etching
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Marc Chagall Edition : 225 proofs Number : Without Paper : Rives, with the watermark ME (Maeght Publisher) Illustration size : 23,5 x 31,5 cm Paper size (or piece size) : 33,2 x 43,5...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

1930's French Impressionist Painting Red Peonies In Glass Vase Green Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Red Peonies signed by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 22 high by 18 inches wide condition: ov...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Barletta - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Barletta 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

Torquato Tasso's House - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Torquato Tasso's House 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

View of Virgil's tomb near Naples - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
View of Virgil's Tomb near Naples 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

Nino Con Pajaros (Variant)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Nino Con Pajaros" Variant, 1976, is a color etching on Guarro paper by renown Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo, 1899-1991. It is hand signed and numbered 40/75 in bl...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Modernist Persian Iranian Middle Eastern Abstract Fereydoun Assa Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Fereydoun (Fred) Rahimi Assa (Iranian, b. 1936) "Lonely Soul in Desert" Oil and mixed media on canvas, Hand signed lower left Framed : 40-1/2"h x 30-1/2"w Sight: 40"h x 30"w Made with metallic foil or paint, the patchwork-like piece bears geometric designs and symbols. Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, Fereydoun Rahimi Assa (b. 1936) moved to Tehran at the age of three. He attended the College of Decorative Arts, Tehran in the same year group as well-known formidable masters, Hossein Zenderoudi and Massoud Arabshahi. After being awarded a travelling scholarship in 1964, Rahimi-Assa went to Israel for three months of study. Although Rahimi-Assa saw success through the several exhibitions he held in Israel, unable to secure a long-term visa and not keen to return to Iran, he found himself in the US – in no small part, thanks to the help of Eric Azari in obtaining a long-term residency visa. Fred Rahimi-Assa went first to New York and later settled in New Jersey. While in New York, he worked in some capacity at Columbia University’s Painting department where he also exhibited several times, including a solo show in 1968. In the same year, Rahimi-Assa participated in a group exhibition of Modern Persian painting, sponsored by the Centre for Iranian Studies at Columbia University – founded that year by Professor Ehsan Yarshater (Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies, Columbia University). After moving out of the City, to New Jersey in the 1970s, Rahimi Asa continued to exhibit with local institutes and organized art seminars in the homes of various artists. His work was included in the Middle East auction held by Sotheby's. It includes pioneering artists such as Egyptian Mahmoud Mokhtar, Moroccan modernism, Mohamed Melehi...
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Foil

Bienheureux époux, tu as l'hymen que tu désirais, ...
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

Frida Winking by Lucienne Bloch, 1933, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
Located in Dallas, TX
Frida Winking by Lucienne Bloch is a portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo sitting in a chair, winking at the camera. Image size: 8.25 x 10.25 in. Mount size: 16 x 20 in. Silver G...
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

St John's College, Oxford etching by Richard Beer
Located in London, GB
To see our other views of Oxford and Cambridge, or Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message ...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

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