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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
Paul (Gen), Le Quart du Tourlourou, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Stencil, Lithograph

Cocteau, Bacchante assise, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Cocteau, Bacchante assise, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

ANISH KAPOOR - MOIRÉ. Limited edition etching Hand signed. Contemporary, Modern
Located in Madrid, Madrid
ANISH KAPOOR MOIRÉ 1 Date of creation: 2015 Medium: Etching on paper Edition: 39 Size: 96 x 72.4 cm Condition: In perfect conditions, brand new Etching on paper hand signed and numbe...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Etching

Jacob, Le vin de la Cène, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Utrillo, Vin d'honneur, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Derain, Age d'or et Terre promise, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Kisling, Vin du depart, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Brianchon, L'Hiver, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Derain, Enlevement de Dionysos, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Stencil, Lithograph

Brianchon, Une vigne de la doulce France, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Brianchon, La Vigne de Paris, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Dufy, Vendanges, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Villon, Couverture, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Dufy, Coteaux en Septembre, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph and Stencil on grand vélin d'Arches spécial paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Vins, Fleurs et Flammes, 1956. Published by ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

FAILE - RISING Huge Pop Art Urban art Design Emerging Artists American Phoenix
Located in Madrid, Madrid
FAILE - RISING Date of creation: 2023 Medium: Archival ink print on Entrada 290gsm Cotton Rag Edition: 350 Size: 101.6 x 81.3 cm Condition: In mint conditions, brand new and never fr...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

Milton H. Greene 'Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly'
Located in New York, NY
Milton H. Greene Grace Kelly 1955 (printed later) All archival pigment prints, signed on reverse by the Estate American actress and then Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly for an Ameri...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Walter Rudolph, Ibiza 1976
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

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friesz, Paysage à La Ciotat, Fauves, Collection Pierre Lévy (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d'Arches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Fauves, VII, Collection Pierre Levy, 1972; published by Fernand Mourlot, Pa...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil

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...
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1990s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph, Screen

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

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)...
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1990s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint, Lithograph, Screen

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

Poppea Number One
Located in Kansas City, MO
Tono Zancanaro Title: Poppea Number One Medium: Color Lithograph Year: 1981 Signed Edition: XXV Size: 27.3 × 19.5 inches COA provided Antonio "Tono" Zancanaro ( Padua , 8 April 1906...
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1980s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

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

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