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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
Augustus Edwin John original watercolour drawing of a cavewoman, British
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
This is one of a number of drawings that was accompanied by a signed letter from Augustus Edwin John which read as follows `Alderney Manor/ Nr Parkstone, Dorset / Dear Hodge, I send ...
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Paper

Manhattan Island - Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Manhattan Island Signed Limited Edition Stuart Möller Portrait photograph of the island of Manhattan and the New York Skyline. paper size - 40x30...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Huakai Hui - Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art
Located in Soquel, CA
Hawaiian Symbolism Figurative & Landscape Oil painting of Huakai Hui (Journey Together) Symbolic and surreal landscape of a female and male figure ascending stairway flanked by to...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Portal to Cologny, Geneva - Oil on canvas (1973) 50x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame. Total size with frame 74x63 cm The work is signed and dated Artist unknown from the gallery
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Peste Dessous Peste Dessus Peste Partout!-Original Etching by James Ensor-1900s
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on zinc plate, realized in 1904 on japan paper. It is signed in plate in small letters at the bottom right. On the lower right margin, it is signed also in pencil. Not dated...
Category

Early 1900s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Frida in front of the Unfinished Unity Panel, New Workers School, NY
Located in Dallas, TX
Frida in front of the Unfinished Unity Panel by Lucienne Bloch is a black a white portrait of Mexican Surrealist painter Frida Kahlo, posing in front of Diego Rivera's half painted m...
Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Portrait of Carlo Ferrari - Photo - Early-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Carlo Ferrari is a vintage photo, realized in the Early-20th century. Good conditions. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including historical moments, plac...
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Chinese City by Night - Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Chinese city by night is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historica...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Chinese District - Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Chinese District  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical mo...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Pair of Views of Villa Medici Vascello - Pair of Oil Paintings - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pair of Views of Villa Medici Vascello are an original old master artwork realized by Artist of 17th Century. Mixed colored oil painting. The View of Villa Medici Vascello towards ...
Category

17th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Industrial City - Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Industrial city  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical mom...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Palazzo dei Cesari - Vintage Photo by Ludovico Tuminello - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo dei Cesari is a vintage print in salt silver realized by Ludovico Tuminello in the early 20th Century. Titled on the lower. Good conditions except for some foxing.
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Cidade do Interior do Brasil - Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Cidade do interior do Brasil is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century. Good conditions and aged. The photo depicts Diamantina, a Brazilian municipality in t...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

St. Moritz – Swiss Original Winter Poster, Ski Race
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Swiss Avantgarde Poster created in 1933 by Walter Herdeg (1908 – 1995) and printed in 1934 by the Art. Institut Orell Füssli in Zurich as an intaglio to promote the ...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

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

The Mosque of Muhammad Ali - Photo by C. Zachary - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Mosque of Muhammad Ali  is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century by the photographer C. Zachary. Good conditions and aged. The photo depicts the Mosque ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Carabineer in Love - Screenprint by Dipas - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Carabineer in love is a contemporary artwork realized by the artist Dipas in the 1970s. Mixed colored serigraph Hand signed on the lower right margin. Numbered on the lower left m...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Farmers Gardening Etching, (After Vincent Van Gogh) Famed Children's Book Author
Located in Surfside, FL
Medium: Etching Surface: paper Country: United States signed in plate with initial G. Black and white illustration of a landscape with farmhouse (old barn). TIBOR GERGELY Budapes...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Sitting. Oil on canvas, 81x65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Zita Sudnika, Sitting. 1995. Oil on canvas, 81x65 cm This painting exudes a sense of intimacy and quiet grace. The central figure is a naked woman, seated with her back to the viewe...
Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Shops on Key Lime Lane - Illustration on Canvas in Acrylic and Ink
Located in Soquel, CA
Shops on Key Lime Lane - Illustration on Canvas in Acrylic and Ink Delightful street scene by Ann Irvine (American, b. 1943). A series of storefronts are shown in white silhouette w...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Acrylic

Female Nude - Drawing att. to Fausto Pirandello - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Female Nude is a modern artwork attributed to Fausto Pirandello. Pencil drawing on paper. Hand signed on the lower margin. Includes frame
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Pencil

Street and Houses - Oil Paint by Sante Monachesi - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Street and houses is a contemporary artwork realized by Sante Monachesi in the mid-20th century Mixed colored oil painting. Includes frame Hand signed on the lower marign
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Violets - Etching by Luigi Bartolini - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
Violets is a modern artwork realzied by Luigi Bartolini in 1936 Black and white etching. Hand signed, titled and numbered on the lower margin. Includes frame Edition of 13/50 Go...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Under the Rain - Oil paint by Eliano Fantuzzi - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Under the rain is a contemporary artwork realized by Eliano Fantuzzi. Mixed colored oil painting. Hand signed on the lower margin and on the back. Includes frame.
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Day-Night. Oil on canvas, 121x91 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Zita Sutnika, Day-Night. 2008. Oil on canvas, 121x91 cm Painting depicts a solitary tree, its branches reaching upwards and outwards in a complex network of dark, intricate silhouet...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Modern Abstracted Figurative in Style of Picasso - Man's Morning
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Oil Painting of Man's Morning by Cynthia Bissell in Style of Picasso Wonderfully evocative mid century figurative of male awaking to day by artist Cynthia Bissell (American...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Slim Aarons 'Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes' Mid-century Modern Photography
Located in New York, NY
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc 1976 C-Print Estate signature stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the Slim Aarons estate CAPTION: Guests by the pool...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

C Print

BEARBRICK - JACKSON POLLOCK 400% & 100% Medicom Toy Japan Vinyl figure Pop Art
Located in Madrid, Madrid
BEARBRICK - JACKSON POLLOCK (V3) SPLASH 400% & 100% Date of creation: 2021 Medium: Vinyl figure Edition: Open Size: 28 x 10 x 10 cm Condition: In mint conditions, inside its original...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Plastic

Marcello Fantoni Firenze Raymor Pair Figures Welded Brutalist Italian Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Marcello Fantoni brutalist welded torch cut metal figurines. Signed on base. Metal label reads "Fantoni Firenze Italy Raymor". Italian Mid century modern Sculptural pair of stude...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Metal

'Fremantle Harbor, Perth', Western Australia, Post Impressionist, SFAA, MoMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Byron' for Byron Randall (American, 1918-1999), dated 1947 and titled, 'Aus'. A dramatic, Post-Impressionist view of the Western Australian port of Fremantle wit...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Gouache

El Dorado Beach (1959) Limited Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
El Dorado Beach (1959) Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) El Dorado Beach on the south side of Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County, California, circa 1959. Additional ...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

60x40 "Webb Deep Field" Telescope Space Photography NASA Archival Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Original museum grade exhibition prints on acid-free archival luster paper. These are the highest quality NASA prints ever produced. *This print can be hung vertical or horizontal ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

Afternoon Shadows
Located in Atlanta, GA
The recent paintings of Atlanta artist David Kidd continue an evolving series of images inspired by and based upon natural forms. His paintings, in acrylic on birch panels or canvas,...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

Hayley Lever's CARICATURES--4 original portraits
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Hayley Lever was an Australian born artist who lived much of his life, as well as died, in Mt.Vernon, New York. His work as a painter, etcher, lecturer and art teacher strongly embra...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

CONRAD MARCA-RELLI Limited ed. Etching & Aquatint American Modern, Contemporary
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Conrad Marca-Relli - Composition VII Date of creation: 1977 Medium: Etching and aquatint on Gvarro paper Edition number: 35/75 Size: 56 x 76 cm Condition: In very good conditions and...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Cricket in Antigua (1960) - Limited Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Cricket in Antigua (1960) - Limited Estate Stamped (Photo By Slim Aarons) Cricketers on the field during a match between the Leeward Islands and the MCC, Antigua, West Indies, ...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Portrait - Drawing by Giuseppe Migneco - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is a contemporary artwork realized by Giuseppe Migneco in 1963. Watercolor drawing on paper. Hand signed and dated on the lower margin. Includes frame
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

Vintage Art Etching Farm with Cow and Farmer, Famed Children's Book Illustrator
Located in Surfside, FL
Medium: etching Surface: paper Country: United States Signed in plate with initial G. Black and white illustration of a landscape with farmhouse (old barn). TIBOR GERGELY Budapes...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Vintage Art Etching Farm with Cow and Farmer, Famed Children's Book Illustrator
Located in Surfside, FL
Medium: Etching Surface: paper Country: United States Signed in plate with initial G. Black and white illustration of a landscape with farm, farmer and cow. TIBOR GERGELY Budapes...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Aventure d'une libertine XI. From The Secret Album Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Aventure d'une libertine XI, Paris, 2015 From The Secret Album Series Edition 6/6 ex. 5 AP. Unframed The Secret Album Series This series is born from a personal experience. The mod...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Maravillas con Variaciones Acrosticas en el jardin de Miro (Number 12)
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) Title: Maravillas con Variaciones Acrosticas en el jardin de Miro (Number 12) Year: 1975 Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate Edition: 150...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray, 1939, Platinum Print, Portrait Photography
Located in Dallas, TX
Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray is a black and white portrait of the Mexican Surrealist painter Frida Kahlo leaning against a wall, with a dark scarf wrapped around her shoulders. Pap...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Platinum

Palm Blue House - Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Palm Blue House Signed Limited Edition Stuart Möller A tall palm tree stretches above the shell of a blue coloured house near Galle, Sri Lanka, 2013 paper size - 24 x 20" / 60 x 5...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Calm Sea - Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Calm Sea Signed Limited Edition Stuart Möller A view of the sea at dusk in Sri Lanka paper size - 40x30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Signed and numbered by artist on the front Limited t...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Massachusetts Heron - Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Massachusetts Heron Signed Limited Edition Stuart Möller A heron in his chosen hunting spot on a New England summer morning in Marion, Massachusetts USA. 2013 paper size - 40x30...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Tiffanys NYC - Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Tiffanys Signed Limited Edition Stuart Möller A young woman passes by the infamous diamond & jewellery store, Tiffany’s in New York, with yellow NYC cabs reflected in one of its sh...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Invasion of the Non-Indigenous
Located in Denver, CO
When I think of where McCauley fits into American art, as a contemporary painter, sculptor and naturalistic interpreter, I place him in the same philosophical tribe as Walton Ford, A...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel

MICHAEL CAINE PORTRAIT 1964 - signed
Located in London, GB
MICHAEL CAINE PORTRAIT 1964 MICHAEL CAINE – 1964 signed limited edition of 15 only. silver gelatin This Michael Caine Portrait by Duffy was taken in 1964, the same year that the f...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Prince of Pirates", Lobby Card, USA 1953
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Prince of Pirates" (1953) featuring John Derek, Barbara Rush, and Carla Balenda. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece showcases an intense scene wi...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Color

"Prince of Pirates", Lobby Card, USA 1953
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Prince of Pirates" (1953) featuring John Derek, Barbara Rush, and Carla Balenda. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece showcases scenes from the swa...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Color

The Bible : The Creation - Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, FR
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) The Bible, The Creation Original lithography (Daeger Workshop) On paper 36 x 26.5 cm (c. 14.2 x 10.2 in) Second illustration on the back, see photo n°7 (M...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Untitled" Ultra Marine Blue and Steel Architectural Sculpture by Female Artist
Located in New York, NY
Beverly Pepper Untitled, circa 1965-1970 Stamped: BP Steel and Enamel paint 11.75 x 8 x 3.75 inches A formidable opponent of the status quo, Beverly Pepper took on industrial sculpture at a time when many women were unfamiliar with how to operate power tools. Born in Brooklyn in 1922 to the children of Jewish immigrants, Pepper was never told that there would be roadblocks in her future simply because of her gender. Her mother never imposed the idea of necessary femininity on her daughter, so it likely came as a shock to the young artist when she was removed from an industrial design course during her first year at Pratt University at 16 years old because the school decided that she was not capable of operating machinery as a woman. Despite this hiccup, the exposure to the course while she was enrolled sparked a lifelong interest in the industrial arts that would resurface later in life. From there, Pepper turned to painting and went on to study at L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, where artists like Giacometti, Modigliani, and others had studied. During this time, Pepper met and married her husband Curtis Bill Pepper, moving to Italy for his work in the 1950’s. She settled with her family in the country, where she maintained a studio in Umbria until her death. It was not until 1960 that Pepper shifted her focus to sculpture after a visit to Angkor Wat in Cambodia, forever moved by the relationship between temple ruins and the accompanying overgrowth from the surrounding jungle. She debuted her sculpture with an exhibition of carved tree trunks in Rome two years later, and soon after was invited to participate in a festival in Spoleto – the only catch being that she was asked to provide works on metal, and she did not know how to weld. Convincing a local ironmaker to teach her how to weld, she produced works for the Spoleto show and was one of only three women that were exhibited alongside great sculptors like Alexander Calder and Henry Moore. After that show, she was invited to work in a factory in Northern Italy and never looked back, finding the factory an ideal place to create the large scale sculptures she is so well known for today. This venue of choice, the factory, was quite a boys club – Pepper was the only female in the building much of the time, and frequently had to use the men’s restroom as there were none designated for women. While working at a US Steel factory in Pennsylvania, the company suggested she try out their new material: Cor-Ten steel. Pepper asserts that she was likely the first artist to work with the material, one that became a favorite in her own sculptures. Her studio in Italy was a converted aircraft hangar...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Enamel, Steel

“Roses”, a classical still life of bold flowers beside apples and a broken vase
Located in Edgartown, MA
A native of North Carolina, the United States, Stewart's first keen sense of art came through drawing classes that he attended as a child. "At this early age, I began to tap into the...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Oil

R2D2 60x45 Star Wars, Photography Pop Art, Photograph Toys, Unsigned
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

Tabletop Still Life, Modernist Still Life with Food, Flowers, and Wine
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Tabletop Still Life" by Philadelphia born modernist and surrealist painter Leon Kelly, is a framed painting of a set dinner table with food, flowers, and wine. The 36" x 44" oil on ...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Cool Morning
Located in Atlanta, GA
The recent paintings of Atlanta artist David Kidd continue an evolving series of images inspired by and based upon natural forms. His paintings, in acrylic on birch panels or canvas,...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

Vintage Arthur Court Aluminum Sculpture Cast Bouquet Flowers, Ladybug Home Decor
Located in Surfside, FL
A designer decor bouquet of aluminum floral forms by Arthur Court Designs (California). Produced 1989. Includes: four (4) aluminum flowers on stems; and four (4) aluminum leaves on s...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Metal

FUTURE RELIC 02 Limited Sculpture Modern Art Design 35mm Camera Canon Concept
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Daniel Arsham - FUTURE RELIC 02 - CANON AE1 Date of creation: 2014 Medium: Plaster and crushed glass Edition number: 074/450 Size: 14.6 × 15.9 × 9.5 cm Condition: In mint conditions...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Glass, Plaster

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